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UINE-On July 31, 1921, at Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. Fr. Utne, a daughter.
DEITHA
BLAIR-On July 31, 1921, at Har
and Hankow Railway,
to me. For hang it all, within a very few hours after publication of my adversaria, I had a case of wine, and the following letter:
THE CHINA MAIL.
SOVERNMENT
GARAGE.
HATURDATA AUGUST,
The paragram splendid, with the new and beautiful His in it, and the wards proceeding like the sounds
“Who has crushed the soul promotes democracy by making about fifteen thousand Muf Thai in them are my poor relatione, and I and limbe projected, at the right WHO ?. of beauty1 Scienest Demir restless, and discontented. Hongkong. If it were seriously pro-should have to pay anyway." I got places Then with the fascicle of Who has broken the wings Any good government, however posed to take them away from their very clear impression that his wife bamboo sticks ahe beat the frock, of imagination? Science! Who wrongfully it got into power, present homes, and to provide an was a philanthropic woman doing loudly commanding the devil of sick- has strangled the browth of reverence would get away with it, and be an asylum for them, in which they would great and good work, and that he ness to leave the child. The cermany tito has made man feel himself to be malested, because no one fights for be clothed, fed, and educated, the was less genious than she! I saw lasted, a full half hour. The ex mere cheesemite crawling over the means to an end enjoyed. If number would increase enormously that every mai tsai who went to that hortation of the devil was impassion cane of meaningless corruption God sent a hundred angels to sit as soon as the news spread in the house at least was better off in every ed, the beating rhythmic and rapid. Sience This miserable modern as members of parliament, and we neighbouring Chinese provinces. why than if she had not gone. This A pathetic incident, dated Aug. 5, world this world of ugliness, de recognized them as such; we would Economical laws compel their parents must be true of many Chinese homes. | 1921, formity, and selfish struggle" Ton none of us want the vote, for there to get it of them soucher. Not There is an impression abroad that will observe (if the printer does not would be nothing left to vote for. If being entirely devoid of proper al Chinese are naturally mose cruel A DAY unit the quotation marks) that that the Hongkong Government carries parental feelings, as we profess them. than we Europesas are. That is DREAM
a quotation. I am particularly on its present (new) lines, of working the Chinese parents generally prefer wrong, and quite unfounded There axious to have no misunderstanding for the good of the greatest number, a good opening to a bad one. They is an overage, as with every race of sweet gongs, how oft have 1 sighed about that. The words are not mine, we will cease demanding Constitu- would regard such an asylum as a Chinese philanthropy is just as much for it, tried for it! Melliduous and The sentiments are not mine. Then tional Reform. So long as we have good one, and thrust a million girls in evidence, if you look for it, as rhythmical its language, inspiring whose are they? Who has to crush the present had Imperial Government, at us. The main thing to remember, Chinese cruelty. European cruelty and heartening its thought. It has ed the flower of simple commohsense Labour will agitate. When Labour in studying: this problem, is that is as evident, if you book for it, as its being somewhere, and must one Begbie! Who has broken the re- gets power, should it, as Mr. poar Chinese are prodacing so many European humanitarianism. Aday come to life. A paragram that cord in a passage of quintessential Churchill anticipates, give us bad gav girls a year that they must somehow police officer of long experience here, mothers will read with brightening. bosh Harold Begbie! Who has ernment, we will agitate again. dispose of. Their male children are who is debarred by the rules of the eyes, and call excitedly to Father,- strangled the simple, obvious truth f
Some of our Gar assets; their female children are service from telling the public. the crying "Listen to this. Isn't it Harold Begbie! Who has exhibited.
ernment depart- | liabilities.
things he has learned, told me that splendid? One that young lovera the tutelligence of a cheesemite wriggi.
nients have motor
All the argument as
the system as he had watched it will chip at and shyly show each other ing in a mouldy Stilton? Begbie!
