"Pears like th' ain't mothin' too ho'sh fo' to my 'bout 'om. Some o' the lamentations o' the prophets, au'one o' the adverbs Solomon is clook full o' bitter-
neet when a fool is deluded to..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMber_16_1911
the stranger he begin to got way
hond..
"Oh."
| way.".
THE LADY'S COLUMN.
Visiting Dress03;
(By Lady Charlotte in "the
* Daily Mail.")
much importance at this season Visiting toilettes are affairs of of the year, arbitrarily governed
I followed Band Sundownstairs. by circumstances, of course. In He led the way into a little Japan almost every outfit the garden
flame colour, a delightfully old- A SHORT SERMON. fashioned looking fabrio. To simulate the busque which is cer
The Influite Companionship tainly one of the novelties the I will say of the Lord, Ho is my conturiores are about to offer rofuge and my fortross; my God
their curly" nutumin store in hith will trust.-Penlms xcij of pretty fancies, green soutache 2.
is used, and a reappearanco In one of his noblest word-songs
und flume coloured ostrich fen- to thee; the Ineffable Name? at the edge on a big green vol-the Poot Browning asks, man vet bow is placol among the grey Wherefore, to whom turn I but thers that surround the crown
Sailor Collars Revived. After a period of abeyance a
In the middle of the party gown makes its appearance, couturier whose word to law in floor, on the cane matting, sitting even though the major portion of the world of modes has reinstated them, their kncos together, were a
| Battleton just 'mchully done rose with their ankles crossed bonoath the rest of the frooks for open-air-he sailor collar. nsn aljuner of opportunity of turning for help,
in
wits
Young Pentagon, he wits lookin' on, like I sail, an' when he' says, mighty low an' easy, wouldn't play that no further, Pop.
jet black hair richer anil muioh
too,
The fine part of this outburst of Gaith is that any one anywhite san repeat it as his own. For even to the least among men, tore is always at hand the priceless the coror-all conts he has design strong and counsel the vitale ed for, presquey wear of trite, campanionship-to the making the big fint collar a fea Father of all, who is ever nearer. ture of the reversible coats, and hand than we doubting oliildron is using it not only in double are ready to acknowledge.
And in this Infinite Companion faced ratio, but in a now sorge
woman and a girl, the former in a wear ara developed in doughty urity, and the latter in one of dark kimono bofitting her mat-twoods and homespuns.
Of paramount importance, bright matoriul, with a coiffure of is the rest or tea gown; by which higher than that of her parent. ame the "little" evening frock le soie material with a coloured ship is to be found the surest
and Bund-San made obeisance to is frequently called. Many of the the contrast of a plain surface us.all..
foundation. characteristics of the evening This my sister and mother,"
Using a mutorial with blue and materialism. toilette and tho teagown are inclined my head to the pair and determine by which title the five cover-ul for a motorist's hie logs crossed, his knees opon.
in this world.
It lifts the hesitating, fearful individual above the marelies of white inside and a bronzo-re sur- It leads the trusting spirit to the
bein' what he is, sume's yo' don't nothin' that young follor didn't seen them two eyarda laid off, he said, and sat down on the floor,iningled, so that it is difficalt 10 face he has made a very attracaills of hope-and greater lap-
"Posrod like there wa'n't
know. Th' old man give him shotgun whion he was years old an' a rifle when he was 5, an' made him penetice till he was the bestshot in the state. Ho learned there patred to be nothin' mo' fo him to swim un ride an' fight till him to learn, on'y poker, an' the old man was learnin' him that .careful an' conscientious.
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piness. "Just nactully the stranger hoseated myself like Bund San. pretty ruiment should be known. woar, and in another case link It brings into full play all the Mother and son then conversed Happily the moot point need not supplied a forester-green coat of latent" best "that is in the human
looked up, an' says, 'What you An young Pentagon, he says, still got to say 'bout this, anyway?" speakin' cool an easy, Well, mobbe I ain't got nothin' to but 1 uin't goin to stand by un soo my old mun stack up ag'ina foul deal, not if I knows what
POKER.
