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BIRTHS. KRISEL-On February 25. 1923 at No. 4 Route Francis Garnier, Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. Krizel, a son-
LANSDOWN.-On February
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1923.
DAY BY DAY.
of compliments indulged in by a few coolies having a little differ- ance of opinion. All these sources
"THRIFT IS SUCH A SIMPLE [af noise seem to be part of one's life in an Eastern oity. Protest THING AND IT MEANS SO MUCH. IT IS THE FOUNDATION OF SUC- is probably futile, for it sooma CESS IN BUSINESS, OF CONTENT- difficult to convince the average MENT IN THE HOME OF STAND Asiatic of the lower classes that|ING IN SOCIETY."-Russell Sage. The is being noisy. The foreigner
Occasionally Yours
Robert MacWhirter.
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You know how awkward it is sometimes to be asked to falks houses and tbars meet and have to be nice to people you wouldn't be found dead.beside. Of course, Major E. S. Halford, R.G.A..
ahostess can't always be blamed, whose rest has been disturbed at qualified at the examination in for she isn't supposed to be able night by the conversation of Colloquial Urdu held at Hons to be a thought-reader as well as two ricksha coolies with, appar-kong on February 26th,
a good ten-maker. How, for to- stance, is she to know that Mrs. ently, throats of brass, has the
The Quarry Bay A.D.C. MoFudd and Mias Maggie Mo- peculiarly annoying experience presenting the three-set farcical Flirt, who when she met them the next morning of saving the comedy, “A Tight Corner," at the last were devouring gridle scon same men, perhaps, peacefully | Taikos Club to-morrow night. and Dundee cake, bad in the in- terima sors fall out over the slumbering by the roadside
The R. G. R. and Mrs. Lind, matter of whose turn it was to through the din of heavy traffic.
say love for Home by the claim the Club's tennis court last We have seen labourers on some press of Asia on March 2tad.Wednesday but one? But these which may Дарреп. of
the
reinforced concrete During Mr. Lindsay's absenca, things structures that are now going up, the Rev M. S. Bailey will be in account for the good hostess having perforce at times to mind fall fast asleep during a respite, charge at St. Andrew's Church.
other business strictly mot her lying on bare boards, the while.
A Canton correspondent in-ow.
With the men folk. things other workmen are himmering forms us that the bankers and and sawing a few foot away. It commercial men have decided aren't so bad, but still there are when you'd sooner ba Limes not to accape-the proposed new may be that these mo, brought Treasury notes until steps have sitting at your oWD fireside up amidst constant dip, are so been taken to improve the valus than helping to grease the wheels of social intercourse against used to noise that it has no effect of the ull banknotes.
your will and inclination on their faer senses. It is left to
you probably know, MacPherson. Sear the path leading frome's a kind-hearted chap but the more sensitive Westerner,
Taip Road into Kowloon Tong terribly thoughtless.
Not but then, to envy them this attribute. village, there occurred a motorwhat he has avery right to ask to Connected with the subject of accident yesterday, when his own house whom he CATOS, noise in tropical and sub-tropical Chiese girl was knocked down bat as the man said when he fell by a motor cycle ridden by Mr. into the manure-pit, there are countries.- and, its effect on
H. A. Dene, of the Kowloon times when a chap would as roon European, is that modern curso-Customs. The girl was removed not be taken any notice of. As I deurasthenia. In temperate to the Kwong Wah Hospital
you was Mrs. MacPherson'side of 25, 1923, at the Victoria Nursing climates the rush and strain of suffering from injuries to her said to Janet on the way home, if
besd.
Laufen" she could strike my name Home, Shanghai, to Rov, and modern life has ruined the nerve
of her list on a Wednesday night Mfrs Arnold P. Lansdown, a system of the present gener- On February 23 one of the best after this. I'd as 1000 rit ut daughter.
atior, and we get insomnis sadknown of the Shanghai exchange home and try the Telegraph SOPHER-O February 26, 19:3, at Dr. Fearn's Sanitorium, drag-taking as extreme results of brokers left the market for good puzzles: they were perhaps not co Mr. H. F. Bell. To mark the entertaining but they certainly Shanghai, to Mr. and Mrs. A. M. this penstry exacted by Nature event his colleagues in the Ex-didn't talk back. Besides you got
opber, a non-
from super-civilised man. In the change Brokers' Association held the answer the next night, bot R solution of this tropics sound sleep is more than a short reception in the Shanghaiss for MARRIAGE.
Clab si noon, #ben Mr. Bøll was Education tangle you seemed to ever necessary for one's proper SKINNER-MACFARLANE-
the guest of honour. Mr. Bell have as much ebance as a moth On February 25, 1923, at Holy health, and it is in such circum has been a broker for some 20 ia a suit of armour.
rinity Cathedral, Shadghai, by stances that the coises of a place years.
