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THE FUNNY SIDE OF
MOTORING
1) trocks inspire many of the talen
meet. Of one lattered old sports car, they reinte how the traffic light h fried green. but the car obstinately young owner, Lo move, The refused
rei-faced and perspiring wainly tried The starter, while the cuts bellnd hout-i cd nolaily.
"Coint along there, sir," song but the points duty policemans Impatiently.
The owner desperately turned the handle. But in vain!
" tell you. str. you can't stay here and block the tealfie like this," the policeman remonstrated,
"One jong, agenbeing minute passed, while the owner made strenuous Hurts to me la cur.
"You simply must get all, even If you have to push the car, went on the laun of law.
Slowly the youn owner ewergen from beneath the honnet of his car, ka he looked at the policeman with Omr thing ke huteuil in his eyes.
that If you repent
ani," threatened, "I give you the darned; thing."
ryn over
hr
The garage proprietor cast a busines
the 19 model which the owner proposed to leave for the night. "I shall what £1 in advance," he said briskly.
"But it is only for one night, anal r nhall tre buck in the morning."
"You might not come back," the ex- pert palated out.
"Of all our cars," said the motor anlesman hopefully, "this is the one 1 feel conflent in pushing."
But that's no use to me," objected the prospective custumer. "I want one! 1 ran ride in."
Recently us drew up alongside a very dilapidated old ent. The bonnet was wide open, and a brilliant us was Athing in on the greasy engin
"Look quick!" the conductor of the bus commented, "He's giving it san ray treatment."
The reckless driver in the subject of unny stories,
Of one member of the species, it is told that he pulled up with a terrine grinding of benken when he saw friand on a country road.
"Hallo!" uid bis friend "ho you've become a motorist. And how long did it inke you to learn to drive?"
"Three or four-" began the other, **Week?**
"N-nu" the motorist admitted audly, HEATH!"
A sorely tried motorial, on most urgent errand, had been repeatedly held up by traffic signats. And to the police-
sluty, he finally un on points burdened himself. There's too many dashed raspberries on these tren unds not enough gooseberries."
man
A very smart car rolled up to the garage, and n supercilious young man. accompanied by n Indy friend, reisily Bounded his horn.
"One gallon, and be quick shout it," he haughtly demanded of the atten dant who rume nut.
The garage man summed him up at o glance.
"Will yo drink it here or take 11 Away" he asked with a twinkle in his eye.
The misdeeds of Indy inolorists have given rise to innumerable tales,
This is the 6th person you've knocked down this year," one Indy driver was sternly Informed.
Pardon me!" she protested, "the fourth. One of them was the same per non twice.'
Then there is the story of the Indly driver who was encountered as she was andy leaving a police court.
"I was told," she complained, "that if. I were very polite and cherry with the Judge, I'd get off. So I said quite nice- ly. Good morning, my lord, and how Are you to-day 7 And the brute only and, Fine-five pounds. **
A. W..
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1937.
Thank you, SWEDENDENT LINER
for a "BATH of
T
SANITY"
by W. N. Ewer
HANK you, Sweden!
I am just back from ten days' stay in its northern cleanness. And I feel as though I had had an invigorat- ing bath.
I do not mean physically: though midsummer Sweden, with its sea beaches and its rivers and ita myriad forest lakes, is a land for swimmers and all water lovers,
But mentally, spiritually, what psychologically-call it you will have been bathing myself all day long for ten days in a great sanity.
I have been living among a people who are not hag-ridden by fear or ambition, who are not victims of mass hysteria or Jangled nerves, or of the fevers which have spread epidemically over Europe.
Here, in the fever and the fret of 1837, is a people calm and sano and civilised, knowing how to live, with its sense of values not disordered.
We have been from the south not quite to where, beyond the Arctic Circle, the midnight sun looks down on the Lapps and their reindeer herds, but so far north that it is broad daylight all round the clock.
And everywhere, from Malmö to Ornsköldsvik, we found the same: a people living, not rest- from lessly and wretchedly crisis to crisis of some strange malady, but as men should live.
T is a land at peace with itself, and wish- Ing only to remain at peace with its neighbours.
Not only wishing. Hore in these Scandinavian lands you may find-unique in Europe- that same phenomenon of an unguarded, unfortified. but
frontier, entirely "safe"
of
which, on the other side of the Atlantic, Americans and Cana-
LIFE
#1
Caesar, he established there number of native Swiss dogs, ancestors of our St. Bernards and believed to descend from
dians are so rightly We eat at proud. dinner in Hülsing- borg. looking across
a narrow strait-no
wider than South- ampton Water-to Denmark. Above us the old castle of Hal- singborg: across the water Hamlet's castle of Elsinore.
