THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936.
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Message of Xmas:
Christians Awako,
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Songs of Good Cheer
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Agnus Dei
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Christmas Overture (Coloridge-Taylor)
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Ballad Memories (With Vocal Refrain)
Peter Dawson's Christmas Party.. Peter Dawson & Party. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
Jesus Christ is risen to-day
Christ the Lord is risen to-day
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O du frohliche
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Nazareth and The Rosary
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HERE are few things that give
us greater plea- sure in children than imita- tion. Children will even imitate a funeral service as
a game.
And their pleasure in imi- tation is shown not only in their invented games but in their
FULL-CIRCLE passion for toys, most of which
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Much as little girls may enjoy the company of other little girls, they find the world 'mude stili loveller by the presence of those imitation little girls (from the age of babyhood up) eniled
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And their delight is in- crewed if the doll can still further imitate a human infant by closing ita blue eyes when put to bed and by squeaking.... MACKINLAY-JEFFRIES-On De-"Mamal" when pinched at the
cember 18, 1930, at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, by the Rev. J.Waist, R. Higgs, assisted by the Rev.
What a waste place the world
11. W. Haines, Sheilah Mary, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W would seem if the dolls were
Jeffries, of the Royal Observa-
Andrew, second son of Dr. W. Hpopulated! Mackinlay and the late Mrs. Mackinlay, of The Green House, Redear, Yorkshire.
The
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How
By ROBERT LYND
grow up to write one of the most militarist English books written during the war, "Ordeal by Battle." I, on the other hand, played witte toy soldiers' to my heart's content, and yet grow up as pacific as a pet lamb. So you never know how things will turn out.
At the same time, if there are to be toy soldiers, I should prefer them to belong to the pre- Great-War era, when soldiers were ne brightly-coloured butterflies and were one of the
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most entrancing decorations of a world at peace,
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deadliest instruments of modern warare being produced as nursery toys. It is sold that children can now play with a submarine in Its' bath, and may find itself presented by its grandmother with a clock- work acroplane that can be sus- pended from the celling and will drop bombs in the course of its circular flight.
This Christmas you will see some stores offering a toy tank with a machine-gun that fires as the tank proceeds. I bought one myself, and there seemed to be a much readior sale for them than for the mechanical babies that crawled on all fours or the mechanical elephants that the
vatory, Hongkong, to William banished from it! How de little family can be taken out cutting as to see a mare with a companion. of his little ark and can be set now foal, and the variety of the marching at the head of all motor-cars on the road delights his little animals. In such a them no less than the variety of Was there ever architecture, diminutive world a substantial the poultry in a farmyard. from the time of the Parthenon human child becomes monarch The fact is that to the child waved. their trunks or down to the Regency, that gave of all it surveys. It becomes all these things seem a natural mechanical dogs that stood on master of the very wild beasts part of the world in which it their hind legs and wagged their more pleasure to human eyes which at this size and in this lives. than the multitude of dolls' guise are its mere playthings. houses that time has brought to ruin in so many nurseries? Was there ever a banquet in West End hotel more delicious
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I HAVE heard that in
Aeroplanes and motor- tails. coaches do not apoll the world for the modern child. To the child, indeed, the world with-
some countries there out them would be unthinkable. AND so you will see There has been some con- Bre now even toy battlefields the Christmas shops troversy in recent years as to with toy dead soldiers and toy to the imagination than the crowded with tiny imitations not whether it is right to reduce not shell-boles to amuso the courses that have been served only of the works of nature but only the world of ordinary children; and in time we may on dolls' dinner-sets with so of the works of man. The toy machinery but the world of war even have toy air-raids showing world contains not only the little to the dimensions of a child's the toy victims of the toy grave an imitation of reality?
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I confess that I prefer the
horse and bear and rabbit and plaything. Even in the past bomba. girl but the little motor-car and there were families that ex- railway train with a railway line cluded lead soldiers from the
home.
old fashioned toy horse-and-cart
or the old-fashioned goat that bleated when it was wound up. Not that I Imagine that the
But what an
It is not generally known that .Offers. .Offers. the law recenlly passed in Eng- Richard Crooks. land probibiting the wearing of Richard Crooks. political uniforms in public has Richard Crooks.its counterpart in Sweden, Nor- Richard Crooks. way, Denmark, Finland and . Richard Crooks.
