THE BABY CRITIC
Roviowing" the diary of a baby," by Barry Pain a contemporary says:-
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16rn, 1907.
DISCOVERED..
To make the men learn to work together, 1 SECRET OF MAKING JOSS-STICKS always make them run (double, should be a word Eerstebed out effort, it belongs to the Army) on receiving an order, and if possible keep silence, though in a Wast country vessel this is differle; they should also remember that there are two sides to every rope."
e." "Work together"
some
"run"
necessary
keep silence" (though with the West-country qualitiestion) two sides to avary rope"-baro, in one whisper, is enough to disintegrate the whole of trade unionism, to sbatter in pieces what is amiably known as organised industry." Which theory is right to do things, or rather to do them more or lese, especially less! Captain Cradock, noting of his experiences during the late war, observes that in the early stages at Tilingy wo transport.ficers had much making of bricks without straw, and many irkome matters to azpiend with; but опо of the worst was the constant humouring of the dockmen fetovodurus all carpenters) in order to get any of the work done at all expeditiously. In themselves these men were not half so bad as their language, but their unions caused all the bother."
known "jom-sticks," used in Chinese worship, The composition and manufacture-of-the-well- which have long remained mysteries, hase recently been revealed by the investigations of Their results, which as given in detail in the two travellers long, resident in the Orient.
thas summarised in the "Revue Scientifique." Bulletin des Acieno a Pharmacologiques," are We'read:→
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In all countries where Buddhist worship is jon-sticks, celebrated there is a great consumption of There ceremonial candles, whose WR Corresponds very nearly to that of the WAX candles used in the ceremonies of the Catholio Churob, are lighted on occasions-ceremonies of festivity or mourn similar ing, prayer or thanksgiving to divinition, to Joss-sticks are at once candles and incense, since, like the latter, they burn without apparent Ame. Their pre aration in abrondled in Rome mystery, and the proces is still practically unknown. who carry it on being from
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ROMANCE IN REAL LIFE
RUSSIAN GIEL'S REMARKABLE ADVENTUREN,
to light at Moscow for the details of which
A remarkable real life romance bas just come ! many may be found to vouch. During the war quarters at Liao-yang with his wife and with Japan a Russian oflcer took up temporary daughter. The retreat of the troops was followed by a sudden raid by Chunchuses, who burned and sacked the officers' residencos; and in the panic the little girl becau separated from her parents, and was captured by the bandits Shortly afterwards, however, this seme party of Chunchures was defeated by a detachment of Russian soldiers, who found and took care of her. One soldier in particular among their prisoners the little Russian girl, an affectionato fellow named Gritzke, watched over her with almost motherly care, and, when, he had the misfortnue to be wounded took her back to Moscow with him. Recovering from his wound, Gritzen anderonted to get to ment, but failing to do so was reduced to a pitiful state of destitution. Never for one the ebild he bad taken ander his protection. moment, though did he think of abandoning.
and the money ho gained by begging he spont A saared-strip-of-bamboo, of varying long haccompanying film in the streets, where they on her equally with himself, she sometimes
stick that is to be tard), is skilfully roller cu un of food and fatigue, began to telo te title and thisknees, according to the size of the joss both became familiar figures. At last want on Gritako, inclined surface, in a mixture of odoriferous and little while ago bé died, pawdors aggluted by resin, made viscous by girl face to face with starvation. slight eleration of temperature. One of the ends is left, as it is, serve as a bantlle. Tu some cases the bamboo is replaced with a flexible red which enables the joss-stick to be rolled in spiral form.
The latest criminologist, unless another has arison before the time of going to preas, as pointed out that the oriminal may be known by his lack of memory. He lives in the present, takes the pleasure, the coins, the lives that cress his path, and cannot remember anything about his child hood. Out of the fearful phrases about "pyramidies! consolousness'
you may dig the simple assertion that the man who can remember the liftly things of his childhood is the proper kiut of man to trust round the corior with twopence. He is a good man.
