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SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1925.

ARE SCOTSMEN REALLY MEAN?

(By Sir Harry Lauder.)

TOURISTS ARRIVE.

SIGHT-SEEING IN THE COLONY AND CANTON.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MEDICAL VISITORS,

ENTERTAINED BY CANTON CONFRERES,

The "Belgonland" with 100-KUNG YEE MEDICAL SCHOOL, excursionists arrived in harbour shortly after 7 o'clock this morn- The giant liter is anchored

A party of over eighty foreign

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TO-DAY'S WEDDINGS.

CEREMONIES IN HONGKONG|

AND KOWLOON.

There are to be two local wed- dings this afternoon-one at St. John's Cathedral and the other at the Rosary Church, Kowloon.

At three o'clock the marriage is due to tako place of Mr. W. R. Hillyer, Boarding Offleer, Har- bour Office and of Miss Violet B. Taylor, daughter of Mr. G. F. Taylor, light, keeper of Green

There is nothing a Scot won't mun! with malt an' things! Scots try once. I'm a grand-man at wha Haig, that's the tune, ye ken. 'entertaining'ye kéen, and I enn Bub 191 tell ye why we leave Scot-

and Chinese delegates to the joint say anything wi' music, but I fear land. We have a passion for lawfing.

conference of the China Medical me to wrhe wl à Scotch accent. Frink order an' good government, to Admiralty buoy No. 1.

Missionary Association and, the I'm fearful I may do some dam- an' it fair breaks a Scot's heart to Immediately after arrival, the British Medical Association left age when I take up the pen. They see how the world goes muddlin' tourists were divided into groups, Hongkong on Wednesday for an way it is michtier than the sword: through wi'oot a bit of kindly

excursion to Canton and a visit to I know that whiles it makes a advice from a man who kens the some proceeding to the Peak and the medical establishments in that «mess that's hiipder to clean up. bash way. And ye sed in every Repulse Bay and others to the commercial capital and most inter-

civilised country that, the Scot New Territories. About seventy eating city of South China, Lishmen, and the women, too, are visitors travelled to Canton on Thursday morning they were met

On their arrival at Canton on Island. age the best respectit, and the leading citizens in business, in the .s." "Honam," and about by representatives of the local polities and in Arts. We canna double this number will proceed modical bodies and were directly do all that anbe in Scotland too. I there to-night by the "Lungshan" conducted through the fascinating It's ower small to hold all the and "Bai On," specially chartered maze of Canton streets to the elty in sedan chairs through the men and women what the world is by the American Express Com Hackett Medical College for needing. And that's the real reason that

Women, where they were shown we have never pany for the purpose;"

around the college as well as the rlamored and havered over Home The "Belgenland" will leave for Turner Training School for Nurses Rule. We had it, because we

Manila on Monday.

and the David Gregg Hospital were ruling the country that

for Women and Children. thocht it was ruling us, »

You must understand that bit of a newspaper aktie that had his livin' to learn, same's us all con to se me to ask me one question, “Are Betsmen mean?" he says, and stood by to rum,

"Mean? And then tell him something. Ay Laddie, it's all meah' The Scots They all mean 'to Tie a success. They all mean to geflost has tip-top of the tree, My. „he looked a fool, did thut laddie. "But the question set me thinking.

i just tell you something.

Scotsmen are not mean. That's hist a crack the English bodies

ye?" For yell ken I thoght. I had him. "Oh! aye," he said, smart as smart. Then ye'll no be needin' the bit I was meahin far to gie ye." I tell him, so I had him after all,

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They say I'm a menn mun. you were in the valley of the take at them. Once there was an You'd never believe what I give Dec." "Why, how do you know?" Englishman crossed the border to away. No, one would. "There dobuminess with a Sect. He was a steward in New Zealand 1 ||'I asked. "You were shooting gave the Scot a drink. He kept had a grand joke with. He car over Raid's farm,"-he saidy "I on yin' him drinks, the Glasgowried my baggage from the ship was there two days afterwards." man spendin' her a shillin'. "Here's your bags, sir," he said.

My curiosity was roused, and I The Englishman thought it was “Ay," I said, "have'ye got the nanness. It was business. The change of a pound note aboot wanted to know what auld Mrs But roadn tác BH to the

Reid had said about me. My liquir, an' the business, and have

friend said, "Well, it's a great to worry about losin' his money

joke." She welcomed me in, and freatin" hack. That was sense;

when I told her I was a friend of but the other man couldna see it.

yours, she ushered me into the Alaybe the virtue becomes a de-

old dining-room, and pulling out a chair from the table, she said, fect once in a great while, but man, it's a grand philosophy,

"sit down, sit ye doon, that's the chair the great Harry Lauder was sitting on. My What a comic yon man ist Dear me, I'll never forget him. He sat on that phair for twa hours crackin' jokes,

wee songs. tellin' stories, an' singing, bonny

It took me frae launchin'

It a bad habit to get into, giving money away. You lend to a friend, but you collect from an

body a good turn it's different; enemy, Mind, if it's to do some but ng good turn deserves ar- other The meanest "man 1 ever heard of was the fellow in the United States, who sent his mother a telegram on his own birthday, congratulatin her on her "good luck. And sent it

"'collect."

