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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1917.

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THE FOREIGNER.

Some Queer Chinese Bellefs.

Mr. Rodney Gilbert" in the rcorre of cue of the interesting -sriee of articles publi-hed receDi-

' in the N. C. Daily News, under The title of A Peking Scrap 150" bas the following amasiv

marks to make on certain belief which be easya the Chinese- resumably of the most ignorant lase) have regarding foreign-

The diection of foreignera, (he way) and their ways is of rever ending interest throughout the coast provinces of China. Where foreigners are thickeet there are the most amazing beliefs concerning their "anatomy and Labite. In the remote districts where they are seldom seen they are accepted as normal hüman beirge. At the recent anniversary of the hair dressing of Wong Ma Niang niong, queen of the immortale, which is held at P'ao- Too Kacy, within a mile of the Legation Quarter in Peking, one of the most attractive sideshons was held in a booth at the door of which a "barker" cried "Two coppere to see the great Foreign Devil; you hav't seen it all le you've been inside and seen the big barbarian." Inside ase noth ing bat a made op foreigner with bia characteristic features. Ex- aggersted,

Servants in Peking and Tient- sin believe that a foreigner has knowledge of any discussion about him; and that if unfavour able comments are made he will Speak of come upon the scene.

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the (foreign) devil and he's sure. to appear, is literally accepted,

The womenfolk believe that

have no joints in knees and that when we want must brace to sit down NS ourselves against a wall or the book of a chair and alide down into a sitţiog position. Gold teeth and spretables are purely ornamental, and mary Obinete now make a living in the Puris supplying special to those who would appear to be Occidental-s

ed and, which is morë detorship, Glling ecand frest teeth with gold; for those who would be a fashion. It is firmly believed that brothers and sistera intermary, that we bathe to much because our pores ezade poison, that our toes are joined together, that we are fair because 00- babisa are batbed ebortly after birth sod are fed on cows milk, and that grey or light blue eyes are invariably near-sighted: The most astonish- ing belief, held by otherwise intelligent people, cannot he recounted without effending Oz- cidental delicacy. The stares which are bestowed upon as in the streets are not tributes to our good locks, but attempted verifi- cations of the remarkable stories which are told about us, and which are firmly believed by those who have been in contact with foreigners for many years.

A Little Etiquette. Never point the speat of a tes pot at anyone; it is. 62 insult.

Never point the spout of two pots at a cb orber; it spells bad luck for all olbere present,

A girl must never tell ber Loabard berbaby name," for such coufidences are indecent.

A husband must never call his wife by zame.

Never throw water or rubbieb and never spit without fret coughing. The whole of apsoa is filled with gods, fairies, and ghosts, whom we csapok see, old we must give them a fair warning to get out of the way.

Never give more than three rape upon a door. If there is no response, rap thrice again. Pro longed repping is an ineolence ffected only by such despised pereons ta yamen.

rmanera, ggressive and boorish collectore, and foreigners.

Malaya's War Loan Investment.

Mora, money was invested in the Wer Loop Investment Trust of Malay last month than in any single previens month, and thir, 100, start, from the $272,000 in vested by the Belangor Tarf Clab Lottery Committee, says the Bingopore Free Prur.

NOTICES.

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POST OFFICE.

Saturday the 15th Decembe, being a General Holiday, the Poas Office will be open from 8 to 9 am. There will be one delivery of ordinary correspondesos and one collection of letters from the Pillar Boxes. ·

WEATHER REPORT.

December 144. 18h. Câm-No returna from Japan and Indo-China. With few exoptions, pressure has increased alight- to moderatly at all stations reporting: an anticyclone is probably forming over N. Calna, and fresh to strong monsoon

The Money Order Office will be entirely may be expected along the China Ocast, alored

and over the N. China Ves.

The Purcel Post Services Buitish East Africa and Egypt (except for members of the Expeditionary Forose), and to Abyminia, Bardad, Eritrea, Franch 8 mall Coast, Italian Somaliland Fartu- Kueso East Africs, Zanzibar and Russia have bana suspended:

On and after the 1st October, 1917, the rate of postage on letters from Hongkong

Hongkong Ralafall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 10 inch. Total since January 1st 81.37 lucht against an average of 82.46 inches.

FORECAST FOR THE 24 HOURS ENDING AT NOON TO-MORROW,

Distrios

Forscari

N.E.

winds

to Fatahan, Chaa Chuen, and Whampoa Hangtag to Gap Rock cloudy will be cents for each oʻznce or fraction thereof.

fresh

generally.

Correspondence addromed to enemy subjecta in China, Siam. Siberia and Portuguere East Africa, Perda and Hor. occo cannot be transmuted

The Services to Germany, Austria, Bal- caria ad the Ottoman Empire are suspended.

Unicsured parcels for the United Kingdom will in fatare be forwarded from Hongkong in bags and the Publi are therefore advised to pack such paresis very carefully.

