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MEMORIAL DAY IN DUNDEE.
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 20TH, 1925
CHINA'S
ON INFLUENCE
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[FAN DER HWN CHERESPONDENT. ¡
Forsienam, May 20th.
tá the course of a visit to Glasgowyers and bedden lifts: of Tong men,
Oie whom ne man knows, and wh to the University: Lord Birkenhead made power is only equalled, by his inacces * strong appeal on behalf of the Indian sibility, Forsuch is the stuff of which
our fiction is made. If we turned Civil Service as an attractive calling for poetry we should fit especially in Scottish students of ability and nibtion. America, that the word was the symbol
in connecting with his Hectorial daries strigus igints of a mysterious Chief
In the past any Eary of State To regard with a
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of a revult from the builded stanch and such plea Froní a see-the impressive line of tradition to verse India would have been as brief. delicate, and swift as the dash milf kind of astonisht of at swallow. But neither the plait man ne,the Western poet conerives how heing entirely necessary, intimately his life is inter-woven with Chinese influences, or how much of the Scotsiren. in particular, needed.
higher grare af living is a gift from the prompting to see the advantages, which East. This might, for all the reader a career in India affered them in the way knows, is written in a room adorned Both of distinguished service and of with wallpaper; a pair of fans might be suspended above the mantel; opposite emolument But times have changed might hang a Watteauesque diversion re- It is an undeniable fact that the Service, presenting an impossibly light and bril liantly fanciful landscape: tea in trans for various reasons, is not so attractive luceat china might be waiting at hand on to the right kind of man as it used to lacquered tray adorned with yellow be Lord Birkenhead admitted this, and gags and none of these things, singly nt ast, Would cause surprise to any sought to show how ill-founded some of visiter entering the room. If we went should take it as a matter, of course, the suspicions are which deter possible out together iftes any public park we recruits from eating forward. Thrif tar red tiled roof of the tea-house Indian Civil Servier, he showed, offers were after the pagoda, model, and pass- sort, furniture. bric-abrae, or art itself, of the utmost" possible dising on our way any shop of the artistic tinction and interest," and affords am- we should not be astonished by the most bitious yang men prospects at least as exotic extravagances of decoration in good as there which in this busy ant gilded cabinet, latticed parcelain 'work. competitive world are offered, in any for strange countryside which smiled at other field of activity. Pravidled that he perspective. Of China itself we know has the qualities of brain and Sad which next to nothing and think very seldom; -suit him for his work--Lard Burkenhead's ; yet we have absorbed so much of it into summary of these as general capacity, lub wystem and thought that we could farte of character, and the knack of searrely conceive life possible without is useful art gracious amenities as these.. This working with all kinds of d
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VARIETY IN DECORATION.
EXERCISE. INTERCHANGEABLE SCHEMES FOR A PLEA FOR AN AGE-OLD FORM OF
A BEDROOML
The modern woman likes to bare as
Rain or shine, the happy time has come tu take their frst much variety as possible in the decoration for city-dwellers
country walk of the season says a Home of her room3. Not only do her rooms contrast with one another but a single writer. For Jay, sweetest of all months, Örst living month of the awakened year, room is sometimes entirely changed in appearance by a very simple arranges with us again. The terrible hibernation
-he need have little fear of his profes {ne of thought has been suggested by So far from the importa recently published volume entitled sional future. ance of the Imperial service having been China, and Europe: Intellectual Cons diminished by recent reforms it bad, in tarts in the Eighteenth Century," and his judgment: teen inasambly in with songe exceptions the admirable The hope of those responsible French chinoiserie sums up the contri. „creased. "for those reforms was that a stage hulbution of the extreme East to Western been reached in the relationship between Europe. Of the many influences chroni the great sub-continent of India and led in this volume which have rome and It applies Great Britain in which a partnership gong chinoiserie remains: might be recognised between the Indian particularly to that style in the arts knows as the Rococo, which came in after population and the British nation, a partnership honourable to both parties the days of Louis XIV. and held sway and in which both parties might part for a great part of the eighteenth cen cipate with credit and with pride and tury. It first captured the taste of the which, being so reinforced by the sincere West with its designs in porcelain, with efforts of both those peuples, night marklandseupe and branch flower and bird new and fruitful stage in the develop