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THE CHINA MAIL.

twenty years ago 2

If you're anxious for to skinn In the Sanitary line As an expert wise and rare, In your office you must strive Every day from nine till five, And paper and ink don't spare: Sponge on other people's work

ing.

And avoid responsibiliter.

You need know no word

science

If you only place reliance" On your plansibilitee.

Then everyone will say As they meet you day by day, This expert great, this pillar

"state,

What a wonderful man is be. Oh! Yes, what a wonderful. thorough-going Expert This expert great must be.

What can we do?

or swear.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1921.

See list of

One of our local papers KING'S informed its renders SPEECH. that "when their Majesties were seated

According to **LOROAN **J.CR.” in Thurg-

SAHIR **

day's Daily Press, there has just ded

to teach an infant the panning suggested that the machinery is all several babice, but that a recent procured, and passed the requisition CE.M.S., it would appear that meaning put into the phrase, the ready. Here is the China" Neil as discovery of fresh evidence was on to the Colonial Treasurer, who Mr. J. owes Mr. C. an apology. So there is an asylum for ideas. I do not quite improbable, of such a well minoted that funds would permit. He certainly owes me one, for put nothing for it but to recognize the want to monopolize this page every studied peske, and that in any These minutes reached the Gover- ting me to the trouble of trying in inevitable, to go slowly, to proceed Saturday,, and would rejoice to let ease I could not see that it mat nor (Sir R. G. MacDonnell) and guess bow a disingenuous argument delicately. At present we have you have an inch or two or more tered to him or to me. He said he he approved them, returning the could be also brutal and blant.

history papers to the Colonial Secretary, been watching the gait of the bull in which you could give your ideas. praferred to have his

right." That made me reflect who instructed his assistant to in- in the chins shop To judge from Write to me, and I'll put 'em in the speeches at this meeting, the for you, without letting on who you on what it is we look for from dent on the Crown Agents for the bull resents the omnipresent crocare if you deairs anonymity of history, and I decided that the one bottle of gam... That, to the beat kery. That is natural, and we can pseudonymity. Ideas on anything word psychology about covers the of the old man's recollection, would on their thrones, the Commons understand it; but our retort must whatever, sublime or ridiculous, lot. So maybe it does matter whe-be in April. Yes. On refection it summoned his majesty the King be that the sarthenware was there practical or not, will be welcomed.sher Mizahath had a baby or not. must have been April because his to read the Speech." How thing first, and has the prior right. Let Recollections and reminiscences But such history as he was reading dog, long ago dead, pupped in May. have changed and are changing in evidence." "It is made up In September a brief acknowledg these changeful times. In my the bull seek open pasture land for also. There are all sorts of odde is not his cavortings: he must here walk and ends that have immediate local largely of sontemporary gossip, spent was received from the Crown young days it was the other way delicately, with (what time the interest, like this pastiche, for in-transmitted as tradition, and of Agents, followed (in November or round. The Commons used to b Government sees and does its duty) stance, that went the local rounds] deductions from incomplete docu- December) by an enquiry from summoned to hear the King read meats, letters, etc. Thus we are them why their acknowledgment the speech. Apparently our lirait- a ring in his nose.

Let me now recall,

not by any means certain of she had not been acknowledged. They ed monarchy is being limited mors. räcant, retract, ab-

psychology of Nero. Popular his-took the opportunity, and to save and more. negate, disavow, ab

kory, mentioning that he fiddled time, of enquiring if gum or jure. recusate, gain-

whila Rome burned, suggests to us paste were preferred (2) if paste; particular manufacturer's that he was a cruel, callous man.state say, contradict, disown, repudiste,

But let us pat ourselves in his product preferred. revoke, renounce, withdraw, and without tergiversation confess the

place. Here is a city in Sames. Crown Agent manufacturers. The at Bombay an Armenian called Nothing but Hongkong Government then sp Jacob, who was the original of error of and frankly apologise for

All committing statements shink-weep,

We are not aplied for a revised list of manufae-Lurgan Sahib in Kim, and....

