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TACT AND CIFERINESS WILL BREAK DOWN OPPOSITION WHEN AR- GUMENT WOULD ONLY STIFFEN IT.— A. E. J. Cosso,"
The B.I. a.s. Talma, from Singa-“ porc, is duo here on the 19th in- stant.
to, the specific and distinctive probleme of the larger and the smaller units of the Empire, Whether any future Colonial So- cretary will include Hongkong in any dour that he may make, in his oMelal capacity, timo will tell.. But the feeling does peralat hore, In many quarters, that if ours The Ben Line 8.8. Benlawers, statesmen at Home knew Hong-from the Philippines, is due here kong from direct contact with us and our problems, the result would bo all to the benefit of this Colony, In particular, we should like to feel that if over wo got another Labour Government, its leaders
on the 23rd instant.
The Empress of Asia, which left Hongkong on the 25th January, ar- February. rived at Vancouver on the 12th :)
Passengers arriving here by the 9.8. President Jackson Included'
Licut. Comdr. A. Day and Lieut.- Comdr. F. C. Woodhouse.
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Passengers who left by the Em- press of Canada to-day included Mrs. A. N. Lucey and Mr. O. Eager.
THIS NEW CRAZE FOR SOPHISTICATION.
MARTYRS ON A FUTILE ALTAR
[By Stuart Jackson.]
Sophistication is a much- abused word, and is, for some reason or other, recognised as an essential if ous is to be modern,
To be "modern" is in itself 'n craze that is distorting the true sense of values, and making mere mincing puppets out of men, women and children who lack the courage to be unsophisticated- that is to say, human.
The Very Idea!
A popular footballer, na all players have occasionally, had an do nothing off-day. He could right. The spectators demon- strated their displeasure, his fellow- players looked at him askance, and he bore their reproaches stoically.
The crushing blow came, how ever, as he was leaving the ground."
A grubby youngster sidled up to him and thrust a plece of paper, into his hand. "Take this back, mister," he said, sadly. “It's your autograph."
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A man before the Police Court on a charge of vagrancy, was a kempt hair dirty face, and grimy seedy looking individual with uni- torn oddities of clothes. He stoutly denied the police proaccutors' as- methylated sertion that he was spirit drinker.. "But a bottle of
Beethoven, and plaintively. asks, in The modern schoolgirl deplores a high, shrill voice, when the orchestra will "turn on the jazz." This is not because she actually kes jazz any better-she is not at
docs. Ilke but because Jazz la pocket," Sub-inspector Lipp said. fashionable. Honco she shricks "That wasn't methylated spirit; it her appreciation of it to the world, was benzine," said the defendant. Bo that her elders may see how "What do you use benzine for?" sophisticated she is. Į
asked the Magistrate. "To clean my clothes," was the prompt reply.
NO PERIODIC REFILLING of the issues involved. We can Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Leach, Mr. and an age to know what she really methylated spirits was found in his
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will not view any questions affect Ing Hongkong from the usual Labour standpoint, but will seek a due. and proper understanding
certainly add that this Colony would warmly welcome any fu- ture Secretary of State, no matter to what particular political party họ might belong.
A rald was carried out Ly In- spector Fallon yesterday on No. 38, Bowring Street, Yaumati, as a result of which the police secured thirty-eight alleged forged notes. In connexion with the raid, a may and a woman were arrested.
A Recital of Music will be given at the Helena May Institute on Thursday 23rd February at 5.30 pun. Mrs. Clements, of Canton, will sing. Mrs. Cashman, pianist. Mrs. Hargreaves Browne, accom- panist. Tables for tea must be looked by Wednesday afternoon at the latest.-Advi.
To-morrow at 9.16 p.m.
RANSOM REFUSED.
GERMAN MISSIONERY
RELEASED.
the
Hankow, Feb. 9. Messages from Singyangchow state that the German missionary, Father Kawley, who has been Im prisoned by the authorities there
Released by Troops.
Shanghai, Feb. 14.
