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He was a stout man; with large, broad feet, and although several. pairs of boots were shown to him he refused them.
I must have square toes" be explained to the assistant,
The young man sighed. "But square toes are not stocked now, air," he insisted. "Pointed toes are fashionable this season."ja
The stout man gayo an angry | stare. "That may be,” he retorted "but I happen to be wearing last
senson's feet.”
Comrade EL. W. Cunningham, How on duty in Honolulu, tells a
Who
yarn about a hardboiled: top kick was lecturing a bunch of young recruits,
Jon's forges that the army just one big family" he said. *And that in each one of you there is the making of an unknown
soldier!"
Travellers on' the highways will understand the versifier who thus parodies Joyce Kilmer's beautiful tribute to trees:
I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboarda
fall,
I never see a tree át all.
Sh-hi-
A missionary in India was hav- ing an earnest, talk with a Hindu whom he hoped to convert to Christianity.
"Come, now," said the mission ary, “wouldn't you like to go to heaven
SIMPLICITY IN DIARY OF LOCAL THE DIALOGUE
Proof That Wm Shakespeare Wrote For Masses
EVENTS
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 Anniversaries and Holidays - St. Damasus, Pope.
Auctions.Household Furnitare, 35, Hankow Road Kowloon, 130 p.to.
Cinemas
Max Reinhardt's assertion that Kings:-The Wedding Night ~ Shakespeare wrote for the masats Queen's-Smart Girl” is borne out, not only by the air-Central:-"Wagon Wheels.” plicity of mis plots, but by the Oriental: "Paris In Spring" (impidity of a great part of his
dialogus.
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'In "A Midsumer Night's Dream” there is much dialogue that might have been written recently instead of three and a half centuries ago. If Frank Hawks or Roscoe Tur- ner said, "I put a girdle mund about the earth forty minutes," they would only be repeating a speech by the ratschievous Puck.
World:—"Chinese Picture.” Alhambra. — "King Solomon
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Broadway."
Of
Majestic Chinese Picture," star:-"The Farenuine Dagger.":
Entertainments. — Professor Ex- vagio entertaină at Cheero Club, 9 p.m.; St. Andrew's Choir Concert, 9.15 p.m.; Dante Alighieri Society Concert of Italian Music, at Penin- sula Hotel Rose Room, 9.30. pim.
Exhibition,--First Annual Phil-
of the "ELK
No hero of to-day concoct a simpler; mase direct speech thanate.ic Exhibition Lysander, when he says to Helena, "Helena, it is not so.”
of amateurs, as Hippolyta does in Anyone watching a performance
"A Midsummer Night's Dream"
what Mr. Shakespeare makes her would be quite cely to say exacty
say; "This is the alliest stuff that ever I heard.”
Nor is there anything "high- brow" in Puck's Little verse, "Cupid make is a knavish lad, thus to poor females mad.":
NEWS RECEIVED OF OLD
CHINA HAND
Mr. W. A. Houle On Staff
Of-Brighton School
Philatelic Society, "S. C. M. Post" Building, 3 to 8 p.m.
Mietings.--Extraordinary, Hong Kong Brewers and Distillers, Ltd at 7 Duddell Street, noon., Creditors union Church Women's Guild, 10 Meeting at 12.30 p.m.: Kowloon
am.; Aquarium Society, University 5.30 p.m.; Worship and Meditation, at Tao Fong Shan Chapel, Bishop's Ecuse, 6 p.
Miscellaneous Claims agains: the Estate of Isabel Gil de Sola Viuda de Tuason, late of Manila, due; Priza-Distribution at Elia Kadoorie School for Indians, 11 a.m.; Distribution of Medals and Diplomas to sucessful candidates un 1935 Catechism Contest, at Wah Yan College, Robinson Road,
SociaCheero Club Social Night; Tombola on board HMS. Tamar, T.15 D.IN.
