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The Tyranny Of Dress
Clothes
Here There
and g Everywhere
HIS IMPERIAL ANCESTOR”
The claim put forward by M Lescaris and his son Theodore Prince of Thrace and Crown Prince of Greece to the Greek throne need not be taken very seriously.
He bases it on his descent from the Byzantine Emperor Theodore
AFRAID OF BEING ALONE
PEOPLE RUNNING AWAY FROM THEMSELVES
POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS ON
BEAUTIES OF SOLITUDE
(By Very Rev. W. R. Inge, D.D.)
ATTHEW ARNOLD, writ-tide was more severe in some
Lascaris. The example of the for Ming before the days of institutions than in others
And:
even now
tm.es of his forbear should hardly
motor cars, complains that his The Trappists are encom are him.
countrymen are always hurry-pledged to almost unbroken The Emperor, who was a son-iz-
ing and rushing about, so that silence; and the hermits some- law of Alexius IV was Emperore never once possess our times Irved almost like wild in partibur as the result of the souls before we die We are beasts. The hermits have left Crusaders having taken Constan- accustomed to think of our souls very few successors; but to this tinople.
as our most precious possession, day there are thousands of men He ruled for 18 years at the be To lose our souls is final and and tens of thousands of women ginning of the 13th century at complete failure.
yet who have deliberately chosen. Nice, in Bithynia. Gibbon in the most people spend their lives in the conventual life: and as far "Decline and Fall" writes of him running away from themselves as the outside world is permit- characteristically: "His reign was The soul is a gentleman whose ted to know very few of them the season of generous and active acquaintance they have no de wish to leave it."
A Good Rule despairTM
sire to make. If they are con- demned to his society for more It is always a good rule, says than a few minutes, they find Lippmann, to discard any idea him such an intolerable bore based on the premise that the that they long to meet a friend, best minds of another age were to censor a will by the omission
They take congenitally inferior to our own.. from probate of words said to ber even an enemy.
their holidays in crowds.We must try to understand the defamatory of a living person. ·
though nothing is more detest-attraction of a mode of living A case somewhat similar to that able than a crowd
which most of our world find concerning the will of Sir John
Forty miles an hour on the intolerable... Collie, which came before the Pro-roads is not fast enough to get
We may suspect that a great
ASKING FOR ITE
It seldom devolves upon a court
bate Court recently arose a fewi, away from the objectionable many women have taken refuge years ago, the testator being like fellow.. Perhaps if we go to a in the cloister because Cupid wise a knight.. In that instance foreign country he will not find has left them alone, and a great also the aggrieved person was ✡
us. Meanwhile we can always many men because Cupid will Nor is Lady-
chatter, or read, or listen. or not leave them alone.
Cupid the only enemy of peace. Ambiguity in the home-drawn watch something going on.
"The whole world leth in the will gives most trouble to the
Oriental Meditation
Evil One," says St. John... To the Oriental all this is Greed. injustice, and cruelty courts, and it is paradoxical that many judges and eminent legal quite incomprehensible.
For
have made life in the world`so men have failed, to make their in-him meditation is the noblest
unpleasant that the opportunity teations clear.
activity, and "saintship is the to escape from it altogether And So Say All Of Us
The story goes that the famous ceasing from all works” A
seems to many very attractive_ Serjeant-at-Law, Maynard, pargreat many Europeans have The rule of silence cannot be Fame has come to a Manches posely worded his will in obscure thought as he does "Oh, Soli-very onerous, for what is there ter schoolgirl who, in an essay, terms, so that the courts could set-tude, sole happiness!" exclaims to talk about in a monastery? said that "England is the finest tle some very fine moot points St. Bernard. "The nurse of Meditation, difficult at first, may
sentiment she shares with a time.
school and the Board of Education" having
Your Daily Smile!
“Eastas, what am a alibi?**
*
*
Too Much Detail
*
stream
says Lowell "A talent grows not forget that every year spent in solitude, a character in the in a monastery or convent of the world.” is makes its inmates more unfit to Goethe's wise judgment. live anywhere else.. They "When from our better selves would be like snails without we have too long been parted, by their shells the hurrying world, and droop,
Those Middle Ages Solitude and celibacy seem at sures tired, how gracious, how first sight to simplify the pro- benign is solitude!" so Words-blems of life enormously-
Im
Energetic protests are being country in the world." That which had bothered him in his life-full-grown souls is solitude," become delightful; and we must made in the correspondence vast preponderance of the peo columns of the Home papers ple of England and this Colony. against what is declared to be But not it would appear, with a school inspector who, it is al- the growing inclination of men leged, reproved both the child
*A alibi? Why, a alibi is provin when escorting their feminine and her teacher for "an old-you was at prayah meetin" whar you friends to the theatre or to fashioned Imperialism.” Cor-wa'at, instead of de othah place sick of its business, of its plea- other social gatherings, to for-respondence between the mana-whar you was.” sake the rigid formula of "full" gers" of the evening dress. "The English provided no redress, extended Private Shepherd had been in the worth writes, though later he the dark ages the temptation to a week when the sergeant confesses, "I was taught to feel run away from society was man" said one correspondent publicity was given to this dif- aray
perhaps too much the self much greater than it is now asked: "has always had a reputation ference of sentiment by a
"What do you think of the army as sufficing power of solitude."
Nothing is more absurd than to far as you've gone?”...
