MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1931.
1+
A
hated
SOLILOQUY ON
DINNER
Its Ridiculous Conventions and Self-Conscious Extravagances.
TWO OUTWARD AIMS.
To Eat and Drink: And Say. Only What Was Polite.
even
though they were rich; and his whole evening was to consist of the two in combination, There would
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
SILVER & ECONOMIC NEW ADVERTISEMENTS LOOK/what Records
CRISIS.
(Continued from Page 2.)
NOTICE.
abandonment of silver, as a stan- dard in India has been accom- panied by severe diminution of the quantitica used even in token coin. Wo ourselves have reduced the IS REQUESTED that all Civil silver content of our tokens, and
Associations and individuals, similar action, in the direction who wish to place wreaths on the elther of a larger content of alloy Cenotaph at the conclusion of the
of a dif- Service on or of the substitution
Armistice Day, will ferent metal, has been wide-kindly inform the undersigned, In spread. A restoration стра of writing, before November 6, so the pre-war composition of silver that accommodation may be or coinable in Western Europe would ranged within the Police barrier. go a considerable way towards absorbing the existing stacks of silver.
(Sd.) E. D. C. WOLFE, Inspector-General of Police. 2nd November,; 1931,
THE ENGLISH ASSOCIATION... THE HONG KONG BRANCH OF
His Excellency Sir William Pocl, K.C.M.G., K.B.E., will preside at the first meeting of the year, on TUESDAY, November 3
(TO-MORROW)
at 5.30 p.m.
in the Helena May Institute.
He disliked dinner parties, even | which, surrounded the table; and though they were informal; he then his wife would intercept his
Simple Means of Regulation, alance with a look of warning; he
It should be recognised quite the Pole-Kippaxes,
was contemplating the forbidden; with renewed superficiality he clearly that a plan on these lines would speak of the churchwarden's could not be described as bimetal- lism. It does not suggest a wide- last meeting to Lady Williams, in trouble with her pineapple. Across spread dual standard composed of two metals. It recognises the the table the rector would talk:
right of every country to maintain carefully, in accordance with con its own chosen standard, gold or vention, avoiding the subject of silver, and the duty of those on religion, since it was the subject about which he knew most; hene standard to avoid harassing the others in the maintenance of would exchange intellectual smat-their established monetary system. terings with Sir Robert, self- The abpect can be achieved, in consciously engaging in the give existing circumstances, by a very and take of abstract nouns-simple means of regulation. "nesthetic appreciation," "inspira-
Finally, by giving effective con- Mr. G. F. de Martin, M.B.E, MA., tion," "temperament," "realism," nideration to the rights and welfare
will talk on isolation of genius," they would of the Enst we should go far to re-
"People who read and write be brought forth with hesitant lieve our own monetary situation. History-truth and fact are jerks, die on their speaker's lips. Most authorities agree, subject to
not synonymous terms." murdered by inarticulate matter variations in detail, that the ing, or else, enjoying longer life, cent slump in prices is in some de- they would fade away in the warm gree associated with relative short- air that was yellow with candle-age, perhaps in the sense of ineffi- light. And while he spoke the eient utilisation, of the world's gold rector would wonder whether he supplies. Even those who would could tell his congregation again, not admit this much would agres to-morrow, that heaven was not at least that the near future holds place but a state of mind; that the out a disquieting prospect regard- Resurrection was of supreme Iming the adequacy of forthcoming portance to the Christian; that supplies. What more desirable, prayer was the most vital form of therefore, than that the demands religious experience. It was three months since he had dealt with any of them; he felt justified in repeti tion.
As this is the first meeting for the year, there will be an election of office-bearers, and all who in- tond to join the Association are invited to be present.
R. K. M. SIMPSON, Hon. Secretary & Treasurer.
THEATRE ROYAL
te dinner with its ridiculous con- ventions, its self-conscious extra- vagances; eight people, with only two outward aims, the one physical, the other hypocritical. to ent and drink, to say only what was polites stilling their real eelves, concealing their inward thoughts, which were intense and vital, and forbidding their several impresafons the logical fulfilment of expression; silently. and unknown to each other, they would criticise the room, with its pictures painted in oils too dark to discerned, with its solid masses of dark oak, with its light patches of shining brass; the table, with its silver a shining mass of liquid grey and radiant with reflected colour, olorous, its polished and regulat surface broken by the frequent se currence of soft, dull mats; the colours varying with the unending courses, yellow with a splash of red, a certain crispness that was star, then the grape fruit would give place to the soup, of a golden transparency or of unpenetrable green, and so they would change,, but throughout there would remain the dull red glow of the wines, the
reduced to the lowest possible petulant flush of orchids. There Dessert would come, and the level?
