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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1958.
Pago
"there is nothing-absolutely nothing-hall so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats
Kenneth Grahame
London Express Borvloo
Up! All welcome! Any night after dark!
Hongkong
Roll Up! Roll ALLAN PRIOR calls this the greatest show :in
THERE'S
FASCINATION
WHERE THE WATER WAS
T
a
my
II E reclamation other than (the flood of Chinese probably, after ali, dominate t scheme in the Causeway Bay area has been the sub
deal of ject of a good publicity. Statistics have been quoted concerning the rubble tons of earth and that have been poured in
in the immemorial manner of the weaker sex, Would she be fat,
plain, glamorous, thin, bossy, vague? I feit n sudden
In her. of Interest surge future wife, and leant forward This for his
answer. eagerly
tercely. swiftly- cuine
Three sony."
In he mold, a tour which implied that was all I could possibly wish to
broke in'o English) Joe Lrus!
Restraining
myself by
from will powerful effort of buying "The Lotion," I wandered on. Looking back I saw the salesman hitting himself on the chest and exclaiming "Ha!" A
Now
I could never great man, have sold that lotion....
teller Next I saw a fortune has been who, my Chinese-speaking roan-
IKA" it will be, what will happen decided to have my face and to it, and how grateful we hands told. It cost a dollar ought to be to the Govern, a high price in this market, ment. But the most im-where few things are more ex- portant fact, it seems to pensive than 20 cents.
The man motioned me to sit ine, has been left out. It down. Slightly puzzled 1 looked has come alive.
for the seal, and he Indicated a
and sen
that
pushed out, of how useful paiono Face and
told me, lold fortunes know about her!
"Thrao sons,” he said.
and
For most of the unofficial steal about nine inches long and wide. Obediently right buwkers' market from the three inches Southern Playground has moved 1 attempted a landing and, more there, In this new and far larger by luck than judgment, succeed area the hawkers have found a ed, stretching my long new and happier hunting ground, awkward European legs on it has become, I should say, one either side of the seer. of the sights of Hongkong, well worthy of tourist attention. For it is a fascinating place.
I found it by mistake. I had parked my car there visiting the cinema, and on returning for it 1 saw the lights. There must have been a hundred of them,
"You are very clever indeed," he said instantly. I replied that he was very clever to say so, althougi I did not entirely ugrce,
This
and
ile-
The interview was now. finitely terminated, and FD, giving him the dollar,
walch
had bright for itself niơm than most of my dollars buy, I wan- dered on in search of other en- terlalument.
Variety there was in plenty. A feature of the fair, Inciden- tally, was a number of Chinee chess games in progress, each of them being played for cash. Thic board owners just sit down and wall with their boards in front of them, and soon
romeone comes along and takes one on, although there were
What strength!
also old
A crowd gathers in an instant, man, and a tow women.. They and sidebets fly above the heads seemed to be wives, brought of the players, sitting in the there rather against their will. dust with the lantern smoking They quietly jogged infants up
profes and down between thein. Some
on thelr
+
50
It was not beautiful, it was not seductive-but 11 was cheerful and sensible. It seemed: to say
this could (although have been my Imagination): "This is really quite ridiculous, as I am sure you realise. Here respectably married
1.
with three children, woman waggling my torso at yoli but children have to be fed and I a Intelligent enough to realize that you, being human, Eke to see me waggling at you. So here we all are."
Finally, having waggled for
hotech tỏ Be a very long
she departed, sped by polite plaudits. She was follow- ed by three more wagglers, rome, younger, some older, but I had no eyes for them. SHE had completely stolen my
heart....
4
A little before the end of the show,, which Insted, 15 minutes, I left for the open air, for t was becoming close in there,
Pausing outside to : my lungs, I noticed that the crowd around the tent, though thick everywhere, was much denser
wag
on one side. There it was really i backs. T
soll, and a point that excited slonal players will play severi Occasionally, one would make a
those to her my Interest, was that bad-tempered remark Komes at once.
husband. Now and then a lusty nearest the tent were squatting But the real centre of altrac- bawl broke from the low down And, strangest of all.
they seemed tion was a rather tattered-look- murmur of talk.
to be locking Boom! ing tent which stood nearer the
A gong, herelding steadily at
at the tent. The water.
section I saw it ringed
know by a heaven only
squatting what composed entirely crowd as large as that round mystories! Silence, vast and
of the male at an Austra throbbing Then the gong again, rex. Boys of about 15 years the beer-booth
I old rubbed Han country
racetrack which and another taut silence.
amicable thighs wondered whether I had perhaps with bearted patriarcha means it was a large crowd!
who, gato-crashed into some strange their whiskers gently sweep- A tented entrance tunnel Eastern ceremony not to be ing the dust, peered long and stretched out in front of it, watched by European cyes. earnestly at the bottom of the with a cheerful though half-
lent. Every now and the coinciding it naked character
eccasional gusts of which stirred and Hfted tho
of ragged bottom
tent, there were ecstatic sighs "Ale-yaaahhh.