Sports
Many in buangnal wil remember Mr. W. A. ("Wilte") Monie, a ve- teran interport cricketer and one
Badminton-Men's Doubles, Fire originai - members K The Hindu shook his head in dow working in Engand on the
Shangna Cricket Club, wooBrigade .. Eliot Hall. "B"; St.
John's.v. Talkoo: Chinesa R.C. v...
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polite regret, "I do not think," he staff of Brignton Guilcge Prepara- / Club de Recreio "A".
said, "that heaven can be verytory School, Kaud or the British would have
grabbed 11 years ago,"
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air, Moule left Shanghai early ki Winnipeg 1924 au he now no longer plays cricket except for the fastes ugainst the boys. He is, however,
A LETTER BY WELLINGTON
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London NOV 15. A letter written by Wellington at 3 s.m. on the day of Waterino was sold at Sotheby's yesterday for £230. It was secured by a private colector using the name of “Mr. Exton."
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· Mr. Mould's son Arthür (“Kozo") is Curate of a church in St. He ten's, Lancashire. His daughter, wic..y. was married on Beptember 10, 1935, to Dr. Gurnsey, a medical salonaty, Mr. Moule's brother Bishop A. J. H. ("Arthur") Moule, who retired from China in 1910,
died in October 1930.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, Anniversaries and Holidays, St. Constantius, Martyr. Feast of Finding of the Body of St. Francis of Assisi.
Cinemás,
Moule's son Walter ("Didi") is now King's."The Wedding Night." clerk of the Benate of Leeds Uni-Queen's:-"Smart Girl” versity and is married.
Central: "Chinese Picturý." Mr. Moule was for a number of Oriental: "Paris In Spring." years headmaster of the C.M.8.
World:-"Chinëse Picture, Bchool in Range Road, The late
Alhambra: - "King Solomon Dean Symons was assistant master
...'. Broadway." at the same school
Majestic Chinese Picture." Star:-"Goin' To Town."
Exchikitions-Hong Kong Phii- atelic Society stamps, at "8. C. M Post" Building, 3 to 8 pm.
Lectures.--Dr. Shin Lok-sang's Second First Aid Lecture (in Chin- ese), for women only, at St. John Ambulance Headquarters, 7.30 p.m.; Rev: C.BR. Sargent on Caruso, St. Andrew's Hall, 9 p.m.
For the information of old friends who might like to get in touch with Mr. W. A. H Moue, his present address is Evelyn Terrace, Brighton, England.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13
Cingimas Kings:--The Wedding Night Queen's: "Smart Crl" Central:Chinese Picture," Oriental:-"Black Fury.". World:-"Chinese Picture."
A hambra: "Kng Solomon
· · Broadway." Majestie George White
Scandals,* Star "Goin' To Town.”
Sporta
1936
Meetings-Victoria Chess Cub, Gloucester Hotel, 5.30 p.m.; Theo- sophical Society, 6 p.m.
Sporta
Chess-Victoria Chess Club v. Kowloon Chess Club" (Gloucester Hotel), 5:30 pm,
Hockey-Navy v. Police Seconds, (King's Park,.
Miscellaneous. Hockey Lecture (8%. Andrew's Church Hall), 5.30 Badminton-Mixed Doubles, St Andrew's v. Fire Brigade; Bailors P. and Soldiers' Home v. Club de Re-
Bnooker-Beel Coulson League; CTelo "A": St. John's v. Talkoo B.O. Huya: Engineers v. Catholic Union;
Dockyard R.C. v. Garrison” E Hockey HK.S.RA V Punjab gents, Prison Officers v. Civit Regiment (Marina Ground), 4.30 Birdce: St. Patrick's *. (Naval ald than £112 (Spenter) for a dos p.m., Hong Kong Hockey Club Lockyard Police.
li every letter in the sale had ve: as important as this there would have been a much higher
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These 16,000 included 52 from Walitgan. In one of them, dated April, 1818, he states that he can hot in the Alled Ministern as A Is "gong hunding.”
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