The restoration of allver would be the stealthy tread of the colours on the table would multip as a dependable more stable store butler which fidgeted him; to foolly, dull masses of purple trailing of value would go far to minimise him, hovering, deferential yet over beds of amber, circles and the growing demands from the aggressive, behind his chair filled spikes of green, smooth shapes of East for the metal which the West him with the same horror as that a soft rodness hazy with bloom; has endowed with a monopoly of which had obsessed him on entering gentle splash of water from the
monetary rights. a dark room and imagining a pre-finger bowls, the slight tinkle of Clearly, it is to the advantage of sence when he was a child, a horror his wife's rings, a rustling of table the West, equally with the East. attendant on a protraction of the napkins, and the ladies would go. to act, and to act quickly. The fancy, made possible when the The men would remain till the fall in the value of silver must be creative is deserted by the visual brasses shimmered through the arrested at once and a substantial faculty, when
the abstract pos- smoke trails, till the dull red glow and sustained recovery brought
Then they about. SCHAOR presence but not form. of wine had gone.
The new Government Then Morrison would come for-; too, would go. And in the lounge could acarcely act more wisely, in ward, fill his glaan, rustlé his nap- they would pursue their policy of dealing with causes rather than Matinee November 18, at 5.15 p.m. kin very slightly, and serve the splendid isolation, confirmed by symptoms, than by calling forth- sweet; and, in the contemplation precedent, fighting for it, achieving with a conference of the Western of the concrete, hla fears would it by diplomatic means, securing it nations to consider the plight of vanish.
Slowly they would eat,by understatement, and if he were silver and to produce a plan for its unceasingly they would talk, the show the slightest intimacy, the rehabilitation in the practical
least tendency to substitute the esteem of the whole world. objective for the pubjective in his conversation, he would receive glance from his wife's eyen of more | siguificance than any ultimatum.
tonex
£
for gold which arise from coun- tries which by established usage prefer a different metal should be
LESSON SERMON.
اي علمي
First Church of Christ,
HONG KONG AMATEUR
DRAMATIC CLUB
"DEAR BRUTUS"
by
Sir James Barrie ...“
November 14, 17, 19, 20 and 21
at 9.15 p.m.
Booking at Anderson's.
t
THE HONG KONG JOCKEY CLUB.
THE ELEVENTH EXTRA RACE!
T MEETING will be held (Wes-
ther permitting) at Happy Valloy on SATURDAY, 7th November, 1031, commencing at 2 p.m.
The first bell will be rung at 1.30 p.m.
MEMBERS' ENCLOSURE. Mombora are notified that they and their Ladies must wear their Badges prominently displayed.
No one without a badge will be admitted to the Mombers' Enclos are. Badges admitting non- members to the Members' Enclos ure and Club Rooms at $5 for Gentlemen and $3 for Ladies (both including tax) are obtainable through the Secretary upon Intro- duction by a member, such member to be responsible for payment of all chits, &c.
Badges admitting to Members" i Enclosure will not be on sale at the Race Course.
Members can obtain upon ap- plication to the Secretary Badges (limited to ONE) for the frea ad- mission to the Members' Enclosure of wives, lady relatives and friends. Names must be stated when applying.
On no pretext will children bo permitted in either Enclosure dur- ing the Meeting.
Tifins
are
are obtainable at the Club House provided they ordered from the No. 1 Boy by 5 p.m. on the 6th November. Tele- phone 21920.
PUBLIC ENCLOSURE. The Price of admission to the Public Enclosure
$2 lo- cluding tax, for all persons includ- ing ladies and is payable at the Gate.
Soldiers and Sailors in uniform are admitted half price.
Bookmakers, Tic Tac men, &c. will not be permitted to operate; within the precincts of the Hong Kong Jockey Club during the Ruze Meeting.
Tiffins will be obtainable in the Restaurant in the Public Enclos
ure.
By Order.
C. B. BROWN,
Secretary Hong Kong, 2nd November, 1981.
PUBLIC AUCTION.
THE Undersigned have received instructions to sell by Public. Auction
ON FRIDAY, November 6, 1931, commencing at 2.30 p.m., at their Bales Rooms, Duddell Street.
