AMERICAN CHANGED.
Stowaway Who Wants to Go Home.
John Wilson an American BOLURD, Who Wwas charged before Mr. R. E. Lindwell this morning with being a vagrant, informed his Worship that he was unable to obtain employment in Manila la consequence of which he hid away aboard the President Wil gn but met with no better luck in his quest bere mad in Canton:
“Where do you want to go to now?" naked the Magistratë.
I want to go home to the States, if I can,” was the reply.
Defendant was informed that he would be committed to the House of Detention until it was possible to make arrangements for his departure.
SPECIAL KOWLOON
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Thanks to the enterprise of the Kowloon Theatre management the people of the peninsula do not, these days, miss much that is going. To-night, for instance,
GREAT DROP IN MARRIAGES.
THE HONGKONA TELEGRAPH.
Tens of Thousands Take "Panch's" Advice.
TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.
One result of the King's......... cio] the Floet in Torbay will be that] Why don't man marty of, the King and Queen will not the last weed rests with the wo-
spend the anniversary of their man, why don't women maITY!
wedding together, as' has usually) That people are getting out of been the casa, says a Home paper the habit of marrying is clear of the 2nd. ult., which consinues.
the Registrar-General's) from
It will be 29 ysars ago to-morrow returns.
Some time last year he had "the since the Duke of York of the | Vistorian relgu marriad Princess honour to report that 19:0 bad May at St. James's Palace, seen the high-water mark of and on the anniversary matrimony. Never before in 12 this week his Majesty will be in months of the history of England Devonshire and the Queen in and Wales had so many couples towo. Last year the King and been joined together.
But since the spring of 1921 Queen of the Belgians were stay- there has been a slump in wedig at Buckingham Palace as the lock. Each quarter has shown guests of the Sovereign and his consort when they kept their
a steady reduction in the number wedding day, and were able to add of marriages.
their congratulations to the many To descend to statistics. Dur- ing the second quarter of 1921dent by their Majesties' „fallow.
subjects. there was a decrease of 4,696 marriages on the number in the preceding quarters, and of 37,370 compared with the second quarter of 1920.
The inventor of the 36,000- year clock" was Lord Rayleigh, Latest official returar give the remarks the Daily Chronicle..
the Exactly how long the apparatus amber of marriages a fourth quarter of 1921 as 83.991 would continue to function is decrease of 5,526 on the pre- uncertain, but as it depended the Paiversity of California ceding quarter and of 7,904 on for its motive power on the jazz orchestra which has been the corresponding quarter of radio-active properties of radium
touring the Far East and has 1920. for the last couple of nights been delighting the dancers out t Repulse Bay is to cross the harbour and play at a special dance in the Kowloon, Theatre.
The talented team includes a
pianist. banjoist,
LWO saxophoniste, a slide trombonist and a drummer. The banjoist (Mr. Mark Madock) hrings with him
A YEAR'S FALL
there is no doubt that woming the containing re Taling the whole of 1921, for ceptacle and accessories persist- which the figures are now comed, it would last for several thou plate, the total number of mar-sand years. The radium used riages was only 320,786, against amounts to about one five-thon. 379,658 in 1920 and 369.411 in sandth part of an ounce, and the 1919.
movement of the strips of alo- When the returns for the first minium takes place once every o quarters of this year come minute, and though the apparatus to be published it will be found can hardly be called a clock, it the reputation of being one of that the decline in the marriage could be made to ring a bell once the finest players on the Pacific rate is steeper still. Coast and during the evening he' will contribute banjo solo Saxophone promised.
solos
alic
U. S. AND THE WAK.
What is the reason?
a minute, and might be developed
into marketable timepiece-if
"There are two main res035 radium were plentiful and cheap and several minor ones,” said the enough. vicar of a popular London parish
to whom & Daily Chronicle" representative put this question.
