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Reminder
a
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WEDNESDAY,
that in world friendship
harassed symbols of
still endure...
I'VE just bought four times
dining-room chairs.
I'd gone into a modern the street, one on either side of that of Barchester;
tall, spare gure in her black frock "Cranford.” About the poetry of
SEPTEMBER
7,
1938.
priest, teacher, and friend. He left my old village when I was just grown up, and when he returned nome years later as canon of the neighbouring cathedral I was al- ready at work in London.
But
friendship our
remained and deepened. Wo wrote to one anotner frequently, visited occasion- He knew all my joys and ally. sorrows, gave sympathy, help, ad- vice.
Last year he was it for the first time in his long life; early this year he died in his chair. He was rest-
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dis furniture was put up for sale.
Auchanting m come. ND now they have come,
My sister and I said, "How wonder- As a treat the party was held in ful if we could buy the chairs." We the parlour. So
the chairs for a wrote to another old friend of a life- brief hour or two every year knew tee in the neighbourhood and asked the joy of cheerful voices and him to bid for us. We had been children's Jaughter, while an old prepared to make a big sncrifice to Indy brought out her best harlequin get them. They were knocked down set of china from a high cupboard for 32. the four of them. to be sent to fetch her for whose "David Copperfield appeared and told outrageously funny stories breakfast and "help mamma to sew." in 1840 and must have been all the about her "dear master." However, If How proud we were to walk down rage; about Anthony Trollope's tales the always ended with a solemn one and Mrs. Gaskell's about his dying,, which restored all
ies, to beautify our London flat. our shaken respect for him.
For the first time in all their the Brownings, the Rossettis, Mat- Some years passed and my old changes of ownership they are in
illness which thew Arnold, Robert Louis Steven- friend had a serious was getting son and William Morris (who also left her very poor. She decided to a home which possesses a radio, a telephone, central heating, an elec- WHILE
ready to come with us went in for wallpaper designing and sell some of her good furniture that tric fire, and takes these things for of the she would say, "Run down the gar- soll's "Alice in Wonderland."
social reform); about Lewis Car she rarely used.
Across the road lived another granted.
Instend of hearing about Blamarele story. And no one would den, my beauties, and smell
bachelor vient the one who guided they will hear of Hitler; instead of These were all hot topics when my childhood footsteps-who knew Florence Nightingale, of A.R.P.; in- have been interested except mine," or "Go down the path, my
dcars, And fook at my lovely my chairs first lived at the vicor w she came by the chuirs. He stend of Disraeli, Mr. Hore-Bellsha; auriculas," and sometimes she would age.
offered [Q buy them one at a time instead of Dickens, Sir Hugh Wal- say, "Go
In the parlour, children,
ns she needed funds, but to leave But there's a story in my and see
see my beautiful chairs.
theme we ther them with her so long as she cared pole: instead of Thackeray, Mr.
Somerset Maugham.
But four chairs. You see, I've loved were my deur master's chales."
and manners though times When she was too feeble to live and celebrities have changed, one alone she gave up her house, went thing cannot be changed; the affec
furniture store and bought and mob can! four chairs that first sen- tence would have been the
beginning and end
me.
"
she
my jas-
They
UT Bucharest for the round about 1885 the We were very young, my sister quiet academic backwater, cross them for forty years-ever and I, when we first knew that her the road to that little cottage pre- since I first remember seeing "dear master" had been the vicar pared for my old friend. them, when I was "less than 80 of the parish, and she had been first
Ant there they were pollated high.
his housemaid and then his house-
you could
see your face in "They are beautiful polished ma- keeper, and had married late in life, them. And there, at infrequent in hogany chairs with carved ends and only when he needed her no longer forvale some fifteen years later, I
Tuls old that
man died in the middle
to sit on them, and red leather upholstery. The seals
after he had been vicar was allowed are wide, soft and comfortable, the eighties
Just a year the old lady gave a back fits into your back restfully, for more and there are
no spindles to get when he bought the chairs i don't party to my sister and me and her
three nieces and small nephew. scratched,
well know, but he must have had them Just four solid, shaped legs, the two front ones are by about 1050 when my old friend carved, and the back ones finely joined his household.
curved.
than
forty years.
