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Sir Paul's characteristio munifi- conce, to put an record an ap preciation of his kindly act and of the admirabla disaretion be has shown in allocating the som 90 genorously given.

Becoming a Habit.

A few days

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By Robt. MacWhirter.

ye I'm very often wrong, in mat- taza of taste there is really no basis for disenssion. If a man likes a thing, he likes it, and that's all there is to it. The fact that another man doesn' like it, in not to the point. As the Daily

I see the Telegraph's been Dirty Pride. belly-aching about street signs They may forget where to Press would say: De gustibus and flashing lights. Speaking for pay. the pear rates or thaļ non est disputandum. That's un- myself I'm against intermittent police tax but they never allow other way o' saying "evary ona to' had advertisements

kind themselves to forget their Princes his own liking "as the old woman the especially in the newspapers and Street For months now, Auld said when she kissed the cow. I think it should be punishable Reekie folk have been making up As a matter of fact, tastes are no‘ leniency of a magistrate ia allowing a case of intimidation law for a man to have alternst-their mind about scrapping their in our way arbitrary. to be disposed of by the mere notices in our daily news antiquated cable care and having I mind when I was a boy at estreating of the bail of the ac-sheets. I'd go a step further and proper skoosh cars in their place Liatcumdaddie my Aunt she say that everyone who has ony and what d'ye think has held the was aye making patchwork quilts. Since then, the same magistrate has followed a like thing to sell at all should be business un even to go'nt the The rags were forever

being compelled to advertise his wares length o' a Government euquiry saved up and the lassies never course in one of the first prosecu- solid the whole year round, even Princes Street! As sure as death. gate ower pattering and egging tions for ill-treatment of a mani-tsai

if it causes him to make money And whenall's said and done what her on to make a start on the next subsequent to the proclamation. setting forth the Maskee Which. against bis will.

do the so-called amenities of this one. But Auntie Mary (a good- famous street amount tɔ onyway?jold fashioned name that) had her status of these girl servants. We

"But joking apart" says Joc.-One side of it has a few fine shops head screwed on the right way revert to the subject because we cannot help thinking that far too

"Quite 10," says I" the trouble and a large number of very or- and she waspa' one o' the kind On the other side (that sot to starting a thing before many cases are dealt with at the you kind of folk though, is dinary ones. Police Court in this manner.

(that you don't know humour are gardens wi a dirty grimy old she could see the end of it. It consequence is that offenders when ye write it. If ya werena' castle for a background. la was aye great fun when the job A collection did start; to guess where the bits against the law know that they unconscious about it all the the gardens are

and bad the brains to of unpicturesque old gentlemen jo' stuff came from and on whom can escape the full penalty by the simple process of not making a capitalise half of it. Sir Harry blacker through smoke and soot they were last worn. The differ

Lauder would have bad to retire than my old Sunday meerschaum.ent calou's in son quilts would appearance when their case is

They've got a monument to Sir bave made Joseph's cost look called. At Home, the general prac-long ago. tice in serious cases is to regard "But seriously " said be—.

Walter Scott in about the middle quite subdued beside them. Folk the estreating of bail as a penalty to read some o' son alleged and

"There ye are again" says I o' the length o' the street have a taste that leads them to

tha

man that designed b'end green and red and blue.

“The

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for contempt of court, and then to follow up the case by the issu-humour of yours is lots worse it committed suicide, the which My Aunt did so wi' her patch- ing of a warrant for the absentee's than taking out a year's sub I diana' wonder at for yon abor work. There was aye "stripe" scription to Chumber's Journal. tion has only height to commend that alternated wi" the "hit-or- arrest. In the muted case, The trouble w: you is that you're fit. Mac, yon's a queer tot miss" and which was never ex- referred to above, a police officer made an application for a warrant, funniest when you're talking masonry not to be bringing in pected to hit anyway but whose but for some unimaginable reason.

editorially like a small nation of rent. And yet as I tell ye there free combination of colour made the request was refused by the setting & Government in order. has been very nearly civil war in a happy contrast wi' red and Let me the capital for the best part of a green or orange and blue. Aunt magistrate. This, in view of the You're worse than that. WALLER BRENTNALL Da seriousness of the charge, was if a razor pulls unless he trolley wires on centre poles in scientific reason why the aya

put it this way: A barber never year ower the head of hanging | Mary didna' know it but there is. April 29th, at St. Johu's Cathed-distinctly regrettable. As wo rat. Hongkong, by the Bevas, this habit of being content Ye, aye bring me in mind o folk tower far wi' that sort o' thing as orange and red in combination blamed well knows it doesna. Princes Street! Ay, ye can go loves blue in combination wi Copley Movie, Lionel Alfred. with the confiscation of bail is that are are ready and willing the magistrate said to the man wi green. That's the way some eldest son of the late Charles becoming far too common. And

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I was working in Glasgow Et enough but it's no often we find them determined in terms of when the idea first took root and by the time I got doon bye light. And yet I don't know: I for my summer holidays, some suppose its for that very reason folk there were who couldas that we have red light districts without the red lights. So. long sleep at the very thought of see. ing our Town bead Common on a thing's no seen, its all right. the picture postcards as Link-Boiled down I suppose some P.W. D-ite has either been Home-I camdoddie Public Park. My Uncle John, he had a dead get guess so from the description of against the ides from the very bat was he doing there ony. yon wicked lights in Piccadilly I mind fine that night way)-or he woke up from bis. when I came off the train, lethargic stupor just in time to prevent somebody from forgetting his existence. Had fate been unconscious to the end. kinder he'd have passed aWLY

Erratic Taste.

or this

start.

