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few wreaths. Flowers, somehow, seem to be emblematic of hope. They have a resurrection; and that is the pious hope that we have when thinking of the dead.
What Of The Waste?
True, there does. appear to be a certain amount of waste in the fact that wreaths or flowers perish so quickly and leave a mass of nauseation in their stead. But that does not
SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1929
arity. It is, & COIT the deceased or of the bereaved. voted to But almost invariably such a re- cidence that in regard to the memorial services in Manila to quest is made not because of any Governor-General Wood, the fol- supposed wastefulness of money lowing announcement was made! in the purchase of wreaths, but because of a belief, rightly or wrongly held, that flowers so used are desecrated and are much better left adorning their sur roundings.
Sweet To The Artistic
"Since many people of the com- munity desire to know how they may send flowers to the memorial ceremonies and since it will not be convenient to receive, flores offer figs it has been suggested that all those who desire to give expression of their affection and regard for the late Major-General Leonard Wood may do so in a manner that would have been very much appreciated by General Wood by contributing to the Wood Memorial Fund for Lepers." A precedent for Hong Kong?
Before Mme. Bernhardt (the Divine Sarah") died she requested that flowers in
Amendments to the Statutes of riotous profusion should be the University are published in the placed in her death chamber, on Government Gazette
her coffin, and on her grave. And
Chan Shu, a school boy, was they were. So was it also when Ellen Terry died. And the yesterday drowned while bathing poignant sorrow that was felt by with a number of other boys of the passing away of such rare Blake Pier.: spirits was thus mitigated, as
The name of Mr. Antonio Paulo nothing else perhaps could have relieved it. They evidently Guterres. M.B., B.S. (Hong Kong) clearly realised that the sombre has been added to the Register of ness of death and the profound Medical Practitioners. sorrow attending the solemn | w rites of a funeral could thus be His Excellency the Governor in Council has directed that the name most successfully relieved.
of Mr. John Hubert Bottomley be added to the list of authorized architects.
An Exile From Home"
And here: in Hong Kong when, as is al- most always
P'RAPS →
PRAPS NOT!
Successful Father: "Supposing. I should be taken away suddenly, what would become of you?*-
Son: Oh, I would just be here. The question is, what would become " of you?
Teacher (reading): "And Nero ordered his Centurion to give the man twenty stripes." -
Son of Police Sergeant: Lumme, miss! That must have made him a Brigadier-General."
Jones: "Why is a general election like a mince pie?"
Smith, after some hard thinking, said he would give it up.
Jones: "Because each is identified with the majority of parties, and one gets heartily fed-up with both."
Lady Visitor (watching pugilist shadow-boxing): "And is he really trying to hit his own shadow?"
Trainer: That's right, mies.” "Good heavens! Poor darling! How long has he been like that?"
*
*
The New Vicar: And the next question is, dear friends, the carol- singing. From what I learn, a Mr. D. A. Rushton was fined $5 couple of tenors would brighten the yesterday by Mr. E. W. Hamilton for leaving his car unattended in singing, and-er-I think I can find Queen's Road Central near the them for you.
The Spokesman: On behalf of the A.P.C. Office on June 30.
singers.I thank 'eo, sir; I'm sartin sure it make us sing more 'earty.
the case, the funeral ceremony is taking place thousands of miles away from the native land of the deceased, it may be argued by An action of carpets, raincoats. some to be all the more desirable ladies shoes, silk handkerchiefs You see, sir, last passon was 'ere 20 for the depression to be relieved and scarves, ladies' dresses, socks, to be held at Lammert by the presence of flowers, which etc., is should be sent solemnly and Brothers' sales room on Wednes- placed reverently on the coffin day. and the grave.
Shanghai
In War Time
year, and he never gave us a penny.
*
The Philatelist: "Dedr, dear, it
is most important that this letter should go to-night, and here. I Senders of telegrams for Shang- haven't a stamp." hai and Beyond are informed that, In Shanghai, owing to faulty cable connection, The Prince of Wales weara during the telegrams to and from Shanghai exactly what he likes," says a newa-
and beyond are subject to abnormal paper. war and at á
delay.
That isn't so much because he's time when
a prince; it's mainly because he's His Excellency the Governor has a bachelor... money was very much needed for many purposes, mostly of a char appointed Mr. Norman Lockhartre
Smith to be Head of the Sanitary Manager: "I thought you sald itable nature arising out of
Department and Registrar of you could do that job in an hour?” the terrible conflict, an organisa Births and Deaths in addition to his Cassidy: "Bedad, I'll do that job
other duties.
in an hour if it takes me all
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ABOUT THE TYPHOON
At 11.45 a.m. to-day the Ob servatory reported: "The typhoon has filled up but, an area of low pressure is left over South West China. An- other typhoon appears to be forming to the North of Yap" Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon to-morrow.i
Hong Kong and South coast: "S. W. Winds, moderate; cloudy, showery."
take place quite so quickly as to home!