Yes, this matter of education the Very Rev. Dean Symons, like
the
for British children is lots bard Hongkong prey on Robert Weeding, only son of Mr.
The hesith return for the past enough without the introduction Land dies. Charles Weeding Skin nerves, and eventually the mind, week shows six cases of small-pox of polemics. The angles and ner, England, to Mary Hay of those who try to snatch (three fatal), four of diphtheris facets it has would ske dismand-cutter go Wrong Crawford, second daughter of proportion of the slumber neces-(two fatal), threa of cerebro-spinal a the late James Adams Macfar lane, Glasgow, and Mrs. Macfar-sary for them. The sofortunate fever (all fatal), and one each of in the head. So you can easily brain worker who has to live in a plague and enteric fever (both imagine how, all having kissed isne, Sydney.
fatal). All were Chinese with Miss Wands (Mac for something congested part of the town css the exception of the enteric casa fancy every time) Mac Pherson be excused if he contemplates (British) and one Japanese occur-good-night and there being left breach of the peace by about rence of small-pox. There was the Teacher, the Government one Chinese death from influenza. Servant and Mac himself in the three o'clock in the morning,
role of Parent, the conversation, after passing through all the
The light cruiser Vindictive, in the absence of a drink or BELYEA.-On February 26,
tortures inflicted by yelling Captain Konald Howard, return-whisky poker, was bound to 1923, at the Victoria Nursing Home. Shanghai, Alexander coolies, honking borns, blaring ed to Portsmouth on Jan. 27 with switch on to Education. It stuck officers and men from the East out like a whittle on your left Uriah Belyea, aged 51 years. sirens, love-sick cus,
moon-Indies and Caica. She brought hand, so I offered to hold the SIM-On February 27, 1923, at struck dogs.
or officiate as referee belated human home the paid-off half-crow of stakes Naoking, China, W. R. Sim (formerly of Shanghai). Aged 43 revellers, and the like. If he is the depot ship Tamar at Hong. right away.
kong, the late crew of the survey. It was Mrs. Mac, herself, how- wise, he will try not to worrying abip Merlin; and other officers ever, on ber retura from the bed. over the matter, for that would and ratings from the Far East, room, who kicked off. "It's a hasten a breakdown. But the and relieved officers and menfunny thing to me." says she, how that lassie can never mind question one hears is, can the from the sloops Crocus, Cycla
men, and Espiegle, of the Persian ber prayers and yet she can stand powers-that-be do anything to Gulf Division of the East Indies up and string off her school
poetry for an bour on end!" That Squadros. mitigate the evil of noise?
"Easily explained," said the is #bat every cewcomer asks.
A junkmaster was summoned Teacher, "a child will always The older resident knows that he'
before Mr. J. R. Wood, at the remember those things which bas to bear it as best he can.
Police Court this morning, for interest her most."
"Now," butted in MacPherson, alleged cruelty to pigs by confin.
"that canna be true, for even to ing them in a crate said to mes sure only 18 feet by 9 feet. There this day I can mind lumps o* *▲ We wonder how many people were 32 pigs and it is stated that Mid-summer Night's Dream' and during the past week calculated they were kept deprived of water Lord koows, I used to bete it the odds against them when and on their backs with their fest worse that Gregory's Mixture as buying cash-sweep tickets. Not tied together by cords which cats boy. I used to get a licking many, we suppose; but if they into the flesh. For the purpose every time I got it to recise at had, they would probably have of securing the views of the school."
And as for her suma, realised the almost forlorn hope Veterinary Surgeon as to the
DEATHS.
LITCHFIELD-On February 16, 1923, at Chefoo, Joseph Veres Litchfield.
years.
The Telegraph.
HONGKONG, 6th March, 1923.
ON NOISE.
Chances.
went
Now that the Chinese New Year celebrations are definitely past, and the urchins with left over firecrackers' seem to have exhausted their stock, one can more calmly discuss the question of noise, with particular reference to its effect on the cerves of of winning a prize. A good few extent of cruelty involved, the on Mrs. Mac. "I'm sure I diana' dweller in the East. It may be bave, however, now learned by case was remanded by his Wor-ken how she spends her time. When I was a lassie, eight years experience that their chances abip. that a foreigner is prejudiced to were very slim. To turn from
old, I could do L.8.D. nearly backways." some extent, but in most cases racing to golf, what, should you
Teacher-But although Wands
is aight, perhaps she besn't. so many school years to her credit as you had at her ago. When did she first go to school? MacPherson Ob, she went first when she was five. Teacher:-At Kowloon? MacPherson:-No, that was - when we were home on holiday in Kintoal Then when she came back abe got the whooping-cough and so didus go to school here right away. Mrs. Mac-I mind it was a terrible hot summer that year and so we kept her at home until after Christmas. Govt Barvt:-But, of course, she has been at school con- stantly ever since?
