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Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1931.
CITY NOISES.
are
space,
fronta practically all cities to- dny. One of the inevitable con- soquences of modern life appears to be noise. Obviously wo can- not expect, in a big city, to live In the peacefulness of a wood- land park, but that is no reason not why serious efforts should
DAY BY DAY
IT IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF THE MISCHIEFS THAT ARISE FROM FINAN- CIAL PRODIGALITY THAT THEY CREEP ONWARDS WITH A NOBELESS AND A STEALTHY. STEP; THAT THEY COM- MONLY REMAIN UNSEEN AND UN-) FELT, UNTIL THEY HAVE REACHED MAGNITUDE ABSOLUTELY OVER- WHELMING.Gladstone,
A
The Change in Modern Parents.
By LILIAN BRAITHWAITE.
URING the last few yonra 1
With A Mother's Caution. Dave playett a jarge variety of be made to suppress really need- The Empres of Asia is due hero
But even with the many im- losa noise and confusion. Hore from Manila at 7.30 nm, en June 3rd. stage methers, and it says much for provements of progress
and 'en- tho modern dramatist's powers of lightenment, life will always be a in Hongkong, both in the business
observation that many of them have little hard for mothers. Experience and residential areas.
been typient of mothers I have met has taught them to think and act warily. Youth, is all for audacity in real life.
I have played every possible type and new experiences, at no matter of mother, the sweet old-fashioned what cost. The mother visualises
Wo
have The Ben Line . Denlamend, fram for more noise than is necessary. London, Straits and Manila, is due here
tomorrow morning.
A
much of it controllable, also. Horious Investigation of the whole question would probably indicate innumerable ways in which the [volume could be reduced and the comfort of the public given some regard. But there reems
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The management of the Hotel Cecil announces that with the advent of the hot season, dinner dances at the listel will not be held until further notice.
The Netherland Indian Government, the heroic and self-sacrificing the reaping there may be, but all has declared Anny to be an infected vamp and the modern mother. her foresight and affection cannot
It has been very interesting for stay heedless youth. port on account of plague, as from
me to not how many of my parts Every generation has, and will yesterday.
have reflected unforeseen dificulties have. Ita particular problems for which changing conditions of life mothers. It has always been dif- Yesterday's return of notifiable have imposed on mothers.
ficult to let the fledgelings leave the Nowadays mothers are faced with nest. Marringe Inevitably has diseases shaw one ense each of: organised effort along these lines, typhoid, cerebrospinal fever and puer- fresh and unexpected relationships be faced, but nowadays mothers
pernt faver. All were Chinese,
with their children. Most mothers have a fresh ache. It is not mar What do worse, even the laws
in the past had an extraordinary ringe so much that lends to homes shyness at the back of their attitude, being forsaken, but which do exist for the preserva-
the call of which made them totally incapable careers. Girls no longer atny at tion of tranquility are not en-
of cussing the most vital facts home until the right man comes of life with their children. This along, but want to be up and doing forced. We get very few cases
shyness was netually a form of things for themselves. of the seedless blowing of motor-
mental cowardice, and led to end- horns, comparou with the extent.
Jess and dreadful troubles. Often of the nuisance, whilst hawkers in Nathan Road yester.it resulted in estrangements
In attempting to alight from a take little or no notice of pro-day, an unknown Chinese was render-nlienation of affections. hibited arena, as we in Wyndham unconscious when he fell and struck
the ground with his bend. Street know all top well. What is taken to hospitak needed is a rigorous campaign, not spasmodic in character, continuously prosecuted,
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but
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commenced
hat
He wasi
Mothers are often ridiculous In their fears and apprehensions, and and it may be that seeing, themselvs portrayed on the stage has a oulu- Shyness Has Vanished. tary effect. Many mothers have ad- Shyness, thank goodness, is not a mitted to me that they have laughed modern quality. In these days at the things which are said by nother will disenss any of life's mothers in plays, and yet they con- problems with the utmost frank-ess to having, at some time or news with her children, and dother, said the same things them-
to warn and rives.
LILIAN BRAITHWAITEL
The Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., Ltd., advertine that the fiftieth ordinary general meeting of the everything possible Company will be held The offers help them over the pitfalls of adole- of the General Managers, Messrs. Cence. This is part of a modera Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd., un development of family life, where Wednesday, June 17, at noon.
parental authority, now at a dis- count, has been succeeded by a bet "UNTOUCHABLES” ter understanding and often lovely quality of friendship.
