Page
A Real DRINK
HEAD BRAND
"BOAR'S
GUINNESSS
FOREIGN EXTRA
STOUT
AL WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION..
BOLE AGENTS:
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY TH, 61924.
GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.,
Tel, Cantral No. 295.
No. 8, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
HONGKONG,
Dont ask for a Disinfectant,
Demand
LOTOLS
it is
THE SORROWS OF JOURNALISM.,
THE FIVE BORES,
Mr. E C. Palmer writes in the Virk teenth Century uml. After:-
Newspaper men very rarely share the feelings of the audience, I speech that will move a thousand people to a great outburst of enthusiasm will leave journalist coll Rhetoric that will press a crowded, hall may either irritate or bore him. Excited appeals to the emotions that will reduce an audience to tears Jeave him unseathel *
Cold, critical disillusimcil and sceptic al-the journalist surveys the world from the press table with amusement nut, un- mixed with cynicism,
FIRST-CLASS SPELKURS
Portups that is why there are so few irst-class women speakers. They sleetine to make use one of their strongest powers -the power to act
There are a few exceptions. Lately Bouban Carter and Lady Astor are among the few feminine Women speak- ers Lady Bonham Carter is in a class by herself, chiefly because she is the daughter of her father, ·Most women appear to think that it is cough. on the platform to speak fluently and sincerely. Lady Bonham-Carter knows better. She knows the value of the carefully thought- out epigram, the tolling phrase, and the whimsical excursion into humbur. She consents to act in the sense that shy con- sents to be witty. She acts, too, in the sense that she varies her voice and ex- The conditions of his life account for Pression in sympathy with what she is this. He spends his time listening to the saying. She writes down her speech in cold. hlbol, Icarus it by heart, and then opinions of other people, and us a speeta- delivers it with the skill and warmth of tor of their enthusiasme, their triumphs the accomplished actress. Sometimes a and their follies, ho hears every side of
copy of her speech is given beforehand n question, not once or twice, int a hun- to the Press talle. I have heard her fol dred times. Politicians, scientists cranksaw the text word for word, with barely of all kinds, pursous, freethinkers, sits at mistake, for twenty minutes or so. She bores, royalty and revolutionaries, are the raw material of his job. There is hardly an aspect of life or thought with which journalist on a Lendon daily is notae quainted. He goes at a moment's notice from one world to another. Within a day
is one of the few women speakers en- joyed at the Press table. And she is the easiest of all to report.
QATDRAL POLITICIANY,
Ariong men there are only five speak-
or two he may have to write an emotionalers whose rising is always welcomed at account of a royal westling, investigate the Tress table. They are Mr. Lloyd imdeg produce light and entertainGeorge, Mr. Asquith, Mr. Winston Chur- ing report of a lecture en elections cruas. chill. Lord Birkenhead, and Lord Curzon. examine a meniher of Government, write They are in a class by themselves. What up a thunderstorm, and interview Mr. puts them in this class! Their freedom Bernard Shaw,
from the excessive sincerity that is usual. ly so marked a fenture of the hore.
Nut long ago a certain politician con- plained that the local Press never report
The next tina, he edhim accurately. spoke he was reported. verbatim with disastrous results. Probably there are not more than a dozen men in the country who could survive such a test.
COLD DETACHMENT.
The result is that, after a few years he lases any capacity he ever bad for bring, surprised or excited." Popular enthu siasms pass him hy. He is in the crowi but not of it. He has something of the detachment of the police; wherever there is a big crowd you will find, a reporter, but he is there only because he has to be. He shares none of the feelings or emotions of the crowd. For him they are merely the raw material of copy." just ng for the police, they are the raw material of disorder or crime.
It is true that this is not the impres sion he gives when he writes his story, Then he appears more enthusiastic than any one else in the crowd. But that is his job. He is paid to be enthusiastic, It is his business to persuade the crowd that they did well to wait for six hours in a hot sun!
Since women hegan to-read newspapers, it has been discovered by news editors that nothing is quite so useful, with the exception of war, as a wedding. Si
ECONOMICAL and EFFECTIVE fully worked up for a month or soy it
SPRAY FREELY.
FLETCHER'S PRICKLY HEAT LOTION
SPEEDILY CORES
PRICKLY HEAT, HIVES, NETTLERASH and SIMILAR
SKIN TROUBLES,
ANTISEPTIC, 800THING and HEALING.
TEL. 345
PREPARED ONLY BY
THE PHARMACY, (FLETCHER & CO, LTD
RUSSO ASIATIC BANK.
RESERVE FUND
JAPITAL (FULLT-PAIN)
CAPITAL CONTRIBUTED BY TIL
CHINESE GOVERNMENT
RESERVE FUND
Head Office:
Faria 9, Rae Boudreau.