Both fortresses are ancient monuments. To-day the forry boats run to and fro: the citi- zens of Hälsingborg go into Copenhagen for their week-end shopping. Danish-Swedish war is a legend of the past-a un- thinkable to-day as an Anglo- Scottish war or an attack by Wessex on Mercia,
OR 700 miles or 50,
Fro
from the Skagerrack nearly to the Arctic, runs the long land-frontier be- tween Sweden and Norway. Along all its length there are nelther fortresses nor garrisons. It is completely unprotected. Yet no Swede and no Norwegian feels n whit less safe for that.
So, also, it is a land of peace within. Sweden has, of course, her problems and her difficul-
ties. She was-since her export trades are vital to her economy -hard hit by the depression; to-day she is recovering and prospering. But she faced, and faces, all her problems in the sane and sober manner of democracy.
Nobody discusses nervously the possibility of dictatorship -Whether of the Right or of the Left. Nobody wonders whether Sweden is going Fascist" or "going Bolshevik." In that sane atmosphere such nonsense can- not live.
It is a Labour-Farmer coal- tion Government which has steered Sweden out of the de- pression, and which to-day has the confidence not only of its
SAVERS
No
those household dogs that the is closer to a blood-hound than lake-dwellers of ancient Swit- to the modern St. Bernard. zerland kept for hunting in the The loose ears and folds about Bronze Age.
the jaw that are still conspicuous in the St. Bernard suggest the same ancient strain. But the
On stormy winter nights they dog described by travellers as set off to look for lost travellers, far back as the middle of the carrying a little barrel of brandy seventeenth century sounds very
unlike the dog we know. tied round their necks and warm THERE has just been a threat blankets wrapped around their to exterminate the great St. bodies, as they have done ever Bernard dogs which the monks since.
1,000 years ago..
Not until ten generations of English travellers had been com-
The Town Hall and modern residential quartors of Stockholm.
supporters but of all the coun- try,
Of course, the Opposition criticises and opposes, Big busi- ness men grumble, after the manner of their kind, at the heaviness of taxation. But for all that they are unaffectedly. proud of "old Per Hansson," the Prime Minister, who still lives in his small working-class house in a Stockholm suburb and takes the tram every morning to his ofcc.
Of course, the workers too have their complaints. One thing that surprises and shocks the English traveller is to find that (with a few exceptions) the factories work all day Saturday: a forty-eight hour week.
But the trade union organisa- tion is strong, and on the whole conditions of living for the workers are as good as, or bet- ter than, those of any other land I know.
One thing stands out. "You will find, no slums in Sweden." said a Socialist newspaper man In Malmo proudly. Certainly, II there are any they must be hard to ind.
P
ARTLY, that is good fortune. Sweden's in- dustry, based mainly on water power, has created no Only large industrial towns. three cities (Stockholm, Goth- enburg and Malmö) have more than 100,000 inhabitants.
The typical Swedish "indus- trial centre" is a small town grouped around the works on
MORE?
column in Trafalgar Square in London it was the dog Lion that largely inspired the form in which he moulded them.
were
St. Bernards were imported steadily after that. One of them named Alp and, Glory, lived to be 17 years old. Two, given to Queen Victoria in 1846 and they always walked out with her in Windsor Park.
But it never occurred to any- have kept at the famous Alpine There was one famous dog menting on the size of the sure- body to breed them over here. hospice over since it was founded called Bairy, who died in 1814. footed, keen-scented St. Bernard until 1866, when two British-
He saved 40 travellers. Now he stands stuffed in the Museum at was the first one brought over to born St. Bernards, Bernard and the William Tell, created a sensation. England the
year before valuable piece of Berne,
at the Crystal Palace. Since Battle of Waterloo. evidence on the appearance of
Lion, as he was called, made a then the breed has spread over a last-minute subscription for an the native St. Bernard dog be-
оле was the whole world.
When the monks of St. Ber enormous kennel has now saved
more impressed than the painter, the dogs, while at the same time fore it was crossed with the great stir. But no
Edwin Landseer. He painted and nard went out to found a hospice giving protection
In Britain we are accustomed repainted that dog in every in the mountains of Tibet threa vistors.
to seeing St. Bernard dogs with Alpine setting that his imagina- years ago they took several of long rough coats.
these dogs to carry on their, tion could suggest. But in the Alps this was found And when he came to design rescue work in the snows of the:
the snow, so the the lions at the foot of Nelson's Pamirs. to catch up dogs could not move about free- ly, and they are now bred with,
This was because one of these creatures was said to have wor- ried a little girl to death. Luckily
to
future
Just a hundred years ago the a still narrower es- breed had cape. An avalanche swept away - a slope where the entire monas
was hunting for tery team traveller lost in the snow.
