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SATURDAY, APRIL

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[China Mast SPECIAL

a." I never heard anyone deny agreed that much of our necessary of the unmeant jest is with the sion, and would easily miss the styla." paint that the phrase brawling that Winston has brilliant style development should be paid for out receiver. "Can we wonder," be sailors was a most mild way of His articles in the Sunday papers of legs, as the fairest way of dis- cries, at the immensa number of tributing the cost; but there are tilly, frivolous, giddy, giggling, full- referring to the incidents which are remarkably nncramped.

I cannot see tach in those who, noting Government grown fools, who, in the present evoked in own little serman at the

VERBAL this, which reader extravagance, are opposed to loans reign of Queen Victoria, infest all time. But now let me return to

contributes, but par- because they fear they would en- ranks of society, when we reffect ATTEMPTED GANG ROBBERY. the quotation from the chaplain.

haps it has a point I courage the Government to further that their nascent minds were per- (a)I read. He cannot have

verted and distorted and shrivelled read the article in which the phrase miss A Scottish padre, to ang extravaganw. appeared, or he would not have ment a dwindling congregation.

For the various opin in childhood by reading trashy gar ions of experts as to bage like... Jack the Giant

Suuärors, Apell- 22, added that it applied also to sol invited a paper to play in the kirk. EXPRET

OPINIONS, bow the different Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, The shooting affair in Johore fol diers. No soldiers were involved. While the music was on, a shep-

will...

affect Little Red Riding Hood. To be towed an attempted gang robbery. 1 think, and I certainly mentioned herd strayed in, listened a while,

and in a voice quite sudible all over business, I refer my readers to the told that these old favourite stories The Europeans concerned were assist "the kirk said "dufter. The padre report of the meeting, merely re- are "the bane and curse of the in-ing the police. They were sot (b) in the local newspapers. The phrase twice quoted was in the demanded to know who had utter minding them that come of the said tellect of the rising generation, and, arrested. Chine Mail only, and the Chinated such an improper ward in the experts are bound to be prejudiced. In a vast majority of cases, the Mail was the only paper to des) Lord's bouse? An elder, respond-

Done

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with the question in such a way os to receive comment.

brawling sailors"-a point er to the source of the phrase, to the paper which Must Not Be Named

(d) take it that means.” This quarter covered by comment in (a).

Now, if Mr. Statt did read the China Maila comuehts, and was reluctant to be fair to it, he de serves full credit for the intricate ingenuity of that reference. If (as is possible his discourse was Inis- reported. I mist withdraw my co pliments and re-address them to the Daily Press reporter, who I would thereupon and in such case concede) shows promise of becoming a Master in the Fine Art of Being Unfair.

AND A VERSE OR TWO.

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Made worse by bad Exchange, And, frightened by this double

foe;

CLASS PRIVILEGE

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COUNTING THE PEOPLE.

"Come, thou goddess, fair and

free,

In heaven yelept Euphrosyne, And, by men, heart-easing mirth. **

Fisher Gawin's

LE GALLIENNE. Colonial Library includes a book

· TO-MORROW'S GREAT TASE.

[A Singapore, cable dated April 14, Notice the calm and utter ruin of their morals, will stated:Two European planters matter-of-fact way surprise some people. Others (like named Allgrove and Nichol have ing, said he didna ken whs had

in which yesterday's me) it will amuse. Good old been arrested in connection with z ca'd the piper a daffer, and be

Morning Post men George, who offers to John Milton shooting affray on Pelepah Valley didna care. What he parteecularly desired to know was wha ca'd this tioned that, in view of his family a certain amount of pity of Estate in Johore in which two Chinese connections at Home," "influence" unmingled with contempt for not were killed, the Europeans consider. doffer a piper.

And "M.S. was used to get a rogue called John ting forth (in the euphoniousing them gang robbers.]

sends Gordon, Grans om of Hongkong strains of ** L'Allegro") such allur. (D.d.a.)" in a verse or two jail, free of a seven year sentence? ing incentives to debauchery which jingle plea-That sort of injustice were damn in the passage beginning:

able, even if the well-connected ' santly enough to deserve a place.

We run away from taxes

man had gone straight afterwards. From the old-world to the new

But John Gordon Grant: til) civil, Emar England and America engineer, and former government But taxes still pursue.

employee, is reported to have earn.]

