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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1920.

MRS. ASQUITE'S REMINSCENCES.

HOW SHE LET THE

PREMIER

W. S. BAILEY

The latest selections from tlanjan “Autobiography of Margot,” Mrs. Asquith, now appearing in the Sunday Times have the arresting title of "My Husband,” and there is a facsimile of a page of the marriage register of St. Georga's, Hanover quare, dated March 10, 1894, on which the zignatures of four Prime Ministers appear. namely, Mr. Asquith himself, as one of the principals, and Mr. Gladstons, Lord Rosebery, and Mr. Balfour as witnesses of the wedding.

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high degree, and he retains to this day an incurable modesty.”

The art thing that will ba noticed in this fascinating chap- tar is that Mrs. Asquith calls her busband Henry, and not the familiar "Herbert H." dear to

A DIFFICULT POSITION, Optional cargo will be landed, his potitial admire and many unless notice has been given prior opponents' He is brought into

The first Mrs. Asquith died, and the story of Mrs. Asquith's life to steamer's arrival.

with the introduction that he the author of this autobiography | All broken, chafed, and dam-had no rich patron and no one to confesses that in making the aged goods are to be left in the push him forward. He had made profound and attaching friend-

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Godowns, where they will be for himself a great Oxford reputa-ship with the stranger of thai KONINKLYKE PAKETVAART MAATSCHAPPY

examined on any Tuesdays and tion; he was a fine scholar and House of Commons dinner she not bad placed herself in a difficult Fridays between the hours of lawyer, but socially was

Glad-position. She writes: 10-45 am and noon within the known to many people.

stone marked him for promotion free storage period."

as soon as he met him, and he rose to Cabinet rank without any intermediary step Under- Secretary.

No claims will be admitted after the Goods have left the steamer's Godown, and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 25th Oct.. will be subject to rent.

“To be a stepwife and a stop- mother was unthinkable, but at the same time the moment bad arrived when a decision-in- volving a great change in my life--had become inevitable. I THE FIRST MEETING. "I met my husband for the had wrillen to Peter Flower be

we parted every day for! first time in 1891," writes Mr. foro Asquith, "at & dinner given by nine years with the exception All Claims against the Steamer Cyril Flower, afterwards Lord of the months he had spent flying must be presented to the undar-, Battersea""

brother of from his creditors in India and igned on or before the 8th Nov..ber first fiance, Feter Flower). I had prayed for him every or they will not be recognised.

"The dinner was in the House of night, but it had not brought Commons and I sat next to more than happiness to both of us; and when I deliberately said be Fleury.

good-bye to him I shut down page of my life which, even if I bad wished to, I could never have reopened.

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"PANAMA“

(the

"I was tremendously impressed by his conversation and his clean Cromwellian face. He' was different from the others, and although abominably dressed, had so much personality that I made up my mind at once that here was a man who could help me, and would understand every- thing.

and

When Henry told me ba cared for me, that antifled inner voice which we all of us bear more or less indistinctly told me I would be untrue to myself and quite unworthy of life it, whm' such a man came knocking at the door, I did not ding it wide open."

APPREHENSIVE THOUGHTS.

Lord Rosebery and Lord Ran- dolph Churchill, deplored the marriage, and Mrs. Asquith saja they were not alone in thinking that such a union might rain the life of a promising politician.

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After dinner we all walked on the Terrace, and I was fatter. ed to find my new friend by my side. Lord Battersea chaffed me in his noisy flamboyant manner; trying to separate us, but with tact and determination this frontal attack was feststed, and my new friend and I retired to the darkest part of the Terrace,

"Some of my own friends were where, leaning over the parapet.

equally apprehensive, from 80- we gazed into the river talked far into the night.

other point of view; to start my "Our host and his party-new life charged with a ready having arrived from the above thinking that I had gone home made family of children brought

the 19th October,

and that Mr. Asquith bed retorn-up very differently from myself, HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAOB 19-20, consignees of cargo bed to the House when the division with a man who played no games her are hereby informed that all bell rang--had disappeared: and

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godowns, where they will be Goods not cleared by the 26th ed goods are to be landed in Frank Waterhouse & Co's godowns, examined on October 25th at Oct.. 1920 will be subject to where they will be examined by 19 a.m. Messn Carmichael & Clarke on Oct. 18th, at 2.30 p.ro.

having arrived on October 13th from the above mentioned ports. consignees of cargo are hereby notified that they mast take in mediate delivery of same along- side, and all cargo impeding dis- charge will be landed at their risk

Consignees of cargo are hereby "and expense into the hazardous

Godowns of the Messrs. Frank notified that, they must produce Waterhouse & Co. Yaumati Shelan Import Permit signed by the Superintendent of the Imports & ter, and at consigores" risk.

