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and under persecution he can also before the next war. Until we have be a bit of a hero, is something for got rid of the last bit of war legiala- which they have only his bare word, tion locally, we have all the memorial since circumstances do not usually we need. What we want is an let them see him at his best. These immemorial.. The consciousness of, circumstances may have bred the these war-time-rules and departments Despite the cheerless weather on male delusion that women are dif- still hanging over as takes most of Saturday, football was played at the ferent, for of late woman has been the joy out of tomorrow's two more adventurous, and males have minutes of silent gratitude for us, valley, and a large crowd turned out been impressed by the conviction [Just as Dora" will affect the as usual. The following matches

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PROFESSOR GOODE

ALCOHOLIC PATRIOTISM.

were played

CLUB 1; NAVY I.

R.G.A., 3; SOUTH CHINA, 1.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1919

LEAGUE, DIVISION II.

ROYAL NAVY (R), 12; MAN-

CHESTERS, 0.

STAFF AND DEPTS, A; CLUB

DE RECREIO, 0.

:

THE WHITE SNAKE.

POPULAR CHINESE DR AK & STACYD.

(HT DR. WU LIEN-TEE IN NCDN.)

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To the average foreigner residing in China, a Chine theatre usually means a noisy orchestra, shrieking. performers and dirt on the floor. It is quite possible, however, that he may revise his opinion if he visits a good play staged in modern way and had a Chinese friend to explain things to him. The noise may ther become Intelligible. the shrieking. may, perhaps, have a more musical meaning, while the dirt-well, it will" bave been swept away before the play commences!

As played by the talented Canton- ese company of exclusively female usually undertaken by men) at the actresses (in China fentiale parts are Isis Theatre, which has been leased for the purpose for one month, the story of the White Snake becomes more absorbing, particularly as the management has introduced the art of the electric stage-lighting not only into the footlights, but also into the pretty embroidered sceneries and and even the silk dresses and hats of curtains, fancy mirrors and chairs. the principal actresses. Briefly, the drama runs thus

FAIRY AND MORTAL.

and

excellent footwork by the Club for. The master-divine then summons

of

The second string of the Royal Navy had things very much their own way against the Manchestera on Saturday. The arrival of the that females can be heroic too, gratitude of our brethren at Home.

Alacrity' with several first-class What we want to prove cr

If you look closely

footballers raises the Navy to the disprove is the assumed difference

ranks of those who are likely winners between a hero and a heroine.

PROPAGANDA. at Reuter's mess- the

of the Second Division honours. The ages about. Put that way, we begin to suspect municipal elections at Home you will that the lady is right, and we wrong observe the finger of the propag

Navy played well in every branch. The Club was weakened by the More than one of their team must Is the human andist. Because they show a tide absence of McCubbin, but J. Stalker som obtain promotion to the first MENTAL. mind sexless, favourable to Labour, we are told and

eleven. The Manchesters were not especially Black HERMAPHRODITES, or hermaphro- that "the public was apathetic.

nearly so weak as the score against very

well for the dite? Wecould Isn't Labour part of the public, and

Club. them indicates. Their left full-back dwell on the many feminine attributes rather a big part? No, Papa, it is The game started fast, the Club and one or two of their forwards of Jesus, but that might be raisunder• ¦ not.

and The public is always that pressing, after about ten are very capable exponents of the OWN JUDGE..stood by minds less really reverent section which favours the propaganda minutes

game. tackling * Goss. cleared.

They will do very, much and free than our own, so we reluctand is favoured by the propag Soon the ball went back

better on a dry ground. antly refrain: and turn instead to andist. In fact, another message is

and In the first half, the Navy scored some curious speculations and studies more explicit, and refers to the there were three corner kicks. The five goals, Gregory getting three and by a distinguished German whose apathy of the middle-classes." Naval mpen

in danger. Rushbrook and Ernis one each name we have forgotten. He deve Labour, on the other hand, asserts Graydon got the ball, and passed it ed seven more goals, Gregory, being After the interval, the sailors obtain loped a theory which our lady that the people, including the middle to Brown, who missed his shot. The responsible for four, Ennis for two, colleague barely hints at, that here classes, are turning to Labour for ball went far to the corner of the and Harding for one. dity transmits sexual characteristics relief. Both may be lying. Were it

The Man in varying proportions. A son may not for the final figures, we out here Club's goal. Just before the interval chesters played ten men in the second be, as to mind and character, 75 per would still be left to guess at the the Navy men took the lead half, one having retired hurt. cent. feminine, and vice versa in the truth. Careful reading of many by one to ni Interesting play case of a daughter. If this be true. Home papers of all shades of opinion in the instead of a mere guess, it is also in satisfies us that the Coalition gang passing by the Navy. second half

good. saw

The Club our opponent's favour,

is doomed. This must mean big bad to work hard to defeat it, until But after all that, we changes.

