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fine" words and its pronunciation'
SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1930.
His Excellency the Governor has SEEING WITH CLOSED
Mr. John Heywood
of the vowels is not above sua-appointed picion. Whilst one would hesitate Gelling to act as Secretary to the Sanitary Board, with effect from] to condemn it as u displeasing August 12, until further notice. voice, it is certainly not a model of elocution,
Webber, hus been added to the
The name of Mr. Rey Wyndham In regard to the feminine Ragister of Chemists and Druggists. voice, Adversarian would like to Mr. Webber is connected with nake it clear frem the outset Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co. Ltd.
EYES.--
Art of Relaxation of Body and Mind.
MENTAL TELEPATHY.
This is the way (according to
that it is a refined yoice." Perhaps Employees of Chinese teahouses, a little bit too refined.. It occa-whose guild had been recently pro. sionally drawis, in a most irritat-scribed by the local authorities, have Upson Sinclair's books on "Mental ing manner, or else wilts away written to the Chinese Chamber of Radio") to learn the first lesson In Commerce asking if that body could the art af conscious mind reading." into a melancholy drone reminis use its influence to prevail on the
or mental telepathy cent of the chanting of Vespers authorities to permit them to com- Surely one, of our Army or Navy mence a new guild. It was stated unemployment: was rife friends, with clear, sharp, educat. that ed voices, can be persuaded to de amongst them and the need of some sort of centrul protective assozia- a little announcing?
tlon was keenly felt,
# #
怜
It is said that
i n
A letter from the University to
CORRESPONDENCE.
A HILL STATION.
First learn the trick of un- divided concentration........
*To concentrate in this way you ....ralax your mind and your body,
**Lot go of every topse muscle," every tense spot, in the body.... Drop your body, a dead weight, from your conscious mind,
"Then visunilsp a rose or a violet soms pleasant, familiar thing
may
arouse
enter your
paper, and to fold them so that you cannot see the contents. Place them on a table beside your couch in easy. rench of your hand.
Relax!
Look To Your in the groves the Chinese Chamber was read at a meeting of members of the latter Drinks. of Alcimyon, tody yesterday, asking if the Cham- which does not arouse emotional oldenber would make their usual grant memory traini. Gaze steadily, prace- Thessaly, the grape juice was of $1,000 to the funds of the Univer-fully, at the chosen object--think often adulterated with
The Chairman, Mr. Li Yick only of it-try not to let any mem- lovesity.
mui, said that he felt the Chamber urisa it potions by the nymphs. So that ought to continue the donation mind. a swain, returning from the which they had been making for "The next step is to ask some one This view was eniors-to draw a half-dozen simple designs games or the temple, would grow some years.
ed by all present and the grant for you on cards, of on slips of drowsy after one cup and fall into was duly approved. a swoon, On waking he would fall in love with the very first person he saw. All of which is not unlike what happened to Bottom. It happened, or the first part of it, to the Adver- sarian in a local hotel recently. He sat drinking gin. He had done it before. He has done it since.
But on that occasion he became ill. This was not the first There is cause for time, and he was suspicious. He complaint here, took away a sample of the liquor Cannot, we ask, and gave it to a friend.
responsible friend. happened to be an analyst, normal musical and without hesitation he de- tastes be deputed to arrange thefchured it to be "synthetie" gin, Radio programames in future? A that is, a chemical preparation were not made from sloes, The Adver- given on Sunday night would in sarian has frequently received
friends time lead most sensitive people complaints from
acquaintances concerning to contract a functional nervous disease. It was an exhibition of strange effects of drinks pur- There can be the worst possible taste, and it chased locally.
little doubt that these are often becomes all the more deplorable.
adulterated by the "boys," who when one realises that it was
Cause For Complaint.
person with
some
programme such s We
designed to "please every one," like the carrants in the plain
The
Ture off the light and stretch ITa the Editor of the "Chins Mail" your body full length on the couch. Sir, I was interested in reading Close your eyes and relax your a few days ago, your lender on "Aody. Make the mind a complete Hill Station." Your renders might blank, and hold it blank. Thoughts be interested to learn that on a will come. Inhibit them. Refuse small scale your iden is already to think.
