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Children to whom even the sight of a horse being harnessed is something new and splendid...
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DOZEN boys, whose ages range from eloven to fourteen years, have inst scon a ship for the first time in their lives.
They came upon her round a corner of n shod as they trooped back from gathering shells on the first sea beach they had ever known. They stood a little awe-struck, though she was only a coasting tramp of three hundred odd tons, smeared in a grey dust from topmast to loading line as sho unshipped cement in a gale driven wind,
They could not quite bollove hor reality. It was not as George, who walks in irons and has to be enreful every time he removes a boot that he does not break his right tibia, explained-as if she had been at sea.
There would have been something familiar about that. White waves would have been breaking at her bow; smoke trail- ing behind her. And any boy knows that picture; can draw it, even if a little lop- sidedly.
But she was tied to'n quay beside the shed and houses near-by leant down towards her so that she seemed a little
odd; a bedraggled toy left out
in the rain with the wooden
bricks of the nursery,
George,
when he saw her, abruptly used a word that he discovered a few days ago. 'Gost" he said; and walted a breath. "It's got a funnel."
A remark that had the merit of heavy underlining and carried conviction.
The skipper's wile, on the round trip from Liverpool, heard him and took them all on board. They saw the bridge and peered down the engine-room.
They pattered aft and chattered to her so that she thrilled to themt and took them below where a little of their wonder and bewilderment began to leave them.
The atmosphere of cramped space and all lamp swinging to a beam seemed somehow to fit to their imaginings so that they asked questions, and ono boy ald
solemnly: "is is where you nght?" which stumped the skip- per's wife for a bit until he ex- plained that ho meant with pirates, and that he did not be- Iteve that any abip went to sea without it bad to fight.
H
E had seen the China Seas and Bounty Mutiny. l and that was all he knew about the 'sca. Which Is not invention of mine. I heard him say so.
That was in Aberdovey on Cardi- gan Bay, where the Welsh.moup- tains run down to the Atlantic. The boys had come from a house four miles along the coast which the Birmingham Education Com- mittee run as a summer school for the children from its special slum areas.
For eight months of the year, groups of twenty-four children from their schools for the crippled. the deaf and the mentally delayed are sent there for fortnight's holiday, and a ship is not the only
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Novel
Tod Wiley
By Robert Darnell (Arrowsmithi, 7a. Gd.)
THE
THURSDAY, HONGKONG·· TELEGRAPH.
OCTOBER
28, 1937.
Their Place in
the FUN
by Sanford Lock
thing that comes new to them. Most of them have nover travelled in a train before, seen a cow or known what it is to wonder why a tide can run away and leave a stretch of hard, smooth sand.
I have known them ask what is inside the hills, as they bare looked up at the might of Cader Idris; have known them taken Into the Aelds at night to be shown the moon and the stars and stand in wonderment that such things are.
Stars cannot be seen from the walled depths of Aalam when city glare and smoke hang above.
They refuse simple foods because anything new has to be treated with doubt and auspicion. Cocoa made with milk instead of water arouses distrust.
Green vegetables are an affront to their intelligence. Only a fool would think such things ought to be eaten.
Fortunately there, is always a fool whose curiosity overcomes where one native caution, and leads, others follow,
A boy who had been before camo back this year, and that was a help, though his frat remark was. "Matron, may I have a hot bath
England
OD 15 a lorry-driver and odd job man working for the Jewish owner of a fruit stali. He lives with hur father, mother and slater west of London's West End. And there are hundreds genial young plants like him on the roads, in the markets and garages, at the football matches and street corners, up and down the land.
of
But Tod's cheerful, though luridly expressed, acceptance of this lot was interrupted when a racing car skidded into his decrepit lorry (Lize the and Claire Davenant sing- Last) gered sauclly out of the wreckage.
Thoy met again in London, and Clairo and her equally reckless brother Turell Tod into a ensuni, happy-go- lucky friendship.
Feeling at a loss in their stream of cackling but faintly cultured conver. sulton, Tod decided to get some educa- tion. He attended night-schools and went to concerts and learned to sing and to peak_grammatically whlie Clairo drified off on a world cruise, tin- conscious of this pedestal to which she had been lifted-and incapable of caring, anywDY.
Dislikusionment was inevitable and tragic....
There are unlikely coincidences in the story. The Davenant household nad habits are taken from stock not from life, and you know all the time that Tod's shy romance is doomed to heavy disappointment. But such occasional creakings of fictional machinery are unimportant compared with the vigour of Tod and his mates,
Mr. Damell fins caught the authen- tlo nocent of his working men, at. work, at home and at play. He under- #tands their loyalties, their humour, their rowdylam, their patience, their resource and their obstinacy. Ho can describe a street row, a trailo jain or Sunday at home so that it is joy to rend.
