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FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1926.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
say, come under our authority? We lay our ains of omission--even of commission to the climate, to the misunderstandings caused by
This may not be new. a faint knowledge-in fact BOA Modern A reader sends it in knowledge of the language, and Version, without comment:--- Old Mother Hubbard perhaps make no effort to improve
Went to the Cupboard, what can be improved by the To get her daughter a Dress,
exercise of little patience. When she got there,
a
The magic word "press" Press, has obtained admission for
many a journalist to places for which other people would re- quire a ticket. One morning an Italian organ-grinder was perform- Mr. ing outside the house of Bernard Shaw.. The man touched
but, the critic merely said, “Press," and walked on.
Authority superiority, if it is The Cupboard was bare, insisted on--can easily be main-And so was the daughter. I guess his hat when Mr. Shawwent out, tained, and maintained with re- spect, by the exercise of gentility of conduct and conversation. . . . . . Be gentle and keep your voice low,
CORRESPONDENCE.
A RADIO COMPLAINT.
(To the Editor of the China Mail.)
Sir,Considering ourselves re- presentative of a large group of sorely tried radio amateure whose patience has been subjected to severe and objectionable use dur ing the past ten days or so, we ask you to be good enough to find space in your columns for a well justified complaint.
The usage of this set has been respon. sible for nullifying any enjoyment which might have been expected, from any efficient set which may be operated without interfering with other receivers in the vicinity.
"If" has puzzled some Contrasts., people by its modern-i
ism. Certainly we have advanced far in the drama. Con trast the last act or scene in "I" with what took place in the old days.
The final clearing-up was started by
minor character, who, stepping forward, remarked to the conduc- tor of the orchestra:-
Though sometimes we may doubt
Fate's stern decree, Yet villains fait, and all their
agents flee!
The handcuffed scoundrel gave his lines over the shoulder:
"Curses on you and all your
damned set;
You've had the best of me; I'll
pay my debt,"
And was howled for his candour.
2080
Mr. Barfield in "History Changing in England Words" show's
A New York firm ap
Answered. plied to Lincoln some
years before he became President for information as to the financial standing of one of his neighbours. This was the answer:
"Yours of the tenth received. First of all, he has a wife and baby; together they ought to be worth . $500,000 to any man. Secondly, he has an office in which there is a table worth $1.60' and three chairs worth, say, $10. Last of all, there is in one corner a large rat-hole, which will bear looking
into.
Respectfully,
"A. LINCOLN.”
Just 100 years ago, so
For the psible to receive the cozumitted forgery and attempted For the past week or so it has The French governess, who had The Sewing it is said in France, a Machine. poor French tailor, well met" in our social and com- stanghal broadcasts on any valve murder, said with a winning air.
Barthlemy Thimonnier, mercial dealings. ""Tis love that set due to the interference by a
"Forgif one, who led away by invented the first sewing machine. Certainly he did not profit by his makes the world go round," Super Heterodyne cet which is be-
Did grievous sin; your pardon discovery. It was a long time be- say a popular and catchy song ofting operated in the Colony.
fore his idea was taken up.. Other ere she goes." heard at the festive board at the
inventors Walter Hunt in New York and Elias Howe in London, moment. Which is merely a
made more or less successful ex- paraphrase of the older couplet
periments, and finally the sewing Įproclaiming “Behold how good a
Words. how word meanings, in machine was popularised towards thing it is and how becoming well,
some instances, have be- the middle of last century by laage A Super Heterodyne is built for
But it was long together such as brethren are in and made to be used on an indoor come entirely changed with the unity to dwell." That unity is the aerial or loop when its efficiency is passage of time. Here are several before 1851 that Thimonnier work- ed at the construction of a sewing "concord" which His Excellency
100%. Its work cannot be im-examples:-
Very proved by using an out-door aerial "Virtual," which used to be the machine-it was in 1826. the Governor undoubtedly had in and in addition it then constitutes opposite of "actual" is now the little is known of the French tailor; no portrait of him exists. His mind when he expressed the a miniature transmitting set, filling sume, Street,
desire for
"Subjective" used to mean "exist- machine was not essentially differ- a social Club to be the air with a gruesome medley of
squaks, groans and whistling ing in itself"; it now means "existent from the machine that is used founded, open to Chinese and non-which, not only render it impossible ing in human consciousness," and to-day. It was, however, smashed Chinese, and to be called "The for the Super Heterodyne to receive is constantly used in a sense the by an angry crowd of tailors, who Concord Club.”.
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DEATH.
O'HARA At General Hospital, Seremban, on March 15, 1926, Vivian Lawrence Walsh
O'Hara, Forest Officer, Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan.
Ifongkong, Friday, March 26, 1926.
