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DO WE KNOW HOW TO GET THE BEST FROM LIFE?
THE JOYS WE LET SLIP BY.
· (BY ROBERT BLATCHFORE..]
PROPOSAL THAT MEETS WITH
STRONG OPPOSITION:
There was a poet who wrote a poem on FAKIR EXHIBITIONS IN PUBLIC. the pleasures of the imagination, and I' believe I could get inore delight and feel- ing of the country by sitting in the garden and reading Milton than by spending a weekend amid the blatant confusion of a popular holiday resort. That is because I have seen and lived and know the simple joys and healthy beauties of which the know, experience is an asset. The day Boy dreams of the grey heads differ from those
HOME OFFICE WATOR. The Home Office has received, and is considering, reports concerning the private demonstrations of the two Egyptian fakirs
If one gave ten mea and ted women poet writes, and as all elderly people now in London, Tohra Bey and Rahman each a one pound note, in how many different ways would they spend the
The nature of the fakirs' displays has
aentation in Engincda
·VESSELS EXPECTED.
Changte (Australian Oriental Line), due
June 14th.
Express of Ana (C.P.R.), due: June
14th.
Javanese Priner, due to-morrow.
impore (F., & O.), due tomorrow,
about 7 a.m.
VESSELS IN DOOK,
The following vessela aro, in Dock:- Kowloon Dock-Passat, City of Salis
Taikoo Dock:~Ã jaskan, Auking, Seang.
| money! "It is the same with holidays of the young. We live back in the glories raised in an acute form the question
Most human beings are gregarious; they of the past; they make imaginary jour-whether they are suitable for public pre-bury find exhilaration in a crowd; but some generally those full of years, prefer soli- tude. I am of that class: I, who used to revel in crowds and life when I was young. The Easter holidays this year were full of sunshine. How did the workaday massos spend those golden days, I won der, and what profit had they of their money 1 The popular form of holiday, as
me.
REAL HAPPINESS.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN HONGKONG.
Bee. PUBLIC DISPLAYS PLANNED. was informed that it is hoped to arrange An Evening Standard representative
for three public demonstrations of th powers of Tahra Bey, who have given an exhibition at the Seala Theatre in the presence of a large number of medical men. and other well-known people.
The first of these exhibitions would be
planned. at the conclusion of the flight in a coffin from Paris by the fakir, which has been
There is strong section of opinion against the demonstration in public of the arts of Tabra Bey or Rahman Bey.
Rahman Bey is due to give a further performance at a private gathering at the Little Theatre.
neys into the iris-tinted dreamlands of the future. We have the great advantage that our dreams are realities The boy (or girl's dream of love is an indefinite scented rosy glamour, our remembrance of love is a solid glory; we live it over again to wonder at its ineffable sweet ass. That really happened. We had it. It was I said last August, does "not appeal to imagination, that beauty that can never ours, that tenderness beyond The rush to the overcrowded beaches fade. and the weary drag back to the over- crowded train suggest a recreation at once
But youth scores in its turn. The im laborious and sad. Sea air is whole-aginary achievements in which the ardent some, when one has room to breathe it. youngster revels make our poor actual There is delight in a walk on the sands, accomplishments pale their ineffectual Sres. When was a child of eleven, when they are not as thickly tenanted as working at the lithographic press, I used ay-paper. But the actual "day at the to dream extravagantly as I stood by seaside," one would imaging, must be a stolidly to damp the stone. If the man I worked with could have read my source of weariness and irritation.
thoughts! The pirate ships I boarded, HOME OFFICE POWERS. she indies I rescued, the forlorn, hopes 1
The powers of the Home Office over little led, the gorgeous feasts I gave, poor hungry urchin!
private performances are very limited. I was Lord Nelson, Should it be considered that these exhibi Charles Dickens, Napoleon Buonaparte, tions infringe the ordinary standards of Pendly-Eye the Scout, and the Lond Mayor of London all magnified ten diatasie, those responsible for any public meters before I get my breakfast of bread exhibitions will be so informed. "It is and coffee. And here I am half-way very rare that such a hint from the Home through my eighth decade, and I have office is defied.
ever charged a square, nor scalped an Indian, nor written "Hamlet," nor eloped with a princess, and don't regret it in the least..
HERDING TRIPPERS. Or, is it possible that the herding trip pers like it! Our modern trippers are a hardy race. They are inured to crush and hustle and noise. They can dance for hours to the discordant blare of a jazz band without fainting or seeing red. They are a strenuous, pushing, bus-raiding, strap-hanging crew; but they lack initia. tive, or they aave no imagination. They go in whole battalions to the popular re-
Ah, but, young sir, I know better tunes I would not exchange the humblest of my than See the Conquering Hero," and plain bread-und-boney joys for the proud est of your imaginary heroics Wait until a real woman, the woman, looks at you ay if you were
star; wait until you hear your first baby speak her first word, and all your dazzling romances will ge
The chief feature of the performances of the men are the sticking into their flesh of needles and daggers, and burial alive in cataleptic trances, during which life is apparently suspended.
WOMAN M.P.'S VIEW.
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., who has not seen the Fakira, fold an Evening Standard, representative that she would not dream of going to such a perform. public. unce herself if it were thrown open to the
sorts. It never occurs to any of them to stop a few miles short of the general Mecca and have a glorious time in the woods or on the Downs. Is it because they know no better, or is it because squatting close-packed, like a football crowd, on the hard shingle, staring at the out like a firework in a shower of sparks. of those present at the performance at the
sea, really gives them pleasure! It is possible they are happy in their own peculiar way, though they certainly do not look it.
Many years ago, in a volunteer camp, a young corporal, a medical student and
the son of a vicar, asked me what I was
staring at. When I told him I was look ing at the sunset, he asked me, "Why?"