POINTS. ABOUT THE CENSUB. We meet the good old Income ed and got several subsequent convictions, his latest being six

What is the population of Hong- months hard in London, 1-hope by Richard Le Gallienne, entitled to hear of no more cases of clase The Paradise of the. Wild Apple." Kong?

To-morrow it will be the duty of discrimination at Hongkong. A have failed to find a copy at the Our steps still farther range. gentlemanly thief is just as local bookshops, and any reader everyone resident in the Colony, much a thief as a proletarian thief, happens to have an unwanted copy, whether domiciled in a mansion on the In vain we fly abroad again To seek the easy East.

and should have like treatment. in readable condition, I would like Peak or ena sampan on the harbour, No scoper do we get there than

George Vasey said in to buy it. "No are offering me a to supply the authorities, per medium The taxes are increased.

A BYDONE 1875: The physiol copy on loan, as I want it for a of a correctly filled in census form, ogical fact is that reader at a distance, who invoked with the information that will enable The good old Civil Service man

them accurately to answer that ques Inored to English ways

coughing and langh my aid in the matter.

tion. (a queer thing for an are to do:]

If the Old Past Renews his empty treasure boxing are both performed by the same

There are probably few portions doubtless 'tis the Speaking Eve the

As in his Homme spent days. important organs, and they both 77 STIVES. Office premises did of the British Empire where the work poets prate of) that I myself have

And we who still write Hoffs our have a very similar influence on sometices been unfair. I do not

he lungs and brain, and that in- Government, I'll bet 14,000 roables of taking a census presents greater doubt it. Any ordinary fool can

·Must bear a doulie curse-- fluence is always of a painful and to a bottle of Dairy Farm milk that problems than in Hongkong and fas- blunder into unfairness, even "into"

The barrenness of letters

injurious character." George must the Sanitary officials would immedi terday the Census Officer (Mr. 1. D. being grossly unfair. It is, indeed. almost inevitable. That is beside! The bareness of our purse! have been dead these urany years, ately order them to be closed. If Lloyd) was induced to discuss with a China Mail reporter some of the Bother! Here comes and grinning in his coffin, instead they belonged to a Chinese the difficulties that have confronted him the point. This disenssion is about

old M. Government of congbing in his laughing, so we P.W.D. would condemn them. in his taak. "One factor" Savid Mr. unfairness as an art. a very differ- ent matter. We who are unfair: CALLER. a-calling, taking no cannot thank him for his warning The floors are rotten and danger Licydwhich at one time promised notice of the card box that langhter distends the lungs ons. At the top of the stairs, right seriously to interfere with our effects without intending it deserve no credit for it, and require merely a which says "Out." She's a dear and prevents the blood from par- next door to a room into which was the incidence of the Chinese few words of caution, to be more old thing, of course, and can be suing its course therein. He denied young girls are constantly going for festival Ching Ming, which in same careful, to be, indeed, scrupulously very kind and useful: but to-day that laughter was natural to man, music lessons, there is a place that respects corresponds to our English Careful to eliminate such flukes. she'll be a bore. Quick, dear. Tell and said it was a vice of civiliza- I cannot describe without a gross Christmas. Several of the Chinese In uncivilized tribes, he offence to delicacy. It appears to enumerators whom we had been This, bones Tujun, and to the best the Boy to meet her at the door and tion.

The Eye that peeps MEA CFLEX. over my sbonlder, as it were, whispers

woes

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not belong to.the

of my fallible human powers, I say we've just gone to a Bridge said, laughter is entirely unknown, be a rendezvous for coolies, and carefully educating for some time in essay. Every paragram I write party.That is the general impres- because savage mothers do not cor- has the seven and seventy separate the work of distributing census forms, here should be understood to havelson I got of the Chamber of Com-rupt their children by tickling stinks of Cologne beaten to a dis-suddenly left us in order to make He instanced the noble gusting frazzle. I do not thank the the customary annual pilgrimage to this implied preface: "I guarantee werce conference on the new taxes. them.

In my position as Red Man, whose only crime was gentleman who compelled me to go the graves of their ancestors and we nothing I am the Average Ass.

