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Hongkong. Friday, May 8, 1925,

FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

MAY18.

observance of antiqui The most remarkable

ty remaining in Corn-

In only one SHAKESPEARE. place in Eng- land is the pro-

name was something more than a manufacturer of that, the value of which, according to an old school. essay, "depends upon its power of producing a lather." To come in contact with the man was to come in contact with a natural driving force; a clear mind; an honest man; a' man full' of vigour and of compelling force, wall is the "Furry festival" which duction of Shakespeare's works If he did call the Crown Colonies has been celetrated from time seriously attempted and made to of the Empire a collection of tin immemorial on the 8th of May, At pay. Scarcely If ever, do we have hats-that but illustrates a turn Helston the day used to be ushered productions in Hongkong. We of mind that could think and in very early in the morning by the have had them of course but at speak independently. He was a music of drums and kettles, and rare intervals, On the continent pioneer in what is now known as other pleasant sounds, and the of Europe Shakespeare's plays Garden Cities. Port Sunlight on accorapaniments of song. It was are thoroughly enjoyed. Only re- the Mersey is not a collection of a general holiday, so strict, lndeed, cently a week of William tin huts. It almost illustrates used the observance of this Jubileo | Shakespeare

was enjoyed in the old conception of content-to be held that if any person Vienna. Max Reinhardt Introduced ment of three acres and a chanced to be found at work, be "King Lear" at his theatre in der cow. The place is dotted with he was instantly seized, set Josefadt and followed it by “A bungalows with strips of gardens; astride on a pole, and hurri- Midsummer Night's Dream." The there is an art gallery with ed .on. men's shoulders to latter comedy also was played at pictures in it worth looking at; the river, where he was sentenced the State Burgtheatre which had there are Churches, open-air to leap over a wide space, which if before produced "Julius Cæsar" swimming pools, cricket pitches, he failed in attempting he of and afterward brought out "Ham fawn-tennis courts, bowling greens course fell into the water. There lot. "Macbeth" was also given and all those things that aid was always, however, a ready at this theatre. The sustained contentment. It is as an apostle compromise of compounding for a popularity of these plays is a faith- of contentment that his name revellers appeared before the undimmed art of Shakespeare's About nine o'clock the ful commentary in itself of the leap. stands out. Make a man con grammar-school, and demanded a work, and it is further tribute tented and he worked better. holiday for the school-boys, after to the quality of the productions Simple but true. And those which they collected money from and to the culture of the Vienna expeditions to the continent of house to house. They then used audiences. hundreds of workmen, their wives to fade into the country (fade and children, were but one of the being an old English word for many things-to say nothing of to go), and about the middle profit-sharing, and suggestion-of the day returned with flowers paying schemes that make the and oak-branches in their hats and people of Port Sunlight one huge caps, and spent the rest of the day family. Lever did not hourd his [until dusk in dancing through the He was a patron of the streets to the sound of the fiddle, Friches.

arts, not a bourgeois patroniser playing a particular tune; and He could cut a portrait of himself threated the houses as they chose by the august. Augustus John,claiming a right to go through because it did not please him; but any person's house, in at one door he could and did, buy ancient and out of the other. In the after houses. and turk them into noon the ladies and gentlemen galleries of art. It was, he who visited some farmhouse in the a census of homeless persons, persons of whom it can truthfully led the movement that resulted in neighbourhood; whence, after re- and literally be stated that in a the payment of members of galing themselves with syllabus, whole city full, home they have Parliament of £400 a year; and his the vulgar, to the towo, dincing census, taken on the night of they returned. after the fashion of none. The Agures for the last speech in introducing the subject"

as briskly the fade-dance, and en- February 20, ara rather "remark h the House of Commons is one tering the houses as unceremonious able .Only five, parsons of the most interesting utterances ly. la later times a select party wonen) were.

fail of modern times. Lever has left only made theft progress through under arches or on stair-cases. In found sheltering

There is no official HOMELESS. census of Hong- kong's homeless and sleep in odd corners on the... ones-those derelicts that haunt

Queen's Road, and the alley-ways waterfront. Des Voeux Road. thereof. There was an estimated figure but such a one can only be problematical In London they do things differently, Once a year the London County Council takes

ciple that all ought to contribute an example, hard to follow. He the streets very late in the evening. to the support of the Government will be missed, not merely in and having quickly vanished from part this may be due to the dole, as nearly as possible in propor-places he loved but in those room. Here meeting their friends. troubles and our crushing load of. Lancashire and Cheshire which the scene, reappeared in the ball-but it is possible to believe that, notwithstanding all our labour tion to their respective abit-places where men prize honest they went through the usual routine war debt, people are on the whole Unfortunately it is too endeavour; fearlessness and by of dancing till supper; after which better off, or, at least, that the ! sum often forgotten that the indi-their actions in a troubious world they all fadded it out of the room, of national means is a little more vidual is part and parcel of that leave it infinitely better than they breaking off by degrees to theit widely and equitably distributed.,

found it.

ties.

