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NOTES OF THE DAY
GERMANY'S BARGAIN
BRITAIN: LAND of Bad HABITS.
by
Lionel Hale
MANIFESTO published by
A MANIFESTO has
News despatches from Paris' in-- dicate that Germany is attempting to obtain from Great Britain a large sterling loan in return for Germany's promise to refrain from any action which will be likely to embarrass the League of Nations in its attempt to dis cipline Italy. According to the Paris version some considerablo progress has been made. A bar- gain of this sort presupposes a certain amount of pressure on the part of the bargaining parts. Germany, let us say, requests a loan from England in return ·for a pledge of neutrality. But what if no loan is forthcoming? Does it not seern ke holding out
some very harsh words to say the alternatives of a threat or about "pernicious British ba- promise? That sort of bargain-
bits," Its author, Signor ing is not the sort of thing to be en-
Marinetti, pleads with his couraged. If it is true that it is going on in Europe and that Brit-countrymen to adjure certain ain is actually prepared to listen habits which he considers un- to such overtures. It indicates a Itallan; and the list is an in- state of tension very much more teresting one. desperate than we had supposed. Moreover, it will crente a feeling
Here it is: "Ten-drinking. of apprehension in France which snobbery, golf-playing, Puritan- will most certainly be reflected in ism,
clean-shavonness, pipe- future international dealings and smoking, bridge-playing, und In- which may even destroy the unexplicable Apathy to Women." animity at Geneva on the part of the Great Powers. A nation which The Englishman has always attempts to profit from others' misbewildered his European neigh- fortunes, or attenmis to win ad- bours; but up to now he has been vantages at a time when other more of a figure of fun than a countries are atraining every nerveHorrid Example. His politi- to keep a precarious pence, cannot clans, of course, have always expect sympathy when she herself been considered to possess the
is faced with difficulties within or
dangera from without. It is, how-guile of Machiavelli; but he him- ever, only fair to Germany to self has been looked on as an state that her lenders have amiable eccentric, the simpleton definitely declared for neutrality in the present crisis circumstance which shows the necessity of taking the Paria reports with considerable
reserve.
The marriage of Mr. Henrique A.
Barros, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. | YOUR DIET-BY ORDER F. Burros, and Miss Cecilin Noronha, eldest daughter of Mr. J. M. Noronha and the late Mrs. J. M. Noronha, will take place at the Rosary Church, Kowloon, on October 19, at 4,30 p.m. Friends
ceremony and at the reception to be held at the Club de Recreio.
The actopus of State control is
steadily extending its influence, and the time, may not be far dis tant when even such a personal
DEAN INGE
He shares kimart).
of Burope. With his guide- to-pat the head of his favourite » books and travelling ulsters and 'niece. his passion for cold baths; he used to be the Buffoon; but now ed fellow shaves.
But, every day, the abandon-
he appears in his true colours, the Villain of the piece.
IN
SIGNOR MARINETTI has un-
MR. STANLEY BALDWIN He smakes a pipe.
And while I am not sure that. our English habits are good, I
testable vice of clean-shaven are worse habits. A man can-
NOW, with regard to the de-, am, at any rate, sure that there ness, Signor Marinetti seems to not do much harm by playing
;":
masked him. "Look at the me to show not only the re bridge, but he can do a great blackguard," he cries, "and be- former's zeal but the reformer's deal of harm by playing dieta- ware!" He begins his day by courage; it can hardly have for. And a taste for drinking will be welcome at the wedding matter as one's diet will be dictat-tea-drinking, when he should be escaped notice that the noblest tea is better, I fancy, than a
ed by the universal Grandmother singing "Giovinezza," which you Ronian of them all, Signor Mus- taste for drinking blood. according to what she considers cannot do properly if you are solini himself, is clean-shaven. best for a, Already we see mul- | drinking tea. titudea of school-children sucking milk through straws as a sort of vision of the shape of things to come! The savants of the British Association, at their meetings in Norwich, have this year given more attention to the feeding habits of the people than ou any previous occasion. It looks as if
The
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MONDAY, OCT. 14, 1935.
