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UNEARNED REPUTATIONS. TAKING PEOPLE AT THEIR FACE VALUE.

Does anyone know what is a reputed quart "naks · Major-General LC Dunsterville, B., ip the Evening News, I do not, he admits, although I daresay I might find it out in a dictionary.

But I am merely interested in the nega. tive side of the problem, and on this negative side I have positive informa tion to the effect that a reputed quart may be anything you like, but it is not a quart! And if anything sa vastly important as a quart-in a land that has not yet gone dry-can have a reputation which it is not evan expected to live up to. may not human beings demand a similar privilege 1

I have met in life many men of great reputations-alone enviable, some the reverse-but in every case I have found them most ordinary folk, with little (but Just a little) to distinguish them from the common herd.

It is on this slender foundation of just little " divergenes from the average that the public build up a man's reputation for him.

And once a man acquires a reputation

for this or for that, trivial incidents with which he is connected are distorted

to fit in with the reputation until the little molehill of her merit becomes the mountain of his fate,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 19%ɔ

OLD STREET TRAGEDIES. HASTY MARRIAGE AND QUICK REPENTANCE.

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DRAB LONDON LIVES.

To aurry in haste may or may not be the custom simong those who dwell within the jurisdiction of Qll-street Police Court, says & writer in the Daily Express. They certainly enjoy little leisure in their repentance. That is, if they do repent, for of marital dispute, one cannot help won- there are times when, listening to cases dering if conjugal loyalty is of inanite

endurance.

Thomas Whybrow stood in the dock and listened to his wife, whose head was baad aged, giving evidence against him. He had thrown his boot at her and wounded her head he had."belted" her when she was in bed, and more than once. And all she asked was that he should be cautioned.

There is no excuse for what you have done," said Mr. Clarke Hall, and you ought to go to prison, but I shall not seal you to prison, because if I did your wife would suffer more than you. You will be remanded for six weeks, and if I hear of any more of this sort of be haviour I shall deal with you very severely,"

Said an applicant for a summons for desertion: "He came home and hit me, Then he took what he wanted, and tore up what he did not want. Then he throw the dinner all over me and said he was In the Boxer War in China, in 1900, going away, but he would come back I knew a man who spoke several laag- and do us all in, and if we didn't like uages with sufficient Burney to exciteit we could take other steps. And," she a certain amount of adibiration on the added plaintively, you can't do much part of monolinguistic comrades, To with hot dinner streaming all over you." speak several languages with moderate)

*I know” said Mr. Clarke Hall sym- fluency is not to be a linguist, but is pathetically, sufficient to give, one the repitation of being a linguist.

DISPLAYING HIS TALENTS..

He spoke Russian well and having Been a short time in China it was in

A dejected looking man, whose cheeks had not known for many days, the caress. of a razor, climbed into the dock and blinked dismally at the Bench through enormous spectacles.

Ulia godfathers and godmothers had

accordance with his reputation that hepatriotically called him George Alfred, should not fail to display his talents in the acquisition of the Chinese language.

At that time there were in North

and from his ancestors he bad inherited the singularly inappropriate name of Gay. There is no accounting for habits. Not only on this but on other occasions

China many Chiness from Manchuria George Alfred had, very Eumaaly, got who spoke Russian. My friend had made annoyed with people, and when he got the acquaintance A such a one; and freannoyed with people he had a few drinks. quently passed the time of day with him. So far, not, unreasonable, But having On one occasion the two were talking had a few drinks he wrote insulting excitedly together on the railway plat- and threatening letters to those who hail form, both using the Russian language, annoyed him. when a train passed through to Tientsin. An officer in the train, arriving in the regimental mess that drening, said "Wonderful fellow, Simkina! He's enly been a month in Cha, and to-day I saw him and a Chingin talking to gether like brothers It's marvellons what a gift gt_langnefes be has

He pleaded guilty, and Mr. Clarke Hall, more in sorrow than in anger, remanded him for eight days to think things over.

They did not announce George Coven- try's occupation, so"I do not know what he is, but, if outward and visible signs count for anything, I think he must be minor poet. He has the far-away expres,

Se pa reputations get built up torsion, the fluent locks, al the black (or, us, and one is burdened with the Ben- sation of being a fraud on the public, although the public and not oneself is responsible for the fraud,

at any rate, blackishy lingerie of Chelsea. George had been having an altercation with a woman, but denied that he had been urged thereto by the inflaming effect of alcohol. Two police constables, un

I have known a "reputed "tertotaller.fortunately for George, thought otherwise.

