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fight-
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In their respective roles. Ah, Mother-
gill,
Of Ocean's poll-tux the sepulchral
vions,
ostentation. What does the Morning next time I buy a ticket for Macao, Rather than toro" to tardy bay, and Post writer think that word menus, that I want to call en route at the
Some cheap dicti naries Ladrones.
The cry confirms the hunter and his anyway may give its exclusively derogatory
Any pos con Owu 13 meaning (as of vain show) but that is
motor bont or a yacht, an exclusiveneas due to journalistic A
but I'm after bigger illiteracy as much as anything.
game. How would you mother's real love for her baby is
like to own the Jehangir? She be- manifested ostentatiously and our love for the King's son must belongs to me, or will wher I win the "ostentated" by ambitious display. $10 each, and besides nine there are | Takkne Club sweep. The tickets nie All visible expressions of emotion are 29.999 of them. The first prize is the ostentatious. Here's a safe bot for
5000 ron steamer Wingshing, formerly you No matter what shape the
the Jehangir, and I've decided decorations had taken, Hongkong he
stoll bear her old would have found fault. That is uThere's a second prize of $30 000 pleasant Hongkong way. For the
vastly sicker! Thou dost but make the sick nen
Would that thy victims, nimble Ad-
versarios,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1922.
aju bever does look bigger have the best of reasons for knowing than the moon" when it is above the Adversarius had his M.A. at a very mast. The whole difficulty, including early age." He meant, of course, the the objectionable adjective, can be
said:
re-
got over in a paraphrase, which I offer age at which she, my M.A., used ito schoolmasters everywhere with my to spank mo; but jokes are
compliments. The poet should have wasled on those ovid
tailers of gossip. This one sped away to pass on the news, Now if I could bira 'em all to listen to advor- saria vitu ecce, and then release 'em,
Day after day, day after day, At noon the ruddy aun Right up above the most did lay No bigger than a bus. This would increase, by its hippeal and charge all the folk they prattle to their natural appetites, the interest to, I'd be saved a lot of manual of the children in the poem and make labour with the pen, and yet got the it easier for them to remember, in good sred sown all the game, or, as I etead of the superstitious notion of and a third of $20,000, and as Adopted tactics seen in Arctic lati doom attaching to the killing of the 87, better.
name.
legul muxim that the King 1 shall need them both to pay my
can do no wrong, we substitute the axiom that the Government ran do To right. After all, this babit does an harm. I ever the Government
crew (at post strike rates) I must buy two more tickets. But isn't this some thing new in the way of sweepstake
Had teeth and claws less obviously
carious;
Instead of mouthing unctuons, in
jured latitudes
tudes;
Then from a flurry of rotating limbs Mingled with snatches of the Iron-
sides' bymns.
UNLIKELY
albatross (which is the main point of
Did you ever think of the poem) there could be easily sub-
all the meaning con- fituted A nice moral inculcsting
cealed in the common sympathy with the objects of the and familiar word unlikely? The dry
waliahs begin to entertain the foolish prizes? She is valued (on the ticket) | Far, and some tangled outbe, and S.P.C.A. I do not recall how the and dreary pecant who wrote the hope of pleasing everybody, their work at $250,000, but I don't expect to get
all that for her if I decide to sell her. And spectacles, and waistcoats, blood. original gues; but this is how it ought leader in Thursday's China Mail,
will deteriorate.
Let them continue to please Mc. That's quite enough.
IF I
HEGAN
IT
My present intention is to use her for smuggling missionarios into darkest Europe.
I
THE
THIRU TIME
If I began it, I'm sorry. did not at any tane find fault with the art of the decorations.
That is matter of taste, and I have yet to learn that the artistic taste al a Morning Post report commands the cathusiastic respect of the Paris Academy. My idea was that say decorations at all could have ben
1 omitted with advantage.
WB
omitted.
Hosting bear.)
beamented,
Might signal, as for Spain a beacon
burned,
That, at long last, the local worm had
tarned!
PULLING MY
LEG.
I do not mind such clever attempts to i pull in Leg. but in the interests ol historical accuracy must protest about that third line. My eyes are
green,
eyes.
way:
to.
To about an albatrose that way Which is no use for foo
Is wanton cruelty they say. Besides being very rude. This sailor man has hurt his thumb Upon the trigger tight
His sportsmanship was very bum And so it served him right.
