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STRAITS SETTLEMENT

CONDITIONS.

COMPLETE REVIVAL OF TRADE:

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COURTESY..

[BY THE REV, GEO. E' ARROWSMITH, MA

SOUND FINANCES.

"Manners maketh man," runs that young university sprig, who the old saying, and if this is bo was not worthy to unloose his In his report on Straits they are not unimportant as some mother's shoe-latchot, talk → down Settlements for 1925, the Colonin! would have us believe. The to her, and patronize her with a Greatest Teacher of all time had but: half-disguised contempt, un Secretary, the Hon. Mr. Hayes some striking things to say on this til I could hava struck the mant Marriott "saya maka

subject. Listen, for instance, to Thoirat, people who will know The year

"under" review wit this. brief lesson in politeness whether your, good breeding is "When thou art bidden of any mari ingrained or but a superficial nessed the complete revival of to a marriage feast sit not down in adjunct will be your family, for trade. A rubber boom and the chief seat, but when thou art courtesy (like charity) begins, at steady tin market resulted in trade bidden, go and sit down in the home.... figures for the year of a mainitude lowest place." What Christ cared But we must not think that the for in surely worth our car home is the only important place never surpassed in the Colors

ing for, He invalghed against and that courtesy is to be confined Restriction of the production rudeness as well as against there the lives of some good rubber remained in force through-ain, breaches of social etiquette people would almost give the with His hot die Impression. They are admirable pleasure as well as transgressions as parents, or 05 sons and against the moral law, and He daughters, and none is so consi- was forever urging His disciples to derate for the feelings of others cultivate & graciousness of manner, a they are within the four walls. well-knowing that it was only in of their own house, but outside this way that they could commend they seem to ignore the little com mon politenesses of life, they their religion to others.

out the year and the policy can he said to have fully and complete ly justified itself.

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Prosperity In the two great Malayan industries resulted in a temporary shortage of labour and a considerable increase in wages,

True courtesy finds it's birth-seem to take a fiendish delight in The financial position of the place in the home. Some people outraging etiquette and in trend- Colony is eminently satisfactory are models of refinement and ing on the social corns of their and the year witnessed the "good forra" amongst their neighbours. Their rudeness may establishment of the Opium Refriends and the outside, world in be. due to thoughtlessness, but serve Fund.

general, but once they cross the such conduct in inexcusable in a The revenue for the year 1925 threshold of home their good follower of Him whose whole mind amounted to $53,850,960 exceeding manners fall from them like a was given up to the welfare of the Estimates by $26,653,505, cloak. have known sons who others: sometimes it is due whilst the expenditure was were politeness personified to the preoccupation, their mind sours $57,593,959 being $23,261,076 more mothers and sisters of other men, into the heavenlies and they for- than the Estimate.

But who treated the members of get the little civilities of ordinary The revenue

was $26.221,799 their own family with the scant-life; how different from the cot- than that of 1924, while jest of ceremony. How different duct of Christ-courtesy was s expenditure was more than the was the example of Christ! How Datural to Him as communion with 1924 figure by $30,887,643. The Infinitely tender He was to His His Father.

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Tennyson wrote:-Manners are

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excess of expenditure over re-mother angry, harsh, or un-! venue was $3,712,999 as compared kind word was ever addressed to not idle, but the fruit of noble with an excess of revenue

over her, even on the cross He was nature and of loyal mind," and et, solicitous about her welfare, and if his biographer is to be believed, expenditure of $1,932,845 in 1521.

almost with His last words "He this great Christian poet

the brusque and boorish in his man- tenderly committed her to

gers-his beautiful ind Was care of His disciple.

Unfortunately, from one cause effectually hidden under an or another, rudeness in the home south personality. We are told

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The revenue for 1926 was creased by $20 millions trans- ferred" to the Colony. from the Currency Commissioners' funds. The expenditure includes $80 mil-is all too common nowadays. It is that a lady once wrote asking him lions paid into the Opium Revenue largely due to laziness-we simply to explain one

of his poems. Reserve Replacement Fund under don't want to be bothered! We "Dear Madam," he replied, "I the Head of Miscellaneous Ser will make an effort to be pleasant merely supply poetry to the Engish vices, the $30 millions. being made and agreeable, when outside, but people--not braina!" up of the $20 millions from the

once we get behind our own front Tennyson is not the only one Currency Commissioners and $10 door angely we are at liberty to whose personality is spoilt by dis- millions from the, Colony's Surplus throw off all restraint? It is a courtesy. How often we hear Funds.

disgrace to us who all call our-people, described in some selves Christian if it be so: our way as this, "So-nnd so is a good religion has not done very much fellow, but, oh, he is such a rough for us, and we must have read our diamond!" There are religous- New Testament with a strange minded folk who are like the rose. lack of understanding if it does not-pleasant to 'contemplate when FOR MR. E. S. KADOORIE OF make us attractive and well-once you have forced aside the

mannered at home, amongst our prickles... SHANGHAI,

own kith and kin...

Let us resolve that there shull.) I was reading the other day of be no thorns about us to give Paris, July 23,

young undergraduate at the pain to others, let us pray God to Mr. E. S. Kadoorie, of Shanghai,

university who was brilliantly make us winsome and likable, let' has been named a Commander of clever. His mother was a worthy us ask Him to chisel and polish the Legion of Honour because of woman, not intellectual like her the rough diamond it, is a the considerable services which he son, perhaps, but gentle and good. thing of beauty fit for a heavenly has rendered to France-Haves. "I have heard," says the writer, jcrowa

FRENCH HONOUR.

SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1926,

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