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HonoлG THURSDAY, Nov. H, 19.3.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SOME HAUSA PROVERBS.
Better repair than rebuild.
Chattering does n't cook the rice. The blind man mays the eye has bad smell.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8 1939
To-day's Poen.
Have patience; it is fit that in this
wise
KONGMOON CHAOS.
CAMPAIGN OF DEAD" GENERAL
"FIGHTING IN SILK CENTRES
adds:-" Take away from Eng Lengne was crested? It is easy The dictionary we have quoted any real difference to the reputation lish authors their copyrights and enough to realise why Bulgaria from professes to be the only one of those gentlemen, who impor
chose the course she did. And she of its kind in existence. Perhaps arily at any mató are in an gclipse. you would very adon take away from heated and suggested that the some of our readers may be able to Begides which, Bornand Bhaw's England her authors." Which is matter be referred to the League, dispute this and slao my if they caricatures are not offensive. And probably another way of saying that Serbia would probably have occupied agree that unconsciously made in any case who the dickens" are the Inbourer is worthy of his hire. some convenient Bulgarian town amilies are the order of nearly George and Asquith that Lord Trollops is not the only author who where the shocking tale of wantonly every-day conversation. Our dic Chamberlain should trouble his
slaughtered and mangled woman tionary does not contain the follow head about them and deliberately (From Our Own Correspondent:), hoe demonstrated that business and and children at Corfu might have ing and we should like to low, it make an attempt to spoil a work of artistry can go along together. We boon repeated while the League it can be considered original — art? think of Bennett and Wells in our was appointing a commission to As mean' në death. own day, whilst of the past the determine its own competence to example of Shakespeare can be deal with the guestion. It is bord to see what the smaller States, who cited, his career sbowing clearly that have been looking to the League to he wrote as a means of livelihood. protect them against the depred- Many authors believe that they cautions of more powerful aggresGOLD, work only under pressure; others have got for the money their mema imagine that the task must be borship of the League costs them. spasmodic, waiting on impulse. In a far what was at one time hailed as the hope at the world has proved any case it in well to realise, itself rather a broken reed. Trollope has said that a man devot- ing himself to literature with indus-) · try, preseverance, certain necessary aptitudes, and fair dverge talents may succeed in gaining & livelihood, ae another man does in another profession. Moreover, he may af the same time be an artist, and s Kipling might have said, "A mun. my San."
No woman can stand, a FACT. sentimental man at the
dinner table.
Doing mischief is pleasanter than mending it.
When the heart undertaken, the body is its slave.
.
The spirit purge away its proper
drose.
No endless fever doth thy watches
toke,
For by excess of evil, evil dias, Soon shall the faint world inelt
before thine eyes, And, all' life's losses cancelled, by
life's losa,
Thou shalt lay down all burdens on
tby cross,
And be that day with God in
Paradise.
Have patience; for a long eternity No summans woke thee from thy
happy sleep:
The dweller in a room knows where the roof leaks.
However pleasant forgiveness, not to quarrel is better.
When you eat a round cake do you begin at the centre? Talent knows what to The plant which God favours will TALENT. do act knows when grow, even lacking rain.
and how to do it. If a man says he is going to swallow his axe, hold the handle Religion that takes for him. the farm of ecstacy,! Faults are a hill; a man standa with no outlet in the on his own and sees other people's.
B48, is dangerous.
A one-eyed man does not thank God until he sees a man wholly Having known grief, all will be well
with thee, blind. 1st diner. Do you
Hammer the metal while it is Ay, and thy second slumber will be WISEMANS. like Beethoven's
dcop. to travel free on ships.
Banatas? 2nd diner. still hot if you wait, hammering
-GEORGE SANTAYANA: is useless. enced shipping and immigration No. I don't like baked tomatoes. inen vouch for the fact that in some I'd sooner have them ruw. cages it has been known for the men
RELIGION.
way of work,
Stowaways.
The average Chinese stowaway cannot be blained entirely for trying
Experi-
to be in hiding without knowing
they were committing an offence. CORPSE.
Take the case of the big number who
The note on newspaper
men has prompted a
This is not exactly a BLURD new occupation. It WRITERS. Came into existence when publishers cora- brother scribe to record menced to enclose their books in ware found in terrible conditions on a tras story: The number of people daming jackets and gave their own board a Sandakan steamer some anxious to see their name in print is done in print of the story and its monthe ago. When questioned legiod. One of these fussy people
For love of God ono vigil thou canst
keep
And add thy drop of sorrow to the
WEATHER CALENDAR.
they caid that they had paid attended the funeral of a person who value. It is alleged that blurb. 1752. certain sum of money to a man who had boen more or less distinguished. Writers do not read the books they professed that they could be got Approaching the newspaper man he end, and that their sum
NOVEMBER 8.
