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CORRESPONDENCE.;

MORE ABOUT SNOBBERY.

(To the Editor of the “Chinë MOL"}

THURSDAY, JULY 13—1972,

TAIPO COLLISION.

CASE BETTLED.

THE RENTS CASE.

DEFENDANTS POSITION:

OUTLINED.

RFECIFIC FERFORMANCE URGED,

cannot testify. We krow there are snobbish knights and snobbish grocers and drapom. “We know there, ar snubbish" 'policemen and snobbish journalists. We would not be

Yesterday afternoon judgment was ; surprised to meat - snobbish

A fitter employed by the Hongkong

entered by consent for $125, with no duttman, Snobbery haunts men Electric Co., was charged before Mr.

AL well as fashionable E. W. Hamilton this morning with that we are not a lot of snobs. It is Dragon Motor Company Ltd.for $250 Sir, I fear it cannot be maintained order as to costs, in the case in which the Attorney General aned the neighbourhoods. The original con the theft of 140 lbs. of copper. tribution which provoked

This morning Me, O. G. Alabaster this

Ms. H 9. Macnamara appeared for imposible to overlook it. On the damages to a motor cycle, (lent by- addressed the Court in the Roata case discussion suggested snobbers on the the defence and entered a plea of not Peak Tram I heard two women talk. Mr. G. W. Kynoel) ridden by Lance now occupying the attention of the Peak as disdaining the Baptist guilty. Chapel. It is very certain that it:

ing about the officers of a certain Bergt. Ellwood, caused by the allegat Chief Justice. The parties are the A Portuguese foreman named G.) would be found in the Baptist Chapel Nevee said that on the 25th a regiment. One said: "They're of negligence of the driver of a car Mission Etrangera plaintiffs, and the belonging to the Company. After Nanyang Bros Tobacco Co, defend- also. There would be people there month, he missed some copper the tradesmen class, my dear. Not the case bad been in progress for a ante. Mr. Alabas er appear on Le who, regardless of the doctrinal ends." He questioned the defendant, our sort." I happened to be aware short while, Mr. H. K. Holmes, Crown ball of the latter, being opposed by claims of baptism, would consider it and he said that he had already re-(1) that the lady so speaking had for solicitor, who appeared for the Mr. Eldon Potter and Mr. F. G. more respectable more the thing." turned them to the store. The grandeire a man who kept a small plaintiff, and Mr. C. Lauritzen the Jenkin to be a Baptist than (say) a witness saw the storekeeper on the

| managing proprietor of the defendant In the course of his address Mr. Ala- Salvationist, We pretend, in our following day, and the latter denied pub, her father was a grocer, and she company, adjourned to the Paine hater mid the defendant's action was parazcology at least, to a wonderful that he had received the copper. The herself had worked for a living before Judge's Chambers, where judgment for the specific performance of an definition of social classes. We speak defendant was sent for and question- she married a taipan; and (2) that the was entered

[ agreement contained in certain letters, of the upper classes, of the upper ed by the witness in front of the maligued officers all happened to be

Mr. Holmes explained the circums which passed between Pers Robert. middle and the lower middle and of storekerper and a Chinese foreman, of the professional classes.

tances of the accident. He said his and Mr. Chau Shou son, by which the lower classes; but the divisions and he admitted that he had sold the It is hat one instance out of many Lordship was aware to a certain they were cotitled to a lesss for three are really quite hopelessly indefinite, copper. The No 1 foreman pleaded I could tell about.

extent of the particulars from the years, with the option of renewal for as we find by experience. No one for the defendant to be given

examination of Capt. C. 8. Dodwell,ans thur three years. Whether the would attempt to plaen an individual chance and the witgoes let the matter

Yours truly,

R. G. A., who was riding in the de- place THIRTY YEARS HERE. fendant's car at the time of the acci-ment

WLO E domentic in any one of them with certainty, pase. On the 30th the witnes drew

tene- OF not was immaterial on. maless it were a peer or a navvy. They some solder from the Tiddell Street

dent and whose evidence had already that point. That question would are clasificatory expressions, but store and kept it in his tool box in (To the Editor of the “ China Mall."torney General suing might, however, the defendants would bave to pay. been takia. The reason for the At-only-arise in considering what reat what do they classify! In Zoology the Gough Street sub-station. there are exactitudes (as vertebrate mine the uff on July 4 and the

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against me as regards education, dress, or manners; but I am told that I cannot be elected because I am "in the retail."

not be too clear. On March 3, the The plaintiffi however had given them

recover

and invertebrate) but none here. defen int told him that he had melted Sir, I do not desire to butt in to Police Department borrowed from Mr. notice to quit and had begun an What distinguishes the upper middle it down. The witdess reported him. your present controversy re snobbery. Kynoch motor cycle No. 244. The nation of ejectment. They had argued class for instance Culture! No. ling strate: It seems to me that I want to ask those who are in it one cycle was being ridden by Sergt. that being outside the Ordinance Fedigree No. Money? Certainly you had compounded a felony by nat question. I hold

toward responsible Ellwood

Taipo at they were entitled to recover posses not. Clothes? Mode of living 'm, reporting him in the first instance. -position in retail firza bera. "I want about 3.30 that afternoon sin of the whole premises or in It was then explained to these join the Hongkong Club. My when a collision occurred, between the alternative they argued that Magistrate that Mr. Neves was com- means are larger than those of some the fourteenth and fifteenth mile they were entitled to plainant in the cass and not members I know. There is nothing stones, with a car belonging to the possession of that part of the the company.

