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THE BLIGHT OF SNOBBERY.
BY W.H.L.
decent exposure, "by bathing or otherwise near any public place or dwelling houso" is an infringe- Offencer ment of the Summary Ordinance. The term "publicamām place" is no comprehensively de- faed for the purposes of the Or- dinance as to include "all pier,
INOBBERY-what a host of liberately happy in this life, one thoroughfares, strecta,
roads,
bitter, humiliating memories must banish all thought." Who know made 't'nt over lanes, alloys, courts, aqtiares, arch-
the word can conjure up!} what he (or she) was talking
A ways, passages, paths, ways and
pity, is How our checks burn at the recal about. places to which the public have
The staff and pupils of Quarry Baylection of some subtle cruelty that we have to close our oyce and elthor continuously
dirty, cheap little Or School have issued invitations for the periodically, whether the same are Spring Festival to be held at the recalled from out of the dim past ears to the the property of the Crown or prl-school on Wednesday, March 23, at No necessity, indeed, to delve into things that go on round about us. imen gone by for examples of It seems to be the only way at pre-
however, otherwise Bont, vate persons.", It might be urged, 11 a.m. of course, that a bench at some The President of the St. Patrick'such inhuman ignorance, for the would become unbearable. The aansitive ahut themselves away outlying spot is not a place to Society of Hongkong, assisted by ole noire is a present-day reality Wo which the public ordinarily has members of the Committee, will lay which appears to have grown more from the world and its people... accesa, but the fact remains that a wreath on the Cenotaph to-morrow, and more prevalent in postwar honce we have that sorry figure,
acceas
the public would have a right to visit such a spol, and, what is more, that it would be diflicult to hide it from the gaze of people
There is, moreover, afloat.
that, further point
olice:
March 17, at 9.15 u.m.
timeн.
the rooluse.
up
it
not,
life
entire
It is rampant to-day in our Uni-
The remedy then is in our own The calendar of the University of Hongkong for 1932 has been published ersitles amongst both students
the needy student who does not the effort, life could be very much and is now on sale. The calendar and professors, and heaven pity hands, and if we were hut to make includes interesting information con
status with more pleasant than it is at pro- affect an artificial toe cerning the University, and ful
of the particulars
All the faculties which to disguise his poverty, for sent-But, and a grent big "but" According to the calendar, the present otherwise his life under the Alma at that, to obtan success, centre became known, persons of enrolment is about 350, of whom 280 Mnter can be made in a thousand co-operation, as with everything
an elec. would be necessary. moral
#hell questionable
tastes. Dare Chinese, and 40 are women.
and one little ways
yourself; Edinburgh, look to earth. whom some are to be found in
stenmer Tjinegara,
Can the blame be laid on the free yourself from the unsavoury every community, would bent which arrived in Hongkong yesterday tracted thereto, thus making kn
from Sourabaya, had a very eventful shoulders of the present modern reputation which la associated Or, again, is it some with your name: kill that "It fan't centre which
would. however voyage necording to a report,mado at generation?
master. foul offering of the World War? done" spirit and above all he of the cul the Harbour Onlee by the much the devotees
of yourself. might resent the fact, have moral-Captain Weide, According to the God alone knows the
If this little artlele should lead report, one Chinese, passenger die snobbery. Our city of Edinburgh ly unhealthy renctions.
and another jumped overheard, but
We are fully acquainted with all the stock arguments in favour of the movement; they do not im- press us, especially in view of the emphasis which is being laid local-
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By L. C. MOORE. ·
VERY Hittle circle of friends
E and relations is blessed (or,
na they would say, enesed) once visited Glasgow, it was round about Christmas I recollect, with a Umekeeper. It's an unofficial and was passing down Sauchiehall unpaid position, and those who Street when I saw a sight I have are unlucky enough to hold it have never forgotten-that of a well-a pretty thin time. Their friends to-do business gentleman chatting tolerate them because they are pleasantly to a man selling mat-necessary evils (although nobody ches, the pair, as I afterwards would admit as much), but for found out, having been together sheer unpopularity they've got in the same regiment during the tennis club secretarien beaten to a War. A more striking display of frazzle.
prompt measures were taken by this credited with a large amount of to public thought, then indiced it crew and He was rescued. Twins were snobbery, and surely there can be will have not been in vain. barn to a Chinese woman passenger no denying it; indeed, one One was still-born and the other died only to visit our worthy but less ***
beautiful neighbour Glasgow to about two hours later.
note a striking difference. Banished last Saturday night, to not going to deal with England, n different ly on the mixed character of the Canton for a period of ten years, for we are racinfly
In numerous young Chinese who returned to the people with different tempera- cult. There parts of the world establishments Colony almost immediately after was ments. Therefore, het
yesterday morning and where sun-bathing 1011el other brought before Mr. Wynne Jones at with or ain folks.