Do you plant without rain as as I do, in order to have your. trees die, that you may have the pleasure of planting them
over again with Peculiar economic enquired: "I say my good man, are maries are apt to be as inaccurate
into Australia. conditions have been responsible for you the repo tuh.
་ - । ་
as their judgment is optimistic. A "No" was, blurb-writer then may be a book-
the necessity of middlemen in the the immediate reply, "I'm the viewer, but we trust the latter is 1876. business of getting steeruge passen-blinking corpas" Tableau, gers for steamers in the Far East. In Hongkong, emigrants for the Straits Settlements invariably book their passages through certain boarding-houses who in turn hand over their business to the native
not to be classed as a person who takes his work lightly. The busi- A jew who had borrowness of criticism is concerned with HIB' ed money from a friend three objects: to discover-exactly WORRY. used to walk up and what is the author's aim; to per down his bedroom,ceive how far and by what means agouts of shipping companies. night after night, till he nearly drove this aim is achieved: and to decide how far it is worth achieving. Tis! Some of them may not have enough
After he had been at it about a difficult business made mare go money to pay for a ticket and they week she said to bini, "Moses, vy do by the continuous stream, of books are induced to think that they can you walk up and down de room all that should never have seen, print. travel for a smaller sun under more
de night?
There is that story of the author trying conditions. Other instances
his wife crazy...
He said: "I valk up and down de who sent a famous man qne of his are those in which ignorat men room, Rebecca, because I am so books who replied that he would from the interior are told that they vorried. I awe Igazes ten pounds, lase na time in reading it. The will not be allowed to land at the and I cannot pay him."
-Walpole.
*KONGMOON, November 7. Yuen Tal, an adventurer-former bandit-general, who was authorl- tively quoted in the vernacular press as dead, has reappeared from nowhere and is now conducting
centre. campaign in the silk Ostensibly his object is to over- throw Sun's subordinates at Kong moon, Heungshan and the silk- growing district of Shun Tak But, considering his chameleon- characteristics and the little that has been done beyond
prepaganda and arranging terms
with local bandit chiefs and free lances, it will come as no surprise should be declare that he was merely fighting for his own ends or even for Sun.
His motley brigade is at Shiu Lam, a flourishing town on an im
portant junction of the river drawn delta, Pro-Sun troops, from Ju Cheukman (Heungshan) Chi-ching (Shuntak) Chow and Admiral Chan Chakk (Kongmoon) have been sent there to give him battle as the local troops have been defeated.
Business and river transport la therefore at a standstill. The following junk services have been suspended, viz, Hongkong-Shok KI, Macao-Shek Ki, Shek Ki-Shiu Lam and Shek Ki-Canton.
A report has been received here that the four gunboats which deserted Sun and left Canton some time ago, are now at Chi Kae, near Gae Moon, on the Sun Wui-Young Kong border.
H.M.S." Cicala," arrived here at noon to-day and H.M.S.
Robin" came in yesterday. There are also rain? in the harbour two gunboats under Chan Chak, viz., the "Kong Hong," and "Kwong Hung
We never had the trees in Leaf so long as this Year: they are only just rusty before
Previously confined to members
of the civil population, the levies
my window, this November and demands on people for con- 8. So I thought they would tributions to the Canton war-chest, die of mere Old Age: but are being spread to include oven last night cure s Frost, the official class as the Sun Wui which will hasten their End. magistrate has been repeatedly I suppose yours have been ordered to allocate $10,000 from
his coffers to his superiors. dying in all their Glory as Dual-Fitzgerald:
WORRIES.
When we look back over the
port which they wish to make and "Veli." counselled his wife, subtle truth was probably not the only way to get there is to travel I vos you, I should gome back to bed realised. It might well be applied years, we wonder at the amount of under somebody'a supervision with the inconvenience of having to hide and let Isaacs valk up and down his to most of the books now on the way we wasted on the merest
room. It's ita varry, ain't it !''. for a few hours, to be made up for by special accommodation and food
As soon as the vessel bas #ailed. Some of our coastal shipping com- panies farm out their steerage space
༈ **
A real objection AMERICANISMB. to the reading
of works of fic-
market.
trifles, Why can we never learn to appraise them properly while they Our hero was the are with us?
MANCOX COLE. A CALENDAR common sort, when ROMANCE. all is said and done;
MON.
to the ship's compradores and this tion by American writers is the one He worked his head off daily and has been found the most satis-which has to do with what are was out to get the factory way of eradicating stow-known
as Americanisms, or
.' .' . ...
SHADOWS BEFORE.
