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TRY IT IN YOUR BATH

WATSON'S

HOUSEHOLD

THE CHINA MAIL.

I may go on to say to you in the TO PASS paragrams following, no matter how THE TIME. unkind some of them may seem_(es- |

SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1921.

MOTOR TAXIN

FOR

RONGHONE.

No argument here.

or charitable man, but must in every bit of it myself-even though a mat gives me to understand that ject feels " colour when listening to Boncher, was reviewed by a newspaper |the nature of things be the core and I daub it. I do not, observe, ask certain opinions are held sacred by sounds. It is much more common în man who probably cared even less centre and informing principle and you to copy mine. I'm advising him, not for discussion, I'ma cum childhood, but tends to disappear, than he knew about the subject. But germinating muclens of jovial or at you, whenever I presume to advise, unless he is unreasonable enough owing to the natural ridicule poured he produced his review, in which he least cheerful humanity. "Should you to paint your own. I hate the idea to insist on forcing them on me, and upon it by adults who have not had, jasid the work was " most opportune"! quibble oa a point of philosophy of copying any part of yours. Doubt tries to make them mine too. With or have forgotten. the experience. and dear the necessity, which you less in the end all cur pictures will such a man I seldom have much Later on, the huntan delight in the

I admit that last hardly will if you have eaten and have resemblances, similarities. trouble, for be refuses ever to speak marvellous tempts some to exaggerate

week I misunder- drucken as I hope you have, then Unique originality of design is not to me again.

the experience. A French poet pro-

stood the position I retreat from that position to a possible. But in mine there is to

All this, you should | duced a long list of the colours of

and got the wrong more easily defended one, and declare be no plagiarism, no copying, noor SELFISUNEES, observe, especially various sounds, naming striking end of the stick. The position was that at least it is the case in the pre-outside interference.

Eif you have not colours in some cases. It has been clarified in subsequent issues of the sent instance. that no matter what

It is a fact, isn't it, that caten or drunken wisely, is the jabber observed that no two such lists ever Chias Mol. However, here's a many painters are dab of a very selfish person. That you agra. In my own case. I have bad letter from the promoter of the bing in quite meaningless may the more firmly be convinced this experience in a milder form. scheme: brush marks, the title of that you have spoken truly, without but such as it is it is still real to me.Dear Mr. Adversaries." pecially' to empty people) everything their picture apparently being "To any troublesome reservation or doubt. Human voices are invariably coloured I'm awfully sorry about your is said con amore, the jelly parts Pass the Time. They want me let me hasten to admit it. What for me, a pure soprano being dead muiden Aunt because anyway there's jovially, the ganghty pieces Pick to help them to pass it, in their ways, then? What do you mean by selfish-white, a rich contralto, rmany-colour no chance of her getting shares in wickianly, and all together Panto when I need all the time I can get ness? Are you always and entirelyed. a tenor silver grey, a baritone the "stunt." As a matter of fact gruellishly, party for edification for my own picture. Why, for ex- unselfish? Do not answer hastily khaki. a deep bass the colour of these pipe dreaans--well was'nt there partly for stimulation, and wholly ample, do some people invite me to Consider if there be any such thing as chocolate. I see a spectrum of some smoke obscuring your usual because the thing is thrust upou me dinner? Really, I wish I knew, but unselfishness before you claim it, shades of these colours when a piano cleamess of vision wher you wrote If wanting to lie back and grant. I don't. Let us take the generous implicitly or explicitly. I believe it scale is rippled. Reds, greens, blues, that paragraph in Adversazia ” last I am obliged to sit up and write. view first, that they mean to be kind is a foolish idle, and grossly mislead-Lete, never came into this queer con- Saturday? You see street cars have at least let me write as I would grunt, to me. Well, it is mistaken kindness, ing word. I believe that without sciousness of mine with sounds, but a habit of staying on the track—very . naturally, and not as the Scribes. as is easily shown. They give me selfishness all life would cease. I only sepia-like gradations between nice too if you get a track everywhere, Here is the mis-first the metal worry of what they believe that even in what the unthink black and brown grey and white but in rap side cars you will be able -chief of it, that call an engagement. I have to re-ing call out mest altruistic and bene. I do not, however, doubt that others to go anywhere a motor car can. should be so full member a date and an hour, and I volent actions, when we yield to the have identified such bright colours Besides my cars cost twentyfive of Porterhouse and quite often forget. Then they are instinct of compassion, give generous with particular sonads. The phenocents per mile for two people Say onions and beer, not merely full in annoyed with me. They give me ay even beyond our surplus, we are nienon has been discussed in the one lives at Broadwood Road-about physical sense of those things them more or less long journey, by ricsha, all selfish. and but gratifying the medical papers. There is a great a mile and a half from the Post Office. selves, as objective beef, and objective tram, or chair, or all three, which demands of our Daemon, our Figo.deal for us yet to learn about the fare for two people twentyfve centa- onions, and objective bees, but full (since a poor man must reckon such The temperament you call unselfish psychology of colour-sensations, and plus fifteen-forty cents. of them also as subjects, to the ex-things) costs me as much as I usually must first content its own spirit-in how sounds are translated, re-rou pay for twe rickshaws! even if clusion of all other subjects whatever. pay for my dinner. So I save nothing those ways. But apart from that. cognizable musical notes, within the there is only one person, think of the whether poetry or politics or other and gain nothing. And I have to there is a lot of humbug talked about brain, as written symbols are into fime saved. Go by street car, fare, two Ltd. follies of mankind. They occupy, spend an evening being polite--an it. Innocent and unconscious hum-thoughts. The ideas of rough, people. twenty cents, two rickshaws, insistently, the field of immediate awful strain and I get home late bug. but humbug all the same. Ismooth. hard, soft, have to ensue 10 cents-thirty cents. Add the nuis- attention, and if any other subject and weary, to my neglected books. remember a good man (a missionary neural messages from touch. Ideas ante. of getting on and off crowded squeeze by them, and get into focus. Moreover (mark this, as most signific-who had become a newspaper proof colour and of sound, getting mixed cars looking for rickshaws- there is it will probably be, if I have leamenet) they never give me a Porterhouse prietor) once telling me, reproach may do so in the brain itself-anot much in it.

