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MONDAY, MAY 25, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Phranology la at a came to an end before women

menta in auch places as Australia NECKOLOGY. discount, physiology were emancipated. Can any and Canada, where unemployed, of

is on short time, and woman become an 'esquire ? If so, reasonable intelligence and accom-psychology is tired. The newest how? And can any woman hold plishments could be accom- modated. It is a fact that a large neckology, and a

test of character and force is certain offices without becoming well-known one? And how on this earth could

class of "Australia's immigrant society journal has just illustrated she ever fulfil the ancient duties population come from Greece and the characteristics of successful of an esquire ? There is an old Italy. In augar producing dis-men by the backs of their heads, saying that Parliament can do tricts the wanderer from southern The bull neck appears to have so anything except make a woman. Europe is probably better fitted, great promise that men interview-into a man, than his northern neighbour, to ed for responsible posts may work in torrid zones; but shortly be asked to turn their Australia has other "open spaces" backs on their prospective employ- OPINION WANTED. sounds awaiting development. besides ers, and a new meaning will attach sugar producing regious to which to "putting your back into it." the English settler would soon acclimatise himself. And a trans- ference from slum or thickly. populated areas would mean fresh life and opportunity. If a great war necessitated conscription, a great social disease should need the same treatment,

Earl Ypres.

I used to be THE SOCIAL FAILURE. a great

success, To parties I was asked a lot, But nowadays to my distress.

I'm not.

My mantelpiece with cards was

gay,

In fact the thing was overdone, But what a different tale to-day-

Not one!

It's not that I've become a dunce

At bridge; I know it's not, be- I'm ten times better now than

cause

once

A mere matter of coincidence perhaps, but it has to be noted that the late Lord French took his title from a noted spot in France. But whenever his life comes to be written-if at all-his biographer will doubtless lay emphasis on the days of the last Boer War when a dashing Cavalry Officer helped to It's not, as far as I can see,

My politics: I don't obtrude turn the tide of victory and to My views at parties that would

raise hope from despair. Those

werd gloomy days. General Buller

it is said, would not take control

be

I was!

•So rude.

Daunty step"

with- out, the door swings open, and 1 тад entera. The tune he has been whistling dies on his lips, the colour ebbs from his face. His eyes, wide as the woman's, are riveted on the same spectacle. Then, auddenly, a sharp voice breaks the deathly stillness.

"Don't stand there like a moon-

struck calf; George; come here and tell me what you think of my shingle!"

repetition.

Not long since, The THE RIFT. Times of London

rait.

leading Taxes." editorial headed. "On Paying In it the official form, "Your obedient servant," was discussed, a fact which recalled to a correspondent of the paper' a' story which more than bears It appears that a former Bishop of St. Asaph, Dr. Joshua Hughes, and. an old college friend, the Rev. James Jones, who was vicar of Llawr-y-Bettws, at one time kept up a pleasant correspondence of a quite intimate rature, the vicar being addressed as "My dear Jones." At last, however, a re- monstrance from the lat'er against an episcopal appointment, which the bishop regarded as an undue liberty brought the happy relationship to an end. The

therefore,

began next letter to the vicar with the phrase. "My dear Sir," and all closed it, "Your obedient servant,

unless he could have French with My personal appearance? No, him, and as has been said the bril-

I can't have changed so much as liant cavalry tactics of those days

that,- continued when Lord Roberts (Though I've a tendency to grow was Commander-in-Chief-played

Too fat.).

J

a peculiar part in a peculiar I've paid my bridge debta on the and little understood method of nail, warfare. Of the late Field-Mar- Yes, sometimes quite a tidy shal's participation in the great

Jum

war, the title which was bestowed Why is it invitations fail upon him probably speaks for

To come?

itself. It is perhaps too early to It can't be yes, of course-bishop, judge clearly and find true

say!

appraisement of all the men who I might have known that

participated in the conflict that,

along,

Mah Jong!

literally has turned the world It's all because I cannot play upside down. "Since, the Armistice there has been a stream of diaries, recollections, and impressions, of

A reporter at Willes-

with special classes of business. combatants, generals and minis- A LADY. den has rescued a real gem of cross-examin- struggle, of a bewildering nature

you call her

a

Among these was Lloyd's, Coffeeters of state connected with the tion. "Do The China MailHouse. This was first heard of in which reputations have been rude woman?" "No, I call her a

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Hongkong, Monday, May 25, 1925.

