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LASZLO SCHWARTZ, famous Hungarian Caricaturist, in search of humour, discovers that-
There's Money
In Oil But-
when he met No. 1 Oilman the Hon. Mr. W. H. BELL he had to provide the humour himself.
THERE are occasions on experienced plain that each orie
these interviewing ex- cursions of mine when I lose different manner, but even that all regard and awe for the perfect, gem in logic couldn't feats of Chicago's most bribe him to disgorge even a daring hold-up men.
teeny weeny sample of a funny
I to of us shows his heroism in a
Take my visit to the Hon. yarn.
"Did you ever hear anything Mr. W. H. Bell early in the funny about oll?" asked Mr. Bell, morning when he is just instead of L.S. about to roll up his sleeves and wade into the weighty, THIS was my one and only oily and other slippery prob- interview from becoming petrifi- glorious chance to save this lems of his daily grind." ed from ultra seriousness, so I
At that most inopportune mo- risked the following story: ment, in steps "Yours truly," hoping that his conducing smile will prove sufficiently infectious
Hongkong Telegraph. and the victim about to be held
TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1936.
A PLAGUE-FREE COLONY
jup for humour will respond in a cheery spirit. Well, belleve it or not, Mr. Bell did accompany his "take a seat with a smile.
"A fellow sufferer of mine." 'Buzz' Ware, the well-known cartoonist, one time ninde a wager with a well-known oil magnato (who also couldn't see humour in oil) that within 24 hours he would convince him that besides speed and dividenda you can also extract humour from oil. The following day he delivered the following net comic enrtoons:
of
"No. 1. Rockefeller per- sundes the State of New Jersey,
mor-
咖
even more famed for ita
'motion' (and proûts) has at last quitoes than for its cows and been solved!” murder trials, to buy oll for the Mr. Bell laughed and laughed extermination of the mosquitoes, as no other oil man ever laughed
"No. 2-Millions of bloated in the history of oil, and as he dead mosquitoes in the swamps closed the door behind me I and marchies of N. J. prove how heard a long and expressive sigh. effective the war was,
That sigh has worried me ever since..
men
"No. 3.-Rockefeller's fish out all the dead mosquitoes, run through a prese, and regain the oll originally sold to tho State of NJ.
"No. 4-That identical of is sold again to the State of N,J.
"No. 5-Eureka!!! The per- plexing problem of perpetual
Being a "smile specialist" and an incurable eternal student soarching for the phonetic, dramatic and colour value of every word, I sensed immediate-· Few people who have come to ly that the invitation was only suffused with suflicient "hos- Hongkong within the past de-pitality" to last a maximum of cade can have any idea of the concern and anxiety felt by the authorities in former years lest the Colony might suffer a heavy
That broke the camel's back. MJ Cowper Powys in his book, Poets' Verdict toll in lives from annual visita-I was told that even though Mr. The Art of Happiness," writes
In this respect, however, it la in- pingue. Bell's patience, sense of humour the following significant paragraph:—
"Not in what wo possess, not instructive to note the findings of our and other virtues (he didn't
tions of bubonic
five minutes, so I dashed Mr. Bell's face on to paper Tempo Presto, at the same time I rattled off my request for a bit of oily humour.
To save my life I can't tell whether it was a sigh of relief at having got rid of me,or is It possible that it was a sigh of regret? Not necessarily regret over my departure, but over the relative absence of mosquitnes in Hongkong?
THE SECRET OF HAPPINESS
thousand. Happily, the plague NOTES OF THE DAY het in "thing" rather happiness, of old age.
Yot moat
This be the verse you grave for
me: Hero he Bes where he longed
to be,
Homo is the sailor, home from
the sea,
"I strove with none, for none was
forth my strife,
Nature I loved, and next to
Nature Art;
I warmed both hands before the
fire of He;
It sinks and I am ready to
depart.""
Reference is made to the subject specify all) have been well tested what we achieve, not in the opinion great poots. Most of them plumbed the
And the hunter hame from the
bili in a special article
imperfections of their age.
Walter Savage Landor is just an elsewhere in this issue, which Hongkong, this was the "non- below or above the sun is the secret struggles, all were conscious of the
plus ultra.
of happiness to be found. It is only
of them found Life's short span words could we desire to read re inspiring. What more challenging shows that during the worst
This was the most overwhelm to be found in ourselves."
goodly, thing time in which to garding Life's span than those he outbreak of this dread disease, | ing exhibition of "nerve" he had With this most sensiblo people discover the secret of living. Most wrote on his seventy-fifth birthday!——— in 1894, the death-roll in
would find themselves in entire agree-of them closed their years with a ment How many there are, however, note of. "something attempted, some- Hongkong totalled over five
who live with the theory that. hap-thing done," and in that lay the
than in states of being.
