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HOW IT STRIKES THE
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(Specially Contributed.)
Let us conclude omission are generally castigated but | ledge of one who was the ex-
TOPICAL with a story suitable the fact of the good things with President's secretary for eleven
for the holiday sea- winch mon concern themselves is years. Here is an enlightening
attempt of the President's to son. The station was crowded "oft interred with their bones. It is analyse himself: You know, when the small man was hustled. not desired that such bodies as the Tumulty, there are two natures up to the booking-office by his determined-looking K.R.A. should prove a Mutuhl combined in me that every day large and
February 9.Fourth tournament Adminution Society, or wantonly fight for supremacy and control wife, backed up by four resolute
On the one side, there is the Irish children. The man's hands were of the Hongkong Boxing Associa and needlessly press those who are in me, quick, generous, impulsive, full, and he appeared to have tion at the Theatre Royal, 9.15 p.m. charged with the difficult tail of passionate, anxious always to help parcels tied all over him. His
February 4-Gonomi Meeting administration. The Association and to sympathise with those expression when he tried to get at has proved its worth as the Govern. In distress." As he continued his his pockets for the fare money was of the Hongkong Jockey Club in
"Now, look here, ladies and Bient itself has shown, and wisely description of himself, his voice pitiful in the extreme. In fact, it the Hongkong Club Annex, 5 p.m.
February 11-Annual General gentlemen. Fll-tell-you what I'll took on an Irish brogue, "And like was sopitiful that a lounger near-by
Kowloon Residents' used, will continue to do so. The the Irishman at the Donnybrook removed the pipe from his mouth Meeting,
ntorrow and I don't want to take pleasing fact is noticed that the Fair, always willin' to raise me and said, with a grin: "Cheer up, Association, St. Andrew's Church do. I am going to Manchester to-
Hall, 6 p.m.. Association pays tribute to the shillalah and to hit any head which boss! A holiday's soon over."
these with me. Pli let you have Then, on the And the moral of this "lays"-as co-operation of heads of Govern- stands firminst me.
l'om dirt cheap-a sacrifice. I shall ment Departments, and this is other side," he said, "there is the the oracular Jack. Busby would
be losing money on 'em. See here, Scotch-canny, tenacious, cold, have said-in the application likely to continue where the reforms and perhaps a little exclusive. I on it."
there's a pair honestly worth one- urged are known to be in the tell you, my dear friend, that when
|and-nine and another pair honestly interests not merely of rosidents but these two fellows get to quarrelling
TEN YEARS OLD.
worth two-bob. Try 'em, if you Two pair, in the better prosecution of good among themselves, it is hard to act
as umpire between them."
lively stories in his reminiscent The annual meeting of the don't believe me! government ideals. The tivo can-
A correspondent of an volume, Irish and Other Mem- Kowloon Residents Association honestly worth four-and three and not be long delayed when Kowloon
English paper has ories." As might be expected will be held in the St. Andrew's just as a last-favour, I'll let you will be represented in the Legisla-
solved the vexed quos from the head of a distinguished Church Hall on Monday, February have em for half-a-crown."
"There you are sir. There you several of his II, at 6 p.in. tive Council. It is a matter which
KNOW. tion of Britannia's title Irish family,
are madam, just the colour for your is becoming a little querdue.. It
to the rulership of the Hibernian anecdotes are particular- seems a pity that cortuin of our waves. There is a stone, he says, ly good. Here is one concerning recognised leaders have not found a set, in the wall of the building the known as the Sailors' Palace, in sanctuary in Kowloon, or Government seen it to house some London, the inscription on which This Stone was laid by his Grace
the Duke of Fife.
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»*. There will be no issue of The Duke de the China Mail to-morrow, China Stacpoole New Year Day. tells some
conse
the
"Abl ladies and gentlemen, I have stood on this market place for forty years and never had a single complaint You all know Tommy Winterbottom, don'tcher? And look here f as I am going to Man- chester tomorrow, I have another line here I want to get rid of, freight expenses are 100 much, you know, for me to take them with marked 14-carat............... I"
And after Tommy has sold up, lock, stock and barrel and has thoroughly convinced the public that he is bankrupt, he disappears and returns to his stand the next Saturday night.
