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FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

A woman's idea of it would be "to have and to hod."

An Aberdeen man is reported to have fainted in a taxicab. H₫ had been watching the meter.

The day is past when there can

During the war when those gold than any other country, and

African soldiers this is not the first time Amark- · be any truth in the allegation that COOL. South

Generale Botha and Smuts cans have had gold thrown in the foreigners are only out to were much to the front in their, teeth. exploit the Chinese with a ruth-Europe, two young flappers of less disregard for the ethics of sixteen or so approached General Smuts and asked for his auto- business morality. To-day the

graph. foreigners are as convinced as the Chinese themselves, that "à peace- ful and tranquil and settled China is not only the best in the interests of China herself but also the best in the interests of the Far East, commercially, socially, and educa- tionally. What is more, the Powers are anxious to assist China toward this very desirable Gen. Smuts.

"I haven't got a fountain-pen," asid the General, much flattered. "Will pencil do?”

Yes, said the other flapper.

"So I took out my pencil," related the General who loved to tell the story, "and signed my name in the

end without a thought of mer- dainty bound little book that she cenary exploitation. It but had given me.

remains for China to help herself first!

Traffic Sense.

are

"The flapper, studied the signature with a frown.

"Then she looked up and said: "'Aren't you General Botha?" ""No,' I said, 'I'm General Smuts.

The Chinese generally (accused of lacking what is known as a traffic sense. It would be in- teresting to know how far past and present authorities have help she said.

•

"The flapper turned to her friend with a shrug of disgust. Tend me your india-rubber, May,

The Melbourne under ADVERTISE. taker was conveying an elderly invalid to A hospital in his private · ambulance one day last week, when the bright thought occurred to him. Turning to one of the relatives he whispered: "If any

you won't forget the firm, will thing happens to the old chap,

you?"

Playing cards have been CARDS. called the Devil's Books, and coming to us from the East where they are of remote antiquity, they have been used for spells and divinations through numberless ages. To attempt anything like a detailed description of these is difficult, but it may be added an old tradi ed to make the absence of that

tion.' declares whoever gets the deuce, of. Clubs will have a run of sense more pronounced. The earlier Governments had prob-

good luck, while the four "of. Clubs - sometimes ably no idea of the expansion that ICE CREAM.

Devil's Bedstead is a sign of called the was to take place later. They jogged along a day at a time and America. A report of the dis- "Antiquities," quotes

misfortune. Brand, in his.. narrow and rural roads were the covery by experts of the Depart- chapbook" as giving the follow- "an old rule and not the exception and partment of sufficed for the number of re-cherimoyas, or vegetable ice may be read by the drawing of Agriculture of ing account of how the future sidents and the mode of traffic cream trees," growing in cards blindfold from the pack:-

Ice cream may yet grow on trees in the backyards of

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DEATHS.

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then in vogue. Those in charge Ecuador,, has attracted attention during the last decade must be in Wall Street, which is the part accused of a lack of foresight. of New York in which ideas and And even to-day that lack seems money ultimately meet, and if it much in evidence. Legacies from should succeed in making any early days are still in evidence. mouths water there, it may easily Quite a number of roads can be stimulate a correspondent flow of the conditions were equal or indicated where there is either no capital.. It should appeal at And he clinched the position sing on it no attraction at all. The combine, in each mouthful the so little of one as to make walk-chals, of course, for it is said to far as Great. Britain is concerned pedestrian-European as well as flavours of, bananas, pineapples by stating that it is intended, to Chinese cannot be blamed and strawberries. seek a solution of the difficulties if he or she clings to the moder- to send the fruits to New York An attempt in a conciliatory spirit, whilst ate spaciousness of the middle or and Paris, was made several near middle portion of a road. years ago, the Ecuadorian Con- insisting on the maintenance of The

attempt to dislodge sul-General' in New York says, but law and order in the foreign either from it bas failed the trip was too long to avoid Settlement..

