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NOTES OF THE DAY

ABYSSINIA

At this time, when Europe is in in muddle, Abyssinia has been crowded off the stage. But for the tension in the capitals of the Grent Powers, however, we should hear more of this dispute which continues to grow more heated between Abyssinia and Italy. Wo know that for sonis timo past Italy has been sending troops to her territories in North Africa, preparatory to waging war upon. Abyssinia if that proud people do not "bog pardon" for the Incidents on the frontler in which Italian colonial soldiers lost their lives. We know that the tribes have been rallied by the Abyssin dan chicle, and that Abyssinia is, at this moment, endeavouring, to bring Italy to agree to arbitration of the differences between them

But wo know very little of the

Abyssinian people, and the fight they are waging for independence and the defence of their realm. Sir T. Comyn-Platt tells us some- "which thing of the country wishes to be left alone."

•

TERROR OF RABIES STAMPED OUT

By CAPT, H. E. HOBBS (Founder and Organiser of the Tail Waggers Club}

•

The Very Idea!

THE JOLLY OLD

HUNT

Not What It Was; Eh, What?

I have been reading the speech which Lady Clunbury, M.F.H., mado last week at the Hyssop dinner, says one of these bright young humorists who write for the Home papers.

THEN the ery of "Mad dog!"; general massacre of dogs would be W was heard in the streets in į ordered, the soventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a quick rush; In 1738 the Town Council of of the citizens to the neareat place Edinburgh was greatly concerned of refuge,

because "a mad bitch" had run

The season's been a good one," Doors were shut and barred, amok at the butcher's market and said her "Ladyship, "except, of and the timid hardly dared even bitten many of the dogs there. An course, for the dearth of foxes. to peer through the windows lest Forder was issued that all butchors' Dammit, I don't like that. When the lurking horror outside should dogs were to be destroyed, nad I was a gol, a fox was a sportsman see and pursue them. Even men that the dogs of all other citizens and a gentleman; he know what of proved courage, heroes in many were to be removed from the town was expected of him and he saw a bout of fiaticuffs, would be by noon of the following day, fail- | that you got it. Now I'm not so stricken with terror and would ing which they would be destroyed sure. (Laughter.) It seems to me hurriedly get them to a place of by the town officers."

that all this Bolshevism and funk safety.

is affecting our crafty little friends.

In the towns and cities the cry "Mad dog!" was raised with disturbing frequency. It was one of the very real terrors of life in olden time.

•

Contemporary records show that the Town Guard, "all armed with battlanxes and quarter ataves," "And that" (she wont on) "-- scoured the town in search of doga, that reminds me. We want more even raiding the citizens' homes support for the Hyssop, even from

hunt. and carrying off their pets before those who don't

(Hear, the outraged oyes of their owners. hear.) What's come over some of Many an old print has as Its The officers were more zealous the local farmers? I know that subject the pursuit of the wretched than discreet in the performance times are hard-they were hard "mad dog" by men armed with of their duties, for each was paid when I was a gel (laughtor)--and I pitchforks and staves and axes, one shilling for every dog he know that wo can't all of us afford and the terror of the passive destroyed. And much the same our three or four days a week; but, eltizons who have not been fortun- procedure was adopted in other stap me, I do expect a little friend- ate enough to gain access to some towns and cities throughout the liness. What with claims for building is strikingly depicted.

It is clear from the evidence of contemporary writers and artists that very often the cry was raised by way of a hoax or through genuine misapprehension.

LAND OF ROMANCE

Ethiopia, or Abyssinia, the land of the Queen of Sheba, and of St. James, the first missionary, where Feudalism is a fetish and trade, is unlike any other country in the world. Travellers aro fow and the country a backwater, And the Ethiopian would not object, in the least, if the gulf was widened stili |

Happy and content in his mountain landa, hating all foreig- ners, patriarchal in his mannera and customs, he asks for nothing but to be left alone. And there's the source of to-day's trouble. What seema certain is that only Surrounded by European Pro-a very small proportion of these tectorates-French; Italian and scares was caused by genuinely British-hie daily struggle is to mad or rabid dogs at all. keep them at arm's length. But

more.

ence.

But, once it had been rained, woc betide any innocent and healthy dog that might cross the path of the armed avengers.

country..

Mr. Edward C. Ash, that in- defatigable researcher into doggy lore, says "it was thought that bathing in salt water cured and prevented it (rables), and noble- men would dispatch not only their dogs, but their entire staff, to the nearest sen to bathe; males, females, and dogs going into the sen together.”

We may smile at these quaint superstitions and at the drastic methods employed: it is easy to

HUMOUR IN THE CLASSROOM

mangled poultry and anivalling about broken fences, the place has become more like Geneva. A nest

politicians and of

cranks. Cherra.)

My

"I'll wager that if more of these cada supported a show liko the Hyssop we shouldn't have thrown away india. (Prolonged cheering.)

