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addressing at any particular moment. (Laughter).
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WEDNESDAY,
JANUARY 26, 1938.
That is what you get when you the acute angles or the obtuso Scots) | Ing huzzles?-the lassies wl' the lint- ask a southerner to talk on Burns, at the base of an obscene triangle white shorts, peroxide locks, alx- frocks? How ask you now to drink the toast of are equal to anything." Fortunately inch sox, skin-tight one whose fame is world wide and however my theme is not angles but would he have taken to our "sweet or our valiant whose hall-mark la good Scots, but angels: so, invoking the help of St.girl graduates," of whom we English are as proud Gregory, I must seek to entertain neromalds who cleave the welkin as as the Scots. (Applause).
them unawares and in absentia never did Cutty Sark or witch on The toast was drunk wiüi enihu- siasm.
Toast to Lassion Professor W. Brown was then called upon to propose the toast of
The Lassies,”
the brow,
A ministering angel thou!" Next to "water drops," the "minis- tering angel" touch is woman's most
donna ter).
In
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I suppose no toast of the Indica broomstick? What would be his could be considered completo if it reaction to the modern precious Burns therefore lived in his poem
emitted the familiar quotation: stream-lined creature who fills no
AIR MAIL TIMES na he wrote it. I think that claroc-
"O woman! In our hours of ense qulver, but navigates a flyver with teristle which is not by any means
Ordinary air malt letters for Im- Uncertain, coy, and hard to please ruthless and incalculable abandon the characteristic of every poet, is one which throws a light upon some
When pain and anguish wring that clears the fairway of mere men? perial Airways Direct Service to and earns the awesome epithet of Europe etc., wl, until further notice, have
the OFnspecta which
puzzled
He sald: Your Excelleneles, Sir
(auto) mobile (Laugh- be closed at Kowloon Post Office and students ut himself and bis THIS COMPANY will be held at
General Post Office 8.00 a.m. on Sun-) that Atholl MacGregor, and Gentlemen For poetry.
example, In the Office of Menara. Jardine,
Well, I drmly bolleve he would days. Letters for this Service may ireathe by, 1 think, Professor Believe it or not, this is the first!
Burns dinner I have ever atiended.
ordinary posting Matheson & Co., Ltd., on Thurs-Sharp, the author points
OUTWARD-MAIL TIMES as charming, and boxes at Kowloon Post Office day, the 10th February, 1938, at rhapsodies which obviously Informed Consequently I know little about lethal weapon. Hence many hospitals have found them as interesting and be posted in the
Registered and Parcel Malls General Post Office. They should be Burns as he wrote and enabled him Burns, and nothing whatever about and nursing-homes (including, so I companionable, 11 a.m., for the purpose of
am told, even those of the highest adorable, no you and I do, and he clearly marked "By Air Mail" and closed 15 minutes cariler than to produce such entirely opposite lassica. (Laughter), receiving the Report of the Direc-works,
bear sumelent postage. Insulelently me given below unless otherwise When I yielded to the, blandish-standing in the Colony), whatever would have sung their praises ments of ex-Chieftain Stevenson and maladies they may eure, are bad for verses as jovial and snappy as any prepaid letters may be taxed with stated, and where malls are advertis tors together with a Statement of
or forwardeded to close at double the deßclency
before ama, regi- undertook this honourable and peril- affections of the heart, and are really he ever penned. Accounts for the year ended 31st
I fear I have by now and more ous toast, it was armly impressed matrimonial agencies sailing under Nobody is going to charge him!upon me that I must stand before faise colours. Many a braw lad gors than enough to raise my matrimoniai by Steamer Service, at the discretion | stered and parcel malls are closed at December, 1937.
and in-handicap to infinity, and to reduce The Register of Shares of the cused him of writing that line "the you, not as a mere professor, nor into cold storage, trustful Company will be CLOSED from hobgoblins of little minds" I should even as a Scotsman, nor yet as a nocent, with no ambition beyond hav-my Intences (if any such remain),
all surprised, Although Burns-fan, but in the full glory of ing his appendix unscrewed or his to a state of extreme lassic-tude, Thursday, the 3rd February, 1938, not be at
when he has bachelorhood. Well I'm a Bachelor onsils snipped. But
So, Gentlemen, all! Fill, he must have been inconsistent, I DA to Thursday, the 10th February, think everybody who loves him will all right, though Just why I am still lost conscientiousness, he is victimised calse, and drain your bumpers to the SCX, Here's to a' the songy 1938, both days inclusive.
say he was sincere in what he wrote; in blessed singleness, it might be just as poor old Father Adana was fair
Perhaps if when he was under the anaesthetic.lassics, of Hongkong and elsewhere! at the moment he really felt it and difficult to explain. lived it. I think he projected him- knew more of Burns (and he knew a He leaves the paternity home minus God bless them all!-and keep the rib, and swathed in the supply generous, the quality superbl self into whatever situation was be thing or two!) I would have more a filth
The luast was drunk with applause. fore his mind and actually took part Paul assured us that marriages are matrimony.
with the lassies-yet St bandages of holy and imminent i success In the scene he was describing.