CONCORD IN THE COLONY,
However fraternal have been the relations of the Chinese and the foreigners in the Colony in the past-and the truly magni- ficent war work and war help of the local Chinese will ever be a sweet memory to treasure-The Concord Club" would of a surety set the permanent seal on the mutual friendship that has exist-
exact opposite of its old meaning.
"Intrigue" used merely to-mean "complexity."
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Merritt Singer,
regarded it as something which would "deprive them of work and of bread."
Edgar Wallace is prob disport," but Frenchmen have
The word "Sport" is French Criminally ably the best writer Minded. of "mystery" stories to-day so completely forgotten it
-living. How fe does that they use the English corrupthem and where he gets his ideas tion of their own native word and perplex his readers. Here is a con- talk of "le sport.".
fession and a bit from real life:
the broadcast but, make it impos- sible for other amateurs to operate their sets satisfactorily..
One Super Het is sufficient to reb hundreds of other receivers of their enjoyment; it would not be saying too much to say that it is impossible for any other receiver to work in the Colony while the Super Het is operating. It is too bad that one person should be "Forlorn hope" is a translitera- allowed to ruin the enjoyment of tion of the Dutch "Verloran hoop," hundreds of others.. Were he to "1ost army," and has nothing to de operate such a set in a like manger with hope at all. in Great Britain, in the United States he would soon find that his actions were not appreciated and that his activities would soon come
to a anish.
Vampire" is a term of Slavonie mythology which has crossed to America, turned into the name of a blood-sucking, bat and then in an
ed since first Hongkong was founded as one of the outposts of Empire. It would serve to take each away from the beaten track besprinkled with the "almighty dollar" and nothing but "the almighty dollar." It would enable each to meet on the same level as improving the receiving power or both taken on sinister significances
abbreviated form into a name for an undesirable young lady.
*
"Mistress" and "Madam" have
in some contexts quite alien to their original meanings. We agree
Such actions as the operation of a Super Bet on an outdoor aerial are obnoxious, because it ruins the enjoyment of others without Loud applause greeted a state-co-members of a great social in the offending set. ment made by His Excellency the stitution where there would be a Among most amateurs it is an with Mr. Hodgson when he says unwritten law that unnecessary And, generally, there is probably Governor, in the course of his passport to each other's finer feel-oscillation should be obviated so as something in Kropotkin's theory address at the annual meeting of ings and social instincts. In to prevent interference with other the General Chamber of Com
short, it would be but the stepping adjacent receivers. This practice that words grow, as it were, dull merce yesterday afternoon. This stone to an era of mutual goodwill does not seem to be existent in the and dirty with use and lose their Colony as much as it might be. original brightness. The more rea- was his reference to the establish and concord that could not but Might I ask the offending Super son for books like this to polish.
Het owner to use his, set as it was them up again.” designed to be used and not to take away the enjoyment of others, Yours..etc.
Amplify. Hongkong, March 25.
ment of a social Club open to both tend to the uplifting of the whole Chinese, and non-Chinese-the community. In no idle and mean- establishment of which he con. ingless phrase it may be asked: sidered had been long overdue. "What about it?” Nothing would give him greater
pleasure, he added, than that the
leaders of the Chinese and non-
Chinese communities of this
·SPEAKING GENTLY.
Colony should combine to found Be gentle and keep your voice
césa.
THEY SAY THAT-
"I am criminally minded, and there are very few dodges of the average criminal which I could not do better. In fact, if things go
badly I have the means of earning a good living at my finger-tips."
It was a very cruel beginning for me to leave board school ut the age of 111⁄2 and to go into the world without any sound education beyond a good know- ledge of Macbeth.
I started selling "Echos", at the corner of Ludgate-circus, and the only way I could keep myself warm was by reciting the quarrel 'scene between Casius and Brutus in "Julius Caesar until I became hot with indignation.
He did not think any young man was better equipped for a writer than one who had gone- through the mills of London.
IDEALS OF EDUCATION,
The publication of the annual men selected on these lines could report of the Rhodes trustees, go to Oxford for three years, part- which shows that there were 186ly to beconte acquainted with one
The world is full of clever Rhodes overseas scholars at Oxford another, and partly to receive the last year, derived almost equally higher education which he thought
such a Club and to make it a suelow is the idealistic advice of an fools Mr. E. D. Cuming.
What he should like to see American writer. The idea that now was a Club that might per haps be called "The Concord Club" and would embody the spirit of
that name.
