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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1928.
Seven cases of small-pox were the pupils of the Diocesan Girls' School who have just opened a reported in the Colony yester
day, new pavilion will, while rejoicing
PRAPS-P'RAPS NOT!
In their freedom to indulge in A display of drill and action games-perhaps to a greater ex-songs will be presented by the
The subject was things that tent than they really should pupils of the Quarry Bay School
on December 18 at 2.30 p.m.
happened during the late war and set a rational standard so that
the high price that flour went to One man said The forthcoming marriage is was mentioned.; their example may be worthy of following and they themselves be announced of Mr. J. R. Soares, tlut before he would pay that No. 11, Beaconsfield-arcade, and price for flour, he would eat dry really admirable in the best of Miss B. J. dos Santos, "Mignon," bread, and before he would let his children starve, he would work for now't.
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On the night of Jan. 8 and 10,
ways. The spirit of good fellow-Wanchai, ship and good sportsmanship, happily mentioned by Mrs. W. T. the well-known Amerkan farce * Uncle (meeting nephew coming (three acts) "What Happened to home from school): "Now, John, Jones," will be presentet at the do you know your alphabet?" Star Theatre. This has been or- ganised by the leading members John: "Oh, yes, 'uncle.” of the Portuguese community, letters come after A." under the auspices of the Club de ! Recreio Amateur Players.
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Southorn, in opening the Pavilion, can be acquired much better in reasonable amount of sport rather than in its over-indulgence
Sino-British Understanding
Uncle: "Then tell me what
John (promptly): "All the others, uncle."
The dinner given in Shanghai by the British Chamber of Com-Banking Corporation are opening whom he has beaten badly at
The Hong Kong and Shanghai
Colonel (consolingly to Vicar, merce and the China Association; a Kowloon Sub-Agency with at which Dr. C. T. Wang, Minister offices in the Peninsula Hotel on win in the end. One of these days | golf); "Never mind, padre; you'll
Clients de-
A Clergyman was marrying a couple in church, and asked the man: "Wilt thou take this woman as thy wedded wife?” The man replied: you?'m
"Would
The clergyman said "No."- So the man, rising. said: "Well,
for Foreign Affairs, and Mr. H. H. January 2 next.
sirous of transferring savings you'll be burying me." Ifung, Minister for Commerce, bank or current accounts from then it will be your 'hole.""
Vicar (sadly): "Yes, but even. were the guests, marks a new the Hong Kong office to the stage in Sino-British relations. Kowloon Office may do so on or This is, we believe, the first time after that date. The usual bank- since 1925 that such a functioning business will be transacted. has been held in the northern port. There have, of course,
In the St. Vincent de Paul since the occasion of the Nan- Bazaar, Fancy Article Stall king-road incidents, been a num-Raffle, the following were her of meetings between Chinese prize winners:-Ticket No. 2, and Britons in both official and Rev. P. H. Taggart, 17,. Tuti social capacities, as witness the Noronha, 42, Miss M. Loureiro, be hanged if I will, then.” frequent functions, that are held 144, A. Chisholm Batten, 168, at the Union Club, but none of P. H.. Larken, 106, E. Alves, 146, them has carried the importance K. M. Young, 15, Aurea Sousa, that is carried by the dinner and 145, K. M. Young, 185, Messy what was said at the dinner, as Alves. The $22-hat presented reported in this issue of the by the Dolly Varden House was "China Mail." Dr. Wang, it won by Mrs. A. J. Kinchin, and seems, spoke with entire frank- the diamond ring which wasthid- ness, as did the Chairman of the den' in the Surprise Cake was won British Chamber and China Asso- by the Rev. Father Riganti.. ciation, Mr. Calder Marshall.' The former expressed the hone desirable that physically they that Britain would not lend her support to any moves that would
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MIRACLEŚ
“DELYSIA "
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"How long you in jail fo*, Mose?"
"Two weeks." "What am de ch'ge?? "No ch'ge;
free."
everything am ̈'
"Ah mean, what has you did?" "Don shot my wife."
"You killed yo' wife, and only în gãol fo' two weeks?"
"Dat's all den I gits hung."
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"What became of your little goldfish?" asked a visitor of 2. small boy. "Did it die?"
"No."
"Killed?"
"No,"
"Lost?" "No."
"Poisoned?" "No."
"Then what happened to it?" "It growed into a big fish!"
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"Sixteen words for four shill- ings, sir," said the clerk at the local newspaper office. ""That is the charge in the Motors For Sale' column."
"I don't want it in that column," groaned Roper. "Shove it in the agony column. That's its proper place."
