WOMAN'S PAGE
(CONTD.).
'AN ENGLISHMAN'S HOME.
I suppose that every nation thinks all other people are barbarians, in their ideals of home and hosie file, and many are apt to say that others "have no home life." We English are the worst offenders in this respect and the most home proud nation in the world. An English man's home is his castle, but if your castle does not conform to recognised standards public autho- rity intervenes, and no where are the sturdy beggars, gipays and other homeless folk so despised and re- gulated.
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CRICKET
THE COMING SEASON.
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The HK.0.0. Pavilion.. The building of a second storey th the pavilion is a great step in the right direction, both figuratively "Per ardua ad and literally. astra," and the old roaf by the way never did leak. Under the old arrangement, accommodation cramped even at the mest ordinary times, and it was only possible to accommodate two visiting teams at one time by the courtesy of all members not playing in the matches, Even so they had not proper room judged by the palatial standard
The How Hall.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 26th, 1927.
GOLF.
AMERICAN AMATEUR
CHAMPIONSHIP.
(REUTER'S AMERICAN SERVICE.]
MINNEAPOLIS, August 25th. In the National Amateur Golf Championship, Bobby Jones de feated. McCarthy 193 up.. Legg eliminated the champion, Von Elm, in the second round 1 up.
LATER.. Under perfect conditions. Elm turned 2 and b on the veteran Legs, who won the next four, all bir
the dies.” El eagled and won
the remainder being fourteenth, halved.
In the second round Jones beat Homan's 3 and 2; Evans bent Moser (of Wiltshire) 3 and 1; and Quinet beat Marston (Pine Valley) 3 and 2.
BOWLS INTERPORT.
THE TRIAL TEAMS SELECTED.
The Interport Selection Commit- tee of the Hong Kong Lawn Bowls Association have chosen the fallow ing players for the first of three
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LIFE IN VIENNA TO-DAY.
THE CITY OF LAUGHTER AND TEARS, MUSIC
AND ROMANCE.
[BY ELIZABETH CRAIG. ↑
Moonlight and Strauss: trigone to an orgy of winter sports, cafe music that goes to your head like | life is spent inside the buildings. the native wine: alluring women: Just now, friends mostly meet at Inscinating men: and the Danube, little tables primped in front of rippling blus in the day time, the cafes, not bleased with gardens diver-woven by night. To me that for the purpose, but unlike in both is Vienna. A place of magic, of Berlia and Paris, they are partial- spels. A place to live and love in. Ily screened from the curious gaze latticework of Many a moon has waxed and of the public by waned since Emperor Francis greenery, or a row of, boxwood to which trees. The Viennese like to dawdle Joseph set the tune Vienna passed her days. The old over their coffee in privacy. Emperor who, from one window in
Later in the evening, you can the Hofburg, used to watch the dine or sup in town, then wander, Austrians changing guard, before if you will, round to a cosy haunt changing of the Hungarian Guard, bande crossing to one alongside to see the
Singerstrasse, where gipsy wile AWAY the midnight is dead,
His successor, Empator hours. There, over a glass of öld Charles VII is also dead. Of Tokay,the wing of kings and broken heart, so the Viennese 1ay. King of Wine," you can listen to proud Austrian-Hungarian the gipsies playing their wistful Empire is no more.
Hungarian melodies and feel like stamping and hooching" as if taking part in a Highland recl. when with a flurry of cymbal and
The
Exultant Women. But Vierina is still at heart Vienna. A little faded perhaps, like a famous beauty past her prime, but still a city of laughter, music, and romance. A city that gives you back your youth the while it tears at your heart atriasis
"See
in
concerted rush of violins, they plunge into the abandon of a cardas.
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Racing the Moon.
to secluded Grinsing, sacred to the Or you can motor with me out Some people say, and die, but I say, "See Vienna memory of Beethoven. I had my and die." Yes, even though the first glimpse of this favourite even- perial days is dimmed. For where picturesque byways on my rond to magnificence that was here in iming resort as I drove through its else can you find a place so given the mountains in the care of The aver to the worship of romance! Perfect Guide. But only a fash
exultantly i
I have been told that the Club' trial matches (two of two rinka and Where else do women queen' it so and then we were racing the full
one of one)-
Laing (Taiko) 1, Brown (How loon Docks) 2, Morrison (Taikoo), and Pendered (Civil Service) akin Atkinson (Kowloon Docks) 1, Basa (Craigangower), Cullen (Kowloon Docks), and Wallace (Taikco) skip.
