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THE CHINA MAIL.
WEATHER CALENDAR:
OCTOBER 13.
Mists on the A grey day. hills. We did not walk in the
raltlos its Japanese-made sword in the Allies during the struggle. It Allow no music ment its cage; its Gecinuu, scabbard, pricked Poin was Ramanian team that issued And when it flies into a rage
the first challenge to a Bulgarian Chusting it auast moveroly. | eare on his Ruhr rib,--dono at! ene team. The challenge was accepted, I had an Aunt in Yucatan | things and more, and have yet been and a few weeks ago the "Tricou-Who bought a python from a man
allowed to live, we cannot see our leur," of Bucharest, paid a visit to And kept it for a pet. sives basking in Macao with this Sofia, where it played a series of She died, because she never knew
games with Sofin tears before large] These simple little rules and fow; warning above our head. The very crowds of enthusiasts. The arrival The snake is living yet. thought would unnervò sud unstrung, of the team, and its departure, were
-HAIRE BELLOC. us, uke as, by reason of it, fit for tondo, in the Bulgarian capital au treasone, stratage-ne and spoils, not occasion for demonstrations of Įmutual nuiity that would have been Bit to be trusted. And so for some well-aigh incredible only a tow | eonsolation for the great grief which months earlier. Contact" between!
alfiets us, we turn to the words of Rumanina and Bulgarian on the 1800. Robert Ingersoll, and take what football field; under conditions of sportsmanship and fair play little comfort we can, knowing full associated with the English-speak | well the the liberty of the people ing races, demonstrated a percepti-| becomes less and ices and that the casing off of the tension between days of the Star Chamber are not the two peoples. Since then there have been soverul "frontior inci- yet over. Lot Robert speak :--
dents" along the Dumbe-incidents Po far as I am concerned, I of a friendly nulur—that have testi- have met up my mind that no fied to a growing improvement in the feeling between Bulgaria and organization, secular or religious, one of the countries aligned with shall be my master. I have made Great Britain and France during 'mp my mind that no necessity of the war. The gool example set by livend, at roof, or maituent shall Rumania was not last even upon put a padlock on my lips. I have Jugoslavia, which under the donsin- ant Serbian influence has been show- inade up my mind that no hopeing distressing signs of chauvinism. or preferment. nu honour, noot nuny weeks after the Rumen wentth, shall ever make me for inn an returned to Bucharest, i
the football association of Solis to
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13 1921.
AS YOU LIKE IT
WEEK-END SHREDS AND PATCHES,
OUR LITERARY LOBBY,
LOCAL: GOSSIP FOR BOOKY PEOPLE.
What's in a name as From the book-lists which con- NAMES. old Bill Shakespearetindo to reach us, there will be no had it. Lots we should jack of interesting book for the say. We have had lots of enjoy-autuan senton, But before we ment not only in watching the refer to these books, let us put on Fairies at Miss Capell's classical record a discovery we have unde dancing concerts, but in noting through spending time in turning the names with which fond mothers the covers of Mottuen's Announce" have given to their children, Fairy
Statesman will probably have won.
morning. I copied poems names if you like. Here are a few ments. Those who real the New Naming of Places. A fair at Ambelside. Walked in the examples which are items of poetry |derol who was hiding himself under Black Quarter at night. in themselves:-Gladys, Frances, the initials of "Y.Y." and writing Dorothy Wordsworth, Ida, Daphne, Essie, Audrey,
SHADOWS BEFORE.
ROTARY,
Kathleen, Ina. &c. We cannot each week such delightful essays imagine the possessors of names and on a wide and diversified array like these taking the wrong turn of subjects, in such a smooth, easy, ing,or being anything but what they Coming Events Advertised
and arrosting style.. Now, we know. suggest, sweet, pure and noble. In The Mail.