The National Union of Rail-husband."
"Here you are Joe, the old lady the evils of driak: "An old story warmen, Reuter cables from Lon- is told in connection with this don, has promised the Transport in the front row."
"Buck up, Joe, a gentlemen in national failing. Drink, said a General Workers' Union their preacher, 'is the greatest curse to support in the event of a docker's the rear."
"Come on, Joe wrap 'em up and our country. It causes people to strike. commit every sia. What makes
hand'em to the young lady with The visitors books of His the dainty smile." you fire at your landlord ? Drink And what makes you'so often miss Excellency the Governer and him? Drink!" And again: "Lady Stubbs at Government House It is about time that the authori
occasion when will not be removed during their ties took steps to ameliorate the
Here is an in- remember an congestion in Ice House Siroot.
cident which nimbleness of speech was matched temporary absence from The present state of affairs con-
proved the sen- by slimmess of action. It occurred Gotony.. stitutes a mainance, not to my a
sibility of the in Connemara, at a time when ten-
Dr. G. M. Harston will give danger to the public, Ricshus are parked there two or three deep with man who many believed to be year-old Jamesom whisky was their shuts in many cases project without human feeling. It is relat- very scarce, and difficult to pro a lantern lecture on "The wonders certain public-house, of nature in the eye" at the ing right across the street and ed by a Red Cross nurse. After a cure.
Morcover gesti- visit of the President and Mrs. however, advertised that they had Helena May Institute on Monday
on sale, and impeding traffic,
The public are cordially invited culating stock brokora, jobbers and Wilson to the hospital, one of my some
One customer of an in- to attend. Advt. speculators of all denominations charges, a totally blind private to quently did very good businext, February 11, at 5.30 p.m.me. Here you are a geniune, halle transact business there in the opon whom Mr. Wilson had spoken, said ness.
At yesterday morning's ser- all day long, whereas in London to me, 'Miss Farrell, I guess the quiring turn of mind asked the they would be requested by a bobbie President must be very tired. I proprietor how in the world he had
Such is the said, "Why do you think that, obtained it. The answer was simple rice the Bishop of
enough. I get four-year-old, and dedicated the memorial brass to "get a move on."
"Well, because, state of chaos that peilestrians have Walter?" frequently to elbow their way replied the soldier, "he laugh- six-year-old, and I just mix the placed on the south wall of St. John's Cathedral in memory of through with difficulty, and it is alled and joked with all the two together."
the late Mr. W. C. D. Turner of they can do to avoid being dug in other fellows but was so quiet
One evening the Duke the Hongkong and Shanghai the ribs or run over by ricshes when, he talked with me and just
CLIMAX. had an engagement to Bank, endeavouring to pass through the said, Honourable wound, my boy,
go to the old 'Gaiety Darrow channel left open by the so low I could hardly hear him. Borried ranks of vehicles that are But say," continued Walter, "look Theatre" with a friend who was The Duke Permanently parked" on either at my hand, please, and see if it notorious for his pomposity and Hide. Surely it is not too much to is all there, will you? The Pre Inflated self-esteem. expect the police authorities to sident sure has some hand, and called at his friend's house, just as prohibit packing (except perhaps he used it when he shook hands. the latter, in concluding a rather in one row right up against the side til say." The fact was, Walter hurried toilet, picked up a garment of the street) in this congested area was the first blind soldier the Pre-which he supposed was an overcoat or at least to depute a couple of sident had met in France, and and threw it over his arm: "Arrived
Craigengower Cricket Club held SHION SORROMINTONMOONOMOU...bomoa European constables to ensure safe mowing from experience the at the theatre, our friend took his
and rapid transit in this commercial appeal the blind make to our seat, finging the garment over the a very successful bachelors ball oa srtery of Hongkong.
emotions, I knew the President back of his stall with his usual Saturday. About three hundred was so touched that he was over-grand air; but lo and behold, to were present who thoroughly
the astonishment of the onlookers enjoyed themselves. come and couldn't joke further.
and our unbounded joy, the over- coat proved to be trousers!"
