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HONG KONG DAILY FRESS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931.
THE ART OF LIVING
CHEAPLY.
TALKING OF RIDDLES.
· AND TO THE MEMORY OF WHY DID THE DUTCHMAN
JIMMY SIMPKY.
[BY TINDAL KING...]
Reading the other day of the. death of my old friend James Simpky in an Almahouw just out- | side London, at what journalese calls the ripe old age of 80, am reminded of my early days in Hong Kong whon ay assocasion with him inculcated in me those habits of thrift which he had learn- ed at an Aberdonian mother's knee and which, had I bet followed than persistently and consistently, would have enabled me long since to hau retirad from this unhappy chaċi
called Chine to spend my declining years in some sun-kissed sheltered garden on the beautiful, if at times, tempestuous, South Coast of my beloved England. But that was not to be, and Simpky's passing, as hayo just said, has recalled to mind "the" Art of Living"Cheúply," nijo lest that art should be lost utterly with my own demiso I hasten to set down here for the benefit and guidance of present and succeeding generations some of its more salien features, if not ita actual funda- mental principles..
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Simpky's motto was dra est cclare artem, and in the days or aímost world wide scholarship I feel it would be tho abeorest presumption for, me to attempt to translate words which mean so much more in their original tongue, than can ever be conveyed by the language generally spoken in the British Isles. But how successfully pos old Jimmie Simpky-he would, 1 know, forgive this familiar, refer- ence to him-lived up to this motta may be gauged by the fact that though he died in an almshouse ar left no less a sum than eight then- sand six hundred and forty-thre pounds twelve shillings and thrge- pence. It was one of the surprises of the year, but the Will, when 14 became known that his whole for- tune had been bequeathed to employed strabismic. Scotsmon to be paid out in threepenny bits on alternate Sundays, caused even [ greater sensation, and had it not been upset in the Court "of Session, might have useu catastrophic to n community so immersed in commerce and so famed therein that at one time it boasted. but one Hebrew citizen who in des- perution had had to seek the shelter of the Workhouse! And the native torriers, they say, always have gaz on their fret before going out, and directly they return to their rés-, pective homes, their first act 18 to turn over on their hairy httle backa to display their soles to their ex- pectant masters, and woe batido' the wre doug that nightly turna nows! This aspect of the matter am Bariously thinking of bringin to the notice of the P.FC.A., and it seems to me there might be othor usos for the lethal chamber besides the purely altruistic ons of gently helping unwanted friends of man.
another, and one can easily be lieve in some instaces, in obvices, ly happier world. It is a terrible thought that any friend of man. should be unwanted, but I digress. At the time when poor old Jimmie Simpky's will was being discussed an enterprising newspaper atarted competition for the number 51 threepenny bits available out of the fortune of £3,643,12,3, as well as the number of beneficiarios who could legally establish their share, the prizes offered being £10 for the first correct solution, a double per- ambulator for the second, and an invalid chair for the third to be divided equally among the success- ful competitors. A popular feature of the competition was the eligi- bility of possible distributor to enter on the same terms as the or- dinary reader, but naturally the whole thing fizzled out when the Court of Sesaian stepped in. It is aid, by the way, that an Aber donian has in common with the elephant am a 11- regard for pin pricka, but a long memory and one. drunk the latter generally bebey fed to constitute a species of heir boom. However, to return to mos eld Jimmie Simpky, how well 1 | remember our first meeting on the. Praya near Ship Street when ou my way to East Point! But let me describe him, so that perhaps others who shared his confidencu with me-he shared little clse-wi!)) recall to mind one who has now passed on to join very definitely what is known ne youterday's ten thousand years. Six feot of the finest Scotish brawn, he was pro- bably one of the handsomest men of hia day in a day when men weré handsamo- moak of Hong Kong, in 1908 and the years before. He took out-sizes in everything, in- (Continued on next Column.)
FLY?
