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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

1

#rst put on my

Dear Belindo,

Yet Christ Himself neither taught nor noted in that way. It may be himan natus, but it is not Chris Deronen 18 waistcoat to lie in all The PAINTHE Homerset Maughain's

night this your, most de VBIL

t intend to put it off!

finity And perhaps nothing shows the essential difference be

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Pervs.

new novel, The Painted Pri is a The must follower of Christ agam till spring.

Estrangely absorbing story. I way and the tnttard aan hun just his

barangedy, bermua it is this sort of Lait. When Jesus Was on His way

you read at a sitting and ope to l.rusden for flint st fate-

onion win why you over beiher- me, then, if ever, surely He ST. LUKE'S DAY at Charlton)

OCTOBER 16S lus day. Thiago Ah poul ab ull. "It is far from 4. might be expected to be immersed

Fair in ng concerning all that

Was in are finale. There is a inset Lawaited in there, and to be gents whet, an unmeral licence Wars getast } gilthe adund it, a elwverness whi Ty oblivions of minor happenings on ised. It was enstomary for men in comes off on your hand. It is, in the way.

But in this dark anal most peores to it in women's clothesenļeserta enovesicklink.

Pho santion with which i of masquerading sorrowin our He stopped as once favourite mode

ay hearing blind Bartimeus's cry. or three hundhed yours agtery opens, is drumade to the

against which the puritan clergy | pouit of explosion And it is just that ready stand-uched many a fulmination. The fall you are worth, and look again ing

on] 4 (by two the wonderful economie 41471 to slaunch another's | men alec anised themselves, wom, when his own heart is her way across Blackheath, inn meus by which it was presented. bleeling that the Christian shows lashing the women with farzo. A Wife and lover are disturbed by the true hudge of bis culling, of semen was formerly prouched of some one slowly ineuing first the service under Him who came notCharlton Church on the day of the ads of the locked loor, then To be ministered unio, but to min-fair practice which originated the china knobs of the bolted by a bequest of twenty shillings | slatters. Who was it? Chinese ister to all.

your to the minister of the parish for werantor husband unexpectedly re prenching it.

turned? The wife's suspense and agony of mind during the hours that William Shake-low is described with an uner-

Jen stood still."

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STRAITS PAPER'S COMMENT.

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You rend it for

A MOUTH- speare the other ring sight into the sub-workings CPENER. William, who has of the fomaly mind. The story written a book called never recovers from this situation. "Plain Words on Singing"--tels Phn Is the worst of kicking off дл Amusing Incident

climax. The rest of the about with Lablache-the greatest basse of ot fers from gradual decay. all time-whom a friend of his not partly, but insidionely. 'like knew intimately. At dinner on the sear itself, and the story or out en conventional day, Lablache, full of fun, sang a long note from piano to forte and crutch of optimism which is all but back to piano; then drank a glass of wine, without having breath;

aerie.

Yest in spite of its second-rateness, air of theatricality. The Painted Veil is undeniably a grip- ping novel. It ina book to be rand

The Straits Government has been asked to loan a million to the Hongkong Government, a very proper proceeding, and the loan will no doubt be properly guarded then sang a chromatic scale up thei as to interest and amortisation octave in trills still in the same and against Auctuations in breath, and finally blew out a deep. Then is no really exchange, though it is in sterling, candle with his mouth oper.. remarks the "Singapore Free There were giants in those

days! Press." All vary neighbourly and very proper and well within our

Where flannelled fools' powers. This, however," can be Homs on the leather ches done by the Governor in Council ser? A migley problem burn without reference to the Legisla-

Now some, afirming ducks

and throbs: ture. It comes curiously at a time Who is th greater batsman, Cece when the Currency. Reserve Fund Hobb? has just had ear-marked from its balances a considerable sunt for opium revenue reserve. Happy ive to have a balance to lend to a neighbour (at a fair rate of inter

lolas) Are" onsier baggel tand' by

brace

de

modern wirtels, plump for Hobba,

est) but does it not suggest that our opium reserve nest-egg may No Grace. not be inaccessible to the demands

e - “riting de 35, nothing to his savoured. The comme; ita on life are of the chewing-gum variety---nothing of way permanent flavour and but sorry stuff to bite on. The high- gacy of technique. Technique Chews, I imagine, were allructed by

est cousin to that other sick thick. for texdinique's sunk sems to be

lari. For artin grátis. 1 is may to soc why time hook oraid to the Tow

Hixy novel. It does Cetraron mult. Its theme is addlery.