A fresh, lively and most promising first novel in which the author has done - what so-law young Engilahi writem even attempt-looked at the work about him and set down what ho has heard and seen.
Without trying to put in everything or to state and solve any great prob- lem, he describes what anyone with eyes and eam knows to be true. And the result is crispness, conviction and a pace seldom found in tales this olde of the Altaatio
Paradise
By Esther Forbes (Clutto and Windus, Ba. Ed.) ROM the settlements of the Pilgrim Fathers to the United
In this Iong, attractive story of ploneer colonists, you can catch overtones which have persisted through the changes and chances of three hundred years,
ton,
forbidling house," with its back turned
the village ni contempluousty on Caunan, twenty miles Inland from Bos- Quick-tempered, bearded Jude Parre lived in it with his sons, Fenton and Christopher, its daughter, Jazan
Within a walk of it and the rest. Lay the Indians and the wilderness.
Christopher followed his father's Fenton followed the scholarly bent. Indian trails, trading with braven who respected hlin. Jazan skipped about and watched the birds--and followed Fenton with sharp, affectionate eyes.
overy night?" Memory promoted the question, and out of the talk that followed a thought' kept re- curring.
That the chlidren took back with them something with which to educate their parents even if it was only a lesson in hyglene and that toothbrushes have an exist- .enco.
But mostly they discover and remember that grass is green; which alone is sufficiently surpris- ing to start the thought that there are things in life worth striving
after.
A child catc once when its parents were unemployed and took back a memory. It came again five years later, and lodged near the school with its parents to show them a little timidly this and that which had not quite beca believed. The father had a job then where he had a holiday with pay, and there was only one place to spend it when he remembered what his boy had felt.
NE August week, five deaf and dumb boys, beyond school age and earning their first wages, remem- bered their summer school and arrived one inorning to say they had come to camp "in "a"nearby feld und did Matron remember them? The gesture waa eloquent than the speech of their hands.
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A child against whom it is re- corded she has never spoken a single word in school, though she converses happily with her mother at home, talked with her teacher
before the two weeks ended. And it was not shock that unloosed her tongue.
She did not exclaim, as I heard another at the sight of a water- fall," turn off the tap." She made a remark, unaware that she had spoken until she had been an- swered and heard herself reply.
It does not matter what broke down her obstinacy; Force of circumstance, environment, what
A Degree I Cannot Use
Was it Worth:: Three Years of Sacrifice? AM entitled to write the letters
now
B.A. (Caninb.) after my name. Ench of those two letters, cost me £400. It took me three years work to obtain thein, and four extra years at school to qualify for them. It is I left Cam- five years since bridge, and never once have they been of any practicnl use to me in earning my living. Was it worth 117 Ever since 1 passed the Metric, at the age of 15 my chlef ambition in lite was to become a good enough scholar to earn a University scholar- ship. My parents kept me on at #elinot at a big sacrifice to them- selves, to satisfy what they thought was a very wise ambition.
To-day I know that if I had left
after school straight away examination 1 should have
that
been
earning money for all the seven years which I passed in spending it at the University, I should now be in a for better job than hold after those long years of training.. Instead of spending money I should have earned it, and I could now write down in my accounts a comfortable profit in the place of a heavy loss. profit in the place of a heavy loss,
It cost my parents £200
Year apart from the cost of holidays. It cost them more than that figure to pay my University expenses, in spite of the fact that I was a scholar of my college and earned a share of what I cost. In addition there were the costs of living in vacations, which
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you will. It collapsed, die uncon-cover more than half_the_yout... sciously.
A seed was sown, and if it bears fruit even only in a spark of the desire to know, perhaps something has been achieved. Or would you argue that something should not be born where the lists are heavily weighted against the chance of its satisfaction?
I
SUGGEST you are wrong. The summer school is needed. The crippled, the lane and the men- tally halt from the cramped air of the slums have their own perspec- tive, a perspective which needs no sympathy,
They wish to be normal, to see themselves as they see others. They want their share of natural fun
to remember: to aco the salmon leap and curlew dip and learn to wonder why.
at
And maybe you have never seen a boy who walks on crutches keep- ing wicket behind stumps pitched where cows graze and a tennis ball bouncea
him at all angles.
The one I know sits on his haunches and throws his whole body for the ball with a courage that will not admit the need for courage. He faces all Be like that. doing things in the spirit if not in the body.