If you meet a man who cannot remember what I thought of his nurse at the time when he was beginning to count his toeslun him he is a potential thief who may borrow an ambrella and forget all about it. But should you be fortunate enough to find a man who is obtrusively reminiscent of his nursery day, do not regard him as a dinner table bore. Take him to your bosom, and you will entertain on angel. Perzeually, if. I may be judged by this standard, I am a saint (for Mr. Bairy Tain is Compers the following instructive episode.
a special class and kept in rigorous not to get all the glory). My memory goes
scolusion, Messra, L. Draker and P. Hureler, "We once took a whole Sudanese battalion sine in a long sojourn in Indo Chias sud Chins, have back to my earliest iden of God at abatbing hundred strong from Suslim to Trinkiiste.aucorded in dincovering the essential under two years of age and it was based on a We certainly had to all the hosts at the their fabrication,
points ik grandfather who planted ma on a table, let davite, and the upper deck was chalked of like me play with a watch-chein, and called me aa chequer hard where they had to stand in their So I read my title clear to cainthood twenties. It was luckily a phone lying only it not to waggery.
a few hours for there was positively not room But compared with Mr. Barry Pain, I am for all to it, and had we get a roll on goodness merely an acolyte, scarcely able to hold a knows what won'd have happened; as it was, candle to his triumphant goodness. This is a there was doulty in gtting space to let go surprise. To the friends who know him be the anchor. We were only 186 feet long, but appears as a man of bulk, with moustache and w did it-much to the confusion, a few days beard, whence protaules tips, which is later, of the redoubtable Qaman Digan. remored only to allow the car as of occasional comment.
wag.
For the readers if this book Mr. Barry Pair is a baby again, and he remembers the things that happened before he could talk. He has got into the skin of a baby, and comes before us trailing clouds of glory from heaven that is his homo And it matters not that the dairy of this baby is that of a little girl, for at that age the criticism of life ignores such trivialities na sez, and Rosalys Ysolde Smith aged one year would not worry herself over the
question
of mixed bathing with decessed wives' sisters.
There is always something.serious behind Mr. Barry P in's bonsense. The baby is hithered in its mind on the question of talking. "Shal I talk, or shall I not i suppose it has got to be one way or the other. In the Horebefore they never talked. We understood one another perfectly without making noise. Even now 1 could hold a long discussion with a babe of my own age or younger without making sounds. The trouble is with the grown-up people--they
can't
1
Quite so. They did it. It may also occur to bowildered student of the beautiful naval and military theories which are patented about onca a fortnight that this one little piece of przotice kanske he but'om out of most of them Captain Cradock ordently did not know the rules of the game. He should have worked out his transport capacity at so many mer to the ton, and then refused to take any more. It is extremely disconcerti g
It is something of a revelation, too, in these times, to perceive that Captain Cradock, who apparently knows his business rather well, actually looks upon a ship se a ship. Some time ago, no less an authority than the Board of Admiralty aurourced that, whatever she bad bren, she was now a box of machines." This brilliant discovery was the parent of many sub- sequent ingenious definisions, such as a "automobila gan-carriage," a "sailors' barrack," and so forth. Captain Gradiosk affirms that slip is a ship, and he ought to know. Believe are, sir, the main sheet, though in a different form, still drives the King's ships to windward,"
Beem to have lost the kuack of it. The River | he says-and-bia book is there to prove it.
my things without talking." That
AN ADVENTUROUS LIFE.