The modern flapper says a lot of cynical things about love. In reality, and in secret, she is as desirous of being loved as any of those "musty Victorians" she pro- fesses to despise..
But she must not let it be known. Oh, not One must be sophisticated.
A Just Accusation.
Ohe must, in other words, say a lot of sillily smart things about what one knows in one's heart to be one of the finest things in lifel But this same modern dapper would
be horrified if you accused her of hypocrisy. Yet it is a just accusa tion,
,
Each one thinks, "How awful it will be if our love doesn't last, and we grow apathetic towards each other as So-and-So says we shall when we've been married a few years."
Sophistication shuns sentiment: To be "modern" one must not be deeply moved. It matters little how much the heart is, touched, true feeling must be covered under the cloak of sophistication.
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Willesden magistrate: Do you want summons?-Applicant: Yes, sir; If you think it will be for the best-Magistrate: That I can- not guarantee..
Willesden man: I was not drunk, but merely arguing with a policeman.Magistrate: Avery. dangerous thing to do. received hundreds of summonses to sign: Ah! Work for the great Tottenham magistrate, when he
unpaid.
Nervous Nottingham youth, tak- ing the oath: I swear that the heavenless I shall give shall be the
truthi.
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until the result was known. It was found that she had a broken neck. Amazement is expressed that she did not drop dead. The hospital. authorities have never had such n case before.
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Schoolboy howlera:-
The Rump Parliament consisted entirely of Cromwell's stalactites.
Walpole started the South Sea scheme to make himself a little pre- phot...
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Primate is the wife of a premier. Vixen is the wife of a vicar. George I was the son of Electric
mountains between France and Sophia.
The Pyramida are a range of
Spain.
That Fatal Figure. We have all listened with some degree of awe to the persuasive eloquence of the speculator who has missed the huge aweopatake money by just one figure only and, judging by data to land from many sources, it would appear that roughly 13,628 persons have had that distressing experience Banyard Musical Comedy Company relative to Mr. Wong Kam-fook's begin a season of four nights in the successful number in the Chinese Star Theatre. The first piece to be
To be sophisticated one must be. Magistrate at.. Tottenham, to a presented will be "Katja the Dan- Club Derby Sweep. We suppose cor," which will be followed by Hittle marriage. Thin applies boy accused of breaking a street that with the exception of the one "Mercenary Mary," "Queen, High" equally to young and old. The lamp with a snowball: I suppose or two backsliders, who preferred and "Review of Revues," Booking young spout the cynicisms of 60 the lamp got in the way of your to pay their monthly chita promptly is now open at Montrie's and the at 16, and the old feel it in cum-afm?-Boy: Yes, sir. rather than purchase more tickets, Star Theatre. There will be a late whether they have cause or not, in
bent upon them to be cynical. the same number, more or less, are tram to the Peak.
A small girl with a broken neck now deploring a similar fate in
case 16 should think 60 "un- Is in Gravesend Hospital, apparent- respect of the South China- Ath-
sophisicated." How such utterly suffering little inconvenience. letle Association's draw. It is
folly In returning to the Old Country remarkable what a little Imagina-
must make the high gods While Joyce Cheeseman, aged five, smile!.
