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CINEMA MUSIC

Those who attended the Coronet Theatre during the recent showing of" Orphans on

MONDAY, › DECEMBIZ

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Shanghai 694.

Exchange on London is 2/33⁄4%;}

The P. & O..s.6. “Caledonia" the 'Ist arrived Marseilles on December, transit 28 days.

of the Storm" could not fall to have heon impressed with the music which is such an important part of and shade are very artistic.

Wiseman's Café, new lamps

this picture. It seemed os if the music helped one to a greater feef- ing; the emotions were wound up until the unusual situations with which the picture abounds, became even more vivid. We can be grateful when producers take so much pains with the musical side of you have often admired in our their productions. It is not often that one is shown a super-produc- picture galleries. What do you say tion which has with it the super- to Rotterdam, you who love forests efforts of composers of music whose November was 55 inches. It of masts-and-vessels anchored at works will live for all time. the doors of the houses?""

This rained only on three days in the is what the Coronet gave us last month. My soul is silent.

week. "Perhaps Batavia has attractions for you. There we should find the mind of Europe To-day's Poem, wedded to tropical beauty."

Napoleon's dictum of a sleeping of marble, and that the people hate giant still stande, and the possibility vegetation so much that they root of a giant roused at last to a sense up all the trees. There is a country of unity and to use such in pursuit after your heart, a country made of of her instinct for self-aggrandise- light, minerals, and water to reflect ment, is a picture not-lightly to be them dismissed. Can Europe be suid to

My soul is silent.

chast- have shown the way in a

"Since you love tepose with the enced spirit af enlightenment and spectacle of moving things, will example? The past has not been you come and live in Holland, that free from faults. Given a settle heavenly land? Perhaps you, could ment of present momentans difficut-be happy in a country whose image ties, and al desire to treat China in s spirit of goodwill and to co-operate in developing the natural resources of the cantry for the benefit of the world, there is distinct hope. Fail- ing this the outlook is ominous. Attention should be drawn again and again to the Archbishop's utter ince and the need there is for an examination into the spirit and letter of all schemes with which Europe and Asia are so intimately

concerned.

PLEASANTNESS.

to

more

Not a word say my soul. Can she be dead?

sparrows

(Atque Vale.) Dawn comes caged; The cardinal blossoms bleed

wrangle; Along the sucking marshes dangle Blue spikes of the pickerel weed.

Jewel weed in the ditches Washes silver; Spider Spouso Delicately yanks and hitches Gitter to her dingy bouse.

Have you sunk into a stupor so deep that you find pleasure only in your own pain? If that be to, let us fly to countries made in the image of death. I can suit your mood, my poor soul. We will pack up our belongings and go to Borneo. We will go still further, to the extreme limits of the Baltic We are sometimes surprised and still further away from life, if It be possible; we will make our find how many pleasant people there dwelling place at the pole, There. Spotted orange butterflies are sojourning about this planet, and the sun only grates the earth with Tipple; and the dipping bees how ready they are to say and do oblique rays, and the slow alterna Loot the thistle and their thighs

tions of day and night destroy Glow with brilliant burglaries. pleasant things and till the world variety and bring forth monotony, with "sweetness and light" for that other half of nothingness. Wasps suck out their last, unravel others. Sometimes when we least! There we may take great baths of Cell by cell; and I know

darkness while, from time, for our The melancholy road to travol expect, it, we suddenly meet one of pleasure, the Aurora Borealis shall String beneath my feet... I go. these pleasant people, and the cob-scatter their roseate flames before webs are all swept out of our vision, us like the reflection of fireworks and the whole complexion of things) is change. They make a dull day bright; they have something of the same effect in a room as a boquet of flowers, or they are like the trill of a brook lidden in a still wood, or

Berman "Five hun K.U.R. dred and ..twenty the unexpected whistle of a bird in

millions in banknotes early spring-time. They make us and cheques. Half a billion in our feel for the nounce as if everybody safe. They'll sell for half was pleasant because they are, billion-for half a billion anything" There is a dharm about them which can be bought.

in helli"

At last my soul breaks into speech, and wisely cries to me:

Anywhere, anywhere out of the world.*

CHARLES BAUDELAIRE.

-JOSEPH AUSLANDER,

WEATHER.CALENDAR.

1890.

DECEMBER 3.