Poets and philosophers are try to whitewash that dreadful for being a well-dressed. per-question in Parliament
It would be a strange child may like it after a while, he
for example. son. This enviable character who did not believe that her replied, "but just now I think there's not the best witnesses, because period. Read.
mach drilling and fussing the poet lavishes on the objects Luchaite's book on. France in he is said to be "losing to a own country was the finest in too
of his imagination, the atten- the reign of Philippe Auguste. Men are the world. That faith requires around between meals."
tions which common men pay There was no treason in despair. very large extent.”
nurture from Imperialism
Examination Howlers
to their neighbours
ing of society instead of living. exhorted to realise that they no
"A catacomb is the thing on the
Some People
in the world and trying to "never look so smart as in full new or old; it is the heritage of evening dress. This appeal to every boy or giri, only to be top of the rooster's head."
the name of al There are some people. Imake it better; for nobody then the twin instincts of vanity and strengthened or diminished by "Banson
know, who fancy that they are believed that humanity was still patriotism might be conclusive later teaching or experience famous: good-looking cab driver"
"The Pilgrim fathers left the Dutch attracted by Nature, or by God in the stage of the rattle and Any endeavour to child youth- in cool weather. Its effective ful patriotism did not, as might
"The world is account of their langu when they are really only re-feeding-bottle- people on ness is apt to wilt when the
have been anticipated, obtain "Napoleon escaped from Melba pelled by man. But the real very evil, the times are waxins thermometer indicator is hover the approval of the Parliamen- Edgar Wallace was chosen. King poet and philosopher has sub-late, was the universal belief. These communities of mostly stituted the society of ideas for ing round the upper eighties:
tary Secretary to the Board of of Scotland by Edward the First." all the more because the con- Education, to whom the ques- The Merry Monarch was Old that of things and persons; his silent and solitary men and trast between the heat-defying
mind to him a kingdom is. He women are hitherto the only tion was addressed. For his King Cole properties of male and female answer was given to an audience body can do anything in private.
“A republic is a place where Dois lonely not so much by choice successful experiments in .com-
Modern communism fall dress is then maddening which, in its years of maturity.
"Ramsay MacDonald is the prime as because he seldom finds any-munism. ly emphasised: No triumph will hold by an overwhelming mixture of England" of feminine ingenuity has been majority, that the child is so signal as the complete en- franchisement of woman's neck, especially when she is fully decked for the most cere monial occasions, from that tor- ture of restriction which, for men. reaches its zenith in the dress collar.
Tet it would be unfair to the womankind to endorse
suggestion of another corres- pondent that relaxation of the
right
MOTOR MISHAPS
Car Runs Into Ditch On Taipo Road
age
WILS
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
one to share his thoughts. And offers some of the same attrac- when the mystic assures ustions, especially freedom from community, · am that the Divine presence in his anxiety. The soul is the best society, we must the State, exacts poverty and not presume to dispute the obedience, and guarantees
maintenance, however simple. truth of his experience. His Excellency the Officer Ad-
Sociability ministering the Government will But does this justify the inaugurate the filling of the Ju-vast organisations which for bilee Reservoir at 3.30 pm. to-many centuries covered Europe, with milder discipline tinere-
Asia, and North Africa with was, no doubt, plenty of socia day.
monasteries, convents and her bility. Human nature asserted
In some of the monasteries
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There will be a whist drive in mitages, the object of which itself against all the old strict Mrs. A. J. Kew, of 111 Water-aid of the Sheklang lepers, held was to enable men and women rules. And on the other side full rigour of ceremonial turn-loo Road, Kowloon Tong, has re- at the Seamen's Institute, Wan- to withdraw from the society of there are many solitary people out for men during and after ported to the police that while chai, this evening, commencing their fellow-men, and to live among us who do not live the the dinner hour would normally driving private car No. 4037 at 9 o'clock. The launch Day-during the greater part of "religions" life
be interpreted as "discourteous" along Taipo Road towards Fan- spring will be available for pa-jevery day in silent meditation?
by the female sex. The tyranny ling yesterday morning, and trons of the drive, and will leave The rule of silence and soli- that makes men conform to when overtaking a motorbus, she Kowloon public pier at 8.30 pm their uncomfortable dress rulejmisjudged the road and drove the and retum at 11.10 p.m.
The U. S S. Mindanao is leav ing the Colony to-morrow for an unknown destination, it
Vice
is not feminine. It is a minor, car futo a ditch. The accident
The Doorlay Tropical Express though formidable, example of occurred about 100 yards from man's inhumanity to man; wit-the Taipo Market No one was Non-Stop Revue which had ca ness the pathetic mental suffer injured but the right front and successful season at the King's Sir William Hornell,
s of the car sus-Theatre sailed for Shanghai Chancellor of the Hong Kong ing of the man who, mistaking rear mudguards the importance of some male tained minor damage. The car aboard the liner Conte Rosso University, returned dinner, finds himself disfigured was later taken out of the ditch yesterday morning by a black tie and a dinner and driven back to Kowloon. jacket when all the rest of the assembled company is uniforin ly glor
Fall Into Harbour="
their Shanghai Carlton Theatre
An Austin car, No. 2242 owned and will play Mr. E. W. Fielding, of 8 Bay after which
sions, fell into the har- a week at the From the
View
Central
to's "po-
ing park
Road out
They open lony yesterday morning on at the the liner Conte Bosso
ptembe 5 to England and the Can
Members of the Chinese
ppear for
aboard"
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