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SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1921

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PT. TOM

ADVERSARIA.

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I am one of the first to challenge oraculer LITERARY Nterary Indements, to deny the right of anyone to pontificate

A SHOCKING

(Continued from Page, 4.)

A young man that

OPINION.

THE MAKER OF might want to on sach matters, because I realize that & FISH-ROCKS. produce literature! there are no real standards which a could not do.le, man may learn and observe. Uni- fer than come to Hengkong, and mately all literacy opinions depend

GHILDREN'S CORNÍE.

My dear Children,

THE CHINA MATE

FUNERAL

MR. P. A. SAUNDERS."

PROGRA

The Rev. Waldegrave, Chaplain of the Seamen's Institute performed te burial service at the graveside...

There were no entries at all for last week's competition which was

The funeral of the late Mr. Peter rather sad. I suppose it was beus A. Saunders, chief officer of the ss. you did not know what to writeHwabping," whose death from deat about the King's birthday, or that stroke was reported yesterday, took you had no time and also I forget to place at the Protestant Cemetery last mention that there would be twa evening. nice prizès as usual.

However I am going to try again and I hope that a great many of you will try too. I am putting in thres rhymes about animals but am not mentioning their names: and am leaving it for you to guess them. Send in the answers before next Wednesday, the 22nd to Peter Pan c/o The Ching Mail Office" and there will be a small prize for way This is an easy competition for all of one who sends the right unsters you, big and small, girls and boys.

Your loving,

PETER PAN.

THE BAMBOO SNAKE,

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walk about with his eyes open. Re-ion the individual taste. I can sympa- {call a naturalist, that is to say he was porters, newspaper reporters, do not! thise with Robert McWhirter's seem to want to make literate, and i

they do seem to walk abeet with cities in attempting to read their eyes shut. Just imagine what? "Sartor Resartus," and to some George Warnington Steevens would extent pardon his corcidaton that it bave made out of our Hongkong is not great literature. But why the sreets! Of course, it is not easy to gratuitous mention of the immortal write as he did, but were I a young Don Quixote" as "up" only fit writer, at large in Hörgkong. I would!

to be thrown into the backyard or try very hard to coils. The place used as shasing paper? The naive is full of things waiting to be given philosophy of Robert McWhirter pen pictures. The other evening reminds the sa often of that of

watched a Chinese youth making

Those present as chief mourners were Mr. E. T. Bunje (representing Messrs Nemazte and Co.) and Mr. Lawson, of the Standard Oil Co.

VIOLIN AND PIANO.

YESTERDAY'S RECITAL.

Hall by Mr. Vladimir Siroido (violia Last evening's recital at the City

virtuose) and Mr. Harry Ore (planist composer) constituted a repetition of

artists at their opening carcert-os the success gained by the talented

Tuesday. There was a moderately good attendance and the whole pro- gremme which consisted for the most

part

of classical members, was thoroughly enjoyed.

and Fugue D minor." (Bach-Busoni) Mr. Ore opened with "Toccata and Ballade C minor (Grieg), Mr. Suroida following with Tchaikovsky's

Wreaths were sent by the Staff. Messrs. Nemazet and Co., the Capt, and officers of the "wahping China Coast Officers' Guild, "his MecPherson and Visscher," Mr. and sorrowing friends and shipmates

'Violin Concerto, op. 35" and 'three Mrs. T. Matthews and Mr. E. T. Hot the programme Mr. Siroido was bracketed items In the second part Banje.

WEST RIVER STEAMERS.

ATTEMPTED UNAUTHORISED

SEARCH.

DINITISH CAPTAIN'S 'SUCCESSFUL PROTEST.

conspicuously successful with his masterly playing of Saint Saens” In- troduction and Capriccio and Mr. Cre's' piano contributions were alo well received. Both artists suïcreded in establishing even more firmly their claim to be considered as artists of high merit,

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

Nancy's father was what people

very interested in all nature tags, birds, insects, flowers, trees and everything else of which you can think. He was anxious for Nancy to get to notice everything too and Fifteen minutes after leaving Sam- when they went for walks together shui on Wednesday afternoon, the be used to point out all sorts of la-British steamer on a voyage from teresting things.

* Hongkong to Wuchow, was stopped by a signal from a Chinese gunboat. Three men not in uniform came of beard and questioned by the Captain FOR SALE-HENDERSON through ani interpreter

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Then when Nancy was eight years old they went out to Hongkong for a time and oh what excitement there was packing up and getting off and

said

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Serebo Parza, based· more on then the voyage in the big boat. At that they intended to search fish-hooks. His factory did not cover *** cannyness" than on scholarship, last after some weeks they settled the ship. The Captain protested i dition. We bare jas completed a

a square yard of ground, yet he

per

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hour.

about His

was turning 'hundred

plast was a bijou anvil, a pair of pliers, a tack hammer, a hale Fie, and a coil

"What is it Daddy" she asked, wondering to herself what it could

Also

A Divele with new tires and a First

that was really startled to meet down in their der house on the side strongly and refused to admit right and it is a snap for someone. $150.00

except by accredited such a reference. Ic my hot, im- of a green hill, looking over the of search

beautiful blue sea with its islands Customs officiak. He therefore puisive way I cried out that this man

turned ship and returned to Samshui should never again dare to air an dotted about here and there.

