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Mr. L. Macneil Weir, Socialist
TWO ROGUES FROM ANCIENT DAYS
BENVENUTO CELLINI
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the Editor, and be accompanied by English bulldog mascot of the US who has been journalist, a DREW THEIR OWN PORTRAITS - AS
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Pedestrians And Traffic
The well-known London magistrate. Sir Chartres Biron,
in
at
become in classical
is
THEY WISHED TO APPEAR
(By Very Rev. Dean Inge, D.D.)
T17HAT is the perennial at-He lived to old age and died in
W traction of that most de- his bee.
man
in a specially constructed casket, education, to members of the House was escorted on a regular caisson of Commons. His latest role draped with a Marine flag, and self-assumed.
This is his first examination attended by 1,000 Marines who
moralising exhibition, Punch Birrell calls him a rogue, and attention during the test: "Who drassed whom how and Judy? Does the average so he was. stood
His vanity and self- many times, round the walls of funeral.
of satisfaction were colossal, and enjcy-vicariously. what***
Mr. Weir is a Scot. He believes course an occasional complete some of his crimes I shall men-
holiday from the Ten Command-tion presently. that there are more. classical
ments? Perhaps this is why They caused him no compunc- scholars among the Scottish M.P.a
in Scottish folk-lore the devil tion, though he was a very re- than among the English. He put his belief to the test recently, and had it exploded.
CORRESPONDENCE
Rural Orphanage At Taipo
*
MR. MAXTON CRIBBED
is always a comic character. ligious man. When he
was
I have often noticed with thrown into prison at Rome, he surprise and amusement the records: "After I had composed attitude of spectacled and learn-myself and resumed my cheer- is reported to have remarked
[To The Editor China Mai that the streets of Hong Kong Dear Sir, On Monday next Many members, were asked
toled professors, the pink of pro-fulness of mind, I continued to they read my Bible, and 30 accus- are infinitely safer than those of Sir Thomas and Lady Southorn answer the question. •Several priety, of course, when
commentaries. The tomed my eyes to the darkness London, from the point of view are to plant the first trees in the thought the reference had
some-write of liability to traffic accidents. new Rural Home at Taipe.
Jericho; thing to do with
Latin scholar is very sympathe-that I could at length read three the This may or may not be true, A Boys' Orphanage from Kow-others could not even guess. tic about the highly reprehen- hours-
Heavenly Reflections but in ang case we should not loon City and part of the Victoria Mr. James Maxton was asked. sible relations of Roman poets!
Thus turning constantly to allow any such opinion to in- Home (for girls) are being moved He dismissed Jericho. pondered with their Lesbias, Cynthias,
the Supreme Being, sometimes fluence the public responsibility out into the country so that the for some time, suggested that it and Delias.
The late Andrew Bradley had in prayer, sometimes in silent the matter. For some children may grow up qualified for might be Troy, and disappeared. months past the police authori- country life rather than town life. Mr. Weir pursued his quest tears in his. voice when he dis-meditation on the divine good- ties have been publishing a de- The Home will be organised in without success. Presently Mr. cussed the rejection of Fal-ness, I was totally engrossed by tailed analysis of traffic acci-units of 12 children who will do Maxton returned and with a broad staff by Prince Hal As if a these heavenly reflections.
"I was all day long singing dents in the Colony. The classianl their own work, cooking etc. smile said, "Achilles, Hector, seven young King, at the most solemn fication, it is true, is arbitrary, Money for the first building is times. Troy."
moment of his life, his corona-psalms and other compositions but it is sufficiently detailed to secured, but we need :
Mr. Weir was delighted. Scot-tion, could possibly say any-of mine, in which I celebrated provide a more or less accurate į
(a) $2,000.00 for current ex-land bad won. Then in the back-thing to an impudent old repro-and praised the Deity."
This might have been written analysis of the main causes of
penses this year
ground he saw Mr. Amery with a bate except "I know thee not, accidents in our streets. For- (b). $2,500.00 for building each broader smile than Mr. Maxton's. old man." If Falstaff expected by John Bunyan in Bedford tunately, we can congratulate
additional unit, or family Mr. Maxton had applied the test anything else, the less Falstaff Gaol. But this pious young İgentleman confesses to one cold- ourselves on one evident fact —
home for twelve children to Mr. Amery, who had answered he
Still more surprising is the blooded murder. that the wholesale slaughter We shall welcome all interested at once. It was Mr. Amery's
"As this musqueteer stood at which is such a marked feature in this project at the new site answer on which Mr. Maxton pass-verdict of Richard Garnett on!
of Ben-his door after his supper, I with of traffic conditions in certain (just North of the 13 mile stone ed the test. So England had won, the autobiography
venuto Cellini, that it is a work great address came close up to parts of Europe and America is on the Taipe road) from 5 pm
of rare brilliancy, if not of him with a long-dagger, and non-existent here. Fatalities, to 6 pm on Monday, 30th March,
genius, though not intended for gave him a violent stroke, which happily, are few, and considering and the Treasurers, Mr. J. Bentley
the squeamish stomachs of old I aimed at his neck. He turned the narrowness of our streets of the Union Insurance Society of
ladies.