The Peak or Kowloon? One of our most firmly established rules is that the
castle "
must of the Shanghai Club House. This look as attractive and imposing as
year the Contractor hopes to have possible from the outside. poorest cottages have a gay show the second storey finished in time of flowers either in a strip of garden for the Interport week and we hope
II or blacking the tiny window. you are not blessed with this world's he will break the China record and goods you must at all costs disguise do it! But I am afraid the typhoon the poverty of your home from the of Saturday last must have set him outside world, And we come to Hong Kong prepared to establish back. I have been told that most en English home in a foreiga land of the temporary roof imitated the The Peak is crowned with castles majority of the European male which from the mid levels look not population on that date and sought unlike the strongholds erected by the haughty barons of the middle to get into the Hong Kong Club for ages, and the whole district is set shelter. Fortunately, it failed to with but slightly orientalised ver-effect an entrance. sions of English homes. But if you cannot afford the Peak, or for some other reason must live either in the valley or on the mainland, you will order for balls for this season was be lucky to find a house or flat
"of the regulation pattern." This which does not shock your British prejudices. Nathan Road, wide and I take to be the new "small" ball. perfectly straight, might be one of The Civil Service Cricket Club de the finest in the world; but half the flats are untenanted or turned into finitely have purchased this type and Chinese tenements, because their I was able to compare the new
Omar (Craigergower) 1, Reid approach is by way of an ill-lit and the old pattern the other day(Police), Gray (Kowloon Docks) staircase "designed, one would sup: The weight, of course, is exactly 3, and W. Macfarlane (Kowloon pose, for the passage of a slender Chinese maiden. Tiny kitchens and the same. The difference in size is Bowling Green) skip.
Oswick (Civil Service) 1, McLead though miserably inadequate servanta' quar-visible
not particularly (Taikos) 2 Belland (Kowloor ters further depress any "house noticeable, unless you are looking Bowling Green) 3, and Lapsley proud woman.
for it. But it is most apparent (Kowloon Docks) skip. The result of this is that those when one handles it. It seems who have come here filled with the probable that the man who is going to profit most is the man who really Empire building spirit, and anxious
spins the ball when he delivers it to establish a home, soon come to consider themselves as exiles, serv. Otherwise I am not sure what will Of course, there is not ing wetense, and their fats as happen."
But this There is quite so much to hit! tenyorary ake shifts. the no inducement to make a helps the batsman when he nibbles beautiful home even in a land which at the off-ball, and the theory, that product lovely furniture carpets there will be fewer catches at the wicket or first slip is quite tenable. and porcelains There are many beautiful homes in the Colony it is Again, there is less chance of that true, but there are, on the other ball which just brushes the sticks hand, far too large a proportion of coming of-along with one bail. I dwelling places to the decoration of incline to think that barring the
qucation of spin-bowling the change The Malay Mail points out the which it is obvious that little care has been given. Too large a pro will possibly worry the really good decision as to the venue of the final portion for the good of the Colony, bat, but will help the unorthodox, rests with the Malays Caps Cora- for where your home is there do fukey or bad bat. I expect to get mittee and the matter cannot be
a few runs this year myself and to subject to arrangements betwee your interests lic.
raise my average at least to 5.60-associations.
on some of my Perhaps later readers would favour me with their ideas on the subject.
Makeshift Homes.
Art in the Home.
Old Chinese Carpets,
Grounds.
The Selection Committee con prises Messrs. W. Russell, G. Mor- on, R. Lapsley, A. O. Brawn, and T. 3. Tacchi.
FOOTBALL.
August 18th The Selangor Footbal Associs tion has rejected the Singapore offer of $1,000 to transfer the Malaya Cup final to the Bingapore Stadium.
League Lingers.
past-mys-
moon up the Street of Heaven, past It is true one can no longer greet vine-clad slopes, past white faced an emperor leading a religious pro- houses peeping curiously over their cession through the streets, and creeper-draped walls. that there is now no emperor to terious woodlands, till at Cobenzl wash the feet of twelve old men we slowed down for a moment to on Manndy Thursday, nor empress see Vienna and the lights along the to perform the same service for a Danube glittering below. dozen old women, but life still goes Then dinner on the terrace in front on in Vienza pretty much as it did of the white castle, with honey- when Francis Joseph slept on a suckle and mock orange blossom simple field bed, draped with a drugging the heady air, and the crimson cover, and later, when moon spilling its radiance over all.
Од VII. slumbered Charles
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brown-painted iron bed to match Back at Grinzing, we glided past For contrary to popular idea, wine houses and gardens until we Francis Joseph, as well as his eus came to Doebling, when we drew cessor, possessed the simplest tastes up in front of Rockenbauer, where and lived very quietly, blossoming a bunch of greenery hanging from a pole at the entrance proclaimed out only on State occasions, and
that a wine celebration, called a when Court etiquette demanded.
