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[TY PUNCHINELLO,)
Now that the modest caravanseraï in which I reside has at last, managed to equip itself with a complete set of what Heme fiction writers inevitably describe as silent-noted Chinese servnuts," and I need no longer make my own bel, and do other domestic odd-jobs-so irksome to grant minds I have beguir to feel extraordinarily light-hearted, almost as blithe as the old gentleman who neves fails to swallow a sufficient quantity of Rooshian salts to cover a aixpence and
something. then jump over a gate While I don't propose to emulate this voteran's athletics, iny exuberance is still such that I feel inclined to discourse brightly but sngely, bow and again, on local subjects, and may even, as a special treat, burst into song.
PAID FOR IT."
"[BY STACY,AUMONIES.] **
Arone who during his life has had many jobs, a number of which entailed working regular hours and doing what one is told, I am often. Aupressed hy the com placency of the anthor. He never seems to realise what a soft job he is on. I am, for the mostest, konving out all about the arts and elegancies, and simply regarding authoring as a job, as a profession, as a means of livelihoud. „
If one compares it to the grim profes sions, like those of an engineer, a cabinet- maker's foreman, house-surgeon, nu here the professors have to devote long actrary, an analytical chemist, professions continuous hours of concentration under the burden of great responsibilities, the author's profession savours of a life of unique indolence. He can get up when he likes, go to bed, when he likes, work what hours he likes, and do his work where, when, and how he likes. He bas no master, and is requonsible only to his own artistic conscience (should he be saddled with one). M-
HIS SHILLING OUTFIT.
Even computed with the other arts, it is a lazy protession. The architect, the Have you ever paused to think why is painter, the sculptor, and the musician is that so many local firms collect their have to go to schools and acadamies, and grind, away for five or six years at least, accounts by mesas of shroffs, who creep before they can be expected to know the into your ofics and smilingly exhibit billsrulinients of the technique of their craft. There are no schools and academies for for you-and incidentally anybody else
the author. At some tunay period of hi in your immediaty entourage-to see, in ute, usually after thinks he has done many preference to sending the objectionable other things, he suddenly thinks he would like to write. He bija senpenny writing documents in a stamped envelope. It is pad and a twopeni indelible pencil. not solely on the grounds of economy, That is all the butt He requires but in reality because the said firms wish faithfully to carry out the instructions imperiously displayed on so many walls in the Colony-Post No Bills."
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The hon. secretary of the resuscitated Hongkong branch of the China Associa tion is Mr. Hey. A bright augury that the door to prosperity will soon be un- locked..
And the strange thing is that with this shilling outfit there is nothing to prevent him writing a Best Seller, or what 1s tuore rewarzanie, a notable creative work
for he soon discovers whether he ena
do it or not. If he can do it, it is no trouble to him. If he cannot do it, no schools, academies, forts, beart-burning, for night, sweats will ever cnable him to.
AUTHOR'S MODELS FREE.
The poor wretched painter has to rent an expensive studio with a worth light He has to buy earls, paints, brushes, It will be seen from a report in another drapery, and so on. He also has to hire column that our Home legislators of models. The author gets his models free. the House of Commons are to have their He meets them in trains and buses and already bulging minds enlarged by drawing-rooms. They even ask him home travel, in order that they may extend to dinner, or take him for a drive in their their knowledge of other parts of the cars. He can work just a well in o world while the House is, not in session, pantry as in a palace. (I cannot vouch In pursuance of this admirable idea, for this, but I was told in Algeria that distinguished party of Pacha
in hotel hedrooms. ing the amfable Indian Communist, Saklatrala, and Lady Astor, are to visit the United States and Canada Dext
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obert Hichens writes all his novels
If the painter is a portait pamfer, ne has ta stand most of the day and be is always worried by the light. Very often in the winter he cannot see to paint for
With regard to Lady Astor, it scenis weeks at a time. If he is n landscape a pity that the nobly lady cannot extend painter he bus to trapese about in ali her tour as for as Hongkong, for by so weathers trying to find a few square zeres doing she might disabuse her mind of of land in Northern Europe that has not the silly ideas which she has been valeinig been built over. The physical anguish of of late regarding the "scandal" of the a landscape painter's life is appalling (1 maisana tolérées. A few judicious en-know by experience). If he could work quiries among the legislators on the in his studio entirely by memory it would spot should convince her that, strange not be so bail. But be is eternally quest though it may seem, Hongkong manages ing through miles of country that is to be quite as moral, even without the uplifting presence of Lady Astor, as England is with it."
seldom just right, for subjects. Having eventually become inspired by something. which he wants to paint it behoves him to make studies and sketches.
LUCKLESS PAINTERS. E Now sketching from nature is a kind of
Referring to the festivities at the Craigengower Club on Saturday evening) after the home club had won the bowls championship, a local evening paper reparadox. The painter is not sketching ports that
"there were great rejoicings at the conclusion of the match, the victory being appropriately and enthusiastically celebrated in the Club house by the members. and their supporters, the Taikoo team sportingly joining, in tho
I do hope that this is not a polite in dication of the condition of the revellers after the celebrations, or a suggestion that might be lyrically expressed thus:
Wide brings oft ur ending scurvy, Ponder ere you drink it down. Craigengower's topsy-turvy Taikoo, too, are upside-down.
from" still life. He is sketching from fugitive life, and all the impedimenta of his technical equipment limits him to practically still life. That is to say, how- ever skilful and quick he may be, he can. hardly be expected to make any kind of sketch ander sixty minutes, and during that time his subject bus changed, in various subtle degrees at least sixty times, (The sun is not going to keep still for any building Corot.) The wind gets up and blows sand and dust into his paints and eyes, Directly he gets his hands full of palettes and brushes all the 'gants and blue-bottles in the neighbourhood settle on his nose and bite him for all they are worth. Moreover, the rustic element not
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personal diulke, as something unclean, foolish, and abracadabrically superio While on the subject of libations, let Men and women laugh at him and small me utter n word of praise to the wise bays throw mud at him. authorities who preside over the destinies "A LAZY LOT.” of the Naval Canteen. A" scaffolding
just outside, which for some time pustThe author has to go through none of this forced pedestrians to make excurmons this Provided he does not let his hair Into the roadway, has now been taken get too long, he can keep it dark about: dawa, revealing a really sweet little door being an author at all If he should want way leading fato the 1.0. bur from to make a few notes seated on a bench in the strict. No longer now is it necessary the park, well, there is nothing incriminat for thirsty sea-dogs to negotiate the ing in this He might be doing some- Stygian gloom of the old-time entrance thing quite innocapus, like making cut down the passage. A sulart right (or betting, slips. But for the most part he, left, necording to how you are coming) does not have to make notes. He does turn into the little door, and you are at one of these irksome things. He just the hospitable counter in a twinkling its shout and subconsciously absorbs This is the latest and best instance of what is going on around him. A writer ven even of thể" "mont" turgid imagination Naval Intelligence.".
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