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COLD, DAMP, AND

CHANGEABLE WEATHER

bring to mind stops that may be taken to protect the fragile and susceptible.

"WATSON'S"

MALT EXTRACT

with

COD LIVER OIL

gives valuable support to the patient's natural power of resistance.

Prepared from British winter malted barley and cod liver oil specially selected for its vitamin content. Its palatability makes it acceptable to the most fastidious.

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Phone No. C, 16.

Kowloon Dispensary K. 17.

LEE YU HING

玉翠興裕李

JADE MERCHANT.

Specialises in High-Class Jades,

Jewellery, Ivory, Amber, Agate, Crystal and Curiosities.

Genuine articles and Satisfaction guaranteed.

No. 66, Queen's Road Central Hong Kong Tel. C. 1908.

Factory: 18, Hung Shou Chung Street, Canton.

Popularity of the

PIONEER

Continues Daily.

New Stocks of Silk Shawls, Kimonos and Stockings.

To See is To Buy!

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MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1928.

VERNACULAR SCHOOL prospects of a peaceful winter in

(Continued from page 1)

Chinese feat that in this process the old, learning is likely either to be rejected as declass or to be for goften. They are, apprehensive of many of these new ideas, more es pecially of those which point to a

Munan.« Of the offlefala, in the prov

| Visco, 2 the vartioles ; report, s that

Lond are the rameinda who un P'RAPS-PRAPS NOTI

tioned or rather failed in April; others are new, young, foreign- trained students with immense com- Adence in their ability to establish Are they fresh?" the millenium without delay, but woman buying fish from a caster- these self-satisfled authorities the monger

تا ببرین

asked a

slightest grasp of economie prin- dead stock. "Fresh, mum? Why, report continnes," have not the The coster" looked at his long-. ciples, such as the limits of taxa-

complete break with the past. tion or the laws that govern auc- just look at em" And turning to A great deal of the Chinese in-cessful trade, ARAKIE UNT his wares, he shouted," "Lie athl

stinctive dislike of foreigners and

Those who have or are thought to can't yer! Lie still!" their apparent satisfaction with have money are being driven out of

everything Chinese in, due to the the province or reduced to penury| An elderly, unmarried" weaver - feeling, "We were, getting on all an iniquitous system of taxa-3

able state.

Teacher: "How many seasons are

right until these tiresome strangers tion. With no money coming in was reprimanding the young lassie came and upset us. We did not from the fields and subject to re for ant minding her work. want to have anything to do with poated extortions from the GovernYou know," said he, "It's the these obtrusive fellows and we ex-ent the old families are in a piti serious-minded girls who get on."

"Perhaps it is,” she replied; "but plained to them quite politely but Most of the men are fied to it's t'other sort that got off." quite firmly that, while we had po- Shanghai and the women live in thing to learn from them, they, be for the necessities of life anxious [log barbarians, were not likely to for the necessities of life anxious

profit by lessons from us. - -. only to escape attention. The chief there in the year!"

emotion in the minds of the people is fear: fear of the Communists; fear of the Government; fear of their neighbours. They have pass- ad through such a period of horror that their minds are paralysed, they are unable to look to the future or feel any effort is worth while."

But not even God" as Aristotle the Greek philosopher pointed out "Can change, the past. Another Greek quotation occurs to me, it is from Sophocles. perhaps the great est tragedian that has, over lived "for if anyone thinks that he alone la wise that In, speech or mind, he hath Bo peer-uch a soul when laid open is ever found empty."

The Old Missionary.

New Type Wanted.

I am not arguing that this ter-

Boy: "Two, sir.” · Teacher: "Indeed!, they !!

Boy: "The football

the cricket season, Bit.”

+

What are

season and

Sho: "Oh, Clarence I was busy of the bottle of Ink and drank it writing a letter and baby got hold

rible state of affairs is due to the all. What shall I do?" :.

presence of officials educated He: "Well, my dear, it's early.

Sir William Hunter, a well known abroad and thus out of touch with closing to-day. Can't you finish it administrator In India wrote a won- Chinese traditions. But I do 08-

derful story which is now almost sert that' one vital condition of, in pencil 7" unknown. The story is entitled China's regeneration is the evolu "The Old Missionary! The book ton of a new type of official who The nervous guest was anxious was given me a few days before I ledge and understanding of the rellent dinner provided.

will combine a substantial know- to compliment his host on the ex- started on my first journey to In West with the best traditions of dia. It was apparently published Chinese culture.

"It's—it's very good,” he stan mered, adding hastily, "what there

In 1898. (and that's more than 80 I want the University of Hong is of it" years ago) but the story relates to Kong to take a part in turning out

that period in the history of Ben- these new officials and I want this This did hot sound exactly what gal which followed Immediately on school to help us by sending to us he wished to express, so he blurted the direct assumption by the, Bri- students who combine a good work out, "There's plenty of it such as tish Crown of rule in British In- ing knowledge of English with a it is!"

thorough grounding in Chinese: learning.