TRE friend, philosopher, war, never laughter, Mark Twain, and see it. I have been ill ever were faced with the necessity of But I have carefully thought over

getting hold of new men and CENSES. and guide, I have noting that the noble Red Man was since. the matters bere discussed, and

schooling them as well as we could been consulted, with being pushed nearer and nearer the",

time left the limited

20 these are my thoughts about them

The crowded state, of the Chinese quarter naturally makes it dificult to locate each separate family and of course there is quite - a big section of the native popnla tion that lives aboard the harbour sampana

OR ORANG 10

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Now remem

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LOGAL AND GENERIL-

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Questioned as to the method to be?

Mr.ed for the purpose. During to-day

and tomorrow motor boats manned.

by Chinese enumerators will cour

and after recording particulars of unnecessary passport the crew will mark a cross upon itä prow "to indicate that it has been dealt with..

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at the time of writing. I do not every appearance of anxiety, by a setting sun, opined that this was criticise another man's speech or gentleman who occupies a flat and rough on the setting sun, and we article without reading it all, atentertains company every Saturday laughed, being neither noble nor tentively and thoughtfully, and I night, the entertainment usually red, nor a George Vasey. George

Police Inspector Lanigan do not say

the local newspapers" continning until: Sunday tiffin time. conla appreciate wit, but objected gazetted sanitary inspector for Shan

He has just got his census paper to be tickled by it. He says: when I mean one paper,

How jolly thrill- and discovered-well, maakee, he Lonis the Fifteenth once heardian. TIGER, BEAR, ing was that story asks me what he ought to do, cry that an Englishman (Lord Stair) His Excellency 'the "O.A.G.]

Wednesday the party off, or camouflage the at his court was remarkably like rescinds the proclamation quarantin. adopted in obtaining particulars papers, of a weird census paper? The answer is in himself. Upon his going to court, ing Bangkok.

from the sampan falk. Mr. Lloyd wild beast at large the affirmative.

the King, who was very guilty of;

explained that a fleet of motor beats After considerable tif-saying rude things, observed, upon. Mr.. A.:0. Lang is gazetted and other craft had been requisition- on the Kowloon side. Being "dark

TO-DAY'S fing with the editor of seeing him remarkable like Unofficial MI.C. during brown, and nostriped, the tiger

TIFFIN. my reptile evening ness, upon my word. My Lord, Holyoak's absence. theory is a wash-out. Some insist that it's a bear, it's a bear,"

contemp❜ry, in a pro- was your mother ever in France?

A French passport visa now the harbour, board each sampan which suggests that it may after fessional way, it seems only right To which his lordahip replied, with all, bave been a Hitchikoo. Those that I should have them with him great politeness-No, please -your costs $8.35. How long is the perai

This clous and who said it was a kangaroo over-in a friendly, social way. So the majesty, but my father was." looked the statement that it even-newspaper lads are bringing Editor was admirably witty, but it does systems to continue? tually strolled away," Kangaroos Hicks and me together to day, and not excite laughter. never stroll. If it was seven feet shoving luncheon into us, on con bér, Reader, you are not to laugh,{ Suffering from injuries received All Schedules must be completed long and 31 feet high it couldn't dition that we come marmed. Mr. or George will turn in his grave through being knocked down by by April 25 when the work of collect--

motor cycle No. 144 in Safwanho, ing the census papers will commence. have been Eve, my escaped mon-Hicks is going on well-earned leave. way and reproach you.

So George says, 'Shaukiwas, a coolie is how in the The work of the enumerators wil key, who is at large on that side, I. da mit, as the Hons say, carry but perhaps the mist magnified it.on at the old stand. I personally LACGHTER IS adding that the Government Civil Hospital in a be considerably facilitated if:house-

Also hocks. I hope IMMORAL moral and intel critical condition.

helders will leave the schedule, The orang atau suggestion, the like Hicks.

AND UNISTEL- lectual character

when duly completed, in possession Now I like the LECTUAL. of the habitual Members of the Church of Eng- of some responsible person likely to EPISTOLARY epistolary style ob

laugher is low, land Men's Society are reminded of be in the house when the enumera- served by the Kow-Fan, as it is complaisantly call the Service for renewal of member tors call, It will probably take **very brutal appearance,"

loon Besidents' As-ed, silly conceits, incongruities, and ship and issue of badges of the new anything from a week foten to zather in all the The Rev. Gordon W. B. E.G. Statt, chaplain of H.M.S. strongly inclines me to suspect that sociation and the Colonial Segre inconsistencies, are altogether be pattern which will be held after the days

schedules and Mr. Lloyd saticipates Tilénia, had a sort of ser- it is Eve, still pining for society. tary. In the crash of planets and neath the self-regard of a sensible evening service to-morrow.