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BISHOP ON THE CRUX OF An eminent physician had the
THE QUESTION
greatest opinion of the good of body as possible so as to coun-Jown destiny and emphasised that
effect of cheerfulness on sick per- teract the effect of the arduous the, Nationalist Government was
Oxford. The Bishop of Oxford sons. "You must drive away this ready and eager to respond to work in which they are called Britain's desire for understand-referred at the Oxford Diocesan depression," he remarked to one upon to do practically every day ing and co-operation from China. Conference to the controversy in particularly discouraged patient. Mr. Calder Marshall pointed out the question of the Virgin Birth. "Practise cheerfulness; sing at your work, you know, and that But it is, or should be, very that while Britain had, the wel-He said:-
"It is the nature of the event sort of thing." fare of China at heart, he hoped different with girls. Do girls that such matters as vexatious itself which really challenges Sing at my work, doctor?” want to be muscular? Who taxes impeding commerce and the question, because it is a tremen- grumbled the patient. "How do I'm a glass- wants to see muscular girls? occurrence of unfortunate inci- dous departure from all that our you think. I can?
It is here, blower." dents, together with the inability jexperience records. Being healthy and reasonably to obtain redress would receive and not in the historical evidence, strong should be the aim of girls attention so that there should be that the whole crux of the ques- and young women, and by a toler-security and justice in united tion lies.
"The ultimate question, there- able indulgence in games and China. Here we had sound,, plain
the world and the relation of God physical exercises this ain can be speaking on both sides, and no fore, is really how do we conceive
harm done. • · accomplished; but when they
to it? Are the rules which we engage too much iri games, espe-|
In spite of all that has been formulate on the basis of creation accomplished in recent years to land revelation firal in the sense cially of the rougher sort, they make life more tolerable as well that they bind God, or are they are doing themselves much more as more rapid, more simple as well statements of observed uniform- harm than good. Girls' games at as more complex, there can be jities, limited in operation to the school should be confined strictly hardly any doubt that we are on phenomena on which they are an era of still based, and not rightly claiming the threshold of to-such as are suitable to their more marvellous knowledge finality outside this region?,
Roper's attempted journey to "If it is maintained that the the seaside in his second-hand physique. They should in no way which may revolutionise our
The very idea of a miracle such as motor-car had ended in a fiasco. imitate or emulate boys, as by material existence Hong Kong, Friday, Dec. 14, 1928. doing so they
prospect is so fascinating that it this is contradictory from all cer- Six times had it broken down en are sure to do seems a pity we cannot all live to tain knowledge, and impossible themselves harm. They can re- be a thousand years old to enjoy even to God, then no doubt the route, and finally he had left it in a garage and finished his journey But then, perhaps who belief in the Virgin Birth must by train. He decided to try and HONG KONG SCHOOL GIRLS ceive all the healthy exhilaration it.
"Daily go. But I should venture to say sell it. AND SPORT
necessary in playing the milder knows? we. may.
that such a belief as this is not News" (London). games, whereas, we repeat, the
Increasing in favour.". The students of the Diocesan rougher games that, some think as for Girls' School are to be congra- quite as good for girls tulated upon the able manner in boys should not be indulged in by
REGISTER OFFICE NOTICE which their school is conducted girls. We are inclined to suspect
OF HER WEDDING The Little Sisters of the Poor and upon the improvements that that most girls indulge in certain
acknowledge with thanks the gift A further stage in the Alice are made from time to time in it. games quite unsuited to their of $100 frora Miss Cyril Joseph as Delysia romance, details of which We are not so sure that they physique simply because they are a donation towards their Home were first published in the should be congratulated upon under the delusion that what is for the Aged Poor. what appears to be a tendency to good fun. for boys must be good
weekly Divided into Increase the amount. of sport fun for girls. But this is a harm monthly sheets, a wall calendar
In the notice which appears at son of the soll, but when he came indulged in at the school. This ful fallacy, and one which should issued by the Red Star Line has Hampstead Register Office she is back to the farm after his first as Alice Henrietta term, there was a slight differ- tendency seems to be general in on all suitable occasions he cor- been sent to the "China Mail" by described
Lapize
ence, and his father noticed it. (known as. **Alice
"I dunno quite wot t' mak' o' ail schools for girls, and it is to rected. We are far from advocat the American Express Co.