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I'll tell ye about an auld Scut I met one. I'd been appearing in the town the nicht before, and I met him on the street,

"Man. I'm fair delighted the see ye," he said. à broad grin on his face. Naturally I thocht he'd been to the show. "How did ye enjoy the entertainment lars, night!"

Ye'll have heard that one aboot ma boots havin' to be cleaned by my door, whiles I had the laces. That was an exaggeration. I was no holding the laces. It was my manager. I could trust him.

When I was playing golf in go round with me. "How did you New Zealand; a caddy came up to come to be let go wi' me," I asked the laddie, "Well, Sir," he said, "And ye won," said I amused at we tossed up who should "go." the competition the lads had had. "No, sir," he replied. "I lost." And just for that I gave him five for the other laddies reckoned he shillings. He was quite a hero, must have saved ma life.

I don't mind the stories they tell about me.

It is business asset. money from me."

Nobody tries to borrow

Another lie they tell about the

From there, the delegates were taken to the Canton Hospital which has the reputation of being the oldest hospital in China. The as a relic of its noble past and it hospital is now maintained mostly gave the visitors a good idea of how those old physicians had to work in those early days of the Introduction of western medicine into China.

Moyle is to perform the ceremony The Rev. R. H. Copley

at the Cathedral.

The Rev. Father Spada is to officiate at the wedding. of Mr Marcello F Houghton and Miss Marie Rosario, due to take place at 4 o'clock at the Rosary Church.

and V. Langenberg are to be the The 'Misses E. and J. Rosario

bridesmaids. Mr. L. G. Rosario, the bride's brother, gives the bride away, and Mr. J. Barros and Mr. B. Cordeiro are to be best man and groomsman, respectively.

A reception is to be held at 11 Hart Avenue, Kowloon, after which the bride and bridegroom will leave for their honeymoon at Macao.

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BOXING..

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At noon the delegates were received by the authorities of the School and entertained at lunch. Kung Yee University Medica) After lunch Dr. Lee Shu-fan, President of the institution, gave TONIGHTS TOURNAMENT, the history and 2 most interesting talk on

development of the Kung Yee.

phenomenal Medical School which was started about fifteen years ago in a very unpretentious manner by a body of public minded Chipase. The school now occupies a valuable site in the city with a large campus

Oh, what a comic embracing a group of fine build- richt oot at him." hospitals, laboratories and staff all, ma time to keepings including medical school,

quarters. The school now stands out' as the leading and most promising medical institution in Canton. The valuation of the entire plant is quoted at over a penditure of the school and hos million dollars The yearly ex-

pitals, for the past year was over $100,000 but the hospitals have not been only self-supporting but have been able to turn over a substantial balance to the school each year,

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The Kang Yee School aims at providing high grade medical

THE BELT CONTEST,

Two clever welterweights meet in the star bout of the Hongkong Boxing Association's Tournament to-night at the Theatre Koyna.

These are Marine Betts, of H.M.S. "Hawkins," and Pte Pooley, of

the East Surreys. In previous con tests over six fonds-two in muber

the Marins gained the verdict on points. The general impression is that over the championship course-- fifteen rounds-Pooley will show to better

Betts and Rooley are fighting for advantage than before.

the Scott Harston Belt in addition to the welterweight championship of the Colony, a

The outstanding contest of the remaining six-a ten round'affair is likely to be that between Sig. Rogers, of H.M.S. Tatar,

I Scot, is that he has no sense of ching an' a twa-shillin' ticket for education in South China using the Cpl Mujor, of the Sufroys.

asked. "Oh." NAVA he, I

didna

Nee't

"O'im fond o' pleking up curios we ken, and once I was giving a show in an English town, window. The man inside asked came across a curio in a shop

me half a croon. "It was too much but I wanted it bad, but not bad enough to pay all that good siller. "I'll tell ye what." I said at last. "I'm Harry Lauder, and I'm givin' an entertainment tonicht.į I'll give ye sixpence for the bit humour. Don't you believe that. the entertainment." That got Ye didna He can see

him. joke quicker than see?" I said thunderstruck, and anybody but it has to be an awful woman asked a friend whether There was another time A I asked him what excuse he had good joke smart and clean. But she was going to the show where to offer. "Oh." he says, "my he doesn't often laugh, even when wife was there, an' my doctor an' it's real funny,

