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[ST ERIC PONDER, M.R, 18.5.).
Every now and again, as in Greece and Bavaria recently, some State tries to enforce & law regulating fashion in clothes. These laws rarely succeed, for one man's meat is proverbially another man's poison; they are, moreover, usually construed as being deliberate attempts to restrict individual liberty."
to
HAPPINESS AND GOOD WORK.
ON."USELESS" ADVENTURE. INVENTING DIFFICULTIES TO OVERCOME THEM.
When a
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GIGANTIC PLANS FOR NEW COMMITTEE.
THE NEW BRIDGES.
Great interest has been aroused by the announcement that the London Traffic
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.
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Drivers as detailed by Sergeant D. G..
2.-CASUALS.
Brace
Musketry Part I. will be fired at 1928, by all members of the Corps who Stoneoutters Range on Sunday, 8th June,
have not fred.
3.-SCOTTISH COMPANY.
The prospect of new expeditions to the North Pole, reminds us that the human appetite for adventure and difficulty is inexhaustible and that means of satisfying it will ever be freshly invented, write The Timet. So it is even in the minor sphere of puzzles and games puzzle that has long baffled us has at last Advisory Committee has decided to set been solved, we introduce a new rule that up a sub-committee to survey the gigantic bars our present solution and drives us on in guest of another. When scientific question of the co-ordination of London
game too easy, the traffic. The fact remains, however, that, law study has made, s
It is thought possible that from the as restricted as can well be, if through When all the world has been explered by Henry Maybury will preside-may at or no law, one's liberty is already about players of it straightaway devise a limit
ing condition that makes it difficult again. report of the committee over which Sir nothing else than the necessity which
last emanate a London Trade Authority people seem to imagine placed upon ship, by motor-car, and by airship, some-
Taste has one will set out in yet another appliance after the manner and with the constitu
Range Officer: Lieut. B. L. Mon- them of following the crowd. less to do with it than one thinks, and of which as yet we know nothing to go tion and authority now held by the crieff.
over the same ground again.
Metropolitan Water Board.
Launch will leave Murray Pier at 8 efficiency less still, according to the mest
There is no end to man's pleasure in
In such case the pooling of all tram- a.m. and call at Kowloca Pier at 9.10 extraordinary of recent investigations discovering difficulties in order to sur- the first attempt
A construct
Dress: Uniform optional, but rifles. science of clothing as an aid to the mount them. It impels him equally to ways, buses, tubes, taxicabs, and railway. sharp.
heroism in great matters and to astonish interests, such as now obtains on the happiness of man.
railways of the country, is held in bayonets, belts and pouches must be Proper clothes, it is
The sportsman,
taken: found, account for about 10 per cent of ingenuity in small
Arms! Will be drawn from Corps our happiness, nor have we so much that perhaps a schoolmaster, who first resolved authoritative quarters to be not unlikely. that a plain race between runners was
The Trafic Advisory Committer, of Headquarters on Friday, 4th June, be we can despise the extra tenth.
not enough and, for subtlety's sake, tied which Sir Henry Maybury is chairman tween 9 am, and noon, or 2 and 4 p.m.; together two legs out of four, may not has completed a report to the Prime
or 3 and 6 p.m., and on Saturday, 5th Underlying the whole question of what have been an adventurer, but certainly Minister on the bridges of Lerdon. we wear is the fact that a map, or woman partook of the adventurer's nature. The Among the questions dealt with in the Jude, 1958, between 9 am and 1 p.m. for that matter, expends more energy, greater part of mankind shares his motive report which is now in the hands of Mr.
