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MONDAE, JANTART M. 1920.

BIRTH.

WEİR.—A: 3, Malville Steel, Pol-

HOW TO BE GAY AGAIN

HISTORIC INN SOLD,

lokshields, on November 6, to The historic fully licensed inn Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weir, oknown as the Saracen's Head Hotel, Taikoo Dock Yard, Hongkong. Southwell, was sold at Auction China, a daughter.(Helen recently. The part culars of sale set Hastic Weir)

forth that the hotel, which is of con- siderable antiquity and historical importance, was in olden days cele brated as a coaching house, and has on several occasions provided accom acdation for English kings. It was in the coffee-room of the hotel that Charles I. surrendered himself to the Scottish Commissionera in May, 1645, afterwards being sent under escort to Cromwell's army stationed at Kelham. The bedchamber in which Charles I. slept on the eve of his surrender is well preserved. The licence is a very ancient one, and the existence of the hotel is proved by documentary evidence to date back over 500 years.. The property was sold to Alderman A Ball. of Notting ham, for £3,850.

[By A. CLUTTON BROOK.]

Whatever else we were during the war, brave or cowardly, eager to do our duty or shirk it, we could not to gay. We might go to the silliest plays that commerce could provide for tired minds; we might keep our spirits up with jokes, no matter how poor: was always there, like someone dangerously ill in the house, to be forgotten only by an effort and för an hour. Out of such forced for getfulness. galery does not spring; it comes of remembering good things, not of forgetting bad, and there were few good things then to remember.

but the war

Many people shook their heads when the overseas troops started choosing wives in England after the WAT was over. A large percentage of the wives were London girls, and many of them: mere flappers, or there-

WEDDING

· SMITH-ALOGIE.

THE CHINA MAIL.

VANITY FAIR COMPANY.

Guests of the Peak Hotel and their friends were entertained on Saturday

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

NOTICE.

E. D. O, WOLFE, Captain Superintendent of Police. Hongkong. January 10, 1920.

G.

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The wedding took place this morn-night at the Hotel by the Vanity Fair ing at St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon, Company who gave a concert in the of Mr. William Smith, chief draughts-dining room. The programme was an man of the Yangtsepoo Dock Co.,

excellent one' in every way and was Shanghai, and Miss Jessie Asabel thoroughly moved. A selection of TT IS HEREBY NOTIFIED that Slogie, youngest daughter of Mr.

twenty items from the Company's I

Persons applying for Licences Herry Siogie, of Glasgow. The Rev. Cepertoire was given, including some under the ARMS and ORDINANCE G. R. Lindsay officiated and the bride humorous contributions by Leslie should do so between the hours of was given away by Mr. D. Harvey, Holmes and, by special request, the 9 and 11 x daily, FUNDAYS Mr. J. M. Jack officiating as best man. Company sang "The Bells of St. and HOLIDAYS excepted. T

The bride, who was attended by Miss Mary's" which is always very popu- Application to be made at the Licen Mary Hyde, was attired in a charm lar Other contributions were sing Clerk's Office, Central Police ing costume of white coating with gold Cupids in the bring" by tone Station. trimmings and a white pan-velvet hat ladies, "Opera versus Ragtime," and with pink osprey. She carried a Opera Medley with a protest" by bouquet of white roses and maiden-Verdi. The two last named items hair lern. She also wore white furs. occasioned much merriment. Messrs. The bridesmaid was prettily dressed Holmes, Mammering and Greystone. in-saxe blue satin, white hat, and car- sang "What are the wild waves say, ried a bouque; of pink roses and malding" and "Utopin," the dream of enhair fer, Mr. T. Martin officiated three hen-pecked married men, was at the organ and played the Wed- also given. Miss Shirley Cooke again delighted averyone with her selections :he Church.

at the piano, as did Miss Mädge A reception was subsequently held Griffith and Mr. Sidney Mannering in Mr. D. Harvey proposed the health: Joan Desormes gave a much appre- at the Hongkong Hotel during which their songs. Misses Eileen Boyd and of the happy couple, to which the slated duct white Mr. George bridegroom suitably replied.

Titchener contributed some clever The happy pair, who will leave ments for the concert, made by Mrs. xylophone imitations. The arrange for Аспеутоот trip on:

Shinyo Maru

Blair, the manageress, were greatly for Shanghai, were recipients of many handsome pre-appreciated by all who attended. sem, the bridegroom's gift to the bride being a diamond and aquamarine pendant, while the bride gave the bridegroom a signet ring. The best man's present to the bridegroom was a pair of gold sleeve links and the bridegroom's gift to the bridesmaid was an equamarine and peart brooch.

