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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Our railway was and is all this. It was a belief in the common- sense and prosperity of China and particularly of its southern provinces, and more particularly of the great city of Canton! That belief still holds good' in spite of prosent conditions and the huge debt owing by Canton in respect of the railway. Piancere' die, but the spirit of pioneers lives on. It cannot be killed. There are some who still see the vision of a line from Kowloon to Canton on to Hankow; and some who dream of reaching England from the Colony, with scarce the necessity of placing foot on steamer...... There is wrok for the Government to do. We trust we have dicated clearly in which direction. and the blood-stained hand of

Moscow described as a Touni. ·

Not a word of the red herring in the path waiting to be nipped in the bus!

in-

THEY SAY THAT.—

The truth is the tribute one pay one's friends.--Mr. R. Hood.

horne

You cannot industrial making.-Prof. V. H. Mottram.

Women to-day are dynamic: men are static-Mr. Hugh Graham.

Men are the worst-dressed animals on earth-Professor Ernst Freid. berger.

Similes are dan- A fierce looking man entered LITERARY LAPSES. gerous things. the editor's room with some show

A cake

must of violence, and said: "They surely be awarded the local tell me you are the man who puts. scribe who, on Saturday, referred things in the paper." “Ah,” to pacific breezes in the midst of said the polite editor, "you have which there blew the force gaste been misinformed. 1 ALIA the of hatred, which fanned the man who keeps things out." flames of discrimination in China Whas Hongkong needs is some and hung a whole nation's foster- "polite". Editors! ed ill-feeling on the peg of a mill- workers' and students riot. I would earnestly advise them for their good to order this Some breezes and some peg!

We have, in this particular paper-Aditison. piece of rhetorical verbosity some! An early puff for the "China amazing metaphors.

The seedaj Mail."

Chinese Through the rare felicity of the times, you are permitted to think what you please, and to publisit what you please-Tacitus.

of disorder sown in the receptive

of half-baked sci studentdom and tradea unionism:

*

There is no such "rare facility of the times" un Hongkong. Ask Mr. Somerset Maugham!

The bible is taking on new guise. Sir James Charlie, well known

in Hongkong, has re

the

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The above sam-The Bank JOURNALISMS. ples of pen-itis.

AGAR. could be added to in considerable quantity. So also minded me how the perpetrator of those little slips which prove that plagne is first mentioned in a superabundance of knowledge Bible. Fern again is news that the can be dangerous. There was inventer of the preparation of once an inland journalist who, in Acheson graphite, found the key the hoopskirt and bustle days.to the mod in the Bible, where heard that a certain, prime donna we read that the Egyptions used had a much larger" "repertoire" row in the process of anaking than any other living singer, The bricks. While reading the account- journalist was at least chivalrous. of the trials of the Israelites, He hastened to reassure there they complained bitterly that I not thinking of doing public that Patti and Nilsson both bricks could not be made without Sophocles in a bathing coetunne, wore larger repertoires that this straw, it is difficult to realise that Mr. Colin Keith-Johnston. }:

lady. It may have been, he aug- they were faced with a problem in A second profession is an excel-gested, that her overskirt was cut colloid chemistry. Such, however, Heal foil to everyday work-Pro- too narrow or that it may have was the rise.

It was the practice been accidentally crushed down, to soak step in water for fessor K. de B. Codrington.

But the fact remained, declared time, and to me dy liquid in work-

Ofter romance is of more instant worth than the mere fact, Mr. James Branch Cabell.

am

of

some

It is a misfortune for some Euro-he, that both of his heroine's ing up the clicy, because the re- pean countries that they were never rivals wore repertoires of a much sultant mass was found by experi- jconquered and civilised by Rome.—more extravagunt size.

Sir Edward Grigg, M.P.

ence to be much more plastic and punly worked that if water alone had mosd. Straw contains

You cannot go to the Turk and say, Herse you run a her mm i u not going to have a diplomatic JOURNALISM's said Henry Mur- which bright about the increased

relation with you.-M. Ramsay Ma Donald.

A Lossiemouth fisherman- tinee sid o me: "Man, its guy hamd te dee under a Conservativa" Govern. meal. I'm ahaid most of you find it og hard to live atder a Conser the vative Gerbert-Mr. Hamsay, fresh

10 envora Pement

MacDonald. optimist and to those whose belief is firmly rooted in the destiny of British administration and enter- prise in this part of the world.