When he saw a ship for the fret time he would have said "Gosh," if he knew the word, or " Crumbs" or" Strewth."
Not in surprise at aceing a ship; but with satisfaction at seeing what he knows other boys have seen.
MAKING MINING SAFER
A Handicap, Not a Help
I went up to Cambridge full of confidence, that the money and the time I had spent on making my way there would prove the best invest
1 ment of my career. The years spent at Cambridge did nothing to rob me of that youthful optimism. When the Chancellor's hastily mum) ~ bled Latin invested me with my de- gree, and the Examiner's lists with honours in my subjects, I went down convinced that the world lay at my feet, or at least would do as soon as I hnd had a few years in which to prove myself.
For a whole year after I came down I tried entirely in vain to get some job on my qualifications. I tried four or five different sources, and four or five different types of job. answered more advertisements than I care to remember all at added cost. And as I looked down the list of
I advertisements in my paper realiced one in every fifty mentioned my degree as a qualification by it- self.
I heard the same Everywhere story.
Without either influence or experience of specialised training my B.A. was useless-more a positive handicap than a help. If I went back to Cambridge or to some other school of training for another year or two, then, and only then, I could hope to make capital out of my aca- demic distinctions, plus my added training.
Left Behind
But I could not and would not incur the expense of another year. So I went on trying to get some job on which to support myself.
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8 The floral aspect of the war, 9 States in which Movie stars
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10 Down in the mouth? 11 Topics for a king. 12 Sit but.
In the end, in desperation, I ac- cepted a small teaching position in inferior school with poor pro- spects. There my B.A. degree has earned me £60 a year and my keep --less than 5 per cent. on my in- vestment, and I have to work for it! Paradise was a house. A watchful,ONE hundred and twenty years ago of protecting the knees consisted of
the Davy safety lamp was first the wearing of hard feather pads, But to what I can now see was my introduced into the dangers
a tremendous blow. My parenta and strapped round each leg, but these youthful over-confidence it has been darkness of a coal mine. After a often inconvenienced the wearer.. series of colllery disasters due to At
many collieries safety cam-opes, though they do not often men- tion it. have been grievously dis- appointed. fire-damp, that eminent chemist, Sir paigns have been launched. Prizes ex- are given to the workmen who send Humphrey Davy, commenced
Nor did It help me to bear the 13 Div. in devising lamp in the best practical suggestions for
14 These are not, plucked before perimenting
sense of frustration when I encoun-
cooking, tered men whom I knew at school, which could be carried about under increasing the safety of the workers.
Bonuses are given to the firemen and found them ground with complete safely.
prosperous and 17 Needing no appetiser.
vegetable to 19 Best In January 1010 the first success- who work their districts for a certain
openly scornful of the advantages of while I my- ful trini of his invention was made period without an accident, Safety
drought? University career,
hatter. by the rector of Jarrow. In order magazines and circulars, which give selt was keeping up appearances with 23 Like that the use of his invention might particulars of probable sources of dimculty.
27 Re bone (anag). not suffer restriction, Sir Humphrey dangers and how to deal with them,
One man, who was a contemporary 29 You mustn't put the cart before a fortune by refusing to are
front So Paradise flourished in a quiet.
periodically issued to under-
it's in forfelted
the horse: of mine at school, passed his anal- seenly way until the day that Fenton
patent it. The number of lives ground workers.
exams..in accountancy the year after
usun). went on board a friend's ship in Bos-
which have been saved through the The most
recent contribution to
I came down from Cambridge. To- 30 Possibly it's the Irish in it that ton Harbour and met lazy, wanton introduction at his lamp cannot be safety in the mines was the introduc-day he is, earning enough to keep makes it so contrary.
"Helen of computed. copper-haired Bathsheba.
tion in Fifeshire of safety Instruc- himself and his wife, and his pros-01 Suffocats. Tray," the captain called her and the
Since 1810, and particularly in re- tional classes for boys before enter pects are boundless.
32 Selo cali. Arst half of the book is largely a record
cent years, many other safety mea- ing the mining industry.
Another of my school friends- 33 Goes away, lost, in winter, by of the havoc she wrought in Canaat's
introduced Into
Afaralal Jackson Aures have been
ne'er-do-well at school, who did not
the great majority of community.
British collleries, the majorliy
even trouble to pass the Matricula-34 these, of
tlon-Invested the little capital. he them being mainly due to the un-
had in a business of his own, and ceasing research efforts of the conl
to-day is his own master and his
It is a story in the romantic vein, ending with a whooping account of ani Indian raid, which is finally beaten on with heavy losses on both nides., And then, each after his or her fashion, the settlera resumo their toil.
of the history books. I found its detall fascinating.
companies.
