MUSIC FOR HONGKONG.
AT A PRICE TO SUIT ALL.
The lack of interest in, and; appreciation of, things musicali has for long boon a subject for dis- ouesionamong the public of Hong- kong. It has proved such a tasty bone of contention on which the) press may amicably wrangle,. that we have small wonder tho bono is never decontly interred,{ but, rather, is handiad from mouth to mouth, apparently rataining its succulence and losing more of its attraction during tranzit or hyhornation.
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On the one side are those who protest that the allogations level- lod against the musical reputation of Hongkong aro unjust; that Hongkong numbers among its population A
high por- contago of 10n and women fully qualified to appreciate and pronounce judgment upon what- over feast of sound may offered. On the other side are the carping orities who, after a poorly attended performance of no little morit, deride thoir antagonists and bicut" Wo told you so, Hong- kong has no soul BAVC
bo
for
shock los." This may be so, but I refuse to endanger my nablo noso by injudiciously plunging that delicate orgao into such a discus- sion. Let is, however, examine a faw of the reasons and oxcuses one hours in extenuation of non-. attendance at musical functions at this time of the year:-
Exhibit No. "It really in hot" (I'll tell the world.-Ed.) Exhibit No. -"I hate dol- ling up in this weather." (For myself like it like I liko arsenic).
Exhibit No. 3.-" It's much too expensive!"
Exhibit No. 4. "Couldn't got
a drink or a smoke the whole
evening!*
If those who make such excuses
fool that they would be a little hap
pier úr having my sympathy thon
they can have it. full measure,
THE
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, BA
IN
MAN WHO FOUND THE BOX MARKED
IN.
THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE: II.
By the Rev. G. R. Lindsay, M. A.
Man looketh on the outward because it is fair in appearonco.
and then some.". May it be sug-appearance but the Lord looketh Wo shail remember thats plausi Keated, however, that there are the heart,“ entertainments which fill the bill,
Iso
ble argument may hide a horrible
You, it is true man must look fallacy, and an angel that tempte and allow of no such poignant on the outward appurance but it to sin is an omissary of the Dovil. is not the whole truth. We can The docper look will make us and heart-breaking bleats as ap pour above?. Such an one will look dooper. We have been on wisely cautious in our choices held, on Friday, 26th, at dowed not merely with physical and decisions, and in whom we Volunteer leadquartors and the sight. We have the faculty to place our trust and stake our programme arranged should suit soe above and throughs and be hope. It is sad indeed when wa the most fastidious taste. By noath. Wo raz se beneath the lose the physical sight but the permission
lons of insight is tragedy. Many of 1. Colonel surface of things.
This verse not only states a fact have been blind to outward ap- Montagu Bates, C.M.G., D.5.0., the Full Band of the 1st Batt. but issues a challenge, "the Lord pearances and even whon blind This is a havo onriched the world in art East Surrey Rogt, will render locketh on the heart". sono few of its finest selections call to us to look deeper than wo literature and religion, but mon Wo are too roadily who lose the faculty of Inward which in themselves, are of ufare wont.
the superficial: vision are dead while they livel Reient excellence to charm the satisfied with
The How are we to sharpon this most critical audienco. Support-appearancos contont us. ing them is the Full Pipe Band popular saying that "all that glit. power of looking at the heart of the Scottish Company, Hong-ters is not gold" is an, universal of things, to penetrato und dis kong Voluntour Defence Corps, admission that men are apt to ceri hatween the true and the We are easily misled. false? It is so oasy to be duped! undor the command of Pipe think so.
Take the case of temptation. How? By being real our-
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haps not common that this regarded as the horns and hoofs as the pictures only see God but see men also, finest pipe band in the Enst, and depict him. But no he comes Reality can detect reality and Hongkong should not miss the with the appearance of an angel, scent the false. If you are real opportunity of hearing them. In He comes in a garb of seeming yourself you can addition LO the instrumental good. The Dovil has a wizardry counterfeit. items we are to be regelei with of words to give evil the appear offorings by such well-known en-ance of good.
tertainers as Mrs. N. Mathieson, Commercial grab becomes on, Mrs. D). Ruid. Mr. G. terprise.
detect the
Your penitence must be real,| not merely a sigh and a regrot but a sorrow which turns you from: sin to positive goodness. Your faith must be real. It must pass through the crucible of your own
A. Musitano and Mr. I. Evil company becomes seeing Zollinsky, whose inimica! imper-life. sonations have been a foaturo of The denial of Christ becoutes mental processes and experience.
