10
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
AUGUST
2, 1037.
UGUST BANK HOLI
A DAY! What high spirits
words! Foreigners often quip England for being a nation which takes its pleasure sadly. If they came to our island for the celebration of this supreme day of our freedom they might reverse their judgments.
What other country could show such democratic hosts of happy people pouring out of village, town and city-people ready to display in the face of 'disappointments so much un- ruffled good nature !
Ano
What a prospect in weather these islands would present to a planetary being looking down upon them at the midday of this August festival— islands they might well seem of some far-fabled Cathay, green as grass, engirdled by a sea blue and rippling bright!
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THE BOOK OF JOB CONTAINS mysterious verses which tell of the Bons of God shouting for joy at the dawn of the world's creation, and there can scarce be a citizen who does not experience the same Irre- pressible exultation at the spec- tacle of so many old people, middle ared people, young people and Ittle children blithe as chaffinches going out with no other purpose in their heads than to enjoy them- selveal
Towards the close of Queen Vic- toria's reign there WAS [L 8011 which began:
"It happened that I was born
At the time they cut the corn Quite contagious to the town of
tatoo,"
The second line referred, el course, to the month of August, England's holiday month, when half of her population is at play and the other half at work at the old occupation of storing whent, barley, rye and oats into stacks, barna and granges. This employ- ment has always been characteris- tic of the month.
Our Bank Holiday falls in Lam- mas-tide-loaf-tide-a Besson of immemorial rejoicing over the gift of bread. bread to strengthen man's heart! There are those who would have us give but a perfunc- 1ory attention to this matter of food, but they are beating at the wrong bush,
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WHEN A MAN NO LONGER takes pleasure in putting ment lato his mouth you may be sure the candle of his life burns close to its socket.
What was the mutinous proverb that Sancho Panza used so often to
-To-day's Thought WHEN one door is shut, an-
P
other opens.
--CERVANTES.
Let's
Make
Merry This
be mumbling in his beard behind lils goodman's captious back?
"To the grave, with the dead And the living to the bread!" It is a brave thing to meditate upon the appetites so extrava Kantly appeased up and down the country on this day. Now. It ever, we must forget vegetarian scruples.
How many cold sirloins of beef with under-cuts untouched appear on how many holiday tables; how many cold legs of mutton with broad-lipped tureens of mint- sauce: how many delectable slices of smoked ham with yellow mus- tard for condiment; and fat capons with crisp pope's noses, all trussed and ready!
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WHAT VEGETABLE DISHES TO be uncovered dishes of broad beans with grey coats dabbled over with white sauce, dishes of garden peas plied high, green as grass though cooked with soda, carrots sweet as sugar and as plump as radishes; to say nothing of shrimps and lobsters lying cold on beds of lettuce!
We must allow our high spirits full latitude and be as irresponsible as sparrows on a house-top. Let us escape from grave faces. It is the capacity to laugh that separates us from the ox and from the ass.
This ane Monday shall truly bet our moon-day and we her merry lunatics.
Good-natured tolerance-this is a national characteristic. It is as much in evidence in the Derby Day paddock as in the friendly faces of the long-suffering miners down in the depressed districts of South Wales. In the past it has carried us as a nation through many a crisis, and will do so. I
THIS IS
OETS talk of love, of
LOVE
Then he fell in love.
"At the time they cut the corn "
."democratic
hosts of happy people".
blithe as chanches."
Moon-day
by LLEWELYN POWYS
have little doubt, again and again. Yet the highest rewards that August Bank Holiday has to offer are not to be found in the noisy pleasures of the crowds. The Fun Fairs, the Music. Halls, the thronged sen sands, with their Nigger Minstrels and Punch and Judy shows, have, it is true, an in- fectious gala galety, but to people of poetical tastes the quiet of secluded country places will pro- vide a surer recompense, bringing restoration to the over-tasked body, and a wealth of recollections for the future enchantment of the mind.
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ESPECIALLY ARE SUCH SOLI- tudes to be sought by those who are in love. As the small hedgerow birds select secret undisturbed places in the nesting season so let also these thrice fortunate chll- dren.
Let their feet explore where the Let bracken grows the tallest. them turn aside into entangled withy beds where only the tops of the slender reeds catch the rays of the Roon sun. Let them rest upon rabbit-nibbled awards of softest turt, hidden deep in the heart of the gorse, where only the blue sky
SAYS WULFRED PRYKE
stove
He left his friend and went back To-dny, at 47, his hair is back to his lodgings. He felt, he told one, the light that comes again at its youthful brown, he drives absolutely thwarted and helpless.
young anti He sat down in front of his to a woman's eyes, a car, and he looks a
do. has
could bealthy man, although he
and wondered what he the colour to her cheeks and daughter of 15.
