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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1933.
KOUZZA
Refinements
Feature
Rockne
Six
Models
MR. PEPYS
By ROBERT LYND
The Very Idea!
"SUMMER SUITINGS
By Edward "Bowyang" Kally, Last week the Editor of the. Telegraph handed us a copy of the Tailor and Cutter for review,
the immediate question of the attitude of the Powers towards Japan in the matter of her dis- pute with China is concerned, it is really immaterial whether Japan withdraws or not She may, if she chooses, absent-her- self from the Lengue gather Mr. Pepys was born in. Salis-jlooked on with equal relish at the ings, but until the expiration of bury-court, Fleet-street, on Feb-execution of King Charles I. in two years the League can still uary 23, 1633. When he died 70 Whitehall-in occasion on which,
years later he was known to the las he afterwards feared to be re- Since then we have become le claim jurisdiction over her as a world only as, an eminent civil minded, he said that, if he were dernier ers all over, and can now member. Until her withdrawal servant and a worthy citizen: At preaching on the subject, he speak with some authority on the- has conformed to requirements; the celebration of his tercentenary would choose for his text: "The forthcoming summer fashions for ahe would, of course, also remain host people think of him rather memory of the wicked shall rot." men. mandatory Power of the Pacific as a meat amusingly candid writer His self-complacency is flattered Trousers, for instance, will bo` islands now under her care, so af genius and as a comic charac-by the feeling that he had witness-worn longer this summer probably long as she complied with Coven-ter no less original than Falstaff ed two auch historic events as the about six months longer.
will himself.
execution of the King and the ant stipulations. What
One side pocket will be dispensed. He was a man who led a double execution of the Cromwellian with to meet the changed economic eventually happen to these ter- ritories is a matter for the fu-life in an ago in which there was Harrison. Thus," he writes, "it conditions, and the hip pocket is
little need for a misn of easy was my chance to see the King.be-being slightly enlarged: morais to lead a double life. Meheaded at Whitehall, and to sec Pepys, however, was born a Furi- the first blood shed in revenge for tas, and was too piously shocked the blood of the King at Charing by his frailties to flaunt them in Cross.”.
At the time at which Pepys be-
ture.
A World Language
half
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Statistics have proved that, we will require two piat instead of one- pint beer bottles this summer, hence the change.
underpants.
For evening wear, the socks will
The growing importance of public. That was one reason why
Socks of the newest design bayo English as an international he wrote the story of nine and a gan to write his diary, he was a detachable feet so that they may be 4-Point Cushioned Power
years of his life in the young man of 27, while his wife, language was emphasised by Mr. secrecy of shorthand, and left it who was 15 years old at the time pulled up and used as woollen SUN VISORS Lloyd-James in a recent lecture in such a form that it was not till of their marriage, was only 20.
in London. It is natural that the nineteenth century that the His world is the world seen This will prove an inestimable Two adjustable sun visors are we should consider it better than world knew what manner of man through the eyes of a young man, boon in Hongkong, where the standard equipment on all 1933 any other; but what is more to be was.
alert with curiosity, flushed with vagaries of the climate must be a Rockne Six closed models. the point is the simple fact that No one who has read Pepys's success that brings him into the first consideration.
English has become the "langu-"Diary" would dream of describ-closets of princes, with tempta See and drive the New Rockne age of greatest international ing it as mainly the confession of tions stronger than his half-will be a light skin colour. Suspenders
sanctimonious sinner. Mr. to resist them, a young man may thus to dispensed with. Six to-day!
currency." French for centuries Pepys was sanctimonious and inhabiting a world that had not Few changes will be effected in was the language of educated certainly according to his own yet had time to go etale. He was footwear, and, under certain cir- THE HONGKONG HOTEL
men. It was likewise recognized standards a sinner; hat he was fortunately for us, at least-acumstances, such as when they wear GARAGE.
to be the language of diplomacy, also a man extremely honest and young man with no of out, shoes may be dispensed with and was adopted in the drawing efficient in the day's work, ex-humour and not too much sense of entirely. up of international documents, tremely affectionate, and with a tragedy. He was as receptive ag not only because it had replaced strong sense of his responsibili-a mirror; or, rather, his diary a mirror Latin as the universal language ties in daily life, public-spirited, might be described as of educated people, but because courageous, and with. the ob that exactly reflected not only servant eye of an artist. It is the himself, but the time in which it was regarded as especially pre-very contradictions in his nature he ifved. cise and not subject to misinter- that make him so amusing a pretation. In common use in character,
Btubbs Fond
The
Happy Valley
Hongkong Telegraph.
TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1983.
JAPAN AND THE LEAGUE
and
Signposts..
more
"At last, about one o'clock, she
do in that condition."
sense
The Fire of London.
