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more successfully the Monday morning thought that has been behind our pon (---.
A contented mind' is a blessing.
kind
"And a merry heart a purse wall
lined,
So what care I, let the world go
by. 'Tis better for to laugh than
cry,
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THEY SAY THAT— · Were the Soot to pass, wibly his bistory, with his tradition, with his character, there would pass at the same time from earth a largo part of the heroism and the rompuee of the world. The Prime Minister,
MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
The originators of seem, it is necessary that the "THERE BUT many. famous language of these high agree- FOR....."
quotations are often ments should not be too precise. unknown by name There are advantages in a certain There but for the grace of God" amount of ambiguity, for experi- was recently ascribed in the ence shows that when nations are China Mail to John Wesley, confronted with a document that A Hterary weekly gaye.. John leaves no room for escape without . Bradford credit for it, but a cur- a certain sacrifice of dignity, rospondent has taken the master those useful compromises which up and written as follows- often avoid way are rendered im- "In 'Lavengro, near the end of possible. In the drafting, of the Chapter Five, you will find the Locarno Pact Britain was lucky to words. I was old John Newton, be represented by that prince of think, who, when he saw a man draftsmen. Sir, Cecil Hurst, the going to be hanged, said, "There legal adviser to the Foreign Office, but for the grace of God!""""
who has drafted more treaties Borrow was clearly not too cer- than any other Eving man, Sir This famous, saying has Cecil is a genial, but not a talka- been given to several men: incluc- tive person. He reserves his ing Richard Baxter, but the evid-gifts of lucidity for expression on ence is in favour of Bradford, to paper. He is one of the tallest whom it is attributed by the men in the Civil Service and, now "Dictionary of National only fifty-five years old, has been on the Foreign Office staff for 'nearly a quarter of a century.
I have been at the deathbed of the Libéral Party on molly poca-tain. aiona.-Lord Oxford and Asquith."
The fuddist is the worst enemy of democracy, because be, prevints it from working properly.-Doan Inge.
I would arge that creation is a continuous process.-Bir Oliver Lodge.
DIVIDENDS.
ADVICE TO LOCAL DIRECTORS.
AN OPEN LETTER,
:
From a reader who signs him-
the following "Open Letter to Directors of local Companies": Gentlemen,
Biography."
Newspapers do PRONUNCIATION, "a service when they help their readers with the correct pronun- clation of what may be called difficult words. The notabilities of Europe gathered in London re cently to watch the dawn of a more certain peace; and it seems eminently fitting that the names of the signatories to the Locarno treaties should be placed locally within reach of all who use Eng- lish as a mother tongue. Five of those names are:→→→
for
Dr. Eduard Benes (ed-oo-ard
bai-nesh'),
Czecho- Slovakia. Vittorio Scialoja (veet-toh-r- yo shah-o-yah), for Italy. Count Skrzynski (sk'r-chin"-
aki), for Poland. Gustav Stresemann (goo-stav
many.
WALLPAPER. suggest, why we are A little thought will
the sight of wallpapers in Hong- not familiar with
kong. At Home it is an ever pres from a Home paper, proves sent matter as the following
:
Wallpapers, perhaps, play a larger part in our lives than we realize. According to some doc- tors, they have a marked effect on - our happiness. Dull colours tend to make us miserable and bright Lones to make us gay, or irritated
too bright. Then we all know the pictorial patterns of our youth akin to the WiHow Pattern and gave us our first impression. china that excited our curiosity
of the Chinese. Therefore it is interesting to note that Wallpaper. Manufacturers, Limited, last
'could show, to quote one member, that he knew such elementary things as right from left and something about the rule of the road, etc. Reduction might be | effected gradually, as there is seen to be an excess. Is this the case anywhere at present? We doubt i." That may be the position in Penang and Singapore, but in Hongkong it can be said the balance between supply and demand is better preserved. Some the ago, with the marked in-self "Scrutator" we have received crease in motor traffic, the number of ricsha licences was reduced, and no doubt as the years go by this
During the next few months. will be repeated at intervals, so you will be called upon to decide that the problem of the ricsha as to the amount of dividend to be coolle will more or less solve itself. paid by the companies of which you are directors. In this respect The problem of the chair coolie a lead has been given to you by is not so easy, as no increase in the directors of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation the Colony's motor traffle will who have recognised the advis make many hillside homes more ability of continuing to pay their usual dividend despite the bad accessible than they are at pre- times through which we are pass-THE LOCARNO drawing up inter-dreds of illustrations describing sent. Therefore it is the chairing. After all, reserve funds are.
national treaties wallpapers from the early part of is an extremely the sixteenth century. Last May coolie's future which wants the provided especially to meet times. What is to be done about the more careful consideration, for he like the present and the only difficult one, and the Locarno Pacta lecture was given at Stationers
sound policy would therefore ap
was no exception to the rule. The Hall by Mr. Jenkinson on "His.. ricsha coolie? Both Shanghai and is like to be with us when the pear to be dividends as usual traditional language used in such toric Wallpapers," and more. re- documents differs considerably eently another was delivered at Singapore are facing this ques-ricsha coolie has ceased to be any-The economic situation has been tion, and no doubt in due course thing but a memory to older greatly tempered by most local deems that used in ordinary legal the Royal Society of Arts by Mr.