PREVENTING ROAD ACCIDENTS Although the figures periodi- cally issued do not consistently reflect the fact, it has been made apparent that measures taken in
Ая soon as I read Signor; He then satisfies his snobbery Marinetti's attack on clean- by reading the Court Circular shavenness I trembled for its in his morning paper and by author, for he seems to 'me to gloating over the reports of the have put himself into the un- marriages of marquises and the enviable position of a man who deaths of dukes,
The Very Idea!
runs through the streets of HOWLS AND HOWLERS He then goes out to play ture. "Down with tooth-brush Berlin crying with a holy rap- a great offensive for the improve several rounds of golf, golden moustaches! Down with tooth-A Postscript For The More ment of the national diet is to-hours wasted when he might be brush moustaches!" ward. We are making a muddle listening to patriotic speeches or of our meals. It would be difficult to decide which are suffering more from malnutrition, the rich or the poor. Both sections of the com- munity, by their errors of eating.
pain.
Leisure Hour
Edited By Eddie
the Old Country to reduce road giving the dietetic experts acute smoking, he may soon find him- fearless reformer will sow seeds mude, but my heart is not in it."
casualties are tending in the desired direction. None the less, the number of people-killed-IGNORANCE-IS-BLISS- every week in traffic mishaps in the United Kingdom is
un-
comfortably high. The opera tion of the human factor on the roads was recently the subject of discussion at the British As-
may be
Is not a supor-Illusion of the fad-
England at
the present time
13 事
polishing his sword. During his It may be that the Duce hast rounds of golf, lost to all sense no need of a beard, for he has of shame, he makes matters a strong chin, a very strong chin Worse by smoking a pipe. If a indeed. It may be, on the other
"I'm having a new evening gown man makes a habit of pipe- hand, that the words of this
"Surely you won't have it cut as self smoking the Pipe of Peace; of contrition in his heart, that
low as that?" and did that ever get a rising he will retire for a week or so, nation-anywhere-Did-Caesar-and emerge proudly with a beard.
“They had ̈quarrelled-and-she-had- smoke a pipe? The question is as fine as (say) the beard of the returned his gifts, ja comb and
Emperor of Abyssinia. absurd.
brush. After lunch, presumably, he But at all events it was un- "It will make the parting plays a few more rounds of golf, commonly, plucky of Signor caster," she said, still smoking furiously, and Marinetti. when the light fades he hurries to the bridge-table, puritanically
+
.
"Sorry, old chap, but I'm looking
I must confess that I am a for a little financial succour again."
Henry
*
III
Yet a further selection of “howl-
It may be argued that our fore- bears got on, very well without carefully weighing and balancing their diet; that they knew nothing of vitamina and calories, and were none the worse. Their ignorance was bliss and it is folly for us resisting the temptation to raise little perplexed about these "You'll have to hunt further. I'm sociation, meeting in Norwich, to try to be wise. By taking a few friends and paint the town. Pernicious habits: I am, per-not the little financial sucker I used when varying views on the sub-thought of what we eat, can we roll. And all day long he hus plexed, that is to say, about to be." ject were expressed. However, add a cubit, to our stature, since.
according to repute, the people of perniciously maintained his "in- whether they are pernicious or
.not.
As everyone knows life If we look back on the certain parts of Hongkong assumed the issue may be regarded, there | old (knowing nothing of vitamins explicable apathy to women.' can be no questioning the point were sturdier than we? One won-
I myself think that "inexpli- great Englishmen of history, the an aspect of terrible competition
evidence is very confusing. that if the fallible human ole- ders whether all this fuss aboutable apathy to women" does not
in the way of social achievement. the persistent tendency of the Brit-fit very well with golf or bridge, Wesley renounced it; Mr. Lloyd, auccess my little dinner party was," Dr. Johnson drank tea, John,· “You've no idea what a complete ment could be eliminated, - and
ish citizen to eat the wrong foods I have seen (and heard) elderly George is no bridge-player, but said one Mid-level lady to her Peak all traffic made fool-proof, the problem of the roads would solve dists, who are more numerous in. and irascible gentlemen playing Asquith was; Disraeli played no friend. "I expect you noticed all
# foursome when some gay itself.
But that is asking for than at any previous period. The young thing has driven blithely games, but Drake played bowls: the cars outside my place? Nine- the impossible. There
mania for regulation and stand-into their midst. They were not Lord Curzon's snobbishness is teen, altogether! But you didn't room for the greater applica-nrdisation spreads rapidly through- apathetic then..
