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Man's Oldest Conveyance

By T. Paul Gregory

HONGKONG

22nd Sept.-Up very betimes and might cut it across in one. - For it is In the garden bidding the Fa Wong mighty clear that these tribes oË? dig over some beds and weed them Middle Europe-for nations they are

THE sedan-chair has been des- Cathay, and was immediately placed as, come a week, I must ber sowing notare the foulest of folk. And cribed as mankind's oldest by its aristocratic admirers in the my seeds. Afterwards to my office even as the last war did start with

ter

a

Bunny Berigan & His Orch, rattling period just passed.ristocratic and dignified method of Proviment; but it is in the Southernby this curious phrase I know not. much good cheer and pleasant com-

Czecho-Slovakiana and the Sude- conveyance. It is undoubtedly series of the days of Chien Lung-sheete I doc learn that the Eurasian new one is like to with

same category as those other chinots and there reading in the newes some wretched Serb question, so this Czech.. ten Germans brings overwhelm- one of the earliest instances of procelain, Ivory, and fade. France at air-planes doe contemplate a nighty And I doe heartily with the devil the inventive genius of the that period was still more or less in a service to Hankow and I doe think may by away with the lot of them. ing relief to the entire world. human race; for it is the remote feudal state, and it was an easy mut-it mighty kind of the Editors to have This day there is an official state- F.T...Tommy Dorsey & His Orch. That particular danger in Europe. prototype of all vehicular forms to find sturdy peasants to act as set this down, clso it may be some al workers will get them: the ment about gas-masites and while bearers, and it first appearance at of our Japanese friends had missed

the department of has now ended and with it has of transportation. In its oldest Sedan,

of providing Gas mark form, it was simply a rudely Ardennes, on the Meuse river, about making the trip, not knowing of 1.

At hom

home It seems Mr. W. Churchill for the publick is still sub passed the hideous spectre of woven basket slung to a pole and 1750 was the signal for its enthusies has gone to Paris to consult with the Which means I doe take it that cer war

tie adoption in other sections of the French lenders there but seeing that tain gentlemen cannot make up their which created such an possibly in more respects than country. In fact, the usual. English hee holds no official position I am at minds. And were they to be told atmosphere of dread and appre-be seen in daily use in the moun- owes its origin to

one resembled the rustic kago to name for the palanquin-sedan-chair a stonde to know by what right hee that they at any rate should have

just this cir doth interfere. Which when tell no maskes until the populace could hension. There must be no let-tainous regions of Japan to this town in Northern France where it men who did hold office in the past move more quickly.

cumstance, and commemorates the Creed he says that these old gentle buy them I doubt not they would This evening up in the movement which has day.

became

popular with the dar cannot yield gracefully but doe ever to a Cocktail Party upon the Peake been born out of the sabre developed the essentially primitive

It was the Chinese, however, who lings of the French aristocracy. seelt to chuck a spänner into the and, "it being a fine night all the

China,

ina, of course, is the land of the works. But what hee doth mean grounds it up with fairy lights and form of the sedan-chair into an palanquin's most extended use and

This forenoon did give a dish of ten pany. I did meet many pretty That movement already tends tran

where the conveyance has transport, reserved not only ag a

of especial utility; for the

pretty

Lady who did lecture mee ladies and also a broker friend who conveyance for every-day utility but ged towards the realisation that also for occasions of ceremony. Con- as in great measure precluded in And I due resolve to amend my ways Philippine Gold Mines, Leone

rug. soundly upon my

extravagance. did impart to mee much wisdom of Peace must prevail, and that the sequently, the land of the sedan- as in great measure

chair's greatest development and use that

use use of horses, and it was inevitable and give no more parties. problems of the near future in has been China; for in this ancient that the usual form of transport had pretty betimes and dined with my had yet bathed in the fountain

ent to be by human backs. As it

children. And so to bed.

though I dor own I was tempted, the land, the sedan-chair until more re the hinterland, so it was in the early other minorities doe make trouble must be amicably cent years Europe,

