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1927.

THE CONSTANT MIMP.

A PRODUCT OF MECHANICAL

PROGRESS. · · .

The Very Idea!

The teacher had been giving a very graphic account of the rein. doer. Its haunts, habits, and uses. One boy, however, was not paying" the slightest attention, so the ten- hochor asked:

A lady lately told me that her hairdresser one day asked her it she had seen The Constant Mimp! She made vague mutterlags, and he continued. "Now that," said, is what I call a proper moral play

Tomorrow, being Chincac New Year's Day, there will be no issue

"Indeed," she murmured. of the Telegraph. We take this opportunity of wishing our Chin "Yes," ho unid. "All about a ese readers a Happy and Prosper-roung girl that runs away with a

us New Year.

fellow, and he gets tired of her, nd she polsons herself and dies. Proper-moral Piece, I call t!"

Owing to unforeseen circum- stances, the Garrison Sergeants' Moss douce will not take place! this month.

Members of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce will congre xate at the Chamber on Thursday, February 3 (2nd day of first noon), at 3 p.m. for the exchange of. New Year folicitations..

of

me

me

"Now, what is the use of the re- indeer 7

The startled youth looked up and said:

"it makes everything in the gar- den lovely, teacher."

Out to the famous swimming hole

He always loved to roam, But gosh bow he would kick

when he

Was forced to bathe at home.

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humiliating a General who does not recognise the authority of the Nationalist Government than they. were to accomplish the task with which they were supposed to have boen entrusted. The pirate re- gion does not seem to have been even visited, and the troops have long since been withdrawn. If this is Canton's conception of pirate-suppression, then we can only say that it leaves very much to be desired. As we understand the situation, the pirates are all

"What's its name?" she asked. congregated in a blatively small

"The Constant Mimp!" said he.. "area, and the carrying out of

Thereupon she came away, and communed with Nature on the operations against them would not be at all a difficult matter. Yet

trangeness of mankind and the singular vagaries of the mind. the Canton puthorities." with

"when she bad done

Robinson Crusoe lived a very And

to she hurried show of "independence" that does

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and hard life alone on an island. He Informel

of a great did not have hygienic principles them no credit, refuses to

discovery she had made. "What's to eat. operate in a piece of work which

that." Bald...This world is full Lime juice is a test for carboric. Lieut.-Commander Leon S. would be to the manifest advan-

Mimps," she said. "Antacid gas. Achoson, DIS.C.,Inte in command

what's a Mimp7" I inquired. The muscles of the boxdr's arms tage of the Chinese.

of the river gunboat Cockchafer,

"An average playgoer!" she stood out like ostrich oggs. Looking through our files for who was wounded early in Sep

The pheasants of England. groan- replied.

Then she told her story to me, ed under the burden of taxation. the past few years, we have-en-tember during the operations on the Yangise, has been promoted

and when tha had done so, I shook countered almost Innumerable Commander."

er warmly by the hand, congratu- "Midland witness: Sho was bad- instances in which pirate gangs

lated her upon her

dis-ly hurt, because her new hat was The evening service at St. John's have committed outrages in terri

Cathedral on Sunday, February 27, covery, and thanked her for tell-knocked to pieces.

This world is tory supposed to be under Can-will be specially for Free Masons. ng me about it. ton's control. Apart from the The newly installed District Grand full of Mimps. They go

Master of English Freemasonry theatre; they see a play perform to itinerant trader accused of ob- Bias Bay piracies, there have been and the District Grand Lodge wifled; Immortal souls ondervour on struction: Some one gave him continuous incidenta in the Can-attend, and it is hoped all the the stage to interpret the work of the wire that I was coming.

