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|cord one for rainfall. ~ show- |ers, son longïns they come during Imidweek, vand in the small evidence at the St. Andrew's Society

Bagpipes, of course, will be inmatch was played this morning! hours of the morning, are concert for Scottish, Regiments, to Sandy, wanted to take his wife to be welcomed at this season. night. The following, on Bagpipe for an aeroplane rido. The aero- seeing that they provide against Lore," therefore, is of timely in drome proprietor, told Sandy that the long drought and interest

Jarrell he would take the now.pllot, and tense evaporation of our winterThe bagpipes are not included not make any noise or speak, in months. According to Observatory among the musical instruments order not to rattle him, the price returns the last few years have mentioned, nor are the harp and would be cut to half rate. After been wet ones, yet more than once the organ, in the Book of Genesis, the aeroplane had come down, the during that period have there been origin to be lost in the mists of keeping silent.

but they are old enough for their plot complimented him on his temporary shortages of water dur antiquity. There is an interesting "Thank ye," answered the Scots- his man, "but you almost had me when

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KANNADALAH my wife fell out.”. What is to happen should an ab- Nero, as all the world knows, fid- normally dry year, say one of sixty dled while Rome was burning. His "A particularly forlorn and mangy or seventy inches of rain, occur? people were very angry with him, pup crept along the street in the Doubtless this question has been and he fled before them. They notice of two little girls, who exercising the minds of our water pursued him, eager for his blood; paused in their play to look at him. authorities. We should like to servant to meet his pursuers, and said Ella.

and he is said to have sent a trusty "What a horrid, ugly, little dog!”. know what steps are being taken appease their wrath with a message against auch a contingency.

"Perhaps, murmured Dulcie, which ran, In effect, thus: "Give with a kindly thought; "perhaps he me another chance; spare, my life has a nice nature," this time, and I will provide you

with a treat something which Even without namea you will be THEATRE FINANCE. will play you a tune on the IntestHave you any pictures in the

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ther the amateur bodies in the Greece, where it had been known are important." City should be called upon to pay before the Christian era, and from charges for the whole time they of the North, where it was played upon soothingly. "I-I mean-are any "Yes, of course," said the other, cupy the theatre again came under by the Celts of Pannonia. But the of them big pictures?" discussion when the meeting was Greeks themselves did not devise asked to confirm the proposals made, the instrument; they got it from artist, "are big pictures." at the previous meeting. The ama- the Celts.

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teurs found an energetic champion Is it true that the bagpipes were

ao much on the running of the then-

"All my pictures," said the

He Could I have a date to

She: Yes, if you could find any-

In Mr. Griffith-Jones who set the played when the angels announced night? ball rolling. He said that number the Nativity to the shepherds who one committee had met two mem-watched their flocks by night? one dumb enough to date with you. Of their value as advertise in amateur work who, he said, were ed in some of the Christmas cribs you about eight o'clock then.

bers who had had great experience One has seen the tradition honour He: Well, I'll be around to see. ments, as producers of business, questioned on the continuance of of the Catholic Church, And Dr. there may be many opiniens, giving amateur productions and not Fraser writes in his History of the

An old-fashioned girl is one who Some will hold that it is good for tre. That was probably correct, Bagpipe:

"in Rome, or in any of the great mouth before pulling her night- takes the cigarette out of her the sale of a product to keep it but they had to consider the factors cities in Italy, it is the habit of the gown over her head.

on which the resolution was based. before the eyes of the public at He had been going carefully people to erect at Christmas time all costs, to force it in their faces, he found that in the first quarter of in which Christ was born. In it through the theatre accounts and a grotto representing the manger to compel them to read about it, this year a profit was made of $369. they place a live ox, and a live as even when out for an evening The second quarter showed a great young woman with a baby in her while Mary is represented by al stroll or when rushing to busi-electric light accounted for

increase in expenditure mainly from ness with a morning "head." greater employment of the the green patch with shepherds piping;

"Some distance beyond is al That showed that the, theatre was! fully employed during the second these shepherds are always present; quarter.

they represent the shephards on the plains of Bethlehem.

by

arms,

liquors, baby foods or grand times. The manager could not give ston!"

Buch an excuse as that for a loss of

Unmusical Jew,

to eat tadpoles, would. It give him a big bass voice: like a frog 7 They'd kill him.

Mother: Good gracious,

Willie: Ma, if the baby" was

nos.

Willle: Well, they didn't!

"Don't you, think Mary: looks Mhes a lovely flower?"

"Yes; like one of these century plante."

He certainly has a melancholy "Howzat?" "Didn't their size ever impress

Others, however and with these we agree will hold that the mere blatancy

of

hoarding a

Henson for Lessen. militates against its usefulness. The speaker then referred to a A huge advertiscinent on a hoard-sane which was laid on the table At a later time, of course, the

showing a loss of $3,458.87. The bagpipe came to be recognised as pair of feet." ing and particularly if it is not manager of the theatre said that the Scottish national instrument, artistically executed-has

was, to a large extent, due to ama- Its tones' did not always appeal to an deur performances, He Instanced those who lived south of the Tweed. you?" assertive, a "cocky" appearance, The Mikado which he said had re- "To think," n Jewish visitor to the and most people do not like to Between the period April 1 to April this squealing pig in a poke should never eat them. Those little

turned $720 for eight performances. Highlands once, exclaimed, "that "Do you like Michael Arlen?" have things, whether malted 9, the ariateurs performed four be the great lever of a people's pas-sneda stick in my teeth. pianos, forced down their throats, $3,600. He suggested that the strains have stayed many routs and in front of meA