Now there are tow-boots and |How-Rows Ther is that sud,

strawagi menubrusity the slderly low. brow, who eme The dismissed as of the Secretary of State or the Some hold that smilers used to fare being beyond hope or comprelien. or the clause. Neither of these sentiment of a local Governor? Fur deadlier stuff fimm bowling sing. There remains the youthful reports, however, went into parti- We remember when the Military

low-bźcow. Few will deny. I think, noba, culars as to how the Government Contribution was increased in the And in the estimation, Grae, that youth, whatever is ideals

ma-y nothe, is might deal with the matter and Colony, the essential part of the Lands Hobbs.

thom ruther reply of the Secretary of State to

high- brow pw dilioner. obvious the objections raised was but me say that in the days of folis

Youth is out for Life ambled at a sober pace, difficulties in connection with, you have got the money and must the gume went dower that. Thusyrions, venitive, allowing. joy-ridee and sex sits on the pillion Overland China Mail.say, the enforcement of a pro-

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there are certain very

vision for longer engagements to entered into by officers. Admitted that it is not conducive

be

to good discipline that an officer Lis open to Summary dis-

fork out..

CORRESPONDENCE.

THURSDAY'S RECITAL.

Hobbs

Leads Grace.

Soma argue this is not the azwa, And ong or other deftly swibe The deck of argument with Viva » (Or Hobby),

missal As a result of com (To the Editor of the China Mail). The veterans, with smothered muba)

plaints by a subordinate who nay or may not have an eye on the post to be vacated, or again of

Sir, I cannot help being amused at your reporter's account of the recent Piano-Violin re-

For those lost giants of our race, Cry Dammmagine coming

Fohbs Wil: GRACE!

may law.

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Youth. in reddy mierested in sex. {mah any govel with stressow the

men jyske pepect of sex bead to be popular with The you Bat B real trouble is thal yeside, des mot readily distinguish betavima zbut is first-and what is second-de. Youth, indeed, has an uneasy bias towards the second. other matters as well. The first rate ut only in litenture but in,

rale is more exacting, less exe'ting. hes in word with the dogma, burving a good time. And the danger of a novel' such * The Painted Yoit is this: not its frank-

not its theme, as legitimate as any other, hub the clever, per, saisive, almost hypnotic quality of “ the witting which contrives throw a momentary glamour over the little lives of second-rate people. Me Mugham's cynically drached marine ply gravates Iris offence.

Your friend,

the action of the compradorecital, which was held at St. younger members just grimace whose considerable powers on Andrew's Hall yesterday evening And murmur Sentimentas enda! these boats was condemned by the Amongst other things, your re- There' only ong man in it-Grace?ess-kness hurts no 011 Piracy Commission Minority, re- porter was it seems) highly de- Ye HOBUS

lighted with Couperin's lovely

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THE NATIONAL JOKE.

to

port, is a policy of rendering the Chanson Louis XIII and Pavane. And intermittently up, lobs signing of such an agreement an Let me point out, Mr. Editor, The question, dippery as a dace, offence, likely to prove successful-that this piece, although on the Who is the greater hat, sir. Robbe ly? There would have to be programme, was never played at or nee

all Your reporter must have Hongkong, Saturday, October 17, 1925, penalties imposed in the event of some imagination! Furthermore I leave it to this paputies.

infringements ay} is I have my doubts as to whether The hero-hoisting Oval mobe, feasible that shipg' officers the talented artistes adhered to And settle down wo watch the grie SHIPS OFFICERS POSITION. would be prepared to

the published programme. For Of Hobby. under-

last piece on instance, the

the go imprisonment for such

programme Was down. as A rather peculiar position infringements when they have Capriccio by Vieux Temps, appears to be that in which the themselves concurred in the 24 yet if my memory servea local ships officers' Guild is hours' notice clause? Again, me right, the piece played was Bazzini's "Rondo des Lutins." In placed with regard to the 24 could the Government compel the case of auch changes in the pro-

One nation is not apt to think moras, the levity of wives, German hours' mutual notice clause re-owner of a small river boat who gramme, the artistes should an-much of another nation's sense of tourists, and Govedmont matches.