Nobody-knowed what the squire
I think not, I do not know." WOR thinkin' about when he
So7 very sorry," he said. Shows Him to be a Fool, and Henmned the boy Pentagon, but the “He didn't make nó killin', fo' | “My father die. This hotel soʻn Pays the Final Penalty. way be 'xplained it was 't there Battleton was still playin' mighty Anish. I unable keeping sister wa'n't nobody else''t had no such cautious, but the chips was goin' and mother Sister like marry “Thioro's' a heap o''lownuces name, an' he was tired of bein' over to'ds his pilo some steady English husband, so can keep made into the Good Book to called John his own self, bein' when young Pentagon Battleton | mother. republicans and sinners au babes how most anybody else was named done come into the room, an
saein what was goin' on he John, too. an' them that orrs in thoig ways! Anyway, Pentagon Battleton stopped up an' begin to watch the pretty girl I am sure will stay in "Yos: II. gentleman seing this long o' not havin' nachral 'dvant-growed up like anybody else on'y gano like wo uus was doin'. agos, but I don't call to mind no to his name, an there wa'n't no. There wa'n't mo'n three or fo Japan until die. Please come this gre't hopes what's hold out fo' body ever s'picioned hint fo' a mo' hands lealt afo' the stranger
Tool, not till later on, them what is foolw.
Likely took the deck an give John there wouldn't nobody never Battleton three kings.” “Then he knowed it on y fo' wint I'm tellin' come in on Battloton's ante, an now.
"Woll, John Battleton, he hima 85.
Well, the stranger he p'tended 'peared to bo'mazin' fond o young Pentagon, mon any other to study a spelt, but ho come offspring hond, Bein's hean Battloton he called for didn't had much to do into his eyards. The strunger give 'em to Oo'se long's yo' find it indeclinin' years, sugh about every-him na' then he p'tended to study the Good Book, it must be right, body ho knowed not carin" to some mo, an' finally to, says he but stands to reason if a man's play poker with hiin no no, he reckons ho'll take two his own salt Both bowed to me as I entered, that is worn in the between senson back, and also in ribbad silk with confort that any man can know
done spent most of his time An' ho deals 'em off." fool he can't be nothin' but a fool, bringin' up Pentagon.. an' 'tuin't right to blame him foʻ
never think blamin, a mule fo' boin' a mule: The thing to do: whona mulaents us is to ranson with him with a black *snake whip, if there's one handy, or a piece of scantlink if yo' hain got no whip. "Yo' don't blame him fo' bein' a mule, but fo' sloin'
parchment skin of her mother. Brightly shining floss silk is a the things he sho’ly will do, bein' a mule. Proves how pro
She fondled the gorgeous silk medium that is very useful and "O'co's, there ain't no way o'sash round her waist with nervous, vidence al'ays does the right
tellin' what me he mought ha tapering fingers, as a Europenoffective in the decoration of snel thing, even if 'tis onreasonable.
been goin' to say, fo' he never girl might have done, and occu-dressed as those. A lovely model "Th' ain't no 'xcuse fo' a mon poker us skillful as he done played aid nothin' mo'. The strangersionally, when she believed I made of houvy-lemon-coloured not beina fool, even if he was made it, an he done his darnedest to do was a bad aian, all-right, like should not see, pooped at me aide is ebroulerod with white floss that away, an' th' ain't no way ho vidin' n peaceful old age folie said he was, fo' ho druwd while long from beneath her dark eye- 'e'n help it. Case of the mule hisself learnin' his offspring the young Pontagon was talkin' au lushies.
shows that, like I said. Th' mule way fo' to be a credit to hisself bored him through the hond. Prespully Bund Sau turned to od for a bòdico and tanio drapod. There is a new fashion fur strip-sot our pulses boating-What you hain't got no 'xcuse fo' boin' aan gettin' to be a nieans o' spo't Old man Groonhut paused an'ine. "My mother like gentle in elegant fashion, with a cord tod veils, and it is a very favourite and I need is with euch broath of mule. He just is, an' boin', ho's fo' the old man when he sh'd looked round. Seeing that his man very mincha," ho began, indicato the waist line. The dross resource to brighten a dark bonnet life to come "Nearer, My God, to got to stand the" consequents."
come to them declinin' yours hourers did not appear to be grout-deliberately.. what I done montioned.