RECKLESS OPTIMISM. -
•
"I think they are less inclined to a deficiency of adrenalin. It is than they were to make improva aice comforting thought for the ident marriages, But there s timid. for there is nothing to exceptions.
wound his pride, but on the con- trary the suggestion of s most imposing complaint. Dr. Weir has now only to explain what adrenalin is to induce all who wish to be considered brave to
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"We have to remember titst a)
Blue funk," "sheer cowardice" whole generation of young men and equally uncomplimentary was decimated, and that the terms are generally applied to young women whom they would those who sbrink from
the Lave married have been robbed of discharge of a duty involving Mr. Page's Appeal to
their natural mates. That can President Wilson.
some danger to life and limb. Now never be remedied. "Under
it appears that the coward is "The other abvious explanation merely a sick man, and thus Do system bal
bad democracy can the "world beis
times unemployment should be the subject merely of газде есеп reasonably safe reduction of wages, high cost of pity, not contempt. This is the ex-
It affects the wage- place to live in." wrote the late living
planation offered by Dr. Jobs than Mr. Page (then U. S. Ambassador earning class more
*By Weir to the British Homeopathic to Britia) to President Wilson. other.
Congress, Fear, he says, is due in a letter in 1916, in which he tendered his resignation as Ambassador to England and ufged the President to sever relations with Germany. Some echo of the. phrase must surely bave rounded "A young couple who wanted in the President's mind when to be married came to me not months later, be coiced coun- long ago, and I found that both terpart to it that rang round the of them were in receipt of a globe. But when Mr. Page wrote employment pay. I was able to a he did there seemed little persuade them to wait until they much of it as possible into | ++++ Forugh likelihood that Mr. could make a more auspicious Wilson would see the war as asfart. It shows the reckless spirit
two. Each film-contained the stroggle of the democracies which still prevails. against a tyranny, still loe5 25 2 "But even among this class I
In recent years most of the reproduction of 15 folio pages of *megle in which it was vital to am glad to say they are becoming American Presidents have been type, or the equivalent of more Americs that she should rarg more disposed to look before they tempted to visit this country 50,000 despatches, weighing less than 3,000 private letters, and
herself unmistakably on the lesp.
either during their occupancy of than a single gramme, were re- democratic side. He appeared to "I thoroughly approve of early White House or after their period garded as the correct weight for expect, and indeed rather to hope marriages, though not of bay and of office has ended, and Mr. Taft, ose bird. The alma were roiled for, & stalemate in which both girl marriages, of which we had is the third "ruler of the republic ening parties in Europe should be so many during the war. Unless whom the present generation of ap and placed inside a quill, which was attached longitudinal- brought to their senses. To him a man has a steady job be has Britons can recall, remarks # ily to one of the tail feathers of Mr. Page addressed letter no business to ask a girl to marry London journal. The Chief
the bird. When the pigeons which, in the force and dignity him. Unfortunately wisdom is Justice of the Supreme Court at
arrived the films were durolled of its phrasing and the excellence not a strong spiat with young Washington enjoyed at least one and their messages projected on of its prose style, no less than in people of either sex when they experience which neither bis! the urgent idealism with which are in love.
their systems.
WAK
shortly to get some relief. Letters
sach-fim;-and-one-pigeon could carry 18 films, each bird could carry about £11.500 worth of letters.
a screen by means of a magic predecessor nor his successor Intern. The postal rates for such the Allied osuse was pleaded, was If the marriage figures could could claim, for he
messages were even bigher than never bettered even by the pro-be analysed." said the vicar, "I presented at their Majesties those from which this country is nouncements of Mr. Wilson him-think you would find that the Court in his capacity as an self when be came later to see eye biggest reduction is among the ex-Chief of State, while Mr. were restricted to twenty words, to eye with Mr. Page. It is given middle classes-the back-bone Taft also made ber curtseyor its wish a charge of-5d. per word in full in the edition of Mr.Paze's of the nation.