"Then what's she hollering for?”

dia-that fo to say, the period of the the beautiful in Nature, and more story is about 1860. The old mis

As the celebrated soprano began I am therefore wholeheartedly in to sing little Johnnie became great especially the lover of flowers, aionary is discussing with certain ought to join the Association, the zealous young British officials the sympathy with the object with ly excited over the gesticulations of

British policy of State Education in which this school was founded and the orchestra conductor. annual fee of which (five dollars) India and he is made to say: if those objects are realised I will

"What's he shaking his stick at promise that the University will is infinitesimal in comparison "Your State Education is pro-help you. But I must here add a bør for?" with the results obtained. Ex-

ducing a revolt against three word of warning. Whille I have "Sh-h! He's not shaking his hibitions at which prizes are

principles, which although they anything to do with the University, stick at her." were pushed too far in ancient this school is not going to be awarded cannot be run without India represent the deepest wants stepping stone to a soft option end- money. If, as has sometimes oc-

of human nature the principle ing in either a University degree

An agitated foreigner burst into of discipline; the principle of re-or a Diploma. The University the hotel manager's private office. curred, the membership dwindles ligion and the principle of con- study of a subject means some-ve been Insulted!" he gasped. as the result of indifference or

tentment. The old indigenous thing quite distinctive, not only in when I went into my room this schools carried punishment to the standard but in outlook. It would carelessness, there must inevit- ably be a strain on the Society's funds. To avert this unfortunate state of affairs in the future we appeal most confidently to the community, whether they have garden plots or not, to rally round the Society and ensure its per- manent success. The payment of, say, Een subscriptions' may seem small to the individual members, but it means a very great deal in-

Hong Kong, Monday, January 16, 1928. deed to the Horticultural Society.

LOVE OF FLOWERS.

The Hon. Secretary, Mr. J. A. Plummer, of Messrs. Bradley & Co., will, we are sure, only be too pleased to furnish information in regard to the Society and its work to any residents interested there-

Commenting last week on the question of the waste of water we remarked that the watering of in. gardens and lawns is essential on

the ground that, in a Colony such

Nature

DRIVER WHO WAS KILLED AT POKFULUM.

MILITARY HONOURS.

I recog

"Yes, sir" came the answer.

verge of torture. Your Govern- become the University to estab- evening there was a bowl of water ment Schools pride themselves on tigh & Chinese Faculty, School or and a plate of dog biscuits there!" almost having done away with Department. in which the Chinese The manager sont for the chain- the rod and in due time you will Classics, and their commentaries bermaid have on your hands a race of are merely memorised.

"Did you put water and dog bis- young men who have grown up nise what memory has done for cuits in this gentleman's room?" he without discipline... The In- scholarship; how for centuries the asked when she appeared. digenous schools educated the great Hindu Classics were handed lower classes for the business of down by word of mouth. But those my orders were to prepare room their lives. Your Government days are past. What we want to do Schools spur on every clever now is to survey, humanity in the No. 58 for an Alsatian.” small boy with scholarships and light of its records, and not only money allowances to try and get to know that certain peoples do into a bigger school and 80 certain things and believe certain through many bigger schools with things but to understand why they the stimulus of bigger scholar- do them and why they believe them. ships to a University degree.....

Debt to Scholars,

The day will come when- your. State. Educators will be face to The working world of to-day Is face with the results. They will apt to forget the tremendous debt be forced back on the old "In-It owes to Scholars those Chinese digenous schools as the sure travellers for example who wander- foundations of public instruction ed about the wilds of India search- in India. They will find out that ing for knowledge about Buddhism. races which for ages have borne Perhaps some of you have heard a heavy yoke throughout life of the Hungarian Scholar Alex- cannot be trained up without dis-ander: Czoma de Koros who came cipline in their youth. They will to India at the beginning of the also discover that the end of an- 19th century possessing nothing tional education is not to create but fired with the burning desire one vast clerkly class but to fit to find out the origin of his na- all classes of their natural work." tion. He spent four years in a

25 Years Ago.

owes her

"Surely, waiter, you don't expect me to eat this steak!"

"Why, sir?"

Well it simply ins't done."

Old Lady: "What is that boy cryw ing for?");

Kind Dad: "B ain't crying for anything. 'E's 'ad it."

COAL INDUSTRY.

MARKETING SCHEME TO BE CONSTITUTED,

as this, these must be regarded SOLDIER'S FUNERAL.

Buddhist monastery, In Tibet and OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. as necessities and not luxuries..