He had not always been an ec- Lentric. He was a
as a leamed scholar, a Doctor of Divinity of Emmanuel WHEN 1 first became College, Cambridge, and from time Wfriendly with my chuire to time men of great erudition dined they were in the front parlour of a at the vicarage, and doubtless de- by an old castonally cottage, owned village
by accompanied wonian who, next to my parents, their later in crinolines, and later was my best friend.
on in bustles.
wore
She was then a widow of about I wonder, as I look at my chairs, sixty-four, and we never passed her what was the talk round this par- coltage without running in to see son's dining table. They would her. She had a great understanding have something to say about the children, and could always be Great Exhibition zut the Crystal counted on na a champlon if we were Palace just na we, to-day, are talk- in trouble with authority.
ing of the Empire Exhibition ut
of
On days when my mother had a Glasgow,
lot of sewing to do we used some- The Crimean war, with Florence
HUMOUR FROM THE KIRK
IN
the old days of Bible-thumping preachers nothing was admired
Nightingale's example to
• woun
untry
women, surely be discussed in
vicarage; and Darwin's uf Specles" in 1859 woukl create a good deal of full-throated! obloquy.
I expect, too. they would folk about the best-sellers of the day; about Tennyson, made Poet Laurg- ate In 1880 and just bringing out his "In Memoriam", about Dickens,
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"is the moenister ony belter?" a member of another country parish | Howrah asked the beadle, hearing that the preacher had been laid aside by 1}}~
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"Has he got a locum tenens?" "Na; he's got nasthing of the kind," nald the bendle, indignantly. "It's juist the same aukl pain I the sma
o' his back."
An instance of unfortunate word- ing appeared in a church magazine. where the minister had inserted the following notice:-"The minister will be pleased to hear of any ill- ness in the village."
the sick.
Il
In the absence of the minister an old elder was called upon to visit
One
old lady who lay very summoned him to pray at her bedside. The elder, who did not at alt care for the job, tried to evade his duties, but at length his wife persuaded him to set out. Soon af- terwards he returned with a very jubilant expression on his face.
"Hoo did ye get on?" asked his} wife on
anxiously.
"Graund! quoth he, with satis- faction. "She was dold afore I got: there"
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to the notes I have made." "Weel, then, meenister," said the beadle, meaningly, "gin ye sue sune: forget your nin sermons, ye canna blame us gin we follow your exam- ple."
One Sunday, the minister dia- covered a young momber of his flock bually engaged in fishing by the burn, with several trout lying beside "My boy," said he in a pained volen, “what” have those poor fish deserve such puniatiment on the Lord's Day?"
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to live with a niece, and the chairs to
tion which, through all their ap-i BARBER-WILHELMSEN LINE
went back to their old home, the parently fortuitous changes of vicarage. Again they wer silent
ownership, hins sinked each previous į to the conversation witnesses
of owner with the last, and all with scholarly men.
one another.
DIDN'T love sight of them. Their new owner Was another champion of my childhood:
Land of
Hilda Coe
M. Hodza, Czechoslova- kian Premier, speaking
at a recent mooting.
Three Scourges
HAVE just been in that
borderland of
slovakia which
Czecho-
marches
with the German Reich, and which is to-day-save for torn and tortured Spain-surely the most tragle country of Europe,
It should be a pleasant and a prosperous land.
For it has a fertile soll, well farmed for generations; it has good store of timber; it has rich wealth of brown coal and highly developed industries, manned by skliful workers; It has world-fam- aus spas and health resorts set in a lovely scenery.
But it is a land scourged by three acourgen: by economic distress, by racial struggle, by the ever-present fear of war,
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ACH alone would be bad enough. That the three are there together is the tragedy of the Sudetenland.
These once thriving towns and villages are passing through the same ordeal as our own distressed
areas.
Everywhere you may see allent factories and dead chimneys, you may talk with men who have been oul of work for four, five, six years. That is one grim aspect of this "Sudeten problem" which the Czechoslovak Government has to solve it the Republic is to and stability and prosperity.
It would be no easy one oven though the population were one in race and language and feeling with that of the rest of the state.
But fate, or chance, or history, or what you will. has ordained that, while the core and centre of Bohemia are Czech, the people of these border districts, where the distress is deepest, are predomin- antly Gorman.
And to be a German in Czecho- alovakia to-day is to have a sonso of grievance.
Again, the history of it all matters comparatively little, The sense of griovance is there-and not just among the Honlpinista. The Bocial-Democrats have it, too.
Between the slatements of those grievances put të mê by Socialist leader and by the saner of the
-by
W. N. EWER
Hicnlciniats there was hardly an ounce of difference.