Switzerland, where it has been deemed prudent to take similar
I may be that toys have and, stations,
become too elaborate People who dislike the I doubt whether playing with action for the purpose of putin modern times and that a mechanical age deplore this lend soldiers ever turned into a ting a stop to what threatened normal little girl would be quite intrusion of machinery into the militarist a boy who would not toy tank will do any child the S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. causing aggravation of political Sally as with a more life-like chilever, love is Children will us in his reminiscences that as have who thought of a tank as
to become a serious auisance, as happy with a stuffed Aunt nursery. It is only the adults, have been a militarist in any slightest harm.
who dislike machinery, case, The late F. S. Oliver told odd imagination the man must
feeling to the possible point of fair-haired figure with all its walk as far to see a railway- a child he was not allowed to the perfect thing to put into a grave disturbances. When the additaments of dolls' ten-sets, engine pufling its way through a play with toy soldiers. Yet he child's Christmas stocking! Bill was introduced in the British dolls' chairs, dolls' tables, dolls' House of Commons. Sir John mirrors, and even-I saw one"in.
week-- Simon bluntly referred to tho a shop-window this
dolls trousseaux. coming into being of groups, however.. It seems to me that I doubt this, often trained, carrying weapons the child enjoys imitations of and wearing uniforms, whose
everything that can be imitated. members by their overbearing
The pleasure given by toys, and insulting behaviour and
however, is a pleasure caused their organised rowdiness were not only by imitation, but by threatening other members of littleness. Most of 15 re- the public. It is this evil which member how in our infancy we the new law seeks to combat. enjoyed seeing things through The main idea of the Act is to the wrong end of a telescope or prohibit the organisation and a pair of field-glasses. For the equipment of bodies for the pur-moment we were Gullivers spy- pose of enabling them to be em-ing upon the world of Lilliput.
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Miguel de Cervantes, author of
alave in Mohammedan Alperts.
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Things You Didn't
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British Post Office delivers over 100 million parcels a year.
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Gallery is Tillan's Cornaro Group: Costllest picture in the Nationel bought for £122,000 in 1929.
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The little bow of ribbon at the back inside men's hats are relies of the draw-strings used in old times to make the hat flt.
If you pour boiled water from one Pins were first machine made in cup to another a few times it will
not taste "fat," England in 1024.
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The fabric alpaca is from the long, soft, allky wool of the alpaca, mammal, closely related to the llama and found in the Peru Andes.
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Ostrich feathers are worth over £40 a lb.
Between April and September one female housefly might have 6,598,720,000,000 descendants if all her female offspring lived And started laying eggs in their turn.
* Woodlanda of Great Britain are less than 4 per cent, of the total area...
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The gold coinage of England was a mixture of 22 parts gold, 2 parts copper.
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Sailors' "prop" was named after the breeches of Admiral Vernon who introduced the drink in 1745.
made of rough
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Largest meteorite known to have fallen on the earth fell in town, 1879:1 weighed 437 lb.
or mischievous goblins grogram. of old German folk-tales becauso. It was an element that greatly bothered early metal workers,
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Colosseum, held 90,000 people.
Flavian amphitheatre at. Rome the
made so as to allow the wearing widely prevalent that the police in public service vehicles in London. of political uniforms in cases had no right to enter a public where the risk of public disorder meeting. unless they were in
Aerated bread is charged with carbonic-nold gas insiend of fer- mented with yeast. would not arise, such as at cere-vited. That was actually never monial occasions to celebrate an- the case, for a policeman, even niversaries. But in these in-in uniform, is a citizen and has stances permission has to be the same rights as all other obtained from the police, with citizens. It is provided in the the approval of the Home Secre- new law. that if a policeman asks tary. A point of importance is ple who are guilty of persistent the names and addresses of peo- that there is to be no banning interruption, with a view to of political processions under the smashing up a meeting, re- new law, as it is conceded that fusal to comply with the request demonstration by way of pro- becomes an offence. All in all, cession is a very old and well- the now Act deals fairly and in established method of exploiting a sensible manner with matters a point of view. It is now de- which needed attention, and its finitely laid down, however, that enforcement should have a con- the police have power to control sidorable effect in preventing the routes which processions public disturbances which have take. There is another. aspect been all too common in recent of the question which is worthy times, whilst at the same time of note; it relates to public meet-preserving freedom of speech to ings. There used to be an idea the people.
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America, there were, no horses there. Before the Spaniards landed in
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Hide of a hippopotamus is 14 inches thick.
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Longest and oldest canal in the world Is the Grand Canal of China between Hangchow and Peking century BC. 1,000 miles long, work begun 5th.
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During the siege of Parts by the Germans, 1870-1871, the price of rals rose to half-a-crown apiece.
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If a man were as good a jumper in proportion to his size as a grass- upper he could jump from the are not insects. pavement to a roof of an eight-storey building."
Ancient Egyptians used a band round their lead to keep the hair in placa. We wear this band round our hats now,
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Covering the head was a sign of mourning amongst the Israeiltes, Greeks, Romans and Anglo-Saxons hence the black, cap of a judge pasI- ing a death sentence.
The first private letter written is the English language was received: by Sir John Pelham from his wife
Only mammals grow hair-even in 1300. whales a fetu.
The word "Aryan" means "honour- able lord of the soil.”
The Scottish kit was the Iden of an Englishman, Thomas Raw- Unson (1728),