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Hongkong, Saturday, Dec. 24, 1925

HU RICSHA.

is something more than R. TETIMBANs of transi“ from one, wide of the river to the other. It is a noble national monu- ment.Bir Reginald Blomdeli.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

It was most foulin Men insist on generalising about DECEMBER 26, weather and 80 women. Instead of regarding them

1661. WB went into," ani us so many millions of individuals

alehouse and there with separate temperamenta and eat some cakes and ule and a outlooks all they ace is an odd con-1, glomerate being which they calheall-bowe woman and girl

came to us and sung to us. women-Bose Macaulay

1065.

PEPYS.

Shakespeare see the word "ALL" in two consecutive

hines, in the frat sa sús adjective of bulk or maan: "All the world's a stage, meaning the whole world and then "And all the "men and women, merely players,! where it is used as an definite numeral, adjective in which we think of men and women! not as the world's population, but, as separate people. light, of linke one We have seen how "all" can be watermausod as a noun, but it is also used

I walked quite over

If & carefit examination wäre made of our industrial disputes within the last ten or fifteen years." people would be amazed to And that DECEMBER 27, the fields. home by the cause of these disputes; wes in the main not hours and wigsebut other things.-J. H. Thomas, MP carrying it, I reading by the light

as an adverb. as The bride was of it, it being a very fine clear drydded all in winte," where all night.

CORRESPONDENCE.

RATIONALISM.

of

my

PEPYS.

means wholly. Thus the poet says: All bloodless lay the natrodden snow, e, quits bloodless, or ex“ - tirely bloodless.

Hongkong mam (To the Editor of the China Mail) BEN THEra, has a son at college

Hraste, at Home, and last. Sir,--Some months ago I sent

week the young man also tell us the ricsha is doomed. you a communication called for wrote home a long letter, which The advance of the motor vehicle by the report of the speeches at his mother proceeded to read to the annual dinner of the Rationa- his father when he arrived home is pushing it out of existence.list Association, of this city.that evening.

Bolshevism in Canton.

www.

of

-

Spencer's

+3

Even enough can be used na adverb." Tennyson says: Pretty enough, very pretty and we even say, quite correctly, "little, enough !!!

The word "ittle has several. peculiarities. Suppose I say. "A

"Much expects PRECOCIOUS

YOUTH,

Bishop Collins Denny was ер phasizing the need

of beginning early

It may be so, but we do not see in That function will soon: come "Of course," the letter mun, the little house makes ittle work,"I these statements any reason to around again, and, as I previously main thing about a place like this should have to qualify the two prevent any améliorative move. recommended its members to read is the atmosphere. It is not the words differently. For instance, F an article on The Irrationalism actual learning that counts, but should say, "A larger hos makes ment being started. If John

of Infidelity" to be found in your the spirit that pervades the coilage, work-not larger work. "A Wesley were here he might. on City Hall library, now beg to the splendid effect of contact with smaller house makes less work. The seeing a ricsha puller, say recommend a work by an author great minds, the noble thoughts first "le" meuna size, but the

their OWN There, but for the grace of God

ilk, Herbert. Autobiography."

"That'll do," interrupted dad,aecond means quantity. goes John Wesley"

but we

Being kept away from my pro-what's the young beggar failed rather think he would have arous. per aphere of work by the dis-in this time?"?

A newspaper cor- ed the rich, the sleek, the indolent, turbed conditions in China, I have

"CAUTIOUS respondent. who passed the summer CAL." Let us look at a the care-free and the indifferent, spent a few weeks in your city, and to occupy time somewhat

Swampscott- to a sense of their moral duty.. profitably, have taken this book SMALL WORDS. few of the smaller

listening to the silence of Pre- We take off our hats to Mr. George from the library. AM bio-

words of our won- Matheson and his Mission to graphies are interesting, and this derful language, and note in how sident Coolidge, reently returned to New York an unfolded, this one is especially so, not only be many different ways they can be yarn, which, if not true, may at Ricsha Men, and repeat our cause of the place filled by its used. favourite hackneyism-"They do author, but also because of its ex-sideration. All, say, enough, little, you wish to say anything about Here is a group, fou con: least be readily believed. Do

these things better in Shanghai" cellent style.

no, none, some, whale. These are prohibition? the journalist ask- Had I the time, and you the words, we 1190 every day withouted Mr. Coolidge. "No." "About space, I would like to write at some length, but as it is, I will thought, and they have the peau the coal strike?" "No." "About An interesting sidelight on only ask you to allow me to call arity that they can all be used the world court?" "No." The Bolshevism in Canton is given by attention to one point, viz. the as rouns just as table, or justice, newspaper man turned to go.