cars, as is quite AS TO LAWS, to whether the working in Hongkong was fifty piece that thoughtful men will band This muddled, maddy-minded, right and proper. Some have not,
Chinese Republic did fifty-there was as much to be their brows over, and read again, modem Begbie this chump who bat will probably get them later or did not pass laws forbidding the sad in its favour as against it. I and reading, slowly smile, and with pertape unable to find a market for Some of these cats are used for Hd ai fustom is idle. Lay (as told him I had heard that we had that smile approve. One that very his literary wares amongst sensible private joy riding, while servants in we have seen clearly in the case of 15,000 mui taai here, and he said he aged men, waiting patiently for the sinners. has thought of tickling the other departments have to get about intemtional law) is only real and did not doubt it, and he shuddered summons they expect, will chuckle arrested mentalities of the Nonas beat they can. "Now is the time actual something more than hot at the prospect of what must happen over. A collocation of words so conformist Conscience for living, for the Government to look ahead air and a name, when it has force to the annual recruits, supposing the beguiling, of human interest so scute; The quotation is given as from a re a little, and instead of providing cars behind it, In China, edicts may Mai Tsai system abolished. cent book of his,
for other departments, provide & hare posed as laws, to be heard and |HONGKONG-DAY AND NIGHT. number of cars for the public services. tremblingly obeyed," but the real Let it run its own garage on business law, the valid and effective law, has AN IMPROMPTU SKETCH.
lines, with a manager who would always been custom. The Mai Tsai Sunshine gleaming on the sea take the various requisitions from the system of establishing unwanted very position insecure, by no fanit dream of mine someday, and my best And mountains standing by different departments as a private daughters is a custom. Hongkong of his own. Some idiot of a bar will swell with the pride of artistry as Where the great ships ride
garage matlager now takes orders laws can abolish it in words, and eaucrat may start it. For instance, I pen the last cadence of it, and my In the harbour tide
from customers, and organize and And the sailors' pride
change its names and phraseology, any king who pretends that he has a soul be big with love and philanthropy. regulate the running put of the service but not the thing itself, unless the right to take my property, without Then I will send it downstairs to those That the Hans defed
rars. In that way departments Flaunts its hues to the sky.
people themselves find and substitute paying for it, or compensating me, damned printers, who will make a most- would be helped that get now some other custom. Such substituted is no king of mine. I repudiate him, unholy hash of it and I will crash. Red white and blue upabore cars allocated to special thements custom, unless directed on humani and if I can persuade enough of my back to earth, a common, tired..
would not be idle of misused, and thetarian lines, (and it would be dictated peers to join me in the enterprise, profane, disillusioned, journalistic Government, while getting better rst of all by convenience, at all I give him the sack If T have the drudge. service, would spend less money
Red white and blue below
White horses" race
On the sea's blue face
All about the place
Where the sunset's grace
Provides a red, red glow,
So Hongkong watches the sea
From its terraced Peak upreared
Till comes the night
And the lamps alight
Make a wondrous sight All astral bright
As Bethlehem's sky appeared
SOT THE KING'S
FAULT.
so.rich in style and colour, so perfect ry It is possible for in form, that poets will despise poems a decent King to because of it, and essayists tear their be made in-manuscripts, and leader-writers hang. popular, and his themselves. I shall achieve tha
It could be a cadet's job, and he couldtoms are) might endly be a worse nerve of Cromwell, I shorten him one than the present system. For by a head. It is pleasant to see that
be dignified, if necessary, as the the sake of the children themselves, the impudent claim made in the DS.C.D., the Director of the Service we must face that:
Cars Department. I do not know
INTELLIGENT LIMITATION.
how many service cars we have proce vided so far, but I can see that we must be called on for more, and by this centralising scheme we can mimimise the outlay and get the], maximum of service...
OH, THE POON
In Mespot we have we taxpayers who
ADAGES.
HORSES.
Long ago I bought set of little roles
Straits Settlements, by officials whom
LOGAL AND OBKERAL.
I hope to see dismissed, that “the Can you stop Crown could take as a right the
A large quantity of house furni- people having ba- bies ?" asked some property of any subject, has been ture will be put up for auction at one at the meeting. denounced by a competent judge. No. 8, A. Block, Kowloon Docks, by
The Colonial Secretare at Singapore,
Messrs. Lammert Bros, ca Monday That wasn't needed
afternoon.