I underline the word saner, for It is important to appreciate that there are some Honieinists who, while they have a feeling of deep grievance, do not believe the best way to meet it is by absorption in the Third Reich. It is upon an in- crease of their influence that the best hope of settlement resta.
They foot deeply that though the Germans are one-third of the people of Bohemia their language 15 not given full equality with Czech-is discriminated against in n hundred ways, none the less in- furiating because often potty.
They feel deeply because in a. purely German town or village overy omcial (police, postmen, rallwaymen and the like) may be an imported Czech,
They complain bitterly of all kinds of economic discrimination against the Germans-such as the bringing in of Czech workmen from other parts of Bohemin to public works in areas where there are thousands of German unem-
ployed.
All this you may hear from Ger- man Bocialist as well, and almost as bitterly, as from Honlclnlst. These German Socialist workers-a magnificent folk-are in the most tragic plight of all,
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President Benes and Dr. Hodza to do everything possible to give the Budetens every concession compat- ible with the integrity and inde- pendence of the State,
Equally there can be little doubt that the more responsible and more level-bended of the Henlein- 1st leaders are anxious for 1 reasonable settlement.
Between what Benes and Hodza would gladly give and what they would gladly take there is. I feel aure, a very small rap. if, indeed, any gap at all,
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1 The poker player's favourite
vehicle (10). 6 Fish (4).
UT on both sides sanity has to cope with insanity. Race feeling on the German side, especially among the young, has been whipped into Raco feeling on ecstatic frenzy. the Czech side, it less violent in expression, is well-nigh as formid- able in fact,
Ask
Czech any responsible statesman what are the chances
11 Perhaps of a settlement and he will answer, "We are doing our best. But it all depends on what Hitler Bays to Henleln."
Here
la the third aspect of the tragedy of this land. It is per- manently on guard. Just over the mountains Bes the Third Reich. At any moment Hitler might de- cide to strike: the planes might whir over the forests, the tanks seek to break through the passes. Perhaps the danger is less since May 21. But the Czechs dare take no risks. They aro
day and night to "repol d
Bee those haystacks in that field,"
says a Czech driver with a "HEY have suffered most
grin. "They aren't, haystacks at from the misery of un-
all,
Machine
posts. Those gun employment. They have.. hills just back there,” says some- suffered as a racial minority.
body else, "ure where the heavy Now they suffer A Party
guns cover that pass ahead." minority among their own people -bullied, intimidated, threatened by the Henleinists, who, becatio of the Socialista' loyalty to the Re- pubile, regard them as traitors to their race.
To-day the Czech Government is trying: wholeheartedly to re- move the grievances of the Ger-
mana.
There can be no question of the sincerity and the determination of
And the irony of it is that if" it " came, these Budoten Germans, their villages, their factories, their pleasant towns,' would be the first Vlotima: as the wiser of them grimly understand.
A tragic land, victim of the in- sanities of senseless strife and of the follies of governing men: which "but for the grace of God' may be the starting point of yat wider and deoper tragedy.
10 It often comes under the ham-
mer (5).
herein
celebrating
helps people with their prob- lems they usually see day- light before they leave! (two words-5, 4).
a first half 12 After consuming
would one be second half to work this entertaining machine? (two words-3, 5).
13 With no company and one end
(3)
15 The clerk of the weather call-
Ing7 (7).
17 NE. gales are the making
this part of Africa (7).
of
19 One of the family and a foreign
giant make a good show (7).
you feel you want to put something on a horse, here's n suggestion (7).
21
22 I do it otherwise (5).
24 A.I.P. advice to towns (8). 27 Not in good shape (0),
28 If this is good it may be had at
a party (8).
29 This bird should build a good
nest`(4).
30 Fly around with
with courage (10).
DOWN
no cars but
1 An order for a var (4).
2 Exposure of a sculptor's work?
(0).
3 Not a tenantless, bit of lond
ovidently (5),
4 What a Indy has and a siderman
does (7)..
6 A lady from 17 across perhaps
(7).
(5).
7 This sends messages in a Bash
8 A Sunday gathering usually
(two words-5, 5). DA Bold retainer at the tea table
(8).
14 Better look into it next time you go looking for bargains (two words-1, 0).
10 A striking result (8).
18 Charige at 5 down to eminence
(0).
20-A substitute for table legs (7). 21 No prodigal (7).
23 Publish (5).
26 Colloquially one who takes the
pledge (5),
20 An asinine effort, this (4).
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