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HONGKOSO, 8th April, 1922.
SATURDAY, APRIL 8. 1922.
Between Ourselves
By Robt. MacWhirter.
solves but some falk would like to aot big at the slightest provoca tion. Nor am I complaining either al the way he patronised ime at the ball for I admit he'd
By the time these lines appear| the Heir-Apparent will be speed. ing on his way to the Land of the Rising Sun after bis forty- eight hours' visit to the Colony, week altogether. It started badly human variety
Ay, this has been an awf'beating, masked whether it's the some justification, him having which, though brief, was longer wi" all you talk between the reds door's. Even on a wet day thers' Jcommitteeman earlier on in the or Gods-out-of-been spoken to, mistakenly, by a then the plans allowed of his and the blues. Whenever Janet beauty in the landscape that evening, no to speak o' taking Royal Highness apanding solspped her eyes on the state laughs at our tawdry schemes of Pavillon when Mr. Percy Smith part in the goat parade at the soma ports. Crowded hours they ment last Saturday, she made one decoration.
A
baziest
hava been, so mach so indeed dive for the dresser and fished | I canna. I admit, dogmatite made his bow in the forenoon of that even the indefatigablo Prince cat the card. For my part so comfortably on the question
the same day. They tell me it must find the for days" reat couldna have said off-hand whe of simplicity of demeanour. The sight! It just shows 38. wben
was a touching and mamorable before he lands on Nippon's ther it was sky blus scarlet or vaxed question of choosing a wife man's excited how difficuls it is shores not unwelcome. On theas shepherd tartan colour. But when from a casino or a convent is for his wits to function properly. loccasions à quantity of prepared might have
Janet got a sight of you invite it merely a matter of individual
baan
dead taste. That's quite apart from Mac. ho bas the eulogy is inevitable, and especial tat from the way she handled the fact of course, that the con- of hazy notions of what le is this the case where time is The telephone then put in a job vent maiden only diders from the exactly took place yesterday Jimited. which is by no means to of overtime and, at the end of sa casino product in that the lattern idea that the Prince got his forenoon. I think he still baà say that the sentiments lack hour, alas, the blues had it by a tells you how much she knows University degree by means of sincerity. In the present case it narrow margin. Ms, gas, it was and the former walls for you to electricity and that a replica of is but the simple trath to state terrible. It wasna' the slighest find it out for yourell M5, yes the SL. Stephen's foundation stone that the expressions of devotion ass of my telling bar what a fos
rendered to his Royal Highness blue-blooded, aristocratic colour The Age of Reason.
is now part cargo of the Renova were the reflex of heartfell ours was and how bolshevist-
West Janet did say in the Ay, yon morning dress bugabooj enthusiasm: nobody witnessing looking and communist was the kind of stuck in my gullet. I'm pinderend regarding the whole the greeting accorded to the other kind. No, all she could thankful, though, to note that it business was inteasily laudatory Prince every time he made his see was herself standing on her didns' go down wi' lots o' other knew her to
to say the least of it. I never appearance could doubt
that tiptoes on the outside of a crowd folk as well. I really do think before which just shows ye how
be to effusiva v the regard entertained for him and the white feather in Mr. that's a hopeful sign. Twenty new dress and dancing wi' the corresponded with the formal MacPherson's hat waggling from five years ago, ay, even ten years right kind o addresses. The difficulty was is more comfortable base on a ago, in this Colony to have even
folk affects a rather to and languate newly-made chsit. Man, she as much as murmured at an opinions. But let that be as it woman's tranquillity atd with which to give due expression was mad. to the lively feelings of affection)
won was
the
like-
edict on a subject so sacrosanct would have meant qualifying, in may. MUSTARD & Co. which the scion of the reigning A Strenuous Time.
