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SATURDAY, DECEMBER

ADVERSARIA.

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these pinpricks, which do occur. They occur so commonly that most of the offenders are probably unconscious of thom. Once the others understand that. the ruling race assorts no superiority, but consists of human boings who need comfort and spiritual satisfactions as others do, we may talk of that international club. At present how can Mr. Pollock say to any Chinese gentleman, "Let me

enrol you as member of my international olub." The C. G. would be bound to think (even if too

1921,

THE CHINA MAIL.

WHERE THEY COME FROM.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

PUBLIC ACTIN.

viction of the hopelowances of grating & OUR: FLOATING

ance being especially marked in the verdict against a white man, all those

POPULATION, case of females. They are regarded women would have me tried for

an outcasts by the remainder of the population, with whom they very attempted murder. Fellowship? You ace? I like the children, offer them

rarely intermarry. They form the lollipops and toys. I am ready to like

oldent portion of the inhabitants of their parents, fall of good will towards Interesting facts about this the Colony, their intercourse with them, and all that-but there are "Hosting" population of Hongkong foreigners being more intimate owing many sufficient reasons why I cannot are related by the Census officer (Mr, to their attendance on shipping in the think of fellowship, with them. 1. D. Lloyd) in his report about the Canton River. They were the first to PARTICULARS and Conditions of the, letting by Public Auction Bälä picture myself entering that Inter 1981 bensus of the Colony,

follow the foreign trading flest when to be held on MONDAY, the 19th day of national Club, and the father of that He says: "Sixty-eight per cent it took refuge in Hongkang Harbour, December, 1991, at 2 pm; at the Offices Order of Excellency the Governor baby pointing me out to a fellow mem- ware born within British waters, of before the desolate and barren Island of the Public Works Department, by rit One: Lot of OlOWN LAND above ber. That's the savage-tempered the remainder nearly half were born became British.. brute who tried to kill our baby be- in the neighbourhood of Canton,

Rural

Building Lot No. 124, cause it got in his way. Those foreign where there is a huge floating popula-. devils like not children. They have tion, the other districts bordering on the Canton Delta account for most of no hearts."

the remainder. The number of im- migranta is far higher on the occasion

.NO

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

courteous to say): "So? I am good passages in the report on the last Hakka males from the Waiohow are THIS DAY taken over the

enough to meet you in that club, but not to live next door to can you." It is so. Mr Pollock

DUTIES required by the above

T. T. LAURENSON,

Assistant Secretary. Hongkong, December 17, 1921.

LOST.

Mail,"

'GOLD WRIST

If you think that is EXAGGERATION infair representation 1906 have been replaced largely by

an exaggeration, an of this Census as the great losses of OLINA COAST OFFICERS GUILD. of probabilities, I refer you to some immigration. There are a number of Census. Mr. J. D. Lloyd writes, in district, and of Hoklos from the Guild. some notes on causes of probable Swatow district. These are quite inaccuracy in the Census returns, of distinct from the remainder of the "the prevalence of a widespread belief Hoklos from the Swatow district. afford the limited fellowship of such

club (from which he can stay away and lower classes in the alleged mainder of the floating population; amongst Chinese women of the middle These are quite distinct from the re- when so inclined) but not the un-inhuman designs of the P.W.D." unlike the majority who speak a limited fellowship of every day unavoidable contacts. I live amongst They believed that the Government patois of Cantonese, they speak their Chinese mycol, csuse I cannot wanted 600 children, boys and girls, own languages, and in the case of the LWATCH with leather strap at afford to live in a Reservation. I to bury alive under the piers of a Hoklos their vessels are of a different tached. Finder will be handsomely really believe that if I could take bridge to be built to Kowloon! The build and they rarely take their rewarded. Apply Box 1341. c/o " Chipo

In families to sea with them, advantage of the Reservation, not story gained wide credence.

the Central District it was because I dislike Chinese (I love them)

