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SenooL's Ix. Algebra was the

wile of Euclid, There were no Christians among the early Gauls, for they were mostly lawyers.

A blizzard is the inside of ben. Geometry teaches us to bisect | angola

In 1820 the pilgrims crossed the end, which is known as the Pilgrim's Progress,

Our Legislativo Councillors need a

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To sing their praises we do owe it For they work so jolly hand That a decent local Bard Could enshrine their deeds in

sublime language-blow it. THAT ANNUAL 9.-I'll ask

PERLING.

the Boss for a гіле. 10 a.m. The job awes too an increage,

11 .m.-I'll demand an incre- mont

Noon-If my salary isn't raised E'll leave.,

1 p. I think I'll demand an increase.

p.m. think I'll ask for a rise. 8pMaybe I-cun propose an increinent,

collapse of the Foreign Exchanges and high taxation helps to drive British gonds from foreign markete. I Cheaper coal and coduced expendi- ture would remove two of the pro- sent causes of unemployment. If the price of coal could be heavily reduced British industries would restart and they could compete with?

Bushy Park, foreign industries. The cost of

ENGLAND, HOME dark and cool everything depends on coal, und¦

AND BEAUTY. green under its peristyle 01 everything could be cheapened. Germany and the United States are ancient oake, on a still and huzy the Cows Britain's two chief rivals in trade. mid-june afternoon, Both of these nations have largeant lake, in the foreground a little munching the grass beyond the dis- supplies of coal, and it is nessary girl seated on beuch reading Alice in Wonderland." ant froin to be watchful in order not to let then make an inroad upon British far, far off down the road the faint |

the markets. When British trade finds ho of a coaching born, ...

Kanbassy Chubs in Band Street bril- its real econatute level, we shall have than at midnight, with the band little to fear at the hands of German playing a swinging tune and the

young Erince of Wales, his a and American trade rivals.

tround & fair partner, amiably bumping his fox-tiot way through the dancing crowds. Piecutifly a Tired Housewife, is given as the Cirens at ten o'clock of a misty, reason why many women whe conco rainy evening with the enka:rollout East, have no desire to return electric signs taking on the aspert [home of so many inelted "opals."

430 Dinner things washed up. Equsework done. Now for s Batten Row at eleven in the spring- fine morning with its sleek young wash and the first rest since

7.40! English girls astride glistening horses, galloping past benches filled with wide-eyed children and their mid-day brandy governesses.

We regret to say COARIVARIAT it, but we have killed the man who described the recent General Elves

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Presiden Coolidge spent five hours on New Year's Day sbuking hands with 10,000 people. This is the greatest squeeze our record and has excited local Compradores exceedingly.

We read that Canton has a Public Works Department. Assuming that it is like our own, and with the vision of Queen's Road in our wind, we can now understand the upheavals taking place in Canton.

We are told that Parliament had to find a solution. That is why it

dissolved!-

the little Tour Eittel beside the great shining brass putin pots.... the taxicab jans in rafalgar | Square with the miraculous escapes from death every other minute r the old women selling flowers and the crippled vendors of newspapers

dawn...

London Bridge the moment before the lush of the breaking the tapestry of yellow flowers that covers the fields on the the roads to the southland litz at the cock-tail hou with its tigratory. Argentinians searching hier and thither in question of beuty, and with each cocktail ared by three waiters! the

ing

4 p.m. I wonder if they'd give mo a rise.

5 pan think I'd better ang- gest it later on.

Tho following, Tur eisos. which is described the Journal of

2.40

2:15

2.50

Bath filled and just undressed when bell rings. Fling ou wrapper and answer it. "Mar selling sa Tell him he is the 4th hawker to-day, and shut door. Enjoying bath and recovering

bell temper when

rings Ignore it. Ignore three follow ing rings. At fourth, fling o dressing gown and

repel woman with blouses. Start dressing. Bell, Scream "No" from ball.