A Quantity of VALUABLE HOUSEHOLD
Comprising
FURNITURE.
ed the following passage from the Christion Science textbook, Teak Hatatand, Chesterfield "Science and Health, with Key to Couches and Armchairs, Curios the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Cabinet, Bookcases, Desks, Tables, Eddy."Divine Scfence adjusts the Gramophones, Cabinets, Wall balance as Jesus adjusted It. Clock, Oil Paintings, Embroidered Science removes the penalty only Pictures, Brass and Bronze Ware. by first removing the sin which Ornaments, Carpets, Rugs, etc. incurs the penalty. This is my Teak Extension Dining Table,
of their smooth cultured voice broken only by the alight Lancashire accents of his wife and himself, by the intermittent trickles of laughter, affected and
In the darkness they would drive i without cause; and in the rare and strained silences, when everyone away, fast, thankfully, the soft of their scrunch of wheels on the drive, the skimmed the shallowS thoughts for further conversations. the slowness na they passed there would come from the fire- through the gate: then they would place the husky and subdued grat move into the open, past hedges ing of coals as they fell into the which rose like tall walls in the place left vacant by fading ash: darkness; past silent fields, brown, "Everlasting Punishment" was
sense of divine pardon, which I and in the distance the hissing of heavy, pregnant;
understand to mean God's method past sinall the subject of the Lesson-Sermon of destroying sin. If the saying wind la copper beeches,
houses, clutching each other in the darkness; past rivers, black with in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, is true, "While there's life there hope," its opposite is also true, depth; past churches, hills, and
The Golden Text was. "The "While there's sin there's doom. trecs.
'hope of the righteous shall be (p. 40.)
Scientist, Hong Kong.
on Sunday, November 1.
He would present this morning's weather to Mrs. Pole-Kippax, em- bodying it in a form so complex as to be almost unintelligible; he would discuss a new book knowing, though she never confessed it, that
A ship's cook, George Harvey, no she had read only a review. They his support, to leave them, fluster- Among the citatione which fixed abode, charged at Bourne- would carelessly pick up matters ed, with an unequal number of
comprised the Lesson Sermon mouth with begging, was asked by of weight, the financial crisis, men and women, to tell his wife
WaA the following from the Gandhi, the Five-year Plan, and by that he could not stand it, had Bible. "If thou, Lord, shouldet employed pay?"
a magistrate, "Do you get any un- He replied "I their inane references strip them never been brought up to it, which
Lord, who would not accept it. I would mark iniquities, O of all significance, reduce them to was true. A heavy midday dinner 'shall stand? But there an airy lightness, flick them across had ushered in his Saturday after forgiveness with thee, that thou and the few shillings I get a week is zooner get my living with my art one to another for a few seconds. noon, a football match played in mayst be feared.
Let Israel hope as a ponaion." Harvey had been then drop them, lightly, heedlessly, slight fog had driven It to the to return to some empty frivolity, final stages-high tes at sls, the the Lord; for with the Lord arrested when sitting on the pave the weather, colds, indoor bulb football paper, lying in an arm- plenteons redemption."
there is merey, and with him is ment showing black and white
And growing. And all the time, he chair, his feet in the fender, his shall redeem Israel from all his for contributions.
he drawings and holding out his hat would think of other things, the ex-eyes barely open, just enough to tessive number of rings worn by ace the aspidistras and the Asti iniquities." (Psalm 180; 3, 4, 7.) tenced to seven days' imprison-
It was a supreme example of gladness, but the expectation of the custom, perverted, and turned con- wicked shall perish." (Proverbs :
He longed to withdraw 10; 28.) vention.
heads blur in the gaalight, It was his natural background, he had re- sponded to it, found fulfilment; his retirement had been a mistake.
his wife, the murky fellow of her corals in contrast with the vivid redness of her lips; his hostess's hands, the unshapeliness of hor fingers, her nails puce and shining.
"Bert, aren't you going to the unsupple fliek of her wrist; change into your dinner clothes? Miss Trellis, her hair like molten You'll be late. Your studs. ..." amber in the candle-light, her lace | -R. K. in the Manchester Guar dress golden against the darkness' dian.
A newsboy was summoned at, he called out "Government resign- Buth for obtaining twopence by Ing." "Anyhow, they did resign," false pretences. The case was 1 be added, amid laughter. The case sequel to the solling of a special ‡ was dismissed on payment of 58. edition of a Sunday paper on the costa. · · night of August 25, and a con-
stable said that he heard the boy Hull's Lord Mayor has received shouting "Government. resigns."a auggestion from a J.P. in the Mid- .::. Ho: bought, a paper, but found no lands that a fund should be start- news of the Government's resigns-ed to which citzens may subscribe tion. The boy told the court that towards the national debt.
The Lesson-Sermon also includ ment.
Dining Chaira, Teak Side-Board with Bevelled Mirror, Crockery, Glassware, Cutlery, Teak Iea Cheats, etc.
Teak Bedsteads with Mattresses Teak Wardrobes with Revelled Mirror, Dressing Tables, Teak and Camphorwood Chest-of-Drawers, Side Tables, Travelling Rugs, etc. also
A Quantity of BLACKWOOD FURNITURE
and
One Large Combination Safo
("Shaw Walker").
Four Enamelled Baths. Two Grand Pianos,
On View from Thursday, Nov.
ember 5, 1981.
Catalogues 'will be issued. Terms: Cash on Delivery,
He was вел
LAMMERT BROS
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