LONDON OFFICE:
64, Old Broad Street, E.C.2
BANKERS:
Ronflex. 55,000,000
26,960,000
Kup. Tls.
3,200,000
1,750,000
ONDON: Messrs Glyn, Mills, Carrie & Co;
Societe Generale
pour Favoriser
le
Developpement da Commercs et de l'Indus- trie en France.
A: Societe Generale pour Favoriser le Developpement du Commerce et de l'Indus
trie
en France; Banque de Paris at des
Societa Generale our Favoriser le Developpement du Commerce et de l'Indus
France.
tria
ед
NEW Youx: The Irving Bank; Columbia
Trant Company
BAX FRANCISCO The Crocker National Bank
of Ban Francisco:
BRANCHES IN AMIA -
Thangchun Hankow
Manchouli Tentsin
Harbin Newchwang Uramtchi
Hongkong Peking
Jhefoo
Dairca
Hmlara Shanghai
HONGKONG BRANCH:
Yokohama
Interest allow on Current Acconuta-and
Fixol Deposits. Terms on application. Local BILA discbant-LAURA
Fomiga Exchange on the Principal Cities of
The World bought and sold..
L BAINES,
Manager.
THE CHINESE MERCHANTS
BANK LTD.
司公限有行銀商華
HEAD OFFICE:
Alexandre Buildings, Chater Road,
ENERAL Banking and
Businege transacted.
Exchange
Loans granted on approved securities. Current Accounts opened and Fixed Deports received at Rates which may be ancer- tamed on syplication, * The Bank-
Department
conducts Savioge
KG LAI,
Chief Manager,
ASTATIC BUILDINGS,..
26. QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
It's
It's the flavor.Nothingbut the finest selected cheese can ever produce Kraft quality. Quality means davor, and it's the favor that makes Kraft Cheese so incomparable..
Garfeits
Canadian, [Pimenio, Surtas, sold by the altos, pound or loaf.
$ VARIETIES IN TINS
KRAFT
CHEESE
LOAF
(CANADIAN) 80 CENTS PER LE Obtainable at Our DEPOT and BRANCHES
can always be relied on to collect a hig rerowd
PROFOUNDLY BORED.
On the whole the level of public speak- ing, from the Press table point of view, is surprisingly low, Barely one speech in a thousand is good topy."
Those who make the average speech ay perhaps he summarised in this way.
AVERAGE TYPES.
tinguished gathering. Then there are the Conscientious Bore, the Hero war shipping Bore, and the Personal Bore, the latter being a common type at Ianquets,
The Apologetic Bore-A widely pre valent type. Opens as a rule like this: "When I entered this hall had no idea that I should be called upon to d dress you It is due to the absence of Mr. Blank, which we all regret (Ap plaise.) That I have been asked, as it were, to step into the breach. I do so with pleasure, but also with great dif dence. I have had to opportunity to prepare a speech, and I-am..., er I am sure you will understand that I can he only a poor substitute...er
.. for the cloquent speaker who was expected to address you have really nothing to
(Talks for half an hour.). But it should not be supposed that the
The Unctious Boro, Relies ou flatter. people who arrange these crowds are ing his audience and giving an inspres. themselves interested in the wedding sion of his own modesty. Invariably They are profoundly bored by the whole begins: "I count it a great honour to affair, as bored probably as the priu-hase the privilege of addressing, this dis cipals. For weeks before the ceremony thay have to work up enthusiasm for it. anil collect every possible detail that may be expected to interest the public. but they themselves are not interested. very serious and obviously determined remember being struck not long ago by the depressed aspect of a woman jourdat is by proud privilege,' he will ung, to ista Girton girl-who was nbviously propose the health of our distinguished writing something that annoyed her. When I asked what it was, she muttered with an expression of despair: Another column of tripe about the trousseau remember, too, meeting on the stairs an exhausted reporter who had just returned from a function which had apparently been enjoyed by many thousands of people. I asked how much he was going to write. Two columns," he groaned," "and it isn't worth two lines. Later, I found him in his room. looking the very picture of misery, but writing page after page of light-hearted description and high-spirited appreciation As he unish- ela page it was whisked away by a boy to the compositora, Heading his two columns the next day you would have thought he was the biggest enthusiast in the crowd 2
WOMEN'S POINT OF VIEW, In the last few years a new situation has been brought about by the great in- erease in the number of women readers of newspapers. It has become necessary to produce "something that women-in the opinion of news editors will read. Henee the gradual decline (with one or two conspicuous exceptions), in the stand- ard of popular journalism-the clining tion of abything thoughtful, or long, or benvy," the ruthless cutting down of political ped foreign news, the disappear auce of serious book reviews, the insist ence on the merely emotional and super- ficial aspect of things, and the great pro- minente given to sentiment and passion... Rightly or wrongly, news editors have decided that wonica are interested only in the trivial, the common-plare, or the emotional." What we went," says the news editor in despair every morning, is good woman's story." In the absence of a royal wedding, a crime of passion, Christnuts shopping, a sensational divores ense, or Summer sales, it is always dif ficult to discover something to which women may be considered certain to be. interested As a rule, the wou on the staff are unble to help. They refuse to udinit that there is such thing as a
woman's story, and they resent the sug
gestión that it is only women who are attracted by the trivial. "I want you. begs the news editor, to write this from
the woman's point of view./. The woman journalist looks at him critically What is the women's point of view, she de- mands." "You ought to know," protests. the news editor. But she insists that it exista only in the imaginations of #men, Tell me what it is," she says, and I'll write, it, but don't expect me, as a woman to know. In the eul the news editor, sends in desparation for a man. For find's sake," be cries do this from the women's point of view And it is oder At the Press table it is recognised. that when something distinctively feminine, in the accepted Conventional scase, has to he lone man has to do it No woman can write sob akull.”