We can! "By the Mr. W. E. Priestley, a Seattle repression of the author's emoor Henry can be used.

way, added Mr. business man, in the course of antional nature. Strong affections Bay All is lost I don't need Coolidge, "don't quote me." interview with the "Japan Adver- were innate. When a boy of nine any Brough is as good as a tiser:"

It appears that Mr. he went, without his mother's fens Little will serve to please - Priestley had a conversation with knowledge, a distance of seven him. He desires mercy, but ex:}· M. Borodin, the head of the Soviet miles to see his father, and ran peote none." It is an outstanding fact that delegation, and was assured that most of the way. When thirteen, more. the troubles all over China have the Russians are not trying to he ran away from school, and It is not well, however, to use.

convert China to Bolshevism.travelled one hundred add Afteen the concentiated forms too freely the moral education of children. not lessened the desire on the part Oh, no! The genial Bolshevist miles to get back home, walking or too often. It is best to supply A Welsh miner delayed getting of foreigners to continue ameliora- chief naively puts his case in an most of the way, weeping. "the omitted noun Steelf. Por in his son baptized until the little tive. charitable and Christian other way.

The Soviet purpose,

But his father became very stance, we can write these an- fellow was four or five years old,” work amongst the Chinese-and he told the American visitor, is nervous and, consequently, irri- fences in this plain way: "All hope he said by way of lustration.

to make China a strong nation in table. And Herbert, being rather lost." especially amongst those who, at order that she might serve as a disobedient, got many scoldings, (mastey, food, shauks)."

I don't need any while the miner held the child in'

"At the baptism in the church,

Home, would be described as "the buffer State between Asiatic though few, if any, whippings.

"Enough his arms, the minister sprinked bottom dog."

the Tad a little too liberally with Examples of this Russia and the rest of the world. With the result, as I intimated food is as good as a feast!" fact abound. The latest one is adding "We can take care of oar above, that his affections were He expects no meny,gh ice-cold water. It was too much front door, but we need protection repressed, for want of an object he desires itele. Though we.com for the boy, He lifted up his the annual report of the Shanghai for our back door." Mr. Priestley His circumstances, in his opinion. monly say? "We have enough to voice and roared 'Give o'er, wilt Mission to Ricsha Men, directed explains the Bolshevist pro did not permit of his marrying, do, we really men We have tha If the does that again by Mr. George Matheson, who, we paganda against the British as until marrying time was past: so enough work to der. believe, is a former policeman being due to the fact that "the here again he missed having and

British are in control of Hong- object for his affections. I may "and with whom quite possibly kong," adding the queer assertion cite a letter, written in reply to there never would have been" that there is a certain amount of one in which he was advised to such a mission. The Mission was Chinese prejudice against the Bri- marry, as a likely cure for his.

tish in the Canton district."" Mr."Rationalism." He says:- founded in June 1919 "as the out-Priestley, however, does not think come of profound sympathy that the Chinese will ever be con- evoked by close observation of theverted to the principle of Bol

"The only appeal of hardships of the ricsha man's shevism..

Bolshevism might be in Govern- life." The object of the Missionment ownership of land," he ex- is to uplift and help the coolies plains, "and 22 generally, and to ameliorate, as Chinese farmers own their own far as possible, the condition of land there is little chance for ap- pealing to them on that basis. the sick and destitute among

The only elements to whom Bol- them. Truly a noble work. This shevism might appeal would be particular annual report tells the tenant farmer and the student that in the recent troubles class. The students are a solid and noisy unit in China at present Shanghai, the ricsha coolies and are to be reckoned with "who one would have thought Borodin, the head of the Soviet

us

in

most of the

пo

I have been

Ahill hit the one!"

SHAKESPEARE'S SEA EXPERIENCE.

what more likely then that a high of a star, of "keeping the wea-

Shakespeare's knowledge of the found the inspiration of that "No one is more thoroughly sea always struck me as remarks simile Pun thee into shivers with convinced than I Am that able. For an inland-born poet he his fist, as a sailor breaks a bis- bachelorhood is an unnatural was very fond of sea-similes, and cuit"; and seen "the new map of and very injurious state. Ever astonishingly accurate in his use the world with the augmenta since I was a boy (when I was of nautical technicalities. Howtion of the Indies," that was so unfortunate in having

did he acquire his knowledge? popular among seafaring men.

