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DAY BY DAY HONGKONG: HOMO COES ON

The Empress of Japan arrived at Vancouver yesterday afternoon.

Manila.

WITH ANALYSIS

THE HALCYON HADES

No 2:—THE SINGLE WOMAN.

be

worthy that the exhaust ateam was discharged into the funnel to force devico the furnace drought-a which twenty-five years later, in the hands of George Stephenson, went far to make the locomotive what

THAT, WITH SUPERSTITION, RE- it is to-day. Then, four yeara

LIGION IS AL30 PASSING AWAY, Inter, still several youra before REEMS TO US AN UNGROUNDED FEAIL. How often one hears the remark,; appearing conspicuously prim and RELIGION CANNOT FARB AWAY. THE "The East spoils women-they loas proper she is soon tentatively toy- Stephenson's first locomotivé,

BURNING OF A LITTLE STRAW MAY their heads out here.”

Ing with cocktail and elgarotto. Trovithick constructed a circular

HIDE THE STARS OF THE SKY; BUT. Many of them, after a year or At home, apart from beauty cul- railway in London, near Euston THE STARS ARE THERE~Cariyle.

so in Hongkong certainly appear turo ritual and the necessary at- Square, on which the public were

to merit spoilation or decapitation tention to dress. innovations she carried at a speed of about twelve,

but ns heredity and post-natal on- finds nothing whatever with which.. vironment are held to to fifteen miles an hour. Ifore, in

res to occupy her leisure and an even- brief, we have the career of this

ponsible for all human dellbiltiesing spent alone, while others are The Empress of Canada, which and fallibilities wo may perhaps out hitting the so-called high spots, noted Inventor so far an steam lo

left Shanghai at noon to-day, is due achieve more in the direction of re-appears before long to assume the comotion is concerned. But Trevi-hero at 7 a.m. on Friday, and will sail form by seeking to eliminato ex-proportions of a social catastrophe. thick was also deeply interested in the samo evoring, at 6 p.m., for onerating causes than by premature An inexplicable craving for action |and, excitement has begun to per- mining engineering and his name

censure and castigation. is closely associated with important

Life out East is notoriously easy meate her ego, ale drifts into more Apparently having committed vul- for the weaker sex and the Devil risque association, dresses more developments in this connexion. Indeed, his fame spread for out-side, the body of a Chinese, about 45 still finds mischief for idle hands, and more daringly, memorizes

years of age, was found hanging on Our ethical standards Call

married women's drawingroom side England, for he eventually the south face of the Beacon Hill short of those obtaining at Home.atories with a view to repetition and finally congratulates herself wont to Peru and Costa Rica, where Tunnel yesterday afternoon and. re-

In their fatuous devotion to he was engaged in the construction

mundane pleasure people out here! upon having attained the zenith of of mining engines, returning to

A meeting will be held of the H.K, lose all touch with the higher ofophistication and broadminded-

Life's interests-religion, the Old Country in 1827.

Practical Psychology Club at Lane It is oftentimes the lot of genius Crawford's restaurant at 6 p.m. on science, politics and evolution gen- PUTS HER TONGUE OUT AT ·

- Whatever. serious reflections never to be recognised, and so, in Friday, the 27th. instant, when the crally-they have nothing to talk

speaker will be Rev. Fr. G. Byrne, about but local social developments, un the case of Trevithick, it has to be S. J. His subject will be "Why Living and drinking to excess; gambling upon life she had been in the habit of entertaining previous to her written that in 1828 he petitioned Philosophies Diu."

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actually encouraged by the Colony's Arrival have been definitely obli- Parliament for a reward for his

terated by more, engrossing con- In connexion with Dr. Li Shu-fan's benignant altitude towards anyone aiderations; she now lives exclu- M°

ORE in beauty, performance, inventions, but without

tone and value. Impar-1 Five years later, he died penniless recent election as a member of the who gives provocation for scandal.sively in the present and when, if Sanitary Board, it is understood that Then, of course; the abnormally low ever, the question of a possible tant production economies-plus! in Dartford. Such is the record of the Chinese General Chamber of Com-proportion of women to men lenda future crosses her mind she either meres has invited him to join the itself to a fictitious enhancement of visualises one endless round of new Sparton inventions that stii this pioneer of engineering, a man

Honorary Executive Committee, and further enrich Radio's Richest to whom the world owes more than that the invitation has been accepted. the former's social valuation and pleasures or puts her tongue out

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 25 1923,

THE INVENTOR OF

THE LOCOMOTIVE

It is no

BLICCCAS.

has

moved to the publlo mortuary.

far

art. ness.

TIME.

How time is slipping underneath

our feet

Unborn to-morrow nigt dead yes-

terday,

Why fret about them if to-day be

sweet?"