of Wingfield Road, Gravesend, was after his 56,000-mile tour of the tion and a lot of juggling can do,
Even to those who are not clamboring over her bed rail sho British Empire, the Right Hon.in mankind, especially those of the and it seems inherently ingrained
cynical, marriage is a "problem" fell. She suffered no apparent in- Mr. Amery, Secretary of State for species who admit to being as poor
that must be approached in a
jury, but for two days complained sophisticated manner.. Instead, that her head ached and that her the Colonies and Dominions; has as a newspaper-man, to get near taken an early opportunity of ac- somehow or other. Quite a plea-
therefore, of entering upon mar neck was stiff. She was taken to to the small fortunes at atakė
riage in mutual trust, a young the hospital for X-ray examination, knowledging the value of such an sant half-hour can be spent in
couple often enter upon it in mutual but insisted, on attending school distrust. experience. He says he met prac-disposing of the unhatched chic tically every Minister or the Do-kene, and there are few who re- sist the temptation. A man, we miniona which he visited, as well have often noted, is never more since January 30 and held for a as Opposition leaders and promin- benevolent than when dealing ransom of $30,000, has been ro- resources leased' after continued and deter- ent man in every walk of life, with large financial
which have still to materialise, and mined refusals to pay the ransom and was thus brought into touch we are sure the look of benignity demanded. Father Kawley, the with the life of communities gen-which passes over the face of the messages add, sustained no in- he hard-bitten club bar supporter juries at the hands of his captors, erally. So impressed was with the knowledge which he hold sway, is worth it. The Hong-
while he permits his dreams to-Reuter.
gained that he expressed the view kong Hotel Garage and the Dra- that henceforth it would be re- gen Motor Company have lost many clients; many impending re- garded as the first duty of the urements to the country estate is reliably reported that the Ger
A Peking message states that it holder of his office to visit the have been slightly obstructed; man missionaries whose capture oversens parts of the Empire. world cruise organisers have was announced on February 11,
The value of first-hand contact auffered a relaxation of interest: have been released unhurt.
deserving institutions have failed
It is understood that troops by Ministers of the Crown with to receive generous "windfalle" from Tainunfu effected their re- the various Dominions of the Em-in fact, the Colony is returning lease-Renter pire cannot be over-stressed, for by this means, more than by any other, can a just appreciation, be formed of the numerous problems with which these countries, are faced. Not only can information be gathered from the Government pofut of view, but meetings with Opposition` lenders and others having a vital interest in the affairs of their particular regiona must encourage a breadth of out- look which might otherwise be lacking. Knowledge is under- standing, and understanding re- moves causes of possible friction. If there is one complaint more
Paris than another which the average Geneva Colonial has been accustomed to Berlin
Qalo make concerning "rule" from the
Helsingfors Old Country it is that Home Gov- Athens ernments have often failed to Buenos Aires
Hongkong appreciate particular issues from New York. the overseas
standpoint. The Amsterdam
Stockholm cause, for that complaint has, of Vienna course, now been largely removed Madrid
Bucharest as a result of the closer under-Bombay standing which has been reached Yokohama between the Colonial Office and Brussels the Dominion Governments. None Copenhagen the less, tours such as that which Prague
Lisbon [Mr. Amery has just concluded Rio
must have the effect of making Shanghai' that contact even more effective and useful than evor.
These are days when the ten- dency in the Colonial Office in to'
rapidly to normal. And it is so much more exciting to be robbed of these dreams of Elysian fields by that one fatal figure. And who for years has persistently then we have the plaintive punter plumped on a certain through ticket in Jockey Club sweeps. It For some reason or other he omit has never paid him a dividend. fed to do so on this occasion, and it turns up. With him we condole and suggest a quiet game of Patience as less trying to man's choler than racing mathematics.
EXCHANGE RATES.
Milan
London, Feb. 14.
"THE MAGIC FLAME."
BIG NEW. FILM AT THE QUEEN'S.
The Futile Altar,
sion for cocktails. But how many Women smoke and profess a pas- of them really enjoy it? A few, no doubt, but there are many others who don't. They only smoke and drink because to do so is to be sophisticated. Heaven alone knows why they should martyr themselves on such a futile altar!"
Tennyson wrote a poèm called Grave's Energy.
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A young auctioneer was selling an old horse. He worked very hard, To be sophisticated, too, one must the bidding was slack. At length but, despite his eloquent pleading be positively blatant about sex, a little man offered eleven and a One excuser suchi viciousness under half guinens, the pretence of being. #frank." Sex, you must understand, is, like marriage, a problem-and it can only be solved by unabashed frank- ness.
