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THE QUAINTS.
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Hongkong is sbon to be visited by that vary well-known campany of entertainers, "The Quainta, who are
under the personal direction of Mr. R. B. Salisbury-}* one of the original "Foldem," They come here with a great
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Hongkong Theatre Royal on Tuesday night 13th inst. The Quaints will be remembered too. for the excellent reputation they made for themselves an the occasion of their Inst appearance| anin Hongkong some va· years | Albambra cigar, for I could see ago and their leader, R. B from his fingers that cigarettes Salisbury is still with them. and he werena' just what ye Since their last visit they have would say strangers. But been appearing as most of the banded him a Burma cheroor leading London theatres, Instead, one of the nice wee thick cluding, the Alhambra, Empire. back yins' which he thanked me Coliseum, Seals, Wrodbam's. Dear S-
for and said he would smoke Criterion, Queen's, etc., and have Aye, as I was saying, it's a after his dinner that night. I'm also had the honour of perform- queer name, but the getting of it [no`a betting man but I'd like to ling before their Majesties, the came about perisetly natural wager-well, what doesna' matter. King and Queen. R.B. Salis- We had just been in the now I saw him going about the next bury's name is a ball mark of a brilliant house about a week when my day and he looked none the excellence. He is Aunt packed me off to Glasgow worse anyway. Well, as I was comedian and what is to see my rousia up there serv- saying, of course the first thing be important is the pivot of all this ing his time to be an architect. began to get out of his system aggregation of talent with which He The first night, 1 mind fine, we was his ideas on opium, second-he has surrounded himself. went to see a flower show in the band ideas at that, as was only possesses not only the camic St. Andrew's Halls and the filas natural. But do you think that genius but the rare ability of gow Select Choir had the job to I could get him to see that there getting the best out of all his the wasna & 3,000th part of an inch coadjutors and infusing that kind perform alternately with Blind Asylog Bruss Band. and difference between opium smok-of go into their united efforts which establithes an immediate fine singershey were the ing and dram drinking? Chair I mean. Unyway, I mind one of their, turns was a varie-bold of one so.”” gated version o
Wale Wustle shelt on Treel The place they owed it Lisk
delie
more
"But," says he, "opiùm gets a rapport with the audience from
scenery.
The rise of the curtain. Support- ing Mr. Salisbury are such well- Fa "So did.whisky," said 1. "But it's devotees became so known London names as Miss James, Miss Hilda emaciated. so gaunt and rel-Dorothy low," says he, warning-op-like. Denton. Miss Eila Cameron, Miss "Whisky drinkers get over-Josephina Cantor, Mr. Ernest And yell no hinder me, boy-sized, a red nos and, what's Scovell. Mr. Grahame Doncaster like, being tickled wi the tune
more forbye, a breath that would and Mr. Jack Strachey, while the which kept running through my stop a clock." retürted I.
lour is under the personal direc- head even by the time I got home.
"Buter opium-smoker, helion of Mr. Walter Maxwell. Well, as I was saying, the house
sant into slumber like
entire
dresses an The was just newly built and of inanimate log-lead to the world, are carried so as to get the course my Auni was on the out-himself and all near and dearquaint and fantastic effazia which look for a fancy name for it. She
around him."
class this entertainment as being. evon, I mind, searched the house- On the other band, whiskey so out of the ordinary. As the tole advertisements in theas often as no makes folk dee of Company can only stop one night papers for nice-sounding, genteel- at a tangent worse that an ex-the performance will be their like bames and at the time I'mcited rabbit. If the sgility of a famous No. 1 programme which speaking of she'd got a long list the dram drinkers in the country is entitled, The Quaints o' them bulled down into a short could be harnessed and used Pierriotland. The booking is in wi. "The Laurals" first commercially, a this talk of the banda of Mourries and seats Jeet favourite and "Roseles" a strong under-production in the country should be applied for without second. She used to fair annoy would base died aborning," said delay. my father my mother was of course away by that time) wi her "bigb-falling", nonsense, as he called it, for, as he said at the
"But the craving, my good their meaning-precise meaning time, whal in the name'o' com-
men: think of the terrible that is has not yet been.cleared monsense was the use of speak-craving." bleated he
up, each house ing about a
"The 13 Laurels when there wasn' tree of the kind for twenty milee round except in the kirk-yard and, as for roses, cabbages and potatoes was more
1, "besides giving the police ant easier time and more opportunity
to combine for their next strike."
in
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his habita to
of
"You're right there." says I according "think of the tertible craving on a speech. Sunday morning and no a drop Nowadays it would seem that in the house,”
ou politician who would make like thiraiciou
"But once they start this per, you believe that he knew the habit how terribly ropes speaks of the Premier or station in life anyway. Well, as dificult it is to give it up." Mr. Lloyd George. He always I was saying, in the midst of
"Aye, that's true. Quite true, refers wit an air of familiarity to their argy-bargying one night, and how terribly few whisky" L.G." just as if they had both here was sitting by the fireside
drinkers turn to buttermilk in gone to the same School together. mending a fishing line and sing their old age."