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And if you are feeling any envy of the great, go and look at their pictures and be cured...
BRITAIN'S BEAUTY SPOTS. Real happiness depends on simple facts, real holidays depend on simple pleasures. There are hundreds of ways of spending a sunny Easter, and I think the popular method of crowding on a sophisticated sea beach is about the worst. Quiet,
I explained to aim that it was beautiful, woods, remote villages, the moors, are all that it was magnificent, and be seemed prolife in healthy enjoyment. Even the surprised; but, after looking at the sky high roads of England are rich in beauty. as if it were the first time he had acen it, | What pleasure à well-chosen party of he said, "By jove, yes. It is pretty. I cyclists can get out of a day's ride. I do never noticed it before." How many not mean the motor-cyclist in his helmet the seaside have never noticed the sky dust and stench, and the main roads to thopsands of those who pay for a trip to and goggles, tearing along in clouds of Once riding from London to Norfolk there popular resorts are spoiled by the pre was a pageant of most beautiful cloud sence of the speed hogs. But every Eng shapes, on which I feasted my eyes for lish county will yield tappy results to a three hours. And the whole of that time wise tripper, who will look at beauty four intelligent educated men in the same, instead of hurrying by, and will keep clear compartment played at nap and never of the gregarious swarm. once looked out of the window. And it is astonishing to feel that they would never have seen the sky if they had look
ed out.
"
HOW TO ENJOY SCENERY,
I see some of our railway companies are certising the beauties of England, and advising our people to see England first. A good idea; but the ordinary holiday. maker requires help. "It would be a bene- ficent act for some good man to compile a book giving plain practical directions as to ways and means of spending a holi-
But it is a matter of taste," she add- ed. and I do not see why anybody should not exercise his own judgment, though I personally happen to think that the body is not made to be cut about in this way or otherwise maltreated,"
The following views were given by some
understood that on Scala afthough it a vote being taken at the conclusion of Tahra Bey's display the majority express- ed themselves in favour of public repre- sentations:
Lady Dorothy Mills.-I am pretty well hardened and have seen much more lurid" things in the homes from which they coine. The demonstration was remarkably in teresting, but perhaps it would be better
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it were kept quite apart and not given Bighest open-air Temperature on 2nd as a part of a programme where people Lowest open-air Temperature on 3rd who had come for general entertainment might object to it,
Lady Harmer-The demonstration was of a type which seemed to me more suit-
must be of very great interest indeed to able for private investigation by medical men than as public show. I think it doctors. It struck me as rather morbid and might easily affect many of the general public,
Lord Askwith.-I was not able to at- tend the exhibition, but a relative of mine who went expressed the opinion that he hoped it would not be given in public here although very interesting to scientific people. -
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DAILY PEZSS OPTICE.
A Scottish professor ones said that he had not recognised the beauty of nature until he read Ruskin. Ruskin told him how to see things. Now, if I wanted to the Susacz Downs, on the Yorkshire LEGISLATIVE. like my medical student I should advise bon. There are hundreds of thousands awaken the appreciation of a young man Moors; with a bicycle, in a van, on a Session 1925: him to read Milton. One of Milton's of English folk who know nothing about minor poems, L'Allegro, is a concise our beauty spots, and simply follow the and perfect guide to the beauties of Eng annual swarm to the sea. Who will show
sh landscape and the pleasures of coun- the people a light 1-Sunday News. try life. If any one of our readers has
so far not noticed" that the sunset is "let him read that poem every morning and every evening for a week,
pretty and he will wake up to find himself in a new England, in a new and beautiful world; but he will never again be able to endure a holiday crush on the sands of a vulgarised watering-place.
He will have learnt a new philosophy of pleasure; he will have discovered in himself unsuspected capacity of enjoy. ment; he will find, with a pleased sur prise, that a cloud, or a tree, or a bed of cabbage, or an old stone roof, or a ploughed field is a picture, and that the longer he looks at such a picture the more wonderful it becomes and the fuller it makes his knowledge and his joy of life, and the good round world.
Such is the poetic magic of "L'Alle- gro, a piece which could be printed in a single column of this paper. And this poem, well known to literary students, FROM LEITH, MIDDLESBRO', ANTWERP making crowd as “Lalin Rookh" or the is probably as unfamiliar to the holiday. LONDON, AND STRAITS,
Norse "Edda." The common idea of The Stesmihip “BENGLOE.”
Milton is "the chap who wrote Paradise Lost." The fact is that he is as English that all Goods are being landed at put England's beauty ao artistically and ONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby inform at Shakespeare, and that no poet has ever their risk into the hazardous and/or extra so completely into one brief and compact hazardous Godowan the poem. The complete thing, apart from AND KOWLOON WHARF and Godown Cora, the introduction, consists of 102 lines, Lap, whence, and/or from the TRACTOR
SIMPLE JOYS. Delivery may be obtained
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No Claims will be admitted after the Gooda Within this narrow compass Milton, have left the Godowns, and all Goods remaining tells us of the meadows and the woods,
Tuesdays and Fridst the undelivered after the 4th June, 1926, will be the hills and rivers, the country dances, |
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All Claims against the Steamer mart be presented to the Undersigned on or before the
2nd June, or they will not be recognised,, No Fire Insurance will be effected.--.*"
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the nut-brown ale, the farms, the cattle,
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All broken, chafed and damaged Goods are help to be left in the Godowns, where they will be stamined on the 4th June, 1928, at 10.
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Sometimes walking, not unseen,
By hedgerow elme, on hillocks' green, Right against the eastern gafe. Where the great sun begins his atate,“ Robed in flames and amber light The clouds in thousand liveriet dight.
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