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Is like a pleasant sleep, Wherein I rest, and heed

The dreams that by me sweep. but that they or at least some of them-let duties and responsi- bilities sweep by thera unheeded, and only wake up now and then, with a start to borrow a dollar or But, kept in bounds, the game of if is harmlesss enough It certainly gives pleasure..

So,

The Average Man.

FRIDAY, JUNE 19,

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The fate Mist SINGLE BLISS: Maria Corelli was uften asked why

exempt n from: reason's · rule. The other day the papera record- ad two stories of voluntary poverty which must have pro voked in their readers, a perfect orgy of the game. One was of a man who, possessed of enormous wealth, preferred to go on living

Our police are which is cut off the moment mats-- POLICE a life of hard work and physical

to go into shorts montal life is entered upon! On STORE-HOUSE, and puttles Inove particular shelf are some cups austerity; the other told of a

the woman who died of starvation weather and there will be a conse every new-comer and the supply ratny which are exhibited with pride to with a hoard of money in the quently heavier tax on the re- of which is dwindling for the very house. In several millions of sources of the police store house reason that they are being bought minds the fascinating "If" must in respect of khaki material. Few up as curiosities. As for being have risen, to mock and tantalise. know of this building's existence used as cups it would he If we had had thosa millions, we but it is situated at the western judicious to put then should not have continued to pre- end of the police compound and company of any valued pudding fer our feet as a means of pro- within are transacted daily in basin for the simple reason that it gression, to a motor-car. If we cidents

which would bring a would turn it green with envy at had needed food, we should most reminiscent smile to the face of its size. The order was for "cups certainly have preferred it to a any ex-service man who happened of ordinary dimensions" and no bag of money. These "fa" are to pass when the door was open. explanation has been forthcoming entirely useless: moralists and What tales the police equivalent as to the reason of the blunder. psychologists unite in telling us of the army quartermaster From crockery to firearms that they

have to sten to rathor a sweeping change but no are even actually there must pernicious, because they distract and what a Solomon he must visit to the store would our attention from the real world to discriminate rightly as to the complete without a visit to the to the false, weaken the will. merits of the excuses offered for armoury in which a blazing light power, and is general lead to articles! For instance, if Sergt. watchman the remotest nook and the free replacement of missing nightly exposes to the gaze of the slackness and decay. But we go Blank can get a topee replaced crany, a very worthy precaution of on indulging them:

In extreme without inconvenient deductions course cases, perhaps, the indictment is from his pay because it was

but anyone true. There are people who live "blown from his head on a bathing would have an

casting covetous eyes on the guns within. so entirely in dreams that they picnic," is the same procedure to job even if he escaped detection extremely hard constitute a perpetual burden and apply in the case of Constable? to irritation to their families and who maintains that his was lost in force the Iron cages the respect- effect an entrance and friends. They might murmur, the pursuit of duty in the shape of ive armaments are in. In the day. in the words of the poet:- a Beeing malefactor? The question time, however, there would pro-

The idle life I lead

Is asked in all innocence and bably be little objection to any ignorance and probably there are one with neaceful intent paying. clearly enough deaned rules apply a visit and if a ur of the stores ing to most cases-au for the rest, if was not found interesting a few: the officer in charge resembles to minutes at the counter where the any great extent the army quarter applications for new kit are made master of yore he will be eminently would probably repay in the mat capable of gauging to a nicety ter of the exact proportion of truth and mentality of the seekers after acquaintance with the fiction. As regards the actual cost something new. And as very few to the force of the articles in ques of us have cot ingrained in us the tion, every precauties is taken to instinct of getting this whenever ensure the utmost economy. A possible'it might provide the key glance inside will reveal shelf of an even more deeper psycho- after

shelf of rolls of cloths logical insight into the springs of of all the requisite shades and human nature. qualities, and lengths of which Is there such a person? An are given to the local contractor American writer is impressed according 10 turn their heads

equipment so that they with the persistent thought that required. He is even given the but could not see the faces of the the biggest force in the States to- tons and other incidentaries, being she never married, and she always criminals, or at least swear that day is the average man. If this merely

responsible for labour gave the same answer. "There they did so, with the result that ly apply to other places. It may principle, needless to say, does not have three pets at home which,

applies to America, it must sure-involved in making up. The is no need," she would say, forme, too often have thorough despera- be argued by precise persons, he extend to other articles which the together, answer the same purpose does had to be discharged owing says, that the average man does visitor may also observe in this as a husband. I have a dog which to the lack of sufficient evidence not exist that each individual interesting store-crockery, for in growls every morning, a parrot develops traits which either bring which are bestowed gratuitously and a cat which comes home late- stance, and other home comforts which swears all the afternoon, of identity. There has been no him over, or under, the average on bachelors but the supply of at night." community spirit-no zeal in But, he goes on, it is true that helping the Police based

the average man is true to type.. willingness to help the community the nation. He lives in the aver- He becomes a 'representative of generally to rid itself of undesirage way; eals, drinks, and works ables whose only vocation is that in the average manner; makes of armed robbery. There was a an average living and when he welcome phase, however, at yea- dies has an averago funeral and

George Bernard Shaw has co "As the doctor had to go off to terday's Criminal Sessions, this the average obituary notice of

He is average brevity.

tributed a letter to "The Times" China without waiting to see what being the disclosure during the strength of the community, the on the subject of smallpox and happened to the 120 victims of the hearing of three cases of armed contented man, the happy man. vaccination. This is a subject which operation, possibly the 'week or robbery that arrests were made He does not crave for notoriety; is much to the fore at present, there fortnight of slight illness' prescriber possible either through Chinese he is fairly well satisfied with the being outbreaks of alleged smallpox for them may have been the worst

thas ensued.