Government whose taxes are

eternally grumbled at, whilst there is invariably a suspicion Bankruptcy. that one is being taxed out of all

China is like a Limited Com-

proportion to one's ability to pay: pany-it has no soul to kick. As regards certainty in relation Seemingly at any rate. It has a

As

is ⚫one

of

respective houses. At present this custom is fast falling into disuse, and the day is only celebrated by a few of the lower classes.

ANOTHER

INSULT.

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Colonel John well THE COLONEL Ward

knowo in a Beeting res Hongkong made While waiting fo

appearance in the House of cash a cheque in a Commoas the other day. Members suburban bank in were not aware of his presence. Australia the other art wall-kanwn race from the

to time, a manner, and amount of kuul to save-else why those high payment, the authorities bring fututin' ideas regarding the spend day a girl came in and,dig a back beaches caused them to turn home that degree

ing of the Boxer indemnity? We five pound note to the clerk and see the familiar. figure. Joha cer desire to save China's soul by behind the counter, asked for a Ward, who is one of the outstand tainty with a ruthless hand. ameliorative and uplift methods. fiver's worth of Scotch mixture. ing personalities in Parliament,

Without a please."

word the has had ill-luck tately. truly..

begins That was, shall we say yester clerk handed over five parcels of the past two or three years he has Daring to earn the greatest cer-day-or the day before. To-day.

sufired a good deal fron bid or yesterday, we are told China three-penny bits and spences: tainty on earth is the due appear- has no soul to save,

bealth, and has been 'out Not in so

of ance of a tax paper. Every tax many words of course. China

For ways that, active political life since Tast should be levied at the time at and owes money to British investors A CHINESE are dirk he is summer. What they think of bim in the manner in which it is most but regrets it has no funds in - QUESTION. still peculiar.in the Potteries may be judged from

hand to meet these obligations. It

Hing Tiy was, the fact that though he offered to likely to be convenient, to pay sounds very much like the position with others, entitled to con resign his seat at the last election, But if this canon were strictly between the. Hongkong Govern-pensation ол the resumphis constituents of Stoke would acted upon, how many would find ment and the authorities at tion of certain land. During not agree, and returned him with ཞཱ hiedsome majority. The it convenient to pay and look plea-Canton regarding "outstandings" lengthy negotiations he went to

China and was "reported dead Colonel addressed a meeting in on the Kowloon-Canton railway, sant, being as they are so far re- The British Government has been After further long delay his Hongkong on the Labour Party moved from the days and from thivvied by a great newspaper for death was proved, and letters of which attracted a big audience of In ancient Athens it was con- the spirit of the ancient cutdoing the celestial in the administration granted to the mea, and there were questions and proper person by the Supreme answers galore-including at least sidered an honour to pay taxes Athenians? On the subject matter of making up ils mind Court of Hongkong. Some months one by the ex-Chief Justice Siz and a family disgrace if they were of economy, few will find fault regarding the disposal of the later the proposed administrator Wm. Rees Davies, who is also an Boxer indernity, America has called at the office of the sellel-ex-member of Parliament. It wis So we were reminded with the excellent axiom that already done this, that and the tor for the claimants, accompanied hoped to have another meeting. by Professor Smith in his lecture every tax ought to be so contrived other. Probably. Probably also by the deceased, who produced but the Colonel fell that military last evening on the "Psychology as both to take out and to keep the Chinese Government does not from an inside pocket the precious regulations must be observed, and of Taxation." Thrice happy out of the pockets of the people as owe eight per cent, loans to document appointing his legal he observed them. Athenians, who lived before the little as possible over and above American cousins "would sure tell whether he should contacts dead American investors. If it did our representative. The point was days of H.C.L, and could there- what it brings into the public fore view with equanimity; perhaps, a few extra donations toward the national exchequer.

"PAY WITH PLEASURE.

Overdue.

邻

treasury.