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- The Book Club is to THE BOOK specialize in "Moderns." Oh, a Modem" says Lofty in "The Good

at all from past experiences. because steak and a catty of onions-though fully, that I was still young and still delicate and unreliable instrumeat- I have not the pleasure of knowing it is in some way germane acri. as one charming lady did once for me selfish-that what I needed was or, as suggested by a medical writer you. but I hope one of these Ene a chemist would say, adjuvant. For a whole duck. Do they wish to talk sense of proportion. He had done on the subject, by the communicating days to have the pleasure, and I will your sakes, who may not have had to me and teach me things, for which something, not quite honourable, in nerves getting "crossed." Whatever take you out and around in one of the beef or onions, hat some meagre the dinner is only an excuse? In his own interests, that threatened to it be, it must not be dismissed as machines, and if your dear Auntie is bash of sorts, with tea or coffee, or that case I do think they should wait ruin at the outset my young and imagination." because these sound not too robust we could include her even the atrocity of tinned staff. I to be asked, and not do the pressing. promising career. I had made a colours (not colour-sounds) are as as well, but. if you feel she would. will do my best to further that process. as they do. Besides, I am the sort counter-move, quite honourable. real as the "stars" we see when by which as one wrestler twists of man who, as a rule, knows far more which exposed him where exposure struck violently on the head. another wrestler under him. so the than they do. They can teach me hurt, and saved me. I was poor, be germane or adjuvant topic may throw nothing, tell me nothing, and if they was rich. I was young, he was old. and heave and twist my confounded could. It is for me to express the wish is reproach saused me very much. Porterhouse (with its company to for it. Now let us take the less it was so very self-centred and so one side and so cease to tantalize generous guesses. Do they desire oblivious of that *sense of proper you. while leading you gently on to my brilliant conversation? I don't tion" he thought might improve ze. considerations less personally painful think so. It is seldom I get a word Every accusation of selfishness is and galling, if you get my meaning in edgeways, and even then I have provoked by some disappointment As thus. Porterhouse steak, fried to shout. Besides, they bar as sub of sell. Kipling's Tomlinson, rejected give you tips-I cannot give you swer to Saigon, and is partly about s onions. bread and beer. Dinner.jects all that internet me. I mustn't by bell as well as by heaven, is a most stomachs. The late George Steevens Colonial Exposition to be held at (A noble and a tempting subject, but talk politics (please!) nor religion. selfless type indeed, yet he goeth, recommended, for a hot-weather Marseille next year. It is practically. too near the aforesaid beef, beer, (Heavens Religion at. A dinner necessarily, as inevitably among seven quencher. a mixture of gin, vermonth, certain that "les journalistes de ctc.) Dinner parties. Calling party. It I talk about love, the and forty baskets of devils as this angostura. Eme juice. and all the notre ville" will not make themselves Friends. Acquaintances. People, ladies look uncomfortable and the beer zow at my right hand (M co ya, soda. I've experimented, in the in-represented there, so that's that, (You observe, unless you are posi- men stem. (He does say such Boy!) goes to my lips. Now who is terests of science, and found it not The real ones cannot get away, and tively starving, the inevitable pro-ajul things.") If I talk philosophy to decide this knotty problem betwixt half bad, especially when the augos- the bum ones cannot represent us. gression).