3.10 Settle down in wrapper. Bell, Man with dusters. Despatch bitt.

6.25 Recover temper, when there is uproar at back door. Green grocer. Send him off, Front door this time. Another

It is not so long back that Victorian Governor, after inspect-1 ing the Melbourne palice force Lagoon at three in the morn-3.15

the solitary, lonely lan renaurkel, What a striking body at the end of the dim little passage- of men!"

way known as St. James's Place

.. the cries of "Strawberries!"

Lady (ngaging cook): in the Landon streets by day and of Poor. "Do you menti la sy

you were really withses" in the London streets by night the twatch slot machine Mes. Woolbags?" Cook: "Well, if you don't believe in the bar of the Regent Theatre up me, Muth, you can see her stan toad that marks the Pro- bibition division line after tea monogram on ne camisoles,"

o'clock, in the left of which drinks may be served and to the right of Kulós for success = arr

which they mayn'... the Thames RULES. HOW Fairly common, but of Ascot Sunday with its moving |

the following emanating picture of white flannel trotisers and from a salmon cannery in Western lavender skirts....

the famous Canada, striker as as being veryTrooping of the Colour.", all gold apt.

and scarlet and crashing music, with

THE TEN DEMANDMENTS.

1. Don't lie. It wastes my time and yours. I am sure to catch you in the end, and that is the wrong cad.

Watch your work, not the *✦✦ ploch. A long day's work makes

long day short and a short day's work makes my face long.

which is due to, the decline in the

She Chinx Mail. Mark exchange. At the present

BoyGKUN SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1943.

A

CURE.

3. Give me more than I expect, and I will give you more than you I can afford to increase expect. your pay if you increase my profits. -You owe so much to yourself you cannot afford to owe anybody else. Keep out of debt, or keep out of my shops.

5. Dishonesty is never an acci- dent. Good men, like good wonen, never see temptation when they incet it.

small boy, his hand in his mother's, blowing a kiss with his other to the Queen of England."...

A schoolgirl's essay on MAX. Man is quoted by the

heudrnaster of West-

mainster School as being origin and nearste in thought and expression. Here it is :-

Man is what woman has 10 smokes, He drinks, swears, and never goes to church. Both spring frota apes, hut woman sprang the farthest.

man with sonp. Why buy more soap when they won't give you time to wash with it? 4.10 Bell again. A man with some-

thing to take stains out of olothes. No! Some cheap music? No!

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SATURDAY JANUARY 5, 1924.'

SHADOWS BEFORE.

Coming Events Advertised

In The Mail,

ENTERTAINMENTS.

FREE $50 PRIZE.

CORONET THEATRE'S

OFFER.

January 5-Coronet Theatre; CHOOSE YOUR OWN MOVIE FILMS "Uncharted Seas."

January 5-Star Theatre; "A Small Town Idol,"

January 5-World Theatre; "In the Name of the Law."

January 5.--The Grand Theatre; "The Midnight Guest."

SOCIAL,

January 5.Dancing in Palace Hotel, ar 9.15 pan.

January 24-Fancy Dress Ball at Peak Club, 9.15 pan.

LAND SALE,

January 7-At P. W. D. Offices, one lot of Crown land, at Ma Tau Wei, 3 p.m.

PUBLIC AUCTION.

January 8.-Lammert Bros., household furniture, at No. 3, Peak Road, 2.30 p.in.

January 9.-Lammert Bros., at Sales Rooms, Postage Stamps, 5.15

p.m.

Boy

OTHER MEETINGS. January 7-Hongkong Scouts Assen, meeting at Peak Club, 6 p.m.

January 10-Hongkong Jockey Club, extraordinary general meet- ing, in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine Matheson & Co., at 5 p.m.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

Thirty one cases of small pox were notified yesterday.

Pantar Ltd: (Rubber) have declared a dividend of 4%.

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A meeting of the Education Board is to be held on Monday next.

The total output of the Kailan Mining Administration's mines for the week ending December 22, the sales during the period to 1923, amounted to 108,829 tons and 55,330 tons.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL,

tako

Rev. T. B. Powell, M.A., is due Arrival of one more groen- grocer reminds me that it is to arrive in Hongkong, on January time to be proparing the veget6, to

up the

post of ables for the evening gorge. Assistant Chaplain at the Cathe Dress and assume the burdendral. of life once more.

