RANDOM REFLECTIONS.
down the three balls which were the insignia of his profession, and pushing them about the
The question of the week has been-What counter of his shop with a yard stick, after the price railways?
manner of the game as at present played, and uking boxes fastened to the sides of his counter for pockets. Ont of this was developed a table with a fence of slight elevation about it to keep the balls from rolling off on the door, and to enable the player to make what have sizes become known as cushion shots Marvellous, isn't it? Who would have thought that billiarda would have had such a common, yea plebian origin f
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We know that young people have ideas as to their own rights and some of us remember the great things we were going to do when we reached our majority. How disgusted we should have been with our parents if they continued sparking us after we had began to show down on our upper lips or after we had put up our hair and got into long skirts. Yet-s Detroit Police judge has 'decided that a father had a perfect right to spank bis reventoon-year-old daughter, that punishment having been adopted in a mother-in-law joke has received a blow from effort to keep her away from nickelodeon's which it is not likely to recover. A Pitts- which, being interpreted, means cheap shows.burg father shot himself on hearing that the The daughter said she was too old to be spanked; excitement attending the arrival of twins in his the Judge decided not. Really, it seems that it family had caused the death of his mother-is- law, and it was stated that such a display of affection for a mother-in-law ought to put a final quietus on the mother-in-law joke.
RODERICK RANDOM.
is worth while to be a father after all.
It is really too bail of the weather clerk to as he has been doing. He has plague us practically spoiled four Saturdays in suecassion and made vaidoor exercises impossible. Looks an if he acted with malico aforethought. Perhaps, as Burns said in his address to the "de'il," he might "tak a thochtan' mond."
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CHINA'S MODERN ARMY.
A FEW STATISTICS.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 24TH, 1909.
two
THE PANAMA CANAL.
For these ressons
THE INCREASE OF LUXURY.
BY LADY GROVE.]
It was inevitable that there should arrive at some time or another the beginning of a re- action against perfinous expenditure. The chief danger is that once a cartain standard of larary has been set anything below that standard appears to those nursed in its lap as barship. The luxuries of one age become the nosessities of the next.
This need not be
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THERE IS SKILL AND
THOROUGHNESS.
OF CONSTRUCTION
IN ALL
PIANOS
WE IMPORT
Even luxury may therefore be divided into two distinct categories: the lureries that are STAMPING THEM IN EVERY WAY profitable and the luxuries that ara demoralis og to those who demand or use them.
"EGG-DAY."
this attack was and is based. In the first place, he says, there was an exaggerated newspaper report us to the imagined insecurity of the The Times publishes the second of two articles foundations of the Gatun Dam, Secondly, the ARNORMAL CRAVING FOR NEW SENSATIONS. by Sir Harry Johnston upon a subject that estimates of the engineers now on the Isthmus compels the attention not only of engineers, but and the amount of money already expended show of all to whom the development of guarine com- that the lock type of canal will coat at least merce and naval strategy is of interest. It twice as much as was originally expected. is almost exactly five years since the United Thirdly, thanks to the perfection of modern States took over the building of the Panama appliances, the amount of excavation has been Canal, and pledged themselves to solve a pro- surprisingly considerations have had little effect blem that had baffled the genius of de Lesseps. Be well had the work been begun that it is upon the President is proved by the conclusion now hoped by these responsible that in 1915 of his article:-
But The facta to-day are the same as they were the waterway will be open to commerce. the plan adopted by the American authorities when the lock type was adoptel-namely, that altogether an ovil. The desires that come from involves the subjugation of great natural forces; it would take at least $200,0 0,000 (£40,000,000) a better appreciation of the advantages of and ne Nature has a way of reassorting mors of money and at least five years more of purity and hygiene, which would in a former If American newspapere may be trusted, the self at the expense of science, however time to construct the sea-level type of one! age, have been regarded as extravagances are silfully applied, it is always possible that some 150 to 200 feat in width; that the canal when now expected as the natural oxigencies of daily unadulterated food. personal cleanliness, thing may happen to prevent the completion of constructed would be dangerous for the passage life. Of these an abundant supply of hot water,