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BOCIAL AND PERSONAL.
from A Renter cable
Paris announces the death of M. Arthur Meyer, a famous publicist. and director of the Gaulois.
According to a Reuter cable from London, Miss Sung Yem Chu, a daughter of a Chinese ex-Premier, In another has been married in London to
a Ching Men Chen, a member of-the- was staff of the Ministry of Communi-
FAMOUS SAYINGS school;
class
One
that
❤
or
And so with the importunate hawkers at the Chinese New Year Market whose cheap sales are always at brilliant feature of the eve before Chinese New
walk, Year. A
1 push through the rather
of. Jerrols Street mazes Street, lined on each side with Bonham Strand and Wing Lok bamboo matsheds glittering with their infinite variety of under the blinding glare of, the brings back incandescants,
market where rag-and-tog memories of the Saturday night "bargains" in bicycles, gramas phones, braces, curtains, dogs, monkeys, umbrellas. etc,, etc., can be picked up by anyone brave enough to force the gap.
wares
***All who sit at the peace fable
It is reported that in must be ready to pay the price,
Melbourne said President Wilson in Septon-
brewery alone pays ber. 118. Two years later he paid
£1,000,000-a-year-in- taxation. it, as Clemenceau and Orlando had
And yet already paid. The passing of the inan Victoria is the lowest taxed of all who at one time seemed to incor- the Australian States. Presumably set the other day to write an cations. porte all the hopes of the world the teetotallers get off scot free. essay on "British Admirals.
Reuter cables from Berlin that took place on November 20, 1920, t is as it should be. Indeed, if student gravely declared when he retired from the active this form of virtue has all the Drake was playing bowls.
When the Armada appeared Dr. Van Hoesch, the present Chargé
I d'Affaires, becomes Ambassador assuring the unsuspecting for political life of the United States.
Government is a very simple merits that are claimed for it, formed that the Spanish ships had to Paris; Dr. Von Keller, Charge thing, after all, the late Mr. Hard- teetotallers ought to be paid a been sighted off the coast, Drake d'Affaires at Belgrade, becomes put his telescope to his blind eye, Minister to Belgium. The French ing said when he learned that he had subsidy from the Treasury.
and looking out to sea, remarked, and Belgian Governments have been made President. But on the.
Woodrow Wilson I'm blowed if I see anything!"" approved the appointments. day when he took office, above the
FIERCE could be fiercely The writer omitted to mention tumult and the shouting on Capitol
ANGER. Hill, a small, unattended group left
angry at times, though that, when Frobisher placed his the White House. In their midst
he usually kept his cloak on the ground for Queen was carried a man with snow-white feelings under control. The Pre Victoria to wilk on, he gallantly "England expects hair, bowed back, distorted features sident came to the newspaper exclaimed i and euriated frame a man with men's conference fighting mad. It that every man this day will do Body broken and heart broken in the was plain that something serious his duty." service of a great ideal-a man who was afoot. Taking hold of the knew that Government was not a back of the chair, as if to strengthen simple thing after all. Writing of himself for what he had to say, he
this personal tragedy at the time, looked squarely at the newspaper Today's Poom.
The spirit of Tommy was there too, in all his glory. He would chuckle with glee to see his coun- terpart at the Chinese New Year Market just now. Every stall has its eloquent and loquacious owner, eigner that this is pure Foochow ware; that is a hundred years old (made in Birmingha last year) and for the delectation of the foreigner, all his goods as specially laid out. But there is always a marked difference, a flaw in the comparison, as it were. Tommy Winterbottom will not bargain, whereas Ah Fong of Jervois Street will accept half the price or even a quarter of the original figure for the smiling To the Editor of the China Millbrass Buddha if only you will have the patience to enter into an
CORRESPONDENCE:
WHO SAID IT!
