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Branded as lies, and know the

charge is true;

+

If you can trail your manhood

in the gutter, And swear that black is white,

and red is blue;

If you can bring your heart, and

nind, and honour,

And lay them on the altar of

your gain,

And wo the fickle jade,

and

fawn upon her, Nor count the sacrifice

you

make as vain:

can burt you,.

If neither foes por loving friends But all men count with you for

what they bring:

has lived in various social strata, mess." Officials almost every- Dow high, now low, will tell you where seem to have decided that that the environment has httle to might is the only right. do with happiness, which is largely

According to a Den- subjective. Tebekbor, the Rus- NOT DRID. ver paper, the wild sian short story writer, has a fine

west bandit has died moral tale of a shoemaker, who bat. He seems to have revived at longed to be a gentleman, and Yanmati.

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1920.

SPECIAL CABLE.

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RESTRICTION OF OUTPUT.

TAIKOO CLUB BALL.

ANNUAL FUNCTION+REVIVA

AN ENJOYABLE OCCASION,

The annual Ball of the Takeo Club, a function which had been

planters approved the recommendas held last night for the first time allowed to lapse during the war, was

sion of the special committee that since 1913, and was a most legislation should be enforced re enjoyable occasion. The committee stricting all production to 50 per

SINGAPORE, Dec. 30. A representative meeting of rubber

have a carriage, lots of money, and a full-bosomed - lady in a

That labour troubles GOVERNMENT PROMISES, LEGISLATION. red dress" for s wife. He finds,

TROUBLES. thing s Cromwel when his wish is realized, that there were many enjoyable things in the In 1535, it says, a crowd of shoes lian chronicle sbows. old life in which he is not now per makers sat outside the town of mitted to indulge. When he be-Wisbech, waiting while their dele came again the bumble shoemaker,

in charge of. tho arrange-

he mused: "Some were able to gates in the town negotiated with drive in a carriage, and others to the masters. They passed a re-cent. of that of the corresponding ments bad made every provision for If you can talk to hungry crowds sing songs at the top of their voice / solution, thus worded: " There period in 1920. The Government the comfort and entertainment of (and toʻplay the concertins, but one shall none come into the town to has promised to legislate if unanimity the guests; the Club was chymingly

by virtne

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Of readiness to promise any-and the same thing, the same serve for that wage within a is forthcoming.

thing:

If you can spend each

giving minute

In graft and scheming, her

in not the slime,

The Coalition welcomes you

within it.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Monday,

decorated; the weather ideal; the music was just rightward every- body was glad to see everybody else, and to realize that the big annual Ball, so long, abandoned, had been

The China, Mait will re-appear on revived. As a consequence, a spirit of great geniality prevailed-enough in itself to assure the success of the function.

mrave, was awaiting all alike, and twelvemonth and a day but we unforthere was nothing in life for which ell have an arme or a legge of

one would give the devil even a

hym, except they woll take an Still tiny scrap of one's soul."

othe as wee have, doon." older and more truly typical is the Is. Thomas Part-story in the twentieth chapter of GENTLEMEN, ington, a gentleMatthew, which has more than one

man? That, oddly and illogically, is the question being

moral.

asked about town, since Renter on Wednesday thought it worth while

While engaged in dismantling London journalista, by that hither week by robbers has left any de-H. M. S. Kent a boilermaker, fell to obscure young man. Illogical Indents. If he has, I presume

And, what is rare-you get

a job-in time!

Now that the shoot POLICE ing of our police serins to have start- ed again. I want to

SHOOTING SEASON OPENS,

shoot."

UNIVERSITY NOTES.

ties.

*

to cable a quotation from a bit of

I do not know if the QUEES? anfortunate police off

cer who was shot this

ON

as a

One case of paratyphoid, British, was reported yesterday,

·

|

The Club building looked very

pretty, both outside and in. From a with many coloured lights and cheery windows gleaming from the kilkide, distance, the picture of the setting.

was daintily beautiful Nearer, the -building proved to be decorated with Tilden and the other Americana tasteful arrangement of flags

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card roomtis. \ There were places for - the guests to sit out their dances if they chose to do so, but such was the charm of the darcing that few took advantage of the opportunity, Supper was served by Messrs Wise man, Ltd.

