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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933.
CUT YOUR
REPAIR
NOTES OF THE DAY
BED IS BEST PLACE
FOR READING
says
ROBERT LYND
During his visit to the Ad-thought out a new method
of
The Very Idea!
KEEPING US PURE
By Eddia "Lilywhite" Kolly
VIDENCE that the local morality campaign in
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It would be rather à joke, except for those who have to live with the coal dump on the Chatham Road "esplanade" vere it correct | to infer that the erection of a bamboo fence constitutes the sole stop contemplated by Government for mitigation of the nuisanco. Obviously, the second state would be worse than the first, the fence vertising Exhibition at Olympia, dissuasion and warned them that respect to cabarets has been BILLS! Bercening off still more of the the King is reported to have said, if they persisted in reading in bed extended to embrace cinema on observing a reading lamp: they would damage their oyesight shows is contained in a view and affording little if any check upon the distribution of "When I go to bed, I go to sleep.and have to wear spectacles.
I wonder whether any member series of letters, which were coal dust. If anything is done, it have not read in bed for 40 will be something more effective years and I am not going to start of the medical profession
this ridiculous argument to-day. delivered to us from the than this temporary "expedient," now." wo feel aure. But realdents must have a little patience. In the first place it will take more than two coolles and a barrow to shift the dump, and in the second, the M.B.K., having been given the right to dump conl there, must be given. reasonable notice of the termination of the privilege.
USE "ALEMITE”
-GREASE-
FITTINGS
"ALEMITE
Gas-Co-Lator
IS A NECESSITY !
FIT ONE and PREVENT CARBURETOR TROUBLES* $12.50 each.
Hong Kong Hotel Garage -Showroom- Stubbs Road. Phone 27778-9.
The
HHongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1933.
ISOLATING
"MANCHUKUO"
THE PROPER SPHERE
Ивов
It must be admitted that dur-If Naturo meant men to read at police department`in mistake for. ing the last 40 years reading in all I am sure she meant them to a bundle of warrants and sum bed has lost much of its romantic read in bed. Did not the Greeks mouses.
rehd reclining on couches? Yot attractiveness.
we never hear of any Greck's hay. SLEEPY EYES-
Ing had to wear spectacles. OF DANGER.
It seems to me that the posture When I was a boy, reading in of a man reading in bed is as bed had a spice of danger in it. natural as the posture of a man Electric light had not yet in- reading in an arm-chair.
and
I
The first letter was addressed to the local police officials by the Vicar of Stonehenge-Under-the- Sea:
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vaded the bedroom—at least, not If I were a rich man I should Dear Sir, I was indeed grieved the ordinary bedroom-and 18 the gas-bracket was usually too reading in bed or in a hammock super-production of "Eric, or Little spond a great deal of my time that you, should have banned our far from the bed to permit the or on a sofa or somewhore where by Little", which was passed by my In the Duncan scheme of portie-abed to read by its light, all I could get my feet almost on the bishop, and acclaimed in London at development in Hunghom Bay, provision was made for a coal reading in bed had to be done same lovel as my head. This depot in the vicinity of the the light of candles and oil-position conduces to the restful our Inst Mothers' Convention. I hear
Iamps.
ness that is necessary to the ap to the one which your Deparment you take exception to an expletive- Gascoigno Road railway bridge. These were particularaly dan-preciation of good literature, condemned as being "too Shavian for We are not likely to soo any port development scheme for twenty gerous to the kind of reader who am convinced that one of the years or more, but Mr. Duncan did falls asleep over his book,
reasons for the popularity of many Hongkong cars." But, after all, not prohibit earlier use being made there were many such readers. inferior books to-day is that, most "Flo!" is a good old English word. of his ideas. No more than any knew an elderly, whiskered' man people read in uncomfortable If I dm to exclude racy expressions of one else could Mr. Duncan have who used often to read in bed by chairs and cannot attend to a the sort, what is to become of and the light of a candle which hebook unless it compels them to do my atmosphere-Yours sincerely, foroseon the 1925 strike boycott and the blight which it stood on his chest, and who fre-so by its violent and unnatural ATHANABIS SMITH-TVELSMITH. cast upon all plane which followed quently fell asleep without blow-exaggerations. his line of thinking. The time ing the, candle out.
THE REACTION How he escaped being burnt toAGAINST BEDTIME.
