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RECORDS OF A CENTURY,
FIGURES OF ROMANCE IN DISGUISE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, AUGUST 8BD, 1914.
Since the days of Richardson and the Liaisons Dangereuses, dozens of novelists bave adopted the opistolary method of telling a story; it has possibilities in the revelation of character, as Choderles de Laolos best proved,
of all those
who tried it such We think, however, that nobody has yet written a novel all in agony advertisements from The Times. It would be worth trying; for what are these advertisements, in that celebrated column headed "Por- sonal" but brief letters from one unknown tó another, each unknown
becoming botter known as you read the column day by day? A history of the agony columns would contain, thus, a series of enigmatic romancas, thrilling to. the curious person with detective tastes. We imagino no better training for the ambitious inquiry agent.
Unfortunately, such an expert in agony would, we fear, mies to-day that continu- ance of correspondence, necessary if one is to piece together broken bits of the hearts that display their fractures. In old days, agonists went on, week after week sometimes year after year in pursuit of what they had lost, or what: they hoped to gain. The most agonizing specimens were industriously collected, some years ago, in a small book which gave the best of them for the whole period between 1800 and 1870. During that time we can trace sets of appeals telling the same story, under various disguises. With infinite patience, with an English obstinacy now rarer, apparently, then it WAS.
lovers, half-hidden
separated fathers, prodigal sons, and the other eternal figures of romance, exhaled their flowery complaints in view of the public. It was possible, therefore, to gather a reasonable theory, from so much evidence, of the true state of the case concerning these sufferers. Nowadays, we fear that the agonist does not linger in his pain.
THE AGONY OF 1914
A comparison of the old agonies with the advertisements of to-day has con vinced us, too, that the personalities of
the famous column tend-more and more to be of a pecuniary, rather than of a passionate, order. If we were asked to compose a typical agony of the year 1914 more than a full century since the column started we should give, in
illustration, this:-
Professional man sick of living in town would like large house in country with large income to keep up some. O please help!
Or, again, this :-
Young man, weary of work in no office, Books any sort of remunerative adventure Would risk al, provided he got paid a lot. Gon: Alpinist Can drive motor-car or motor-bicycle. Some experience of flying.
Who will help?
Nevertheless, we cannot help regretting the obsolete agony. In an agony we like to find a paroxysm.
It doesn't matter about the grammar, which is, we notice, frequently very bad from 1800 to 1870 what we cok is emotion, not good English. In these days, indeed, it was held no emotion ever could or should be English. That is why s fine paroxysm of 1851 roads thus :--
William, thou wilt go to sen-thou shalt go; but O Return, and receive the blessing of a heart-brolton father, of a heart-broken Mother! O my son William, my son, my son William! Would God I had died for thee, O. William, my son, my son !
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the familiar aristocratic ignorance of the The young Nobleman, as you see, had
Ladies, and we find ourselves hoping that ways of relative pronouns if not of bis title proved sufficient allurement to the Lady who" he loved at a distance. For another 50 years, the young Noble- man's emotional grammar set the tone of the column.Amiable females abound in it. In 1801 a gentleman tells one of them that he will shortly be obliged to leave town in a few monthe," and we are not surprised when he adds that he is going to Ireland. In no better style, but with feeling as satisfactory, was
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THE CHANGE TO-DAY.
is not style. It is not style that makes But we repeat-the essence of an agony memorable the long correspondences of J. de W. and E. J. Wthe latter of whom and the column from 1851 to 1879. EJ. W varies between finance in of the By Heavens, Madeo!" cipher and Colley-Cibberian turgidity
He appeals in bad English and worse French never with sense, always with sensibility. Incomparable E. J. W You and such as you are dust and ashes, long ago. We shall not see the like of you in the agony column again.
Bort.
We cannot show the change better than by giving a few extracts in chronological order:
02). Incognita's elegant and well- composed Epistle, of the 19th instant, has had all the impression that possibly could be expected; another, with real name and place of abode, may be safely ventured. A immediate intercourse is earnestly requested by Leander,
It reads like a minor dramatist of the Mrs. Inchbald or Mrs. Centlivre period, or, later, of Arthur Murphy and A Curo for the Heartache.?! In this manner, with bared neck and dishevelled hair, beating the breast did the Kemble rouse the pit.... But we doubt whether his poor mother fetched" William by it. The boy had been reading nautical romances. Captain Marryat was but a William's father, who few years dead. was, no doubt, a Samuel-Butlerian father of the instructive type, made classical by James Mill, had warned the boy that if he ever so much as mentioned the sea to him again, he should receive the wrong end of a knotted rope on. .. But we must not dream over William.
Other advertisements invited the imme-future notice must seriously injure me, yet I deserve it, and humbly pray that He who diate return of other sone in 1 more
will pardon me, modern and Shavian manner. As this, knows to "er is human:
softer your heart, and make you happy. dated 1804¦--
(1855) K. Spare the undeserving. Trans grossora there may have been, 'tis true, but none so great I think as you.-A.Z.