Among the guests were the Officers, US.S. Wimington, Mr. G. M. Young: Me and Mrs. Hickling, Mr., Mrs.

and Miss Neave, Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Morrison, Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Russell," Mr. and Mrs. Lambert, Mr. R. Hall, Capt. and Mrs. Imes, Capt. Martin, the Misses Woods. RAN, Capt. McKinnon, and Mrs. and

ask if it is true, as 1 base called it, and I stand to that, we will hear of it, and be allowed into the hold and was killed. commonle believed, but it is assuredly very human to subscribe help. But I think it that our police, although arped, and natural. are under, orders us to fire unless ask the critic if he can paint as subscriptions, or subscriptions from Malaya, after the Davis Cup games entrance were the initials of the Many people stil should be pointed out that public lawn tennis cracks are unable to visit foliage, and tinted globes. Above the they are first fired at. Mithongh good a picture or write as good a

the service. need not be called for in Australia as was hoped. I am profoundly convinced of the book as the one he criticises, ander government more gener-

Club, displayed in electric lights, and sacredness of human life, and de- they seem quite sure in their mindsor, shall I say, more just. I

surmounted by the Union Jack and The ashes of "Highland Mary" the house flag of Butterfeld & Swire. Ltd. Precate the use of lethal weapons that if the answer be no, then the have in the past written about their were reintererd in Greenock cemetery. Inside the building, the scene was

senemily, I feel that in the case critique is invalidated.

try, sad snch painful incidents as The remains were removed from one of brilliance. "The walls were of such desperadoes as we are here old delusion. A character in Dis this serve to remind as how well their original resting place to make covered with gay fags and steamers, concem d with our police should be rayli's Lothair describes critics they earn what little they gat. way for a shipyard extension by foterfaced with ivy. given the utmost freedom of dis-as" men who have failed in litera-

M. Louis Thomas. Harland and Wolff. There was a walls of the ball room went Ines of Around the cretion. In this connection it store and art and was anticipated

FRENCHMAN." Writing in L'Opin-large attendance of Burns admirers foliage, picked out here and there with imersting to recall an incident at by Shelley. who said that

ion. Paris, has been from all over Scotland. a labear riot at Kowloon, when the bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in

wreaths studded with coloured lights. AMERICANS. giving his impres Polier Reserves were called out. despair, so an nnsncesssful anthor

Overhead were festoers of blue, sions of America. Amongst the passengers who re-yellow, green, and red lights. In They had actually Issell arms, turas critic."

the Colony by the some of the dances, when the white Quite possibly true He thinks that Americans are turned to when a Chinese called out to his of individuals, as a general proposi-greedy for praise, and take can- *Empress of Japan" last evening were lights were turned off, these coloured bamboo-armel follows: Laytion it is false and unjust. The pliments too literally. The polite Mr. G. H. Wakeman, Dr. H. McKenny, lights shed a softly tinted radiance de your sticks. Be peaceable. lookerson may see most of the formula of Frenchmen persuaded and Messrs R. A. C. North, J. W over the scene, with a most pleasing These are not regular police. They game. A sound critic. may be them. he says, that they had wen Franks and F.Sutton, of the Hongkong effect. The billiard room had been tre reguves, and they will surely (otherwise incapable, and though the war, they were misled by Civil Service. Mr. Wakeman was converted into supper room, bar, and

Thomas Panington may not him-diplomatic small change." M. accompanied by Mrs. Wakeman. A correspondent self be a gentleman, he may be a Thomas in his article has fewer who desires to be competent assessor of gentility doubts about the intellectual supre Passengers who arrived here by Ishelled The That is what I should feel obliged macy of his own race, and perhaps the ss. "Iso Maru" included Dr. Chiel sends me to ascertain, were I to take his we should remember that it was Wilbert Hallam, Mrs. Neville Rolfe a long letter about a paragram Icensures seriously, which I attr not written for home consumption and Miss E. O. Grant (Secretary). had last week, on University doing.

His assumption that there is less members of the Eastern Commission Amenities. I was reprimanding

He is reported by culture in America than in France of the British National Council for a doubtful criticism, couched in DEFINITIONS. Reuter to have rises toe as unfounded. I got Combatting Venereal Disease, who terms of humbug, anl doing it teas

"published in The the impression that culture there have been actively engaged in a ingly, as one knowing all the par- Financier a statement to the effect was more widely diffused than in campaign in Shanghai.