Sir Walter Scott discovered, for has been swept from the Colony,
We progress. In Victoria, Bri- Anatole Franco worshipped Beauty instance, that "one crowded hour of the last cases reported occurring tish Columbia, they have just and expressed the wish that after his glorious life is worth an age without How little he feared that departure us far back as 1929, when two achieved a bit of social reform death a beautiful woman would close a name." Browning had the faith is expressed in other lines he wrote:
"Death stands above me, whispering were notified. There can be no which might be adopted to advan his eyes. If this could happen, he which could "greet the unseen with
low declared, he would die happy. Yetja cheer." Tennyson was unafraid to questioning the point that the age everywhere. Victoria is the confessed at the end of life that he cross the bar because he was con-
I know not what into my car; preventive measures.carried out small proportion are without ent
city of some 50,000 people; and a had never known a day's happiness, vinced, after a life of napiring, ho
Of this strange language all I
know year by year by the health and ployment, and a little larger pro-sight the closing of another chapter at the last.
With the end of another year in would not be stranded without a pilot is, there is not a word "of "fear.”
"I'll Make My loy” sanitary authorities are in large portion cannot afford to pay for in Life's short story will bring with Leaving aside a minority of gicomy measure responsible for this medical treatment either for them-it time-honoured greetings regarding pocts, some of them left cynical and It is this optimistic attitude to selves or their dependants. In the the future. In what is supposed to soured because of too deep draughts wards the unknown after a life well happy immunity from a disease past the doctors of the city have be an age of pessimism it is doubted of sensual pleasure in early life, it, that gives posterity a of which which used to recur with dread written off thousands of dollars of for happy New Year can ring the side of the angels of optimism again in some of our modern poets.
in some quarters whether the wish may be said our great bands aro on af hope. This is the stuff of which poetry is made. It is heard Happiness, it is stated in the matter of the significance of monotony every dry season. It "bad debta" from among this class sincerely,
The objection is often made that twentieth-century bards have not the like these. Some go bạ far as to is not claimed, of course, that of patient; and, more serious still, dogmatically, is not possiblo in days Life's little day.
men and women and children have nasert that nobody has the tight
simplicity, rhythm, message of the this is the sole explanation of suffered severely because they happiness; to be completely at peace lines of the great sufferer, Stoven- old and tried favourites. They le
light in meaningless language, fan- the disappearance of plague, dared not incur the expense of in a world where there is suffering is now?
Lastic ideas and forma, Jumbled non- not the highest good but the utmost Now all that is selfishness.
tonces, revolting images. since in latter years there has medical attention.
changed. The Medical Society has also been comparative immunity come to an arrangement with the throughout South China general-City Council for the treatment of
to
What are more inspiring than the
"Glad did I live and gladly dia
And I laid me down with a will.
ly. None the less, the steady, all cases of men on the "relief" list, SIDE GLANCES By
flat consistent work by the local and their dependants, at a
monthly rate of $850 (Canadian authorities must have a cumula-currency) per month. Moreover, tive and beneficial effect, to the druggists are getting together which the public generally gives to supply medicines and other little thought. Routine work essentials to those who cannot such as periodical house-cleans-afford to pay, on the same sort of basis. When the suggestion, was ing and limewashing undoubted-put before the City Council, it mot ly ensures a. measure of with immediate acceptance. Why cleanliness amongst the poorer didn't someone think of it before? Someone did, quite two thousand classes which contributes to the
years ago...
The Greeks had 'n word! yd. lessening of risks from infectio
ous diseases. In the preventive work in respect of plague, much value is, rightly attached to possible measure may be taken keeping a continuous check of against a recurrence of the dis- the rat population, since the dis-case. The destruction of lath- ease is mostly communicated to and-pluster walls and ceiling man by the rat fica. Thus we some years ago, and the making find that last year no fewer than of such structures illegal, has two hundred thousand rats were also been a factor in keeping yd. caught, all being examined for rats from offices and domestic
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George Clark readers. And the ancients were unce
"And men still fall in love with women !*
There may be much truth in this, but it must be pointed out that the fault does not lie always with the, poot. Great writing demands great
dangerous moderns trying their pens with some perplexing new style.
Many of them write clearly and· simply on the matter of Life's short spent,
There is music In the work of Mr.. W. H. Davies:
What Is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and
starc.
No time to see in broad daylight Streams full of stars, like skies
at night,
No time to turn at Beauty's glance And watch her feet how they
can dance.
In this short life the poet finda time for many things. Noting a
Writes
butterfly reating on a rock he
Now let my bed be hard
No caro take 1;
I'll make my loy like this
Small butterfly:
Whose happy heart has power.
To make a stone a flower.
Sweet Life
And Norman Gale will have none
of our modern pessimism.
"Here in the country's heart
Where the grass, is green, Life is the same sweet life
As it o'er hath been.”
This, surely, is the philosophy for the last week of the year. Or if it is | desired to extress it in another forin
take the words of Lesile Coulson:---
"Our little hour-how soon it dies;
How short a tinie to our beads, To chant our feeble Litanies,
To think sweet thoughts, to do
good deeds.
The altar lights grow pale and dim. The bell hang allont in the
tower-..
So passes with the dying hymn.....
Our little hour."
Arthur T. Rich.