that he will be in a position to sub- won reported in the Daily Press it is that intelligert and affec- the clang of Bolshevism, with man to imitate or encourage." And

Habitual On Des Voeux Road yesterday mit a preliminary report of the result on Tuesday, in which be put our tionate lady, the police may leave strikes and taxes proceeding and then the knockout.. best hotels on a level with Sampan their guns at home. She is harm-tempus fugitting, it is pleasant to laughers are invariably either ignor afternoon, a tram car collided with of the censes some time during next I an empty ricsha, The ricsha coolie May. The last census was taken in Street houses, of entertainment, less, except to bananas. Any think of them swapping chits con-ant, vulgar, or uncultivated. This comment of mine is true, but banana compelled by business to taining rotand periods of this sort: am grateful for that word either." had a lucky escape, but his vehicle the Colony in 1911. There are it would be unfair to let it stand, be out where she is must be pre-I have the honour to inform you It helps me to bear up under the was badly damaged. It has not been many circumstances to indicate that

in this connection that I am under unkind suggestion that this French ascertained who was responsible for

the accident. because I can gather from the compared to sell its life dearly.

I was fooled into instruction to observe that my com- drinking chorus proves that all we text that Mr. Statt did not dislike the hotels. In fact, be said be FAITH AND reading three columns ittee have yet to be convinced laughers are drunkards.

Francs buveurs qui Bacchus often went to them himself. Hay-

in Thursday's Mern- that it would be improper for me

attire ing Post by Mr. H. on their behalf to express the hope ing thus shown my own inability

The China Mailposal. conventional method, villagers' story that it sat on its we have bocks at the Hicks tiffin.

ATRONE, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICE

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921.

ADVERSARIA.

OF BUNG

UNESIE

There are so many

some immaterial detail of the pro- highly artistic when it was original, is to misrepresent the purport and purpose of the proposal.

fore

raunches like a man, with its legs" hanging down by its side, and that it had a “long nose," and

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FACTS.

STYLE.

to be artistically unfair, I proceed Davies, of Fong Chuen, Canton, that the Government at an early to praise Mr. Statt for a specimen who reminded me that facts are date will find itself in the happy position to be able to emulate this

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Dana ses retraites qu'il cherit, Avec nous, venez boire et rire. Plus on est de foux, plus on rit.

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the 1921 census will reveal that very considerable increase in population has taken place since then.

WHY

DOES SALT MELT SNOW?

A shopkeeper carrying on busi- news at No. 134 Bonham · Strand -reports to the police that a foli whom

be entrusted with $1,000 to pay to two other shops, has not returned. En- THE FINE ART ways of being un- of the highest artistic merit in this things that all honest thinking style and to formulate a reply of The fuller" we get the more we quiries made at the other shops fair that gentle class. He is reported to have said: people must. face fairly." the same category which I am fur laugh, that means, but it isn't true showed that the man had not de-

When Farenheit, who gave his inen are used to

a personal appeal that I I read in the local newspapers was

name to the thermometer in most be somewhat care about brawling sailors-1 take it couldn't resist, and I carefully read ther under instruction to observe of all. Surly men get drunk toovered the money.

should receive sympathetic con-

To find a whole

Members of the QCO.BA. are general use to-day, made his extreme. less in the matter, and to be un-that means soldiers; .too." That for the facts about Ratana, an

XCRSERY chapter on the fair in a crude and inartistic way is a splendid example, as it imports alleged faith healer in New Zea sideration and satisfaction equally

TALES ABE degrading and sici- reminded of: (1) The Annual Dincer ly interesting experiments with vary There is now apparent the neces- at least four unfair elements, or one land, represented as investigated with suy application from that

ous consequences of to be held on Saturday the 23rd tasting degrees of temperature in the

In the College Hall at 8 pm. (2) early part of the Eighteenth Century,... aity of collating a number of exam. to each four words. The phrase by a reporter of the Napier Tele-group which has already been as