"Y.Y." is none other than Robert We positively hate to discourage the efforts Lynd who is not unknown in the ENTERTAINMENTS.
of hot-blooded reform world of literature and whoss work ers, righters-of-the world's misery, is dice and always a sheer de October 13-Coronet Theatre; pioneers, fellowship-revellers, light. The new books to ba Johnnie Walker in Captain Fly brotherhood-bawlers, etc, etc, but issued by Methuen's include by-night.", Buster Keaton in "The we must warn the young man on values from the pens of Lucas, Pale Face."
our staff who, is all out either for Chesterton, Lynd, October 13 Star Theatre; an International or a Rotary Club. Punch. Maeterlinck and of coures **Evoo" of one ment swerve from what I Serbian team at Nish challenged Reginald Denny in "The Ken- And we warn him in good time for any others, including Marie
tucky Derby."
our attention has been drawn to Corelli, who is represented by "a October 13-World Theatre; the fact that at certain Rotary Clubs really believe, na matter whether antel, aml the elmllenge was William Farnum in "A Tale of they intone a dirge before starting quicl study of sentiment' as dis-
o
it is to my immediate interest, as promptly accepted. The hetween would think, or not. And enemies that were believed to have while live. I am going to do been incapable of shaking hands in what linde lemn to help my fellow friendship, a more cordial feeling is being slowly but surely introduced men who have not been as for through an institution dear to Eng immate as I have bem.
lish-speaking peoples and by thei Mac-farewell!
imparted to the Balkan nations, And it is the earnost hope of all thoughtful people in all the small antions concerned that the rifts thus started in the wall of hale and misunderstanding will grow in height and in width, until the aperture will be large enough to admit the ear of progress and amity,
Unemployment.
England is faced with: the problem of over million and a quarter who To put it more aro unemployed. clearly 1,250,000 who are without work. In France, so we are told, "there is now practically no en- employment. On August 23 the Music at Meals. total number of unemployed in
Mr. Chesterton's article in the
Two Cities."
October 14-Coronet Theatre; The Prisoner of Zenda.""
October 14.--Star Theatre, "The Flirt."
October 14.--World Theatre; Hoot Gibson in “Dead Game."
October 29-Theatre Royal; Grand Violin Recital by Jascha Heifetz.
SOCIAL.
October 13.-Dance at Peak Club, 9.15 p.m.
October 19-Hongkong Volun- teer Defence Corps' third and final promenade Concert of the season.
November 2-Navy League Balli at City Hall, 9.30 p.m.
BAZAAR.
October 13.-Sale of work in aid of Building Fund at St. Paul's
LAND SALE.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
recipt of relief was 2,136 as com med with 285 on August 16.lustrated London News on music Girls' School, 74, Caine Road, from The difference between the Englisht meal-tines gives him an oppor- 2 to 9 p.nt.
few verbal, and French figures is more than tunity for releasing a
It contains, however,, October 15.-At P. W. D.Offices, starting. The plain main, posse fireworks. ing no deep knowledge of economiese or two reminders that the two lots of Crown Land, 3 pin. or the distribution of trade and innocence of Father Brown in
October 16-17.-Laminert Bros., commerce and its effects upon worldly matters has a parallel in employment, will wonder at the that of his creator where tunic is at Kingsclere, Kennedy Road, discrepancy and inturally ask why concerned. Mr. Chesterton thinks 2.30 p.m. this should be. If the result of the there is something greedy about October 19.-Lammert Bros., at licy adopted by France in her expecting to enjoy the dinner and Messrs. Lupique & Co.'s offices, relation to Germany and Reparate concert at the same time." Queen's Building, 11 s.m tions thems that she has such a adding; "I say trying to enjoy October 20-Lambert Bros., at still number of unemployed, the the, for it is the mark of this sort their Sales Rooms, Duddell Street, policy from that point of view seems of complex enjoyment that it is not S.L. Tonkinois," at noon. justified-or rather has had no ill-enjoyed." There is nothing "com-
effects.
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MEETINGS.
LEADER
CHORUS
LEADER
Ham and eggs!
Ham and eggs!
I like mine fried good and brown
CHORUS
I like mine fried upside down. LEADER Ham and eggs!
CHORUS Ham and eggst
Flip' em!
proceedings. Here is a typical played by distinctly divergent example.
characters.
There are said to be more than 30 Russian publishing firms in Berlin engaged in produc ing either reprints of standard Risian works or the hooks of Russian authors exiled through their their inability to earn a living at the hostility to Bolshevik rule or flurongh
present time in Russia. ... Cor. ment is being made on the number of American writers who are coin- ing to England to finish or to write books and those English writers who desert London or England for the sans purpose. Thus Aldous Huxleyfin Italy, Arnold Bennett at sea on his yacht, J. D: Beresford in the south of France where he will live altogether, following the example set by W. J. Lacka.... Arnold Bennett's new novel "Ricey- man Steps has been completed. The title does not convoy anything, As any Rotary Club formed in will probably be in the usual Hongkong would probably have facile manner of the originator of
Governor
The Card" and those, other H. E. the
Prem or Patron and our inhabitants of the Five Towns.