To be confronted suddenly, wy an old friend, any in the street or a your cales, who demands in all sor ousness to know the ranson Why the Dutchman Flow," how do, you imagine you would react to his enquiry 7" Would you conclude that last riddle he has heard at the he wax baking the oneway to the club the previous evening, or would you perhaps imagine him to bo keonly interestert in aviation! For on the face of it these are the only conclusions one could . arrive when confronted with such a ques tion. And you are right, for first conclusion is the correct one, within limits, for "Why did the Dutchman Fly a riddle. But, and here's the difference, it in a riddle.. strange it may that has not as you been propound. ed in any club, neither has it yet been naked anywhere at all in the colony. Therefore we put it to our
readers.
tite
the
soem,
"Why did the Dutchman Fly."! · And having asked the cohundrum, although it may seem a little un fair on the surface, we leave you to discover the answer. We hasten to add. however, that, as in the happily in the position to offer case of a treasure hunt, we are.
clues, thereby permitting our rea ders to be first in the fold with that everyone will be asking one the reply to an important question another during the next few days,
The clues are these:.
1. (Incidentally the most im portant glue for bachelor ran ders) Discover the identity, ci Sally, Mina, Grotchen. Frada, Clara, and a host of other pretty damsels, who will all he in the public eye during the coming week. Wond vise all but particularly bachelors, to waste no time in discover this clue.. 2. Find out the reason why s handsome bandmaster, sought after by all the pretty girls in his home town.. mn.de friends with his very oppor site, a disreputable loafer, and how the said loafer en- (Continued on next Column.)
A WOMAN'S TURN
SURELY YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LET THE MEN WIN ALL THE PRIZES IN OUR CHRISTMAS COMPETITION, WE WANT MORE LETTERS FROM WOMEN THIS.
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See page 12 for details
of our
Christmas Competition.
cluding refreshment, and his leonine head crowned a physique which made him the terror of the vicinity in which he dwelt. At the of 63 he did not look or behave like any. one a day over 36, and having sol so much it is superfluous to add that he was the idol of the feminine society which he frequented when the day's toil was over. As I have remarked, I shall never forget the first time we net. That deep mel low bass voice, those kindly it sometimes gibbous eyes, that rugged red beard, that full mouth, that 11082, those terrific. heads. where shall we ever look upon his "like again? And to think that this colossal man le now no more, gone— as Punch said of a deceased o ard-marker-for the long rest, is truly to make one feel and to realise what" dgreat big empty place-or space this world can be, even finally to make one nisi is anything worth while, But then. comes the picture of poor old Jimmie Simpky to cheer you up, and you take heart again. You re- call his rugged features, his rudo handsomeness, that terrible nose, those kindly if sometimes gibbous eyes, that red board and full mouth, and those terrific hands.comind that large perhaps enlarged-beart, and that mellow bass voice. and you feel that you are beginning to understand, are indeed on the threshold of new disocveries when
crash.
Author's Note:The author
cantly purchased $20 worth. of garden and vegetable, seeds, and having road, several articles in Northerá papera under some such caption as Gardening Notes for Amateurs, and being. equally ignorant after vas bafore, claims, he as set, cut the problem of the Art of Living Cheaply "with a lucidity which compares. very favourably with the advice tendered in the Notes referred to Supra:
MUSLIM WEDDING.
ISMAIL-ARQUELI
A very pretty wedding, conducted under Muslim rites, was aplamnia- ad ab 5, Village Rond, Inat oven ing, when Miss Rahima' el 'Areulli, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs Osman el Arqulli,, became the bride of Mr. Bhisk Akbar Isamuil, soi of the late Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Ismail. [ The bride, who was given away" by her anole, Mr. A. el Arculli, looked very charming in a pretty sar of pink laco and carried a shaaf of gladioll. She was attend- "od by the Migara Amina el Arculi and Amina Abdul-Curreem (cou- aine) as bridesmaids. They wore. piosuresque Indian costumes and carried bouquets of pink roses. The duties of best man" were dis-k
A reception was held at the same. charged by Mr. S. A, R. Ismail, address after the ceremony when
a
large circle of friends were present to offer their good wishen. The ecuple were the recipenta "of a large number of presents includ ing a boautiful ten-set from mom- bore of the Indian Recreation Club of which the bridegroom is a very popular member."
couraged his friend to desert his post and risk his position. 3. Call upon Messrs Anderson
Music Co.,ip Tea Hense. Street, and get them to sell you all that they can concern ing Mias Hook of Holland," the Philharmonic Society' a production, that opens at the Theatro Royal this evening. Haxing discovered that Messrs Anderson will tell you, you will immediately book your seat for the perform- ance, and later, when viewhjuge the production, "will discover a host of clever and interest- ing incidents displayed by a band of enthusiastle actors, and, most important of all, you will discover also, the answer to the tantalizing con.. undrum Te Why
did th Dutchman Fly."
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