In the Our Magazine column, a report said an 80-year-old man 'has slept through half that number of years' and was being visited by doctors in Kieff (Kiev). 'Since his 80th birthday he has slept for entire months at frequent intervals and he has not wakened now since Easter Sunday'. Another brief reported on courting rooms in Chicago 'with cosy corners and a number of screens for young people to make love' in the hall adjoining Christ Church.
The Post ran a long report on the Flood Fund Bazaar's opening in the Colony on July 11. The fund was for those 'rendered homeless' in the floods in Kwangtung (Guangdong) and Kwansi (Guangxi). Fung Wa Chun, chairman of the bazaar committee, said: 'I have the honour ... to ask Your Excellency [Governor Sir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard] to open the first charity bazaar that the Chinese public spirit has organised. I do so, however, with some considerable trepidation, as this is absolutely the first bazaar that we Chinese, here in Hongkong, have ever attempted. Naturally we are diffident and backward in many things, and we almost despaired of success. But ... we hope our weak efforts may realise a substantial sum.' The bazaar was housed in a 400ft long by 90ft wide matshed (a light bamboo frame hung with rattan mats) and contained 65 stalls, offering everything from biscuits and milk to the 'daintiest creations in needlework, laces and jewellery'. Some 300 Chinese ladies and girls have promised to attend as saleswomen for the seven days and seven nights that the bazaar is open. A string band played, while Chinese players gave their services free at a roomy theatre in the eastern end of the matshed.
A report from Atlanta, Georgia, noted the death of Uncle Remus. 'Joel Chandler Harris, who was best known by his nom de plume of Uncle Remus was the most famous and popular writer of negro folklore in America. In the south, his name was a household word. He was 60 and was an editor of the Atlanta Constitution for 25 years.' He wrote prose and poetry.
The Weekly Box of Curios, an irregular journal, reported on July 6 of a visit to 'Sir Paul Chater's Palace' where 'we had the pleasure of being Sir Paul's guest at tiffin [afternoon tea] and the distinction of having him as a guide and lecturer during an inspection of some of the most valuable pieces in his grand collection [of porcelain], and so to us it was an education as regards the ancient art of Chinese colours that has been lost to the world, excepting as exemplified by such a collection'.
Under the Notes and Comments column on July 11, the Post examined the 'Annamite character'. The term Annamite referred to people of the region and former kingdom of east Indochina in central Vietnam, the Hue area. 'The Annamite character is a curious jumble of all the vices known among humans ... Some centuries of serfdom and cruelty at the hands of the victorious Chinese have served to knock out of him all the Malay fighting characteristics of his race, and implant in him instead an abject cringing cowardice ... whose genuineness is hard to gauge correctly. Thereafter the French have expunged from his character any slight residue of spirit, which continuous Celestial drubbings had left to him,' the report said. 'He is ... dirtier and odoriferous as to his red-teethed betel-chewing personality than a whole menagerie of pole-cats. ... The Annamite thug is not afraid to ply his trade of armed robbery. Annamite women or the well-to-do classes are their principal victims ... the bandit does not stand upon any ceremony ... slash ... and off comes the arm and jewellery too.'