Day after day, day after day, He bloody thumb at unen The doctor washed and bandaged
It will be gangrened soon.
bant.
HONGKONG
FULL OF
about Sir Charles Eliot's book, used a goat many words in trying to show that Sir Charles Eliot was ignoring psychology when he spoke of the re- jection of disliked opinions being illogical He could have made his point much more simply by referring to the word “unlikely” as evidence of bow most human thinking is done. It is generally understood in the sense of "improbable," which again evidom thought of in its literal sense
18
a un rovable. That
in parring. Isn't it plain, when you regard it, that the fat users of the word According to
"oulikely" must have fitted it to German coke," in
ideas, statements, propositions, that professor ist ein
to them un-like able ! Au "PROVESSORS." mensch der au
"unlikely" statement IN mereira therer meinung statement that you don't ike to he different Tieve, don't want to believe, would
rather not believe. The nere exist
were
erce
of the word is evidence that
It was just after the meet- ing of the Coast Officers' Guild. Captain Dash was tolling about his shipwreck in the Yellow Sra. He bas told it before, many times. It varies That makes the others listen. They are interested in the latest details. This time he was telling how, when he
shot with yellow. 1 hete blue was in the water, and sinking for the
They are invariably the thinking of the Prince as a Fumar being, fed up with so much of that third time, a panoramic picture of portholes for blur souls. But as you Ltd. Burt of thing, and what a trat it all his past file came before his eyes. are not likely to be interested in my would be to him to see a place, and Not the leat incident of it was ideas about yes, let me basten on te
Faid "Yao,"
Jock. another contribution I've received, especially a naturally beautiful place
What did he mean from Wilhelm Berg. He quotes from like this, as it normally is. You"That guid." know how we feel ourselves, wher! That he didn't believe it Indignant a Home newspaper a news item to comparing a formal dinner and the warmth, and some reprouch, was
theflect that Mrs. Enriquits Riulicista man who of a gaid of Tampico, Mexico, gave birth to opinion is. If that definition stands unprepared for "put fuck" that our the Captain's voice. Na, na,
Jock "I meant 'twas quid pe eaight infants one day last December Hongkong is full of professors. When friends give us. But now if ever my
ka thing that happened ye, for 1le plays with the problem in this will some Hongkong men lear that there were men who thought that original and subtle compliment is
some experience in mental discipline dislike was sufficient reason for decided upon, by some conregras was feared ye had forgotten the ten
is necessary before their opinions can disbelief. The word still exists, and Sore difficulty arose about government on a future evasion, do dollars I lent ye last time we fore-
claim validity The most foolish of those men still exist. They have naming them. M Kiulio puntod not hide from yourselves the fact gathered in Germaine's Bar.
Wasn't my Daily Preps out that as there were quita lot. them does not go "out of his epth altered the customary meaning of the that it will be met with howls of censure. The young lous of the Press
collegue somewhat Mrs. Euri etc should leave it to him. until he can swim a stroke word to one more logically respectable; denau on Wednesday? But she insisted ou saning them Eari of two. Why should they plugs into but they have not altered their way will rout about pur megates and
thinking that is beyond their stature, of thinking. Logical conclusions stu giness and forget all they ever The President of the Sanitary Board I. Enri II, and so on.
and offer opinions as glibly and boldly depend on premisses and the truth of about simplicity and thought it use to extend the is then supposed to ring:
sa if they were mental swimmers and the premisses depends on the accuracy "tastefulness." Thy will point out principle of using bath
divers Professor Arthur Thompson with which the mind sees relations that Singapore had bunting, ergo
says: When a well-thought-out and differences, congruities and in- Sexen Hittle Enris came along acientific exposition Hongkong's loyal reputation has been
disturbs the congruities, and that accuracy depewly trailed in the mod of an ill advised
reader's preconceptions, or takes him on the mind that is apt to regard And setterer. Bairns wil parsimony
beyond his usual depth of analysis, he whatever it dislikes as "unlikely. be bains.
has his revenge in dubbing it met So now perhaps you can see why I do physical. But this is an ignorant pot admit that formal logic is the sneer, if metaphysics means the
most seaworthy craft in which to critical and systematic analysis of our venture upon the ocean of enquiry.