they are bored. Look here I can us? You say that not to respect the tara is reduced to a suspicion. It is As regards les questions profes- So. In Wednesday's cut this short, and save myself social conventions is selfish, the pity we cannot have the old Frenchsionelles d'un interet common pour China Mail there was a lot of bother. You've been to behaviour of a Rogue Elephant that gargles out here during the bot spell. les journalistes abutting on the a "leader" about snob Hongkong dinner parties? Yes? deserts, oris driven from, the herd. II'm not sure how to spell it--" cassis Pacific, there are no such common bery and social status-local stand. Yon remember what that talked war that I have a social ideal that is au vin blanc is my guess-but for a interests. Of sa Australian journalist --------- Bahane in Bajgon, are. As editors say in ready to live with you in closer co the boulevard lush we used to call one might just as well be in the moon stufi to give 'em. The thing was not footnotes when they can think of operation, but you will not hear of "ka cease a van blaw particularly well written, the writer nothing pertinent to say,"commentit You are selfchly satisfied. I tasted some Graves the other day consequently the proposal to found

was a winner, for any common interest they have evidently having done his thinking is superduous." No. Although my admit that if a man joins your club it that was van-blaw all right. You an International Association of the at the pen's point, and not made Porterhouse is not disagreeing with is up to him to be clubable, but if he can have all the Ayala, the Bollinger. Fress of the Pacific leaves notes beforehand. But 'twas ame, nor the other things (and I've disapprove your clubable ways, and the Heidsieck, the due de Marne, the frigid, even though it suggests an simple, clear argument, with only had two pints of beer mere since I stay outside, you should not dub Montebello (by the way, any of that annual beano. to Saigon, Sydney. one inadvertent pose in it-the pose began this] I conclude that they ask him selfish--with a bad meaning to out East since the war the Daper Tokyo, and Singapore in turn. I shall of being unconscious of the existence me to dinner because they have form-the word. I believe society should ray, the Goulet, the Irror, the Krug, not even ask the other fellows what of a class of people which, on in- ed a habit of having quests, and be catholic, you insist on it being the Moet et Chandon, the Mumm, they think of it. I know. sufficient and inadmissible grounds, are bored without them I am a sectarian. I say love me, love my the Perriers, the Pipers, the Pols,, considers itself superior somehow to relief from boredom, I am an aid dog, you bar dogs. We the "common clay." The class, in to pass the time, like a jigsaw puzzle selfish. The difference between us is Ruinart, sfars, I'm concerned, if you are all the Pommerys, the Roederers, or the worthy witness, were such forth-short, about which Alice Grant Smith or a pack of Patience cards. Must I that I know it, admit it, and defend leave the Graves and Sauternes coming, might testify to the number appears usually to write her "Things yield, or live my own life? I can it. Do I seem to justify myself, or and Chablis to me. Picked up Natured Man," "We men of business TRUTH, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVICZ" of pickled gerkins that went to the that latter." That article made or pass the time (Heaven knows how my ways, for your judgment? If so, couple cases of red Cantenac the other despise the moderns, and as for the

competition of Hamlet. It is said. tried to make the point that it is im- quickly) withont Humoroso, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1921. by a witness for whose veracity possible to feel resentment at snobbish passes itself. Yet I have known The selfishness I confess, the selfish lot. That nonsense that appears in them. Poetry is

assistance. It forget it. I am but thinking alond, day, and wish now I'd bought the ancients, we have no time to read am sorry I cannot vouch. that Dean lights without being a snob. If the people to look upon me with eyes in nese I excase and permit in you (and the papers about my beer drinking enough for our wives and daughters, Inge likes a bellyfull of dry toast, person concerned feels that the re- which there was absolutely no warmth even unselfishly advise) is that habits is all bankum, of course. but not for us. Why now, here I a pretty thing with a glass of sterilized milk, before gard of snubs is a thing that matters, of love, and all the while urging me necessary for Shakspere's instruc- Barring an odd half dozen pints when stand that know nothing of books, writing. There is at least a reasonable then he must himself be snob enough to come to dinner. Full of the bon-tion: presumption on circumstantial evid to agree that those snobs are estab- homie that ensues Porterbonse-plus-