Lodges.

another immortal soul for them; ton delta, on launches and jurka

and these Mimps leave the theatre, The Rev. T. Hamiltou, speaking knowing no. more of what they at a farmers' dinner at Misterton, The family of the late Mr. R. J. Plying between Canton and nearby dos Remedios tenders sincere villages, until a state of affairs

have seen than that hairdresser Notts, warned his hearers to be wife. thanks to relatives and friends for has been reached in which it is

know of "The Constant Nyinph," careful when choosing a

"Are you surprised," said the "Don't choose one of those wasp. their kind expressions of sym-not safe for Chinese to travel even

indy, who is one of the most bril-waisted girls," he remarked, "or pathy in their bereavement; also

over short distances. This is the

liant comedy actresses in England, any of those cigarette, couch for oral, bributes and attendanc

kind of thing which is happening

we sometimes get fed-up lounging girls, or the piano and at the fineral.

when we have to net before qudi-jazzy type. in what one might term the ve

Nationalist birthplace of the

ences of people like that".

"I long ago ceased to be sur movement, and it is, when we know

prised at anything!" I replied. of facts like those that we begin to see on how slender a basis the Canton claim to the exercise of authority and orderly government rests. So far from being in a

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THE LATEST PIRACY. position to guarantee protection of life and property to foreigners, the Nationalists cannot even give such assurances to their own pouple...

Aerial Transport.

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A Chinese named Lau Yung, has been the victim of a vitrol throw- ing incident at Kowloon, the full known. A man, who was suffer ing from rather severe burns on the face, was admitted to the Kwong Wah Hospital yesterday.

circumstances of which are not yet

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"If a girl can eat a good break- fast, some porridge as well as four or five rashers, and do some honest,. good, housework, plain selving, and can feed pigs, then marry her and don't lose her."

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London, Dec. 21-Suicide when of unsound mind was the verdict at the inquest at Swanage on Miss Comfort vs. Intelligence. Unh Crowe, whom withesses des But. I wonder whether we are cribed as an exceptionally brilliant right to feel so complacent about girl who obtained an honours de- the existence of Mimps, who are to

be found everywhere and in all An eleven-year-old Streatham free,two years before she was en- titled to receive it. She was in classes of society. I am dismayed schoolboy has perpetrated the fol good health and spirits and very

when I think of the future of man- fowing in an essay on "Clorgy- much devoted to her mother with kind in a world of mechanical pro- men"--

"There are three kinds of clergy- whom she always went out. But gress. What is to become of us she changed when her father died all if life is made still more con-men, bishups, recters, and curuts,

• Every fresh" piracy in which

and became depressed and lost in-venient than it is and we are put the bishups tell the recters to terest in things. The finder of her under less compulsion to use our work, and the curats have to do the notorious Bias Bay gang is

body testified that her legs were minds than our ancestors were? it.

"A curat is a thin married man, concerned serves, to make clear

tied with pink tape and her face A better drama than ours flourish-

in the days when the theatre but whon he is a Fecter" he gets the point that these outlaws enjoy

[was bruised. The body had pes-. sibly been lying in the spot several

thoroughly uncomfortable. fuller and can preach longer ser- the advantages of a highly

days before It was discovered. A n Shapespeare's time, the play-mone and becums a good man." developed organisation, the rami-

Although We

out here, are doctor expressed the opinion that goer had to stand through a long

erformance in a theiire where An Austrian alpinst was arrest- feations of which extend over scarcely in a position to realise it, death was not due to drowning but

nothing to cardiac syncope by shock fol- he was exposed to the elements, for ed at Geneva on December 13 after most of the principal ports be there is taking place

it had no roof. Rushes were tho ing on the wrong side of the tween Shanghai and Singapore, short of a revolution as regarda lowing exhaustion due to immer-"

only comfort for his feel. (Wo-Austro-Italian frontier. He as- were not allowed in that cended the San Candido mountain, Usually, it is along the China era transport in Britain and sion in water.“

Europe. We notice that the

theatre, either on the stage or in the Tyrol, alone, and fell over Coast that the pirates make their Memorandum which the Secretary

the auditorium.) He was made to 30-foot precipice. He was se- appearance, but the case of the of State for Air laid before the

endure much for the drama; and

rely injured, and was taken by Seang Bee, now reported, like that members of the recent Imperial

he got a drama worth having..

talian guides to the hospital at Conference has been published by.