to lift of the larger vessels; and that the lock type the work at so early a date. The plan the Canal, by a system of locks eighty-five feet of canal constructed at $2,003 (£400.000) warmth, light, leisure, and comfort may he above the sea-level for a considerable part of its lees in cost and five years legs in time will be quoted as typical examples. course. It is proposed by means of a huge dama better canal, a safe canal, and one in which to hold back the waters of a small river called the time of passage for large vessels will be the Chagres that runs into the Atlantic. Thus even less than in the een-lovel, type, a great lake will be formed about twenty-
the administration is the canal type three miles in length, feeding a channel upon proceeding to construct the same level for another uile mites. Thirty- authorized sad directed by Congress, and I remember the time when to the London SUPERIOR VALUE
who predict children of the upper classes--the "poor rich," wiles out of Afty miles the total the criticisms of gentlemen
se I have called them-fresh butter was a luxury, length of the Canalwill thus be provided for all their arguments on theory and not upon and for fifteen miles, in the deeper parts of practical tests, who-institute comparisons he and Sanday was spoken of by their greedy little Lake Bohio, as the grest reservoir will between the present type of canal and sea-level mouths as egg day." But to day people in the BUILT THROUGHOUT FOR
samo position, whose incomes may be aven less called, the necessity for digging and dredging type of 300 to 600 feet in width that never has will be obviated. At each ond of this stretch been or will be on sea or land," carmot disturb than those of the families of whom I man think-
THIS CLIMATE. of water will be gigantic locks, capable of the even tenor of those charged with the reing, would not venture to offer salt butter even taking the biggest ship affcat and built in sponsibility of constracting the ennal, and will to their servants.
Vessels coming through from the only continue to afford to persons who do not duplicate. Atlantic wili sail along cut leading inland understand the situation and are not familiar from Colon for seven miles until at Gatan with the history of the canal and of the various they are confronted with the dama already plans proposed for the canal, an unfounded seaks mentioned: They will be lifted to the level tion of regret and alarm that the Government of Lake Bohio by continuous stairway of is pursuing a foolish and senseless course, three looks sach twenty-eight feet six inches Meantime the canal will be built and completed on or before January 1, 1915, and those who are At the end of 1907 there existed eight in height. Crossing Lake Bohie they will
pass through the Culebra cut, which severs now its severest critics will be glad to have their divisions, 16 mixed brigades, and three regi- the backbone of the Isthmus; descend a lock authorship of recent articles. forgotten. menta, giving a total in officers and ines of with a thirty-foot drop; cross another iako two 146,252. Of these bodies very few could be miles broad; descend two more locks, and enter brought up to war strength owing to an insuffiei- ont supply of reservists and equipment. What a sealerel canal eight miles from the Pacific.
Naturally, o project so andacionaly conceived advance was made during 1908, it is impossible to has been greatly criticized. Its koy is the say, though the recent manoeuvres, in which Gutun Dam; and the dam has been condemned from 21,000 to 22,000 men of all arms took part, by experts whose opinions cannot be lightly dis Fave proof of steadily noting honey missed. The foundations of the structur will, The completion of the new programme, however, it is said, prove too weak to resist the pure will result in nu army on a peace footing of of the imprisoned lake. So insistently in this 402,600 men, and on a war footing a of 1,011,300.
been pressed that last winter Mr. Tal felt to the scheme on which this army is to be constrained, in company with commissi built up, the highest unit in peace is the division,
experts, personally to inspect the dam. The ro The highest unit in war is the army Harry Johnston emphatically endorses. Both Mr. back for the gums. Of course teeth have a cam-
corps, which consists, in addition to the peace Taft and his predecessor have, however, made mercial value as we know from certain advertise-division, of a reserve division, a reserve brigade, it clear that, wore it after all found advisable monte, but it was hardly to be expected that it
and three rezerve battalione. Each of the 36 to construct & sea-lovet canal, the chango would other things, the cost of the construction of the/she should. And how Miss Dash maceeds in and her distracted parents are offering £1,00 was sufficiently high to constitute a temptation peace divisions is to be brought up to was be made immediatly. In the article which for thieves, When speaking of this incident strength in this manner.
The educational part of the new scheme appears Sir Harry Johnston discusses Peking-Kalgan Railway. It is the security for reeping her footman out of the mischievous development in the affair is the admission of a Japanese papers to hand announce that MPath of idleness I cannot pretend to say i uwirl to walk in the streets of the best residential to a Chinew friend he surprised me by stating that it was the practice of Chinese dentista to rub the grams of their patients with some mator ial which caused them to finally anceze, when their tooth or teeth dropped out. I don't vouch for the accuracy of the statement, but it was given mò as gospel.
