MEMORIAL, To the Editor of the "Norts-Cuina Dairy News."
S1n,—I notice in your paper that the benighted people of Hongkong desire to have a very expensive dancing hall as part of the war memorial to be erected there. Can anything be more incongruous? It is said of Von Moltke, the great general of the Franco-Prussian war, the one who could be silent in seven languages, that. after arriving at years of discretion he only laughed twice: once when his mother-in-law died, and again when he heard that the Swedes considered a certain. military construction outside Stockhom to be a strong fortress. To laugh when his mother-in-law died was reprehensible and characteristically German; but I think those are of worse character who are always laughing and dancing whether their hilarity is congruous with the circumstances or not. These Hongkong people would "jazz" in a cemetery around
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