Marion a former paragram of mine in

Crawford a ** ME... which I pretended, supposed, pur- ing,

rained firebrigade. We are an emturers recognized by the Crown of ported, and as one who had proved

peror. It is painful to watch the Agents, and took the opportunity Isaacs." I am not making a it set forth that I had a 'system

of destruction of our beautiful city of reminding the Crown Agents, mistake, this wonder worker also which would beat the bank at fan

We sympathise with the agony of and to save time, that gum, and figured in a novel by Frank Dan-

tan.

the crowd below our window. We not paste was ordered. Two years br's son, in a story that dealt sam I hadn't, though I may at that time have thought I had. I

would console them. We recall later the Crown Agents wrote to sationally with a certain feature of that we have one gifs, that we fid-say that examination of the files Hongkong. When such tall tales did win some money, but I now

Idle divinely. see that the system didn't. I found

We will do our showed that gum was in fact or are published as fiction, the gullible the number two nine times shy

fhit" by soothing these afflicted dered, and they would now be glad public is to a certain extent pro- people with music. They mis to be informed of the estimated tected, the utmost that the most recently, and pouneed on it like a

understand. They go away and annual consumption of gum in polish reader may claim being that terrier on a rat. I lost my capitali of $100 just two coups before it

spread the report that we didn't Hongkong. Some years elapsed, perhaps, there may have been turned up. The craier was wirat

seem to care a damn, as we fiddled marked by an occasional exchange something in it." It is doubtfu)^ they call "repeating." so when two

while Rome burned. We did, but of enquiry and explanation, and one how far such stories are justifiable stories about town are Ltd. die me, about the sixteenth orJatth

it is not true that we did not care. day a letter came to say the gum in newspapers, seeing that supersti- severnsenth time, I borrowed from wasted unless they are enshrined in There was no fire insurance. We had been shipped. Documentation is so hand to eradicate. Per In that way following by a later mail showed haps I heed not worry after all. a friend and put 850 on it. That this way. It is your patriotic duty too lost property. time he didn't repeat, and what I to let the have 'em, so that I can now reflecting in propris personal data of c.if., and inspection fees. Ripe grapes grown on a walking said I won't, because it is unrepeat-pass them on to the adversariaw guess that much history has etc. About six months before the stick, and the evitation able. I am now looking for a new raters. They are telling one now been garbled. There are two ways old gentleman was superannuated, pony and cart, must be too much

Juck' game. Any mag's game will do, at least

is-about of regarding Elizabeth's reinark to he learned that the P.W.D. had for even the moavid faith in the so long as it isn't fantan. I give tranear incident. Lady with son the Spanish ambassador, the re-received notice that the gum was miraculous.

in sailor suit tenders fare and a mark that brought her under sus- in the godown at Kowloon, and He had I have to admit that half. Conductor says he cannot picion of being privy to Mrs. Dud- subject to demurrage. 1. printed fale vocal accept half fare for boy, as he is in leigh's murder. For that matter. practically forgotten all about the In that case, the Spanish bishop was quite likely matter: for he has been retired at WARNED tive in a Latin phrase long trousers.

fast work. There is says the las. "call it full fare for to lie about it. Better to study the least a dozen years, then on all." Is this not misleading? In no denying it, because him and half fare for me. While history of trends and movements Thursday of last week his grand the sum paid to the parant the it has been painted out and I sap the conductor was thinking that of peoples, rather than of exalted sou happened to mention that the wages are partly paid in advance. gum had actually reached the office. Board, bed, and clothing must pose they'll never believe me if I over, an old woman in the corner individuals.

Talking about evi-Ah. Mr. Adversarius, quavered count as a further part, and where say that I did it of purpose, and sent demanded her money back. had a good reason for it. apart from

dence, even lawyers the old gentleman, tears of pride the grown girl is nirried of, there **BAEC

sometimes seem to coursing down his sallow cheeks, is further expense to the employer by normal ignorance and careless" ness. My jb is to put meanings

ENGLISH,

entertain queer ideas of what con- and begemming the ragged ends of which he or she will doubtless rec- no longer print any stitutes it. In the case where a his moustaches.there's nothing kon 33 part payment for services aver to get purport across, ami where I think accuracy might lead but the most striking examples, restaurant keeper was charged with like System. I, humble as I am, rendered. It is at any rate, some to isimlerstanding or cafusion. Here is one that will be Lad tu serving beer without a licence. Mr. helped in my small way to build what on a par with the pension I never it safate to adapt spelling beat. The original is in my posses-Hall; for the defence, claimed that up that System." What could which is reckoned as deferred pay and syntax to my purpose, rather sion, so I guarantee that it is a there was no corroborative, evi- do but congratulate him, even than to make my purpose how to genuine letter. "I am very regret dence: not even a beer bottle though I had ascertained already them. After all, these things to tell you that my knowledge le was produced." If a beer bottle from his grandson that the guru Should the servants, not masters. very limited as at present nothing were to come to be so regarded, was of very unsatisfactory quality?

