Dancing During
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TEA and DINNER
Daily at-
LANE, CRAWFORD'S
RESTAURANT
DISTINCTIVE ENVIRONMENT.
DIPHENSO
WOOD PRESERVATIVE & WHITE ANT DESTROYER
Treated with
"Diphenso
Not Treated with
Diphenso
Obtainable in various shades
from
SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
Sole Agents.
BEGINNING THE DAY WITH
A SMILE
SATURDAY,
G.B.S. REVISITS HIS "OLD PRISON.”
WHERE HE “CLERKED" IN THE 'SEVENTIES.
AND NOW FORGOTTEN,
The days la the "seventies when Mr. Bernard Shaw was a clerk, are recalled by the playwright in a foreword he has written to a pamphlet, "Trade Unionism for Clerks," and which is reproduced. in last months issue of the Clerk, After recalling that his clerking was over before he was 20, and that beginning at £18 year he never rose above £72 or 284 he forgets which--Mr. Shaw writes:
Forty years after I had shaken the dust of that office from my feet I found myself one morning standing in the street outside it, having in the meantime pulled off the great man stunt and been recently held up to an admiring Europe as "the Moliere of the Twentieth Century." I was look ing for a commissioner of oaths to witness some legal profanity or other, and it suddenly struck me that there was one on the first floor of the building where I had
stayed as a clerk.
OCTOBER 15, 1927.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
NAUGHTINESS OF HEALTHY CHILDREN.
LEARNED VIEWS.
Dr. Robert M. Marshall of Glas- gow discussed before a recent meeting of the British Medical As- sociation the subject of "The Mental State of the Naughty Child.”,
Restless,
tween the wayward action of a There is a great difference be-
child of the Peter Pan type and the wayward action of the child which suffers from forms of in- sanity or mental defect. There is nothing cunning or underhand about the misdemeanors of the normally naughty child. He does misdeeds at a time when they will not, like a delinquent, commit his ot be discovered, but is likely to carry them out as a public show. Most of his mischief is done upon- taneously or Impulsively, where- as the delinquent acts with malice aforethought. The child who is
1
OUR CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
15
Across.
Wild:ass.
Furnished with tar. D Jacket.
14 More or less fishlike.
moral imbecile is deaf to re- monstrance and insensible to cor- rection.
6 Half run. take to heart a correction and is 11
The normal mental child will 10 Blower not likely to repeat the same of 12 Shadows of earth in eclipse of 20 Slight.
Sagacious.
fence.
It was a good excuse for going in and peeping through the glass toor of my eld prison as I passed. I was disgusted to and that they had built a partition which shut off the view of my part of the volved in all of their actions. They 24 Plant. formerly spacious room, and, as we would have said in my time. they may meet, and play with 26 Water pipe. "made the place look like a pawn-They are always busy about some 28 Dried grass.
that interests anything
them. 7 General truth. broker's."
from instability, but. not from de- 18 Cutting machines.
Such a child may suffer sun. pravity. Indeed, this restlessness 16 Cure. is the most significant character 19 Perfume, istic of these children and is in- 20 To wither.
22 Approbation.
are pert, talk freely to whomever
25 Deed.
thing and if their activities can be 29 Grun confined to useful chamuels, they 30 Pronoun. give indication of precocity. 31 Recompense.
I went unstairs. The commis- sioner ef oaths was out. Hia clerk was no common clerk, he
On the other hand, their ap- 32 Set. was every inch a churchwarden, parent brilliance is not usually 34 Portable structures. frock-coated, large, dignified, pro- accompanied by a high intelli- 37 In the past, sperous, and, I could swear, agence quotient. They are, however, 38 Pictures, ninster Mason in the lodge next never below an intelligence quotient 41 Oxide of iron. door. Still only a clerk, legally of S5, so that they rank well up 42. Ransoms. unable to make anyone swear but with the majority of children. 44 Advisor. his employer.
45 Dr. Marshall's characterization of Trec. I am by profession a communi- this type of child as the Peter Pan 47 Yellowish brown colour.
46 Metal cup containing a wick. eative person, and as it was a fine type that never grows up is an ex- 48 Forces. morning and we were not yet ceedingly apt one, pressed for time we chatted for a mament. I mentioned, that I had been a clerk myself in that build- ing forty years before..
"I Don't Remember You." Instantly the distinguished con-. sideration he had bean beguiled" into treating me with by my air of being somebody in particu lar changed into undisguised con- tempt barhed by incredulity. He jexpressed the tontempt in his one and the incredulity in these staggering words:-"I don't member, vou,"
| KING GEORGE LETTER
IN SHOP.
SOLD AND REPLACED BY
A KING EDWARD LETTER.
A letter written by King George, when he was 24 years of age and a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, re-which had been on exhibition -in |
the window of a shop in Picca- silly. London, for ten days, was. sold recently.