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Sir,-You may safely defy any argument. Then at that price, Mr. one to disprove that Mr. Gladstone Ah pulls a wry face, bemoans the said, in 1878,"We are all Socialists fact that it is Chinese New Year one historian thus saintned up what men and said: "I hope that you (The Poetry of Earth.), now:" chapter and verse canand has to sell at a loss, and that day meant for the world. By gentlemen will pardon me for a The poetry of earth is never dead: hardly be given for everything reluctantly hands over the bargain. convincing vote the people of the personal word this morning. I have When all the birds are faint with that fell from that eminent states- He does this all the time-selling United States had repudiated read the stories that have appeared the hot sun, Woodrow Wilson his personality, in certain newspapers of the coun- And hids in cooling trees, a voice man's frequently-moving lips in at a dead loss and making a profit! his idealism. lus administration, bistry, containing outrageous state will run conduct in and out of office, his ments about the illness of my wife From hedge to hedge about the career. Treaty of Versailles, and his Dengue and the marriage of my daughter..
new-mowu mead
done
sant weed..
nover:
frost
creasing ever
1878 or any other year of his long,
of
inquabership than flat with which it closes its year, and, continued on CARRIE-At 1. Peak Road, ons presant lines, with a future policy February 4th, to Mr. and Mrs. we any hope of linking the varied W. J. Carrie, a daughter.
elements that go to make the popula.
They say the market this year is KLU MEN.-01 December 24.
not as big as it was last, yet the 1923. at Copenhagen, to Mr. tion of Kowloon, in matters let us
Mr. Gladstone may have size of the crowd has not suffered. and Mrs. J. Klubien, a daugh-way beyond housing, noise, postal
down the market facilities, hospital, etc., the good
of Nations. The great and solezen I realise that as President of the That is the grasshopper's he takes anticipated or quoted Sir William Looking.
Vernon Harcourt,' but the streets, one can see a veritable PEREIRA.-Oa January 30, 1924, will of those who are anxions to see referonlum' which he planned and United States you have a perfect the lead
ocean of humanity, rolling and quickening of the pride and spirit promised destroyed him: The pro-right to say anything you damn- In summer luxury-he has never aphorisma is usually attributed to
to the latter. In the last twenty tossing from side to side. Tomerge of those in a place where, hitherto, het was dishonoured by his own please about me, for I am a man
heard the with this ever-moving mass is a no attempt has been made, orantry. He was swept by the tide and I can defend myself, I know With his delights, for when tired years have
remark quoted a good many times physical test, especially at nights of aversion down from the highest that while I am President it will out with fun encounzernent given, to foster pinnacle ever momentarily attained
mature years and always associated elbows wins. unfair criticism, and
Last night, when the market was China Mail. It is the custom in certain statesman of modern timos. kinds of portion to receive all Ho rer's as ease beneath some plen, but Regist, politicians of more The man with the sharpest
quarters to look with suspicion on The man whose pen splintered the would be a poor sport If I could The poetry of earth is ceasing with the name, of Sir William
Harcourt.W
at its height, the scene was kaleido swords of Prussia, the man before
In confirmation of this I beg to scopic Hawkers excelled then- those who for a time constitute whose image the peasants of Italy not stand up under it: but there
refer you to that well-known selves in their persuasive powers
"Fabian themselves into such bodies as the burned candles, the man who gave are some things, gentlemen, that On a lone winter evening, when the
Essays in and the market was well patronis", K.R.A., or are appointed to honor form to the loftiest political ideal will not tolerate. You must let
Socialism," first published in 1880, ed by foreigners. stove there shrills that ever captured the conscience of my family alone, for they are not Has wrought a silence, from the volume,"
To complete the picture, all that ary positions às representatives the world, was broken and beaten public property, I acquit every
edition contains this entry-
was necessary was a cocanut shy, where it becomes necessary either by the rods of his own people." man in this room of responsibility The oricket's song, in warmth in The admirable index to the 1920
I know that
Harcourt, Rt. Hon. Sir W. V and a whirring roundabout churn- to speak or to write and to have What place will Wilson take in the for these stories.