Lloyd's News, first published in 1698, which only ran for six months, showed that it was for shipping

men that the coffee house specially catered. Here it was that insurance as a business

its cradle and nursery.

nation.

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to

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That is all that

his

J. St. Asaph." The offended vicar thereupon replied in similar terms, and not to be outdone ended his epistle. "Your obedient servant, J. Llawr-y-Bettws."

THE ORIGINAL CRUSOE.

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One

made

It is pleasant to THE ALL IN learn on the autho- in 1688. It was then in Tower torn to shreds. Whatever may be vulgar lady."

APPLIANCE.. rity of the Ameri-.

can hairpin king Street, and four years afterwards said of the Earl of Ypres work, comes to us of the case, but the that the bobbing of hair has made. moved to Lombard Street. It was his brilliance in the South African in the reply. Who and what is a suspects that no fashion in hair-

fascination is in the differentiation no difference to his trade. specially patronized by shipping Campaign earns for his name the lady? There-is-no-technical and dressing would ever exclude bent men, and a little sheet called grateful recollection of a great there is no legal definition of a pins, for the mere male gazes in lady. It is perhaps a bit startling wonder at the multifarious uses to find that there is no official to which his womenkind devote document in which the title of the hairpin. In, the hands of a lady" has any recognition. The woman it will do anything from wife of a knight or a baronet is mending a sewing machine to officially "Dame" So-and-So. The picking

a lock. Perhaps the wife of & peer is baroness, greatest triumph was that of the viscountess, от countess, The opening of the Wing Cheong the case may be. Who is a writer refused its office, With. distinct and separate by itself had long China Product Company Indy?

as wife of a jouranlist whose type-

There is not even an perfect confidence he called in his Of the Limited was celebrated at 2 pm equivalent of the utterly incorrect wife; there was a dive for a hair- first proprietor of Lloyd's Coffee Saturday, at their office, 13 legal dictum that a gentleman is a pin, and the errant part was re-

Pedder Street, Pedder Building man who owns a gig. House very little is known. He

The Company is registered Bu

And gigs placed at least temporarily. perhaps would be the first to be Limited Compaey, under the Hong amazed to find his name more kong Companies Ordinance, with often on the lips of commercial] Capital of $1,000,000, and will men than any other; and to be the carry on the business of exporters, importers, and ivy contractors, founder of a great institution being favoured with the Royal which has been so successfully Warrant "By appointment nurtured by those who have fol-H. M. the King" which was most lowed him. Lloyd's to-day con-Empire Exhibition in 1924.

graciously bestowed at the British When, Robinson Crusoe" was a moment of serious danger. · In 1709. sists of 1,096 underwriting mem-

new book, they said that every old ships of another expedition Of LLOYDS. AL

Speeches were made by the Hon. woman bought it, and left it as bers, 94 non-underwriting mem-Mr. R. H. Kotewall, Chinese relegacy with the "Pilgrim's Pro-

Dumpier's came to Juan Fernandez, and Selkirk was taken off by

·bers, 393 subscribers, 82 asso-presentative on the Legislative

Captain Woodes" Rogers, That H.M. the King should lay ciates, and 1,600 substitutes. man of the Chinese Chamber of

Council. Mr. Li Yau-chuen, Chair-gress,

the "Practice of Piety," male and sailing-master, and pro- "God's Revenge against spered. the foundation stone of Lloyd's There are 1,400 agents and sub-Commerce. Mr. Ip Lan-chuen, Murthen, remarks a Home paper. Togers and Captain Edward Cooke In 1712 Captain Woodes new premises, is not a little agents all over the world, those, Secretary of the Chinese Chamber Two hundred years after it is still cach published a book describing significant. The King comment at the most important places compradore of the Mercantile Bank is supposed to know, and introduced to Steele, who made of Commerce, Mr. Ho Sai-i, one of the books which everybody. Selkirk's adventures. Selkirk was ed on the traditional honour and being empowered to settle and of India Limited, and Mr. Wong himself is one of the world's heroes, Englishman." integrity of the corporation whose

muny do.