It is an intellectual discipline, an actively sceptical on- conceptions.
quiry, a criticism of categories--07 it may be tanked beside mathemates and logic in the general schone of knowledge. But in that last spoke
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ms companion how exactly the effect
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was the offct of certain
COINCIDENCE.
said
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I'm Enri the 8th I am Enri the 8th I am
before
The last oo-
I was the last one: there wasn't
any more.
And every one of us is called Enri
RSE
THOSE PRINTERS.
**Though an angel should write, still 't's devils must print. For educated rexers (the sort it was presumably
clo el flushing, permitted to hotels, to private houser, as there assurance that enough. Path water
br used would
io private for houses
sueb purpose Mv The funniest criticism contemporary called that u cryptic
There isn't one Wilie or a San I've heard these reason for a enricus distinction," and
I'm the Hth little accidental Enri pillars along the route added the coincient: Why
So Bori VIII I am." was that they distructed the truth indents in hotels should be credited
It sounds like putter from a london The erite obstructed the traffic in with bring more lavizb with bath order to tell me 19. While he stood; water than residents in private houses music-hall. The slightest notion of If that was purely the real pronunciation of the pretty there in the stort, speaking serafully was not stated." about this, richs were making a faceti us--a je dragged in by the unne Enriquita ruins the intended pun De not mistake cruff of the neck, as it were then in the introduction. But as he has nt enggesting that the laugh is at me, and I'll bear idone is best to amuse us, let's forgive the preconception of the scientist, written for) the whimsical leader in But if I am to regard it as him, trust that Papa Rinio gets a rise Genuine mataphysics ranks higher Wednesday's China Mail must have thathne of wage, and pars on to the next than mathematics or login, it only had its intended effect completely da, serious enturion, as and lotter than the field as suggeds, I am muable find the paragram, which is lifted word for because the great must include the spoiled by the jaring wind up, about at is ubvious word form the highly respicable less. Science relates or differentiates the procession of the equunxes. I cryptogiza. To me that reiders in hotels provide a Porified of the Oxford University facts. Mathematics applies the inws take it the writer (whose style I
waste bath Press more lavish supply of water than residente in private houses do, for the simple but sufficient reason that there are more of them Anybody who has waited his turn for
detour round himn
me.
this
LATES
made his criticism wrong koow ፡13 vill
I seem to do, that the in groger på never
a refutatum. But it is always funny because the nongruity of the Bermon and the conduer.
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meekly
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AMENDED.
of number, although numbers of things! admired) wrote precession. Evidently Mr. E. A. Greezing are more than number. Logic put the printers were evilly di-pused that Lamborn in Exlines the forms for some of the forms) day, for is a leaderette below I pression in Sperch of thinking. But metaphysics handles noticed the sacred name of 1). Henry and Writing" points and weight, tetaphorically speaking, transposed into the meaningless forin
I must pay the Morning! THE TRAIN Post leader túst a con:
BOBBERY pliment for printing out, hotel bath (perhaps two or three to the danger of children talking the pure idea. When it gets any of O' Henry, as if our Master of the that there is little tubs serving a corridor of twenty glibly, with no real knowledge if the where near deserving the sheer that Conte were some insignificant Irish to ustify the theory entertained by prople) will realize that a better flow things of which they speak. He vulgar men have imported into the politician. That grieves me, because some people that the strikers ludi
gove thence than frem huure con mentions, for example, the boy who name of it, it is no longer metaphysics, it is not so long since I was reproving anything to do with the train robtaining (say) an editer an editor's was called upon to recite some but mere logic, observing terms more the Telegraph for the same ini- bery. That is most important. It wife and an edit r's baby. It must stanzas he had learned from than ideas. is the proper way to investigate. I have been a joke. All right. So's the "Ancient Mariner." He cam take it that he did some investigating mine.
1 did, and for a while it wasn't even
מחובר
SERVES IT
RIGHT
KEITH
WEET
REVIVES
Bland-
!!
1
GOSSIP.
propriety.
CUTTING BAMBOOS.
about?
I am almost ready to bet "Old Penk Resident whom I thank for his chivalry
Isn't it bad
In passing, the China
bad ANOTHER Mail
G mis. MISPRINT print rather odd, as it completely reversed
I wish I had the kind of Lo th. loca that describe
brain that organizes. I want some schome, or a * theory” but a stack assumption.