And then he said for over an hour "Why?" I asked him some months he concentrated on his friend's con- the softness to her mouth;
dition to the entire exclusion of his ago. and we smile and say, "Very "Because I am terribly in love own feelings. pretty, poet's licence, of with my wife and terribly happy
with her, and she with me." course."
Some of his friends said it
When you are happlly in love, this
nurse who had nursery
well, that he was loved and that others wanted him to live, would in THEN there was the young fact do anything to help him to live. He told me that never in his life is what happens.
The metabolism of the body sad such extraordinary "fuck" with the had he felt so exhausted as he did the Infants' after that hour of concentrated denly improves, making the arteries babies who came to
thought and love for his friend and "
enses, in his chale,
dilate so that more blood is sent to hospitallazing was her luck that they that eventually he fell fast asleep every part of the body. The pulse
Armer.
akin more fave her all the dangerous becomes healthy and elastic and the breath- the most pitiable cases, simply be-
LOVE is
the
can be seen, and where, except for the crackling of exploding seeds from the bushes there is no sound.
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LET THEM WANDER BY WIDE rivers where their fond talk wil mingle with the splashing murmur of water. Let them cross the open spaces of wide moorlands, them- selves as light in their passing as the red deer.
Let them in the late evening. come loitering between the high honeysuckle hedges of damp lanes on their way back to some country station, where, by the side of milk- cnn "returns," they will wait for the last train home, the handker- chiefs in their pockets stained with the juice of the Arst wortleberries. Never, never will they forget a single moment of their day, the glimpses of cottage gardens with
elder straw akeps under high hedges, the bats beginning to flicker above old pear trees, and cool aromatic flowers waking and dreaming, dreaming and waking under the light of the harvest moon.
In a harbour grene astipe whereas
I lay,
The burden sang sucte in the midle
of the day.
I dreamed fast of mirth and play: In youth is pleasure, in youth is
pleasure.
Methought I walked still to and fro, And from her company I could not
سال
But when I waked it was not so; In youth is pleasure, in youth is
pleasure.
Therefore my hart is surely pyght Of her alone to have a sight, Which is my joy and hartes delight: In youth to pleasure, in youth is
pleasure.
MY FEMININE IDEAL
By A Modern Young Man
Sfar as hope is concerned, human then she should be able to make her beings Are incorrigible. No mark by titre; she should not need matter how often we are disillusion to have recourse to centri rites ed, or how often we urc proved
and
trappings. wrong, a new hope springs to life. I do not like a woman who is too For Instance, "knowing" people clinging. A woman of character sometimes tell me that to seek for should be an entity, not a nonentity. the ideal woman is like seeking for and she is in grave danger of be- perpetual motion or for the philoso- coming the latter if she emulate the pher's stone.
harmless but persistent vine; che Is should have enough grit to stand on But I don't believe them. probably boredom which makes them her own feet if necessary. Certain- 1 like to feel some measure of talk like that. I still have hopes of ly finding my feminine ideal, and here protection for her, but it should not is a brief description of her.
have to be the same type of protec-
I suppose I ought to mention ap- tion that I would mete out to an in- pearance. It
expected. Well, fant. naturally, I want something good to
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It is generally the fashion to ad- look at. No one but a humbug would mire the kind of woman who never He thought himself into the man's
Every says anything but pleasant things say that he does not well-dressed about others. As a matter of fact, was mind and tried to reassure him, to
man really prefers on. tell him that he could throw of the
and attractive-looking woman. And cannot stand this type. I always But doctors also talk of love some- just courage and guts, and so
there must be charm and personal have a suspicion that she won't times. And they talk quite seriously But it wasn't. It was just ordinary pneumonia if he wished. He tried
appeal, 100. But all this has been anything derogatory,
simply becazan because love plays a very vital part warm human love that made this to tell the man's mind that all was
said so often that I merely confirm she is afrald people in everyone's health, be it child or man whole again.
It and will not enlurge on it.
unkind. I prefer
who is woman adult.
I Something that would value honest about her likes and dislikes. above rubics in my ideal woman is I admire a woman who does not the ability to keep her sex in the fuss, whether it is about her appear- background and be cool and sensible ance, her appointment with me, or and practical when
mon
is pre- her daily work. Nothing is so cal occupied, for instance, and does not culated to create impatience between scem in the mood for sentimental us, or to make her look small and atmosphere. Above all, a woman In the morning he went straight
acts like continual smooth- petty, ing deeper. Infectious diseases are cause none of the babies seemed along to the hospital. He found the
should forget that she is a woman ing of her hair, undue emphasis on when she is at any business-like the details of her appointment with resisted as never before and strange die under her caro.
