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THE HONGKONG

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TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1911.

MOTOR MISHAPS: A NEW ANGLE.

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DAY BY DAY

NOTHING IN SO GALLING TO A PED. nine days out of ten, a notorist

ILE NOT BROKEN IN FROM THE may drive with due consideration BUTH AS A PATERNAL, OR IN OTHER

the WORDS, & MEDDLING GOVERNMENT: of the rights of others: on tenth day, he may dispiny a streak A GOVERNMENT WHICH TELLS THEM

WHAT TO READ AND HAY, AND EAT | of recklessness. The law of AND DRINK AND WEAR-Mucaday. averages being what it is, nothing serious may · occur. But that iz not always the case, so that even these unexpected lapses all add to

The P. and O. 8.8. Rawalpindi fram Hongkong arrived at Lantion on 1st May at 1131).

It is notified by the Harbour Office The sun total of motoring, sneel-that the Cheungehna Eight hus bera

reported to be not intring.

dents.

PITY the POOR LITTLE

RICH GIRL.

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.

to the south of France, which hardly a charitable institution,

If i want to hear the song of the

This young man was not a par- ticularly depraved character. Lon- don is strewn with hundreda like

It is is,

the new type. Well, what can you expect? We live in

enutry which cannot find

ст

AM not such a fool as to agree | "For heaven's sake don't talk so. with the words of the sent-loudly," I said. "That's all right- mental song which states that: she knows it," he answered.

"Then Are

I what about?" The Best Things In Life Free,"

asked, naming another girl lo The man who wrote that lyric whom he was sincerely devoted.

"Oh-we shall go on just the was referring, of course, to such There is. of course, the other

The_silk__forwarded from long-things as sunshine, the song of the same us usual," he replied. "We'll birds, flowers, health, and l The have to be rather more careful, side of the picture-the ispt of kong by, the Empress of Asia on

of the 10th April arrived in New York rest of it, even including love it- that's all. But it won't be difficult.

with our money? pedestrian who is a source

acif. (St. John's Park) and Hoboken on the

I have never found that any of olherist Hanger to himself BO

May, having been 21 days

these things are free. people as well. Hongkook would trummit.

If I want sunshine, I have to go appear to have its fair share of

Yo Kwa-hing, widow of 40n, Bon- these folk. But this very absenceram Road, has reported to the police that her daughter, Leung Mo-tsing. of traße sense amongst so ged 17, han absconded. She left birds, Jave either to get into a ployment for Ita population, of our pedestrians is an additional letters saying that she intended tear or pay some transpor!

considera-commit suicidh. reason why care and Hon for the rights of others should to shown. When we add to this the further fact that they must be few places in the world where the roads are more tortions. The widend 1220* For courtesy in its

becomes all the stronger. | Sense

Speeding in crrowled streeks or un

probably dieul Fouls is

the motorist' amet frequent oflence Hongkong. And much of it is so unNGORAJIN After all, wire

Flowers are pany to conduct me.

not free unless you live in

a cat!:

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Fortune Hunters,

who have

Hull the young men Having returnest from leiskuntat P,

And as for love well, you can't come down from Oxford in recent years were eduenied out of capital. on two previous occasions, a Chinese,

who was deported for Bfe in turn, buy love for many, but you can That capital is shrinking fast. by Their fathers cannot support them, was given twelve months hard labour most certainly destroy it

ní by Mr. Hamilton at the Kowloon poverty. The fact

uffelent they have expensive tastes... The money to buy a railway ticket has rest follows. Police Court this morning.

nipped more romances in the led As the Yaumatt ferry Man Ping than any amount_uf. was crossing the harlour at 1,45 am, luxury which is spoused to be to-day, a Chinese first-class passenger fail to the development of was soon to jump overbound nešu the essuqaalmashin.

npeh WI godowns. A Kow lon muse but he was bed aren again,

*

He received a compound frac one of the dight leg, and concussion.