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Written to a Mrs. Williams, the letter discussed stamp collect- ing.
He had been, there when I was there. He and been there for Torty years. All that time whilst I was making six or seven reputa- tions, touching nothing that I did not aburn, being abused by
A Central News representative! the papers as only the famous are
was informed at the shop that the abused, and surveying mankind, exhibition of lotters written by if not from China to Peru, at least Kings still alive was not regarded from Stamboul to Jamaica, he had as distasteful. We have often ex- kept on coming at ten every mornhibited auch letters, and the letter ing and going home at five every will be left in the window until evening, and was good, for another it is sald, it was stated. ten years of it.
Just then an elderly man walk- And that is what would haveed into the shop and, after a short happened to me but for the pure conversation with one of the as- accident of my turning out to be sistants, left. The letter the one man in every million or then taken from the window, and
Was
A potherb.
Down.
2 Belonging to the stars.
3 Consumes.
4 Bobbins,
6 Empty pageantry..
6 Law room.
7 Limbs.
IF YOU'VE ANYTHING TO SELL
ANNOUNCE IT
J. E. HANCOCK Publicity Agent and Commercial Artist.
4th Floor Morning Post Bldg. Tel. 0.4731.
A baby boy clothed. in white.
There were
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so who happens to have the knack the reporter was informed. that is largely a matter of habit the of telling lies so attractively that it had been sold. habit of keeping the system clean people go to the theatre to see The purchaser. "whose identity woollen garments and provided and in regular working order. If actors pretending they are true. is not known, is an Englishman with a bottle of milk, was found by your liver is sluggish or you are Granted that he was nothing who, it is understood, left a de- children walking along a path with- troubled with intestinal Inactivity like so worn out, as 1, and was posit. The letter had been offer in 50 yards of the main road at Pinkettes are your need. As gent- obviously on better terms withed at ten guineas. The letter Huntingdon. ly as nature these dainty little re-himself. Granted that he was was immediately replaced by an kulators dispel constipation, stim-none of your English Newmag other written by King Edward ulate the liver, banish headaches Noggses, but an Irish metropo- VII. " and bilious attacks, clear the skin, litan solicitors' right-hand man." purify the breath. They also Granted that he had never entered quickly relieve piles.
Of your chemist, or post free, 60 cents the vial, from Dr. Wil liams' Medicine Co., GO, Kiangse Road, Shanghai.
While swimming at Eastbourne Mr. T. Watt, a well-known, local swimmer, noticed something in the sea. He made a grab-and landed a large live whiting.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
DO YOU KNOW WH "I'M GOING TO GET TUS SUMMER, ALEK? GUESS ONCE!:
AW, SEE
I CAN'T GUESS- TELL ME WHAT YOU'RE GONULA GET, FRECKLES!
The music at the Union Church
a third-class carriage in his life, evening service to-morrow will be that he despised shorthand as the led by the K.O.S.B. band by per- Comyn, eraft of a common reporter, that mission of Lieut. Col. he did not know at sight a type- C.M.G., D.S.O., and officers. Items writer from a cash register. Still will be rendered by way of open- I cannot believe that when he ing, offertory and closing volun- and I were youths together in taries, and the hymns will also be the eighteen-seventies, he intend-accompanied by the band, which ed to be a clerk all his life any will be led by Mr. W. H. Fitz Earle, A.R.C.M. A vocal solo, with organ more than I did.
I fled from his majestic pre-accompaniment, will be given by sence recalling many" memories. Mrs. G. Watt.
I'M GOING T70 657 A NICE SHETLAND PONY WITH A NICE SADDLE- WON'T THAT BE SWELL?)
I'LL LET YOU RIDE
IT 700!
Gnawing at Tag's Bank Roll
Bay Z BET HATUL COST. A LOT OF MONEY!
WILO'S GOING TO BUY
·TAIS SÄEZLAN" PONY, FRECKLES
WAY, YOU ARE, TAG!- YOU GOT LOTS OF MONEY So I 607 17 ALL PLANNED AOW YOU'LL BUY A PONY AN' THEN YOU'LL LET
ME USE IT SOME
OF SHE TIME!
marks on the clothing by which the child could be identified, and he was removed to the workhouse,
IT'S QUALITY-.- THAT COUNTS
ARE YOU REALLY GOING
TO BUY IT
JAS?
15 Find of argument.
17 Poetical composition.
18 A Bordeaux wine.
21 Rues.
23 Loop (0. T.)
24 Personal belonging.
38 Bogs.
33 Employeo in a laundry.
35 An ambassador of the pope.
36 Flint glass,
38 Having become wild.
39 One affected with leprosy.
40 Glass tinged of deep blue.
42 Thick twine.
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