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DAY BY DAY

PRODIGALITY

United States to ignore. One writer, In putting forward this Idea before the Lausanne ngree- ment was actually reached, expres- sed the belief that, as a matter of | bualness, America would not dis- regard such a suggestion, which would amount to a joint atutement AGONIEE-Confucius. by America's European creditors, or the bulk of them, that they were approaching bankruptcy. In this connexion, it is pointed out internally, America has long known that the old system of putting the debtor in gaul is folly: the alter- native of restarting him in busi- ness is. obviously the more paying proposition. So it will be cognised that the debtor's gaul iden is even alllier when applied to in- ternational payments.

THE INJURY OF LEAIN TO THIS THAT HE THAT WILL NOT ECONOMISE WILL HAVE TO

that,

re-

110 изе

Can-

IN

THE MATRIMONIAL TRIANGLE

By "AN OLD STAGER"

Stevenson exclaims

sensitive

on

affront

one of his most enchanting | malo consort did not observo any- romances Robert Loufe thing to arouse his auspicions. the But a day came when the true impertinence of treating chiropody character of the interloper could The Sanitary Board

again draws with a leer. Most people must no longer be overlooked. Away the attention of the publle to tho feel a similar

How Mr. Stork, and returned pre- possibility of contracting cholera from where anyone attempts to treat Heatly with a whole fleck of other enting uncooked vegetables 2nd

with levity the subject of storks; round the rooftop where Mrs. After circling Truits.

Not that I suggest any intimate Stork was still watching over her connexion between chiropody and mixed broad, the storks suddenly a starke, beyond perhaps the fact awooped on the seemingly guilly

that, if those venerable birde auf- Mrs, Stock and

male storks.

terday morning, a young amah e-fer from corns, they must be atroyed her. ruthlessly des

Hospital for treatment.

She was

In attempting to alight from moving tramcar in Canal Read yes

ed injuries in her hend ployed at 3, Yick Wan Road sustain-

torturingly long way off. It would inter taken to the Government vil be a close parallel to a giraffe be- So much for stork justice, and

ing afflicted with larygitis.

sense of matrimonial proprieties. The fact that the assassinated From my earliest youth I have lady was innocent, a small Tur- Owing to Insufficient evidence a entertained a profound repec for kish urchin having stolen one of Japanese woman Ikeda Tanaka, of 9, the stork. It is, I think, the most her eggs and replaced it by a Lee Yuen Street, was acquitted by Impressive, wiso-looking of all turkey's egg, does not affect the Mr. Wynne-Jones at tho Central birds. One admits a certain de- question. Police this morning on a charge of keeping an illegal house. Two Chi-roc of rival intellectuality in the nese accused of soliciting were also of pelicans, and also owls,. acquitted.

However tragic the miscarriage but the pelican's air of venerable of justice, there is no mistaking experience has in it à slight touch the stern, unbending morality of Carelessness on the part of a fold the owl's uncanny look of inhuman is entirely Early Victorian, and of the senility of Polonius, and the stork outlook on wifely duty and maternal responsibility. It who was sleeping on the premises re-sagacity is largely due, like that such one might expect even from sulted in a small fire occurring at of some academic pedants, to Peel Street Inst night. The

wool and

man

1

n

a casual study of the storks' ap- threw a lighted cigarette end on higher power of silence. He looks quantity of cotton

hair as though he knew all about the may condemn the wrong person, pearance and deportment. They stored on the premises. This became Einstein theory of comparative but, as becomes birds who have ignited and the partition of a cubicle relativity. But does he? I sus-long been famed as the natural caught fire. The outbreak was expect the owl of being a vulgar im- enemy of the snake, whether in Linguished by the police with water

Jackets before arrival of the Brigade.Postor. His intellectual inscruta- the grass or out of it, someone The premises are Insured for $4,500 bility is three parts insomnia. with the Sincere Insurance Co.

lins to pay the extreme penalty But the stork is different. There appears in the atork heredity. No when anything like a bar sinister is nothing vulgar about the stork. turkeys need apply. The ethics There is breeding in every line of of Los Angeles are not tolerated HOOVER STEWARD. His attitude in гезне is in the stork community.

