THE HONGKONG Telegraph, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1939,
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That Night in Avalon.
Wallx.
GONE
ARE THE HORSE AND CARRIAGE
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Ilave you been using the same auto wax for years simply through force of habli? Don't use Horse and currlage auto wax.
31 is no longer necessary to work all
Omens
in China
A superstitious bellof in omens
has always been common amongst most nations, and per-
-by-
T. PAUL
GREGORY
And Gone with them are the old-sists, in spite of the progress of fashioned methods of waxing the modern science, to even the pre- sent day. Omens, morcover, afford to many a means of ex- plaining the trivial as well as the important affairs of every- day life, but, unfortunately, like other occult pursuits, to become over-engrossed in them, rather is highly unlucky, and an omen adds to the burden of human of approaching poverty. misery without any compens- Indeed, the Chinese affirm that the coming of a strange cat to u household, and her staying there, foreshadows an unfavour- able change in the family for-
day, to wear yourself out
to
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The
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Gone THE Chinese, however, like the tunes.
various nomadic bands of
Penury in all its awful grim- gypsies in England and the Con-
Heaven has tinent, seem to have made the ness is at hari. interpretation of omens a special given to crafty Tabby advance information of the approaching study, and affirm that they can dilapidation of the house, follow- prognosticate the future with
ing the ruin or poverty of its the minimum chances of error: inhabitants, and she therefore In view of such a statement, il
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is interesting to consider briefly comes prepared to reap a har some of the more commonly ac- cepted omens amongst the musses of the Chinese people, and to discuss their real signi- IF, however, a stray dog should ficance. Natural phenomena, of“ happen to come to the door,
provide the greatest by all means take him in; for: number of omens, but the Chi- n canine in such circumstances Hongkongnese, even more than our own is an omen of the greatest good
superstitious folk, attach much luck. importance to birds, animals, and insects as harbingers of either good or evil.
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Spring
"Spring is coming."
course,
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As the Cantonese way:
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SEVEN-off they trudged, pitifully unfit TEEN. A weedy for that via dolorosa.
The chow dog followed. The country youth, but
few survivors of the village well content to live upon the were doing likewise, or had al- land, exhausted though it realy gone. Xavier Cugal's Orch.
The burdened couple stumbled The Chinese reason that a dog was, which for countless Rudy Vallee Connecticut Yankees.
intelligent animal generations had sustained painfully on till dusk, stopping but once upon the way to cook that he knows beforehand where in some fashion his toiling a bowl of rice. New Mayfair Accordeon Band.
Night falling, the Sow was Juck Hylton's Orch.
That ought to be a dry of joy THE magpie, for instance, is he will obtain enough to eat, and forebears.
regarded as a bird of good if he therefore should decide
The second crop of rice tethered to grub what beat she .Geraldo's Orch. in these February days. But omen,
and its very
name to remain with one, it is a sure Geraldo's Orch. some people shake their hundshei-tscuk-the "bird of happi- sign that the family will be- was due for harvest when could, poor beast; the sleeping- For them thenes" suggests in what favour come wealthy, or, if formerly news arrived in that remote, mat was formed into a poultry pen; and all were given a dole of it is held. The Chinese say that poor, will henceafter change for self-sufficient, self-contain rice; father and son slept with- Jack Hylton's Orch, its they utter it.
approach of spring has become should one suddenly hear its the better.
ed little hamlet of the enemy in a thicket. Geraldo's Orch.
strident cry, It is to be pro-
approach.
Dawn! But not the sun Pierre's Orch, a thing to be dreaded.
nounced extremely felicitous, as
Opinions differed. Stoic forti- which roused them. The dread- They fear new troubles in the it implies success in any parti- Fatts Walker's Orch. The Nearest Thing you ever did was Kiss me. F.T.
world when the sun begins to cular undertaking which they SWALLOWS, too, are also re-tude was the prevailing note-ed drone! The ataccato taps of garded as an omen of happy some doubt-a little utter dis-deadly machine guns, the sicken- may be considering.
belief.