Black approached and cleared. Despite the respective scores, this EDUCATION, are minded to claim

This officer, as was Rodger passed to Reichelmann, who match, on the Navy ground, on the verdict after all.

LT. COL expected. kas: been missed a possible shot from his posi- Saturday, provided a fairly If there is no original, basic difference, SHERWOOD severely reprimaaded tion. Very soon after Reichelmann game. The heavy drizzle made the even éducation must have made one. KELLY. by Court Martial for again had the bal, and this time ball greasy and the ground slippery. Character is the sum of several

writing the letter to made a successful shot. This made The Staff turned out a heavier team factors, including ancestry (heredity) The Times which helped to prove to the score equal. The Navy played than the Club, whose ranks were course, and represented as a beatiti- White Snake (in spirit form, of environment, training, experience the British people that it was being fast but there was no further Score. Ltd all of which, apart from hereditary grossly deceived by Winston Churc

recruited mainly from school-boys, ful fairy) falls in love with a young The Club team influence, may be lumped as educa-hill and the Government regarding

played with earthly scholar and wishes to marry pluck and determination, and him. Her teacher-a priestlike divine tion. For countless generations we operations in Russia.. He needn't

with a little more practice will be with white beard-objects on the have been teaching females worry about that, so long as the

able to show better combinatico und that immortals, especially of to: be fernales, to be, people are satisfied he is an honest.

female sex, should not love, much fact, different

A weak forward line and lack of The Staff possesses a team wh Therefor man. They'll see him righted, and they must be different, are bound to that before long.

combination were responsible for is considered a promising candida marzy, any one belonging to the

se world South China going under to the R.G.A for premier honours. The forward

of mortals. White be different. That difference should

nake reseats This gentleman has on the Navy ground on Saturday. display excellent combination, despite

such interference show in their intellectual output.

been having a rough The Chinese have a splendid defence, the tendency on the part of one or with her natural affections, and time lately. After including an excellent goalkeeper, two to be selfish, and the defence is quarrels with the master, who and hasn't yet. Perhaps, seeing how

-being foully murdered but the team. unfair our education of women his by the Bolsheviks, he was arrested not well-balanced.

sound. a whole,

orders first a spiritual lion been, that is all to the good, and a

A couple of During the first ten minutes play then a spiritual tiger (rather similar "because he came direct from the recruits from the Second Division organized invasion of either goal her: But, suffragette like, she defies was of a desultory character, no to the earthly quadrupeds) to Sight compliment to their superior mor.l strength, We withdraw our sugges

Bolsheviks," and according to the might materially strengthen the tion that they should try to be Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, front string. The Gunners taking place. Ther followed some these beasts and beats them off.. original, and so unmanly. Let 'em he was subsequently released upon showed improvement on their reward fine, which was nullified, how more troops, and White Snake is ob

instructions from London "Byvious week's. form, and, despite the write, and talk, and paint as they order from Manchester" would have weather, an interesting game took ever, by the Staff's sturdy backs, liged to solicit the help of Neptime. like, bless 'em. They always do get their

who returned the ball to midfield, ruler of the Four Seas. Neptant is own

place.. The Artillery forwards were Mere life was being infused into the here seen attended by aquatic crea- way in the been more accurate. end-wwhich is enough proof for

Two Hongkong always promitent, Green, the centre, any male of their femality.

patriota distinguish in particular being always in the game by this time, and alternate tures, including Fish, Crayfish. Turtle

Invasions of territory took place. and Clam. With the help ed themselves on right place. The Artillery backs, Saturday night by however, require a lot of practice. Just before half time, Cooper, Town Neptune's forces. White Snake at- AS POR figured, now we think getting drunk and insulting a Hol- Gladwyn, the goalkeeper, deserves send and Connor rushed the ball up tempts to flood the temple of her LOVE. of it, as an old-fashioned ander skipper of the J. C. J. L. line. special commendation for stopping a Club's citadel, and from a melee, self with his red spiritual cloak.

from midfield top to opposite the master, who, however, protects him. Back Number in suggest They objected to him being served series of hot shots sent in by the Connor opened the score for his side. ing that females must regard love with a drink on the ground that he Chinese.