I'm really thirsty, I don't drink beer I say, Madam, I know nothing of These my words this enee that the tale is not a frantic lished at the top where he himself onions, with beer, and strictly in the

any more-it is mostly poor stuff, bocks; and yet, I believe, apon a day, look you, are improbability. However, the reader would be. It seems to me that the Pickwickian sense, I say Dama them.

not worth bali ita cost. addressed only to knows how I fared, and may guess argument is as unanswerable as a No. I must to my picture.

whisky, any Christian drinker who or a jaghire, I can talk my two hours As for land-carriage fishery, a stamp act, them that have esten food and therefrom what manner of writing syllogism. Of course I may be pre-

drinks what they call whisky nowa without feeling the want of them." drunken liquor, for I account it to expect. If only I knew what the judiced. as I wrote it myself. It is orza THINGS stand me. I am no Pray do not misunder-

days could probably drink any sort waste of time, to say nothing of paper reader had, why then I could trim not my intention to repeat it, but

There must be a lot of Lofties in dink, having well eaten and drink sails accordingly, and perhaps exceed as a subject that seems to interest

THAT DON'T eremite. I believe yself before putting pen to paper, his expectations, one way or the other:practically every European here, it

MATTER. in social contacts, in offer literature to folk that are but as I do not know this essential seems to me it might well serve as even in helping those who need and swapping ideas, and Simpty. I have within the last hour fact, I'must just trust in Providence, the opening article of a long series desire help. I have given up hoars

ten one Porterhouse steak, one and hope that whatever it was it was on Things that Don't Matter. atty of fried onions, half a loaf of satisfying, and is causing no regrets.

to lonesome men, whose company I Do you think Shakespere was thinking good white bread, and sliced the euch as would come between hin

I have been called did not particularly enjoy, but who of money? If so, you misread him. me with two pints of good titter and me in this confidential discourse,

Hedonist, Epicurean, led me to think they needed me. I That was his image, hia parable. He her, and my pipe drawing cheerfully, or (because there is no need for me

Sensualist, and a lot believe in social contact where the was denouncing the Human Chame- I feel that ideas should come of it. to hide any longer the fact that I but I myself call myself an Artist For the languid lily of a hostess who the so very unselfish worshipers of ductive of University journalism, abould watch like a nurse by our

of other hard naines; contact is real and not a pretence. leons, the Parrots, the Tomlinsons and the it is just as well that such things have hady readers) I might add her (amateur) in Life. My life is an on-hoists an affected flipper my way, convention and good form the" but there was a deeper motive side, falls as fast asleep as we do." hould be well understood between and me, though women as a rule are finished picture. Before the coffin murmurs. "So kind of you to come," social Automatons the Slaves of the the true and undefiled cource of

The reader wanting food for poor eaters and poorer drinkers, maker frames it, I am composing and turns immediately elsewhere, I Things That Don't Matter. body is like to pay re proper and are apt to judge a writer less by it and re-composing it, adding a figure have no feeling other than one of tention to food for the mind; and what he says than by how he says here, painting out one there, touching violent dislike. I could slap her. For COLOURED wanting it very much, is quite it and by how she thinks he ought to up some places, sketching in new de-duty dinners and "duty" calle able of misunderstanding the say it-always supposing she thinks tails. It is not for sale, my picture; I have nothing but contempt. In mplest sayings, taking in bitter he ought ever to have said such a it is not a pot-boiler. I am painting any house where my clothes matter, wonderful book or the science of sest what was meant pour tire, thing at all. But now I perceive that it for love, as an amateur. It may or my opinions, I have no business colour sound" which conveyed to giggling hysterically, it is possible, if we are to arrive anywhere (eave at not be the best picture in the Human to be. I can play with children (who, her mind the idea that every sound the most solenin and serious state this stage of remembering and digest Gallery, but it is My picture-all of I can honestly boast, always like me) was a colour and every colour a nt. Suppose that in this matter ing what we have just had) I must it. Consequently cating and drinking the reader contrive somehow to escape from this letting others touch it. You know sympathise with the anxious, because see that book, although not expecting am jealous of I can frivol with the frivolous; and sound."! should very mach like to done his part, with a cargo of paragram into the next, taking you how the drawing-master used to in all these cases I can be my own to find it scientific. A small percent- mestibles well stowed, and a gen- along with me.