The Miniature Range is available for and is more efficient and useful to him and gives rein to it in one form or another. Baldwin are the proposals to build a
St. Paul's Bridge a traffic bridge at the above Company on Thursday, 10th happy. This is not so much true of the tress, who decided that, in order to in-Charing Cross and to rebuild Waterloo June, 1996, a 5.30 p.. self and others when he is contented and Was it his sister, perhaps a schoolmis-
crease the delightful complexity of athle- Bridge. man who sits turning the handle of ticism, every runner should carry an egg stamping machine, but it is true of any balanced on a spoon or should pause, in person who carries out skilled work of his too simple course to bite a floating mind or body-as we well know from apple out of a water-butt? Was it his our experience of those temperamental cousin who elected to box with one band artists who refuse to work unless they tied behind him, or to climb a mountain feel like it. They are right: happiness by the most dificult instead of by the and good work go together, and to happiesiest slope, or to show that he could ness uitable garments are essential. Bu without food, or remain under water
Clothes influence people in two ways or dance a fox trot longer than the rest at least they have an effect on the of ment body, and no less an effect on the mind." The bodily effects are well enough known, and no one would now-a-days "wear gar ments which interfere with breathing and digestion, as did those of afty years ago. People do, however, and do from pre- their bodily movements to a surprising degree. Every man, at least, knows that he works far better and is far more com- fortable in old clothes than in new ones, a fact which is explained by remember ing that new clothes never fit at all. They may certainly it when one standing stilt, but not when one it sitting down, nor when one is doing work, and it requires some time before they are moulded into a shape, horrible to the tailor, which allows of freedom of bodily movenient and an absence of what is called "glothes-consciousness,"
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EARLY ENQUIRY.
In the view of the Committee, Waterloo and a new St. Paul's Bridge should first be considered. With regard to the latter the necessary powers have been obtained,
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bus the building has not been proceeded sense from the Corps: with by the Court of Common Council, although ample funds are in the hands of the Bridge House Estates Committee. The matter was considered by that Coun- cil just two years ago, and the receipt of the report of the Ministry of Transport was thought to be advisable before going further. It is now, announced.
The report on the need for immediate
From such a text it would be casy, as many shallow thinkers have discovered to "preach a sermon in belittlement of all adventurous endeavour. There is a link, It might be said, betweet an egg-and- spoon race and Arctic exploration by air; each is an example of difficulties sought rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge is reflect- out only to be overcome; neither seemsed in the views of the majority of the to a cold mind a rational undertaking London County Council. The cast is prompted by necessity. Thus, by joining estimated at £1,250,000, and it is anti- it with the little, the great may always cipated that tenders will now shortly be be reduced to the absurd, much to the invited. satisfaction of those who had had their, still of adventure when they dropped their
first egg out of their first spoon.
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Westminster Bridge will probably have to be closed eventually for repairs. I is stated that it is weakening yearly. A new Charing Cross bridge would take at least eight years to build, and the
state of Westminster Bridge, not as ic is 'Dor, but in eight or more years to
Not St Pre W. Paterson, A.C. Co., from 1st June, 1993, to 29th Febr- uary, 1927.
5-RESIGNATIONS. The following are permitted to resign from the Corps
No. 714 Spr. A. L. Cole, Engineer Co.,
from 31st May, 1026.
No. 473 Spr. A. G. Marshall, Engineer
Co., from 31st May, 1996. No. 918 Pte. W. Hunt, A.C. Co., from.
19th June, 1928.
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Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C. Hongkong, 4th June, 1926-
Committee is, therefore, locking to the THE OCEAN ACCIDENT AND GUARANTEE CORPOLATION,
come.
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This interesting suggestion for the
That the analogy is false, that the difference between a childish game and a hazardous journey is something more than a difference of degree, appears only ta those who are able to perceive that ex- plorers not only please themselves and, it may be, instruct others, but do natural and inevitable thing. It may be All this is reflected in the many forms true that they seek out and invent di of work clothes" there are hundreds culties, but their overcoming of them is of trades, and occupations to which a something more than a mere feat of endur- special form of dress is peculiar, as, for ance; it is, in some measure, a spiritual would not full example, the loose dress of the labourer, net without which man
The proof of this is in which is constructed so as to low a his whole nature maximum of free movement, or the tight the almost universal envy which the tale dress of the soldier, which allows of a of their deeds provokes. The more cerpenest of the ignorant investor who is minimum, for the soldier is supposed to tain we are that our own late is to stay in touch with. neither a stockbroker nor at home, the more eagerly we identify a bank is put forward by Mr. Hartley stand upright and look well above all else. In general, indeed, it is observed ourselves in imagination with those who, Withere in his latest book. by the folk who have studied these in the manner of fairy-tales, set out to About Investments" (Nash and Grayson, matters that there are two types of work seek their fortunes." They are free, wo clothes. associated with two types of meu, are bound. They break down barriers, one type which allows of comfort and imposed upon us by civilization, which, work, and the other type which aims at we knew, are not natural barriers. They it preservation of dignity and lack of give scope to an impulse which, though астов. The efficiency, for physical purmay be weakened by long suppression, poses, of a man dressed as a policeman vs on in every heart not dulled by in- is found to be only about half that of pulse which lies very near the roots of
tellectual superiority. That it is an im the same man dressed a9 labourer,
human nature no one who has felt it can although I have no doubt that the former doubt. To translate it into action is inspires twice the respect with about half neither a waste of time nor a piece of the output of energy as does the latter.
bravado, but a happy act of fulfilment.