Heuriger was in full swing. Every Prade of the Habsburga,
year, during the summer months, Here no Gargantuan feasting, and at the beginning of autumn, such as is common in Berlin, takes when fresh wine is ready, up the lunch and dinner hours. As Reuriger takes place in the wine Hungarian put it the other gardens of Grinzing, Nussdorf, hile we dined and wined and Sievering the nights are and other outskirts artistically in a young pine wood, aniver with a crack Viennese.band
Alit by Chinese lanterns and drink. bing out When. De band throb fine, the people sit in the gardens,
Away: The Berliners the wine of the village and little fressen" (meaning devour," and folk songs. When is too cold said only of animals), the Vienrich and poor, village folk and town folk, sit on rude, wooden nese essen" (cat).
The Berliners believe in making benches at deal tables, where they the most of to-day, ignoring to spread out the supper they have suck all the sweetness they can out the accompaniment of new wine ΣΠΟΓΓΟΥ, The Viennese, again, brought with them, and eat it to of the moment, while bearing in mind that there may still be a to- morrow to enjoy.
Café Life.
Love and Wine.
The price of land and the sins of the building contractors are to
a cricket ground in the area be- Now spend with me a day in It was chilly for Vienna, the blame, for the materials and the
tween High West and the Peak at Vienna, though the hours will be night I was taken to the Rocken- spirit required to make a home are
The question of grounds is a big the end of Harlech Road, where the much too short for all we shall hauer, so the Heuriger was held here, and the former are by no
one this year, with all the new old "Shropshire" trenches used want to do. After sight-seeing we indoors, Picture a long arched means beyond the financial reach
At to be. That idea has gone (high) can Inach, two flights below the hall painted along the walls with of most residents in the Colony. military teams to enter for. Luxury objects which have a purely first sight the Civil Service ground west anyway, though the next gene- Hofburg, in the old, palace cellar pictures of Vienna, hung with tro decorative value, porcelain ivories would appear to be ruined owing ration may play there. I rather which was once the pride of the phies of the chase, and åtted down and lacquer for example are con- to the large slice the P.W.D. have think the swerve bowlers would do Habsburgs. There, while the an- each side with deal tables and siderably cheaper here than at nibbled off on the nullah side for well on such a ground.
cient clock from the palace plays chairs, divided into pews with From a the same hunting song it used to green wooden railings. home, and it is often these luxuries reconstruction. It sounds rather which endear your rooms to you and cannibalistic, does it not How-
ever, it may be said, I think, that The decision of the League Meet play when it called Franz Joseph low platform in the centre of one
and his guests to the hunt, you side came music of
guitar, cute, in a secse spell home. That is one
love the of the curious things about real ait, every effort is being made to obtaining to hold the League this year
wines of Bordeaux, beloved of musicians played and sang, of love it becomes more than a valued an equal area, though the wicket is, to many, as unexpected as it is may sample one of the famous viclin, and piano.
It seems to show an Francis, Joseph, or drink a glass and wine, and wine and love, while possession, almost a part of oneself. will have to be shifted over a bit nawelcome. A picture or a well designed vase, and the pitches may not be quite extraordinary parochial attitude. of Hungarian wine, or of brown the gursts chatted merrily or join- We have this year many new teams for example, on which your eyes so good. It has always been a
inclined. are accustomed to rest with plen-matter of wonder to me that they in the Colony, and have no grounds, beer, the favourite tipple of the ed in the folk songs as they felt Suddenly, in response to a sign sure, makes your room different have had the pitches they have pro- Surely the local clubs should have abstemicus Emperor Charles. from any other room in the world: duced in the past under the pre- spent this special season playing
service teams One agrees with the No matter how we pass the after- from my host, the music makers when you cannot see it you do not vailing conditions.
Everyone spathizes with the Chairman that it would be regret noon hours, we must visit before left their platform and came to the feel at home..
position in which the Kowloon table to let the League die out. dinner one of the famous cafes end of our pew, where grouped Cricket Club finds itself. Its But that begs the question childish where the Viennese meet to read the out in graceful fashion, and still In Kemor's showroom the other tenure, in the strict letter of the ly. If the League is such a weakly latest news or reviews, and to dis- standing, they gazed into our eyes us alone, while day I was look at some carpets. law, has always been precarious, body that suspension for one year cuss, while drinking Cafe Melange, and played to The tones and the perfect propor- but this applies to very many, other will kill it, then surely it is better which is simply coffee with whip waiters and waitresses in picture- But it isn't! It was ped cream, and eating the most sque peasant dress threaded in and. tioning of ornament made them a grounds. As however, the whole dead delight to look at, and gave to question is under discussion I don't suspended for several years during fuscious of cakes, the latest politi- out among the tables.
