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MONDAY, JUNE 1, 192

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

him. Not knowing how to k!!! it, the had kept it alive for several days, and, moreover, out of the kindness of er gentis heart, ahe. had fed it. On being asked what she had fed it on, she replied ingenuously, "Oh, I gave it a bit of old rag to eat!"

One result of the Great War has been the abolition of fixed. alliances. These, at one time were a common feature of Euro pean and international politics France and Britain allied, Italy and Germany also then Japan

The Whitsun his friends to collect moths and and Britain. The expiry of the

WHITSUN Mysteries were butterfiles for him, and on calling latter treaty and its non-renewal

MONDAY. "acted, at Chester, one day at the house of a fair·· seem definitely to have set the

vo soven or eight on collector, she showed him a very seal on alliances generally. This each day during the Monday, fine living specimen of the is all to the good. An alliance of Tuesday and Wednesday in Emperor moth (Saturala pavonia two great powers tended to create Whitsun wock. The drapers, for minor), which she had caught for suspicion and misunderstanding instance, exhibited the Creation,

and worst of all, jealousy. If the tanners took the Fall of anything the League of Nations Lucifer" the water carriers of the would have an influence contrary Dee reproduced the "Deluge," the to the creation of alliances. In cooks had the "Harrowing of Hell." that body could be discussed The performers were carded from questions likely to lead to dis- station to another by means of a movable scaffold, a huge and ruption and war and to find a way ponderous machine mounted on to lasting peace. The work of the wheels, gaily decorated with flags, as they have a sufficient store of Some moths do not eat anything, League can be and is being, and divided into two compart nutriment to enable them to fulfil supplemented, by treaties ofments, the upper of which formed their mission in life, after which peaceful nature. Thus the latest the stage, and the lower, defended they die young Others sip the memorandum of the British from vulgar curiosity by coarse nectar from flowers, and it is thè Government to France dwells on canvas draperies, answered the flowers which open at night that the necessity of suitable arbitra- purposes of the green-room. The are most strongly scented for the tion treaties supplementing the performers began at the Abbey | purpose of attracting the moths by Rhine

security pact with a gates, where they were witnessed their sense of smell, that of sight view to guaranteeing the by the high dignitaries of the being useless in the dark. peace of other parts of Europe.Church; they then proceeded to Here is further evidence of the the High Cross, where the Mayor "come, let us reason together" and the civic magostes were policy. At this rate we shall soon assembled'; ded so on, through the be realising that the pen and city, until their motley history of tongue are mightier than the God and His dealings with man had been played out. The pro- duction of these pageants, was costly; each mystery has been set down at fifteen or twenty pounds, present money. The dresses were obtained from the churches, until, this practice being denounced as scandalous, the guilds had then to provide the costume and other properties.

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Portugal has set, an example in the matter of dealing with bomb throwers and insurrection aries generally! A number of these misguided people have been placed on board a cruiser and are now on their way to Portuguese Guineu "far, far away." Hongkong's idea. of deportation consists in sending undesirables-principally beggars to Canton which is not far, far away." With steamer "fares at cut-throat, competitive prices, a return to the happy hunting ground of the beggar is simplicity itself. Why not fix on some other place to which to send these people? A dumping process of such A nature, faithfully and ceaselessly carried out, would have its own

moral effect. Swatow, Amoy, Foochow, might The be tried as experiments. Caution

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THEY SAY THAT

Some of the very best music in the world is dreadful to listen to

of the great feasts of the Church and the last of the annual cycle commemorating the Lord. It is connected with the Jewish Pente- cost, not only in the historical date of its origin but in idea, the Jewish festival being one of thanks for the first-fruits of the earth, the Christian for the first- fruits of the Spirit. In the middle ages the Whitsur services. were marked by many curious customs. Among these were the letting down of a dove from the roof into the church, the dropping of balls of fire, rose-leaves and the like. Whitsun is one of the Scottish quarter days, and though the Sin is real, sin is carnest, and Church festival is 'movable, the they who ignore sin in their writ- legal date was fixed for the 15thing must load sinful lives. Miss

Katherine Leaf. day of May by an act of 1693. Whitmonday, which, with the Sunday itself, was the occasion of the greatest of all the medieval GREEN-BANKER-On June 1, church ales, was made an English

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J

That Moths Eat

A FALLACY, Clothes.

