THE HONGKong TelegraPH, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1936.
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Played by: London Symphony Orchestra
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Played by:-Stokowsky Philadelphia Orchestra. WATER MUSIC (Handell
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 2, 1936.
NEW LINK WITH EUROPE Yesterday was a red-letter day in the history of Chinese rail- It marked the ways.
com-
mencement of a passenger ser- Canton Lo vice by rail from Hankow. Actually, the official inauguration of the service does
LEAVE the
CHILD
ALONE
says J. W. Marriott
derful time, but I'm jolly glad to Ilved this life since childhood, and
UR neighbours, the Mac- Collinsons, have just been away for. their annual fortnight at Cheung Chau. They went away as "pale faces" and returned looking like Red Indians. They needed that fortnight on the ments listed above, bave money in intellectual and aesthetic pleasures. island; they deserved it, too; but plenty with which to indulge in their MacCollinson's first remark when They have been brought up on the they reached home was, "Well, classics; they have fine libraries, cul- that's that We've had a won- tured tastes.
We, we are of the class who have
be back."
know not the Infinite boredom of a The MacCollinsons did what workman's attempt fill in time, are dozens of other Hongkong parents lucky.
At home, the ordinary workman are doing during the summer monthis: bathed an Cheung Chau's can do none of the things that we in fine benches (the best in
Ilangkong do. So he goes in nor- mous crowds to watch football, box- Colony and sadly neglected) in the int, dog-racing, dirt-truck racing and mornings, at about reading de- the nims. This, however, is no real
the
tective stories, played with the solution of the problem of leisure. children in the sands, listened to. ZBW at night, thoroughly explored the island.....
But after two or three days "Father" began to grow restless and itched to get back to his daily work, and "Mother decided that there's no place like homic.
The children alone were genu- inely sorry when it was time to re- pack,
We civilised people are very qucer. We work hard for Afty weeks, doing the same things, meeting the same people, com- plaining about the monotony: but when we have a couple of weeks of real freedom we hardly know what to do with them.
The hours drag tediously; a week seems interminable; if the holiday lasted much longer we
should go mad.
Should we go mad? Or should we grow sane? The inability of British people to do nothing is a sort of disease-the fever that fol- lows the bite of the tarantula. And now that everybody is talking about the increasing margin of Jeisure created by mechanisation wo are secretly rather alarmed.
This new leisure, fortunately, does
回
回
It enables men to fill vacant time with passive amusement, but men and women who have been accus- tomed to regular work cannot ad- Just their minds to doing nothing.
or to doing trivial things. One is reminded of the slave-keeping ants described by Lord Avebury.
The "masters" were washed, fed, carried about, and waited upon "hand and foot" by the little black slaves, so that when the masters" were placed in a box and surrounded with their fa
creatures vourite foodstuffs the died of starvation.
They had lost the power even to feed themselves..
It seems that the masses of mankind have lost the power to life for themselves. enjoy Machines work for them; machines amuse them; but they have no re- sources of their own and freedom which should be the greatest boon 1 often the greatest curse.
Something will have to be done about it. Mr. T. S. Ellot Jeers at the idea of educating peopic for leisure, but our word "school" is the Greek word for leisure, and we look to the educationists to come to the rescue.
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is Tuesdays and Fridays. It thus now possible to step on to a train at Kowloon, and, but for transfers, to travel without a break to Europe. The facilities will be even better still when the Kow- looo-Canton and. Canton-Hankowi systems are linked by a loop-not affect Hongkong as it will the recently held a conference of 400 line. Bookings can, even now, be made from Hongkong, right through to any part of Europe, as is explained in an article elsewhere in this issue to-day. The building of the Canton Hankow line has been a huge undertaking. It
(Album: 240)
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Lawrence Tibbett & Stokowsky Philadelphia Orchestra. SCHUBERT SONGS RECORDED BY: ELENA GERHARDT
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Elizabeth Arden
Beauty Preparations
travcrses
distance of some six or seven hundred miles over difficult country. It was as far back as 1898 that the first concession for construction of the line was granted to an American concern,
propte at Home.
