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(BY "THE FERRY MAN").
My notes of last week concern- Jng the "frenzied frolica in Flat- land" have created quite a lluis Jatir, judging by the notice taikeni of them in the Chine Mail, I should have liked my orities to have replied in the paper to which
1 contribute. But the fab
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1920.
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DAIRY FARM NEWS.
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they didn't dosen's warry ma any, I look upon it as proof that this column is widely read, and I have Beef to thank these correspondents for
the additional advertisement they Liver have given me.
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[It is unusual for critics to air their views in one paper on topics
Ita another. originating in equally unusual for the paper not Brawn concerned, to publish such letters More New Journalism, possibly. |--ED. H.K.T.).
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Before I have my own little! say." let me make room for my friend from Flatland, who has sent me a chit on the matter. He 5155:-"I see some individual signing himself 'Stentor wants to know why, if 1 Sm a respectable person. I was seaking sleep on the night men- tioned in my last letter, instead of straining my ears to catch all the words of the songs. Wall, that was precisely what I was doing-seeking sleep, but unable to obtain it, thanks to the unholy! noise these night-birds were mak- ing. And the very fact of my being able to bear the words off the songs will give some idea of the carrying-power of their voices, There was no 'straining of ears -in the end it came down to *atopping" of ears on my part."
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My friend adds:-" Regarding the sudden cessing of the racket which I mentioned last week, I have since beard that was due to a telephone message to the) establishment concerned, so that others besides myself thought this particular night'srowdyism rather too much of a good thing. More ThenTheMzZother residentin Flat- land was also on the point of
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as a gentleman lying sick Dear by Was distracted by the pandemonium. So you can guess | that it was no ordinary jamboree. Let these scribblers and the paper in which their effusions appeared, absorb these hard facts. They evidently know nothing abou}] what transpired on this particular I have been railing. I though: I night."
made that quite clear when in my last notes I observed that Now that my friend has had one could understand and forgive It would seem as though the
The an occasional jamboree by young Hongkong and South China War Catholic Men's Ciub last evening. bis turn. I can sail ia. Savings Association is preparing There was a good attendance, the letters which have been published fellows. The thing that is ob for an early winding up of its prizes were excellent, and the on this matter have been nonsen-jected to is yelling, shouting and arrangements for sical in the extreme. They have piano-banging until an unduly activities. for it has just issued Committee's
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Teething time not only is a a circular to all its members sux-refreshments were all that could been more concerned with the late hour. And that is what gesting that they themselves be desired: the drive was there-meaning of words than with the Flatland has recently bad to put trying period to baby but also
most successful one in real issue. But what is especially up with, according to all ac-means much worry to mothers.
The little one's gumas become should take over the Bonds and fore a
respect. The following noteworthy is the fact that none Counts. However, I'm told that Certificates of the War Loans in every
of the writers has dared deny theaters have very materially swollen and teader; he is cross: which their subscription are were the prize winners:-
to the terrible improved since my recent com- does not sleep well; is troubled Ladies.1, Mrs. Burden (172): assertions as invested.
2. Mrs. Lamerton (171); 3. Miss rampas made on the occasionments. If they hadn't, I fear with constipation, colic or diar-Launch Parties
prompted my original further steps would have been thoes and sometimes even con- Enright (161): Booby Prize. Mrs. which
taken. Now, let's turn to other vulsions seize bin. Reynolds (14.
topics. Men.-1. Mr. Whiting (174); 2, Mr. Fitz-Gerald (173): 3, Mr.
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The circular, which is dated September 15:h, states: As the reason for forming the Associa tion was to assist the British Government with funds for the Sampson (173); 4. Mr. Tovia (17) at the evident anxiety of these I see that the K.CC, bas now remedy. They regulate the bowels War, and as the people of the Booby Prize, Mr. Walker (131)
Great amusement was caused correspondents and of the paper fixed up the revised date for and stomach, and make the teeth-i Empire must necessarily carry
which printed their rabbish to get open-air concertnamely the ing so easy that the mother the various War Loans for many by the opening of the Men's to know who Ferryman" really 25th instant. Let's hope the scarcely realizes baby is getting years yet, and as it is desirable to Booby Prize, the winner of which One writer speaks of myself weather clerk will be kind his teeth.
i3. reduce the liabilities and work of was required to go on to the
to that night. We've got two good contributor
My experience has been that the Association, your Committee stage to undo the
Nocturnal Revity last Saturday nights' entertainment Baby's Own Tablets allay the think that it would be convenient.wrappings. The duties of M.C.season. of Jazz bands on upper assured now, for to-morrow Band-fever caused by teething and to many individual members to
man's open and the following give baby healthy sleep. My were successfully carried out by
verandahs, of tones such take over the Bonds and CertificMr. Spettigue. The next whist Bubbles," and of incessant clap-Saturday we shall all be at the baby has always been healthy ex- ates of the War Loans wherein drive will be held on Thursday. pings for encores until the early
cept for the fever and restless. their subscriptions
re 30th September.
hours of the morning. What on
ness accompanying teething and spectively invested, and also that
earth is he talking about?