as is clearly proved by the losing the flavour, and the cotton The bitterest partisan of the

failure of the Captain Superin- packing required to keep the very tendent of Police to get pedes soft skin intact made them too anti-foreign movement in China trians to keep to the sidewalks. expensive. It ought to be pos- can find little to complain of in Evidence of the Government's sible, however, the Consul a policy of the kind enunciated lack of foresight is shown in the lieves, to by Mr. Ronald McNeill. If there been widened to make room for warmer parts of the United grow the trees from number of times new roads have their small nuts at least in the is the slightest defect in the motor traffic. All along it has States. After a little acclimatiza- treaties between China and the been motor traffic first others tion, of course, the trees will Powers the foreign diplomats on Praya East reclamation bears and the ice cream cone industry not at all. A walk along the probably be crossed with wheat the spot may be trusted to bring this out. For a considerable established on a permanent basis. such to the notice of their portion of it there is no room for respective Governments with asthe pedestrian at all. The space is there but in the main it is given view to revision.

Judged by the number of the place of interested outsiders-verging to the edge of what was

But it is not over to temporary buildings, some FUN. shootings in America by women the hand that rocks

THEY SAY THAT--- Those who build houses should

ден

This noble king of diamonds

shows---

Thou long shalt live where

pleasure flows;

But when a woman draws the-

king, "

Great melancholy songs she'll

sing.

Now if the Queen of Diamonda

fair.

She shows thou shalt som

'office bear;

O, Woman, if she falls to your Friends thou wilt have and not

'a few,

If now the Knave of Diamonds.

come,

sure beware the martial drum;

Be

Yet if a woman, draws the

knave,

She shall much better-fortuns

have.

He that draws the ace of

hearts

Shall surely be a man of parts; But she that draws it, I

profess,

Will have the curse of idleness. He who can draw this deuce,

shall be

Endowed with generosity; But when a woman draws this.

card,

It doth betide her cruel hard. The man who gets hold of this

tray,

Always bound, always obey.

A woman that shall draw this

sort,

Will sure drink brandy by the

quart.

if the phrase be permitted to once a sidewalk. It is useless the cradle also pulls the trigger. BIRTH.

make those treaty rights a bone expecting people to keep to the Jazz music is dying, we read. of contention between China and left, or right, if no opportunities That is why it sounds like that. CLARKE-On June 8, 1925, at the subjects of the Powers. The wonder is that there is not a daily man who, when asking for a glass are available for se doing. The A suspicious, men is a Scots- Dr. Fearn's Sanitorium, best possible proof of the equity list of accidents. Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs.

This must be of whisky, takes a hazel twig N. W. B. Clarke, a daughter of those treaty rights in the ascribed to that Providence said with him.

to watch over drunka and fools;- foreign-Settlement in to be found certainly not to the Government, men is to be held in Vienna if verse that Brand's quotation A convention of the world's fat- It is unfortunate-or the re- in the fact that nearly two million

room can be found for them.· breaks off here and gives the BULLDEATH.-On June 1, 1925, and enjoy the solid protection that Chinese are content to live therein

America is said to have more meaning of no other cards. at Swalow, Millie, dearly beloved daughter of Mr. and these afford in preference to the Mrs. R. Bulldeath, C. M.shadowy and fleeting protection of be as proud of their work as those Customs, Swatow, aged 18 the Chinese in their own distinct months. Deeply mourned. NESVADBA On June 8, 1925, territory. Why is it that these at Shanghai, Joseph Anthony two million Chinese have not Nesvadba, aged 66 years. "packed up" long ago and gone to live under the Chinese flag and not under the flags of the foreign Powers? The answer is obvious life would not be worth living for the very reasons that have been

Hongkong. Friday, June 12, 1925.

NOT INIMICAL I

who built cathedrals.-Mr. H. R Selley..

The modern man does not worship of worshipping a fixed bath.-Lord a golden calf, but he is in danger High Cecil.

CREASED TROUSERS.

