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Chillon College, on the shore of |Lake Geneva, which has been burnt to the ground, was run exactly on the lines of the ordinary English public school; "but (^ specialised naturally in modern languages."
It was founded about a quarter of a century ago for English boys, and its first headmaster was one of the Lushingtons, of Eton.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933.
THE IMMORTALITY
SAMUEL PEPYS
OF
DIARY OF 17TH CENTURY LONDONER
· ADMIRABLE CIVIL SERVANT"
(By Howard Spring.)
It has always attracted a'sprink-
Three hundred years have passed them careless in his lovely house, ling of Americans., ng
since Samuel Pepys was born. Hejhe "took a broom and basted her." When, before the financial crisis died in 1703. A hundred and two] He is a good son, pays his father's set in, the numbers were at their years later he began to live again. debts, "making the poor man as maximum, the Council bought a The Diaries were published. His merry an I can." He la not so good neighbouring hotel, which it was immorality was assured; and when a husband. He flies Inte rages and designed to use as a third "house." three more centuries have piled their kicks the furniture about, and tears It had not been opened, however, years upon the times that we now up the love-letters he had written Now it is likely to prove useful, know the name of Samuel Pepys to his wife. She is jealous because for the college itself seems to have will still call up a smile for a lovable of his freedom with the servant girls suffered total destruction.
human being, will still recreate, as and with the actresses he meets at
Mr. Alan Parsons.
Few theatregoers know
dramatic critics by sight.
the
| nothing else can do, the very stir the theatres. He is jealous of her
and life-beat of an epoch.
dancing master. "Poor wretch!" he How easily It might have been writes her down again" and 'again; Mr.otherwise! When Pepys died, John and he resolves in a fit of remorse Alan Parsons, whose death occur Evelyn, his friend for forty years, to "laisser aller les femmes for a red with such tragic suddenness, tabulated him neatly in his diary month."
"A very worthy, industrious and He is full of these vows. He was an exception.
The pit and the circle knew his curious person, none in England swears "in the presence of God by tall figure and mass of gray hair exceeding him in knowledge of the path" to give up wine and theatres; as well as did the stalls, for he Navy great integrity...with-but always there is some ingenious had the habit of leaving his seat drew from all public affairs, lived at loophole that salves his conscience.
He is "getting on." When ho soon after the rise of the curtain Clapham with his partner, Mr. and wandering restlessly about the Hewer, formerly his clerk, in a walks abroad his boy struts after house. He liked to see plays from very, noble house and sweet place, "with a sword, to out-do Sir W. where he enjoyed the fruit of his Pann's boy." He buys pletures and everyone's point of view.
Although his methods were un-flabours à great prosperity. He was pewter sconces and makes his gar orthodox, ho never missed a word, universally beloved, hospitable, gen den handsome. By the end of 1666 and his joy in a good play was erous, learned in many things, skill- he can thank God that he has £6,200, profound. He was suspicious of ed in music, a very great cherisher and that he is "abounding in good plays with morbid themes, of what of learned men."
pinte, so as at all entertainments do "Gallic importationa," Excellent! And there was grave serve wholly with silver plates." sun-spots and which manage to he called
Not A Slacker reach us at the Poles. The and of Shakespeare in the modern danger that that was all we should
[ever knew of Samuel Pepys Indus- He is no slacker Up by four in meaning of Dr. Muris's discovery manner.
Alan Parsons rarely left London trious apprentice, admirable Civil the morning" is a frequent opening is not yet so clear, but his mir-
for idle week-ends; he was proud Servant, worthy fellow, fit subject for a day, that is record of hard ror, which reflects waves from a distance that man once thought of being a Londoner. "The coun for an "improving biography by labour in the office, on foot, in the it impossible to, plumb, will pro-and I don't like cabbage."
try is all cabbages," he once said, Samuel Smiles. We should never saddle, ending often at mid-night.
have known that this model of recti- His curiosity is boundless. Noth bably be found indispensable in
tude kissed Nell Gwynn, struck his ing that is happening in the town making the carth the life-
wife, made love to his servants, escapes.him. He knows the taverns supporting planet that it is. It
leathered his serving boys till his and the theatres and the churches, serves to teach
that our
arms ached, seduced the wives of and can pass a competent judgment senses know-but-a-fraction of the
Jabourers, worked like a horse, and on each of them. This is a perfect had a marvellous eye for the fads entry: "To 'church, where a simple and foibles and idiosyncrasies of his bawling young. Scot' preached". No one can expound a scientific marvel But Pepys kept a diary; and the but Pepys is there to see and record. first thing to remember about that Any traveller's tale finds him a book, uniquely lovable, is that it is listener, whether it concern the the diary of a young man. It began anakes that eat larks in Lancashire, in 1660 when Pepys was 27; it ended or something more credible to this
Hong Kong, Tuesday, March 28, 1933. world:
Echoes From Outer Space.