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Today's Commercial Notes in this issue of the China Mail give rice, sugar and flour quotations,

total rainfall during

The

A new Voting Competition is announced in this issue of the China Mail. The prize is $50-un- divided.

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The silk which left here by the P. & ; s.s. "Caledonia" on the 3rd November was delivered

in Marseilles on the tat December, a transit of 28 days.

"The General meeting of the Queen's College Old Boys' Asso- ciation will take place in the College Hall on Monday, Dec12– ber 10, at 5.30 p.m."-Advt.

Hongkong Philharmonic So- ciety announces a grand concert at the Theatre Royal on December, 18, for which booking is now open with the Anderson Music Co.

FREE $50 PRIZE.

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Elsewhere in this issue will be found the first of this week's " China Mail coupons for an in-› teresting voting competition. Other coupons, will be found in every issue this week. Just- read the rules and see what you have to do to win the prize of $50. :

The strong feature of this contest is that the possibility of the prize being divided is very remote. Somebody must win-

The correct why not you? solution is decided by the voters themselves. Any number of entrics may be attempted by que competitor.

Coupons should reach this office not later than Monday - next and the result will beran- nounced on the following Wednesday.

Look out this Wednesday for the result of last week's con- test.

CORRESPONDENCE..

MUSICAL APPRECIATION.

On Saturday the many war ships in, port-French as well as British were dressed in honour of the birthday of Queen Alex- andra. Her Majesty reached the

(To the Editor of the China Mail.) age of 79.

Sir-In my lettera re Musical: The Hon. the Colonial Sece Appreciation I distinctly stated that retary advises that information has I was referring to the coloured musi- been received from His Britannicciana of this Colony taken as Majesty's Consul-General, Manila, whole. I made no reference to that vaccination regulations have coloured musicians in any other part been re-enforced.

of the world, and I did most care- fully state that my remarka did not concern the capabilities of any in.. Without retracting a dividuala.

We are full of snow and ice hare, a silent city. The fluffy birds alight noiselonely

The local share market for the feathers on the frozen ground, week ending November 30 show -M. S. Holland. Canter-ed signs of improvement with bucy.

improved rates in some stocks. The Shanghai market for "Cottons" and Docks" was lifeless, whilst the Singapore market for rubber shares was stagnant.

TWO HANDLES.

A

aingle word of my previous letters- I express myself in entire agreement with Messrs. John Fenton and: Harry Ore.

is reflected upon the atmosphere,

we take it is the energy which to analyse would be like PEP put into things. If so how

"Musicus," on the other hand; does the pep put into the

has failed apparently to read my mistrusting the sunbeam. We ex-Theatre Royal these last few days Every matter hath two handlen,"

To-day is Our Poor Day. It letters and also to read his diction. not always explain why they are so appeal to you? On Thursday the by the one it inay be carried; by the has been "roses, roses all the way."ary, His ideas of the usual meɛen- pleasant; they may not be beautiful; stage of the Theatre had on it one other not. If thy brother do thee A ready response seems to haveing of 'coltured' are amusing but Smamamamamamoon they are often, indeed, what those the myy settings of the A.D.GS. wrong toke not this thing by the been made to the appeal by, the erroneous. I have very little doubt forthcoming R.U.R. play. By Fri-bundle "He wrongs me." for that Society of St. Vincent de Paul he has heard Americans make who insist upon symetery and har- day the setting had disappeared is the handle whereby it may not whose slogan is:-"No work of worse noises than saca local mony as the first principles of and St. Andrew's fixtures held the be carried. But tako it rather by Charity is foreign to the Society. Filipinos," but that is no excuse for beauty would call plain; they are floor. By Saturday this also dis- the handle "He is my brother

encouraging noises is it? Besides, ..... and- thou wilt take it by al sometimes invalids who spend their appears and the stage is set for

The Spirit of improvement if he likes to go to Amorics he can boxing. By Sunday the scrapping handle whereby it may be carried. days upon a couch with quin as a evidences

broods over the Coronet Theatre, doubtless bent very much better that Bome of Us

EPICTETUS. Raised seating accommodation, noises, or worse, which ever ha companion; they are not always make our pleasures badly is

upholstered chairs, new lighting prefers. A people which has pro- people of leisure with nothing to do removed, and the A. D. C. once

and painting, a new prosceniumduced composers like Edwin Mac- but make themselves agreeable; more hold the floor and are able to

with an artistic curtain by Powells, Dowell is entitled to make some carry out a full rehearsal with all

are but a few of the many things noises anyway. they are often the busiest mortale accessories and those weird noises

contemplated. Those who knew the under the sun; they are not always off" which give the unhappy