"The Chiel" seems to take that the men coming out to engage many lands I know. Our Ameri- serious objection to Invigilator's in trade here since the Armistice cap friends can afford to take such

According to the Canton Times, pittle." He complains that there are not gentlemen, and have alien criticisms good-humouredly. They Major Louis Cassel, the chief pro- was nothing in it to justify the ated their Chinese enstomers. He should see what the French papers Collieries, who is interested in the moter of the proposed. Kwangtung beading. University Notes." is extremely unlikely to have count are now saying about us British. Such a beading. he says,

development of the mining resources makes ed on this being repablished local-

It was only to be of Kwangtung is now in Canton. He

Dancing began at 9 o'clock and us expect to read something about ly, as it is, understood he "intends the University." He suggests that to return, and his welcome pow

expected that with paid a visit to the Ministry of Foreign continued until 2 am, the police the editor who paid for it did not will be of dubious warmth unless

the discontinuance Affairs of the Military Government restrictions segarding motoring of the Tearist Rus- last Tuesday.

having being suspended for the get value for his money, which is, he finds it too hot. Unless we have sian consulates in China, the one

occasion. The programme was after all, the editor's affair. His met and studied the majority of the in Hongkong would follow, as it We are forbidden by police order opened by the official set of Lancers, complaint that he wasted time commercial men who have arrived did belatedly this week. It is a to make any mention of the proceed. the participants being Mr. Greig and looking for University notes that since the Armistice, we have no long time since I pointed out the ings of one of the many international Miss Edkins, Mr. Templeton and were not there is the sounder. I right to decide the merits or de- absurdity of recognizing official re-conferences being held in a distant Mrs. Greig Mr. Eddins and Mrs. adrise Invigilator to be more merits of his assertion at..all, ex-presentatives of a careful in future, or these young cept, perhaps, to point out that on government.

non-existent country, says the Japan Chronicle, Grimshaw, and Mr. J. Grimshaw and We are certainly in What possible good can be done by

Mrs Templeton. men will be after him. Behold the face of it looks too sweep no hurry to welcome Soviet repre- keeping Japan in ignorance of what

The programme of dances was as (Acts V.9), the feet of them are at ing. In the sense of one old de sentatives from all accounts fur- all the rest of the world knows, and finition, however, we might assent, ther changes may be expected m what Japan must also know within

Extra Waltz ......Wyoming. I suppose it is now up and say that the assertion-was-Russia-but-there was no excuse a few days, is more-than-we-can

J--Lancers

Country Girl BOXING. to" me to apologise to transparently superfluous, if we for carrying on so long the Tsarist imagine.

2-Fox Trotvne sau sa vama Whispering my editor for bringing agree that no gentleman could post officials One wonders whence the

3--One Step

Catro upon him with my last week's sibly engage in trade. That we necessary money came from.

It is reported by the "Taiske Eightsome Reel, notes on boxing the terrors of a are not likely to age to. I recall

Nicki Nichi" that the Pacific Mali *** "Truth ** sends lawyer's letter. It isn't that I said meeting one gentleman who would.

Company is about to apply to the anything very dreadful, but these Of an old family, a large land.

in an interesting Japanese Government for permission letter, on the for the conveyance of Japanese I again challenge the things are always a bother. Now owner, his title to gentility would meaning of this expression, for emigrants to America by its own government to publish the list of we have if clearly stated in the not be questioned in some quarters, using which in the hearing of a new passenger steamers of some FRENCH-On Thursday, Decem- those to whom loans were gramed lawyer's letter, that the captain of yet I did not consider him a gentle sensitive Indian policeman a Chi 14,000 tons each, the first of which 10 One Step Borla Bs.

Quite the contrary. He and of those to whom leans were the Hawkins takes full respon-man. refused. I aver that it is one of sibility for what is called the bot-was an ill-mannered person. Is it, pse woman has just been fined. the Golden State is expected to arrive 11-Waltz That ghty Waltz