Helmets constructed of specially
INDIGESTION
prepared fibre have been the means Stopped in 5 minutes!, own paymaster.
the toes from injury, and by medical
photograph of actual cases. These degree of M.A.
prove the
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4 you'll find you're happy if not
so much in bed.
6 Discover by means of noise,
6 Over fifty and close, and that's
taking the correct measure. ·'
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13 Man, bird, or wheelbarrow. 15 Cheat the girl on her ascent, 10 Just a matter of perception. 18 In
Minnesota.
20 Want a bit of money? Elere
are pots!
21 A party adherent in Sparta.
22 Agin everything.
24 It's thoroughly sickening.
25 Endive (anag-).
26 Tower,
20 William partook of food, ap-
his
parently,
quarters.
temporary
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My own case is not unique. One Amazing evidence of the remarkable of my college acquaintances came to + Paradise is one of those novels that of reducing head. accidents by, 80 per teach you incidentally more than most, cent. among underground workers. speed with which indigeation and stomach Cambridge from a Scottish Univer- to pains can be stopped has been revealed ally with very high honours and the Boots with reinforced toe-caps
experiments and X-ray
He had spent two protect made of specially treated leather to The nasal speech of Feniand emi.
ingredients of Bisurated years as an nasistant Iceturer there, Magnesia to be the quickest-neling and and had saved up enough money to granta which may have set the pre- counteract the effect of aeld in the dominant Yankee note. The villagera water,
have also been introduced, most effective known to medical science. pay his expenses. He gave up this Within 5 minutes' a teaspoonful of job in order to increase his qualifica- first night of a hearse (they looked on The miners in several collieries have
been it as "pleasure vehicle," never before
Committee" but as my answer to the question whether supplied with strong, leather rated Magaala in title water tions at Cambridge. In his time at ferred to amongst them, not as the ful optimism. But, In spite of it all,
produced complate relid! In cases where
It was worth it, is simply-it was. having seen anything on wheels that gloves to protect their harkis from numberless viher remedies hind failed Cambridge he obtained the highest "Appointments
I have learnt now that though n was not devoted to the work of farm-cuts and bruises.
honours possible, although he took the "Disappointments Committée." entirely..
a completa a three-year course in two.
llope Deferred
University, training is of Kittle prac- ing). The poetry which sometimes
'Blutrated Magneila The next innovation was safely
He went back to Scotland, hopeful
expect it to be a sort danced impishly behind that dour
of my year whose ileal use and of the men trousrs. As most of the coal miners, treatment for a relief of stotracts trouble it neutralises the harmful acids Puritan front. The slovens and the
especially those working in pan-runs, that cause the trouble and it spreads a drones who helped to leaver the in- dustrious ones. The crimes that have do all their work in a kneeling posi-soothing, protective film over the stomach ten months he could get nothing. subsequent careers 1 have been able of Open Sesame to a good job is to
| kaing.
Then, by a lucky chance, his old job to trace, only 40 per cent. succeeded court disappointment, yet it gives tion, consideration was given to been committed in Virtue's name....
Get Blasrated Magnesia powder, or fell vacant. He was offered it and in obtaining the jobs which I know you something that no other train- The common allment, "beat-knee,"
per cent. ing in the world can give wanted. Only 05
That "something" is almost im- safety trousers are made of light- tablets from your chest or store thankfully accepted. To-day he all they
to-day, be sure to look for the oval weight, durable material, with ISMAG sign if you want the quickest holds with (two years to the dobit succeeded in obtaining any sort of
job at all without a long delay. And possible to define, But the best L of his account, Jargo
oblong-shaped rubber sponge acting stomach remedy doctors know.
My own personal experience covers that experience is typical of the not the only argument I can produce Inserted in a pocket të protect the
COUNT THE
nearly half a dozen similar cases of fate of the thousands of graduates for its existence is the simple fact overy that after all the disappointments, I, knees.
"TELEGRAPHS" high hopes and complete frustration, who leave the Universities
personally, If I could choose again, MSEVERYWHERE?
Cambridge Graduate
coloured seventeenits century map of A book which makes the old. Crudely New England live and traces some of the outlines of the slick charts of to-day.
R. P.
To prevent small pieces of coal and "redd!! from getting into the boots, the trousera are ñlso belted
of obtaining a better position.
For
So common an experience is it that year.
one well-known "employment
round the ankles. The old method 1000RROG0000000000D agency"
It sounds a sorry tale, and it is a would make the same choice.
for undergraduates is re bitter experience for untried youth-