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MUSICAL JOTTINGS.
WHAT IS CELEBRITY! THE AD- The Recent Discussion on MusicalKIYMA
VANTAGE OF BEING KNOWN TO PEO- PLE WHO DON'T KNOW YOU.—Cham- fort.
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Yesterday's return of notifiable diseases shows one Chinese chise
Criticism-Rachmaninoff's 2nd. Concerto at Laat!
[By "Allegro."]
steps which resulted in the crea- tion of the Tung Wah. Supported entirely by voluntary contribu tions, the Hospital has ever since been engaged on a work which has been of, immense benefit to the Colony. It has not only been, a hospital, but a. Poor House and a Refuge for the destitute. What of small-pox. was said of it more than thirty years ago can be said with oven greater emphasis to-day-"It has given the sick a better chance of recovery than they could have had
Amongst the passenger who left in their own homes. It has enabl
by the Empress of Russia, yester ed thousands to die in compara-day were Mr. J. M. Alves, Miss tive case and comfort. It has con- E. Alves, Mr. J. A. Plummer, and tributed to the, general health members of the Shanghat inter-cussion with me on the merits of
of the Colony by withdrawing Chinese affected by contagious or Infectious disenses from their own houses in crowded tenements in narrow streets. It has promoted vaccination." To this list could be added many more evidences of the Tung Wah's work in healing and charity.
As the work and responsibilities of an institution like this extent and grow, It Je obvious that the
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Mr. G. W. May will speak "Spiritualism and Theosophy at the weekly public lecture of the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, to-day at 6 pm.
Twin brothers acted as a joint “best man", at a'. wedding which" took plate' in London recently. Mr. T, HL Willmott, the brido groom, was thair younger brother and to "obviate the difficulty of During the past fortnight there choosing either of the twins ho has been some correspondence in shared the honour between them... the S. C. M. Post regarding the The ring was passed from one Sustification for public perform twin to the other before being ance of music on instruments handed to the oficiating clergy. other than those for which the man. music was written; or in ways The bride was. Miss Ursula other than those intended by tile Rothery, and the marriage took composers, The correspondent place at the Presbyterian Church, who submitted that there was no Manor Road, Stoke Newington. such justification has already en gaged in a friendly newspaper dis Fleta's programme, and there - In no need to go over old ground in A Chinese female child, aged one meeting his objections to the sing- year, was found by the policeing of operatie excerpta on con- abandoned on a vacant piece of cert platforma. However, on this ground, near Kwong Wah Road occasion he has gone further and yesterday, suffering from exposure.set about combatting the "crazy It is now being cared for by the idea that a piano can be a satis. for a factory artistic substitute Kwong Wah Hospital.
fall orchestra in public perform. of concertos and allied ances works."
port tennis team.
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For sweeping a quantity of house rubbish into the street, a Chinese woman living at No. 31, Bulkeley Street, Hunghom, was fined $4 on her appearance before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.".
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Government passengers leaving for Home on the s.6. Rawalpindi en December 7 include Mr. and Mrs. WJ. Bagley and Mr. J. S. Joyes (Prison), Mr. J. Michell and Mr. W. N. Darkin (Police), and Mr. B.C.K. Hawkins (I. & E. Dept) and Mrs. Hawkins..
ders, and once again I find all my sympathies on the side of the "offending artisto."
Reporter's book and pencil in hand, sought an interview with her in order to obtain informa- tion as to why she had been guilty of this lack of respect for Franck. "As these remarks made by Mr. P. A. C. seem to lay upon your shoulders the whole of the blame attached to the performance of this work," said i, "perhaps you will be good enough to Inform me
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Both the twins' claimed the time- honoured privilege of kissing the bride after the ceremony.
Mother: What's the matter, darling.
Small Daughter: · Daddy hit his thumb with the hammer.
Mother: Don't cry about that.
You should laugh.
Bruall Daughter: I did.
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Mr. J. Gibbins, Sociulist M.P. for .... West Toxteth, was the magistrato in Liverpool Police-court recently when Dennis Kearns, 56, no settled." address, was convicted of begging and sentenced to one month's Im- prisonment.