A chequered life, full of adventure, ended on
you some idea of the baby's criticism of the lite into which it is planged and incidentally, will make paronts and guardians blush with shams. For the baby has eyes that ser, though it has not yet a tongue that can Sunday, Sept. 29. in the death, at the age of talk, and the world of paps, mamma and nurse, with the usual appurtenances of home, seventy-five, of Major Robert. A deans Barlow, Been through - baby's eyes and remem-made forty oman voyages, passed through in- in the Poor Law Infirmary at Enfield. He
the pipe) is somewhat startling revelation A revelation of the parents' folly and the babe's wisdom. Rosalys found a word, a word that has gone round the world; it was not "jam "--- but rhymed with it:
I had no intention of being misunderstood, ao I repeated it several times. I also sang it to a sort of pibroch of my own composition.
varies with the country; these seed in Indo
The composition of the odoriferous powders China come generally from the province of Canton, and include fourteeu diferent drugs, among which may be namedor, sandal wood, aconite, and love.
ing, really playa the part of a preservative and Aconite, whose pressue is som what surpris- protests the jo-sticks well against the sttacks of rate, mice, nad olhar pests. As for the camphor, it is of nsa from more than one point tion easy; it enables the jous stick to bora with- of view its odour is agreeable and its combus out going out, and oppoare, to replace the salt- peter used in the so-called Armenian papers.
ON THE OTHER FOOT.
JAPAN'S NI-CHINESE POLICY.
Apparently, says the Boston Transcript, this is an era of racial proscription, the race that has resenting the intrusion of the race that wan's. Not only have the Americans and Canadians of the Pacific North-west expelled Asiatics bat the Japanese have driven out. Kagoshima gauge of Chinese coolies employed on the Government railroads.. Kagoshima is u Japanese aily of 6,000 inhabitants. Those should give it to them. The Chiness soudées aid that if the Government had any work it were hired because they cut even the Japanese labour rates. The Chinesa had to
Japan
Now comes the remarkable part of the riage drew up outside the fashionable café story.
Yesterday morning a smart car. known all over Moscow as Philpoff's from" which an Army officer alighted, holding out his hand to assist lady who was with him in the carriage. As she was slepping down, darted forward with a request for alma, and the little beggar-child whose story this i the lady opened her parse to take out a coin. While doing so, however, something about the child attracted her attention, and looking into clasped hor in 1 er arms. For the officer and bis ber face closely, she gave a joyful cry and
wifs from whom the child had begged were her
who had always believed
own mother and faded by the Chunghores.
that she had been
A large crowd witnessed the strange reunion, and when the delighted father and mother assisted their daughter into their carriage and drove her away to their home, there was a great demonstration of sympathy.
GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK..
Some years ago a favourite song told the story of a grandfather's clock.... how it regularly did its duty for ninety years long, during the life-time of its owner, until, when the latter died,
bered by Mr. Barry Pain (in tho intervals of numerable military bazarda, was one of the apparently escaped violence, but cloak -- or heart with pure blood. And
has a peculiar regulation by which s proviuce or have become "undesirable." This suggests may by its local authorities expel aliens who are that Japan may pause to reflect that there is after all a certain analogy between the position of the Chinees in Kagoshima and that of the Japanese in San Fransigen. Japan has found
Nurse kept saying, "Haeh Hush! Miss Barlow, adjutant general, Madras Cay. He it useful to keep a certain degree of dualism'
IMA
It
UNDER THE WHITE ENSIGN.
claimant, afterwards obtained employment in most enthusiastic champions of the Tichborne the Abyssinian Army, and was finsily captured by followers of the Mahdi and faprisoned in Egypt, bis subs groot treatment being the subject of questions raised in the House of Barlow dororibes himself as the son of Col. Common. In some biographical notes, Major Resslys!and hurried me upstairs again...... No
Farso says it was naughty. Bo do marms.
