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DAY BY DAY
The Silly Things That We Say.
In the movement. whilst Signor Sanchez-Guerra, the former Con- servative leader, declared that the King had lost the confidence of the people, and that if the people:
A FLATTERER IS LIKE A 'BOA- wanted a Republic, they had a CONSTRICTOR, WHICH LICKS A MAN right to have it. These outbursts ALL OVER, AND THEN SWALLOWS occurred at a time when the B-Rev. P. M. Kenzie.
COMPLAINTS have recently which enable one to begin a sen- alleged abuses and maladministra
The silk forwarded from Hong- been made of the meaning- tence with confidence, to go on tion of the Dictatorship were much kong by the Empress of Canada on less words and phrases with which with it with confidence and to to the fore. Subsequently, very the 4th September arrived in most of us pepper our conversa-bring it to an end with con- largely as a result of the King's New York (St. John's Park) and tion. Ordinary conversation is so fidence. Hence the enormous definite stand on many matters, Hoboken on the 24th September, full of superfluous "of courses' popularity of "Of course" at the.
and "I mean to says" and similar beginning of a sentence, of "De the situation materially improved, having been 20 days in transit.
expressions that, if a gramophone you see?" or "You know" in the record were made of an ordinary middle, and of "What?" at the His Majesty dissolved the National
Arriving here from Singapore man's talk, he would be unable end. Assembly (de Rivera's puppet early this morning, the master of to listen to it without incredulity. I met à married man and his Parliament), revised the Municipal the Dutch vessel Cremer reported What I mean to say is, if you fol-wife in a hotel lately who were Councils, and restored promotion to the Harbour Office that, during low me, he would be surprised to able to go on talking for hours in the Army en seniority instead the voyage, a dead body was found find that he talked #ke that. He as a result of their expertness In in one of the holds. No explana would think it silly, you know, the use of unnecessary words. tion was given in the report.
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of merit, There have, however, been intermittent signs of unrest and. dissatisfaction since then, until it has become clear that a very large element desires Republican form of government, evidently in the hope or belief that it may at least provide some check on abuses which exist under the present regime,
become the fashion in post-war days for Continental countries to discard the monarchical form of to Kovernment. It still remains
be proved, however, that matters would be materially improved by
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writes Robert Lynd in the News He would say, speaking of another Chronicle.
hotel at which they had stayed: The habit of using these inane Course, the food was really A slight collision between two
cor-first-rate." She would say, click- launches occurred yesterday after-expressions, according to a noon near the Yuen Fat Wharf.respondent of the Times, seems ing, her knitting-needles: "Yes. it "I mean to say." on the Praya, but little damage to have spread, and to have been was, wasn't it?" was done to either vessel. A car-adopted. by people who surely he would go on, it was different and he to an ordinary hotel a bit French go junk, which was being towed by ought to know better," one of the launches, also received laments this the more because he if you know what I mean. Course, finds it "always, irritating and the food here's pretty good, too." slight damage.
sometimes actually, misleading." "Yes," she would assent, "it is, It is difficult to see how anyone isn't it?"
by a The forthcoming wedding is an-could actually be missed
"I Mean to Say.” nounced of Mr. Frederick Stanley man's beginning a sentence: "Or There need be no surprise that Winfield. Smith, No. 26, Ashley course, what I say is"; but it is
This might have irritated this Republican spirit should Road, Kowloon, to Miss Elsie Naomi easy enough to see that a lover of Times correspondent after manifest itself in Spain, for it has Earl. No. 72, Marsala Road. Lewis-precise and economic speech might lime, but I confess I was enrap- ham, London who is travelling to be irritated by it. At the same tured. Those noble masculine Hongkong on board the. Stime, if we are going to be irritat-Courses" and "I mean to says" ed by mannerisms of speech, we seemed to me to be wind in the Terukuni Maru.
had better retire at once to a cavesalls of conversation, and, never Four Chinese were charged be- and live in solitude.
did the husband need to draw It is not everyone who can talk breath but his place was valiant- Kowloon fore Mr. Butters at
having with the consistent dignity of taken by the "It was. wasn't this morning stowed away on the ss. Cremer, Jeeves or Dr. Johnson. We are it or He had, hadn't he?" of Mr. A. C. Gomes and Mr. L. the overthrow of the Monarchy which arrived in Hongkong from as unfitted for it as for making his wife. It was the only kind of the platform. We remark she ever made, and yet Singapore, They
pleaded speeches on all Our own view is that the defects guilty and were fined $50 or one should not be able to carry on a she was one of the most fluent conversation at all if we were not and entertaining conversation- which bemoaned are not month's imprisonment each.
allowed to eke out the more or less alists I have ever known. intelligent part of it with the The use of meaningless expres- inherent in Monarchism. Republic-
S. Harmachi, of 511, Nathan equivalent of the "ers and the sions, I imagine, is largely the re- anism elsewhere has most decided-
Road, was charged before Mr. "hums" and the "haws" of the bad sult of modesty. You and I shyly ly not caused the disappearance Butters at Kowloon this morn orator. I know a Scotsman who shrink, if you see what I mean,
behaved with. having of graft and corruption. At the ing
in cannot tell the simplest story from talking like Dr. Johnson a disorderly manner while drunk without interjecting "D'ye see?" we should regard it as if you same time, it would be idle to
in the Yee Fong Restaurant at every tenth word. He will be Miss H. Korte and Mr. C. C. Hick-deny that the Spaniards, or a very in 136, Temple Street. The defen-gin: I was walking quietly along ling invite their friends to large element of them, are itching dant was absent and his bail of the Strand, d'ye see? and had stopped to light my pipe, d'ye sce? their wedding at Union for a change, although the position
at the corner of Redford-street. Church, Kennedy Road, on Oc
There was no competitive bid when I heard a fearful yell, d'ye tober 1st, at 3 p.m., and after- of King Alfonso is strong on wards in the Church Hall. account of the support accorded ding at the property sale held at sce?" And there are Englishmen him by a large part of the Army the Land Office yesterday after of as charming a disposition who and the Church, to say nothing of noon, when Kowloon. Inland Lot end almost every sentence with
No. 1406, consisting of 15,000 an abrupt "what?" the Conservative politicians. The square feet, at Lai Chi Kok, New situation is full of possibilities, Territories, was knocked down at the upset price of $1,500, to! but at the moment it would seem Messrs. Yam Wai and Yam Hung,
sensa of No. 185 Tai Nam Street. premature to expect any tional changes.