GOOD MUSIC.

CRITICS.

**Journalisni.» tannin, and it was the presence of this tarin in the straw • infusion ray. is the par-teity. Its still the practice dise of mediverity is to elay when an in-

dermy in flastity is desired.

Local preseder should now have Turther prawns to give in urging Bu modding of the Bible!

and the purgatory of genia..""

Local jourmilists will, ofesarse, select their own paradise!

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THE SCOTS' DIMINUTIVE.

..

For Cannery rhymes.the daian-heart of mulerading. She sums tive is unsur-able for its seitse of our way of expressing emotion in

Nothing need now be said of Ho TO-MORROW AFTERNOON'Stender peretion of the fawirading the words:

Mun Tin which is the first evid- ence of resultant endeavour to

hstplessness of the object addressed. Take, for instance:

Pance to your daddie

Ty bound laddie.

"Daiuntives are our only emo- fional outlets. We have practically no endearments. The southerner spreads himself out on 'dents,' `duri [Engs," "belovals" and such-like sac- darnities. The tidal wave of pas sion swans the Scot. Even the mildest of ordinary, everyday loyas. remuin unexpressed, either directly beat or indirectly, because there is no

Donor to your daddie, my bone

་

lainh!

And ye'll get a felic To a line dishie--

comes home.

Dance to your inddie,

My hornie laddie,

lamb'

And ye'll get a conlie,

And a pair of breekiss-

vocabulary for them. It is somebody of Barrie's, I think, who says ¦ Love ve? Weeshi! Fat kin' oʻ

Dance to your daddie, my bonnie, word's that to be makin' eess o-

an' fowk a weel eneuch.' In vague unformulated fashion we con- sider tenderness a weakness. ... So in our soft moments-no dithy rambies, no little urhanities, or miabilities. We just drop into diminutives."

CONCERT. Hongkong is in for a reall meet the eye. It is a source of musical treat at the City Hall to- some little satisfaction to notice morrow, Wednesday, at 5.15 p.

Messrs. Jongen and that certain roads in Ho Mun Tin when are to bear names closely as80- Bilweski will submit a programme The of piano and violin items. ciated with the pioneer of that compositions are as varied as they'll get a fishie when the

Beethoven, idea which has brought content can possibly be.

Bach, Mozart, ment-and in some cases riches Mendelssohn,

Brahms, etc., are names to con- to not a few, to say nothing of

They excite jure with.

the relieving the housing problem. imagination. The programme in- the famous Kreutzer Further on there is the Kowloon cludes

and

two concertos. Tong scheme seen as an almost sanata,

Tickets muy completed ideal. Hills have been

Anderson's. razed and there are now compact houses-not huddled together but. suggesting health and breadth. We trust it is not too much to suggest that the railway has played a part in these schemes and will con- on October 9, 1925, George tinue to do so. Residential expan-

grd until recently I me a wee man that I ca' Donal Benjamin Dodwell, Chairmansion must, we submit, take place of Dodwell & Co., Ltd., in his in the New Territories. We can managing director of Messrs.

Dodwell and Co., Ltd. He will Wi rosy red cheekies an' een o 74th year.

not find that the Government has only be remembered by a few of

deep blue. been over-zealous in this con- the oldest residents as it is A sweet dimp't chin an' a cherry

ripe mou, Hongkong, Tuesday, October 18, 1926. nection. Its own officers have twenty-seven years since, he left

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DEATH.

DODWELL-At Home, suddenly

DREAMS AND FACTS.

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OBITUARY.

MR. G. B. DODWELL.

The death is reported from London of Mr. G. B. Dadwell, founder

tim.

That jingle was given in "Cham: hera Popular Rhymes of Scotland" more than seventy years ago, but the same set of thing is being said and sung to-day. Take, for exam ple, Mr. John Mitchell's delightful crack with his little grandson:

Dhu

Dhu.

