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EXHORTATION-
Many Wimbledon players had been receiving anonymous pack- ages through the post. Each con- tained a bound copy of of the Gospels.
On the flyleaf a message was writtens
dne
"Please read a little of this day. From a Friend."
TO-DAY WHAT MAKES
ROMAN
VICTORIAN AND THESE
TIMES COMPARED
STILL SCOPE FOR SENTIMENT
AND GLAMOUR
(By Denise Roberts)
ROMANCE, in the sense accept- the mediaeval maiden. The race eached by the Victorians, noting driver in oil-strained overalls
longer exists.
and goggles can inspire as much Right through the reign of the sentiment as a knight in shining CARRYING OUT HIS CONTRACT great Queen and her devoted Con-armouri
Romance beats in the hearts of sort there ran a romantic vein so The story is told of a man who rich that it thickened into a some those who watch Sir Malcolm is scrupulously exact in his fulfil-what nauseating treacle It was Campbell break the speed records ment of all contracts.
the age of lovesick swains and on Daytona Beach, or the millions He went into a taxidermist's languishing maidens. of moaning who read of Amy Mollison on her the other day and having ascer ballads, sentimental melodramas long flight across the world, or tained that the shop could supply (which to-day become roaring far- of Scott and Black winning the live animals, gave an order for a ces!), of hopeless passions, and great race to Australia. Romance sack of rats, a bushel of fleas, and of hysterical elopements ending waits for the cheerful queues who four hundred mice.
line up for the new Garbo film or fat Gretna Green.: The taxidermist. 2 Tittlel These are only some of the in-who surge through the streets to astonished, offered delivery within gredients of the romance of the catch a glimpse of Bergner, or three days.
bygone age which, if one may use Fairbanks; or Walt Disney, whose "That's no use to me," said the the word. has been "debunked" in coloured cartoons are surely littler man. "You see my lease is up to the last few years. Romance is a gems of sheer romance.
and mystery- morrow, and I have to leave the thing of glamour bouse in the condition in which Iị To-day we may have glamour, but found it."
where is the mystery?
Your Daily Smile!
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Distant-Countries
Go One Better
motor-
There may not be so much time" wasted in sighing under the moon, but modern lovers plight their
were Distant countries
once troth as they rush through the spoken of with wonder and amaze countryside in cars, on
They have Little Mary accompanied her aunt ment because they were never bikes, on bicycles. to the beauty shop, and was much in-seen-
their caravans, their camps, their terested in everything.
To-day, people with the most picnics. They hike, they swim, "Well, Mary asked her mother moderate incomes take their plea-they find romance in fresh air and
upon her return., "what did you see this afternoon?".
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"I saw Aunt Jane getting The China Mail the revenue from tourists will
build itself up into a substan-fingers sharpened," said Mary. tial figure One thing. so far as
Keep Your Distance Customer: Hong Kong, Thursday, Aug. 15, 1935. the business community is con-
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limburger cerned, that is very essential in cheese good?" the successful building up of Grocer: "Good? It's unapproach- such a traffic is that tourists able!"
Circumstantial Evidence. must be treated fairly by the
"Every time you are naughty, I
111 business interests of the place seem to get another way hair," said facts from That is to say, they must feel mother sorrowfully to ber small globe. Nothing is hidden. The Chairman of the long that they are getting value for daughter.
young people cannot be kept in Kong Travel Association has re-their money, and are not simply
"You must have been some chile the dark. The truth about sex, cently issued an appeal to a con-being fleeced to make a trades-when you were little," replied daugh about crime, about anything is
ter. Just look at Grandma.” siderable number of firms in men's holiday. Nothing so puts
their prerogative, and they get it!| the Colony, asking for their acthe back up of a spending
Membership Drive
The sugar-coating in which our tive support in the furtherance traveller so much as to discover A tramp was sleeping of one of forefathers concealed facts has that he has been thoroughly the greens of a golf course, and the been dissolved by modern science
sure cruises and discover for sunshine Nature! And what her themselves the festering sores he can be more glamorous?