Those born in British Waters, the but because my nerves are upset by reported to him that middleclass Canton Deita, and Macao are all alán some quite innocent things they do. mothers went 'personally in the middle and represent according to some For instance, I believe a Chinese of the morning to rescue their younger authorities the remnant of the in- gentleman would never notice such a children from obool, while in Wan-digenous population of South Chisin, thing but I notice every time the chai and Shaukiwan children were the ancient Kingdom of Yuet, which over-worked amah next door chops locked up for days and not allowed was gradually displaced by Chinese invaders from the North. They differ her wood for the kitchen fire, he out of doors. docs that job invariably about eleven This is not written in contempt of in features and physique from the p.m., when I am studying. However, the people so credulous. In other Cantonese land population, the differ let me be quite fair. If I did live in ways there are Europeans who be the Reservation, and they played lieve things even less probable, I gramophones and jazz music have more contempt for Conan Doyle at the same hour, I would be that for these anxious Chiurse ladies. equally annoyed by European But ignorance, superstition, all that neighbours. The main thing to sort of thing, is against the possibility remember is that Europeans need of any general fellowship. more privacy than Chiness seem to do, and such Reservations help to give them that.

THE LANGUAGE

DIFFICULTY.

O.E.

I don't mean Charley THE KID'S Chaplin's Kid at the Coronet although he's

None

} is more

very much 0.K. aware than I of mean the baby boy I tried to murder, the insuperable as narrated above, I saw him this barrier of language.morning, counting his chubby fingers. There can be no true fellowship withThey were all there. Incidentally, out a common medium of thought he was dressed in a multiplicity of exchange, well understood by both swaddlings that made him look like parties. That is why Europeans do nothing so much as a pair of um- not agree amongst each other. Nay, brellas rolled in a thick carriage rug, that is why Englishmen do not find His little bare feet were the bandles fellowship easy amongst themselves, of the umbrellas. He was padding about on the cold concrete. I do per cent, of them do not neally understand not profess to keep pace with the

beautiful

kaleidoscopio fashions in hygiene, but what is the use of so much clothing quarrel with Me. round the middle while his little feet

becsure 97.78

OVE

their Look at the way those journalists

language.

common

It is chiefly because words do not and legs are exposed to such cold? always mean the same things for them Head bare, too.

as for me.

I

Well then. When it comes to Chinese and English-let me illustrate with one of my true little stories, a narrative of a personal experience. I do, as it happens, know a bit of Chinese. I know that "fai- tee-lah" means "Good Morning, Sir (or Madam)" and that mo-ping-kai- tai" means "Will you please excuse me?", and a few handy phrases like that. But, you understand, I do not profess to be a sinologue. I don't say I could carry on a conversation, not a proper heart-to-heart chat, in Chinese. Consequently, I cannot offer elaborate explanations and dissipate misunder- standings. For instance. Thursday I stood outside the front door of my premises talking to a really in- telligent police officer. That made me a little late for lunch, and I knew (for Mrs. Adversarius had told me in the morning) that it was a lunch that would not wait with advantage, the sort of lunch I like. It was-but you don't want to know about that. Excuse me. You get the point. I left my policeman with quick strides, and opened rather quickly the big front door that leads to the stair that leads to my fat. Wah-ah-ah-WAH-wa-wa-Wow. cannot satisfactorily reproduce for you the noise that ensued. It was a kid howling lustily. Three small shildren, with a ditto mui-teni, were squatting behind that door. (In- cidentally, another littie Chinese trait. The children seem to do as they please, and are allowed to go Into the most unsuitable places.) Now I do not know for sure that I bumped the baby with the door. I may only have been startled. I deduced from its remarks that I had half-killed it. I wanted to inspect the damage (in case a doctor might be advisable) but the mai-taai, casting on me a look of mingled reproach and horror, grabbed the wee yin and ran. I overheard her telling the mother, or the want, or more probably both, that a foreign devil had tried to murder the baby. They all ran out and stood and glared at me, and pointed me out to one another, and I'm sure they read my ingratiating smile as a fiendish gloat. Still unbasy, I sent one of my servants to explain, and to suggest that the little on shou not choose such dangerous playbound. The baby might have bow. klusa,” I added, Thon dashed if my own servant did not look OR ME AS & MATase brübel, I gathereu that she thouhlh. 1. was

to kill the my own mind th

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