was born at Bristol in 1832, and was educated I em never to say that word again. It's just attained Bret class in classics, history, modera at Rugby School ander Dr. Arnold, where is like my luck. The only real word I've or languages, and divinity. Whils at Rugby he learned is apparently the only word I may never
was "ng" to the famous Capt. Hodson of Indian Mutiny fame, and kept you have any claim to sainthood, if you
i Horace can remember the infantile fary, at the babyBe a treasured memorial. Major Barlow passed ou to St. John's Cambridge, where the Ista language fired at you, if you retain the healthy rieur of Enfold, Prebendary Hodson, brother contempt for the silly people set it authority and Biographer of Capt. Hodson, was thes over your oracle, if you have treasured a bit of Fellow of Trinity, Ab school or university pathise with Misa Smith, who comments on her Lord Derby, Lord Portsmouth, M. Waddington, the sabes of the trail of glory you will sym- Major Barlow was contemporary to the late nursemaid's encouragment to kick out when Bir R Templo, and Sir W. Harcourt. Sent out there is nothing whatever te Eick; It's too to Pernambuco, Bohis, Rio Janeiro, and the dam silly, sa papa says."
mining district of St. John del Rey, to acquire knowledge of the language and frade of theas countries, be returned to England and received his frat commission in August 1852 in the 264. Lauca-bire Light Iuf. Militia. Afterwards returning to Brazil, he was appoint d, in 1857, manager for the house of W. H. Hornby and Co. Six years
Jater
he was sent to Ceylon and India en route to Mandalay an Ava to obtain To hear a craftsman discoursing of his tools concessiou for a railway through Barms to China, and matheds is one of the unfading plassaras of On reaching Burma te King took a liking to Efe, bat is what Captain Christopher Cradock, him and appointed him commander of his army "C.B., doen in Whispers from the Float" a of 12,000 men, and also made him his Secretary "book which (he tells us) he fought a single of Sinie for Foreign Affairs. Major Barlow action with a publisher to produce. Let also four time to edit a paper in three langu as charitably hope that the gallant author ages. He was granted a palace for a residence, got some of the spoils. as well as the barren allowed two elephants to ride upon, and three glory, of victory. For his book is not only gold umbrellas were sarried before him. He designed to be extremely useful to the young was further offered, the felicity of five wires naval officer, but it is deeply interesting to The major has left on record that upon his every landsman who cares for the things of declining the latter, whom he describes as maids the sea. Even if he gets adrift orer some of hozour, the king sent for him, and said that of the more technical phraseol
way the only man he had known to whom great ho assistance will be rendered by filling
ing auch a magnificent offer was made, and sent him a bale sling strop composed of 2-inch to value the Royal treasure, which he found wire of suitable length, one end of which equal to 1,920,001. When General Gordon set will be shackled to the bitte, the other end out on his ill-fated journey to Khartoum, the being rove through a link of the cable, andaj, to whom he was personally known, applied the bight put over the tongue of the slip, which in vain for permission to accompany bin, is then secured in the usual manner," and so During the last twenty-five years Major Barlow forth he will savour the charm dwelling in the lived in and stout Koffeld. very sound of the sea- talk, and thero aro divers spirited anecdotes to obeer him. Bet here is no
manual of seamanship. There
Ae caught may outrun the destroyer, even so
with the law and its
grip, For the strength of the ship a tho Service, and
the strength of the Service the ship."
("The Laws of the Navy.")
nas poz
THE WEAPONED MAN.
{"The freeman-
man," who alone bore sword and shield."
was the "esponed Green's History."}
that in ting waft, as from the sea, into the fog in which we grope about our tang ad business here ashore. The ses is a school, net alone for sailors; for the principles which ensure achievement in every enterprias are ever the same; and the man who can handle a ship's coupsuy has his fingers on the secret of success in any walk of life. A ship's company-not the ship. The ship's The Dorapany 18 the ship, Strictly speaking, the secret is incommunicable; yet we may gather suggestions,
Never find fault with a man twice on the Bame subject, and, don't be too exaoting and hard with men with half-kits-recovered da. sertars, sto. Many of these by a kind word in time will go straight up and never look behind them, and abore all don't allow yourself for one moment to be discourag by the incorri- gibles after they have had their chance (the well, sir. I do try and, ie, lot); but keep these latter gentlemen esparated as much as you can from the others, and with
little rope
hey will soon hang themselves and disappear,
nch to the relief of the whole divison
when oak wooda grew where barley waves
And bare downs faced the sky, atrodden sure by winter wolves, Where now great cities lie, fathers of our Baxon folk
(Sires of car blood and bone)-
Betap their thorpes and homesteads,
-Self-centred and alone.