THE LADY IN THE TOWEL differently. No doubt we were was a German, and bustled him out

In the second molety of the game hypnotized by that empty but oft of the bar of a leading hotel Ap evenly.contested. From the kick distress and made but feeble attempts his recalcitrant pupil. A male child The first half of the game was the Club forwards showed signs of and sends enough officers to capture The master now takes the offensive quoted claptrap about love being of parently they followed him to another off" the Artillery men dribbled the to score. The Staff forwards pressed is born in the midst of her sufferings man's life a part, and woman's whole hotel and repeated the performance. ball into enemy territory and kept it on several occasions, and their and is sent by her to the mortal existence. The antiquated male Even if he had been a German this there for several minutes. Light, opponents settled down to defensive and we dare not flatly contradictnotion of man being the positive behaviour does not redound to the Street, Nicols and Morris, with Green tactics. The Staff, however, broke world to be brought up. In the her. For after all, the masculine principle, the pursuer, and woman the honour of the Allies, and we are not assumption that women are different passive, receptive element, has been minded to appland such boozy made repeated attempts to shoot, finding the net with a smart shot, remains for 20 years, that is, until

at centre and Talfourd within call, through three

Townsend times,

meantime, White Snake is imprisoned is an assumption. We have no proof long expluded. It is.

in a nine-storeyed pagoda, where she of it. And yet, and yet this may be Shaw has shown, really the wo One may remain a gentleman with of the Chinese backs and some keeper twice in quick succession.

as Mr. patriots, whatever others may do, which were folled by the clever play and Cooper beating the Club goal. the son has grown up and obtained prejudice due to habit--it seems man who purares, and man's pre-out being anpatriotic. If they were smart work in the part of their to "stand to reason" that there must tence of being vitally interested in not drunk, so much the worse.

the highest degree of Chung Yuan custodian. other things is mere camouflage. In

Suddenly an opening

given by the Emperor. The young offered and the forwards made 'practice, woman is the chief business

official then visits the prison of his of man, as man is of woman, and we

most of it; the ball was passed

mother and entreats her to expl in the are quite ready to take anybody's

to Green, who made an erratic shot,

past. The fairy mother now appears striking the cross-bar. The ball

in a beautiful, white silk, embroidered If our lady contributor

bounced back into play and, the

dress, studded with coloured lights, was right in what she Parental sentimentalism is common than

backs having relieved the pressure,

and sings with the acc said in Saturday's to both sexes, but it must surely of love stories have tried to show future to be as convenient for the it. Then followed a five-minutes' Bombay docks promise in the near the Chinese forwards were away with

of two bamboo flutes for "gossip," that there differ in quality and depth. Even For obviously, if a young woman's ocean travelling public as those at bombardment of the Artillery citadel DIFFERENT? is no essential differ- potential motherhood, one supposes, love

last

The Danish steamer "Mitau" was contralto voice.. It is easily the bice to Tilbury. Ballard Pier Station, the from between the must affect the mental processes of a the job of feeding the baby, it holds use of which for civilians has been Gladwyn, however, was equal to all by a harbour tug which left port on Whole audience cheered lustily. The every conceivable angle, escorted to Colombe on October 14 de resistance of the evening, and the woman's outlook and the man's we virgin to thoughts impossible in the true that that is what a man's limited by war demands, is at last to the demands made upon him. The the previous day to render assistance lighting arrangements have indeed learned something, and male mind. This does not help us with business really amounts to, at bottom. be put to the use for which it was Chinese were within an ace of scoring owing to a fire which had broken out clever, the lights on her dress and are quite that from a woman. For rightly or the purpose that moved our first pre. In battling for the world's trade, he constructed, and, commencing at the when their left wing forward was on board. When the "Mitau" was hat being switched on and off to con- wrongly, men have been accustomed vocative reference to the subject, is merely providing for the baby's beginning of next month, trains to given off-side. At half-time the some 120 miles off Gallo a fire was form with the notes of the music. to think otherwise. We have credited since it is obvious that no amount of hunger to be fed. On all points we meet incoming and outgoing mail score-sheet was blank. the female sex with finer instincts originality or genius in a mother could throw up our masculine hands, and boats, will run right alongside the

discovered in No. 2. hold on Monday This marked filial piety of the son and intuitions, with acuter percep- enable her by any medium whatever cry the feminine equivalent of ship and save much of the forwards appeared

After the interval the Chinese right. The crew set to work at appeals to the divine, who sets White tions. We are not going to show to communicate to a male the emo-"Kamerad." masculine pigheadedness in this tions of a mother. Let us abandon positively ready to hear believingly mofusil people at present experi- anything right. Three or four feeble asking for assistance. A tug was curtain drops.

