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THE DIRECTORY" cover, the notable events, ports and cities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberis, in which Europeans reside.
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carefully revised each year, the jority
of which will serve as an accurate GUIDES FOR THE TOUNxist, giving overy detai in connection with the places, their History Topography, sto
s Information in these Descriptions, consist, ing af hundred interesting articles, packed with facts concisely set out, and containing statistics of the Thane of ouch Country and port, would alose suflon to fill a large, volsinė.
The Book is printed from New Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in every arrangement greatly facilitates reference.
the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS Boades the usual Alphabetical List of Farms. of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger Commercial Centres.
The ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in the Far East contains the names of over 20,000 FOREIGNERS, arranged, with the Initisis as well as the Sur names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that any name can be found instantly,
THE MAPS AND PLANS
of the principal ports of the Far East have been engraved by one of the most eminent Firma á Great Britain and are annually corrected and brought up to date, /!*
The CHRONICLE covers the notable event together with the Texts of all the most import A Treaties concluded with the countries of Easter Asia, the various Custome Tariffa
THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5TH, 1925
GOOD CONVERSATION.
[BY THE FT. HON. C, Y. G. MASTERMAN.}
ז
Recent discussions have deplored the
That decline of good conversation.
decline. if it exists, depends largely up a false idea of what conversation is er
is not.
Good talk can be munde an art, a re- ereation, a stimulus to the mind as anus- ing and satisfying as nuction bridge, and, } äké naction bridge, it is within the reach, of all persons who recognise the rules of the game.
There is, however, talk which is not good conversation. For example, there is the story-teller who devastates the dining table, I remember the only time I met President Roosevelt there was gathered into the small company to meet him some of the most interesting miáda in England. He spent the whole evening telling humorous stories" no better or worse than can be got out of the cheap English or American comic papers. Many were stale, most were boring. That waa not an evening to remember with any particular pleasure..
Conversation is not monologue, although may people, especially ladies and the voting, delight in Hatening to monologue from men of renown. The greatest mag- ter of monologue I remember was Lord Morley. He accompanied his discourse with dramatic gestures, now finging his arms over his head, now slapping them down on to his knees, now, posing with uplifted finger while his audience waited breathless for the next word. He would sometimes, like jesting Pilate, ask a ques-
waited for an answer. Towards the end tion, but, like jesting Pilate, rarely
his statements became incorrect, and he"
indulged in long, and extravagant attacks on his former colleagues. This is not
conversation.
THOSE MEMOIRS. Nor is conversation that rather dreviny assumed repetition of what great men
| have anid which is so much loved in the clubs and forms the record of many dinner parties."
There are men and women of distinction and intelligence who find delight in hearing that Mr. A. had told Mr. B. that Lord C. bad said of his colleague Mr. D. that he had no
They
Regulations, Chambers of Commercamore, brains than a walnut, or some Scales of Commissions, Consular and Cour similar startling annoncement. Tees, Hongkong Stampa Datias, Signs Code, Chinese Festivale, Tables of Money pick these gems of comment and repeat Weights and Measures and other Com mercial Information,
It is published at the Office of the "Hore EONG DART PEE."
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them themselves to others.
Fianity may enter into books of me- moir. I have read most of such memoirs published since the war, obtaining large circulations through such accounts of dianer-party gossip.
Conversation is as much to conceal opinion as to reveal it, and its only test should be in its power to stimulate the mind of others. I remember when Dr. Crippen was being tried Mr. Bottomley inviting him in one of the papers to open his burning heart to him. Why, asked the perplexed judge at the trial, should Dr. Crippen open his burning heart to Mr. Bottomley Conversation should consist in the concealment of too
"" barn.! ing emotions.
