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NOVEMBER 2,- 1938.
POINT OF PROVERBS COLONY'S WEATHER
English Association Talk By
Mr. de Martin
Vagaries Recorded ·
In October
The weather in the Colony during the first week of the past month was unsettled owing to the passage of two typhoons across the northern part of the China Sea. The first of theso
An entertaining talk on proverbs was given by Mr. G. P. de passed within 100 miles to the S.S.W. Martin at the first meeting this season of the Hongkong Branch of the English Association, held at the Helena May Institute yesterday. His Excellency the Governor was in the Chair, and he again accepted nomination as President of the Association.
Obsolete Sayings
Mr. K..W. Saller, Hon. Becretary (discretion is the better part and Treasurer, was re-elected; and valour. the accounts, showing a loss of $37 on the year, were adopted, following The
were
Dr
of Hongkong on the night of the the cast of Fort Bayard. The second pased about 250 miles to the S.S.W. of Hongkong on the afternoon of the 7th. Although neither typhoon gave of winds of gate force in the harbour, they brought heavy rainfall, which was much
ich needed after an excep- tonally dry summer.
3rd, to 4th, and entered the coast to
very worm.
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Many onco popular sayings have Vice-Presidents gone out of use, and Mr. de Martin The weather subsequently im- elected;
Lady North-wondered how long it would be be proved, and remained fair and warm, cote, Rev.
G. Byrne, .Jfore "puiting the cart before the with occasional showers, until Mrs. Edgar Davidson, Hon. Sir horse would have to be explained 15th. The development of an anil- Itobert Kolewall, Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo, to the rising generation. Shakes- cyclone over China brought cool His Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor,peare's audience know all about northerly winds, and fine weather on Mr. G. P. de Martin, Miss H. D. Lady Macbeth's "cat in the adage," the 16., and during the remainder Sawyer, Mr. D. J. Stoss, Professor but nowadays most people do not of the month no rainfall was recorded R. K. M. Simpson, Mr. 11. C. know that it was "The cat loves fish and almost cloudless skies prevalled.
.TO-MORROW Macnamara, and Hon. Mr. N., but is loth to wet her feet."
Temperature again rose on the 24th. Smith,
“Like a fish out of water" is at and the last week of the month was
GLORIA STUART His Excellency said that unleas]jeast as old as A.D. 373, when it was]
MICHAEL WHALEN The mean temperature for the those present and other members of said "of A monk away from his month was 77.8 F, which is 1.0 the Association were prepared to get monastery, but it is such an obvious shove normal. A maximum of 88.5* | their friends to join, then it would simile that it is almost certainly
was recorded on the lat.. and a be a confession that their convictions much older than that,
minimum of 80,0' on the 22nd, and In having an Association at all, were
Why do we say as dead as a door 23rd. The rncan relative humidity not sound.
nall?
brown as a berry? was 70 per cent., against a normal of After the formal business had been | Berries are usually any colour but 72 per cent.
Sunshine amounted to 233 hours, concluded, Mr. G. P. de Morlin brown. When we say that "Black- initiated a discussion on "Wise Saws berries are red when they are green," which is 10 hours above normal. The and Modern Instances,"
in spite of the apparent nonsense, total rainfall was 8.00 inches, agamat a normal of 4.55 inches; nearly all It is not easy to define a proverb, we are speaking correctly.
this rainfall was due to the passage Occasionally but a true proverb should be in
and We
different same
meaning of the two typhoons. common use, practical, metaphorical proverbs with the and short, he said. He suggested "All is not gold that glitters" is much tiint metaphor differentiated the the same as "Fine feathers do not proverb from the aphorism, though make fine birds." That all gold docs 4th. there was loose use of the two not glitter is perhaps not a proverb, words a synonymous. "The end but it enshrines a pathelle truth. justifies the means" is an aphorism Pope writes "Charm strikes the sight and
crit the corresponding proverb is but
soul." Un- wins the "The proof of the pudding is in the fortunately the latter process takes! cating."
longer.
Gray's flower "born to blush un-
Pressburg, Nov. 1. The monument of the English scen" reminds us that there are more fish in the sea than ever came out historian and publicist, Professor R. W Seton-Watson, In Rosenberg. and so a man may be selling tickets at Waterloo Station whom nature
bers of the Hlinka guards, a militant intended to be a Napoleon, and mute Slovakia, has been removed by mem- Miltons
may ingloriously peddle
in the Cromwell Slovak organisation. vacuum cleaners Read.
The speaker wanted to know why the keenest supporters of Dr. Benes we say "call a spade a spade" and policy in England, and he actively opposed Slovak efforts for autonomy why we specify sheep In "making during the past few months-Trans- sheep's eyes.”
When
Introduced
Biblical Source
Many popular European proveris of to-day are to be found in the Bible and in the classical writers of Greece and Rome; but that does not mean that they all originated there, Our famlilar "Red in the morning. etc." is quoted by Mathew in his gospel as being even in his day a well known saying.
Some Wellerisms
The common saying "The exception proves the rule" has had its meaning
Willett Mr. curiously twisted. The word "prove" used to mean "test" of "try" a sense, summer time Into England a few which still survives in the words years ago, there was grumbling from "probation" and "probationer": in the farmers. Much the same thing; the phrase "put to the proof": in the happened at the adoption of the parable where the man bought a Gregorian Calendar In 1752 because, read, country people could yoke of oxen and went to "prove" few them.
agricultural programmes were often regulated by rule of thumb re- The speaker told an amusing storyferences to use old calendar. about the text, "The tongue no man tame," which occurs in the can eighth verse of the third chapter of
Amusing examples were instanced An old the Epistle of James, Jacobite lady was invited to dinner by the speaker, to show that proverb by the Whig magistrate of a Scottish dull proceeding. The army contrac- collecting need not necessarily be a town. She made no objection
tor's version of "Needs must when drinking the health of
of King George the devil drives", is "no price is too drink her own king's health also, which she did by high when freedom and honour are
by at stake." (Laughter). the above text, and when one quoting
"All's well that ends well" as the of the guests asked where it came from, the sturdy old sport snapped peacock said when he looked at his out "James Third and Aucht" and tail, might be called a "Wellerism."
Pickwick readers| her glass
word which tossed off
of wine.ja
would understand. Perhaps the best (Laughter).
known Pickwickian Wellerism Popular proverbs are mustly quite Sam's reply to Counsel, "Quite old, but there are some modern ones enough, Sir, as the coldler sald when which have caught on, one of which he received 300 lashes." "You is "Where ignorance 19 bliss 'lis mustn't tell us what the soldier said," folly to be wise." It is Gray's word-interposed the judge. ing which is new. The klen is very evidence." (Laughter). old, sald Mr. de Martin.
| but determined
isn't
Finally Mr. de Martin reminded; his heurers that the ideas underlying most proverbs were not peculiar to any language.
Sydney Smith once quoted th proverb with effect. A shoemaker was arrested for bigamy and brought before the magistrates, one of whom Severni speakers took part in a discussion afterwards, His Excellency was Sydney Smith. When the ques
up the tlon arose which wife he would be winding
meeting with an obliged to take, Sydney Smith sug- expression of thanks to Mr. de gested that, being a cobbler, he Martin. He hoped that the speaker should stick to his lost. (Laughter). would find time one day to give
talk connecting nursery rhymes with Proverbs sometimes
as many of them were themselves and, while it may be
essence of most true that fortune favours the brave proverbs seemed to be their home- and that he who hesitates is lost, it liness, and he was hoping that some is also of proverbial wisdom that we ladies would have been inspired to should look before we leap and that give their views in the discussion.
contradict proverbs: The
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