I noticed the other day in a Hankow paper an announcement to the following effect-
We are desired by Doctor-represents tive of Drsto state that he is leaving shortly for a tour through northern ports sad thore wishing his services should make their appointments early.".
Tt reminded me of a brass plate on curtain doctor's door in Jersey which road Dr. Accouchements Mondays and Thursdays." Until now I had supposed that in Jersey they mannged these things better than they do in most places, but Hankow evidently rivals Jersey in this res poct.
It is only a Chinese thief who would dream of
stealing teeth, thengh I have heard an in- diguant father at home compisin that his family
A Peking correspondent of the Manchester Guardian sends some details of China's new army, respecting which he says attivity is most marked in Manchuria, Chekiang, and Fakien, where the Japanese are most native, whereas in Turkestan, Kansah, and Mongolia, spheres of Rugalau influence, no special efforts are being made.
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MR. CLAUDE. W. KINDER, C. M. G.
Mr. Kinder, as already afnounced, has retired from the Imperial Chinese Hallways of North for England chin and is now on the train bound on service. Ne foreign employs of the Chinese Government ever left China with a higher integrity. His work speaks for itself. The railway built by him le one of the most valuable assets of the Chinese Government. From the revenne earned by it has been defrayed, among
The expectation of better and parer food, if it can be called a luxury, is not one of which I disapprove. I believe that to deprive children of all enjoyment in their food has a greater ten- denoy to promote groodiness than giving them an abundance of wholesome, and at the same
time palatable, nourishment.
But the benefits derived from the fruits of progress and the growth of human culture in the powe to appreciate these benefits are wholly distinct from the abnormal craving for sensation and display that marks the modern plutocrat with its ugly brand.
UP-BRINGING OF CHILDREN,
In nothing is there so great a change. I
, as in the bringing up imagine,
of children. For merly the children of even the greatest houses was hrought up simply, and in a manner devoid of ostentation. At this moment, however, I knew household where one of the mon survants is known as "Miss Dash's footman." Miss Dash, aged fre, is the daughter of one of the repre Splash, and Co.
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CO., LTD.
AMERICAN CHILDHOOD.
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would not only steal his teeth, but would come with an establishment of 746 officers and 10,436 mission found in its favour, & verdict which Sir reputation for ability, energy and unswerving Bentatives of the famous banking firm of Dash,ornals were giving to the crisis in the Ot-
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various railway loans obtained abroad
Kinder has been appointed Advisory Engineer to the Yu Chuan Pu, resident in London. We wish that the statement were true. We wish that Mr. Liang Shih-yi, the present Director General of Ballways, could have seen fit to show some appreciation of the services rendered by Mr. Kinder, but we have been disappointed. Not only har M. Ander left Chins without the aruallest appreciation, of sickness are
There is perhaps no reason why Miss Dash should not have a footman; there is, on the other hand, no particularly evident reason why contending against the author of all evil and
to dress a full-grown, able-bodied man in re- plendent clothes decorated with superfluous buttons and bell-ropes, to overfeed and to over pay him doon not seem to me the best solution of the problem of unemployment.
Then there is the terrible present-day system af overfeeding. In The Daily Mail of last Saturday Inxury in the matter of food in Paris is said to take the form of quality and it
A GIRL'S ESCATAPE, --
What looks like another case of kidnapping has been agitating all America. Every newspa per bis devoted about as much space to the at- tempt to solve the mystery at the European toman Empire. Adele Boas, tho fifteen-old side of New York, disappeared in broad daylight daughter of wealthy parents living on the west
Not the least amazing for her recovery. police officer that it is not wafe for a well-dressed -- districts of New York alone. Moreover, it is notorious how dangerous it is for any gentiuman to be unaccompanied after midnight, even the heart of the city.
