1937-11-18 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 18,

THE WORLD GOES BY

A CORRISPOND

the

When a man ins

Then why the devil have you folows

times shouted the funny one.

a paper and asks which is her cooking, he usually ends up by made me re-do that stuff best the Wireless or the hiring his cock for her petting. Gramophone. The answer is in the negative.

The Scots Again.

four

Mail

"I always hope against hope," said the Editor sadly, but I'm

Ulysses column ing

Ulysses himself. Landlords who can't

that

afraid it's no use I'll never have damp walls and leaky roofs are not

a sense of humour"

-Moral. For ways that are a strange, Scots editors are peculiar.

Owing to foot and mouth disease the Commissioner of Public Health Once upon a time there was In England has forbidden the move- Professional Humorist who was en- ment of animals in certain quarters gaged by a Sunday newspaper to Some race ponies seem to have be funny on purpose, and to be thought they came under that re-contrast to those on the staff who

striction.

So high are the charges in some West End nursing homes that they

-BY- "ULYSSES"

have another home next door where the patients can recover from the effects of seeing their bills.

a

Booing Club

a good thing.

Ship's time, where it has to be ten bellis when it's half-past four, and ten past six is indicated by three bells and a clank

Dignified people. Dignity is im- pudence when humans do it.

The plague-spot (female) at the

Females who wear an outsize in hats at the movies.

were funny but did not know it.

This man wrote a column and I have started a Booing Club, the movies, who always sits behind me submitted it to the Scots Editor. idea being to raise such boos against and explains in a loud voice what

The latter read it gravely and then our pet dislikes that will ech round is going to happen. said: "I do not think this is funny" this uncomplaining island of ours.

Dutifully, the man re-wrote that As founder of the Hong Kong column, and the Editor said: "I do Booing Club, I have assumed dicta- torial powers and elected myself not think this is funny either."

Four times, that day he re-wrote President. (Prolonged boos). the column, and at last when night The Vice-President is the Sports was falling, the Editor said: "You Editor. This is the first news he know, old man, it's no use you show-has had of this singular honour, and ing me these pars. I have no sense I hope he will accept

My preliminary list of boos is of humour:

Most radio programmes. Most radio announcers. Clever children

Swelled head-

Working in an office.

Ling

Getting out of bed in the mom-

Going

The Argus pheasant is said to attract the attention of his mate by stamping his foot and then sticking his head under his wing Safety first

With reference to the "purges" in still purported to be going on Soviet Russia, George Ryan, in the Boston "Herald," perpetrates a good

one:

"The current situation in Russia might be summarised by a para- phrase of an old-time quip: 'He's wasn't a great friend of Stalin's, be**":

MADAME CHIANG AND H.K. MEDICAL RELIEF COMMITTEE

The following communication was re- ceived yesterday by the Hon. Secretary of the Hongkong International Medical Relief Committee Headquarters of the Generalissimo, Nanking.

Dear Miss Car

courtesy

being held

much delay in arrives. So, I letter.

the

apol

come to your

I appreciate very much the honour which the International Medical Relief Committee does me in asking me to. become the Patron of the Committee. I am very glad to accede to the re- quest. I wish to express my deep ap preciation of the splendid work whigh your committee is doing on behalf of the suffering people of China. The ruthlessness of Japanese bombardment and the terrible loss of life and suffer ing caused is beyond description. The ruin to life and property that is being inflicted upon China is widespread and incalculable. Bue we are fortified. by the sincerity of the sympathy that comes to us from foreign friends and

rich is

well-wishers, and by the very actical application of that sympathy shown by such societies as would appreciate very much would kindly convey my warmest thanks to the committee not only for the honour it does me, but also for what it has done for China both col- lectively and individually.

Very sincerely fayling Soong Chiang,

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