Kearns: Only a month! I ex- pected and wanted six months,
Mr. Gibbins: Well, I don't mind" obliging you, I will make it three months,
Keirns: Thank you, but what - about my money?
Mr. Gibbins: Oh, that will be " kept for you until you come out. There are no pictures where you are going.
Travelling Londoners regard the traintalker as the lowest form of life lennum, to science, say a writer.).
They opened their papers in
silence profound.
The point arose out-of a per formance at the Helena May Ins titute of Franck's Variations Sym phoniques (written for plano and orchestra), with the orchestral part played on d second grand' On failing to appear before Mr. piano. This action was condemn creases, At present, there is es W. Schofield at the Kowloon Ma-ed by him as being entirely un- pecial need for an Endowment gistracy this morning on a charge necessary, utterly inartistic and Fund, a fact which was stressed of causing cruelty to five pigs, a showing an entire want of respect Chinese, of, Shamshulpo, had his and consideration for the men who in yesterday's speeches. We have ball of $25 estreated. It was stated invented the music which we been pleased to note that in re-that the case was not a scrious one, enjoy. Such comment, passed on an artiste who had taken up much sponse to the recent appeals, num-
time to prepare the work and had her of foreign firms have come
given a arst-cings performance. was bound to call forth rejoin- ROBERTSON--At Victoria Hos-forward with liberal support for pital, November 28th, to Mr. the new branch hospital, but there and Mrs. K. S. Robertson, has now to be faced the larger question of adequate endowment of the whole movement. In a hundred and one ways, the Tung A summons taken out against Wah serves European as well as the Foo Loong "contractors, who were alleged, before Mr. W. Scho- Chinese firms, but the appeal now field at the Kowloon Magistracy being made for further financial, this morning, to have carried out aid rests on higher grounds than blasting operations on the Ma Tau Kok Road without having taken that of a mere quid pro quo. The the necessary precautions, was ad- humanitarian instincts of all journed for one week, the rawhy you chose it."
firm Were "I chose the Variations Sym- communities here should be arous-dant denying that his
phoniques for several reasons,” was blasting in the vicinity. ed by the knowledge-of-what-the-
the reply. "Eirstly, because I Tang Wah does, and that, more Four men who were arrested in like it. Secondly, because it is connexion with the armed robbery a masterpiece. Thirdly, because I There enn be few, if any, insti-than anything else, should suffice at house in Ma Tau Kok Road, had a pianist to play the second
The members of a certain local tutions in the Far East with a to bring forth needed contrību: recently, were remanded by Mr. W. piano part. Fourthly, Aner record of service for the Lions from firms and individuals Schofield at the Kowloon Ma- the Helena May Institute placed council were not, on the whole, gistracy this morning until Saturat my disposal a second grand well-educated men. The chairman public weal than the Tung Wah alike.
day morning for hearing. It was plano and it was therefore an op- was reading out the annual report of the Medical Officer of Health, Hospital, which yesterday.register-
inti.nated that Mr. J.-T. Prior was portunity not to be missed," appening" for the first defendant
wherein it was stated that the ell a further step forward in the
while Mr. Arthur Covey had been
death rate of the district was 12.0 opening of the new branch at
instructed to represent two of the
per thousand. Sookunpoo. We fear that all too few Europeans realise the work of merey and healing which this Chiness-managed Institution does,
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY Nov. 28, 1920.
A WORTHY WORK.
Is Mr. Thomae up Against 1t7
Those who imagined genial
Jimmy Thomas to be the possessor
men.
of a sort of fairy wand which A young Chinese who was would solve Britain's unemploy-charged before Mr. W. Schofield at ment profilem by the mere act of the Kowloon Magistracy this mora- waving it must be sadly dis- ing with throwing a stona at an It is very much more than a los-appointed with the extent to Indian Constable in Pilkim Street pital, as was pointed out in the which he is able to report pro-was given the benefit of the doubt
"You have not had
because
And none knew or cared where the others were bound. : With looks of suspicion and
glances of gloom Newcomers were grimly provid-
ed with room. These good, honest Britishers,
loyal and true, Appeared a morose, imperturb-
uble crew, Regarding with frigid, unspoken
disdain.