From the local police. schedule in his mind was put back at least thirty years by that little death I could never make out; butj
It is certainly significant that, upheaval, hence our keenness on I never heard of his even having when anyone speaks of a "bed the Lido scheme for Kowloon singed his whiskers. Some
book" he nearly always means a Some criticism has been offered, stinet, I suppose, must have kept good book. No one has ever at but generally the proposal har met him tint and motionless with warm approval and if there are obstacles in the way, we doubt if they are Insurmountable.
KOWLOON'S NEEDS
The one essential to the success.
in-
on his
back till the candle in the candle-tempted to praise a book by call-
ing it a "chair book." stick had at last guttered Candles must have been hla chief household expensos.
one
out. of
it
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Dear Mr. Smith-Welsmith-It is not only the language of your taikle that offends. "Flot" is used to leas
than three times by the housekeeper,
and then there is the path #Beer; uttered by the gardener when he falls
As for the origin of the habit over the watering can. But, 'worse, of reading in bed, It may be traced, far worse, is your studied appeal to
would catch the lamp and send selves this very reasonable ques-Yours faithfully.
tion, they closed. the book in
:
been
From the Vicar:
Sir,The pair, you say, were on
while I hold the moral reins-Yours
P. S. This correspondance must now cease.
1 used to stay in a house in imagine, to the desire of the the baser passions. I refer to the which the head of the house-an-young to avoid going to sleep. neeno in which the lace hem, or, bor- other reader in bed-had a habit Most of those who read in bed be-dering, on the pants of Eric's girl age friend is shown protruding beneath of knocking over the oil-lamp be. Kan to do so at an early of the scheme is that the pro-side his bed in his sleep. He They wanted above all things to her ankle-length skirt. It was spect
was It moters shall be given security of never turned the lamp out before Prolong the day. How The mills of the League of tenure for, say, ton years.. That going to sleep, and, if he lind a possible to close "Treasure Island" ncles of this kind that brought about Nations may grind exceeding would be quite enough. Within ten dream and swung his arm round, merely because the clock had the decline and fall of the Roman years or so, the main residential It was as likely as not that struck eleven? Asking the rn Empire and the revolution in Russis slow, but they also grind very quarter of Kowloon will have been fine. This is brought home by thrust back to the Prince Edward it crashing to the floor.
Road, Greater Kowloon Tong, and Fortunately, it was a metal obedience to their elders, but the full details of the proposals Cheungshawan Road regions, and lamp with some kind of newly-they carried it up to the bedroom
and continued to rend it till they Dear Sir grant there is a pro- just circulated by the Secretary- the most appropriate place for the invented safety device. Even 80 knew the last of Long John vocative element in the costume of
Lido will then be in the centre of sleeping in the room overhead General giving instructions to all the extensive park which, we under and hearing the crash
Silver. of the
bur hargine, but did your Department I remember, when I first got hold take into consideration (1) that the countries in the matter-of how stand, is contemplated in the aces fallen lamp, I many a time lesped not to recognise "Manchukuo." bordered by the back of the police from between the sheels and sped of "The Muster of Bailantrae" I fringe, or under-pinning, of Emily's training school, the railway em downstairs, believing that now at had not even opened the book pants was as worn at the period, (2) Some of the measures appear bankment, and the foothilla. In the last the house must have
when I went up to my bedroom.that the young couple were on the futile on paper and some people meantime, the ideal site is the set on fire. But it never
I opened it on the top of a chest W48.
way to Sunday School? I contend, have already asked what the Chatham Road senfront and we Things are seldom as bad as the of drawers, under the gaslight, and I have reason to believe that the
and began to read. I read on League has to do with the feel sure it can be obtained if public nervous expect them to be.
opinion is made sufficiently clear. I have never, indeed, known entranced, with my elbows leaning Archbishop is with me here, that Olympic Games. The inclusion The objection two years ago was any of my friends or relations but on the chest of drawers, I read such facts tend to mitigate the of advice on this issue is, how on-the score of economy, the Gov-one even to set the bedclothes-on on for three hours till I reached fence, if any. Yours faithfully,
ernment having been asked to fire as a result of reading in. bed. the last word on the last page,ATH. SMITH-WELSMITH eyer, merely an earnest of the supply the funds. If the K.R.A. Still, there were always exciting and regretted only that the book |
Was not longer.
