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WASTED
SATURJÄY, JULY 23, 1921.
We had amongst us a light railway round the western listen to fussy, sterila women, who, the vin rouge was good, and worth the succeeded in building coast to Pekfoolum. if anybody she feared, were as barren of ideas money.
But motors-no, as of babies. A most impartment
Man leut me a copy of GILBERT a romance by Gilbert FRANRAL. Frantau. chap who wrote a story before
WEO IS MRS. A
How those French states. men do seem to mix up their amours with state.
craft! I clip the follow- ing from a local paper:
This statement was made to a
correspondent of The New York
GET OUT
POEMS
THAT
MATTER
Sublime, far distant yet.
stanza hereunto #p-
The Adages of youth come then,.
I cogitate.
That a little lesvan leaveneth
the lamp
I resign myself to Fate and con-
centrale
up a legend. We had proposes that. got the people to be Our streets and roads have more lettah," said the recipient, who bad
near haunting rhymes He holds that the lieve that our Governor was a wicked than they were ever'made to carry, no more sense than to show it round.
Gorgeous metreless poems duties of a sanitymant, who wrote private letters to right now.
jarking by tary inspector de the Colonial Office, daraning Con-
Along the mere des mand more stitutional Reform, while pretending
cription me imbues heroism than do the duties of a police to be sympathetic, and then (the had
The desire for we two to meet " man or a fireman, inasmuch as he map) concealed his tracks by declaring
(I with a shotgun, are, or hatchet must sade daily through infectious, such correspondende confidential and with a Hongkong lady as a heroine
This clanking poet with a neck-- contagious, and deadly diseases.. The refusing to disclose it. Given more and thereby got. locally, a reputation
so I'd despatch it. - deadliness whereof, I suggest, were time, we call have got that idea Afterwards wrote about a cigar mer best computed by a comparison of the driven so deeply in as to be irremove chant, but I haven't read that one. Herald today by Guillaume de Tarde, T was in this morning's Morning Post, mortality statistics of these bodies ahis, and so filed Hongkong with anor a lot of verse he is accused of semi-final- the fourth was Mrs. A.me lads-the world's worst poem, as of men, and especially which of then: host of convinced Constitutional Re This romance all about a search for State consellor and adviser to you may peradventure guess by the most numerously and most lengthily formers, What's the use, when people a white tribe in central Indo China Lucian Dior, Minister of Commerce." concluding
"How beautiful the pended: enjoy the pension paid by the State. in our own camp by too great zeal said to be descended frcin earliest
world is now! We Disease germs do not congregate in give the show away? The Daily French settlers, and for a wonderful pools to be waded through; they are Press editor got Cansel Ward to get dope (red flower seeds) they had. I AND WALK, invite all politicians who stir ap strife, all em- more adventurous; they fly abroad, the Secretary of State to divulge the like romance, and the more romantic and I am advised by a physician wise confidential contents of the Governor's it is, the better. Nothing is really ployers who are ungenerous to their in these matters that a beachcomber despatch, and to our horror and dis-improbable in a real romance, so the work people, all workers who are in- runs as great a risk, and requires as may, a most innocent document is improbabilities in this yarn of considerate of their employers, and great a heroism, as any sanitary revealed Instead of being the Tory Frantau's must not be black-listed. all impatient grown-ups, to take a inspector. Which, being the case. I tyrant we were painting him, and Bet romance must not be larded with walk in a country lane, says the
Gilbert Frankau Children's Newspaper,
To those demand my medal if this zany gets could have kept on painting him. if propaganda.. one. For behold, he chinches his his despatch had been allowed to irritates in this one with his undis- who rule so much of our lives on earth, argument by mentioning that in remain a darkly suspicions mystery,tinguished didacticisms against paci who make our laws and make our the course of their duties "sabitury the man turns out to have been quite Esm, socialism, and other crankisms. wars; to those who stir up trouble; inspectors have to go into public willing to have more elected council-He is quite evidently not fitted to to those who keep alive the hate conveniences to examine then, and lars. It is impossible to go on throw-discuss such things, or any serious that does more harm to those who can anyone imagine a more disease ing bricks at a haunless and apparent-subject requiring rational processca cherish it than it can ever do to those laden place than one of these ressonable governor like that. We Might become a good romantic tale who suffer it-to all these we would Now it does seem to me, and I do not have been robbed-robbed of a teller if he simplified his style, made 385: Get ye apart into the quiet think I need press the point, that delightfully horrible Aunt Sally, of it less stilted and Borid, and avoided places, and lears the lesson that on
appear technically every wind is blown." that is an equally strong argument for our comfortable illusion that we had a the temptation
If that extract is a fair sample, the the issuance of medals to the public-Macchiavelian prince of unscrupulous- omniscient. Kipling can carry that
is absual.