You can put the majority of us down as being of the leisured class, so that, in the century that we have inhabited this Colony, we have solved in our own way the problem of kill- ing time,
We have our regular programme
for the year: the Races, St. Andrew's Ball, Fanling, matsheds in the sum- mer, the Grips in the winter, parties," banquets and, after every four or five years, a trip Home.
The aristocrats among us who are not attracted by the mundane amuse-
NOTES OF THE DAY
this being subsequently abandon- British shipyards and allied in- ed. Since that time, there have|dustries are now in a flourishing been all manner of changes in condition. According to Lloyds the plans for laying down the Register for the quarter which line, with civil war and political ended in June, 843,732 tons of new under factors playing a large part in merchant shipping were
construction in. British yarda. the delay which for so long held That is fifty per cent, more than up completion of the project,
a year ago, and the highest figure The biggest factor in expediting recorded since December, 1930. the work and in bringing the It exceeds the aggregate tonnage }}}- now building in the four leading scheme to fruition has
and countries abroad.. At the present Banish those frown lines and doubtedly been the money
material made available for the time British yards are building Sun-wrinkles from around your purpose from the British Boxer Indemnity Fund. Of the future
eyes with
ANTIWRINKLE CREAM:
13.5 ver cent. of all mercantile shipping throughout the world, In addition. £10,000,000 is to be
continued now,
by an afternoon tratment of this great trunk line there can spent by the Cunard-White Star he little doubt. Its operation Line in the next few years in the ELIZABETH ARDEN'S will in the years to come mean construction of eight liners of much for China as a whole and from 14,000 to 30.000 tons. The for Central and South China in Government's intention to lose no. particular, with benefits also time in strengthening the Navy work for accruing to this Colony's trade will provide further
British shipbuilders. In the hope MUSCLE OIL will nourish the and shipping. As a Hongkong of achieving some measure of dis-
speaker recently expressed it,
armament there were skin around the eyes and under the railway will net as a great delays in reconstruction;
stimulus to trade along all areas having failed to bring about a set- the chin.
smooth covered by it. There was a time tied peace policy throughout the leaving a
when it seemed that short-world, the country is faced with texture. These are obtainable sighted views would prevail in the problem of building what Canton, to the extent of de- virtually amounts to n now Fleet. priving the line of a direct link-By the end of the year every ship- up with the Canton-Kowloon Fard, which can undertake naval work will be building warships. .18 system. Happily, there and all the chief engineering firms making parts. evidence that this obstructive will be busy spirit has now disappeared, and, Plant which has lain idle once the short loop-line is built, years will be restarted. In Shef
for more than 300 guns and 80,- brought into even closer com-000 tons of amour plate. Onco mercial relationships one with again, a vital British Industry Is the other.
coming into Ita own..
at the
LADIES' SALON
for
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. ton and Hongkong will be held sione, ordern will be placed
The New Education Fellowship
experts to discuss the challenge of felsure and many Interesting sug- gestions were offered.
Rightly or wrongly the school- master generally aims at prepar- ing children for the life awaiting them outside the school walls, and
the conditions of life change it is surely reasonable to modify the education in order to meet them? To begin with, there should be a
(A Koink Gnapad. S
This little fellow is amusing himself, and the less interference the better,!!
revival of the arts and crafts- spinning. weaving. woodwork, metal-work, pottery, modelling, painting, carving, coulpture, em- broldery, and many more.
people Many
enjoy these "hobbies" in which they can ex- their own ideus in the press medium which demands manual skill and affords deep satisfac tlon.
There should be more oppor- tunities for intellectual pursuits: the study of history, science, foreign languages, sociology, the discussion of philosophy, the read- ing of great literature.
The lectures and tutorial classes arranged by the W. E. A. and other organizations will be welcomed by certain men and women, though the appeal is limited to a small minority.
There should be sotia! oppor- tunities of many kinds including clubs, camps, dramatic societies, choral societies, rambling parties, camera clubs, physical excrcises; sports, dances, sketching classes, etc.
If the killing of time is the primary concern, young people can be roped into clubs where they play ping-pong,' tiddlywinks. dominoes, cards, and draughts; but the educationists are out for something more than distraction.
