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Hongkong, Thursday, July 23, 1925,
PUBLICITY.
The Government has had what
is known as a good Press. But it
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not a wholesale distribution of notices in Chinese from street to street and door to door, even if only a percentage are able to read them?
dication of policy is made might well be utilised for the purpose of a little heart searching by those who recognise the need. The following question, for instance, could be mentally put and, if favourably answered, the object,
THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1925.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
SCHOLAR.
An accomplished other day, the British steel-tube pursued with even greater vigour. A "PLUCKED" journalist and makers' tendor was 30 per cent.
Do you consider the individual)
traveller, with a below the nearest foreign com- advantages to be gained from re-
knowledge of petitor, not a single paper appear- gistration would outweigh the in-three or four modern languages ed to notice this phenomenon. convenience to which you will be beside the "humanities," has just The same reticence was notice- put in registering your servants, revealed his utter ignorance of a able when the contract for the and in the event of failure to do subject in which most schoolgirls new harbour at Madeira recently so paying the fine, that will surely could pass with honours. Over went to a British firm. Dr. Shad- be the minimum penalty for such the tea-table the other day, the well, evidently a true Britisher, emission (any scheme of regis- topic of crossword puzzles came appears to be happiest when tration sponsored by the Govern-up, and the distinguished guest gloomiest about his own country. ment to be effective would have to naively asked, "What is the prin
be compulsory). In the majority ciple of the crossword puzzle:
of cases the answer would un-how do you set about working it | COMEDY IN THE hesitatingly be "yes," and, yet it out?" The confession of in-
is doubtful if compliance with the nocence was genuine; and it may obligations such a scheme entails have been the ignorance that is would be so rendy as the answer, bliss.
The owner of a private chair or
ricsha, for instance, knows how
"He's grown
easily such things are forgotten. FLASHES FROM THE and so do the authorities respon- FOOTLIGHTS.
old, and I've
kept young
sible for such registration who j
-and that
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COURTS.
thought. perhaps little upset."
Landlady: "Sho was throwing tho fat-irons about, so I she was just a
Magistrate: "Is there any one present to speak for the prisoner ""
A detective: "Only his mother- in-law, sir; but she says she can- not trust herself to address you
Tottenham Man:
are continually reporting the does mix things up so!" gross neglect or defiance of such obligations imposed by law. "I'm engaged. That is, as on the subject." This is not submitted as an much as one can be engaged these argument against registration. į days." If, after considering the points raised, and any other incidentals "You wouldn't be so perfect if arising out of them, the resident you had wasted any of your time is still satisfied that he will abide in sincerity." -From "The by the obligations imposed, then Vortex."
he has all the more reason for
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pressing forward with the "Look out-here they come! schemes already afoot, whether or Do let them catch us embracing. not they receive the official sanc- they rather expect it of us. tion of the Government or are hate disappointing people." fathered by it.
THEY SAY THAT
Armaments are not the cause. but the symptoms of war.-Miss K. D. Courtney.
For all marriages I prefer "Darby and Joan" to "Romeo and Juliet. Dr. Schofield.
Publishers never touch alcohol in any form; it might go to their heads and make them accept things."
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"So few men are clever enough not to be conceited."-From "The Rat Trap."
"When we
married with all your wordly goods and you have not."
Wife: "And you promised to endow me with all your worldly goods and you have not."
At Kingston: "He carries dan- gerous things about with him, and he has threatened to make a hole. in my breathing apparatus."
Man at Willesden: "Please give me a summons against a friend of mine for hitting me in the jaw for the third time."
"Did you
your
CHILDREN'S FUNNY give
SAYINGS,
penny to the monkey?' 'Yes, mother." 'And what did the monkey do with it?' He gave it organ."" to his father, who played the
'You
In "The Times." Dr. The end of woman is to piense RETICENCE. Arthur Shadwell, a man, the end of man to please has attacked the lack of serious student of sociology, himself. Mr. Stephen Hudson."
ness in the people of the present Salisbury Cathedral is so hope-generation in Great Britain, who, his orchard found a boy standing "A farmer going suddenly into lessly perfect that it makes you he says, "neither work well nor under an" apple-tree with feel uneasy. Mr. Karel Capek.