When the Liberal Government was passing. Mr. Lloyd George's Inmous Budget of 1900, I remember a dinner party graced by the presence. amang others, of two dakes and another peer. Conversation Tapered solemnly by the statement.by one of the dukes:This Government are swine:" After a pause the second. duke remarked: Yes- wine" After a longer pause the re- maining poer remarked: Yes-dama med swine." They then relapsed into silence. They had opened their burning hearts to the company. But as among that con- pany was the wife of one of the Tiberal Ministers, the subject did not permit of further enlargement, and the talk was perhaps more distinguished for its sin cerity than for its vivacity.
MR. LLOYD GEORGE,
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Oi present-day conversationalists I have known I should put Mr. Lloyd-
George first at breakfast; the late Mr. Massingham, at luncheon; "and Mr. Bal four at dinner; and Mr. Augustine Bir- ell, of course, first and last and all the time. The first, country bred, and rising
positions among the guests who, but half an incredibly early hour, is never mars joyful than when advancing amazing pro-
Awake, have dismally crawled to his ban of the famous land taxes, his being led quet. I remember once, also in the days
into greater nad greater extravagances by the ruther dullish objections of a dis- tinguished Liberal supporter and land- owner, until, standing up and waving his tist above the teu urn, he was asserting; "We shall never be satisfied until the gutters of the streets of London run with the blood of the landlordą” The un fortunate protagonist pushed his chair back sadly from his unconsurhed eggs and bacon, and as sorrowfully remarked :
No, George, I agree with much of your policy, but that is going far, much
far."
Once or twich, of course, Mr. Lloyd George was badly let down." is when
French Socialist was brought by no other guest to a breakfast and the conver sation was solemnly printed afterwards
have
in the public Press. This is the sin for which there is no forgiveness, för... victim has no redress except to say t adopted, would render any jolly conser he was misunderstood, "and, if generally Most of the state-sation for ever impossible. Massingham of course, ments of which I have had personal,
was supero, knowledge have been quite inaccurate specially in the Nation lunches which The rest have been largely misleading and He would start the ball rolling on any been So frequently described. untrue, because in the written word it is impossible to, tell whether the speaker subject. He had swallowed all the for- is serious, humorous, ironical, or merely of recklessness out of even sober econo- mulas. He would drag the last bunce explosive.
mists or critics. Little but the bones re. mained in the dissection of the character of any living statesman. And it was only occasionally we would find perhaps
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"Good conversation is the interchange of ideas. It is, as Stevenson says, of the nature of a combat. It should never be taken too seriously, and it is an outrage a foreign guest who had been invited, that any man should be judged by 19ser. with ryes half-staring out of bis head tions made therein. No man can be call- as he listened to talk that convinced ed a good conversationalist who is not him that all Englishmen must be quite the case of conversation in others. Amad opinion is advanced concerning the ex cellence or otherwise of a book or a play Mr. Balfour's reputation for charm or a principle or a person, You counter depended largely on his dialectic and the statement with a denial and advance determination to stimulate his fellow your justification. Then comes the counter guests. He would advance some wild denial. You seek for help among your proposition, as that the Chinese were neighbours. Your opponent also solicite the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, or that reinforcements. Very soon you are pass Napoleon really consisted of a ing from the first subject at issue into mittee and not of a single person, and larger ideas. You are driven to defend pretty soon you would be believing that impossible and incredible positions. You there was more in these affirmations hurl quotations from Dr. Johnson or than you ever realised. And what Tacitus or William Shakespeare, and are would Mr. A. think of thin," he would met by others from similar authorities, say, dragging in some wretched shy, You take refuge in humour or irony. Be- youthful listener, who found himself com. fore, you are beaten you find you are pelled to be more clever than he ever SIR KINGSLEY WOOD'S REVIEW. making statements which, if put down in thought he was, and was pleased by the cold print, would startle many respect-process. And it was that dialectic, exer able citizens or scare your supporters incised under some restraint, which gave your constituency out of their wits.
COXTZ-
HEALTH WEEK IN GREAT BRITAIN.
NO LONGER A NATION.
