TRAINING OF CHILDREN
Teach Them To Carry Out Promises
By Olive Roberts Barton To do what we say we'll do, to go through fire and water to keep promise. Thla, fellow-citizens, we learn after many years, is just about so much boloney,
"Come and see us some time any time," Insiste the lady and her husband whom we haven't Bron for years, when we run into them at a party.
HONGKONG TRADE.
REPORTS BY IMPORTERS. FOR!
PAST FORTNIGHT
The following reports have been supulled by Importers to the Hong.. kong General Chamber of Commerco i
Cutton Plece Goods and Fancy Cot tan Goods,
There is little fresh to recoril sinco. the last report. A few sales of "Spot"] cargo have been arranged but there so sign of new business for Decem bor/January shipment, Prices, for Staples have been 'eaxler, with very! little demand.
The latest Cotton prices to hand are those of August 30 American Mid. "Spot"
7.15:1, Egyptian Snkel, F.G.F. "Spot" 8,744. Woollens.There is A certain most certainly will," wel amount of enquiry for "Spot"
but prices promise. And we mean it. And cargo
offered low. Some sales have they in turn assure us that they very
Woollen won't touch food until they tear been minde, however, In out to our house to talk over the Pleer Goods and Hostory Yarn, Clearance of the new season's cargo
and old days when we got to gether and barg "Dearie" until the neighbours threw shoes out of the window.
But we don't go and they don't come, and we go on sighing for the dear dead past that we could catch by the tall if we weren't too lazy, We meet people na we travel if we travel. But one need not go three thousand mites to call it
journey. Ten-twenty miles will que lo run into congenial people whom we want to keen na friends.
Promlacs to Friends.
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has commenced.. Some business is reported in Rayon, with Japanese Yarn in competition with Continental
makes.
Metals. Continental prices for bars have advanced about 3/- per ton. No change in the local market. A fow hundred ions of bars, etc, for Canton have recently prrived. Continental galvanised wires are further reduced. Prices of Continental steel plates aro very firm.
Flour Stock on hand totals 70,000 | bage. Market is quiet,
you."
for-
And if the book comes, I not only drop with surprise, bai Let us any we're on a train, or the donor is fixed permanently in in a hotel on an Alp, or on ship-my respect and admiration board-any place where the tie ver. I knew that my very fe that binds (and it does bind) would be safe in such hands. makes quick friends of strangers Words lightly given and broken In a strange land. We part with are, of course, a part of our beau- kisses and tears. exchange at-tiful social system. Nobody ex- dresses, and promises to write. To pects anything. Every one knows lose touch with those kindly others it is all bunk. But what 4 would be, we think, the height sand it is to undermine serious in of something beyond endurance. tention. The greatest compliment
The postman comes and goes, day's grow Into weeks and weeks to years. We wonder why we do not hear, and add, "We'll have to write to them some time.". Our own part in the lapse doesn't both
as much, but we cherish a bruise because they could take their word so lightly and forget Important us.
quick-
ever received, deserved or not, was from a ranch owner in the wert who wrote thus: "Knowing that you are so bury you don't know where to turn, shall expect a reply at once. must buy a frame for that treasured note. And yet I didn't deserve it. I loo, an a good promiser.
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It is in childhood and youth Perhaps these things do not that dependability must be learn matter in a world so full of real ad. The feeling of obligation, of n trouble and trials. But they are promise to be kept at cost, of do- indicative of character. Tu useing what one says. I think we let the same hypothesis, some one children off too easily. with a craze for figures has kone inte statistics and discovered that only one per cent of such promises are actually kept.
Some one says to me, "I have book you'll enjoy. I'll send it to
As a rule I don't like promises, They become an easy habit. But everyone in the world should have it driven into him that they count if merely from the effect of the repercussion on character,
SALESMAN SAM
HEY, SAM, WHEN
IN HECKARE YA GONNA GIMME
GOSH, OSWALD,
I'D GIVE YA A CHECK RIGHT
THOSE TWO-BUCKS./ NOW, ONLY MY.
YA OWE ME?
/BANK ACCOUNT
WOULD BE OVER-
DRAWN!
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER
3, 1934.
PATH OF FLAMES.
The Union Church at Shanghai was the scene of a very pretty wadding when Miss Violet Mar- garet. Lamb, daughter of Mr. Thomas Lamb, J.P., of Edinburgh, was married to Mr. Edward Fesser Patton, son of Mr. Edward Patton, of Edinburgh, and connected with the offices of the Shanghai. Volunteer Carpa: Mesdames. E. W. Fielding and R. Cowan were the bride's attendantä, Mr. E. W. Fielding gave the bride away and Mr. R. Cowen acted as' best man.
· ARGENTINE CITY LEFT IN
SMOKING DESOLATION
Buenos Aires, Sept. 2:1 The Argentine ott elty of Cam-
THE IRON FIST
REICHSBISHOP AND "RECALCITRANTS",
Berlin, Sept. 1
"The Iron Fist" of Reichsbishop
pana, over which the flames from Mueller has fallen heavily on Mar burning oil reservoirs have swept
for four days, fs emerging from the burg theologians, for their recal- pall of, amoke and fire. The citrant attitude in the church dis danger to the oil reservoirs which pute.. remain standing is now bellevod to have passed.
Prefcasor Hermalink' has been
Some of the inhabitants are re-plaeed on the retired lat, while the turning alrondy, and are patheti-Chair of Comparative Religious cally wandering about the streets History and Religious Philosophy trying to salvage the remains of has been removed to Gerfswald, thelr' possessions,
Pomerania.
Pollen and troops 'are on the
Marburg thus ceases to be the alort to prevent looting,
The damage is expected to ex-ism and the Univeralty loses rauch stronghold of orthodox Protestant- ceod £1,000,000 and the casualties, of its importance for the evan as far as can be ascertained now, gelical life of Germany-Reuter romain at three killed and CO Special. Injured-Reuter.
OUT OF DATE LAW
- COMMON' INFORMER TO
CHARGE B.B.C.
London, Sept. 2.
In
The Amnesty Decree
Borlin, Sept. 1. accordance with Hitler's annesty decree, General Gooring has ordered the release of T40 pri sonors in Prussian concentration camps.
Most of those freed had been im-
serious challenge to the prisoned as Socialists or Com musty Sunday Observance Act
muniste.
of 1677 has been promised for the General Goering announced that; future, when a common informer over half of those in the Prussian will proceed against the British concentration
eampa before the Broadcasting Corporation for amnesty was decreed, have now baon broadcasting on the Sabbath, released.United Press.
Since similar action was highly cuccessful against cinemas several years ago, Ал over-increasing number of cases is being brought throughout the country against shopkeepers, garages and news- boys.
It is understood that the action
..
contemplated against the British
how t Broadcasting Corporation. ovor, has been designed to ond pelty prosecutions, by enforcing a revision of the law-Reuter.
Mayor Wu Teh-chers of Shanghai was host at a garden party held at his residence in honour of the members of the World Conference of Youth who were visiting Shang
|WHAT'SA MATTER
hai to attend the Pacific Area Student Convention at Shanghai University. The young members were entertained on a large scale during their visit.
Always Willing to Do His Share
AW, I DON'T LIKE WITH GIVIN' MEA) THÉ IDEA OF CHECK DATED DOIN' THAT,02216
AHEAD?
OH,
By Small
THANKS, SAM! I HOPE. BY TH TIME TH' IS TH OF JUNE ROLLS AROUND "TH' TWO BUCK'LL BE IT, SAY-UH-
́IN-TH'-BANK! JUNE 15
NOW,
I'LL GIVE! YOU'RE "TH' ONE
YA A BREAK, 'WHO STARTED THIS. CHECK-DATED-AHEAD (SAMI MAKE STUFF! WHAT DATE. DO YA WANT ME TO
MAKE IT?
MEGBE THERE'LL
BE A MILLION BUCKS INT THERE BY THAT, TIME, OSWALD, WHO KNOWS 2
WELL, WHICH IS IT GONNA ) W-W-WHY, BE- ́A CHECK DATED 'TH' CHECK AHEAD OR A SWAT IN
TH' JAW, DATED T’DAY?
DATED AHEAD, I S' POSE.
NOTICE
CREDIT CHEERS
GIVEN
7. M. REG. . S. PAT, OFF,
WHY, THAT !!~!!! FOUR-HEY, DID YOU KNOW
FLUSHER! TRYIN' TO PULL A
FAST ONE ON ME,HUH! WELL, HE WON'T GET AWAY WITH IT!
COUZZEM-
TAY
KYLAN
0
YOU MADE THIS CHECK OUT FER
JUNE 15, 1950?
DUZZEM
GEN'L STORE
SURE! HOU WERE KIND ENOUGH 'AIN'TCHA. | TO PICK THE MONTH AND SATISFIED DAYL SO I PICKED THE YEAR! WITH THAT?
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