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cried the auctioneer' scornfully. "Eleven and a half guineas," What, only eleven and a half guipens for
this magnificent animal!"
twelve pounds," said the little man, "Well, I don't mind making it after a pause.
pounds. Going-going-gone!"
"Thank you! Going at twelve
followed by a burst of laughter. The auctioneer was quite unable to mental figuring, it dawned upon account for it until, after some him that he had been taken down one and sixpence.
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of the screen, Ronald Colman, the But what is there to solve about
Two of the most popular playera handsome hero of "Beau Geste," sex? Is it something only recently and Vilma Banky, the beautiful discovered? Or is it that if one Hungarian actress, are to be seen in ❘ doesn't blazon one's view, on it from "The Magic Flurne" the remarkable the housetops one would be con- film which comes to the Queen's sidered innocent? To be "Inno- The falling of the hammer was Theatre to-day as the feature at- cent" would, of course, be debusing traction until Saturday. Ronald to one's sense of sophistication! Colman plays two roles in the film, that of a clown and that of a count. "sophistication" is--"adulterated; Finally, the literal definition of Vilma Banky la an acriul artist for not 'genuine."" Do we wish to be so whom Colman's two characters love defined? Why, then, this craze for and struggle. The action of the .124
sophistication? 28.84 story takes place in a Mediter- .20.44 ranean country, Barett's circus 18.816 furnishing the background against 108% which Vilma Banky and Ronald Col. .867 man make love. It is wheri Colman, 47% the Clown, has triumphed over ..2/0 Colman, the Count, that the locale 4.87 7/16 Is switched to the Royal Court, with .12.11% the Clown nccepted on all hands as .18.16 the King of Illyria. When Vilma .34.625 Banky arrives at the court to 28.60 avenge the murder of her lover, the „7043%
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ROAD MANNERS.
It is three times as dangerous-for a-London child to be out on the,. streets as it is for children in the rest of the country. This point is brought out in the London County. Council's report on education for 1926. Calling attention to the num ber of traffic accidenta to children as "the most deplorable feature of any statistical record for tha'year," the report says in the metropolitan police area of London during 1026 a total of 9,761 children, were killed Bir-On behalf of my passengers. months of the year 1927, according or injured. For the first nine. and myself I should like to express to police returns, fatal traffic ac through your columns my gratitude
[To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]
to the Inspector of Police who came cidents to children totalled 166, as to my assistance last Saturday against 283 in. 1926. afternoon when stranded with tyro trouble on the. Tytam dam.;.
His courtesy and kindness also accentuated the lack of interest shown by the majority of the large number of motorists who passed during the hour or moro we were there.
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"Had the deceased any religious that, sorr. He got sixty days hard convictions?" "Shurr, up" he had labour on two separate and dia- tineth occashuns fur thryin' to smush up Orange bands."
The weekly return of the Medi- Replying to a question in the separato the problems of the eat Officer of Health contains six Houso of Commons, Mr. A. Cooper, The combination of a deflated in- Or the fifty-four communist smaller Colonies, such as Ceylon, cases of infectious disease, four said the fance had been abolished ner, tube, no spare wheel and three suspects detained by the Palico, Malaya and Hongkong, from those of enteric fever and two of dinh- as a weapon of war for the Lancer men altting on the wall waiting following numerous Police ralds of the Dominions, and for that therja. There was one British Regiments at Home and abroad, would surely have suggested to a conducted, in Shaukiwar last Fri- purpose there have been a number entéric case and one Indian, all but hind been retained for experl-motorist of the meanest intelligence day, all but twelve have licen res the others being Chinona. Ona mental purposes. The question that the loan of a repair outfit or a leased. The latter are believed to of important changes made in, re-death from diphtheria was report as to whether it would be retain message to a garage would have be coinmunist andits who were cent years. The idea underlying ed, and there was also a death ed as weapon of war in India was been acceptable, Yours, etc.
formerly with the "Red" troopa' this development fa that more from influenza, which is not a one for the Government, of India. Hongkong, Feb. 14th, 1928.
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