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the increase in the number of road fatalities. And we can remember the atrocious posters with which Bome County Councils tried to educate the public. "Mr. Facing- both Ways" getting safely across a motor crowded street, and "Mr. Absent-Mind" squashed beneath the wheels of a motor truck, with gore of the reddest all over the Picture. Something in that line might be done at the Railway Station and at the wharfs
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1932.
HAPPINESS!-
WHAT IS IT TO YOU?
Money May Talk But It Cannot Purchase Happiness,
[By Collette,]
Any how an Automobile Associa- tion is a very necessary society in this congested Colony. but they must have more members, and es perfect contentment arising from pecially more Chinese car owners, fortunate conditions
If happiness means a state of On the other hand, good health is a necessity. There is nothing that I
of life, no would hate to lose more than this. For losing one's health means a slowing down of activity, and we can never be active enough in life.
if they are to work effectively. And worries, and a path easy to tread, if they don't do good work, it isn't then I want none of it. Life is not for want of scope.
made up of the sweets of existence alone, and living is useless if wo do not experience every form of self- expression.
Good Eats.
A life that is devoid of accidents is like food without salt or savour. The last report of the Hong-Kong It reminds me of those American and Shanghai Hotels Company, tinned foods that are so repellent Limited makes good reading. If to a fastidious palate. I have caten this Colony does not absorb a large of these delicacies and I do not share of the world's lime-light, it want them.
Another element of happiness is the capacity of making something presentable of the flabris of a shat- tered hope or love. Instead of be- wailing misfortune let us pick up the bits and stick them together again. It is wonderful how much we can do if we refuse to be beaten. Writing is certainly not happi- neas, for unlike other misfortunes it never leaves you. It is a yoke light-
from which you
still seems able at times to find As for the paradise that we are. men with the brains, energy, and told to look forward to in our nexty assumed initiative to build up great business existence, the thought of it gives concerns, and business concerns me shudders down the back. with interests extending far beyond Her vens! think of all these harps.
With the bounds of this island.
Alteranting Feelings.
What we want of existence is a
a capital of Fifteen Million Dollars the Hotel Company definitely takes; its place, after "The Bank" and The sequence of alternating feelings. We must accept the good things of life Union Insurance, among the Big as the child does, and we can only Three of our local companies.
do this if these good things are oc- casional interludes in the Play of Life.
of
can
never free yourself, writes Collette, the French novelist, in the Ceylon » Observer.
There is a great difference be- tween writing for writing's sake your living. and writing to earn
for Writing
writings Bake only be fitful at best; the mind is undoubtedly pleasant, but it can
is
A3 B humble student of!
not always attuned to it. True rest gastronomy in Hong-Kong our ex-
Is only gained through laziness of perience runs back into the clark Hong-Kong Hotel
A banquet is only pleasing when mind or when thought is unfettered ages, when the was hopeless, and the only place to
it is of rare occurrence. We all love by time. So the writer who writes without thought of gain will never get a decent meal was the little old novelty, and a constant state.
be prolific. hostelry in Pottinger Street, with happiness is not that. In one of
A Vain Hope. Maeterlinck's books one its
of his two storey fronta
both
Writing to earn one's Ilvelthood heroines, on being asked if she is to Queen's Road and whati
happy, answers: "Yes, of course. Ition is shorn of most of its attrac- is very different, and even inspira- then the Praya,
now called the City Beautiful.
But was like so many bright thoughts it fell Des Voeux Road, yclept the Old am happy, but I am sad.""
Victoria, and managed by the late
If we were immortal, probably the tised feeling that comes on stony ground.
Now don't think that we are not William Farmer of pleasant memory. when we have had more than suffi- ciency of good things-praise or sympathetic to the motorist, and see The New Victoria, even with its door to Ice-House Street, never the need for greater parking areas
¡caressee or good food or amusement in or near the business centre the town.
personally would dread this ever- in
lasting fellcity more than anything else,
Why, we get bored listening to
Hong Kong. Tuesday, April 5, 1932. form of a
Automobilarious.
want
curs
over us
ion when you realise that your copy has to reuch the publisher by a cer- Eain date. I would give anything not to write for my living, but it is a vain hope for 1 spend
earn and make no provision for the morrow.
of seemed to catch on; and for years would never overcome us; but I Penny that I
it was a common gag that you could
on any ship get a better meni the harbour than you could ashore in Hong-Kong.
But with the urrival on the scene
pe
even the wittiest
conversationalist
after a certain time!
Firat Feeling. No, happiness as I conceive of it
Good Health. That is a lesson many careful and
every
tial to happiness, but the question A good digestion is another essen-
always arises sooner or later as to whether it is worth having. A good digestion invariably leads to a bad figure. especially in France where the temptation to indulge in good things is exceptionally strong. An Art.
I have always had the misfortune to possess a sound digestion, and so
have long given up trying to have
a figure.
Above all, to be happy means to
Happiness is an
even
of us have so forgotten how to ac-
quire it that we seek it in the most extraordinary places. All the freak movements, like the Nudists or
If it is inadvisable to burrow, why not soar. Why not have a car İpark building of many storeys,
Moat American cities and some Brí-) tish have had them for years. You of Mr. J. H. Taguart a change came of our epicurean simply run your car on to the piat-o'er the spirit
With the opening of the hoist, get a numbered dream. ticket for which you pay a amall Hong-Kong Hotel Grill Room fee, and go about your day's work, began to appreciate what high-class is like a fast moving film whose themes are constantly changing secure in the knowledge that your food, properly served, really meant. car is safe for the time from thieves There we renewed our acquaintance and graduating from laughter to and the weather. Your day's work with the best of British cookery; tears. As we are made of flesh and we must taste of every there We became friendly with blood so At the past meeting of the local done you return and present your Automobile Association about the ticket, and within a minute of time American "Good Eats" we had pre-experience to which that flesh and
blood are subject. The viously unly known through the
ƒ be natural. All the poseurs of life at the most there's your car.
Capacity of feeling, then, is the are playing at happiness. Be your- only grievance ventilated was the
hoisting, storing and arranging of columns of the Saturday Evening | of convenient and sufficient the cars, often of many hundreds in) ¡Post. Keeping off French cookery first condition of happiness, that is self, give way to every feeling. Be parking areas. Two suggestions the one building, is done by electri-(which is not everybody's fodder) to say capacity to love and hate, to angry, passionnte, tender or came before the meeting, neither of cal machinery, and the labour costs we aver that not in London, not in feel pleasure and pain and to be spiteful at will.
in San Francisco, capable of the higheat and the
Restruint of any sort is the very of the outfit are infinitesimal. And New York, not
lowest. which awoke a notable amount of the building pays its way, and deals which cities we take to be in the
antithesis of happiness. That is Money in itself will never bring why people break away so often enthusiasm. The first, that
we with our old friend the long felt fore-front of Anglo-American gas-
appreciated it from established law or convention. should take our Baby Austins and want. Some day when the Gov-tronomy, could a meal of equal happiness. To be
art that is often never I'Un after ignored burrow under the North side of the ernment has money to invest we re quality and variety be obtained for must be the result of one's own hard
served in work. I have
or overlooked, and many commend a parking building for the samo money as was Murray Parade Ground fell flat be their kind consideration.
the Old Grill of happy memory in money because I was brought up to Of course the spend every penny I had. Possibly cause it would not greatly augment Failing in the effort to move the its early days.
for further parking favourable exchange had something it might be better if I had inid some the area at present available. The Government
facilities there is another matter to to do with it, but maskee the cause, by for the future, but happiness is second, that the Government would which we think that the Automobile the fact remains.
And we did not of to-day nut of to-morrow.
Back-to-Nature advocates, are the .pression of this craving. go back on themselves and allow Association might well devote their have to yeli ourselves hoarse taking
People seem to forget that it is a to park again on Pedder attention. We refer to the educa-in opposition to a jazz band, nor
matter and very Street, or at least on the West side tion of that gentleman known in tangle our unwilling feet in a fox provident people would do well to purely personal
We went there to learn. Then there would not be easy to obtain if you set about it in of it, seemed not without appeal as the "Jay Walker."
the home of picturesque phraseology trot neither.
we came away so many rich old men in the world the right way. I am happy because To see the eat, we eat, and
who have never really enjoyed one I accept life as it comes and adapt and on that here and now we join Jay Walker in all his glory one knowing we had eaten.
Wide as the scope of the Hotel day of real happiness in their lives. I myself to it harmoniously. issue with the local speed fraternity.must come to Hong-Kong. The air
When the local authorities barred of unconscious and lordly superiority Company's activities are we suggest the parking of motors in this, the with which be (and she) barges that there are yet other fields to con- To the South of us there is very centre of the city's congested into the hurrying traffic is
anquer. activities, they displayed an amount abiding. if aggravating, wonder, a place called Singapore where in of common-sense, a consideration At his best he la solus, merely an the matter of nourishment the na-
The concert in aid of the St. for the comfort and for the health erratic and meandering entity. Atives are still in the dark ages of
Their Bus Peter's Church Funds, will be held News reached the Colony yester- of the general public, and a very ad- his worse he is travelling a hawker's the eighteen-eighties, mirable good taste and care for the emporium, or * Perambulating tenance, we learn, is confined to this evening at the Helena May In day of the death in Scotland on amenities of the City worthy of all bundle of sixteen-foot iron bars. gula-malacca and pink gin slings. stitute, Garden Road, instead of at February 28, of Mr. James Simp- Bon, for many ears in the service commendation. To throw bouquets And he is always there, millions of and their partiality for their one St. John's
of the Talkoo Lock, who retired in Is not our habit of an afternoon, him, and then the Police want to sad only gargle may be judged by originally arranged.
the fact that they have distinguish-gramme starts at 9 p.m. sharp. 1927. He was 54 years of age. He but on an occasion such as this we put down hooting.
is survived by his wife and four don't mind spending twenty centa motorist in Hong-Kong (which God ed it by the name of their beloved
island. It seems to us unkind to The plucky resistance offored by daughters, one of whom Is Mrs. forbid!) we would not want a harm- in Flower Street.
Icave these sophisticated islan-a Chinese woman in Nelson Street, C. E. Terry, who is in Hong Kong. A friend of ours, one of these lads less hooter on our Rolls-Minor. We with a restless mind and, for Hong-would want a gong going all the dera to their one pudding and their Mongkok, yesterday was responsible The sympathy of many friends will solitary-if succulent-drink, when for the frustration of a robbery.be extended to the bereaved family. Kong, an abnormal
a Fire Engine, and a of the time as on
the Police the aesthetic, thought and suggested cow-catcher in front to deal with the there is here a Company with the In her report to
capital and managerial victim, Wong Yung, a widow, sald that the Government might even remains like that on the prairie necessary
attacked by two bring Flower Street to the centre locomotives. The trouble is of ability to convert them to the usual that she
Of ruffians who threw her to the ground of Pedder Street. He did not course with the Law, which gives dietary of civilised peoples.
course the day for such missionary and attempted to rob her. mean that the flower, merchants to all travellera equal rights on the effort is not yet; but when the raised an alarm and the men made should be allowed to stray in die-King's Highway. orderly, if gorgeous, profusion: all amended to inform the pedestrian nancial clouds that now rest on their escape without stealing any- over and beyond the confines of the that the only right he has regarding Raffle's Square roll away it would thing. The woman stated that she area properly available, a rabble of the centre of a busy street is the scem an obvious and a kind thing suffered abrasions which were
Ito do.
ceived during the struggle. demi-semi nudists pestering the right to be killed driving in crowd-
If a well-fed community means passers-by. He Intended the Goved Eastorn cities will always be a
a happy community then there are erament floral experts to size the nightmare,
While we disclaim all-intention of worse places than Hong-Kong; and opportunity so obviously presented,
in the managing director of the and erect up the middle of the dictating to informing. street' a row of well-constructed and educating anybody, we don't mind H. K. & S. Hotels Company the com- artistically-designed Kiosks where at times culling flowers for the beni-munity has one of its benefactors. in the flower wallahs, clothed and in fit of our friends, such as the And if it were possible for anyone arriving in Hong Kong to-morrow under the rank of Royalty, or a by the ss. Ranpura from Home auch minds as they possess, faight Automobile Association, from the Governor, or a Banker to enter the Mrs: Chapelle is well known in the In order and decency disclose and garden of our experience. We can select and permanent society of South of England Musical Festivals sell their wares. It seemed a bright remember the early days of motor Statue Square we know of none and has had many successes with thought, and would have set Hong-ing in Great Britain when the au- Kong some way on the path to be thorities were getting worried by worthy than Mr. J. H. her choirs and pupils at these
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