Stands as the emblem WHITE of purity, and it was

with that idea that the ancients dedicated it to Virgo-the Virgin As a colour-if such it may be called--it belongs to those born under that sign, but many

moon

very shades that may practically bé described as white, are fortunate to Gemini people, and also to those of Pisces Also white belongs to the moon in particular and thus is exceptionally fortunate to folk," another instance of the early worship of Ists, and how her in- fluence has come down to us other faiths. through so many This fallacy Is Rather curiously, white animals are considered unlucky. In many somewhat akin to the one that a thaw bursis the water-pipes, for parts of England a white cat is when a thaw comes, then also called the sign of ill fortune, while comes the inconvenience of burst in the Midlands they say you must water pipes. Similarly, when the be sure to spit if you meet a white clothes are taken out and found horse face to face, spitting being moth-eaten, and moths fly from powerful spell to avert evil. them, the too-ready conclusion is And in Northamptonshire the that the moths have eaten them, unexpected sight of a whlie mouse What occurs is this:

The clothesis the sure foreruner of a death moths lay eggs on suitable In the family. materials, these eggs develop into larvae or grubs, which eat the. clothes.. The larvae then change into pupae, each forming a tiny cocoon (similar to that of a silk-

us in old times, as to become a worm) for itself, and after some time the cycle of changes is com part of the name of various festal pleted by moths emerging from meetings, as Leet-air, Lamb-ale, these cocoons, which may be found Bride-ale (bridal), and, as we see, among clothes that have been Whitsun-ale. It was the custom badly moth eaten. So we see that of our ancestors to have parochial Whitsuntide, innocent of the harm that has been church, consisting of a kind of the moths which fly out on the meetings every clothes being disturbed are quite | usually in some bara near, the done up to that time; but if left, picnic, as each parishioner brought they will of course lay eggs, and what victuals he could spare. The the resulting larvae will start ale, which had been brewed pretty operations at once.

strong for the occasion was sold An entomological friend told us by the churchwardens, and from a yery amusing experience of his its profits a fund arose for the illustrating this fallacy. He gets repair of the church,

„Ale was 80 WHITSUN ALE. prevalent a drink amongst

PLAIN

ENGLISH.

The romance of original docu- At one of the London police- some of them reasonably formed, ments is endless, if a man have imagination to seize it.--The Roucourts the other day a gentleman some of them superfluous, per- John Fortescue.

was charged with drunkenness.verted, obscure. Such esoteric vocabularies are always being Toryism backled to its brewers What entitles his case to honour built up among people who have

able mention is his defence. A landlords, and tarif profiteers, is doctor went into the box and intercourse and interests a little 1900, at the Consulate for the Bank Holiday by an act passed on powerless to tackle social problems. swore that "his condition was due apart from the rest of the world.

-Mr. Vivian Phillipps.

United States of America, the 26th of May, 1871. Shanghai. before Mr. John So that is why we enjoy a holi- Goodnow, Consul General, by

the Rev. J. R. Hykes, Eliza- day in Hongkong to-day.

beth Banker, daughter of the

late William Swallow Banker,

pilot Newchwang, to Samuel Child Labour. Ebenezer Green, son of the

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to spastic paraplegia." Yet the Many families have their privata If anyone mys he does not know magistrate was not satisfied. He slang. Each generation of under... the difference between contracting replied, all too curtly, "What is graduates invents some of its in and contructing out he has never that?"