ROUNDABOUT
by The Showman
WITH all that glorious civilised A Bit About Beards
efficiency that characterises
a poison gas attack on harbarous natives, Mussolini has provided against any more arrests of Fascist journalists who make their natural noises at the Emperor Halle Sclassic,
A supply of apes is being sent to Geneva for the September convention, and, as each hooting, whistling, screaming journalist is ejected, an ape' will be sub- stituted. No one will notice the
The following letter, Inspired by the permission given to Yeomen of the Guard to shave off their beards If they
wish, has been sent to me from ac
unusual source.
"If these Yeomen slave of their beards, they are sixties," it ruins. "I don't know what I'd do without mine, though the mice seem to like it to nest in. It's a decoration, poil might say, and it's useful for dusting top shelves with: all you have to do la rest your chin on the shelf and wapole your lead. Of course, when I go to market, .I wrap it up in a dial-cloth, and they think I'm wear
ing one of the fashionable high collars. Yours truly,
The Bearded Woman of Woppe
on-the-Wold."
WAGS' CORNER
Aren't
difference. Therefore, if High
"I came to see your fatlier and Fascist Policy demand more mollier," said the visitor to the small
boy who opened the door. noises, a genuine Fascist can
they in7"
"They rods in," said the child, "but join the apes.
they is out."
visitor, "Dear, dear!" said the
is' Where's
TC-
Nodico-you And Badoglio member the Sunday.newspaper's in- spired phrase?-as I told him thesee things.
Limes or Limehouse?
APPEAL to any wags with a know- ledge of the gra to settle a question.
****They
was". They your trammar?"
"She's.gone upstairs," said the child, *for a lay down,"
William arrived on furiough and was
One man says that lime-juice, as issued met at the station by his sweetheart, 10 old-time sallors to ward off scurvy, Mary. They visited a sweet shop, and is the origin of "Limey," the American were passing by a jeweller'a whani Mary - : nickname for an Englishman, While said, "What about a ring?"
I think that "Limey" originates from
"Oi doan't moind," said Willlam; Limehousa a traditional haunt of the and they went in to make a choice. mercantile marine,
Nar then, wot abaħl it?
Wot abalit wol?
Wataba wot that bloke' says. abaht Limes.
Eighteen
"That's a nice, ono," said Mary. "Yes," said the Jeweller. caratel!!
Noa as balnil" sald William. in- dignantly. "Us be allen pepperminta.“
There are so many interesting and valuable things to do that no one should ever be bored,
Why should any period of life be a maddening blank? We can work; we can rest; we can play; we can think; but if we are feverishly searching for something to save us from running amok there is some- thing radically wrong with the education we are receiving in our carly years.
We are all apt to regard children as half-inished adults, to think of childhood as a sort of tadpole stage of maturity.
Indeed, we often think of the child as the raw material from which we can manufacture an en- gineer, a bank clerk, a typist, a secretary, a good citizen, a good patriot, or a good internationalist. That is all wrong. Childhood, youth, manhood, nnd old age are like the different movements in a symphony or the different stanzas In a poem. Each is perfect in it- self, yet forms an integral part of the whole.
Children should be educated primarily for childhood, and if this is rightly done there will be no dimculties in later years. They will solve each problem as it appears.
The young child has unlimited leisure, but unless he has been spoilt by adults) he enjoys it all to the full. Many parents can- not adjust themselves to a new sort of existence, and long to get back into the old harness, but children howl when they have to return home again.
The whole point les here: chil- dren have their own internal re- sources · and can make their own interests..
Adults have largely lost the faculty and look pathetically around for something to amuse. them. The education of former years destroyed initiative and pe-
sourcefulness.
In the schools of to-day chil- dren are not forced to do dull things which are "good for them." They are given the chance to make their own decisions, to solve their own problems, to choose for themselves and to deve- lop along thefr own lines.
O
D
The less interference by adults the better for the children. There will be no problem of leisure if we leave them alone,
If the now leisure is to be super- vised by earnest people with no sense of humour they will not s all doing barbola work and coun- try dancing. Heaven help-us then, for there will be no other.
All this is terrible heresy, of course, but it is as well to make it emphatic.
Drill the children with special lessons about the right use of lel- sure and the leisure will become the worst bugbear of modern- civilisation.
Leave the children to their own devices as much as possible and they will have a great time, when they grow up.
-To-day's Thought
HE who can, does, he who
can't, teaches.
—BERNARD'SHAW.