worked out within the Colony, that is, on being
"The next step is to reach for Tai Ue Shan the top drawing of the pile on the (sometimes called Laas Tau Mountable. Hold it in your hand over tain). This island is across from your solar plexus. Hold it easily Cheung Chau,
without catching t Our camp, composed of a dozen
"Then give the mental order to or so cottages, Is 2,500 feet above the unconscious mind to tell you the sea level. We started this what is on the paper you hold in camp five years ago, just when the your hand. political trouble began. This trouble naturally delayed some want the picture which is on this "Say to the upconscious mind. 'I what the development we expected. paper presented to my conscious-
There is no doubt in my mindness. that if the people of South China and
"Then relax into blankness again and Hong Kong knew what ad- and hold blankness for a few vantages these mountains offer in moments. Then try gently without the way of escaping the intense straining, to see whatever forms heat, and as health resorts, there may appear in the void into which would be greater use made of you look with closed eyes. Do not try to conjure up something to see. On Lann Tau mountain, for July Just wait expectantly and let some- and August, you need a couple of thing conte blankets for sleeping at night.
"This process must be repeated There are no flies and no mosqui-two or three times to see if the toes. We drink cool water from vision obtained is the same.
the
them.
"well meant." It was obviously sell the original good liquor and
substitute for it a cheap, poison ous, synthetic preparation. The Bath bun. The organiser of the only means of preventing this de- the flowing springs without boll "As soon as you have .... de- The atmosphere is quite cided which la'the correct vision concert (more properly "dis. plorable custom would be for the Ing.
management to have their bottles different from below and you feel
the light, and without organiser") benevolently thought,
so different, not a half dead feel-looking at the paper which contains no doubt, that too much so-called periodically tested by an analyst.ing, and you are always ready for the real picture pick up the writing
It is very disagreeable to think anything, especially for a good pad and pencil and make a sketch.
"classical" music would be in- digestible for the "lowbrows." To please them, this indiscriminate individual thrust in, without a
Hong Kong, urday, Aug. 23, 1930.second's thought, two of the most
that one cannot drink in safety.
unpleasant selections that could be made. Far, far better to have chosen a song by Harry Lauder of the Press.
ADVERSARIA.
"Without fear, favour or malice."
or "Home, Sweet Home."
*
The
*
* **
square meal.
tura on
of every detall of the vision pic-
FORGED NOTE.
FOUR MONTHS' JAIL FOR POSSESSION,
The Government kindly helped ture...." us to build a road or trail from Just a word in Tung Chung village to the top. Just A Word your ears, you Our cottages are very small, but To The self satisfied, strongly built for typhoons. Critics.
phlegmatic, dis-These cottages are built somewhat on plan of steamer cabins, not gruntled critics large, but large enough to sleep You know every- and sit in. thing, do you not, oh my quid- The Outdoor is our deck space, Two Chinese came before Mr. where we hike, swim and play. Whyte-Smith at Kowloon Court Adver- nunes? You are cleverer than even beneath the same sun that yesterday, charged with possession The Adversarian Appeasing the sarian would any Editor that ever put pen to down below hurries people inte of a forged $100 Hong Kong and Our is by no means
paper; your knowledge of political the shades. We all dress in khaki Shanghai Bank note! Broadcasting a "highbrow" "so
Evidence was given as to the buy- affairs is vaster than that of Mr. and old clothes. We try to avoid
Programme.
far as music is gest
J. L. Garvin. You know when all the conventions of Society that ing of the note from Cheung Tak, are a bore to the flesh. I might the first defendant. The aum concerned.
the Civil War in China will end, say, that a new comer almost lost changing hands was $35, and de- He broadcast from the local studio and who will end it. You also all his clothes one day by appear fendant was at once arrested. admits 2 penchant
towards should consist solely of "classical" know what is going to happen to ing in the dining-room with a tle Defendant claimed that he had Philistinism, yet professes to pieces of music. Even the Mr. Lloyd George, and you think G
picked up the nate in the street, but signify and "highbrows" would get a
The sight that greets the early His Worship convicted, a sentence of little that the reports in the local riser on Laan Tau is simply won- enjoy good music. There must be weary of that. But for Heaven's papers are "punk." (Your own derful, the many islands that dot for the mar defendant, was very many people in Hong Kong sake do not let us have such words). You write occasional the sea for miles around, the banks dfasharged. with similar tastes. Possibly shocking clashes of taste. By articles and letters for the Press, of cloud and fog, that lie like
be able
to
"Low Brows." not for
one
moment sug. that every programme
Shekkel, Chung Shuar, Aug. 20.
Imposed. Second
Ten Years Ago.