One misguided fellow who talk-
ed in the train.
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speeches at yesterday's ceremony.gress. The impartial observer, and discharged with a caution al-formance in my
regarding the matter as too though the complainant stated in room, and without the kindness of died and nine are at the point of
One of its most useful functions is the means it provides whereby the Chinese of this Colony are being trained in real social service. For close on sixty years, it has served the poor and the helpless, and in that work it has never luck- | position
knocked overboard by the sail suddenly, swinging round with the wind. The incident happened near the North Nine Pins Group at 130 yesterday morning. A boat was lowered from the junk but no trace was found of the unfortunate
man:
"But Mr. P. A. C. maintaina -, **** that you should have deprived the Hongkong public of that pleasure WHO WAS.. rather than commit the fault of
JOHN OAKHURST? playing the work without an orchestra.
"Cesar Franck himself has, ar- ranged it for two pianos" was the reply. "He could not have thought auch an arrangement inartistic."
"Your critic admits that," I said, accepting a proffered fasse de cafe. "But he says Franck did so in or- der that people might try them ut home; also his publishers prob ably advised it for financial.rea. .sons."
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Gold-mining camps are not exactly strongholds of virtue, and propriety. In search of the precious metal come the roughest and toughest of the earth, the miners; and after. them come the siyest and the most cunning,, the gamblers, to cheat the miners out of their hardly-won treasure.
many op- portunities for performing this work, then ?" I asked, seating my
One of the councillors, not in- self upon the divan.
"Naturally not," was the reply. derstanding the meaning of the "As in a household twelve pairs figures quoted, applied to the of sugar-tongs are not to be found, chairman for enlightenment. "Mr. so in a drawing-room two pianos Chairman," he asked, "what does are seldom seen. I certainly could 12 point 9 mean?"
"That, air, was the reply. never have offered the music-
a per- "means that out of every thoumnd lovers of Ifongong such
own drawing of our inhabitants twelve have serious for banter perhaps, must evidence that he saw the defendant the Helena May Institute I could death!". liave been impressed by the throw the stone. It was admitted never have played it here at all." manner in which the Minister of that there was a crowd of people Employment in tackling the in the street with the defendant. country's most vital problem, by
Upon his return to the Colony, his insistence upon schemes offer- ing prospect of permanent relief. yesterday, Li Wong, the master of and by his refusal to take opthe fishing junk registered as No. chaff otherwise than 4298HA, reported to the police that ́ed the assistance of leading mem-good-humouredly. To put the foki was drowned through being situation, in a nutshell, it is bers of the Chinese community clear that Mr. Thomas accepted who, by money and service, have the tank well knowing that he done much for those of their own would be up against it from the people who have fallen on evil beginning, and that five months of hard labour lave neither re- days. As His Excellency has stat-moved that
impression, nor ed, it keeps wholly aloof from poli-affected his confidence in his tical activity of any kind: "Do On the contrary, it is clear that Indian watchman who was charged two planos in one house are as ability to overcome the obstacles. After several adjournaments, un "Have I not pointed out thut good with all your heart," has been Mr. Thomas is pursuing a set before Mr. W. Schofield at the Kew-great a rarity as twelve pairs of the inspiring motive of those who policy and is gaining a firmer loon Magistracy this morning with sugar tongs?" she replied. "If the grasp of essentials daily. It failing to produce his book for publishers induced him to arrange have controlled its destinies.
cannot be sufficiently stressed endorsement on entering the ser- the store for a second piano for The movement of which the two that Mr. Thomas has made no vice of the Kum Hong Kaliting home execution only, with a view Tang Wah Hospitals are the out-claim to be able to cure employ Factory as headwatchman was to profits, they must have been ward sign was initiated in a rather ment within any set period of fined $2, it being stated that the poor business men."
time Touse his favourite offence was only a technical one. She added that Trom apprecia- unusual manner. Back in the phrase, he is "exploring all the Mr. A. E. Hall was originally en- tions shown since the concert, she 50's, a number of compradores, avenues" and when the time in gaged by the defendant, who him was sure the general impression. merchants and shopkeepers esta- ripe, he will open them up. Mr. self pleaded guilty this morning.
had not been that she had done Thomas may well be challenged
something "unnecessary and in- blished at Taipingshan an institu- regarding his work at the end of
First Church, of Christ, artistic." tion or temple known as "I-Ts'z," twelve months. To-day, criticism Socientist will hold the annual At this, I swallowed my coffee a place where ancestral tablets of any kind must be premature. Thanksgiving Service this evening and departed.