"Just a word to the women. father-the 'Old Squiro' as they called him-(Cheers)' 'my father used to say: 'Women and foxes, Mandy, they've both

got thoir place in the scheme of things." So they have still. (Hear, hear.) There's a thousand and one little services that those of my sex can perform. We can't all be M.F.H.'s (a voice: "Why not?' and laughter). but we can all turn out looking neat and workmanlike; we can help things on the social side- sell tickets for the Ball and what- not-wo can say a cheery word to theso anivelling farmers,

"Above all-and this is my last word-we can teach our sons and

and cade." sweethearts not to be Bolsheviks Prolonged applause, the report says, and the old girl probably deserved it. She'll be soventy- four to-day

:

while the Emperor, an enlightened The law that requires all Im-smile when we have known nothing RABIES DANGER

and far-acolng ruler and reported dogs to remain in quaran of the terror of rables. former, is in favour of swimming|tine for six months has rendered The continued prevalence of lowly with the Western Lide, his un practically immune from the subjects, almost to a mun, struggle disease. The only outbreak of rabica in the Colony, attested by against it. The truth is, the rables that has occurred for the the sad death of ጊ young Ethiopian values more than any-past two decades was traced to a European, as well as by the thing his freedom and independ-dog that had been smuggled into presence of the disease amongst he looks round and secs the thus evaded the customary period Proud, superior, disdainful, this country by aeroplane and had Army mules in Kowloon. is European Powern in wait for all of quarantine. sufficient reason

By CATHERINE MACDONALD for stringent whom they may devour; his turn

Ilowever, it did not require any Teaching to-day is not what it enforcement of the muzzling re-exchange for his life. Fortunate- rabies to instil terror into the from a different angle and there is may come next, but it will be in widespread number of cases of was a decade ago. It is approached gulations and the restrictionsly, Nature has played into his hearts of the people. Human much less chatice of boredom either recently placed on the

move-hands. Surrounded by moun beings bitten by a rabid dog for the teacher or those being ments of equines. Rabies is a tains, deep valleys and ravines, developed hydrophobia and died in taught. Yet the unconscious hum disease which, once it gets a Ethiopia is

from a strategic point of view, circumstances of great distress. Four of to-day is very similar to almost impregnable. One did not even need to be bitten that of long ago. The old dominie footing in any locality, is As to communications, mule tracks by the mad dog to contract the will probably recognise all the

Initialitis extremely difficult to dispel.. It are the nearest approach to roads discose.

following examples, yet they are The plague of initials in foreign has now persisted in this Colony, East

a vast desert encloses the It was generally believed that from the diary of a young toucher newspapers is reaching fantastic

And Southern Frontiers. intermittently coming to light, And the economic obstacles are as of the mad dog

one could be infected by a glance and occurred in the Bible and proportions. A dictionary of 30,-

or by Its near poetry classes,

000 of them has just been publish- for very many months, despite formidable as the military once. presence for it was known that One youngster remarked after ed in Germany. all that the authorities have in this respect peaceful penetras people who had not been bitten the "Lord's Prayer," "God has an

tion is wasted effort, for the had become mad and died.

They may save time for the awin quair name." A little ques-native, but they sro a curse to the done to suppress it and prevent Ethiopian has no wants that he

tioning showed that the child had foreigner. What English reader its spread. There may not be himself is unable to supply. If That belief accounts for the been repeating "Harold-be Thy knows the meaning of FACA any occasion at the moment for they are fow-and his average ex-acute terras inspired by the ery of name." "Harold" as a name was FLFB, FERA, PWEHC, ECW,

penditure is little more than a alarm, but should the situation penny a day--that is his fair. "Mad, dog!" and explains why not known, but "hallowed" was cer- FCAT. Yet every good American S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. fall to take a turn for the ben Anyhow, as a content to leave even-brave-men-ran-to-cover. "Totally beyond his comprehension in is familiar with these cabalistic-

the superstitious minds of the spite of explanations,

Another child was heard to say, boards organised under the New signs. They refer to the various ter in the near future, the things as they are. Government might be well ad- of the blessings and advantages thing uncanny and Satanic in the "Give us each day or gravy bread. well for the European to tell him people then there seemed some-

Deal. This meant much more to him than vised to strengthen further the that would result in the opening powers of the rabid dog.

Of course, there was not: and a "dally brond." measures taken to suppress the up of the country. Thut may be, glance from the mad dog's eye was Psalm is also heard frequently relatively simple L.C.C, or BIF

Thie-mierendering-of-the-23rd- disease. In Great Britain, thank but he prefers to live as his fore- Farmless. But there was dangerj"in past oor green." To many a

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No American seems to have the ghost of an idea what the British

or LS.O. mean.

The O.G.P.U. soems to be the

Lithuanicombe Fair The names of the Lithuanian Corps de Ballet are causing a certain amount of difficulty.] you seen Les Sylphides-

Tom Pearce, Tom Peareo, have

Pompely pom, that's the ballet.

for me-

Yes, I'm told that it's very good

dancing indeed.

