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THURSDAY, JANUARY
FREEMASONRY.
AMERICAN NOTES.
The ceremony' of the layihg of the corner stone of the George Washington National Memorial "at Alexandria, Va., Nov. 1, has gone into Masonic history as one of the most significant events in the
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WHISTLER AND MAGPIE:
ARTIST'S HOPES OF A "PUFF."
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The eccentricities of J. McNeil Whistler, the artist, reappear as fresh as ever in the series of letters to Mf. C. J. Hanson, his private annals of American Freemasonry.
secretary, to be offered President Calvin Coolidge (not a member of the order), participated, Sotheby's, New Bond-street, W. as did also former President Referring to his quarrel with the William H. Taft, who was made a Society of British Artists, of which Mason" at sight" in the Scottish he was for a short line president,
he writes:
SHIVERING WOMAN.
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PERILS OF SKIMPT "'
FASHIONS.
THE CHINA MAIL.
That women are running un necessary risks to their health by going about too lightly clad in their desire to comply with the present skimpy fashions in dress is the opinion of eminent physicians, who condemn the sacrifice of clothes, to achieve sliraness.
BREAKING IT GENTLY.
WHISKIES AND CIGARS.
""ŠNOBBERY" IN WORK- HOUSE INFIRMARY.
At the National Shorthand Con- ference held in London recently, Mr. R. T. Richardson deplored the stereotyped phraseology of the ordinary business letter. We, too,
Complaints of conduct "anobbish have long felt that these missives were rather crude, and we append and hurtful" to the poorer inmates formodels which, while written of the workhouse infrmary, known in an entirely new style, nehjeve the same object as their more stilted as tho North Middlesex Hospital, were raised at a meeting of the foretypes. Dear Sic,
Edmonton Board of Guardians.
street, W., said it is a mistake for acquainted with the interiors of Dr. Octavia Lewin, of Wimpole the majority of Londoners are un- It is strange fact, but true, that
women to think they can go about many well-known public buildings with impunity in thih stockings in their midst. As far as you per- and suces so long as they wear sonally are concerned, we shall be fur coats. It is important to keep glad to bring to your notice the lity of the body is to be main-Law Courts unless we receive the the extremities warm if the vita-fine panelling which adorns the
sum you have owed us for close amount of thirty pounds, which upon two years.
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Yours faithfully, MUFFIT AND SNIPPE (Tailors).
Dear Sir,
Rite Cathedral, Cincinnati, O. Feb. 18, 1909. The montorial 'building will be one of the
.... Now to-morrow evening you mest notable Structures on are to go to the Council meeting as the continent being modelled
you did before, dressed and On the great light that stood at the harbours of ancient say that the President begs with
towers
Greek and Roman cities and it will his compliments that the gentle-taped. take rank with the Scottish Rite men will not wait, as he is not com "The clothes that many fashion House of the Temple in Washing ing-and then you may say to Mr.ably dressed women and girls wear ton, D.C., as one of the three or four Secretary that the President re- are utterly inadequate to protect most magnificent Masonic build-quests that copy of agenda be sent them from the searching cold of our ings in the world. Charles H. to him at once ..that he may climate." said another physician. Callahan, who was in charge of the edge whether he has anything to "They are prone to catch influenza ceremony, has a repuation indd himself, ... Then you can or any other malady that is going Masonic literature as the author of gracefully how to the lot and bidabout. It makes a man shudder to "Washington, the Man and the then good-night, and sheat open see them, walking about in this out just now. When Ludo and How the evenings are drawing Mason," the most complete account your opera hat with a bang and bitter weather in the thinvest of kindred pastimes begin to pall, you of the first President's Masonic disappear.
silk stockings and in shoes that af- will tum to something new. Why activities anywhere în print. Much
ford less protection to the feet than not fill in the jolly little form I have slippers. It often happens, how-enclosed? Jig Saw puzzles are all ever, that women, have a better very well, but once you have done Women can them a few times they become stay in the sealonger than men."
familiar and too easy, and I am Admitting that the indoor dress sure, with the alternative I offer of women is light, even scanty, as you, this will never be the case. modiste pointed out as an offset that coats this winter are longer that usual and that the tendency That he was not above a "puff" for dresses is to increase in length. is evidenced by references in Women, too, take much more ex- two of his letters to the Pallercise than formefly and dance a Mall Gazette and its editor, Jolin good deal, and this helps to keep (afterwards Viscount) Morley. the blood circulating freely.
credit for the success of the George Washington National Memoriali Association is being given to its president, Louis A. Watres of Scranton. Pa.