Thoq,"not simply, na the hymn is posed upon an amethyst crepe by means of radiant gauze. I bowed. Having spoken thus, old. man
ly moved by the story, he added;
little hastily: Bragged About His Son.
petticoat, the colour, of which is There is great merit in taking ays so well, in any flight throngh Greenhut selected a large black
"So for everything went as
"O' co'no, 't twa'n't no strange he continued. cigar from a fresh box and dis
early autumn-millinory before just as intimate, of Monday morn- of the dross. posed of it in his usual way, smooth as a fresh greased wheel,'p'nin', but it proves what I said, I renisined movoless.
the summor nctually wanes. ng and Tuesday afternoon. "You shall take sister to Being strongly opposed to wasto an' John Battleton useter brag alon't it? Young Pentagon was a
In many cases the title tea-gown There are day, at this season of Inta, talking to a stranger in Toal. No body knowed it afo'mother's house. fulness, he ate one end of it as his heap like it was muchu) unough.
Mother also excuses the adoption of rather the year when autumn pays us the street-car.. Yes and tho would a piece of bread and light- That there boy o'mine," he shap, but if hain't ha' been, he come; suo servant to sister. You amazing designs, and it is in surprise visits, and on them hats Gt of Heaven is the third person ed the other.
says to me, 'is one in a thousand.sldn't la butted in like he signing paper stay Japan five
with connection with it that women
flower timings look the interview. I am stinding years.' don't see nothin' the matter with one."
thoroughly inappropriate.
tan open gravo Yes-and the And you? Will you not also inve their own ideas mato- him. He e'n play poker as good
Planing turbans in bronze,Father of perfect love holds me, ho'll play better 'n me ufo long. AN me now, an' the way it looks
Come p
rialised and use odd lengths of green, and grouss colourings are that I may not die in my No! no!" laughed Bund San. lace, Estera-embroideries, and being offered, and their shapes wretchedness. I am baforo an "Impossible! I by-'n'-hyo Japan ornaments that do not, sceni to agree in some cases with the audience which distrusts and ese solfier."
"So?" I remarked. ||docs your sister say ?”
Buud San addressed the girl who flushed and bout her head still lower as she uttered one word.
Sister say she like you very much," replied Bund San.
"S?"
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;
Senting himself at the window, ho put his feet on the sill and smoked a long time in silence.
"Thon he said:
"Squire Battleton; him 't-was youngest son o' Judge Battleton o' Little Rock, what fit into the Mexican woh as commissary, Ind
a offspring what showed how my terious providence is in some dispensatorice,
"Just nablnilly th' old original, Battleton come home f'm the wah tol'ablo well off, fle idn't been into no battles, on he wan't scarred up note, on'y f'e a slash Berost his fret what he got into a poker game in camp, but he'd been some diligent an done made the most o' what opportunities there was, so he 'cumulated con sid'able an' bain some of a expert with yards, he done left his fambly comf'able.
Was a Good · Poker. Player
■
Proves how the Good Book is right when it says the Lord helps them what helps their selfs. Juhin Battleton sho' did help hisself to everything he e'l reach, playin'
"So says to him: "He sho' must be a good un if he c'n out- play yo' all, but "tain't nothin' wonderful fo' him to be one into that. If he was three or fo' into a thousand. Anybody c'n be thousand now, it'd be somepin
a
A WIFE FOR FIVE POUNDS.
The Making of a Japanese Marriage.
