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APRIL 1-FEAST OF FOLLIES

Everywhere WHAT TRADITION SAYS

OF THE DAY

IMPROVING ON NATURE

ECHO OF UNIVERSAL EXUBERANCE OF ALL HUMANITY

(By Llewellyn Powys)

NTIQUARIANS have account-| April 1 that Noah sent out "his

ed for the existence of theļñove on, its fest, fruitiast errand.

April 1 or All

Sleeveless Errands

All communications intended for| The annual meeting at the The fact that Germary and Rus- publication should be addressed to Hong Kong Automobile Associasis are using synthetic rubber the Editor, and be accompanied by tion was held yesterday in the does not imply that British che the Writer's Name and Address Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, mists are behind in this matter. not necessarily for insertion, but

economic [Matheson & Co. Dr. Wan Yi- Only the abnormal as a guarantes of good faith.

shing presiding in the absence of conditions prevailing both in Ger ¡M2. T. E. Wilson.

many, "and" Bussia make it worth Resentment was expressed that while for those States to use the motorists who were not members aythetic product. In England of the Association got the fullthere is no market at present for benefit of its parking facilities the synthetic rubber which British frolic morning

- in various - WEYA. Certainly sleeveless errands have and suggestion was made that chemists are capable of producing. Fools Day Hong Kong, Wednesday, April 1, 1836 the Government should charge Only something conspicuously They had been-wiser if they had ever been a characteristic feature better than matural rubber never meddied with the slipper of the day, with us. In Scotland all motorists for parking and give would be worth marketing in secret of so slippery a day it is said to be customary to des ja donation to the Association. In

||England, ie., & substance with

Some have connected it with the patch wincky serving men from Road-Rail Competition

any case."it was maintained, the the qualities of rubber and, with universal exuberance that takes house to house with a sealed pote |Government should meet the ex-

possession of human beings at the containing the words "April 1st. The railway chairmen were penses incurred by the AA. out its defects. »

vernal equinox, and Hunt the gowk another mile” The principal defects of natural time of the as optimistic as regards the near the pervision of car parks.

Įrubber are that it "ages" and that would have us believe that the gowk in that tongue denoting Some dissatisfaction future as were the bank chair-

Sir financial position was expressed

it does not resist oil erosion very Huli Feast of the Hindus is simi-cuckoo men a month before.

wei.

{laz to our own impulsive festival, Throughout the? East” certum Josiah Stamp, at the recent anat the meeting, bat assurance was

It is understood that the pro-seeing that it is completed on the have sent a simple person to ask a nual meetings of the London giren by the newly elected Pre-

"History of Midland and Scottish Railways sident, the Rev. G. E. S. Upadell, Pets of improving on rubber were eve of April 1 and is also dedicat-bookseller for the

Laever brighter.

ed to the pastime of jocular de-Eve's Mother” was reganded as an said that the period of depres that the deficit on the year's work-

ceptions

{expression of superlatius wit, a ion was steadily passing and ing was not a matter for alarm

ELASTIC MOLECULE

The French celebrate the day in also it was to have persuaded that the prospects of maintain and would probably be converted When found the substance. may the same manner as do wre, except some poor wretch to ask at ing and even improving British into a profit this year.

very well have a molecular struc-that they call the victim of their ist's shop for half a pint of pl industry were good.

Mr. A. Somerfelt, for the Treature similar to that of rubber. droll prevarications poisson ágeril geon's milk, or at the cobbler's duced coal exports, of course,

The rubber molecule is, to wylor "fish of April" One explanar for a pot of elbow grease.“

The re-

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prise shown in offering lower salaries had been reduced from cupying the serious attention of called "silly mackerel," especially woman, suspicious of his peasant'e-

greater

The

the previous Year

backwards and forwards-between and some in hedging in a muckoo, Pilate and Annas, and Caiaphas they should have had in mind the jand Herod.

day of the month. For as It has also been hazarded that Fuller, remarked "Gotham doth the First of April is derived from (breed as wise people as any that

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are a serious loss to three outurers, said the accounts showed

a loss of $1,000 on the year's the least, musual. It is like. *tion given for this is the fact that The peculiar a privilege of the of the four main railway sye-

as against a loss of long chain, coiled working

& spiral the mackerel season of France be-First of April has been found by might tems, but even that is offset by

be expected gins at about this time of the some to be extremely useful the increased demand for coal $3,000 the previous year. Sab

at $7,320 showed is also elástic. On scriptions

year, and in the old days the pert|Francis, Duke of Lorraine, elected for the heavy industries.

Synthetic rubber has been

page-boys of the great were often to make his escape on this day. A the passenger side the enter-slight increase: European patrols"

to scientists for only about 10 years when they were sent upon errands disguise, caled, but to the guard fares and improved facilities $4,629

Some of the most valuable work that only the levity of the season that it was the duke who was 30-- has been rewarded by the in- $2,580.

Officers Elected

has been done in America.