They were not over-materfal
Nor braggart in their pride,
in reserve against emergencies. The trathi is whore. His advert and the resistance of those that the man who outs wages is popular no whose bread and batter he threatens have more than once, disturbed the harmony of nations whose Goverumenta were perfectly willing to be good neighbours. It is not many years since the italian laborers employet at Aigues Mortes in the south of France were mobbed and mas. sored by Frenchmen whose employment they had prevented. Many of the Italians were punishment of some of the assailants, the "in- murdered; the Italian Government demanded and obtained reparation and there, with the ident" enda. These instances of racial an- tipathy, together with the exclusion of Hindos from Australie, are commanded to those London editors who in their efforts to explain the Van- cover rioting have evolved ther theory that Americans did it, and insited the British Columbianato mob the subjects of King Ed ward's friend and ally, the Mikado.
CONFESSION OF A PHYSICIAN,
pain in his chest, but blao strepless, without A man comes to as complaining of a trifling appetite, hosing weight, too weak to work,—all haesuse the trifling pain happens to be in the
heart is. I pot where he has been told him with all the emphasis In express, and esamine his heart, fed it wholly normal, tell add that he couldn't die if he tried, will probably live to be a hundred, and that weantime he must go to work and pat the idea of heart trouble out of his hend once for all. In three days that man will be a changel being. You will hardly recognize him as the same, He believed me because he beard me tell the patient atahead of him that he bad heart trouble, and he began to sleep and eat, to work, to love life, uever hope to werk again. Believing me, and to throw from his shoulers the millstone of fear that had been weighing him down.
could
Every caadid physielan knows that fear gansee some disorders, that self absorption canses others, tha ein and balfamothered remorse causes still others. But he is afraid to admit the full consequences of these truths. Because he knewa that cancer, typhoid, meningitis, are not caused by fear or by ait, because he fears to admit that the kind Mind Curists hava, a piece of real truth in their possession, he blinde binsel to this whole realm- of fact fe calls it rubbish or sentimentality pr. superstition. or simple ignorance, but he has to roognize it more or less in his practice, the grudgingly.
The enormous influence of spiritual environ- ment, of friendship, of happiness, of beauty, of inccess, of religion, is grievously, ladicrously underestimated by most physician, trees, and
.G
But the freeman's badge was the spear in hand hospital superintendents, There are diseases
And the war-sword at his sid";
And when the arrow-splinter cama
Te.muster great and small,
Tha man who stood uüarmed that day
Wae weakling, prieg, or thrali. when we waged the War of a Hundred Years
Or marched to Floden fray,
mall nood was there for time or toil
To marabal our stray
It should not be necessary," says Captain Each yeoman's chimney held its bow, dook, for the band to play in order to get
Each manor, jack spear, ship a terdeck to prance on an off the Aud every churl could handle steel
Innoy
Baoh je a matter of tcoasts, and far bo it" he adds, "that I slid lay down the law." Evidently 'tis a diffe- roworld aboard ship from what we know nurs onceivable, indeed, without the band and nd waistsoats, Bat far be it from us to lay Jow the law. "All literature," observes the apton, snccinctly, a little farther on," consists faible and Prayer-book."
To gaard his gods and gear. Now sities gather them goods and gold"
With ships on every ses, And the Guilds of Craft war fat and proud
And every bied is free; And no maa bears a weapened belt
Save he whose trade is war, · Yet-weaponless men are thralis at heart
As it was in the days of yore.
that cannot be cured without friendship; patients that never will get wall unless you on got them to make a success of something or to conquer their own self-absorption by self dovetion, losing their life to find it.-Richard C. Cabot, M.D., in Christian Bagister.
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