Then again, the solution does not in the Church edifice, MacDonnell could be erected, This subse entirely rest in the hands of quently developed into a kind of native hospital, to which Chinese in a dying condition were taken, The idea was to provide a place where sick employees might find
he will get it, though in certain "Scloned and Health with Key to hearing concertos lo refuge to avoid the rites and cere respecte it would seem impossible the Scriptures," by Mary Baker gramophone monies connected with death, and that Free. Trade principles and Eddy, also testimonies-by Chris- probably not more than six sets where bodfen could be stored unemployment schemes can go tian Scientists appropriate for the of Franck's Variations in the Colony Qur worthy critic, would hand in hand. The discussions occasion. No collection is taken rather 160 or so people be kept in whilst awaiting removal to the with the representatives of the at this service and the public is ignorance of it all their lives than mainland. The Government did motor industry, for instance, hold cordially invited to attend... that they should hear the two-piano
vérsion, get not consent to its establishment, out considerable hopes of an
increase in Britain's export trade, in the British biarket, Mr. Well, we must agree to differ on which was accidentally discovered. An abolition of the horse-power Snowden's attitude could not have the subject of opera excepts and Then it was revealed that this tax in favour of some other been made clearer than in the orchestral arrangements. It is institution was grossly abused, In-revenue-producing scheme from reply lie made on Tuesday to a with all the more pleasure that I vestigations disclosing the most British manufacturor rent we are inclined to believe at the as regarde
this source, would obviously give question in the Commons: yet find myself in agreement with him the playing of disgusting conditions Imaginable opportunity of competing in world mondent that Mr. Snowden merely Chopin's Nocturnes on the The "I-Ts'e** _was soon closed markets. But if Mr. Snowden found it impossible to resist the violin. They sound better. on has decided to abolish the McKenna pleasure of keeping his opponents the piano and as there are down, but the Government, resila Duties, there is an equal prospect. guoesing. Like, Mr. Thomas, he many opportunities of hearing
of British manufacturing being is not prepared at this juncture Chopin played by planists.com forced to fight to hold their own to give too much away.
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Mr. Thomas. Without the active be conducted in accordance with and willing co-operation of Mr. the Church Manual of The Firat symphony orchestra, there might Philip Snowden, the Chancellor Church of Christ, Scientist, in have been some justification for of the Exchequer, his prospects Boston, Mass., including saftable the complaint that this perform- of success are very few. To an passages from the Bible and the ance was unnecessary. But the
text-book only chance appreciable extent, we believe, Christian Science
.we have of on the and... there are
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Of these Inst was John. Oakhurst, who haunted the. gold settlements of California. Nothing in his appearance suggested bis trade. He was a quiet-mannered man, with a thoughtful face and dreamy eyes, and studiously neat in his dress. He did not drink, nor use strong language. In- deod, he rarely felt the need of either, for his luck and skill were phenomenal, so pheno- menal, dn fact, that he ardused- intenso hostility: wherever he went, and was constantly escorted to town boundaries,. with emphatic Instructions never to return.
It was as a result of one- such expulsion that he met his death, and though his life had been despicable; John Oakhurst came to a noble end. Along with other social out casts he was snow-bound in"a mountain hut. Prövialuna Tan short. With one fewer mouth.. to feed they might last out. until a relief party could get through. John Oakhurst walk- ed out,into the, snow, and leid himself down under a distanð pine tree, which only goes to show that the capacity for herolem is lodged in even, the most worthless of men.
Bret Harte was no black- and-white moralist. He knew." what: mixed qualities may co habit one human.frame; hencs, his portrait of John Oakhurst, the "The Outcasts of Poker Flat."