to remind as that the Chinese have it was said, did not show wisdom or
Mes.rs. Hughes and Bough
as yet not tackled the economic toleration, and. "his views seat problem on the lines of prevention the rights of the Crown were quite advertise that a large quantity of being better than cure. They know unfounded." His Language and household furniture will be put up giring diages et al nothing of intelligent limitation of conduct" were such as to outrage for public auction at No. 10. Middle paid for 'em the nations. The idea was good, batamilies, such as the thrifty French the feelings of the plaintiffs. "Road, Kowloon, on Monday after- fancy prices usually the execution unsatisfactory The paid by buyers for the Army-47,000 best Japanese adages were omitted 30. P. Blant has told free-Englishmen in the Twentieth
ple discarred and later the Precisely, and the feelings of all con horses. Mr. Churchill proposes to Adages are always the wit and wisdom them in that that if their only Century, and the feelings of all who One lot of Crown land at Fo destroy, kill, slay, 30,000 of them, of the peasantry, and they can tell course and beer didy laughed at put say value on the monarchy, and Fang in Kowloon and another on because they are "esting their heads the philosopher a great deal. I came for it. So we may take is that for the feelings of a fair-minded men. the new road from Bowen Road to of on imported fodder. "There across a Russian one recently, which a long while yet the annual crop of I hope the Judge's comments reach Wanchal Gap will be sold by public is," it appears, "very little grass in moved me. It said every time babies will be forthcoming, and that the proper quarters at Home, "for auction sale at the P. W. D. Offices Mesopotamia." Well, why are we the sheep bleats it loses a mouthful the superfluous girls must continue necessary, action, please." We must wasting so mach money or a country On that it would be easy to preach to be disposed of somehow. Those squash this bureaucrattery before it
even grow grass a sermon, s sermon on life and living who object to the Mai Tsai method squashes us. The idea of the Crown Harbin is preparing a demand on the The Foreign Consular Corpe in Winston says it would cost £50 spiece it. But there is far too much bleating of placing them would not approve (or the State) owning everything is Government for the Internationalisa to ship the borses-cheaper to kill as it is. Let,ts grab another mouth of infanticide, which, as we know. Pure Bolshevism, against which tion of Harbin to sford better pro- them. A Captain Gardiner has ful of life, and if we must be sheep is one known Chinese remedy. There acestors successfully protested at tection to foreign residents. written offering to transport them be sheep as little sheepishly
Chinese are vigorously opposed to
that cannot
to England, France, Belgium. or possible. Holland fer half that, and to feed, water, and house them properly at that. He would probably even then make a profit. But little mistakes like that are nothing to our Winnie. As a picture, how do you like the prospect of our military heroes in Mespot butchering thirty thousand horses all at once, to save the
feed?
Cost us, by the way, MESPOT. over fifty millions sterling a year for a while, and now costing 28 milliars, after violent
As
*BANCTITY"
OF
MAIL MATTER.
on Monday afternoon.
One of the things this,
that soon impresses
a foreign resident
The
Among the passengers
Nie
is an eternally open market for females Runnymead: which they cannot approve either. I give 'em about three It is my greatest surprise that some THREE YEARS years more Then,
of these partitans should harp on the FROM NOW. haring persistently ask moral risks ran by mui tai
in Arterica is the sailed by the China Mail ed for it, they get it. (sa seduction by master or sons) Our road logs. The alarming mor when it is a fact well known to all matter there. The Post Office people Butterfield and Swire, and dr. Walter Enactity of mail yesterday, were Mr. E. F. MacKay, manager of the Shanghai office of tality due to automobile" accidents who know the Chinese and the facts take endless trouble to see that the U. Lum, assistant general manager has led to a general demand in Amerion that the sui mi outlet saves thou-right people get the right letters, and of the China Mail Co that speed manises shall be jailed sands of girls every year from the wire-address them for you, on rather than fined. Hongkong, things go on as they threaten to do, must eventually follow suit.
ugly alternative, a life of prostitution, request, all over the States. People
:
71
their
The Government estimates that
If there are Chinese who in inconvenient locations set up little the recent fighiing in Kwangsi re SLAVERY. regard their mui taai as boxes, marked " US, hail," unlocked sulted in 11,000 casualties cong It is by request
and unprotected, but everybody Kwangsi troops, 4,000 among the slaves--though APOLOGIES that I handle the "Little Sister" is an odd name to there, postmen included, are taught Cantonese, 8.000 among the innocent
of which you must
Fast, more than three furthe of According to the Cedral China Banque Industrielle de Chine notes
branch have been cashed 'by the
Peak, 3rd Aug. Dear Mr. Adversarius,
economies (like that of killing 30,000 | IN ADVANCE. subject of Mur Taai, call a slave-they must be disabused and brought up to respect the mail. non-participants and in property As from one of your great admirers, now has a scheme to make Feisul interest in it is purely academic: Chinese themselves can do it, with stands at the foot of the stairs
horses to save their chow.) Winston all be weary by this time. My own of that error, and can be. The They think of liberties taken with it damage to the extent of #35,000,000.
