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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4,- 1925,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

The extracts from

Freda C Bond

in the number of divorcekin Amaricu than in way other country,pagast og Christian, IT the facts re sinted, they curtainly point to marital conditions which cannot but poison the social life of the nation. It is not so certain, however, that the remedy which sums to have THE CANTON the "Canton THUNDER AT has these obanning commanded itself to the Episcopal GAZETTE. Gazette" which NIOR'T, churches.would, if applied," be cal} eulated to improve matters. From given to 13, show to. what

les extreme of making divorce too lengths. an honourable pro Observer.. -easy, they would go to the other of fession may be prostituted. It not crouch like the mola" when barring altogether marriages by reminds us of a remark of Osear the heavens thunder, but quite a divorced persons, innant or guilty.Wilde's in relation to journalists. number foot glad when these A ban of this uncompromising "I have heard," Oscar once re-

are occasionally

lines in

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issue of the London Hongkong people may

chaqueter might possibly roult in marked, that journalists can be manifestations of nature cease and diminution of the number of divorced bought, and judging from the the outward world is seemingly at "persons, though even that is doubt appearance of some of them they reeb za "

ful, but it would not necessarily can't be very expensive." A means less immorality. Ita offect would, more likely, be to increase

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Hongkong, Friday, Sept. 4, 1925,

A SANE CHINA.

It is interesting to speculate

have been at the moment had n

power in Britain, and had Ameri can affairs been directed by such

ments. We need not repeat the statements made by British repre sentatives. America's policy of. the open door in China is well

journalist nowadays is not judged All day the air swam huminous on the quality of his dress--or About us--and the sky

should not be but on the quality swung like a crystal dome, above, of his mind as shown by his writ-, Immensurably high. ing. The paper in ques-

rays

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tion has well been described as Down dipped the sun: his dying There is nothing so hard to live the "Canton Gazhate." Verb sapit face and hair with gold,"

Lord Lever- Vested in radiant light we walked BUSINESS MAN hulme had his Secure as kings of old.

AT SEVEN. own ideas of

But when earth's farthest circling making money rim when quite a schoolboy. With Had hid the sun from view, the money given him on his The swift and silent elements seventh birthday he bought a pair Moulded themselves anew. of rabbits, and intended selling

There can be no mighty preaching without pamion.-Dr. J. D. Jones. The British people in the long run are always generous-Lord Oxford. Half the cutty stories one hears originate in men's clubs. Miss Helen Simpson.

People are better educated, but not always more honest.Bir Ernest

Wild.

Friendship of the English type is a wonderful asset among the peoples of the world.-M. Heifetz.

their young. After making the The imponderable air took form, butches he was seized with the And to the zenith's height idea of growing corn to feed his Reared ne in bastions and towers pets; this he attempted to do by Of overwhelming night, placing earth upon the roofs of

the hutches, but, so much for his A white spear stabbed_the_dark_ scheme, the rain soddened the earth, and timber and soil fell Out from their lair, the powers

and swift

upon the rabbits, smothering Of thunder leapt, and on our heads It is the first duty of the State to them, the end of his first business Flung down the cloudy towers. think of the soule as well as the venture. stomachs of its old soldiers.--Gen- eral Sir I. Hamilton.

And we, who lately walked as kings, The great mes in Crouched like the mole who feels. The West, with its externalC.B.M." journalism aur liters Thry the dense earth, close packed

above, ugliness, its sordid problems-well, it has the genius of being dissatis fod.--Mr. Stacy Aumonjer.

There are some things which the French certainly do better than us, and one is the management of race; courses-Miss Helen Macdonald,

Informer days our fathers kept the faith against avowed enemice, but to-day we have to defend it. against grave defections in our own ranks. Rev. F. B. Meyer.

CORRESPONDENCE.

DRIFT?

(To the Editor of the China Mail.)

known. So is her treatment in SirThe present state of affairs

ture are often known

by their initials--which may sind The jar of passing wheels. an Trishiam. In Hongkong some of us speak funiliucly of C.K.8, "G.K.O." "A.G.G.," "A.N.M.

YY knowing well those whom TONGUE. they represent.

To quite a number "G.B.M." vf

Afternoon

tees are

now coming into their own again in Hong-

also been a personality, and they, them somewhat, and this incur- the Manchester Gurdian" ha kong. The strike interfered with with others will be grieved to read sion added to some of the hard- that great paper -". the following from a recent ismin of ships suffered by the ladies who, of course, dearly love the con-

The tradition of anonymity is fidences exchanged over the after- still so well observed in the English noon cup. Men view these things press that it is only a few of the differently as probably the follow- greater names which reach the ing will explain. There is consciousness of the general public. moral in it if a long enough search But whers a met is not only. a. is made:-

A

great journalist, but a writer of disThe bright young hopeful in a tinction whose work is known ali Kowloon flat has not yet reached over the world, the tradition is at the age of five, but his parents brings to light, no question of to fail. It has been so with the have already decided that it such matters as the Boxer Indem-settlement and it appears as though most distinguished of the writers would be as well to be careful as nity Funds. There are, seem the situation will be allowed to can our own staff, and no one who to what is said in his hearing. ingly, no fire brands in the drift in the usual hup-hazard ways the familiar initials of

gard to China.

nature.

until matters ara.brought to a crisis CE.M." at the foot of an article His mother, has an at home day American Government. The un-eventually ending in a disastrous ever fails to realise that he is read now and then, when it is her emotionalism of the President muddle which could have been ing the work of the most brilliant custom to start receiving her seems to permeate others of his averted had forceful steps been and best-informed writer on the friends about three o'clock, and.: Cabinet. Cold hard facts pre-

taken in the beginning.

