THE · HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH; MONDAY APRIL
-1924:
SIR JAMES BARRIE'S SCHOOLDAYS.
His Witty Review of Education.
Sir James Barrio made ono of his rare appearances as a public speaker by visiting Wallasoy Town Hall the other day to address the scholars of the Wallasey High School for Girls, a secondary school conducted by the Corporation, and to distributo prizes to the girls. The hoadmis- trose of the school la Sir Jamos Barrio's niece.
THE "HEUNGSHAN." EAST
| ENQUIRY ON WEDNESDAY.
RIVER 'FRONT.
NO FIGHTING YET. Now from Canton statos that The stranding of the river although the proposed general steamer Heungshan will bo the attack on the East River subject of an onquiry at the front 1108
repeatedly boon Harbour Office on Wednesday. announced. as_imp-nding, and The following are to be mom-large forces of Yunnanese and bors of the Court-Liout.-Com- Hunanese troops have been des mdr. Conway Hake-Liout-Com-patched thithur, fighting has not mdr. F. J. H. Dawson, Capt. W. yot notually commenced. Some Davison, Capl P. Going and of the commandors have return. Capt. J. II. Woolacott.
£2,000 IN A PILLOW!
od, demanding funds with whiph
to meet the daily expenses of their forcex.
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A roport from Sheklung says. A fortune of £2,000 has beon that a body of Yunnanese troops In the course of his address the found in a pillow at Elie, Fifo in the vicinity of that place has famous man said:
on
shiro. It consisted of war bonds gone
ΟΥΟΣ to General Chan and other securities. The Ander King-ming. I understand that every one in my place is expected to say some-bought some bedding at a local
An important meeting amongst
military And- thing about his own schooldays, furniture sale, and it was while high
civil That should not be difficult. But laaring one of several pillows officials has recently been held it should be something with a
thyst the wealth was discovorod. at the Gonorálissimo's head- moral. That is more hamporing.
quartors, when important i attended a "mixed" school in their old schools-nearly always were discussed.
military and financial matters) tho South of Scotland, and
The meeting uhtortunate day for famous public schools--and to was strictly private and the me the girls took u ploblecito say, umid guneral rejoicings, that building was guarded by troops. about which boy had the nicest they had always sat at the bottom smile. I won-with the result like that, at least I shall novor of their forms. Well, if I was that I lost my smile. I supposo boast about it. If I was an idler it is still jigging about somowhore in the void, but it has never come
I am very sorry for it now, as some day, you will be if you are back to me. A tragedy in a nul-
Evon the shell. The moral, the old ongin the same caso. Trustful little boys boward of generals might have hoon still more wonderful' in the war if they girls.
had worked at school. Another hundy moral-Not to work is to miss the best of the fun.
"PENNY DREADFULS."
ANOTHER SHIP PIRATED.
OFFICERS WOUNDED AND
GUARDS KILLED.
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News has been received of the piracy of a Chinese vessel, flying Here is something of a still
the Portuguese- fing, soon after its leaving Kau-kong on Thursday darker character. In those tender
ENGLISH PUBLIC SCHOOLS,
night. The vessel concorned is days I used, when in funds, to devour secretly ponny dreadfuls,
Your great English public the Soixal (Chinese namo, "Sai schools! I hevor feel myself a Sha,”) and it is reported that the magazines containing exclusively sanguinary matter. They were foreignor in England excopt when master, Capt. Assis, and
trying to understand them. engineer were wounded, whilst largely tales about heroic high-have-n great affection for one at three out of six Indian guards and waymen and piracy on the high feast of them, but they will be a Chinese, passenger were killed, sons, but what most onamoured
The Seixal was on the Canton- mo wore the stories of goings-wilder me to the end: I am like a on at English boarding schools, dog looking up wistfully at its Wuchow run and was
of Kau-kong, How different from the humface means, or if it doos have a near midnight of April 3rd, whon
owner wondering what that noble ten miles out dreadfuldrul of my school.