fround, and the blow brake -his and the comparatively large Canton, Ltd. and Mr. Tang Shiu Simple Celia says she wasted a lot
shoulder-blade. He took to his number of licensed motor-cars.in, No. 171, Queen's Road, Cen-of time taking a trip around the
Acquaintance Renewed both private and public, buses tral, will welcome subscriptions world. She has just learned that These thoughts led me to re-heels, but I pursued, and raising
none of her snapshots came out and trams in our congested and donations.
new my acquaintance with the my dagger hit him exactly on * thoroughfares, it must be ad-
self-portraitures of Benvenuto the nape of the neck. I found Cellini and Edward John Tre. it impossible to draw out my
weapon." lawny.
mitted
that local conditions. seem to point to two factors; that the general level of driving lis high, and that the traffic con-
TANG SHIUI-KEN JOHN BENTLEY RONALD
HONG KONG
trol exercised by those respon-SCHOOL GYMNASTIC
sible is thorough and efficient.
DISPLAY
C.B.S. Pupils Put Up Good Show.
Your Daily Smile!
TOO BAD
*
*
UNPUNISHED
After three weeks on the radio a
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Besides this, there was manslaughter: "I did not intend
popular song is dead, says a music publisher.
I owe the Italian some apology Our complaint, however, is that the people who kill them go for coupling them together. anpurished.
Cellini, as most of us know, to kill him, but blows are not was a contemporary and friend always under command."
A third homicide he assures of Michael Angelo, Raphael, and
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AN ABSENT SUITOR Since you've gone away I find I've had a change of heart and mind. keep recalling things you said- Before we knew our love was dead.
see you as you used to be So tender and concerned with me
ing-
But again, while all this is a matter for congratulation, it must not be allowed to become: an excuse for complacency. In one direction it appears to us that further steps might be taken, namely, in the education The large number of parents So bright and charming and appeal the And somehow I have had the feeling of pedestrians to the dangers and friends who attended likely to be met with in the gymnastic display given by the That I will love you more each day
Central streets. The fatal accidents, so pupils of the
British Provided, deat, you stay away! ́ ́. far as a cursory examination of School on the School play ground the weekly returns seems to in-yesterday were very impressed dicate, are generally concerned with what they saw and the Head- with people walking on or run-master, the Rev. G. E. S. Upsdell, ning across the roadway. An-has good reason to be proud of other frequent cause is that his pupils.
sudden appearance of a pedes The display, which was arrang- trian from behind a tram, bus ored by Mr. S. Morse of the Royal stationary vehicle which causes Welch Fusiliers, and Mrs. Helen a motor-driver's heart to jump Prophet was watched by a very into his mouth, simply because large gathering who were loud in it is upon him with such sudden- their applause of the very credi ness. In a case like this instantable show. taneous alertness is called for;
Taking part in the drill were and something that will prob-over 200 pupils of the school, and Jably never be known is the
number of accidents of this after the special events on the a grand nature which are avoided by the Programme there was exercise of quick judgment and march in which the whole school skill by car drivers. Generally, participated.
jin fact, there seems to be ample)
scope for further intensification lessential agent.
Much as the
of the efforts to educate other New World has contributed to users of the roads besides the this youngest of arts, it was in drivers of vehicles. Especially Europe that it was first develop among children the need is ob-led. English pioneers contem- vious. If any such schooling is porary with M. Lumiere have not given to children in the been present at these anniver- Colony then there is a great sary celebrations, and we can field open for thorough practical claim as a countryman the first instruction which would prob inventor of a practical moving- ably contribute in most valuable picture camera, William Friese-
Greene. manner to the further lowering!
Colony.
of the accident curve in the Imperfect as were the early film-dramas, brief and jerky as was their action, the effect was realistic. Audiences were gen-
Forty Years of Films uinely alarmed at a train which
seemed to be advancing at them To a generation which takes from the screen, genuinely the cinema for granted as one tickled by the first wild of the amenities of urban life it comedies. Historical events, is slightly startling to recall from the Diamond Jubilee of how brief is the period in which Queen Victoria anwards. were moving,pictures have been in recorded in this lifelike medium. movement. Just 40 years have The "old masters," Max Linder passed since the first cinema-and the Drews, John Bunny and tograph entertainment was Charlie Chaplin, conquered a given in London at the Poly-public beyond the dreams of a technic, and films from the pro-Garrick or a Grimaldi. But the gramme were revived last month film has seldom stopped, as it on the same site, in the pre-were, in mid-reel to look back sence of M. Lumiere, the happi-upon what it was doing or what ly named inventor and impre it had done. Forty years bring sario who introduced England a man to middle-age, but they to an entertainment in which leave an art still in its first] light was and remains the childhood
Giulio Romano; in other words, us was accidental
he lived at the most brilliant | As for his innumerable pro-
time of the Italian Renaissance.miscuous
designer of medals.
debaucheries,
they
He was himself a consummate are set down in full for those artist goldsmith, sculptor who like to read them.
No Sham Popes, kings, and dictators Was Cellini's religion a sham? competed with each other for Odd as it may seem, it was not. his services, and paid him well. (Continued on Page 8)
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