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MONDAY, AUGUST 31,

SHREDS AND PATCHES

NOTE

There, seoms Commodore of the White Star

| ARCHITECTS, PLEASE to be a mes- Line, was second mate on the

sage in what wind-Jammer "Falls of Dee follows for his last voyage in sail--the cargo shifted during a heavy gale and

monthly returns of income and Hongkong architects.

Mr. Ramany MacDonald, open- for a time it looked as though it expenditure, and that the Governing an exhibition of the Liverpool would be the end of her, and him, ment should, at no distant date. School of Architecture, said he and all give-an indication of the lines of was there because he represented "A lot of us were gathered f's retrenchment policy, and say that section of democracy which together hanging on as best we hungered and thirsted after could, wondering what was going If, in present conditions, it is spiritual peace and beauty. to happen, when the old sail- making the best use of its very Riches without beauty was maker said: large staff of servants. It would poverty, and possessions without "Here goes for a-good

smoke before I go to hell.” be interesting to know if it is con-spiritual content was nought. The

training of the architect did not "With that he got hold of a verted to the suggestion of loans end with a knowledge of the com-rope and Nowered himself down to for the payment of some of its position of bricks and stone, and the deck, crawled along to the public works, instead of charging how to deal with dry rot. It must deckhouse, and by and by strug capital expenditure to ordinary be a training to grasp the life and gled back with his pipe filled and income. The Government, as all the spirit of art. They wanted well under way":

architects who would reveal to us The Bosun, who was really a of us, has had a salutary lesson in the Absolutely beautiful. When bigger blackguard than the sail- Chinese - gratitude, politics, and the architect built a house he built maker he certainly had used morality. Looking to its able it not in a street but in a setting. fouler language up till a few The problem of architects en-hours previously-reproved him administrators it would be wrong gaged in domestic work was not for swearing at such a time, and to suggest that the lesson has to put on nice little houses, where Sails' answered: been lost. The Government is nice little people might come to "I've been swearing unable to make a settlement of the dwell and nice little children since I could talk, and I don't present chaos, for reasons known might play on nice little pianos. suppose it will make any differ- Domestic architecture should con ence where I go to if I knock off and appreciated. It is able to lay sist of embodying the communal for the next half-hour. down a polley that should make spirit. Town halls, churches, "Which," adds Captain Hayes, Hongkong tolerably safe for the public buildings, should be effectually •squelched

planned on beautiful and magni- Bosun.".. future.

ficent unity. The day would

Can Sail Little.

come when architecte would know

ever

Can you Glimo-

their business, and in order that ANOTHER HORROR, rick? A Glime- they might know. It, the public

rick is a croes should give them sufficient en-between a Timerick and a Cross- couragement.

Word and goes something after this style:-

At Wembley, a holiday planner Found that for bob und &

(A small coin),;

He could tour round the

(Terrestial globe). Without quitting his

(Place were crickets chirp)

So he bustened in, waving a

(As carried by Excelsior!)

When Captain Bertram Hayes, Simple, isn't it?

The commander of one of the big British men-of-war visiting Shanghai happens to be very keen on sailing and, getting into touch

Courage is of all with a prominent member of the COURAGE. kinds, from checking Yacht Club, he was offered the

your taipan to getting loan of a boat whenever he cared the VC. Many a Hongkong to take it out. Some few days man will agree and probably ago he ventured in one of the agree that the "hero" In the Byrne boats and was so enraptur- following story was a little bit ed with its behaviour in all courageous:....... circumstances that he spent the whole of an afternoon shooting about the river, says the "North China Daily News." The boat's owner, thinking a little naval! competition might add to the sport provided by the club, sought his laodah the next day and ask- ed: "Yesterday one master takee boat. He can sail?" The A distinguished foreign poet Impossible to understand. The laodah looked far away into the has just been urging upon our English delight in nonsense distance and in an off-hand attention, the remarkable import because it is nonsense rouses in manner answeredff"Yes, he can ance of nonsense in English which, according to a French them the "bleak amazement" with sai, little." Of course, the..

NONSENSE AND LITERATURE.

officers and men of H.M., Navy poetry, observes the "Daily critic, our admiration for Swift, nowadays are not what they were Telegraph" (London). M. Emile that great master of nonsense, ja in the days of Nelson, but the "Cammaerts, knowing our litera-regarded: in France. We have officers do go through a sailing ture better than most of us, lately been solemnly warned that course and, if we were forced to naturally has in it the interest of the popularity of "Alice" in believe it, it would be galling to discovery and investigation and a Wonderland," being born and think that the commander of one fresh judgment, and he is con-bred of Victorian fashion, cannot million dollars compared with of our cruisers did not know more strained to pronounce that this endure. There are believed to be The China Mail" May of last year. Since June about handling a small sailing nonsense has been treated far too people already who cannot under- sales have been almost negligible, boat than a Huangpu laodah. superciliously by the critics. It stand why anybody should be Especially when one knows the took him, he confesses, a long whilst a feature of the local pro-laodahs. The names of the time to understand. perty market has been the aum-parties concerned?