"Go to sleep!" I called. Bund San, the hotel stable boy caused flicking the window panes fo to be proud on, but yo' all with his duster and looked at ludn't host be braggin' too much me in wonderment.
out what's goin' to be. Young Pontagon is all right," I says,
An Effective' Decoration.
yoara,
*
like and shy, he kept her brigining enough to be acceptable brown slaide, which colouring short of such campanionship in Japanese. The girl was child-he souled; the frocks are charm-the softest and warniest of fabrics being, bometimes so deep-buried.
with a backgrount of mouse and so long untouched that notli arrow eyes directed to the flour. contrasting against the sallow Her face was pretty, its pink tints fer any name.
adorns the turned back collarent arouse it from the sleep of the cuffs, oudl. pocket lapels very satisfactorily.
The cont In one of his greatest sermons represents the use of double the late Edward Everett Hale face satin of autumn leafshades, Kit gold inside and russet outside, and
We shall be strong and con fident if we seek Go 1 to help is for then we shall find him. We all to faint and woule if we do seek him, for thou even his Omnipotence will find it hard to:
"Impossiblo!" he replied, "But I am a guest," I said, "It th ain't nobody knows what is two o'clock: I-must-sleep."" 'll happen into the futare.” "I-boy," said Bund San, "all "O cose I knowed when I said must work; gentleman very kind- how wouldn't do no good, fohmly go back to bed." He paused, Battleton was a old man by that sen added: "No can sleep if time, an' 'peared like he was gel-vise?"
in into his adage. So, just no- clully he couldn't see nothin' wrong 'bout young Pentagon, tho' special-ne-there wa'n't nobody else
"No."
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the hat voil that drapes the gold straw bonnet is striped in pepper in-stick Inshion with the same colours and a number of amethyst
ilk, and this material is employ-ind dahlia red shades.
"You shall give her 50 yen, in complete harmony with the restime by the forelock and choosing pace, butin these relations of life,
1.
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"
What
"Yos; she say you.number one right." "So-o?"
:
"Which dish?" I asked."
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God a convenient place in other pyramidul models that are an ubts me. Speak by my lips, toilettes.
obsession now, and with the thim- Father, and compel them to un- ble shupos too. There is also a 'erstand. Or I have this child to Very effective is a scheme which great choice of wing-trimmed hats amuse, who is fretful and over- developed in snow white chiffon and the poaked positions of the hearing. Father of my life, aliow over gold charmeuss with wings give the hats height. White me how to attend to her as wisely
and sulphur wings are preferreds you live cared for me. upon white straw hats, the cur- tallel brims of which curve up
is
generous amount of white filet laco embroidered with bunches of gold and purple grapes and wards at the sides. gold-throade
RUSSIAN BOY SCOUTS..
Widely Extended Movement.
The man who has fairly sought for this has found it. That man lus found that the lions in the way recedod-before him. He has not found that the guals from the foliage, or the littlő ants from their burrows, or the beatles who flew across his path, really hindered him. Ho trol on serpents and scorpions, and they did not hurt in. He did it succeed by this method, or the method.
A coated with shallow basque Yes; she may you very kind is simulated by the lace and hourt. Sho very unhappy if you down the front of the robe an not taking."
Eastern ornament is worn heavy "I'm."
with gold fringe at the base. "Yos. Sho say she can cook "So? Japanose gentlemen
That the Boy Scout movement sleep in big noise. Vory sorry, one English dish-by-'n-bye.younging over the arms is a lace is achieved grout popularity in Ta-night I this kind work, to teach make plenty English dish. shawl; it is a detachable affair and Russia is evidenced by the fol-
It was not thatone plin was so. knowed he was a fool.. Not yet morrow.other kind." He bowed Mother will help."
ranks, therefore, among those de-lowing telegram, dated Aug. 10, was no affair of plan. It was not ninch wiser than another, for this. "O'co'se the squire, him being they didn't, an' mebbe they would and resumed his window-flicking. the youngest, didn't get only n't have only fo' what happened at I sit in the corridor until he
Bud Sar again addressed his vices that are so useful while visit from the St. Petersburg corres-one or another contrivance of slice outen the prop'ty, but the end.