However absurd it may Henry G. Dowling. firma observance of the slogan "business as usual," so wisely ad- vocated recently by a prominent government official. This is exem- plified by the fact that very few firms have reduced their staffs which, of course, means that their reserves must be drawn on to A bit of cloth-whether it be Dwellers, which were discovered in meet current expenses. Finance wollen or cotton, linen or silk--is the winter of 1863-64, abundantly. plays a most important part in one of the most interesting evil-prove that the mit was known in the preservation of public con-ences of num's climb from days of the earliest era of the Stome Age review, with results it is im. another connection, brings a week fidence and you will no doubt bear savagery to twentieth-century civil the period of the mammoth and
this in mind in your deliberations..stion. Yours faithfully,
SCRUTATOR.
Hongkong, Monday, January 18, 1926.
RICSHA COOLIES,
+3
it will have to "be settled here. Papers from the North: tell us that the ricsha'coolfes there are threatening to strike if the pro- posal to increase ricsha rent is carried into effect. Anything 80 drastic as a strike would naturally bring the whole problemn up for
to follow an occupation which is certainly not one for the old and
residents,
reach.
MONDAY SERMON.
A
man who finds. all that life is worth living for." The sentiment
Hongkong, January 18.
*
other members. There are well
streh'-züh-mann), for Ger-year made a handsome profit of $733.000. The chairman at the Emile Vandervelde (ai-mee) annual meeting promised that Van-der-vel-dah), for Bel-books will be vastly improved. A before long wallpaper pattern- History of English Wallpaper is to be published in January by The science of Batsford. It will contain hun-
deed's.
glum.
PACT.
:
THE EARLIEST TEXTILE
ART.
care bear. The winter of 1853-04
objects seems to be to reduce the number of ricshas, and if this is the case, the method which com- mends itself to a number of the Commission and the majority of even within, it is discovered that resume of the world's uctivities, utensils by the art of Pottery,woven fabrics, a unearthed, and
Monday is the key of all the week, an old proverb has it. Sunday well spent, we are told in of content. It is this question of possible to predict, the feeling contentment, or, strictly speaking,
As one notes how finely spin and was cold and so very dry that water growing stronger every year that non-contentment, which is the
how intricately woven are the in the Alpine lakes of both Switzer the day, must come when ricshas cause of so much misgiving and
threads and how beautiful often island and Northern Italy receded so heart-burning. A great Com- will be banished from the streets, moner, in reply as to what he con-
the design, the wider grows that far that the dwellers on many of a piece of cloth can be so dexterous them aw evidences of ancient The question as it has arisen insidered the greatest word in the
ly fashioned. And yet, as one welling built on poles projecting Singapore is not so acute as this. English language, unhesitatingly replied "Contentment.". He went
reads of the painsuking efforts from the lakes, Some, sectiona The question there is one of on to say: "This world is full of
OVERSEAS LEAGUE. spread over many centuries-which were dyked, and many excavations registration and:
repatriation.discontented men. Even some
man has put forth to attain per commenced which unearthed vi The President of the Singapore of the rich are riot contented. The
fection in "spinning and weaving, luge after village that had Mr. Eric Rice, Assistant the wonder fades into admiration been covered by the mid Municipal Commission, discussing man who has contentment has the
best gold that can be secured in Secretary ut the Overgess Lengse for the... pains he has taken to of centuries. Wangen in Lake earlier recommendations, remark-life. Contentment is given to writes from Government House perfect the ant. Civilisation's path-Constance, a village in Lake ed that, whatever may be thought every man, but most men drive it that full details about the Overseas why is strewn with the evidences of Moseedorf, Robenhader in the of registration and the amount of away in the mad rush to gain League, are to be found in the the Inbour to compass a mastery bog of Lake Pfaffikon, and Auver. the fee to be charged, there is no things that are beyond their care of Mr. A. B. Abbott a Mesare. of industry. Older far than reer in Lake Neufchatel were the doubt that there is still a high tented with what he has is the member himself, is able to enrol fabrics....