The eventa and personalities of the give them tea about five. In the first place the outcome of Great War, as well as the sather last occasion of this vail; and after all this variety the present trouble was no evidence of some not less vigorous and stimu- occured recently, and little Edgar, must do so. Mr. Frank Kellogg, so of a Strike at the very commence luting earlier work..

having behaved himself very de- ment, but merely an hostile action It is therefore with a degree of cently, was allowed to take tea honourably remembered in Lon- brought about by unscrupulous regret which our readers will ap with the visitors. He was very don as his country's Ambassador, hands who no doubt, hava for the preciate fund share that we have to quiet for a while, but finally his speaks with authority when het few years generated sufficient announce thy-impending retirement curiosity got the better of him. atatea American policy with re-wenk-minded ince and driven them staff of the Manchester Guard cake was going round, "Can I antagonien into the minds of a of Mr. Montague from the working "Oh, mummy," he said, as the. into a state of unrest. There is no inn to which, he has rendered have some tongue please?" question that the officials directing such essential service through a "Tongue, dear his maternal "To respect the sovereignty the pre-coul movement are seeing to period of now thirty-five years. He parent was obviously puzzled... and territorial integrity of it that their personal stocks are will, however, remain a member of "Why do you ask?. There isn't China; encourage the develop-sufficiently replenished apart from the board of directors of the paper, any." ment of an effective and stable the fact many are undergoing and in other ways, so far as the Government;

That's funny," the juvenile maintain the tremendous hardships through the claims of his own work may permit, disgust was very evident, "I heard open door; carry-out scrupul-faulty tactics of these leaders who will, we trust, continue to maintain da say there'd be nothing but. ously the obligations and procontinue to preach "Bolaheviem."his connection with it?

My tongue for an hour of two." to China at the China has always been a friend to Washington Conference; re. Great Britain on account of the quire China to perform her courtesy extended towards her by obligations as a sovereign state the country through the medium of in protection of

ber Colonies; and there is every Foreign citizens and their property." reason to believe that her citizens.

hayo always be treated on

merce is concerned

mises made

THE RIGHT TO BOB.

We lately published a protest sort, tower over various parts of what the position in China would. This is so clear that only the square busis as far as where com from a correspondent against the the Fatherland make a point of

most wilfully dense will refuse to

pernicious tendency of our hair. But we did not know that Labour Government been in understand it. It points plainly serious reflection on trade in every that all young women have their The feeling in Vienus is that if

The present affair has cust s

younger dramatists to assume it was a test of the Echt deutsch. to the fact that the salvation of direction, not only in Hongkong hair cropped, says the Daily it is not, it is going to be, for Address: 15-17, Queen's Road C.

but in various ports in both North a personality as the late Robert China is in China's own hands and South Chin, und is de meras Telegraph (London.) Into this "practically all the Jewish stu SootiiriärY BRONNONMUNDOKTORGRENNDONOGHINI La Follette. The first and last The saner elements in China must of impeding the normal flow of controversy we would not enter. dente have short bobbed hair

Labour Government at Home had agree. It is the opposite faction commerce for many a mouth to come. The proportion of women who We should not have thought that

this would be much of a distinc perhaps no reasonable oppor-

that will not vee, or seeing, will Apparently the gist of the cable have been shorn is a matter upon,

despatched to the Home Secretary which no two women seem to tion in Vienna where neutral tunity to bring some of their recognise that in a Stable Govern has had no legal effect in spite of agree, and we dare not interfere observers estimate that bobbing -

fighting, militarists, Canton's vent that the matter does not dramatists to believe the woratus. But your true anti-Semite is appeal to the Home authorities in The claim of woman to do what never hampered by any desire to National Government, and all a serious form to warrant immediate she will with her own, is now go make sure whom he is hitting. It the things that hinder Ching fateps to enforce action, otherwise eagerly asserted that it would be is to be recognised that when a from being under one control. It the okny would have received heartless to suggest any suspicion woman's natural tendency to dis- is the saner element in the coun- that Hongkong is one of the great Finally, and the reason is conclu-woman does her hair is comb

some intimation. It must be voiced of the bliss this to be attained approve of the way another Colonial Secretary, as a result of which mustert itself. Howest shopping centres in the world and sive difference of opinion as to with the incalculable, animosities his work at the Colonial alebo do so at the moment when the second to none time, two eers back; the right to shingle buigle, of bobafenings must happen

a pronounced Imperialist outlook is clouded with much that and cut it be left to be paltered by and the beauty of the result han gen that is a firm believer in the is irre

a lot of brigands who have done no work and destiny of the British it is not an infuperable problem to the working inhabitats who private relations that no discreet, The Indies have pulled

vant, la problem. But earthly use to bring abont nistice already wrought such havoc fa. They have happened Empire. Labour politicians at and should attract the best that is have id along slaveno malos the man will wish to say anything fr and violently that the Home have proved themselves in China.

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