Flop 'em!
LEADER
CHORUS
LEADER
Flop 'em!
CHORUS
Flip 'em!
ALL
Ham and eggs!
as
sident unofficial members of the Compton Mackenzie's latest
Council well up on the list of novel is called "The Old fan of the officials, try as we may, we cannot Sea, and is a story of a treasure visualise these eminently respect-hunt in the South Seas. Mackenzie intoning to the gods their liking for sixteen hundred gramophone records able members of the community by the way lus no fewer than Harn and eggs, and their instruc-and is thereby enabled at any time tions to Flip 'em and Flop'em. to hear the world's operas, sym- phoniee, Chamber music, ballads, Hongkong The whole thing is perplex" about the affair, and if Mr.
mothers October 15.-Extraordinary gen. plexing and generally, incompre Chesterton really has doubts about
BIRTHS. are asked to note the Masses, etc., by getting somebody achievement of a Mrs, to turn a handle and change a ensible. It may mean that France people's enjoyment of insic at eral meetings at Hongkong Hotel, is maintaining her army at war als ho can settle them by the Pedder Street, of the Hongkong Hennesey who claims a family needle.... Note the opening sen- strength and her munition factories simple process of going to
Hotel Co., Ltd., and the Shanghai birth record. Four of her children tence of the most popular novel" are working over-time to make prestant and opening his eyes. Hotels, Ltd., at 11 a.m. and 11.30 were born in different years (1802, of last year "If Winter Comes paration doubly sure for the rest Moreover, as a practical man, he a.. respectively.
1894, 1900 and 1906) on January To take Mark Sabre at the age of October 19-Meeting of Credi-20-her own birth month..
thirty-four and at the place Penny war. It so where is all the money ought to know that 90 per cent, of
Groen needs first to look back a coming from to do all this? The restaurant proprietors would not tors of the Hongkong Hide and
Cut two large cakes little from that point, but has him words of song that in this t-frane is none too steady and ward the cost of a band to their Leather Co. Ltd., (in liquidation) at
in arrange the offices of Messrs. Percy Smith, Larried place there could be time debts remain unpaid. It is indeed penses without good given to the muse of music. Here, one of those numerous inatters And if the combination of the two Seth and Fleming, 5 Queen's Road
Central, noon. when our shares ascended the dizzy whiel: no fellah eng understand." Pleasures (eating and mangie) is un- ALS Mr. Chesterton height of value that would ensure italies-
Let us emphasise the position in Pleasant **
declares it to be why do so muy thousands of people combine them;
"to clear consignment below cost price, Call early.
HONGKONG CIGAR STORE.
The China Mail
HoKokomo, Saturday, Oct. 13, 1993.
With
MACAO.
A Happy Song,
reason.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
Much sympathy will be felt by
us a safe competency for the future For every Frenchman out of work
and how do they contrive to look when we sold them would we come there are 600 Englishmen ille.
[so happy over the job? Mr. The bathing beach at North and be at rest. Daily would wel
|Chesterton ance declared (without Point will be closed on and after Time was when we loved Macno walk those streets, along the sea
share, and even with some pride, the evening of October 16. it seems) that he knew nothing love that passed other front, and comport ourselves in
An old hymn has it that "There's about music. If he did he would be peoples understanding. Our colors in the gardens aforesaid, nothing like a happy song to cheer aware that music of the right type horse-lovers for Dr. Esler, who lost Supreme delight then www 10 jacknimledging that every prospect the way and we are reminded of can be used as a mere background a useful servant and staunch friend the the brief journey over pleases and man is also mild. But this fact in reading part of the leg to eating, talking, or even thinking when Whistling Rufus, his polo the quiet waters of the Pacific our dreams. is shattered.
of the skipper of the Traneasa, the Wo agred with him in objecting to pony, dropped dead on the race- privations of whose crew is pow "very loud" music during meals,
course yesterday morning. uuto the dim vista of the Praya pieces, and try us we will we cannot well-know and is become an epic of but our experience is that noisy Girando opened out to reveal itsell would it nearer the heart's desire. the sea. Here is an extract under music is
The V.R.C. (A.) team, by de- the exception บ. all its dignity and simple For why? Macao is not the elysian "Fifth Day, June 8." "Issued restaurants. His reference in this feating the Kowloon "alphabetical seven at water polo in the V.R.C. splendour and to remind us of a city lick of contml that we inngined ration, milk and biscuit, and were connection to "the deafening uproar bath by 10 goals to I on Friday ou the shores of the Mediterranean, it was. The place is small, but the treated by McGreen (A.B.) to the of a brass band" is surely fantastic. night, have won the Hongkong |
report
it is in
following little song :-
I like hat and eggs.