Read The

broaching the subject on the way up to the house, Just Havers.

Alfred Waller of Fenace and it is about time a hint were given to lend you money when ye don't when be pushed the perambulator o' the folk inside some they jazz Mrs. Walter of Honggong, to cur magistrates from the proper need it. This digging out 'scoops" over the cliff. The dirty rotted voila frocks ye see on the street Edita Dorothea, only daughter quarter that erasion of the full and irritating the community pride o' von Edinborgh folk is fair the now are not taken straight of the late Mr. and Mrs. Percy rigours of the law cannot be pero sbeer nonsense even if it does Pride and poverty; brigs and Intermittent Intelligence,

other folk's troubles is just a lot paat redemption altogether. away to the police station. Brentnali Di Newcastle-on mitted by the expedieat of non-provide me wi subject this week. nas water: a red herring for Tyne. (Penang, diagajore sud appearance in court.

Ay, true we strain at the Shanghai papers please cops.) Wu's Programme.

What a lot o' happiness there'd be breakfast and a lum has for

ignat and swallow the camel. jin the world if only other people Sundays. Terrible. A day or two ago a messige wouldna worry about other folk's A New Park.

The powers that be say that from the North stated that Wulunhappiness. That sort o' thing's

the watchman's sleep ball So ye see the kind of mood Pui-foo would not regard the terrible catching."

we're very apt toget into when we wi a flashing sign in his vicinity no be disturbed of a night campaign as ended until he had Sky Line Signs.

put on the amenity record ower because it's no' in good taste. The captured Chang Tso-lin. That Joe, he says, what I like to hear often. That sor, o' thing brings would be the spres:

best is myself, but that's no strict-me in mind of the time there was me powers bavens" apparently of eliminating the Superly accurate for I suppose if I was a talk oa public park at Link word to say to the motor cyclists Tuchun of Manchuria, hat deaf and dump I'd still be a dara- cumdoddie. It was to be a fine that fee up and down wi' glaring and motorists on Nathan Road to tackle Chang on his owned cuisance to some tolk. Mind genteel kind of a place, wi' flower searchlights on their machines. ground suggests that Wu would As will be seen front an an.be exposing himself to the king/se, I don't disagree in the main beds cut out here and there, rustic would seem that a light is in wi' what he'd got to say about yon seats and a fancy fountain stuck good taste so long as it's constant nouncement elsewhere in this undice

of risk that caused his adversary's Bashlights for it would take a lot in the middle. An iron railing

Prudence has cono yon kind a thing to make there was to be to keep the cows and plenty of it. The next thing Essue, to local organisation is to strained the Yangtze commander. Hongkong look like a real place from doing as they thought it in they'll be trying to stop is the receive full benefit, for the pres-according to a later message, to at night-time. Of course, on the the place and altogether it was to What some of them will never flicker in the pictore houses, ent of the sum of $30, which content himself with a stipulation other hand, I wouldna like to see be a grand affair, especial's on

that the Manchurian War Lord the hillside plastered wi' adve: Saturday afternoons when the feeble brains that at times are stop though, is the flicker from Sir Paul Ulater is giving for shall retire to the other side of tisements like this:

Mechanic's Band was due to pertamned on us just to remind us, I' | the good of the Colony "in lieu the Wall. At the moment the

form. For months the town got of the statue of the Prince of position in regard to a continua-

cothing else to talk about and I suppose. that such things as Wales which be bad intended in or cessation of hostilities is

bavena' the least doubt but that Ordinances exist and are no' as somewhat obscure. Wu, however,

if there'd been & newspaper near imple as they look though they're erecting in Royal Square. The disclaimiecz

aim at the Any

bound in at hand it might quite easy bave British susceptibilities are queer sheepskin. Our som named is to be placed in the Presidency, declares that his

run to editorials on the subject. "devote his hands of trustees and the income desire

energies to unify China, create from it is, for five years, to be political barmony between the divided equally between the North and the South, abolish British Legion and the ex-Active militariem, revive industry, and Service Men's Association and

the respect of foreign: Powers." That programme is as thereafter in such proportions as commendable as it is ambitious. may seem desirable, outil such We only trust that the Marshal time as, in the opinion of the will not stop short at the "desire"

now that he is in a position to: trustees, ex-Service men in the make bis influence felt. Colony cease to need any material The One Round Expert. Assistance. When that time.