Why, we are now convenience and confusion which demoralized and were unable to do less message to the Danish Consul allowed to go on singing until the become coce and the Captain sent a wire- Snake free, and mother and son are matter. Indeed (with a generosity that point, then, as leading to nothing that there are women who are not ence. A commencement was made attempts were made at the Artillery despatched and she met the "Mitau". hitherto supposed to be exclusively. male) we are, going to concede a

afraid of mice. Is there not a feminine

on October 15 to a limited extent in goal without any auccess. The Arcoming on to Colombo about sixteen

CHINESE PASSION FOR MUSIC. point. The phenomena we cited as THE REAL point of view

Just as a mul connection with the arrival of the tillerymen, on the

Among Chinese, of both north and other hand. miles off the coast. The tug was south this muate of the White Snake indicative of "feminine imitativeness

NEW BANK FOR tiplicity of doctors Khyber by the B.B. and C.I. Railway. showed surprising freshhess and vim. pumping steam into the burning hold dráma is considered some of the DIFFICULTY. angle of approach, may just as well be used to support!

HONGKONG. argues a female formula of

pre- For some little time, it is probable A splendid forward movement bet-all the way to Colombo. The Consul best. Any company which possesses our fair opponent's case. The fact life, shared in common and mutually folks (though not necessarily an un- shipping and transport available the assisted by Skilton and Talfourd, arrival. Owing to the nature of the of a crowded audience. The personi- ponderance of sick that owing to the limited amount of ween Street, Nicols, and Green, boarded the vessel soon after her a great singer of this nature is sure that Rosa Bonheur's horses might understood by females, that could be healthy climate-since the sick flock present arrangements will sometimes ended in Green, finding the target cargo in the hold the absence of fication of White Snake was under have been painted by a man may be communicated by a woman gifted to health resorts) sa a multiplicity be subject to revision, but the P. and with a shot at close range. accepted as evidence that the painter with candour and genius to male of banks.

Not flames was not surprising, but as the taken by the famous Cantonese ac-. of "The Horse Fair" saw as a man students, in a poem, a picture, a Hongkong has more banks than it month's time it will be possible de-again in Chinese territory and was the

argues healthy trade. O. Company hopes that in about a lang afterwards the ball was hold was smouldering badly there tress, Miss Li Hsueb-fang, who first sees, and felt as a man feels. The novel, or other medium? That was ever had before, and still they come finitely to fix the day of the mall boat Green doubled his score with an break out. Mr. A. J. fact that no one could have dis the thought that inspired our original As soon as they can secure suitable departure for Saturday.and that the easy shot which seemed to baffle Smith, Lloyd's Surveyor, went on top. To take the same part for four appeared on the stage at 12, since Howard covered internally that George Eliot's comment. That was the assumption, premises,

when she has rapidly come to the novels were written by a woman is shared, we believe, by most thoughtful Ultramarine

the Banco Nacional incoming mail boat will arrive on the the Chinese custodian. The Chinese board and held a survey. "He was bours and yet sing in such a fine as much on her side as on ours. males, that led us to accuse-literary intends to open a branch here.

(Portuguese Bank) same day of each week.

were by now almost entirely on the satisfied that there was no fire in the voice is a great achievement, and the George Sand depicted woman's love and artistic women in general of

defensive, except for a solitary effort hold and decided that the cargo of audience showed their appreciation exactly as men writers have con- copying male formulae. If there

by the centre forward and the two copra, and tobacco in No. 1 and 2 in western fashion by presenting her ceived it. We are prepared to discuss isn't a female formula, we were A NEW BUSINESS signs of progress WIRELESS NAVIGATION wings, who carried the ball from hold should be discharged, to ascertain with a dozen baskets and bouquets quite seriously and respectfully our unjust. "If there is (and if women

middeld right into the Artillery ter the damage done by the fire. She of the choicest flowers. colleague's thesis that the masculine do see things differently) then our

ritory. The right wing attempted as 'a vessel of 4,588 tons and is ón and feminine point of view is essential present disputant is unjust to us. building and re-building visible all

shot from a difficult angle, the ball her way to Copenhagen with a fall ly the same. She gets her idea of When we urged her to write as she found. An Important change not There were two methods on which glancing off the upright and rolling cargo from Koschiang and Sabang. ours from cur works; we are compel would talk, in kimona, slippers, and yet visible, but decided upon, affects wireless navigation of aircraft could behind. A forward movement by She was to call at Colombo for coal led to deduce hers from theirs." the security of her boudoir, as to the old building at the corner of Ice be carried out. In the first the the soldiers gave Morris an op as no coal was available for it. In the pagoda scene, the bright

