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And at long fast the authorities have risen out of official slumber and made regulations which should end a peculiarly objection- able phase of Chinese, manners: and modes. The other thing re- fars to the seeming indifference of the European to a thing in which he should take a continual joy. Yet observation of what it stands for la confined to one day in the year. The other 364 go and the passer-by outwardly, at any rate, cares not: An exception is the E.A.S.M.A. which, we underderstand, is responsible for the daily supply of fresh flowers to be found at the base of the monument. All honour to the Association.

Prolixity.

"MONDAY, JUNE 22-~

1925

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

GEORGE' MOORE.

EPITAPES

Women he prais "¿d and, after IN ADVANCE, women, art.

Good friends he

It is curious

AN ANTI-GREEN 10 remember IRISHMAN. that the one MAR who hated the wearing of the green was

had and used them all for copy. the greatest of Irish - leaders- Had but his genius matched as Charles Stewart Parnell, among

whose bellofs was one in the l great a heart.

Time had not mixed his laurels luck of the colour green. When

with the poppy...

RUDYARD KIPLING. The tin-can politics of Rudyard, rust in some Tooting brick and

mud yard.

while through the sacred brush.

wood, rippling, glimmers the fann the gods call

Kipling.

:

JOHN MASEFIELD · What needs my Masefield for his Let others have their brass or

honoured bones.?

he was sent to Kilmafaham, an Irish political prisoner, wishing to rolleve the bareness of his coll. took a green table cloth which had. been worked for him by friends. outside and put it on Parnell's table. Coming up, he found the table bare and the cloth huddled "What have away in a corner.

you

done with my beautiful cloth he asked, Ah," said Parnell imperturbably "green's an. unlucky colour."

Lord Oxford is responsible for the reference to an American orator that "he was like a train of fifteen cars and only depas serger." And, England's orator of good English comments "That is prolixity." The quota- tion comes very apt after a glance at the current issue of that sometimes exciting journal "The Hongkong Government Gazette." Tell me not hore; it needs not it as follows: "Hymn number

lettered stones. Enough for him to know where

he is gone Song's everlasting mercy

with John.

A. E. HOUSMAN.,

goes

In it is to be found a series of re- saying. gulations under the caption that, quitting his Elysium, "Prison Rules." They are. in-oach spring to watch the cherry deed "a train of fifteen cars and snowing,

singing, the Shropshire lad will

come,

DEAN INGE

Hark i the herald angels sing timidly because Dean Inge has arrived, and seems to be bored with immortality.

only one passenger." No fewer and the green fires of the plum, than three hundred and thirty- lest, later lads should miss their five clauses make up these "Prison message, Rules" to say nothing of menus Tribute is not of prison fare. paid to the author of this literary masterpiece. Jaded readers of fiction will undoubtedly find some thing of interest in these pages, and if only on that account; and on that account only a perusal is highly recommended. Clause 177 instructs that "......the hair of JIM'S GIRL. fast; the prisoner shall not be cut closer than may be necessary for the purpose of health and cleanli- ness." The scintillating purity | and clearness of this instruction like the peace of God, passes all The Chief

been given by the authorities and by those bodes reflecting and re- presenting dies of residents. Panic must-b eliminated from all understanding. minds. Actons must be free Warder has twenty-four clauses devoted to him and of these 22 from the nalevolene which it begin.

Warder "The "Chief

a

Jim's girl is tall and

My girl is short and slow;

Jim's girl wears silky things;

My girl wears calico. Jim's girl has wit and fun:

My girl is dull and good. But d'you think I'd change my

girl for Jim's?

By Gosh, I would.

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A Clergyman --

caused THE HYMN cently

NUMBER. slight sensation among his con- gregation, particularly among those mathematically inclined, on" giving out a hymn, He announced

two hundred and twenty-two-tem thousand times ten thousand--two hundred and twenty-two." A ribald young man is said to have remarked after the service was over: "I didn't work it out, be- cause the hyma would have been

finished by the time I had found.

the answer!"

