SHARE MARKET.
LONDON QUOTATIONS, Mosers, G. P. and FL. A. Lammort advise us that they are
in receipt of the following cabled quotations from their London -Âgonts-this-morning-:==
Shell Transport. 79 buyers: ME/G sollers.
Moxican Eagles.-149 buyers;
16 seller......
"Chinose Engineering. huyara: 73/3 sollers.
70/0
Urial Caspian.-î- buyers; 8412 Rollers.
SHANGHAI QUOTATIONS.
Mesura. Ellis and Co. have kindly supplied with the following cable quotations of Shanghai stocks from their Shanghal office :---
Langkats (comb.) — Th». 179 bu yors,
Ewos. Tis. 11, buyurs. Shanghai
buyura.
BIRTH OF "FELIX.',
Cartoonist Reveals the Secret,
Mr. Pat Bullivan, the cartoonist, who has gained fame and fortuno as the creator of Felix the Cat, arrived in Southapton recently from Now York.
Ho was necompanied by his wife, who fled directly she heard Felix montioned.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1924.
WORK IN ITS RIGHT PLACE.
A Civil Service Opinion.
black, the magazine of the Board of Trade, has the following inter- esting editorial comment on work:
Thỏ current number of Bone-|
"How often have we boon con- "That's what she does now," of industry, the ant and the beo: fronted with those awful examples i remarked Mr. Sullivan, pointing and how often told to make them to the rapidly retranting figure.our exemplars? What right have whon anything is said about the those peevish overrated insects to "Yet it was she who really dictate to us the method of our created Felix. This is how von and the ordering of our Jostinies ? Unfortunately in the occurred.
cat.
'I was worrying out an idea of Pet human beings have appar a cartoon when
wife ently hoen only to ready to my auto home carrying in her armcept the bee or unt standard a dilapidated half-starved cat, offort to imitate theso grossly
fand-spend-bhoir days in a fruitless; one of the worst specimens I over
KIW.
ovorworked creatures. Thus the "What have yim brought whole trend of modern education. gasped An idea,' she answered. and the organisation of civilised life has been based on the theory "Everyone's drawing men; now
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must make merry over our doings. "Consequently from early dawn buyers.
Oriental. Tls. 31, buyers, cat the idea developed to what it till lato at night we are either
preparing for our work, doing it, į Shanghai Cotton.. Tls. 57, - to-day." buyers.
"Now," Mr. Sulivan added for considering it in retrospect and it "Felix almost takes up the whole contemplating the imorrow. of my time. His interests have occupies the central place in our
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House Raided by "Dry" Agents.
Charlie Chaplin has just taken part in an entirely-now comedy... but there is little hope of its Barly release.
The
scenario
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is something like this:
FIRST REEL.. "Dry" agents at Los Angeles tollicials propared to enforce the
come to England to give them my back work (de earning of our personal attention.
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For the women and children. win misfortunes of the western world, which have reversed what to doubt." 1 interposed.
Bless you, no," rejoined Mr.should have been the natural Sullivan. "Practically all grown- f hard-headed Isiness non.
prohibition laws with revolvers They ought to have had more and blotting paper) are seen planning a raid on Charlie sense,"
at. Beverley
Chaplin's house
Hills, near the famous Mecca of
the Movies.
For they have requived a hiut that in the cellar are a number of copper tubes, and a receptacle | with a gas flame burning under- | neath. Obviously a "still" for valling spirits from the vasty derps.
Spectacular departure of agents. attering their shrill war-cry. "Gue!" To which the reply of initiates is," Wişizz"
SECOND REEL.
Agouts dash up to Beverley Hilla in gruat spirits (of the most innocent, far under-proof'variety) | "Say, bah, this is SULTO the greatest raid ever,"
TUURD HEEL.
This is best described in the unemotional words of Reuters correspondent, cabled yesterday from Los Angoles
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.".The_agents apologised, how. ever, when it was explained that the queer apparatus. WAH innocent device for softening water, the water at Boverley Hills being too hard for domestic use."
And then you know how it is Homotimes with theso exciting films--the real onds abruptly without any sub-title to tell us what the agents really said.
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This serilleeked on Mendes Look for 200! "THRPX
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arrangement.
