10
A GEISHA'S LIFE.
Like the Policeman's. Not a
Happy One...
SHORT SERMON.
THE
If God has made such won- dorful provision for transient flowers, He will inake still more
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1912.
POST OFFICE.
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for mau,
In Japan a popular geisha oc cupies an important position in the public imagination. It may
Now our Lord's argumout ap- bo imagined, therefore, that little short of a sensation was plice with infinitely grontor force created in Tokyo by the recent to us in the twentieth century attempt ut suicido of one of the than it did to the men of Christ's most famous of the Shimbushitimo; for this plain, ronson, that geislas, who are, in their turn, the innst faraons of all the thouwe know infinitely so inuch more Bande of geishas in Tokio, The about God's care for the flowers firat reports stated that the un-then the contemporaries of Jesus fortunate lady bad hoon driven Christ did. Our faith in God to her attempted death by
la be ought
für firmer mountains of debt, contracted'as the result of a passionato attachi- and more unhesitating than was All knowledge brings ment to a certain popular actor. theirs. The Tokyo "Asahi," indead, responsibility along with it. Re- considered the mattor of such member that. So that instead of importance that after the re covery of the would-be suicido having less faith in God than the the editor induced her to write ancients hal, we ought to have a the history of the incident, and great deal more. Have you evor her own feelings during the thought of that? And, if so, how attempt, for the benefit of its
is it that we are always being rondora. Hore it is:-
The more idea of u a debt of told that, fo-day faith in fod is or two thousand you could dying out? Surely a melancholy never drive me to suicide. I am reflexion on man if the more Hubject to fits of melancholy, and when in the grip of one of these we know of fod the less we How does it I want to get out of the world, believe in lim. Why? Simply and solely because stand with you and me? Has I am tired of life, its monotony, all the scionico that we bonst und quietness. A geisla's fo contains excitement. 11 is always the same, day in and day out. Publicana soll drink, cats catch mico, dogs watch burglars, surely, Oh surely, it ought not,
uno
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about made us more heathenish trails, Coylon and India via Bom- Locksun. Gur. R., 1,920, W. Taubert,
instead of more pious? Sonie- times it looks as if it had. Yet
bay-Per Kaw.chi-maro,
37th May, A.,
Feibsiwei, Chefoo aul Tientsi-Per
Kacichow, 27th May;9 A.,
Marie,
28th. Blay, 8 .. Usifong and Pakhoi-Per Sungking. Mexico
Haiphong and Pakhoi-Per Methide, 28th May, 8 A.M.
Swatow, Amoy, Formosa and Yoorhow Michael -Por Hniyang, 28th May,
10 AM.
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A.M.
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and men havo their constant whon we think of the extre-Macao-Per Sui Tal, 27th May. 1 varying selfiel pastimes and occupations. But the geisha has ordinary, the unbelievable lavish nothing to do it to contineness of wisdom, skill and care always in the sune tiresome that God has expended on the groove, dancing and singing, flowered world. And if the singing and dancing. I thought
inferonco in Christ's, duy from n “if I died that 1 might one day be ro-born in the shape of one of mere sight of the wild' flowers, those creatures, men, nice, or taught, according to Him, the doge! Therefore I resolved to lesson of absolute faith in our Shanghai, North Chian, Japan is dic. Four years ago I secreted aloavenly Father, how much more bottle of sulphurit acid, burying ought all the knowledge that Whou I had the twentieth century has of the it under the floor. made up my mind to die. I lowered world, to make us not stole upstairs and dug it up, less but ruore intense believers in Bacs-Per dui Tai, Such Mty, 1.25' I tested it on piece of God's cure for us? If there is cloth, and found that it had anything in the argument from lost rond of its strength. Then the less to the greator, suroly we I changed my dress to the cere-
ought to be the greatest believera monial white mourning, and
the world has known, seo no armed myself with a dugger in
oscape from that conclusion. ,case the poison failed. I satin
Let us now consider, in obe front of the family shrine, and took one, two three gulps from dience to the Master, some of the the battle. It was burning and wonders of the flowered world horribly astringent. My stomach which is audience did not know. refused to assimilate it. Finished Consider thenges that God took for the bottle in one wild gulp. the preparation of the world for the Then the pain began in my chest, appearance of the flowers. For it and at pace the utter stupidity is a remarkable fact that flowering and madness of my wish to die plants-the angiosporius-wore came upon me. All wish of dying the last plants to make their appear- vanished. I coughed and coughed, ance on the earth. It is indeed a and here I am quite well again. curious fuel that man and flower- If I get another fit of melancholying plants sean to live appeared
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I may want to die again, and on the earth at the samo poriod Macao-Per Suì Tai; 29th Bay, 1.15 of the world's history. It looks
P.M.
may commit suicide at any time; but I don't want to at present, us if we were intended to learn Batavia, Samatang and Sourabaya- from them and he naturally but, in case, I always carry my will about with me in my stress, friends. There were no flower-
monotonous
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The geisha in question is stilling plants in the coal opuchin Shanghai and North
palaeozoic times; only forms and plying her old occupation, says Reuter. Inci- such like. And it was a standing Philippine Inlaods-P'er Zaiko, 30th Maru, dentally the affair is declared to be difficulty with Darwin, how Ningpo-Per lebang, 30th May, 8 Marn, Ambria, Bayern, Glenesk, the best advertisement this geisha has ever had.
to
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-Per Hatching, st. May, that, there ought to be a develop- ment from the early flower-Straite “COURAGE AND ENTER-les: plants to the flowering plants,
PRISE."
if evolution be true. I may say Philippine that two Japanese botanists have,
The Home Press on Hongkong
1st June. 10 ..
1×1 June, 1 P.M.
it is thought, solved the problem, Japan via Kobe-Por C. Apar, 1st Patriols. Pelen, Vladimir. 20th
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But we need Strait the world has hitherto imagined. He is with man. Admittedly, it is one of the most have patience. The Kingdom of tremendous problems that con- God will not be established at front the Western world, "Look- once, and cannot be. Learn to ing at the past and present of have faith. He who brought in Hongkong, who can doubt that the lilies and man at the same possibility is too sceptical a period, will not forget one more word, and that probability is than the other; "how much more nearer the mark?""L&C will He care for you, O ye little
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