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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1928.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

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Li Pl-shao was the Grand Eunuch of the Son of Heaven,' and as a mark of capecial favour it had been decreed that his son should succeed him. Having a Bon was unwilling to make the charming wife, the ungrateful

Mr. P. G. C. Campbell addressed necessary sacrifice. His father the members of the English Club | Mr. Owen Rutter made a name banished him, and Li Pi Tehow at Queen's University, Canada. for himself with "Sepia" but and the fair Chti set out on their Mr. Campbell said:"

Their first night was

"Perhaps I am getting old- "Golden Rain" is far better, Here travels. we have an author who very de-On subsequent nights they were time you have heard what I have ruined by-horrible dictu-fleas fashioned, perhaps I was born 30, but I am quite sure that by the finitely knows his East-every demolested by human pests in the to say you will be convinced that tall rings true, and the story is in forms of a Tartar soldier chief am. At any rate I am often old- stinct with sympathy for, and un- and a Khonghouse chieftain.. In fashioned enough, when 1, want to derstanding of, the native people each case, in order to save her see light on some difficult problem, of Borneo, both Dusuns and husband, Chti surrendered to to go back two thousand years or Malaye.

their embraces, although we by more, to Greece, to see what Plato The time is in the early days of now begin to suspect that she or Aristotle had to say on the sub- the British occupation in North was not so fragile as her husband Ject. In them one always finds not Borneo, when the pioneer colonis believed, and that her sacrifices merely a fearless disregard of publie popular prejudice and Cr's were, gradually establishing were not entirely devoid of con- opinion, but a wonderful knack of their stations inland and overcom-siderable pleasure to her.

disentangling the essentials, of ing native hostility. The Pan- daran Jeludin, a son of Malayan! They were rescued by an Itiner going to the very heart of the pirate-princes, broods over his ant monk, and taken to the question. father's death at the hands of the Monastery of the Celestial "So, in the present case I turn- British; and although at one time Clouds: here Chti captivated the cd up my Plato and found certain he might have become a paid Grand Prior, to their mutual en Ideas which, it seems to me, arc aa chief, he is urged on by the ambi-joyment, and Li Pi Tchow became true to-day as the day they were Lion of his wife, the Dayang, who a kitchen coolie. To bring much written with a reed pen on papy Is descended from a long line of needed funds to the monastery it rus. And this is part of what I Rajahs. Matters are brought to was decided that a public crema- head by the murder of the trader tion was advisable, and the luck what is allegorical and what le "A young person cannot judge Yule, who happens to be the brother of Rufus Yule, the headless Li Pi Tchow was chosen for literal; anything that he receives of police. Jeludin and his follow the honour of thus achieving into his mind at that age is likely ora are besieged, in a fort they immortality.

tg become indelible and unalter- had built, by the Elopura Resident However, to cut the story able; and therefore It la most im- Huntley, his assistant Loder, Rufus short, he escaped this fate. His portant that the tales that the Yule and Loder's sister Noreen, an younger brother having died un- young hear and read should be Irish girl whose hobby is fighting der an operation, Li Pi Tehow And therefore, ho goes on, speak- models of virtuous thoughts." and whose "sudden arrival on the scene introduces

new complica- was restored to his father's ing of the poet-there were no tions. The rebels are driven fron favour and decided that the novelists then-whose stories cor- the fort, and Jeludin and his allice glories of position would more rupt the mind by telling of the swear allegiance. Noreen makes than recompense him for the loss amours of the gods and goddesses, friends with this very attractive of what had become an empty when we have anointed him with enemy, but Rufus Yule ruins the pleasure. He took the most de- myrrh, and have set a garland success of the peace overtarea. licate and effective revenges on upon his head, we shall send him

all who had ill-treated him: Li Pi away to another city? Tchow had eaten his bay-leaver and was no longer a Golden Ass, Mr. Pettit bred this story by "Things Chinese" out of "The Decameron." Being written only of character, with the training of to answer, the only moral we can good citizens in his ideal Republic, draw is that eunuchs should not He does not look at the aesthetic have sons-it's all wrong, and problem, does not believe in Art: they come to no good. True, the for art'a sake, but in art only as virtuous thrive in the end, but an Instrument of education. they do not get much fun out of "Now some

may quarrel with it; the wicked enjoy themselves his onesidedness and complain exceedingly, but come to awful that he is narrow, but no really fates. This is all as it should be. sanc person, no one who loves his lar facts against which you are There is not a dull page in the fellowmen, who is toiling for the now protesting are to be found and book, however unreal it may be the question of the morality of to be found very commonly.

uplift of humanity, will assert that-unfortunately, if you like-are in many details: there is nothing Literature, of the effect it has seriously to shock susceptibilities upon those who read it, can safely

"There is a second line of de- and very much to amuse. It be neglected, whether it be by law fence I have heard, the sophistry should certainly be read as a first- giver, or professor, or the often of which you recognise as soon as class entertainment.

forgotten parent...

you hear it. 'No one need read "Looking at the literature of the auch books. And yet our publie, past as a whole, there are these libraries are full of them. If they our lending and our circulating points that I would like to empha-are bad, as I hope to convince you,

Jeludin takes to the warpath again, and destroys the station of Malang taking Max Loder, prison er. Attempts to communicate with Jeludin are frustrated by the Dayang, and Noreen courageously insists on arranging her brothers release, a feat which she success fully accomplishes in her own

way.

The rebels take to the fort again, and cannot be dislodged. They are eventually starved out, Jeludin dying gloriously while leading a final sortie, a magnificent victim of his hopeless battle against the oncoming time of civi- lisation.