balanced by Lord Shaftesbury's last Saturday-I only notleed three-
have many guests at your place
tion of mechanical devices to
out the land. It may soon be I have seen them (and heard humanity; Milton, but not Mar- cars the prevention of accidents, and
necessary for freedom-loying Bri- them), at the bridge-tables when lowe, was a Puritan: Raleigh "Oh," said the other, placidly, the future may be expected to
tons (whose freedom is already to their charming partners failed smoked a pipe, but Ruskin des- "they were mine--I had no visitors a large extent a thing of the past to return their lead; and on such Gordon, and Isaac Newton were, bring forth many inventions rather than of the present) to band occasions they are even less they say, apathetic to women,
pised it: Macaulay, General that day.”
that can hardly be imagined to-
themselves together and announce apathetic. But this by the way. but they do not say the same of ers" from the classrooms: to all interfering experts that they day.
We have seen an illustra- will continue to ent what and when pernicious habits, the wicked VIII.
Exhausted, then, by these Charles II, Byron, or tion of this in the case of robot- they please, and that while the
Caesar extinguished himself on the battle-fields of Gaul. controlled aeroplanes. But it chewing of State straws may be Englishman sinks into bed.
One of Drake's 'most famous ex- seems unlikely that the day will it is not a procecting in which hausted by golf, swilled with ten. have.
very good for babes and sucklings, Snobbishly, misogynistically, ex- It may be thut history would ploits was singing the King of
been very different if Spain's beard. ever come when every motor self-respecting adult can find cause drugged by his pipe, he goes to Gladstone had shaved his side- vehicle, private, public or com-
sleep, recruiting his strength for whiskers or Balfour given up Battle of Trafalgar, and died after mercial, will be controlled by a
the ceaseless found of vice that golf; Contract Bridge was not it. self-acting robot chauffeur. In ed; it was recently stressed by
awaits him to-morrow.
known In the lifetime of the The King was not to order taxis a development | a leading traffic official at Homo
I have omitted from this Duke of Wellington, but If he without the consent of his Parlia- would be regarded by many as-namely, that on all occasions demeanours one of his habits, player he might never have won for committing suicide under the
of the day's mis had been a fanatical bridge- ment.
To-day many people are in gnol robbing motoring of much of its where there has been human perhaps the most pernicious of the battle of Waterloo; if King Influence of drink. pleasure. When science has failure of any sort, the degree of them all. He shaves himself. John had been able to smoke a Queen Elizabeth's face was thin. done all that it can do to make danger has been in direct ratio is a thing he does unfailingly would have had to sign Magna testant.
Now this is serious, because it pipe, who knows whether he and pale, but she was a stout Pro- the highways safer, there will to the speed of the moving ob- every day. He does not play Carta? still remain the necessity for the jects. Yet there are still many golf every day-indeed, I have discipline of the human mind, motorists who proclaim that known some noble souls who whether
the owner thereof speed has nothing to do with the have given it up for a week at BUT it may also well be that it chief industry in Persia, travel on wheel or on foot. And
is not upon these things a time; he may miss his bridge Obviously, it has, and when he goes to the theatre; that a nation's greatness rests. experience in Hongkong, as in until this fact is realised to the there may be rare days when he The Abyssinians, I imagine, are England, shows that that dis- full by the motoring public, so reforms
coffee not likely to take much comfort cipline cannot be inculcated in long will needless traffic fatali- instead of ten; sometimes he from the reflection that their
week or a year. It is of ties be recorded. If every sickens of his degrading puritan- country is about to be Invaded pets and sprouts.
by a pure-minded nation insistently encouraged
and temptation to indulge in high cigarettes, he may relax his bridge, has a very soft corner central factor to which atten- rond casualty list would show a to a coal-heaver; he may conquer cigars, and grows hair on its developed. But there is one speed whilst out driving, the snobbishness, and say good-day in its heart for women, smokes football match is called a rofugee. tion cannot be too often direct-steady diminution.
his apathy to women so far as face..
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