Razor-Slashing in. Glasgow: The Poetic North: Revival of From Our Own Correspondent, Bainburgh, Jan, 16.
A. serious outbreak of what. is known as razor-slashing is xeported. from. Glasgow. The. grow: ng prevalence of this detestable Of crime paints to m regret-lo: departure, among certain classes.of the community, from the manly and humane traditions of the British people. We have always been combative and even iarrelscme, and actual physical fwvault was' probably much. com-Monet. among all classes 60 or 60 years. ago than it is to-day. But former-days, the only persons cur race who ever made de-Tiberate resort to edged" weapons were out-and-out criminals of marked homicidal tendency. ordinary quarrels, however vio) ent, even in the roughest dis-Wicts, the fist was the natural and. instinctive. weapon the—trueborn Briton, who a8 a- rule) was more anxious to vindicate his manhood than to inflict serious damage on his opponent. The uso of knives was yeekoned n cowardly practice, characteristic. of cowardly and Jow-close aliens, "the lesser breeds without. the Inv," who had nab been trained in the manly art of self-defence.
There is not the slightest doubt that this now habit, of crime has boon brought to. Glasgow ard several other British Ports by disreputable foreign elements in the British Moreantile Marine, Recently it has also made ite appearance in several inland cities, end a demand. has been raised that the authorities should look move. sharply alter some. chinses of foreigners who have either sought refuge on our toll ox ava come. to follow The effect of th itp un well-defined kinds of tradi
foreign invasi Wo. tin quite. a mimper of young hol gums in naw in whose pockets not intended for' toilet Purposes, might, be found. most cases this is merely a por-verted form of the play-noting instinct, fed by sensational litera. tare of a degraded type, and the youthful possessor of the honrded tome is og little. likely to uso his companions as Mr. Mantalini was to nae his ically brandished razor on town throat, But it is. of bad omen if youths of our raze derive satisfaction from possessing such weapons; it is almost certain to lead to' a degrading form. of INTY"" IN THE YAR REST, Alt, Grahun Moffat, author of Bunty Pulls the Sbirgs,"" had Some amusing thi to say to an terviewar concerning his Kaster travels. "By way of prelude he was asked whether, as success tu ike " "Charley's and, "The Privates Secrohad been played in tongues, he contemplated fame day translating "Bunty." "Well," he answered, "I don't think "there is an exact equivalent in French or Sparish, or even in Portuguese for "Hoots, mon," for, instance, or that the Germans boast an' exact. transcription for "Awoel, but still."
At an hotel in Shanghai, where in native Chinese was manager, Mr, Moffat had occasion fo ivquite if two friends of his (Buropean ladies) were at home. Came. th eply—Number one, pierce girlee topside, makes Washee washed; number two, Pieces girlee. go outside, make walk ge walkee, which constructed upstai her bath—tho other meant that one of the girls out walking,
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