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Society, protested against tho Taghool ban on the word "got."
"In school," he said, "the chil- dren are not allowed to use this word, yet out of school they hear it used on all sides--and quite right, too, for it is a good sub- stantial 'English word.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER ·2, 1931.
Messrs Graca Co., 10, Wyndham Dipped into the, doll's saucer of Street, have been appointed sole the blackest of "bläck indian Ink agents in Hong Kong and South and started, to write on the red China for Toogood's aceds, Toogood paper. I pushed over the equiva- & Sons, Limited. the King's seeds-lent of a ten-shilling note, and men, "Southampton, have issued waited. I didn't have to wait long. useful illustrated catalogue of He passed a long strip of red "Everything for the Garden, 1931.", paper to me, put my note into the "Even the school master himself, which local horticulturists should cash drawer, gave me I little out of school, will say quite natural- | find useful, ly: 'Have you got a tleket?' Yet in school he says: 'Have you a ticket? If you read English booky you will find them full of 'gots,' and all public speakers use the word freely.
change in copper and small silver and addressed himself to the rext man in the queue..
"I say, what about my other six tickets?", { demanded. 29 the quave surged forward, punting me Congress, on.
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London was transformed into a city of light on Monday night when the final rehearsal took place of the schema arranged for the Inter national Illumination. "We are told that the word. is which opened to-day. Flood light- Then the Manchu bohind me superfluous-but so are half the ing of Buckingham Palace, West. bowed politely, glanced at my cast- words in the English language. minster Abbey, the Houses of ly ticket, and divulged, in Russian, should like to see some of you start Parliament, the Tower of London that the ticket instructed the a crusade for the use of the word and many other famous buildings, guard to permit this traveller to 'got.'
Call yourselves 'Cotters, or had a striking effect, and impresa-journey with seven dogs. something like that."
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ed in a remarkable way the beauty That wasn't the end of it. of London's architecture,' says The guard, with a long glossy.
A New and Remarkable National British Wireless message.
Type.
In the course of, a debate in Parliament recently on Education Estimates, the President, Board of Education (Mr. Lees-Smith) said that, a vital year in the life of the worker was 11, for in that year the to children were selected to go secondary and other schools.
Referring to these schools, he Įremarked that in them there was now developing a corporate spirit.
THE TRAVELLING
· DOG.
Adventures in Manchuria.
DEPENDENCE ON THE GODS.
He
black pigtail, and a pretty ankle-
length Cambridge blue skirt, kept pestering me with questions about the whereabouts of the other six, dogs.
N.B. Thank heaven, I don't try to form a collection of animal tickets, or I might have paid. a fiver and been given merely a laconie voucher demanding safe conduct for "One Foreign Devil and One Menagerie."
THE RICHEST GIRL. £30,000,000 Heiress in London.
I used to do a great deal of They had divided themselves into knocking about Northern Europe houses, but they combined in their and Aaia with a fox terrier. competitions, games, and work. came expensive in Belgium and There was a camaraderie between Holland and Germany, When we the masters and the boys which reached the Russian frontier, how- was one of the most remarkable ever, the financial clouds rolled changes in the development of away and the sui came out in Reputed to be one of the richest education since the war.
splendour, for he travelled great girls in the world, Miss Doris Duke, Within twenty years. these distances for a few pence, writes who lutierited £30,000,000 at the schools would have produced B.D. in the Manchester Guardian. age of 12 from her father, an new and remarkable, national type Presently we come to Man-American tobacco magnate, was in -healthy, practical, self-reliant.ekuria; and, leaving the Trans London recently. responsible, and equipped for the Siberian Railway, we journeyed She was staying with her mother tremendous problems of the next north to the Manchu city of Taft-at the Ritz, where they were occupy- a cure is hopeless but when there generation.
sitkhar en a narrow-gauge native ing a suite of rooms. Secondary school pupils number train. the engine or which, opened. is every reasonable chance of re-ed about 400.000, and the proper in front, like a nice old-fashioned wealth this nineteen-year-old fair Although 80 famous for her A service in memory of the Mas- ter, Deck and Engineer Officers of covery under skilled treatment. tion of these pupils which now cottage oven, while the driver and haired girl is one of the least-known the 8.8. Kwongsung who were lost It, is encouraging to learn that came from elementary schools was his small boy packed in birch logs of America's personalities. at sea on August 10, will be held the Inspectors of the S.P.C. 1,000 of the general population were ously blew the 'bellows
about three-quarters. About 10 per and tinder-dry twigs and industri- While in London, she led a seclud- at St. John's Cathedral, on Tues are endeavouring to educate par now in grant-earning secondary liminary to getting up steam.