a fine play well." While it may be true, rosy apple in his hand. The human race has in its own as Dr. Shadwell says, that the ex- young scamp!' said the farmer. hands the power of improving its penditure on superfluities was What were you going to do with inheritance.-Dr. Graham Wallas.never so great, there is much con- that apple? 'Please, sir.'. an- Too great bodily exertion is as structive work going on through-swered the boy, I was just going tiring for the nerves as too great out the country, but it seldom re- to put it back on the tree." mental exertion. Sir Arthur ceives public attention. For Small Boy (on arrival at Schuster.
example, the coal miners and country cottage): 'Mummy, hands together in a way that has There isn't any bath-room, dear.' colliery owners are putting their where is the bath-room? Mother: never been done before, in order Small Boy: 'Good! This is going to cope with the serious situation to be a real holiday.' that has arisen in their industry. When an order is lost to Britain me a drum? 'No, no, you would Say, father, won't you buy on account of the lower produc. be constantly..disturbing me with tion costs on the Continent, the the noise." 'No I won't, father; newspapers the world over an- I promise you I will only drum nounce the fact: but when, as the when you're asleep.'
Nature, in the sense in which we ordinarily use the term, knows nothing of forgiveness, Bishop of Lincoln.
Education is the most appalling evil with which humans have ever been inflicted.-Sir William Arbuthnot Lane,
To-day, more than-at any time in the past, the hope of the world rests upon the rising generation. -Mr. Hubert Martin.
Thousands of men could not The Colony is facing a position but will walk far to drink it at drink ale in their dining-rooms largely created by fear built up an inn-Mr. Basil Macdonald on ignorance. It cannot be said | Hastings. that it has made large use of the natural force of publicity-a publicity that would have behind it the additional force of truth. Even in peace times this aspect should not be neglected. many, we wonder, heard of the) return of the gates of Kam Tin to
How LOCAL & GENERAL.
The Nederlandsch Indische
says:
RUPERT BROOKE AND
TAHITI.
Riches are often the reward of
Mr. Robert Keable, the well- Brooke's poetry ever so much. the cunning and the unscrapul- delightful travel book, Tahiti: until I showed her the book, and known novelist, has written a She bothered and bothered me us; poverty often the fate of the Isle of Dreams (Hutchinson, 168. then she wanted me to give her tender-hearted, the humble, and] meek.-Canon Donaldson.
net). Apart from its "blend of his signature. Well, of course, I poetic prose and personal philo-couldn't. But-oh, it was dread- sophy" it tells of Rupert Brooke, full-she got hold of it, and she the most brilliant poet of his day, tore out the Rupert! Whatever who was killed early in the war, could I do? I felt such a fool. and who, in his young manhood, But there it is, his own writing Writing of the poet, Mr. Keable had associations with Tahiti. "Brooke, 26." Wasn't he young? "Perhaps it is foolish to like the story so much. But it typical "I do not think he would now of Tahiti, so-like Pare, so charac recognise in the present Tiare teristic of young ladies! I sup- inn that Lovaina, perhaps best is a photograph of Brooke, with Hotel the quaint and charming pose that somewhere in America
and most unusual of hotel Rupert in the usual place of In the Hongkong Baseball hosteases, then ruled so wonder signature. And I photographed League two games are to be play-wide verandah is, dead-shut up, looked to me as so much that is fully....The very house with the the page of the book, for it looked ed on Saturday as follows:-neglected, empty, since the long associated with him, and as his H.K.V.D.C. v. Japanese, 2.30 p.m.liness of Tetuanui; and the friends in Tahiti, shortly to ba to 4.30 p.m.; Hongkong wooden pler is dying. Indians, 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m.
Its old blown about the winds of the timbers. rot in the water, and I world.'" took a piece of the sea-stained wood for a remembrance. Sitting there on the little jetty, I said the "Mamue, when our laughter lines to myself:-
There was a clean bill of health a village that had earned the in the Colony for the 24 hours reputation of being loyal, and that ended Wednesday. the return of those gates was far from being a sign of weakness on the part of the Government?
What can't speak can't lie, the old phrase has it. It applies very forcibly to the publicity of which the Government should make use.
