THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1986.
DEWARS
"WHITE LABEL
THE SPIRIT
ΟΙ INSPIRATION
SOLE AGENTS:
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
ESTD. 1841.
NEW REX RECORDS
8731
8591
which will interest you
OLD SHIP O' MINE (Arden) SONG OF THE LIFT (Evans)
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band Primo Scala's Accordeon Band Troise & His Mandoliers
Troise & His Mandoliers
Casani Club Orchestra Casani Club Orchestra
SORRENTO BY THE SEA.... SPANISH GYPSY DANCE (Marquina) 8730 WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER-Fox Trot
MOON FOR SALE-Fox Trot.... LOVE IS A DANCING THING-Fox Trot MOON OVER MIAMI-Fox Trot
8729
8721
Casani Club Orchestra Casani Club Orchestra
SOME OTHE TIME-Waltz .....Jack Payne & His Band RHYTHM IN MY NURSERY RHYMES-Fox Trot
8709 SYMPATHY-Waltz .....
Jack Payne & His Band
Casani Club Orchestra
་་ OLD SHIP O' MINE-Fox Trot ....Casani Club Orchestra 8722 SHE SHALL HAVE MUSIC—Fox Trot
Jay Wilbur & His Band WHY DID SHE FALL FOR THE LEADER OF THE BAND?-
Jay Wilbur & His Band Fox Trof EENY MEENY MINEY MO-Fox Trot
Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra I FEEL LIKE A FEATHER IN THE BREEZE-Fox Trot-
Johnny Johnson & His Orchestra" WALTZES ROUND THE WORLD
8723
8724
8725
8726
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band MUSIC HATH CHARMS Film Selection
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band THANKS A MILLION-Film Selection
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band CHARLIE KUNZ PIANO MEDLEY NO. R-13
Charlie Kunz
S. MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd.
York Building.
GOING ON
LEAVE
13
Chater Road.
Then visit our Trunk & Bag Department
for
finest values in travelling requisites.
TRUNK & BAC DEPARTMENT
Tel. 28151
LANE, CRAWFORD, Ltd.
LTD.
You'll save expense
with a
"STUDEBAKER"
TUDEBAKER trucks cost very
STUDEB
little more than the lowest
priced units on the market, but they give you far better perform- anco, far more stamina, much lower operating costs.
And the handsome, distinctivo streamlined appearance of tho new Studebaker truck makes it stand out from tho crowd. With its sleek, busi- ness-like lines and powerful,; dependable engine, it is a truck you will be proud to own, a truck which inspires a feeling of pres. tige that suggests a price much higher than its actual cost.
We will furnish particulara and terms on application.
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
Tel. 27778/9.
Stubbs Rd.
the
MAN'S "DANGEROUS" FORTIES
By
William J. Makin,
The Novelist and Traveller
BEWARE when you
reach the forties.
Never Returned
The age when
he wants to slam the
door...
I'd
"Maybe it was because reached the for- ties," he burst forth. "I only. know that I
was sick to death of the whole routine of
You may enter the Legion of I GAVE him a shrewd glance. life in the city. I Behind the dust of the hand to do some- the Lost or you may begin to desert 1 could see a heavy face thing...I came live..
and a mouth with bad teeth. out here to do He must have been forty-five at this."
The dangerous
Sometimes they may least. even be the roaring forties. He nodded, as though guess. forties. Men be- The dust-begrimed figure of ing the implication of my glance. have queerly at that age. How whom I met straddling a man becoming a pioneer after that American horse on the edge of that forty?" he grinned. "But it so writer who wilderness known as the happens that some three years penned a best- Kalahari Desert was certain- ago I slammed the front door of seller tille to his ly roaring commands lustily. y suburban house outside Lon- book: "Life Be-
don and never went back. I
gins at Forty." Later, I sat by his camp fire caught the usual 9.10′ to town,"
but only to go on to the docks Actually, most men at forty lounges all over Europe, pigeons Hongkong Telegraph. and we began to talk.
and step aboard a ship bound are shocked into the knowledge to be plucked by any confidence "Queer to hear you speak of for South Africa."
