WATSON'S
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1918,
The Chinese Boy."
Scratok ■ Han and you get a brutish beast; scratch a Chinese "boy" and you find an impert inent and suave thief. There is an exception to every rule, but it in debatable whether in the cass ai the Germans any exception.exiatu. The Chinese "boy" in a character
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you in the daily marketings, but when you go to fios he uses your soap,resor, tooth powder and tooth brash. This depraved creaturs will stoop to anything, and Besumes that what is his master's ia his. There is a limit, to the tolerance of a foreign master, and when it comes to your boy sleeping on your bed whe. you are abieni
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WORDS ARE MEN'S DAUGHTERS, BUT GOD'S SONS ARE THINGS
To-morrow's Anniversary.
To morrow is the 59th birthday of Admiral Bir John Jellicos.
The Dollar.
The opening rate of the dollar
demand to-day was 33.| 4. 3/18d.
Health Return. Daring yesterday ons non-fatal case of spotted fever (a Chinese) was reported.
Canton Poultry Show. The date of the Onion Poultry from horse, it is the last straw Show has been altered to January that would break any osmal's 4, 1919. back. We do zat for a moment suggest that all Chinese "boys" indulge in this pastime, but s recent case came to our notice and we daresay many mors are occurring änrecognised.
A Olaring Instance.
A gentleman bachelor had left, as canal, his room at 9 p.m. and paid a surprise visit at 10 p.m. When peering through a hole in the door he could see the length
Obstructing Roadway with
Patrid Fish, Obstructing the roadway with putrid fiahin sanoyging to pedestriane, and a Chinese, who was prosecuted for it, had to go to the expense of engaging Mr. P. W. Goldring, who to-day seked for a remand. Bail was fixed st $25.
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Our Fashion Feature, To-day we are introducing, for Garrespondents are requested, to observe the rule which of a man stretched cat on the bed.
keenly, he the benefit of our lady readers, names and addresses with Looking more to forward their requires ther communications addressed to the Editor, not necessarily for recognised it was his "boy," whole new feature in the form of s publication, but as an ovĺdence of their bona fides.
to have regained special fashion article, compris appeared Paradise on his master's bed. The ing besides an illustration, notes following conversation between specially written for the Telegraph master and servant then took by "Bacha." This feature wil place, after repeated knocks of appear evers Wednesday, and we the former had rossed the "boy" feel sure that it will become ex- from his slumber :-Master-tremely popular with those who What you do on my bed?" follow the vagaries of fashion. Servant (grinning):-"My hase Next week there will be special little sleep. All same last night notes by "Sacha" on how to dis Plenty tinguish fursa watot of decid: no es estoby sleep.
Suppose ed interest in the present reason. thing have bity me
At this stage
"Very Busy Indeed." "A hawker's friends can be jast master excave. the master bellowed, and the
asumed
new aa busy as say taipan in our big
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"boy", attitude: "Master makee too marcsalile offices. We did not mach bobbery. If zo waachee imagine so until this morning my can catch plenty pidgin top when a hawker of haberdashery. side Peak. My can get $20 one enlightened Mr. Kelbourne at the moon. Misriai have psy one big Magistracy. This soion of the bed and plenty show; my brother hawkers' race was prosecuted for have work top side Peak. Miseisi rying his wares in a probibited have psy one moon and one bed: area. His defence was he had Suppose you no wanchee me, only gone into the kitchen of a maakee!!" There we have the Indy wtxowed him money when modern "boy." Oas it be the Police pounced upon him.
The Hongkong Telegraph. wondered at that housekeeping Asked whether he had any
HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1918. THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON JAPAN.
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în... sach circumstances has witnesses to discredit the Police become one of the most ex spars statement, the hawker said: “I
have but they are very busy. ing experienosa imaginable?
"Very busy, indeed," retorted Mr. Melbourne, and fired him 82.
A Social Problem.
This is
The Petty Thelf.
