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THE CHINA, MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936
The China Mail
Ninety-frst Year of Publication.
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MY PEOPLE MUST LAUGH HUMOURS OF AN ARAB
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the cold of winter, wrapped in thei Christ Hospital turned out to JOKES OR DRAMA AN ESSENTIAL
publication should be addressed to heaviest of garments. Fred Ripley, be an admirable ally to research the Editor, and be accompanied by
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out students:
PART OF TUNIS LIFE
That's
(By Violet Henson)
the Writer's Name and Address aged 53, of Winnipeg, steps
and comfortable, When the school was founded, not necessarly for insertion, but jauntily, serene
wearing no coat or hat. Mr. Rip under Edward VI, it was directed jas a guarantee of good faith.
ley practises his belief in a treat in the statutes that Latin should ment of air, light, water, diet and be pronounced as English thenOOD, madame.
Į.... A dificult moment for an a school for poor corrective exercises, and the state was. It was
what my Arab imperfect hostess. of his health belies his 53 years. boys, and no frills were included cook says if I tell him eight peo- Love Of Laughter
The school pronunciation of ple are coming to lunch in half He describes himself as a "nature-
Amer is a very highly develop- path" And during the past win-Latin was carefully cherished an hour, or that he must get aloped case of the Arab's love of ter, despite the 45 degrees below from generation to generation. basket prepared for the cat's laughter, but to keep them happy also find the and contented they must have zero weather around Winnipeg, he
When, in recent years, the newjaccouchement--and has been seen daily exercising Italianate pronunciation of Latin cat... That I want him to help jokes or draudă, the country, clad only in his loin was introduced in English schools, the gardener weed the lemon or Like all sensitive people, thes carrying it was found to coincide (save chard, take some English friends quickly become bored if things are cloth. chapping wood.
with to his cousin's wedding-catch the on a fat level, and then they de show-covered logs, and even lying for very slight changes)
has escaped as part or
their else make monkey, which down in the snow for a nap!
Latin usual and is reclining on the top dramas which are nearly always a chain mistake, and generally take the will of a tree with its broken 15thheld gracefully over one armor form of drunken rows in the vil
search for a suspected dead body lage cafes, combined with rather
feeble knife play, which for in the water tank.
the The day after I asked him to means expensive visits to do the last. he told me that he Sheik, and the boredom of collect- had felt relieved at only finding ing and presenting a mixed mass two dead rata as a short while of perjury before we can drag our had staff out of the local prison, and
BIRTH HYLAND: At Peking on 3rd June to Phyllis (nee Capell) wife of A. 0. Hyland, a daughter.
DEATH
JENSEN, Elly Elisabeth wife of
Christ's Hospital Latin.
Those who have learned The Rollator
by the new pronunciation thus have a fair guide to Nthe Norge factory. Borg century English speech.
is & Warner Co. Detroit,
continuously
F. V. Jensen died on the 4th. small test unit machine that has June, 1986. at the War Mem-been running orial Nursing Home.
The funeral Cortege will pass the monument at 5 p.m. to-day Thursday.
Your Daily Smile!
HALO
3
for
Aha! more than 6 years with no
Jones and Smith were arguing change of parts, and the machine
about monkeys. Jones said that the before a young Arab girl shows no appreciable wear to date. The machine is an electric re monkey was the animal most resem vanished from the village. follow-start life afresh.
that The jokes are more easily ing on a love drama', and frigerator "heart." During the bling mankind.
Smith snorted. "Monkeys!" he public opinion inclined to the idea managed; luckily they can be of time it has been in operation, the
"They are no more like that she might be at the bottom the feeblest quality and, however Hong Kong, Thursday, June 4, 1936. eccentric shaft has revolved more scoffed.
of somebody's well--a classic local poor, they always bring forth the than 2.481,000,000 times without human beings than I am
Igesture.
same warmth and response that a damage.
He Should Be Thankful
Facing Realities
Interest of quite exceptional the to attaches importance
forthcoming Assembly of the League of Nations which Argentina has requisitioned to
FIRST GRAND MASTER
consider the problem of the an- King's Connection With
nexation of Abyssinia by Italy
and the proclamation of King Victor Emmanuel as Emperor
not
Freemasonry
He added that he had prudently that about her had legs will ex- charwoman OF "My friend," said the debtor to the taken a dose of castor oil as soon tract from any all-too-blustering bill collector, "¿cj
The Arabs have practically no jclass-consciousness, which makes
with contact
thera delightful
you realise that if all fellows like me as I had mentioned that our water femme de menage in Europe. paid their bills promptly, you'd be had a curious smell, which he now
felt had been a wasted effort. Tout of a job?"
Word a Day
Excellent Cook
I may say that he is an excel-They have charming manners, -Father," said the small boy, "what lent cook, and although he can nei-land as they have no is a demagogue?”
inferiority
"A demagogue, my son, is a man ther read nor write-remembers complexes they are eager to learn who can rock the boat himself and every receipe read out to him for anything that one can teach them, though, I must say our gardener persuade everybody that there's eternity. terrible storm at sea.”