No wonder the society found their President's methods a little
too autocratic.
Another time the artist writes:
Tell (Wunderlich] that the price of the little Charing Cross Bridge is 8 guineas. That I say, if he originally had it for 6, that does not prevent its going up since.
He writes:
circulation than men.
Yours faithfully,
DUNN BROWNE,
(Income Tax Collector).
Dear Sir,
Though I have never had the pleasure of meeting you personal- ly I feel sure that you have an honest face, and therefore I would have to qualms in lending you
your note of hand alone.
Yours faithfully,
The fourth annual convention of the Masonic Service Association of America, an organization designed to serve as a general clearing house for inter-grand lodge activities, and supported by about two-thirds of the grand lodges of the Nation, was held in Washington, D.C., during the same week. The out- standing event of the sessions was the adoption of a plan to issue an official journal, to be called The Muster Mason, the editing of which Mall Office and ask to see Mr. LADY HAMILTON LETTERS.me, say £25 to £1,000, upon will be in the hands of the Edu Morley... and finally when you cational Director of the Associado see him say that you thought he tion, Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, of New York City, author of The Builder, a widely read history and interpretation of Blue Lodge Masonry.
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A conference of grand masters was called on October 31, of the same week at Washington, Dr. Mark F. Finley, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the District of Columbia presiding. He Introduc ed a resolution looking toward a national grand lodge, but it won scast support. Ever since Revo lutionary Umes, when an effort was set on foot in 1779 by American Union Lodge of New York City to make George Washington a na tional grand master, such attempts have been made without success, It appears that the national grand lodge idea is an ignis fatmus.
Take a copy of the en- closed paragraphs down to the Pall
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might like. paragraphs. ler, . I am Shre that, if you arc
nice, and not 100 wafully important and mysterious, you can, make no blun der and Mr. Morley will willingly enough put the paragraphs in the Rull Mall Gazette:-
"Mr. Whistler, we hear, has in his journeyings in sunny France not been idle. He brings back with him some forty new etchings of the finest quality. Those who have seen them in Paris say that
HUSBAND'S COMPLAINT ABOUT LORD NELSON.
Autograph letters and memoran- da with a strong Nelson interest were be offered at Sotheby's on December 1I.
I. F. LEACE.
Dear Sir,
An ancient proverb has it that "Still waters run deep," and I am afraid that your household waters will reach the lowest depths of profundity unless You settle your water rate at a very ear-
One, from Lady Hamilton to Sir William Hamilton, dated Decem- ly date. ber 3, 1785, from Edgware-road, is a request to be allowed to go toNaples to live there under Sir William's protection, as Greville had to leave her, and she wished to be "a little more improved than what I am
Your faithfully, CLERK TO THE WATER BOARD.
William T. Tilden 2d. tennis
to Sir William during his tempor champion, has become a motion ary absences, and are full of pas-picture actor, according to reports sionate declarations of love for Sir received. William:
the elegancies of French Renaiss The others are written from Naples ance have never been so exquisite ly rendered as in these fairy-like plates, and the World of Connois- scurs and collectors look forward to the printing of these latest proof My All, my carthy Good, every of the Master's delicacy with anxi-kind nane in one. You are to me ous expectation.
eating, drinking, and clothing.
why shall I not love you indeed (sic). I must and ought whilst Life is left in me or reason to think on you, etc.
To achieve it the 49 existing We are told that the ex-Presi- My comforter in distress, then grand lodges of the country would have 10 recast their codes, reorganize themselves, and volun- tarily relinquish their sovereignty, a difficult thing to do, and not to be expected.
This appears to be as much an era of clubs as was the eighteenth, century, The Masonic Fraternity
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dent is now accompanied by a new familiar in the shape of a most knowing and wicked magpie, who sits on his shoulder, as he etches, and doubtless imparts many mis chievous thoughts, etc."
"A PLAYFUL BIT."
carried, because this follows:
The commission evidently mis Are you quite mad! What could
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Mrs. Muson moved that in future"
treatment of private patients and no distinction be made between the
ordinary poor-law inmates, having regard to the fact that under the present arrangements special visit- ing days, different crockery and cut- provided for the private patients. lory, and other conveniences, are
performed upon private patients, She said that operations were
for which they would have to pay fifty guineas if performed outside, yel all they were charged by the Guardians was two guiness a week. Poorer patients she alleged, had the Infirmary to make room for boon driven out of certain words at private patients, whose income was often between £10 and £it a week. openly bonated that while he was a patient in the hospital he had a grand time, having whiskies, soda, and cigars, which he provided him-: self, and was able to entertain visitors up to any hour at night in his privato ward,
Mr. Graham said that a man bad
Mr. Metivier (Chairman of the Hospital Committee) said that 7,000 patients had been admitted during the past two years, and only 108 of theso had been private patients.
