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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2..1918.

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(From Our Own Correspondeni.)

THE ETERNAL FEMININE

THE CHINA MAIL.

GLASGOW, July 39.

"Woman," Robert Burns wrote in a letter to the luckless Miss Davies, is the blood royal of life. Let there be

the slightest degres of precederer

MARSEILLES AND LONDON, among them, but let all be sacred."

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Passengers may travel by Railway in Japan between Porte of Call free of charge.

INTERMEDIATE STEAMERS shipment),

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it calling.

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WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY FITTED ON ALL STEAMERS.

All Cabing are fitted with Electric Fans free of charge and each Berth Furnished with an Electric Beading Lamp.

Owing us the War in Europe Steamers and Sailing dates are liable to be called or altered without notice."

or advice.

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Shanghai, Kobe & (*Shidauoka Maru,

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When Anderson was asked why he addressed so many of his hymid to women and so few to the deities, he is said to have replied that women werd hia duities. Malterbe observes that the Creator may have reported the creation of man, bat, He had no reason to regret having bade women. And Burns him self unconsciously plagiarises the same sentiment

Auld nature awears the lovely dears

Her noblest work surpasses, 0; Her prentice hand she tried of man,

And then she made the lassies, But women bavo hot escaped criticism in the past and may not look forward to immunity in the days to come. From the beginning of time men of middle age and ladies of uncertain age have consistently held the opinion that the younger generation would never equal their fathers and mothers.

CRUISING IN NO-MANIS WATER

WATCHING THE LIGHTS. AT. ZEEBRUGGE.

(By Arthur E. COPPING] it To patral off the southern shores of the North Sea-and l'am just back from

truising there in destroyers, motor launches, and other craft-is to realise how absolutely Britannia and Cole the waves, even in the enemy section of waters once qusiutly, mis-styled the German Ocean. But don't imagine the ruling to be associated with any repose sailing enthusiasa-these are the words routine Keenness, vigilance, and for it.

*

Pistare the personal experiences. A tubby little thing which, pulsating and plunging and roling, resolutely fights way through the awell. Or it may be vocal larger and longer, which shoots forward straight and quivering, with two smooth billeeks of green, water surging front its bow, and with, a broad wake of snoway cream trailing astern.

ap

I shut my eyes to see again the dock groups. There is one fact common to tractive form of animated happiness. all-bright eyes associated with an at- For each officer and man has made his mind that, if Death roshes upon bint at forty knots a possibility which every In the forgotten pages of a periodical tour holds-he will cheerfully interpase pablished in Edinburgh in the end of his body between Britain and a hurricane the eighteenth century, Henry Mackin-of explosives and flying metal. That is what by the operation of the laws of tosk, the "Man of Feeling," wrote upon conscience, makes bis soul feel sweet and the moles and manners of the young clean. womanhood of his day. It

in the

W2J

In neighboring arrow seas (for we took some loazish trips), there were triumphant cangible results to make nar sailor beroes clad-safely-escorted troop- hips thronged with champions of liber ty, and fleets of arriving merchantmen Indien with food.

Mary and every now and then Dismal broke into the conversation with hee high and rising note of unearthy lamentation., (Indeul, to be abed thems is to find the gung and bombs downright sedative and musical in comparison with the super-sy-en of that long suffering but cheerful Channel port.)

A period of prim propriety and an almost lugubriges respectability: society.

Scottish Capital was dominate by a literary coterie, the chief members of which were Henry Mackenzie himself, Adam Smith, Dugald Op adarkish night we went E.NE Stewart, and David Hume. And yet a moonless night, with scarcely any even at that most inauspicious period stars, though with sea shore and azy and among these unlikely surroundingsed and plucky Dunkirk was getting stül marked by shades of difference. Batter we find in the musty pages of "The another bombing at least, sinziges of Lounger an unmistakeable portrait of fame showed where Archie was talking our fascinating little friend the Happer, dancing, Hirting, and sajaling far all the world as she did at the beginning of the 20th century, and carning for herself then as now the stern disapproval of middle-aged masterity. Youth," the Man of Feeling observes, "surps the privileges of ago da frequent- ly no age would retain the privileges of youth. At ao period perhaps was group of farm buildings bad beer bit this prematurity of behaviour more by bomb or shell: the warna glow very conspicuous than at present... Girls pleasing t to the eye in that gecerul grey who formerly used to be found in theese. And soon there were other pretty lights. Awar back and crimson nursery are, now brought forward to Eashes pulsated faintly, with small silver. figare. at public places, to be gallanted the prerogatives of womanhood. To stars arising in their inidst. at public walks; to laugh and talk loud at both, to have all the aire and all the ease of a fine lady are now the acquirements of misses who in my ganger days were working their sam blers, learning white scam, or allowed to spoil mines pie by way of an exercise in pastry and it is no uncommon thing nowadays to see in acorner of a ballroom

A miler so further or a flaming fire showed where, as near as we could gues

It was like home for two of ns: my associate a Naxy leatengat. whe we insisted on identifying the had been an Army private "over there." of each conspicuous outburst of That's this side of Dixmade must be at Ypres. Prosently an un- mistakable duarp went up a broad ribbon of fire arising behind helty of clouds.

seeing the front. Wes birds flow, calling It was a delightfully clean way of at mid-night, leaning on the art of her overhead, and we heard the splash of partner and now and than answering waves against our side. What a change some of his speeches with a rap of her from the mud, rats, the lice, the ever- ian, the same ungrown girl who, lasting crumps, the squalid desolation. pot a great many years ago, would Good luck to our brave boys across bave curtaied to the company, kissed there. papa and mama, and gone to bed sup-deck-hot cocoa in porcelain. Yet it was We were, indeed, blest. Hot cocos on perless between eight and pine in the not absolutely a picnic. Even we had evening."

One almost seems to hear the irreverent "ungrown girl" murmuring sweetly the 18th century equivalent

our thrills, and there was firing.--But nothing of that.

*

"Ah! I've been waiting for Ostend to

for "I don't think when the read start!" exclaimed the lieutenant as these words of wisdom. And alas for glittering silver balls went up nearer at the very strict Man of Feeling, at that and and more to the north; it won't very period we read that the beautiful be long fora Zeebrugge chimes in." A daughters of Lady Maxwell of Monreith minute later be

added, "That's Zee. were the wildest rompe imaginable," brugge as. to the left, a second and

similar firework sad the principal amessment of Miss This, he chuckled, a rakt ut Jane, who afterwarde became the Vindictive stunts. They put up the Duchess of Gordon, was, to ride down Huns wind properly. the High Street of Edinburgh "on the back of a sow, which the fair. Miss Eglintonge thumped lustily behind with a stick!"

is result of

There were splendid star shells, slow and huge, or hanging in clusters - fas cinating sight. Memories returned of yachting days and a previous visit to Zeebrugge, when I ran in and anchored for safety inside the Mole. The same remaining

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