£18
'American Prepositions"
Your Daily Smile.
Which Would That Be? Father: "Who was that young man-I saw kisaing you in the draw- Jing-room last night?”
Daughter: "What time was that,!
Easy.
age.
Dr. Terrot Reaveley Glover of Dad?" St. John's College, Cambridge, is a protectionist. He is alarmed. When Marconi signaled the by the flood of imported Amer- letter "S" across the Atlantic in ican words that threatens to Pat was obviously very pleased 1901 physicists were mystified. submerge the home vocabulary. with life. Later he met Mike. Because of the earth's curvature In a letter to The London Times "Well," said his friend, "how do they had predicted his failure. he reproaches Stanley Baldwin, you like your new job?".
"It's the foinest Are not Hertzian waves long, Chancellor of his university, with invisible light waves? Whoever using there that dire American- "And what do you have to do?"jeffervescence that came after repres-
known," he returned.
asked-Mike...
work."
out of a
-(Continued on Page. 7.).
in 1669, when he was 36. It covers President of the Royal Society. the period when he arose suddenly boyhood of grinding pover. ity into affluence. The wine-bibbing I've ever and amorous excursions which ho 30 candidly records were. the
BROKER WANTED BY POLICE.
Wounding Charge.
saw_lightbend in its flight7ism "to try out." He asks, in
sion, and in that sodden, libertine Professor Kennelly in America doubtless humorous indignation, and Dr. Heaviside in England "Are we to accept it as English, the other. "I just carries a load living, Pepys's divagations were, "Ive nothing at all to do," said age, violently in recoil from Puritan soon proved that fifty or a hun and Cambridge?" He is some of bricks up the ladder to the comparatively, mild. dred miles up there must be an thing more than a protectionist. bricklayer, and he does all the invisible mirror that reflects He seems to be an anti-preposi-!
Tendency. To Exuberance He was in contact with the Hertzian waves around the earth tionist: "Do you notice how
A Chinese male, Tong Kam, 41, example of the most licentious of broker, a native of Shek Ki, Heung -a mirror composed of ions, or "out" creeps in? St. Paul long SUPPLY AND DEMAND. atoms electrified by the ultra- ago told us to work out our own Teacher: "What are the products English Kings and with a Court Shan, is wanted by the Police for rotten with libertines. His own in- allegedly wounding Wong So Leung, violet rays of the sun, The salvation; endless people tell us of the West Indies?",
clinations were cheerful, with a 40, a married woman, of 6, Li Shing Kennelly-Heaviside layer became to look out; "little orphint Boy: "I don't know."
tendency to exuberance. Had he let Street. one of the realities and radio a Annie” (sho wes American, powerful instrument in the study though, from Indiana) warned us do you get sugar from?" of cosmic physica. Man hurls that "the goblins will get you if Boy: "We borrow it from This waves into space and the you don't watch out." Pausing next-door neighbour.
echoes tell him what is there. to compliment tho wandering It is as if a blind man were to scholar on the exactness of his
Teacher;"Come, come!
件
*
A Mild Prolest.
Where
himself go, he could have gone to The woman was admitted to the
the some tune. But a love of science and Government Civil Hospital, at about the arts, a ruthless determination 4 p.m. yesterday, suffering from a to make himself a master of his job, deep Incised wound 11⁄2 inches long. were a curb if not a check upon his over the top of har head and an in-, grosser inclinations. You may de- cised wound 4 inches long over her shout in the hills and to judge by quotation from Mr. Riley's poem, The man and the girl were saypend, we know the worst. He wrote left eyebrow with the faint return how far off they so accurately named, we venture ing good night on the doorstep with no intention to publish, and a bode.
a fracture of jare, how high and even how they to remind him that the fatal pre- when a window above them was
are constituted. A few years position crept in on Shakespeare, suddenly thrown open and a weary minimise his gallantries.
young man does not as a rule The wounding is the result of a family quarrel which took place at Jago Professor Appleton in Eng- too. King Henry V is permitted voice sald:-
lle was a card. All through he the home of the woman, at 2 p.m., land discovered a second reflect to say: "There is no king, be his "My dear sir, I have no objection). ing mirror in the sky. In 1928 cause never so spotless, if it come to your coming here and sitting was the country lad up in town from when the man struck her with a Jorgan Hals in Holland and Pro-to the arbitrament of swords, can up half the night with my daugh Huntingdon. He was lucky enough, chopper.