Occasional cold, but the From what has been told me, they would like to continue
efforts are now being made to Tableta have proved so beneficial their help to the Empire in this way. The effect of the proposed
Then there's this from the form a Kowloon Patrol of the in these cases that I would not transfer would be that members
China Mail itself:-The man Boy Scouts, and I hope the move be without them," writes Mrs. would thereafter hold in their
who objects to a chorus at 10.30 ment will be attended by all R. S. Long, of Peachland, British
These Tablets enjoys a dance at his own place success. There is to be a recruit- Colombia
equally own names the securities which, i in the past, have been held by the
so much that he encourages bising rally at the St. Andrew's * Fighting Cressy", Association in its name; and that,
guests to keep it up all night and Church Hall on Monday next healthful and harmless to the instead of receiving interest by comes to the Coronet on Sunday even to break the Sabbath." Does from 6 to 7 pan. for the purpose yargest infant and the child of mesos of warrants issued by the night for a run of four days, is a he? Then who is he? Not me, 1 of giving the schema a lift-up. eight years or more, curing con- Association, members would be picturisation of Bret Harte's cats assure you, Mr. Editor. Now This is in connection with St. stipation, indigestion, colic, diar- paid interest direct by the Govern-famous story Cressy". Blanche to get down to brass tacks, let Andrew's Church. British boys thoes, simple fever and worry.
between 10 and 18 years, are ment, either of the Straits Settle-Sweet, whom Hongkong Cinema-me say that I have never held a ments, or the Federated Malay goers will remember as the dance at my residence, and I eligible for Scout membership. I is have only attended in trust Kowloon lads will respond States, or the United Kingdom heroine of "The Escape" according to the loans wherein starred in the title role of a Flatland. Even then there was well to the movement.
jazz or their subsciptious were respec-spirited daughter of a fighting no
Kentuckian who has settled in of band present and it was'nt Bolsheviks in Kowloon! When tives] invested.”
the west.
on # Saturday, nor did it I saw the news first of all, I al- Members are asked to acquaint
Bret Harte stands supreme se tako place OB
uppermost thought the reference must munity in Kowloon, I'm WOD- the Hou. Secretaries and
the best story teller of the West verandah. I don't know the song ba to the Kowloon Residente dering whether anybody has Treasurers. (The Union Insurance that ever lived. The picturising Bubbles," unless it's the one I Association! The story told (it met this emissary of Lenin's. Society of Canton) of their wishes. of his stories has done a great heard the
Black Cats" sing comes from Vladivostock) is His name's Yourin; but ins
to have The proposal, if carried into deal for the movies, for he has recently at the E. C. C., which that
real, living Bolehie much as he seems effect would simply mean that brought the present into intimate was the first time I had ever recently arrived in Kowloon, quickly disappeared from Kow- Instead of the Society holding the contact with a people who have board it So have another ** $ couple of miles from loon it would perhaps hava, been securities the members would passed, but who will never fade guess. themselves, and would receive from memory a people who lived interest direct from the Govern and loved and fought in the days ments issuing the loans instead when that wondrous land of That there has been some there. But, so the tale goes, dubbed throughout the East as the of through the Association..
California was young. The out cause for complaint at these hardly any of the local Bussians, From the balance sheet, drawo door scenes with which the picture Kowloom night noises is conceded
abounds were photographed in a by one "Barabar," who frankly however, paid heed to his fulmina beautiful canyon near Sacramento says that occasions have arisen ions and he soon withdrew. where the necessary settings were when music has been carried to
As, I'm not very well known erected to give the picture the excess. Thanks for the admis- atrgosphere that Bret Harte has sion. It isn't the ordinary amongst the imbued his story with.'
musical evening against which
up to December 31st last, it appears that subscribers have nearly $4,000,000 Straits Dollars invested in Straits' Loans, and over £115,763 in sterling War Bonds and War Loan Stock.
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