ROBBED

PICKPOCKET GETS TWO YEARS

•

perfect philosophy. His legs are

la long-drawn embodification of pure partrician descent. I incline

Jeddart Justice.

from

the has

So far, the chief reaction from America to the Lausanne settle- ment is the statement that the United States is willing to fulfil her promise of considering the War debt issue. The point of impor tance, however, is how this "con- sideration" is to be interpreted in actual practice. It is blinking the facts that there is a large gestion of American opinion unfieyourvely disposed towards an; remdjustment of these war dents. On the other hand, many of the country's biggest political and i tellectual figures, have declared that the only way in which to clear up

he world mess la all-round cellation. At the moment, it is difficult to say which view prepon-

to a belief that it was contempla-enough to cust satirical doubts on Some sceptics have been rude. derates and which is likely to in

tion of the stork that gave Some this touching drama highly imaginative and gifted rooftop of Asia Minor. It fluence official action. But

tailor the first glimmering inspira-been hinted, by ripe scholars. Lausanne has at least made this The unusual procedure of two Moreover, a stork's eye is complete is a hardy annual, and dates back tion of the subtle utility of spats. that the tale of the jealous stork mach clear-that Europe has taken | Magistrates sitting together the first step towards resolving the in the case of Leung Sai, describ-simultaneous cold aplomb. It is

try a larceny charge was adopted over you, and through you

Vere de Vere. He gazes at you, to carly Greek literature. world crisis. It is surely now fored as a habitual pickpocket, who impossible to imagine a stork be- moral truth? If storks have been Does that invalidate it as FL appeared before Mr. Schofield and i Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Centraling really embarrassed. Hla de- heroes and victima of tales of Police Court this morning, charged meanour is infallibly correct. No matrimonial jealousy from time with stealing a founten pen from Cabinet Minister or Governor of fact establish a strong prima facie

immemorial, does not that Mr. George Malcolm, steward of the Bank of England possesses a

case for their veracity? Even absolute and impecable respecta- Dan Sub-Inspector Russell

Chaucer nccepted the jen)- that Mr. Malcolm was walking in

stated bility.

ouay of stork husbands as a re- cognised fact.. He refers to "The the nations represented AL the

Queen's Road in the vicinity of the Queen's

Sturk, the wreker of avouterie," Theatre yesterday Disarmament Conference al

afternoon,

This is doubticas when

which means simply, in more mo- problems Geneva. The

which

snatched the pen from the breast a sacred bird. And also why, in

defendant Swedish legend makes the storkern phraseology, "the avenger of

adultery". these two gatherings have had to

pocket of Mr. Malcolm's jacket, consider may be said to be closely

passerby, a tailor of Wellington cheur-in-chief. But even in anti- and current folk lore in He was seized in the net by

our own country, the stork is given the apochryphal role

A reputation that was well ac- of accou-knowledged in Ancient Athens, inter-related. Indeed, the United

Street, named Tsang Tong. it over really had “a local habita-

que and classic times the stork England, seems to be beyond cavil States has made it perfectly clear

tion". or was merely an insub-sell, had five previous convictions, cellence.

Defendant, said Inspector Rus was accorded a peculiar moral ex-in 1932. Nor is the tale of the that America so regards the issues.stantial pageant" of the fancy may three of which were in respecteiconaria, was a Roman law which story that has been traced back Stork's law, or lex jealous stork the only famous The American argument has been be finally settled at some future of farcenies from the person, and obliged children to maintain par-from modern times to very olden

police supervision. He was still the stork." under police supervision when

of "The Jumping Frog" is an American classic. to Mark Twain himself, it existed But according unknown to him in very authentle B.C. Greek literature.

TUESDAY, JULY 12, 1982,

AFTER LAUSANNE

With Lausanne out of the WAY

for the time being, public attention

will now turn to the prospects of an acced policy being devised by

America to make a real response.

Legends-Exploded or Otherwise Earth has not yet yigkled up all her secrets. It cannot, for example, by staled beyond all doubt that Atlantis, the continent which Plato said used to exist in the middle of the Atlantic. is en- tirely a figment of man's imagina tion, though all the probabilities point to its being

Whether

80.

The President Hoover.

better

stance. IIc

with

expresses:

Stork's Law.

why

the

very

Early

that the nations of Europe can at Meanwhile H.M.S. Chal-hal been placed twice under cats in old age "in imitation of ones indeed. Mark Twain's story

nside.

·

hardly expect a remission of their | lenger's recently undertaken ex- war debts while they are spending pedition north of the Azores to

seek for shallow belt of watered. He had regularly

the present offence was committ- It will be seen, therefore, that hundreds of millions of pounds an-

reported the stork is indeed an exemplary in the midst of a uniformly deep himself.

bird, the model of domestic virtue nually un armaments. Why, it is

depression, near the spot where insked, should the

In answer to Mr. Wynne-Jones, and family devotion, a feathered United States

¡Atlantis traditionally sank the officer said that police super. Cynosure of all the civic duties. For my part I implicity accept maite it easier for the European beneath the waves, recalls other vision did not seem to have much

the jealous stork anecdote. To What really set me gossiping me it rings true. There is some- countries to equip themselves with legends of antiquity concerning effect on the man.