remurks the quired to be signed by members was not sure whether conditions nounce the change, so that people, humour,

"Daily This land shows the supremo putriol-

iam e the rave. No one but entering into agreements with would allow of his ship running like your reporter, will not be Telegraph.' It is a matter upon Frendman could find a French misguided. The beautiful open-

The GermuJL "outside" firms, E., those other for more than one voyage to coming movement (adagio, sostenuto) which the Scots and we love long at amusing than the principal shipping commit himself to the employment of of the Kreutzer Sonata was since agreed to differ. When Mr. laugh the ahant-minded - panies (who have their Own

officers for a longer period? On somewhat marred by the fall of a Kipling wants to bring on a typical fessor, the girl who loves a soldier, agreements). According to the

the face of it, the matter seems certain gentleman's walking stick.american citizen he has to give the man who loves the cook, and statement of a local Guild official, to be one for the Guilds them-walking sticks, false teeth, etc., British joke.

I wish people would leave their him something to say about the the bushed without a latch-key. Some of our most The Italian gets his fun out of the a number of ships' officers, prob-selves to settle among their mem-etc., at home, when they come to admired wits, dead and alive, lave glutinous cleric (there is an im-'.- ably the majority, are in favour bers and if unity is reached for recitals! Thanking you ever so won nothing from the French bui memural dene), of the clause being done away them to make representations to much for the space. with. Reading between the lines the owners of the ships concern-

of his statement it would not be ed. Government interference, an unfair conclusion to draw that even when the parties concerned

the Neapolitan women's hate. dreary amazement. An American cabby, and professor fascinated by these dis-Americans, says the professor, not, Yours, etc.,

crepancies has got himself, with we hope with any feeling of 18T VIOLIN. that minute and patient industry grievance, will laugh at anything, for which the American don has hut chiefly they laugh at the poor Hongkong, October 15.

hecome famous, to discover what man crushed by a Trust, the solid he himself, as representing the have been agreed on the neces

[Not having heard all the in that the nations do laugh or Britisher whisky labelled lemo Guild, is also in favour of the sity of intervention, has seldom compositions in the world for the He has taken a census of nationale, Italian, organ-grinders, and· There is more. abolishing of the clause. Quite s proved a success and it is stil violin, our representative had to jokes and classified them according cheap motor-cars.

that to the popularity of their sab similarity about theo lists than The great number of officers, on the other more doubtful if it would when take it for granted.

It may be objected that the professor allows. Couperin's Chanson Louis XIIIject. being retained as by cutting both the wishes of a considerable sec- no personal opinion on the piece, that there is nothing, amusing in a keys, American prohibition, or of us may think, for example, whether related to German latch- ways it enables them to take uption of the members of the very, and simply recorded the a new and perhaps better position body which is asking for the ren, plece as it was played.Editor, W. S. Gilbert, know well that he of taale we had omitted. Who cur audience's obvious delight at the woman being old and plain. But given the Engrah freedom of scope. are clearly in the minority. And one rund example of identity at short notice." The Guild is not dering illegal of such a clause, "China Mail] therefore, in a position to take I,

hand, are in favour of the clause such action would run contrary to was being played. He expressed subject is not everything. Some alcoholle joke is much the same,

A THOUGHT FOR BUNDAY.

united action in the matter and the officials and others in favour of the clause being rendered illegal therefore look to the Gov And Jesus Stood Still and aid, ernment to take such action, sup

Call Yə Him. porting their case by quoting the It is not when we report of the "Sul-an" Commis. Christians though we

beare sufering or on and of the Senior Naval therein word lick Officar condemning the operation, trial looming ahead in our

wa

had only to refer to an elderly not imagine what it ? One sub- ugly daughter or quite un-ject there is at which, from China altracive old thing", to make roars to Peru, all nations laugh of laughter. Humbler comedians matter how the theme is treated, QUICK WORK.

find it equally safe to mention how femilius the story, how dat cheese or kippers. Our professor the phrases, the mere mention of la right. For the great majority this subject shall suffice to wake The silk shipped per 8.8. Prest is the subject which matters in laughter long and loud. You have

Rich sailed from

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joke. The wit is nothing. In certainly guessed it. There cou England, says he professor, tre be but one joke intern laugh most at Kisses, looky bete, umiversal, quod

qood: ab pornind

unciful golfers and drinkars

Frenchmen are smesed by soldi

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