- Noting a statement less courageous dog. Symptoms Fire does not by nature discreetly improved of. My ability excepta dishonest police witness would pour its vapours up chimneys, nor one way is applied to you. I dare have no trouble in finding one to

that the Labour Party appeared that might have been in South Africa is either distemper or a cold, and vari should we shape dur ends to fit to request you to agree to afford of produce. I should regard the omis-

held our shoes, although, alaa! too many your old newspapers which bare sion to produce such unconvincing

together by ous dog experts were consulted by d. I reall à bon mot about been already looked through and corroboration as an indication of a

Class Hatred," I began to rumi- his anxious owner. They prescribed It.L... Which, concerning a cri- send them over by one of your ser straightforward and fair prosecuate on what this could be Mind sulphur. Benbow: Glover, table Licisture treedom he had ants, therefore I may get more tion. If I claim that I found a you, I know nothing. I have a salt, kerosene, whisky and milk, taken with the language, retorted improvement of toy commonsense. million dollar banknote under vague recollection that after the tobacco, and a few other things tane with a master of English. If you are so kind to except to sup- brick this week, Mr. Hall mar or Boer war the enormously wealthy have forgotten. He had them all, not a schoolmaster of it... In that ply them daily Ishall be much may not believe me. I think he class employed troops or police or except the tobacco, and one day

be incredulous. Would his word or phrase I might take to ting the China Mail, so he is bound incredulity be lessered if I pro:ess, but only that. Assuming that stayed away a day and a night, I told my to get more improvement of his duced the brick as corroborative in South Africa the alleged class and came back quite well and fit, serve my need.

evidence? I guess not. Then why batred must friendly critic in this case, had commonsense.

be between two with an appetite that was pleasant Shakspere been a modern and. up-

I too have seen that strange suggestion that Ser- to-the-moment journalist like me,

and admired the geant McFall ought to have toted classes, one of which is named as to watch. It reminds me of a dog hating, I deduce that the other story told on my native heath, of and known his public as I fancy. QUEENSLAND typical Queens an empty beer bottle into court?

hated class must be the employing a pampered dog belonging to a rich land

Talking of history, the dairymaid,

class. Between two such classes, lady fra optseide. The regular and in retrospec

editor had submitted to I reflect, we have only three posvet. had failed to "cure" it, and him for publication this sible feelings. There may be still the animal was "of its food,

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pedestrian myself, I am thinking

That best.

TEDANTS

OFF.

I do, he would have made Caesar

say. Et tu, Brutus, rather than Et

.

THE

DAIRYMAID,

Examples of queer native English are so common that we now

EVIDENCE.

JIMMC.

1

4! CLASS

"HATRED.""

of a

It has been publicly.

METSA SYSTEM

stated this week that

the "muri-tsat works ** for no wages at

Esau. successor to PSAC'S the late lamenteds, TROUBLES. Trotski and Hockle- berry, bas lately had

troubles that would have ended a

tu. Brute, to prevent them associat- tive and sentimental mood would ing the idea of brutality with the now dwell upon her charms. With week an article purporting to be hatred, there may be love, or there so the lady as a last resource sent sense of astonished reproach and what charming abandon, as the about Jimmu Tenno, the reputed may be something between the for a villager reputed to be a dog scorn he intended. In my para-lowing herd wended away, she sat founder of Japan. He asked me two, say indifference. It is impos- expert. He listened to her long gram, had I put the vocative right, upon a fallen log, struck a match to read it when I was in getting my sible to think of workers being in catalogue of symptoms, looked at some readers would have got the on the leg of her trousers, and It money for last week's Adversaria, diferent where employers are coa- the beast and its surroundings, and impression of impudent familiarity, her pipe. Ihave seen her tripping and to pass an opinion on it. cerned. The relation is too vital said:

ΤΟΣ ΕΤ

NHEIL.

It

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of wearing a phosphorescent red of, as it were, a kind of less down to the pub of corrugated iron, didn't tell us anything about Japan I cannot, when I recall the shoot- Ef Ise ta mak um better ab Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brumby wish dise on stry (ahem) rear. But I majesté. of flippant disrespect, there' to swop snake stories and or about Jimma. It didn't expressing and other incidents, expect uun tak um yam wid ma. to thank Dr. Daimahoy Allan for his cannot make up my mind between whereas I desired to suggest that shift beer. Roses and raptare, an opinion whether Jimmu, was a love. Therefore I conclude that He was adamant on that, and ceaseless efforts and professional care that and the alternative of wearing while as a man I stood on my right honey from Hymettus, may not historical or a mythical pe son. the writer was right in averring explained to the tearful lady that

What a shocking his treatment involved a of their late dear friend Mr. J. Ha string of contact mines, which to reproach even a great man, I have been within the compass of told of celebrations on a Japanese class hatred. Gardiner also Mrs. Morrison, the a naval friend of mine picked up did not lose sight of his greatness, her maiden imaginings; but she, steater, the sort of thing we have discovery!

