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SHREDS AND PATCHES.

WORK. Thank God for the might usually represented. by the

of it,

The ardour, the urge, the delight

of it; Work that springs from the

There is a tendency to think of Americans a place where materialistic aims take first place; where Amerleans pursue but one course the acquisition of as many dollar as it is possible to obtain. That there are Americans with a soul above palf can easily heart's desire, be proved. That there are thoso Setting the brain and the soul on who regard the possession of fire. wealth as connoting obligations Thank God for the swing of it,

"Work! Can also be proved; whilst a For the clamouring, hammering number can be produced, whose ring of it; patriotism-a love of country and Draining the swamps and blast- a high sense of ideals--is beyond Doing whatever the spirit wills.

ing the hilla, reproach and worthy of emulation.Thank God for a world where Take for instance what is known

none may shirk,

work."

as the Pulitzer Awards and agree Thank God for the splendour of at once that within its own limited sphere it is an example which might well be copied. Each year.

Bea.

Now that his

Speaker, the Sergeant-at-arms, the clerks, and other officers, and observance has been discontinued some half dozen miembors,

This

since 1858.

It is customary, especially in the North of England, for the common people to wear in their

are sometimes covered, with gold hats the leaves of the oak, which

leaf. At Looe, as well as in other districts of East Cornwall, the usage of wearing an caken lear by spitting at, or "cobbling," the on the 29th of May was enforced

day, branches of young oak are offender. In Derbyshire, on this

gathered and put up over the doors of many houses; and a small monly worn in the button-hole. sprig of the same tree is com-

On

the following awards are made PRINCE GEORGE. health's once to members of the literary, journalistic and musical pro- He is not slow to join the Fleet,

more complete fessions:

The doctor of, to-day Prizes in Journalism: For the Is quite at home when quite at

For it is very plain that he

DOCTORS. takes no Oaths best editorial article written dur-

entering his profession, ing the year, the test of excel-

but the doctor of Pagan Greece lence being clearance of style,

and Christian "Rome apparently moral purpose, sound reasoning, THE SCAPEGOAT, probably

The climate will did, for such an oath, we are here and

power to influence public

be shown, comes down from Hippo- "blamed for all crates, although it was varied opinion in the right direction, due our minor ills. It is evidently under. Christianity. The point of account being taken of the whole made the scapegoat in India as the this Hippocratic Outh is that volume of the writer's work following proves: during the year: $500.

while it dates from Pagan times, "India, my boy," said an Trish-it was adapted in the Middle Ages For the best example of a man to a friend on his arrival in in order that Christiana might. reporter's work during the year, Calcutta, "is just the finest take it. Here are some the test being strict accuracy. climate under the sun; but a lot most interesting features of the of the terseness, the accomplishment of of young fellows come out here, Oath as translated: some public good commanding and they dhrink and they eat, and public attention and respect; they dhrink, and they die; and by Asclepius, by Health, by Heal- "I swear by Apollo Physician, $1,000.

then they write home to their all, and by all the gods and god- For the best cartoon published friends a pack o' lies, and say it's desses, making them witnessed, in any American newspaper the climate as has killed them." during the year, the determining

that I will carry out, according to qualities being that the cartoon

my ability and judgment, this shall embody an idea made clearly COLD COMFORT. sued a catering gard my teacher in this art as who oath and this indenture: To re- apparent, shall show good drawing

firm for £500 on equal to my parents; to make him. and striking pictorial effect, and the ground that she swallowed a partner in my livelihood, and shall be helpful to some commend-piece of glass in an ice-cream, lost when he able cause of public importance, her case.

in need of money, to A waitress said that share mine with him; to consider due account being taken of the another "piece of glass" given her his whole volume of the artist's news by the nurse was really a bit of brothers; to teach them this art, offspring equal to my paper work during the year. $500. ice, which melted in her hand.

For the American novel publish

She bought an ice,

if they require to learn it, with ed during the year which shall

out fee or indenture; and to im best

part precept, oral instruction, and present the wholesome

all the other learning to my sons, atmosphere of American life, and

to the sons of my teacher, and to the highest standard of American protection in the slightest degree, manners and manhood, $1.000.

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Hongkong. Friday, May 29, 1925.

of certain clauses in a Court of Law, not only would be inequit- able but against the intention of the framers and of the Legislative Council.

For the original American play, shall best represent the educa- performed in New York, which tional value and power of the stage in raising the standard of good morals, good taste and good manners, $1,000.

upon the history of the United For the best book of the year States. $2,000",

A nurse

She thought it nice,

Until she ate, then in a trice She felt a foreign substance

pass" Adown her

throat.

thought it glass; But in the Court they thought,

alas,

That it was ice, The glase suggestion did they

scout-

AND FROZE HER OUT!

In the Diary ROYAL OAK DAY. of John Evelyn (1859, Vol. 1,

For the best American biography teaching patriotic and unselfish p. 378) under date May 29, 1665, by an eminent example, including, services to the people, illustrated is the following statement:-

This was the first anniversary

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For the best volume of verse published during the year by an American author, $1,000.

as too obvious, the names of appointed by Act of Parliament George Washington, and Abraham to be observed as a day of General Lincoln, $1,000.