"P.K." has certainly justiñed ing Wullie Bustle, like a dait thing, and when I came to the bit The place they cued it. Link-
cumlddie
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measure o' suc-serirs
"I gather from your remarks itself for apparently this busy age then," said he, " that few, if any, has no time to stop, and say or have seriously taken up the ques- write proportional representa- tion of this opium with a view to tion." My father jumped up if its suppression."
Hereabouts they are beginning cleg had stung him to the "Oh," says I. "I wouldna'go as to cotton to the "H.C.LTM-of Very closely con- heart and said. "The very thing, far as to say that Wilden, I'm America.
with it is another so help me Jimmie Johnstone,rure, tries his best, year in and nected
of letters much that's what we'll ta' the place.-year out, wi' a
folks' mouths lately-" EP.D." *Linkeumdoddie'. A fine homely cess
forbye. Nones your
"Oh. Mr. Wilden-the Bishop. That's but natural, onyway, for. I presume.
the business man dislikes the sping-your-betters kind o'zing What's more about that name.
"No." says 1. "he's the man Excess Profits Duty and the man. forbye I kenned the place fine as that manages the boxing matches in the street has equal reason to a boy for mony a summer's day And a fine job le makes of that wish it far enough, for both are beginning to suspect it Ever Ise I herded sheep near Link as well"
"Ah! a ne field," says be one of
of the causes cumdoddie."
|"H.C.L." And, right reason or none. despite a' that Aunt Mary ever Aye," says I drily. "for the learly, then, the letter habil bad to say either then-or-later-on brokers, but no for the Lard. W is growing. Naturally the Army about the word, that's the name the high dollar just now it's no gave i great impetus, but if this sort of thing goes on much longer that's stuck to it ever since. As inuch of a catch for the church.
the English language will ulif for the cousin in Glasgow I was
"Aye." says 1, "take China mately become a thing of sug. speaking of, he finished his time
later on.
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as an architect but the only thing Sugars for instance, but wi' that gestion rather than of direct that I ever heard of him helping Janet nudged me and I had to statement, and to bombard your course strikes and strikes. In the Individual thinking
to "have to build was a coal bing in one of pretend I bad swallowed a midge. best friend wit the alphabet will past men were ofted roused to working folks seems the Glasgow Gasworks. He after- "That's one of the reasons why soon be one of the aurest signs to protest against intolerable con- gone out of fashion.
The affairs of industry would wards went to South Africa, justugar is up in' price," I ex- world agape that you're a man ditions or were often irritated by
right up-to-date.
the non-observance of an agree-appear to be centralised in & at the time o" the Boer War and plained.
"That's right," says he, trying
ment. But I can't understand for few bands and employers and Somebody never came back.
the life of me why. there should employed take orders as do an once told me that he'd married to look as if he bad known B
The newspaper here to-day is be so many labour disputes to- Army in the field.
This may out there-gotten a widow woman along what he was talking about a mirror of industrial discontent day, in these days of scientific bars certain advantages but to that kept a boarding house wi's
What else can be expected with accuracy in business, when wages my way of thinking moral rese ready-made family. Bat We I see from the papers that the the continuous and unfair attacks can be based on careful calcul-ponsibility is destroyed when the never know. Some folk just say British public is beginning to on capital by crowds of agitators ation of costs, profits, and, what a individual becomes ■ cypher. "things for the sake of talking. develops a distinct fondness for and the belief everywhere cir- great many excited folks fail to The workers seem to have passed expressing itself in initials. Iculated that employers are mean, understand, exactly what an in-under the control of those who The minister here is a wee can mind fine in the days before grasping and with no soul beyond dustry can bear. If folks could shout loudest and talk oftenest. God-forsaken-looking kind of the war when "B.M.G" was a the laying up of riches? Folks only understand that it is not the The Labour movement will never man, earnest enough, mind ye, favourite cry of frenzied party pot in this labour war are scared employer who really pays the be worth a solitary corse until by its possibilities. This week wages but the general public as it is stamped throughout with but terribly nosey. I often feel men.
To this succeeded a somewhat many have been wondering if consumers, the social situation toleration and until wit and tempted to knock seven different colours of daylight out of bim. similar group of letters, wi' they were to get a loaf of bread; would be much easier than it tbis. imagination take the place of The first time he came round rather mo e signification, so to while w the unrest in the boild when those individuals who are noise and bombast.
The Junkers are not all junked. we're just within a stone's throw speak, which by the way wasing trade the possibility of getting hot foot after rises tegin to us- of the manse so to speak-Is solemnly debated the other day decent hugler for our people seems derstand this far-reaching social yet. busy cutting up bogie roll on the in a Court of Law. These letter likely to be postponed to the truth, then and only then will kitchen (able. I thought there are "N.B.G." and the mystery of Greek Kaleads. There are of things take a turn for the better.
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