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How much better it would be to recall that in spring the leaves will come. The beauty of green foliage will cover the Peak and the hillsides behind Kowloon.
Cotton
BRITAIN protests, in countless
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father decisive
two sisters must
go
Lo
safety, such be found.
greater .could
By N. B. W.
But Ah Sum's Children especially take de- Inriy called Kwoon-yam-kai, or light in listening to the magpic's "chickens of the Goddess of greying chatter, and in the district of Mercy," and no Chinese would was Toi-shan-that part of Kwang- ever think of killing one. Their that mother and
old Buddhist tung which is the homeland of 60 connection with many Overseas Chinese-they lore has east around them a sort will sing:
of halo, singling them out as the feathered creatures most venerated by the average Chinese ma}} or woman (and
"Hei-tsenk kiu tak ho, Po-pa chan ts'oi-po, Ma-ma scap tal-tal. Koh-koh t'i so-so,
Pei ngoh vat koh Jaan-yat-to"
"The magpie's cry is an omen
good,
squndron pass- ed, Launching but one bomb upon the trem- bling refugees but leaving be- hind a ghastly
'scene of min-
gled porcine
He and Sum would do as best blood and rended human flesh-
the Chinese love birds beyond they could,
Sum's father.
all other living things). Per- The women bundled together Now the wretched, weakly of haps this veneration for swal-a little food and clothing, stoical- youth is stumbling on alone, the lows can be explained that ly took leave of their menfolk hens slung on his shoulder, the it means that) papa will make wherever these birds choose to and trudged away.
doleful, frightened dog, at heel. plenty of money,
Scarcely is he aware of what
nest, that spot is especially
Ah Sum and his father now
Alama will give birth to more little blest, Fortunate, indeed, is the attempted the work of five, but he does, his only thought is "On-
brothers,
cottage where swallows arc And our big brothers will all take found; for RA the Chinese
wolves,
naively say:
"Yin-tscuk taap-tau t'eng indon-
hau,
While each of us wlil get a "fean-
pat-te as a present.
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T'at-yuet taap kan, paat-guet
taap ngan"
if the rice could be saved before. ward!"
$ $ $ DAYS WENT BY.
Too apathetic to cook a way- side meal. One hen escaped, the
The hope other two he sold, buying cooked that the tidings were false rice from wayfarers a little guined life, though on the little better found. holdings they had small belief in permanent security.
notes and demarches, against the Japanese policy of closing the conquered territory in China to foreign trade.
Put we, too, have a door which we would shut on Japan-. ese business. For three years now, we have bought more from Japan than we have bought from our own Motherland. If you'll recall the statistics the "Telegraph" published Thurs-ON the other hand, the crow is day, you'll remember that this evil. Its harsh cry is regarded Colony's percentage of goods as a peculiarly disturbing ele- imported from the United King-ment, impressing the hearer with the foreboding thought dom was lower than that of any that whatever enterprise he may FOOD Western housewives will doubtless be shocked to learn of the forty-odd Colonies in the be contemplating will be entire Empire. That is something we ly abortive. Certain Chinese that the Chinese amah (bless
when they hear the incessant her heart) has a ches which gazed intently aloft and veined. DIMLY HE remembere cannot be proud of.
cawing of a flock of crows are gurd for the cockroaches
He the drone long be- aunt in Little Hongkong. instantly reminded of the despite the constant application fore his masters and long before Would his scanty cash suffice to auspicious chatter of the magpic of borax still persist in the kit- either perceived the stranger in take him there and cry out as if in protest: chen. They, too, would be the skies.
