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motor vehicles?

CORRESPON

HAW TERMS:

THURSDAY OCTOBER,

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

(To the Editor of the Chura Mail)

Up, and it Book-lovers and collectors-the SivArising out of the Criminal OCTOBER 29, 1664. being my Blureds man hestiates to say there Bosalone case yesterday in which

Lord Mayor's may be a distinction in the classificar Chinese was charged with receiving show, my boy and three maids tion-pro continually vered by the three thus of milk, I would like to went out; but it being a very foul, raids on their books. The matter

ention the advisability of the use rainy day from morning till night. is best expressed by correspondant- of the words well knowing them I was sorry my wife let them go to the Times Literary Supple

ment writing from Barbados

PEPYS.

to have been stolen," which I be out, Heve are the words, netimlly used in charge, aleata, when a man is brought up with stolen goods. I

Cartainly Mr. Percy strongly object to this wording, as REASON. Simpson, fellow of it is purely a prejudice against the

Oriel College. "Oxford, consed concerned, and in all had much reason on his side in the probability: it may canes the nem- plea he made at a recent meeting bes of the Jury to create an im-in London arranged by the pression that the accused when Simplifted Spalling Society. "Why arrested, "had guilty knowledge that in the name of common senes," he the goods were stolen property. asked "could we not revert to The wording which I am comphun such simple historical spellings as ing certainly cannot be employed as plow for plough, as in the it is necessary. If a man is Authorized Version of the Bible, arrested with stolen property, let it and tho' for though, as in the be atated in the charge sheet by poems of Tennyson?" And it fa means, that "the accused is difficult to find an answer to his question which gives satisfaction. charged cila stolen property (be) If English is destined to become liened to have been stolen), and at some time. In the future an it remaine for the Court to heur, international language, as seems how the accused came in possession, highly probable, surely no one will of it. One cannot flatly us maintain that its progress toward Another for full knowledge of any that goal will in any wise be aided thing when really he knows not, by the myriad unreasonable com even the tiniest portion of it. I plications of orthodox ortho- compliment the members of the graphy. This la not advocating a Jury for giving their careful atten- wholesale departure from estab tion to this case, and particularly,shed standards of spelling, but the consideration which they took shutting one's eyes to the fact in unanimously agreeing that the that many words in the English neeused had no guilty knowledge language are spelled according to no rhyme or reason is not con- that the milk was stolen property ducive to its larger use.

It all depends on how guilty know- ledge comes in und evidence in con-

nection with it is essential hefore

There is a considerable

ing the person able to

the Court can necrse a man with. A FORTUNE. sum of money await- the full guilt. I any it is a dun. geroin practice with the wording in invent something which will keep the charge sheet na any law cockroaches and woms from book abiding citizen would have the occasion of meeting a magistrate on bint "grave charge. Supposing ray cigar vendor who committed a " theft of cigars, the boxes of which were marked and sent me

my

use.

May I through your columus, uke an appeal British publishers and bookbinders? In this, as also, I believe, in other topical counties, one's most treasured books are sooner or later riddled with hunnels by a gorb, apparently, the larva of a beelle. A volume not in daily. is almost certain to be Various damaged or destroyed. Liquids are procurable which at least discourage these penta; but these do no good to delicate bind- inge, and not all are effective. But I have noticed that French and German bound books are absolutely immune. On these I never put any "protective solu- tion, but they are never touched. I presume, therefore, that some ingredient-arsenic, perhaps is awed by Continental but not by British bindere.

It would be a great boon to book-lovers residing in the. tropics to be assured of the safety of their treasures; to me per- sonally it would mean the removal of a deterrent. There are few vexations more acute than to find a valued and perhaps irreplace able volume marred and mutil- ated.

