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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Friday, DECEMBER 23, 1938.
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.Dec. 31st
Jan. 1st. '39
Christmas Eve
New Year's Eve
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New Year's Night
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But Once A Year
James Agate likes to get
USELESS
Christmas
CARLYLE! thou shouldst
be living at this hour: Christmas hath need of thee! For the old dyspeptic FESTIVAL WHAT A
is being our first authority on Christmas! The Divine clothes, would probably in- Birth being its source and ins-Istruct us wisely in the mat- piration, it has gathered to it-ter of Christmas presents. self all the love and tenderness Mention of the old gentle- of childhood and of motherhood.man, and the hidden reference to two of England's major poets, The simple gospel story has set me wondering what pre- given its setting and circums-sents at Christmas, or the pagan would have tance the Mother, the Child, New Year, one
wished on any a dozen of the the manger, the cattle, the earth's greatest. Here are а shepords, the Magi aud the gifts few of my fancies:- --these in their course down the) ages have gathered round them an aura of tenderness and senti- ment, with their own benignant; ritual and song.
bells
Christmas stockings, and carols, roast goose and turkey, little fir-trees, mistletoe and holly—all these and much elac Christmas has gathered to itself.
1. Carlyle A new digestion. 2. Milton Restored eye-
sight.
3. Wordsworth--Daffodils. 4. Alexander--A new world
to conquer.
SABLE
5. Cleopatra Pearls und
some vinegar,
6. Mr. Pepys Knowledge of
his future fame.
7. Henry
wife.
VIII. Another
8. Horace Walpole-A fresh
scandal.
9. Marat--A lock for the
bathroom.
10. Napoleon-A change of
warders.
11. Florence Nightingale-A
new lamp.
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presents
*I'm not going' tu put up with one of
those things, so you might an well not
unwrap it."
Herm, where he used to spend the summer holidays with ten brothers and sisters. Herm was of all islands the most
most glorious, the
glorious
of all being Jethou, "which We all thought must be much better than Herm because there were only two houses on it." Now comes my golden sentence: "The next year we went to Cromer or some stink- ing hole!"
Woe to the parent whose off- spring should write in later years: "We all wanted to go to
But father 'Cinderella.'
in- sisted on taking us to "The Glass Slipper' or some stinking fan- tasy!"
But to return to our books. Here the matter is largely one of age. Boys up to the age of twelve should be given what- ever is the modern equivalent of the school stories of Talbot
What I do want and am give children children's books. Baines Reed and the adventure yearning to possess is:-
Dr. Johnson knew about this, as yarns of G. A. Henty. 1. Pair of budgerigars,
we see from Mrs. Piozzi's From twelve to fifteen 2. Blackpool Tower in cork. "Anecdotes" :-
the masterpieces which they 3. Smoking-suit in purple "Babies do not want to hear will read now or never-such corduroy with tangerine about babies; they like to be masterpieces as "Robinson Cru- lapels.
told of giants and castles, and soc," "Westward Ho!" "Tom 4. Tie-press in mother-of- of somewhat which can stretch Brown's Schooldays," Master-
pearl.
and stimulate their little man Ready," "The Last of the 5. Tortoiseshell walking-stick minds." When in answer 1 Mohicans," "King Solomon's and celluloid buttonhole would urge the numerous edi- Mines," "Treasure Island," and for evening dress.
tions and quick sale of Tommy anything by Jules Verne. Prudent or Goody Two Shoes: From fifteen to eighteen the "Remember always (sald he) Heart of Midlothian," "David
6. Pagoda for poodle.
7. Poodle for pagoda.
8. Silhouette of Marlene that the parents buy the books, Copperfield," "Vanity Fair,"
Dietrich in seaweed,
and that the children never read "The Cloister and the Hearth,"
9. Portrait of Abraham them.”
Lincoln in wool.
10. Hookah.
11. Howdah for white ele-
phant.
12. Model
Theatre,
"Adam
Bede," "Barchester Towers," "Many Inventions." THE same thing applies "Kipps," and "The Old Wives"
to plays for children. Tale."