Unhappily the effects of the war and the still all prevailing .H.C.L. are not calculated to make

They will

·SCANDALS.":

When next ย the world.” We are convinced or sign himself the release required

TELLING JADE.piece of Jide is China has a soul to save... We are by the Crown Solicitor. The

being purchased. also convinced China's soul needs lawyer thought he had belter be In Queen's Road, the following kicking.

resurrected for the purposes of should be remembered. Peal that case, without prejudice to his Jade is clear when looking at it rights as a corpse in the other towards light. It must not have jurisdiction. Circumstances, for air bubbles. The value depends bade inquiry as to why and by upon the colour. Bright green what means the distant Court had jade is more valuable than the been invoked, or how the next of faint colour, pieces. All Immita- kin fared, but the affidavit Aled iation Jides generally have air Hongkong would be interesting. bubbles when looked at towards the light. Real Jade gives a cold The Book of the feeling to the tongue, while immi- A BOOK. Moment (slightly ad-tation Jade is rather warm when apted): Diana of the tested this way. This is almost in Cross-words,

the language of a Queen's Roid Mary, Mary, quite contrary, export. How does your garden grow? With lots and lots of cross-word

plots, And Diction'ries all in a row't'

LEE WHITE COMPANY'S SUCCESS.

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To-day the code of "Pay with Pleasure", is unknown. Taxes of the present generation either are considered more than a heroes or martyrs, nuisance: they are denounced as continue to grouse and grumble at a curse, and an exaction. Nor is the tax-gatherera, evade payment there joy in paying income tax, as long as possible, and take more even though the earning power pleasure in non-paying than pay- is sufficiently high to come withining Which shows how sadly our

Not the Hongkong variety, but the category of income tax payers. education has been neglected, that peculiar to good revue, was According to Professor Smith according to Professor Smith. night to the great content of a served at the Theatre Royal last this is all wrong, but it is refresh-Once the A B C of the psychology big audience.

Gus McNaughton ing to find that individually we of taxation is better known and it was that died": Mae Baird and burlesqued a bull fight-"the bull are not to blame; that is the fault the community at large takes a Archie Thompson again danced of our social selves not being genuine pride in being part and and there were admirable items educated up to the correct parcel of a great and powerful from the other members of the standard, because our system of Government, it may be that the Company including of course education is wrong.

Lee White, Clay Smith and "The The more receipt of the blue tax paper will Peaches." To-night "Back again” fact that we have grown up to create more cheerfulness than is the offering-and a very good look upon the Government aean grumbling and that the words one too!- institution to provide everything arrears" and "defaulters" will and to be eternally grumbled at- be erased from the records of the mild phrase is evidence of our tax office, ungrateful instincts.

Not all are blessed to-day with the spirit of the ancient Athenians, nor are all conversant with the four canons of "taxation laid down by Adam Smith, who might have been quoted by Pro fessor Smith of Hongkong last night, these canons being equality, certainty cove

conveniency, and economy

There may be in theory agreement with the prin

"Sunlight,"

THE BEST BOOK

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A pin has CURIOUS, ISN'T IT? a head, but has no hair, A clock has a face, but no mouth People are still there; busy compling lists Needles have eyes, but they of best books. A cannot see; book that is badly. A fy has a trunk without lock or needed is one which tells the koy: beginner how to road a balance-A timepiece may lose, but cannot sheet, what overhoad expenses are Win: what proportion labour charges are A cornfield dimples without a of the cost of production in various chin;*** A Chinese woman living industries, what the cost of A bill has uo log, but has a foot"; No. 41, Hollywood Road, first floor, distribution is, and so on. It is A wine-glass a stem, but not a has reported to the police that early astonishing how few people; ..root; yesterday morning some person except employers and directors, A watch has hands, but no thumb entered through a verandah door know these things, or the import or finger;

It was not so much that he made soap, but that he made good soap, that should commend the

understanding of modern indra Rivom rua though they have-no memory of Lord Leverhulme. If At Queen's Road Central, yes trial affairs. Yet it is difficult to feet; cleanliness is next to righteous-terday, a motor lorry belonging to put one hand on a book at any has teath, but it does not ness or godliness, old man Lever the Public Works Department rate, a little book--which explatok: ji pati must be held to have had some knocked down an old Chlaess these matters, simply nod" in Ash teens have koya, yet never a thing to do with the practical woman, who was taken to the telligibly. Hore is opportarsity lock application of this truism But Government Civil Hospital with for some one to do a great piece And baby crows wi Lever (that was his maiden” several injuries:

of service.

which was open and stole moderance of those things, but they are A boot has a tongue, but is no. and jewellery amounting to $264.

essential to the beginnings of an die singer: