WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1931.
BEDTIME
READING
THE EFFECT OF THE CRISIS. ›
Revolution in Bedside
Books.
By
(K. A. in the Manchester Guardian).
effects of
the national The emergency for the ordinary person are not confined
to the problem of striking a nice balance between to economy and "wise buying," grumbling over the rise in the price of petrol, or joining in the general speculation as to what the result of the election will be. They strike deeper and farther, into obscure corners of our private life.
SCHNEIDER TRIO,
THE
CHINA
M. C.-L.
MAIL.
Interesting Facts About Their Careers,
-'.
Prof. Baron Anatol Vietingfoft- Scheel, plano and clavicembalo, is descended from an ancient and noble
Children's Fete and Sale of Work.
APPRECIATION OF HELP.
family of Westphalia, which in every generation has produced & musician of exceptional ability. His talents wore discovered and develop ed by Glazounow. He invented the "Chromatophon" and is a distin-uccess:- guished conductor
HELL PASSAGE.
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Battle of the Paint-Pots at Oxford:
. Most Oxford men of this gen- eration know the name of Hell Passago that narrow path near New College - but they will apparently know it no more.
It has been made nameless.. Helen's Passage, as a board to Originally it was called St. that effect bore painted witness but mysterious hands with a few strokes of a brush took the Saint out of Helen's and midd it "Hell!" Descended upon the board once
The President and Committee desire to express their grateful thanks to the following who help ed to make the Children's Fete held in the Volunteer Headquar ters ground on October 31 such composer. Lady Peel for taking so much Brilliant captivating technique and interest in, and for attending the musical capacities are the chief Fete. qualities of this excellent pianist. Lt. Col. L. G. Bird, D.S.0., and Through his exquisite touch pre- the Officers of the Volunteer De-more the official painter; again destined to be a clavicembale player fence The sight was too much for me he knows how to draw the beautiful Headquarters grounds and Drill until at last patience was ex- Force for lending their the midnight erasor erased, Disconsolately I turned my face to tones from this wonder instrument Hall..
hausted, and now the board bears, the wall and tried to sleep. In the that give us the Illusions of strains
like the banner mid snow and ice, morning I gathered from the talk at of okien times.
a single word "Passage.". the breakfast table that mine was Remja Waschitz, violin, an Aus. not the only room in the house trian, is a pupil of the celebrated where the books had been changed, Freenh violinist, Lucien Capet. He
yellow volume by Mr. G. 1). H. Cole on "The Economie System."
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Captain Gouter and the Volun- teers who ran the Rifle Range.
Lt. Westlake and Mrs. Westlake for all their kind assistance.
Mrs. W. T. Southorn for permit.
to satisfy this presumed thirst after played for years in leading German ting' twenty- Girl Guides (Chinese
"We don't know who's respon Bible," said an old resident, "but there are some round here who
WATER RETURN.
don't like the word 'Hell. They knowledge of affairs. Others, it orchestras; later he appeared as a and British, in charge of Mrs.feel it lets the passage down. seemed, had profited as our host anjoist and chamber-musician at W. J. Anderson, all of whom gave It seems, for instance, that the intended for the conversation turn Paris and Berlin.
His play shows valuable assistance) to help in the economic situation has set the sealed into a discussion on the gold the qualities of Germanic discipline tea room. on a revolution in bedside books. It standard, in which I did not join and purity, refined by Romanic The Indies who sa kindly collect- happens that I am accustomed to I fancy I made the best breakfast, elegance and spirit. His extra-ed and sent provisions for the Tea. spend week-ends fairly frequently but my intellectual stock for the ordinary ear for music and his Mesars. Lane, Crawford for in a home where the habit of read-
rest of my stay was well below par superior technique enable him to do superintending the tea ing in bed has been exalted into a
(the jargon is infections).
justice to the style of every epoch. Lieut-Colonel positive technique. My host him- self pays special attention to this
sapect of his guests' welfare. To begin with, the beds are exquisitely comfortable; the linen, wind dried und sweet from lying up in laven- der, caresses tired limbs; the pillows Aufliciently yielding for the head, yet firm enough when doubled to make a substantial prop for the back. A little shelf of books is perched conveniently at the head: there is a soft light above, and a switch dangles over the top rail. Greatest luxury of all, a cunning little book-rest slips out over the bed, allowing the hands to lie warm ly hidden 'under the clothes. Thus elegantly circumstanced, 1
have spent many an hour before sleep in
Nor is my estimable friend alone
has replaced the Bible.
Most Reservoirs on
Island Below Level.
*
the reservoirs on November 1, 1981, The level and storage of water in were as under:
City and Hill District.
Aberdeen Lower
1980 1981
6' 1"B 11' 3"B
14' 3"B 12 2"B
L
1' 6"B 2' 9"B 10′10′′B 10′ 4′′B ‚11′ 8′′B 10′ 1′′oB 14' 5"B 02B [Note: B. denotes "Below Over flow" A. denotes "Above Overflow" denotes "Leval with Overflow."] Storage in millions and decimale of gallons,
1930 342.52 6.29 195.00
Tytam
1931
Tytam Byewash Tytam Intermediate
205.00 7.98 195.90 Tylam Tuk...... 1,380.52 1,349.24 Wong Net Chung. Pokfulum Aberdeen Upper. Aberdeen Lower
17.71
40.78
18.18 44.12
108.24
79.34
Marsden, 0.C., Prof. Wolfgang Schneider, violon-R.E., for lending tables and chairs in his evangelical enthusiasm to cello, the founder and the intellec- for the Fete und S.M. G'amartin restore that gravity to our bedside tual leader of this Trio, papil of for his courtesy and help. meditation which our grandfathers Professor Hugo Becker of the Ber The Hon. Sir Shou-son Chow. thought becoming. Itis action is lin Conservatory of Music, has ap Mr.. Tung Shui-kin for giving 4 Tytam Byewash
Tylam only characteristic of a movement plied himself specially to the play handsome donation of $100 toward Tytam Intermediate which has already had surprising ing of Chamber Music. A typical prizes for the alde shows,
Tytam Tuk ramifications. In a country rectory Austrian-through his veins runs, Commander E. G. Morris, H.M.S. Wong, Nel Chung where I spend a night from time to Halian, Slavic and German blood Tanur, and his helpers (Mesars. Aberdeen Upper
Pokfülum time, I notice that on the table near and his art represents all the super-Davies, Flood, Gott, Gould, the bed where a few books always ior qualities of these races. His Gurnett, Hillyer, Holmes, Harrell, lie, the latest volume of Dean Inge's mobility, his splendid taste and his Jordan, Matthews, Miller, Richard, This seems intellectual adaptivity give his Stuart, Taylor. Tozer and Taylor) to have a significance of its own. rendition such fine shading of sound. for having lent so many games Last April I stayed in an hotel in Extensive knowledge concerning and for 'running them. Shrewsbury where one of the many literature and concert experiences Sergeant Hunt, of the Police, for books which purport to tell the during extended travel, an extra-procuring the Punch and Judy truth about Husaic" had been left ordinary feeling for style combined Show, by accident or design on the chair with good taste, make his concerts Mr. R. M. Dyer, C.B.E., for lend by the bed. There were passages in an event for the public.
ing the Human Seal' apparatus. a confused tumbling over divers it underlined in red ink.
The remarkable qualities of these and Mr. Jenner for being in charge on that authors." The selection
This nocturnal enthusiasm for three, artists, their perfect co- of it. shelf used always to be most entho-learning may be catching for the ordination, create the marvel of
Lady Mary Barton, Mesdames lle in character, differing slightly | general, but it is caviare to me. 1 complete unity. Whether they play Newill, Chatten, Thomson, each time one went to stay. Always hope I realise that every man and trios of the classical,_romantic and Wroughton, and
Farrar, the a new "Ahocker" with a lurid cover woman ought, under present cir-modern literature or Baroque music Missos Nicholls, Newill and that sent pleasurable shivers of
cumstances, to learn something of with clavicembalo, always the au- Howard Smith. anticipation down one's apine as one the mysteries of the exchanges. Idience is impressed with the perfect Paymaster Lieut. W. R. Vallance, undressed, a book of verse, agental have accepted without demur Mr. reproduction of the compositions R.N., Sub-Licuts. Smeaton, R.N., classic such as "The Canterbury Garvin's dictum that every intelli-performed.
and Cobham, H.N.; Acting Sub. Tales" or "Pickwick Papers," some gent citizen should ponder over M.
Lieut. Walker, R.N., and Gunner Siegfried's profound Shakespeare or Mollere, and one of Andre
bul
H. B. Scott, R.N., for helping Mrs. the latest modern novels,
melancholy treatise "England's
A. Walker with the Naval Branch Crisis." But to bring the national
Stall, troubles into the privacy of the bedchamber, to cogitate in the mid- night hours on bimetalliam, khad- dar, and the future of the Liberal party-these things are too much.
Economics at Midnight.
I
GLOWING EPITAPHS.
Floodlighting In Cemeteries.
All the tombs and gravestones
British
Mrs. Dunsterville, Miss Samy, Messrs. Christian and Wells for ruining the gold fish competition for the Military branch.
The pupils of St. Stephen's Girls' College and of Fairlea School for being in charge of the ice cream Miss Dover and Miss Dodds for presiding over the bran ples in Mrs. E. P. Fletcher's unavoidable absence..
and aerated waters stall,
..
1031
Total....... 1,083.72 2,008.88 Consumption of water in the Cily and Hill District in millions and de- cimals of gallons during the month of October, 1931.
1930 Consumption
303.63* 381.018. Estimated population 447,180 381,250 Consumption por
head per day.... 20.2 32.3
•Includes
07.08 from Mainland,
million gallons རྒྱུ་ Includes 89.65 million gallons
Mainland. from City, Hill and High Level Districts Constant supply throughout the during the whole month of October, 1980 and 1031.
Kowloon Main
Reservoir
Kowloon.
1930
2' 8"A
1931 L.
4' 0"B
0' 7"B
Kowloon Byewash Shek Lai Pui
'0' 1"3 Shing Mun Recep-
+0' 0"E 0' 4"B Storage in millions and ́decimals of gallons.
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But of late I had noticed a change, a narrowing of cholec; the lighter books were giving way to weightier volumes in every sense with economics or contemporary history as their theme. The new tendency The night is a time of gloomy in two of the largest cemeteries alarmed me. I have no taste and fancies anyway, and we have Robert in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) will less aptitude for economics and Burton's authority for it that: "all be floodlit permanently under the went this last time to my familiar violent perturbations of the mind terms of a twenty years' conces room, the "crisis" an accomplished must in some sort be qualified besion granted to an international fact, with a sense of foreboding.fore we can hope for any good re- company (reports the My fears, alas, were well-founded; pase." With things as they are, it United Press). the transformation was complete. A in doubtful even if the economiats The lights will be of various aisses Westland, P. T'so, ChanShek Kai
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Goldsmith, Kowloon Main volume on reparations by an emin- und historians will do for us what
Kowloon Byewash sizes. Shallow reflectors Mr. J. C. Squire has engagingly taining candle-shaped
and Lopes for helping at various electric Withers's "The confessed Kant's "Critique of Pure bulbs will throw a soft, diffused
stalls. Meaning of Money"; farther along Reason" unfailingly decs for him light on the epitapha inscribed
Messra, Jillott, Webber, Merri- induce deep and almost instant on the tombs and gravestones. nan, Hawkett, Winterton, Brimblo- slumber. Is it not they would, as readily as venisoned to the company by the "Santa ating
The concession has been grant-comic, Franks and Kingden for the Prisons Branch for supper or lying upon the back, Casa de Misericordia," a religious Stalls. bring on nightmares, fearful trouble-order which holds the exclusive Mr. E. Stone, Donation of $50. some dreams such as visited Lucian concessions for burials in Rio de
Anon (per Mrs, E. P. Fletcher). "Hecatas somnare mihi videor"? Janeiro City and the Brazilian Donation of $100. Shall what Mr. E. B. Osborn has Federal District. called the gentle art of reading in'
ent authority stood next to a copy
of
of Mr. Hartley
the shelf the Intest volume of n history of world civilisation, jostled the newest pronouncement by some amateur pundit, stirred, as so many of them have been of late, to rush into print on the question England's decadence, complete with Gone the drama and romance that used to grace that shelf in handy habitat; in their stead fact and opinion on the pro- blems of the day, solidly, massed in an awe-inspiring row. An anthology of modern verse alone remained to represent the humanities, and it seemed ill at ense beside a slim
panacea.
WORDS WHICH SHOULD BE ELIMINATED.
likely rather
con-
1930 331.52
Pul Reservoir Shing Mun Recep.
tion
1031 362.50 167.46
115.70 113.70
31.17.
32.27
Total
528.25 605.92. Consumption of water in Kowloon in millions and decimals of gallons during the month of October, 1931. 1930 1981 155.58 Estimated population 177,400 201,900 Consumption
150,07
Consumption por
head per day... 28.2 17.0 Constant supply in all districts dur
Mrs. R. II. Ketewall, Donation bed" become a stern and testing ing proved that the company ex-
So popular has this floodlight-f $15.
Adon. (per Mrs. Creasy), Donning October, 1930 and 1931, exercise of the mind? Not without pects to extend its activities to
tion of $5. protest. Next time I go to stay the city of Sao Paulo. with my friend I shall pay a visit. to his library, and march boldly upstairs with Pepys or Alice in my hand for all the world to see.