Mixed Labour.
:
The Hotel's experiment will be watched with much interest.
Handelsbank has declared a divi dend of 10 per cent. for the year ended December 31, 1924.
ends,
And hearts and bodice, brown
as white, Are duet about the doors of
friends
Or scent a-blowing down the
night,
As to Tahiti, which to the Buthor at any rate is an "ale of
dreams," the author sums up
"In an English cathedral of to-day-say Ely or Peterborough, or Lincoln or Chester-it is im possible not to be aware of a spirit that is passed, a something gracious, vital, lovely, whose ghost but lingers on the air," says Mr. Keable.
Yesterday afternoon there was a partial collapse of the roof of At the moment the stuff clocs 15, Wing Lok Street, which re- not consist wholly of Chinese. It sulted in a Chinese boy of 16, who is obvious that its proclamations is agreeably cosmopolitan, and, was apparently the only occupant, and the things that it has caused all demands made upon it. It is to the Government Civil Hospital. working in harmony, should meet being injured. He was removed to be done in the interests of law easier to staffà Hotel in this and order; the maintenance of manner then, say, such an in- Sir Robert and Lady Ho Tung essential services; the supply of stitution as the Naval Dock Yard; entertained Mr. Lloyd George, but where it is feasible to intro- Dame Margaret Lloyd George; foodstuffs; and the methods to duce the system, it should be their son prevent epidemics to
and daughter-in-law, say tried. In this way wholesale Major and Mrs. Lloyd George, nothing of the rounding up and abstentions would not be the order and their private secretary, Mr.
"The stones remain in all their HONGKONG EXCAVATION PILE DRIVING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD., H.Ky expulsion of idlers and the punish of any strike, and the Chinese Sylvester, to a Chinese lunch on
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"I asked to see the signature in waiving controversy, the present wider publicity than it is possible own line of thought and action were also entertained to lunch by a little embarrassed, but for the decent use; but, even if one is a They the old book. Pare was instantly holders put these buildings-to a for the European press to pro- with that of other places. They Mr. and Mrs. Neville Chamber- love he bore me he at last com-heathen or a heretic, one knows
Certain notices are written would also take their place in a lain.
plied. Gesticulating and apologis- that something is gone to which placed on boards, mainly in system in which ability only counted-a system also which,
ing, he held out the battered relie, this building properly belongs. or near the Post Office and in the would probably sound the death is accepted for shipment on the page, one reads:
Conditions under which cargo and there, at the bottom of the "One may not even feel, taking Wanchai district. The numbers knell of what is popularly dea-s.s. Tang On are1 Freight to
all in all, that one wants that Brooke, 26, Journalist, ancient religion, that monastie attracted to them must neces-cribed as "squecze." sarily be small and their explana-
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Then, oh! then, the wise agree, Comes our immortality." comfort in the wise.......
"Alas and alack: There's little
be charged will, be fixed by the Cambridge, England, Jan. 16. ism, that strange medieval life Harbour Master. 2. A receipted" But where, said I, is the bill for the freight charges must Christian nama
which created the place, back again, but of that I do not speak.
merely use the llustration:
be presented to the Chief Offereby he said, inimitably, in The proclamation (in English) Registration of Servants.——
examination before goods are his own delightful way, oh, I'm standing there alone in the grave, regarding the paying out of matter on which the Government of shipment are waived and the know, it is terrible. And how I times the light breath of the spirit Registration of servants is a loaded. 8. All usual conditions ashamed to tell you! Really, you dim, aflent slales one knows some deposits in Chinese banks seemsia in honour bound to make sorge Government, assumes no respon could have been such a fool! But haunting the place in which it to have been placarded over the statement now that a definite sibility of any nature. 4 Ship-it was like this, and it was not my came to birth in which fe is how city. Why not the same processed them by a properly con arrangements or loading at was an American girl staying shartly, wholly fades turt
process communication has been address-pera must make all necessary fault, really fb was not, There a stranger from which it must with regard to all the things stituted body. The time that le Hongkong and unloading without bers, a very pretty girl mentioned in this Note Why bound to elapse before such in delay at port of destination:
you in some such way I am aware Raper of the spirit of HELLAS
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