Letters franked at the 4 ccate rate! addreened to Yuranfe and Mangtse and ether places in the Province of Yunnan -hould be superscribed with the words For celivery ty the Chinese Post Office."

Taresis for Grenc, cannot be accepted for transmission unigas accompanied by a special permitted by the British Minister at Athens.

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Arrangements have been made for the transmission of parents to, the United Kingdom via Canada.

$ Förmoss Channel

some

drizzling rain.

N. winds, fresh to atrons.

3 douth coast of China be-? The name

tween E. and Lamocks as No. 1.

4 South coast of China be-) The same

tween E.K. and fizinso..... a No. 1.

China Coast Maleorological Register.

Station.

December 14, a.m.

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The rates of postage are as follows:- Kudang

· No insurance can be effected on parcels Amoy

seat by this route.

IMPORT PROHIBITIONS.

The public are informed that the un- dormentioned articles are probibited from importation into the United King dom, either by letter post or by parcel post.-

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God manufactured or omminufactured including gold cu and aétices nonsisting partly of or contuiting gold: All manu fictures of Sdver other than silver watches and siles watch cases: Jewel lery of any description.

Letters and Parcels containing such articles canons therefore be accepted for transmis.on by the Post Office.

The Parcel Post service to, Aden' (ax- pect in respect of parcels for military and Davol addressees) has been suspended.

FRENCH PARCEL REGULATIONS,

-The Public are informed that the new regulation adopted ty the French Cu-tums insist that senders of parcela ad tressed to France, Cora.cs and Algeria must in the columns of the resular Customs Declaration particularly and

exactly, emitting none of the heading

comprised therein.

Itisfurthermore absolutely necessary to show in the aforeâ»id declaration (1) The full name and address of tre andreOS (2) Abatement se to whether the contenta Ale intended for State supplies or not.

LOCAL AND REGULAR MAILS: OUTWARD,

Tai 0.-Week days, 5'p.m.

Surigao

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C. W. JEFFRIES-Chief Assistant. Hongkong Observatory, Dec. 14. 1917.

1 Barometer, reduced to 32 degrees

Fahrenheit on the level of the ase in in- ches, tonths and hundredths.

* Temperature, in the enade, in degrees

fahrenheit.

.

$ Humidity, in percentage of saturation

the Humidity of air saturated with mole- lure being 100,

ENTERTAINMENTS,

VICTORIA THEATRE.

Friday, 14th Dec., 1917.

Pathe's Great Sérial Featuring MOLLY · KING, in the

MYSTERIES OF THE DOUBLE CROSS."

3rd & 4th Episodes "An

Hour to Live.”: *"*Kidnapped.”

Interesting!

Pathe's Gazette- "John Bull's Sketch Book.' American Gazette ("Episode of a Laplander.”

Comic: -

Chivalrous Wiffles."

(in 2 part.) The

Misses Alleen & Doris Woods,

The Singing Dancers, assisted by Mrs. Harry Woods, Present their famous Society Entertainment or WEDNESDAY 19TH & THURSDAY 20TH

Booking at ANDERSON'S.

MUSIC AND THE WAR. with or without programme),

Teading Towards Drama.

having degenerated into COD. rantional formalism or fɔráloss ercentricity," which synchronizɔd with what some one called "that dreadful peace," and of its anti. dote in "return to the simpler

The question is sometimes and more direct formals of the asked what effect the war has had with the war; and; and we may theatre,” which has synchronized

apon music. We are perhaps too

Dear the event to find the right conclude that the incidence of anawer, though we get occasional the war has precipitated the binte of it. What is clear to return of music to genuine human every one is that instead of six peede, which would otherwise

bave come more slowly, dezen concerts a week and two

The gist of his contention is operas a day during the season that music needs now and again there are a dozen concerts, and

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-but of that later. Farther, contact with mother earth, like hundrede of choral societies and A', in order to renew its a large proportion of the 20,000 strength, and that it finds this brass bands have abat down: pre-eminently in drama; Dams charch choirs are depleted of a certainly one rouros of itssh musical vigour, though one may their men; even the barrel organet feel quite so strongly that, have gone, let us hope where se the article pat it, the public they are appreciated, thongh the of this country adores the theatre. gramophone has coma for

What it adores, like all other purpose with which we

countries, is goʻd acting-in eympathise, so long as wo not asked to listen to it. Lastly That will not come at command; other words, sincerity of purpose. Badiences have diminished and deteriorated, for people are both is infections, and the com

plaint can only be caught brey and tried.

from оде who actually bas This looks diemi, bat, since. The wholehearted enthusiasm it is natural, it is, on the contrary tof Sir Thomas Beecham bimeelfia fall of hope. Six diam concert the best guarantee we have that were too many, and there were musical Britain will before long not enough audiences