With Joviachete, Maleinaite, Jo- zapaitite, Koublízkaite, Adamg- vitchate, Babouchkinaite, Ka- lichokiene, Zatoplinskaite, Sa- ranauskaite and all—

fathers, and intends to 30 largely to the fact that it That being the case, the

in the saliva that dropped from slam child the wee bit drying green is an island, and also because a cession-hunter, prospector

and the dog's jaws. If by chance that is all he knows of pastures. Hau grand exception. We all know

happened to touch an abrasion or lengthy period of quarantine is general trader imposed on all dogs brought into ground and will remain so until cut on the human skin, infection, with the extension of "Fresh what that means, though we might

might result.

Air Fortnights," this state onot recognise it as Obiedicionaoje Politicheskoje Goaudaratoennojo things is being remedied slowly, A rabid dog will bite any and but it is unfortunate that green the country, rubles has been

Upravlenie. evory animal that gets in its path, hills with flocks of sheep are as completely wiped out. Here in

and every dog bitten will contract remote to many of our children as Hongkong, with its hinterland And the explanation of all this the disease. Drastle measures are the setting of the myths and and free access to the port by is that Ethiopia is still in the were therefore adopted whenever legends, to others small native boats, it is extreme-

Feudal state. One scos this on a rabid dog ran amok. Since it

Each morning one child is allow- ull sides, quite 'apart from the was difficult or impossible to trace ed to choose a hymn. I am sure ly difficult to keep a check on

mental outlook. For instance, the dogs it might have bitten, al (Continued on next column) dogs coming in from outside; there are fortified dwellings, these are no doubt the sources powerful chieftains, hosts of arm- from which infection

ed retainers, slaves, and in the has

distant provinces semi-independ originated. The mischief is ent tribes, Scotland in the time that the disease is spread not of Macbeth is a close analogy. only by actual dog-bites, but That there is so little trouble any may be picked up from the where and that content is

general are mainly due to the saliva dropped from a rabid Emperor, who la not only a born dog's mouth. In view of the ruler but the most enlightened ever-present danger created by person in the land. There is a the large number of dogs in the with a House of Nobles and

nominal Government, it is true, Colony, it is essential that the Second Chamber. But as all are muzzling regulations be strictly selected by the Emperor he is in obeyed: a circumstance which reality a constitutional autocrat, has led the Kowloon Magistrato and as such shoulders, like Atlas, to issue a serious warning to the weight of the entire country, dog-owners to tako every of course, there are the usual possible precaution in this dirĮ politica}. advertisers--students ection. The plain fact of the from some Western University matter is that there are far too salutes in the cause of Progress who change hats, shirts, and many dogs in this Colony: Dog- and Reform, but they are merely lovers naturally like to have regarded as aping their European their pets, but when, na isinferiors! But, even Feudallam obvious, every dog is a potential is not wholly static, for, despite source of danger, the question, all objections to change, the does arise whether personal pre-Ethiopian mills do grind, though dilections should not give way to slowly.

the common good. In the open

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country, or even in houses which either by attempting more rigid have their own gardens or control of dogs coming in from grounds, it may be quite safe to outside, or by imposing oven keep dogs, but here in Hongkong more severe restrictions on dogs conditions are by no manner of owned in the Colony, is at the means ideal for dog-keeping-moment an open question. But Flats are certainly not suitable unless conditions show a mater- homes for dogs of the type most fal improvement very shortly, it seen in this Colony. Whether it may be wise to bring the whole is possible, or necessary, for the situation under fresh review, in authorities to still further the interests of the community, tighten up the present measures,

generally...

"I'm really reducing. I've la at three pounds on one scale and eight.on_ another,"

Saranauskaite and all.

the teacher looked astonished when

the Hittle girl chose "When Mother's a Sailor”—ber version of the Caroy Bonner hymn, "When Mothers of Salem."

The poetry class, too, has its gems. The following examples are from the same diary. The claga being very young, the poetry con- sisted of the well-known nursery rhymes. The examples aro, per- haps, pathetic rather than amusing, for they show clearly that the lan- guage of the schoolroom is a very different thing from that of the

or atrect. Indeed, young children can generally be. found changing the teacher's ver- alon into that of their own `lan- guage.

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From "Sing a Song of Sixpence," "Sing a Song of Sixpence, a pocket- ful of rags. Ryo meant nothing, but rags were untold treasure, and the teacher was defuged with all the lovely things which could be exchanged for raga-coloured bal- loons, beads, bangles, even toffee.

"Mary had a little lamb, ita fleas wore white as snow," is also popu- lar. I wonder If the

at all; colour warried the children of Even lamb is at times a stum- bling block “Having, translated it "lamp," their looks of astonishment are only natural when they find that it has arrived at school.-