Adininistration of the Canal zone. The viewa provides for four different classes of military he expressos, coming as they do from one will schools, graduates of which alone will in future qualified to pass judgment upon a great venture be eligible for the position of officers, though of white men undertaken in a tropical climate, until the supply is suficient individuals elected would dispose of much of the criticism that has from the old organisations will be utilized. The that has arisen in this regard. The health lowest class is formed by the preparatory schools problem, he writes, of a place that disputed which are established in all the provinces. with Sierra Leone the title of the White They are 26 in number, and are responsible for
Man's Grava has been turned into a mere what is usually called grounding namely, instruction in elementary general knowledge, question of degree of comfort, and hygiene
and in daily life. Death There are a few good golfers and a few expert After paxeing three years in these schools. rarer among the whites than among the blacks been deprived of considerable sam to which he quantity. But the French are not the only of the police force. The parents of Adele
linguists in Hongkong, and if the hero of the following story should be chosen from among them. I would not be surprised. A broker who had the reputation of using strong language on the laks started out one afternoon to play nine holes. Looking back after he had driven of, ho saw a great crowd following. There were young men and old, good players and bail, all
this services: he has even
Stories of robbery by professional ruffians are of weekly occurrence, and the Chief Com- missioner himself has more than once asked
the Board of Aldermen to auction un increas
candidates pas to the middio, solos Those are four in number, and in them general brought from the West Indian islands. Crime his long service Mr. Kinder had only a very brinf education is extended and a beginning is infrequent, thanks to the prohibition of 1878 and April 1909. On learing he was ontifed of whom it is related that after his first meal at mother had quarrolled The daughter in sap.
made in military instruction. Students are to undergo two years theoretical and four months practical training, after which they pass into the war school, where teaching is of a purely military character, and where they emain one and a half years. It they pass a and the best of theat, after two
trailing close behind with looks of interest and enactory exmination they then. become
He smiled politely and nervously, "Really, gentlemen," he said, "this is very flattering: I hope I am in good form this afternoon, I trust I shall play well mough to reward all this kindly intarest." "Oh, it isn't that," replied We came an elderly lawyer, with a chuckle. out to listen,"
The Duke of Rutland must be a sarcastic old chap. He advocate evening continuation classes at which members of Parliament might learn something about agriculture. But why not common knowledge?
and punishable by a heavy fine. Football is a very serious game in the States where the reports of matches read almost like the records of battles. Consequently the introduction of such a measure need not occasion surprise. The only surprise is, perhaps, that it has been so long delayed.
liquor by the Canal Commission. This is a high tribute to successful work in diffent
circumstances,
a
letter:
the police are more inclined to meaning of the word is a connoisseur of wines,
ran away from home, and in this they seem to find a Boat that the child has been kidnapped. not of food) more tolerable then a gourmand The type of "guardsman," however, is obsolete be supported by the stories that she and her one of the other clubs in Pall Mall where he posed to have been heard to exclaim, "Until was receiving temporary hospitality while his recently I couldn't even go to school without a in my files the middle classes lived so wall." own was being cleaned, he exclaimed, "I had no waid along with me, while everybody
The class made fun of my being a mamma's girl."
Some of her girl chums say she had fita
Sita of modern young officer of the Guard regiments in recruited from all ranks of society, and the melancholy, and may have committed suicide. magnificent young fool who cannot distinguish rousing the fathers and mothers of the city izto the difference between the trae epicureauism of
an extraordinary state of excitement; which has not been lessened by the unconfirmed ramour life and its shoddy imitation. Lord Rosebery
woman.
THREE DINNERS A DAY.
She
of holiday-fifteen months in all between September to the same of £3,500 pay due in place of leare
there is still room for improvement. Sir Harry stand a bonus of £600 and an engagement of In some respects, no doubt, not taken, but his application for this sun was ref used. Mr. Liang Bhih-yi offered him Johnston, for instance, animadverts upon the inadequacy of the harbour at Colon; and, three years au Consulting Engineer in London according to other observers, a more rigid salary of £1,000 per annum. In other words
Mr. Kinder was asked after 31 years service to humbleat line regiment will produce the Altogether the newspapers have succeeded in economy might be practised. But the main
do three years advising work to the Yu Chuan Pa in London for nothing. Mr. Kinder expectation. The broker paused and turned Jears' service, are drafted into the Staff College, fact is patent. The American Government which is entrusted with advanced professional education The higher positions in the army deserve high praise for having overcome many
is reported to have said in one of his public that the girl had eloped with the chauffeur. will only be given to men who have gradusted of the diffulties to which their predecessors in naturally refused this appointment. Here is Eis
April 2, 1909:
speeches that a man can only est one dinner: appears to have been popular with boys of The opening of the Panama Canal will mark at the Staff College. Up to the present only the Isthmus succumbed. the first of these four classes of schools has ex- a date of the highest importance in the history. H. E. Liang Shi Yi,
day. It seems sound enough, but it in no more her own age, for on the night of her disappear inted. The remainder are to be established as of the world. Whether the work of construc-
tree than to say that a woman can only dressance fully fifty called at her home to inquire for Director-General, Peking. students issue from the preparatory schools. Intion is to cost the United States £35,000,000
herself once a day, like the Islington gentleman news of her. The street in which the parents some provinces there are also cartain special for a lock canal or double that sum for a se Dear Sir-After giving more considera with the kind and gentle heart who "clad the live was blocked all day long by sutomobiles conveying visitors leaving their cards, and the schools veterinary, pharmaceutical, and medieval canal, the money will have been well spent. tion to your offer to make me Advisory naked every day when he put on hir clothes."
