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BOBBIE'S LETTER".

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118 produced no serions

Vour of the status

as regards intoxicants. Politicians waited on a lead, fearful as to which direction the cat would fump. It wasna good form for the rich mair to defend the extinction of his private comfort: the poor man wished he was wealthy enough to have the influence to protest and the man with the| influence was afraid to squeal outside the privacy of his home in case his interests would in any way be injured. No one had the moral courage to come out flat- footed and advocate a measure permitting the sale of liquor. The fact of the matter is that most humans are a lot of humbugs, Society is founded on humbug -not vulgar humbug, mind Fe, but refined humbug. What should keep society together is

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help and forbearance. What really does keep it together is

the fear of the police and what 4th Floor Hotel Mansions. Tel. 114.

the folks next door will think and say, and whether it will pay to do this or to do that.

Liso

ordinates failed to get away wi

Drunkenness is without doubt the bacon. In lots of cases the very terrible thing. It has guards etc. were a mere Bea-bite blotted out many a bright young compared to the necessary dis-life. Through it many a vigorous TO HIS NEPHEW AT HOME cipline imposed on a chap who brain has been reduced to drivell

started this kind of soldiering lateing senility. Often the foster Hongkong. 16th July. 1919. in life and to whom even the parent o crime, over indulgence

simplest order from the greenest in John Barleycorn has Dear Alick, I saw the trial subaltern was anathema. It's hard desolated many a home. It has run of the feu de joie on the Mur-to take orders after you've passed done in short all that was ever ray Parade Ground yesterday the age of forty. Letting another said of it in the Band of Hope morning. A fine body of men man think for ye

is often meetings of our youth. as our late Governor was wont worse than no being able to think

But after all is said and done to say, and bar accidents the for yourself. Fireside soldiers, in this matter of prohibition. should go off like aaye faith, but they've done their drunkenness is not the point. string of crackers on Saturday bit, mind I'm telling ye, and no The drunkard isn't by a long way morning. Of course even the even a chevron to show for it or in the foreground of the per- best bunch of fireworks has damp even the whisper, as yet. of a spective of the social picture. spots in it where it takes a General Service Medal to pass For his miserable Sake the breather, so to speak, before final-on to posterity to show what much of the comfort of the Prohibitionist would destroy ly rattling down the strait: Daddy

Uncle did in The Indians, I noticed, were the Great War. And the Powers

home and the amenity stronger on the fea than the that be will wonder at the of social life. Of all the minor joie for their rear rank wild rush there'll be to throw comforts of life from the cradle were a bit disinclined to send their hand when the word gets to the grave, beer and baccy are the feu on its return journey round that conscription is easily first. Their prohibition to the discomfort of the rest left abolished and the gear is piled will only cause the drunkard to wi their arms at the present." man-high on the drill hall floor. drink illicit poisen in place of It takes training to keep that sort A Sam Brown belt and its trim-honëst beer. of thing upa The Indians mings look fine of

bright a were very good for all that summer's morning but they look but for that matter should even better when they've got a be, for drill is their middle name line of ordinary saddlery and and they have plenty of time to rifles to keep them company.

do it in.

the war.

of

Teetotal tales of the dreadful consequences of alchool upon the human body are, at the best, an exaggeration of the truth. Alcohol consumed as everything in the Verb sap. Mind I'm telling ye...y of food or drink ought to be

consumed-that is, temperately- does not exercise any serious defect on the human system. As à mental stimulant it has tea, coffee, and lemonade beater on

in-

the mark.

As Burns says about Drink

Thou clears the head o

doited Lear:

"Thou cheers the heart o

drooping Care:

Thou strings the nerves oị

Labour sair,

At's weary toil: "Thou even brightens dark

Despair

I couldna' help but think that as no my lad, I've too regards the Defence Corps unit, much confidence in the their treatment fast Tuesday eradicable hypocrisy of human was much on all fours wi the nature to believe, that America way they had to carry on during will ever be bons-dry. To my There they were, jerk-mind perhaps the queerest thing ed out of their beds at an un-about this prohibition business is earthly hour of the morning just that at bottom nobody really to fit in wi' the hours of parade of wanted it stopped. And yet near- other regular units. After they all classes have tamely ac show was over, I suppose the re- quiesced in the measure.

It's gulars called it a day and lay curious psychology but I think back for the next twenty four the cause of it was that for anyone hours. But our Ereside soldiers to openly stand out as a champion couldna do that. Many of them of internal lubrication was to hadna' even time to go home and invite losing face" among his change their togs. Nine o'clock social equals. Even the clergy. would see them at their desks many of whom are fond of their

usual getting

wi dram, lost their chance of advocat-development problem the Govern the good work. It was the ing tolerance when they failed to

ment should tackle is the recon- same during the war. Maskee preach sermons on the wedstruction or abolition of the Coolie whether it was the Lights, Engines ding feast at Cana on which Express system. Man. I sent a or Guards, they had to roll up occasion even Jesus by turcing it to a chap the other day and the next morning wi' the rest and the water. into wine showed that the coolie to faiter in three differ-|

marked it urgent twice and told counted themselves lucky if they He believed that the partaking eat languages. About an hour hedna' a drill to put in the same of a mild stimulant on occasion later, on the way back from the evening. And there was no fool did not necessarily ran contrary pidgin about it either for offices to His Divine Plan. Otherwise, ifClub, where I had gone to hear were short-staffed in those days, it was merely to perform the the latest about the Peace Celer and the taipan had an awkward miracle, he could just as easily brations, I took it into my head knack of wanting to "know all have produced a quart or two Or about it if on occasion his sub-goat's milk instead of the tipple.

on

VICTORY AND PEACE !

Above, below, betwixt, between, we're competing with the moon; Old Hongkong's gay with bunting and light, not to mention Kowloon. The cocktails flow, gin smashes foam, "Gluck t'hic ye, ole bean." Who did your bit to beat the Hun and lick him good and koen.

The Hun has got it in the neck, he's crawling in the mud. He's a dirty, nasty thing, though at fighting not a dud. It's up to you keep him there: he'll slither out if he So Hong-hic-kongites do your bit and Keep The Blighter. There.

dare,

To-night we're having scenes of war, a painted on the sky By whizzing rockets, bursting botabs and Catherine wheels on high. The Portuguese-shout out "Ob my" Chinese are in a whirl, And each young feller seizes his chance to squeeze the "only" girl!

We've won the Victory, let's have Peace for that we fought to win Let's work and play together, boys, and not forget the gin! No There are things top, there are things to saves good

deal more than pele.

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So keep the British spirit strong and

Wi' gloomy smile." and the next post-war

to go and see the ebap I had sent the rush chit to but it didna take three shakes o'a lamb's tail for See that I

Was an easy first. A8 it WBS &

me to

message I thought was first best softened by writing I left it at that but promised myself the pleasure of firing you coolie three times running, but no' mind ye, till after I had given him a rough outline of the delinquencies of his. fourth generation. On the road ancestors unto the third and back I nearly fall over the un- washed pup sitting to leeward of a gambling school in Chater Road wi' my chit between his toes and his mouth full of noise and melon seeds. Not being & Prussian I didna' even motion quick for me anyway. (I was aya him to move away he was too Commended for my footwork in

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