Icould properly excuse.

ing out only, however, to find her creased traffic attracted to the

following officers were The Americans-unlike the Ger-

Other Suggestions

self deafened by derisive shouts os, railways, while the spending power of the public is elected: Patron, Sir Andrew Cal-mans have generally shown them-

One French scholar has suggest poisson d'am from the merry: another favourable factor. The decott: President, the Rev. G. E. Sselves ready to publish the results

ed-that poisson is a corruption of turnkeys."

Gotham's Breed. chief problem the railway man-Upsdell: Vice-President, Dr. Wan of their researches.

For some time scientists thought passion and is derived from the

Many declare that when the agers have to face as affecting Yik-shing; Committee, Messrs. B their next balance sheet is that D. Evans, P. M. Hodgson, A. Nis-that a chemically pure substance traditional play-acting undertaken of wages.

Claims have been sim, A. H. Fotts, J. Smith, A. Ste-was required. Oddly enough, some by the Church at Easter time to royal officers of King Tom found put in for the cancellation of venson, W. N. T. Tam, H. G. Wil- of the best results have been ob remind the common people of the the wise men of Gotham gravely the last vestige of the deduc-liams, G. H. Wilson and T. B. Wil-tained by deliberately introducing cruel mockery of sending Jesus absorbed, some in drowning an eel tions made in the depression son; Treasurers and Secretaries, extraneous matter. period, and also for a reversion Messrs. Linstead and Davis,

then closed! to the maximum payments for The meeting was overtime, Sunday and night with a vote of thanks to the chair- duty which were in force prior man expressed by Mr. Thomson.

the Feast of Fools (Festum Fa- carelessly laugh at their sitzpli to 1931. Mr. Holland-Martin,! There were present:-The Rev.

When Napoleon for the sake of at the Southern Railway meet-G. E. S. Upsdell, Dr. Wan Yik-castle, that I make a cake by the tuorum) of the Romans which is city." ing last month, said that if the shing, Messrs. W. H. Cornell, A. recipe that Mrs. Wighton gave me said to have been used by the full demand were met it would Stevenson, A. Nissim, W. E. Kir- It will be too expensive The eggs early Church Fathers for the pur-his political ambitions, deserted pose of discrediting the religious Josephine to ally himself with the "Way" asked her husband. "Eow influence of involve an additional cost of by, G. H. Wilson, P. M. Hodgson, alone will cost too much"

their rivals the Habsburgs, his marriage with - £3,500,000 a year to the British G. E. S. Thomson, E. W. Fielding many does it want companies.

A. Gillard, G. H. Cuthill and A "Eighteen-the yolks of nine and Druids, so that perhaps All Fools Maria Louisa, the Archduchess

{Day should correctly be Old Fools' took place on April 11810. To Sir Josiah Stamp devoted a Somerfelt (representing the Trea-the whites of mine."

Day, or the day, selected for games commemorate the occasion he had large section of his address to surers and Secretaries).

Simple

of derisive buffoonery directed a medal struck representing Love the Road v. Rail controversy.

A little boy, after his first day at against these dispossessed ancients bearing a thunderbolt, and there That is not so fierce as it was at

were not a few of his countryzuen. school, was questioned as to what of the north- the time of the legislation which

happened at his first day.

A jest, rumoured to be current who considered that he very wel followed the Salter Report two

*Nothing much," he said "except Jewry should also be mention-merited the ancient title un pair. that a lady there who didn't know years ago, but the road trans-!

how to spell 'cat' asked me how; and ed. This attributes our Feast of son d'avril. pört industry is still labouring

Folly to the fact that it was I told her." under a strong sense of griey- ance. Its spokesmen are not able to agree with Sir Josiah Stamp that the "favouritism,” as ther see it, shown to the rail- ways by Parliament has "mere!

LIBELLING A DOG

Charge Against Show Judge

Paris.

Mme. Louise Francart, a dog-

the

ly gone some way to redress in-breeder of El Biar, near Algiers, justice." Yet it is true that is suing M. Chatelain, one of the the conduct of railway business judges at a dog show in Algiers, from the very beginning has for describing a wire-haired fox been subject to the most minute terrier she exhibited, winner of regulation by Parliament, even the Coupe de Paris and 20 first to the rates they charge and awards at shows in England and the profits they are allowed to France, as "dirty mongrel"

The case, which is to be heard. make. More than that, the

of the railways have, until lately, been before Judge Gaboriand treated as a milch-cow by the Civil Tribunal of the Seine, him-- rating authorities. Neither self a great dog-lover, cannot be of libel. side allows. itself to be moved, brought under the law

which is restricted to "persons.” still less convinced, by the argu- ments of the other. Yet the solution is in actual process of the likelihood of this revolution

habit and being reached along the lines of in national co-ordinated competition within methods of trade he found war- the limits of their present or rant in the increasing desire for home, exemplified in the swiftly ganisations and in the tradi- relief from the drudgery of the tionally British individualistic

of prepared way. From the public point of increasing use

foods. The bigger change, he view the road v. rail competi- tion has been almost an unmix-predicted, is only round the all the railway companies them-looks a little ahead in a process led advantage, while in spite of Lord Linlithgow actually selves have emerged from the that has already gone far. The worst depression on record more vigorous and full of service than wind-driven mill has given way before the vast factories that in the heyday of their most turn wheat into four; the indi- complete monopoly.

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