If the youth that left Islington on Sunday evening can remember that he ever had a Mother, he is informed he will soon be deprived of that blessing, except he immediately writes with particulars, or personally appears before her....
That youth probably preferred to be deprived of that blessing of a mother, and we cannot help believing that it was the same youth who was appealed to, a few years later, by this
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That, the last word of last quoted agony of our little book, is precisely it. They want money All do nowadays. Agonists such as E. J. W. knew of finer 18 thinga. They wanted amiable females We fear, from their or lost children.
Philip.-Would Philip like to hear of his mother's death f
Perhaps But we are sure he did not hear of it just then. His mother was continued appeals and final silence, that waiting for him behind the door, and they got less than they wanted; while perhaps his uncle, too, for evidently the to-day, possibly, the numbers who want We trust money get more than they deserve.- poor boy's father was no more. Philip never went home. We always feel The Times. sympathy for the missing.
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filial Such maternal, paternal,
The following statistics and notes have demand for Ginger continues to be slow, and bales, Thure is still no inquiry for Woollens there has been no business in Galangal, and no business has been transacted. No agonics, however, have always been less common in the column than those simply been culled from the fortnightly price Cassie Oil is quiet, Star Aniseed Oil change has taken place in Raw Cottons, and
and market report of the Hong sentimental:
with shells. at remain much the same, with a tendency to Wed: per picut, and without shell rise, in sympathy with the fall in exchange half-century or more, were in cipher kong General Chamber of Commerce - Now only simple persons advertise in cipher. Whereas
The stocks og July 30th were 945 of $10 per pical Wood Dil is very quirt, and There is, however, no inclination on a pursuing parent might not discover an advertisement in Patna. 429 of Benares, 1,5341 Malwa and as regards Human Hair prices are per picul part of deafers to discuss fresh business. The exports fah. Hongkong Reuter's under date of Reports from up country are had, and trade Full English, his attention, and, indeed, 332 Persian and Turkish. the attention of everybody, will inerit during the interval were 17 of Patna, 5 of July 14th gives Standard Tin cash 143/3 in Canton and neighbourhood is extremely ably be invited and held by a jumble of Benares, 69 Malwa, Persian and Turkish per cwt, three months 144/D per, cwt. The dull. Yellow Metal is quiet and there are capital letters, asterisks, and queries, or 150. In uncertified Benal opium the balance Yunnan merchants are holding for higher no stocks of Pepper, etc. No sales of coal- by such somehow Irish-looking, dialects of stocks on July 30th was 166 Patna, and prices for their bullion Smelters are firm of importance are reported and the Sugar The importations were 65 at the price given above. The Saigon Cassia market is reported to be strong at advanced as this, from one of the ciphered agonies 210 Benares.
Exportations Market is quiet, and there is no demand for rates. The Saltpetre Market is quiet. No of J. de W. in 1652:-
Patna, and 120 Benares.
There have been small sales of sales have been reported and 5,000 hugs are
The in stock: S. Impi N. api apkl. B. akng. F. omg were nil and no opium was hailed by Gall Nuts «Kbq, 19th nhym, oing, lakh, mig Fiffy Government monoply. A very limited Quicksilver, which remains frn,
The American four market is excited and
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dour prices are inflated; We much prefer to see the sentimental business has been transacted in Bengal Bristles market is lifele
V Old 80, 100,
market stocks are being greatly reduced and New $9,925, Old 89,200
A limited business has been transacted in are now only about 650,000 sacks, Arrivals. appoal in full, or only hinting obscurely opium at the following quotations Patna, that it could say more than it does. For Benares, New 89,050, Old 88,925, V. Old
8,826. Malwa, moderate quantity Cotton Yarn, and owing to the heavy small and it almost looks as though there have will be a shortage a little later. Higher to depreciation in exchange, values. the courtly invitation of this type. you 38,82 have to go back to the Weber period and changed hands, confined exclusively
Quotations have improved 82 to $3 per bale. Market closes prices in the States, combined with a fall- to glance over the columns between 1800 selected best hard drug. and 1830. At the very beginning, in 1500, latterly been adjusted as follows: Malwa, unsettled in view of the political situation
are:Patouts M, $2.60-82.70 per bag, eut No. 12 at 8108-8120. No. 16 8119-8188 offs. M. 82.25-82.30 per bag straight. If the Lady who a Gontleman handed into
years, $8,500,
No. 208 at 8122-8155, Arrivals 8,100 bales M. 82.18-82.21 per bag, seconds" M. 82.15- her carriage from Covent Garden Theatre,
Shipments 150 balea.. There has been no demand for feathers Sales 3,000 bales.
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Bergkong, 11th October, 1913