From the Police Department: As a rule, however, I got into mand for international boycott were able to indicate to Govern- these tame days of fool-proof
mant their willingness of the puppet state. Clearly debentures, or the willingness of beetle lamps when he be ex-read on-in June, at least-till the their way to Sunday School, ut did
to issue which hang at the bed before I began reading, and more can be accomplished by the private enterprise
You who have never they got there? Are they shown in to adopt the tinguished without an effort by the dawn came. League method than many scheme, Government would be alcoplest and most lethargic hand, either stayed awake late or got the act of receiving spiritual uplift? cannot imagine how No. A storm comes on. Emily, in her reasonable enough.
up early people appear to think. For in
THE CRITIC'S
charming is the first flush of pants, takes shelter with Eric in a stance, it is offering a very real
ATTITUDE.
dawn, as the complaints and tea-room, alone! What transpires? It was, I suppose, because of the quarrels of the awakened birds Imagination boggles at the thought. difficulty to "Manchukuo" if all | AIR ARMADA'S FEAT
very real dangers of reading in become gradually transformed in- countries obey the request re- The applause which greeted the bed that the medical profession to a chorus of song. It is a noble Be sure, sir, that such suggestive pre- garding passports. All "Man- return of the Italian air armada to of the Victorian age invented the ending to a night with Dickens or bloms will never be passed for the chukuo" passports are to be re- Ostia will echo round the world. theory that reading in bed was Scott. What a luxurious world in corruption of our Hongkong citizens,
The fleet, did not return entirely bad for the eye-sight. The nd-which to fall asleep!. jected and Manchurians wishing intact; a machine was wrecked at venturous young, scornful of the It meant being late for school truly to travel must act as though Amsterdam and another at Punta motto "Safety first," could not be the next morning, but I never "Manchukuo" does not exist. Delgada; but twenty-three of dissuaded from reading in bedminded being late for school. Consuls withdrawn from Man-twenty-five planes moved from point by the argument that they might I always felt that the hours for to point with clockwork precision, set themselves an fra. Hence, morning school were hours intend- churia can be replaced without at an average speed, when flying, their parents and their doctora (Continued on Page L.) infringing the rulings of the of 130 miles an hour, providing League Assembly. This would an object lesson in the great pos- not constitute recognition of the under an organised system. Gen- sibilities in Transatlantic air travel regime, since consuls are ap-eral Balbo, Italy's youthful Air pointed for the purpose of keep planes accomplish a feat which Minister, has made a group of ing their governments informed would be considered highly credit- and protecting their nationals. able if brought off by a single But governments are to inform plane. It does not seem a for stride their consuls that they should do to a regular trans-ocean air mail
and passenger servico. nothing which could be inter- preted expressly or by implica- tion as a declaration that they regard the authorltles establish-
General Machado, who was ed in Manchuria as the proper prisoner at the age of three because his father, led a rebellion against government of the country. For the tyranny of Spain and who fifty appointing consuls to the ter years Inter waa elected to be ritory, precedents are found in President of Cuba, Ands himself the situation at Canton, where an exile from his country in con- sequence of his own alleged tyranny, the authorities have not, at Actually, of course, ho Was certain times; recognised the a victim of circumstances. When authority of the central govern-In 1924, one of the main planks in nominated for the presidency ments of China. "Manchukuo" his platform was Constitutional is excluded from admisalon to prohibition of the re-election of a any international convention, is President; yet rather against his not permitted to adhere to the will, he was compelled to stand again. His re-election was wol. Universal Postal Union and her comod by the United States and his currencies are not to be accepted acceptance of office for a furthor as legal tendor. The belief that period was made an occasion for joyous colebration in Cuba. : But nothing, has been done by the the economic blizzard finally swept Longuo aindo adopting them away. The United States Lytton Report must, apparently, while his people colebrated his ds- withdrew thoir moral support, undergo a ravision. It is no parture with an enthusiasm scarcely
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|begin the wonder if the Longue his assumption of office. It seems method may not be efficient after Father tragic, but it's the way of
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DESPERATION
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People pointed us out in the atract. Crowds gaped at Reporters dogged us night and day. Reduced to a hunted thing of jingling, nerves, we swore that wo neither could nor would bear cross any longer. So. WE wrote to the paper. We wore tho only man in Hongkong who had not previously expressed our opin- lon in the Correspondence column - about the League of "British Tights,
our
WHAT, NO BEER?
There was no question about it, Pote was hopelessly drunk, and Mrs. Watkins waited grimly at the top of the stairs for his homo- coming.
The clock was striking two when she hoard sounds at the front door. Presently the latch dicked and there were stealthy footsteps. She smiled grimly to herself no she picked up the broken leg of a chair (a rolle of " the last party) she had kopt In readiness for the past hour,
And now the door handle, turn- od, and the door began to open, inch by inch. Suddenly she swung the chair leg. There was a thud, then e groan, and tho body sank to the floor.
"He had it coming to him, the drunken hound, she muttered as 'she switched on the lights. Ma
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