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I AM DRAWN BY CONVICTION LIKE A MAN, NOT BY A HALTER LIKE

Ten Chinese stowaways on the 8.8, Tiisondari from Java were sentenced to one month's hard labour each by Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy this morning.

WHAT NO WOMAN CAN

EVER EXPLAIN.

By L. C. MOORE.

TOMEN are generally very swindled, simply because when he

at explaining things

Mr. A. Hutton Potts, of 11igh flouse, Oh, really Ingenions. Ask one why that anyone can see, or (b) that Mount Davis Road, has reported to she missed a train, for example, if he's going to be mean, elé.. the police that between 7 pm on and she will say that the silly train Tuesday, and 6 2.10. yesterday some left punctually. Moreover, she will Perhaps 'They Don't Know. person stole from his chicken house

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Aince I started to run, and that things the ordinary man would like therefore it was sheer bad luck on to know, but that his wife cannot

bined with the conviction that nothing must disturb his own grow AN ASS.-Burns, ing power and supremacy in the councils of the nation. He repre- sents an association of absolutist and democratic idens which has from time to time cropped up in the history of politics. In English history we have something similar in the Tudor dynasty. The Tudors were, however, extraordinarily popular, and had a flair for the out- look of the Englishman of the perlod. We have on a previous 00- casion pointed out a similarity in the case of the Stadtholders of the House of Orange in Holland. doubtedly Chiang Kal-shek has shown considerable ability to in- terpret the people's weariness of the more doctrinaire politicians of the Kuomintang. His present policy has been contrasted, by, an eminent English weekly, with that of the orthodox Kuomintang, as liberal in outlook. He is credited,

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CHIANG AND HIS POLICIES.

man-

A Japanese and a Chinese were her, it being up to time to-day, explain. Why, for instance, must involved in a light in Johnston Road, There are some things, however, she turn a whole lot of curtain anchal, inst night and as an patcome that women simply cannot explain, material into cushion covers just of the affair the Japanese, Hieno and one of them la how they knit. because The Laurels happen to put Un-Haseda, received a stab wound in his I've naked dozens of women rethat sort of curtain

side. The Chinese disappeared and iniatives to show me how it's done, windows?

into their now being searched for by the police and they just cannot. When I see llow on earth does she manage a woman knitting, reading and to knock a nail into a brick wall

marry us?

Mr. R. Imura. second engineer of carrying on a conversation at the with the back of his hair-brush7 the a, Sungshan Mara, has made a same time I riarvel at the way her How does she find out the birth- report to the police that while the fingers fly, apparently uncontrolled days of all his relatives, including vessel was lying by the B21 buoy In fact, I'm beginning to suspect those several times removed, and Moine person entered his

cabin they actually are uncontrolled, for how does through" the porthole during hin

she remember those she dates? no woman can explain what absence yesterday afternoon and stole does with them to make the rock $70 la money.

And Anally am speaking now grow. Ask me to do the nove on behalf of all the husbands of A report has been made to the ments in slow motion, nai en son the country-won't you, wives, as against air. In Han-min, with police of the loss of an S. & was she starts to do the job conscious- plenae explain what made you

revolver and $10

in Shanghai or she gets tied up herself, a polley which will provide the peo-Central Bank China notes, which

That is a question every husband Just a Natural Gft. ply with a Constitution and with were stolen from the enbin of the

Asks at some time or other, and second engineer of the s., Sungshan B of Rights instead of the Marn whilst the vennel was lying like managing men, is

My conviction is that knitting, once he has started asking he keeps a natural on. Yet it is a question no wife autoerney of the Party. We think Buay B21 yesterday afternoon.

gift with women, and they really ever answers. Why she shouldn't. that something can be said for this

do not know how they do it. A do, goodness alone knows. Resented from the harbour off the conviction which is strengthened by view, if it be tempered with the Prayn East Reclamation a married the fact that I have never yet been why you

Wives, won't you try to explain married us? You've no consideration that, like other woman, Li Chan, aged 28, living at given i comprehensible transia-Iden how miserable it makes us to

243, Hennessy Road, was removed popular absolutists, Marshal Chiang the Government Civil Hospital Yatortion, or decoding, of K4P2K2top-think that you don't know your intends to hold the reins hituself, day suffering from the effects of the F.O.B., or whatever it is they say selves! and probably aims at the permanent water in an attempt to commit suicide.in

Immersion. She had jumped into the in those books under the cushions the dining-roont. When a contrul of the National Government,

woman rends K4tog her Much misunderstanding would be A fine of $0,760, or, in default, six action is purely automatic.

move in a certain way, but the cleared away if he frankly announc- manths' hard labour, was imposed by

Mr. Hansition. ed that the present scheme of morning, on Wan Yu-yip, who ad-not explain satisfactorily is why PUZZLE. Provisional Constitution found no mitted possession of 635 s. of trouble here is that a man really af they powder their полен. The Chinese tobacco on board a fishing) place in the actual programme of junk in the harbour. A second man can't ask, in the normal way, be

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wen! en. anyway. I've tried hard to find Nothing better confirms out the reason, but all that happens opinion than the changed outlook is that I'm told not to be silly. towards diet during the last few The following table. Issued by Perhaps there isn't a reason. the Kwangtung River Conservancy There certainly seems to be no Twenty years or so Commission, shows in English fect explanation of the

ngo, the grent hat ideal existence for all had in the the water levels on the West River, mystery, which puzzles all hus-foreground three to four square North River and East River on the bands. What the difference be-meals a day. Provided the food dates named:

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May and another costing 28. 11d..was nothing more to be said. 19. 20. please? Women really ought to Hearty eating and good health Went River at Shiubing -

get together and discover a good went hand in hand. And no man North River at Tsingyuen 7.8 10.3 explanation let them invent it, if would have started a temperature North River at Samshvi 7.1 9.2

[necessary. The average man because he was told that his diet East River at Sheklung 7.2 6.4 doesn't mind giving his wife five lacket one or other of the lesser

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#hat, if his bank vitamins. Shlubing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, manager is an understanding sort -To-day-we have changed all If Puritanism in England is 29.2 feet; Sumshul. 27.3 feet: of fellow, but he does hate to think that. We have realised the out- diplomacy he has, as in the ease dying, it is dying very hard.