American equivalent. Later in letters which is appearing fin The SOT WOMAN'S ONLY "CAREER the month the visitor went to plus a registration fee of 5d. per World's Work. The Ambassador A far as they are concerned, Fleet street as the guest of the letter. As 200 letters made up arged then, as did the President beyond the two reasons I have Press Club at an informal one folio, od 16 folios went to afterwards, that only through mentioned as affecting the
the max-lugcheon. change of government inriage rate there is another, almost Germany could a real peace be as strong, which comes into play. boped for, and that if America) "It is that women no longer were to be true to her traditions regard marriage the bulk of
Though pigeon-racing The must take her stand with the middle-class girls once did.
sport may date back only a liberal thought of the world in Before the war it was excentury or so, the use of carrier- forcing this change. At some of ceptional for the daughter of
pigeons for мота -practical his phrases the President must well-to-do parents to earn her purposes is of much greater have winced: "There can be no own living. Now as far as my antiquity. Probably the earliest historic approval of neutrality experience goes, there are few testimony to their use is in the students will sail for America on A large party of Chinese jor years while the world is stay-at-home girls. They are all story of the Flood. Passing to a bleeding to death;" and again, working or, at any rate, ready to somewhat later age, we have the the atr. Nanking, leaving Shang- "The Liberal idea will win this work, and nearly all have been evidence of Anacreon, Athenaeus, hai on August 13. There will be
struggle, and Europe will be out trained in a way or another."
of danger of a general assault
on free institutions till some
CHINESE STUDENTS FOR US.
this
U.S. BASEBALL.
AUGUST 3. AMERICAN LEAGUE- Detrolt 7, Boston 0. Detroit 7, Boston 0.
St. Louis 9, Philadelphia 5. Washington 2, Chicago 0. New York 10, Cleveland 9-10) innings).
NATIONAL LEAGUE-, Brooklyn 4. Cincinnati D. New York 5, Chicago 0. St. Louis 11. Philadelphis 7. Pittsburgh 5, Boston 1..
AUGUST 4,“ NATIONAL LEAGUE- Chicago 3, New York 2. Chicago 1. Now York 2." Pittsburgh 3, Boston 0 St. Louis 9, Philadelphis 7. Cincinnati 6, Brooklyn 5.
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AMERICAN LEAGUE- New York 7, Cleveland 5. St. Louis 9. Philadelphia Detroit 2, Boston 0. Washington 3, Chicago 2.
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CHINESE L. O. N. DELEGATION.
on and Martial that they carried 140
stermer, As, Genevs, Dr. Tohson Wei, love-letters, while Aalian tells neone balf of whom are Secretary of the Chinese League that they were employed to private students and remainder of Nations Delegation, speaking other autocracy which has a military caste tries the same SHANGHAI M. P. 5 LARKING ON. announce the results of the sent by the central government, at the International Congress for We have already remarked Olympic Games. According to being graduates of this year's class moral education on the League's Napoleonic game. The defest of Germmy, therefore, will make upon the activity of members of the elder Pliny, Decimos Brutas at Tsinghus College. The Tsing werk, in connection with the for the spread of the doctrine of parliament in Shanghai who svalled himself of carrier-pigeons hus College is in charge of the teaching of history, proposed our fathers." Mr. Page's letters decline to go to Peking to par- during the siege of Mutins, thus party, represented by Mr. T. Z. that the Congress should en ter aiready published have well ticipate in the work to be done defeating the elaborate precau- Zoe, member of the faculty of into relations with the Les gue The privata Commission for Intellectual Co students represent large operation shown the quality of the man, there. They have now compiled tions of Antony, which included that institetion. but this on his country's destiny manifesto setting forth that netting the river, to prevent
different educational institutions is a very poignant reminder of they decline to recognize the message filtering through. It number of provinces and the lose that liberal thought bas legality of the reconvocation of) was not, however, adtil the siege China. A large number
suffered in his death.-Times.
Viitors alwaje wakome & VICTROLA,
Mo Hoo omplete' without one
HOUTRIES—Solo Agapis.
He defied God- and there was
the parliament, and any decisions of Paris that science showed reached by it will be denounced what could really be done with of this party of students as Illegal Doubtles the other carrier- pigeons, Communicaret prefent living in the dormi politiciane throughout the coun-tions were printed in ordinary tories of X.M.C.A. in Szechuan try will attach to this announce type and then micro-photograph Road,which is the official | THE DEVIL TO PAY ment the importance it calls ed on thin films of collodion quarters • of
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