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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPů, TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 1914.
MR. KIPLING ON TRAVEL. CORRESPONDENCE,
Interesting Lecture before. Royal
Geographical Society,
[The opinions expressed by the correspondents are not nocess-'. arily those of the "Hongkong Telegraph "]
(To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph.")
THE SNATCHER, Sir,-Under this beading your isene of the 14th, inst, informe readers that Mrs. McCoy (correct
Treto principles find a Mr. Rudyard Kipling gave a at auch advocate in Mr. Charlça | lecture before the Rival Geogra H. Roberts, who succeeds Mr. phical Society in the Queen's Hall Montage as Under-Secretary for last month on "Somo Aspects of India. The majority of his Travel." Lord Curzon presided.. speeches in the House of Com- Mr. Kipling said he bar noticed mona have been on the drink that what travellers told the question and it is interesting to public in print was one thing, note that his mother-in-law, the and what they told their friends
he therefore had tried to deal with some of the more intimate and Police the snatching of her personal, though it might be handbag, containing 30 dollars, trivial aspects of travel,
by a Chinese in Queen's Road.
May Lask space to give a more explicit account of this caso, both
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War and Medicine. For a number of years Dr. "Theodore Maxwell, whose death- Mental Travel Pictures.
is announced. was greatly inter- Mr. Kipling dwelt upon the ested in medical mission work. question of visualization. He He served as a volunteer with suggested that first class leaders a warning to other ladies in the Pelgian Ambulauen Corps of expeditions either did not the Colony, and as a criticism on during the Franco-Prussian War, visualize too much or kept their the necessity of such a case-bay- being present at Setin, and sub-powers of visualization under sequently went to India with his control. An old prospector once ing to be reported to the Police, wife, but returned before his am-warned him: As long as you'vo occurring, as it did, at 3.30 p.m.,; bition to establish a hospital at only got yourself to think about in the principal portion of the Kashmir had been realised. Dur-you can think as much as you' ing the Balkan War Dr. Maxwell, damn well please. When you've who was a great linguist, printed other folks' hires to answer for and sent off some 10,000 Christ you must quit thinking for your "mas cards to invalided and injur-own amusement. So, however
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Now, some people would call Moderate. Apply H. RUTTON- Tennis Court, from Germany. American engines be fell back on his store of mental
JEE. Royal George Hotel. have been bought by the Great pictares, but in the actual stress this she tebing, but my polites!
Hongkong, 17th Oct., 1913. term would be "Highway robbery Central, Great Northern, and of travel the first class man, as Midland Companies, and the distinguished from the very first- with Violence", and like many Great Western has in service class second-class man and this there, I often wonder what the three express ongines built in was an important distinction did place is coming to. It does not France sn used for experimental not or decided not to visualize. require very keen observation ратровов. These instances are Emphasizing the importance of these past few years to note the more than balanced by the order being able to retain a mental rapidly decreasing respect for, and which the French State Railways impression of the geography of contempt of Europeans by the recently gave a Scottish firm for district, the lecturer said that verage Chinese masses here.
Yours etc. motoring had tremendously in- 50 locomotives.
"IN EARNEST." creased our-powers in that respect, for a man who could read a county could learn to read a co untry and so on. But the time was made by a magpie, and com- would know and care just as little was not far off when the traveller prised many novelties, such as
One ruse of the Greek artists barbed wire, wire-netting,
whether he was over ́ses or land the world will never have done galvanised wire, part of a brasse to-day knew and cared admiring, namely, the calonlation lamp, part of a brass cruel, black whether our steamer was over 40 of their temples in relation to a wire, binding wita, und string.