MODERN MODES.
Simple and Useful Dresses for Morning and Afternoon-Wear.
NOTES ON NEW MODELS BY "SACHA.”.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY-
• A good story is told by an American officer who was formZBE ly a school teacher. In reply to | a question - su to the world's
richest map, R
little girl of Sootoh extraction arose with the reply: Harry Lender and Sir James Barrie "Sately,"
** mid the teacher," auch man, for instères, as Rockefeller und Vanderbilt.
//have more wealth than the man:
you-name ?" "Aye, they did hare," replied the little girl, "but they've spent some of their!"
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The most remarkable canal în the world is the one between Worsley and St. Helens, in the North of England. It is sixteen miles long and under ground from and to end. In Lancashire the coal mines are very extensive, half the county being “under- mined. Many years ago, the managers of the Dake of Bridge- 'water's estates thought they could 2ave money by transporting the coal anderground instead "of on the earface; therefore, the canal was constracted and the mines connected" and drained at the esme time. Ordinary canal boste are used, the power being furnish- ed by men. The tunnel arch over the canal is provided with croes pisces and the men who do the work of propulsion lis on their backs on the loads of cos), and pash with their feet against the oroas bare of the roof.
It is quite a canal thing to find beautiful little Georgian vinaigrettes among the broken silver sent to the Red Crous Gold and Silver Fund to be melt-- ed. Everything undergoes such &- thorough examination that noth... ing which would realise more money if sold as an article finds its way into the melting pot. A battered and shabby-looking little. box bearing a Tudor rose on the lid come in a parcel of worn thimbles and silver and on ex amination it was found to date back to Charlas IL "It was sold for $20.
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A correspondent writes to a Hems paper-I do not suppose that it is generally known whet Bobbie Barns thought of the Hans. In a letter which he wrote to the Bev. Dr. M'Gill, of Ayr, be Straws in the Police Courts
saysIgnorance, superstition, show which way the wind is
bigotry, malevolence, self-conceit, One sinister skraw
eory, all are .... - strongly If there is one country more than another which has benefited blowing.
The pedly thief is not as big a
bound in a massive - frame of financially and industrially through the situation and conditions shows that it is at present blow-
menace to ordered society as an In the Autumn dresses the grest has chosen for its artistic, beccza brssen impudence, Good God, to created by the war, that country is assuredly Japan. The reasons ing towards the harbouring of
such a shield; humour is the peck therefor are well known to all-how, largely by reason of her Chinese married women. There armed barglar. Therefore, the
Tailored soita hava alrsight of sparrow, and estime the pop- grographical position, she was not drawn into very active participa- have been numerous cases before law treats him gently. One rogue is for simple effects in scanting autuma nite.
emphasising BAYTOW gan of a schoolboy. Creation sion in the struggle and thus we able to devote far more attention the magistrates of late where Chinees got aix weeks' hsed draped styles. An excellent medel to trade and commerce, and all that that terms covers, then were Chinese have been charged with labour today for the larceny of of this description is shown by the lines, any other of the belligerents or even nemirals. The enhanced rates this off:noe. We have been iron pipes on board 8.8. Columbia. Galeries Lafayette. The dress je shouldere, od tight leaves disgracing scelerate, God B belted, armi- panish. Oh! for poisonous of freights also gave å great opportunity to Japanese shipping, with educated to look upon the law as An engineer on board this steamer made of heavy black fibre silk with the straight narrow skirt only mend, and the devil can only the result that existing companies were able is make huge profita "s boes," but Chinese law or said that when be happened to isreey and is cut in one piede. Others have
ia draped snugly to the slightly longer costs. Somezens of Tartarus, to sweep the while now/copoerna aprang up with mushroom-like rapidity and custom appears to be certainly s
various kinds of pipes were stored, were able to share some of the rich plume that were going. So has bigger "haus." It takes two to go to the spare store room, where The back is bloused and the front belted, mediam length and tornado, winged from the wid it been in Japan's industrial life; never before have there been such makes qusrral and two to bring he saw the defendant and no sooner figure from the waist to below the of them have pach pockets spreading drop of their villainces opportunities, and never before hee so much money been made by about the harbouring, but that i did the latter get a glimpse of hips. The opening is at the side for trimmed, while others are connivance to the lowest ball.” new and old companies alike. Incidentally, these developments not the Chinese view. Tas the engineer than he took to and extends throughout the length trimmed with breid and buttons,
almost to the elbow, sometimes A curious And wae made by an occurred at a time when Japen was in none too happy a situation, women is the innocent creature, his heels, and coated to the of the model, being outlined with Sleeves are sometimes bailored
the man
besver for.