But I remember an conditions that govern his life. in various parts of the country and women giving the alarm or being His ambition is tempered with several fatalities having occurred, experiment made by the Metropoli- able to identify the prisoners sub-caution: He-steers a middle both among children and adults working on a certain job during an tan Asylum Board, in which men sequently. Furthermore, in one course between the Charybdis of following their vaccination.

baffled aspirations case in Shanghai Street, a woman Scylla of despair......The pic-Home, fect surgeon, states that the pictures of confluent smallpox, but epidemic were induced to submit, to Mr. Shaw says: "Dr. W. E.revaccination, not by technow and was bound and gagged, but some- ture is not at all convincing. It -how-got-free and way plucky is like the curate's egg-good in URQUHART. At enough to give chase to one of her parts. If it were wholly true we H.B.M. Consulate, Shanghai, assailants whom she asked a man world.

would pray for mercy for the on June 13, 1925, Frederick

It is true that the globe Nield, son of the late Mr. and in the street to catch; which he is peopled in part with this easy- Mrs. Walter Henry Nield of declined to. Eventually, at the going type of person; but it is Liverpool, and Annie invitation" of the Police he found equally true to say that the Urquhart, daughter of the and identified the prisoner, who all the arts and sciences-is due world's progress its advance in late Mr. and Mrs. Donald Urquhart, of Hongkong...

was sentenced to five years im-to those whom it would be an prisonment. Had this woman

affront, to describe as the average followed the too prevalent prae- after knowledge is far from aver- man. The seeker after truth and tice of "turning her head away" | age, For which let us give until the robbers had made a thanks. clean "get away," at least one of her assailants would not now have five years in which to repent of his misdeeds or at least to re- gret the pluck of the woman that led to his capture-and-conviction There may be no. "medals for valour" in cases of this kind, but

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BERNARD SHAW DENOUNCES VACCINATION.

Mr. Bernard Shaw.

who does not consider herself wrecking of women's complexions

There is hardly a woman living * - expert in interior decoration--and appearunes through smallpox Mr. Victor McClure.

was almost universal in the

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MUCH WORSE THAN 831ALLPOX. "The resultant slight ilhessex' included some that were much worse than any ordinary caso of smallpox. The medical report was never published. I love two reasons for infleting these commonplaces of a vaccination controversy once more on your readers. The first is that, the press and the administrative departments seem to be relapsing into that infatuated ignorance of the strength of popular and scien- tific opposition to vaccination, which received such a shock when the compulsory clauses had been re pealed by a scared House of Coin- mous in 1898. If the departmenta and press persist in ignoring and suppressing the case against vacci nation until thero is another ex-" plosion, the result may, possibly be· that vaccination will be made a crime, as inoculation (equally well- accredited) has been..

"COMPARATIVELY NEGLIGIBLE

DISLACE

Purely local affairs have reced-there certainly should be some re- ed in the background during the cognition, however slight, of the last few weeks, owing to the bravery of the woman who ac situation in Shanghai and Canton tually gave chase to a man armed

"My second reason is that. occupying the public mind to the with a dagger who had assisted vantage that there should be assertion is supported by a quota-paretively negligible disease-so It is an immense national ad. eighteenth century; This amazing although smallpox is now a com- exclusion of anything else. It to gag and bind her and rob her Parliament Dr. Waggett.

some parsons who cannot get into lion from one of Captain Marryat's much so that in the little outbreaks is certainly a change from the house. Failing something being

novels in 1829. after 30 years of which seem to trumpery to those of vaccination. * "daily armed robbery" that was a done in this direction it may be modern industry have been re-study Marryat rather than Jenner, the whole affair is dismissed by the It is perhaps appro- us who remember 1871 and 1881. Too often the products ofpriate that our fleet surgeons should We sometimes find ik deaths and feature of the daily papers not so worth while ensuring that a remarkable for ugliness as wall as but Marryat was merely echoing old hunds as chickenpox-yet the long ago, although this form of port of the three cases at the cheapness.-M. Fernand David. crime is by no means conspicuous Criminal Sessions mentioned is

Jenner who made exactly the same shortage of houses has produced so by its absence. That there would published

remark before vaccination was in-much overcrowding that there is z in the vernacular be fewer armed robberies if the papers by way of encouraging

trodiced, and attributed the alleged serious danger that nature may phenomenon to inoculation, which strike again and strike hard ne she Police were given the support of other Chinese women to exhibit a

is now a criminal practice.

does always when she is too long " Jobed. the Chinese community to aspirit of pluck and "community in- greater extent goes without say.terest, It is a trait all too rare, and when it is discovered it Time and again the special should be fostered. Even a per- difficulties of the Police have been sal word of commendation from commented upon-difficulties that

the Captain Superintendent of are rendered greater by the utter Police or the Secretary of Chinese lack of co-operation even amongst Affairs might have an excellent

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"It is an established fact that "Homes Lectures to Bluejackets more adequate housing sanitation appear to be reflected the teach-can avert the blow. It is equally an ing of the newspapers, on vaccina established fact that revacciation tion very faithfully. He exhibited cannot Anything that leads us to terrifying pictures of cases of con- rely on vaccination and neglect fluent smallpox, but omitted the housing sanitation is therefore most plotnres now, in extensive circnto-mischievously inopportune at the tion of casts of that eqtully present time. But for these.co hideous and more; deadly disease, siderations nothing vuld have in generalised us vacomo, He told duobd me to take up my pen ugaliBÍA DED of the scourge amallpox was before an argument with a profession Tocination came in in 1800; and which has surrendered itself to lim hole lessened thereaftat build fixed idea. I fear It is now too latesti

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