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GUBBAY-On, February 22, 1926, at 10:45 a.m. at 9, Macdonnell Road, Kate Seemah Sassoon Gabbay in her 77th year: Funeral will pass the mon
ment at 9:30 a.m. 23rd instant. No flowers by request: India papers please copy,“:
Hongkong, Monday, Feb. 22, 1926.
TRUE DEMOCRACY,"
spectacular thing-another bid for increased popularity but a genuine desire to gain knowledge of a practical nature. The Duke of York is second only to his elder brother in an intense desire to
spirit of common fellowship and to advance British interests as much as possible. All this we submit
on
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
than playing golf, comments: a arenatic one, is watching a golf match It is a mattor of opinion.
There's a cure for a rash "And a cure for a cough But no doctor chri ald One afflicted with golf.
forthcomings
minds the "Shreds man of a story told by the late Beerbohm Tree. A widow woman once brought a small boy to the theatre for any engagement in somo play for which a number of ghile ren were required. Has your son ever acted before, madam?" she was sakod." "Oh, no, air;"" was the "aply, "but he spoke up beautiful
at the inquest."
for wholesale Indulgence Sunday not only of cricket, but of other games hitherto confined to Saturdays or mid-wed days? It is
The It le suggested that those pointed out that the facilities for
"Gooty." who follow a golf match A Tree Story, A.DC show ra- cricket are at present quite
are a little "goofy Prob adequate and that there is no callably the one thing more foolish for any encroachment of the game on Sundays. On the other hand, it is contended that the two in stitutions represented in yestur- day's game aro "essentially Cricket Clube and that, there fore, any legitimate endeavours made to foster the game, ought to be taken full advantage of and
Right. mitted a cold-blooded Misunderstood. refers to A book-
murder. encouraged. Which, again, seems
His friends sound and logical. There is how rallied round him and retained Twelve, Types," and the only ever, a section ready to resent three renowned lawyers to look thing he can remember about it is -uftor his neck. The leader decid- that it was bought by mistake for this dominating influence of ed that the only hope for his client technical library of text-books: cricket on Sundays. The innova-was to try to obtain a postpone-on the printing trade! Just as tion of yesterday is to say the ment of the trial for two months, one should not judge a drama by feeling certain that time would the picture on the wall, so one lenst; more than likely to lead to eradicate the animosity of the should not necessarily Judge a an interesting controversy.
witnesses for the prosecution..
book" by its title. Hilaire Belloc's, "The Path : Rome" has lost him" a number of readers, who thought Various ways and means were the book had something to do with. discussed and eventually a doe-Roman Catholicism. Similarly not. tors: certificate W13: obtained,
a few have thought: W. L. George's which stated that Nolan was not "The Making of an Englishman" a in a. At staid to plond.
DANCING DISPLAY."
MISS DAISY O'KEEFES PUPILS.
An 'Irishman named The Doctor John Nolan had cam-
*
When the prisoner was placed in the dook his leading counsel rose to request a postponement. on the ground that his client was serious- by ill.
The colourful exhibition of dancing which hus charmed audiences on two occasions at the Theatre Rayal, is to be repeated
"With your lordship's permis- on Wednesday next at the Starston" he said, drawing a sheet of Theatre. This is good news Saturday's display was in every notepaper from out of the folds of sense of the word, enjoyable. It his brief. "I will read the doctor's was not merely a triumph for Miss
beg to certify that, in my O'Keefe as a teacher und dancer,
| certificate:-
}
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1
G. E. Chesterton.
he wrote.
called
number of essays, instead of what is, a story on quite original lines..
Jokes about golf and
A Recount. golfers are becoming
A8 common AB: those.. about Ford curse A golfer on the Tronien links found a rabbit, evi- dently just shot and quite fresh. He took it home and found two golf balls in its interior: The unique event was communicated to the local paper and extensively copied in the Scottish newspapers... An of the Tronlea club, stating that in the week in which the rabbit was found he
was playing on the Tronies links, and that he had lost three golf balls. He demanded a recount..
ronate good feeling; help on the // but a triumph also for her pupils, opinion," if John Nolan is placed on Abordonian wrote to the secretary In particular, Winnie Henderson trial to-day his life will be en was the cutstanding personality.dangered.""
