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NOTES OF THE DAY THE ANGEL THAT
The authorities have taken the complaints against the cabarets to boart, and without any warning, the Polico have issued drastic orders that the "acadamles" shall close at midnight. Residential areas affected by the excessive
TROUBLED THE
CONFERENCE
By E. L. ALLEN
now,
BULLSE
INNERS
From the Office Butts
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Another definition of the Econ- omic Conference, "Money Talks".
One thing about nudists. Thoy
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There was quite a flutter quite a lot about history. As far us I can see, ever since you start- holes of these places of amusement at one of the opening sesed this wonderful oeconomic system can't laugh up their sleeve! "SYNCHRO-Thoth of this with this to be mic Conference, though you've been so fond of crises that
will learn of this with satisfaction.sions of the World Econo-you are so anxious about
I cannot imagine how you would
Who says that people are too congratulated on this effort to what happened has been live without them. You MESH HAS meet public opinion. Nevertheless
must thrifty these days? Only recent we feel that a certain amount of kept pretty secret to date. enjoy them, otherwise why do you by MacWhirter went out to his
make oach new one bigger than club and spent the evening! BANISHED discrimination could have been It might have been worse the one which went before? Sup- mado, Thera are a number of than it was, however. An pose you do pilot this old earth of yours to something tolerable cabarots, carrying on a perfectly angel dropped down the again, what is to guarantee that harmless business and offering en-
of "Presents makes chimney, shook some soot It won't go to your head and pro-heart grow fondor! TERRORS"! tertainment to hundreds nightly.
situated in the heart of the city. Off its wings, sat down and duce that same queer business of booms followed by crashes and to bring these began to take shorthand crashes in which you wait for the within the restrictions? The only notes! At that, the dele-next boom? I don't question your.
ability
prosperity, reason for the curfew is to allow regates all stopped talking, gentlemen, but excuse my frank camp. sidents to sleep in peace. Cabarots
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outside of those areas should enjoy and whispered to the Chair-ness-I do doubt your ability to different treatment. They disturb man to do something about make a proper use of it when you nobody but themselves, and to close it. Thinking it advisable to them down at midnight is to de- be polite, he pointed out that the prive numbers their chief source of press was not admitted to that particular session, and would he be so good as to leave by the way he came? 'Sorry,' replied the intruder, 'but my orders are to stay. However, if my presence inconveniences you in any way, I can make myself invisible and But the Chairman carry on. thought it would be better to see what he was doing, at any
POOR SHAKESPEARE !
Recent correspondence in the English press
has revealed that many people dislike Shakespeare be- cause they find his language diffi- cult and out-of-date. They con-
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With local Gold-diggers it's caso
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This week's simile. As keen as nudist a starved mosquito at a
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Looks as though there will be a lot of blasting on Harlech Rond.
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Many a father with a head for
The difference between an in- door and an outdoor arial is exact: ly ten bucks per annum.
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A WORLD TOUR. There's one more point, if I'm not taking up too much time, Mr. Chairman. I took a world-tour figures has a son with an eye for between 10 and 11 yesterday them. morning: we angels can get round the world and see a lot in that time! Now I come to think of it, I don't remember aceing anything of world-prices, the gold standard, the balance of trade, and other things of which you have been speaking. Of course, your sun-
An advertisement states: "Live light is very poor, so I may have salesmen wanted". Dead men, missed them. But there were of course, tell no tales. some things i did see. In one sequently ask that the Shake-rate, so allowed him to stay.