She hadn't the least idea nurse, for her skilful nursing and cheap. I would like to become nor of the delicately graded respect my Queensland dairymaid, did sure all seen, sports, potato races,

The usual moral of what it was, but decided to let her untiring endeavour.

what a Home hurgourist called "a I owed it. How can I make it know a horse. Her name, I think, Japanese dinner and music, etc. really solid pedestrian," from whom clear to you? You can understand, was Jim.

These are interesting memories for

the reference to a darling go, urging the man to do SHOEHORS. Sybarite who was his best.. automobiles would rebound, baffled can't you, that one never says to

Is the suggestion of the person who has had the experi-

tortured by a ruffled A week later the dog returned. and humiliated, like a dog that has a king "You silly ass." The co7-

this phrase the same ence, but their bare recital is not MCGRANN-Died at Government bitten a cork leg, I must not for rect formule, which means exactly

PRAETERA 1s that of a voice in cdifying history. Jiramu was a rose leaf is the wrong one. The a lot thinner, but very lively and Civil Hospital, on 19ts inst., a moment permit myself to seem the same thing. is Your majesty

the wilderness? It great-grandson of the grandson of little worries of life are by far the well. She rewarded the man well, William McGrann, Officer-in to tolerate the criminality and is pleased to be facetious." In the

is usually so accept the Sun Goddess, and his full name greatest drain on happiness. Con- and told all her friends what a He sider the humble shoehorn. Mine, clever dog doctor he was. The charge. Peak Signal Station. cruelty of those who are now lay same way, a well-trained husbanded. I have just now thought of was Kamuyamatoitsrebiko. Funeral will pass the Monumenting traps for road hogs (and catch- never uses undiplomatic language, another meaning for it, as applied didn't take the name of Jim until an old friend, got lost somehow."whemme cure consisted of at 5 p.m. on Sunday, February ing, sometimes, innocent motor- but is careful of the nuances, and to my sort of journalism. The cen- fourteen centuries after his death, Morning after morning I vowed to starving the dog for three days. ists) but oh! I do feel. and can will utter a warning like Don't sor whose mission it is to deflate and as when alive he was a great-buy another that very day, and while it was imprisoned in a cash not refrain from saying, that if ever be a fool, darling," when he wants humbugs, to humble the conceited. grandson of a grandson of the always I forgot. Morning after which was rolled up and down, a there were a case for the apt ap her to shut up. He gets the use- and to persuade others that they Grand Sun, his pedigree is, to say morning I met the same old ad- cobbled yard! **

A man was wishing he plication of the French adage, Tout ful word fool in where it will oper- are not as damnearly perfect as the least of it, not proven. There noyances with which you must all be familiar. Presumably the sbce

WRITING had my ease in writ- The China Mail.comprendre, tout pardonner, it is ate and achieve its purpose, but be they think they are, should him- can be no doubt that he was a good cleaner finds it convenient to draw

HOME.

ing. He had to write theirs. There are occasions when sugars the pill, so to speak, with self be a disembodied voice, an mhan, and kind to his parents, and

letters home, had noth- the most highly civilized man is the added word that assures her of invulnerable truth teller. with no preferred boiled rice to voting at the laces tight, "and to tuck the ends provoked to murderous impulses, the persistence of his affection for vanity to wound, or self esteem to elections. Apart from these facts, inside, out of the way. The laces

have to be loosened, and you are ing he particularly wanted to say, Hongkong motorists, 60me of her despite her faults. I cannot suffer. When men point out his we know very little of him.

The old, white-haired, usually in too much of a hurry to and found this regularly recurring them, furnish such occasions. help recognizing that this involved asininitice, he must cheerfully ad

and feeble Portuguese koosen them far enough. You en-task a torture. I showed him how There is a super-spology for a grammatical blunder mit to greater folly than they ac ficial appearance of is very clever and convincing, and cuse him of. Like others in ano-

gentleman, living on deavour to thrust your foot in, and to do his duty and yet escape all ARGUMENTS. Justice in some of it is only my constitutional honesty ther walk of the spiritual life, be SYSTEM. pension, astonished me down crumples the heel. You try that I gave him a copy of the

their arguments which compels me to mention that must be mortified to be purified.