**Please mark off A STRANGE the dishes you CHOICE. wish to order, madam," said a walter to a stylishly dressed lady who entered a fashionable restaur ant the other day. The bill of fare. was written in French, and, rather than confess her ignorance of the language, she made a few dashes on it with her pencil. "The order- read. "Dinner, 2.,"" April 21st," "Vegetables," "Please pay at the desk," "Celery." The tactful walter bowed politety and brought the- embarrassed lady a beefsteakl

FAITH IN FUTURE OF CHINA.

prisoners, and shall aim to raise government, but, they must do it Profound faith in the Chinese- the minds of the prison officere to in their own way and in their people was expressed by Dr.~. sense of their responsibility." If own time, he asserted, adding Schurman, who while in China "The Chinese people do not do travelled into every part of the Chief Warders die young we now things with the speed of the country. The difficulties in the know the reason... But space Western world, but they recognize, founding of a democratic form of of this momentous piece of official central government, and the pre-, enhanced by the fact that their is limited for a further analysis the importance of an effective national government there were

imperialistic government

been the oldest in the world. It had suited them during about 5,000 years, and up to this time- they have only had 12 years in which to bring themselves to a re- publican form of government.

is natural to feel at the un- shall." His job is not exactly "a He is not to absent warranted onduct of masses of bobby's one."

himself from his duties without people who like "silly sheep", the permission of the Superinten- have wandered from the guiding dent and--and this seems terrible hand that has protected them; he "shall endeavour to exercise a sound moral influence over both

Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, given them freedom of action and the officers and prisoners placed

"The country seems to be in thought forbidden them in Can- under his supervision. He shall Ambassador designate to Ger- about the same condition it was many, a caller at the White four years ago in this respect. ton. It will be in a spirit of restrain by his authority every House, expressed the utmost If one rival is put down, another quiet determination that

tendency to oppression or undue the lesson will be brought home to son officers, and likewise every United States as Minister:

I harshness on the part of the pri- confidence in the future of China, aprings up in his place. The only where he has represented the way a stable government can be The formed is through the agreement those who have bowed down to tendency to levity, rudeness and Chinese will establish a stable of these military governors." the command of unieason and the insubordination on the part of fear that plays suck a part in the life of the many whose ignorance is played upon so successfully. The Government with commend able promptness tas initiated methods of combajing the spread prolixity. If similar productions of this unnecessary evil. There govern the working of other Gov- is established a censorship of ernment Departments we can TIGHTEN THE BELT!

telegrams and letters; and meane slowness in performing things.

well understand why there is a Commencing in what has been whereby the commodities neces described "a small way." the sary to life may be requisitioned;} strike begun by numbers of school also the arrest of hose who wil boys has developed to such an fully obstruct public officers in the extent as to leave no doubt where execution of their duty. it will finally end. The issues are precautions will instil confidence I clear so far as the Government and give that assurance--not

and peaceful inhabitants of this merely to foreigner but to those ment becomes the more competent Colony are concerned. The Chinese who are peaceful and it comes.-Master of Balliol. strike is none of their seeking. law-abiding which should conduce They have no questions of any to confidence. In the knowledge sort to answer. There is nothing of the dastardly thing which has of which they need feel ashamed been thrust upon the Colony, the and nothing that can be laid to "China Mail" urges the use of their charge. People boasting an those British traits which, ancient civilisation; an old-world this, have demonstrated courtesy, and, hitherto, a righteousness of justice. It is modicum of common sense, time for the tightening of the belt have, at the instigation we must of decision and determination: assume, of irresponsible factions, left their work without warning

and without notice. Of most of

These

are

the

THEY SAI THẤT.

Few things are more difficult to analyse than the pleasure of speed.

-Mr. Arnold Lunn..

The more democratic the Govern-

The ontlook is promising for the development of a mass revolutionary party.-Mr. V. Gallagher.