J

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I have said that the use of the diminutive is most prevalent in the north-east of Scotland, particularly in Aberdeenshire and Bouffshire, int it also used in Kincardineshire, Forfarshire and Fifeshire, and na far north as Ross-shire... In Blustration of this, a Forfir friend cites "a little wee bit guiff guaff of a ́dog-gikie ;” while a Ross shire newspaper recently printed a set of verees by Donald A. Mackenzie,

scribed as being in Cromarty dis entitled Granny's Baking, lech. It begins thus:

When

been housed at great expense on the East to conduct the affairs of Oa bounie wee mannie is my Dons

the Company from Home. the island, and in a lesser degree The late Mr. G. B. Dodwell first WT a fowle bit powie o' faxeny in Kowloon, when a number of came out to join Adamson Bell hus, them might have been housed at a and Co. and when that firm was, An' his pink lippet luggies are bo Hongkong outwardly evinced

peepin' throo no interest in the railway cen- tithe of the cost in the New Terrat dissolved he started in busi- tenary at Home. This in spite of ritories, bringing into more freness in partnership with Mr. The curlies that dance roon his dily if she should want a meseagle,

Carli, trading for some years as fie broo the fact that it possesses a rail-quent use the railway which Dodwell and Carl. Subsequent 0 cantie wee carlie is my Donal

Phar road that sprang from the serves the district. Had the Gav-ly the name was changed to business has developed enormous" original idea in England. In spite ernment shown its own belief in Dodwell & Co., and since then the

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His chubby bit zievie he pokes in

my men

י.

of the fact also that its line is one its own territory, it is safe to sayly and now has branches through He steeks baith my ear, an'

Antwerp.

grannie bakes her caten Leukes, I aye drap in to news a whiley

Bheken that then I'd run a

miley,

My gannie's cakes: are groff and

myOn

HWfact

Shell-ave mak ang for her wee

'mannie:".

est or west in Cromarty There's none

can bake like my anld gramie:

She'll say: Noo tax the pailie

doon

And get a Strooply drink for

grannie:

Ye'll mind and row yer hankie roon The bun lie or 't'ill burt yer

han'is.

Tn comes the weaver's wife to crack Blen yer ho'rt said hop's yer body?

noge he will pu. of which to be proud: It is prob there would possibly have been a out China, in Colombo, Tokyo, ably the costliest of Government's steady trek to Shatin and beyond, Yokohama, Kobe, Vancouver, Vic

"gooie goo goo," enterprises and for many years is and the railway thus have been toria (B.C.), Seattle, San Fran- Syne auchs in my face an mys given an added clientele. Fur cisco, New York, Savannah, and a trickie weg mikum is my Donu likely to stand in need of Govern-ther, the question of cheapnena of The news of Mr. Dodwell's Dhu: ment financial support. This is sites might have been, and might death was somewhat unexpected Note how the diminutive is ap not entirely the fault of the Gov-even now be, considered. Is there for although he had undergone anplied not merely to the child itself, ernment, although in the course any objection to selling sites at a operation a few months ago it was but to the different parts of his

understood that he was progress anatomy of what follows we shall reiterate nominal, cost eliminating the ing favourably Death took place It need hardly be said that the way!

that would help the rail-ordinary competition of sales by at the age of 74 years on Oct. 9. diminutive in used extensively, W ways revenue. A holiday jaunt auction? Is there any objection Mr. Dodwell leaves four especially in verse, to express yesterday did not show that the to granting sites free of charge? daughters and two sons, both of affection for grown-ups, and forms T line was being used to any extra- The small lose resulting in this whom are in the business. Mr. the very foundation of the love lyric GM Dodwell who was recently throughout Scotland generality. ordhary extent. Rather on the would be met, if not wholly, then Director and Manager in Hong- Burns simply teems with it. I have contrary. There should, on the in great part, by increased rekong, being now in London and, been fortunate to get an extremely Mr. L. G. S. Dodwell at present in interesting expression of opinion on Occasions of public and general venue to the railway. The idea

this aspect of the question from holidays, be cheap excursions wort

investigati

Miss Mary Symon of Dufftown, the Inducer

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As I go up thẻ Stroopis rondis. Bearded wi Nobody would claim this so great poetry, but it has the cherrum

being Maggie Wylie would say, couthie, and it as quite typede much that is being spoke Con north-east of Scotland

38,80 much the case that tho