A
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But, according to some psychologists, the effect of clothes is more far-reaching than this. On one's dress, they find in America, depends whether one prefers Thus each man's clothes would be such the pictures to the Opers, and who as would give him the greatest chance ther one takes much exercise or on of being efficient, and at the same time, Nor is dress devoid of a very definite it may be added, would make him dia- effect upon character. It is quite a mistinct from those of other occupations, take to think that people wear a parti- thus adding to his self-esteemed, and res- cular costume merely for the satisfaction
ponsibility. of other people-they do it for their own.. I am persuaded that the average woman would dress in silks of an elegant cut even if "she were marooned on an un- inhabited and mirrorless island. It is pleasure for her to feel that the part of her environment from which she is inse parable is light and graceful, whatever the rest of it may be; her imagination transfers the gracefulness to her own per- sonality and movements, which become like to the clothes she wears.
The same thing occurs to a lesser ex- tent among men, quite apart from cere monial dress, which naturally demands of the wearer & restraint and "dignity if
These conclusions are by no based on speculation alone. Careful tests show that a great many people are conscious of the restriction imposed upon them by always having to look like the crowd. Of about seventy persons who were asked why they thought it neces- sary to be careful in dress, sixty replied, with one phrasing or another, that their reason was that a well-dressed and con- ventionally dressed person more easily gains confidence. As one put it: "Half the world is bluffed by the other half; dressing well helps your bluff." Only! about ten replied that they preferred
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A HUNDRED YEARA HENCE:
that the wearing of unnecessary mufflera, heavy coata, and huge shoes is merely an attempt to enlarge the wear's per- This means, if it is representative of sonality and to make him more import the general attitude, that most people's ant and conspicuous than he really is. dress is not the outcome of their liberty Hence the popular and incorrect belief or taste, but merely a bowing to a con- that all policemen have large feet. vontion which they fear to oppose. Their Everyone knows the apparent satisfac- true etticiency is sacrificed to a laise one, tion with which some man, and women their individuality, to some one else's lack too, wear clothes as a kind of advertise of it. ment of what they think is their greatest Contentment, health, and development virtue: the sporty person, the retired of individuality, with all of which gar colonel, or the female fisher of men, toments have much to do, are now recog gether with their apparel, will convince nised as the most important factors in There are anyone that there is a very real connee industry, of whatever kind. tion, between character and dress.
SCIENCE OF CLOTHING.
many people who would look askance at you if you were to ask them to get blood The important conclusion drawn from out of a stone and yet who remain per these observations is that everyone ought suaded that they can extract one hundred to be allowed to dress according to his per cent efficiency from a man whose taste, character, and occupation, for if he efficiency is fifty per cent. To the aid of these folk, be they employers or employ does not he will be restricted, unhappy, ed, science, psychology, common sense, and lese efficient. In a sense, therefore, the new science of clothing ranges itself or anything you like to call it, must come at least. At present the need for such again the fashion experts on the one things as suitability of clothing is not
would band and against those who standardise clothing on the other. realised, and on one will pay attention to would advocate, with certain modifica them; even the least of the discoveries tions, a return to the medieval system of of science have, however, a curious way each class of workers having their own of establishing themselves in spite of all dress: the merchant would dress difa indifference, if given sufficient time. A hundred years ago one brushed his ferently from the Jabouer, the farmer teeth. In a hundred years' time, no one differently from the physician, and so on will wear stereotyped clothes. Evening
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Whatever company or institution took the business up would be obliged, if it meant to deal thoroughly with the problem of the ignorant investor, to spend a good deal on publicity, so that everyone who has money to invest might know that some trustworthy co- cern was prepared to take charge of its investment.
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