A boat woman named Lau Mui (19) yesterday attempted suicide by jumping into the harbour near Douglas Wharf. She was rescued by boats in the vicinity and sent to the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs.
"What a unique town!" "Unique
我
"Yes, taken from the Latin: unus, meaning
"one," and equa, meaning "horse."
AttorneyThe cursory remarks
It is notifed that The Ping On by the defendant are more than Bandit Insurance Company, Limited, sufficient to convict"
will be atrack off the Companies Register, if it fails to obtain a cer- tificate to commence business within two months after the publication of this notice in the Government Gazette.
The following forthcoming wed-
Your Defendant: "I object, Honour. I've never used that kind of language in my life."
Young Son "Papa now that piano, you've bought sister a couldn't you buy me a pony ?"
Father: "What for, my child 27 Son. So I can go out for a ride
affect those actually at a funeral, tion was formed whose chief ob- dings have been announced; Mr. and a grave, like any other thing Ject was to divert money that Jacob Vidumsky, 15 Hankow Road, when she is learning to play."
might have been spent on to Mrs. Sima M. Berman, of the can be quickly tidied up.
wreaths from being so used.
same address. Mr. John Reginald Perhaps it was felt that the living Laing, late of the Welch Regiment, Once upon a time a man entered Money incurred on had a better claim than the dead to Marjorie, daughter of Colonel and a large department store to Inde Might Be wreaths could, of The organisation was indeed sup- Mrs. F. S. Exham, of 379 The Peak, three specific objects, and, not find. ing exactly what he wanted, de Spent course, be expend ported; but flowers were never- theless also sent to the graveside.
At the Summary Court yesterday, Parted without making a purchase Otherwise ed in many other And the usefulness of this or before Mr. Justice J. R. Wood, the some of ganisation ceased with the close Tin Tan Lithographers, sued which it might be reasonably of the war. There was then no Lo Laiming for $131 be you just come back."
need for anything approximating parsimony at the graveside being ing keeping with the known ideas of in evidence. the deceased when with us. It could be given to some local charity, possibly one in which the deceased had been interested.
ways,
Hong Kong, "Saturday, July 20, 1929 concluded would be more in
STILL WATERS
To Lessen Sorrow
•
"Going across again? I thought chargea for printingYes--but I left my traveling bag a notice regarding the Shun King with all the foreign labels on it!" Cheung Theatrical Company. Judg ment was given for the plaintiffs First Boarder (after waiting with costs, Mr. D. Strellett ap several minutes): "How much peared for the plaintiffs,
longer is that chap going to be
+
Second Boarder (listening to singing) think there are four more verses.”
It would, there Charity's Tarn fore, appear Also that if those who wish to Such a thought, however, is quite support a charity, in which a different from deceased friend may have been MISS MERCIA MARIA XAVIER'S to the repeated urging of a grandson to accompany him on a test flight- the intention interested, there is perhaps no
more fitting time to do so than at
OBITUARY
FUNERAL
Grandmother had finally yielded
Should wreaths Hong Kong be sent to Funerals funerals? The and Flowers recent deaths of several well- known Hong Kong residents bas again brought the question into that should be present in sending the time of his funeral. It is con- The death occurred early yester-Up and up they went until the prominence and once more it is flowers to the graveside of one ceivable that he would have had day after an illness lasting a few youthful pilot leaned back and
are up 17,500 feet ?" being pointed out that the send whose death is a deep sorrow, if infinitely more pleasure in the months, of Miss Mercia Maria shouted "Do you realize that we "Oh, I don't mind that," she ing-or rather the purchasing not entirely to ourselves, certain transaction had it taken place Xavier, daughter of Mrs. M. P.
Xavier of No. 25, Mosque-junction said bravely, "but don't you think during his life-time! of auch wreaths is little less than ly to those bereaved. It is to
In the afternoon the funeral is cool enough as that you might took place at the Roman Catholic turn off the fan ?" sheer waste of money. Perhaps lessen their sorrow and to
Cemetery, Happy Valley, the service pent it is: perhaps it is much more...
brighten as far as possible the somb dess of the graves that with their soothing ffect, ara sent.”
But is it? What Do They Wreaths sent Signify? toa fimeral are sent in token of sympathy for the bereaved and of respect for the one who has just passed away. Universally flowers, in the form of wreaths, are regarded as the most propriate token on such entrole occasions. And such the case, no matter how mechanical the sending of the wrench may
ar to be
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"I've turned down seven of your There was also present a large compatriots this morning," Therefore is it bow much they may thus
are sad, sombre gathering of members of the claimed Winston nodding toward that money thus be relieved,
and sorrowful events. The Portuguese community, including me of visiting cards. spent even
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Sales fanager Their neigh bours have new one.
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