THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1951.
London Express Servic
"Dad he's pinching our coal.”
CHRISTMAS & NEW YEAR FESTIVITIES.
HONGKONG
HOTEL
REPULSE BAY
HOTEL
XMAS EVE-December 24th
CALA DINNER DANCE
till 2 a.m.
PENINSULA
HOTEL
XMAS EVE December 24th
GALA DINNER DANCE,
till 2 a.m.
BOXING DAY
December 26th SPECIAL DINNER DANCE !
XMAS EVE-December 24th
GALA DINNER DANCE
till 2 a.m.
XMAS DAY-December 25th
SPECIAL TEA DANCE
4.30-6.30 p.m.
NEW YEAR'S EVE -
NEW YEAR'S EVE —
December 31st GALA DINNER DANCE
till 2 a.m.
December 31st
GALA DINNER DANCE
till 2 a.m.
NEW YEAR'S EVE ----
December 31st
GALA DINNER DANCE
till 2 a.m.
NEW YEAR'S DAY ---
NEW YEAR'S DAY —
January 1st, 1952
USUAL DINNER DANCE.
NEW YEAR'S DAY —
January 1st, 1952 DINNER with Classical
Music.
January 1st, 1952 SPECIAL TEA DANCE 4.30 6.30 p.m.
'Should auld acquaintance be forgot
HOGMANAY-IN EXILE
And never brought prescribe Scotch). to mind
Churlish Sasserach souls are prone to suggest that
one
night, after all the Christmas revel- Holy ries. As our watches signalled midnight, we drank from the rusty guarded wee bottle of Scotch-all that was left in
by then.
To the accompanying
shores
liberal liquidation. I would fine river in time to welcome enough, for that
the New Year on the opposite anyway, to embrace the bank. The mellowness of the City in a full, if uneasy, atinis occasion did not dim recogn- tice
of the tion of ne loveliness midnight hour, with the full In memory's revilings, noth- moon's rays altering through ing status ou, more disturbing- the palms to silver the historic ly than our first Hogmanay In
in the freezing hut we toasted waters. And
In hoarse England, and our first in Exile! he New Year in what recked we if the ccasion did provide our it will be charitable, no doubt, creaks that fortunately did not
the o make clear that dusky boatman, gule of his illustrious ancestor. an early stage In Wogh War II, Ali Baba. with easy opportu and that this particular Hog
a Sco s- manay found us in what seem- nity to extort from
for once the fils ad lib. iha alght to be the lone-
Hasparr
at hest Ack-Ack site ever.
By DOUGLAS COBBAN
HE ingrate who re- the real inspiration of log- sents the ubiquity of manay is to be found in the the Scot would be opening - rather opened-- puzzled no doubt if told Scots bbars (they call them that these opening words pubs in England). What of
of Auld Lang Syne repre it? It is to be amator- sent for the Scot, at home ed, after all, that d
or abroad, an unending Year's Day its if not challenge
to him
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rafe the subconscious prerby "authority" we had the temerity to render a stanza of
Lang Syne.
"We'll tak' a cup o' kindnes :
"For the days v Auld Lang
Sync,"
Across beds
THERE we were in this South-
Wha ern England camp-two lone,
a Hogmanay!
between our the spart Scots, newly-at sched
two hands clasped in sympathy. rounded by a regiment of la-
Englishmen, Bod
Should auld acquaintance H alfferent few yet more Indifferent forgot? I fell asleep wonder- "Welshmen, whose sole concern ing
was bed
accus-
no
There have been other queerly st.usted Hogmanays. his drop of spirit can be secured Hogmanay, for example,
with t:m-toms maintaining relations with the rest of in any Scottish lar to gave the
with rivalry тола опода
the mankind. Believe me. it the New Year the necessary
drone of bagpipes as we went weighs heavily upon him, auspicious start. New
n congo-ing round a huge bon- year in, year out. With the Year's Day is a holiday for fpe in the African "bush." A exception, of course, of one all Scotlarid-for the inn- truly witching hour, with fire- for lanterns night in
the flies as substitu.e the year-Hog keeper as well as
to help carry out the traditional Bed! On Hogmanay! It took Wherever he may brewer. manay.
"Ars. footing" before daybreak hours to get ourselves be that night, he then be- Which brings me right down Back, still earlier, to a
a Hoe om to the shock. In the end business amazing
was jovial we, too, found there manay with spuriously Bs free
as to the comes
In th spirits awaiting the crash uf escape but bed (the term, of ever Rabbie Burns could clebrating Hogmanay
places of this earth where one the next terrorists' bomb in course, being used euphemist!- have wished for. His spirit can get a drink, if ove 13 60 the hallowed "peace" of Jeru- cally). By the light of a torch,
thirstily inclined.
New salem. The crash that never my fellow-sufferer and myself soars, untrammelled.