-It is now more than a quarter of he explains in a perfectly simple Away from the congestion in the

a century since I started my educa- and matter of fact way how in the

Rugby, Yesterday. tional work in the East. I have winter he would sit covered in city open spaces and gardens are

A full meeting of representa seen, great changes. I have watch sheepskins with his manuscript in cives of the South and West to be encouraged by every means

ed the peace and contentment of a front of him, and how the cold Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire possible. They make for better

countryside wrecked by political was so intense that his fingers got and Derbyshire Coalowners A8E0- and racial, agitation. I have been frost bitten as he stretched them clations was held in Sheffield yes- health and a better outlook on The funeral of Driver C. W. young lives robbed of their Eastern turn over the pages of the man of the coal marketing scheme in intimate touch with scores of out from under the sheepskins to terday for further consideration Hfe generally. He who loves Begley of the 28th Mechanical heritage and profiting nothing by uscript. From Tibet he came to which the coal owners propose to flowers cannot be far removed Transport Company, R.A.S.C., their Western opportunities, and Calcutta and worked for the Bengal from kinship with the spirit took place with full military yet I would not reduce by one fot Asiatic Society until he had col-put into force. After the meet- animating all the good things. of Cemetery, Happy Valley, on boys and giris English, for training of the birth place of the Huna. He stituted. The honours at the Protestant or title the facilities which exist in lected enough money for his pro- ing it was announced that a

Hong Kong for teaching Chinese longed journey to Asia in search scheme was being formally con Saturday afternoon, and was at them in science, and for giving started but contracted fever in the This is a reminder that we have tended by all members of the them some insight into English cul- foothills of the Eastern Himalayas. making approaches for admission Already other districts are in our midst a very excellent Royal Army Service Corps.

ture and history. Rather I would He died in Darjeeling and there he to the scheme.p Driver Begley met his death at inercase and Improve those faci- lies to-day facing the eternal snows There is a prospect that even- organisation that deserves the Pokfulum on Friday night as the ties. The World is so small now of Kinchinjunga strongest support of every one result of the military Motor Am-that the youth of China are and China wants scholars like that, Midland

tually the whole of the with even a small plot of garden-bulance which he was driving must be citizens of the World and scholars whose whole beings are Lafjcashire, will be includ

coal field, Including plunging down an embankment many of the Chinese In this Colony concentrated in one burning de we refer to the Horticultural into the grounds of the Dairy are citizens of the British Empire sire to know and understand.

Tor-some years this Farm, the driver being pinned The British Empire was, all o

edwithin it It is stated. that importent development may, If You Want Money Society has sought to instil a love under the heavy vehicle and kill their race or the colour of their Woo

therefore, be expected in the near of Howers in the community by The Rev. G. F. Stopford, C.F., ties for developing their inherent must be so absorbed in his task as

ed instantly, the

If you want money and comfort future. British Wireless Service; complexions reasonable, opportuni become a merchant. The scholar means of exhibitions, the extent officiated at the graveside capacities and surely the British to be careless of the morrow. And of which must surprise new The following officers were pre Empire is not so poor either in such a one will not lack sustenance: comers and strangers who visit sent:Major T. EL. Langmaid spirit or in wealth as to destro, to them for the first time. There is Capt H. Drysdale, Capt. W. B. But I regard it as ridiculous that lies breast,

(Officer Commanding, R.AS.C), evade these obligations.

"Like driftwood on the sea's wild not alone competition between ex 'Goodfellow, Capt. H. Fogg and allowed to grow up ignorant of Chi- We meet and cling with fond en-

a Chinese boy and girl should be hibitors but there is what is far | Lieut. Laithwaite,

nese as a language, and blind to Better emulation. Indirectly The guncarriage was drawn by the greatness of Chinese culture. A moment on the same "WAVE'S

members of the Indian Army Ser-Education which is not based on the crest; des these exhibitors, whether house vice Corps, and three volleys traditions and culture of the race The wave divides, we part for ever: holders or their gardeners, go far were fired over the grave by a fir le for, that race no education at all

IN to promote the amenities of the ing party from the Scots Guards China had for centuries an official We have no lasting resting here, ters purporting to be sent from the A bugier sounded the Last Post: class, relected for its knowledge of To-day's best friend is dead to. Colony, assisting to make "Beauti. Several wreaths from officers Chinese Classica.morrow fo Hong Kong something more and other ranks were placed on than a mere mine, at least out the grave, side the thickly populated city areas where nothing meets the eye beyond streets and streets of buildings and shops.

ort of the Horticul not in itself aid

The

round

ARMS ON AUNE,

deavour

SOVIET SPLIT.

REPENTERS TAKEN TO

TASK

THOTSKY'S CAMPAIGN..

Moscow,, Yesterday ThePravda" publishes two let-

sgögn | Trotskyist opposition headquarters. it maant that a man who was going To pierce our hearts with future nour

There was some sense in that for We only learn to hold things dear, to Trotsky's adherents

Zingvleft "and Kan to administer the country must be acquainted with those cultural

BOTTÓW. CARANYA KAMU who

principles in accordance with which Be not too careful for the morn, and the Chinese then directed their God will thy daily brand, bestow lives. The old official class has The same eve that the babe is born, been swept away, BLAZED!The mother's: branst begins to flow.

Who Is To Follow

Who is there to take the places Will He who robes the swan of the old, oficiala I have before white,

e

dent

ount of conditions In Who the parrot's bright green

recently sent to

cerrespondenting

Who

the pescock s

the Will hellers kindly.

expres