I was myself surprised at the im-in Japan in March next those things that would not bearing hitch. That should satisfy the then, a matter of mere deport position of a fine, deeming a can- ships, of which there are to be five, 13-Fox Trote love Nest. The new 12 Quadriles Newest Out investigation. In this matter the public, which has been grumbling ment? Many think so. I don't tion quite enough. "Truth points are calculated to accommodate twice 14 One Step Down on the Farg government may or may not have to us, that it wasn't the fault of I have my own definition of a real out that usage has robbed the six as many passengers as the T. K. K. 15-Lancers. The Girl from Kars. beez "stupid," but it cannot claim Poor Wildin, or of the Boxing gentleman, but will not inflict it kwai" of its original meaning of stra. Shingo Maru" and "Tenyo 16 Fox Trot Venetian Moon. to bare Leen "well meaning." Association.

upon you now, especially as I am devil." It now has the same Maru." The Toyo Kisen Kaisha 17-Highland Scottische The allusions are to the leader in

In exactly two years quite sure it does not coincide with meaning asese in Chinese, looks for ward to severe competition

Braes O Mare. yesterday's China Mail, on "Hong- RECORD. I have bad three of Partington's.

Japanese, Burmese, Siamese, etc. in the emigrant traffic.

18-Waltzina na serenesevenge. Kisses. kong Chinese," which see.

these lawyer's letters

Search Research. In the same way the local Chinese

19-Fox Trot. --------- Dürdanella. and one prosecution for contempt In

recento court.

FROVE ALL Examine. Prove pay, anintending offence, “fån A correspondent writes to the 20-Eightsome Reel, In two of the three number, of. The

THINGS. all things. Take kwai lo" for foreigner, Haa lan N.C.D. News: Epigrams, new and

. Đời mang the Tailors. New Statesman, made. Considering the nature of ed.

cases, apology and retraction was

nothing for grant-kwai" for Hollanders," Sai yepng original, in bold white lettering on a 21-One Step Sag Dunes. Observe with the most care kwai" for Portuguese, and Hung black ground made their appearance 2-Wall...... "H.E.C." bad

......Loyalty. clever my duties as public watchdog and ful scrutiny of all what you sup mo kwai" for English. So to them in the local trams yesterday. The

Extras 1-One Step: Marie. censor, that is not a lot. killing parody on Kipling's well-

Even if pose to be truths self-evident. In now, according to this correspon- boldest warns "Always Wait till the

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The China Mail.

JUSTICE, FUMAO SERTICE'

STRONG, FRIDAY, Dec. 31, 1990.

ADVERSARIA. -

To everyone of you, 1921. * touch wood and

whistle

a happy prosperous New Year. May dollar go mpy (or down) just, 68

when you want it.

In one of the local leading ADVERTENCE? articles I read on Wednesday,

fng very intelligently with Bland Bei nonsensical that Ching is over- that the Chinese

Blan

quoted

Lednes

refused.

ANOTHER. WELL-MEANING GOVERNMENT,

1

a

and

known poem If." I am sure I need not apologise for quoting it fully.

those about you

い

the door.

But they were not.

If you can wait, and not be tired obliging them.

of waiting

And they, while you twixt

hopes and fears are torn

->

RUSSIAS CONSCLITE.

MOLDEW..

**

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follows:

De'il amang the Tailors. S-Wall-On. Miani Shore. 6-One Step ................Swanee. 7-Barn Dance Happy go Lucky, 8-Fox Trot So Long. O Long. 9 Caledonians......Highland Home:

-Fox Trot

Tell me little Gipsy.

3 Waltz

Carg

inshine:

The music was prov.

Frules

pt. for

Scotch dances, W. piped" by Mr R. G. McEren,

The following was the inenu of the

Turtle Cop Pickled Fish

Roast Beef Corned Beef Roast Turkey and Han

Roast Pheasant ́?

Game Pie

Asparagus, Mayounaise Sauce. Salads -- Potatoes / Fruit Compote and Cream: Peach Melba Orange Jelly Mesto Loe Cream (

Dessert

they had all been bad mistakes, two yesterday's Morning Post Invigi dent, who is a Chinese gentleman, Car Stops" and "Never Board or er um is not superhuman. Lator" said, One great British molo" means Indian and, in that Alight from a Moving Tram Having We should student of the Chinese language connection, "kwai" merely man, read these one wonders how to never have been convicted for con- once told me this. He blandly an Indian man. In this case of a manage When Alighting Grasp If you could keep your seat when tempt in the circumstances, and said that Kwangtung was more mother's warning to her infant, Handrail with Right Hand and Fut sor, Gonzales Orchestra,

would probably have upset it by civilized than England. He was Were long theirs the men appealing Home, but what was to quite in earnest. That's all. Be-get you, it is absurd to suppose of crowded trams, if each passenger