had finished, watching the pretty sister, and repeated her answering, dovice whereby the as-pondent of "The Times"The machinery. It was a question of 'pears th old man must hu'e John Battleton was settin' in lantern-lit geisha boats as they which was in English.
pect of the robe can be altered review of the Boy Scouts by the how Infinite Power should be trained him up in the way he the tavern one night when, aeropt up and down the moon-
"Porridge!"
and an opportunity can be found Tar 19-day was a delightful brought to compel the machinery. su'd go it as the Cloud Book stranger cone in un' throwel con-reflecting ennal outsidlo, by which,
"I will tell you to-morrow," of wearing a pretty possession postacie. The vast expense of enthusiasm, was the living pari- And this man, in his unselfish Bays, fo' he sho' was a most sid'able money on the bar, callin' during the day, I had seen the I said, and stood up. amazin' good poker player fo' on all hands fo' to help him drink big lumbering barges, now lying
Thank you," said Bund San, that would otherwise not be put to the Mars Fiehl was chequered by ner of the Living God! them days. They said there it up. Just nachully they done it, against the banks, taking Euro-au told the elder woman my practical purposes.
the scarlet, green, white, and What a vast supply of encour wa'n't nobody in Arkansas what an' then he said he was a bad man merchandise from the decision
Taffetas is a fabric of the utmost khaki uniforms of the tiny war-agement lies in the consciousILEST was liablo-fo-to-get the best wint c'd lick anybody there, an' donners in the bay from Yoko “Puri-aring-ato" (Thank utility in connection with the gar-watched with delight by immense God!
riors, whose ovolutions were of being a "partner of the Living Jeremy Battleton that was the outdrink 'em an' outplay 'em atbaina up to Tokyo,
you very much" she said, den party and afternoon visiting crowds. The bright sunshine What a boundless blessing that squire in a freezeout.
poker.
During the subsequent week Ting, and spoke to her daughter,
**Just nachully he, prospered, Twan't no turrible big game, either saw or hourd this indefati-who repeated the phrase, making toilette. It should be allied to was tempered by a breezo, sach partnership is the heritago
in
First off he done win consid'able fo' they on'y took a hundred gable boy working during most an obeisance from which she marquisette or chillon and em- As the Emperor and his suite of each individual, if only it be of the fambly estate offen his bro- apiece in chips, an' the way they of the twenty-four hours of the scarcely raised her loud. I ro- broideries, and then the effect rade down the lines, greeting each made use of thers, bains they didn't none on begin it looked like they was day and night. I could not sur-turnel the bow and left the room will not be utilitarian for a in Russian soldier fashion-We Ginest "somon in his "Mau detachment, the boya answered And as the great preacher whose 'om play the game he did, an' playin' almighty careful, not niso how he got sufficient rest, Breakfast time. then he skun his neighbours till neither on 'em knowin'. what though I noticed him, at odd Bund San placed the porridge radiant day, while should other wish good-health to your Ma Without a Country" shows us there wouldn't none on 'em play kind of a player t'ether one was. times fast asleep on the wooden on the table and looked at me conditions of weather supervenie jesty. Each separate command this companionship is not a with him no mo' an arter that So there wa'n't neither on 'em form at the end of the corridor, inquiringly, “Gentleman marry it will be in keeping with them.
then demonstrated its special apti- matior of communion with the he sot in the tavern nights layin' hurt, none to speak of, fo' a quart sometimes with his broom still in that protty girl?" he asked."
tudes. To the accompaniment of Creator in the closet-hours of life, fo these hore crossroads, pikers or of a hour or so. I knowed his hand. Ho seemed to be able to I looked at him fully in the face, A Charming Frock for a Garden their own bands they went but an everyday and everydced what was b'ginnin' fo' to travel what Battleton e' in the way o fall asleep instantly on concluding and replied with the word he had
Party.