about storks, however, was a re-thing about storks that firmly more guns, tanks and battleships. fabulous or semi-fabulous things The tatilor responsible for the cent tribute to their ethical up-suggests draconian moral codes. This, it has been suggested, would and places, which even now have arrest was complimented by Me.ift. An accredited

correspon-And, a characteristic that la most a possibility of factual basis Schodeid, who observed that it dent of The Times in the Middle frequently found in exponents of amount to Europe asking the Am-

was a very smart arrest and that East has sent his journal a most deddart justice, the stork palpably lingering about them. Reluctant- erican taxpayer to pay for the

remarkable story about storka. lacks a sense ly, one has to give up the unicorn. he deserved every credit for it.

of humour. Оле next war, as well as the last. The Even Mr. Odell Shepard, who has worship said:Apparently prison Minor, so the eminently serious situation as dream of telling.n Addressing the defendant, his In a certain village of Asia being susceptible to a humorous would as soon think of a stork submission is not to be lightly cast written a must learned and fasterms and police supervision are narrative goes, a lady stork was amekeroom story to the late Mr.

cinating book about him, can re- of no use to you. You will go to sitting on eggs in her nest. Britain has now made a response yard the unicorn only in a mood gaol for two years, with hard of these eggs hatched out as an tally bore a marked resemblance One Samuel Smith, M.P., who inciden- of affectionate incredulity. One labour. to the Hoover disarmament pro-

infant turkey. At first the lady's to an elderly stork. constantly comes across evidence posala, and it remains to be seen

of our ancestors' belief in him. nations how far the other

will As inte as 1780 a unicorn's horn follow suit. It is essential, how- was used to test the ingredients ever, that some definite move be in the food of the kings of France. taken so that Europe can be in the Ile is a supporter of the royal position of placing a definité busi-arms of England and Scotland. He figures ou the front page of ness proposition before the United every issue of The Times, perhaps States. For all too long has this an even more exalted position. disarmament business been in the fut even so, no one has ever seen hands of the so-called experts, whoa unicorn. And it is at least have been cracking some uncon-reasonable to suppose that, in the

more than 2,000 scious jokes about whether 11

years during which accounts of the unicorn would

twelve-inch gun is offensive or de-ave been extant, someone fensive. The popular answer is at some time have seen one some- said to be that this all depends at where, if he existed at all. It is which end of the gun you happen the same with the phoenix; but to be. It is high time la come hurdly with the sea serpent. This down to the practicalities of the stand-by of the correspondence situation and to leave off quibbling columns of the penny papers in on points like these. The success the summer months may turn out moment. of the Lausanne Conference makes to be authentic at any

Most of the sen serpents that 1. all the more necessary that

haye been seen hitherto have in- sensible agreement be reached at deed disappointingly changed into Lausanne. If this were

Tines of porpoises, a light of sea plished, the problem of war debts | fowl, or even masses of seaweed, would be immensely simplified, be-on closer inspection. But there cause it would then be within the are nevertheless one or two cases on record which this kind of ex-

accom.

We

sphere of practical politics forplanation does not fit; and it is Europe, to make a joint proposal to just remotely possible that America. Such a proposal, if it shall wake up one fine morning to included a genuine cut in arma- find that, although Atlantis never ments and a suggestion that Am- was, and the phoenix and the erice should, in response to the unicorn are only amiable fictions, cancellation of reparations, wipo the real, genuine, 100 per cent. out the war dobta, would be one covered.

ven serpent has at last been dis-

which it would not be easy for the

Oh, Lydin, aren't you thrilled? I've been invited to Mrs.

Do Rox's aft ornoon ten."

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on

This brief dissertation storks is fittingly not without its excellent moral. In deference to the grim view that these birds, ostensibly so impregnable to hot. blooded sentiment, take of the matrimonial triangle, small boys ought by all means to refrain from meddling with their eggs. To steal a bird'a egg from the nest is always a cruel and wanton act, In the ease of a stork's nest, after the advertisement given through so many centuries, it is tant- amount to murder; calumny in the first degree.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST RIVERS

The following table issued by the Kwangtung River Conservancy Com- mission shows the height of water in English feet on the daten named in the West. North and East Rivers:

Highest on Lowest July

record.

West River at

Shubing 441,7- Norths River at

10 .on record.

July 11

а

10.0

Q 11.5 10.0

18.4

North River at

Samahul. 27.3 -K Enat River at

Sheklung..

-2,6

10.2 12.0

6.0

5.3

Tingruen, 4-26,4

Re-sealing of the will and codiell in respect of the estate of the into Mr. Edmund Hornby Grimani (local $78.900: in England £44,815.12.2) who died in the White House, Auckland Road West, Portsmouth, on December 24, 1931, has been granted to Mr. D. J. Lewis, attorney for the execu- Itora.

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