There are hes THE BUSINESS we tell for profit.

LIAR.

there am lies we tell for fun. And a different phase of falsehood inny be fous in everyone;

There are men-who can't help iving when they look in women's

eyes.

While the men who lie to flatter are

the chaps we most despise; There's the man who tells his fare

hools with exhilarating case, For a cheerful kind of lir is the

one who lies to please.

To-day's ́¡ China Mail con- tains the fast coupon for this week's voting contest.As al- ready announced, this contest is run on entirely new lines. Anxious to know what films please patrons most, the man- agement of the Coronet Theatre are offering the prize of $50 for n pull of the twelve best pictures local cinenin fans have ever seen. The poll is not limited to the Coronet Theatre nor to Hongkong. You simply name the twelve pictures you like most above all others, and if your selection comes nearest the general verdict then you win the prize. Entering for this unique con- test you have donble pleasure -you know that in assisting the Coronet Theatre manage- - ment to decide what pictures are liked best you are helping to choose your own movies, and that as somente must win the $50 you might quite easily begin the New Year with a handy little gift. Cut out the coupon on page 11, fill in the twelve pictures you have liked best, mark the envelope "Vote" and send it to the China Mail Office, Wyndham Street. You may send in as many coupons as you like, but they must all reach the China Mail Office by Monday next.

$8000 FIND.

RICH CHINESE EMIGRANT.

LOSS INSIGNIFICANT !

A claimaat has come forward at last for the banknotes to the total. value of $8,000 which were picked up in Des Voux Road Central an New Year's Eve and handed in to the Central Police Station. He is

Chinese merchant who trades. with California and his claim was made on behalf of & nephew who is now in his native village. From inquiries by a China Mail reporter, it appears that the uncle has said. that his nephew, who has just re- turned fram the United States, is His account is rolling in wealth. that the nephew had the notes in. his pocket and, unknowingly of courso, dropped them when he pull- ed a handkerchief out. Discovering bis loss on his return to the uncle's Chick Detective Inspector in the make a report to the polica on the Friends of Mr. William Murison, shop, he turned down advice to Hongkong Police from 1914 to 1923, ground that it would be of little use He is also will be interested to hear that he as anybody picking the money up, has married at home. Mr. Murison would surely keep it. only retired a few months ago quoted as saying that it would be after twenty-eight years' service. too much trouble for him as the loss

was insignificant to him.

Lieut. Richard Ralph Beauchamp R. N. has been appointed to act as Assistant Harbour Master. Lieut. Beauchamp is attached to H.M.S. "Tamar" as Liason Intelligence Officer.

The following have been no- From another source, it appears. Some fellows tell a lie, to mako aminated by H. E, the Governor as that the boy who antprised the members of the Court of the Hong-police officers on duty, was not so He is stated to truth,kong University for a farther est after, at

period of three years Mr. Chauve kept his and but trouble Siu-ki, the Bishop of Victoria, Mr.

profit out of it,

And others simply tell the

because a lie won't fit:

J

But the common, businces liar, is C. Montague Ede, Mr. G. Tawaited him when he spoke of his

the man who says that he

Edkins, Mr. Ho Kwong, Bishop luck at the shop where he was employed. One joli jocularly re- marked that he had dropped the Bought a thing for one and sixpence Pozzoni and Mr. Iso Seep-wan.

which he sells for one and three.

His Excellency the Governor $8,000. In a few minutes every has been pleased to appoint the body in the shop was clamouring for Honourable Mr. Edward Richard a share when the master put an end Hallifax, C.B.E, to be Commis to it by marching his whole staff up sioner and the Honourable Mr. to the Central Station. Chow Shou-son and Sir Robert Ho Tung, LL.D., to be Honorary As- sociate Commissioners of the Hongkong Section of the British Empire Exhibition, 1924.

