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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1919.

CHINESE TELEGRAMS.

(By Arrangement with the Wah Tze

Yat Pel

SHANGHAI, Nov 16.

SOME NUTES ON SWEARING.

THE LANGUAGE OF LAZINESS.

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mara picturesque-by which, I fear, they mean tangy. Schoolboys, we must confes and deplore, have al ways had a notion that swaaring is

There was a large collection of } **nunly, sin, manly," but I don't know af evidence that they are any "low grade" goods at Fatshan. The worse than their fathers. To one students after a demonstration along "The use of bad language I take thing, though, it is rather outside the streets put all those goods to a plece of vacant General Chu Shu Trang shows to be due to the slight nervous con- the subject since tre exclude from the fire in signs of an impatient desire to make vulsion momentary destroying self- the discussion the language of poorer himself Governor of Outer Mongolia control and releasing sub-conscious folk, we can all testify; your cars are ground before a huge crowd of The Outer Mongols don't like that, interests which are normally up- less offended in the streets than spectators.

"The 11 students arrested by the Forhage the inserted they were 60 years ago. You can nor do some of the inner Mongols.

pressed.** Heavy snow is falling at Peking ecmmas are unnecessary. I long to indeed hardly escape what has been police in connection with the distur Tientsin looks like being frozen be able to write like that, but I called the one abjective of the unbance at the Sincere Co.'s store were before the usual date.

never could. Such majesty of style educatel But many worse things all released on the 14th fast.. at the

And nobody who which were common enough in the req test of the Educational Bureau, THE ANNUAL not for me. ever read these paragraphs, alt old days, when bere busca the Provincial Assembly, and the Day" and presentation of Prizes will suspect me thereof. It was a raced and barsom cabbies abjur principals of all the schools. The will be held on SATURDAY, 23nd Superintendent of Police in a pro- November, 1919, at 9.30 p.m., when You ought gated, are no longer heard.

clamation says that the students the fembers will be "AT HOME" to profesor who said i

arrested and brought before him their friends.

D. S. COOPER,

Hon. Secretary.. Hongkong, November 17, 1919.

By reducing the army the Govern ment expects to save 40 million dolars-enough to cover the budget Luk Ching Cheung cables that he will not leave Europe until Dec. 7:

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to read it twice or more to get the ful fragranoo. Then it will, if you! Dr. Wellington Koo cables that have a proper foaling for professors,

We must have this sentence have repented themselves of their some of the new nations are willing to your with a solena raptare. again. The use of bad language action. He regretted that the stud- to waive extra-territoriality to get

A now sense of dignity, of your in-I take to be due to the slight net.ents had carried their demonstration treaties with China,

The American loan is not so comportance in the scheme of things, of vous convulsion momentarily dato such an extremity.

the marvels in the working of your stroging self-control and releasing interests which are pletely settled as was reported.

Commander Ma Liang, "the most dignificent mind, will steal over sub-conscious unpopular pro Japanese officer in you as you murmur to yourself, the ormally suppressed. You know. Shantung, had an interview in Pekingsight nervous convulsion momenter this may be true of professors who yesterday with General' Tuan Chiy destroying self-control and relos perros only swear when they do fing sub-conscious interests which are the first Hals in 19, or the tentà cook Jui

this year gives notice. But other norarally suppressed."

That is what really happens when people. It is to be feared, are cap- able of sweating without any nervous you say dear me or whatever if

convulsion, merely to give emphasis Bis you do say, But I am not quite or to attract attention to an other- sure that our professor is on the insignificant ropark, or from akie of the angels. Now that wa

habit. Euclid is bendably," says know what a splendid business it is the schoolgirl, and her brother pro- The telegram quoted below was received at the U.S. Censulase from oe of us may be tempted to sworests that tennis is a rotten game. the Manila Observatory at 9:56 p.m.re than ever. But this is treat Except formally, they are swearing. ing serious subjects with levity, and The words, in the meatres menning. our professor would not like that less, are expressione of contempt or What started him off was the dis

diskibe So is most swearing. covery that ** wê are gaining on the There is no convulsion about it. It drink habit, but tobacco and bad a lazy way of expressing what is language seem to be gaining on us."

fels rather strongly. Their father A useful company of subjects here, obviously ought not to say that the you retrar.

Is then anything Sunith-Browns beep a damned bad which we could not talk about with

cook.** It would be much more that for the text? But whatevereequat if the daughter, said: "I find my teat I have never found any Each a difficult and uninteresting diffoulty divagation. I was subject of study "; if the son pro- brought up under the guidance of tested. Tennis is to me a game divines who always preached a full kocking in mariety and of insufficient buff hour, and thought nothing of 40 demands upon my energy; and minutes. Well, we soon got over the mather urged that the cook of maritime legend lure ?. Or has the that, even us in our professor's whom the Smith-Browns have the deep-rooted belief among seafaring words, we are gaining on the misfortune to employ must be pro- folk in things undramt of in the drink habit. No question that he counced sadly incompetent. But landsman's philosophy finally passed is right there, no doubt in the worldI don't know that the world would away with the passing of the sailing that he justly estimates the popular.be much the better if we ad, talked vessel and of the old-style shellback ity of tobacco. But what about bad

November 15.