The man who can be con- Kelly & Walsh, who, being a new corded history is the tale of most interesting. proportion of pullers who are
Some of the lowest villages were neither sufficiently young nor able
The art was practised in the many feet down, and belong to the is appealing and convincing be-over 300 members in Hongkong earliest Stone Age. How much carliest Stone Age. In then were. cause it is so easily comprehend-ready, including over fifty newly farther back it was a domete art it found crude but serviceable fabrics ed and understood.. But simply enrolled, and this already makes is impossible to learn, owing to the of bust, flax, and woo, and signs more or less enfeebled. Com-to read it is not enough... Like of Hongkong one of the record perishable nature of the materials that the growth and manufacture of menting on this, a Penang paper many another precept it must be branches in the world.
from which many fabrics were cloth of flax and wool at so early a observes that one of the main brought into daily and hourly The membership of the League is
fashioned. According to some date" was an important industry. experience, and a Monday morn- now close on 40,000 British sub-authorities it may have been con- Spindle whorls were without num- ing, when the week's work is com-jects in every country. The mund menced, is as good as any other subscription of tea shillings includes temporaneous with the discovery of her. Flax in all stages, from the time in which to contemplate the the receipt of the monthly magazine fire for cooking and the building of unprepared straw with seed cap- subject. As one looks about, and "Overseus" which is a gore of shelter. Others are sure it is oldermies in perfect preservation to ex
than the fashioning of domestic cellent specimens of plaited and the root of much unhappiness is the desire to possess something also the use of the Club head- contains wonderful photographs;
It is fair to conjecture thatcme of it was ornamented with be the right one. On the other which is unattainable. Mistakes hand, there is a large number of which have brought, auffering and quarters in the heart of St. James' thousands of yours before the dawn ride humuni figures. Strings, yarns sorrow to the human family are which comprine bedroom accom- of civilisation some savage matron, fax in bales ready for the spin. traceable, in the main, to greed modation, for both sexes and married sitting in front of the cave or rudeer, rope and cordage, were also and covetousness. These may be couples, restaurants reading rooms, hut which sheltered her, wove, the found:
Specimens of these fabrics may be expressed in the desire for place, etc. It is becoming recognised as a original basket from the rushes of suddenly taken away, when it is the longing for money, or the meeting place for British people a brook that perchance may have seen in many museums, and show
striving for ease and idleness. from all parts of the world.
gurgled at her feet, or may have cut that the Lake Dwellers of the ord etxremely improbable that any Most of our temptations come in Mr. Rice is still hoping to meet a strips of skin
and ploited them Cat Stone Era plaited, wattled, and other work would be found for the form of a prompting to have good many of the old members dur-into the original fabric that was the wove cloth, and knew all the operi- them. If they went back to something that we do not believe ing my fortnight here, and to get beginning of textiles, It does not tions, from binding and tying, China, remarks our contemporary,
we possess. We imagine that its more Hongkong residents to back if require much stretch of the imaginabasket and mat plaiting, to wear attainment would meam happi- they would either pull a ricahanese, not realising that always the
tion to conceive of this taking placeng Barket making on & finer in the different parts of the world cale, with the flux twisted into a there, find nothing to do, or desire is to possess still more of
thread, probably led to the textile where the industry began. perhaps drift into the rag-tag and those things, which appear just The total output of the Kailan
|industry which the probistric Flax fabrics dating back to people.practised. bobtail of some "army" or other beyond our reach Contentment, Mining Administration's mines for
most certainly, is state of mind. the week ending January 2, 1920 period thousands of years ago haver Evidences of a similar textile in- "Assuming that reshas ought. It comes with a Gear conscience, amounted to 79,257 tons and the been unearthed in England. The dustry have been found in the Barl very soon to be abolished, with a willingness to express sales during the period to 48,028 ruins of the Lake Dwellers of the rows of the early Britons, where which we do not admit, certainly thankfulness for all good things to
Stone Age in Switzerland have bodies were discovered that LISTEN Cad near and received, and its desire – to
duced them Textiles of mucikwapped in plafod woolen beauty that belong thousands of Similar falace of an on
the Chinese Advisory Board may
young and strong ricsha pullers who see no reason why their means or livelihood should be
| with the present inadequate trans-
share thase with others, ratheż
Washington, January 27The
37.
port facilities an attempt might than the hope that we may share be made to use these men in some what others portas All this Department of Justice simonnoee years B. C. have been discovered thousands of years ago tha other employment. As for
may be a mare collection of platte that 24 foreign ligne ships were among the carliest runs of Peru,ologists, cannot accurat tudos, impossible la this practical sized between July 1, 1925, and Mexico, and Egypt, and in the date, have been discover system of registration, this might day of evidela Portas Jamiary 1, 1925 Ewuty of these cave dwellings of New Mexico and homes of the abdient Clin have good results, if no potential | Pernapa watde of the sons of the were Briash Vessels, two Cuban and AnDRIN puller, soetved a licence until he jovis
lve home two French,-Router
ruins of the Swise Lake Waso, The Story
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