To look at, these some thirty pirates captured the Bes The masters were sneaks and meaning. the boys blew them up with schools are among the fairest ship after a short fight, tho gunpowder. I felt that those were things in England: they draw captain being shot in the head, the schools for me. My mind bo.from their sons a devotion that is but not seriously.
According 10 our Canton came so set on explosions that deeper, more lasting than almost when a Sassonuch sent me a box any other love, and I well know correspondent, the piratus haul containing mysterious little red that among thoir musters are men of cargo, spacio, and passengers and blue tubes, I placed them than whom there are no finer in bolongings is estimated at over
this country.
Those schools $100,000 in value, whilst about one by one near the lire and thon darted back, in confidence must be great and yot I don't fifty passengers and six menbors that they would go off. I daresay quite son how it comes about. of the compradore's staff are I wupt when I discoverai that Of course, they send yearly on being hold to ransom. they were only coloured chalks, their way a few good scholars Soon came the awakening and and not so few ominent in the with it the moral, stalking games that we love in this land toward me like two little police and are right in loving, but the other, four-fifths or so, what do men. In the pages of a vory different sort of juvenile period. they get from thoir famous ical, called Chatterbo-- word schools? The gonorals and other that makes me quake and look illustrious old boys answer that bohind still-Irond
question triumphantly at the school festivities we have been article (11 the dire futuro in Blore fur LILONG who speaking of, but leave the ontsider road penny dreafule. I tried still bonighted. It is not scholar-
it but ship-pooh it is up to no, no, not when black night fell, physical prowess: it, is not an On such a night-the better for awakened soul nor any exclusivo
manliness nor even my fourful deed I stofo off to n
a superior distant field, my pockets stuffed way of wearing waistcoats. They describe, it briolly and unansword with back numbers a shovel concealed up my little waistcoatably as a something, and perhaps --and doop in the howels of the wisely loave it at that, putting ourth I buried the evidence of us in our place for ever, and! guilt. If you would know how satisfying the
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el for days afterwards I refer you to the similar story of Joune Chuzzlewit.
AN "R. L. S." STORY.
Many yeare afterwards. Robert Stovenson, writing to me front
not
even
youth still at may have been school who
little on the sub- worrying a ject. This mysterious something is got with no effort. You just that school, and gradually you become enrolled a member of
Samou of a visit ho had lately as I can understand it oozes out acquire the something. Si fari paid to Sydney, described how of the historic old walls and ho had gone into a bookseller's shop where they showed him all ponotrates through your clothes. the newest and choicest books, Nover it is said wore there so many applications us now to get sons But ho said to them, want no thoughtful works to-day parents made mightier sacrificos. into those housos, never have show me 'Sixteen String Jack the for this great end. Everybody is Footpad, or Black Bill the after thy something; will the old Baccanoor. If I had prosorvad walls that provide it hold out? that copy of Chulterher I should Lot us hope so-but life is bo- certainly have sont it to Mr. coming more strenuous, Somo- noticed that after the war it some day have to submit a picco body spmowhere, somehow, will .was 1 common thing for dis-of that something for scientific tinguished generals to Fo-visitoxamination."
Stevenson.
REASON ENOUGH:
BY BERTON -BRALEY.
Impulsive and capricious,
With moods you cannot gueɛM,
But whimsical, delicious
In hor capriciousness;
You ask her why she's flouting
All logic, rules and laws, She answers, portly pouting,"
"Just becauso!"
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One moment sho's all laughter, An imp on flying feet,
An thon the moniont after
She's shy, domuro and swoot; Sho's changoful as a souson,
Of sun and snow and thawE, With this her only reason, Just becausoj
Sho'll load tho man who marries
A vory hootio life, With all the swift vagarios
With which her ways are rifo One can't be certain of her,
Bho's full of faulle and flaws, And yet and yet I love her,
Just bocause ́Ï ́" ľ
The authorities have dospatch- ed armed launches to search for the desperadoes.
Would the woman who fooled
one
man's
herself play with love for another man's game?
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