The
stand and help to solve the vast world problems which he saw were inevitably coming up to the to be English-speaking peoples dealt with;
To see women smoking cigar-from the British Dominions and would best qualify them to under- authority can be maintained by ettes scandalises me not at all. the United States, recalls attention
Father Ronald Knox.
to the unique educational Ideals the ruthless use of gensorious
the slightest which underlay Cecil Rhodes' will, There is never words, is being disputed.
difficulty in getting money for in-It is probably not an exaggeration riper may have a right to call the judicious prosecutions Lord to say that Mr. Bhades' Foundation still holds the field as having be- On the eve of what many con tone but the nature of the call Hugh Cecil
hind it the most profound and the sider is to be the fresh starting is an important part of the situa
Anybody can be a host, but it most interesting vision of what point in the relations of the tion. It is the unbridled use of requires a dash of genius to be a could be accomplished by a great Chinese and non-Chinese in this authority --- real or finagined successful guest-Miss Evelyn educational trust.
Sharp. Colony and the adjacent city of which has caused much suffering
I do not want to see a County Canton, His Excellency's sugges in the world, not a little discon-
Councillor's position reduced to. tion for rather reminder of what tent and has been responsible for that of a mere M.P.--Councillor has so often been talked about in such irresponsible things. as W. S. Lane, S terms of superlatives without strikes. The ungentle tone of anything more concrete being voice between strangers-the one forthcoming is as timely as it is adopting a superior tone or atti. praiseworthy. The more ene tude by reason of the position stays in the Far East the greater occupied by the person called upon becomes the foreigners' respect to serve. The British Premier for the national virtues and traits lustrates what we are getting at of the Chinese and the
Says he: "I have
Been ladies
⠀⠀⠀⠀ Many people take their impres- He therefore divided his scheme There is surely little doubt that ashamed, if such a confession may use a generic term, in shops sion of a policeman from the into two parts. On the one side he if the Scholarship system which be permitted, one becomes of addressing girls in a manner policeman of the pantomime and instructed his trustees to select Rhodes founded can turn out every some of the national defects in the which I should be sorry to do the comic paper-Sir Leonard young men who, in competition with year some sixty or seventy men who
Dunning.
one another, had come out on top have these qualities, who have foreigners character and tem myself. For every time we have
The ordinary fare provided at under certain very severe tests. rubbed shoulders with their fellows perament. Conversely, there is; sinned in that way I think ten although we do say so, much in pounds would be a suitable pen the average political reception They had to be men of intellectual from other lands in one of the most and ancient and famous places of learn would drive a Sunday school ability, physical health the virtues of the non-Chinese ance." "A suitable penance" in treat into open revolt. Comastivity, moral character, and posing, and who leave Oxford Imbard sessed of instincts of leadership with a zeal to work for world unity. community that have evoked the Hongkong would find a majority mander Kenworthy.
and of interest in their fellow men and world peace in such ways as sincere admiration of our Chinese of us in the Bankruptcy Court.
These were the tests which he laid they can in their own lands, they Keep It Handy. friends, "The gap between the We may pride ourselves that our
Do not forget that there are more down as indicating true manhood cannot fail in due time to have an two can be, as it has been hun verbal contact with shop assist bottles sold each year of Chamberlain's It would not be easy to better immense influence in helping to dreds of times before in the ants is as it should be. But is it Cough Remedy than of any other cough them (says the "Christian Science bring about that civilised, pro-
medicine. Have you a bottle of it in Monitor''),
gressive, peaceful and law-abiding Colony's history, easily bridged by--as it been with the larger your home? It is good for the children
and the grown-ups too. Every user is On the other side, he provided world of which Cecil Rhodes a frank recognition of each other's number of those who, as servants | a friend. Dor sale everywhere. the financial means whereby the dreamed.
Rhodes educational ideals were quite simple. Education had for its ultimate end public service; thus he expressed the hope in his will that his scholars would esteem the performance of public Rhodes' ultimate ideal was to duties as their highest aim in after bring about-a closer unity between life." The qualities which he the English-speaking peoples, to sought to elicit in his scholars which he later added, Germany, as were fourfold. First, the capacity being the most certain way of to think and reason for themselves; securing the advance of civilisa-secondly, fidelity to the moral Australia is bound to become tion and lasting peace on earth. virtues, which he defined a2 fol. within 100 years one of the great He saw that the most effective road lows: "truth, courage, devotion to Powers of the world. Viscount to that end was not politics, but duty, sympathy for and protection Burnham.
education truly conceived. He was of the weak, kindliness, unselfish- Eugenics is the stepchild of convinced that, if his scholars were ness and fellowship, thirdly, the noblest ideas, they could not fail interpreted as an active interest în politics. It deals only in long brought under the influence of the instincts for leadership, which he views, and fares badly in conse quence.-Professor Julian Huxley to be inspired by the same zeal and and love for his fellowmen; and,
objects as himself.
lastly, activity and health of body:
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