Sentimental Slush.

repeat, that in no previous the gilded period of this country's history ha

there been streh vast flouting population of fortune-hunters. That is why 1 pity the poor little rich girl.

mar-

There is another reason why the In view of These ideervations, it trade of the fortune-hunter is be- Fung Fun, aged 8 years, who was

that I have coming so nierensingly easy, In may seem strange 111 down by a umelor Bus knocked

chosen the above title, "Pity the the old daya many attractive young Nathan Rond, Mungkok, yesterday. Poor Little Rich Girl Hot men men of weak character. though are not such as Borsy community died in the Kowloon Hospital 1-1

these things because I want to they would have welcomed that ve minuten here or their carlight.

clear the ground of sentimental riage with a rich girl, did not ac-

Jush. really matter

It would be very easy totally seek her out, for the simple

artiel write

that they re in love with The Hongkong Jockey Club adver.

conventional Programmirs

Cabonet the poor little rich girl. You a poor one. lise that Draft

And in those apocryphal times, Estry Forms for the fifth Extra Race now the sort of thing. She would Meeting to be held on Saturday, Mayo shown, pale and listless, sitt har before love could fulfilled, there lith ceremony called 1 16, may le obinited at vannl places, at the head of a long table, sending was Entries close at noon, an Thursday the ortolans nway untasted, be-j “wedding" to be Kone through, May 7.

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She na join the mud dance you may the think, jazz with the rest of crowd, choosing her partners as abc

A Bite of the spirit of sweet reasonableness, and a little tact,

+ cause he had

Lep much which people used to think quite permitted would probably

ravlare.

important. Now, apparently, they Dr. T. Want to lace the 'wo- Last week's return of modifiable Or she would he posed in front don't.

Promiscuity alizmases shows two enses of typhoid of a mirror, bored to death by

ધ fashionable. ple's Convention in Nanking 1.U

(non-fatal), two yo! cerebrospinarving to try on so many clothes, Livenrs is taken for granted. And day with an extraidy givement meningitis (one fatal) and one non- 1 ca

cannot write that sort of stuff. rough it sounds more cynical than in his pocket. It might have been fatal decurrence of paratyphoid fever.because I realise that the poor anything that Noel Coward has Jess than thu desiderabunt.

sounds thever written, though it usually eat much more than rich nowadays. It takes money to worse than Somerset Maugham ot Comeerted men are never, very would have strengthened the band

the morning after the night before, of the Government Immensely and

A wireless message was received by way to get along with, but they offset to a considerable extent the the Water Police this morning from would never be bored by trying on untities of "nice" girls---by which As for clothes-evea Mr. Midas it remains a fact that there are T not usually regarded as 24

of the wa paychological effect of the Canton Copt. Hoymaz, muster

thekarang, which is on her way from clothes. If women tell you cinthes mean that they are kind and to the safety of their ip, the outward sign of

such well mannered and charming-who Tellows. Krently, however, 21 growing dissatisfaction with Nandito, Hongkong, that a Chinese bore them, they are either

painter disappeared overboard when fearful liars or such fearful bores see nothing in the least wrong in

Themselves that their opinions are leading a pagan, passionate exix. prominent criminologist has put king's handling of national affairs, the ship, was in Rins Bay.

Let no value.

enee with young married forward the view that the conceit-Instead, he has to admit failure.

An aftercation between Wong ting. There is, however, a very Unwilling to accept anything less)

dewhose wife is paying the bill.

You may tell me that if society responsalde for

aged 25, a tailor, and Chrung Pook finite reason why 1 pity the poor than complete surrender of extra- Surprisingly large number.

aged 19. apprentice tailor, Inst night little rich girl, and it arises from is so rotten-or, should you wish in erritorial privileges, he has got to the former being admitted to one of the most disturbing pheno but it more kindly, if morals are 40 hintanar aerislenta,

nothing. The breakdown of the the Government Civil Hospital, sulfor

I refer lastic-the little rich girl has Es explained by the statement that negotiations became inevitable ing from stab wounds in the left of modern society.

to the enormous incrcase in mar-nothing to worry about. riages for moitej. the conerited man lacks a normal immediately Dr. Wang made clear armpit, and a lacerated rose regard for the rights of others, his ability to compromise:

Wheti a senfolding collaped at the A New Type. He eats in and out of trade with Miles Lampson went as far with Hunghom works of the tirern Island!

A certain proportion of men, of will. She can bug the man she The Chinese Minister for Foreign | Cement Pumpany yesterday afternoon,)

have alwaY'S married wants, and if he does not turn out amy abandon. He serves quick-lairs as he presibly could, far-right coolies who were working on it, course,

Hell to the ground. First aid was women for their money. It used to be satisfactory she can lake na ily in front of another var without thee porhaps than was quite just rendered and Chun Ying (age 473 to be one of the must useful func many others as she chooses, untti

enringe how his action is likely to find in the eyes of many British and Se Tum (18) wire removed to one of the

the right one comes along. British aristocracy.

us de Wamun's Dignity, affect the other motorist. When residents. Every point which the Kawbon Hospital. Their injuries Sure our aristoepney

generated in recent years from a

That argument does a gross in- Ches, some ca pedestriar ernesing the wa hed to reserve with the excej.are but serious.