London, To-day. of Ethiopia. It may safely be
At a meeting of the United presumed that in calling thus Grand Lodge of Freemasons, upon the League to justify its H.RH. the Duke of Connaught existence Argentina is
announced that His Majesty eat. alone. One message stated in the King had accepted the fact that consultation with the position of First Grand Master. other South American coun- tries had been entered upon,
Very Practical
He: "You look sweet enough She: 4 do eat. Where shall
to
?"
Compliment Barber: "Is the Tator all right, sir 7*
The valet de chambre, who takes is an exception. But then all gar- the place of a house-parlourmaid deners are like that: I am myself.
bas
Unceasing War in our Tunisian household, though he understands no English.
He and I are old friends of ten Max year's standing, but there is an we the same qualifications
Beerbohm's perfect butler who al-unceasing war waged between us ways laughed at his master's jokes,a war one might say of only in his case he misses the Age of Chivalry: we respect synchronised moderation his the rules, but feeling rises high
at times. terms of the resolution which tive, of preventing Italy from
Client: "Well, if you had not men-English confrere. Argentina will presumably pro-enjoying the fruits of her illegal tioned it I should not have thought pose had been obtained. There action. If, in the course of you were treating my face with understand the joke, he has only only a dim echo of my despairing
-Reuter's Bulletin Service.
and that their support of the
Barber (attered): "Oh, "Chent: "I should have thought
Cause
of
It is not necessary for him to
the
zB
He e stone deaf, pour man, so
certain
thank to hear us giggle. Once at a din-screams reaches him at is very little reason to doubt that action, the Italian nation razor"
too tragic moments like the time when ner-party the excitement was also that many of the European suffers as a whole from a com-
it much for him: on that occasion he cut the roots of the thousand members of the League are in plete cessation of foreign trades."
in recklessly be joined so
the new strawberry plants just arrived was from France before planting favour of a complete thrashing and economic difficulties begin was a file."
laughter at table that he out of the momentous questions to appear, the matter may be
ke them with the idea, as he told me forced to put down the dish involved in the future attitude regretted; but let us not forget
B Daughter: "Father went off in
was handing, and after hokling in his gentle deaf voice, of mak- of that body. It is rather dis-the incomparably more hideous!
30 ecstasy ofing the tops grow more quickly! heartening for all those who sufferings to which the people good humour to-day."
Mother: "That reminds me, I for-his stomach in
(Continued on Page 11) mirth, fell on the floor and rolled believe that the League and its of Abyssinia have been subject- ideals are essential for the well-ed in the course of an unjust,ot to ask him for some money."
and indefensible being of the world to see a cer- unprovoked tain weakening in the reaction war. Two blacks do not make
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condemned by the whole civi-nation has made its choice. It lised world as unprovoked has accepted a dictatorship and aggression. There is apparent is presumably behind it in sup- a tendency in some quarters, port of acts, however -heinous, notably the French, to consider committed by that dictatorship. the whole incident as closed. If it is prepared to profit by it, Nothing, in our opinion, can the nation must also be pre- countenance this attitude.pared to pay the reckoning for Europe and the League cannot its blunders and mistakes, no at this stage wash their hands less than for acts deliberately of the whole business. To do committed in its name that run so would be to condone a felony, counter to all civilised usages. to place a premium on the mail- For these reasons it appears ed fist, to abandon any sort of to us that, whatever the cost, fight for the upholding of the there is only one course open elementary ideals of justice and for the rest of the world. Italy! order. For the main points of must be forced to disgorge the the whole matter simply can-gains she has acquired by her If pos not be ignored. It is establish-Abyssinian campaign.
ed that Abyssinia has been sible that should be done by not include sacked at the point of the means which do sword, and with the aid of the military action or force of any most revolting forms of modern kind. If Italy, wishes to with- warfare, by an aggressor nation draw from the League, let her bent on expansion. She has do so; the atmosphere, in any lost her sovereignty and in-case, would be sweeter without dependence as a result of armed her. If she intends to consider defeat. All this has happened any retention or increase of in direct defiance of covenanted sanctions as an act of war, then obligations freely entered into that is war against the whole by Italy. There is absolutely civilised world; and not even no justification, moral or other, Italy is strong enough to bear for what is nothing but bare- the brunt of that for long. Butį faced brigandage. carried it is absolutely essential that through with the utmost cynic the League primarily and the ism against the declared opinion other nations of the world of the rest of the world. And secondarily should show now Le Temps calmly suggests absolutely united front. Isolat- that Italy should be allowed to ed action by any one nation is reap the benefits of her brigan-out of the question. Action by of particular dage, and that the rest of the any
group world should calmly sit by and nations would also detract, con- condone it by default!
siderably from the moral con- It is difficult to see how this siderations attaching to the dis- attitude can possibly be defend-cipline of the rest of the world. ed-from whatever viewpoint Argentina's challenge to the the matter is approached League must be met, and there! Nobody, least of all ourselves, is even still time for it to re- belittles the difficulties of the trieve not only its prestige but situation. But the least the the immanent strength which civilised world dan do is the institution contains, to continue sanctions, which should contain, if matters are may possibly have the effect, faced squarely even at this which is likely to be cumula eleventh hour.
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