are liable to hear is that the Land could not help grinning when his are better served than most adults. This letter writer. Investment Company does not really story, opening at Singapore,devoted whose effort has care about making money and that the several lines to explaining aver batu annoyed his col- Motorist Association has had a ten- (Malay for ice). What a wonderful leagues, who have mile speed limit ever since it started. capacity you have for absorbing thereupon asked me to slay him, says that the Chinese insultingly
Ltd. has Einstein's bete noir saya, nes to fight. The next thing we off Franka cannot acidentally, readers of the Children's Neerpaper
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ADVERSARIA.
OF SANITARY ISSTECTORS.
P
HIS NOISEST
PRAY.
-*
Just had a letter from a
The
On getting the Hump.
copy-book maxims of youth occur to me and I cannot avoid the temptation to insert one in my poem: A little learning is a dangerous
thing."
So I resiga myself to my ignor
ance of prosody and per- petrate
What must confer the Hump.
LOCAL AND GENERAL
The P.W.D. has maps of Kow- loon to sell
ASKING young mar. at Home ask. Mr. E. V. D. Parr's appointment“
ing my permission to marry as unofficial M.LC. for four years one of my daughters. Its gazetted.
FAPA.
The first class P. & O. fare to
If Alexander wept because there were foreign languages," says one characters an ingenuous letter, which helps! no more worlds to conquer, we are to the other-which does suggest me to envisage him, and makes him no .Dr. R. A. de Castro Basto- of call the sanitary inspectors "lapsay entitled to complain when ill-advised that the author fancies himself in stranger. As he is now, once I was, Kowloon (H.K. Univ) is added to
(rubbish officers) which people rob us of our cockshies. by that line. But later us. in Chins, and the less tender reflection that as the medical register. porgpam same shows that the creature cannot proving that our supposed enemies the word "maskee" has to be used. I am now, so he will become, does not The author 'splains (in brackets) that hinder the fellow feeling. He talks appreciate the plain meanings and are well disposed toward us.
Talking of enemies, if it means "That's all right." However. just like one of Pett Ridge's youths. Singapore has been lowered to £28- intentions of words and is liable to
Oscar Wilde had been Maskee. This paragraph means that The minx is over-age, and has her and Penang to 31. Formerly they see insult in a remark or the weather.
a member of the Hong I personally will not waste another dowry, and at first I was fattered by were £41 and £44 respectively. It is that vernacular phrase. a simple
kong. Club he would evening reading Frankan-not if this unnecessary deference to my will. attempt at a descriptive and identify ing natue, and has no purpose or have been sure to say that Constitu. can find a Deadwood Dick stor colour of disrespect in it whatever.tional Reform has no eremies. but & Even the conventionally despised A sort of English pun is necessary to wide circle of friends who all dislike it Charles Garbage pleasanter reading. make the insnit, and our Chinese intensely.
A WILDE SAYING,
do not pun in English. This same
insulted bird. when referring to one
of his own coolies, probably uses!
BOULD CHANGES COME.
It is understood that should Con- stitutional Re- form come, and
SAMUEL.
bat on reflection I perceive the wiles
Mr. Nunn, Senior Singapore
of the sex. She has inoculated that Magistrate, ordered Mr. Webb, whe was smoother,
was sued by his wife for maintenance, esger young man with an enhanced to pay her for the present $100 a sense of her own precieusness, by month. - Way back on June giving him the image of a stern and
THE BOOK OF 11-I fear you've very distant parent whose consent is The Repulse Bay Hotel advertiser forgotten all about essential. As I studied his letter Icabaret dinner dansants for tonight it, as I had myself felt a tenderness for him He was and Wednesday when the Clarins
Cantlie's claim a common but unprintable class-name
so anxious not to appear conceited will present the latest ballet and half or label which is not meant to be Sir Paul Chater become Director of quoted Dr. insulting hat to describe the nature the P..D., the Honble. Mr. Perkins that the connection between rats by listing his qualifications, and so room dances.
men tioned naturally disinclined to diminish his of his job. As, for example, when we would be invited to manage the Land and the plague is
the first Book of Samuel chance of a favourable reply by belittl- The Hongkong Cricket Club call a man a sugar-worker, we do not Investment Company. The thing is, in necessarily mean that he is sweet, would he care to take it on? Another I denied that "emerods" could be ing himself! In one place he con advertises a Tennis tournament com- so the Chinese do not mean that an problem is the disposal of H.E. when plague. Now, on July 2, which fesses, anxiously, that he has not been mencing next month for two cups officer charged by the community the Honble. Mr. Holyoak, or Mr. gives you some ides how far away confirmed! I have replied that de kindly presented by Mr. D. 1.