GARBAGE. the habit of laugh The Cricket match to take place on the found that the lowest temperature ples, including the more striking brawling sailors" is twice given graph and by a committee of the beneficently gratified, I have,

etc

ing was, you will the same day at 2 pm, on the Indian which he could obtain was that aristic consciences of those who to have been my own. It offended, I had to wade through volumes of But isn't that "ete." rather guess, most refreshing. I have Recreation Club Gund at Sookum secured from sure of ice and contrasts, so as to awaken the in quotation marks, and it happens Wanganui Presbytery. As usual, are determined to be unfair, and when I used it, certain sailors who hearsay, to get at the facts, which tree and out of keeping with the taught the other three papers to poo Valley and not on the College salt. This mixture, which slowly persuade them to improve their (1) did not know that the word I here present as found by the two matuous gorrhea of the pre-laugh more than they did, and to Ground as previously advertised. melts the dat produces a liquid

liminary cackle ? sow smile seed, and if George

which is much colder than water at methods. The brute who coarsely brawling merely means noisy separate testimonies

The Daily Telegraph reporter:

Mr. Edkins said truly Vasey was right in 1875, I have The Robert Dollar Company is the freezing point 32° above zero- remarks that some advocate of some quarrelling" (3) did not (as one

Who,' he de increasing the number of its Faror even of mow, which might be ROADS at the Chamber of Com-done wrong. sostensive reform has an axe to admitted) read the whole of my Paid a visit of two hours. Saw

AGAIN. merce meeting that there mande, would transform them Eastern vessels. A new vessel shortly referred to is loosely frozen rain grind achieves unfairness, but article, and (3) quite missed the Ratana's secretary. Did not see

Ratana himself was]

will always be differences selves into monkeys, or magpies, or to be put on the service is the The addition of coare salt to Sempramus himself would admit spirit and intention of it. The Ratana.

buffoons (as thousands are in-the-freighter--Kurland" of 16,000 tons snow or broken particles of ice. that he doesn't deserve it. It Daily Press reporter, in pointedly absent." No one knew when he of opinion on points like the habit of doing) if their unmeaning displacement, which was built during therefore, causes both the snow and mediate practical utility of certain would be quite as effective, and quoting my phrase, and in report would return. much more artistic, to murmuring that Mr. Statt referied to The Presbytery Found that new roads, but didn't he thereafter absurdities, were visited with silence the war in Germany and handed over the ice to melt, changing the char that while poor dear So-and-so un-local newspaper comment on Ratana was away from home. Mr rather, alur the point which com and contempt? I think of my to Great Britain before a pound of acter of both, and producing a doubtedly means well, and although Brawling Sailors himself achieved Wilson later get a letter from him. pels my opinion to differ from some pictures of last week, and I blush cargo was placed in her holds. She liquid which has much lower something might be said for the considerably artistry. By omitting So far as I, as an bonest think others. We want he went on, bolly: Yet with all his gravity, his has been purchased by the Robert freezing point than water. If salt so-called reform be advocates, we, to mention that Mr. Staff applanding man, an concerned, I have no more house accommodation and profound solemnity and dignity Dollar Company, for use in the New is applied to snow in extremely cold must not forget that he had a failed and endorsed my comments evidence yet that Ratana the healer lower rents, and we can only get George moves me to laugh. It York-Vancouver-Hongkong route weather little change la noticeable such advantages try opening up new isn't he fault. It is clear that She was purchased from the Ministry because the resultant liquid freezes from his pony last April, which was (which as a Christian chaplain he exists. understood (among his best friends) was bound to do if he read them),

The papers nowadays areas away from the cities by Shakespere was right as usual when of Shipping. as fast as I is formed. But when A still he left it open to the sailors who

pleasing mesas of better way would be to declare in did not attend thaf service to gather WINSTON habit of intings that certain of our

clever not and can "epigrams favour of the reform he advocates, that Mr. Statt had referred con- STYLE, and to mention casualy that the demisionly to an obelisive phrase.

sayings of idea of it was given him by an in- That, of course, were absurd, but I saw this week that Winston opinions. mate of the lunatic asylum, who, we are obliged to remember that Churchill was created for all you know, was wrongfully our sailor friends are not experts! There is no It is good also to praise in the miceties of English expres effect of know

to have injured his head.

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have

shoth

he deny he said

do

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

open up

Of him that bears it never in THE FRUIT-SEASON.

Of him

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The speech

pay

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mameter is around 25 or snow will disappear-rapidly, Howic

the form of brise, jyst- as", the dee, and salt in, an