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EXPLANATION OF Here

YESTERDAYS There

CARTOON

Lone Burro Express.

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THE fast known instance of aj

little, intro, operating over a lang mountain trail without human direction is the “Midnight Ex

and Da Everywhere

NOT WITHOUT HONOUR

AND NOW WHAT OF

BRIDGE?

POSITIVE MENACE OR

SOCIAL ASSET?

TWO WOMEN WRITERS GIVE THEIR OPINIONS

never fails to make its arrival unless indeed, like Karl Marx, bet from the pompous boredom of to play it. The game is:

known

(a) A mania.

Al communications intended for prass" between Quartzville and Mr. Aberhart, the Social Crediti publication should be addressed to Roberts. Oregon. There the barro Prime Minister of Alberta, shows the Editor, and be accompanied by travels the road alone, carrying increasing relactance to avail him the Writer's Name and Address mail and orders, for supplies from self of the expert advice of his not necessarily for insertion, but operators of a placer mine, over aĮ [doctrine's. originator, Major C.. EL

rocky, rugged route of 25 miles the Douglas."

It often happens. that the Uto- found trip. This train," like a}} { others, carries its identifying sound sale on his bat UWHOEVER invented BridgeHOEVER invented Bridge —a bray instead of a whistle and honour sare to own

that game which saved u73 ▼ should be dug up and made is fortunate enough to die before

|whist—has the lasting gratitude of his Utopia comes to pass. The Shrinking Man

Prince Kropotkin ended his days men and women in their millions. Before he began shrinking. Hansenhappily under a regime he had

Socially it is an invaluable asset. (c) An unreasonably foolish Nelson of Minneapolis, was just 5 helped to bring into existence, and No longer need digestion be im-

way of spending money. feet 10 inches tall. In are years Siberia is littered with

Įpaired by “a little music after din- Just as society had become suff- he shrunk down to an even 5 feet asian revolutionaries.

[ner"-painful yodellings of ama-ciently sensible to desert which

Noches in height, then underweight

of and after-dinner music, Bridge Of the Strasse brothers who tear operation. hoping to grow up again-played so large a part in building Chopin heavy with sentiment and came along and re-established silli The shrinking was cansed by It is not from any lack of malfunctioning of a gland, with interest in the developments of drawing calcium from his bones what has been absurdly called!

Autonomy in the Northern TO-DAY'S WEDDING

Hong Kong. Thursday, Dec. 19, 1935.

The Northern Council

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have re-

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Bride Arrives This Morning

same vessel.'

An

veteran

sopranos

(b) A waste of time.

--

I could make a list of bores, the Nani movement, one has chiefly remarkable for a profusion mess

bowing resembled the action of a I should head my list with this been shot and the other is an exiled wrong notes-violinists whose fin Prague

And the alternative popular game. modeltrei-saw. Baskin languished iz colonies based on

dumess past (Continued on Page 11) his teaching Paper games, of a

schoolboy no- Byron detested the Greeks whose bearing-or independence cost him his life, and scenity. Browning fell asleep, at meetings (of Browning societies.

FATHER AT 120

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of

tongues wagyed

No More Part

Provinces that fraided for some time from

the! making any comment on

Marder Justified

harassed by his country's troubles. cabled news, but from lack of

We are told that Bridge has the doctor-the lawyer-they al any information that looked

"killed conversation.” I ask you find temporary forgetfulness when genuine. That language was

The wedding, will take place

to consider: could any muzder be faced with the problem of malding created to conceal thought" is a this afternoon at 530 pm at St.

more justified?

{that “Little Slam” call forced on principle that always has to be John's Cathedral of Mr. L. S. Le The report from Chicago, vouch-

Conversation, to be entertaining, them by a partner's optimism. borne in mind. But when

Gay Brereton, of the Staff of the ed for by several New York docasks for the flavour of humour and And how Bridge has solved the newly established Government

South China Morning Post, and tors, of a man becoming a father of wit. A natural wit is as rare problem of entertaining, for those publishes an official statement iss Elaine J. Moffitt, of Sydney, at the age of 94 reminds one of as a perfect wine, while humourwhose houses are as small as their of its purposes, it would not be who arrived in the Colony this the approaching tricentenary ofis talked of most by those who have sets! Cocktails a simple din- polite to pass it by without

morning from - Australia by the Old Parr, whose record in paternity Jeast of it. Conversation tends to her, served from chaing dishes an analysis.