Coronet in the old days (then prompter a series of nightmare, re- the wisest or the most clever among duce his sparse locks, and diminish

called The Bijon) may well rub their eyes. our acquaintances. But they his waist line. Surely all this is possess magic superior to the wit evidence of splendid co-operation, and cleverness of athers. Perhaps redounds to the credit of our organisers and is a testimonial to their spell resides in the fact that the ant like activities of our they have the kind of commonsense Chinese workmen. China's Uni- which may always be said to amount versal Robots. Here's to 'em.

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ENTERTAINMENTS.

December 3.---Coronet Theatre; "Orphans of the Storm."

SOCIAL AND, PERSONAL.

די་.

Холта,

TRAINED EAR. Hongkong, December 1.

Tickling Throat

Did you over bays that nerre-raoking exporisnon osured by a bit of muens or phlegm that stubbornly refuses to be December 3-Star Theatre; Harry Ore's concert takes place dialodred, but tickles and tickles patil Italian Grand Opera Co., în "Lucia this evening at the Theatre Royal (it sometimes almost strangles ↑ Just a di Lammermoor."

at 9.15 p.m.

fow sips of · Chamberlain's Cough December 3-World Theatre;

Remedy, swallowed very slowly `and' to genius-a genius for divining the

Professor C. "Legally Dead."

A. Middleton-allowed to glide down the throat, will feelings and prejudices of others;|

December 3--The

stop that tickle and at once give you Grand Smith of the University arrives immense rallel. Thy it that way too for for making themselves acceptable: Belleve its one of those P.W.D Theatre; Douglas Fairbanks in this afternoon by the "Hakone hoarseness, bronchial and other coughs.

SOLVFD

for making us pleased with our chape. Belves. An aroma of good nature uses to buy offensive weapons, pay pervades their neighbourhood, they

China Mail. is soldiers, and, who knows?, have that "sweet, attractive sort of pockets the rest. We are not sure grace" of which the poet sings. And would like the question referred When we meet them we wander back for further information and that everybody has not attempted to added economic facts. Doubtless imitate them; that everybody does the smoking of opium is as great in not acknowledge the excellence and China as is the amber-fluid drinking bog for the recipe. It seems as easy China is again in the picture. It of our own unprohibited England. for them to be delightful as it is for fis not inndits this time, or the chaos Donbtless in the one, us in the a rose to be sweet or a star to shine. that exists within her borders, or other, a little something as a result They invariably my the right thing; the saviours of her own race who thereof, is added to the country's they never remind us if we are rich would, by the aid of military, cut revenue to be spent, amongst other to-day that we were poor yesterday: free her shackles. Foreigners, dur things, in naval and military mat-if we are low-church this year that ing the last few days at any meters. Opium is, and always has been, we wero high church last year have not been kidnapped, whilst, so a contentious question, and short of They never repeat the disagreeable far as we know, the demands of the prohibition, an inspossible one for things others have said of us, nar Diplomantique Body bave either been solution, because preamably pro criticise our friends in our presences observed, or collect dust in a lone bibition cannot be enforced. They are pleasant and they exude corner of a roll-top desk: Opium? Reliable data is called for to abow pleasantrices. Well yes. Opium is always a thing what inroads the drug has made in you ask home audiences to put in their pipe, so to speak, and smoke. Ching's health and bow far, if at all, ite growth, use and male is contri-. What is understood by it all, íg`a Little unclear. It probably raises a buting to the upkeep of warring

vision of a horrible fonn of vice]

Ohe Mick was bemo- WINDS.aning the cold weather "I don't mind th' frost," military factions who sem as he said, "but 1 do ate them nadermining to China's stability no Wesleyan winds and one set of people thereby is her alleged misuse of the Quincey obtains what after all' may be ad

deng erronequa conception of another. The London Migaionary Society bre -passed a resolution worthy the

This life Is a hos- ANYWHERE. 'pital where every patient is pose look into the future uska b pertinent sessed by a desim to change his

The Archbishop of York, with a

First one—Say Bill, what's a Robot? Second one : Not sure,

We are not BROADCASTING, sure if we are correct in

stating that one of the most extra ordinary messages sent over the wires is being broadcasted locally. it is somewhat to the following effect

"RUR Ltd, annouce that they are able to supply Robots fully dressed for. $150 c.i.f. Hongkong, Inspection cordial invited. Robots are made for the Tropics and hole to stand any strain put upon them."