Reply for Lassies of better than Burns. (Laughter), would point out that that gi living and writing what he was do- Ing at the moment, that attribute of his which was so readily praised up by all his critics was the virtue of hunianeness.
of
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Secretary. Hongkong, 26th January, 1938.
NOTICE
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HONG KONG SOCIETY THE PROTECTION OF
CHILDREN.
What to do to help a child
with consistency. If someone
*C-
So with that conjunction of really and humanity In his poetry we get that wonderful homeliness if I may use that word in connection with so of his works surpassing even great a man, for it constituted a part beauty of his lyrics.
the
and
of the Pust Omee.
Siralls
From
Shanghel Swatow
10 p.m. on the previous day,
INWARD MAILS
Per
U.S.A., Conada, Japan and Manila, A Burns Inspiration In my amorous adventures, if any,
(Seattle, date 1st January), The reply to the toast was made
Shanghai and Foochow but It was not Burns of course may have been too lukewarm, 100
by Mr. A. J. G. Taylor, who said:
Straits much of a Laodicean. Pertups Scolt who penned those famous lines Your Excellencies, Sir Atholl Mac- should have been more virile, ingre["0 womanf in our hours of ease, etc. Gregor, and Gentlemen.--Professor Spartan, more of, a Lacedemonion,; cte." Burns would have put itBrown informed us at the beginning Le, more of a demon withe lasstest differently. If only he had had the of his speech that he knew nothing for the kingdom of heaven may be nerve, or had experienced the inspira- about inssies. Continuance of that token by force! (Laughter). Bon of a Burns Supper, he might speech, however, has convinced me Anyway, it seems, for some reason have expressed himself somewhat as and I think everyone else here, that or other, I never could enrapture my follows:
his knowledge of the queans is not last fine enreful capture!
when far from being complete. He cer- tainly knows all should know Lbout them as a bachelor, probably business
more. In my opinion, he is suf- iciently ripe for plucking, and were I a girl, I would bring into play every atom of strategy I could muster for the purpose of netting such intellectual stalwart. (Laughter),
SU Slugular
So, I'm still singular, and nly ignorance of the lassies is complete, except for odd scraps, of news! divulged from time to time by more experienced persons. My own re- searches. never embraced the fair
We sometimes enter on his poetry and see as he talks to us, his imagery: the birds, beasts, flowers, hills and streams of which he spoke. Its use of these metaphors built up the plc- tures that form part of every moment of our lives which we can live in sex, though of course my education reading his works, even as he lived has been too expensive not to have
in them. We can say of him that included some book-knowledge of very frequently he had the lover's the great female characters of His- gift of seeing Helen's beauty in the tory: Eve, Delilah, Helen of Troy, brow of Egypt. He is true to the Helen MacGregor, Cleopatra,
Catherine de child who | Shakespearian_description, "Having Boadicea, Anyone knowing of n
Mediel, has been assaulted, neglected, or an eye in the fine."
Katherine D'Alrymple, Flora Mig- Ill-treated Iz m manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury
at once with
Burns did not have his head
to us
in donald, Angle Laurie, Marie Stopes
the
on the
to health, or knowing of a parente clouds but lived on earth among and Mae West. (Laughter). who is seeking advice on any matter his fellows and lived the things they concerning » child, would be doing lived but he was able to tell them Having pondered deeply an act of kindness by communicating could not find. Ils poetry
about those things in words they mysterious custom of entrusting the is toast of the lussies' to a mere least equal to his philosophy. lcnorant bachelor, I am forced to the The Hon. Secretaries, H.K.S.P.C. is always expressing
conclusion that qualifications do not c/o G.PO. Box No. 513, Tongkang.
thoughts that are Intent in our minds enter into the question at all. The of the Inspector, 48, Pokfulum Road; and expressing them
real consideration is "Safety First. most in the 1st floor: ur the Inspector, Violet
An irresponsible bachelor may talle: delightful way. Peel Health Centre, Wanchai; or the
the nonsense he soulful, flatter-} all
be simple Inspector, 12, Sal Young Chai Streel,
jor subtle, cynical or 11loor, Kowloon.
ing or flatulent, as he pleases, and
the when the hurly-burly's 'er, bottles
burst and done, he can seek his virtuous
undismayed by
All further steps will be taken, and expenses borne, by the Society.