honse was surrounded by crowds of women on cal, but those have not advanced very for The Canal will give the United States, for Engineer to the Board, residing in London, Good work, however, has already been done in
Mr. George Russell, in one of his amusing the lookout for the newest development and the Thousands of lithographs of descriptions a country house party, says that latest sensation
ly been printed, and appear the topographical schools which have been practical purposes, a continuous coastline from I have decided that it is wisest not to accept established by all reformed provincial ad- the State of Washington to Maine. By digging the position.
I find the Board as at present consitated, is there were at least three diapers served very the girl hars ministrations. As soon as a salcient number waterway fifty miles in length the United
LATER. of officers from the new military schools is States will, in fact, double the effectiveness of distinctly hostile to what I consider China's day to the same people. I forget it breakfast all over the wesle
While thousands of detectives throughout would ordinarily be called luncheon, ilinner, and available there is to be a general lowering of the sheer any without increasing its numerical true interests as well as the honest reading was one of them, or whether they were what
strength. Commercially the effects of the Canal hoth of Loan Agreements and Protocol. age limita at which officers are to be retired,
will be equally far-reaching. Despite a tendency The Board has also persistently ignored my supper. Anyhow there were what are called in the Eastern States worn rearing the country to find a trace of Adele Boss, that little lady It will thus be seen that the Chinese officer of towards closer political and social relations, position and authority in a marked degree ever America five" square meals" served daily down-
came home all by herself from Boston. She the fature will be a person of quite different
seems to hare left New York merely upon a It is perhaps surprising to some to read that calibre from that of his predecessors. For these the United States and South America have since Mr. Chow resigned his post as Director. stairs, supplemented by the early cap of tea in
remained in matters of trade on comparatively
Under these circumstances it would be one's bedroom sandwiches and drinkables placed in Arkansas a bill has been introduced into the schools are all placed under the supervision of the distant terms, Especially is this the case with impossible for rae to serve with the full respect there the last thing" against possible pangs of sudden impulse, with $20 in her pocket. Sho landed in Boston, and spent the night in a вет War Office, or La Chun-pu, which was Legislature making the game of football illegal established by an Imperial decree dated June 1st those.communities that lie between the Ander and loyalty essential to anyone acting in an hunger in the night..."
If Satan finds employment for persons with boarding-house, and actually worked one day su With regard to pay in lieu of leave. I trust empty hands, Providence does not assuredly de ana maidservant, She devoted hours in wondering 1907. It is divided into a Central Department, and the Pacific Ocean. New York is as remoto advisory position. A Military Council, and ter sections. The first by sea from Valparaiso as Liverpool or Hamburg.
you will reconsider your proposal to give me a much for those with over full stomachs. Nothing at the beauties of the "Hub of the Universe. acts as a central registry, and deals with all The Panama Canal will ling them thousands
of miles closer. Nor will it benefit the eastern bonus of £600, which I prefer not to accept. I is less conducive to useful work than over-eating Then, when she saw the papers with her father's matters not allotted to any of the ten sections. coast of the United States alone. A scheme is merely want what I am fairly entitled to end and drinking. The underfed man may not be offer of £1,000 for ber return see promptly The second deals with all questions relating to
able to do much, but at least what he does is less bought a ticket for New York. The first thing. she said to the eroivil of reporters at the station new is now on foot to deepen the channel of not presents in any form whatever. organisation and intelligence, whilst the ten the Mississippi and to connect it with the Great
I shall be obliged if you will let have an likely to be fainted with the ghoulish promp
was, "See, I have come voluntarily, so poppa sections are made responsible for such matters
Lakes by a ship canai, This will give not immediate reply.
tings of repletion.
