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THE CHINA MAIL," "SATURDAY, BECER
STATE OF MODERATE FATHEADEDNESS
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Why? Simply because, be ing aware of your intentions, he can successfully guard against that momentary clouding of his : intellect. in the absence of which your most comming pro- vocation will be powerless to: affect him-
Both Normal
Surely, in view of this fact. the behaviour of the family. Ipitiful though it undoubtedly remains, no longer suggests. are anything but normal --
that they
We are always off our guard
with those we love, and are
therefore cruelly fated to be from time to time at our worst with them. So it was for Jawhile with Ernest and Mar- garet, and this leads me at once to the answer to that second question.
de-
Alice Far, Ray Walker and Bebe Daniels are fextured gether in the For production "Music in Magic," screened at the Alhambex Theatre' to-day.
THE LONELY PLACE
The surest amulet against domestic discord is an honest
OVER recognition of your
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1she left him sind went to live with ficiencies. There is no rarer
"Ther mother in the North, and he's) quality than absolute honesty
"The newspapers had not wanted (wever clapped eyes on her from that with regard to oneself, for the simple reason that it is apt to to collect the thousands of pounds, day to this.
nor any such vast sum. They only "There was a committee of the On the other hand, few things wanted to gather up enough to local gentry appointed to adminis- are easier or more soothing to give the widow-women a few shill-ter the fand, and though they had the soul than a little judiciousings each week; but they had been never been in the village before whitewashing during a process so eloquent about the bravery of when the men were alive, and the of self-criticism, and that most the men and the fortitude of the women and children going hungry
PENINSULAR & ORIENTAL SAILINGSe so uncomfortable.
----From- Tons Hong Kong-
About
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4th Jan Marseillies, Havre, Londen, Ham- of us should indulge in this sort women, that there was no way of during the great gales, they began jof luxury, to some extent at stopping it at all, the great floodļto take a deep interest in all that
least, is almost inevitable.
-were left The bachelors among
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of gold. But though nothing is easier There was only one woman in them married the best-looking of than to bluff yourself, you can the village that did not rejoice, and the women, and took them off to Inever hope to bluff one who that was the wife of the man who live in the town, like ladies. loves you, and most of the had been too drink to go out and "The` other women built them- troubles of married life are due xet himself drowned with the selves the big villas you see on the to a refusal to face this one others.
hillside: the builder; made himself **If you'd been sober," she said a fortune out of them, for though Both Sides Of Question to him, 'on the night of the Bix he was a bad tradesman, he was a There are two sides to every Wind I'd have been a rich woman great hand at stating 2 bill of
Didn't I always fell costs.. question, two points of view in with the rest.
There was a great commotion regard to even the most every-you your drunken habits would
in the place, and you'd have thought day trifle, and to fail to concern bring us no luck?”
*You did he said, for more every day was a market-day, and yourself with more than one of them is certainly to be unfair years than I care to remember, and there was a roaring trade done in and most likely infuriating as agree with you as a general prin- this public house by the bucksters well
ciple; bat in this particular case and merchants that came flocking Hence the deadliness in mar-don't see that it brought the bad here from every part of the land.
"There was a tremendous.cERIE ried life of that intellectual lock, for if I'd been sober I'd have affliction I have already re drowned with the rest.”
for electricity, and the women matter they could bought every kind of electrical ferred to as a momentary phase "It was a of mild fatheadedness. If a inever see eye to eye upon, and so thing from them, electrical egg- man and woman marry, having strongly did she feel that at, lasi whisks, electrical hair-brushes, SAILINGS previously lived for years in a state of self-deception, they will Laturally find it difficult to be any more clear-sighted with Singapore, Penang, Rangoon and regard to themselves than they
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formerly were, and to expect them while thus intellectually crippled, to be anything bat! childishly unreasonable now and again is simply to overlook
the fact that they are human. that husbands and wives should
It is undeniably desirable
be honest with each other, but
electrical sweepers, electrical hair- curlers, electrical cookers, electrical
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE es, electrical washers, hom
LESSON SERMON
"God The Preserver Of Man"
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, HONG KONG
forth, until there wasn't a woman) among them that needed to lift a hand, except maybe to push a but too.
“And yet, in spite of their great riches, it brought there small hap piness. They sent off their boys. and girls to fine schools, where they played tennis like Jurds and ladies, and wore badges in their "God the Preserver of Man" will caps. And the children grew it is absolutely essential that be the subject of the lesson Sermon ashamed of the villas their mothers they be honest with themselves in all Churches of Christ, Scien-had built, and would never come Ir the Mailys have served to tist, to-morrow.
bome to them. demonstrate no more than this, The Golden Text will be: "The| "And then a fellow came down their hickering in public has Lord shall preserve thy going out who had a prosperous scheme for not been in vain.
and thy coming in from this time cultivating oysters in the mouth of forth, and ever for evermore" the creek, and persuaded them to (Psalms, 121:8).
put their money in it. The only were the Among others, the following oysters they ever saw citations from the Bible will be ones he gave them at a farewel read: "Wherefore, my beloved, as bananet, just before he absconded ye have always obeyed, not as in **Then another man came down,
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my presence only, but now much and put it into their heads that more in my absence, work out your they'd get their money back if The following are the intima- salvation with fear and trem] they'd let him invest it in search-
bling" (Phil, 2:12-16)
ing for the gold that the old tales tions for the forthcoming week:
The Lesson Sermon will also in- tell ne does be buried in the hills To-morrow:-Morning Service clude the following passages from beyond But the only gold they! at 10.30 am (Preacher: Berthe Christian Science textbook, ever saw was the glitter of his THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS John D. MacLean): Evening Ser-Science and Health with Key to watch-chair before he cleared off
vice at 6 pm. walk than
Tuesday, December 17:-Meet- 1st Feh. Manila, Rabani. Erisbane, dying ing of Soldiers and Airmens'
Melbourne & Hobart
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the Scriptures By Mary Baker with their fortunes. Eddy?
"And so they came, with the one scheme after the other, to make the Mortal Discords
women ficher than they were. "If God makes sin, if good pro-And so they went off, one after the give a presentation of a Nativity duces evil, if truth results in other, taking the women's money Play in the Church on Friday, or, then Science and Christianity with them December 20, at 530 ja
are helpless but there are no za-
and
laws
And one by one the Women
A Service of Worship will be tagonistic powers nor held on Christmas morning, De-spiritual or material, creating and went away, as their money dwin- İcember 25, at 10:30-21:
governing man through perpetual died and they could no longer keep A Concert will be held in the warfare. God is not the auther or up the big villas they had built themselves and outde their neigh- Therefore we Church Hall on Wednesday, De mortal discords. cember 18, at 8 pm The Con-accept the conclusion that discords bours in displays of luxury, So now they are all gone, and there's cert Party From HMS, Bruce have only a fabulous existence, are will provide the entertaiment, mortal beliefs which divine Truth not a man, woman nor child to be seen, for who would live in this Love destroy Every Friday at 10:30 am Devotional Meeting is hold in thei To hold yourself superior to place unless he were born in ♣ and Helens May Institute.
sin, because God made you superior made his living on the sea?
"Yes, it's a lonely place," he said. to it and governs man," is true) {wisdom. To lear sin is to mis. We dranic another understand the power of Love and the divine Science of being in man's relation to God to doubt and distrust His
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