as a pre-ed life, appearing in public only day, September 8, at 5.30 p.m.
to dine with friends at exclusive Officiating clergyman: Rev. G. Tents in the use of the medical schools. The proportion was four,
When the tea-urnish boiler was restaurants. times as great as twenty-five years bubbling well and the driver had Waldegrave.
facilities available in the Colony. ago.
ascertained by two or three shey- getting children into hospitals, That was having far-reaching ings over of the starting lever
The few people who met ber and sometimes managing to per-social consequences, of which one (each of which moved the train affected simplicity and charm.
in London remarked on her un- The China Mail suade parents also. If the Chin-was that there was now a continua) gerd or two) that, should the gods
The late Mr. J. B. Duke left his ese will not believe what strang-tical monopoly which middle-class fui though fickle contraption of receive most of the estate in instal ly increasing invasion of the prac- be reasonably propitious, this use-
fortune so that his daughter would ers tell them, they at least pay and the traditional public schoola the Foreign Devils was ready to Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 2. 1931. heed to what their own relatives had hitherto had of the higher pro start, the stationmaster jangled a ments between 21 and 30. In the
and friends of the same class tell fessional and administrative perf- bronze bell dangling from a sert meantime, she was left £20,000
tions.
of signpost faced with a carven
year, says the New Chronicle. them, and in this fact lies much
dragon's head. On to the steps.
At the time of her inheritance, at the end of each How Dogs Trick Crocodiles.
little coach she is said to have expressed the. clambered a soldier, with a rifle wish to visit London and particu There is a where dogs on one side often want squat there, ready to take pot-shots
river in Zululand and a bandolier of cartridges, to larly, the poor quarters of the East
Care of Children.
If there are any uncomfortable consciences in the community to
means
of the hope for the future.
End.
of the
to cross to the other, but the river at any group of bandits which teems with crocodiles. How ever should come running, out
that looked so much like the Nor- folk Broad country at home.
And so to Tsitsitkhar.
Her Charm.
“MENACE “TO' HEALTH.”
Itinerant Barbers Of London,
It is estimated that if the work of the Society is to develop as it day it will not be the fault of Mr, ought to a sum of $15,000 will be T. M. Hazlerigg, the Hon. Secre-required next year.. Taking into are the dogs to get across without reed thickets and willow scrub of tary of the Society for the Pro- consideration the Government's being preyed upon by the ero this peaceful-looking marshland tection of Children. His dis- grant, annual and life subscripcodiles? closure of the appalling conditions, and donations the Society Mr. H. W, Seton-Karr, the famous tions of child life among the will be faced with a deficit of explorer and big game hunter, told
how to his listeners at a luncheon Such a nice dog's ticket they
London is being overrun by Chinese must surely stir our $10,000. That is a mere trifle, party recently. The dogs, he said, sold me to vouch for Jack's right itinerant hairdressers, as a result moneyed Chinese to action of a looking to the hundreds of Chin- gather at opposite points on the to ride up to Taitaitkhar! A nar- of the L.C.C. Public Assistance very practical nature. There is ese with hoarded wealth in the crocodiles dash to these points, and long and as red as a pillar-box. dressing at
bank and bark furiously. The row strip of paper, several inches Committee's policy of teaching hair. training centres, ac- a blot on the escutcheon of the Colony. Even so, if it be found the dogs then run quickly to an- full of mysterious splashes and cording to the Rev. A. G. Prichard Colony that must be removed as impossible to wring blood from other point five hundred yards away squiggles of Chinese hieroglyphs. in a speech at a meeting of the far as is humanly possible in the a stone, the authorities no doubt and so cross
the river. He had I determined to bring some home committee. actually seen them do this again as trophies.
Mr. Prichard said that itinerant shortest possible time. Philan- would willingly afford facilities and again.