1

I trust my snccoed in draw- ing to this malber the attention of some at least of our producers of books,

THE FUNNY MAN.

bound to come sometimes but Disher, the author of "Clowns and this pitiful invocation to an old it must not be made too serious, ur Puntoinimes," just published by Hurlequin in times of dearth sug- there was an occasion, in which Messrs. Constable and Co, calls gesta

murder was in place of "ma "sad stories of the death of clown I have something will left, for slaughter" is a case elsewhere, and

of carelessness when a man

would like to give another example. The circus itself is compuct of was ironies. The chubby procession in charged on several counts, one of the rain, the humiliated animals and which was the possession of the raggle-baggle showmen whom revolver Evidence was against

fashion:

your judgments approval. Which I wish to dispose of, before

A

my removal

Cause

with two Addles of excellent woundx

You shall have case and fadle for

the sum of £5.

So Dr. Friend Tom, remains yrs

till I die

The once merry Momus, poor Joe

Grimaldi.

sbull quit Woolwich soon for un-

other situation

the glee and Laugh

Clowns are bori to an irony so incomplete without the penniless nsand box of cigars, out of these will obvious that the public can never and helpless pld jenter, and the J have the guilty knowledge that see the gambols of Joey without proprietor weut each evening to the clown's mom and carried him on my hux is stolen property, and will imagining the gatret and the in his back to enjoy and to enrich the I know what is the meaning of

the Manchester company. But frimaldi was no sonable. Would that judge adopt my arrest before un explanation is and says

Gurdian." The fumons "Alus, sir, traditionalist in bis work. As a given? the same reasoning with regard to I hope that proper measures be I am Grimaldi!" is attributed to satirist he was called "Hogarth in Generally ataten in futurs in the Folies De many another jester, and the public continually added to the repertory action, and as comic inventer bie motor hoot is to indicate that the partment to give the correct word revele heartily in wint Mr. Willsor of his craft. He was a post too; ne pedestrian must get out of the ing on a charge sheet. Mistakes way at the earliest. The road is for aver to the swiftly moving vehicle the sidewalk to the pedes trian. We need not argue on this. Complaint is almost general that motor horns are, in a majority of cases, used harshly, too frequent

, and not at the right time. No one who has had his flesh made go the accused that lie was seen with meets wearily seeking elusive suddenly cold by the furious sound the revolver at the time of the sixpences in seaside towns are as that of a moment overwhelms attack, but the Court officials failed dismal a contrast with the spirit to proince the revolver mentioned, of mirth us cruel ingenuity could him, will dispute such a fact ass it was not in accused's person

These days. moreover, this. Another thing mentioned is when he was arrested. A member that parking places, are very of the Jury challenged the charge are riggardly occasions for the often abused. It is alleged by re-and demanded that the revolver be clown. The growth of public con- sidents of the Hotel that the noise produced in Court but the officials science about the exploitation of And glad enongh shala I be to return

from transportation made by cars and cycles at all failed and the charge was immedi- animals (except in Lalin countriest),

cun out the vexed question of cruelty Tell odd story's, think of present, hours of the evening, is sometely dismissed. Charge sheets are causes the circus to dwindle; leave Once more enjoy Society, the Song

not waste-paper that you thing more than a joke: it inter-scribble on

Yours,etc.... feres with the comfort and rest of

"JUSTICE. from the tant. The clown: must: the Hotel's clients, and should be

Hongkong, October 28.

suffer for the showman's sins.. But MOTOR NOISES.

stopped. One method of stop-

the clown is not to be extinguished For death, will you know have the [ping it would be to regulate the

lightly. Mr Disher's admirable odd trick at last. resentches into all the highways and Mr Disher, as a connoisseur of Time was when complaint was hours of parking. If the Hotel is

by ways of clownship'' show that clowns, has treated his subject in made at the noises made by cer- compelled to close its doors at

Momus is as slippery DA Proteus, the fullest historical-analytical man. tain members of the Chinese midnight; it seems reasonable to

Yorick can change a disguise to her. He has burrowed into count community. Their method of con- suggest that no car or cycle

meet a chunging taste, when antics archiver, particularly with re vereation, expectoration, and the should be allowed to be on this