toneh up your pictures. Well, I natural self, and have no conscious-age of people do associate colours and Not that the pre- want no master er teacher to drawness that appearances are being noted sounds, not by way of analogy or amble was irrelevant any part of mine. The Things that generally with disapproval. I fancy, or figure of speech, but because

The China Mail.

ADVERSARIA.

PREFATORY.

s ferment of bilge, it is in no less desirable that he should. mformed how the said matter ds with the writer, so that a istic tone (which herein the

ABOVE ALL

THINGS

CHEERFUL

1

ATTITUDE

RESTATES).

be

Neither a borrower nor a lender For loan oft loseth both itself and

friend

And borrowing dulls the edge

of husbandry,

any man.

CLIB.

of bilge, and be none the wiser. [N.Jour commercial community.

B. Cases of white wine contributed in

LIFE.

While I was looking up

To thine own self be true; and

it must follow, as the night consequence of this paragram should. the day.

be plainly addressed to "Adver.

this paragraph in an Then canst not then be false to sarius," otherwise the Editorial staff Goldsmith, I came across this de- ancient," to wit, Oliver hog them.]

lightful little conversation which I I see that in a debate at cannot forbear quoting, Croaker.. Cambridge Union one o'the" Ay, he grew sick of this miserable lads said the motives of life, where we do nothing but eat and historical sense, were pro-up and lie down, while reason, that a desire of self expression, grow hungry, dress and undress, get-

SOUNDS.

SAME HERE,

University journalism-the spirit of In one of her essaysLet's rag everybody." Certainly (Morning Post, Wed-Let's. nesday) Alice Grant Let cranks their creaking schemes Smith refers to."a

recite, The ardent politician wave bis

Hag. But as for us, who revel in the

light, Let's rag.

Honeywood. "To say a truth, if we compare that part of life which is to come, by that which we have passed, the prospect is hideous."

Croaker. "Life at the greatest and best is but a forward child, that must be humoured and coaxed all the care is over." a little till it falls asleep, and then

Honeywood."Very true Sir, no- thing can exceed the vanity of our The world perhaps is out of existence but the folly of our par

joint

And progress may appear to

some to lag,

For cheerful livers that's beside

the point. Let's rag.

suits. We wept when we came into this world, and every day tells us why."

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or unnecessary, be-Do Not Matter are the things that claim the right to avoid people who they cannot help it. Sounds do give cause it is as desirable other people would put in my picture, have the cheek to disapprove of any them colour sensations, though I have forbid) may be set down to its music to know the key, the mood, ance, who would have me respect me, I will feel more kindly toward colours gave suggestions of sound. I in literature as in if I let them. Those snoba, for inatthing I have or am. Let them avoid never heard or read of a case where bable cause, either partial starva- and you do not need to have eaten all their conventions, and wear their them for it. I never notice, much have heard people speak of "Loud for an ill diet, and so on. Homer, more than a square meal, or to have kind of clothes, and waste much of less care, what other people wear. If colours, of course, but that is newspaper reviewer of books. He without a bottle of Chamberlain's Cole ding to the erudite Master of dranken unreasonably deep, to know my leisure in " calling" upon them-- it suits them, it suits me. As with different. The first has been explained ought to be cleaning currants in a Don't take such risks. A dee or two in Touraine, ould not sing that a Porterhouse steak and a tatty they want to splash paint on my their clothes, so with their opinions. as a nerve entanglement. Image the grocery, or carrying parcels for will curs you belo e & doctor could and Shalpere at: four of anions with half a loaf and a quart picture; but to be happy, to enjng. I like an argument, and whenever I sense conducting nerves from eye and sundry. Sow an amusing instance poibly he called, and it now falls on parties before waiting of the of bour cannot be entirely surrounded the full pride of authorship and joy meet another willing to argue for car to brein as wires, and say the wires lafely. A short history of Antioch, cases For sale by all-Chemists de

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