I have spoken only of "men" bat in this won't have to pay that $5,000* She had ex- as transport and Imperial Post, arms, aux.uni-only Chicago, but the iron and coal district
Yours truly, tion, fortifications, recruiting, military justice, of which Pittsburg is the centro, direct
senes more than in any other "men embraces actly 81 left, and was so tired she could hardly (9gd) C. W. KINDER.:
stand. remounts, and horse breeding. To the War communication by water with the Panama
After the receipt of this letter Mr. Liang I have acen pretty, delicata-looking girla
At least 150 persons on the trip from Boston Office is attached a general Staff consisting of Cans and the western markets it will serve. five departments, subdivided into 15 suctions. Its Canada also will be a gainer A tendency Shihoyi paid into Mr. Kinder's account £2,000 transformed in an incredibly short space of demanded to know if she were the missing
Adele. "set" into bloway-
She denied the soft impeachment with precribed establishment is 58 officers and 14 is already noticeable in the West to desert one year's salary), and Mr. Kinder, too time by contact with a
spirit and success. A reporter, who identified military officials,
ber at Stamford, telegraphed to her father, who the transcontinental route to Europe in favour proud to press his claim, has accepted this looking matrons with youth behind them and a
"past" before them.
welcomed her with tears streaming down his of the longer but cheaper sea route through the sam in lien of the payment of £3,500 to
THE WORSHIP OF MONEY."
face upon her arrival in New York. Her stock- Sues Canal. The Paname will provide a third which he was entitled Contrast this treatment and better alternativo for that trade, just as it with that accorded by a predecessor of
The worship of money is so dominating a ings were badly torn. When the carriage drove will provide an alternative, though a less ad- Mr. Liang Shih-yi to M. Jadot, the
factor in plutocratic society that it has positively her home be picked her up in his arms and carried ENGLISH WOMEN WHO TORTURE THEIR TOES Vantageous one, for trade between the Orient Belgian Engineer-in-chief of the Peking Han become part of the subconscious personality of her into the house like a naughty child, a crowd
and Europe. Sir Harry Johnston thinks it rea. kow Railway, the first section of which, namely thors who compose it.
several thousand strong cheering loudly. sonable to suppose that in a year nearly 15,00 from Lokouchiay to Paoting -fn, was built by
A cadet of one of the families of the great Tossels will be Bble to
the through the Canal, Mr. Kinder. pass
was discussing a visit he had been paying; 1 Ia photographs of Paris fashions in a Londonas compared with the 4500 that so the Bues When Jadot left China after five years hostess was an American and the guests were illustrated paper recently one lady was shown Croal; in the same space of time. It is main service he was awarded by the Chinees Gerern-all of the plutocracy. Very easy, engaging the modern walking stick could be traced to the with a substantial foot, and for the moment saya) tained by some people that even so the Panama | meut, justly awarded we consider, in honorar-manner," he said; "quite good-natured and purifying, water is gradually establishing itself a commentator we fancied that the tiny trilby waterways will bo inadequate. Possibly they rium of 250,000 francs (0.000), for the work amiable, but a curiously frank way of in India. This chemical has been employed for anthropoidal apo breaking off the branch of was doomed. Alas, it is not so, as our repre- may prove to be right. On the other hand, done on the railway, and 50,000 francs (£2,000) estimating a person's worth by their worldly
years, with excellent results, in the settling tree to support himself when he began to walk sentative discovered on visiting the maker of the traffic of Panama Canal might fall consi- extra for the Yellow River Bridge Br. possessions. Has he a motor? or apright, I felt inclined to leave my stick at home the smartest shoe in London.
derably bolow Sir Harry Johnston's estimate Kinder leaves with a reward of £1,500-lees many motors has he? world be one of the tanks of the Calcutta Corporation, and it was adopted some five years ago by the Howrah "No" said the Oracle, "You never met a and still repay the United States for their. then nothing.
first questions asked of an expected guest or Municipality, whose engineer reported very afterwards. The reflection hit in a double sonse, walidressed woman who would have a shoe which venture.
The treatment which Mr. Liang Shih-yi has anyone whose name was mentioned. They favourably upon its merits.