Perceive now how my one of its most striking pictures ---- Cloneve pictures, which are accused Then I met a high-up policeman, and
labour are lightened, Day after day, day after day, method for commercializing (making Lacking perspective. He agreed asked him: Is it established that
space agreeably The bloody san at nocu
financially productive) the energy of in defending our trees, the best orna- that of th ar 'mal Scene were there was a connection between the
filled, by the re. ponées Right up above the mast did the local gossips. It seems to be ever ments we've g t, that the bamboos he a panting, such erties would laugh train robbera and the strikers?" And
of my readers. Such,
so much more effective than the saw being cut, were condemned by our off as impossible. There was so he answerd "Yes." As a police apparently, bas Keith West abode, There be faltered, and after besitat printed page. The tongue is mightier anti-mosquito brigade. At any rate.
"atmosphere" between the
must know the nature of although his pen has been idle of late. ing for a moment, supplied: "So did than the pen and the printing machine they talked that way last time they Peak top and us that it actually valid evidence, I took that s I trust that, unlike mys, ti, be suffere the blundy moou.'
combined. I have published things were heard from. I'd rathor endure Navigate C.. W tong With med nearer tan the cloudy for authoritative, nnd shed any fragmen This distressing ailment seized upou How to be happy though married." went unnoticed, and I have known one clump of bamboos. In any case, Det the pains of Writer's Cramp The Rev. E. J. Hardy, author of berein that, so far as I could sec, few extra mosquitoes than sacrificé ground; and it had the queer up of sympathy 1 had retanie: for the pearance of a lantern picture in the seamen. Now the Pot revives the ny right hand on Wednesday morn and formerly an army chaplain here, gossip flatly contradictory thereof to it is time somebody spoke up for the rky, with no connection likely with doubl Wil somone
oblige Dieng, 60 Beverly that I made trial made great play with that medieval pass from end to end of the town mosquitoes rights, enith at all. I have a Chinese print with any scrap of evidence that having yer much to do) of writing adjective in writing of the customary like-like fluenza. I frequently enough that we should infect them that reproduces a similar effect. suggests the connection Aud will with my left. But all that I could speech of soldiers. The wittiest ex amuse myself by giving out in strict with malaria, when they come to During the last those who have no such scrap shut age was a couple of lines like this:planation of its usefulness (to those confidence, to go no further than the dinner, that we need to render then three years so many up? That's idle rhetoric. They Retirwepyt a em etanod laos drik whe habitually employ it) is to be person to whom it is given, some homeless too? What is the S.P.C.A. Longkong nien woo't. I know they won't.
emra liw. Pmare aretirw reffus I. ound in a little account of how Bill statement so false and unfounded that died, many of them at an early age.
You may think my regred "copy.'
Which, of course, did not make explained to Jack the meaning of "One I am sure to recognize it again, should However, to rraume, man one vote." But that is too well it ture up, a my own lie. "Sboald I widerstand that all of them at one time or other read the editorial
ferences to the Morning I was introducing a Keith Westian known to need repeating. Mr. Bernard turn up." It is a long time since writings in the other dewspapers,
Post it natured, but contribution. Here it is, entitled Shaw bas equght the bubble I needed to doubt. They always It may be merely a coincidence,"
consider the Provocato Adversarius, who desired reputation by incorporating the come back, wonderfully altered very the sense. It was in a clipping of couise, but
tion. In the same issu, they had a worthy to man." (I didn't. I desired word in one of his plays; but often, bot the original, framework that said the National Anthem had paragraph stating that "the pople a foer an. But no matter, To the be was less original in that than hosup-establishes their identity. In print I been "banned" in Belfast. "We have consigned bis in Chis chilla are living in tree, and W.P.8. epistle to the wuste basket," the Burnett River ross eight fest in
pem).