House inspired. Dwellers on the
the minds of many, for deporta A King in the Making- opposite side of the earth from If it was the cards, it was her human nature like lots of other and then we'll give the Prince a All Sunday the battle raged Ition or jall at least. Is it that
WhatI was going to say though, the Old Country, we were pre-new dress and when it wasns' thing is disposed to offer a cordial wel that, it was a toss-up between tremendous
OD the verge of s come to the representative of the two styles o' hairdressing. I said mean
change?
rest, poor chap, is that maybe That'll 4 third
one aspect of his tour hasna' Throne that links the various I liked neither and that there social evolution of man.
stage in the
been sufficiently advertised. portions of the Empire, and this must be something in all this talk first stage was the period of historic character and
The we're beard much of the feeling grew as the succeeding about the world changing. Ay, instinct. This was in prehistoric ly beneficent effects of his hours brought forth additional when a grandmother can spend days when man wasn'a baits-visit, effects political, social and tokeas of the Royal visitor's nearly all the Lord's Day and breadth superior to the animal- agreeable traits: A modest waste two perfectly good chutch governed by Prince yet. * freely-speaking services over
his impulses, been said of what we imagine to Imperial, but little or nothing has bead opsasians, desires. He moved, be the Prince's own point of view. one, the Heir-Apparent was in personal vanity, then bis element at functions where zerdna be surprised at
Ito speak, mechanically. guided we can realise to some extent the trammels of conventionality thing that comes out o' Canton stomach.
boy-mostly by the state of his that the tour has entailed mani- are relaxed.
His Royal High after this. The soaping and The second stage was the period
fold duties and labours and po THE UNSELFISH PRINCE.cess gaver favourable impression shampooing that went on in our of custom-be period in which inconsiderable mental and physi from the time of landing, which house last week-end could bave we live at present sad out of
cal exertion. What he went his easy meeting with the given a new Lux factory a good which, I hope. we are slowly through in India well maybe The Prince, to whom we have Service men, his dashing dis start in life. I got sick tired oarolving. At the moment, as a never know. He has been sub-
play on the polo field, and his now reluctantly said good-bye, meeting with the school children Map, she never seemed to be we are guided more by custom
telling ber she looked fine. general rule, it seems to me, that jected to the nervous tension
caused by displayed during his visit here smply confirmed. The esteem satisfied. As I pointed out, she then by our thinking. We wear
having to make speeches and to endura 70- two typical examples of his un- which the Prince had couldas go far wrong in taking certain clothes at certain times ceptions and other things. selfishness. In the first place, on the unrestrained demonstration word for it, for is wasna because they are the style or cus-life can bear the strain upon the
further attested by
Very few men in early two occasions he added engage when"
likely I would be letting her go tom. Custom rules us our food,rces and brain of addressing ha arrived at the to you fancy Pavillon to makes our conversation, our ways of do audiences of the middio-aged and cents to his official programme race enclosure, and again when fool o herself. No, I'd more ing things. Because things were the old. Amidst all the show for the express benefit of the Sir Paul Chater conducted bis respect for myself than that. But done so when this Colony was and pomp the Prince is certainly soldiers and sailors, and, in the of the Grand Stand, the Prince friend my wife couldns' have been we still do them. Our thoughts bounded popularity. Bat behind Royal Highness along the trout I tell ye, if I had been her worst innocent of ice or an electric foo paying the price of UB second. he indicated bis wish rabbing shoulders with the spects more suspicious. Yonlack o' trust are governed by styles, in other that instead of a status being lors in an almost literal sense as enough to make a body lose words, customs of thinking. Most
and beyond this must lie Enthasiam reached crescendoah in baran nature altogether. of our decisions are regulated by would weigh heavily upon the raised to him bere "some good point with the conclusion of last y. we're a contrary lot right what is customary.
a sense of responsibility which thing might be done in his name. evening's memorable ball enough. I couldns help thinking It's all wrong and because 1
most able and experienced of men, These, as we say, are actions where the delighted Prince the: when I was watching her say so it doesna' mean that I'm force upon one so young.