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13" Lat. N. almost stationary.

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The query is ace which follows naturally enough on the reading of an interesting collection of legends of the sea, brought together under the general title of Wander ships by Ensign Bowett, of the United States Naval Services, and publish ed by the Open Court Company, of

Cuicago."

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language?

THE, FEMININE

DAMN,"

e Sandford and Merton.

In the world as it is we are, too.

But

lazy to express ourselves carefully and exactly. We spoor at the "one Alany good people will at once adjectivo of mean streets. rise up and pour forti accusations though our adjectives may be lenex of the girl of the period. She would unpleasant we fall into the same not deny tirat she allows herself ex-vice, the young folks with their platives, shod we call them, which beastly rotten, awal, topping and are impossible to her mother. Ste priceless," applied in a fine careless would rather glory in her iniquity. disregard of actual moaning which The Wanderships are con. At my time of life. I ought to be Billingsgate could not better; the sidered under five categories shocked, pained and castigated. Se elders with, their so nice, such a Giant Ships," "Punishment Fold-fashioned am I that I have never dons girl"; or in the male manner Ships," Phantom Ships" "Devil been able to overcome a mild sur" damned danced" and the rest of Ships," and "Stone Staps and price when I bear toe word "damn' in each case the author narrates ain the gentle tones of feminity. It typical legend of the class in literary sounds as a man once said, like

The girl who form appending copious notes on canary feeling cross. parallels in folklore, references in has been decently bred is not able to literature, and mot, origins of the put into le voice the colour whiob tradition in question.

the sentiment demands, and the The work is excellent and exhaus wicked word becomes merely on

it

Most of the swearing in the world is an attempt to say what people won't take the trouble to say- Most swearing is mere haziness..

EARLY COLDS.

tive so far as it goes, but it touche,nemic formala, the equivalent. this time of the year. They are

only the fringe of a vast subject which he bou rather singularly neglected by the folklorist. Indeed, with the coming of the new ers at sco it is probable that a great mass of sea tradition Eas been lost beyond 3.1.

her mother's "Dear me, how pro voking.**

She is more profane then her mother, the girl of the period. But her points and a boating. The 18th ber, grens grandmother could give

contury girl's progress through life was shewn with Good 'God and

I

Seafaring men have always been the like flowers of speech. And f prone to a belief in the

super we are to go further back still we natural. Take, for example, the shall find some very lurid conversa familiar tale of the Flying Dutch-tion. So that I doubt whether so Inan" which Ensign Barrett dealefar as women are concerted our pro- | with under the bead Punishment fesent could make out his thesis that Ships."

Would not an curlier age seating is gaining upon us." have found in the doings of the should rather be inclined to say that Ubout material for many we are pussing through a reaction variant of the old legend?. And even fuu: the prunes and priem methods in these sceptical days it would seer of the 19th century, but a reaction that such traditions are, in fact, which was not carried us back to the springing into being among the fisher old freedom of speech. folk, for we have it on good authority LORD MELBOURNE'S RESTRAINT. that the belief in the "Lusitania Our professor might retort au- Jadies" and other phantoms of victerely that he knows nothing about tims of piracy, through whose agency women, and that swearing is a man's the subaurines were led to their question. Well, there is a familiar doom, lus stained the position of story about a woman who in her a recognized North Sea legend. impertinence asked the Duke of And would not the old-style sailor- Wellington whether he was surprised man, who held firmly to the belief at the Battle of Waterloo. To which that the birds of the ses were in-he answered vigorously, "By God, Imbited by the souls of dead seamen, ma'am, not half so much surprised lave seen a grim significance in the as I am now." What Sir Douglas fact that the man of von Spee's Haig would any if a woman asked squadron after the battle of the him whether he was surprised by Falklands were repeatedly attacked the Garman offensive of 1918 I can While in the water by numbers of rot tall, but I feel that he would albatrosses-the albatross, as every not begin his answer with body lmowe, being especially respect- God." When Lord Melbourne wis ed by sailors,

Prime Minister to the young Queen Nor is it in connection with war Victoria keen observers remarked alone that tradition dies hard at sea. with awe and amazement his ab- It is widely believed in Boran stinence from swearing--I won't say Catholic Belfast that the "Titanic's" at ber-but before hex. Such self- doom was sealed because she left the restraint seemed superhuman. But elipe with the words "To hell with it is recorded that when Feel pro- the Pope chalked on every plate posed the repeal of the Corn Lawn, by zealous Orange shipwrights. Melbourne declared to her Majesty. And a strange coincidence, to go It'e a damned dishonest action." a little farther back, was the finding In fact, as we know by other evi- of a skeleton between the keel of the dence, na late as 10 or 80 years ago, Great Eastern."' and fer inner skin the best bred men used to swear when the time came for the break freely in their talk with women, ing up of that unlucky experiment it so now? If such is the professor's in shipbuilding a foot which, in the experience of the conversation, of eyes of a real old sailorman, would drawing room I can only deplore be considered ample explanation of the tone of gendemic society. "all her misfortuncs.

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