Newfoundland strain.
a short, smooth coats,
A great deal of care is taken
HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure up to October, 1937, on
The monks searched frant to get the right colours: brindled behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated cally to get back two dogs which tawny coat with white markings, at $20,000, against which the Income to date is had been given away as presents, dull red at the eyes and ears, a $20,000. These, when recovered, were white nose crossed with imported Now- foundlands, so the original breed has been rather altered.
When St. Bernard of Clair- vaux, first man to say "Love me, love my dog," set up his monas-
and collar with w The Society asks for the balance of white line running up between the eyes and over the head.
These denote the priest's stole, chasuble and scapular.
The St. Bernard breed must have changed many times since
tory in 960 on the track over the hospice was firat bullt. The which travellers had been used dog that stands by the founder
Hon. Treasurers:
$5,000
Mr. D. BLACK, C.A.,
c/o Percy Smith, Seth & Fleming,
6' Des Voeux Road, Central,
Mr. KWOK. CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo China,
Hongkong.
to pass since the days of Julius in his picture in the refectory June 25, 1997.
the banks of a river or a lake. The workers live in cottages among the trees, each with its own garden-a few hundred yards from the forest or the open country.
Each with its own garden. For the Swede, like the Englishman, Not the is a born gardener. least reason for the popularity of the most democratle Royal Family in Europe is, I suspect, the Crown Prince's passionate love of gardening.
A
ND that love of gar- dens-perhaps because
It is a symptom of something very deep in char- acter is only one of so many likenesses between the two peoples. In all Europe I know no people with whom we British feel so quickly, so spontaneously, and so completely at home.
They feel it, too. To be British is, in Sweden, to be assured of the warmest of welcomes every- where.
J
And the warmth is unfeigned. They are indeed anxious, these Swedes, for closer relations be- tween the two countries, for more trade between them, for more British visitors to Sweden. For all of which there la morc than good reason on both sides.
But their friendliness is not based on calculation of political or economic or financial advan- tage. It is just-friendliness.
For ten days we were in Sweden. They were busy days......... We were in Stockholm, Goteborg and Malmö. We visited the bathing places of Skania, the lovely forest and lakeland of Dalecariia, mining and steel and timber towns of the North. ·
W
VE talked with all "sorts and conditions" of Swedes-with the Crown Prince and Princess, with Ministers, with business men, with "captains of industry," with journalists, with workers, with everybody.
And from one and all, with- out a single exception, we had a friendliness and a frankness which made us feel almost ashamed, fearful lest Swedes travelling here might meet at times with coldness or even rudeness.
I am in debt. Up. and down Sweden there are Bwedish men and Swedish women from whom wo have had Swedish hospitality (which not even hospitable America can rival), Swedish kindness, a Swedish welcome to strangers. I cannot hope to repay them all: but I can promise to remember.
B
UT most of all my thanks to Sweden for that bath of sanity, for that all too short stay in a land where there is neither ter- zor nor the dread of terror,
where all men
are
free of
thought and speech, where they respect themselves and each other; where they know how to live as civilised, grown up, hard- men and working cheerful women should live.
There are not many such countries in Europe these days. It is good to visit one.
Thank you, Sweden!
--To-day's Thought- BUT, in the beaten way of friendship, what make you at Elsinore?
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1 Tip cool men for the end. 6 Sole aid for the sportsman. 10 This may damp one's ardour at
sca.
11 Alteration that involves two scis
of men.
12 Does he sing "Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cave"?
13 One of the nuts.
15 Still in front, but heavy-headed. 17 Pressing
10 This is above the heads of most
church-goers.
21 There's a good scent ix this
town on the Adriatle.
22 News of this interest would not
convulse the world.
24 The nursery part of the nursery
garden?
27 Can gent's cars bring such claim
to fomb?
28 A low part la lower.
20 This Is to me bound to contain
knowledge.
30 A literary master-ploce needs
but this and ideas.
DOWN
1 The throw of the play.
? This goes to pot every spring.
3 True epithet.
4 This may lead to "copy" or a
"And." Late.
7 The initial article is part of this
subject.
a Stander.
9 A compliation of notions for the
unpractical?
14 Fashionable diners are
suddenly taken by this.
often
18 Rude claim to be otherwise, 18 Rather complicated.
20 This one you should guess first-
of all:
21 An old lamp.
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||25 A source of various scales.
28 Tax.
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