When he Oh, no, not first saw such verses he rather ber of sales of 'property at auction for any persuasion. "by order of the mortgagees.” Conditions leading to a diminish- ed population have meant an in- crease in the number of vacant

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MARRIAGE.

THEY SAY THAT-

It

The Crown can do no wrong. cannot be negligent.-Judge Mar chant.

shied at them," but, having lived among us for eighteen years, he "begins to see the joke,” and, in fact, now considers that they "are "of the essence of poetry." But under this general name of "nonsense" M. Cammaerts seems

amused when the poet

Thought he saw a banker's.

clerk

Descending from a 'bus He looked again and saw it was

A-hippopotamous.

"If this should stay to dine,"

said,

There won't be much for

18.”

to include two quite different But the natural man has not yet things. His first example is "that ceased to smile when he recalis practicable-Mr. A. G. Walkden. Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the

A levy on "briin capital' is im- classic among nursery rhymes, the didactice of

The feathered race with pinlons fiddle," in which he finds not

skim the air,

shops, houses, and flats, and in the number of cúbicles for rent cubicles being peculiar to those of the Chinese labouring class. So far as the Government is concerned, the boycott must mean a de- when menageries and circuses are absurdity and

I shall be sorry to see the day only a delightful pageant of

Not so the mackerel, and still All communications should be

characteristic

less the bear; creased revenue, for empty pro-abolished.--Alderman Fagett. addressed to the Newgpaper Enter

figures, but also a new kind of when he thinks of the nonsense of prise, Ltd, to whom all remittances-perty does not produce rates. should be made payable.

It is no use having a first-class poetry and technique." There is, the Anti-Jacobin, of Sheridan, of Shipping being affected in the bru if there is a second-class he reminds us, very little of this Swift. Why should the revolving present crisie, it follows, that ship-cluracter behind it.Sir W. Joyn- sort of thing in other languages years consign Lewis Carroll and ping dues and the like must on-Hicks, M.P.

and a great deal in English. Edward Lear to an oblivion which Now, we shall all admit that "Hey has not drowned the elder necessarily be affected. It is Many cases of maternity ure diddle diddle" is nonsense. But mastera? We shall continue to an ill wind, etc. Crime statistics handled, at present, in a disgrace. M Cammaerts pronounces that believe that the tragic passion of

ful way-Dr. Harold Waller. must have been affected to a re-

"With a hey ho, the wind and the the Yongy Bongy Bo for the Lady We have done much to reduce in- rain," and "It was a lover Jingly Jones, and the invitation of markable degree by recent hap fant mortality, but little to help the and his lase, with a hey the whiting to the snail, are stuff penings, so that whilst expendi- mothers-Dr. RA. Lyster. and a ho and 4 hey nonnino which the world will not willingly PRICE IRVING-On July 29, ture on the Police Force is the

are ponsense,, too.. His reason is let die But we cannot make the at All Saints', Woodchurch, same, there is no off-set of any undue hasts, and unnecessary inter nothing to do with the poem "are Carroll fit M. Cammaerts's en- Incompetence, unclean methode, that references which have modest rhythms of Lear or Lewis. Kent, EL. Price, CLE moment in the way of fines, to ference, lie at this very root of the brought in for the sake of the thusiastic daecription, which O.B.E., of Karachi, India, to Rachel, eldest daughter of place to this particular account material mortality problem-Dr. musis of the words and the plea. speaks of poetry run mad,

AF. G. Spinks. E. A. Irving, late Hongkong The Post Office and the Railway

aant images they suggest. The poetry on the verge of becoming C.S.. and Mrs. Irving.

must be similarly ected. I can foresee the day when two Poetry in feet, is making its music when the words sometimes thirds of the population will be reappeal by a general impression ceased to have any meaning." quired to get a parent in order to rather than particular atate. This is true enough of such verge Wheatley, MP. enter the matrimonial state, ir, an echo of the sense was the old about "Lorraine, Lorraine, ments. That the sound should be as Kingsley's wonderful song

maxim,⠀⠀ In poetry of this kind Lorree," or Swinburne upon the sound is the sense. It was Faustine, Fragoletta, Dolores, not, however, invented by Félise, and Yolande and Juliette. Englishmen, and most languages But when the owl and the pussy- Hey which are rich in poetry can show cat go to sea, or the old man some of it. Theocritus and hunts for baddocka' øyes among Catullus bring in things not in the the heather bright," they are no least necessary “for the sake of controlled and definite as Mr. the music of the wards." Those Pope. What they mean is per. lines of Alfred de Musset, which fectly precise. Indeed, the fun of Gautier could get out of his the thing depends upon the mean-

PA“ Baint-Blatae: 6 la ing being lucid and exact. Wit oca, nous étions bim là, đo out that précision tas full or

fascination dour of the absurdity would not

fact that bo achieved: The Tasso

decreased revenue w tion in what ng Bay

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Hongkong, Monday, August 31, 1925. overhead charges. We hear very little in the present state of mad- THE COLONY'S FINANCES.ness of the huge amount

by Canton in regard to the rail It may be that present conway We should not be surprised

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