The Informant's name will be kept strictly private, except in cases where
alice is proved,
stops pain in 3 seconds
CORNS
are killed and loosened with just one applica- tion of Gets-It. A drop or two ends the torture of throbbing corns. À
In
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Couch
Hoch, friens! Ye. ken, naething's wrang, When siller's free,
thrang. And we feel eanty,
strang.
crouse,
an'
We ne'er enjoy sle plecsures lang. Some wumman coups the hale Jing-
bang.
Set's a'thing tapselleerle!
In changing mood she's like the
weather.
he
Anhul
Dro
January 20.
Glenbeg Hupch
January 26.
January 20.
President Jefferson
January 20.
Shantung
January 26,
Japan
Samoll Allpore
January 20.
January 27,
Canada, US.A., Japan and Shanghai,
(Vancouver B.C., date,8th Jan.). Empress of Asia Japan
January 27.
Nellore
January 27.
Amoy
Shirala
January 27.
Calcutta and Straits
Yuensant
January 27,
Japan and Shanghal
Burdwan
January 28.
Straits
Conte RosEO
January 20.
Japan and Formosa Shanghai
Hakone Maru
January 28,
Kwangtung Muinam
Junuary 28.
January 28.
Teucer
January 28.
Straits and Europe vla Negapatam (Papers only) London date, 30th December 1937.
Telresias
..January 30.
January 31.
Francisco Pan American Airways Plane
January 81.
Hector
February 1.
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February 1.
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.February 1.
Pres. Doumer
.February 2.
Tasman
.February 2.
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Stralta and Europe via Negupatam (Letters only) London date, 30th December, 1937.
You have mentioned, Sir, that an Irresponsible bachelor has the free- dam of speech while being dismayed by nne miss
missus.
Airmail by "Pan American Airways I would advise that on that point,
Direct Service"--San Ae meent wyse, the next, a biether. you be not too sure Ae day sue kind, the next yo'd particularly when a Burns Dinner is your freedom!! the playground for the Your consideration of "Safely
has been sadly ignored by your What sirt she'll blaw, as leht's a cription of the modern Indles' dress
feather,
Air Mail by "Imperial Airways
Direct Service"London date.Imperial Airways Plane 22nd January.
rether
Meet Nickie-Ben
tether.
when off
Is aye on uneo query,
date, 24th January Stralis
Calcutta and Straits
dls-
Java and Manila
Salmon
Straits
and habits. In these days of "Deals & Delegations" what could be easier than to imagine some Tam "o'er a' Yet, ither whiles, she maun be the ills o' te victorious," returning
praised.
frae this dinner and on being pulled When herts are wae, and brains over the conls, placing the binme on
are dazed,
"yon mudslinging bilghter who made When bluid is thin, and banes are a speech yestreen calling women
"high-kicking, grazed,
lip-sticking, Tolk Oor barks and cares are a' crased, claw-painting, fag-puffing, gin-sip- Gin
wumman's
smile Is on us ping, club-swinging lassies." Some- raised,
times It seems
safer to face one And since mair a's richt cheery, sulky, sullen dame simmering with
wrath, than, say seven. human Sae has it been through
history,
Poet and Philosophier
if I was asked which fact has the greater appeal, his philoso phy or his poetry, i should find it a ditilcull answer to make. I doubt if if this in the occasion to try to answer nemesis, I mean, -dismayed by nue this any more than it is right to miscis.
Tac (Laughter). But what of try to separate the poet Burns from the poor Benedick creeping hame! the philosopher Burns, or the poet frue the fray, having guiltily
branked "the rattling tongue of saucy
Burns from the man.
I have taken up a great deal of
dis-
Lin-
máu 간
mystery:
wumman's
For a' that, on" a' that,
· 1066 and all that).
I would dare to suggest that Burns the If living to-day and viewing aye Unit-white shorts, six Inch sox and skin-tight frocks" of the modern lass, would agree that "strength and honour are hur clothing." Further Qor rhymes abscure an' a' that,
admiration to strengthen your
of It's comin' yet, for a' that,
the lassies I would refer you to on- That maids to men the warld o'er other sound saying, "What signi- Shall angels be, for a' that. (Laugh-fed the life of man
ter and Applause).