Our theatre is an upholstered. Bozen. As he had no passport, of the Hong Hwa two years ago, H.M. Stationery Office, and that, ..

protected, place. The seats are he was informed that he was indicates that the agents of the in the opinion of a writer in the

Harrison' padded. Al that can be done for under arrest. If he had fallen a Manchester Guardian, it is a docu-

"President Per 5.3. gang are prepared to go as farment of considerable historical from Hongkong on February 1st.

comfort and convenience is few yards further north he would Mr. and

C. Mitchell, Mrs. Mra. E. held as Singapore when there importance. In six years. the mile- F Tomkins, Miss Elsie Tomkins, Mimps. The sourdest argument his visit to Italian territory, was The result is a race of have been free. He declared that

are chances of getting aboard a age covered by aeroplane tran- Miss Hilda Tomkins, Dr. and Mrs. have heard against the booking quite unintentional. ship on which they have reason sport services in Northern Europe G. B. Huntingdon, Dr. J. H. Frank-

has been trebled; the world mile-up,

seats in the pit and gallery is G. Bonney, Miss D. W.

The idealist does not always to presume that there are wealthy

age has risen from .1,170.000 miles Fenson, Miss M. R. McVeign, Miss that playgoers in those parts of

the theatre will become as dull talk into the air The Master of passengers travelling or which is flown in 1919 to 12,180,000 in 1926. M. Mccutcheon, Miss C. M. Bartiet, likely to carry valuable cargo. In 1919 the Handley Page of 700 Miss Alice A. Wilcox, Miss and easily satisfied and ill-man- Balliol

Miners are intelligent, .ten-

and The more luxurious acious,

good-humoured.- All this presupposes the existence horse-power carried a paying load Hemuway, Miss E. 1. Heik, Miss F. nored as the playgoors who sit in

the stalls. Mr. Moise, of 1,2501b, while to-day the Arm- Staubli, Mr. and Mrs. C. of a well-organised secret service strong-Siddeley 1,188-horse-power. Wilkinson, Mr. H. C. Claseen, the theatre becomes, the more Bishop of Durham (Dr. Henson.) Cuyler P. McMahon, Mr. Wintelligent become its habitues. Regimental associations are a which materially assists the pirate

Lythgoe, Mr. Teruchi Ohmlyn, Mr. The least comfortable theatre in national duset of considerable chieftains in their schemes of

S. Funderburk, Mr. T. J. O'Brien, London is the Old Vic. But what value.--General Sir Ivor Manse.

Seymour, Mrs., C. Sey- plunder,

That is one aspect of the Seang Bee piracy which is worthy of mention, but what the pubife will most likely want to know is when effective steps are going to be

three-engined Argosy carried 4,400 of paying load. The milenge figure per fatal accident In British acro-transport. services has risen from 168,000 miles in 1919-20 to over 1,000,000 miles 1919 to 1926. In 1925 over

Misy

PASSENGERS,

DEPARTED.

Lols Withem, Miss J. D. Jones,

Mr.

our done.

mour, Mr. C. R. Love, Mr. M. M. an audience it has, and what plays Axeirood, Mr. and Mrs. John W they habitually see performed! Schauffer, Mr. Jas Ball Schaeffer Miss Mary Ball Schaeffer,

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taken to root out the Bins Bay ship in Britain but the rep Mrs. Yang To Kya Mr. G. Baner- ists assert that an organ which is the Prines to reach the platform.

pirates once and for all. It is nothing short of a scandal that here within a stone's throw of British territory there should exist this pirate stronghold, from which for years past operations have been systematically carried

The Prince of Wales attended a This craving for comfort has dance on December 12th held by Cooper, Prof. A. Langaner, M.LLC., resulted in wireless entertain the North Lambeth branch of the $10,000,000 of bullion, and specic Mr: Buferd Long, Miss M. Cooper, ments. The Mimp need not now British Legion in the Princes Hall, were carried by the cross-Channel Miss B. Cooper, Mrs. J. R. Goodall, trouble to go to the theatre at all. Lambeth Baths. When he arriv-

C, Lewis, Miss E. J. K.

fe can sit at home by his fireside ed it was necessary for the com services. Little is known of the

Ms. Yaung To Kya, Mr. C. Bonar o con loll in bed and listen to mittee to force a passage through commercial possibilities of the air-del, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Vanderallee,

Biolog the crowd of dancers to enable Mrs. G.