Harry Lauder was, "What Pay my twa sana. They tell me all story to iilustrate that. Once a

tall that?" she says, "when I heard "about it the morn's mornin', and long time ago now I was shooting him years ago for tuppence, an of course, it'll le mair interestin' wi' a friend or two over a farm that, forbye, when he was at his nd reading the papers about ye." on the bank o' the Dee in Aberden-

best." "Man," I said, "ye saved the shire, on the road to Balmoral. siller, but oh, the pleasure ye We adjourned to the farm to

Giving people money fosters farm-mither of the hoose had in have something to eat. The auld laziness and creates irresponsivited a few people to come in bles. Scotmen as a rule are and meet Hurry. hard workers. We as a nation quite a tea party "O' course I are faced by the stern necessity had to entertain them a', crackin' of producing, and, we think every jokes, and singin' wee snatches o' other body should be the same. songs. Everybody, I could see, Because we hold and fly the ban enjoyed the whole thing but the ner of work, the world says we're auld mither. She couldna seem mean, when ye're only philoso- to raise any enthusiasm at all. phical. If we're generous, what a, She was staid and solemn; an' lot o' trouble ye lay up for your watched me like a hawk aut o' her self having to say "no" a dozen little black eyes. I left wi' the times a day.

Some folk wonder why the Some time afterwards I was

impression. I badna made a hit. Scots leaves Scotland. It's not looking into a shop window on because she's an inhospitable Broadway, in New York, when country that refuses a living to some one tapped me her sons. She grows the best shoulder. Looking round, I re- on the heef in the world-and the best cognized an old friend, a commer- barley, Barley has made Scot- cial traveller. land what it was. Alone, it may not seem so muckle a thing; but

Jost, **

There was

said," when only six weeks ago "Fancy seeing you here," he

Ye never heard how the King and me was on the best of terms. though I like fire spinnin' these tell ye, and then I must stop,

London, named George Aston, yarns, There was a gentleman

who arranged all the command performances for the King

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One nicht, the King and Queen and the Duke of Camridge were at my show at the Palace. stopped to speak to George Aston, when the King and Queen turned good night George," says I to the corner of the corridor. "Well Aston, and the King heard. In a second he was bowing to me, and "Good night Harry," says he. It was the only time an actor called -the King George and got away

with it.

I want to say that though I'm a democratic man, the Royal family are juist the sweetest family in

tellin' ye mind. the world, simple, ordinary people that you've just got to like. I'm

and

women for the practice of western

appearances,

Cantonese dialect as the medium

Altogether the programme ip of instruction and having að nhe of efficient medical men of its primary object the training these being Boy Bowles, of Surreys

cludes soven new

medicine in Canton and other Stoker Dore of the Submarines

tantam), Leading Stoker Piper and i parts of China. The fees charged (welter and light respectively), pee low, being only $130 a year for A. B. Jackson of H.M.S. student spends, the Kung Yee of the Surreys (weller). Pte. Grant, Tuition, but for every dollar the "Hawkins" (middle), Pte. Mann,

spends four. The commendable the Surreys (light), and Marine feature of this Chinese medical Townsend, of H.M.S. "Titania' school is that in its endeavour to (bantam). medical education available, it has provide its students with the beat

known teachers in Canton irrespec.. enlisted the services of the best

tive of nationality, and being a non-sectarian institution, it main tains absolute freedom of religions beliefs.

Boxing commences at 9.30 p.m. sharp.

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Dr. Grosvenor, Vice-President of the China Medical Missionary Association, briefly' replied; thank- Dr. Lim Boon-keng, Presidenting the Kung Yee on behalf of of the Amos University, who was the members of his association. among the delegates present, made. After lunch, the visitors were

the significant remark that if and medical school buildings with a short address thanking Dr. Lee conducted through the :attric for his kind hospitality. He made Western medicine were to make in the Kung Yee campus. In th

group of new hospital

any headway in this country and afternoon the delegates were taken leave its beneficial impressions on to the Canton Christian College, the people, it must be taught in fn where a tes party was given, after stitutions like the Kung Yee, which which the party returned to Kung le conducted by the Chinese, and Yee, where they were entertained where the medium of instruction at dinner by the President. Dr used is the Chinese language. He Lee, and accommodated in the expressed the hope

School dormitory for the night. institution would be able to play a leading part in the future of Western medicine in China.

that the

seeing and shopping in Canton.

Friday was devoted to sight-

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