[From the "Chíns Mail of August 23, 1920.1
* + *
BUSTLING BAGUIO. handed to the Aero Club of Hang.
UNIVERSITY BRANCH WANTED.
Kong with the request that it w do what it can to obtain sup hort for this fund. The memorial fund has been established to com. memorate the achievements of the Baguio is putting forth every Flying Services during the war effort to have a branch of the and His Excellency has gracious- cack within a week,
Yet you University of the Philippines Osly agreed to become patron of aiÿ Whilst on the sub. dare to pull us to pieces from tablished there and City officials local fund instituted. The Ject of our Radio your easy chair. Off with you are trying to convince both the legislatura that it is a logical place Announcers programmes, the
for a branch for the people of northern Luzon.
some of these were jurred, as the all means have a whole concert of You are filled with glory at seeing mainland that stretch to the north, snow-fields in the valleys of the Adversarian was, at the banal nauseating, treacly American your name in print, or even your or that sometimes cap the sur- "interruption" of the, delightful tenor songs about silver hairs and ideas. You buy up dozens of rounding hills or again are driven concert of orchestral music goo-goo eyes. Some are bound to copies and send them Home. You with terrific speed across your own abode in the form of dark cloud broadcast from the local Radio
appreciate it. The others can gloat over these "children of to appear some 1,000 feet below Station on Sunday night. We began, quite appropriately, with stay away. There can be no your brain" as though you were you, beneath the sunshine like
greater vulgarity, however, than in your second dotage. Yet you banks of snow. It certainly is . Today'a dollar is worth 4/31⁄2. "L'Arlesienne," (Bizet), mean snobbishly trying to appease the always fail to raplise what has Place good for both the flesh and
the soul-Yours, etc.,
The appeal which came out dered through some delightful "lowbrows" by instituting slabs been done to that article of yours
D. MCRAF
from home in connection with the pieces to Fackeltanz's "Torch-
of tearful drivel amidst the most to make it presentable, or even
Royal Air Force, Memorial to His light Dance, and were charmed beautiful pieces that were ever readable. It is a confused mass
Excellency the Governor has been with the dreamy "Don Juan"
composed. Even ** our friend of literacy; you split your in- (Strauss). Then, like a dropped Larry, who is no musical critic, and singularities; your egoism is
finitives, you pluralise singulars - "h" from the lips of a beautiful God knows, remarked plaintively, greater than the Editorial "WE." womlin, came a horrible thing or Blime, 'ave a "eart," when If you were attached to a news called "Silver Haired Sweet- the silver hairs began to sprout paper staff, you would get the heart" a sickly, over-emotional-into song. ised piece of Arnerican balder-. dash, sung by a neurotic tenor. Several people left the room and went to bed. This was followed by a still more dreadful abortion, "Sweet Elai" rendered, by a
As an alternativo, if that pro- Recreation posal does not go through, they quartette which expressed all the on the voices of the eh Garden Wing Fat Company, Limitare recommending that Bagulo be sentiments of Israel through the nouncers. He has no idea ed, has been struck off the Registar. private college or that the high hose. There was a further shock to whom they belong. All that he the following promotions In the school courses be extended to in augus
permitted to Furnish buildings for awaiting us when the announcer is certam of is that one is volunter Corps have been gazetted: clude subjects taught in Junior nouvres on a big scale.
bjects tau
Volces.
Adversariah would like to remark
News in Brief.
The Ming Yuen
Ten Years Hence,
IFrom the "China Mail" of
2 August 23, 1940.3.20
in co-operation with the Boy Scouts the Police Reserva are ar a series of sham
said the next item will be feminine and the other masculine. Company Sergeant Major John colloges. Quartet in B Major, by Mozart." The masculine Voice a quite Houry Lawrence to be Second It is also suggested that, the The Sanitary Board is appoint The changes were staggering. It clear, but hardly musicalIt is Lieutenant. Company Quartermaster Constabulary Academy be enlargen ing special market inspectors to Sergeant Jose Victor Vieira dos to afford students military and endeavour to regulate prices, was like walking out of a church a very ordinary volce. No one Remedios to be Becond Llestenant educational training without the whilst another batch will try to into a public house and thence to would ever be likely to fall in Bergeant Henry Joseph Silva, to be necessity of entering the con- standardise prices in the smaller
land of fairies.
"Chinció"retail"shops. love with it. It often slurs some Second Lieutenant.
stabulary service.