The passionate loyalty of the and some newspapers said that, "he Labour party to their leader, we turned up in a hat much worn and popular Press is a far greater asset draws the line somewhere-draws which was the most unkindest cut some time. We do not know to the agitator than his own paperit, in fact, ut Mr. MacDonald's of all, but any sympathetic mind -Dr. A. Shadwell. ・・

The Haunting of luxury by the learn with surprise and regret. pair of trousers not pressed for

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cited above as the causes of the to be removed, not bocause he is graph" (London)

An incorrigibly bad citizen ought trousers, remarks the "Daily Tele- will understand how this sort of This would thing hurts & man like Mr. Ramsay Once again attention has been present disturbances: the lack of atrociously wicked, but because he seen a domestic matter best settled Muurild. The wickedness of directed in the House of Commons a strong Central Government, is an intolerable nuisance, Dean at Que of those happy gatherings criticism is not even satisfied with to the campaign "by those destructive wars and the irrita-

Inge,

of the party in which the followers, the trousers. He is, he explained interested" against the Treaty tion caused by petty local rulers. The ordinary, member of Parlin leaders how to behave. But Mr. to have heard of it--about the size going into secret session, tell the to the miners, moving. Wo seem

foreigners of

which Furthermore, on the score of tuency rather as a wild beast from those sensitive Bouls which cannot to be a library, and the bantems ment, I fear, regards his consti- Rarisay MacDonald's is one of of the drawing-room which is going alleged to be inimical industrial, conditions, these may which he successfully fled than 4 bear to suffer without a cry; and which are to be kept in the garden. to the well-being of China. That not be exactly perfect, but even an old friend whose wishes he must he has never been so affecting as Mr. MacDonald, like Mr. Crummies,

constantly is not only a mere shibboleth, the in the Japanese cotton mills they Chesterton.

consult.-Mr. G. K. constant reiteration of which is "are the equal or superior to any becoming wearisome, but it is a thing in China." Wherein, then, gross perversion of the truth. can the treaty rights of foreigners

Fights

are

The statement by Mr. Ronald be inimical to the well-being of TO-DAY'S SMILE. McNeill was made in the course China? Until the. Bolshevist

of a reply to a number of ques-intrusion in Chinese affairs, tions regarding the Shanghai precious little was heard of those trouble, when the Under Secretary treaty rights being iniralcal. The for Foreign Affairs expressed the beat brains of the Chinese them- opinion that the origin of the selves made China a party to such disturbances was owing to the treaty rights, and they in their lack of a strong Central Govern-day never conceived any idea of ment, destructive wars, and irrita-repealing them either by concilia- tion of the Chinese with petty tion, er, by propaganda, or by local rulers, resulting in disconviolence. Why, then, should, the tent. Furthermore, he pointed Chinese leaders of to-day harken Industrial conditions to the evil counsels of autsiders hardly operated at all as part of whose interests are certainly not the cause of the troubles, and he the interests of Chin↑ Unt!! called attention to the

Chinaceats out those evil apt

striking fact that the strike

in her mitist, regaina har condidence

upon his trousers. It appears that must wonder how *thlee certain ignoble creatures in the things get into the papers. But the ranks of Labour have cast it up dreadful thing is that, although bis against Mr. MacDonald that his doctor has really ordered him out trousers are too elegant. We do of a house in which he is overcrowd- not know how to express oured the miners are told. Ho is emotions about this, but if we may now a plutocrat; you should tum say so without offence, wo are surf him out." No wonder that in prise and horrified Conscious of anguish of sont he appeals to his virtue, he might well have disdain-miners.. "Now what am I to do?" ed such slander. But his gentle Hut in our dull bourgeois way we notare could not bear it. Ho had could enggeat one or two medica to tell the miners of Cymmer the tive things which he might do whole history of those trousers. It He might cause to cry out so loud is an affecting story, perhaps a every time he is hurt. He might little too pitiful for o May train himself to believe that he is, Day festival, but glowing with after all much as other men are, hnman interest. On his recent. He might abstain from making. holiday Mr. MacDonald took out speeches which proclaim that an old pair of trousers and found everybody who enjoys a comfort- when he put them on they had a uble-income, evorybody who in að | besutiful cresse. He happened to well-off as he is, is a brutal capitalist. | be photographed in these. It was grinding the faces of the poor For "Can you trust Jensen with then said that he had deserted the until he practises that forms of self-

workers because the cresco in his control it is very probable that the, yes. I lent him 100 trousers showed that he was getting attacks which be delivers on people months ago and he never for too respectable. But this is who live ne he does will be me

Jallt vah nnother time he went dimoted by his faithful: followners a Klods Hane

company to his own address.