Coming Events Advertised In:The-Mail:-
ENTERTAINMENTS.
The European community at Pak Kai have been treated to further impromptu Glibert and Sullivan shows by the bandits and soldiers. Two attempts were made by pirates, one on the She, Shan village behind the Customs House, but in both instances neither side faced the other and after a can- attackers retreated. nonade of gongs and drums, the garrison is making capital of the bandits' non-success but residents believe they are, at heart, oven pronder of their gongs, than their
guns.
The jocal
SATURDAY'S GYMKHANA.
THE STEWARDS GIVE FINAL DECISION.
Mr. Blason, Honorary Clerk of November & Coronet Theatre;ning that the Gymkhana Stewards
the Course, announced this mor
tion of the businees side of the question. After all artista must live, and the business of living is an art aways: This, it is believed, is still examples of American slang. Many The reason for his diligence was
the custom for boats on the Hong- good book has been passed common-place, 'tis true- in itself.
No-one recoils at the kong-Shanghai run: Pacific Uners because the reader bus imagined Ho tried to swell his salary an it
TUE. would, subice for prospect of workers in other fields always provide a lucrative field for that any book bailing from the enjoying, if not the flesh-pots, at stowaway canvassera. Immigrather sido must of necessity be full WRITING.
least the decent comforts of life, so tion regulations render it exceed of non-understandable expressions. And maybe that's the reason why ingly difficult for unauthorised It is not always go. In any case a
one day he lost his head,.
Nazimova in Salome." Dr. Johnson Chinese to enter the United States book which has a number of the And falling on his knees, he cried, Various societies exist at home for why not the writer?
sums up the matter in conclusive but the glamour of stories of "gold, specimens can very often be made
Ob, maiden, wilt thou
WED?" the set purpose of encouraging]
"Sir" aid he, "all the waiting to be carted away" is too the more interesting thereby. In writers in certain fields of their
arguments which are brought to much for the average bumpkin. It& book recently read we came across
in said in well-versed Chinese circles the following: wide-flung calling, by awarding medal and backing it up with the repeat poverty as no evil, show it that as much as $2,000 Mex. is paid."Nothing above the eara," mean- more gobstantial gift of u cheque for to be a great evil. You never find for the privilege of travelling to ing no brains.
Recently people labouring to convince you America la a stoke bold, air-passage Straying off the reservation"-
"Bubble-water"-lemonade. D., Garnett las received what is that you may live very happily upon or cargo-bald and their trusting to not keeping to a contract.
luck to run the gauntlet of the
2 reasonable amount.
terms.
He may have thought this sudden, but it seemed bab so to her. She lispect a quick sccepance and
said forcibly, "Yeth,
THUR."
neither bake nor
FRL.
1
a plentiful fortune." We think Immigration officials. Rumour bas
But when they went to keeping known as the Hawthorden prize for
It is not often that the house he feared that be would a fantastic piece of fiction known as one the less of our successful it that there are some who bave
MORLEY: Man of Lefters and writers who have weathered the tried three or four times at the
die: the Other lesser,
Politician
are For, oh, that modem maiden could "Lady into Fox."
storms of their early beginnings and game before giving it up as a bad
job and it is also current in Chinese combined in one man sa they were and better known writers-to men- tion Masefield in the litter class, now safe in the harbour of gossip that there are men who make in Lord Marley. Here is a notable
They write it their profession to canvass for utterance on both matters; have been honoured and encouraged steady incomes.
There is one story Nobody adores literature more she could not run a bungalow, or in this guy, and presumably the iden perhaps a little better than they did stowaways.
which is always cropping up in than I do [said Lord Morley on evon run's flat, je ta be commended, especially us, in those early garret-days of the connection with stowaways and receiving the freedom of his So on many sad occasions in
native town, but action is the restaurant they in the Hawthorden prize, an crust and the candle. Kipling the although gruesome, will bear repeti-
It is to the effect, that`s} word for men and, perhaps, for unbinaged committee considers the 'obscure journalist on an Indian tion. whole range of a year's output, and paper; Barnard Shaw doing musical stoker on a ship, who had concealed women. Public life in an honour. But he forgave her everything as
home stowaways, became alarmed. able sphere, whether municipal man has always.done, 3: judges accordingly. In this way we criticing in his early youth, in the when the Chief Engineer started a or national. It is fit for anybody When she presented him, one day's
I do not care how much he may may expect that the lesser known, only way probably it should be tour of inspection and to save his
think of ease or repose who has and therefore struggling writer, ae written; Masefield sweeping the own skin, abovelled the unfortunate against his or her mare fortunate floors of that fourth rate saloon in men into the furnace! brethren, hits an equal chance. In New York or Brooklyn or wherever it
France there is a similar institution, was these then dim figures are now A Broken Reed?
a decent brain, a stent heart; and a persistent temper; a good mix- ture of which; I think, we have in Lancashire-the intrepid with
sensiblo...
bouncing baby
BAT.