I don't think he ever said he was a and the minor poet of course, he may tretotailer. But he generally drank be a major poet for all I know-was water (in public), so he was inhelied.

On a thirsty night march on the north. west frontier of India during a halt be removed the stopper from hia water bottlec and took a long and apparently refresh- ing draught. murmuring: The Best stuff on a night like this is cold tea!

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muleted in the sum of ten shillings.

Were you drink?".

"Yes, Sir." said Charles. Campbell.

Is he known t "Xo, Sir."

"Ten shillings."

"Blimey uttered Charles.

An effort to make good after a fall A DROP OF " COLD TEA," from grave never goes varewarded in a police court. Henry Clarke, white-haired Doubtless cold tri "is good stuff, and and silent, had, out of his slender, earn. most refreshing, but I was standing ings, paid a steady weekly sum in re- down the wind, and my nostrils caught stitution of an old offence. There stil! the delicious and unmistakable perfuse (remained more to pay, but the court mis- of Glenlivet.

sionary spoke well of Clarke's efforts.

If you behave yourself," said the Pagistrate, you'll hear no more about

You are bound over."

I wasn't hurt at finding that he was not living up to his reputation, bat marely grieved that that reputation pre-it. vented "him from offering me a swig of. his cold tea."..

I have sometimes heard the expression used: "A man of no reputation." It looks rather meaningless, but I think it is intended to convey some idea of dis- paragement. If we took it in its litera! sense, I would say: "O happy man

Ingo gives Cassio his opinion on the kubject in the second set of "Othello": Reputation is an idle and most false imposition: oft pot without merit, and lost without deserving."

"GRASS" AND "EMERALD." FASHION'S LATEST INSPIRATIONS

Still silent, the old man was led away.

OXFORD " BAGS" ECLIPSED,

NEW COAT WITH TAILS AND FLOUNCES.

Oxford trousers have been relegated to the far-away days when trousers them- selves were regarded as an eccentricity by the introduction of a cost which will probably be attributed to either Oxford or Cambridge.

Oxford trousers are now behind the times I rumour is to be believed,

·trousers' came into fashion as an im mediate result of the popularity of port. which caused gout and forced good wine lovers, as all Englishmen were in thone, days, to conceal their twisted nether ex- tremities. Every true port drinker knows" that the legend is a libel.

Green is to be the most fashionable colour for evening wear. Vivid shades of "grass" and emerald will be preferred.

But the fact is that the world of fashion. Black wilk "stockings are returning to is faced with a new coat of terrifying-as- favour, Lemon-yellow hosiery is consider.pect. It is taken in of the waist and ed the smartest complement to a black double-breasted and its tails reach well evening toilette..

below the knees. Also, it is decorated. with flounces.

Red ermine is the latest novelty" in furs. It looks magnificent on red chiffon-velvet theatre cloaks. Bottle-green shaved lamb is being, used for quaint Eton jackets which are to have a big Vogue when the colder weather Bets in.

The acwest hundhags are made of white serpent skin.

One bold innovator wore Bach, coat of light chocolate bue in Piccadilly, and to some extent justified its existence by par tially concealing a pair of Oxford trousers of the same tinge.

Economists suggest that since wonen have reduced the material needed for their dresses to vanishing point, the manufac Patchwork is taking another attempt turers are trying to strike a balance by to regain popular favour. This time it inflicting this generous garment on tho is seen on smart pull-on hats nude of male leaders of fashion, probably at Ok- pieces of metal, ribbon, kid, wool, silkford, though it may be that poetic justice and fur. Striking short coatees are also will inflict the paternity of this apoastro- made of crazy.work.

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THE DIRECTORY

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AND CHRONICLE

1926.

CHINA, JAPAN, TORFE INTO-CHINA, SIAM, STRATINEE BETTLEMENTS, MALAY STATER NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILMI 2.

PINES, BORNEO, Ere.

SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL

ISSUE

812

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Abridged Edition

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Settlers is prefaced by a DESCRIP

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