Trousers may be dispensed with in favours of kilts by married men. In fact, we have anticipated this fashion many years ago ever since we were married. Our beadache wears the pants in our family.
In lieu of trousers, the ultra-
Peak.
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SPRING FEVER.
**
Oh, wouldn't it be sublime.
A perfect heaven below; If only we could do away With Northerly winds and dust
and fog;
And slums and soot and worry
and rent,
And stockings to darn and bills
to pay.
And sorrow and pain and hump
and blues, And one or two people we know.
A HOOK-UP.
We remember when Arabella proposed to us:
"I want," she said, "someone of so that I handsome appearance shall be proud to show him to my sensitive, quick to respond to any passing influence, and yet rugged and strong. I should like him to have a nice voice, but he must be quiet when I want him to”-
Europe, French is still pre- Thus we may say that he was an No detail is too small to reflect,modern will wear a one-piece en--- dominant. But in Russia, in affectionate husband who behaved During the Great Fire of London semble. Australian flour bags will Germany, in the Scandinavian very badly to his wife. If you he notices the City pigeons that auit admirably, two holes being cut· countries, and in the Balkans, turn to the Wheatley index to were loth to leave their houses, in the bottom for the legs. Care
the "Diary," you will find such English is more
but hovered about the windows should be taken that the trade mark covers the back and not the ebeat. It is the medium entries relating to Mrs. Pepys as and balconies till they were, some spöken.
"Her husband is angry with her," of them burned, their wings, and
Instead of Palm Beach suitings, through which Western civili-Samuel pulls her nose," "Samuel sation is spreading, and its strikes her." "Samuel pulls her fell down." He notices "a poor Palm Leaf kilts should gain ent taken out of a hole in the instant popularity. The material again." And Mrs. Pepys The major point raised by prestige is rapidly developing-nose
a surreptitious raid on the mat. Japan's withdrawal from. the Apart from the employment of also played an active part in the chimney, joyning to the wall of may be gathered any evening by
the Exchange, with the hair all League of Nations is the future English by the men and women recurrent quarrel when, shortly
alive." And having been sadden- of the islands in the Pacific of the East and of Africa, an before her death, she threatened burned off the body and yet sheds at Repulse Bay or Castle Having glossed over men's fash- which she holds as Mandatory employment by no means con- Mr. Pepys with the red-hot tongs, ed by a hundred tragic spectacles, Power under the League of Na-tined to the elite, it is to be noted Describing the incident in his he goes off with some friends and lops we will now pass on to the
fairer sex.. "there dined off an earthen plat-
How many men know, for in- tions. To obtain a precise un-that the technical and scientific Diary, Mr. Pepys writes: derstanding of the question it is vocabulary of Africa and the came to the side of the bed and ter a fried breast of mutton; a well to recall that under the East is almost exclusively Eng- drew my curtaine open, and with great many of us, but very merry, stance, that some of the prettiest Treaty of Versailles provision
lish. Thus in every way Eng-the tongs red hot at the enils, and indeed as good a meal, though things women wear come from a
life."
Married men will know what we was made for the administration lish appears designed as a world made as if she did designe toas ugly a one, as ever I had in my worm of the Colonies and territories language; and there would seem pinch me with them, at which, in
We get another glimpse of the mean. Saying which, wo bid you taken from the late enemies of to be no good reason why the my dismay, I rose up, and with a. the Allied and Associated Powers fact should not be frankly stated few words she laid them down, resilient Pepys in an entry made a fond and profane A-Jew,
vices and sightseeings at the fire. whereby, instead of being trans- and the acceptance of English and did, little by little, very after several days' assiduous ser- which is French for a close friend.
sillily let all the discourse fall."
By two o'clock, however, they "Up hetimea," he writes, "and ferred absolutely to new own as a second and universal langu-
shaved myself after a week's were friends again. ers, they were to be held by age be encouraged.