merely mercenary condition into a

women's psychology. street as if to macinto the ear, lof one was waived. For stealing a packet of tea from state of almost complete eam, the justice to

Women are not naturally promis added only upon continued consu-

compraciore's delivery coolle's function is, unfortunately, not toots his horn instead of applyin

girl lau jurisdiction for a certain baskets, which hut been loft outside widely oxereised. Tint it is exercis-cuous. Even the poor little

Humphreys Avenue, young ed, more and more, in other direc-who lives like a parasite on some prend in the four cities Ina caused an accidit, his rom which the vast foreign interests Chinese was ordered by Mr. Hamilton tions. I should like to offer a ang rich girl's husband, wants to stick most 201 the Kowloon Magistracy this

to that one man. lave, to gestion ns to the reason. eit tells him that it was all the in China are chiefly centred, names (worning to 'revive twelve strokes of I sat the other night at a party women, is more a matter of as-

man's fault. So he ther

grows v. Shanghai, Hankow.

ad-sociation, of protection, of a thous charged with stealing a pair of shoes talking to a young man who

and delicate in. through life, leaving his own und Canton. The British claim

from a Chinese whilst it was stated multted, quite blatantly, that he was and exquisite

more stormy and the Americans are clone faults uncorrected.

that pawn tickets relating to clothing going to marry a girl whom he did tinuacies, than

not love, merely because she would] passage of passion. from Chinese territory were

pay his debts. line was based upon the obvious stolen

The poor little rich girl doesn't want to live her whole life in con- weed for a period of transition in found on him. these eities, a need which

stantly variegated epochs of "three weeks" duration. She home. And she is usually the last woman in the world to find one.

Besides, there is that question of dignity-the quality which G. K. Chesterton described as vital in women and hateful in men.

the lake. Even worse, avhen hel

Tientsinthe

Dr.

As the authority we are quoting remarks, an appreciation of the rights of others

on the highway Wang refuard to rveognise. There appears, to has a more important is ne prospect of an early resump- | qualification for a motorist that ton of the disenssions;

on the even ordinary intelligence. Pon- eontrary there is a danger that National Government dering on this thought, we

are the

attempt to Recure the brought to a consideration of the Will

"ennction" of the People's whole question of courtesy on the

convention for unilateral road, and to wonder whether that

abrogation of treaty rights. It quality may not be the key to the would be false and silly step, a major part of the whole traffic line of action best left severely problem. Granted that congestion alone. Nothing beyond a menning. becomes certain times

at

and less resolution is possible--unless places, especially in the limited definitely infriendly nets are in- well re- sphere available for motoring on tended-and China mus

an her Hongkong island, almost beyendcognise this fact, as well

fallure to provide the necessary endurance. Granted also that

guarantees of security.

The new there are some accidents that nothreat of civil disturbances has amount of ordinary foresight given force to the Powers' argu would prevent. Does it not still ments in resisting Dr. Wang's seem probable that ordinary un-demauda, and to their refusal to selfishness and care for the rights pretend that the political situation melancholy others would cut our traffic Justined risks. The mishaps down to a comparatively truth is that without having taken a real forward step herself, China insignificant Agure? This point to-day refuses what she would have seems to gain hupport when we Jumped at less than two years ago, think

over the causes of most motor accidents. Speeding, driv

of

In Imposing sentence of fourteen ing on the wrong side of the zond, days hard labour on a Chinese for using too brilliant headlights, receiving a singlet knowing it to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained, driving too fast

on slippery or Mr. Hamilton, after being told that crowded throughfares, cutting-in, the wife, who worked in a knitting defective brakes--are not all these factory had been the actual thief, re- marking that ho acomed to remember things that a little courtesy and similar occasion arising in foresight would provent?

It earlier perfod of history: a case of

the man who got caught. other words, are they not

the

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The defendant was nic

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"Oh, you poor man-wait till I read what happened to you."

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A woman must keep her dignity, even if he keeps it in rags. And it is easier to keep in rags than in crepe de Chine.

For the age-long cry of woman

is to be loved for herself alone. A .. man doesn't mind very much being loved for his brains, or his genius, or even for his vast wealth.

It is

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"For herself alone." Poor little rich girls wonder how many of them are being cheated-at this moment?

The Dying Art of Conversation.

By Sir ROBERT DONALD.

W

TE aro losing the art-ot con- voraation. Social life changes with every generation and the last twenty-five years have been re- volutionary in creating now habita, amenities, pleasures. Science, andy modern conditions have brought (Continued on Page 7.).