"The appe It showed that man needed assistance in walk really fitted her, and you novor will. Ease
seen fit to accord to Mr. Kinder has been a all had motors of their own," said
friend niy
the water," MR. TAFT ON THE CANAL.
he stated, ance of ing upright and it showed that some men were before elegance does not count with the woman
For people are better entitled to an opinion subject of comment for sometime past. It is "It could not have been that they wished to ano
the milky none of our duty to express any opinion upon make use of them ne a means of conveyance; but much improved during the rainy season, not very far removed from their ancestors, of fashion.
appearance peculiar To begin with, a small foot and a high upon the construction of the Panema Canal than Reminds me of the good joke which Mr. Ward instep are regarded as signs of good breeding, the President of the United States. As Becre- the appointment of Mr. Kinder's successor, but the thing that really seemed to interest them filtered water during the rains, which is perpetrated in "When Knights were Bold." And to show tant a wrenin has not had to work tary of War Mr. Taft was directly responsible it is our duty to make known the facts of Mr. about a man was not what he had done, but what attributed to the line clay held in suspension, Kinder's departure and refute the statements he had got." I remember saying at the time, and which no amount of filtration alone, seems published in the Japanese paper that Mr. Kia Bow extraordinarily vulgar reference to people having had a common family for her living. Then, of course, a big boot for its successful inauguration, and more than
and being told, enco he visited the Isthmus for the purpose of
peared." As the cost of this purifying agent is tree led the humorist to illustrate his conception would not go well with a tightly out skirt,
Ladies are so touchy as to the soliness of inspecting the work and personally satisfying der had been treated generously by the Chinese Well, you know that's the curions thing: it capable of entirely removing, practically disap- inconsiderable, working out in Howrah to about of the common family tree by jumping around their feet that we dare not tell a customer that himself as to the soundnes of the plans under Garernment. It is questionable whether any sounds vulgar bat, quite truthfully it did not
she takes size live. We fit her with a fire and which it is being carried out. Unusual interest, employe of any foreign government of the strike me as vulgar at the time the way it was two pics per 1,000 gallons of water trested, it is tell her it is a small three-really a two, therefore, is attached to an article from his pen standing and record of Mr. Kinder was ever done; but I confess that I was puzzled at the probable that many municipalitie, Union Com
that she which will appear in the May number of the treated more angenerously-Peking and Tien perfectly frank and unaffected way they showed mittees and other local anthorities would utilise their interest in a man's possible possessions." it for cleaning tanks if they were aware of its Bat this is a digression. When I wrote the madam: She probably does suspect it her English-Review. The article is entitled-A-sin-Times,
is being fooled, mid-if she does
The confession of this fastidious young man
efficacy a of the ease with which it can be opening contence of the last paragraph. I had in vanity is Battered and a sale affected
is, I think, an indication of how easily the fine
applied. he special merit of aluminoferris is vindication of the lock type of canal which the
sensibilities are blunted by contact with the per mind the origin of our beloved game ofWe smile at the poor heather China woman indicar to the Pansrun Canal Critics," and is a billiards. I read that it was invented by a who distorts her feet, but really English women American Government has decided, if possible,
constituent which was not present in the liquid Thas leisure from being a priceles boon merely a compound of alum, which the Chinese Bay, non-existing ideal. pawnbroker, William Kew by name, who of fashion are little better. They squeeze their to construct. The alternative would be a sea
petual exhibition of a low or perhaps I should that after its use, the purified water contains no before treatment. luminoferric is in lact toes into boots much too small for them, and the level eut like the Suez Canal. flourished in Loudon some time in the sixteenth result is not only that they walk with pain, but
deteriorates into an unending curse when it is have employed for centuries to clarify water century. This inventive avuncular relative of that their feet become disfigured so much so the needy used to employ his leisure hours in that if paddling became the rage they would not
companied by the fruits of intellectual Alum being costly, a substitute has been found wet weather when trade was dull by taking dare to indulge in it."
The prohibition of football by an American State legislature is another indication of how history repeats itself. In the early days the Scottish Parliament sought to put a stop to football as it was found that the young men proferred this to practising archery, at which, as we know, the Scots were woefully deficient when compared with the English
It is interesting to inquire into the origin of things, though occasionally we make unpleasant discoveries. When it was suggested to me that
like a monkey.
SMALL FOOT CRAZE.
WORSE THAN THE CHINESE.
Mr. Taft, after pointing out that the work of excavation was proceeding at an unexpected rate when the attack upon the lock system arose, goes on to explain upon what, in his opinion,"
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