"I do not wish to do anything to Nature seems to have endowed this little lady with the right attributes prejudice the defence, said the of the born dancer. Her move-judge, with a smile, "bat, judging is true democracy. These young ments are sheer poetry,, All she from the depositions in the case. I men have been born to responsi-did and it was as diversified us should imagine that, the doctor's bilities which they have not danclag can be was invested with belief is well founded."
The trial proceeded and the ver- hesitated to shoulder. They have charm and elegance, and, in the
cpse of the conter dance, a sense diet proved the doctor right. thrown in their lot with the of the riotous fun associated with people, maintaining at the same it. One other needs particular
To the list of short mention The generally thankless time that quiet dignity associated task of presiding at the piano was
Another sermons has to be added with royalty. Example is better undertaken by Mrs. Suiter. In a short one one by Dean Swift, the seventies, Lord Grenfell heard than precept. We have it in, the fairly long experience of muste, the
Charity Sermon before lives not merely of the King and writer has not heard for a long the Corporation of "dear, dirty time o much delightful light Dublin. He had been warned Queen-but of their sons in whom ehssical music in one evening, and that they feared one of his long
just right in being played almost faultlessly--in parti- sermons. "Let them come," he flost his practice with a Boer family
we have. proud.
SUNDAY CRICKET.
+
Do you take a cold bath Buths each morning?" asked a Kowloon, man the other day. "And you don't either' was the reply he received which is an introducticm to the following: Writing about South Africa. in
the following story told by a dis-j trict surgeon apropos of the simple manners and customa of the Boers
"A medical friend of his nearly
are
B
cular The Chaminade music. thesaid; it will be short."
for prescribing ablutions for an selections. from: Tekaikowsky's. He gave out his text: Proverbs elderly Dutch woman. Her hus- "nut-rucker" sulte, and Chopla's xix. 17 (Prayer Bock Version): "He band strongly remonstrated, say- ever delightful und brilliant waltz.that hath bity upon the pooring. Young man! you As in the colour schemes of the lendeth unto the Lord; and look!" stronger in this country and re- dresses, great care gems to have here he paused, looking atead-commend new customs contrary to Internal Club affairs do not or been taken in the choice of musicfustly at his audience "what he leur usage. I have been married to should not concern the outsider. and for this, let praise be given. layeth put. It shall be paid himny Vrow for thirty-five years, dur- A man's Club is regarded as on a It was good to notice that in the again." Then he simply said: "Yeing which time water has scarcely higher plane even than the home shower of boquete and gifts that all know the object of the collec-touched her body! You are Ignor- went to the performers during the ton gentlemen: if you like, the ant, sir, of our mode of life, as "the Englishman's castle." evening.. Mr Suiter was not for security, down with your dust." and do not understand our wants i But there are, Clubs and Clubs.gotten. Mrs. Minney sang charm- There was a record collection. Begone!!"
ingly. Those others who also help- There is a type of Clab that is re- ed to make the evening worth garded as a popular institution, while, should feel well rewarded whose affairs are of interest to the for all that they did in a double public in general, whose meetings cause--that of good dancing, and
the needs of disabled soldiers.. jare reported in the Press, and
whose decisions on important } issues affect in no unmistakable manner not merely that section of the community which happens to have the privilege of membership, but the public as a whole.
In this category undoubtedly come the Hongkong Cricket Club, the Kowloon Cricket Club, and similar institutions with what
may be described as a “popular” membership.. Their actions and decisions are open to approval or criticism in the interests of the community generally. This being 0, it is only natural that the simple fact should be recorded that there is an under-current of
YOUTH OF TO-DAY
AND BEFORE.
In his Interesting address to the course in any war of the future Classical Association Mr. Baldwin would be to begin with the old
with the men of 70, and send them
drew a gloomy parallel between the British Empire of to-day and the rat, coming down by degrees and Roman Empire on the eve of its taking the young last. decrepitude. He thought that he There is this to be said for such discerned in both the same dan system that it would probably gers and complaints, and be men- eliminate a good many of the tioned a suggestion made by a feminent politicians, who are still great scholar--that Rome declined living wholly in the past and re- were not peating in 1926 the same formulas mainly because there enough Romans to carry on the and catchwords which they were work of Rome. In the same way he uttering in 1914. It would give- declared that British statesmen of better room for youth, which gen- to-day fear that "the Great. War, erally brings with it hope and by the destruction of our best lives energy. All the lamentations an In auch numbers, has not left the assumed deterioration of our enough of the breed to carry on the modern youth seem to be overdone, work of Empire."