Mrs. Mason's resolution was re- ferred to the Hospital Committee for further consideration.
CONSIGNEES.
HAMBURG-AMERIKA LINIE.
THE Steamship
"RHEINLAND " having arrived, Consignees of Cargo by her are hereby notified that all goods are being landed at their risk, into the hazardous and/or extra. hazardous Godowns of the HONG- KONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD., whence and/or from the Wharves, delivery can be obtained.
No claims will be admitted after
the goods have left the Godown, and all goods remaining undelivered after 8th January, 1924, will be subject to rent.
All damaged packages will be examined by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas (Marine Surveyors) at 10 atm on the 8th January, 1993,
Suit for "back wages
All Claims must reach us by " and damages aggregating $15,000,000 15th January, 1924, or they will will be started against the not be recognised, Pennsylvania railroad by 600,000 shopmen, who suspended opera tions more than a year ago and returned to work under the Rail- road Labour Board's wage award, it was announced by counsel the men. The suit will be to compel the road with the labour board's award, and will test the validity of the Transport Act, under which the board operates.
The couple were married in 1791. Nelson first met Lady Hamilton infor 1793.
An autograph note, written about 1802, is a reproof from Sir William Hamilton to Lady Hamilton:
remain here, let me beg of you to As I see it is a pain to you to
fix your time for going, weather I dye in Picadilly or any other spot in England 'tis the same to me.
He replies to this:
is rife with them. One of the most possess you to suppose that tion of ruy wife is given to Lord N. I feel that the whole atten, prosperous of these social organiza- should allow people to think that I tions requiring membership in the could either do a picture of myself and his interest at Merton. order is the Girard Craftsman's with the magpic, or in any way be fishing parties...
Sir William desires to join his | Club, Philadelphia, named after aa party in any such advertisement don. She petulantly and defiantly or go to Lon- famous financier of Revolutionary of myself! Go at once and see times who was a Mason. Prepara-Morley, and tell him that the little
replied: tions are being made for the paragraph was only tolerable as a laying of the corner stone of little playful bit...
club building that will Write imediately for coals cost about $1,000,000; the and say that I have been all this ceremonies will be in charge of while abroad, and that if there be R. W. Bro. Abraham Beitler, Granda bill owing it can all be paid on Master of Masons in Pennsylvania.my return you will see to this, live, and every moment is precious I have but a very short time to The club has a membership of you may say, but that you must to me. I am nearly 1500. Another typical club, have the coals.
exceedingly also affiliated with the National
glad to give every satistaction to Certainly to have been secretary our best Friend our Dear Lord League of Masonic Clubs, but of a to the great man was not a bed of Nelson. different nature, is the Trowel moses! Club, with headquarters on the But he had his genial moments. second floor of Central Branch, Thus he writes from Paris, January 'Y.M.C.A., 55 Hanson Place, 15, 1900:
Brooklyn, NY, which is housed in ...This is by way of wishing what is said to be tia largest build- you the best possible New Year!
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WOMAN'S COCAINE.
ENGLISH WIFE.
ing in the world exclusively used with health and success and what PRISON FOR CHINAMAN'S for Y M.C.A. purposes Any Master is called luck-which comes to Mason living in the dormitories, or those who don't wait for it.
the official staff of the has Charley Singleton been draft- local Y.M.C.A., is eligible.ed into any regiment and has he Of the
present membership trasted himself to those poor be- of 190, about 150 are in residence.wildered British Generals!?? The club maintains a costumed
Nth Degree
Team, rapidly
gaining fame through the five
A pretty young woman-named Julia Kitt, the English wife of a Chinaman, of Upper North-street, Poplar, E., was charged at Thames Police Court with being in
" possession of cocaine.
It was stated that the woman was arrested in the Chinese quarter of car with a man. Cocaine was found Limehouse when riding in a motor- in her handbag, and at her house were discovered in a vase several pieces of paper whith had been in contact with the drug.
boroughs of New York, and wher after the fashion of classes in á ever it has conferred its degree..
night school, most of them follow- Masonic education, holds the outlines of study. Out of these ing on more or less well defined centre of the stage just now in schools will come the Masonic in American Masonry. Almost every telligentsia, supplying leaders for Grand Lodge in the land has its the Craft of to-morrow. The own educational committee, some of them with well paid all-time Masonic Institution has grown to be so large, ramifies so widely, and secretaries, and so have grand its literature is so vast that some any cocaine in the handbag when bodies in most of the other sites. In such course is necessary to the it was taken away, some instances these activities took toward a general stimulation of men who desire to know more public interest in public schools, about it than they can gain from but in most cases are designed the mere routine of lodge work.