Lo Robe decimated by this epidemic. round. Oboire and brass band at the rame time it is rather the stopped nos for want of will but things that lie b-bind this or that for want of time, and they will form of the art that have in the come again. It audiences are past given music a fresh lease of -smaller there is less "paper,ife. It is difficult to think that and if their quality is not what Palestrins was gaite untouched it was, the men who made goon by the fervour of that age of listeners will retorn one day with faith in which he lived, Monte- 2 Force of Wind, according to doautorta thirst for moeic apon them. Boverde by the Renaissance

there is also a gain in this breach understood by the M-dici and the far-fetched, one-sided, previon, which had not long began to of continaity. Music was getting Bardi, Bach by the Reformation, and needed the winter frosts bear frait, Beethoven by the sin is down to the roofs. About ident at the Ravolation 30 years ago this began to be felt which echoed through Evrope, -nd the Salvation Army settled Weber by the " romantic the secalar battle between choir wave which spread outwards from and congregation by turning the the storm centres of Leasing, congregation into a choir. Qu Kant, and Berder, or Wagner by recently a little back has com neo-Teutonic aspiratione. And from the froot called "Tommy' if history pronodaces the cause of Tones" (Erakina Macdonald this war to have been good and Day. Ou dite On date. Limited). Since we bad provided ita condnot worthy, it is there bim with nothing to sing, he that music may again find inspire- made up sange of his own to say tion. It is quite possible that its what he wanted, fitted them to form may be dramatis; and it is any old scrap of hymn, or folk likely, because the principle for Bong, or music hall ditty, and which this astion in contending harmonized them with his owe ie, as far as it will go into one contrappanto alla mente,

word, D macros, Bod the Beecham Opers is the best pos ible exponent, both before and bebind the footlights, of the idea bat every fellow is to have his (chance.-Times.

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METEOROLOGICAL.

Previone

Tai Pu.-Weak days, 10 am; Sundays, 9.30 am.

Carcinoter q Temperature

29.85 29.56 3001

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Cheung Chow-Weoks days, 7.30.a.iz. Bud 3 p.m.

Houmidity

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Forge

Weak days, 4 p.

Aberdeen Ana. Pinz Shan. Bởi Kurd Satis and Stanley,--Wark days, 4.30p.m.

Canton, Samshui, and Wuchow-neek i sala day, 2.30a.m. Registration 5 p. Let- tore 5 pm Sundays, 5 pm.

Macao. Weekdays, 7.15 a m, 120 praz Sunday. 98.1.

Kongmoon-Weekdays. 6p.m. Except Hoturdays; Sundays, 5 p.m.

amtau and Sabmel-Week days, p.m.; Sundays, b p.ns.

Shametuo-Week days, 10a.m., 4 p.m.7 Sunday, 9 a m

FROM SHEUNGWAN WESTERN BRANCH PO.

Macao-Week days, 7.30 am. 1.30 p.m. Sundays, 8.30 am; Holidays, 7.30 am. 1.30 22.

Hygkau opan se Takyscilars, on ins

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1;th by 14th 5, ELK, Observatory, Dec. 14, 1917.'

T. F. CLAKTON, Director.

TIDE TABLE,

From 10th Dec. to 16th Dec.

Ont-Week daya. 7.30am. 9.30 p.m.; Sunday, 933 p.; Holidays, 7.30 am Kos.

9.30 p.m.

Tal Fig Tanx.-Week days, $30 p.m.; Te

Sundays 9.30 pm; Holidays, 30 p.m.

ays, 9.30 pm; Holidays, 9.30 pm.

Shek KL-Week dare, 9.30 pm; Ban

康

Thay

Longa con Week days,' 6 pm; Sun-A daya, 6 p.m.; Holidays. 6 p.m.

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Kamchuck-Week days, 6 p.m.; Sun-S day, 6 pm: colidays, 6 pm,

Kaukong-Week daya, 6 pad, Except Saturdays, Sundays, 6pm; Holidays,

Rich Water

Men That

m morning

Low Waters

Mpan Tim..

Hongkong

Shoots Brother While Out Huating Ducks.

Bat this is not masie, some on will say. Certainly not, yet the argument is mach the aems. Si Thomse Beecham has been er pounding it. Be does not mention the war at all; but, on the que band, he uses "in all countrie the more thoughtful section of the

While ons ouok bauung Staten concert going public languishing by reason of sheer reiteration and Seastor, Mr. Hasting was socideof. a group of ally shot by his brother, Gustavs monotony, and symphonic omposers, who seem Hasting, reportes Milwaukee to have lost the talisman that fespatch of October 22. He was might open to them the bright harried to the nearest point where vision of a new world, and medical and surgical aid could be on the other, there is the plain obtained, but died later in the day, fact that the operatio audience brother then surrendered to of today is

more the police but he was allowed to then three years old. Patting go home under guard. He in these two thing toze her, we get arushed by the result of the s picture of pre-war music (music accident.

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