The young men of to-day may not Mr. Baldwin's proposition merits so good as some of those who euerificed their lives in the war, discussion, but we do not share his yet they are pretty good on the possimfem (observes the "Daily whole. There is nothing vitally Mail). The parallel between the wrong with them, and as the coun- British and the Roman Empires is try recovers from the shock not a close one. For one thing. through which it has passed we the Roman Empire was a very long believe that they will be found time going to the dogs (if it evor quite equal to the, tasks before went to them), Professor Bury, them..
who is one of the best living
Ne better demonstration or meaning of true democracy can be given them the example being shown by the King's sons. We leave out, for very obvious rea- sons, reference to the King's sailor son. Concentration is. placed on
the activities of "the Prince of Wales and his brother, the Duke of York. The former by reason of being the elder: by his far-flung travels; his exploits in the hunting field and in sports generally; his stirring appeals and his interest in the Empire and particularly in recent days, in the question of emigration, finds first place in the thoughts of the Nation. Here is no purple-clad dissatisfaction with the inaugura- figure-head, but a virile indepen- tion yesterday of Sunday cricket, The formal announcement of such dent mind doing and seeing things for himself-setting a glorious a departure was made at the close example, and making the British of a match yesterday by Mr.
authorities on the subject, reminds After all, it took the England: us that it "endured one and un- of the Napoleonic ern some twenty thrones yet more affectionate JR. Mitchell, of the Hongkong,
divided, however changed and years to regain her national health thing in the eyes of those who Cricket Club, who hoped that
diemombered, from the 1st century after the shock of the Napoleonic belong to the Empire, than ever "this would be the first of many
B.C. to the 15th century A.D." It wars. The England of the present it has been before. The Prince matches to be played on Sundays."
certainly endured 700 years in the day has undergone a much more. has been criticised for the risks he He hoped that other Clubs would
West before it showed any sign of arduous trial than ever fell to the lot of our ancestors. But she fa breaking up. has taken in the hunting-field, join in, and thought "the institu
The British Empire is now barely and spirits; and the young men of recovering and regaining strength But he has continued on his way,tion of Sunday cricket could be
350 years old, taking the most gen- to-day will soon have the duty of arous view. So that if the process showing that they are quite as taking risk as a matter of course, very well developed in the and suffering the accidents which Colony. Mr. J. C. Lyal, of the
which the Prime Minister detected, capable as the Englishmen of 1826. or thought he detected in the Every position of eminence is open.. have come to him, without com- Kowloon Cricket Club, remarked
Roman Empire is repeated in the to them now. Every position will plaint. It is the "all-roundness" that it had been argued that
British, our Empire should still ultimately have to be filled by of the Prince, which makes him friendly tennis matches and"
havo another 350 years or so to them. The old are not immortal, Burvive. Buch an ideal representative of friendly golf were not out of
***land sooner or later the torch will
· CHINESE ENGINEERS." That the sacrifice of life was have to be borne forward by youth.. royalty as it should be in these place, therefore, he did not see
particularly heavy among the most Meantime it is well to remem- very modern days. The early why friendly cricket should not
Mr. Hon Wai-man, chairman of brilliant and gifted of our youth no ber that the British Empire if it is morning visit to Smithfield may be played on Stindays, and he the Chinese Engineers Institute; one who knows the bad history of te retain its high and glorious ket is as
further friendly who has provided very dateresting the fich den The A
unk not be afraid.at As romantic as it is a prac-
matter, in former letters to the memorial records of our Oxford, youth." was largely made in the tical evidence of the Prince's matches would be arranged.
vernacular press, has now written and Cambridge dead are as the past by young men, and the his- desire to get to know more, of On the surface these arguments to say that rumours that the race roll-call of gentus. They went tory of the struggl which it what may be termed seeing how do appear to be incontrovertible sweep organised by the Institute eagerly and gladly, and, it is "Im-and other nations have been the wheels go round" and we may But, it is being asked, may this will not be drawn is not correct possible to deny that their loss is engaged
Mr. Hop adds that the sweep will felt in national affaire. Hence is one be sure that such a visit was not not be the thin end of the wedge be put through as firat Intended. Įsome have argued that the proper l'success',
HAMILTON
Girls" from fourteen to twenty are blamed for appalling vice condi- tions in New York, according to Mrs. Mary Hamilton, head of the police women's squad. Vicious practices learned at schools and colleges are at Enking would cure the evils, sho
the back of it all, she charges.
holds..
strongly that youth factors of
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