I interviewed this girl, and since bed empty. "He's dead," he thought, cases of sudden cures are recorded.
gathering. To me, she merely looks me, or obsession with insignificant Remove the love and the whole then I have seen her handling babies, because after all he was an ordinary
with young surgeon and he did not believe foolish if she try to be alluring at details of work.
such times. body drops a tone, the will to live She loves them, quietly and le gone and with it all the physical confidence. She says that they can- much in the power of love.
And then the matron came in and Idiosyncrasies in Moderation signs of well being have just not live unless they have love. That
I
sterilising bottles and measuring out said: "Your friend is in the other described.
feeds accurately is not enough.. To ward reading the paper, I don't essential to all save a sick baby's life you must also know what on earth has happened,
as love IL
but he has of
temperature us. It is just essential to the fat business man of
ND the strangest case of insisted on getting up until he is 50 as it is to a tiny new baby or a
oll. So strange, indeed, ready for the leg operation." tired matron in the suburba.
Few people, however, recognise that many of you will scoff.. I don't, this fact and in its place they try because I know the doctor to put money, possessions, fame and and I trust him implleltly.
He was a young sturgeon at the Doctor just accepted the fact. He adventure. Go right back in those people's lives and
always time, on service in Salonika, and out dares not explain it because he says And that at some time or other they there, too, was his dearest friend, it is beyond him and
mcrely recorded. were unable to get love, either be future barrister.
how 10 One night he was called cause they did not know
because itor
LOVE comes in many forma carn
they were hospital very late and the matron told him that his friend had been frightened to grasp it.
brought in terribly wounded. He different stages of growth and de- TERE Dre three strange should have been operated on then velopment.
cases of the effect love and there.
But when the doctor
To come it is a thing of musle and haz on those who recognise its im- portance.
exumino him he found that he was youth and moonlight und pretty In the West End of London there also suffering from pneumonia and clothes. To others of supporting a
Built others is a doctor of science who lost one that any operation would be out of family. And to hand-his left fortunately-in the the
wounda question owing to the slate of sacrifice and self-effacement.
strain. He But actually It is all exactly the He had many other war. and two very severe ones in his told the mutron there was nothing some emotion. right leg making sport quite out of to do that night except to nurse him the question. At 30 his hair was through it and that if he got through atreaked thickly with white and he to the morning then an operation on was a broken man.
the leg could be performed.
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will
and heart
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7 Spanish, perhaps, and the Ger-
man reverse means much to sausage loving nation.
8 Doubtless you found the clue above easy, but this will make you sweat.
10 What my chum is.
11 Pathetic, you observe.
Jewish sectorlon.
for a
12 Combined bed and board-free,
too, (Two words, 5, 3.).
14 Hush! open the piano very softly, und let us have music... a gentle lullaby to the cheese' at supper. (Hidden.). 15 To make this plane nothing
change from A to Z.
desert Bot 18 In the
fruit: lucky fellow!
I do not like to sec a woman out to obviously putting herself please me. I feel for keener when I see that she is independent and A thing I very much dislike in n that she is not trying to make a con- woman is the desire to be different qurst. and
feel both from everyone
in- else. I like
Lasily, makes me dividuality, certainly, but it should amused and scornful when a woman not be eccentricity. I dislike a wo- regales me with highly-coloured ac- man who sports fantastic garments, counts of the worship accorded her Fostulates outlandish principles, and by others of my sex. If she really cultivates exaggerated mannerisma. be admired, I can see that for my-20 Queer fellows to ten-and riot She ought to be able to account for self. In any case, It makes her look 22 Would this have been a better her ideals and behaviour in a com- rather silly if she tell me.
I am not +45 intrinale way. If
Shall I And my ideal? qualities are sound and interesting, unhopeful. I see many possibles.
were
There question pneumonia at all in the man's lungs and he is alive and well to-day. The
по
traces
of
to the
came to
because
Wo
is best
left
are all in
of
Recognise it. See what you are looking for and set out to earn it and keep II.
COUNT THE
"TELEGRAPHS"
EVERYWHERE
much apparently.
produces
name for Peeping Tom? 24 Hidden in Clue 14.
20 Collared by men, women
children.
20 Pay out for sure blds.
und
30 Thero's bound to be enough of this: it's made to go round.
31 Murders most fowll
32. Nol
Russe, though.
Charlotte-might
DOWN
1 My right hand.
be
21 And mine rust at the end of a
journey.
3 Not in arrogance,
open.
but in the
4 This meeting might be Spanish
mahogany.
5 There's very little for the time
shown isn't there?
GON.
0
Upsets the men of the future.
13 Hidden in Clue 14.
10 Rake.
17 Larder tin. (Anag.).
10 Word for word.
21 When spring comes first the rest
follows.
23 Plerre's
ongel becomes in- furiated on being followed by the communist.
25 You must take steps to solve
this, but very little ones.
27 1idden in Clue 14.
28 Turn round, and, two twos, lot.
in the vessel.
Saturday's Solution.
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