5.5. Kamo. Mart

eclipses that of the Chicago degenerate into gossip. What of the sideboard-coffee and you are The first test that is to be gers Laura W. Brereton, claim

those women's tea parties" where: (Tezdy for the real business of the applied to any constitution of mother of the bridegroom-to-be, Thomas Farr, according * stimulated by tea, stodgy mudins evening law is that detail is always also arrived with the bride by the written records, took his first wife and rich cakes. more important than generali-

at the age of 80. She died after freely over the shortcomings of sations, because the vague ex-

50 years of married life and Pars their Neighbour and his Wife? •

No more large bills for parti Men don't want to "kit over $*** pressions can be interpreted in

In place of these orgies of ill- so many ways, according to the

remained a widower for 10 yeRTS until, at the age of 120, be mar-nature and digestive intemperanceening each other "that last one developing an hereditary liver and wishes of the interpreter. For

ried again

we now and four, eight, or twelve from the Stock Exchange Then instance, in the American De-

seated—absorbed, Zw claration of Independence, and.

[Jack; has a chance of showing (thank God!) silent. They cannot Harry that, he can beat him at the later Constitution. it îs

overeat. There is no time! Their Bridge if he can't best him as define the such articles

tongues must not wag loosely. Federal and State rights that

golf. For their minds must not wander, have been contested and inter- The Street Sleepers Shelter at the age of 152.

and concentration is essential for preted by the Supreme Court Society are opening a shelter in

good play. The conversations! Nobody has taken any

early excep- Kowloon

ja January.

bore-or menace-is muzzled at the tion to the declaration that man Thanks to the generosity of Mr. has an inalienable right to Wong Yiu Tung, J.P. suitable Passer-by-"Here's sixpence, poor Bridge table. "life, liberty, and the pursuit of premises have been obtained, free man. It must be hard to be crippled." Begrar "Yes; but people used to happiness," because if a gangs of rent, at the corner of Nathan steal money out of my tin when ter and his victim take different Road and Changsha Street (for-¡was blind.” views on the meaning of the merly the Kam Hing Factory). It wards the difference of opinion is expected that the new shelter is not an indictable offence. will accommodate 150 to 200 men.

The three principles that

STREET SLEEPERS SOCIETY

New Shelter In Kowloon

There was a child, contemporary historians aver, of the second marriage.

Farr died on November 15, 1635

Your Daily Smile!

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And how it promotes intama- anal fellowship. Being a Briton, 2 Frenchman, German and an Italian together round a Bridge table and all thoughts of Sanctions, How Much Better

[the German menace, Aryanism and Bridge forces us w ust. what Limpezia? · Rome fly from their brains we have, it develope our funds. Race consciousness takes [powers' of memory. How much a day of “Blue clouds of cigar Gone But Not Forgotten better it is for the average man smoke "wreathe comfortably above Rolly "I hear you had some money for woman than browsing · lethar-their heads. National irritations left you."

PollyYes; it left me long agogically by the fireside over "dope-give place to a jovial rivalry. have now been published by tion.

literature”—or over the sex-life of

Turn the League of Nations in- General Sung Cheh-yuan begin The third principle will be

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Pretty One (after running over It is not only a mental stimulant, and you will do more for the peace trict reforms and appointments with neighbouring countries, in young man's dog). Tm sobat a rest for strained nerves of the world than any part that must be based on the will of accordance with the mandate of so sorry! Can't I replace the animal?"

awas ever signed. Young Man--"Surely, it was only The business man tired after. the people. We note that the the Government." Here we seem

day at the office--the politician my lap dog," inaugural meeting was sum- to see something substantial moned in the early morning The neighbours are the Nan-

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avoid demonstrations, Government. Manchukuo, and especially by students, who Japan But once again ques appear to be the most

Is out-tions. obtrade themselves. spoken section of the people, the friendship to be equal to and the least disciplined. It is them all? If that is the zim. not then by the unanimous will then there would be some

în the of the people that the Council meaning

word But has come into existence Does "Autonomy.”

Japan's the "will of the people" mean avowed object is to fend against the will of a majority? How Soviet infimence and infiltration. is the majority to be ascertain-so the friendly relations cannot ed? Can it be taken for grant-be equal as between those two. led that the people's will is If Manchukuo is to be prefer- identical with that of the dis-red, that is the same thing as tinguished generals who form Japan. Is the friendship to the most influential members include customs preference, and of the Council, if not the the use of the Manchukuo majority? Is there any body coinage? :

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