painted as decoration merely, and that' It was the with an airy grace that seemed to speak ment of their relations policy of the Government. Land Birkens of a more simple, care-free world than It found expression in gold and head added, "So give every encourages us arest is Indians to become with sincerity diser threaded silk in painted or print- e-partners with us in the discharge of ed wallpapers which in the homes of joint obligations, and all they booked for the less rich, atined for the lack of the asked was a siper, and general hangings of the well-to-do, and, architee- willingness to esperate Their hope turally in -lattice-work and pagoda and intention was that when present forms, clauds and dificulties had been dissipat ed, more and more it might be recog vised that the inhabitants of the sub
With the castomary ceremonials the contineat were making it plain that they Goal Assemblies, cf the three grent had justified that which had already Presbyterian Churches of Scotland have ment,
The curtains are made of cretoans been given, and that with prudent exa just opened their annual sessions in Edin- minition of the developments in educa hurgh-Assemblies which are much more printed with a multi-coloured design, tion that would be made in time to than the May meetings" known in the the predominating colour being primrose. ecclesiastical They are lined with unpatterned Chinese really time it might hereafter become possible South; they are to say that a larger part in that partner-Parliaments. Apart from their functions blue silk. The bed cover is also of er
tonne lined with the plain raaterial. night, be played by the representa as the Supreme Courts of the Scottish The cushions are patterned on one side tives of that torming population.* Churches, they help to concentrate po
pular attention, if only for a few days and plain on the other, and the screen DONDER'S WAR“ „MEMORIAL. „.
vach year, an the religious side of things. is covered with the same materials to There has long been a close relationship match. With no more, trouble than is curtains, in Scotland between the Kirk and the involved in rehanging the people. The Kirk has been the palladium of turning the bed cover and the screen, pon the summit of the Law, which our liberties, and has done much to make the whole appearance of the room can towers abere the City, and may be des Scotland what it is. There are no ehur.be quickly altered. A scheme in blue T- cribed as massive, granite heacon vishes that are mure broadly based upon sults.
When arranging for interchangeable ible to the whole of the neighbouring the people's will than the Churches of countryside. As Sir Ian Hamilton said Sevtland, and more that inspires greater schemes it must be kept in mind that admiration and affection, even from those each must harmonise with the walls and stands big states of Dundee " four square to the winds of heaven. who may not be of their membership. carpet, which should, if possible, contain Thoughts are worked into its texture that is more demeratic in Church gov-both the colours used on the hangings.
So that the change is made the greater he who runs may rend. It tells thement, and while pessimists cry out legend the four thousand brave lads that the Churches are losing their hold, the pictures also could be altered or a who went West during the Great War that people are drifting away from them,enst rehung in different places. Of they wout, singing. Come open the the deliberations of the Assemblies upon west part and let ugg free and the Castle Hill of Edinburgh still awaken West they went and down"wens the bon: wide and intimate interest. This year it nets of Bonnie Dunder. With that wo
is more engrossing than usual in View
The unveiling of Dandee War Memorial by Sir Ian Hamilton was a simple but It stands anost impressive ceremony.
.this
is over, and out of the cell of fogs and damps and frost which has enfolded them That first walk out of the gloom of the the hearts of men are 'peeping forth. streets into the green of the year is indeed a true delight, a few hours of joy beyond all urban pleasures. Yet to ar Englishman it should mean more even than this; for be of all mankind has the greatest gift for walking, trudging, step ping, strolling, rambling, straying on roads or lanes or paths, on heaths or in To. none is England more irresistible parks, on highways or tracks. just now than to those who are fated. only to see it as a mental pisture- vision of home at its loveliest moment, when peace ful England in all her forms is traeal to herself. Gently, clouded skies lank on tranquil meadows and gradual slopes where from aanid woodland flowers rise the houses of quiet men. And everything in sight seems half moulded of everything clse. The flowers wear the selfsame tints of the sky; the bluebells on that slope form their own homely paradise of stars not beyond man's reach. Meadow and cloud alike lie low and soft the hint of rain is in the shallow brook and the ripple of the brook is in the light winds that run through the beavens.
Yet I wonder if those who are out of England do not see all this more often than those who have such secnes at their doorstep. The sum set apart was £100,000, Where are the Londoners who should
£100.000 U177 TO GOVAN.
