A great many English newspapers employ some whimsical trice with varying success to recapture the inimitable spirit of a W. 8. Gilbert or a C.8, Calverley. One of these sen, Mr. Gordoin Phillipe of the "Manchester Guardian," '[oleg! Seas "Wak dete are rcquently writes sume really clever verse, which the Mr. Phillips ucsumes the pen-name 'Lucia.'
I propose to take as subject of my song The prospective growth and triumph of Mah Jong Chr-which plan T a1 the fact—which can't be thwarted—There ure several well-assorted Rhymes in ong")
Do they play it to the beating of a yang, This wviting, this exciting game, Mah Jong At the subsequent collation Do the guest (with imprecation)
Use a chopstick for their ration Or a prong?
Does light conversation help the sume along? Does one chatter as one joins the earnest throng?
Or sit silent as a nummy Does it need a fourth or d am Ts it aught like nap' or rummy,'
This Mah Jong?
'Are there local rules,' I wonder, in Mah Jong' Ts the code the same from Bali to Bhong?
Though the thought a trifle strange is Tt may be the custom changes As from Harrogate one ranges To Hongkong.
My inguities now enwra me Tike it thong; But I'm told " doom has sounded ding-a-dong Bridge is fighting for survival, So, with praises ad T solate the glad arrival Of Mah Jong. unearthed in Mongolia Inst July by Prof. Roy Chapman Andrews, curator-in-chief of the division of exploration' and search.
Proceeds of the sale, said fessor Andrews, would be devoted to the $260,000 Tund which, this summer, he topes to Lead an expedition into the Gobi desert, 1508 aniley from Pek'ng, in search of remains of primitive man as he
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