G. P. LAMMERT.
AUCTIONEER APPRAISER. AND SURVEYOR -Public Auctions-
THE Undersigned, has received-in-
Hon
structions to tell by Public Ato-
on. V
RIDAY, January 30, 1998,
commencing at 11.48 a.m..
at Holt's Wharf, Kowloon,.
di Casos Filsoner Boer, (etc.)
Terms:-Dash on delivery.
GEO. P. LAMMERT,
Auctioneer.
Flengkong, January 27, 1620.
INTIMATIONS.
"HONGKONG BENEVOLENT
SOCIETY.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEET
ING of the Hoxoxova Beve VOLJNT SOCIETY will he held in the CITY HALL, on FRIDAY, Jancary 30, at 12.30 p.m.
L. A. KNIGHT,
Hon. Secretary. Flengkong, January 20, 1920
NOTICE.
ALL Persons having Claims against
Mr. P. W. GOLDRING, Solicitor. ere requested to send full particulars of same. o M J. H. GARDINER Solicitor. 29, Queen's Road, Central.
Hoogkong, January 28, 1920,
NOTICE,
THE ANNUAL OPEN BILLIARD CHAMPIONSHIP of the Colony beld under the auspices of the Victoris Recreation Club.
Entries close on 31st January and are to be accompanied by entrance fee of $2.
The number of points to be played and other arrangements will be decided
At a Meeting of the Competitors.
The competition is open to all in the Colony.
R. H. B. MITCHELL,
Hon. Secretary,
VICTORIA RECREATION CLUB.
INTIMATIONS
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JUST RECEIVED
from AUSTRAMñïà a large shipment. of LAUTOGEN, UNSWEMTRNHD CONDENSED M`LE, BISBIANGED NATURAL MILE, MALTED MILK and SWEETENED 0000A-Jand:
· MILE, sold at very redacnable prices owing to the present high rate of Exchange, copecially for Retailers.
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Fresh Stocks of
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Every kind of Footwear
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Dance Tickets 50 cts. each.
D. M. GOODALL, Manager.
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ON.
SATURDAY, 31st January, 1920. TEA DANSANT from 4 p.m. to'7 p.m. DINNER DANSANT from 8 p.m.
exclusive of wines.
On these occasions the charge for Ten will be $1.00 per head, and for Table d'Hote Dinner at $3.00 per bead,
J. H. TAGGART,
Manager. Hongkong, January 28, 1920.
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MOTOR CAR FOR SALE.
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ARE WE HAPPIER THAN- OUR FATHER?
•
[BY RICHARD WHITEING.] The posterity of Adam have been busy with an answer to this question from the beginning of time. Their progenitor is the only exception, because he had no starting-point for the comparison. Old Hesiod was quite concerned about it, well-nigh three thousand years ago, but found it as elusive as the will o'the crisp. He could only credit his generation
ground of the vehicle were no spoil- sports. When the latter, in accord- ance with custom, "fell down on one knee" for pardon and largesse before adjusting the hoose, Tom. in the very plenitude of high spirits, "gave him a kick for his fee." very cleanliness and order of the modern prison are a weariness of the soul, with the utter impossibility of shaking a loose leg in any part of the premises,
The
change Edinburgh for London, on slender means, he took the waggon that trudged the whole way at a walking pace and pulled up at the inna for drinks and madre pas- sengers. It was good enough for all concerned. They played cards, quarrelled or chummed at their plea- sure, and slept on the straw of the waggon on which they had trampled all day. There were fuctions, of course, when the new comers hustled in to find. a berth for themselves, but Then why do anything at all, you nothing came of them; and the mal- | may say? One state of life seems contenta soon joined the majority to just as good as another when you the cry of "Full up." One and all are used to it. Prison reform is at had anticipated our Victorians in the best but a change of conditions with delusion that their Here and Now out a change of happiness. A page was the Age of Gold at last. What of Smollett read now, sickens" the with an age of iron, and grizzle over their want of luck. None of them refinements on the poor old past! mind, and other parts of the system, rould trace in the almanacs an Age The sanitation (of the ceaspoal, at the thought of the brutalities they took as matters of course in his day, of Gold, when everything was "just though they never gave that a so." Carlyle gave it up when he thought) in its stage of finality, and Eren Nietzsche's nostrum of lethal- erased Happiness from the reckoning, the Black Death of the pestilence chambering at birth of nine-tenths of and put Blessedness in its place. Yet that nearly made a desert of Europe the population, in order to clear the the happiness they all had in their never to return again. This note scene for the development of the minds was nothing out of the way,
persisted throughout! We know nobility and gentry of nature, is but but only a right good time. Later what we think now of Old Newgate a quack medicine well advertised. Greece was disposed to start it as a prison system but are we quite Is this rule of thumb, step for ste, with Hesiod, in spite of sure that it would not triumphantly to go on for ever? No. The coarser him, but he certainly would bear comparison in the essentials of worries will drop out of the reckon- have declined the honour, Rome put hugger-mugger happiness with the ing, the finer, both of good and bad, in a claim with the Fathers of the Holloway, the Wormwood Scrub, will take their place. The eternal or even the Parkhurst of to need of novelty and freshness of Republic-plain living, high thinking. a joint for a friend, with a drop of day? There is really something sensation will see to that. something warm in good red wine to say for the paradox that
the distribution of good time
own fields.