23rd This day nowes that the night being warm............. WDB, along with wheel-barrow and crudely-construct-

the days of the Colony of Hongkong, and with the Czechs. And I dos begin 24th-Up very betimes and order- settled by discussion, rathered cart of the North, the sole means car has not replaced the chuir-coolie to fathom the feelings of M, Robes- ing my papers in haste es, I must even to-day the advent of the motor. Great of conveyance... The sedan-chair or as a means of reaching the higher i Pierre when hee did wish. that all the meet my guests at a half, attem

palanquin as it is known

more properly lev

levels of the Island.

twelve of the clock and so the conveyance

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hackney to the Race Course of oficialdom in general, so much so excellence of

of the wealthy classes and

We did drink Flatse or two of the wine of Kores and took Cour that in Canton before the days of the the Colony, differs somewhat from comin, and bears within it, either the the second race I must needs leave

The seian-chair in common use in palanquin" immediately follows the nuncheon in the Clubbe box.

After successful conclusion of the treaties with the European Powers terior, being more ightly construct deceased, or else, as is invariably the at

trude that extensively employed in the in- pine tablet with the name of the my friends and to the Krickett foreigner was permitted to ride ed, and is not the cumbersome affair case nowadays, his enlarged portrait, was Soo-kon-pov but "Lord

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long as it does not take the form antoy almost a virtual monopoly on bearers in the cities and towns of the tired and so to bed.

the Empire and the world generally. War on such u tremendous scale is unthinkable, for it is easy to visualise the appalling destruction to life and of aggression by means of war- property which would result. like action. Suspicion must be Whatever may be the policy of allayed at all costs and countries any country, it must be for once must cultivate a friendly attitude

to

than by force of arms. Britain emerges from recent events with a clear conscience, for throughout the Empire there was complete unanimity to wards a peaceful and just com-

st I slow

was mighty seen, say in Canton, The promise. Britain's attitude re-

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moreover, no matter

sorry I had ever gone, And then OF mains one of defence and not

nasty accident doth befall Mr. C. Hence, it was not to be wondered able

oyed, suggests consider

this factor alone

for a ball gets up quickly and Man, defiance, and it has clearly been that foreign merchants, noting the doubt contributed to its extensive generally classified by the Chinese cute him badly. So hea is driven to strikes him full in the left eye and. exclusiveness of the conveyance, use. Even the hard-working coolies as "open" und "closed." The former te demonstrated that the manner introduced into Europe, it would as vastly superior to the hordes who the ordinary portable chair to be seen black eye these many days. And

decided that if it

were who act as bearers hold themselves known as the ming-kit, is, of course. well, but I doubt not he will

the Hospitall "and I

trust all will boo have in which her Prime Minister at once become the vogue. In fact, it make ricksha pulling their vocation. everywhere: while the latter is In-

and it handled so difficult and dan-the

was eighteenth century France where For one thing they feel that there

chair was first introduced, a

variably designated as either om-kiu more annoys for that bee a peculiar dignity to their profession; "dark palanquin" or ta'ing-vi-klu, | #stre cholce for our wicket- regarded at the time are they not members of a voca- "green clothes palanquin" and doer in the Interport. Back to the” exotic

A Bock His creation

tion which is no doubt the oldest in notes the whole series of closed con car and being come safe there I

"Krickett-Clubbe in of old

China? Furthermore, their numbers veyances ranging from the curtained drink a glasse or may bee two to dos are limited,

fact that in many one of the aristocratie Chiness of the healthy symptom con- terrain or the circumstances of the palanquins...

places, owing to the com

to the conditions of old school to the, colourful bridal Mistress Diana where I dine with her

restore my composure, Later stitutionally for any race,

and Mrs. Barbara; and wes doë alfỹ narrow streets and lanes of Chinese ла

affords them with a sense of It is interesting to note in con- carly, both they and I being, very

reassure each other about war. Home:

that the as things now exist they clusion certain forms of transport.

interior are in certain respects a a secure place in the affections of ing a sort of jargon of their And to my greatest possible annoy

The sedan-chair, moreover, occupies rather

25th. (Lord's Day)-Up betimes unusual fraternity, boast and round my garden where I doe

portant factor in various popular the blind singers, or of certain guilds, for a space and then to Kowloon the Chinese people; for it is an im- own.