The Governant LAUREATE. Gazette more often than not reports the appointment of certain individuals to net in specified capacities. Tom 6.-Mind your own business and Jones is made an authorised Archi- in time you'll have a business of tect; Bill Adams may extract teeth;

Taipans are made J.P's., and others Today's Poem. your own to mind. suoment the mamber of unemployed

(Life.) 7.-Don't do anything here which te sit on Committees. So far one in Germany is compuntively few. hurts your self-respect. An em-appointment has not been notified

which appears to us to be worth is life a boon? The German Government gives nuployee who is willing to steal for me

If so, it must befall consilering, We refer to a Poet

That Dath, when'er ho cal, doles, but subsidies employinent.s willing to steal from me.

8.-T is none of my business Laureate. Think of the possibilities:

The Must call too soon. All bodies, public and private, what you do at night. But if dis-in such an appointment. receive a subsidy to carry on work. sipation affects what you do the Budget proposals graced with a Recent news from Gertuany states' Some thirty thousand miles of new next day, and you do fulf as much songett; furbour Improvements invitations to Government House that the populace enjoyed them roads have been constructed, waste as 1-demand, you'll last half as long ande epochal by an epic poem:

as you hoped. selves inestravagant merry-making, hands have been brought into cul-

Don't tell me wint, I'd like proceded by a lyrical conception, or and that reigners Bed the capital tivation, and railway tracks have to hear, but what I ought to hear. a Vianelle, or even a triolet. For owing to the expensive nature of been inproved. Geritan employ. I don't want a valet for my vanity, Courcil debates, there might he a limerick, and when it came to ataying here. This suggests a tent is steadily declining, and but one for my dollars.

10.Don't kick if 1 kick. If bolanding the services of our well- degree of prosperity which does not, German manufacturers are pushing you're worth while correcting you're paid Officials, or "advancing them fally with news of disruption, their way into every possible market worth while keeping: 1 don't waste £1,000-why the Laureate would Payment for this could artistic work

camily be poverty, and famine which hitherto in the world. The only real cure of time cutting specks out of rotton simply revel

apples. Jus com to us. Naturally the the inemployment problem is a

arranged. In England we believe it is a sack of wino; but sacks are country is not stagnant and her revival of industry. Production in

We think In every case of armed torribly leaky things. "workuṇa are not idle. The Genua almost all industries has been for

Anus. robbery wo nad that the that accounts for the fast that the 1713. characteristics of solidness and some time low and is decreasing.

robbers WCro "well water of poetry does not flow freely solidnes still, kelûs good. In the Two causes hinder a trade revival]urmed. ** We should like to be from or under our Bridges, and we

days before the war Germany cap on which

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the real cure for assured that this is the case with do not blame Robert of that, ilk at

the

Foreign

Though four score years be give, Yot one would pray to live

What kind of plaint bave I Another moon!

Who perish in July? I might have had to die

-W. 8. GILBERT. Perchance in June.

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WEATHER CALENDAR

JANUARY 5:

Our frost is broken, but it is bloody cold. Lord-Trea- Burer is recovered, and went out this evening to the Queen.-Swift.

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On December 2, the full choir

of St. John's Cathedral attended at 6p.m, as well as at Matins, and settings composed by Mr. Temple Bevan for the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis were sung. Mr. Mason was at the organ and Mr. Bevan I was in the congregation. It was probably the first time that settings to the canticles were sung in the presence of the composer, and Mr. Bevan is to be congratulated on his successful composition.

CRICKET NOTES. LAING'S BOWLING.

: KONGMOON NEWS.

SHEK KI AGAIN CAPTURED.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

KONGMOON, January 4, That Shek-ki has been captured again by Admiral Chan Chak, was definitely confirmed yesterday.

LATER,

On the instructions of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Admiral Chan has had to withdraw his troops from Shek-kl and Chin-shan. A new Heungshan magistrate, in the person of Yeung Kat, has been appointed by the Canton authorities.

Ju Chenk-Man's Coup. ·

January, 3.