The Government cannot carry out an agricultural policy unless the people in the industry tell them what they want. Mr. Blundell, M.P.

I do not believe it was within the power of any man to unite the Irish pouple or to bring them within a reasonable distance of union--Mr. John Dillan.

I can understand differences and I can understand making up differ- ences, but I cannot understand quarrelling after you have made up the differences. Mr. Lolyd George,

TO-DAY'S SMILE.

HURMAN

"They are such a wonderful people that I have perfect con- fidence they will get on the basis of a republican form of govern- ment in time," he continued. "We must have faith in the Chinese people. Their history justifies this and our present experience with them justifies it, so that we must have patience with them,

as they do not do things in a hurry like Americans or Europeans,

way,

"We must also let them do it in their own way. We cannot tell them how to do it. Their new Government, when formed, will be adapted to their conditions, and it will be their own Govern- ment, set up in their own It would be the height of folly for foreign gov- ernments to intervene for the purpose of giving China a stable government. That country would resent it. National con- sciousness and racial conscious- eent Chief Executive of the pro- ness is developed there, so that visional government has arranged such intervention would unify the for what Americans would call a Chinese people against the other national convention, in which he governments. Nobody can do it hopes to bring about some form for them, but they must do it for of permanent constitutional govthemselves. We must give them, ernment in China. With this end their own time, and continue to in view a preliminary conference exercise confidence in them." of the provinces has already been "The present policy of America held.

toward China should continue,

"This "I want you to bear in mind Dr. Schurman added. that the Chinese people are con-policy is one of sympathy, good-v fronted with difficulties which we will, and helpfulness, whenever and the people of European coun-China wants' it. Chinu regards tries do not have in the formation America as its best friend, hề“ of a new government similar, to declared. This is because we do our republican form of govern not want special privileges and ment," Dr. Schurman said, "The we have respect for her ideals," country is divided into provinces Communism cannot gain a foot- in which military governors exer- hold in Ching, according to Dr. cise control over their respective Schurman's view. Lically the provinces. The chief difficulty is Chinese people are the most to get them to recognize the democratic in the world, most of ' national government: Each one them owning some property of justice and freedom, the atti-its significance and then, in the

··* "Have you beard from Feter would have to give up his army. This with the fact that there in tude of all must be one of distinct cool of the evening to use the during his great motor tour ? It force were used, one might no "proletariat” or large bodies of

Thare must be steps as a meeting, sitting, andYes...have had two lettera destroy all the others, but other workingmen congregated in bar

aleeping place. There can be not tightening of the bell of disagionTM

from him one from the police would rise in their places. They Lcities would oper pagainst the objection to the former: there station and ons from a bospital." can be bought, but they do not extension: safe the Soviet into and determination. A lead has can and has been to the latter.

-Kloda Hons, Copenhagen, I stay bõught.

China, he declared.

them it is charitable to think The Cenotaph. "that they know not what they do." Of the result of their action declared himself in favour of The Bishop of Manchester has they are soon likely to know. memorials which are memorials The weapons of unreason and hate are double-edged weapons.use. In this way the hind cen only and not put to any useful" Time will demonstrate this fact.tralises on the main fait of the Those who live by these things

memorial-thé reason for it. It will surely suffer from them. In

ia this which makes Hongkong's the meantime those who are tem- Cenotaphor should do 80-the porarily inconvénienced or made realistic thing it is a perpetual to suffer must bear a brave reminder of u cause and notable front Bearing-in-mind-that-the-

self-sacrifice. Two things have disturbed the minds of those who: quarrel now forced upon the continually see, in this piece of Colony is not of its seeking, that, unaffected inspiring piece metaphorically its hands are lifting in its beauty and lignity. masonry, something which is up clean; that Chinese above all have The first has been the misuse had. treatment accorded to them which has been made of it and its of the kindliest, the best, and in surrounding green by unthinking

of

accordance with the highest traits the chapty tomb and to wonder at coolies, who have come to gaze on

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