3 reader plorable as this is, I am, in considera- Valentine and Mr. A. Humphreys. with its rubbish disposal is himself Cartwright, becomes Governor. The my correspondent is,
Colonial Secretaryship offers less writes to tell me that Cantlie was tion of all the circumstances, inclined Among the passengers who rubbishy.
difficulties. I conid take that on my right and that I was wrong. He says to overlook it. His Jetter consists arrived yesterday by the P. & O. 5.3 This one is givense, and the Honble, Dr. Seven the emerods were buboes, and the of seven pages. It tells me his age, Manela" was Capt. A. R. Nevill to tergiversation: could be editor of the China Mail and mice rats. Cires Dr. Louis Westenra etc, his income, his prospects, his re- of the Royal Marines, who becomes He says sanitary Svastika, which might be amalgamat-Sambra of the London School of ligion, philosophy, and politics, and Aide-de-Camp to HE the Governor. inspectors handle ed then. I'm afraid we couldn't very Tropical Medicine in support. Dr. his great love for my girl-every-
KE TERGIVERSATES,
"Salud
The translators of Sannel could therefore honestly call rats mice.
ill-health) of Sir Robert A. Hampson,
infectious cases, and superintend well let Mr. Alabaster be Attorney Sambra points out that the early thing that he could think of except his At a recent meeting of the council their removal to hospital. They do General, as we want that job lor Sir medieval bestiaries describe and name! As the only name for him of the Mercantile Marine Service more superintending than handling, Robert Ho Tung, who would make picture the rat as Mus major and the I can find in my daughter's letters is Association, Mr. Gershom Stewart, so far as I have been able to see. up what he lacks of legal lore with mouse as Mus minor, and calls atten Poppets," I have addressed my M.P., was unanimously re-elected hon. Their coclies do the handling, native shrewdness. Let this be un- tion to ancient Greek, Roman, and reply (favourable) to Mr. Poppets, treasurer of that body. It was-in-
is quite wrong in thinking derstood clearly. This particular Etruscan art portraying Alus behaving at No. So-and-so, and trust it will 1918, upon the resignation (through that sanitary inspectors are despised; Constitutional Reform, when it comes, like a rat (eg. gnawing ships cordage) reach him. but I must warn him that if they were is not to be final, unless, I get the all to write letters such as he has Colonial Secretaryship, If I don't written, they jolly soon would be get that, I'll start a Sinn Fein move despised. Suppose his ambition isment, for Hongkong to be governed gratified Suppose the Government by Hongkong born. matter pisin and beyond all mis- covers "Salud's "breast with medals. understanding there are
What is likely to happen? This.
Inquisitive Acquaintance:-What is this medal for? Salud :-That i
Sensible sanitary inspectors Dignified
Indignant
Censorious
3
adjuvant
inbruted
maniable
couchant
rogatory 2:
and a vast number besides that I would rather not stop to mention new because I am coming to the fact that there seems to be a sanitary inspector who is responsible for the third on
that list, by reason of a letter that be wrote in the evening paper for the simple, advocating medals for sanitary inspectors with arguments that were
ill-made
dolorife ill-conceived revolting ridiculous repellant
gizzard-sticking stinking imbocilious wide-the-mark -aberrant
asinine
venience.
0.
I. A. And this one ?-
that's for
a
Salud That's for defesting plague microbe in fair fight.
LAWas it bigger than you? Salud: I don't know, I didn't actually see it.
I. A:And what was this one given you for?
Salud :-I won that for super- intending the removal to hospital of s cholera patient.
LA:Who remared him?