Since last Saturday up to Tuesday GRAND BENEFIT MATCH During the reception ielegrams of con- entitled "Ninety Nine is being next a magnificent photo-play drama gratulation were received from Shang-screened, featuring the famous Louise

SOUTH CHINA AFHLETIC

the

But even now, when the war has been DISILLUSIONED FLAPPERS.ding Match" as the happy couple left over for nearly a year, we still And it hard to be gay. It is not only that we have new anxieties; we have not for the habit of the old one, and of all the thoughts and feelings connect- ed with it, by a kind of momentum we live still in terms of anxiety. For four years we were forced to be Marabouts. The gallant Anzacs and thas, and we remain careful and

other overseas warriors succumbed in troubled over many things, so that we

great number to the charms of Eng. look back to the time before the warlish girls with whom they were thrown as if it had been a happy, careless in close association during their stay childhood of the world,

in England, and marriages were quite common. There have since been rather ominous reports of troubles on the other side when the couples ar- rived out in their respective home lands. But apart from cases in which it proved that the bridegrooms had been either married, or at least en-hai and Scotland. gaged, in their own countries before the war, one hears very unsatisfactory accounts of too many of these alliances. It is idle to expect that the average London girl, often not of the working class. could settle down) happily in such circumstances as con- front most of them our in the Colonies. And it is a fact that very many of them are now repenting of their action.

SUMMARY COURT.

FIPOTE OVER A COAT.

HONGKONG THEATRE.

• NOTICE.

KOWLOON WATER WORKS

WING to Alterations to the Water Mains IT IS BEREBY NOTIFI that the WATER SUPPLY to the from 9. P.M. on TUESDAY, the 13th whole of KOWLOON will be shut off

instant, until morning.

the following"

W: CHATHAM,

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Publip Worka Department

Boogkong, January 10, 1819.

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SATURDAY, 17th January, 1920, HAPPY VALLEY, at 4.15 p.m. Proceeds in aid of the widow of the late Warder Speed.

G. GERRARD,

Hon. Secretary. B.K.F.O.

Lee Stewart and William Courtenay. HONGKONG FOOTBALL CLUB. This is a splendid play with some peculiar acting that brings the drama to its complete success. This picture la. Being show during the 5.15 and 9.15 p.m. performances. In the 7.15. performance the-final episodes of the serial "Brass Bullet" is given for the week, The usual topical pic rures are shown at intervals: A fresh programme will be announced on Wednesday next when new attractions will be screened.

TO-DAY'S ADVERTISEMENTS.

Some would tell us that we ought never to be gay gain after all we have suffered and lost; they are like old-fashioned evangelicals, for whom low spirits wero a sign of piety have heard one of them described by another as such a wonderful sad woman"; but those do not understand the meaning of the wordi gaiety, or the virtue of it. It is to them some- thing heartless and frivolous; it is rausical comedy rather than Mozart. and the mood of those who say, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die." But there is no gaiety in the mood: true gaiety comes of faith, not of unfaith, and is won by a triumph over circumstance and self; it is

In the Summary Court, this more One girl's case wasning, tefore Mr. Justice Gompertz.. beautiful, and there is never frivolity mentioned to me the other day which Hoorain All and Co., claimed In beauty. How much the word, and is fairly typical. She writes. almost from Mr. and Mrs. Field, of married with it the conception of the thing.despairingly that she is miserable, quarters, Victoria Jail, the sum of has been degraded we can see from miles away from anything, and wash- $15 for goods sold and delivered. the phrase a zay woman" such ing twenty pairs of corduroys a day? women, poor things. may, like com- There was a strong aura of romance mercial music, which is a contradic about the Aussies in London. But tion in terms, Imiste gaiety; but in there is precious little romance about their life the death's head is always the hard work on a sheep farm down at the feast. The word was used in under t its right and high sense by Johnson when he said that the death of Gar rick eclipsed the gaiety of nations;dition; you may prefer a universe in that is the gaiety we have lost and which the unforgiving would be the need to recover. How are ye to do happiest, but the fact remains that in the article for $10, but defendant re

this universe they are not.. That we fused it and left the shop. ShortlyChina Majl can discover by scientific means, by afterwards defendant's wife went to observation of others and experiment the shop and defendant alleges that opon ourselves.

The

nature of the coat was forced on to her. Def. things is on the side of the forgiving endant was very annoyed when he to them it gives happiness and wisdom saw, the coat in his house that even- and galery, and denies them to the ing but owing to his wife's illness, unforgiving, and happiness and wis-had not found, time to return it. dom and gairy are better worth hav His Lordship said he considered ing in this perhaps iniquitous and the defendant liable for $10, since bë had had the coat in his possession. for nine months. If defendant had gone to a solicitor he would' have been advised to pay the money and not come to Court: Judgment for the plaintiff for $10.

