By such small things are great Felt, i'd "Go with. them. There [2t castes Reports om Tra ent enough of us to go round, and you can't say it's a worse life than being in a shop and it pays better. Make "em go into domestic service, I say, instead of loafing about living "on other people.
y'd Jean to do the work if the taught, especially if they took young' and made to learn.'
Stead of Shen Ping-Cheng, late Taota 'A meeting of the Shanghai Yacht was held last night, A. J. Littl 1 wonder whether Ethel meant me to overhear this. But as there decidedly are not enough good cook generals to go round, she can be Quite sure we should not presume, fon the strength of her startling Oct men set off upon their careers. But it is unfortunate that in Some instances it is over small things that the youthful seeker after careers trips. An instance occurred the other day. A lad clad in blue, with a head as bald as Elisha's, bethought him of collecting a dollar here and there as the nucleus to the fortune he did not doubt the fates held in store for, him. So he entered a hard-boted office and made his proposition. He posed a letter describing his virtues and telling of his inten-
But its readers were sympadnetic with the latter part of the letter only—he could not put into operation his walking to some other place quickly enough to suit them. But his spirit was] gos. not quelled. Taking upon himself the prophetical powers of Elisha—as if his shaven head Were not enough!—he said: poor man, Every man Shanghai reach "man. Bimeby every man Shanghai poor man. 1 do."' With which he walked out, his prophetical gifts being accurate insofar as they informed him that he was about to be thrown out. But his hard-boiled hearers are waiting to see what little boy blue is going to do next. The collection of dollars where dollars are not seems beyond him as it is beyond many of the "'reach" men he is going to ruin. opinions.
And how'd you get "em to go ito service?" inquired Ezekiel, blowing into the blade of his plane. Supposing they don't want to?
make "em fast enough" said Ethel, returning to her plate-washing.
She would. I wonder whether 1 could get her introduced to Mr.
neville Chamberlain. She would be invaluable at the Ministry of Health, Of course we should lose 'a cook, But this is a time for "equal sacrifices" all round.
Later in the day the window-cleaner put his head in at. the window by which Twas writing and congratulated me on the beauty of the day.
"Nice noo weather, and noo Government, he said," "Lot's hope for fa change all round to do us all The window-cleaner is a young man, so that his views were the more interesting.
"On T think it's all right," went on in answer to a que What he thought of the National Government. "I've heard some talk of a revolution. 'If' things have for to smash let "em swash', they Says 'Let's have a revolution and fall start square': "But I tells "em not our way to have revolution Its" the Englishman's way to fgramble and pay, same as they'll fo, same. as everyone will, We heard but a bit of it yet. But don't quite understand" he added what's brought all this trouble on T thought it was because foreigners thought we were: borrow. between Marvels and, London, end vere we tion with the tre" Immediately atter the arrival of China mail, and. steamers will Leave London'in due time, to connect. with the steamer' from' "Marseilles Anour $10,000,000 worth, of new silver coins "have been circulated throughout Canton ever since the operation of coining: in the Canton, mint resumed. Many' of the old eons that are rejected by, the people are. being re-melted into, new me atthe int The supply of new coins in Canton is suiffclent to freet focal demand but. the more ant' neighbouring towns "and fdistriels are urgently in demand of the new coins.
'A Putt bottle of concentrated Jsulphurie' acid was employed by a young Chinese in an attack on a fyeung, well-dressed Chinese woman who was alighting from a Hongkong 'Hotel bus at the Tai Hang terminus, near Lung Kai, Terrace, Hongkong. 'The assailant is alleged "to have acted most deliberately, faking the victim and other passen sera. by surprise, He threw. the cid partly over the woman's face, fand' She is Reported to have been Severely burned. A hue and ery was Yalsed, and an employee of Carney and Company went in pursuit of the ailant, and after a chase seized the young' man,
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