awn. Any popular game acquires, Possibly he thought lent a man £5 and tried to get it there was some confusion: that decade after decade, a mass of back.-Mr. Macquiaten, M.P. spastic paraplegia was a phrase peculiar phrases devised by the "W. G." players of the period. None of us in normat. The devised to test the power of knew not the googly, nor Arthur' Bishop of Liverpool.

speech of one suspected of

Shrewsbury the cow-shot. Some I profoundly distrust logic when inebriety, for which purpose, of these terms are needed to applied to politica-Mr. A. Cham-indeed, it seems worthy of the express new things, many of them berlain, M.P.

attention of the medical profes-are mere decorations of language. It is unwise to treat political in- sion. Possibly he suspected a Even the most learned of the. stitutions logical.Mr. Austen misunderstanding for to the professions and the most austere Chamberlain.

mere layman it would seem that of the sciences are not exempt Paychoanalysis, after all, in an spastic paraplegia ought to mean from the common human instinct attempt to make people's lives bet some sort of drawn or contracted to be decorative in speech.

paralysis. But it is ever rash to does not please the expert to call a ter. Lady Betty Balfour,

assume that men of science use common phenomenon by a name fiat it can easily become nearly im-what the words ought to mean. of. When he has discovered a Life is very difficult; in a small their technical terms to meanwhich common men never heard possible.-Mr. Pett Ridge.

the testifying new fact or invented a According to There is no analogy between an doctor, spastic paraplegla really theory he loves to give it a name poli-means "acute nervous exhaus-worthy of his own ingenuity In tion." Then, said the disgusted general he feels that his dignity is cadi, "Why not use plain Eng-enhanced by talking in a jargon lish. When the doctor explain which nobody else uses, as the ed that it was not the custom, Meteorological Office derives an the cadi exhorted him to change exquisite satisfaction from ra- that custom, complaining, that porting the weather in terms of "the medical profession has re-millibars. Let us not blame him. ceived sufficient hints from the We encourage him continually. legal profession as to what is the We Hke our experts to be incom proper thing to do and they will prehensible. When we consult not take notice. There speaks our specialist, we want him to the bitterness of the man who has talk in words we never heard had to wrestle with experts in before, If he used plain English the witness-box. But we depre he would be ss disappointing as if cata any attempt to make one proho said there was fession the censor of another matter with With all respect to the magistrate, back of

late John Harwood Green of It would be interesting to know the Chinese Imperial Mari- what has been the moral effect time Customs, Swatow and of upon the Chinese in introducing Shrapstone, Northampton, ameliorative measures of reform England.

connected with the labour of DEATH,

children in factories in the Colony. The report for 1924 of the Secre MEEK (Thomas)-At the Peak:

tariat for Chinese Affaire in this Hospital, on the 21st May, Late of the Meter Depart respect. makes pleasant reading. ment. China Light & Power There, was some protest when Co., (1918), Ltd. Funeral legislation was urged. It would passes the Monument *5.30 p.m. this evening.

upset the Chinese; it would inter- fere with production, wages, ordinary licensed house and a household affairs, etc., etc. Thetical club-Sir Herbert Nield." result has been nothing of the sort. Three hundred children in factories work in safe and-plea- sant surroundings, in reasonable hours. The great fact is that a considerable number are prevent- To-day is Whitmonday and asble year of discretion has been ed from doing so until a reason- holiday. Why?

reached Incidentally this parti According to that greatest of cular report is an interesting. all reference books, the Encyclo evidence of Chinese Industrialism paedia Britannica, Whitsunday factories in Hongkong and Kow- in the Colony. There are 28 "one of the principal feasts of the toona fairly large numbe Christian Church is celebrated.

an over to the

Hongkong, Monday, June 1, 1925.

TO-DAY.

on the fiftieth day after Easter

commemorate the descent of

Holy Spirib on the Disciples.

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TO-DAY'S SMILE.

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