| officer stationed at Berwick depot deck. Defendant'sxplanation was consequent on the economic depression which set in after the whereas » only ́
Another distinctive feature of deeply cuffed with fur. Buzzc-Japanese War, and they have greatly strengthened the must be prosecuted for harbour that he went to the store-room to
new dresses is found As expecially good looking while walking near the sea. His ing. If there is a breach of the look for his fobsese box which the country's financial position..
In the latest Financial and Economic Anaast of Japan there peace both parties are prosecuted, he had lost, and just then he was in the fall length side openings model, of dark brown reloar, has struck hard olj lying and pointed cuffs, and the narrow plate ineori ed in German. are some most interesting and illuminating comments on the effect but motto in cases of the charare arrested. The engineer said the of the long tunle blouses which semi-fitting cost with sleeves on the grass-in oblong metal We, William, by the graos of of the war upon the economic markets of the nation, and some of we are discussing.
At any rate it Pips was fcand in his possession cover the knee.
Germany The high collar has now a shoulders covered with a large there are at the moment well worthy of notice. So far ss foreign inconsistent.
and he had no business to be in fairly assured position, though beaver collar; the coat buttoned God Emperor of the etore room, tzada is concerned and this is where Japan has had her biggest strikes as, if the numerous cases
the decollete neok is still used "toak the side underneath the left and King of Promis, grunt arm, with a fare from the waist this recognition to the frat officer opportunities during the past four years see that from the that come up for trial are a
"Taklog It by Mistake." some extent.. commencement of the war up to the end of 1917 exports totalled no citerion, the tendency is becom-
In blouses, both for dress and to the knee. This cost bas an of the English steamer Brichow, If at a dance gentleman carries lesi a sum than £389,019 769 against importa amonating to £268,- ing common, with the consequent 867,418, thus leaving a balance of well over $120,000 000 in favour result that dirty linen is constantly another gent's closk home by service wear, the tunic still holds embroidered design on the right David Sutherland, for his self-
can believe the its own. For dress the tunic side, balanced by the single em sacrificing attempt S SECOLO- of exporte. What these figures mean we may well judge by being asked in the Police Courts. mistake, we
Lydis." Tbs mscript taking the period prior to 1913, when the total volume of We know that doring the last explanation, but when a Chinese blouse is ordinarily of Knee length broidered pocket on the left. The the wreck of the German steamer
Another suit of taupe silvertona dated. trade rarely reached the level of £72,000, while as to the balance of two years there has been a great in reply to s charge for the larceny or longer and shows irregular line skirt ie plein and aerrow. trade it was only once that the Oustom returns recorded an excess Low of Chinese from the ear of 80 satties of wood, gives the of the lower edge, the tunio at
I have never beegra mile to of exports over importe during ten years, the balance being the other ounding districts into Hongkong the ples that be ourried it by front resohing to the knee, while featured the sang bigh waist way for the other nine years. We cannot go in detail into the owing to the troubled state of the mistakewell, that is beat solved at back it ex'ends to within two line with a slight fire to the
the skirt,
sleeves and narrow shoulders; analyse the sensations one has in development of domestic industries during the war period, but it is country. Whether the proportion
bourne found this pill too big to estimated that the total investments in the creation of the new and of male immigrants has beeny the trying Magistrate. Mr. Mel or three inches of the hem of medium length skirt; very tight
for prayer, saya's contributor to the expansion of old undertakings reached something like £225,-in
swallow to-day and be thanked The use of plush and of angits the cost fastens with two buttons church which is always open '340,572-a figars whiob speaks for itself.