"Long in bid, talking together, growth; but, Lord! how ugly I was Powers as mandatories of the
with much pleasure, it being. I yesterday, and how fine to-day." League of Nations, as "a sacred
There are some who eulogise know, nothing but her doubt of trust for civilisation." The
my going out yesterday, without Pepys chiefly as the saviour of the status of these mandatory Po- Two Englishmen who captured telling her of my going, which did British Navy; but the Pepys in whom the world delights is the wers is clearly set forth in the imagination of the world in vex her poor wretch!" the League Covenant, in which the late nineteenth century have Mrs. Pepya has also a place in comic egotist with the watchful- it is expressly laid down that this year been simultaneously another entry which gives an ae-ness of a cat. It is not as the the powers are exercised on be recalled to the attention of the count of a characteristic day in efficient civil servant or the half of the League. The man- public Gen. Charles Gordon, Pepys's life. In the morning President of the Royal Society datories are, accordingly, re- who was sacrificed in a forlorn Pepys goes out to call on Lord that he interests nine out of ten Sandwich, the powerful relation readers to-day, but as the odd quired annually to report to the cause at Khartoum in 1885, and who had given him a start on his creature who mingled plety and Permanent Mandates Commis- Cecil Rhodes. the millionaire career. "But," he adds, as though frailties, self-seeking and interest sion, set up by the League, re- "Imperialist" who "opened up" his conduct were the most natural in others, secretiveness and can- garding the territories thus.com- South Africa. These two men thing in the world, "my Lord not dour, and who could express him- mitted to their charge. These stand out like signposts to his being up, I went out to Charing self with such perfect mastery are the, indisputable facts of the tory. Rhodes was a powerful Cross to see Major-General Harri- of a unique personal style, aa in situation. Japan, however, con- incarnation of the aggressive son hanged, drawn and quarter- that famous sentence in which he tends that she does not hold the racial ambition which reached ed; which was done there, he look declared of a piece of music: "It Pacific islands as trustee of the its peak thirty or forty years ing as cheerful as any man could ravished me, and indeed, in a friends. He must also be very
word, did wrap up my soul so that League, but that they have come ago. and is not yet passed; Gor- This takes Pepys's memory back it made me really sick. Just as to her as the spoils of war. don looked into the future, and to the day on which, the school have formerly been when in love What is more, she has intimat-anticipated the ideals of our own boy son of a Puritan tailor, he had with my wife.” ed on more than one occasion time. Rhodes laid the founda- that she has no intention of sur-tion of his influence in South rendering them to the League Africa by amassing a monstrous or anyone else. This is the pro- fortune. "It is no use having the blem with which the League is big ideas if you have not now faced. It is one which may cash to carry them out," he said. prove extremely difficult to Gordon won the trust of the solve. Technically, of course, Chinese by refusing a "roomful Japan cannot leave the League of treasure." Rhodes enlarged at a moment's notice. It is the British Empire by annexing specifically laid down in the thousands of square miles in Covenant that two years' notice Africa. Gordon endeavoured to of withdrawal must be given, save Egypt for the Egyptians. and there is a further proviso and to keep the European bond- that all international obligations holders at bay. "This is my and all obligations under the dream," said Rhodes, looking Covenant must have been fal- at the map of Africa, "all red!" filled at the time of withdrawal. But Gordon chose an Italian, an Whilst it is true that the League American, a German, an Eng- has not thus far found Japan to lishman and Egyptians to help have acted contrary to her him in equatorial Africa, to obligations, her activities in indicate that his mission Manchuria have certainly caused not for England, but civilization. her conduct to be called into The attitude of Rhodes led direct- question. But, as we have ly to the Boer War and survived shown, whether the obligations among some of the nations eng- have been fulfilled or not, no aged in the great war; it is still League member has the right to present in Manchuria; it is not withdraw except under two extinct in any nation. The ideals years notice of its intention to of Gordon are manifest in the do so. So far as the Sino- League of Nations, the Fact of Japnese dispute is concerned, Fence, and the crusade for disar- however, withdrawal would mean mament. It triumphed when practically nothing. In the first that very Egypt which, follow- place, the League DOBBESSCsing the line of Rhodes, had come rights of action over non-mem-under British occupation, was bers, whilst, secondly, Japan still granted independence; and when has her obligations both under Irak, which British arms cap- the Nine-Power Treaty and the tured from the Turks, was Paris Pact. These are alto voluntarily released from the gether apart from League ob British mandate, and became a ligations. Therefore, so far as self-governing sovereign state..
wea
"You'll work two weeks on that dress and then be as sweet
sa ple when he calls up and aays he can't be here for the dance."
I
"Hey, Horsefeathers," we pro- tested, "what is it you want--a man or a wireless set?" "Neither," she replied.
But she married us just the same. Now what do you think of that?
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THIS AMUSING WORLD..
The world is getting very "die- key" as we have predicted all along. Japan has left the League, or half- left it anyway, so now as Lord- Tennyson put it we are "half a Icague onwards." On the other hand, the Yanks have not yet foin- ed. Mr. MacDonald is probably going to America but there is little chance of their keeping him there.
SUMMER.
Ah! for the joys of summer! To experience once again that feeling of the tar-from the pave- ment sticking to the sales of your shoes. To indulge in merry chases, swotting that fly. To perspire through hot nights' and arise in the mornings decorated with mosquito bites and lassitude, To grasp and groan under the welter of a heat-wave, and mur mur, "Geo! this is a corker.” To line up in the four-deep queue at the Hotels. To spend your week- onde getting a "colour up," and nurse the blisters which come, in the process. To crawl round the office on the Monday morning, and yell, “Mind my sunburn." To get caught in a typhoon when you are not expecting it and get blown from here to anywhere-in the good old summer-time.