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SATURDAY, JULY 2, 1938.
THE SCHOOL.
AND SOCIETY
political and social life there are those who, looking with "the evil eye of envy" of the achievements upou others, desire to see all men re- duced to the dead level of a dull mediocrity. The devices they employ
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the latter is a strange article of corn- Shan-meai yin-isal-mak, nou-nterracing, for 1 um
bom for doc pass on. Home to dine with my
vention
teeth, and worn-out wristlet watches.
or
have
have
of the
sutne, for instance, thut each of the Hawking, however, meets
hawkers with approximately 15,000 considerable
atnungst favour
in the (licensed and unlicensed) the
of course Chinese community: for in adherence Colony to the established habits of
the streets genero- daily ram
rambles through out only once every five tions, it is easier to hearken to the calls ery of the hawker than to go shop minutes (and this Is perhaps 100 ping in the market.
The hawker, it conservative an average) one will must be remembered, having nu find that the sum total of their sien-
or stall, has consequently sitop
no lorian efforts will amount to no less over-head, and as a result will sell
2,100,000 separate vocul utter- than much cheaper than his competitur, ances-enough to disturb the equili
merchant. the established
In #hem of the most phlegmatic urban [ every re country where the saving
Tu the Chinese, however, resident. copper
is an economic necessity the and
Westerner, too, who is hawker suppiles definite need, and fortunate
11 his willingness to lug his little stock of the Cantonese
of repetitive chanting voices of the of goods up uncounted lights
only stairs for the inspection of prospective streams of hawkers are
but Also Instructive, clients is another factor which must interesting not be forgotten in assessing bis affording an Intimate glimpse into
June 23rd. This day still very hot, well left alone. In the newes sheetes numerous virtues.
one phase of Chinese life,
and Creed tells ince he believes it some talk of the increase in Traffic A very familiar
cry, for example, On the other hand, he is
to bee caused by the hented heads nccidents, and I marvell not at it. It the Chinese counterpart of of being un unmitigated nuisance, is that
of two or three Bolshies and Fascists is in fashioun to refer all ills now sur our "old rag and bone man"-the the congestion of adding to
His intoned trade call who doc wrangle interminably in the refugees, but here I believe it to
he sooth, many
them being un- streets, and disturbing the tranquilli- shan-madi-to
correspondence of the Newes ty of the residential districts by his is a lengthy one and may be fequete Sheetea, stating as proven fact what used to a great city with crowded
បែ ly regardless
heard
Lord I And traffic. For almost any time between the
myselic of the purpose
such these last few months have noted the indeed I have no leaning a hours of sunrise and sunset. It runs they doe wish to bee the truth. curpings of his critics, he
silly vapouring, and am minded to increase in the cretins who doe walk bringing about this result are personality all to his own, that Wares
the
laan-it.ly well known. Some legislatures which he has for sale.
delightfully original as
Shu- give up my newes sheete if there beo across a street looking neither to the Shau-mani poh-let tsau-tsun.
much more of it. I doe learn from right nor to the left. And all I dou aan
the sheete that it is sold work will marvell at is that there bec not more have passed laws intended to His wares, as those who have taken maal kau-po-chi.
laan soon begin upen the new Govern- deallis. This evening to the Valley tip. lan-shing-kei-hot
Shau-maal SOUL penalise thrift, to discourage the trouble to bestow more than a lau-shing-kel-hel,
casual glance have noted, are ex- business initiative,
site where the old Military Sanitar late Mrs. Kate More, whom a many place francly varied and literally run the ma-paau, mat-paaut. Shan-maal lean-ment House at the Magazine Gap where I attend the funeral of the
Shan-maai
maalum did stond. But this i doe take of the older folk will remember at workers and shirkers the gamut of the smogington, ranging yuk-hei, laan ngan-mei.
from such conventional oddments as laan kan-nga, taan shat-piu. Shau- to mean that they may proceed with Lauriston, which was my home be- same economic level.
super fans, thread, fruits, etc. to the maat taan "chue-pi-shing, laan ngaan- the laying out of the site, as there tween June 1914 and March 1929,
Shan-maai kan shau-shlic.
be must needs An example of keng.
much
and save when upon leave in 1910. So der aid and comfort to those tierly unexpected.
the one by one the friends of one's youth who look upon a contract as a
present area is not big merce known in the vernacular as the mak. Shau-maat laan long-ten
"Buy up from your junk brass and mere scrap of paper seems to be muk-shat-hwan or "bedbug sticks.