"Be good, or this molo kwai will Left Foot down First." In these days, the whom once you knew: If you can keep your job when cedure? Nothing. We hope our the first sentence, the, intrusion of dignity of the law has to be main ing his right hand so as to grasp the be gained by such expensive pro-yond the impressive period after an intentional insult, and if the when alighting after the from has

stopped were to delay while disengage supper all men doubt you,

public, which seems to appreciate the adverb blandly," and the tained by fines for such crimes, And know there's reason in our policy of outspokenness, will assurance that the proposition was is indeed in parlous case.

rail, and then rack bis brain to recall their doubting, too;

appreciate the risks we run in not advanced as a joke, we get no

which in his left foot and be sure to Apart from the put it down first it is safe to predict answer, no argument, no enquiry, As a result of the re- no investigation. To the invigil

XMAS CARDS. Xmas greetings there would be a considerable con TATORS. cent tailors strike in ant Invigilator the proposition vate individual, I have been sur vicinity of the Palace Hotel

*received as a pri- gestion of trams and things in the Hongkong, the Chi-was merely unthinkable. Iam in Shall judge your merits, care-nese master tailors who used to no harry to accept it, especially prised, and of course gratified, by

fully estimating

charge us twelve dollars for making after the recent history of the pro-sent to me as Adversarius" on Modern Road Construction and the number of Christmas cards In the course of a long review The price for which your con-up a suit of our own material, now since; but it is not self-evidently Almost every port in China is Maintenance by Mr H E Gold

science went in pawn;" plead that they are obliged to false. The suggestion that it fe

charge sixteen. It is understood is unscientific and purely chan represented, and cards also came smith, executive engineer of the Public that the men were pacified with a vinistic. The giant intellecte frota much farther afield, while the Works Department of Hongkong. thirty per cent. increase. The for which this writer professes 50 enough to make my colleague appears to be not only a thoroughly responsible for the success of the lobal salutations sent me were the Surveyor says Mr. Goldsmith arrangements in charge and were masters are charging an increase much admiration did not approach Peter Pan" jealous. I thank Practical roadmaker but also to have evening were And say when sounds the voice of 33 and a third. Twas ever this propositions in that way. His ex-

Ball Committee: Mr. J. McCubb It is indeed an ill wind that blows case for not learning Chinese, that you one and-all, and trust we may the scientific mind, which is necessary Whatever seemeth good to them bo good.

he is afraid of being fenationalized, all remain as friendly until next nowadays to secure proper road (Chairman), Mr. G. TEdkles him is best;"

construction: at the same time he (President), Mr. D Templeton and If only you had is idle; he is quite evidently in no

seems gifted with a power to place Mr. K. E. Greig (vice-Presidenta), PURSUIT OF what somebody else danger of thate

on paper the results of his labours Decoration Committee: Mestra. T HAPPINESS has, how happy you The sense of humour

which is, unfortunately, not posses Grimshaw Simpson K Grey and could be. Thus CASTING saves men from blind THE BEST COUGH MEDICINE been refully written, and Supper Committee

ed by many engineers. The book T. Young Tube sometimes your thought has rum STONES news fo see the things you gave your It is sy awful delusion. Batting

AHAMBERLAIN8 Cough Remedyis therefore pleasant to read and easy Vicboods ingly the standard of living is an-frank is this comment by the in the world today because it does be in the hands of everyone interest understood. t is a book thất should game hút notother, though this should not pre-Albany Times Union nst when exactly wint cough medicine is ano

vent ne from helping the dow we were beginning, to opss-posed to downlt rope sought and cold edit the present important question the words trodden who have no standarding England for her

ment of speedily and effectually. For me by of the consmction of roads under worth mentioning,Anybody who Ireland,bere comes

Psi Chemists and. 8 torekeepers: Haiti

the altered condition of traffic:

that taught you,

If you can turn your back on him

If you can think, but not make

thought the test

of him that bought you:

If you can hear the truths you

used to cherish

Twisted by knave to make a El frap for fools

4

Christmas.

The Committees which had the

Bar Committee White and W. Robertsons. MA Brien Soels

Mearn::WA Weir-

madaran kattavan you tellus. for freshest kapta sama antardaw ko sastrottes to 1 hot wat