I
I like eggs and bacon. Anybody here ways I don't
like 'oni He is jolly well mistaken,
And, anyway, such cataclysms are Water Polo shield for the season. abjectionabla at all times, When
When people are listening to a good concert they do not ostenta- tiously produce large park-pies
We have us yet seen no City on the bitter-weed of the practical-mind- shores of the Metternica, butjel dwells there. It is nuodern; it
he says that it is an intolerable The British Consulate-General ours is a peculiar ituogimtion, nnd] trusts not; "it sveks u dend level of
insult to a musical artist that people at Kobe has received from the Rev. should treat his art as an adjunct E. M. Strong of Christ Church, if the white boats running to Cauton sumeness;, it would repress and
to a refined gluttony" he is wasting Yokohama, two gold rings, one can conjure up pictures of the Nile, reprove in no uncertain way, for There may be a difference of opin his sympathy. The musician who marked "J. E. M. 1908." These there is na valid reason why the
doponeth give things-ion about the cheerfulness of the plays at restaurants is, like G.K.C. were recovered from the body of an first view of Macs should not things which disturb and unseille seeing that hun and eggs were himself, a public entertainer, work- unknown victim of the earthquake minge for us another part of the us,
as likely to appear at that parti ing for good, hard money, and very who was buried at Yokohama on for we read that foreign culer moment, or in the days of ghd to do so. He is no more September 8. Anyone who is like- world's surface. Hore would be nationals residing in our Mecca doubt that followed, as wore straw-msuited by our eating and talkingly to identify the rings is requested the narrow strocte, the dashing of Macao must go coroful. They berries and cream. The "cheerful- during his performances than is to communicate with the British maule, and the black-eyed beauty must keep a watch on their tongue. ness of the song lies in the con- Mr. Chesterton by our reading one Consulate at Kobe. made so familiar to us in the Should they observe anything but tast of hain and eggs to the rations of his magazine articles in order to actually issued, and this doubtless while away a railway journey. Be Oppenheim' type of magazine story, an absolutely strict neutrality in had its appeal and worked wonders lets himself go here
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL, Nor WB6 our illusion shattered internal politics, or veature to on the frame of mind of the men when, coping the questioned criticise the acts of the Government who were called upon to endure!
The appointment of Police fascination of the "first-clues." or of any friendly Government, they such hardships as few men are
called upon to face. Piper Find- and bottles of bear to enable them Sergeant Daniel Wilmot Barnett Gambling deas, we traversed some will be arrested and deported, and later was awarded a V.O.. for piping to get through it somehow,
to be a Sanitary Inspector for of the winding and marrow streets, the Portuguese Government will not on his comrades to victory: Trus; but G.K.C. must not give Stanley is gazetted." or the spaciousness of the Prayu, take any further interest in their McGreen (A.B.) is not likely to be tham too much credit for this Mr. Kenelm Hutchinson Digby
In other words, a Mr. out by the sea, or inward to the cool, into. ment, and well kept gardens of the| George Robey might say, they will place... Elem we would gaze upon be chucked out.. And so Macao the classic and bronzed features of will not, cannot know us. Wo who Vaca da Gama and ponder baya castigated Mussolini with our ou the fato which directed him to Wateringn, who have hurled verbal the ends of the carth; or on prongs at Prohibition, levelled England. It has made its way to Camoans and thank the gods that Lloyd George with a lancet-like the continent and in both codes, poets there were and, Glory bol,apigram, destroyed Do Valera with soccer and rugby, our neighbours To-day's Poem.