Our grandparents, with their hind the glitter of the East, and the unromantic odour of the un-fear of stripping off the veil, only too frequently the per-walked washed masses behind
through romance to bitter disillu- fame and the spice!
But we go one better. We Cinemas flash forth travel pic-sion. tures for those who cannot go may start without many illusions abroad. Newspapers present and walk unexpectedly straight.
of the intothe arms of Romance.
Our
of the objects at which the As- sociation aims. He states in
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corners
the circular that the Association Imulcted in the purchase of an secretary, prowling around the course, and psychology, and by the free- article which a regular resident Prodded him none too gently and told
him to clear out
and easy literature and open dis- "ooks confidently for support of the place can get at half the "Who are
you?" demanded the cussion which present stark rez- to the business community of price. There is always a ten-trampi.
lity to a people no longer content Hong Kong” And he might
with sentimental fairy tales. have added that if the business dency to exploit travellers in "Tm the secretary of the club."
this direction, which definitely * “Well, that's no way to get new)
Enlightened Age community can see an inch in defeats its purpose in the long members," said the tramp. front of its nose, it will do run. That is not to say that a
RETURNED BANISHEE COMMITTED
Magistrate Asked To Be Lenient
LOST JOB DURING. DEPRESSION:
Wong Kwong-fai, charged with This is an enlightened age for unlawfully returning to the Co-
everything possible to give its seller may not take advantage HONEYMOON COUPLE old and young. How therefore lony from banishment on Au- fullest support to everything of increased demand in the or- AT MARGATE the local Travel Association dinary run of business; but the
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It is impossible to overestim-tradespeople of Hong Kong
should combine at the earliest! ate the dependence any business opportunity, if they are to en- community, anywhere in the world has on the goodwill of courage tourist traffic to this travellers, in these days when port, and tread heavily on the toes of any of their number cruises. trips, excursions, and
exceeding the legitimate bounds organised parties are ceaseless in this direction.
German Newlyweds Welcomed
can romance thrive, beaten down gust 9, was this morning cem- by the remorseless hammer ofmitted to the next Criminal Ses- facts, facts, facts?
sions by Mr. W. Schofield at the Yet it is my belief that we are Central Magistracy, mama, as romantic as we used to be
Sergt. Mackay, attached to the in a totally different way. AndFingerprint Department, testified the new romance is finer because to the accused's criminal record it is no longer built up of false and produced witnesses to sub- values.
stantiate the banishment order; Thousands saw the Lord Mayor! In place of sweet illusion is which was made out on August
CHINA' MAIL" SPECIAL
London. To-day...
and Lady Mayoress of Margate splendid reality. True sentiment 8, 1934, for a period of 10 years. ly encircling every corner of the
There is ample scope for im-give an official welcome to a replaces the old sticky sentimen- The accused, in a statement civilised globe, and many.
There provement in another direction newly wedded German couple who tality, the last traces of which from the dock, said that he had civilised spots as well are some communities, in fact, in Hong Kong in the matter of arrived at the popular seaside re-disappeared with the passing of been born in Hong Kong and that which depend for their very ex-encouragement for tourists, and sort yesterday. Under an ex- the antimacassar. This age of his father had practised medicine istence on the openhandedness that is in its facilities for enter-change agreement between Mar- speed and commercialised activity in Shamsiwan. He had been em- of travellers Happily Hong tainment. The view from the gate and Cologne the happy pair leaves no time for the slow knight ployed at Taikoo Dockyard zatik Kong is not yet in that stage Peak, either in the day or at from the famous Rhine city are ly system of the Middle Ages, but the depression early last year. of senile decay, because of night, is probably unsurpassed spending their honeymoon at romance, remains a fundamental when he lost his job and for two course, it is the height of econo in the world; but once seen, it Margate, while a corresponding factor, nevertheless.
sumers.
months was without any work.