through "dril's, and gymnastic companionship. A oneness with the atute consid'able.
enlin' if he was put to it, but 1 a piece of work. He performed used to me in the corridor. An effective design is carried out oxorcises, The Tashkent battalion the Father of all things which "There wa'n't none on 'em reckon he was watchin' the the duties of a complote hotel staff, Impossible!" got the best o' Jeremy Battleton, stranger to size up how much he whilst the scarcely less youthful
Veronese green taffetanshot with produced some excellent fencore; makes for larger success in all though, an' by the time ho was knowed, an' didn't care to take manager, went about Yokohama asei" ("Excuseqño").".
"Sof" he said quietly: "Gomen of the pattern of sunbursts and the Olesen contingent, 1,000 we say or do; a partnership that, strong, showed admirable train- concerns the smaller as well as tho gottin' on in yoare, he sho' was no chances o' boin' caught, endeavouring to pacify angry He completed serving my break leaves will be noticed on the fronting there was a football team, greater events of living rich an respectable. Likely, if "An' f'm the way he played I creditors who were threatening to fast without further reinark. Ti- of the skirt.
which kicked the ball among the Centuries of fear and supersti- he'd travelled the river like a reckoned mebbe the stranger put him in court. As I was the nally I handed him a small sum Over the whole veiling of Imperial suite, much to the Tsar's tion have left us handicapped. good many other rack players mought be as expert as Battleton only resident guest in the hotel of money for the women. A delicate grey morquisette is ar amusement; and small firemen Try us we may, many of us still done then, same 'e they do now, was, but mo' 'n likely he was kind he paid mo much attention, present, for your mother and sis ranged, and for the double row of climbed dummy houses. The feel that failure is ever he'd lia's boon fainous all ever of waitin' too. So there wa'n't Silently and with much precision tor." I said.
bouillonnees at the foot of the marchi post of the 6,000 boys than success, the country, but 'ponra like hemo'n 5 or $10 bet to oncot fo' n each meal-time he placed each "Dorn-aring-ato," he said, skirt and also for the under lasted 40 minutos. One little Let us banish this failure-breød- wa'a't over ambitious. Kind of consid'able spell,
dish before me and bowed him- "Gentleman very kind. Mother sleeves and throat frill, the same drummor was, five years old. A ing attitudo: Let us banish it by p'ferred his ease like, an' stayed Proved He Was a Fool. Bolf from the table. I observed and sister gone to house. I will marorial is used.
- tiny brigade lada tiny ambulance coming more and more into the round home till they begin to "There was some few on one day that he wished to say take present By-'n'-bye gister There is no substanee in the drawn by a donkey, The Tear, blesse consolousné s that we STO say he was growin' old. An' us lookin'
on, an 000 so something finally he gained taking other husband. The very bolero of green velvet mesh work, who was hugely delighted, thank His and He is ours; that in all ye then he done begot a fool.. we ups was all hopin' sufficient courage to address me, Borry. Liking English bost but just the suggestion of a wrap et each dataalament, and after think or say or lo, we may make
Just nachully there wa'n't no- Battleton 'd win, bein''s he was English gentleman ? he More kind Japanese, also more is made by 16, and thus the the review expressed his graiude Him our companion. body knowed it at the time. Far a neighbour an what money he naked, smiling
money Japanese husband little toilette has an early autumn apto the officers and schoolmasters. Let us go forward without fear money. Russian fintah all pearance that iy coeptable. The movement is growing holding fast to Bis band wi Gomen-asel
The picture, lust. 18. mado rapidly, Russia, will soon havo is over held out to guide us wit
villetas with silver fringe 200,000 boy soldiers.
's anybody oil see, the young un mought get'd alay to home, but a was pretty much the same ne all fura I know there wa'n't nobbly young une be, on't fo' his name. [seein' nothin' goten the way when
“Long time more staying
He bowed funself out.
out price.
nearer