But somehow the discussion place; I saw a mother struggling spearean drama should be turned flagged while he was there. He to clothe five children on the 'dole', It is asserted that "London Is into modern English. This very was taking notes all the time and as you call it. In another, I saw cheaper to-day." Nevertheless, it remarkable request illustrates in it made one uncomfortable to a father of 50, with twenty years will have to drop considerably lo- a striking manner the change that think where those notes might be to live and no chance of any work wer before we consider buying it. has come over people's attitudo to-handed in afterwards. But what in them, trying to bring up his was to be done about it? One of children to be useful members of ward the theatre in the last fifty the delegates had a bright idea. the community. And in another years. But it is not modern in the Mr. Chairman,' he said, clearing place I came across a gang. of sense that Shakespeare's characters his throat, I should like to sug-bare-foot urchins playing out do not talk the kind of English to be gest that we ask our distinguished alde a shoe factory with a notice heard in the City of London or on visitor to address us. Every- on the walls, eaying it was 'closed body agreed; it would certainly for want of orders'! It seems to Wall Street. It is not the passage stop him from taking those awful me that these are all 'experts' in of time that has made the charac notes.
their way; don't you think you ters of Shakespeare talk a language different from that of ordinary men and women, but the fact that Shakespearo. deliberately caused people to discourse in a tongue more brilliant and poetical than the man In the street could ever hope to achieve in casual conversation. To ask for Shakespeare to be rewritten in "current English" is, therefore, to try to deprive, him of one of his greatest virtues, his ability to make people talk, not like, but better than, ordinary men and women.
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A Diet specialist at homo de- clares that broad beans are par- ticularly beneficial. The trouble with us out here is that broad beans are not abroad.
It is stated that more money was might co-opt them some of spent in the Colony on tobacco your Committees?'
last year than on rice. One way But at that point someone rose to balance the trade would be to
But the angel was of a shy, un- assuming diaposition, he protested that he knew nothing at all about economies, and was only there as in a hurry to propose a world-give cumshaw rice puddings at deputy for the Recording Angel embargo on the import of angels. Christmas. (several members shuddered visib-It was carried unanimously, and ly at this point) during his the Conference get down to busin- weekly day off. Still they insisted, 88. so he advanced to the table, and began:
ALL VERY GOODI
Roosevelt
21 YEARS AGO ́
Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files
The following extracts are from Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended July 6, 1912.
The rate of the dollar on de- mand was 1/11 13/16.
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Li Hon-hung, charged with the attempted murder of Sir Henry May, the Governor, was committed
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The song of the surf-boarder. There's no place like foam
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One way to make the dollar go up. Take a ride in the Peak. Tram!
"Hell Below". This is not, of course, a Peak reference to Kow-
Joon.
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Cabarets close at midnight. Some people won't be satisfied how- ever, until cabarets are killed al- together. They'll be able to say let her "R.I.P." then.
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The Chamber of Commerce has not, it is understood, adopted as its motto "Pull for the Foreshore, lads 1"'
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Road traffic legislation making compulsory the taking out of insurance against third party
'Mr. President and gentlemen, risks would seem to be a long
let me begin by relieving your way off as far as Hongkong is
minds on one point. You, think concerned. The question has
the business of the Recording Angel is to keep a record of your been under active discussion for
faults. Not at all. They do that the over a year without producing
in hell, we in heaven know that it any tangible result and it seems DETECTIVE STORIES
Is your virtues which cause most of your troubles. What I felt in unlikely that any will be forth-
listening to your arguments: just coming in the immediate future. That many great men spend their now was that they were all sound. The insurance interests raise leisure hours reading detective You are all so wonderfully in the many objections to the Govern- stories has long been widely known. right, we could scarcely do better ourselves. For the British situa- ment's proposals. They regard Mr. Stapley Baldwin has never tion, the British policy is the ideal for trial. the liability of $50,000 for ordin-concealed his fondness for the one; if I were a citizen of the
Ever since he received a letter ary motor vehicles and of $100,- Sherlock Holmeses and the Trents United States, I should think An attempt to poison a Europ-
that President 000 for lorries as much too high, of fiction. But now it appears that the goods; and for the gold-The victim collapsed after eating self "Alice", Eddie Kelly has been had ean was reported to the Police. from a well-wisher who signed her- although this compares with some learned men spend their
producing countries, what the his soup at an evening meal.