The late Mr. Alexander Elder, of the derful legend of theirs will ever be link of the important stage which has been ed the fame of the Black Watch regi-reached in the long-drawn-out prelimin fainous shipowning family, made provi- ment of high renown; valiant fighters all: aries to Church Union. Before the pre- sion in his will for the erection and suffering for their fame pushed time after sent sessions of the Assemblies close by maintenance of un hospital in Goran, timr, wounds still bleeding, into the fore-will have under consideration the Bill in memory of his father and inother, to front of the hottest battles. Were we just about to receive the final assent of be known as the David Elder Hofir
Westminster, and, mary. here to lay to celebrate war, what a the Parliament at theme to extol, the Black Tartan and which brings the Union a long step and the trustees have secured 27 acres, be treading the Surrey hills? Where is the Red Hackle! The scene which Bearer accomplishment. followed was erch more impressive thou
the official curemony. A long queue of xnx. BALDWIN AND BEYZ. people formed up. and climbed the hill
.
part of the old lands of Drumdyne. Mr. the traditional Englishman with stick nad Alexander Elder was born in Glasgow, pipe, here is the machine propped and in early life was an engineer on against the hedge and the rider seated The death of Mrs. Baldwin, motherboard one of the ateamer sent to the Black on the stile, ruminating over his country! It was men who took such walks and to the memorial. Relatives of the fallen of the Prime Minister, reminds us that Sen during the Crimean War. Subse led the way their ranks largely comber grandfather bailed from Skye, and quertly along with the late Mr. John leaned over such stiles who built the posed of women, many of whom wore on that she was proud of her Scottish con. Deropster he founded the business of Elder, houses and composed, the ordered, sweet their breasts the medals of loved unes nection. When the land trouble broke Dempster & Co, shipowners, Liverpool, ness and graveness of the countryside. Slowly they ascended, the order of the, our in Skye during Mr. Baldwin's first and the British and African Steam Navi- which is England and has made England. pilgrimage being broken only by the Premiership he made humorous reference gation Company in Glasgow, of which I believe we think rather vains that we can alienden all their ways of life and arduousness of the pathway. The relato his own connection with the misty they were mangers. He was long re-
yet be in essentials like them. That was tives were followed by a large party of isle." While in no way condoning the sident in Southport, near Liverpool.
cat. how they thought; for they shared ex-service men, after whom came the law-breaking which took place, he was MISCELLANEA.
the thoughts of their ancestors. English general public. And more striking than anxious that a settlement should be The question of the hour. apropos the men of the eighteenth century and the the number was the demeanour of the reached. Mr. Kipling's mother, a sister debute between Earl Balfour and Mr, sixteenth century and the fourteenth people, their grave faces and Inw-toned of Mrs. Baldwin, was a strongly pro Maxsla golf a good walk spoiled
century kept this in common that they Scottish. A pariah minister who chatted
A bronze plate is to be placed on the all strolled sometimes and stood by the with the poet and novelist on the If we would obtain a glimpse into the occasion of his visit to Mr. Andrew hirt-place of R.L.S. at 8, Howard Place, hedgerow and gazed at the Belda and Edinburgh, with the inscription,-"Romused upon life. And the reflectiveness mind of the average man and neertain Carnegie at Skibo was interested to find bert Louis Stevenson born in this house, they won there in the sight of the fields. what the word Chinese" meant to that his Bettish leanings were quite November 13th, 1950. Presented by the permeating not very obviously hat yet him, the result would be a composite obvious. In his case, as in dat of Mr. Stevensou Society of America Inc. very surely into the national system, kept Sir Andrew-Russell's story, at the un the spirit of the race in their varied photograph of Ah Sis, the childlike and Baldwin, this was due to maternal in- bland; of inscrutable men of motionless fluence. The Macdonald Clan pride was
death of Colonel Bauchope should not bel And countenance the type favoured by our also of pronounced character in Lady veiling of the Chanak memorial of the doings and in the policies of their Sax Rohmers-in setting of secretPoynter and Lady Burne-Jones. The allowed to pass into oblivion. This is twentieth century are not to cut the chambers dedicated to opium, strange hearts of the four sisters went "over the the end," said the dying man, as Sir sacred thread, let us walk and ponder Andrew came up to him, "and a jolly sometimes as they did in early May, scents and the diabolically occult, and sea to Skye,"
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