One day when Nancy was nine where the Harbour Master came | opinion on a literary subject. When at wire. He took no cotice of me had calmed down from the Quirctic years old and could write well and aboard and later accompanied the Class Powertal SMITH MOTOR. but worked away like Tackleton's to the Panzale mood, I realized that could spell all the words that were Captain on shore to confer with the WHEEL Attached We also guarantee torrades in the "Cricket on the to take it so would be to ut at the pot too difficult, her father said to Customs Commissioner. Later the Wheel and Bike to be in First Heart. End of wire laid on edge giant alotinavens (as Swift called her," Narcy I am going to give you conference took place in the saloon class mechanical condition. $150.00

anvil. Rasp, rash. Three or low m), as Panza might have put it, something to do."

of the steamer attended by Cash. REEVES & COMPANY) 106 quick file strokes, and its pointed to take a hammer to crack a louse,

the Commissioner, the Harbour to 11. Woo Song Street, at Jurdan hd barbed.

One quick turn of the Robert criticising Tammas is a case of

Master, the Captain, and the local Road, Vacmati, Kowloon. s, and the fish-hook curve is ademagoguepecking at a mystagogue,, te.

Magistrate who had come on board Tap, tap, and the finished but for me to defend the immortal

Whenever you come across some accompanied by an officer. The & is snipped off and in the tray; Spaniard from the paper onslaught thing that you have not seen before. Commissioner drew the attention of the next inch of wire leaping to of a morial Scot would be as idle he went on, "a flower or animal or the Magistrate to the Treaty con- the book stage. There are so many as for Einstein to write a treatise to whatever it may be I want you to dion under which foreign vessels of these little industries in the set prove that water is wet. According write down what it is like and if you could not be searched in Chinese here, ali most interesting to watch to the wide, you scond rever do it well I will give you twenty waters except by Customs officers. The tinsmiths and coppersmiths, the read any writing that tries to prove centa."

After a long discussion the Magistrate men who rivet broken crockery Logo

Oh thank you Dadds, "cried gave the Captain a pass to proceed ther again, the rattan workers, the anything: and I certainly would pot

search-just as EMS blacksmiths (but you had better enjoy the task of trying to prove to Nancy who was very fond of write without

Cicala," was seen entering the port. my contemporary that he has pering and kept a little notebook in watch them in tooler weather). Ho petrated something like a literary which she wrote short tales and drew

Don pictures. I think that will be fun!" have "knack.” Subtle "brains and blasphemy in describizg

Quixote" as "knight errantry gup."

So after that she was always bunt- lissom fingers have done more for If one of our University students ing about for something new and the Icivilization than Kunpowder or

were to ask me which he should pre- first thing that she wrote about was statecraft. Here in Hongkong one ferably read during lecture hours, the bamboo snake. This was it!- may see the craft of ages, concentrat Cervantes or McWhirter, I'm afraid fed in one small skuil and one pair of

hands. Unlike the "Pictures," this disloyalty,, I shudder at the thought in Hongkong. The only one that is my vote would have a look of local There are not very many snakes

wonderful are the bands of men that

The Bamboo Snake.

The British Commander came ou board and expressed approval of the Captain's stand. The Kochow," then proceeded without further in- terference.

i

LOCKE, AND GENERAL.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE Undergued here received in-

don

stractions to sell by Public Auc» |

(For account of A. LAMBELET, Esq.)

COR

FRIDAY,

June 21, 1921, at 10.30 am at 22 Hamphreys Boiblings, Kowloon, THE Valuable Household Furniture, therein comprising:- Dining Room and Bed Room Suites,

entertainment is free, save for a trißthat comes to me of what Robert poisonous (Nancy had to ask how to Private Secretary to the Governor is Blackwood Writing Desk and Tables,

of shoe-leather.

LADS,

Mr. North's appointment as

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Glass and Cains Ware,

Sel

$150

The provisional recognition of Senior O. D. Canseco as Bolivian Consul is gazetted.

McWhirter might tell us about spell this word) is the bamboo make gazetted. Of Laws this paragram: Davie Hume's chapter "the It is not very big and it is thin It There is, good people, the probability of causes." supposing is yellow underneath and green on law of God, the Law of he could find the Human Nature its back and looks just like a piece of lawyers, the unwritten law, the laws treatise among the sixpenny books bamboo. If it bites you it makes of nature, and doubtless some others that he bought when he acquired his you very ill and the doctor mast we might add to the list were it editions of Carlyle. It is, by the come and let out the poison. worth our while to stop and cast way, a rather pleasant shudder, with

&c.

? Ceiling Fans. (Full Particolars from Catilogue). On view day before sale.