Lopes and family tender sin- cere thanks to their relatives and friends for the many kind expressions of sympathy in their recent bereavement, also for floral tributes sent and attendance at the funeral.
ANNOUNCEMENT.
The
Hongkong Telegraphı.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 30. 1930,
SPANISH UNREST.
are
$10 was estreated..
Tricks of Oratory. "
These mannerisms, it seems to me, are not quite as meaningless as they look. They produce the same dramatic effect as the under lining of worits in a letter or as
will follow me. "swank."
There is nothing, indeed, that
the ordinary man fears more than eloquence, especially in England. He thinks that it sounds insincere. Hence, in moments of emotional embarrassment, he takes refuge in a series of meaningless ex-
pressions, like Michael, in the opening scene of Mr. A. A. Milne's "Michael and
when Mary," Michael, having an appointment on a certain bench in the British Museum, and finding the unknown Mary weeping on it, addresses her:
I mean I'm not trying-Fact is,
A Musuem "Conversation." mounted, without any undue dif-notes of exclamation. This may
not be the perfect method of Michael (raising his hat with culty. It is not always poison, nor Not Wet, But Merely Damp.
bringing out one's points in con- the slightest possible movement): is the stuff necessarily retailed at versation, but without such aid I say, do you mind if I sit down? The recent references to fura prohibitive price. The conclu-many a man would remain dumb, I mean right at this end,of course. It is very evident that affairs
ther activity by the "Wets" in sion one is driven to is that pro-fand a man has no more right to
meeting somebody elso. in Spain are at the moment far the United States are capped by hibition is steadily losing ground. remain dunib than a bird at mid- I'm
(Mary begins to get up, as if she from composed. The forces of the final ruling frpholding a long- The "Wets" may yet gain the day, summer,
The first rule in conversation is would leave him and the some- that Republicanism have again raised standing practice)
home and at least legalise what is now]
No to keep the ball rolling, and this body else alone together.) is made casier if there are a num- please. I don't mean that. I their head, but, happily, nothing rewing of wines and heer is not going on, nominally against the
ber of meaningless expressions" (Continued on Page 7.) more serious than an outburst of illegal. In giving this decision law of the land.
the American Prohibition Com- moderate oratory
has 20 far
missioner has merely accepted, occurred. None the less, when a with whatever grace was possible, former Minister openly declares
a widespread understanding. One that the King must abdicate, it is recoltents advertisements in cer- apparent that the anti-Monarchisttain United States publications. movement is gathering in strength some time ago, describing home- and confidenge. In this connexion, brewing outfits. Apparently these it is worth recalling that shortly were for mild forms of decoctions, such as elder, which were not after the resignation of Primo de
necessarily intoxicating. The bor Rivera, amongst the laws which der line between such brews and were amended was pne making it the stronger stuff, however, could illegal to attack the Monarchy in hardly be drawn strictly, and the the person of the King. It is this eventual product had to be left circumstance which is now raising largely to the preference of the amateur distiller. The apple queries as to how some of the
juice and grape juice of the Cali- Republican orators in the latestfornian and Floridan growers has demonstration are likely to fare several times been under sus- | Inasmuch, however, as no sterspicion, as very little manipulation appear to have been taken to pre- was required to convert it into vent this Republican display in something with a decided "kick." manufacture, the capital, we shall be surprised In recognising the if further impetus is given to the for home fireside consumption, of movement by taking action against wines and beer, the U.S. prohibi- tion authorities have gone further, any of the spokesmen. For the and many will think that they have time being, the wiser policy would gone the whole limit. There is appear to be to permit these re-nothing now to prevent anyone volutionaries, within limits, to let who sets up a still from manu- olf oratorical steam to their hearts' content.
of
fucturing enough "liquor to keep himself, family and friends in al coholic drinks to repletion; and Although this Madrid demons-
parties where all can get glorious- tration was the first open expres-ly intoxicated, provided none of sion of collective Republican the stuff is actually sold, are now opinion for almost a decade, we unassailable by the powers have only to recall that in prohibition. What a spectacle of February last the establishment the Eighteenth Amendment! of the Republic was openly dis-Liberty at home; but defeat of cussed in Madrid, but events show the original intention. The out- side observer of the American ed that the malcontents were not
problém may surely be excused sufficiently well organised to effect for thinking that it is time the anything in the nature of a coup farce of enforcement, so-called, It was noteworthy, however, that were done away with, unless there Signor Maura, the son of the well- is a real intention to abolish al- known Conservative ex-Premier, coholic drinking. It is already went the length of declaring that notorious that "booze" is to be had if anyone of position raised the in the United States, after cer- tain obstacles have been sur Republican banner, he would join
Misa Urhan-“Now I know why they're called 'plex. They are
such terrible gluttons."