by saying in his croak. to use your finger as a shoe-horn. China Afail weekly nail edition, I am so glad. I which deludes the thoughtless it is entirely disingenuous. It aug-

A man asked me earlying voice that now be was ready It is not a good substitute. One and showed him how be could "it had morning it occurred to me to tell scribble marginal notes in it. Op- MISTORY. in the week if I knew to die happy, since purposely refrained None of us cures to be accused of gests falsely, for instance, without

turned out to be the Boy my troubles. I told him posite a leader he wrote: Aren't MOTORISTS. from commenting blocking, or trying to block, the word to that effect said, that if

anything of history. come. on the meeting of march of progrese. None of us cared to try I could write the Now that was a difficult query to gum bottle ordered for one of the firmly, in terms I need not repeat, these journaliste, fools? This one Opposite "sn the Motorists' Association; so as likes to be dubled "stick in the purest of pure Latin, that I am, answer. If I said yes, and failed Government oficce in which he that if I did not find a qualified evidently does not know what he not to give them a lead, or to pre-mud," or hailed as a fossil. It is in short, a really good Latin to give him exact details he would used to work. His grandson, now shoehorn on my return that day, is talking about."

And true that the time las gone by for scholar. judice opinion in any way.

My old tetor still lives, probably ask for, I would seem a employed in the same office, had his wife would in all probability beAdversaria paragraph he wrote: yet everybody seems to have read the red flag in front of the engine, and I can call him, if necessary, fraud. If I said no, I would seem given him the news, contrary to widow before night. Since then. This fellow ought to be driven the report as I did. One of my and that motorists are people who to prove that I'm not. I remem- an ignoramus, and be untruthful the regulation forbidding

The task of donning my shoes. My new to be deported. No decent persons friends has found the exact word to are up to date. The fact they over- ber, although it is many years ago besides, because, although I never divulging of official secrets. fit the tone of the speechee. That look here is that our city streets now, that one day as he was pot remember the names of princes history of this affair, which I elicitsboehorn is really of born, as it here speak to him or recognize him graph about a local crime, he word is feudal. One could are not and can perhaps never be ting dway the birch he said he sup- and dynasties, and never try, Ied by cross-examination, was should be. The metal ones are not in any way." Opposite & imagine an encastled baron talking up-to-date, which means that our posed I never would be. He was think I know a great deal of bis- someuhet as follows: I have to so pleasant to use.

In Thursday's Mom Wrote: I happened to see this of carie and varieta as Mr. Crawlocal scorchers must always be right. The gift of prophecy was tory, meaning the spirit and not italicise the somewhat because of

INGENIOUS, g Post, Mr. chap being taken to jail. He look- ed a bad un." Opposite a concert ford talked of the, local people. ahead of date in desiring such rapid his that day. For what stall the dry bones of it. So I fenced: toy poor memory. Yet I think 1

Jackson wrote thut There were one or two half-transit as is nogal elsewhere.Latin I want, nowadays, I usually I asked him what land and what have got it substantially correct:

show. This gushing report is all hearted admissions, uttered as it No sensible man strides through turn up these handy appendices to period he was interested in. It In the year 18 my old friend, a certain speaker" stated his case report, he put: I was at this

furned out that he had been read then a mere lad, told the Chief rather more disingenuously, and bull. It was a cotten concert were apologetically that pedes nursery of crawling infants as he the dictionary.

with brutal literary bluntneas.'' trians may possibly have some does through a field of Swedes, and

The people who ing a book about Elizabeth. Be Clerk that the gum bottle waɛ rights but for the most part the marathons are not run in drawing

WHY NOT A think in Hong- asked me did I believe there had empty. The Chief Clerk mention: As the dictionary says that dis. By this time he was quite interest- speeches illustrated the existence rooms littered with bric-a-brae

SYMPOSIUM? kong, are not so really been found evidence toed it to the cadet who was head- ingenuous means "meanly artful; ed in his task, and hunting glee- a profound conviction that the Hongkong is a parlour of human

I pointed out to him that prove that. Elizabeth had a babying the department. A note was unbecoming true honour and dig fully for items-on which he could roads are the motorist'e, and the bric-a-brac. It is a nursery of they can afford to stay apart. Why I told him that I believed Elizabeth sent to the Colonial Secretary who bity, and the speech was made

{Continued on Page 5.) readth thereof. As a persistent crawling intants. It is impossible not a-symposium? I have often was the sort of woman to have had minuted that another should be by a

ADVERSARIA.

HONGKONG

THEIR

numerous

CROWN AGENT

the look forward quite happily to the out of the Colony. I hear he is

fellow member of the

comment.

PAIR-