Terms: Cash. I saw one coming out of the bushes

Mr. Severn now has a road named for him. Severn Read is on Mount Gough. Wardley Street has not yet been changed to Stabb Street, but it will be.

the Shanghai

about in the thickets of memory. For a thrill of hope in it. I shall look at the bottom of the garden. I ran example, the Law of Supply and for further literary hints in the Tele and called my Daddy quickly and he Demand. Somehow that word law graph, of which I am nowadays diskilled it with his stick. That was a seems to make this damnable thing posed to edo what Voltaire said of good thing, wasn't it? respectable, which is a great pity"ja" minor prophet, namely, that

According to That was all but Nancy's Daddy People cannot be got to call it a Habakkak dait capable de tout. Its said that he thought that anyone Journal of Commerce a representative phenomenon, because that is a hard occasional notes by "Librarian," ap who read it would know what a of the Peking Government has arriv. word. Could we induce them tolparenth prepared on the Partington bamboo snake was like and he gave ed in Shanghai and secured a loan of speak of it as the Excuse of Demand formula for lectures to Colonial her twenty cents, which pleased her $4,000,000, which will soon be sent and Supply? That might help Institutes, are a real joy to me very much

to Peking. The loan is a short-term You know that a man drowning at inasmuch as they seem as informativé" the end of the pier, offers an ad as "Sandford and Merton" without

one and is borrowed at the rate of 12 per cent mirable illustration of the Demand that classic's dull accuracy. part of it. He would pay you almost Don Quixote as discardable gup! anything in reason for the lifebuoy | Arrah!

which hangs rear your elbow, "and

represents the supply. You are clear

in your minds, I hope, as to the

implications of that phrase, the Law

WE Ý

**MAY-DAY

But

CELEBRATED?

of Supply and Demand?, It implies that it is fair and just and right to IS make the price at which you will supply depend upon the extent and keenness of the demand, which Like the use of mistleme at Christ

demand is too often a Need. Here mas, and many other similar cus- in Hongkong I suppose you know toms, the celebration of the first of

PETER PAN.

Why did the owl owl?. (how)) Because the woodpecker wood- pecker (would peck her)..

I write of things that go on legs, The cat that purrs, the dog that begs, But I won't mention any name And so you see it's like a gatzt. I write a verse-you read it now And say "Why it's a horse or cow!" Or just whatever it may be That's all the gate. Now do you

see?

bat amas just now can get fair May as a holiday comes down to us wages but that later on they must from the days of the Druids in Eng- take much less. At the beginning of land who solemnized the feast of Bel Can you guess these three? the hot weather, when people wear on May 1 by lighting immense fires This animal if you don't mind mere clothes that need washing in honour of this deity, and to this will come up quietly from behind famahs are în Demand: but on day the holiday is known in the approach of the cold weather, parts of Soland 25 Beltine" er And if you do not haste away

many And butt you once or twice, they may starve for all some people

Dealine"-"the day of Bel's fire." He'll go on butting half the day- case. People do without” an ämah Partly to offset the influence of It isn't very nice. when the laundry bill looks like these pagan customs, and partly to ing less than her wages. Another funny Blustration of this Law is that month of May was dedicated to the The stupidest of four legged things then rice was very dear people. pre virgin, the Roman Catholic clergy Yet loved by children dearly. ferred to pay Aman a fixed wage and commenced to hold church celebra-He's often driven in a cart leave her to feed herself, but whes tions on this day, end the "Queen of And then behaves most queerir

call stention to the fact

that the

ice is cheap they like to give her six the May" was thus originally For suddenly he won't go on or seven dollars a month "and coow." Where a dog is kept, she has a blematic of the Mother of Christ. But utterly refuses,

chance to balance matters, for when In Sweden, the day is still celebrar-You'll find that coaxing is no use, he last halt bottle of milk, or the ed in a manner which curries us back Re doesn't mind abuses.

ast half pound of butter, or the last to its Druidic significance. Huge

o inches of whisky, is enquired torfires are lighted throughout the And though be's little he is strong.

or she can always say, cheerfully, countryside and a sham battle is Even sticks won't make him rus,, Hap makee pay Fido." There staged between two parties; one re- A nice sleek trim young thing he is, sed to be a lot of talk about presenting Winter and the other But oh he can amoy one i egistration of Servants, and there Summer, the latter being always vic

te lots of people who still think it tomous. Winter is then baried in Flashing here, flashing there, ould be a good thing. While the affigy and his ashes are strewn over 2w of Supply and Demand remains the grave. Respectable Excuse (instead of the Gradually, however, the celebra

Swinging high up in the air, Bushy tailed, furry brown, Climbing, scrambling up and down.

bean thing it is) I think the more tions of May Day on the Continent Un a tree, down again, figent need is Registration of have taken on a more sinister aspect Safe in tree trunk when there's rain. Lasters, and Mistresses. I believe for May 1 was the day selected by the. See in piles on the floor Se of those horribly realist Russian radical elements for their demo Nuts and fruit for winter store.

velists could (after proper study) strations, against legalized authority,

File a story about our Chinese serv and of Iata" years' few May-days have

No

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