and which must bear wi" great thoroughly indicative of
exhibited life's joyousness with trying to put the
& home-made Bolshevik and wear Prince's thought for others rather the social side of the visit was an Straight haired folk are forever (or imitation, for boiled down, it's Rule Parliament. Then he went
all the spirit of south. Alt gether Marcel
First our Prince went to Malta in her hair. stop beard. The period of custom, and there be inaugurated a Home than for his own convenience or eminent success, not perceptibly fazzing themselves. I suppose nothing else, in the development on to India to rees Princes, glorification.
diminished by the somewhat the nigger-girl's ambition is to go of man, is on its last legs. Folk Chials, Governors, officials of unpropitious weather of the through life wi's head o'kinklers are beginning to tblok It was by His Royal Highness'ppening
for day: and every bait.
For a while on Monday themselves and more power to He must have been well aware many races and a vast populace. body who own request that he came into
followed the social atmosphere wasna o them. My, yes, we're chang that much depended on the course of events, which depressive for tim time brought ing, personal contact with the officers means the whole community, wiit a red card and instructions nevertheless surely. There was The
Blowly it's true, bu!
the personal influence he diffused. and men of the King's (Liverpool) knows that the Heir Apparent to destroy the blue one. Think's time when slavery, I'm no watching and reading of bim for whole world bas been Battalion yesterday morning, and attentive to the more serious, this'll please Janet up to the rabbing in about the poor wee months
aspects of his tour. We have nines, and I put it away care-mui tadi, but it bears me out for casual phrase, an accidental the courtesy immensely had the most direct evidence that folly in my bip pocket as
A single mistake, a' appreciated by the whole rank and his Royal Highness's function is pleasant surprise for her at night swearing and polygamy were the the right thing at the right time all that-drunkenness, duelling omission to do or Bay file. But the anxiety be showed very far from being a sinecure time. But if I'd gone home custom, widely copied and no and he'd much better have stayed to meet the men of the Navy visitor has had an exacting time. discover it for herself my little like his neighbour. Nearly all our to Japan, a country where they've mentally and physically the drunk at midnight and let her one was scorned because he acted at home. Now he's on his way was even more gratifying, since And now that we return to our plan. couldna' have it delayed bis visit to the Race daily avocations it is with more unsuccessful. She was and looters and were glorified made a fine art of even the most
bean early explorers were plain pirates Meating, in which, as a lover of which binds us to the Motherland whether the next
deepened sea that the tie going to no reception, makes as such because piracy and loot-) ordinary courtesies of life. Truly' borse-racing, he would naturally is a trae and fervent one.
ticket was ing were costomary and consider burden of anxiety has been borne tremendous job! And this emerald green wi' a purple banded perfectly ethical on any other bravely by a young man still in be intensely interested. The
round it. I never rightly found race but their own. Kings and his twenties, at a time when the out the rights or the wrongs of Princes were licentious and political atmosphere in nearly
Prince no doubt put the pleasure
bas
ware
!
-000
every country through which be what
bas passed, has been intensely driven electricsi sad lisble to fuse at ong moment His has been a task
once
SMALL FREIGHTER
SUNK
Japanese Steamer Lost.
of the bluejackets before his Support for Genoa.