Free Thinking.
It must omorace all you are and many successful entertainments.|
Cortainly, the programme is one Duels become affairs of honour. hope to be. It must be ablo to that should not be missed, and Excessive social engagements chango your life and swoolon it. when one considore that the become being busy.
But for and away above all affair will be held in the evening We must train ourselves to dia- else you must have the one Roul underneath the stars, when the eliminate between realism and Master, Jesus Christ. Amid alt heat of the day has passed, the reality. Realism is something the change and decay of things prospect of a really delightful which is like the real: rouge, temporal, the illusions and delu- evening is assured. It will not plausibility, cunt reality is some- sions of the world, there is but be necessary to coll up." it will thing which is real: Let us got one living Bright Reality and in not be too hot. One can smoke our values right. We shall not the power of fellowship with all the time if one desiros, and then bo hoodwinked into sin just Him shall wo seo as He does, for those overcome by the heat,
the necessary restoratives are at
hand. The Voluntoors, who hope
to stage a series of such concerts,
are breaking away from previous custom and reducing the price of
BEAUTIFUL AMBER.
mineral produced by Germa miners (as some of it is), but! as I saw it not long ago in that delightful Danish holiday resort, Few ornamental elements have the island of Fano.
Still Shrouded la Legend.
admission to 50 conte in abeon so consistently fashionable endeavour to popularise this kind
Thero amber of almost every
of entertainment. careful among woman throughout the kind is washed up by the North perusal of the programme and ages as amber. Amber in beads, Sou on the beautiful silver sands mere hasty glance at the price pendants, umbrella handles and which encircle the island. The should convince the thriftiest that in a score of trivial ornaments is children of the inhabitants aro hors at least is value for money of the beautiful,
irresistable to anyone with a love early astir, particularly after a yet, oddly storm, to gather tho sous bounty. Contributed.
enough, little is known, by wonion
PRIMITIVE PROCESS, gonoraily, about its origin.
In old-world, thatched col In older days ambor WOS |tages, women In picturesqUD!
LAWN TENNIS. UNDER COVER. Aupposed by the romantic to be national costume may be found The popularity of lawn tonnie the concretion of birds tours, polishing the crude amber by a is shown by invasion. The game notion which Thomas
is forcing its way into quartors expresses in the lines:- whore one would Joast expect to
Mooro
process which they prefor to "Around theo shall glisten the beads and pendants with the aid koop secret, and abaping it into
of a simple latho.
To one of these women I talked
rosin which. .comas
AN ALPHABET OF HONGKONG
V
IS THE VISITOR
Di-rect from the States; He's touring the East
At oxorbitant rates.
find it, One of thom is the lovliest ambor.
That over the sorrowing #04- pleturo-theatre. Elaborate films are being shown at some of the bird hath wopt."
not long ago as sho toyed loving-return to her." What amuletjaro so lucky as to go holiday. Actually, amber is a fossilizody with a handful of beautiful could do more than that!
making in Danmark (and more London and suburban houses in which the art of the game is most
from pendante. Had I told her that She-held-up-a-pendant-contain and more people seem to go there Moriously demonstrated. Another submerged or burled forests. The what she was fonding was morly ing sonic dark, foreign substance. each year) I would urge a viali
word "ambor" is derived from fossized resin, I am
sure she This was merely a piece of the to this Isle of Amber. You will invasion is of the Coliseum stage. the Grock, torm for electricity would have closed the conversa-i fossilized wood from which tho find Fano but a short forry
which of
Well-known professional players and coaches were to appour there
in a series of matches beginning recently. The whole of the big stage has been propared for theso exhibition games and corn- petitions.
producing slootricity from amber, something mysterious as well as woman, it had, no doubt, a hidden you are hard to please, you will by means of friction, is an old one. beautiful.
meaning.
come away with a heart full of All this, however, is vorý pro- Its power? "Why," sho In Fano, undoubtedly, one soos romanco-and enough amber to Bale, and amber is very romantic. answered, "if you bestow amber ember as it should be seen in a delight a score of friends- I like to think of it, not
aa on your beloved you will surely upsutiful notting. On those who "Martin Eglise" in Ex.
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