Huzzles of To-day
for the lassies."
if it were not
Straits and
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Japan and Shanghai
Japan and Shanghai
Comorin
.February 3.
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February 3.
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February 4.
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February 4.
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February 5.
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Per
Date and Time
For
Wednesday
Swalow, "Shanghai and Tientsin.. Chaksang..Wed., Jan. 20, 12.30 p.m. - Straits
Toyooka Maru
Wed., Jan. 26, 1.30 p.m. Bangkok
Mul Hock ... Wed., Jan. 28, 4.30 p.m. Shanghal and *Japan
Somali
...Wed., Jan, 20, 5 p..
Thursday
ad audacious cloquence" anent the In the awful pre- your time and I feel that whai 1 the sterner sex?
sulky
sullen dame, senes of his have said to you on Robert Burns is
aflicted with a trembling hoof, a singularly inadequate, You must blame this on me if you are
a glowing short-wave hiccup, and appointed, but I will ask you to re-neb, he knows himself but a wee
Cave Man Stuff member, those of you who are dis-
atcow'rin, tim'rous, crimson-Lipped
Behind your repartee and in- appointed, the story of the British beastie. (Laughter).
The lassies Burns knew best were genious wit, Sir, I think I detect Samshui and Wuchow
Kangso....Thurs., Jan. 27, 8.10 0.m. soldier-at-Archangel-in-1919. He
Forl_Bayard.... the simple rustle. wenchies of his own concoated -an-intense-respect for the
Wing Wah Thurs., Jan. 27, 10 p.m. wanted to give his company
Yinchow Thurs., Jan. 27, 10,30m. a treat!
time and his own district. He would ladies; an intensity which, in your Swatow and Bangkok and provided them with a
Thurs., Jan. 27, 11 a.tn. Professionally, large
deal with have understood "A Country Girl" amorous adventures,
Kongmoon and Pakhol (via Kong- Tal Lee using your quantity of caviare for tea, The geometry, but never with the vicious better than "The Arcadlans." But own words, might have been the next day the orderly ofcer came circle known as the eternal triangle, what would he have thought of the reason why
Kaying...Thurs., Jan. 27, 3.30 p.m. you never could
Amoy and Shunghai ...cha round and asked as usual "Any com- and I believe it was not Euclid, but bold sophisticated ladles of to-day? rapture your Inst fine capture. The Alr Mall for Chungking by the C.N.A.C. Plane.....Thurs. Jan. 27. plaints?" “Yes.
"C.N.A.C." Alrways Sir," replied the Joan of Arc, who stated the theorem: How would he have sung of our high-ladies do not like too much respect
Direct Ber-
Kowloon P. O. sergeant, "the men say
vice." the jam"The obtuse Angles. for the acute Kicking, Up-sticking, claw-painting. If given at the expense of the cave Insies of fish." (Laughter).
Scols) (Adjectives Interchangeable: fag-puffing, gin-sipping, club-swing- (Continued on Next Column.)
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Jan. 27, 5 p.m.
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Jan. 28. 6 ..
Friday
Shanghai
Swatow and Shanghai Japan, Canada, U.S.A., C. and S. Pres. Jefferson
Amerlen and Europe via Victoria B.C., due Victoria B.C. 17th Feb.
and "Europe via Siberla, *Straits, Ceylon, India, Aden, Burdwan
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Ord.,
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Reg.,
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Straits, Ceylon, India, East and Hakone Maru *South Africa, Aden, Egypt and
Reg.,
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Parcels,
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Fri, Jan. 28.
Jan. 28, 4.30 p.m.
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Jan. 29, 5 p.m. .Jan. 29, 5 p.m.
G.T.O
Jan, 20, 5 p.m.
Feb. 1, 8 a.m.
man in you, and I understand that Don't write and fear no women,"
them
a little rough handling. now and or is it that you found words inade- again makes
love you the quate to tell or e'en suggest an un- more. That, of course, is only of plumbed deep? their idiosyncrasies. While gallivan-
Professor Brown, on behalf of the ting during the brief intervals be- lassies the world o'er and particular- tween studies in the silver clly byly those of Hongkong; mothers, the son, by allent Don and crystal wives, sweethearts, and the vast Dee, I discovered others, but haven't array of feminine beauty. I thank we all. It may be, Sir, that you you for your kind and witty speech, have observed a too rigid Interpre- and gentlemon all for your hearty lation of the Golden rule of Scols toast. (Applause) Law!
This concluded the formal part of the evening's proceedings.
"De right and fear no man