posed. A dramatist called Shakspero have announced that I'd never leave printer made it "banded." said a dainty leaderette in 45 minutes." Such gratuitous per- Wealthily bearded, but hairless on bad done so before him. The curious Hongkong so long a parevorts are National Anthein is quite often band- Tuesday's Morning Post. When I had analitics are deplorable experially
bis pato,
thing about it is why it should shock required. My en was that this ed-Brass Banded-and so it should finished reading that leaderette, when it is a high Government official He arts a faded replica of Fate;
people, as I truly believe it does. Its would hasten the abolition of pae- have been in Belfast, if the Bellus- rong up the editor, to offer him a bit that pointe them out. But for His pale blue eye, the hue of watered suggestions are in no way shocking. sports. By word of month I told a ticules hadn't been preved with us. of friendly advice. As usual. the bim
The most refined lady will tell for gossip that when I luft I would be would have missed the milk, v bally thing we out of order. This allusion to the elvation of my re Surveys the public whom he seeks to instance, how after an accident the settling down in Tabiti: I heard the was not Mr. Tollan's fault. I admit, sported editor and the cont mptible bilk
poor dog was covered with blood, other day, from a Government man, I had cut off a bit of the wire to mend suggestion that my ow
facial ture In the mind'e mirror-poor and puny which is a longer and a less ozact that I was said to be on the ovo of a birdcage. The advice I wanted to have simian characteristice.
phrase suggesting the same thing. leaving for Tahiti,When do you offer my
friend Mr. Petric was this..
That seek Valhalla by the Primrose Wher the word is used in contexts go?" u asked, with il concealed Get a bigger waste basket.”
Lord Northcliffe,
・Way;
where its only possible suggestion is engernes. The latest example is own record for imbecility. Professor writing about his trip is flugore drum the air that Nerd inapplicable (eg as qualifying a lie)reater. I said in print only work Bolland, of Leyden, a famous pro- to Macao on t. ej
played
it is hard to understand why it ever or so ago, that I had no university feseor of philosophy, is dead. That GKOGRAPHY. Sui An, Buye
| As hohis pickled innocents aurveyed;
came to sound other than merely silly degree. One day this week a man was the message but Reuter decided score to thy We seem to hear the rush of vultures To meet it now in an educational work whom beer had mado loquncious to enhance its poignant interest 1 y is a reminder that perhaps after all the burst out in company this wayed life as an errand boy" He didn't.
adding that Professor Bolland start winge
merely fally things ought to stock us heard something about you today. He started life as a tiny, roi, baby.
Ahe
*ERVICE.
HONGTONO, Sauen Pan 79 1992.
ADVERSARIA.
1
Oscar Wie obce PERSPECTIVE Tomplained of Nature's attempta to initete Art. I caught it in the
ob last Saturday altergoon, when I} Bras walking up Tedder Street with me of the Morning Post chaps. A
Talking of the de OSTENTATION Corations to welcome the Prince (which.
I
THE PEER AND
3
thick cloud wae drifting over the hips by the way, are very similar to this famous Repulso Bay which is
prey..
of the Peak. High: up in the sky: London considered good enough) ulled the Moutone of the Just None 17at bisit their fond from journalists
ad footing all the bigher Because of unotlier dainty leaderette, of which of the local papers réprinting it the vignetting, we could see the top can buzertly over that it hadn't any boss led attention to tlus detail, pod
and kings.
the Penk, with a suggestion of spelling mistakes, aid, “anything|mw I am hesitating us to wheth 1 thn, Vao Victis cry the architecture'on it. People know that cheap, di-planned and obtenla inte route to Machu may not have been
therout
more than they do. Why, for ex- Adversariis, that you never told Me.
THE UNSURTASSAŬLE
KEUTER,
The
The
In the same is- ave I read a cablegram
in which I think Reuter beat his
ample, should schoolboys be asked to I hear you have an M.A. degrou: Yon Just na even the great Renter did. and memoriza atur like the Auciens needn't deny it, because it came from Or any of his editore. Now if Router Mariner If this boy, had remem your Boss I investigated. It had uned those words in tolling un bered the right line so bigger than stems the Boss, and a friend were what branch of philosophy Bolland.
fa gojn te tain when the bill look will rightly batondemned as lowerinifd. When I sailed one. But in Flica rom, lo batou n the Coedgok Heurer than usual, but they forget the dignity of the Colony," : The pesve dhe pot, tall at Répulco Bry, but / krunt
at when looking at Chinese orfectly proper and only possible purthala not a new papir prur.-I. Vae Victis and they spred their pauras-printo, - I pointed cut to peas, of such deoprattude in much to the skippar, or J.- n'A....... d,
headlong light
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the muon he would inve discussing the note in which I poured membered a sily, one becsues, when scorn on university degrees and in bin you come to think of it, the facetious way the Bosk mid, "I
would have been inore to
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