that life is beginning to end. trickster or gaudily dressed THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936. London, ita streets, its theatres,
I did not break the short Forty is the half-way mark. The woman speaking broken English. and all the rest of it," he mused. silence that followed. He need- forties have crept upon them And how pathetically pleased WHAT NOW? "Sounds like a dream city of my el no encouragement to go on with no sign except a certain they are If you venture a' con-
imagination. Yet I lived there with his story.
bulge at the wnist-line. And the versation with them or help The Powers in general, and all my life—until three years
"Yes, slammed the front poor devils faced with this them in a language they do not League of Nations members infago."
door," he continued, even awful realisation decide that understand. Their subsequent particular, are confronted with a
though a very patient and most
sad confidences over whiskies knotty problem consequent on
domesticated wife was behind it, they have not yet really lived.
The man of forty makes a and sodas would provide a writer with enough seeing me again that evening at desperate, plunge into life. He realist seven o'clock. And two grown- feels he has been hesitating on material to relegate Tchekov to
the ranks of gay humorists,
the English cattle trekker "I suppose it's strange to find shrewd was
the indications that Italy intends NOTES OF THE DAY confident that she would be
own
of
up children-daughters. I had
I was in
"Is that all?" I asked, disap- paintedly,
"That's all," he nodded." "No other woman?” -"Not a
chit." "Not even a blazing row with
"She gave me the usual kiss as left the house."
"Then, in
heaven's
kind.
These are the failures at forty, howover. Successful in busi- ness, they make a miserable pre- tence at living. They cling to the cash and let the adventure
.go..
For the most part, the real
21
the same way there are men in Yard can tell you about them, the forties who enter upon the for they have a list supplied gay life and flog themselves into even to the smallest detail by a host of deserted wives. And for a conviction that they are enjoy
the most part you will observe ing it...
-hat-the-Legion of the Lost are
in the forties,
Poor Lonely Souls
THE American man of forty
Wise is the wife who can
also gives way to his sense recognise the symptoms of forty- of adventure. He decides upon in her husband. Too often it is name, the long-delayed grand tour of the other and younger woman.
to claim Ethiopia as her territory, by right of conquest. INTO CHARYBOIS Militarily, as was to be expected, ;
Homer in his epic, speaks of good job in the West End, the brink too long. Italy has triumphed, but the
and (He mentioned the name of a Seylla, six-headed monster,
He may try desperately to be battle of diplomacy has still to Charybdis, who sucked the sea and world-famous store.)
gay. He discovers that night be fought. When the League of all upon it into a bottomless maw, charge of the furniture section- clubs were built specially for his Nations Council meets on Mon- and the perils which beset seafar-third floor by the lift.""
ing men who tried to navigate be- day, it will find itself in a sorry-ween these close-set horrors. The He chuckled, reminiscently.
Give the poor devil his due. [predicament, brought down to a simile has been used a good many
"When I slammed that front He wants to live, and live ex- sense of realities by the collapse hundreds of times by imaginative.
original commentators, door, and walked out of my Lon- of the Ethiopian armies, the but not flight of the Negus and these the days when Homer sang: don life, I was able to leave them citingly. And yet what is placed
I daresay before him is equivalent to the venturers of forty are and even the poets have borrowed a comfortable sum. Italian occupation of the capital. the classic's words for metaphor. they're managing all right." ham and eggs breakfast offered Legion of the Lost. Yet, in the many rasca, they are only just tu a condemned man on In some quarters, there is still a That makes the comparison no less
finding themselves. Men dia- The Usual Kiss applicable in the case of French
his hanging. I feeling that sanctions, particu-diplomacy during the past seven
morning of larly of a Snancial character, months. however. French diplo- AND he sucked, noisily at his know there are some criminals appear by the hundred from London every year. Scotland pipe.