Driven To Temptation
mic unpreparedness to be des seen, and tourists cannot be English couple are now on their It is merely that the romantic pendent on the casual and un-expected to spend their whole way to Cologne.
ideal is more sophisticated and
At last, driven to temptation, certain traffic of holiday-makers time going up and down the After an address of welcome the material, which must be expect- as opposed to the regular sup- Peak Railway for the aesthetic Mayor of Margate read a message ed with the growth of civilisation, he was forced to steal and was port of well-satisfied local con-joy of looking at the shipping from the Chief Burgomaster of Romantic Literature
later arrested, charged, found guilty and banished for a period In recent years we in the harbour. They want Cologne, who pointed out that
There is a big demand for roof 10 years. But, without mach have seen the fall of the play something a little more ex- these visits would strengthen themantic literature, but even books prospects of a living outside the rounds of the rich in such hilarating than that; and ties between Great Britain and of to-day, like modern poetry, are Colony, he returned to Hong places as the French Riviera speaking generally, in Hong Germany and particularly between redeemed from the trammels of Kong the day following his ban- Monte Carlo asks our sympathy Kong they are unable to get it Margate and Cologne- Trans-pedantry by the tendency of hment and was arrested. at having made only £1,000,000 after eight o'clock at night. Ocean Service. last year instead of the What "cabarets" there are are £28.000,000 she was used to junutterably dull; and besides
authors to relate personal experi- If the law takes a lenient view ences. In so many cases modern of my case, I am willing to abide
making in a good season not so these places there are only the tertainment are unable to afford fiction is a frank exposition of by the laws of the Colony and to long ago Some of the French cinemas, with dances at the the cost of providing a first-fact and truth.
Dance bands draw fabulous watering places, made reckless Hotels to vary the programme class licence, and this leaving
of humour and unreality.
be of good behaviour" he said.
His Worship made a committal
Criminal Sessions.
So Fuk, charged with a similar offence, was also committed to. the Criminal Sessions.
LYSOL MISTAKEN FOR MEDICINE
by the munificence of travellers. The principal reason why the the moral ethics of the matter salaries for the production of gorged themselves in an orgy of cabarets are so dull is that all out of the argument completely music which has romance in every order for the next sitting of the rapacity. thereby killing the the celebration visitors can do is fatal to their chances of beat, but the ballads boast a touch goose that laid the golden eggs, must be done on "soft" drinks attracting visitors to their pre-
There are still crowds who wait to their very great discontent. and coffee One might as well mises. It is well known that on
Now, if the business com-face facts and admit that the these and similar questions the all night to see a royal marriage, munity of Hong Kong get any ability to get a drink when he British Government is the most but even the great personages are such ideas as these into their wants it is a great inducement hypocritical thing in existence; no longer such mysterious figures, heads, the last stage of them to a tourist or to anybody but perhaps if the proprietors and the people find romance in the homely incidents about them will be infinitely worse than the else to visit one of these of places of entertainment got
A Chinese female chid, aged first. Travellers these days are places; and he will get a much together and, with the help of which are giver to the world not all gilded millionaires, to better idea of its entertainment the Travel Association made rather than in fantastic and ex-about six years, name Leu Hing- whom the odd sixpence or £500 Possibilities if he is enabled to representations to the proper asgerated stories
There does not matter very much do so, even if the other fare on quarters, who knows? it might This is the day of democratic offer remains unchanged
be possible to get some sort of shippe travel, when visitors to strange In short, we suggest that the modification of the The gre lands are severely limited in licensing rules be modified if strictions funds and have only a certain tourists are to be attracted to to send amount to spend. But it is the Colony. This is not to re-ing not essential for Hong Kong to commend»tani dled licence or tration or
ible drink at pe
make its amenities so attractive the pr
sing, of No. 256 Hainan Street,
be
was admitted to the Government
bearts
sters are sti but by they can witness in
Bro
rea
Civil Hospital su
effects
tered
DODWELL
to travellers, in general
they will come here: increasing numbers,
even if individually. little to spend in