But it was 20. It is still so. Its Hunter: There was a lion layin' as it were, when using the high- Board of Control should go into the stimulated many charges. They

matter. There was probably a rea-made Napoleon nervous on the fieldlying." The engagement is announced of way. So, it seems, on this count son, but the manager could not have of Waterloo; while the story of the Hunter: Well, I'll swear on my English Prof: "Lying," old man, Frederie Hazel, eldest surviving son also that of their "drawing" given the matter serious thought or storming of a hill, in the Tirah cam oath that I'm telling the truth. of the Rev. F. J. Fentycross, B.A. value the poster boarding fails reason as that.

he would not have returned such a paign, while the pipers played are obeta and Mrs. Pentycross of Goring"} Heath, Reading and Una McLean, to make out a case for its reten They did not want to put a stop in quite recent military annals

"Cock o' the North," has its place dest daughter of J. H. Gubbins tion. On this point, however, as without any reason beit given.

to amateur work and certainly not T. P. and C.W. C.M.G., late First Secretary and Japanese Secretary of the British intimated, opinions may differ. He suggested that the loss of $3,000 Embassy in Japan and the late Mrs., After all, the average outlook in had nothing at all to do with the Gubbins.

amateur performances. regard to the desirability or other-

ANNOUNCEMENT.

SCARLET STAINS.

FROM DANCERS KISSES TO MANUFACTURER.

know what needles are for

Herbert: You flappers don't Vivienne Well, I do they're for the phonograph,

Visiting M.D.: Farmer Brown, I'm afraid I can't come out to see you any more.

Farmer (worried): Why, what's the matter, Doctor?

M. D.: Why, every single time I come out your decks, insult me.

"Well, I'm engaged to Adeline. were engaged to her sister, Mabel.

Hut only last week you said you Yes, that's right.

But you can't marry them

Who said anything about get-

A Point Overlooked. Hong Kong, Friday, October 14, 1927. wise of advertisement hoardings

The President said that hel is not that of the advertiser or the thought Mr. Griffith-Jones bad over- UNSIGHTLY HOARDINGS.

hoarding proprietor or the land-looked one point. As trustees of the, theatre they desired to run it General satisfaction is likely owner who collects rent for allow without having to have recourse to to be felt at the decision of the ing their erection. It is that of the Municipal funds. He did not facturer returned home after a When an East Prussian mat- Kowloon Residents Association the individual. It is a personal from the amateurs would turn the red-stained handkerchief in the say that anything they might get business visit, his wife found a to pretest to the Colonial Secre- outlook. And no man is going to debit balance into a credit balance, pocket of his dinner jacket, so ob- tary in the strongest possible say that he approves of a row of But it would help to mitigate It.viously stained from a lady's lips terms against the erection of un- gigantic postera stuck in or at the they ought to think twice before The manufacturer, however, con-

Mr. Griffith-Jones said he thought that she sued for divorce bath." sightly advertisement..hoardings end of his street, It offends his they interfered with fateur work, vinced the court of his entire in ing, married ? on the Peninsula. In the words idea of the fitness of things. It charity. In the case of The Mikado a chemist, the manager of Ber- the proceeds of which all went for nocence and produced as witnesses of the Association, such hoardings savours of vandalism, The Kowhey were committed to a large ex-in cabaret, and three charming the red dress?"

Is that your flaming Jane; in are not considered in any way de-loon

Residents Association, ap. It might have been stopped by The latter, testified that during penditure before the curtain went dancers.

"Yes, why sirable, and are likely to destroy therefore are to be congratulated Government at the last moment and a novel turn, one of the attractions having fire drill with some other Wellake's out on the porch the amenity of the district. Those upon tackling the matter in no ponsible for any liability was that they had to kiss the most guy

the committee would have been res- being erected near the Kowloon uncertain manner, and it is to be His wife had put on plays for audience,

handsome bald head in the f Railway Station provide particu- trusted that some material. good fable for $1,200, and for the second charity In one case they were]

Odd Job Man (to gardener) lar cause for protest and mention may eventuate from their contact for: $2,500, A death in the Royal wiped off the carmine lip stains Gardener "Rather, He's

This happened to belong to the "Your guy'nor, l'ear, in a bit close- unfortunate manufacturer who listed." is made in the course of the Asso with the Government. For in re- Family or anything else might pre- with his handkerchiers ciation's precis of its meeting last gard to unsightly and unwanted place. Shows given for charity

event a performance, from taking The cabaret manager and the

bloke with one way pockets: Monday to "any other similar dis hoardings the authorities can, should be encouraged. The thes guests confirmed the staty while the Author What do you think of figurement being allowed at the if they wish, do much. No im- amount, voted and there was a post the staine tallied with the lipstick opinions Editor It's not

tre had not much exceeded the chemist swore that an analysis of this story? Give me your honest anything. I know, but tell me, any-

Ferry Approach." Putting it plainly, these hoardings are an eyesore, in Kowloon or anywhere else, and it is surprising that they have been tolerated so long and in so many different and distmet

provements, the Association has been told, can be made to Kow- loon bathing beaches, and all that people would like to see done in the way of increased street light Ing does not seem possible of at

Inappropriate locations: Artisti tainment at present In the mat

ally, they more than offend theter of ever most of them. Perhaps if the Gove hoardings

| accepte and others thing to

of beat

tured rep

poaters

Fine town, this. Whose

town

Con

sibility that they would make it up The manufacturer a wife is com way

the dancer used the course of the year, ispred Mr. Wolskel saked whether the celebrated the occasion by a break- Money Raised For Charity pletely reconciled to him and they plays resulted in a proftrri fest which the dancers attendedy given by bis wife, the first yielded Griffith Jones said that of the plays .500 for the Children's Ald So was divider_up. ciety and the second $4,000 which ong various charities/HO

not Sgure

FEAR HIGH

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