SUN.
November 8-Star Theatre;
of the Hongkong Jockey Club had Mary Pickford in "Little Lord decided to hold the meeting an Saturday and Monday, as arranged, Fauntleroy,"
November 8-World Theatre. Blason emphasised that had the unless rain fell in the meantime. Harold Lipyd in "Safety Last.” ››
November 8--The Grand Theatre; it would have been impossible to P.W.D. not rendered willing help, George Arliss in "Disraeli."
hold the meeting. November 8-Theatre Royal; Forbes Russell Comedy Co., "Windows," 9.15 p.m.
November 9 Theatre Royal; Forbes Russell Comedy Co.. "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife" instead
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
is to take place at the Palace, Hotel,
Billard enthusiasts should be of "All of A Sudden Peggy, 9.15 interested in the tournament which BATTL
November 10-Theatre Royal: Kowloon. Forbes Russell Comedy Co.,
Bought and Paid For," 9.15 p.m. The returns of the OH, to
*
SPORT."
November 10-13.- Hongkong and one case of enteric. In the day report 15 cases of small-por Jockey Club's next Gymkhana.
November 17 First Tournas all the others are Chinese.
latter case, the patient is an Indian, ment of the Hongkong Boxing
Assen. at the Theatre Royal,
9.12 p.m.
November 15.-Palace handicap billiarda tournament com
IRANOGG.
In deference to many requests Hotel the Forbes Russel Comedy Co., are to give "Blue Beard's Bighth Wife" on Friday instead of All of a Sudden PeggY."..
SOCIEL AND PERIONAK.
The heroic deci- 3
SOCIAL. METHUSELAI.' Bon of the Bir-1 November 11-" Empress of
Casada"
Band Repulse Bay mingham Reper Hotel, from 4 to 7 p.m.
PUBLIC AUCTIONS.
The jazz band of RMS. where the honour is commensurate at the height of their success. Wo How greatly the prestige of the the great, the bold with the tory Theatre to produce Bernard Shaw's latest play Back to
November 10-Lammert Bros., "Despatch" is to play for dancing with, and far exceeds the large honour them in the knowledge of League of Nations has suffered Happy and indeed fortunate the Methuselah, which begins with on quantity of miscellaneous goods at the Palace Palace Hotel on
dramatic goons in the Garden of at Sales Rooms, It'a.m. monetary gift which accompanies their early struggles, and enjoy and through its spinelessness over the the award. Here again the absolute profit by them in the mater work/ecent Corfu crisie a cable which maIx wha can combine a pureizt of Eden and Rnishes at some period-|| came to hand, yesterday: clearly the two-both exacting masters, in the dim future, when man and impartiality and the desire of the they are able to give us. Chising reveals Somebody in Sofia hit the Lord Marley was able to do.women any hatched, from egge, has Committee to award only those you say: Dowson perhaps. Yes. Serbian military attaché over the deserving of recognition is demons But did not these muffer from the head with a peston and Serbia, taking
once fired in a forty-eight hour
- given much antiaiaction—But the Much innocent and thing is likely to be marred by, the| 75 trated by the fact that a year ago defects of their own qualities 214 lear out of Musoliai's book, at SIMILIB. ingluctare enjoyment interference of the Lord Chamber | can be obtained from lain who has given it that two the prize was given to the author They refused to make life the busi alamatum. Desing discretion the an ordinary dictionary, and the chemoters in the play) must not Boastals, a megro, whilst nese it is and, great souls neverthe better part of valour Bulgaris same can be said of dictionary of sppear as they are meant to do, na replied sccepting the conditions laid Similies, which in a rather unique thinly-veiled portraits of Mr. Lloyd previously it went to an obecure and less, muffered accordingly. Anthony dowd, observing the in any case if kind of book, a books ago, George and ME H H. Anquith) ountry schoolmaster for a simple Trollope's ingenious method was to was a brilling eident, but it is are a fere selected at random from Th bat beautiful work of fiction kustannende the precise tamns-
(as "The Foster, Mother of each of his novels.
after a strong article of belief in
actly as another
the one int
Saturday next.
REVERIE.
The tender-footed years walk lightly, Leaving no trace on painted Yesterday:
· Still Chige ääks her cavaller' politely To take her to the circus or the plays Custom can't stale the sweet, unconscious way To which she goes through, Daphnis" pockets nis I which she always makes the lover pay, Branding reluctance very far from kn
dain quarters that great literature
manat of necessity, be produced in
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