War Pals forma of andisun are practised, the Central Police Court to-day on but with no mixing of the sexes, charge of breach of the Banishment Ordinance. Inspector E. A. Vincent and under conditions which informned bis Worship that the defen sure the utmost privacy. if the dant had just had a look at Canton FOR A DEMONSTRATION
and then returned to the Colony. local movement were
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The something totally different. fact that mixed Naked Culture in permitted in certain parts of the world is neither here nor there. Against that we place the more compelling fact that Hongkong br associated does not want to with such a crazy fad. We may be old-fashioned, but we prefer to err, if at all, on the side of the proprietics. Not so long ago, at lenst two separate cases before our magistrates in which
batbe coolics enjoying a
en naturelle were fined for indecent exposure. In each instance, if y remember rightly, the men were
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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16, 1932.
THIS NUDIST NONSENSE.
Came
NO PERMIT FOR AIR RIFLE.
YOUTH FINED AT THE MAGISTRACY.
for
Comradeship could scarcely hel I'm one of them. My chief fault imagined, and I am told that this is that I take clocks seriously. If ase was no isolated exception. someone Invites me to dinner and Without a doubt, Glasgow
A says, "Blow along at seven," then natural
I get a real kick out of ringing the A young Chinese recently arriv-whole is by far a.more ed from Batavia appeared before city than ours; they have found door bell just na the church clock
in chiming the hour. Mr. Wynne Jones at the Central way to a certain happiness.
"Quite so," you reply, "the com-
Unfortunately, however, no one Police Court this morning on i charge of being in possession of a mercial apirit of course.” That, else seems to have the same pas- B.S.A. air rifle without a permit
however, is not the point at all. sion for punctuality; the other of General from the Inspector
If the commercial men can adopt guests haven't arrived, and Police.
In "hail fellow well met" attitude, about an hour I represent a pro- Inspector F. Shuftain said the why not the professional? Problem to my host and hostess. They defendant was staying in a board-fessional superiority in greatly in aren't nearly ready themselves. ing house. Yesterday evening he evidence to-day, and is a canker yet they feel they must entertain was seen walking from the ship to which should be obliterated. There me, and altogether things the boarding house in Connaughtia ne ignoring the cloak of superi- rather strained. Common sense, Rond carrying the rifle quite urity which inwyers and account-I know, auggests that I should outraged.enly except that it was wrappedants don in the presence of the change my ways. I know. that, in a covering. The police were ordinary business man and yet because I've been told it so many what shall we any of the effects not taking a serious view of the where would they be but for the times. But I can't, because I was of a movement, both on the parti-case as he had only just arrived employment he provided? No So-born that way. cipants and on others who may be in Hongkong and was taking The elalist or extremist am I who pens
It is women who hate my punct- a friend. this indictment against such crass
If there arc slx made aware of its activities, which ritle to the country for seeks to establish nixed nudism The police were not even pressing folly-merely one who has come unlity most.
for the confiscation of the rifle. through the mill slightly embit clocks in the house, and they all on an organised
It was probable that if he applied tered and with a nasty taste in say something different, a woman
will believe the one that favours ---- he would be given a permit to take my mouth.
her most. midst?
alone. Yet they were held to have broken the law. If these convics tions rested on a belief that publ susceptibilities were
scale in
nur
Everybody's Hobby.
Although Mr. George Eastman
it nut of the Colony.
A Sne of 310 was imposed.