Then I bent down myself,-
was the and understood. It dressing tent of the wagglers!
I left the fair ground feeling
had decided after being here
seemed
the
with
win't
of
standing the doorway. In the moonlight
and the spasmodic flickering Suddenly the tent filled with a we glare of the hundred lamps of rush of more customers.
Then market, the tent 1he
looked Crash! Another gong---and SHE mysterious, mystic. I paid my came on. 20 cents and went in.
She was, I suppose, within shouting distance of youth and At first I could see nothing, whipering distance of middle but I havo largo elbows ant used age. She wore a cheerful smile, tham to good effect, so that soon ʼn very small two-piece bathing 4 good deal better. Hongkong, 1 was standing near the front of suit-and she woggled.
the mass of lookers on. In front That Is all she did. She a few months, was, in spite of of' mc now was a Flage,
waggled up to one end of the the mile of neon and ceaseless 'caused a shout of perfectly ordinary stage as for as stage, turned, twinkling like fireflies over the laughter from the large crowd I could see, though somewhat down to
and waggled activity, a dull part of the the other end. reaching nearly that
She world, uneven earth,
Now, it seemed, there had appeared magically cure looking. But on the did this for quite a long time,
wos hope. to the water itself And the en-
around us, although it evidently stage there was nothing. terininment to be had there was did not please the seer. I was a
audience, evidently Any night after dark, at I looked at the crowd, which enjoyed it considerably. But Causeway Bay reclamation, the better than any cinema,
spendthrift, he lashed back-I
show in Hongkong! replied, men with expectant expressions, thing about her was her smile. Roll upt Roll upt twenty, I
rather for fear of
and the
Esch with his separate hur- would make a dollar and spend was composes mainly of young what, to me, was the nicest greatest
a dollar
ricane lantern, there stood, sat, mumbling squatted or pranced sellors of offending him again, that only muscle Jotion, love philtres, a spendthrift would wuste horoscopes, peepshows, things money on fortune tellers at a for taking spots off your face or dollar a time. pulling hair out of your nostrils, But this remark was heard and dubious eatables, children's toys,
interpreted. There
of
why more badly
TATTOOS FOR VIRILITY
TE
By John Featherstone
person about four foot one inch he relented and said that my frites, and he will probably tattoo. Is regarded as a badge of classes.
then
years old-but,
18
of tho
aspirin tablets, and, most of all, laughter. "But you are themselves for every one
puld."
he said; angeily, pre- them was a barn salesman,
I should tose umably so face with the crowd. I agreed
TELL the average hairy- Rome, Britain and Gaul, and century when Damplier exhibited
chested scaman enthusiastically.
follows It Into that
the customs of a tatioued Polyneston prince in present-day "primitive". England. After that, nothing. Evidently this put him in a his tattoos are a throw-linck some
peoples.
could stop the crazo until, in ancient tribal virility
the
tattoos became 1890', First to catch my eye, was a better temper with me, for next to
In all cases, he discovers, the popular even with the upper fall who was engaged in a fight fortune would change when
even scoff at you. But that
virillly ad he thinks the with the air. He was the muscle was 30
Until the invention would not have gney what a British export has motive for contemporary tattoo- lotion seiler, and throughout his because of iny spendthrift decided after years of re. Ing is unconsciously the same. electric tattooin 1801, the (most talented) air-fighting he habits, I would just have acarch.
process was pretty, painful and gave a running sales talk. This
Occasionally, he thinks, it has distinctly unsanitary. seemed to
to consist of detailed
Ho said it lovingly, twice Hans Ebesten, who has written branched into pure art. He cites Since then, Mr.phaston claims, history of the many, many boxers Shing Kung, Shing Kung', a book on the subjec, is prob- the case of an American woman, tattoo artists have developed a and wrestlers whose professional Then he shock himself back to
Very had a reproduction of Leonardo's few of them, for instance, willi careers had been in the utmost really and said that was all ably the first scholar to turn his Mrs de Burgh, who, in 1893, staunch code of ethics.
hand to a serious sociologien) until trey used The
had anything to
tattooed across tattoo a drunken sailor. asi: study of the subject. The life "Last Supper' Lotion.Then what a chance unless I
One Japanese artist in prewar Love One Another. Hongkong
best
a sign outside tils What auccess! What strength I had not, but thinking that however, shows that he hasn't her back. Under if appeared a
the interview had been rather book is called, "Pierced Heart awed in the Western world by business If fuddled."
lost his sense of humour. The mollo And, finally, what; grailludes
Tallooing woe formally out shop which read: "I do no Lellers were waved, at this short, I decided I deserved
and True Love.”.
the Emperor Constantine, and As to the modern point, and to my astonished little fuller coverage of my
sign of He traces the art back to an- the ban appears to have stuck virilly, Mr. Ebesteri, 1875, Fart fen the rane ul... Con von future life and asked, therefore, gures, No? --Yes-mone about my future wife, who would rient Egypt; China, Greece, until the late seventeenth not??
"Success"
him.
A
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