Back on their stance, with a them that quality of restfulness think that it can profitably be dis- the war and bobbed up again most cal and theatrical gossip, or maybe
latest For
megaphone attached the violin, which is the hall mark of real art. cussed here. Suffice it to say that cheerfully afterwards.
again the Chairman is reported these core cause has of the Well the point aged out rega The average modern carpet Eurothe Club serves a wide public reed.
ties of a club lounge, where ordin-Serenata," then Kissing is Not pean or oriental is often beautiful Of its hospitality I need hardly to have said that it created a but it takes its humble place as speak. No doubt, like myself, many tremendous amount of keennessary club life is lived, and where a Sin" sung out the piano, while which would not otherwise be the business deals are made, just as everybody hummed and some de case." I am afraid this is true, they are over a London club table. monstrated the theme. though it is unfortunate to have to There are cafes patronized largely admit it requires the excitement of by men of one interest, for exam- a League to keep up interest in ple, where the automobile men for- cricket. But there may be a reason gather; others, where the leather for this. The lack of keenness is merchants discuss the leather mar probably very largely due to the ket or where the taxi-men lounge
in their upper hour, and so on. fact that there are usually only a
In the winter, when Vienna dur few teams here and people get rather tired of and used to playing ing the week-ends gives herself over the same faces so often and grow apathetic. I think that cricket got into that state in the nineties, and the undoubted boom early in the new century was caused net so much by the League, qua League, as by the appentance of the several new teams which "It made the League possible. might, therefore, be argued, on this-- hypothesis, that as there are this
certainly
KILLING TIGER WITH BUCKSHOT.
But not "till an old folk song on wine and love rose and fell on the sir, and a Titianhaired Viennese girl, between kissing her escort, ibrobbed out the words, did I feel deep down that" Wien und Wein" (Vienna and Wine) were for evez- allied, come war, come peace, come wealth, come poverty.
close to the Kroh Forest Reserva when, scarcely 15 yards away, ap peared tigor. The party had three double-barrel guns between them, loaded with buck-shot.
n floor covering, and, provided its of my readers have experienced it colouring is in harmony with the often and have come away simply general scheme, no more is required full of it. The members of the of it and it remains almost un-Club, however, can rest assured that noticed. These old Chinese carpets the sympathy of all the cricketers had the insistance of the master in the Colony is with them, and 1 piece, your eyes would return again venture to suggest that a good and again to rest thankfully on motto would be Don't worry: it them. Woven of camela hair dyed may not happen." (I forget if this with vegetable colours they are is a quotation from the book of almost as thick and as delicately Job or from the Sporting Tones), toned after a century of use as The E.K.C.C ground seems in when they were first designed...
excellent order. In view of the enormous amount of work it gets, Bome Cabinets. Several new cabinets have found it is one of the most remarkable grounds I have ever struck-or been A place in the sanctuary since struck on. last visited it. There is a coro mandel style cabinet with a red and green flower border incised in the black lacquer, with carved figure
A Kampar correspondent writes to rise no morel Fired at close panels, and a very simply designed cabinet of red lacquer of the most
year a good many new teams whom to our Ipoh: contemporary: "Orange, the shat had entered the neck. wonderful depth of colour. Near
we have never met before, there Saturday when all party of on the left side, passed through the will be plenty of keenness without four started from Kampar in the heart, and came right up to, but them stands a blackwood-
arriage chest_which is one of the most per- It is difficult to see where any the artificial stimulus of a League. evening to hunt wild boar in the not through, the right flank, kill fect of its kind. It is almost with new grounds are coming from unless see the IRC have got two forest at the 7th mile, Kamparing the tiger instantaneously... out ornament relying upon its. pro we would develop Jardine's Look teams in the Senior Division. It Degong-road, none of them ever big crowd gathered at the portions and the low bas reliefs out or the Lantao Plateau. But has always been a ghastly failure expected that they were going to police station. The animal proved carved on each panel. These con- until we have our own noroplanes when the Hong Kong Club has tried run the risk of facing niger in to be a female, a magnificent speci ventionalised designs are so ex-suppose that accessibility would this I presume that the IRC will the open snd-come-out-namsuled men, measuring 2 feet 8 inches to quisitely carved and balanced that be rather to seck. It is perhaps settle two-rostera of players and and triumphant. Leaving the high tip of tail Towkay Chan Gin planter, of the chest stands supreme among the unknown to most people that there not produce two elevens out of road at about 8 pm. they were. Chuan, a miter and " invishly decorated pieces that sur-once really was an idles of making about 18 individuals.
going through a small clearing in Kampar was responsible for the Wontinued on nest Colina);
RABBIT-the jungle neara Malay kampong only shot fred."5.
round
It will be interesting" to see how the Club de Recreio pitch plays. Last year a good many people ad vanced the theory that even then it was one of the best wickets in the Colony,
New Grounds
EXCITING KAMPAR
INCIDENT.
A report, and the man-eater sank down withant so much as a groan,
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