It is not ร extensive, anse that my frat sowing of radishes. perhaps, as the complex brogue of tias failed. Write in my Chamber customs. As well-known the and for all emphasised that towards their neighbours with adjunct in quin is an important yet nevertheless it is distinctive, and where they doe

all marriage the slaughter of innocent peoples the object of fostering peace is In

and funeral observances incl. bearers are qu

be frequently heard when the And as use play a Krickett trail

at work. To the un- greatest hospitality, and doe writer

doe meet with cannot be permitted. This and prosperity. There is no that this contrivance comes into its connection with theso

so initiated foreigner, the expressions some account of it in the box up two events in human life employed seem more like a series of the roof which they did bulld pect is being too clearly demon-doubt that Great Britain stands own. In the former, na

grunts, but to onc

who

is the scorers. But these doe som strated in the happeninga. In today as a bulwark of peace, the home of the bridegroom, it are

Lae iti- passably familler with the in- prefer the Clubbe verandah the variable conveyance for the bride to Lricacies of Cantonese, the words am persurdod It is DOL China and Spain. The peoples and that her power will only be asumes most colourful and less as they sound, and seem, more easier call of the bar. A maste

by no means as meaning lewd fellows doo aver--that it te ing of the carth have a right to liye exercised in that direction. The the chair of ceremony in every sense pose for which they were originally match much good cheer and Ide

picturesque role. It then becomes over, admirably adapted for the in peace, and those who deny lessons of the last war have not of the word, and its very mume intended. Who has not heard the select the team 1 myselfe would cellent muncheon and after the pure them that right and

fa-kiu "Bowery_palanquin" wage boon forgotten, in fact the is splendour. The gally decorated and crowded street in the heart of bed.

suggests

gests chair-coolies coming down a narrow, choose. Home to dinner, and so to tillating

scarlet clad bearers form of advance giving notice to his fellows

or the sixecalo ejaculation of the one in early to bed, stukk still exist problems in Europe national institutions as Poppy anywhere, and is, moreover, alment to be careful with their step, l'al 27th-This day the newn la mighty

the most fascinating which will require sympathetic Day. Britain will only take up the East as to the cullow tourist. It

as interesting to the old resid

resident of keuk-la?``

Thus, when the front-bearers ing matters in my once in problems which Germany her- occur which threaten her axis- chair is only reserved for those comrades behind

dog in the path, the presence of worst shall come

warn their 28th. As'ill nowE DE self will be closely connected fence, and in the meantime will women who become kit-faat wives; not stumble over

might be and I dos come hom with It can be reasonably become oven stronger and more go by sedan-chair at all, are

those who become, concubines,

from my labour that creature, instead of crying assumed that the German people determined to uphold the pacific pronounced liable. In like mencermal/ fes

In an ordinary ode of greenma

they shout "hekhelan any thougİN, Mistress

ah {ffere; And ostensibly meaningless but panity, have themselves do not want war. policy, so ably demonstrated by the chair occupies on all Lifportant wherever water is to be avoided. The Thorne The awakening of national spirit Mr. Chamberla

part for a form of this conveyance shout I was waat-11" "look" duten known as the Ungklu on pirit the slippery

unjustified wars, must be taught poignant memories are refreshed exterior of the conveyance scin- old Canton chanting in apparent 28th-Busy at the Office and DEPARTMENT

the folly of their action. There from time to time, by such the with tinsel and mirrors, and, unison hwol-lat, hwoi-lai and he to a meeting of my Lodge, Home and

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