A poist of deep interest and one which we have not seen the question most Fare interested the defendant for the exonseresy on velvet is mash in in front,
The S cretary for proferred but gave him seven evidence. Braids are also strongly Distinctive costs of bolivis, home paper. Is it imagination and wool em-leilvertone and velour cloth out or is there's something, a sense daya hard labour. What represented greatly emphasised-is that in this time of her proper Puritana, ity Japan has rendered a deal of financial expport to the Allies, Chinees Affairs should be able to in your address ?" asked the broideries on shifa, on fibre silk very loose with inviting collars of quiet which is not silenos, of sex-some have wide bands of solitude ? Most people know the either by subscribing to loans issued by them or purchasing their tell us whether the Chinese male Magistrate, and everybody hur jersey and on satin ara in great and cuffs of beaver, raccoon and remoteness which i
riadly came to the conclusion demand. bonds. We read that the total amount invested in each securities population is in excess of the
The general line of two-piece the same for at the bottom. All sensation of being lonely among up to the end of last year reached well over $118,000,000, consist females. We must not forget the that the defendant was
mean may be defined as the exsot ing of over £54,000,000 in British Government bonde; over tendency of Chinese to maintain to get a job. 42 First Street saits thus far show long jiokete are out fall and gathered at the crowds. Perhaps the feeling
Oas chsrming belted boat of opposite of that sensation and ig $26,000,000 in Russian bonds; over £15,000,000 in French bonds; a large establishment of wives. blurted out the defendant. "Bat self trimmed or trimmed with for waistline with a belt. to which is to be added a sum of over 622,000,000 representing Could this account for any that is my former address, he with plain count short skirts. ***
In costs there is little new, one blae bolivia bad a large fur collar one of being in company when
by creself.. Japanese forsign laar bonds and company debentures redeemed in supposed shrinkage in supply? qonliked his reply with, Inspector
Macdonald; I rather think se of the most popular haing the of raccoon and set in pockete foreign merkets. Thus practically the whole of Japan's favourable
sleeps in the street," "He gives loose belted model with bodice Tas new slender skirt, with
Hedingham Castle, trade balence has been devoted to financial aid to the Allies) Wa
line, trimmed with silk fringe knows ruin, the remains of have not to forget in this connection, of course, that Japan stande Death of Captain Alan Wilson, has age as 30. He abould be section extending to the hips, wide panels and tunics ofizrazelsz
asid the lunched by Cherais, very materially to benefit by investments in sack gilt edged Penang, Nov. 22.-The death doing something,"
The newest festues of the latest and silk braid, are especiait old Hormsa fortčesa. securities, while in addition the bas to the good the many enter occurred of Captain Alsu Wilson Magistrate. The Inspector clin prises which the war has opened up and is not froed with the task, of heart trouble in hospital to-day ched it." He is an able bodied costs is that they are out in ons featured.
ed materials are very good for se the other Allies are, of making good heavy losses which the war He had a long and notable Volume man." The Magistrate: He part from the shoulder to the Sports skirts of plaid and strip has commoned, Japan can assuredly feel well satisfied at what the teer record and was formerly locks it. Therefore I give him lower edge.
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war has done for her. It has removed the pre-war financial stringency 18 jafant PV, and Secretary of 7 days Quieran edifying Velour, davėtyna, bɔliving, and opened the way to undreamt-al expansion in the fatura And Foring Town Club till soundly: Polis
these are frate which other nations will be well advind,
of in view of the keen commercial competition which lies ahon
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