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Mrs. Kitt denfed that there was
Detective Crisp said that though woman had not sen convicted: she was an associate of persons addicted to cocaine.
The woman was sentenced to siz months' imprisonment.
'Do You Dread the Night?
Masonry, to the end that they shalt In December, 1922, a group of take a more intelligent part in Masons met in Cleveland, O. to lodge activities, and may be pur | disques the interest-of-Masons puta into more complete possession of belonging to various crafts, can their MasonKY. The principal | penters, engineers, painters, prin- source of interest in such studies tera, etc. Out of this grew the is the Ritual, more especially that | Federation of Craftsmen, 1 with Coughs and roldan)ways need to jerey, employed by the Blue Lodge, and councils in most of the large cities | worse as fight fall, and, aroup comon the emblems and stebols. In of the continent. The Federation without warning at midnightsAvold hundreds of Study Clubs over of Craftsmen in Cleveland now an meway, feverish, cloaplese night by the land little systematic studies publishes a weekly Masonic paper in such subjects; " groups. of of its own, The Universal Gräftsman, Masons are CAIT
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EASIER VOTING CONTEST.
FREE
$50 PRIZE.
CORONET THEATRE'S OFFER. POPULAR PICTURES
CHOOSE YOUR OWN MOVIE FILMS!
This week's voting contest is run on entirely new lines. Competitors, vote for the twelve best cinema pictures they have ever seen. They do not select from any given list, nor do they limit their choice to pictures shown in Hongkong, With $50 waiting to be won, this is exciting enough; but the contest has greatly added interest because the management of the Coronet Theatre, who are offering the prize this week." announce that they will follow the voting in securing new pictures. Some one must win the $50-Why not you?
RULES FOR THE NEW CONTEST.
SOME IMPORTANT CHANGES MADE.
This week's contest is entirely different from the ones that have gone - before. The new rnies are as follows:-
Got out the coupon given below.
Fill in the TWELVE best afnema pictures you have pror soon.
Sand the coupon to the China Mail oflos marked "Voto," You may send in as many coupons as you like.
Coupons must reach the China Mail ofon by Monday next, Any coupons received by the China Mail later than Monday wha disqualided.
The result will be announced in the China Moit on Wednesday nast
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Member of the China Mail staff and employees of the Coronet Theatre are debarred from entering the contest,
The decision of the Editor upon any points which may arisa shail be anal.
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Each picture you name will get points, as follows—
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The the picture you put first gets twelve points and the ploture you put last only on point.
The picture poilled the highest total number of polate will rank first 'in “ the general serdist.
The picture with the next highest total number of polata will ens second, and so on until the twelve plotures have all been placed,
FINDING THE WINNER.
Each coupon sent in will then be checked over with the general verdict. Every time your coupon has ons of the twelve pictures in, the general rerdict you will be awarded points
These polats will vary according to the position the picture occupies in the general verdict and according to the position you give it in your ocupen.
You will get twelve points if your coupon has the ploture that comes first in the general cardiot.
If your coupon has this plature correctly placed in the first position yon' will get 141 points (12x13.)
If you have put the picture second you will get 182 points (12x1]); third 120 points (18×10); fourth 108 points (13;9);'fifth 98 points (12×8); sixth 84 poluts (17); seventh 72 points (12x8); eighth 60 points (125); alath 38 points (18x4); tenth 38 points (128) feletonth 24 points (18/9)}. and twelfth 19 points (19×1.)
If your coupon Includes the ploture coming second in the general rexdlož you will get eloven polats, multiplied in exactly the same fay as abore soooriing to the position you give the picture in your coupon.
The same principle applies to every pictues in the general verdfak down- to the twelfth.
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All your points will be added up, and the coupon with the highest number. of points will win the prize.
Tals system win, grotred by an eminent. Londen frm of shartsarad socountants for the biggest contust of this kind over held entailing ovu 5,000,000- Totes.
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To the Editor
China Mail,
Sir,
December 2, 1923,
Hongkong,
I consider the following the twelve best films I have ever seen-
Please write clearly in block letters,
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