When I was a child the kind of From eighteen to twenty-one
of National pantomime I liked was the I recommend "Tom Jones,"
grown-up sort. I doted on one "The Vicar of Wakefield," "La- in which the Principal Boy, at vengro," "The Ordeal of Rich-
BUT the people really tired in tights and top-hat, ard Feverel," "The Mayor to be considered are slapped her thigh and sang a of Casterbridge," "Almayer's the kids. Here the rule is that rousing ditty of which the bur- Folly," and I venture to auggest one Giesing and one Henry For I'm a man of the world, James. A man of the world am I! And, of course, any age from fifteen onwards is right for I cherish an undying admira- Boswell's "Johnson" and the 2. Greta Garbo---A passage win's "Formation of Vegetable Hastings. For
Science turned out to be Dar- tion for the late Macdonald Diary of Samuel Pepys.
many reasons, About girls, I suggest the
sentence golden
A
The season in which it has fallen adds to its strength by contrast; the festival shines out like the cheerful windows of an
12. Dickens Time to finish they must be given things den was:-~~ inn midway along the dark road
"Edwin Drood."
which fire, the imagination. The of the winter, where there is
Then what about people living bitterest moment of my boy- warmth and
hood company and re-to-day? Here I suggest:-
was when hard-won First Prize for Proficiency in freshment. The sober reality 1. C. B. Cochran-A wow. may be a Hongkong heat-wave, but in the ideal Christmas of our childhood the ponds are all ringing with strong black ice, there are four inches of snow upon the ground, powdery and fine, with the fields buried deep below the dazzling mantle.
The fireside is a seasonable pleasure which our ancestors set at its true value and which our more travelled generation is apt to misprise. Especially, is it a pleasure and a benefit, when it unites the family group round its most ancient altar, the hearth, at the festival dedicated
home.
3. The ex-Kaiser-A tin Mould through the Action of though
sabre.
4. Mr. Hore-Belisha-Toy
Boldiers.
5. Mr. Thomas Farr-14lbs.
more punch.
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Worms."
one
must suffice. This occurs in his same curriculum, with the ex- But let me begin with the "Memoirs of a Child." Mac is ception of "Tom Jones," which they will not understand, and of NEVER talking
island called
"Many Inventions,"
," which they will dislike.
tots. Never,
never,
6. Mr. Littlewood-A swim- GRIN AND BEAR IT
ming pool.
7. The Japanese-Sanity. 8. Any Spaniard-Ditto.
9. The English Team-Guts.
10. Gracie
"Sally."
Cricket
Flelds-Another
11. Strubo-Another twenty-
five years.
12. Gordon Richards-A Der-
by winner.
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COME now to the most important principle in time out of mind to the child. the matter of Christmas pre- the mother and the family.
aents. They must be useless. Here is a list of useful presenta Thus Christmas gives to man-for which 1, personally, should kind these beautiful homilies of say "Thank you very much," kindliness, hospitality and the and then immediately dismiss giving of gifts, of charity, of them from mind:- friendship, and of family love.
Life would be a Ladder pil- grimage without it, and after the trials which have afflicted our Homeland these last few months, and the tribulations through which our great and] friendly neighbour is passing.] we hope it will bring a rich mea- sure of blessing and consolation.
1. Radio licence..
2. Bed socks.
3. The Works of Longfellow.
4. Gramophone record of the
Quins.
5. Garden roller.
6. Loofah,
7. Bulbs for window-boxes.
8. Skid-chains- for motor-
car.
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9. Horse-muzzle. 10. Beetle-powder. -Asparagus tonge. 12. Goloshen.
UNDER NEW DANAGEMENT
20%
an
By Lichty
"Nope, I didn't sell it—just got married!"
some-
IN the matter of toys 1 am inclined to think that boys should have thing corresponding to modern invention, which means air- planes, motor-cars and speed- boats. I am not in favour. of trains, because father will play with them and the child never
get a look-in.
As a thorough. fogey and were I the father of two child- ren, I should give them a chess- board of nobly-smelling leather jund a set of weighted chess-men of the dignity which suits the game.
In my view, nothing is better for an afternoon at this season. than a roaring fire, AN old- fashioned sheepskin hearthrug, black for choice, a supply of oranges, and a set of chess men. You play the game on your stomach, and instead of chang- ing over the pieces at the end of the game, change places on the hearthrug and so get the other side scorched!
Little girls still, I suppose. like dolls. In my day demure maidens of six required a wax offgy which opened two china- blue eyes and said "Mamma!” Now I shall reluctantly concede that they prefer a bodizaned (Continued on Page, 5.)-