going around the office whistling £15,000 in England, and as This is a development that might is just plain common-sense. From leisure hours in writing them. gold-producing countries stand for
"Alice, Where Art Thou?" Allegations by a correspondent onerous the deposit requirement justifiably be made the occasion for your national points of view, you that the Press were suppressing
ຕ ផ in the Government plan. They
Robert MacWhirter is the only are all right: what I don't quite reports of burglaries and are also at variance on other portion of detective stories
national rejoicing. A large pro-see is why you should have any crimes was denied. It was point man in Hongkong who is complain- the points of detail. On its side,sists of tales that are indistinguish- | We don't have them in heavn, you ports was due to lack of informa-/price of petrol. He says he filled
con-national points of view at allled out that the scarcity of the re-ing about the reduction in too, the Government has several responsibilities to meet before able from those in the crime news know.
tion at Police Headquarters,
his tank up the day before the embarking
reduction came into force. As I said before, I know nothing legislation. upon
of the tabloid press. There is, Obviously, it cannot content it however, a small number of de- seeing that we live for over and and was succeeded by Commodore about economics. But we angels, Commodore Eyres left for Home,
□□ self with making third party tective stories whose object is far have good memories, get to know] Anstruther, C.M.G. insurance compulsory and leav-different from mere sensationalism. ing the premium issue to the These emphasize, not the details discretion of the underwriters. of the crime committed, but the It is on this question that the ingenuity of the problem set, tho greatest difficulties are likely to detective and the reader, and the be experienced. Nothing can skill with which the solution is compel a company to issue worked policies at a premium which is primarily Intellectual, like the in- out. Their Interest is actuarily unsound, while, at the forest of a game of chess. It is same time, the public is entitled in the hope that they will popularize to protection if they are to be this kind of story instead of the compelled to take out such in- other that surance, as, in principle, they the detective fold the learned welcomes into should. It is on the point of scholars of Eton and of Oxford. whether the principle should be put into practice, that doubts begin to arise. Hongkong's traffic problems, notably in the matter of accidents, differ markedly from conditions in England. In favour of local men or women are better car legislation can be submitted the drivers gets a new fillip in figures argument that with so many compiled recently by the National men of straw driving about the Safety Council. These figures roads, compulsory insurance is show that while one out of overy. A very necessary safeguard. | 21 maio drivers is sooner or later Against it must come the sub-involved in a crash, only one in mission that these very men, ovary 80 women drivers comes to reckless as they sometimes are grief. under present conditions, aro liable to become more so in the ment. It will go on, probably, as
This will not settle the knowledge that the insurance long as people continue to drive company will deliver them from cars. The. potulant male has a most of the unpleasant con- bit of driving he has over seen a way of romomboring every curious sequences of dangerous driving woman commit on the highway: Again, insurance companie, are and no matter how many furos likely to be harassed by hosts are provided, he will always have of trivial claims. It is not sura way of saying "Those women prising that they hesitate before drivers that will reflect his committing themselves to any own unconquerable - fooling, of decision
one
WOMEN DRIVERS
The old argument about whether
superiority
argu-
"Oh; John, you must nak Me:Waff to te
* tricks, so we will Be Inylted:
Edward Kelly and kla headache threw a party last night. This morning ho work up and found he had two headaches.
Hongkong beer on the market
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soon. Near beer.
Attention is being drawn to the {exquisite manner of Chinose ban- dits. It seems that some people are simply carried away by them.
Edward Kelly owes his tailor for everything he wears orcopt hie hat. Ho's up to his neck in debt, as it were.
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A certain stenographer we know is so keen on turning men's heads that she always sticks the 'stamps on her envelopes upside down."}
It is estimated that 18,766
European residents of Hongkong.
remarked this week: It's hot to- |day.".
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"I've taken that man's name in valn", as the gold digger said when sho discovered that her new hus- band was really quite a poor man.
Every picture tolls. a story, but the trouble with thesd pictures is that they?
Mide story,