Beendse he had not had a con- taken long years for his contribu- tion to be recognised, and even to-viction during the four years that he

had been a hawker, Mr. Wynne Jones, CREATURE OF IMPULSE. at the Central Police Court this Woman, however, is undoubtedly day there is need to state the facts.

disparagment of the morning, said that a Chinese who was a creature of impulse and opper- imits of the market with a remarkable night, a sort of blind optimism in charged with hawking within the tunity and an innate lack of fore- man. The defendant was cautioned. times of prosperity, very often sweeps her like a heimless boat into

Among her male nasocintes Irreparable disaster.

occasionally appears one who takes The modern unmarried girl dis- both her and, himself seriously. embarks at Hongkong bubbling over He becomes rather too persistent with joyful anticipation of the in his attentions, seeks to draw her thrilling social adventures that away from the more hazardous of she has been tok the East her companionships and is at last · w hold in store for every mo- peremptorily excommuniented

attempting to monopolize and bore

magnificent work of Stephenson, who built on the foundations laid by Trevithick, to recall the bure facts,

order. in chronological Stephenson greatly improved and developed the work of the man who went before him, but the initial | credit belongs to this little-known

Cornishman.

EMPIRE FAIR SUCCESS

HUGE

CROWDS

*

PRESENT YESTERDAY derately attractive woman.

The

AIR CLAS of

From

tennis

for

domination gives place to an over- whelming craving to be wholly possessed by ber new-found

She has left schoolfriends be her to death with his assiduity. hind who for the next year or twoLove in the concentrated, story- America's Politics.

Hongkong's are destined to learn with yearning book form has become an abnorma- There is a curious parallel be- first Empire Products Fair sur- and envy of her exciting butterfly lity to her. As a species of mental tween the political conditimus in the passed all expectations. Yester-excapes, the marvels of her ward-stimulation to be played with when day, there was a constant stream robe, the splendour of Eastern and where nothing of a more United States today and those that of vistors to the Peninsula Hotel, social functions and, R pre-absorbing nature is in view, the created Popullim in 1992 and led it being estimated that fully 16,-ordained culmination, the magni- tender passion has its place in her up to the Bryan ascendancy in the 000 people attended,

aficence of her wedding prepara-universe, but for any man to sug- the Fair tions. Ship-board conquests have gest that she should for one mo- Democratic Party. Then, as now, business standpoint, There was widesprent economic disproved of the greatest utility in already provided a superabun- ment consider focussing her life's fostering Empire trade, several dance of exhilarating correspon-interests in his direction appeara tress in the country. The Republi- large orders being booked. dence material but the future is the apogee of absurdity, can Party was torn by revolt. The

One of the stalls which attract-pregnant with Infinitely bigger CUPID'S DEPREDATIONS.

So the more stable of her male system

bankinged much attention on both days possibilities. nucl monetary methods were the targets of the of the Fair was that of the Dun- Conditions at her hotel coincide acquaintances imperceptibly drop preconceived out of her life and she continues radicals. To-day France and the lop Rubber Co. where not only wonderfully with United States are the suppliers of were this firm's famous tyres and ideas and the male attention she on her mad joyride till one fine in 1896, the inner tubes on display, but also attracts on first tripping into the morning she wakes to the astound- that inveterate the gold standard;

tennis racquets,

balls, dining-room augurs woll for timesing revelation whole world was behind goid and sand-shoes, etc.

ahead. She has little difficulty in scepticism is no guarantee of im- Tho mon fallmunity from Cupid's depredations, the plea was that the United States

In regard to the cigarette dis-making friends. should take up silver

"without playa, it should he made clear over each other in the generalHer whole outlook on life under- and goes immediate metamorphosis and awaiting the action of any nation that the De Reszke, Abdulla, Gold stampede for introductione

But there is not ap-Flake, Army Club, Prince Charm-dates, and even the women appear former resentment against male en, earth,"

were quite effusive in their welcome. ing and Via Bania brands parent as yet any such organised exhibited by Messrs, J. D. Hut- NOTABILITIES ON THE

DISSECTING table. revolt of the radical elements in chinson and Co.. on behalf of

The first bridge party proves a Adonis. either party as appeared in those Messrs. Godfrey. Phillips, Ltd. rather bering affair, the notabili- For a time love's horizon is free days. The Peoples Party elected London.