G. Bertucci, Master A. Bertucci, broadenst programmes! emphasises the value of further re-

this type of aircraft ci, Mias R. Bertucci, Miss C. Bertucci, not regularly used tends to dis- He danced a number of tiines with search on

Miss T. Galliarde, Mr. and Mrs. G. Sulle, Miss G. S. Salle, Mrs. B. Kyle appear. I sometimes alarm my Miss Lila Huckle, at first doing and on meteorological problems. A record of past achievements, Jackson, Mr. C. Seymour, Master D. self with the frightful thought fox-trot steps, but, finding that present activities, and future pos- Seymour. sibilites, the document provides romance for the layman and valu- able information for the techni clan. Certain it is that if tho pro- ont against Chinese and foreigngress of the development of neriul ships, and that nothing whatever transport proceeds at the rate of the past few years, the time is not long distant when it will outrival Brussola and supercede all other known Amsterdam

Borlin methods.

Copenhagen Vienna Helsingfors Lisbon

EXCHANGE RATES,

Paris

Is done to scatter the band. Just after the Sunning piracy, there were hopes that at long last the Hongkong and Canton authorities would co-operato in an 'expedition Matters against these outlaws.

Clergymen live long in Britain,Rio even went so far that two British

but astronomers are giving them officials went up to Canton to dis- lively race for the laurels. Re-New York

Genove euss the arrangements, but the cent statistics placed the average

Milan authorities there appear to have age for Astronomors Royal at 75

Stockholm 1-2 years. The life span of overy spurned the idea, preferring, as Royal Astronomer from John they said, to do the work them-Flamsteed, the first Astronomer Madrid Sir. William Christic, Athons Kalves, Subsequently, Chinese Royal, to

who died in 1910, was included in Buenos Aires

Shanghai troops were sent to the locality, the figures. Open air life was Yokohama but from what we can gather they given as one reason for their longe Silver (spot) were far more concerned with vity.

Delo

Silver (forward)

that the world will one day be in their steps suited each other, the habited by imbeciles, because Prince launched out into the mechanical invention has render- Charleston.

ed the use of the brain unneces-

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sary. Mankind, completely ga-ga,... Woman at Shoreditch County will sit in the midst of imrnense Court: However disagreeable it

the machines until gradually

London, Jan. 81.

handa and feet, no longer used, may be, I mean to tell the truth. 125,10 disappear, too, and one fine day is presented to them with great 34.88 there will be no more men: the mechanical skill. We sit with 12.143

machines will cease to work, and ear-phones clamped on our heads .20.47

a great Rast will settle down upon while somb indifferent ocator tells 18.21

us about the sox life of the newt. 34.8316 the earth!

102 Stuff and nonsense, you say! I or the habits of soft-shelled crabs, 217/32 am sure I hope so. But will you and marvel one to another about explain to me, if you please, why it because we hear it by mechani- 6.1/10 2014 it is that so much mechanical cal agency. But the same lecture, Ingenuity should be accompanied heard in a hall, would send us 25.2 by so much Intellectual inepti yawning into the street.

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118% tude? If one were to write down But the Mimps are delighted and print the story of the average with their mechanical toys, and 106 moving-picture, it would seem too their lg-saw puzzles. They like 28.07 fatuoua for the simplest mind. to see the wheels go round. But. 304Yet persons, presumably well when they go to a theatre and are 40.15/02 'civilised and educated, will con compelled to use their Intelll

and tentedly alt through reels

gence, they find, 'poor souls, that 2/03/16 educated, will contentedly alt those wheels no longer go round! 27.5/10 through reels and reels because St. John Ervine in Morning Post,

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