Thanksgiving for the miraculous restoration of His Majesty: our 24, requiring to be thankful and Vicar preaching on Psalm exviii.. Travelling scholarships:

rejoice, as indeed we had cause. Three travelling scholarships. House of Commons preached in On this day the chaplain of the having the value of $1,500 each to St. Margaret's Church, West- graduates of the School of Jour- nalism, "who shall have passed minster, before "the House,' their examinations with

"Let justice be done though the heavens fall" was the axiom of the Demister as portrayed by Hall Caine. Let justice be done to the sub-tenants of houses here though the principal tenants fall. That, in a nutshell, was the plaint put forth at the meeting of the Legislative Council yesterday. afternoon by the senior Chinese member, the Hon. Mr. Chow Shou- son. A lesser, be he the principal tenant or a lessor under the principal tenant, has no equity or right to increase his rental charge to a sub-tenant if his own prin-highest honour and are otherwise cipal 'rent is not increased by the most deserving to enable each of them to spend a year in Europe, to study the social, political and moral conditions of the people, and the character and tenets of the European press.

a

the

"I will use treatment to help and judgment, but I will never use the sick according to my ability it to injure or wrong them.

"Whatsoever in the course of practice I see or hear (or even outside my practice in social inter-- course) that ought never to be published abroad. I will not divulge, but consider such things to be holy secrets. · break it not, may I enjoy honour, "Now if I keep this oath and in my life and art, among all men for all time, but" if I transgress and forswear myself, may opposite befall me.

the

The most interesting feature

has been a question of controversy of this document, perhaps, is the fact that the secrecy of doctors through so great an infinity of

ages.

THE SLANG OF THE WAR.

If posterity does its' duty it will honour the names of Mr. Edward

They

of it mere common some American or

We knew of "duds""

owner himself.

An equally vital point raised in the discussion Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Earnshaw

at yesterday's

recorded can have had but a desire to return their deep heart-meeting was the right of the felt and grateful thanks to all sub-tenant to give notice to quit the value of $1,500, to the student Fraser and Mr. John Gibbons, dobra" or "Do svidanya?"

An annual scholarship, having

limited currency. How many of those kind friends of their late without being called upon to pay of music in America who, may be remarks a London paper.

us ever heard anyone say, "Niet. Son, Reginald, who so kindly sent the higher rent during the period deemed the most talented and have set their hands to the task, however, old stuff taken over, and The wreaths and flowers and attended of such notice. In the case of deserving. in order that he may while memories still are fresh, of in some cases altered and adapted. greater part of war slang was, Nothing could have been carried tenancy for an indefinite period it advantage of European instruc- slang. If, as we fondly hope, our talk, some

continue his studies with the compiling a dictionary of war Some of it was Army and Navy out better, had they been present, is obviously not the intention of tion on the nomination of a jury grandchildren take any interest in civilian, to mark the esteem and respect the Legislature that a sub-tenant composed of members of the what we did in the Great War and Colonial in which he was held, and their should be placed unwittingly in a action has been a very great con-

teaching staff of the Department how we did it, they will find this long before we knew of-brrrages, solation to them in their disposition to be penalised after and of the teaching staff of the Words" throws more light on the Services had heard of "etewash" of Music in Columbia University book of "Soldier, and Sailor we "wangled" in civilife, the tress.--Pomona, Swanley, Kent, giving due notice to quit. This Institute of Musical Art. England.

spirit and the manners and, and "swinging the lead" and be April 30, 1925.

point was very rightly strongly being insularly American. They than many an earnest historian.hard bargains" years before they These are more the worse for customs of the men who fought ing "given a bowler" and "King's emphasised by the Hon. Mr. prove the fact that wealthy people We owe the idea of it to the mobilised. All this is faithfully Alabaster, and generally sup- have great opportunities in all authorities of the Imperial War recorded, besides that consider ported...

lands to do some insting good with Museum, who very properly desirable and interesting vocabulary The only difficulty in the way of their riches. It may be casier for ed a record of the way our men which was new. giving effect to the fresh repre-needle than for a rich man to Sea. Most people will see visions Bombardier Fritz," who is ta a camel to enter the eye of talked in Flanders and the North could have introduced us to Only the war sentations raised yesterday was enter the Kingdom of Heaven; but of several vast volumes. But, in "Fried potatoes." What would. During the earlier stages of the the natural desire to keep the there is surely hope for those who fact, the notion that the war the future historian make of a discussion on the continuance or Ordinance free from unnecessary good feeling and help on worthy peculiar is an illusion.

make it their business to promote vocabulary was extensive and reference to, "Asquiths" if this. otherwise of the Rents Ordinance matter and in the striking words effort as is done by the Pulitzer researches of our diligent lexico him that they were the French All the dictionary were not extant to tell one of the strongest points to refrain from overloading it

of His Excellency the Governor Awards. emphasised was the great need to

graphers have not found a great matches of commerce, which re- number of words which ware for quire you to wait and see whether protect sub-tenants from principal with details which only tend to

hostilities only. We learnt, of they will light? Where would he tenants of the profiteering, type. produce suits in Court, which are

course, a lot of French. "Napoo," learn what "Fred Karno's Navy" That necessity perhaps weighed only to the advantage of the legal

though probably a possession for was, or what it was to "Go to more than anything else in the profession and not to the

ever, could only have come sausage hill," or who was the through the war like fta less use- 0.0 Swills?" But, surely he ultimate decision to continue the advantage, of other members of

ful relations "Compree" and "No should be told how it is that Ordinance for another year, with

the community. In the end and

bong," and the rest. But most of "Gone stone winnick" comes the provision permitting rents to

spite of a disine be raised by fifteen per cent. In

interfere with one of the large majority of cases sub-

the English benants form a clas generally unab

PROTECTING SUB-TENANTS.

aelves, and

Busceptible to certain operations the spirit

measure

TO-DAY'S SMILE,

the Hindustani or other Oriental mean "muddled," Many to

phrases, like "Blighty," which anecdotes this dictionary em everybody learnt and thought balms. Whether they will seem strange, were quite familiar to the as funny to the future as to us we' old army. It will, however be dare not predict. But surely our news to a good many people that posterity, however superior "Bobbery which has

smile as they read how "thà Lectly

sergeant of a Regular the Queen B, our