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FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.

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White Greens I respect authorities and experts mean by "instinctive. He vas The Motorship

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Bagar and Rico ext No. 24 Java Fine White......$18.40 193. lbs., Flour par sack of 60 lbs., fact that they are human and liable less." to err. To none, not even the most These may still be roora for argu-harardous Godowns of the Boogkong & reputable, will I give blind utment here, but surely none where Kowloon Wharf & Godown Co., Ltd., No. 18 Java Rough Brown.... $13.03 all hasis spot goode with usual guild

Java Brown Bugar...... $11.00 term. thoughtless agreement. I serve the hair of the dog is converted? whence delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted after the my right to think for myself, to you find a dog whose hair grow goode have loft the Godowns, and li

test their statements. Real scien- towards his elbow, let me know. tists, of course, concede me that.

It is only the charlatans who offer.

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methods, and encourage thought. lostess, when fag they quite often do they say: "What? Do you set up your opinion against that of Mr. Big Repute?" Similar criticism (passer le mot) was proffered me in Hongkong. Because Wallace be- A sequel to the China Now Year lives on to be the hub of the joy-rides was the Coroner's inquest universe, because Oliver Lodge bold by Mr. R. E. Lindsell yester- believes in ghosts, because the day, with a jury, to enquire. into author of some derivative but the circumstances attending the popular detective fiction believes in death of Lam Cheong who died at fairies, it was held to be more the Government Civil Hospital on sunly for an obscure and insigni-February 18, from injuries received feant and unreputationéd person in a motor-cur collision near the lika má to believe in anthropo-Tytam reservoir.

goods remaining undelivered after the 15th of March, 1923, will be subject

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All broken, abafad und damaged goode are to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined in the presence of Consigneon by Messrs. Goddard & Douglas on the 18th of Marcb, 1923 at 10 am.

All claims must reach us before the 18th of March, or they will not bo recognized.

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murphism, in spooks, and in fairies. Mr. M. I. Lo appeared on behalf Ind of course you also) was to of Mr. Li Ku-po, owner of car shut my eyes and open my mouth No. 753.-

The driver of car No. 753 gave and be spoon-fed.

The idea was spreading too. I evidence of leaving the Repulse believe I noticed the appearance Bay Hotel on February 16 (China Hure than once of the doctrine that New Year). His master drove the it was presumption and "check "car which also contained some for a journalist of whom no one friends. Their speed was from 20 had heard before, and who wasn't to 25 miles per hour. On reaching eren a member of the Kleb, to the bend near the reservoir witness criticise tains for Government heard a noise from behind as if oficials. The mused ne more another car was approaching, but

No alaims will be admitted after the than it irritated me.

C33538 None the he heard no ho sounded. A Goods have left the Godowns, and all les, it was mischievous, and Imoment later car No. 29 crashed Goods remaining undelivered after opposed it so far as I could.

So long as Britons are free mea, car, the impact driving his car be presented to the Undersigned on into the right rear mudguard of his the 15th inst., will be subject to rant. it is not only their privilege, their against the bank on the left side of right, but their duty, torquestion, to the rond, causing his car to graze not be recognized.

or before the 20th Inat, or they will esamine, to test.

the bank and suffer considerable Looking through my notebooks I damage. After car 759 had stop have found two instances which, Iped witness saw car 29 stationary tunk, illustrate this very well. shout eight yards behind. Sitting In biology I am nobody, a mere beside the driver was a man who amateur, and still lamentably ignor- appeared to have been seriously in ant, whereas Schwalbe in or was jured. Two women sitting at the Professor of Anatomy in the Uni- back of car 753 were thrown out. by versity. [I am writing here for The right roar mudguard, the rear common man, and not for those light and the number plate were all Hongkong sophisticates who, hav-knocked out of position. ing mot Professors in the flesh, huve | Dr. J. T. Smalley, of the Govern discovered that sometime, they seement Civil Hospitaal, stated that as through a class, darkly."]"Pro-the deceased died on the 18th. The foror Schwalbe interpreted Dar-man was semi-conscious on admis- winism for the Germans. As was sion and appeared to be suffering his right, he even pointed out Dar- from a fractured skull, He was win's mistakes. The hair on your blind in the left eye.

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shoulder, and up from the wrist. At this stage the enquiry was having arrived, Consignees of cargo by Jath Darwin and Wallace held fit adjourned for wook for the her are informed that all goods are being Amerison Tourists.. is_a_more guess, which biologists Coroner and jury to visit the scene landed at their risk into the hazardous For Eastern Olympiad

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be and I refused to swallow that hypothesis. I had dismissed it as

3 pretty guess, on which to real A subtle satire upon present day argument depended. But now, as society is contained in "The Notori I happened to have a dog, I could ous Mrs. Sunde," the Robertson not swallow Schwalbe's argument Cole production which the Coronet ogninst it. My dog's hair did not management are showing for the grow that way, but ran right down first time to-day. In it Bessie to the foot. So did the hair of my Borriscale, the radiant star of num- neighbour's dog. So did the hair berless comedy-dramas shows ng à of every dog I looked at, until I got fresh facet of her undeniable genius. by tired of looking.

The story of the film is intensely

I am perhaps better equipped for dramatic and calls for delicate philosophy than for biology, but I nuances of emotion which Miss do not pose as an authority or an Barriscale portrays in brilliant oxport. It is what I call common-fashion,

sense that compels me to denounce In the role of a girl whom fate William James as a pretentious and has placed in a false position--ebe thought-clogging psychologist. Istakes her reputation in order to live from time to time written save her lover's honour--Miss Bar- analyses of his flimsier passager:riscale is seen as the brilliant but my note books inchute a state-leader of an ultra-smart cat and this "kout that I have not wrkten about, gives her the opportunity to wear set.

an array of particularly gorgeous.

In his "Principles of Psychology," frocks, all specially designed by a vol. ii, p. 390, occurs the remark: noted modigte for the photoplay. "overy instinctive act in uu animal There are many thrilling scenes with memory must ceuse to be and one of the most gripping of the blind' after being once repeated."picture's great moments is the The fact appeara to be, from my court room scene where she an- own empiric as well as literary nounces that on the night her bus- studies in this line, that the oftener band's safe was robbed the man the net is repeated the blinder' it accused of the crime, and whom she becomes, until (of course) it is loves, was with ber.

Ablind instinct," ́er else' habit,

Habit gives us prompt repctiona

without vision or contemplation of į

the end sought, as when we jump eside from a sudden noise, or when our Angora play on the piano keys, our eyes busy elsewhere, or whan we run upstairs, or throw out the bande when falling.

We are animals with memories, but wa do

not. toreciously recall these, acte

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INTRIES are invited for the Lawn Divisions.

they sro, "blindly achieved. In Tennis League A. and B stinct may be inherited habit.

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Funconscious memory." Habits ve Entries close MONDAY March acquire by an exercise of memory; 19th and to be sent together with Instincts are born with us, as Entrance fee of 10 per Club to the (possibly) transmitted habits of Hon. Secretary, Dacestore and there habite, far ough back, may have been no quired somewhat as ours ars, I build need a volume to deal winn

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