ties deposited upon the dissecting of nimbus, the luminary is obvious- On Monday afternoon an in-table being as yet unknown quan-ly not at all averse to her absorp- senators and representatives. Tho silver forces organised so resolute-teresting booklet "Spirit of Ad-titien to her, but the intimately tion and initial mancouvres In ly that they captured. the Demo-venture" was presented to mempersonal nature of the Incessant commandeering his undivided acti- eratie Party, and forced a bolt in or of the official party through tittle-tattle-its malicious innuen-vity meet with gratifying success. the courtesy of Major B. Barrett, do, venturosome vindictive pro-Strategically she gradually wanna If a schoolboy, or, for the matter the Republican convention, headed Far Eastern representatives of phesy and unscrúpulous defama-him from his gregarious nocturnal which for a Morris Motors, Ltd. On the flon-affords ample corroborative habits and gives him a glimpse of of that, the average adult, were by Senator Teller, asked who was the inventor of the moment seemed to put the life of cover was an artistic design of testimony to the notorious teme- the more enchanting possibilities The Im-rity, intricacy and fascinating de-jof evenings alone with her out under the palms beneath the beni- locomotive, he would no doubt that party in jeopardy. At the the Segrave Trophy. promptly reply that the credit be-critical moment there appeared in perial significance of this trophy pravity of life out in the Orient.

Before a week has elapsed she gnant glow of a soul-searching is clearly emphasised. The book- longs to George Stephenson. But Bryan a leader who had youth, let contains several illustrations is invited by numerous boy-friends moon where futile ball-room chat- oratorical of Britons who have displayed to tea and dinner dances, beach ter is superseded by Intoxicating he would be wrong, none the less. fervour, unparalleled The trath was stated a few days ability, and a passionate devotion courage, initiative and skill in aand launch picnics, tennis parties harmony-inspiring intimacies.

and yachting cruises and to avoid THE IRONY OF IT.

Eurapped in a new, born es ago in a British wireless message to his cause. Whatever he may spirit of adventure.

abe looks back and wonder to the effect that Prince George, on have become in his later days, in

she could ever have tolera A visit to Cornwall, had unveiled a 1896 Bryan was an ideal leader of

inane, sensation-seeking with which sho has memorial to Richard Trevithick, forlorn hope. The possibility of

been associated s "the inventor of the steam locomo- a repetition of the days of '95 seems

time since chi tive, which, in 1801, carried the slight to-day. The issuca

bedelde in b first load of passengers." 'It is hand, and perhaps the public un- possible, in view of the fact that rest might easily be atirred into a Stephenson is usually referred to political uprising. But nowhere is in school text-books as the inven- there indication of any organisa- tor of the locomotive, tint most tion to that end. It took fully six people have never even heard of yehrs of propaganda to produce the Trevithick, but the fnet remains Chicago convention of 1896. that we owe to him the high pres-popular lender is in Sure engine, and that it was this Bryan to smush Cornish genius who was the first to machine, nor any Roosevelt to split use a stemn-driven engine to carry the Republican Party. Wherefore the validity of the McAddo vision passengers by rail.

are at

No sight-no the Democratic

Remembering that Stephenson's of revolt may be questioned. Prob- Arst locomotive was built in 1814, ably the economic structure of the effectively and that it was not until 1829 that country can be more

un-

he constructed the "Rocket," it is repaired by those who can use the worth reeling that en Christmas tools at hand than by an entirely Evo, 1801, Trovithick's rond loco- new crew of untested and motive carried the first lond of equipped innovatora. passengers over conveyed by steam, and that in the following year he

Shortly before nine o'clock this applied for a patent for steam morning, four men, armed with two unginca propelling carriages.revolvers and two daggers, gained ad- Following up his activities, we find mission to the ground floor of 23, that in 1808, another atcam vehicle Main Street, Shaukiwan, and stolo a quantity of money and Jewellery, the which Trevithick made was run in value of which has not yet boon äscor- the streets of London, from Oxford talnod. Streat to Paddington, the return

At the ceremony at Queen Victoria's journey being made vin Islington statue yesterday, the basket of roses Then, in 1804, ho built a locomotive was laid by kirs. 8. W. Crossey (not In the modern sonse, which he ran Mr. H. T. Creasy, as stated) and the on what had formerly been a horse senior Bea Scout. Mrs. T. II. King was present in charge of the Gri tramway in Wales, and it is note Guidar.

"Maybe you could reason with him, Lady. Y'know, there's people waitin' for this coal,"

her maker discover happines

Then life takes admirer fidently as the erotic a the trail of conquests, hind her at Anda satiatio sition and er

to rejoin the

Heartbroke she seeks th room but that and back she anaesthetic vort fication,

Sho dopths, the hop forget dulls t

|pect and she defea com

the same equanimity as she flouts her own conscience."

Sanity returns at last, the futility of it all becomes self- evident and she leaves for Homo- unhonoured and unloved.

She prayed for what the world

could give

And the world claimed. recom-

pense.

"She prayed for love-and but

the scars remain."

"At the last she prayed for a

contented mind,

And would God that prayer had

beon the first."