Of course we never a woman friend, we were trying to House Street and Battery Path. Plans machine sent out a wireless call askportunity, but he missed it through merchantmen at Port Said, JUST LIKE pretended to be think-be clear, that was all. We tried to are ready showing a building "thereing for its position. This was picked shooting from too great a distance. A WOMAN" ing of women as picture surroundings in which (as of seven storeys, with a roof garden up by two or more stations and trans. A curious incident occurred a few

animals in a harem, we thought) she could most surely restaurant on top forming an eighth.mitted to a central-station which minutes later; the ball, strik nor even as the hysterical, vapouring be her true self. A man in a ball. They are to be let as suites of offices, worked out the position and then g upright, rolled right frauds of early Victorian and room kit, talking to ladies, is never and we understand the ground floor transmitted it to the aircraft. The

the Chinese goal previous days. She

the same as the same man in hunt is already bespoken. The alterations second method was for the aircraft without the Artillerymen attempting suggests that we did, a debating trick, we ing of camping outfit, talking to men involve the taking in of a strip of to have its own direction finding to place ft in the net. A few minutes may as well admit, that is not pecu-and a woman who met man only land behind, and the extension of the apparatus on board. The first method before the end, Light managed to liar to women. Even if we had, we in the first aurroundings would never corner towards Queen's Road, so was largely used by the Germans in core the third goal for the Artillery. should still have been assuming that realize what man is.

that the beginning of Battery Path connection with their Zeppelin raids A few minutes before play ceased, Mrs. Hickling, M. B. E., Hon. Sec. even those poor creatures must have

Just so. Man is many

will be moved slightly to the east over England. The drawback the Chinese forwards took the ball up of the Hongkong Branch of Queen had minds of their own, concealed WHAT 13 things in turn, and nothward and have a slight bend in it. from their point of view was that the field in a half-hearted fashion and Mary's Needlework Guild, asks us from us, partly by their conventional

.*、 MAN? ing long. When court- As soon as the arrangements are we received the messages sent out White, the opposing back, handled state that the Q. M. N. G. Badges hypocrisy in the face of the male bully,

ing the female, Nature completed with regard to the land, by the Zeppelina as well as they did the ball. From the penalty kick the workers havearrived, and will be given ing to be a natural barrier. Does blethering idiot, and many gener- ahead. and partly by what we were assum has ordained that he shall be a the contractors will be told to go and so discovered the poaltion of the Chinese obtained their only point.

out at the City Hall, on Wednesday ships The method was obviously such a barrier not exist? Is the ations of females must have assumed

next, Nov. 12% from 10 till 12 am, to, The quid nuncs are limited in its application and much woman's mind so like the man's that this was his most constant WAR MEMORIAL. asking when the wireless transmission was necessary POLICE v. ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE, those members of the several War YOU should not cat food of any kind. that there is no reason why we attribute. When Nature was satis-

Werk Parties who have not yet re-when villous, brit take a full dose Governor is going to give one airship its position. It

ceived Badges, and whose names are of Chamberlain's Tablets and drink should not reach as complete a com-fied, he would figure in female eyes to make an announcement about this was believed that the Germans (gund prehension of it as we do of some as a callous brute, which at such war memorial. At present the China impossible to control more than on Saturday on the Military ground..

This match, fixed for 4.30 p.m. on the lists of the Work Parties. plenty of water. That will clownso the

Each Badge costs 20 cents (appre-restore the system to a healthy condi

stomach, move the bowals and soon other man's? That is what we under times he is. That on the trek Mail does not know more than they eight to ten airships at one time in was not played, the College concedximately a shilling) at the present ion. "For sale by all themists and stand our fair opponent to uphold, and in the trenches, in hardship. Be patient. Plenty of time this way-Engineering.

ing the points to their opponents.txthange,

Storekeeper:

TRUTO, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE.

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HONGKONG, MONDAY, Nov, 10, 1919.

ADVERSARIA.

ARE WOMEN

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be a difference.

Is it possible, for THE MOTHER example, for a male

MIND. mind to entertain word for it (even a woman's) that

motherly thoughts? there is less difference between them the interminable writers

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BOMBAY DOCKS.

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probability of

HONGKONG BRANCH OF QUEEN MARY'S NEEDLEWORK GUILD.

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tpaniment most half an hour without a brea in a fine

lighting, is quite an innovation in The introduction of electric stage- China, but the management has still.

to learn how to make the best use of

lights from the background reduced the effectiveness of the singer and the front scenery. The theatre is crowd ed nightly, seats are not properly. reserved even when paid for in ad- vance, and intending playgoers would do well to find other ways of secur- ing seats than booking in the usual way. It is quite possible that this course of next week. famous play may be repeated in the-

INDIGESTION AND BILIOUS: NEES.

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