25th-Up very betimes and when Buy up old newspapers. Buy un set mee to think of what great work the desire of some politicians of These are hawked in the streets for hotties full kinds of) glass liquor the House alone. The newes doth Children and so to bed.
and are a simple broken gramophones. Buy up worn-out bath been done against the mus doe start to walk to the Tramme cách, about ten cents
records, Buy up Jute bagn, the baser sort. They denounce but extremely novel form of vermine Bay up and pieces of queeters, for when I did come here doe find a pleasant breeze, but the man who is out for a reason-crad.cator the invention of some un- lude, and broken silver. Buy up aid gold first the building was derelict; there Lordi no sooner am I past the Gap to where Mr. Bousfeld there and come known Chinese worthy. These con- able profit, or desires to save sist of blocks of pine wood, about 1% als Buy up old jewellery. Buy up the Army abandoned it and it gradu-builds his new house than it is all
Buy up broken chue-pl-shing, and spec- having been so much malarla there or fall down. But for a rainy day, or lends his inches square and a foot in length, emply cigarette and condensed milk ins. ally did blow
even now I am not for changing with gone and the atre is dead and het. So to Office in a very +18 mood. It money out at interest. Some of pierced with rows of small holes. In Buy up broken flat-tron
His Excellency when the new house seems the plane is not yet in, as use, the wooden blocks are placed cr
Familiar Calls
bee built. As to the olde House usual,
and I am minded that for all them propose that the Govern- top of the supporting tresties of the
there bee many rumours, though
ugh the advertising cackling they doc the ment should "take over" from Chinese board bed, directly beneath
Other familiar calls which "bed boards."
dar
might lay their eggs more Sesame St met with mingled feelings on the due trust it remains in Government adv
hands. And
seeing that
Very busy the banks the savings of indivi- the ch'ong-paaN
at the office part of the listener are those of the danced there this quarter of a cen- all the morning and so to the Clubbe dual depositors. They do not =
ambulatory tinker and the itinerant tury I doe trust the old House may to drink a glosse of the wine of Xeres. use the word "confiscate” or the non-competitive system, re- vendor of tangerines. The former's last my time. To the Clubbe where There I hear very il newes of
cry is: "Hon-tung! Th
and the suffering is I have occasion to speak pretty sharp floods
is terrible. "commandeer." They prefer ceive any reward for superior well-known
If there are Hon-sek! Sau-ching kwai-soh! Teng to Mr. Crumlum, and I tell him he the cuphemism "take over," effort or success.
and so Sau-ching laan t'ong-taul lies when he says that there will bee row wee may avoid a great pestil- I know not and it may bee spreading Bobby have one each and let pair foreign locks! Re-nail
chosen peeled fruit as that the war shall bee ended by this party hoth them be of equal value!
weapons. For now I am assured all grim means. Home to my nuncheon hinges! Repair broken flat-irons
That of the latter is noted for its things shril bee quiett.
and It is too hot to go out again so Finding that their theories The advocates of these fantas-
staccatto abruptness: "Taat koli and proposals do not go down tic notions are mistaken if they chu-chau-kom af Ch'iu-chau mat- 24th.--Tulking with Mr. Povy he in my chamber reading. Dined early
and so to bed.