though the desperately poor son of fessor Carl Stoermer of Oslo try it out with all unspotted ter, nor even to your standing on University startled the world soldiers." The taint of the pre- the doorstep for two hours saying a tailor, to be the cousin of the Earl with the announcement that position is there. It reaches the good night; but out of considera-of Sandwich. The restoration of 800,800 miles out in space in a professor from many sides. He tion for the rest of the house Charles II, gave the Earl his chance third. And now Dr. H. B. Maris tries on his clothes. His under hold, who wish to go to sleep, will to climb; and he took Pepys with of our Naval Research Labora- graduates try for honours. They you kindly take your elbow off them up the ladder. We need not go tory, known among physicists for may even try back in electric bell?" studies of the aurora, tells us mathematics or classic or on that in Alaska he obtained echoes the field, if they are hunting from a fourth, 1,800 miles up. men, Why shouldn't Mr. Bald- Before radio had become an in-win "try out the possibilities of strumentality of science and en- these new methods," as he said gineering we had a crudely at Cambridge, or “try out" any- Salt bars are used as money in has pawned his beloved lute, and driver, reported to the Police that innocent conception of the earth thing else from a horse or an au- Ethiopia. and the universe. Beyond our tomobile to a political or fiscal
Facts You Did Not Know.
News In Brief.
A khaki shirt and 'a pair of white Into the stages of the climb. Secre- short trousers were taken to the tary to the Admiralty was Pepys's Kowloon City Police Station, last job in all the years that matter.
night, by the Kai Tak Bus Company. When we first meet Pepys he is who stated that the articles were living in a London garret, feeding found in a 'bus. occasionally at his father's, we not
having one coal in the house." He Lee Wong, a China Motor Bus
when he gets home at one in the while driving his bus No. 688 in morning he finds his wife and the Salisbury Road, yesterday afternoon,
atmosphere and between the policy? "Stand for" is another New standards of purity for meld still a-washing. He eats red he ran into the rear of Kowloon stars there was presumably poisonous phrase to Dr. Glover, foods and drugs offered for sale in herrings for breakfast while his Motor Bus No. 90 which had pulled nothing but the hypothetical Apparently, he would restrict it Caba have been established by the boots are being mended, and finds up suddenly. ether. What was once the void to candidacies for offices. He government.
a made man. By July be is order moving bus. ing expensive clothes, and with
himself at the Sun tavern with of absolute zero proves to be cites Lewis Carroll's tale of pony links
threepence in his pocket. Sef Hok, a Chinese male, was ad- dynamic, almost alive. There are Hiawatha as a camera man: A century old maple tree, 60 feet But this year 1680 was his great mitted to the Kowloon Hospital, at calcium clouds, electrons, photons, Stating that he would not high, recently was moved on rollers year. He went with the Earl of 6.10 p.m. yesterday, suffering from neutrons, cosmic rays that still stand it,
and replanted in a new location on Sandwich to bring Charles back injuries to the head, caused by fall- puzzle, the debris, of comets. Stating in emphatic language an Iowa estate.
from Holland, and thereafter he was ing when he tried to jump from a Through this chaos we plange.
What he'd be before he'd b Chaos? The word has no place
stand it
A ratchet take up readily adjusts in the lexicon of science, WhatTo-day in America Hiawatha ja new brace that has been invented childish glee gives us detalls of their In view of the great demand for is now the mere flotsam and would say, "He wouldn't stand to prevent a srcsen door angging, gold buttons and silk furnishings, space, the Committee of the Bri- jetsam of the universe will some for it. As a gentleman of the He moves into a house provided by tish Empire Fair has fixed April day reveal organisation. Already oldest American stock, he pro- Berlin maintains a school in the Navy Office, he has £300 in the 18 as the last date on which local Stoermer has comected his far-bably would. Shakespeare and which men, who hope to become des bank, to say nothing of azdining- applications can be accepted. ^ In- flung mirror with auroras; for it Milton, respectable English au tectives are trained in all branches room with, "grben serge hangings tending exhibitors of poultry ars proves to be made of electrons thorities, stand by, behind, with of criminology and law enforce and gilt, leather, very handsome asked to get in touch with the which have been shot forth by and for him.
He has servants, and, finding one of Committee at once.
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