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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1930.

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Manners Maketh Magaz

જો કે I noticed in the paper the other Not being very wet acquainted dara statement, printed in very with the etiquette of the bowbag big, black, bold type, to the effect, green, and the foregoing conversa- that after midnight on May 3 Ition having aroused my curiosity, must use my dial when making approached the Oldest Inhabit telephone calls. Wall, what about ant with a request for enlighten it? I don't know how you management, and the ancient he spake na Fit, dear reader, but I always have follows:

rande it a practice to use my dial In making telephone calls. I use it also when making moming, after noag and after-dinner calls. I use

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People who think of arranging moonlight bathing parties should be careful to consult the Nautical Almanac and find out if there is moon on the night selected." I hear of a crowd who drove along the Castle, Peak Road the other night and waited a long time for the My son, he whom they calleth the Skip is invariably wondrous moon to make an appearance, and wise. He knoweth precisely where dually decided that it was no use then shouldat roll thy wood, and wasting any more time. They as he indicateth with much twirling of cordingly undressed in the dark, arms and whirling "words"exactly it for official calls, calls of conwhither thy wood should travel if and had just got down to the gratulation, of commiseration-in it could. The Skip telleth the water's edge when two suspicious fact, I always carry my dial about world just what neadeth to be done, figures were seen stealthily moving with 0.

Some people may think and how he would do it if he were this a and misfortune, but it doesn't in thy place. The Skip who is pro towards the heaps of clothes. The worry me, if it does them. Why, ficient in profanity turreth the motives of these mysterious in- then. this peremptory announce ntmosphere into radiant hues when truders may have been most inno- nient that on and after midnight | thou. Inileth to put thy, wood just on May 3. I must use my dial where he wanteth it to be, but cent, but the bathers had a sus when making telephone calls 1 I when he in turn doeth exactly the picion that their clothes were about rather resent being told what I same wrong thing he hath always to be lifted.

One can do almost may or may not do with my dial. some good exuse to offer; at which Once a man told me, to tread on it, or push it under a tram, but es he was considerably bigger than myself I treated his remarks with the contempt they deserved.

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within thy cheek when the Skip dark with several hundred dollars' explaineth to thee that the reason worth of masculine and feminine is wood rolled on to the next green clothing, so the men in the party was that there was a speck of mud undh the wooden sphère" which

came out of the water at the causeth it to deviate from the path double, barking their sins on the he intendeth it to follow and thus rocks and stubbing their toes on lelt his opponents lying four."

stones, at the same time apostro phising in appropriate terms the Now that the swimming season is disturbed, the harmony of the pro- young rascals who had. so rudely in the offing, a reference to bathing ceedings. To have no moon for a will not be inappropriate. Y moonlight swim was bad enough, bop to drive back home in wet think the day has gone to say that swimming-costumes would have women shall not baths in the Ser- been the limit. The intruders were pentine, seeing that women are chased off and the heaps of cloth- allowed to sit in this House and end of this outing might have beer ing remained undisturbed, but the take baths in this House." So quite tragic. spake Mr. George Lansbury, First | Commissioner of Works, in the I noticed that the band recital House of Commons the other day, on the Cricket Club ground last in the course of a debate on the Wednesday attracted not only fol- question of mixed bathing in Hyde lowers of St, George but of St. An- PAL. We are told that a loud drew, St. Patrick, St. David, and burst of laughter greeted Mr. Laas many other saintly personages bury's statement, and no wonder, That, of course, was to be expected, since the spectacle, conjured up by and encouraged, and even the inter- Honourable Members of women mittent drizzle could not drive performing their ablutions in the away some of the hardly folks who House of Commons, was most un- turned up to listen to the band. parliamentary, to say the least! tad paid ten cents for them (1 Some clung to their seats as if they In this connection, one recalls I know

the agitation many years ago in don't know who is their Patron Japan against public bathing of Saint), while others who evidently men and women in promiscuity, Abelieved in the maxim that "a true friend z one who, ain't afraid compromise was suggested, and agreed to, to the effect that men to tell you or yure faults," openly and women should be separated in criticised the music, much to the public bath-houses-so they put & those who had turned up to hear consternation, and discomfiture of TPP across the tank to separate real English melodies, Some of the sexes!

these "kickers,” I suspect, know as much about St. George as a cer-

Overheard some bowls enthusiasta having a rare old argument the cther day, and which might have ended in a riot but for the timely intervention of a mutual friend.

Yes, and I don't like that re- mark he riade about the ladies using bad angunge on the greens."

**** No, he didn't, old man; what he said was that

"Excuse me, I tell you he did! He said men couldn't play with them because of the

"Because of the language you roughnecks use! Only the other day my wife mentioned to me that I should, speak to you about the way you carry on in the presence of ladies!"

"Ladies 7 LADIES? how to behave when ladies are pre- sent without any advice from you, see? When a lot of women gather together in my club for a gossip, scandalising some other women whe don't happen to be there, it serves 'em right if ??

Don't you call my wife an old gossip, your poor fish, or I'll

Now, boy," interrupted a third party, genially, what's all this about?!

We were just discussing the difficulty of playing with ladies,"

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