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WHEN THE RING GETS THIN.
G. K. CHESTERTON ON THE EPIDEMIC OF DIVORCE.
*** Life is beautiful, mysterious, wonder | ful exclaimed the philosopher At that moment his wife yeiled from the ad- joining room How dare you put your foily old head on my clean cushion !?”
of ecstasy Even in it be not, Mr. Gilbert The ideal marriage ought to be a state Chesterton holds that it must be static condition. In a cheerful way ho in timates that altar and halter have some thing in common in The Superstition of Divorce (Chatto and Windus, Ba, nes). is stubborn defence of marriage at a time when tvorce suits are cheaper than cloth suits made of Bradford wool is worthy of the heartiest praise of thow who consider marriage a holy estate, if not a Garden of Eden, says L. J. McQ.** in the Daily Express":
AN EPIDEMIC,
Mr. Chesterton carries the war into the enemy's country. He supports marriage. by assaulting divorce-
.."
*If divorce is a disease, it is no lunger a fashionable disease like appendicitis: it is to be made an epidemic like small.
pax.
Very much as the old tyrant would turn any number of men out to grass, so the new tyrant would turn any num ber of women into grass-widows
When the reformers propose that divorce should be obtainable after, an absence of three years (the absenc actually taken for granted in the first. military arrangements of the late Euro pean war), their readers and supporters could seldom give any sort of logical rea son for the period being three years, and not three months or three minutes. They are like people who should say, "Give me three feet of
ent came and not care where the
The ideal of marriage is ultimately mystical, and the marriage service must De so adjudged:
It is obvious that a husband and wife" are not visibly que desh in the sense of being one quadruped: It is equally ob vious that Paderewski and-Jack Johnson hre not twins, and probably have not played together at their mother's krice."
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are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure sali Valuables s being landed, and stored at their risks into the wardous and or astra hamardons Go towns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf sad Godown Co, Ltd, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after Isading
Optional Cargo will be forwarded on uáles intimation la received from the Consignees before Noor.TO-DAY requesting it to be landed
bere
Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned Goods ramstning unclaimed after 8th inst, at Noor, will be subject to eat and laza y chargesond
All claims must be sent in to me on or before the 19th lost, or they will not be recognised.
All damaged packages will be examined on Moxpax, the 8th insty at 10 au
." No Fire Insuranon has been affected.
R RODENFUSER,
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All brakes, shafed and damerad packages
Mr. Chesterten bas the peculiar felicity: of seeing marriage as a sort of wildare to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined Claims against the Steamer monst be prosented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise
will not be recognized.
balance in anromantic quarters:-
Philanthropists walking, in the slums, often see the compromise in the street, and mistake it for a fight. When they interfere, they are thoroughly. by both parties-and serve them ped
There is a sort of wild logic in this conclusion. It is impossible to effect a judicious, acparation. hetween warring spouses in the back streets.
"G.E.C., in telling The Story of, the Family" and its attendant conse quences, deplores the modern system of education, which he asserts, is founded on the principle that a parent is more likely to be cruel than anybody else, and places children under the care of police men, doctors detectives, inspectors, in- structors, and so on.
"A mather is not always judicious about her child's diet; so it is given into the control of Dr. Crippen. A father is thought not to teach his sons the purest morality; so they are put under the tutorship of Eugene Aram. These celebrated criminals are no more rare in their respective professions than the cruel parents are in the profession of parent hood.
Whether for the prosecution or the de fence, Mr. Chesterton is a wild counsel, marriage.
in
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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
General Managers. Hongkong, March 3rd, 1920.
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a hazardous Godowns of Bolts Wharf, Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained. Goods have left the Godown, and all Goods No Claim will be admitted after the remaining undelivered after March 12th, will be subject to rent a
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How certain mysterious pearls in the posscasion of Sir Ernest Birch multiplied in number and increased in size after they had been extracted from the oyster was described by him to a Daily Express representative.
When I was Governor of Borneo in 1801 I was out sailing one day," he said, when a woman came alongside my boat and held-up a enmall-bag full of pearls for sale
"I gave £6 for them, and as
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Perhaps you have had audience of a lemur (also a kind of monkey) at the Zoo, and thought that here was something more akin to your fricads than the gorilla, to which Darwin traced the evolu tionary beginnings of mare (says & writer in the Daily Express); Perhaps you were not so very far wrong. At all events, Professor George Elliot Enith explained
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All broken. chafed
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