Love of Luxury
arc
If the hands point to five-thirty,
When the local nudist movement
there was was first rooted.
to treat it general inclination rather as a subject for humour than to be taken seriously. Now, however, that it is beginning to i
It would be of great interest if she will light-heartedly spend assume concrete form, there is a
it were possible to obtain statis- three-quarters of an hour on dres widespread feeling, with which we
film in 1890, changed all this; the ties of the number of people who sing, and expect to find the hands are in entire sympathy, that it is
luxuries. comes, down. Cursed as I am, I high time the authorities Indicat- whose fragic death was reported mere equipment, with its starve their stomachs in order to in the same position when she
tent and water bottles, soon gave indulge in fashionable
figures would be call up at intervals of five minutes. of ed their displeasure at the idea. yesterday, could not claim to beplace to the handy daylight-laudi- Possibly the
so in the and am always accused . (a) We take our stand purely on the the inventor of photography, few ing Kaduk. From a secret art surprising, especially
trying to frighten her, and (b), ground that much harm to publir would muestion his right to a fore-photography evolved into a read-case of women. morality can be done by granting most place among the modernly understandable process that has I once read, i forget where, when she comes down and aces for herself, of having altered the hands. Punctuality in gelting to places is bad enough, but the timekeeper maken himself. even more unpopular when it comes to leaving.
facilities to a movement which pioneers of the art. France cole become everybody's hubby. has many objectionable features.brated the centenary of photo-
is
either the necessity or the desir- ability of the sexes mixing collec- tively for such purposes is quite
In saying so much, we do not denygraphy in July, 1925, commemorat-d that sun-bathing and open-air es-ing the fact that In 1825, M. ercises in the nude can be wholy | Joseph Nicephors Niepee invented beneficial, but to concedu so much the Bitumen Process. In 1924,
admit memorial tablet was unveiled at one thing, whilst to
the Royal Photographie Society. London, to the "Father of Photo- graphy," Henry Fox Talbot, who produced a permanent negative on paper in 1839. To these rival claims must be added those of Josiah Wedgwood and Sir Hun- phrey Davy, who obtained results by coating paper with a solutiou of silver nitrate prior to
another,
So far as we can gather, the Government has not yet defined its attitude on the subject, holding that the matter does not call for decision unless and until applica- tion is made for a site on which the cult may be practised. There may be cited, too, the in-
1802.
the other hand, it is stated that vention of the Camera Obscura, the Superintendent of Crown ancestor of the modern Kodak, by Landa has held out hopes to the J.D. Porta, in the year 1569, and sponsors of the movement that it is worth recording that the first there should be no difliculty in lens was discovered in the ruina securing the use of a beach in of Nineveh and is now in the some outlying part of the Colony. British Museum. For over fifty How far he reflects the official years from the production of the viewpoint-remalna_to_be.acen. The first negative._photography__re- general public, however, if vemained a mysterious art practised are to judge from expressions of by professional specialists and a opinion heard on nii hands, enter- few amateurs whose, enthusiasm tains the hope that the Govern-carried them over the difficulties ment will, without much further of the process. Outdoor photo- ado, prevent the possibility of the graphy was a tollsome and tediorg movement going beyond the exercise. The travelling outât, bounds of strictly private obser- for instance, included a bulky view vance. Indeed, it is open to ques-camera, heavy tripod, equally tion whether the authorities heavy and burdensome plates, a could, without amendment of the dark tent for loading and sensitis- existing law, allenate for the pur-ing plates before exposure, pose of mixed nudism any of the nitrate bath, and
evon a water beaches of the Colony, no matter barrel. Mr. George, Eastman, by
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quotation which said: "To be de-
"Hello, Dexter the youngster is acting up again and I
i where they may be aftuated. In his invention of the flexible roll want you to give him a talking to.".
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A woman will tell her husband that if they go to the Browns' place they must leave not a had minute later thun ten; she's quite enough late nighta recently. Good enough. The punctual hus- band had been hoping to stay until eleven or so, but if ten is to bo the time, that's O.K. with him. When ten draws nigh his wife shows not the slightest sign of getting ready to go; she is prob nbly in the middle of an involved convoreation over maids, or whe- ther one can buy French beans and still be patrotic. The wretch- ed man clears his throat, looks at his watch several times, and at last interrupts the conversation. At which she tells him that it can- not possibly be ten yot, and will cheerfully argue that his watch and all the clocks in the house are wrong.
The man then has two options. Either he can behave like a cat on. hot bricks until he gets his wife out of the houso, or he can shrug his shoulders" and say, no more.
If he chooses the first they will leave about ten Aftoon, and his wife will bully him all the way home for rushing away so.
If, on the other hand, ho chooses the second option, they will loave about midnight, and his wife will: bully him all the way home for kooping her there when shadis- tinctly said she wanted to get sway early.
LA U. Moore.