Still Robinson Crusoe some good copy out of him for the pay claims:

The premium in- Tong, representative of the Kwong- history embodied the highest come for last year was upward of tung United Chambers of Com-a man who touches the imagination Defoe was up to the neck in qualities of British commerce. 30,000,000 sterling, of which merce, all of whom wished the of all sorts and conditions of people political journalism of very unclean What is this history to which the 818,000,000 was for marine and to the importance of the Company greater because, as Dickens point not read Steele's paper. In 1718 Company every success and referred The author's achievenient is the sort, but it is incredible that he did King referred? Out of the 400 £12,000,000 for non-marine. being the possessors of the Royaled out, the book is without tender: Captain Woodes. Rogers's book years that insurance has existed Hongkong, largely maritime in its Emblem.

ness, and Crusoe himself has uc went into a second edition. Early in Britain, the first 100

There were also present Mr. particular churms: The magic is in 1719 the first volume years outlook and progress, will share Tau Yee pei, Manager, The Baak in his situation and in the vividRobinson Crusoe was published. knew nothing of Lloyd's or of in- the good wishes so eloquently of China, and Mr. Tae Taan-tai, be realista with which it is described. It is perfectly true, as the modern surance, companies. Policies valced by the King.

sides over 100 guests from the The shipwrecked man on the lone foo of tradition were taken round the City by the

different business honge and Banks, mysterious island here is a Selkirk's adventuren were not as merchants' or the shipowners' Empire Needs.

of the Colony..

subject which stirs the pulses of good as Crusoe's.. Selkirk had no After speeches were made by the everyone who was not for old wreck, no raft, no savages, no man clerks, or by brokers appointed Whatever may be said of the Chairman (Mr. Sia Shui cheong) For two hundred years no one. hus Friday, not even a parrot, only the for the purpose, to the offices of Grown Agents system:it presum and guests, a photograph of the doubted that the industrious, but out-skins. Defoe put into the bankers, merchants, and ably means that the Colony's gathering was taken. Tea was not very original imagination of Robinson Crusoe much that he moneylenders scattered over the money is being spent in Home served by The Hongkong and Defoe was set to work upon the lind learnt from Hakluyt and markets. On the grounds of Shanghai Hotels Limited, and a facts of a true story, and that Pachan and a hundred historians different parts of the City, who sentiment only this is highly most plenaunt opening was brought Alexander Selkirk was the model of the sea. He knew the chronicles carried on insurance business in desirable; and more so at the to a close.

for his Crusoe. Now an ingenious of the pirates, ns his other books addition to their ordinary avoca- present when Britain appears to

writer in Blackwood's Magazine inform us through and through. tion. This tedious method of be the largest sufferer in Europe

proposes to show us that there is Such are, the sources of the effecting aurance lasted for a The distribution of doles con- from the unemployment curse.

no good reason to suppose that episode and the wonderful detail Daniel Defoe overheard off the great book. But, with the hundred years, but during the tinues, but it is receiving well

Alexander Selkick. This is us dates and the proven popularity of latter part of the century the merited castigation at the hands

tressing to all lovers of tradition the Belkire story before us, we cons necessity for speeding up the pro devoid of sickly sentiment, who

Let us examine the facts, Alexander admit no doubt. of the accepted- of hard-headed. economists,

Selkirk served as sailing-master 20 tradition that it was the adventures bos became pressing, and, very deplore what seems a strange

the ship which Captain Stradling of the Scotsailing-master which opportunely, coffee houses came waste of money an endowment

commanded on Dampier' pri- fired Defoes's brain to write. vateering expedition to the South Without Selkirk somebody in the into vogue about that time. They of ease! The Labour Party's

Seas. In 1704 the ship put in at fulness of time might have given were used as meeting aces for

latest proposal has been one to

Juan Fernandez, and Belkirk, who classic of maninhabited island grant $10,000,000 to a National

had quarrelled with his captain, and Blonely mariner wrecked somemployment and Development

asked to be left on the island. He thereon for the theme haree

different classes

were

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graduall

certain of

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requented

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TO-DAY'S SMILE.

ptain would not take him on boszoʼn th””

Belkek boilt

At this moment

of

argues, that

horshould be Defoe and the Bobinson Crusoe

JOR

coidan!

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