Feace.
37
has
It is a sort of Grimm's law of its subject. The repetition will become
to see more of the sunlight. The common clay will be at least finer
to wash it down, all grown in your been fairly equalised among all the a torture of satiety, and to get rid of
Our own optimists thought that it had come at last, Kentrations of man. If it did not it will compel a change, in the hope with Victoria in her prime. This come in one way, it came in another of better luck in the next shuffle of pleasing concept. held the field well. The net ration of bliss was probably nigh until the outbreak of the World about the same. "The old Newgate the cards of fate. So one may safely War of to-day. That event has you cry. how truly dreadful the prophesy the imperative change. A sobered us a little, yet until the last scores of wretches, most of them on time comes when the sensitory Budget night many were quite ready their way to the gallows, herded in organs of all mankind become so fine that a lapse in magnanimity, sweet to believe that it was here with the the filth of one huge common room;
gambling, cursing, fighting, drinking, wounds like a blow. All our perhaps reasonableness, or fine manners This, of course, changes the venue as long as they had a penny to buy excessive culture seems making for from backward to forward, and there their tipple from the varders at a that. It will be a gain of a kind, for is some, excuse for it. What more profit of a hundred per cent. None it will give us a lift from the plains can anybody want than what we are but the devil to pay in rowdy enjoy to the heights, where we may hope going to receive the day after to ment of a kind. It was" company," morrow? Only think of the im Whatever else it was not, and, for provements. The telephone for the lads of mettle of Swift's dreadful talks with continents, instead of lines, the prospect of the ovation of with the neighbouring plot on the the ride to Tyburn. Tree! other side of the garden wall. The As clever Tom Clinch, while the style of it! The very concerts rabble was bawling, and plays brought to your bedside to lull you to sleep for pleasant dreams. Locomotion, the aeroplane, and the Zeppe devoted to peaceful uses, and putting the crawling train And cried Lackaday, Here's a at sixty miles an hour to shame.
proper young man?" "Sir," said Boswell or one of the quote from memory agalu. minor fry in the service of the Oracle Compare this with the modern of Fleet Street- forget which jail, and nothing better than your "they are now busy with a scheme owo thoughts for company or only the Best of Books for your reading, chaises." And the rate of the ac and that but a constant reproach to celeration of velocity?" querled the your way of life in this world, a con- other (I quote entirely from memory).stant threat of your fate in the next, They talk sir, of twelve miles an and withal the chaplain to drive it hour." "Sir." exclaimed the sage, home, Silence and isolation in the if would be impossible: we could workshops and the exercise, yard not breathe." "There," comments Mark the difference on the occasion the biographer, that is just the man referred to in the lines. Mr. Linch he was; he could always lay his and his spiritual advises were both finger on the weak point. They had too busy, for edification, in their enjoyment of the scene and the never thought of that?"
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clay, and that will make all the difference between eating from por celain and eating from ruder ware. It will not affect the balance: I adhere to that. We shall weary of the porcelain in due course. and goodness knows how we shall get our dinners at all, but that con sideration belongs to the future, and It will take care of itself. As it is. the more delicate pleasures and pains of our present social system make those able to command them at will the envy of all for whom they are out of reach. It is the subtle differ ence between good wine or liqueurs served in their appropriate glass or served out of a moogto say: nothing of the apartment in which, the whole meal is dished. The doors- of Teniers drank and fed in a cellar their superiors had the better of it by a more upataim, with all that the change imported to the beauty of the associations. But, with all that the Golden Age of the Absolute of hap piness is as far beyond reach as ever
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1920.
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