_____(70g Ruthen 2. re that help to make life worth words of not-moore-than-three are able to give good account of
themselves. The soccer game has A python I should not adviso— living. At that time there would syllables, told our Colonial Govern- ponetrated to the Balkans. It was It needs a doctor for its eyes, be players of musical instruments ment what we have thought of football that created the first rift in And has the measles yearly. gathered to discourse the poetry in them, spillicated Dr. Sun and all the wall of hostility between the However, if you feel inclined anusic, and our souls would well in the military crowd in China that Bulgarians and their neighbours, all To get one (to improve your mind,
of whom were ranged on the side of] And not from fashion mozoly),
similarly rewarded, but he deserves abstinence. Pork-pies and bottles
HOUSEHOLD and
HELPS.
ras-
large glass bowl, in good light for observaton." Why Spread with not a language test for imported pberry jelly. Sprinkle with ib. novelists?... Much has been said best almonds and 6 oz. crushed and written on the question of book walnuts. Add Ilb. crystallised reviewing. Here are specimens of fruits. Souk sponge cake with genuine straight from the shoulder sherry and a little brandy. Pour reviews, done of course in America: in two pints rich custard and whip The Morals of the Movie, by Ellio quart thick cream and spread P. Oberholtzer (Penn)The case over top. Add more crystallised for censorship by the most eminent fruits and shredded almonds as American consor. A farrago of decorations. Place sixteen maca- snuffling, peckeni@lian nonsense. roons all round and tell the land- The vaporings of a bombastic lord you will pay him next month. vacuum with a essianic delusion. "Yes, we have no Old Morocco and the For fruit shaped like bidden Allas, by C. E. Andrewe Cucumber.”
(Deran) The conventional travel BODY'S "The Budget speech? book, fully written and with un-
interesting What's that"?
pictures. "Classical dancing? White Heart of Mojave, by Edna (Liveright)-Aз Oh yerce ve-ry nace. I think Brush Perkins
I shall take it up next season. other..... The Life of William Makes you so slim. What." Hazlitt, by P. P. Howe (Doran)
WHAT EVERY-
SAYING,
The
"I wonder who John Kyoto is?" A literary biography so flabby and "Do you really think they'll uninspired that reading it becomes
withdraw the Rents Ordin-ja downright torture, ... ance?"
"Do you know those awful
people?
"Do you think they will make a
match of it?" And so on.
OBSERVATIONS:-
-PICKWICK.
SILENCE IS GOLDEN.
Art is subject for artists. Let
a
MAJOR WEARNE SAYS
"NOTHING DOING."
the rest talk of what they under-: stand,
Among the passengers, who left Distrust the geniality of fat men, here by the 8.S. President Sharcbrokers take much delight| Jackson" this morning were Major in striving to be intellectual at the Wearne M.C., accompanied by dinner table.
Mrs. Wearne and their children, One may tell the truth with im- en route for Pekina, where Major punity only to very pretty women. Wearne has been Reuter's agent The English for many years. The. Wearnes COMPARISONS. man: I have have been on holiday to Australia. 'Silence is especially golden at: Hardy." this moment," said Major Wearne, The American:."I have met whom asked to give his view on the
mot
to go down in history as a singer of of beer are awkward to carry to the (Eng.), has been appointed a mem- the Prince of Wales."
M.B., B.S, (London), FRC.S cheerful song which kept up the hall; moreover, they are viande courage of his colleagues.
which most of us feel aby of attack-ber of the Medical Board for a ing in public. For these reasons further term of three yeare. the thing isn't done, save at brass band festivals.
A Poace Agency.
Football is not now common to
Mr. S. F: Mayers, while playing polo at Peking on October 2, fell during the first chukker and had
Thomas
EVERY DAY IN EVERY WAY
situation brought about by the election of Marshal Tsao Kun as President of the Chinese Republic. "After an absence from Peking of eight months, I have naturally lost the threads of Peking politics. Generally speaking, however, it
the misfortune to dislocate his you'll fool cheery, ifficient and well if would appear that the tenancy of
shoulder.
you keep your body clean and healthy Marshal Tsao Kun depends entire with the aid of Pinkettea, Used when ly on the will of General Wu Pol- Mr. Wyatt Smith, H.-M. Shipping neccesary thees dainty little laxation f Should the latter turn against Vice-Consul, has been transferred suure dails regularity, banish constips his patron, the situation would take tien, liverlabness, bilious attacks, tick from Shanghai to Wolhalwe as headaches, keep the breath, swoob. and On-an entirely. new. aspect. How- Senior District Officer. He will be the hila clear of pimples and blotches. ever, I must refuse to express any succeeded by Mr. J. C. Hatchison, Of chemiets, or pet free 60 conte the definite opinion on Chinese politics who was due from Home leave from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., until I have had time to get back yesterday.
60 Kiangao Rond, Ebangbai.
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