OF TENNIS. Parental influence is usually more. parental authority. |
nt
n
By W. J. SEYMOUR.
Sir Patrick Manson's Successors.
An interesting article Home paper to hand reveals how
A fine opportunity of seeing, Dr. the wonderful work
Mei Lan-fan, the famous Chinese by Sir Patrick Manson in Hong-netor, will be provided on Monday valuable that kong and China towards the end June 1st, at the Lee Theatre, when n of the nineteenth century is being performance will be held in aid of the Too often the latter has made the St. John Ambulance Brigade, the Tung atmosphere of a home harsh and carried on with brilliant results Wah Eastern Hospital and the M.C.L.intolerable, leading to revolt and
Tickets, at $10, $6, $3, $2 and $1, can the breaking of family ties.
NYONE who wants to learn to The campaign against unneces-by the Hospital for Tropical
The curious barrier once erected A play lawn tennis, which is again Diseases in London. The present be obtained at Messrs. Moutrie's or
by the older generation against the in full swing, has a choice of a noises grows sary cily
the Theatre.
claims of the younger no longer pretty extensive library of books on Los Angeles being the latest hospital is an enlargement of the institution established by Sir
exista. Parents now do everything the subject. place to
On top of this, the join in the movement. Patrick in 1890 when he
Before Mr. T. Megarry District possible to keep their minds young stars of the game fill in the time Officer (North) at Taipó yesterday, and by sharing in their children's A Naise Abatement Commission | practically severed his connexion an enquiry was held into the circum-pleasures and pastimes do contrive between tournaments by writing ex- has been investigating the mu with the Far East. To-day, the stances attending the death of Chow to keep youthful and more vigor planatory and helpful articles for ter, and its enquiries have
beginners. But nobody offers even pro hospital affords accommodation | Kow, a 5-year-old boy, who was knock- OLA.
ed down by a car, No. T222, on the
an odd hint about what might bo duced some
interesting figures. | for $100 in-patients and over 2,000 main rond near the P.W.D. depot at Only a couple of generations ago.
Tramear and hells
the out-patients. Most of the patients Castle Penk on Monday and succumb parents settled down and vegetated called the social, or human relation- are planters, missionaries, traders ed to his injuries the following day at into sedentary and inactive lives hips, side of the great summer principal source of noise in the
the Kwong Wah Hospital. The jury long before they had passed middle pastime. Yet a knowledge of the sent to the returned and men who are
iatriente caste system with which They retired into a profound tennis is enwrapped is very neces- verdict of "Accidental age. 11 eity, it is disclosed, arcoting institution by the India Office or Death."
seclusion--particularly the mothers sary. for some thirty-five per cent, of
the Colonial Office. Actual care
--and had but little touch with their children, who, in fact, were is the rabbit caste. Members of Starting from the lowest, there all noise of a nuisanc» chafàcter. of the sick, however, I but
regarded as children even up to the this correspond (almost) to Next in line come the sounds of small part of the work of the
the time they married and made homes untouchables of India. They jook motor vehicles and the equipment Manson Hospital. From the view
of their own.
with awe and reverence upon their for regulating it. Twooly
point of medicine, it is doing far
All this is very much changed betters, and are awfully liable at Fathers play golf and tennis any moment to make the pavilion cent. of the rises are attributed more important work in the way
and go to the winter sports with tremble by calling a racket a bat. of rescareb, and recent dis- to this source. There are various
their sort, and mothers behave in voveries made in its laboratorjes The following table, issued by much the same
They invariably hord together, way with their ofher groupings, amongst which
little are of such
shame-faced groups, in a to the Kwanglung River Conservancy daughters. The revolt against nb corner by themselves. Occasionally Importance no We notice street
hawking and justify a claim that scarcely any the water levels on the West River, aged mothers to keep young and but always on No. 15, where the Commission, shows in English feet surd fashions has enabled middle they may be seen trying to play, construction operations. All entropical disease can now defy North River and East River on the fresh. tribute their share to the daily cure. For several years, testantes named:
daisies are thickest. The fact that many women work Common racket which goes to make life in have been carried out
to all of them is a May May nowadaya and have other interests puzzled expression, caused by the detection of different parasites West River at Shishing 10.6
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besides their homes is another im-fact that the books and articles tell the rity far from pleasant.