Years Day Ainazing? Well, came, however. The spirit of shared the only bottle of beer
proved de- Hogmanay
strong the carty-closing Nau had left Gone for this one glorious admittedly the viewpoint night
are the cares he ends on how effectively or in- effectually Hogmanay itself shoulders for the world
has been celebrated. The New from during the previous 364 Year's Day
might well days. Cone
earn the adjective comforting called nationalist inhibitions in certain post-Hogmanay cic attributed to him-drowned cumstances "Hair of the dog" (literally maybe) in the is the more crude and way of expressing the
the are
$0 some kindly boppie"
spirit of his all-encompass ment, I believe.
usual penti.
fine #
romantic flavour in recollection of nur
ing compassion for man- kind. It can be argued by the less enlightened that the aforesaid spirit seems THERE'S to be pretty dourly bottled- up except for the saving Hogmanay Nicht. We'll let that pass.
on
AN EAR FOR HIS
GIRL FRIEND
By J. W. TAYLOR
[AYBE you have had to armed, who sells oranges in
the streets, prisoner for 12 months".
MAYBE you have had to barrow about
B
G
be
THE FIRST
CRACKER
1860 Tom Smith looked at Yuletide log burning in an open fireplace, heard it crackle and had an idea.
He changed the Christmas cracker from a piece of twisted paper with a sugar almond in the centre to a shape we know today and put a detonator in the centre to make the "crackle".
Today 300 pairs of nimble hands are working at top speed at the factory off Finsbury- square EC.. making crackeri which vary in size from threa inches to seven feet
The work is all done by band and
the hands are those of giris His benefactions created such who have become
50 expert happiness that he paid another that they put together the each hundred guineas ten days later 12 pieces of paper in to free more debtors.
cracker with lightning speed.
There was, too, the expensive
which somewhat and amus meals, that the Queen's
Was
Hogmanays spent as an exile. buy problem this Christmas- Ever been on Coney Island tide. Vincent Van Gogh cer- on Hogmanay? I haven't. But tainly had, for the famous I
It's bet
fun. Blackpool,
artist was too poor to afford Brighton, Festival Battersea - throw them all in and they a present for his girl friend. could not offer more, I swear, Love, however, soon found a seasonal gift to Queen Victoria than the "Coney Island" party way. At least, Vincent did from an Oriental potentate BEFORE engaging in some shy last Hogmanay spent in he cut off his left ear and
embarrassed and amused her. He thought recollections, pleasant and my
Baghdad. All the fun of the gave it to his beloved for
Hice hia otherwise, of Hogmanay fair and what Scot doesn't
Christmas.
own, were cooked in her privato celebrated in exile, it may enjoy that was to hand. There
epartment, Until his death he be advisable to guide the may not have been unlimiter
of antive-hors Scotch One of the strangest Yuletide ent the Queen a silver frying uninitiated a little further vibe alive works tut offerings was from Robert Louls pin every December and
Stevenron. It was the gift by proud' to receive a carefully into the mysteries of the over and the "emitur" All Great Occasion.
costly and scarce. Highballs of deed poll of his own birthday worded and courteous acknow Canadian rye and
high-jinus, to a little girl who celebrated ledgment. A hint seems to have been dropped eventually, for Hogmanay-may have its however, mixed excellently in here on December 26.
his successor cont her a shawi gleeful opening (as I, with this American sample of a real Scote, "lot - the - hair » down,”
The popular carol "Christians, each
year. some regret, can vouch) at Hogmanay revel.
Awake Was written by John Wainwright, organist of December 25 must have been any time in the 24 hours
Collegiate Church, Manchester, a most disappointing day for proceding the midnight wel-
a bit of Scots dancing That as a Christmas present for his the wife of an American million- come to the New Year. The was made up for before dawn, daughter, Dolly, who found the are the your he was secking celebration's end, on the however, in continued celebrat manuscript of it on her break divorce. For months he had Jone on the home front of res fest plate of the morning of Been ying to have tho other hand, is entirely de- :
ecessary pape servo pendent on individual dente Fries in this Capi- December 25, 1746.
tal of this Calinha, Banks to
but
hitherto capacities, in quite a variety her thedes, which must have Thomas Guy, founder of Guy's
ovade Came that fateful, Christ of directions. These range hoon more than eildin ruffled Hospital Tandon, in 1721, intercess
anwonted Hogmanay | preted the wairit of Christmas me mom, There on from intake of ginger beer by the
ful trappings The weltement mind alas furns" with no release of poor people morton box resplendent in all its colour- Overcome her
Onlu own thinà una miančina,
?
(for the youngsters, chief ongoings of this memorable Better than most off by afpind him what plote wa
16""" hundred guineaf the
ly) to the devouring of the
[soude guaranteeing, indigen-
Breed for debt one or thien!
tho
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and mrükk baution, abe-opened the
or rahian alte
Tickets and
Reservations at respective
Reception Offices.
£he Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.
1 Xmas
Gifts R
CASHMERE CARDIGANS
of Distinction and Quality
Cox Moore, Pringle, Braemar LEATHER JACKETS — Californian, Monarch DRESSING GOWNS — Jaeger, Tootal, Botany
-
RAINCOATS — "ANTIRAIN" Woollen Gabardine MANFIELD SHOES & SLIPPERS
in different Qualities, Styles & Colours
and some Suggestions for LADIES:—
HANDBAGS, EVENING BAGS, DRESSING SETS, COMPACTS,
CARDIGANS, JUMPERS, GLOVES, NYLONS, ETC., ETC.
Save
your money
and time at
Gift for Her!
Revlon
20 Maykain Co. bed.
X'mas Gift Sets
China Bldg., Opp, King's Theatre.
NAIL ENAMEL. LIPSTICK
MANICURE KIT
AQUAMARINE LOTION
Obtainable from All Leading Stores