the business, and I wasna' very did what they darned well
Now much carieg ooyway, for all you liked. own wishes, knowing that many There is not much inclination talk about morning dress kind of we
they do like. What bas of the men, being confined to at the moment to think about put the wind up me. I expect ant these customs that their ships, would not otherwise politics, but it may be usted that though that this warm spell we're were followed by our ancestors? far more delicate and severe than have the opportunity of meeting the Government has received a having the now in a kind of s The age of reason, surely. You ever was imposed either on his
substantial vote of confidence. way put a lot o' eligible dresses laugh but if you think over the father or his grandfather, bim. The thoughtfulness of
to The figures, 289 vote 95, right away among the napthalin matter at all, and agree, you're & this princely act will long be suggest that the Coalition is baile for the hot weather and left living prooi of my contention. So
He certainly should make a remembered by all who were practically as strong as ever it my wife and lots of others in human nature does change after good King when his time comes. present at the gathering.,
was, despite recent assertions of wither whether a fancy voile all, oh ? an impending split. It does not frock wasas' ower summery or
A Great Time. other blamed The Prince's prefercice for necessarily follow that the differ- gaudy or some something useful being done, immediate question involved in beer
ences have been composed. The thing. Ay, this week must bare Ay, nearly everybody, including a grest straio on lot the Prince, but excepting news- instead of a statue erected in the vole of confidence was British of our women folk. But she'd paper folk have had a fine time of
nice dress for the bis bonour, strikingly illustrates policy at the Genos conference,
ball it these last two days. It's been al the point that
and if we obviously desirable to My, yes. Nico and simple she great business this crushing and The M.B.K. have received he dislikes end Mr. Lloyd George to that said-it-war. I never let on but squeezing and a-running from telegram stating that the Suws undue laudation and ostentation. assembly with strong backing. I've been there before. I aye Dan to Beersheba; this cheerful Maru has been sunk off Swstow. His request in no wise takes There will be many critic si points sotice that the simplicily of a waiting for hours at a stretch for The local office of the company. away from the purity of Sir Paul to be dealt with there, and un-woman's frock and the absences fleeting glance at the central are
not in the possession of common tact will be needed. To of frills bave no counterpart in figure. And as if that wasna farther details of the mishap. Chater'a motives. Inde', the have sent the British delegates the bill.
enough we've had description and The Saws Marn which has readiness with which the latter without the clear support of Attractive Simplicity.
repetition coluran upon column been suck must not be confused expressed bis willingos to fall Parliament would hare render d
for the bereit of those who could- with the NY.K. Suwa Mara, their task almost hopeless. Lack Frankly 1 like simplicity na hope to be in three different She is a small freighter, about $ in with the Prince's idea show of adequate support for M. Briand even the clever sumption places at the one and the same thousand tane gross tonnage. She bis anxiety to do something by resulted in the premature closing of it. The quiet peol barso many time. That being so, so let it be was proceeding from Keelung to which H.B.He visit may be of the Cannes conference and the attractions to me compared to the and therefore I take it that after Canton and had about nine hun
fall of the French Cabinet The tartling grandeur of the water seeing so much of the event both dred tons of cost on board at the long remembered. Knowing the Genoa Conference has been more fall. I like to ponder over the in person end in prigs even a time. Prince's high esteem for the man then once postponed in order to hidden possibilities that lie, yes, feeble squeak from me at this late Mariners are warned to steer who fought in the war, it is to be prevent rushing. We may let it stand-beneath the quiet bour might be deemed an imolear of the wreck of the motos. hoped that whatever is done so that there he now been waters and build pretty fantasies pertinence.
vessel Pakwo, which is sunk in liberal time for prepsistion for s of what plumbing the depths may But I wish I had time and space Swatow barbour fairway, three may in some manner benefit our conference
прап which the possibly disclose.
to tell ys about MacPherson and cables South of the Standard Oil- soldiers od gailors. In that economic future of Europe bioger, Besides, I'm firmly convinced how he stage managed, inimagina-Company's intake. The wreck is way, we feel sure, the Prince' for if this conference were to that real beauty requires only the tion,some e' the illuminations. Ay, marked with a green buoy by day wishes would be fulfilled to the proves fiasco few people would simples of settings. That applies it was a grave responsibility. For sad by green lights at nigirt. have any confidence left for sub to lo's of things, places as well as ourselves, we left our lanterns Vessels are warned to pees Bouth very letter.
sequent ones.
frooks, Nature takes a lot o'to burn AWAY by theme of this merking.
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