Programme Advertisers:-King's Theatre, Teater's Beauty Parlour, Pioneer Silk Store.
The reports of the Government Bac- teriologist and Analyst show that the quality of the water is satisfactory.
Total rainfall recorded by Toyal Observatory from January 1, 1030, 96.16; January 1, 1981, 74.87.
STILL FEWER UNEMPLOYED.
Rugby, Yesterday. The Ministry of Labour to-night published figures in regard to un- ther decrease of over 16,000-Bri- employment. These show a fur..
tish Wirolese 'Service.
Hong Kong & Shanghel Hotels |fascinating, bewitching, amiable, Co, Sincero Co., Dairy Farm, like an angel, angelic, seraphic." B.A.T. Co., Hong Kong Electric Co., Here I must confess that the A. S. Watson &. Co., Kayamally, Mesura. Roget have grievously dis- Ltd., V. Rupchand, A. C. Wilkin- "charming" and "convincing" and appointed me, "Interesting" should son, T. E. Pearce, S. H. Langston, "unconvincing" and "realistic" and have its own entry and importance. and C. S. Rossedet for donations "fanciful" and "admirable" and "Interest," however, I find is a syn-and. loans. "unworthy" and "advanced" and onym for "excite," sharing that
Mr. A. E. Clarke (P.W.D.) for "I tvish," says a correspondent, "you would write an article on the orious"-all the old brigade!
"daring" and even poor old "merit-honour with: "affect, touch, move, arranging the electric lights. shortage of words to expresas certain
impress, strike, animata, inspire, Messrs. Sang Lae for erection things. 'Interesting' Is dagrantly an That sub-university system of impassion, amite, infect; set of Stalls, etc, overworked term, and 'sensational education-or, at any rate, device astir; awake, wako; awaken, wako Inspector Alexander for traffic"}
Youth is mean, cruel; narrow, minded, and ungenerous in nearly is another. But there are awarms. for disseminating mixed knowledge; call forth; evoke, provoke; raise and detective arrangements. Ours Ja, in fact, for all the master-the cross-word puzzle, has nop, summon up, call up, wake up, Very special thanks are due to every respect, and it is not unt!!] pleces that have been produce: in 11, doubt extended many vocabularies;
blow up, get up, light up; raise; (1) Mr. W. L. Walker who was they reached middle-age_that_gen- a very limited language." If I mere- but it does nothing toward replacing get up steam, rouse, arouse, stir in charge of all the arrangements erosity, tolerance, and kindliness
Bot од fire,
In-C. Manning, G. P. Murphy, and Mr. St. John Ervine.. flame, luminale,” Ан 17 ex-] G. E. L. Johnson.
ly remark that this request came at "luteresing," which is the real the torch,
fire, kindio, onkindle, apply for the Fete, assisted by Mesary, become apparent in human beingo.
J
au opportune moment, I am grossly bear of the descriptive writer. understating the case, for I can Turning to the latest edition of affirm with truth that my friend's Peter Mark Roget's. Thesaurus, ample of the paternal interest Mr. W. J. Anderson for having grievance has been on my mind day which has been brought up to date (there it is again!) taken by these takon charge of the Fete accounts, after day, for very many (with one eye, I fancy, on the partners in lexicology, Jook at their assisted by Messrs. J. Hosford, W.in other ways assisted in the gen- years; and I imagine that cross-worder) by his grandson Mr,
information concerning the word Edge, T. V. Harmon and Chaneral running of the Fete.
A list of etalls and stall-holdera there are few professional writ Samuel Romilly Roget, I find that "weep, sub greet, blubber, Kwan-ylu. ers who have not been equal Its only mention
pipe, snivel, bibber, whimper, pule; Grateful, thanks are due to the has already been published, 1 disturbed by it-particular under "lovable," the other synonyma tears, shed a tear; melt into tears, consideration and help, to Mesirs. Fete was $2,076.91.
In the Index is pipe one's eye; drop tears, shed Press for their over kind courtesy, The amount collected from the ly, perhaps, critics, no inatter what for which, and therefore I suppose burst into tears."... form of creative art they appraise. for "interesting," too, I find to be inter-I mean what an admwell, Gibbon, Messra, Noronha & Co. stop watch competition and of the What an R. S. W. Paterson and W..G. Fitz- The winners of the twin dolls, How they must recoll from that "adorable, lovely, sweet, attractive, what. book!-E. V. Lucas, in and to all the members of the gramophone, will be advertised in samo "Interesting," and from "at-seductive, winning, charmning, en Turning Things Over. tractive" and "engaging and gaging,
M.C.L who helped at the stalls or due course...
enc
captivating,
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