fathoms or the Tuscarora Deop. fixed point far above them. The Then we should hear the lost poris columns were all slanted inwards Although Australis has no big New York and Bombay howl-in such a manner so slightly and ing like Tarahish and Tyre.o imperceptibly, that if they' game, there are still excellent Incidentally, too, opportunities for the sportsman. change all our mental pictures of in an apex a
we should were prolonged they would moet mile above the The Commonwealth is not a countravel
temple, saya A
writer in the try which attracts the man of
But this was all in the air. Atlantic Monthly. That invisible wealth who wants to go on Let us love it there," said Mr. point in the heavens, as someone shooting expedition. It is, how- Kipling, "and consider for a has said, like a raised crucifix, ever, a fine sporting country for while the illimitable, the fascinat-drew all the members of the the wage earner of all classes, ing subject of amells in their re-temple together in a single act Very few restrictions are placed lation to the travoller. We shall of recognition. on sport. There is no such thing on have to exchange them for athetic value of an adequate Such is the as a gun licence and you rarely or blasts of petrol and atomized inspiration." nover see the notice" Trespassers castor oil. Have you noticed will be Prosecuted." Practically wherever a few travellera gather every farm labourer keeps, his together, one or the other gun, and often, too, he is able to to Hay,
Do you remember that edge beyond which he must not have a dog or two for coursing smell at such and such a place ? go. But at home only the doctor, The country districts abound ja Then he may go on to speak of the nurses, sad the clergymen 183 rabbite and hares, and there is camel-pure esmel-one whiff of saw what happened next-not Remarkable Bowling. plenty of wild fowl. These con-which is all Arabia; or of the the caravan, not the grinning Barnes's bowling in the Teet ditions are much appreciated by smell of rolton eggs at Hitt, on coolies, and the whole naked matches against South Africa is the farin labourers.
the Euphrates, where Noah got landscape and afterwards all remarkable. In the first Test he Mr. Kipling's Epigram. the pitch for the Ark; or of the the world.
captured 10 wickets for 105 runs, That was a very subtle and favour of drying fish in Barma. However, these things, and in the second 17 for 159, in the important distinction made by Then the company begin to pure worse, were part of the rate of third 8 for 128, and in the fourth Mr. Kipling to the
Royal like cats at Valerian and, as the the road. They had never bin-14 for 144, Geographical Society recantly, books say, conversation becomes dered men from leading or follow- In the four matches, therefore, between the "first-class man general. There were only two ing. Even in those days a man he has taken 40 wickets for 536 and the "very first-class second-elementary smells of universal bad but to announce he was going runs, which gives him an average class man. "He succeeded in appeal the smell of burning to gamble against death for a few of 10.93 per wicket. defining a difference that may be fuel and the smell of melting months on totally inadequate i noticed in nearly every walk of grease the smell of what man cuver, and thousands of hitherto life, that between the really great cocked his food over, and what honest Englishmen would fawn A Chinese widow living in a your eyes are giving trouble call on us man and the man who just misses he cooked his food in. Mr.and intrigue and, if necessary. village in the New Territory has and have them examined. No charge for greatness through the lack of Kipling dwelt at some length lie, in rder to be allotted one life complained to the police of aight testing. that indefinable quality that we apon the number and variety of share in the venture. Nearly all visit by five Indians, who stole N. LAZARUS, term genius.
scenes and sensations which that c ull be accomplished by the from her, four bed-boards and OPTHALMIC OPTICIAN. Films for Policemen. might be called back to the mind old means of exploration had been a door valued at $11.
Tel. 1292. 1A, L'Aguiler St The films which are to be by a certain smell. The smoke won. The old mechanism was shown to the Paris constables of rank wood fasl he suggated scrapred; the moods and emotions represent almost every possible as Laing the most potent.
that went with it followed. Only
[381, Quean's) incident of a policeman's duty,
the spirit of man carried on, un-
Road Mr. Kipling next referred to altered and un sppeasable. There
Central.
and have been carefully acted in
Qualitles for Leadership.
Bore
the most realistic way. The young the choice of companions. A would, Brine-bey were shaping
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TEST CRICKET.
Another Jewellery Theft, A Chinese clerk living at 123, First Strest has been robbed of jewellery valued at $243. A box containing 21 pieces of
པ 'ཏྭཱ Chinese Stabbed.
The fourth Test Match between left drawn. The home aptain A Chiness has been seat to the England and South Africa was declared at 305 for ains wickets Government Jivil Hospital sut- on their second veature, and fering from a slight to which M.C.O. replied with 15 or three alleged to have been caused by vickets. In the first innings the miniwhy hissince absconded. Africans scored 170 and Eagland
Indians Accused.
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