We allow Japanese cotton goods to pour into this Colony
on the same terms as Lancashire goods, so that we don't buy the latter. Instead of deriding the efficacy of Notes and protests, let us give a lead. We should not be buying Japanese goods to the extent we do. We should secure to Lancashire a large part of that trade in cotton textiles that goes to Japan, and help. bring back work to idle mills and idle men in the cotton towns of our Homeland,
New Moon
considered to be an omen of
"A-tsenke ch'aak-ch'aak, Lo-n ka-ka:
Ho, ch'aak-tolt-sheng, Ch'au ch'aak-in-teng; Ho, ching-lai,
Sam, kwoh kauk-let "The mappics chatter, The crows caw... (Mapples) if you've good tidings, Chatter Inuder,
(Crows) if you bring evil, then
don't be so nolay!
"If the swallows build their nests over the courtyard door in July, gold will come to the household, and in August, silver;"
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that amazed if they realised according to Chinese superstition
Outwardly all was calm; the
The chow dog disappeared, doubtless to some cooking-pot.
Blind with fatigue, with
old now swallowed and browsed swollen legs and blistered feet,
on what she could find, the hens he makes the quasi-haven of scratched the sandy, unclean soll Shekki.
and laid their microscopic fruit. the mongrel chow
But
$ $
an
To find a bout? One whole The monster passed-and life
a junk day he searched until was found, the master willing to the presence of cockroaches in went on. a house is an omen of good. In Two days later he returned accept his offered payment. fact, the Cantonese affirm:
brood--but or one of identical not alone. "Kaat-isaat si yan foo. K'am-lo of van k’ung" "Cockroaches like people to be-
come rich,
Spiders like them to become poor."
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singularly
They left behind a village shattered.
Famished and fainting, still clinging to his shattered life Ah Sum through film-dimmed eyes perceives Hongkong."
Can he find his aunt in all that Ah Sum was still alive and un- thronging crowd hurt as far as he knew. His
His first doubt. The landing father lay groaning
amid the wharf. ruins of the hut.
"Thirty Dollars! Thirty Dol- Feverishly the panting lad lars! All disembarking show enough, the abundance of cockroaches in a house means sought to free the injured man thirty dollars !" that prosperity is being enjoyed-not difficult owing to the frail- by the family, und as long as ty of the hut.
If good things are to come, then IN other words,
let them come to us,
If bad, then let them pass on to
our neighbours," "
+
$ $ $
Gruffly and with difculty a member of the Disembarkation the domestic fortunes are un- He bathed the cat upon the Party explains to the exhausted Entry in diary: Sunday, SINGULARLY enough, the do- diminished, the is well con- old man's head, tearfully rejoic- Ind the dire necessity.
tinue to male their abode in the ing to see the dazed eyes open. mestic cat is sometimes kitchen, but as soon as there is Though both were badly shaken, February 19, 1 Moon, 1st Day-unfavourably regarded by the evidence of forthcoming poverty, no serious harm was done.
$ $ $ New Moon, 4.28 p.m.
|Chinese, even although she may they will vanish and the spiders
HE IS DONE! Thirty Dollats!: You meanor beauties of the night, be an exceptionally good mouser, move in instead.
Down he sinks upon the un- Beware, the Chinese sny, of the "The faan-pat-to is the T'oi-
clean boarding, head in hands, taz-lot-maak,
"stray More by your number than your which comes mowing to your of tumbling toy much liked by
cat" shan dialectical name for a kind NEXT DAY the screaming sow and weakly sniffles.
was crated, the wildly cluck- Hour efter weary hour he re- light.
door, and with felino artfulness Chinese children. It conalata of ing, indignant hens collected, a mains until a rough hand and a rubs herself against your legs, the weighted paper figure of an sack of rice, two bowls, a cook- loud voice bids him away.
Ho Is hustled on board the. besoeching you to have plty on old man, which no matter howling-pot, a sleeping-mat, a few her distress. You must harden it is aced will always revert to eggs and vegetables--the whole junk, ita master being compelled.
were slung on bamboo polo, and (Continued on: Page (14.). your heart against her; for shoan`upright position.
That poorly nalialu dar eye"
You common people of the skica:
What are you when the moon
doth rize?
SIR HENRY WOTTON,
or