who eat a hearty breakfast. In should still be imposed on thejmats have steered the dangerous declared aggressor. Those who course Homer's heroes knew, So far they have escaped disaster. hold this view assert that it is They had on the one haug Scylla, one thing for Italy to occupy should they steer too close to the Ethiopia and quite another totalinn shore; and if they altered their direction to escape the com-I set it up on its-feet-as-a-new-plications proximity-with-Italy Colony, involving tremendous might bring, they were in danger of expenditure which the occupying being drawn into the vortex of
Charybdis, which, in this instance, the wife?" nation would not be able to meet will represent the League, if financial credits from other Nations. Up to now they have passuge nearer nations were not forthcoming. preferred the There is this much to be said for Scylla's lair; but the developments
In international polities and inter-1 this viewpoint-that it would be nal government may change all that, why?" I protested. · ·
"Oh, I dunno," game that in Europe, and, maybe, he deter- who recognises the symptoms the height of irony were nations it is generally conceded that the which have unanimously con- Leftist majority in the next Cham-evitable phrase which so many mines to make the journey alone. and makes plans for her Good
ber will put a hard word to Rome! demned Italian aggression now with respect to the Ethiopia under men use as an explanation of How many of them have I seen, Time, But I have known wives to kick side the ashes of the to facilitate consolidation of taking. And that will mean veer- the inexplicable in themselves, poor lonely souls, sitting in who have helped their husbands the seized territory into aning towards Charybdis; and there
domestic hearth, and gone forth is danger there. suggestion that the United
guided France through her recent States, and possibly other na-anxious days of crisis, frightened tions as well, will adhere to the of losing the support of the Right Stimson doctrine of non-recogni-and of antagonising the Left, or vice versa, we like Le Journale! tion of territorial conquests, but descriptive passage, that "they have the point has to be faced that run through a wood of thorns and although the Powers have not brambles, with their hands tied be
hind them." But it took an agile) recognised the virtual seizure of mind to think up that one; or else Manchuria by Japan, the fact it had never heard of Scylla and remains that that territory has Charybdis. been torn from China; and the world is now confronted with its application is how more somewhat similar position in strongly reinforced than ever us Ethiopia. Non recognition, a result of the latest develop therefore, would not of itselfments. Mr. Anthony Eden a few weeks ago declared that "If affect the fait accompli. The the League is now so shaken that outstanding fact, of course, is its future utility is placed in! that the League of Nations has doubt, we should have to con- been, in the case of Ethiopia, assider the policy which it would in that of Manchukuo, utterly be our duty to pursue." At the time, this was interpreted as unable to stop the aggressor.
foreshadowing the possibility of There emerges from this cir-
action British
the outside cumstance the question of the Lengue. Now, the reconsidera- future foreign policy of Britain tion of policy necessitated takes and all the rest of the League on a now aspect. We shall, members. So far as Britain is however, have to await the concerned, a Labour, meniber Government's declaration aris- ing from the new situation. suggested in the House of Com-But if nothing more can be done mons recently, that unless im-to secure justice for the Ethio- mediate and effective sanctions plans, there will be a large body were imposed to check Italian of opinion inclining to the view aggression, Great Britain should that the League of Nations has leave the League and claim com-come to the end of its tether, and that Britain should frame
Italian possession. There is a As for the statesmen who have SIDE GLANCES By George Clark with them and never
plete liberty of action in foreign her own policies according to policy. That is a view which what she considers to be re- found fairly wide support, and quisite to the situation.
"Oh, the boss's wife has been made secretary of another club because it's no trouble for me to handle all the corre-
spondence."
even
shuddered when the front door was slammed. Such women are . rare. Wives are realists, and ́ adventure for husbands of forty seema nonsensical to them.
Yet, in the wilds of Zululand, I have met more than one couple who kicked security sky-high and adventured forth in middle- age to sell cheap blankets to. natives. Even in the heart of Essex you will find a middle- aged. couple who left their suburban villa for a fortnight's holiday by car and never return- ed. Twenty-four hours after leaving London they ended with a burst tyre in an Essex field. They camped there. They stay- ed there. They erected a bunga- low there. And London and the suburb saw them no more. They are happy at beginning all over again. To them, life has really begun at forty,
Enough. There is a danger that many doors will be siam- ming within the next few days. Then, maybe, I shall have to .to adventure, forth myself. escape the wrath of, deserted wives.
For I, too, am in my forties.