Salud --My coolies.
los
BANKRUPT.
school ship "Conway," A native of
that Mr. Gershom Stewart, who had Just below the already exerted himself so ably and China Ma office, so often in the House of Commons on One of the colonial coins of the
on the opposite side behalf of the men of the merchant. Emperor Lucius Verus, struck at Pergamum, has a figure of Aes-of the street, there's a shop shuttered service, gave further proof of his Meshwhile do not in culapins, with a rat at his feet, and up, and on the shutters are chalked interest in the profession by accepting FOR THE the least mind advising a naked patient "in an attitude of three Chinese ideographs and the the position of hon. treasurer, not fear and supplication." Does not bald English word Bankrupt." It only of the MMS.A, but also of the the existing government NONCE,
how to carry on. Issy he has bubonic plague, you see, was formerly labelled the Ten-Cent Greenock, be spent his early years in marching bravely into a public con- suggest that it should not spend all and as for that eat of Aesculapius, Store, and the brutality of that terse the Wirral, was educated at Mostra its time minuting documents and some art critics maintain it is a announcement is saddening. Those House, Park Gate, and later at Bishop- started # business Vesey's Grammar School, Sutton- working like a nice little smooth-dachshund. It is not impossible that young men
It the ancients did know that rats carry that was not a public necessity, and Coldfields. He was at one time a runzing automatic machine. should exercise its imagination, look plague about, but I require better have gone under. They spent capital member of the Hongkong Legislative ahead, and do a little planning and evidence than this, that they "doon smartening the shop front. They Council, and was elected M.P. for scheming. At present, as I ander-mesticated the natural enemies of the were young and sangdine, and fancied Wirral Division of Cheshire la 1910.
An unusual hiding place for stand it, it waits till somebody comes rat, and deified and worshipped themselves quite up-to-date, no doubt, along and ask for a site he fancies: the more useful ones, the kestrel, the and smart. Tempted by the know Then it sets its machinery in motion cobra, and the cat." Society has ledge so valiantly announced that ich opim was discovered when to (a) ascertain where the site is (b) other grievances against the rat, nothing in that store could cost them revenue officers made a haul of 725- how much it should ask for it for apart, from his trick of spreading more than ten cents, the public was taels of prepared non-Government gazette the stiction (d) eventusily plague. However, if my friend's to go in fearlessly, and once in, be sure opium worth $8,730, from the in- (after nine months or so) sign the point is merely that our ancestors to buy. Alas! The public passed terior of a ship's buoy in the harbour Information received, Superintendent papers, and (e) make a note for the knew a lot more than we give 'em by. Perhaps it thought, being used rear Causeway Bay. Acting on LA.Did they get medals too? subsequent collection of rates and credit fór, I'm with him. I would add to Hongkong prices, that noth Taylor, Chief Preventive Officer Having now by the
passed by myself, frequently. I am proceeded to the bouy by motor Salud :-No, of course not. They taxes. My idea is that it should get that modern-man knows a fat lot good could be had for ten centa. Wait and a number of Chinese RO's sorry now, that I didn't go in and boat. They had some difficulty in a large scale map and do a bit of than he thinks he does. blessing of God
are paid for the job.
Down in Malaya, the help the dream while it lasted, but unbolting the cover: The weight established rela-
1.A-I sec. They get a bigger wage suburb planning. list all the sites it
SNUBBLD. Purity Crusade has lost I never gave it a thought till the horrid of the man who climbed on the bouy tions of trust and
than you get, so these medals are to confidence with you, inasmuch as I
its pristine gilt, and the word bankrupt” hit me, and I re-caused it to turn over, and several make it up to you would cut off my entail before I would
wowsers are looking for new stunts called the bright-faced young men 1 of the searchers had a docking. Receive or mislead you good people,
Some busy bodies think they have had noticed looking out, invitingly, When the cover was eventually re and as you know that what I tall you
Not perhaps exactly discovered that babies in Malays are hopefully, from that store. Wherever moved the opening leading to the st to the best of my knowledge
My very good friend of the
taxi coba. Heard handicapped with incompetent they are now, I hope they know the interior of the bucy was so small that and belief be true, so now I can dis
BUT Daily Press has been insert-
rupours of some mothers. The Singapore Y.W.C.A. truth of Kipling's well-known line, little boy had to be squeezed in. After a few minutes' search the lad Banden myself of sundry curious
RONOKONG ? scheras to put on the is going to show 'em. Catching fire that success and failure are both in handed out three bags of good qual ing "box" reminders to his tems of information that have this
readers to sign the petition for Con-i
streets and roads from this example, a great lady in pastors. Wells (I think it is in a ty opium. In connection with this sweek come my way, the chief of which
stitutional Reform. Very good pub of this Colony a hundred cheap autoni- the FM.S., married, but unblessed book called "The Adventures of Mr. seizure an interesting point crops up. that of sanitary inspector there are
licity like that such obviously obiles for public hire at something like with babies of her own, decided to Polly has some very true and very Can the shipping company said to- #ations kinds. Of the good kinds besides which they had every air "catchy " slogans should be most 25 cents a mile or ditto per hour-give a lecture on the rearing of in-moving observations on the pathos own the buoy be made liable for hav Here are sensible sanitary inspectors, of emanating from that kind of head carefully considered His last one, didn't notice particularly, because fants. She wrote to a leading Chinese of the life of these little shop-keepers, sog fllicit opium in its possession ??