Twice had Georges Carpentier arrives, the trustees will have vanquished the British heavy- full discretion to use the capital!

weight champion in the first round. Wells and Beckett being sum for charitable purposes. the victims, while be took only a The generous donor of this round and half to defeat Jim sum was evidently anxious to do Sullivan, then holder of the Lonsdale middle-weight belt. In Romething for ex-Service men, these circumstances it is not and on that basis, seeing tha: surprising, from one point of there are

ERO Associations of view, that the Frenchman should

have obtained a summary victory, orer Lewis, who, it was recently stated, can still make the welter- weight limit. Yet Lewis has vastroent as much as eight per capacity for conceding weight to

himself shown sach The Amenities.

Ye can very easy overdo that cent, interes) could be secured on boxers of class that he had no sor: thing but still, as the the capital sum, the result would small number of supporters for spiritualist would say, there's they didns have, seemned to be a his craze round the workt w pale be that each Association would the encounter with the celebrated medium.

I've got very little public park, wi' 'don't walk on the pinks, sad yellows and sick-look. Georges. But it was the tale of time for the have $2.000 a year with which to a good little 'un" versus a good o talk for I can never forget

amenity kind grass Rigas stuck up everywhere. ing greens, no' to speak of crush- "But Uncle" I says, "it'll make ed purples, and God-forsaken render aid to such of their mom-big 'oo.' Carpentier has general- that I lived for the best an awfu' difference to the place. blues, it didna' last long. A thing bers as need material help. That, ly given weight; this time, at part o' tbree years in Linkeumdoddie will be a real needas' be artistic to be in good think, would be about 1224st., he held a decided Edinburgh when I was a lad. The proud town, I'm telling ye." taste-to be nice. On the other advantage over the Englishman, folks in Auld Reekie feed and go "Maybe, maybe," he retorted, band a thing can be nice and adequate to meet any calls of who probably went to scale at to bed on that sort o thing. I"but I'm thinking it's pro dea- look worse than nothing at all this nature which they are likely fittle more tban. and perhaps can mind fine the first six months ough already wi' it's fiths' team That accounts for some folk lik

It was the sams I stayed there; I used to get fair¦an" its choral society an' a' the jing baggir and the bagpipes. If As we pointed cut in ander, 1st.

kind of handicap that Carpentier down in the damps like most rest. For me, I see nothing wrong the Government are looking for a previous commeat on this sub- WAS ander last July when young lads will when they're wi' the Common as it is.

something no' nice wherewith to ject, it would not have been the be met Dempsey, only that away from home for the first "It's just," be continued," as fill in the time between this and wisest plan to erect an ex Service the Frenchman, adding another time. There was hardly a wesk God made it, an' meant it to be, the Budget, let them look to the to his list of one-round victories,passed but what I read in the an' it comes to this, Robbie, that way they waste good clean filter- men's club from this generous scored a still more speedy win papers about some poor misguid- efter it's dressed up there'll be no ed water on our pavemente in the grant, as the time might well than did the American. The ad wretch throwing himself of more comfort in this place for me middle of the day through which come when there would be few result will probably stimulate the the Dean Bridge. Man, yoo sort and the likes o' me, for we'll need we have to wads to the detriment ex-Service men here. Sir Paul London and Paris for a second bat d'79 think that Edinburgh thing I do delest, it's having to night-time job it wants to be going offers that are being made in thing fairly gave me the blues, to dress op too, an' if there's any of our white shoes and if it's a has evidently appreciated that Dempsey-Carpentier contest, and, Town Council would put a railing put a dickle on to take it off on wi, I know of at least four point by limiting the grants to a while the avoirdupois factor up on yon brig? No fear; that again."

pianos and a couple of alleged period when there will be no appears almost to rule out a sort of thing would spoil the A Question o' Taste.

vocalists that need strangling chance of the Jersey City result amenity o' the place and couldna' occasion to utilise the income in being reversed, the Frenchman is be thought-o for one minute. somebody sitting up there in the troying the amenity and the The Telegraph euggests that badly, When it comes to des.

such a remarkable exponent that Again you talk to an Edinburgh P.W.D. maybe thinks that those sleep of a district there's a good It only remains for us, on he-there will be plenty of excitement man, even by mistake, and I'll attempts to relieve our gloom half dozen things that want see

if another meeting takes place. bet ge that within fifteen by the intermittent route is some-ing to of a night-time without half of those who will iramediate-A cable to hand this morning minutes he's raving about his thing no exactly nice. To worrying about wheen lighte ly and eventually benefit from announces the signing of articles. Princes Street,

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"Ach, says he, "the whole business is just a whees havers from top to bottom. Some o them new fangled town councillors dinos'ken what to be at next. have some man-made flickeraioa For a time it was sanitation and man-made place? For me I & cominon midden, and then they dinos' care a curse, but mind ye, passed a resolution to sead the as I said before, it wouldao' do if cows on to the bill the back way we were all alike. Ay, tastes no to dirty the streets. vary right enough, but they're After that it was a golf course no' so erratic as some folk think. and fancy coloured posters o' men Tastes are capable of cultivation wi' baggy breeks at the railway and improvement. They're no' so station, until fically the quickest hopelessly diverse por incurably and easiest way to spend money corrupt. When Oscar Wilde sent