I like to think that in the Mixed with the mariners of brothers or sisters) I have beer longing to have my affec. obscure early years of the poet's those ships he might have gone so tions called out..

life in London he made a trip to far as to hear of "great seam in the habit of considering sea, perhaps as an adventurer in marks, standing every flaw of myself but half alive; and have one of the ships that smashed up the depth of the Bay of Portu often said that I hoped to begin the Armada. At least, no one can gal," of the "guards of the pole to live some day." Autobio-prove he didn't; and to my mind of taking the altitude or height graphy, Vol. I, p.478). Now, this is a tremendous lack. spirited youth doing odd jobs thergauge," of the need to "slack Love surpasses knowledge. Spen- about the old Shoreditch theatre, the boiling" in heavy weather; and cer was a pretty good lover and in the scrambling and unquiet learnt to speak of the wind could have been most easily in- delegation in Canton, admitted to affections, except his friendships, fitting out, should join some salt, "coming home," of being "unclew..

a pretty good hater: but His times. when Medina Sidonis was "fetching about," the anchor timidated, as a body; stood firm."

were impersonal. They were threatened, boycotted China could ever be won over to thropy Pras His phila scarred vessel and get his sea-ed" by misfortune, or "be-lee'd” to the by lack of favour, though no other general towards experience hanging on by their own people, cajoled and ever, will not be permitted to nothing. He was "Unknowable" the Narrow Seas? At any rate that I know of ever got the bang That belief, how Man, not men. Of Gon he knew skirts of some bulky Spaniard in writer without sen-experience eventually subjected to much stand in the way of M. Borodin Christ. He did not believe in it would account for the great of sailor-talk so naturally. violence, but they stuck to their giving the Chinese heads in the Thus the only right object for number of his squ similes and But admitting all this, there is work. Surely all this is "riot bad" Canton Government a few more human affections, speaking abso straight-forward use of sea terms still more that can hardly be ex-

extra strong doses of Bolshevist lutely, he could not have. for ricsha coolies! Here in Hong propaganda! kong we take the ricsha man for granted. He is a grasping fellow

me that he did not believe that

Bolshevism."

THEY SAY THAT——

of course, eager to press an The date is very far distant when illegal demand for increased fare, American Continent will produce and perhaps not quite honest. A only enough wheat for itself pelice sergeant has sald in court. Lord Bledisloe that it is a common practice for

You cannot do honour to the coolies to take possession of stage and to our art unless you articles left in their ricahas. And behave yourselves off the stage yet our news sheets are not Mrs. Kendal (to the students of

the R.A.DA.)? overburdened with reports of

Art in this country is confused cases against these, men. venture to suggest that according neat, ugline, beauty, or portrait- vaguely with modes, uplift, preti

We

1

His use of marine technicall-plained in these ways.

How

But. the consciousness of need, extles was far wider than that of tame he to know what. "noise the pressed in the above extract in any of his contemporaries He shrouds make at sea in a stiff creased with years, and he closes mentions nearly all the parts of tempest that dolphins "showed words!-- the "Autobiography" with these a ship and he mentions them with their backs above the element they evident knowledge of their lived in? that "a shifted wind various functions. "The giddy unto a sail makes a vessel's "Thus religious creeds, which footing of the hatches," as the course to fetch about "fetch in one way or other occupy the open gratings of the main-deck of about, mark you or that, in a sphere that rational interprete an Elizabethan ship were called; chase, if the pursuing vessel tion seeks to occupy, and fails; the admiral bearing the lantern"aws" a quarry of quick sail will and fails the more, the more it in the poop" the shrouds that escape her?

with a sympathy based on a gallant--they had no royala in me that wilder theories have been seeks I have come to regard "stay" the mast; "the high top. In face of all this it seems to COMMUNITY OF NEED feeling those daya; "the small spare put forward to account for the that dissent from them results mast such as seafaring men pro- first year or two or Shakespeare's- from inability to accept the so- vide for storms; these and many life in Lordon than this-that ha lutions offered, joined with THE others he alludes to casually but made a voyage to sea. Say to WISH THAT SOLUTIONS COULD BE with absolute correctness, the Levant, or, perhaps, not quite to his lights, the ricsha man is as putting of society's beauties.----

FOUND

Might he have learnt so much so far: Just across the Bayi la honest as most men. He Is a C. RW Nevinson

That brought him to the age of from ships lying in the London it be, to Bondeaux or elsewhere, seventy three. He lived to be river, and not so very far from If the Armada theory prove un necessity, but is not, we fear, It must be brought home to ever eighty What changes may Bankside? Granted many an fenable, cherish the idea for treated as such. Ere this we women that the chief cause of one,

have taken place in the interven adventurous bark must have put beyond all argument, it is only have suggested a mission of some form of cancer is that they do not ng years

forth from the Pool, with ur right and fitting that he the Bort to Hongkong ricsha Men

age and for theirs is the kingdom of in the time.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit without a royal hand-wave, and prema poet of the isle One-was-contamplated but-severi

large number Dr. Healinga hea va

holds: Blikar zen should. got beyond the bounds of contem

DELI MUTTEp off the Alcident

his country' Ereati tell us it may be

have had first-ha ng legend that the life

Those who cannot manage bery will have ta eople who workmen will

puller does not a tures score years and other

ree year

Yours truly,

JOHN WILLIS Hongkong, Dec 28, 1925.

notifies

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