Society box being formed by the we used to do of "sacrilege." The Hongkong poetman is different. of Graves, Sauternes, and Chablis, country, with the assistance of only matter, since it is a purely Chinese will you kindly accept a mixed case chief, and let the Arals police the recognize no responsibility in the the help of the Press.
By the way, it was a stupid over-in a three story house, informs the WHAITE.—On August 1, 19 at up imbibing beer-it sounds go valgar millions into the Mesopotamian mud. the objections to it, easily enough. Tsai. They must call it a Society have it. Perhaps some neighbour Association will cash no mere.
I am so glad you have given We have already chucked over 150 not thrast it upon them. I can see the Prevention of Cruelty to Mui for the top floor people, and if they Hankow Chinese Bankers Association Shangal, William Peter Milner--but extremely sorry you have
like to come down for.it they may and that after August 11, the Whaite, Chinese Customs Ser-
Ars longa. Art may be long. I can also see ita advantages. for the Prevention of Cruelty to vice, aged 49 years.
ceased dining with your admirers. ART. but hot nearly so long as the couldn't become an ardent partisan, Children, such as we Europeans find nothing happens, he marks the letter run up and tell them? If have written books and books about certainly couldn't argue & many of besides Mai Tai are cruelly treated, it to the P. O, who send it back to ance of the Consular Student, and
talk about it. I myself for or against, even if I wanted to: 1 necessary at Home. Other children | 1494
addressee unknown," and returas garding the mysterious disappear A Northern peper states that re it, and never yet hit on the one short the partisans have been doing be wherever cruel people are. sentence that tells it all, in the epitome cause I happen to be more or less
America, where careful postal officials Acting Attache Mr. Chen Chunglien, at Washington endorse it, and find of the Chinese Legation in Havana..
kow, T. L. Blair, of Canton which I send you in appreciation ten million or so a year from us. Custom, and my own officials have sight to speak of it asa Society for world generally that he has a letter ta circulation, from the Hankow.
The China Mail.
"IRUTE, JORTION,
FULLO &ERVICE.".
· ADVERSARIA.
Should you change your mind, re member always that I shall be please to entertain you
Yours sincerely,
will
that is art. Thad given much thought honest, and lack the power to shut Bet for the most part they do not te it, too, close and concentrated my eyes to things that tell against think of them as alaves. It is well out the original sender, and send the father, cider brother and wife of No fear! I'm not giving you lads thinking. One of my best guesses my case when I have one. This understood that it is a service con- thousands of miles, by train, and the deceased diplomatic official have Hemamono, SATURDAY, AUGU, 1981. the name and address, lest you be was that the origin of all att is bore I am quite well aware, is an imputa- tract until marriage, and that mar- steamer, to him. What would it cost brought criminal suit against the lady as Adversarius. For we have in the literal sense of the word.where. I do not withdraw it. I case with real slavery. Take the have a personal reason for deaming case is under the investigation of tempted to pass yourselves off on the dom, the human need for pastime tion of intellectual dishonesty else ringe ends it. This was never the to lay a Hongkong postanan 11 Charge Affaires Wa Ketso and bis Secretary, Mr. Huang and the never met, except spiritually. SheWell, this week I came across re- put the word "stet?" to the imputa
case of a young man who comes out to know. I want to know whether does not know more of me than my ference to a lectare given by John tion. The humbug of some of them here on a contract for a long term of I can afford it. To have myself Last week I closed a big, brave, beautiful soul, as revealed Drinkwater, on "Poetry and Life," has been too glaring to be politely working for any other similar Arm ignorant Chinese, too tired to do the was held in the Catholic Mens Club
the Procuratorate of Prking yeah, which contract bars him from described as "unknown" by a laty HAVE AN voluptuous rerezie in these 'ere writings. I don't want which gave a phrase that was a flash, mentioned.
