TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1931.
UNIQUE CEREMONY of the arrangements for the big
RECALLED.
Another Rare Occasion
in London.
WEST & EAST DOTH MEET.
event. It was December and eggs were 4d, each and not easy to get in quantity even at that price. However, he realised that after the announcement in the paper his guests would ex pect the mementoes, and not wishing to disappoint them poor papa puzzled over the difficulty. Eventually he hit upon a happy idea.
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An event which, because of
He ordered red sweet-Kong Hotel. being unique, made history in meats shaped like eggs, bought Hong Kong on January 5, 1925, several tins of crystallised ginger, when four sons of Mr. Ma Ying-and carried the day! piu, well-known local business man, were married simultaneous-ady seribe that, with the Chin- Later Mrs. Ma explained to a ly in St. John's Cathedral by theese, red eggs were a symbol of Rev. V. H. Moyle, assisted by the new life. It is an Easter idea," Rev. Lo Ko-yan, is recalled by she said, "a type of the resurrec- the recent return to the Colony, tion." after an absence of six years, of
his
repro-
Mr. and Mrs. Ma Man-fai, who with photographs, was
The report of the christening, were one of the happy couplesduced in the papers all over Bri who figured as co-principals intain and of several countries that unique ceremony.
At the time of the wedding Mr. soon began to reach Mr. and Mrs. on the Continent, and clippings Ma Man-fai was connected with Ma from friends, One that ought the Shanghai branch of the Sin- to be framed came from Ger cere Co., Ltd., of which father, Mr. Ma Ying-piu, is the christening photo with a cap many. It was a reproduction of founder and managing director,tion in German underneath. Soon af khan-fat proceeded to this, instead of red eggs, it was Mrs. Ma Man-fni solemnly stated London where the young briders. Ma gave away sausages to (he was then only 22 their guests as mementoes of the groom years of age), took up the respon-
⚫ccasion. I think it must have sible position of head of Sincere's branch office at 2. White Hart een nearing chow time when the German scribe scribbled that Street. E.C.
. In September, 1927, the stork brought along their son and heir (Paul Kin-yuen), and, naturally, there was great reinicing at 43, Belsize Avenue, Belsize Park, Hampstead, N.W. 3, the residence of the happy parents, and of course, here in Hong Kong, too, amongst relatives and friends of the family when the glad tidings reached the proud grandfather by cable.
In St. Paul's.
When only three months old, baby Paul followed the example
In
that Mr. and
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Sports.
See Sport Diary on Page 8.
Home Mails.
To-day-Inward from Europo via Siberia (Autolycus).
To-morrow-Inward from Ameri- caption and he must have uncon-ca and ports (Empress of Asia): ciously set down what was up. Outward for America and Europe
Siberia (Asamia permost in his mind at the time! vin
Maru and 10 a.m. respectively. Empress of Japan), 8.30 am. and
funny side of the christening of This is by no means all of the little Paul. Harken to this writ ten by a wag on a British Paper
"The Chinese do everything upside down, so it is not sur prising to learn in the case of a Celestial cherub, which has been born in London, 'that the father is "Mr. Ma."
That was copied by other
of his parents and created his-papers and Mr. and Mrs. Ma have tory in London by becoming theo fewer than three clippings of
first (and so far the only) Chinese baby to be christened in St.
The Paul's Cathedral.
great event occurred on December 11,
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Ma "Is the money young Eill- son is making enough to Edith on?"
Pa: "I don't know how much he is making, but however much t is I know it isn't.”......
Bulletin, Sydney.
1927, Minor-Canon N. T. Hopkins officiating. Little Paul had two knighta for godfathers (Sir Albert Spicer, director of the London Missionary Society, and Sir Arthur Yapp, National Secre- tary of the Y.M.C.A.), whilst Dame Ada .Pitts, of Plymouth, for many years à Missionary in Canton, and Mr. Ma's Sunday school teacher when he was a boy, was the godmother.
Water from the River Jordan was used to christen the baby. It was supplied by Mrs. Mary Hopkirk, of 114, Hampstead Way, N.W. 11, and contained in a bottle of Palestine glass, which is now one of the treasures which baby Paul's parents are conserv- ing for him.
A Social Event,
Guests at the christening and the reception which followed at Ye Mecca Cafe, 56, Ludgate Hill, E.C. 4, numbered nearly 200— Chinese, British, American, Japanese, Indian and Siamese. It was one of the social events of the year. The newspapers an- nounced it many days before and it so captured the imagination of the people of London, and many even farther afield, that Mr. and Mrs. Ma received many letters of congratulation and baby Paul numerous toys and other gifts from persons who were not per- sonally known to them, and there was a huge crowd in the vicinity of St. Paul's on the day of the christening,
One entorprising newspaper man put Mr. and Mrs. Ma on the horns of a dilemma just before the christening. He had made Inquiries in the Chinese colony as to native custom and without consulting. Mr. and Mrs. Ma he announced in his paper that guests would be presented with red-coloured hard-boiled eggå and crystallised ginger af mementoes of the occasion, in accordance with Chinese custom. A Happy Idea,
To recalling this, Mr. Ma told me with a smile that it caused him more trouble than the whole
that joke,
Another Gem. Here's another, also from ́a British paper:
"Little baby Ma, of Chinese parentage, should have little difficulty by and by in master- ing that usual first juvenile exercise in spelling, 'writing his own name, but let him je saved early from any misappre- hension about the uniqueness of its brevity. Ottawa was founded by a Colonel By; Mel- bourne still boasts a tradesman whose fascia inscription_reads "John Ny"; the United States has a family of some distinc- tion named Ek; and it is a few years since a successful busi. ness was established in Gray's Inn Road, London, by a Mr. S. Be, All these, however, have to yield the palm for brevity to a worthy dame who for many years presided over a wine shop in a Paris by-street. She could sign her name in one letter- 0."
It also gave the London Editor of a Leeds paper the opportunity to reveal his knowledge of things Chinese, thus:-
"The three-months-old Chin- ese baby is not departing en- tirely from the customs of his race, even though his parents are Christians,
"His grandfather, for in- stance, gave a dinner out in
Miscellaneou
To-day-Annual Lenten Sermon at Catholic Cathedral, Glonealy, 6 p.m.
To-morrow Quarry Bay School Spring Festival party, 11 a.m.
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China when the baby was month old, the age at which every Chinese baby is celebrat- ed by a feast."
Tiger as a Symbol, After referring to the christen- ing at St. Paul's and the red eggs, he proceeded:----
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"I wonder if an informal visitor may not one day find little Paul wearing tiny shoes with the toes made like ani- mals' heads, and a little cap with eyes, ears and whiskers representing # tiger the familiar protections of the the Sale by Public Auction 7th day of April, 1931, at Chinese baby against evil
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7th day of April, 1931, at Public Works Department, by "Among non-Christian Chin-3 p.m., at the Offices of the Order of His Excellency, the Gov- ese, too, little Paul will be re- Public Works garded as inviting disaster by Order of His Excellency the Gov-
Department, by ernor, of one Lot of Crown Länd at Shamshuipo,, in the Calony giving away his name in aernor, of one Lot of. Crown Land of Hong Kong for a term of 75 public place. One chcuts evil spirits in China by calling boy babies by a made-up name, sometimes a girl's name." Mr. Ma, with his brothers, was educated at the Canton Christian College. He is a young Chinese of the ultra-modern school who speaks excellent English and is well Westernised, but not to the exclusion of his early Chinese training. He is the sort who is a delightful and welcome com- panion who is equally at home in the society of foreigners as well as his countrymen.
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