"It might be retorted that to donounce the strenuous lifo in
the hearing of civil servants in prenching to the converted. Toi some extent this is true; but so many civil servants, alas, particularly in the higher grades, do not live up to the creed which others profess for them. Their official hours Bro allowed Lo impinge more atuj more on their spare time, and the more im portant aspect of their lives i slowly submerged. After all, thto| leisure hours of a man's life aro fou the whole innocuous. It is his working hours which are as la rule harinful to himself and his fellow men.
'And so we fool that the time has come to raise a now battio cry of Back to the Flapdoodle Troc. Wotk must be regarded as the less important part of our lives, and while we are far from advocating that no one should work at all or that such work as is done should be carelessly or inefficiently performed, we do not altogether despair of setting be |fore our readers the ideal of an
existence of constructive idlenessi and the cult of the unstrenuous- life."
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But Baseball Comes First.
TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Daily Tonle
By ROBERT POWER
Bieber Ruth, "the home-run
The love story supreme of a beautiful girl and a man who king, has enlisted in an Ameri. knew what love really meant. Produced favishly, luxuriously, can volunteer corps, not to give enchantingly and superbly acted. Adapted from the world's bis physical woight (2007 best selling novel. we remember right) but rather his
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WALKING
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Military Training Camps. The news is widely published, with
We road further: “At}
the suggestion of Goneral Per- shing. Ruth has agreed to givo bie co-operation in the work of the Citizens' Military Training
It is gratifying to see that tho
There is welcome solitude and ment for spirit and body. This details of the difficulty of finding there is the awfut loneliness is the self-sight solitude describa uniform large enough for him. the new which seizes the person marooned ed by Milton: "Turning aside;o actually put on upon a desort island. The first content to listen to the inward kbaki uniform and a leather belt as a message in the self-sought quietude; the voics." Such a quie: hour spotboaround his waist"
from Washington informs us. Ho other the enforced separation and stabilizes the mind which is from Humanity,
100 ready to be excited by those did not put the belt around bis We may be alone in a crowd, we come in contact with. Voicesar, it will be noted. Then ho and very full of company when dio, whispers conse; the bum of oured (ieneral Pershing with by ourselves. There are many life sinks away. In that bushur visit. walk the streets of the great hour wo can, as a great proncher citive, jostled by all sorts and said, "Hear ourselves think, and conditions of people, yet alane, listen to the voice of God." oppressed by un aching sense of But if our solitude be loneliness, Holitude. I wish we had some it is hard to hear. How bitter, Cups. He will find it impossible real median whereby lonely only thosecan say who are gripped to attend à full cores at one of souls, the shy and diffidont ones by the sonse of being utterly the camps, but he hopes Le visit of life, might be brought together. sequestered from their follow them wherover possible and to doi Solitude produces queer charac. eroutures. There are many such what he can to encourage the tors. The eccentric and the re. I know; for often lettors reach youth of the country to make ap- chuse, perhaps, wore once longing me from those who have felt this, plication for the camps." for company and fellowship, anguish. "I am so utterly alone" They were denied it and they at wrote a correspondent recently, authorities realise the rulative longth came to drond the crowd. "since my mother died. I have importance of military train- Lonely ves are often twisted absolutely nobody left in the livus.
work." A sense of such lono- Thore is a welcome solitude. It finoss carries with it a fooling of is a poor heart which nover ro- abandonment. joles, and a poorer which never "Abandonment!" No, I ought desires some self-communion. not to writo this word. There is We cannot always attune our- no such thing while we believe in selves to company howevor con- the grout truths of Christanity. gonial, gay, or stimulating." Lotus remember thugreat solitudo must be alone, sir, for solf of Gethsemano, when the cry of examination and reflection," felt-adandomont issued from thu thuudorod Dr. Johnson when gloom that wo Boswell was pressing him to spiritual companionship.
Ho to dinner. Bontentiously: Only the shallow the opportunity for reflection. It roly always on the ontertainmont lo like the evening hour whon the of others.'
oun dies and Nature pauses oro To turn aside in the rash of the twilight sinks into night and o walk quietly in sleup. Solitude moans walking f. all ed, is to receive refresh with yourself.
come
added
might have
ing by comparison with bus oba II. Following Babe Ruth's example good many boys will be glad to pay tho camps a visit when they have nothing better to do.- Ex.
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