Sheklung, 11.5 feet. AL

that £0 2s. 6d. goes to overheads standing importance of diet, and The lowest levels on record are and profit. of his relations with the Russian | least, public feeling has

devote more time to its study than not minus 5 feet at Samshui and] His wife ought to be able to we do to that of the brain. No shown himself sapable of ruthlessly changed to such an exist is to mlaus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.

say, "My dear, the straw from longer do we consider it trifling dingfag aside those who have servendone the legalisation of lot-

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internal bodily ailments had their origin in the diet. Nobody then, or until recently, took him serious- ly, but the last laugh is with the old Greek to-day. For the modern musical scientists have largely stolen his thunder. A score of troubles, it is claimed, can now be cured by judicious dieting.

More wonderful still, however, are the other powers that are now attributed to food.

For a long time, of course, we have accepted the theory that the activities of the brain can be stimulated by the right kind of food.

ed his purpose and are then an obteries, judging by the emphatic stacle to further advance. He has refusal of the House of Commons this means and by way of return way to make it soft and pliant so show in words an enthusiast for in consider a Bill authorising Bri-sliced off a considerable portion of that it doesn't harm the head. But gambits as "Does celery steady tish Hospital Sweeps on the lines the income tax, not only would he in those cheap Hats ordinary com- your nerves?" or "la caviare good the cause of the Kuomintang. but, of the Irish adventure. There is, get an enormous

mon straw is used, and if I wore for chilblains?" are to be heard revenut volun-one it might give me all sorts of at the tables of the most austere, so far as we can ascertain, he has of course, another aspect of thetarily offered, but he would find thinge."

And before any dietitian, self- never been able to carry over the matter. Only 239 members in ahimself immensely popular. Who if she could say that, the man, elected or not, who has some new sense of conviction and devotion to House of 615 recorded their votes ther he would survive the shock to bless him, would believe her, and theory to propound, 'we the cause which either the Foun on an issue of considerable pub-his orthodoxy complex is, however, feel glad he could protect his wife bow.

from such awful riska. As it is, Hippocrates, I believe, Inld it der, or men like his present optic interest. Only 68 of them quite another matter,

however, he feels he is being down in the dim long ago that all |ponent, Mr. Ha Han-min, or others went into the Lobby favouring the such as the leftist Mr. Wang Ching-that opponents of lotteries are ex- proposal. The figures suggest wei, or solid mea like Dr. Chung-tremely well organised and are bui, and the old philosopher Wable to bring powerfal pressure to Tze-pai, clearly have.

bear, rather than that the 3-1 There are times when the vigour majority represented the general and courage of Marshal Chiang's opinion of the House. Members speeches have won a general assent of Parliament living in terror of and admiration, as when he deter-

affending strong minorities of their mined to bring the students to heel, from the House rather than to re- constituents, elected, to stay away put down public demonstrations or cord their personal opinion one way summoned the officials to a cleaner or the other. If these inferences and more disinterested administra-are incorrect, the vote of the House tion. It is, however, noteworthy is not so surprising as at first sight that his public utterances are ap it seema, We dare suggest that parently all in this vein. They are the persons in Great Britain who less a call to the ideals of the causestake ticket as a perfectly legiti- regard the purchase of a sweep- than peremptory commands from mate form of speculation, far out- one in authority. They do not number those still infected with kindle enthusiasm, although they the dogms that the pleasure and have inct a need, and have been thrill of a pure gamble, like the en- thankfully received by those wearyjoyment to be derived from the of the more frothy-side of revolu- Sunday cinemo, is a mortal sin.. tion. In the end, however, neither Yet the evidence of the Commons to foreign nor to Chinese minds minority group is strong enough to doen Marshal Chiang kindle feel block the way to the revival-for Ings of enthusiasm or devotion: and that is what it amounts to-of an the question arises whether

now 18th

and 19th century prae- that by the impoverishment of the tice. Year after year, up to 1820, treasury, and his conviction that lotteries were not only permitted in the country must have rest from England, but actually, organised by the Government for the purpose of war, he has to turn to milder andalating the National, Exchequer, Jess subtle methods, he can retain If Mr. Snowden ventured as at- This position.'

tompt to balance his Budget by

vote would seem, to show that the

"First Barber

"Bert, can I borrow one of your razors 1",

At the moment, unhappily, scientists cannot formulate exact laws on the subject, but in the long run they are bound to do so. Thus, in the not remote future, a lady may prepare for an important. bridge tournament by enjoying, say, a truss of watercress and a piece of Camembert or a Chance)-" lor of the Exchequer munch a low man-size carrots preparatory to his Budget statement.

Then, again, an American scien- tist declared last year ́that criminal traits are largely the re- sult of Improper food. If this bo |true it would be worth while in- quiring into the menu on, which. Scarface Al Capone keeps up his health and strength.

Also, the theory possesses a dis-- Įturbing element for oven so timid

and law-abiding a citizen as my-" self. Suppose that some day, in ignorance, I were to tackle sothe *** nofarious combinations of foods, and, as a result, found mysel saddfod. with a yearning for cafu

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