The first week in October was dereted Mr. Balfour his formidable powers in by many municipalities to lectures an BALFOURIAN ADVICE.
debate in Parliament and led him to ad demonstrations with a view to concen
health Among the dull, when parts of such Vocate bi-meialism or Zionisou, not se trating publie attention on
much, perhaps, because they were good matters. conversations are noted down, you ap as because they would be interesting Sir Kingsley Wood, M., Parlin pear insincere. That is because the dull experiments." think there is only one side to every
mentary Secretary to the Ministry of And Mr. Birrell is
a bora reckless, Health, in opening the Health Exhibi- question. There are, of course, four or brillisat talker, with flashes of spon- tion at East Ham and the holding of five sides to every question which cantaneous and sardonic bumour never ab form the subject of talk. And you have sent. So that we younger Ministers used
Health Week each year had the compelled your adversaries, and perhaps to abandon engagements when he was
warm support of Mr. Neville Chamber been compelled yourself, to face aspects dining at the Ministers table in the lain, the Minister of Health, as it had which you had not known previously to Haise of Commons for the pleasure of of all who believed in a healthy and have existed. Many grow angry at this his company. When he became Chief stable nation."
of process. They should be banned from Secretary for Ireland he was compelled. It could now be truly said that we the society of talkers.":,
...officially to consort with a class which were no longer à C3 nation, but we were It
not yet At. Ih 1975 the average death when I was very young possessed wit and fun, but no seus of Was politician that Mr. Arthur Balfour gave humour at all. And as everything that rate fot England and Wales per 1000 me the advice, Always talk recklessly," he said at every private dinner was reliving was 92. In 25 years it sack to and no man bas given more pleasure by peated at every dinner-party in Dublin, 17.7, and last year it was down to 122 so doing. Life is so circumscribed with the fury against him rose to boiling pitch.. As regarda infant mortality there was the serious weighing of words that it All these remembrances are of pre-war & still more remarkable record. In 1875 Singapore, Farung, Malacca, Prov. We liess would be inonstrous to judge private eun- days. The tragedy of the past and the the average death rate of infants under versation by a similar standard. Some, present lies heavy on good conversation, indeed, like Mr. Bernard Shaw and Mr. and the tendency is to turn to the casier one year in England and Wales was 153 Chesterton, write in public under the work of reminiscence or the abandonment per 1,000 births. In 1902 it was 138, and
In 1994 it was 75. same conditions as good talk is held in of talk for play. private, and are prepared to defend the Nevertheless, conversation need never. In expectation of life there was the most extravagant propositions before he vapid, stapid, or dispiriting, if men same story to tell. At the five recorded Audicures of thousands. Others som and women of any class accept it as ange periods there had born a marked in always afisid of some incriminating sen relaxation and amusement, and remember crease since 1875. At the age of 20 there tener appearing next day in the news- that their neighbours desire, to talk as had been an increase of 39 to 48 for
much as they do themselves.
males and from 47 to die for females; papers.
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f at an increase of 29 to 34 for males, and from 31 to 36 for females. An average child born to-day would live five years longer than his grand-father. "There was also a better physical con- of age. In 1925 there was a saving of dition in children from one to five years 39,000 infant lives compared with the infant mortality of 1901-10.
There was, unfortunately, another side to the national health balance-sheet. No fewer than 23 million weeks' work were lost in 1921 through sickness, much of it preventible, among the insured population alone. Two serious features of last year's health returns were the great increase in the number of cases of small-pox and of the epidemic disorders of the central nervous system. Pneumonia had been more prevalent. than at any time during the last five years.
The Minister of Health had fecently issned, on the advice of an expert and impartial committee, fresh regulations, long overdue, which were effectively de- signed to secures purer food supply."
No one wanted to hamper, trade, or to increase prices. The answer to certain criticisms in this connection was that to- day many of the stand with or without preservatives under exactly similar condi country were being sold with or without tions and at the same prices. If one firm could do without these preservatives, so could another. These regulations would help to secure a purer supply, but to a large extent the matter of clean food rested with the nation itself. We should decline to deal with traders who handled food in a dirty manner.
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