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Dop. 8.40 3.05 8.23 18 10.18 12.00 1,182,35
Drp.J: 0:49
Dop 7.00
Dap: 7.14
Talpo Market...... Dop: 7:19
Fanling P Day. 7,80
9.34 10.24 12.01.26.... 937):10.30 13.20) 1.38 9.3210.50) 13.391,51 -0.37) 10.54 12.87 135 .... 10.09 11.0412,47) 3,05)
40 441 5.85 7.40
*** 1440 5,48) 7.48. ....08.388.00 ...8.18 6:08 513 6.196.12 8.17 ... 4,29 0.29 8,37
Sheungkul. Dop.7.18 · 0.05 | 10,14) 11.09 1352210 2:14.0 | 5,846,27; 6.83 Arr. 7,41 9.44 0.11 10.30.11.15 13.58 1.16 3.20 4.40 5.40 0.888.88
Shumokun
Canton
11.82
5.40!
DOWN TRAINS
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EVENTS.
DECAYING CONVENTIONS
OF SOCIAL LIFE
TO-DAY,
(April 8)
1st Day of Zulhijjah.
Anniversary of opening of First Parliament of China..
King of the Belgians børn, 1873, At Home," Government House for Bishop and Mra. Duppuy,
Friday morning Moeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 a.m.
Lammort's Sole of Postage Stamps, Salos room, 5:15. p.m. 7
General Committee Meeting Kew- loon "Union Church.
AN EDWARDIAN LOOKS WITH TOLERANT
EYE ON MODERN MANNERS.
IF QUEEN MART OF TUDOR TIMES WERE TO COME TO LIFE AGAIN!
Rent,
Exhibition of Paintings by Mr.
One has heard so much talk and The, samo applies to the formal in- M. Kitchigin at Athena. Studio rend so much correspondence of thevitation cards which were Gloucester Building, from 9 subject of conventions in Contract oven for quite small dinner parties, till 7 p.m.
Lecture on The George Bonnie Bridge lately that it has been im Nowadays most invitations "como Rail-Plans" by Prof. W. Brown, possible not to have been reminded ever, the telephone and are answer Room K. The University, 8.30
p.m." Chess Entries Close for Open.of the conventions and customs of
ed in the same way. Even invita- Championship. 416.
every-day life, many of which are subjecte for telephonic communi- dead or in process of rapid decay.cation. After all, it anses a lot of trouble, and this is what most 'Not that we suffer by the dis Hong Kong Oricket Club Tennis
people try to do now Tournament Open Singles Cham-appearance of some of these, yet pionship; S. A. Rumjahu v. M. W. to the average Edwardian many Lo, 4.13 p.m.
things happen nowadays which s
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7.00
Dop 7.17 8.08 9.66 Bop 7.24 8.10 10.08) Dep. 7.29 814 10.08
Dep. 7.408.28.10.18)
Dep. 7.438.80 10.22
Dap. 7.88:8.49,10,80
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Shaungskul Fanling Talpo-Markets.
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Hockey Hong Kong Hockey Club u. Contral British Association, King's Park, 3.15 p.m.
Shooting: Hong Kong Smail Arms (H.K." Area) Mecting, Kow-generation ago, would have seemed loon City.
odd, to put it mildly, but to which we have now become quite acous tomed. No longer do we stand on ceremony, we are all much more
King's Theatre: The Santa Fe Trail,"
Central Law."
Theatre: "Common
Queen's Theatre: "Behind Office informal. We are less concerned also about what people may think
Doors,"
World Theatre: "Three Mus- | keteers."
Star Theatre: "Gold Diggers of Broadway."
Ten Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dancez at Hong Kong Hotel, Penis, sula Hotel and King's Restaurant.
H.M.S. Tamar Dance in Garrison Lecture. Hall.
European Mall-Outward: Europe win. Siberia (Empress of Canada) 10 a.m.
SATURDAY,
(April 9.) Racing: Third Extra Meeting at Happy Valley.
Cricket: Champions (I.R.C.) v. The Rest First Division Match at Soukunpoo and Second Division Match on C.S.C.C. ground, Happy Valley.
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University Law & Commerce So ciety Dinner, Lane, Crawford's Restaurant, 8.30 p.m.
Indian Recreation Club Cricket.
Dinner at the Club's pavilion, 8.30
OF BLY,
IS CHIVALRY DEAD? It used to be considered most un conventional, to say the least of it, for a man to use even the mildest
bus both sexes, in certain modern swear word before his lady friends.
circles, do not score at all to mind using such expressions befere each other. Indeed, if Queen Mary of Tudor times were to return to this COFFEE AND LIQUEURS, planet and visit a Bright Young Mon invited to a dinner party relieved to find that she was not People's party she would feel quite are not now handed an envelope the only person or thing to whơn onclosing a card bearing the name
a particular adjective was applied of the lady to be armed in to dinner, nor are they asked to in-No longer does youth pay any specs a plan of the table showing wtention to superstitious conver each one where he is to sit. Wstions. Out of pure curiosity 1 troop in after the ladies, each watched the other day a ladder mates for the one he would like to sit next to generally to find he in to be disappointed and that the card bearing his aume is elsewhere.. It used to be the custom for ladies to leave the dining-room long before smoking started; one's host's vintage port or carat was, there fore, properly appreciated. Coffee waesarved to the ladies in the
[p.m.
Central Theatre: Sin Takes A Holiday"
King's Theatre: "The Santa Fe Trial"
Queen's Theatre: "Behind Office Doors,"
Star Theatre: "Gold Diggers of Broadway."
It was an unwritten law that World Theatre "Three Musket-on called the next day, or as soon
leaning against a house in a buay street; all the older people were round it, most of the younger ones walked under it with supreme un- concern and I am sure few of the present generation turn the money in their pockets and bow to a new moon.
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A favourite question has long been: Hs the age of chivalry passed? In tertain ways it has. drawing-room," and, indeed, in some cases they were lucky if they werend, if some chivalrous conventions offered liqueurs. Now they stay are dead, it is paid for their eman- with us and sip coffee and kummel,cipation. How seldom one sees a and it is only when we men are young mun offer his sent to n considering a second issue of old woman in a bus-unless she- hap- pens to be exceptionally pretty! brandy that wo lose them.
Older mon still do-o did myself the other day, but was met with a Tea Dances at King's Restaurant after as possible, upon a hostess blunt refused from the lady, and a and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner with whom one had dined, butature which seemed to suggest that Daners at Peninsula Hotel Hong that convention, and, indeed, most she was just as capable of standing Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant formal calling, is done away
up as I was. I sat down fooling with, European Mail-Outward:
anubbed, and thinking, Europe via Suez (Corfu) 10.30 am." for which most of us are grateful. "temps, autres mœurs."
eers,"
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