Exports. Hongkong, before Bills of Lading can be countersigned.

Consignees must produce sa Import Permit before bills of lading can be countersigned.

All claims must be presented within 10 days' of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognised.

All claims must be presented within a week of the steamer's arrival here, after which they cannot be recognized.

No claims will be admitted after No Claims will be admitted the goods have left the godowns, and all goods remaining unde- after the goods have left the steamer or golowns. Goods re-livered after October 26th will

be subject to rent. maining undelivered after Oct. 20th, will be subject to rent

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

Consignses are requested to send in their bills of lading for countersignature.

THE ROBERT DOLLAR CO, Operators U. 8. Shipping Board. Hongkong, 13th October, 1920.

No Fire Insurance whatever will be effected.

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MR. ASQUITH'S MODESTY. Mr. Asquith and Miss Tennant saw each other frequently after this. The latter found out from something" he said that Mr. Asquith was married and living at Hampstead.

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make at the Bar, was, they thought, taking too many risks,

"I was much more afraid of spoiling Henry's life than my own, and what with old ties and stepchildren, I deliberated a long time fixing of my wedding day. "He told me." she writes,

**One night after our engage- *that be had always been a shy ment we were dining with Sir Lady Campbell- All broken, chafed, and damag-man, and in some ways this is Heary and ed packages are to be left in the true of him even now, but I am Bannerman. While the women were talking and the men drink- Godowns where they will be glad that I did not observe it at examined on the 25th Oct., 1920. the time, as yby people dising, dear old Mrs. Gladstons and st 10 a..

concerted me: I liked modesty-other elderly ladies and political pitied timidity-but I was em wives took me on as to the duties

of the spouse of a possible Prime dancing, riding, and acting. He colossal personal vanity that are barrassed by shyness.

"I cannot truly say, however, Minister; they were so eloquent patted my hand, said he know the bedrock of people's incapacity that the word shy described and severe that at the end of it I no one better fitted to be the wife to take criticism well. There is time: did not feel at all sure that I of a great politician than myself,no grester fest of size than this; husband si -807 my

a little gauche in should be doing the proper thing and ended by saying that, wide but, judged by this test, most of To escape the cataract of No Fire Insurance will be movement, and blushed when by sleeping with him.”

G. 0. M.'S ENCOURAGEMENT." I effected by us in soy case what-be

When W. E. G. Joined the

advice," the much-talked about the drawing-room

fiances hurried on her marriage. Her friends and adviserS WEIG ladies in

hear unhappy, "but Margot Tennant, depressed at

Ihare often thought of this making what the Victorian era matrons had been telling ber, describes when I see how brittle and fortunately for me," she writes, at the Heory Asquith is a compelling how she "switched him into egoistical people are corner, and said I feared the smallest disapprobation. I never person, and in spite of the suxiety ladies took me for a jockey or a get over my surprise, old as I of the friends sod - relations, wa ballet girts I had been adjured am, at the surly moral manners, were married at St. George's, to give up, among other things, the lack of humbleness, and the Hanoversquare,an May 20,1874.”

Claims against the Steamer must be presented within 10 days of arrival, otherwise they will not be recognised.

ever.

but was praised, have never seen him nervous with anyone, or embarrassed by any Bills of Lading will be counter-social dilemma. His unerring in signed by

sight into all sorts of people and adair quite apart from his in tellectual temperament and learn MESSRS, THORESEN & CO-ing and his-fneredible lack of vanity-struck me at once. The Agents.

a of making every man better pleased with himself be bad in a

Hoogkong, 20th October, 1920,

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

FLEMME UP NOW

OUCH

QUIT NOW

Owww

·ILL QUIT WHÊN

1 BED BRADYO.

1. Alek

Alek Evidently Isn't Good at Praying!

BOYS BOYS! GETŐFE DE VIAT "MAS INSTANT THE CILES!

“TUS VERY IDEA! THE

IDEA AREAT YOU ASTUMED OF YOURSELF?,

"I WANT TO KNOUT

THE REASON FOR YOUR

discard us aro ¿wards." I WE entitled to exaggeration in rebuke, it was a great mistake not to take criticism wisely, and in spirit which might turn it to good account.

BY BLOSSER

WELL,T LENT LAA, KY BALL GLOVE LAST SATURDAY- ON CONDITION HE'D SAY AY PRAYERS FOR ME ALL WEEK, ART I JUST FOUND OUT

HE SKIPPED

"TWO DAY"!

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