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"The Nut."

December 3-Theatre Royal; Piano Recital by Mr. Harry Ore, 9.15 p.m.

December 8-10-12-15.-Theatre Royal, Hongkong Amateur Dramatic Club presents the famous Robot Play the "RUR.” 9.15 p.m.

SOCIAL December 3-Lantern Lecture at Helena May Institute by Col. | G. W. Davy, C.M.G, 5.30 p.m.

December 10-Social evening and entertainment in St. Andrew's Church Hall, Kowloon, 9 p.m.

..BAZAAR.

December 8-Hongkong Wo men's Guild and M. C. La Grand Fête and sale of - work in the grounds of Government House, 2 p.m. tam

Passengers on incoming ships

AUCTION. are belog intrigued as the papers have it, and not a little incrested in what a Robot is, why he or she is December 5-Lammert Bros, at fully dressed, and If the possession Sales Rooms, a valuable collection. of such is a thing to be desired. of Postage stamps, 5.75 p.m. Arrival at Hongkong quickly dispels the mind, the joke is Sales Rooms, valuable articles of appreciated and tickets are taken jewellery, 11 am. to see what a Robot is, what he or she can do, and what they can do when roused.

December 6-Lammert Bros., at

· December 7.---Lammèrt Bros., at Sales Rooms valuable leasehold property at Kennedy Road:#3 p.m.' December 21.--Lammert Bros., Don't add an property-machinery plant and BRIDGE DONT'S. explanation. tanning chemicals of the Hong- Don't de-kong Hide and Leather Co., Ltd., mand the placing of the cards in at Sales Rooms, 3 p.m.

AMEETING: order to call your partner's attention

December 12-Hongkong to any card or play:

Don't play a card with such em-Jockey Club, half-yearly general meeting, Hongkong Club Annex, phasis as to draw attention to it.

Don't take one card from your p.m. GERBE

December 18 and Jandery 4---

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expense of being cabled declaring question when be enquires what is bed. One prefers to suffer near hand and then play another Extraordinary general meeting of

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Don't incura penalty intentional.. lysa

· Don't make a second revoke to

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MERELORSE?sabe?Don't look at any of

-One sof grows, and the other buys Europe that we know Tell meg my soul my, poor) until the deal fe compl

the fire, and another is sure he will military greed in many places in sing to happen when the world's get well if his bed is placed by the Chana, requires the people to plant centre of gravity shifts from Europe windo uplum,

um evon against they go to Asia and Asia acquires that spirit. It secins to me that I should be Talways happy if keerw samewbers wishes. Presumably to sell. Pro- of self-aggrandisement that dige, and this question of removing sumably, also to sell to Chino gured, and duen so even now, the is one I am continually discussing to watch your partner's pla

with thy soul It is likely that the Archbishop And, presumably again the wicked

speaks from a religious point of chilly:sou, what do your day to at

making your home in Labon? Bitbe militarist, and of course we despise view, on a view of the possibility of must be very warm there, told you honde him oues in in me way and the world's further unrest, and his could bask in the anem gonda c

mony which by desire for her long-part poccs.

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(A mental picture of my Ideal Robot, drawn as per advt. In the China Mail)

I dreamed I had a Robotess,

The sweetest little pat;

All day in happy idleness

My whistle I would wat

While she performed the household tasks With technical aplomb;

He is a silly fool who aske

Where, all my food came from,

For she would cook and darn and knit And carn an honest penný

Cleaning the windows opposite;

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I do not think that any Domestic help was half so neat And tidy as I found her; ! If, tired, she sank into a sent, Twas easy-rewound her!

I even trained her, carefully, To call me,+Timon Bear” And she would share my toast and tea And cheese, and drink my bider; We lived in perfect comfort, and Content, (I mean that I did), "Although she could not understand

That things were too one-sided

To just for ever. Sure enough, One summer evening she, Refused to notice my rebuff, And climbed upon my küse.

In Love, as at the kitchen grate,

I found her quite efficient,

But several amorous hundred Would, daunt the most proficient,

·So sandėrly I set her, down

ight