with the
26th (Lord's Day)---Last night I average man, the think that healthy boys and kom alLarge Swatow tangerinest tells me that the scheme to hire a Vehicular Ferry and use it of Satur- any Sweet Swatow tangerines! levellers may turn their atten-girls can be managed in
The trade calls of the various day nights as a cabaret dit fall to did sleep but ill and being troubled nature tion to the schools in the hope of such fashion. Human
variations, more could be granted. And to my mind of my breakfast but fell to writing being able to indoctrinate pupils has a way of asserting itself. Inevitable individuct of course to the the ground as no license to sell liquor by, an indigestioun, did not rolled If the dancing were not enough with letters and later in the garden I did
23 seck (Continued on Page 5.) out intoxicating liquors were and teachers alike with radical There is room for emulation in or less stereotyped, and follow
to put up an awning, but make the schoolroom and on the play-
not very much of the business. At theories of the kind indicated ground. Men of sense
noon comes Mr. Parde and his Lady and wee doe drink our wine in the above. Of course, the tactics to that a generous emulation is one
shade and all very merry; later after be employed in the schools would of the principal sources of human
nunchicon bee done the guests take their leave and I doe fall asleep unill have to follow pretty much the improvement. Emulation is that
It bee nigh
six of the clock, and I same lines as those which have admirable human tendency which
feare that this
this overmuch slumber hath an ill
upon effect
the liver. been tried in the political field. bids us strive to outrun
competitor in a fair field where
Walked to the Penke Clubbe where The agitators will, no doubt, try there are no favours. Of course,
I did read a paper or two and after to discover some way to circum-if we stoop to place an obstacle
to Mr. A, Jay's flat which doth take vent those pupils who are am-in his path, this is no longer
my fancy more every time I doc visit it. There 1 drank some cou-de-vie bitious and industrious. For emulation but envy. "Envy",
for my stomach's sake and so home example, competition can be dis- says Bacon, "is a disease in a couraged as far as possible. state like to infection, for an Those who try to outstrip their infection spreadeth upon that 30 when envy is gotten once into disapproval and can be made to
a state"--and he might have feel that they had better watch said the same of a school-"it their step.
Praise and blame traduceth even the best actions can be distributed in a manner thereof and turneth them into an and on a system calculated to ill idour." The schoolmaster who induce active and energetic withholds the rewards earned students to slow down to an by the industrious student in approved average pace. To order to mollify the idle or un- make the levelling system work competent ones, is ministering to it will be necessary to modify the base passion of envy, greatly, perhaps to destroy, the Emulation is legitimate age-old plan of competitive rela motive to action. The average tions, tests, trials, and examina- man loves a spirited contest and tions. Tommy and Bobby may demands that games shall be write the same examinations in fairly played. He applauds a mathematics or history, they good winner and he admires a may work at the same manual good loser. The good loser does' training tasks, they may engago] not “find his sleep less sweet for in music or other fine art, play music in some neighbouring ball, or run racon, but the better street, nor rustling hear in scholar, or artist, or handicrafts-overy bronze the laurels of man, or athlete, must not, under Miltiades.".
which has a pleasant, auspicious. I to be prizes, let Tommy and solder copper! Solder tini Re-duello here and that the challengedence all over mid China
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27th-Up bellmes, but Lord! how
It did irk mee to rice, I having slept
11 that I suppose it was
was not hours before six of the clock.
two
And then, as ever, I did slumber so deep that later by half an hour the boy could scarce
But I doo wake me. drag myselfe to my once and later to my chyrurgeon who prescribes a draught and a diet. And as for this last, it is a simple matter to bear it. In mind, for all that I like I may not ent! But I doe give
thanks
ho does not bid termit the
drinking of all liquors
I
but
only of
wines, ale, and Hollands waters. But I doe vowe I will touch but little that I may reduce my weight and render my waist smaller. Reading in the cow in nowes-sheetes I hear tell of
Norfolk that doth give three thousand gallons in year. And I would that she and some of her kind were now in Hong Kong, for I can no longer buy mee a bottle of milk to my nun- the Peake elteon in my office. To Clubbo this night and I don find four tables playing it being Monday. Played with ill fortune and I doc, admit
woren skill, partly as I suppose because I have played but little these (Continued on Page (5.);