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he will, after even a few weeks' say, are the chances of doing has been, perhaps more so, and bole in one stroke? They are 1 in we believe that compelling in. sojourn in an Eastern land, 90,000, according to Alex Herd, deuces and methods should be declare that it is one of the who ought to know something brought to bear upon the lives noisiest places he has ever had about it seeing that he has just of all young men at this time as seems to be such a made a bole in one" for the there the misfortune to stop in. From venteenth time. A professor of pronounced tendency toward the the tom-toms of India to the mathematics some years ago free and easy spending, of money. cymbale of China there is much estimated the odds at 100,000 to Many people who have come to jar on Western ears. To take so the average player's game suddenly into the possession of is apparently improving. But money are spending large sume only the Asiatic conception of a need hardly point out that on non-essentials, and the most part of this music as an example, we get the the thing really worth while in unfortunate
thay &re observed glorification of noise, with golf, as in all games, is the is that subordination of true melody. physical exercise, not the score. by those of limited means, who, The score is the incentive, in order to keep up appearances Anybody who has lain awake on without which few would try to with their more fortunate
unfortunata neighbours, a stifling tropical night and been get the exercise. Seemingly, forced to listen to the monotonous though, the average golfer has tempted to spend more than their income. One of the surest more chances of becoming pulsations of a not very distant taipan than making hole in one methods of arresting attention tom-tom, or the weird notes of an stroke, which may make him and revealing the true situation Eastern cadence wrung from feel jubilant or depressed just as is to make up a budget and keep
■ careful record of expenses. [his disposition dictates. some primitive form of wind or
Those who have not been in the habit of thus watching their string instrument, will know Cultivating Thrift.
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Mrs. Mao-Oh, yes, excepting the nine months Mac here was in Shanghai didos' bother sending her to school then because we never knew the day Mac would be leaving. Teacher: So Wands, for her school years, isn't so back- ward after all?
Mrs. Mao-Still, she's a big girl and when I was her **
Gort ServtRas she had any other sickness in the mean- time. The heat now. MacPherson~ (scoffingly) — No, she's a MacPherson 1 She was born out here and thisólimate puts her neither up nor down. What I object to though is the'way she's made to stay away from school in the summer after- 10003 She'd be much better there learning some- thing and with less chance of sun stroke, than running wild about the roads. I think the teachers feel the heat more than the kids do in the summer time. Teacher-That's all very well,
but what can the tonobars do when parents keep their children from school on the slightest prataxt? It's very disheartening to have to teach a handful. It can't be done. The whole dis- ciplies of the school is up set. Naturally children do not want to learn when
that they know
some of their companions are at play. And talking of playing--
Govt ServtIf I may bott io,
old man; don't you think that the physical side of school life is somewhat neglected MacPherson-Neglected? Hul!
When we were at school" we got no cricket, footba and boxi g. The only thing in that line we had was when we had to fend for ourselves outside. And they turned
good scholars in these days, mind I'm telling ye.. Toucher But education must
be physical as well as mental. Take the Public Schools--
-
MacPherson Ay," just take them. Isn't it a well- known fact that in the WAT some of the products of the Public Schools couldns" us much as write a sens bla letter? This boxing busi- ness is all nonsense. A teacher canna" play with his boys and preserve discipline.
Teacher: But true education
isn't altogether a matter of turning out book-worm. Education is really the art of living. MacPherson:-Then Heaven help some of our bairns for all the living they'll be able to make if it depends on their education.
Govt Servt:-And yet,
Mac, you'll be the first to agree that sure of our locally. educated boys have turned out to be very fine speci- mens. You remember the report you read, written by one of them some time sgo?
MacPherson-That's different. His folks were Scots. With some of the bairas round hereabout though, It's different Their mentality runs in the blood like wooden lags! Teacher-Er, ahem. Serious- ly, however, one must take physique. You must agres that this climate plays the very deuce with the kids. Taken as a whole they're s weedy lot.
Gort Bervt:-And yet school. visiting medicos have re- the ported that during summer months they put on fat.
Mrs. MacThen it must zan to their heads. When I was a wee girl eight years Teacher:Quite so. But don't you think the parents them- Belves are much to blame for the backward state of their children? It's all very well talking about discipline in the schools but you must agres that it is a very hard job in face of what goes on in most homes. What about those tea parties? Scarcely a day passes but some child asks away before the closing bour. MacPherson-Ay, and what about the afternoons that the tesobers go ten-drink- ing, leaving their class to be-dismissed by the next-door teacher? A per fect disgrace I call it. Some of these children come from a distance for their education, too. I've seen them rain and shine on the car, wee bits of tot some of them, chivvisi and.. bullied by the conductors. -(Continued on Page 7.j