which are found in the tropics. North River at Tsingyuen 11.7
portant factor which has made for them the only sure way to Wimble- Certain of the proposals for res
a better understanding between don is constantly to practise with Two different tests have been North River at Samshui 10.6 medying the situation are of in-
East River at Samshui 8.7
mothers used, one
and daughters. Even better players than themselves, and reventing the special terest to us, inasmuch as Hong-Kunsitiveness of the skin of the
where the mother is not engaged in they just can't see how this is to The highest levels recorded are: some outside occupation, she more be done. For, of course, they are kong suffers badly from some of patient to the parasite, and the Shiuhing, 41 feet; Tsingyuen, in contact with the rubs of every never invited to make up a set, and the types of noise which it is other detecting its presence
29.2 feet; Shamsul, 27.3 feet;day life than other by Shcklung. 11.5 feet.
generations it is an unspeakable crime for a hoped to inte. Suggestions are means of a special blood
were. Actually it is no longer pod rabbit to approach a member of The lowest levels on record are sible to keep the world, with its any other chate. The one great ande for the mussting of unusual action. The first success wae minus b'feet at Samshui and fret and movement, outside the point in their favour is that they
with a disease called bilharzia, minus 2.7 feet at Sheklung.
per
for
the
rc-
and its value may be estimated
to
or excessive motor noises, control of the blowing
horns 'of
and
by quoting the case of an ex- measures against defective brakes.
soldier, who contracted the has been discovered that disease in the South African War. transportation noises are caused For thirty years, It retained its principally by gears, brakes, hold on. the man, and remained defective wheels, ratlling bodies tadiagnosed. When he went and tramcars,
The Commission the Tropical Diseases Hospital therefore makes a series of rely twenty minutes, and the man recently, the diagnosis took exact- commendations suggesting that is now well on the way to a cure. the tramenr companies should The new tests are also proving instruct their men against the un- cxtremely valuable in case of Cala. necessary ringing of bells and bur swelling and
elephantiasis, blowing of whistles and that they and the discovery may be herald- Also make
study of nolaesed na another sign of the aure originating from these vehicles, wards the goal of mastering advance medicine is making to- with a view to abatement of
tropical diseases. The work done
the nuisance. Building operations in. the chemical laboratories in are also shown to contribute London big share of noise, in which con- nexion it is urged that in steel structures the use of welding
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compares interestingly with Sir Patrick Manson's experiments in Hongkong, and China, where he had to dissect should be substituted for riveting lacking was he in apparatus..
mosquitoos with a pen-nib wherever possible. Stricter con- Nevertheless, it was here that he trol of hawking, especially the hit upon the secret of the trans- crying of wares, is also urged.mission of the filaria worm So far as realdential districts are the mosquito. concerned, the chief sources of
nolae are described as
barking
by
Dropping down a height of 26 feet dogs, nolay fowls, musical instru- into a dry dock, a fitter at the Royal monta and radio. Many of these injured in the back and face yesterday, Naval Dockyard, named Wu Ping, was nuisances, it is held, aro easilyle was taken to the Government Civil abatable, and it is believed that injuries were not of a very serious Hospital where it is stated that his frequent prosecutions, with suit-- character,
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That's the sphinx in Egypt-
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saw that, didn't wo, Wilton ?”
know their place, and nyariably pay their fees promptly, since they do not regard themselves as assets the club ought to be glad to have.
No rabbit can change his status except by jolning qnother club. I. knew one who took lessons and curried off the singles championship by beating the captain. But that, wo all agreed, was pure luck, and he remained in the rabbit caste until he went to a better club, and became captain himself.
They
Next there is the "Other Club" caste. The bulk of the members of any club belong to this caste.. may be recognised by their conversation, which is mainly about the excellence of the club they left, as compared with this, where play Ing ability, counts for nothing. The committee caste is a very, vory narrow, one, and its mombers are generally limited to a dozen or, so at moat. They keep themselves themselves not through any feeling of pride, but because they have no other alternative.
to
No committee has over yot taken any step that was wise, right or desirable, and from the beginning to the end of the season all the other castes are united in a supremo contempt for the muddle-headed IneMeloney of a crowd, that (ps once heard it
"couldn't run a wholetically put) They are hated by all because, poor beggars, it is their job to try to make the other castes Inter mingle. Those members who know they can play resent any suggestion - that they should mix with the rab” bita, while the rabbits get annoyed (so far as their humility will Jet them); because the commites 'te too (Continued on Page 7.J