.lost,
We are all Socialists now" ing out its melody from an over- cething ancocede ke success, such efforts made public. Either history of his age? The question is you have nothing to do with thera And seems to do in drowsiness half
profitless one as yet. All that can but you have feelings and I have
by the late Mr. Hubert Bland, is cse who direct the destinies of the such are seeking future haunts of be raid had been said by one of his feelings, even though I am The grasshopper's among some 209 and on page, 209, in an essay worked mechanical organ,
this sentence: Kowloon Residente, Association a mere of notoriety as a pay rent admirers and most fervent President My daughter has no supporters: Woodrow Wilson has brother to defend her, but she has. Here every reason to feel proud of ment" for their services, or a sop boen in austero First Citizen, but me, and I want to say to you that thair efforts since the time when, to their vanity. Perhaps they are no more sustere then Washington. If these storias ever appear again. in the face of a "diplomatic" making a good thing out of it." He has been an obstinate exccu- I will leave the White House and
SHADOWS BEFORE. stopt directed at the formation We do not pretend to understand ive, but no more obstinate than thrash the man who dares to, utter of the Association, and with the the mentality of those who arrive Lincoln. Like them, he has been them."
Coming Events Advertised knowledge that matters in connec-at these unwise, imkind, and there
In The Mail. In a Hongkong tion with the peninsula were either fare.cruel suggcutions, and whilst it
school recently the class was boing fully signed or indiffer- is not given us to search the heate
ENTERTAINMENTS. Instructed to isolated, the Apociation of and thus the motives of those who weakesta came into being. It sardo gratuitous service that is aimed
supply the names of three modern
February 4-Coronet Theatre; subsequent edition. No doubt t poets authors and dramatists: vived the year of red-bot enthusiasm at benefitting the commmity, criti
One student mentioned authors "Thorns and Orange Blossoms" reference to Mr. A. G.. Gardiner's to-mobet organisations cisin of the nature we have indicated
and poets of questionable: modern- Febroa 4 Star Theatre recently published "Life" would
4 Standard Homedy The 14th Man."
afford confirmation. Certainly which commence, new venture, and cannot be too strongly deprecated
Some intimate ity, but the dramatists, thanks
twenty years ago no one was eron "Chamberlain » Cough Remedy len February. 4-World Theatre settled down to what after all in the and condemned. What is nooded
WILSON'S glimpses into the to the educative. Influence of
TWO: hucodram. That it has achieved a in the gncouragement of increased
character of the great the cinema presented no difficulty, Playlog with fire. mentioned in connection with this standard family medialny Promps, Pick February 13,-Planoforte quotation axsept Sir William Harrollable and effective for cong ba, cilat eroup, bronchial coughs, coughs reiting NATURES · American statesman Norma Talmadge Ma
From whosolog con chimervon hickipe measure of muccess, has become membership in the KRA., and the
aplin the Recital at City Hall, 5.30 p.m. court.
tickling throne broublesons. SOCIA weeful force for civic progress and voice of commendation which who just passed, ford, and Charles
wrote. The Charles “ wiƊTOJ away were given in Wod
cough and the euronin ecstabs of elde wighteousness, history shows and ibe
sloga note aleras901795 KETIKm Know Him by: Mary sumably, a concession
people: “: Formula averywhers:48. 143 Amenities wiltli świth tha:-know- sendemical-pedanta
Future still talk Edeserves a légler (coed to the
reviled: Like them, he has been barged with treason in office. Like them, he has been a supremely longly ran. But if we would know whether history regards there like- nesses as superficial or fundamental, we must ask our children's children.
THE MODERN
WAY.
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Brassy billa.
KATS
1.
Thirteen fresh cases of small-
Why, for instance, does that extremely well oiled and accurate Jy noted political weathercock, Sir William Harcourt, pointing to the pox were notified during the week- dawn, crow out that we are all socialists now**
end.
If this quotation was wrongly The Bags outside American attributed to Sir William Harcourt offices and on American ships it is reasonable to suppose, seeing were, half-masted to-day out of that the book was first published respect to the memory of CX- 34 years ago, that the statement President Wilson whose death would have been corrected in 8angounced in the cables to day.
February* Coneart?. ESTE Andrew's Hall, Kowloon, 9p.m.
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