to make as many friends as passible
uest Lord Blankly. No words of minc can do just to his record of public ser- vice or the unique charm of his person
lity
We all known Lord Blankly, (Applause.) We all admire him. (Ap plause) Went love hin. (Applause) And why! ..and so on till even Lomd Blankly begins to feel a little bored."
THE BANK OF CHINA.
行銀國中
(Specially anthorized by Presidential
Mandate of the Republic of China un
the 2nd of November, 1917.)
"Authorized Capital.
Paid-up Cap tal Reserve Fonnds
$50,000,000,00
18,700.00 9,619,425,24
HEAD OFFICEPEKING.
HONGKONG BRANCH:-t Quran's. How Central Brinches and Salbranches all over China, and Correspondents' iz Europe
of the worl America, and other parte
LONDON BANKERS:-The National Pervine
and Union Bank of England, Ltd. To NEW YORK BANKERS: The Irving Nativne
Guaranty Trust Co of New York.
Bank. The Equitable Trust Co., New Yea
Interest allowed on Current Accoste Fixed Deposits, Terxan ou. Feation
Every description of Banking Busine transacted.........
Los granted on Approved Soeurities. Special facilities for Hume Exchanger. TSUYEE PEL Manager. Hongkong, September 8th, 1921.
A Startling
Expose of
Modern Society
FLAMING
YOUTH.
WORLD THEATRE
The Most Coolest Picture House in The Colony,
Des Vreux Road Central.
TO-DAY, at 5.15 p.m. and 9.15 pm.
A PICTURE OF SUPER-FLAPPERS
AND NEW YORK'S "DAZZLING NIGHT LIFE
MARIE PREVOST
in
WARNER BROS.
Classic of the Screen
The BEAUTIFUL
and DAMNED
PATHE BRITISH GAZETTE AND OUT OF INKWELL COMEDY.
For LADIES.
Beautiful Small GOERZ CAMERAS,
fitted with GOERZ LENSES.
Dainty Saul GOERZ Theatre GLASSES.
Nice ALBEMS and TRIPODS, Fancy Box Stationery of M.K. Wonderful Pencils,
Pens and Cards, etc.
SHOW ROOM:
-3, DES VEUX ROAD C
HALL LAW & CO.
TELL 3217-
CAMMELL LAIRD & Co., LTD.
Controlling THE LEEDS FORGE CO. NEWLAY WHIKEL 00., Etc. Birkenhead, Sheffield, Nottingham. Birmingham,
Leeds. Penistone and London.
RAILWAY PASSENGER COACHES
FREIGHT & COAT CARS
STEAM DRIVEN RAIL COACHES
NEWLAY" SOLID ROLLED STEEL BAILWAY WHEELS. 13. PERING ROAD. SHANGHAL
CHAMBERLAINS
COUGH
REMEDY CER
Coughs, Colds
GROUP.
MOASETEM,
[SORE THROAT,,
SNELSTENVLOG KANSASAKT
THROAT and LUNGS.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
Cures Coughs, Colds, Croup, Sore Throat, Hoarseness, Bronchitis, Whooping Cough and all Throat Diseases.
Chenkariato Madickin ta.
Sold Everywhere,
FSMALL SIZE. (
LTD.
DOUGLAS & GRANT
KIRKCALDY, SCOTLAND
RICE MILLING
MACHINERY
The largest and
most widely
Bota pents in South Chino
experienced makers
In the world.
DODWELL & CO., HONGKONG,