We read much about "the Colonial type," but there are more than one. The best is exemplified by Loder and Huntley, the worst by Rufus Yule, an impetuous fool

who should never have received a Colonial appointinent, and by Wyllard, a typical waster who achieved nobility only in his death. The finest gentle man, as the lov able Noreen realised

very early, was Jeludin, who respected the rules of war and the codes of chivalry, and broke his word" but once, and then only when goaded by the gross insult of a European. This book should have a very wide sale, and will Increase the already great reputation of its nu-

K. E.

THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SCEPTIC.

"I don't believe in patent medi- cines," said the sceptic.

thor: Mr. Rutter does what Mr. patent medicines'?" asked the phy "Just what do you mean by Maugham would like to be able to sician. do-he

the depicts brilliantly

"Why-cr-all secret medicinal pre- characters and thoughts of Euro-parations," answered the sceptic, peane out East, with sympathy and "all remedies of which the formula clarity: in this respect the book is never divulged. It is senseless ought to have an especial appeal to take medicine if you don't know to Hong Kong readers. There is what it contains," too that Romance of adventure

"Of course," suggested the doc- which appeals to everyone, and we tor, "you always read a physician's can confidently recommend this prescription and quite understand book to all readers of discrimina-what is being given you." tion.

"Well, no,” admitted the sceptic. K. E.

"But then, you see, it is a physician who le prescribing, and who knows

TWO CHINAS.

"The Son of the Grand Eunuch"

what he is about.".

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no one should have a chance to read them.

"(1) Rarely is this unlawful love the very heart of the story, it is not the essence of the plot..

"Then there is the opposite point (2) It is not condoned; the ar- apparently should be called

of view, which emphasises what tist does not acek to justify it.

the

(3) The author does not dwell utility of these works. Ignorance, on it; attempt to get his audience truth, is not Virtue; to keep our it is said, with some measure of visualise it.

to

rather than a physical sin.

"(4) It is shown as a spiritual Young people ignorant, is not the way to preserve them from harm. Now when I turn to a large from sin, and these books show proportion of present-day fiction them the dangers and pitfalls that and that the most widely read, I real life offers. feel that the whole atmosphere has changed, the point of view seems to me to be reversed.

of book I am now speaking of is sexual, physical, fleshly: often It

is not love, but lust that is por trayed.

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OF THE HITERKAHOLA STANGAJE.

"The French have a proverb, qu'on ne se.graisse les doigta" ne pout manier le beurre and Shakspeare gives this truth the well-known form, They that

worse..

any other audience I cannot

telligence by attempting to refute legs true, for the physical world. "Again I will not insult your in- touch pitch will be defiled. That Is a commonplace, but none the such an argument, which suggests is it not true, as a rule, in the "The love which forms the kind that novels should in the moral spiritual world? St. Paul tells us, cluation of the race take the Evil communications corrupt good Place of father and mother, of de- cent friends, and of religion. Is character' or 'morals. And look- manners,' or as it should read, it true that life is so full of trans-ing at the matter perfectly honest- "The moral that I draw, the view gressions of the moral law, that ty-and to do that you will pos of life as I see it given in this them. If knowledge of vice is the somebody else and not of yourself one is ever running up against aibly find it better to think of literature, is that Love is every- best or chief protection against do you really believe that your Dr. Williams' Pink Pills of Pale

thing, transcends

everything, vice, then the Penitentiary should friend X. or Y. will be none the People are themselves the prescrip: sidration; love I felt dissolves

comes first before every other con- take the place of the University. tion of a learned, and experienced every other tie, every duty, every that I must take note of, security, divorces, with

"There is one more argument tions and illegitimate children and

for reading of seduc physician who, as the sceptic sug moral obligation: the very founda- behind which at least they take wealth of detail that before this or a multitude and by Charles Pettit. (Stanley eats, knew what he was about. tion of society, the

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the fact that the prescription from married life, of the marriage bond "According to this, it is the There

are undoubtedly two which they are made is sounders threatened. Strong words, you treatment, rather than the bare specify. Meet that question fair- will say. Yea. Tou sweeping. facts, that counts; the total im Weakening of the Moral Fibre. Chinas-the one we live in and than others. Their world-wide re Again, yes; but what I am empha-pression of auch a book, they ar the one novelists write about:putation as a Blood Builder and sising is that it is a fast growing gue, may be

"I have noticed that people of the former an unromantic reality forty years of service to suffer literature, and that it is the novels by the writer, that we recoil from years ago would justly have hor Nerve Tonic has been built up on tendency in English and American those facts may be so presented to-day reading novela which ten most salutary; for my acquaintance of both sexes are with an odour indescribable, and ing humanity, and they are still of this kind that are being more them; we do learn a leason from rifled them; and what I naturally the latter a picturesque land unrivalled 28 磊 specific for teeming with delicate intrigue annemis, debility, and those mala- and more widely written and them. But is that a correct argu- deduce from that fact is, that and fragrant with incense. Mr. dies arising out of weak watery read to-day.

ment? To the pure, all things their moral Pettit in his preface claims to blood and disordered nerves, which

Duty of Literature.

are pure, and the pure mind will lowered; that familiarity has pro- tone has distinctly have drawn an accurate picture afflict so many of both sexes. In

"It is the right, it is urged, in-recoil because it is pure and hates duced in them not contempt., no, of the character, customs and them women find especial help at deed the duty of literature, and of to be so defiled, not because of the but a weakening of the moral fibre, morals of the Court of Old the trying periods of life.

fiction in particular, to give a light under which they are pre- Buddha of thirty years ago, and

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