When I got to the station for hairdressers were competing with thropic societies and philan- for a sweepstake at one of the
the early morning train, several the legitimate barber. days later, a queue thropic individuals must grapple extra race meetings or the an
was already “These men' avade the Shopa Act, News in Brief. with the evil by every
nual race meeting.
lining up before the booking-office. the Early Cicaing Act, and Sunday. What the
My turn having come, I booked. Closing Act, which the unfortunate within their power. The authori- Irish Free State and Queensland Mr. and Mrs. J. Douglas Butcher speaking Russian, for myself and Larber with a shop is obliged to ties must combine. in ensuring can do for hospitals through left to-day by the s.a. Chichibu seven dogs.
observe," he said. "Sem Sabark? Sem?" exclaim "Further, these men, with their the demolition of the slums in sweepstakes should not be im-
ed the chap in the booking-ofco.inamnitary razon, are a menace' to the Chinese quarters, and insist possible on a much smaller scale
Professor Gerrard was
And he added several remarks fn public health.” дра the work being accelerated in this Colony.
senger by the
The chairman of the General Chichibu Maru, Chinese. which left to-day AB WAS Mr. I thought. "That's torn it. Purposes Sub-Committee replied N. S. Brown.
expect he is explaining that seven that in teaching hairdressing dogs are too many to take on one at training ' centres they did The Inhabitants of the San passenger train of the dimensions not hope to turn out äkill- Martin district outside Barcelona, of this. Or that if one is embarked craftsmen, but rather to must be' made of the Britain's Burdens
are being compulsorily inoculated, ing with a crowd of dogs, one has prosesve, the men's employability, with the alternative of imprison to wait for the 8.19-or to char. If Itinerant barbera were psing in- clinics, and the parents of The following table is eloquent ment, in arder to prevent the spread ter a Hunt Special or something." sanitary razors, and were a menaca suffering children must be coaxed of the Atlas-like burdens which of plague. Several houses have The queue,
as is the way of, to public health, the legitimate hair. or coerced into taking their sick The very foundations of her against the disease, says Reuter.
Britain to-day shouldering heen hurned in the campaign queues the world over, was now dressers should communicate with offspring there or into hospitals, prosperity are being sapped, and the
becoming restive, and apparently the Ministry of Labour. demanding, in the local varnacular, The Society for the Protection realisation of this la responsible The flat occupied by the Acting what that foreigner was hanging
for the letters of encouragement Trade Commissioner for the Unit up the proceedings for, of Children is to-day doing work Mr. Ramsay MacDonald is now re-ed States, Mr. D. M. Maynard, in: To my relief, a Manchu behind that ought to have been com-ceiving in his effort to save the Ava Mansions, May Road, was en- me transinted the gist of the in mented three or four decades ago. country
on
and not deferred on the old plea
of lack of funds. More hospital
accommodation must be found use
for children. Wider
It has a tremendous leeway to
Mail Commentary.
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Ten Years Ago.
September 2, 1921.J
· | From: the "China\Mal?”
To-day's dollar a worth 2/8 1/8.
ture with my arm, to Indicate that A gruesome, discovery, le reported
tered by thieves yesterday, and quiry, fun, BREE Cost of $42 In money, was stolen. A "Skarzheet gde," he said. Wage Social. make up. The sins of omission Taxation. Levela, Services occupied by Mr. Bakor, and stole "Oh Iarpplied #Oh! Vot
thjef also broke into the premises That meant: "He asks where." Great Britain' '100' of the leaders of long ago have Germany
200 100
clothing and silver ware to the tam ehest." (Over yonder are * 460171 Valuezof, BONIZA been responsible for a deplorable France
six.) And I made a sweeping ges Belgium. atate of affairs in a Britian Cola -30% na Le Brix and Dort, the French six of my pack were politely queue to have been made at Junk Bay on ony. Now, as then, it is a case Britain depends mainly on her in-weather to enable them to take off "Ardeen zdyer" (Here's one)
The national prosperity of
flers, while awaiting favourable ing up, two by two, outside. Monday afternoon by a party of of the survival of the fittest duetry, and if it is to prosper her on their proposed flight to Tokyo, demonstrated, fting, up, Jack, who, the headless body of a European amongst the Chinese children of industry must be reasonably
are whiling away the time in prace confirmed his reality with a brus clothed-only... få kabathing suit the poorer class, and the task of assured of normal profits.
tice fights Cables from Japan and que "Bowt bune paung + lusting in the water. I stated amelioration is not,
Bussia reveal treacherous weather The booking-office walla smiled, that one arm is also missing. whit by the stubborn abhorrence
especially, in Siberia, Meanwhile, nodded, and
made a genero
While the truth of the story is the French and German authorities Episentory, gesture, and reluctance of parents to
have forbidden any heavily loaded brush, tried if with the tip of his remains that no European, has been He chose nefrongly affirmed a strange feature. take them to hospital-not when
aeroplane, to hop of, cables Reuter. finger; ficked it, tried it again. found missing.
"Götters.”
At the City of London Vacation Course for teachers, Dr. P. B. Bal lard, chairman of the Child Study
I bathers who were shocked" to "find"