The usual fortnightly whist drive about booze with a her imposed on. I am sure she is as "The paramount purpose of the.. ADMIRER. facetious footnota aak beautiful as she is kind and intelligent. artist was to understand his own
If you have read for ten years afterwards, and forbids work he is paid for, and putting other on Thursday evening. The following FIRST AS TO YOU? Economista, hira to marry without the consent people to unnecessary trouble and were the prize winners Ladies ing that cases of wine sent me should if ever I do go ent to dinner again, it experience." How comprehensively ECONOMIES
Ricardo, Malthus, of the firm. Is he a slave These expense, is exasperating. I am 1. Mrs May (178); 2. Mra. Bickford the plainly addressed so that the edi- will be to her house first if I can and finally true that is, one realizes
Montang men
extraordinary surrenders of individual hoping to hear from the Portmanter (172); Miss Moody €169); Booby oral staff could not hog them. The find it.
on reflection. The public value aft some nine or ten others, you must liberty are demanded merely because that this one has been really taught Prics: Min Wood (10), Mea: 1 But now I have in so far as it throws light on their know that economics are a material is employers have paid his fire, a lesson.
about the editorial staff wasn't
or
LIFE AND
Mr. Hayton (182): 2 år. Ogdery (172) 3 Mr. Burling (172); 4. Mr. Some of the neiga Carrington (171) Bouby Prize: Mr. bou were grth Harvey (141), Mr. R.W. Brown per _MY_"KRIODOUR.... – ning,
"but not I formed the duties of 16,Conn The child was still red subject, I met ons sick, and the cantankerous old smsh
When I was going A FUNNY about acquiring in- INSTANCE. formations an this
cctious. They are quite capable A CONFESSION. & little confession to experiences. These are, Mr. Drink factor in all such controvers Cubat they do not reckon hun davė. of hogging anything. No. The idea
make. I hope it water said, two great types of mankind cumstances do alter cases Popula my mand was that it was exquisitely will not cause hurt to the fealthose who desire to domate (Will tions asually increme at a greater. Kanctions to suggest auch gifts, in sings of the generous donor of this to Power] and those who desire to rate than the production of their where you can sweat your wine. When I opened the case, and understand (Will to know) and the sustenance. Automatically, with d out to please a public that never saw that the wine was Califormian, Latter have the stronger mentality scarcity, the increase leasens. There Chinese gentleman who told me he in the yard below decided that the 1 of the late Mr. John Wharton The funeral was held on August Bake the table to say thank you," I felt that I ought not to drink it Naturally
was in sort of anciliation in the process was opposed to the Mui Tuai system. time had come for desperate remedied. Fenton, who died after a long Ulness, The Steal aim of a pendulum thoraxent a pulsation, Naturally, I asked him to give me She took a little frook belonging to the at the age of 59 years. The deceased- THE REAL ABL every honest poli- almost a rhythm Malthus in his his reasons, and asked him questions sick child, and a rod of bamboos, and came to the Far East in 1885 and tician (if such exist) famous essay was not the first to us to how the system works. 1 ts à piece of chalk, and some jasa paper, entered the Customs. During the certained that he wife had a regular and matches, and cleared a space on Boxer rising be acted as Reuter's procession of these girls passin the concrete flour of the yard below correspaddent and was present at the Ehrough his homnis, 2 ode every time
fault finders are many and myself. I make an exception for and merit finders as uncom- certain wouth Australian wines, but honesty. However, the joke spart from them, I drink only French me. If I had realized that I had or German or Italian or Greek Bo is good government of the people for remifit, but he made to nak to receive, I'd have put I reclosed the case and sent it to the benefit of the people. It doesn't The pro
government tamo inte being..it it have
list of things I want, anch as a missionary hospital for the use of and wouldn't matter much how such in Ch
yacht, a high-power, micros the patients. I had quite a nice
Boropiane, a grows of brise letter of thanks for the Mother Daly did What they call democratic
with a good atzo, Superior, which i will pass on
Leund it, and a balance at the real donor as soon as I find out.
·would, mance Phone safress, Doubtless from page bank fellows, asyn has given me a fcizÃOUR AREA:
iction:
new, mỹ, Verandah." Hers ried ons offi Fracture (very, like those all
kdrew) of the chil
curved stro
Hive abort dig! Encumber sted the
raking of the Takw and Lutal forts. Subsequently he became manager of the Tinkle Pyesi and lateru member Old Brio pepper and Fenton, -Agents of the Calou Manta
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