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I have mentioned Mozart as a mas fer of gaiety, and in his operas, which we no longer call frivolous, the gaiety and the beauty are subject to a cer- tain condition. The story and the people may seem absurd, but gifery could not be won from that absurdity if they were cruel to each ether, of if their maker were cruel to them

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In all real gaiety there is some com- irrational universe, than revenge. nection with reality, it may be a holi-You may make out for revenge a case day from business, but it is the holi that satisfies your own logic and con- day of those who have a business; it science, but you will be beaten by may be light, but it is the lightness the facts. They ge that we attain of those who can think and feel, and to wisdom in practical matters not by Mozart could do both. He did not caid argument but by trusting certain turn out gaiety because it was a de- passions and distrusting others; and sired commercial article: it sprang the wisest of all passions is pity. For franghis mind, his experience, his it makes a man know that he is a fool: philosophy even, and so sprang easy, when he is to himself heroically in- eternal, and rational, doing no vio-Lexorable, when he sees himself per- lence to probability or to conscience.forming the Functions of an averging! This philosophy, which perhaps he God. Then, through pity, he laughs never put in words to himself, we at himself with the gay, beautiful car express dully and baldly thus: laughter of Mozart, laughs through "You cannot be gay unless you pity his tears for those whom he pities and

ad lorgive." His gaiery was beauti-forgives.

al and profound because it sprang But pity, as a Chinese philosopher from pity and forgiveness: at the end has said, with a bewildering simplicity

ol" Figaro" there is universal for that we despair of pity does not giveness and divine beauty: the im- consist merely of an unusual feeling."*

enjoy the unexpected sensation of it.

plied comment is: "We are all of us | It fails to be piry.'il we are content to absurd and erring, but we can escape Into 'gaiety and beauty by forgiving

it must fulfil itself in action if it is

each other."! There it is like the o bring us happiness and gaiety. So parable of the Prodigal Son, which is what we need now is not merely

■lso full of watery. One can imagineeling but a policy of pity. Grant Mozart making one of his comic operat hat the Germans have been as wicked about it, with a Reale of dancing and is you like. Those who tried to make merriment. as in the story. Ands forgive them by insisting they had. even in "Don Giovanni" Zerlina, tore no wrong were wasting their comic-onera flirt, sings over the beaten. Maserto a song such as the father might have sung to the Pro digal Son, That is why Mozart's galety, never grows stale, why he fr called the diviner why, as Tschaikov. aky said, when you lisen to his must you feel as if you were performing good action.

So we can regain our gaiety, on

pains. If you forgive, you forgive hose who have done wrong; and you nust forgive them before they reperit

it is by forgiving them that you move them to repentance. But now," dmitting that they have done much wrong and that they have cot yet re- pented as they ought to do, the fact of their suffering remains. It is suf aering that moves pity, and pity that

scondition: not by forgetting the war produces wisdom in action. We are

but by foreiving our enemies. Ther by nature fools, and most foolish when

vas impossible for most of us while the war Insted, as maiery was impon- sible. But now that we have beater them, it still we deny them forgive- ness, we deny ourselves hazniness

we argue coldly. Wisdom comes to .15 with the wise passioris and with acting on them. That at least, is the Christian doctrine and there is much *xperience to confimit. But we do

I am dot preaching an unleasant not believe it, because we think it duty, but stating a fact. So long as a mere command of God, who per- men complace to hate, so long as thehaps does not exist, and a command Bay, We will not forgive, becamer 10 do something against. our own we have a right to be unlorelaine" nature and the whole nature of things. they are cherishing septic, metter In But, as another. Chinese philosopher their minds. The question is, nor said, True virtua is always para- whether they have a right to remain doxical at first, but in the end it ex- unforgiving but whether they with ibits complete conformity with to be miserable. The true doctrine nanre." * In fact, » nature “iseli, of forgiveness, as expressed in the parable of the Prodigal Son and the Doeras of Mozart, is not that "lorelve. ness is a painful duty but that it is trust it. We cannot be happy or gay condition of happiness, You may, it until we put our trust in that which you choose, revolt against that con- we value.Manchester Guardian."

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specially our nature, is paradoxical.

In our hearts we do value pity shove inexorable justice; but we dare not

Plaintiff stated that defendants came to his shop and purchased a coat on January 11. last year, the price being $15. The coat was returned in October this year.

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