Followed by a reception at the fail he can turn actor. Slapstick gard to the Clerkenwell school of clanging of cymbals and the firing particular stand after midnight. Hongkong Hotel, the wedding is out of fashion now, and not long motley, and he has included an in- of crackers on ceremonial and The matter certainly needs inves took place yesterday at St. John's ago some Continental tumblers, who teresting biography of Grock. Tell other occasions, lacerated nervestigation, more so in view of the Cathedral Hall of Miss Maurine are star turda in European odd story a think of present, but not Samson, daughter of Mrs. Libby and made for irritation, Wise allegation that the noise made by Neal of San Francisco, USA. Vaudeville, were hooted by the first forget the past is a line that does regulations have mitigated at cars can be heard in the early and Mr Alexander George night gallery at an English revue. some justice to his energy in ra least one of these things. Gen-hours of the morning. On the Grantham, son of Madame But "clownship is not dad besearch and his brodd survey of erally speaking, matters have general question of noises we Munthe, of Peking and of the late cause he who gets slapped is a modern jesters on the screen, in Mr. F. W. Grantham (also grand he who gets booed. Grock initiates the music-hall, and in pantomime. not improved in certain direc-refer all through to what may be son of the late Mr. Justice a fantastical dumb-show, that ower Hia secount of the latter suffers. almost nothing to the old convenirea excesive attention to the de- tions: Noise has been added to deemed unnecessary noises the Grantham),

The officiating clergyman was tion of horse-play, and Chaplin con--tails of the eighteenth-century until it is almost permissible to problem is difficult of solution.

the Rev. TB. Powell,

quers the world by lifting the pseudo-clasdon Harlequin plays, alter the old designation of a city The pedestrian will allege" one

The bride, who was Charmingly clown's business into the nipping since these appear to have, deserved of fragrant streams to a city of thing in this respect, and the attired in ivory satin and air where comedy and tragedy com- the fate which killed them off. In Clownship, it might be place of the "a fuller dccount of dreadful night or noises, driver another. Perhaps a re- georgette crepe embroidered with angle. Modernism may bring benefits in medy can be found in regulating pearls, was given away by Sir thought is essentially a matter of the nineteenth-century pantomime its train, but it also has its dis- the speed of cars in the centre of Claud Severn, KB.E. C.M.Gitual, but the great clowns have which has survived would have and was attended by her sister, been otesta me against the tyranny been welcome, Mr. Dieber is advantages. Serious complaint the town to the lowest possible Mrs. J. N. McCune as Matron of reaches the "China Mail of the minimum, in this way, rhaps, Honour, dressed in two shades of noise made by motor vehicles of avoiding the use of the horn to the all descriptions. It ie alleged that extent which now

Hongkong, Thursday, October 29, 1925.

much of this noise is unnecessary, other method would In many cases it exhibits a sense definite instructions of Indifference and selfishness drivers who, press which should be repressed if it is the majority

on this at all possible to do so. A judge noise, and, if

in the days of the rogus of the ma

push bicycle, once said that

cyclist rang his bell to

know he was coming.

mende

LOCAL WEDDING.

GRANTHAM--SAMSON,

and the party futility of the waltzing pony remains to drive decent people

technique

orchid crepe over silver cloth. One of the most

The bridegroom was accom-schons of Mi panied by Mr W. Richardson, full longi give who acted in the capacity of "hest which Chinese man

Both before and at clusion

the Cath

to Fouitable

the FAA recept

but not forget the past.

Merry and wise for Time ap

proaches fust

plainly the man to reconstruct any teresting phono of bured showmanship

his has a consuming prasion for the in clown company and delves with on out weariness in the wilderness empha

old By-bille and playhous „Grimaid innovation of the con- Construction, mick This was based His book is equipped with

ints, from public coll Son, on a playful confusion of ayed and organ

lown of

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