though I and many others know what not interested. Man who told me lady of that burg, asking her to sam so Ittle necessary to the public, so intelligent sanitary inspectors, com- which is variously termed petent sanitary inspectors, and
it intends, is rather unfortunate. It suggested that China Mail would demon her friends to meet and hear the adventurous and brave." Myself I can anitary inspectors that are useful
says: “If you were good enough to good by supporting the scheine words of good advice. Now that mad faithful servants of the State,
fight for the Empire, aren't you good asked if it was a scheme or a pipe Chinese lady was herself educated doing their duty modestly, making
enough to vote in the Empire" dream, and man went away disgusted in England and France, and has seen web; for people to come in,, so that is Constipation because of the lack of a wain pretensions none. These are
That, published in a garrison town, with me. My dificulty this. Felt enough not to take some people at I might try to sell them something tool fruit and vacetables in their dist to everyme, elas troubijed called good sanitary inspectors.
where even the Constitutional Re that 25 cents per mile (or per hour) their own valuation. She has I should want to hire bravoes to to them There are of other sorts, inter alia,
formers themselves do not propose to - was too dear for regular use by subur healthy brood of younglings, also, push them in. When I was on tramp by postive bowels Pinkettas e
blessing, boosuse Boy, gently -d apel· give the soldiem and sailots a vote, is ben residents, and too cheap for the So she wrote, in good English writing in Europe, I could never pass antipation, and cure the iments tary inspectors that are blonde, dark, tall, short, thin, fat, rich, de
not a well-chicem in enterprise to pay, Astwa, 1m speling, A. dimple, the testing import rous to be, poor, wise, otherwise,
be used against the petition, which believe in it, and maybe less it, when would-be matress. She eaid in it that perhaps the people had seen me billona atacks, mick besches, offer to a few civilians who bought 1 me it Bab 1 certainly will not that Chinese women had moră children from alar, and counted on me. Had tool breath, pimply and blotober. after the manner of men; that, as to
Pinkettes ses tiny, but thorough, ay they are married, single, mediate, Indeed this letter in the Telegraph temporarily what it denies to the advise my side ant to vest in than European women, that the I walked by, I pictured them looking act as gendy, tant, and, the sta it. Preferably adypo-street can, welfare of their children was their first sad, and saying: There go right laxativa perfection. for both prezen ad, young, middle-aged, energetic, seems to have emanated Immagalar fighters. Im't it clever of
• în consideration, ahead of Bridge and sous that by rigata were mina." So Druggiets all thein, ur soid-post-free. fired, teetotal thirty, religious, dunderpate, o nuoskull, a slow- to spot this 1 I'm afraid 1.
should be, day to invest my own|mine religions, and in short various pate, a sawney, a gowk, a inconcalf, take, that credit, however
bidance ($85.25, in redlink) iw|od| inspectors. To make the dotard, a hoddy-doddy, a ma- thing was pointed out to me.
foolish annoying disrespectful stupid disgusting
controvertible blunderous
VacHous
*offensive
Billy
irrational
fallacious
EFTODCOUS
bullish
thoughtless
hebetudinous senseless unwise
a Dunder-head
*a block
La jolter
9. 339
a pudden
A wooden
a bull
&call
́a
fat
a thick
& bone
That's the sort of misunderstanding he invites
is prepared to sell, number them and fix their prices and conditions before- hand. It should.
but that'll
be enough for it to go on with
TAXI CABS
TOB
imagine to life more appalling than A COMMON COMPLAINT
AMONG SAILORS to wait in a shop, like spider in s
**ed that it need waste I always went in, and certainly I had ng ariel ka Decla
Medicine Co., 98, Breclames Bond to lowry domantić datise to my reward, for quite often the ale or
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