In the guise of mufti, three hundred of Ju Cheuk-man's troops, (the ousted district magistrate) made a sortia on the Shek-ki Sarprise ensured I have learnt unofficially that the magistracy, University selectors have decided success and Chan Chak's men suf- to play D. Laing in the first elevon, fered a good many casualties. The without putting him on to bowl for people lost no time in expressing the time being. Laing would be their disapproval of Ju. Admiral worth his place for his brilliant Chan has sent naval and military- felding alone, and he is also an forces and the gunboats of the two. Improved bit. This would seem to funnel class have all left Kong- We pamper little griele into great be the bestway of ending the dis moon. The oni naval craft in. Pak-kai to-day are the "Lung He trod heavily ones, and bear great ones as well as cussion.

-W. P. C

Sheung" and "Kwong Hung.". IN HONGKONG. on her foot as he we can. Wo can afford to dally and

Nothing of interest has occurred. was leaving the play, tricks with the one, but the

R.B. we could name one or two local Poets or versifiers which some of thom modestly call themselves. There is no Our own office post might be loaned STRAIGHTFORWARD such thing for d time-perhape for all ting:

THINKING, se abeglutely unimpeded,

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HARDSHIP OF SMALL GRIEFS.

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tumed considerable amount of unemployed · depends. First in our own men. Are they "well all for his silence. In Hongkong he British port trade by "dumping" importance is the collapse and armed with the latest and most could do infinitely better. Failing

effectiva weapons? under the cost of production, fuctuation *of making her profite in hoc own Exchanges which prevents manu- market. Owing to the extra facturers from fixing price-quota- ordinary fall in the Mark, Germany tione for contracts; and secondly. is able to produce certain goods at the cheaper cost of production in prices with which Great Britain Germany where the depreciation in clear, straightforward thinking, cannot compete. At the same time the value of the Mark and lower The greatest and most concentrated

in the Sze Yap districts. The in- mind in the world, pandering & the Gerban-workmen's-wages:aru... wager enables the German aanu problem, will find itself periodically tram Glumsy wretch," she snap others we have enough to do with KCC 2ND XIV IRC. AND XL habitants of Tai Chank have been one ball of what, they were in 1913, facturer to undercoll his British invaded, if only for a fleetingped. My dear young lady.""

fined $5,000 on account of the scrap ho without any of the wantonness and

The following will represent the between their civic guards and the- This embles, the German many competitor All over the country moment, by recalcitrant and imele remarked, you should havo feet bombast of passion-without the facturer to undersoll Great Britain there appears to be 4

general vant thought of a bird porched farge enough to be soon. She swaggering of pistal or the insolence in her own rourketa and throughout opinion that there can be no trude upon the window sill, of a moist smiled sweetly, and the injury was of King Cambyses vain. To great LR.C. 2nd XI a league metes militar

evils we submit; we rosent little against the "CG.C. 2nd XI on the eye-gloss, of somo object upon the moon forgotten

Selmer Stopa - Croup Europe Germany can expert to revival till cool in chomper and rates writing dealt, of a sors toe, of a The policeman was very angry.procations. I have before now latter's groad to-day at 12.15

It stops croup. That's why mothers, advantage to other countries reduced. If the industries in Eng pretty girl it met last summer of wave and waved; but you madu beim lisappointed of a $100 job and pm. D. Rumjahn, Sirdar Khan,

world; "owing land are to wake up to full activity, something alien and, sorruptive no attempt to stop. Din't you last half a crown at rockets on the Mel Arcull, A. HH Samy keep Chamberaine Cough Towels in throughout the

"Oh, day, and been more mortified at the O. Ramfahn, H. D. Rumjahn, M. P the dusentit contains no areolice and The strong chain of thinking in so me he demanded.

Madar, Y. A. Wahab, A Kitchell, is bester the ebikiten. For me every-

whore. y the we role of exchange. Her cheap coal is absolutely sential made up of the links of many fooee yea, she replied, "but I'm not that latter than the former.

R. Naxxrlo and S. A. Himla.An HAZLITT. rapidly expanding. Coal is one of the dear commodities thoughts.

Bort of girl."