Delysia"), spinster, actress, 86. be deplored. Fer girls as well as ing that girls should not play re- An advertisement in to-day's
Her prospective husband is my Sammy," he said to his neigh- manage-Georges Emil Denis, bachelor, bour, Farmer Phillips. "'E don't boys a healthy mind in a healthy gularly at games, They should; fasue states that, the
t same, very body is very necessary, but, so but the games should be suitablement notifies that no further re-aged 81 described as general seem exactly
fgfalutin an' disdainful in is" servations can now be made for manager of 'a newspaper, of far as girls are concerned, we are to their sex and should not, as the New Year's Eve Carnival at Frognal-gardens, Hampstead. The talk. alls, bushes foliage now as previously indi- an' uses a lot o' other words, the of opinion that the aim should we fear late of the games-indulg-Repulse Bay Hotel, as all the ceremony, be rather to discourage than to ed in by girls to-day do, tend to available accommodation has been cated, will take place at Notre like o' which i never 'eard before
fully reserved.
Dame de France, Leicester-'c went away."
"Aw, no doubt 'e be learnin' encourage so much. time. being cause them to appear masculine.
at the Good, health and masculinity The case in which two barbers. Over a period of years the mar this "ere 'aughty-culture," said taken up with games. It would appear that many people are of (and musqularity) in girls are are charged with murdering an-riage intentions of Delysin have skewl wheere
other fellow-barber was again been speculated upon. When Phillips. opinion that sport is as essential very different things; the first is brought before Mr. F. W. Hamil she was playing in "As You for girls as it is for boys and that of course, very desirable; the ton at the Kowloon Magistacy Were" at the London Favilion it The wealthy baronet had not girls should take part in games as second should be avoided in every After evidence was given by the was reported that she was to always been wealthy, neither had. marry Charles Cuvillier, the com- he always been a baronet, and, for that reason, he was prone to frequently and in much the same possible way. Many girls and first defendant, the case
again adjourned...
poser of "The Lilac Domino.” way, as boys. That way danger young women seem to think that
In February, 1926, she said, keep rather a sharp eye on his lies, for girls very obviously were because boys and young men de- A Chinese butcher, a former after a trip to Algeris, that a money. He had noticed for some never intended by nature to in-five lots of fun and enjoyment worker at the Central Market, sheik had proposed to her, but time that when the bottles of was yesterday stabbed by an un- he had dirty hands, a long beard wine were brought in they were dulge in games to the extent that from certain games, girls should known assailant at the Central and several wives. A year later not quite so full as they ought to boys do and should indulge in also enjoy such games in much Market. The victim after being it was suggested that an English-have been, and, accordingly, he requested his butler to do all the them. Tennis, to a reasonable the same way, and get as much wounded on the face, struggled man of title was to marry her.
opening in his presence. extent, hockey,
I notica," he said sternly, that when you draw the cork in several other games of the delusion simply because boys attacker is still at large.
Mr. R. E, Lindsell was engaged the pantry the wine is extremely "quieter" sort are quite suitable are boys and girls are girls
His Honour the Chief Justice throughout yesterday afternoon decollete." for girls, but when they enter and masculinity in
(Sir Henry Gollan, Kt. Bach, taking evidence in the case in The butler looked surprised and By all GB.E., K.C) returned to the which ten Chinese men and two asked: upon games, as they now far too women is deplorable.
"Extremely decollete, sir?" often do and apparently with as means our girls and young Colony from Shanghai this, morn-women are charged with con much zest as boys, such a ten-women should continue to enjoy ing by the P. & O. 8.8. "Kashmir" spiracy and other serious offences, "Yes," replied the baronet
and officiated in chambers forth-in connection with the recent die- more sternly, still father low dency should be discouraged certain sports, but they should be with. He presided in an appeal covery in Hong Kong of a quan- the neck." rather than encouraged. Thereof the right sort, for when they in H.B.M.'s Supreme Court in tity of forged $50 (1929. Issue) are the best of reasons why boys are of the wrong sort they do the China, upholding a judgment by banknotes of the Hong Kong and young men should play games girls and young women more Sir Peter Grain, the case being and Shanghal Banking Corpora-
one in which the Banque In- tion,
Op of Mr. H. Somerset Fitzroy, al- regularly and with as r much harm than they probably are dustrielle de Chine unsuccessful. Evidence heard yesterday cor- ready reported in the "China spirit as possible, as it is very aware Therefore, we trust that ly sued Arnhold & Co.
roborated the opening statement Mail
"
Farmer Harris had sent his, son Evening Standard," has been reached in the official notification Sammy to a high school. Before he went away Sammy was a true and of her forthcoming marriage.
was
square.
croquet and fun out of them. This is quite with his assailant, and succeed-
ed in securing the weapon. The FORGED NOTES CASE
young
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