Dragon Motor Company. The ayole premires--practically the whole. Magistrate: I think the company

and car were proceeding in opposite which were not occupied for domestic has behaved in an extraordinary

directions, and on the latter's left purposes. If the plantifia would manner in the matter.

or proper side, the road to the ex withdraw their claim for possession tent of about half way across, was and it was conceded that defendauts --- covered with broken stones which were entitled to their six years' lease, I had been levelled. This side was a it would very much shorten the case. little higher than the other half. Then they could consider what rent Capt. Dodwell had told them that they would have to pay.

Mr. Potter said if they were outside beon given about cars avoiding the Ordinance they wanted their broken stone, but he mentioned that premises. If they were inside they

so amused our anti-mobs, and oc

inost

Is that snobbery, or what is it?

Yours traly BAPAUME.

Let us not be rash. Let us leave thei answer to the pensive reader.

It comes in the end to this, that by snob we mean a person in no way better than ourselves who annoys us by pretending to be better than, we are, not in definite qualities which could be measured, na cniture, good Mr. Macnamara said that the pro- manners, taste, and so on, but in cedure was not only extraordinary some mysterious, unreal, indefinite bat absolutely wrong. The prosen social mode of ranking which our very tion had not only failed to produce indignation at snobbery proves we the stuff that was alleged to ate snobbish enough to admit. Fro-have been stolen, but bad also not (To the Editor of the " China Mall," so far as he know no warnings bad bably we are all snobe, we British. made the slightest attempt in evidence Foreigners say we are. Certainly we to describe the staff with any are of opinion, after long and studious particularity. The charge had not snobbery appearing in your paper motorists liked to avoid. The place through.

Sir. The article and letters on it was an obstacle which all desired that the lease should go. observation, that the voluble anti-been brought against the defendant have been duly noted. You've found at which the two machines collided anob is invariably snobbish. The for

a long time after it was

His Lordship: The defendants say young man in the local parable which alleged to have been stolen, and quite a bunch of people ready to was on the good side of the road near they are not only entitled to the agree admit that snobbery flourishes as the a high bank. Ou the question of ment as far as tenancy is concerned then when the charge WEB casioned this discussion, may have brought, it was brought on an alleged green bay tree in this Colony, though speed Capt. Dodwell has said that the bat. in addition, to the standard rent. been a anob, may have thoroughly confession. Mr. Macnamara sub they do not belong to the band of hour and the cycle somewhat faster. I to that.

they are careful to point out that car was going at about 18 miles a deserved the epithet. But we really mitted that it would be

Mr. Potter; We have never agreed cannot see that the parable proved it. unsatisfactory to convict thedefendant opinion is that in this place snobbery contend that a motor car must never premises were inside the Ordinance gardenera. tending the plant. My Mr. Holmes said he was not going to Mr. Alabaster said that if the In all that he did he was moved, ap-on that alleged confession alone. parently, by the desire to get on", The Magistrate said that there was In some cases the affliction takes she did say that if it did it must take turn defendants into the street. He and swelled head are synonymous. leave its proper side of the road but plaintifs said they were entitled to to improve his position and salary, no evidence except the alleged con- very virulent form. I think most of special precautions. As Capt. Dod had to show that this was a case in and consequently his chance of bap fession, and even then there was to us here get a touch of swelled head well had said a motor cycle and a car which the Court mast grant specifie piness. He would as regards the last evidence as to where the copper had and get rather snobbish on our own could not resumably be expected to performance. inevitably be disappointed. All who gone to. There was also no evidence little ideas. For instance I may be a pass on the good side of the road,idor the effect of the Ordin forsake the simplicities and the nature of the theft which had been condoned complete anob in this respect-1 am He submitted that the fault lay with ance

They had to con alasses of life must suffer that. But for some days until the alleged theft swolled-headed enough to enjoy my the driver of the car.

that The China Mail.uccessfully, we call him virtuons. person. His conduct does not show made as to where the copper went, take me at the ordinary valuation that on March 3, he borrowed a Court might order.. Damages would

virtue a snob. If he fapes it it seems to us he was a worldly-wise of solder. Apparently no inquity was own company. If prople here like to

and they claimed that they had only to pay H, JUSTICE, PUBLIC SERVIOR. DEccessfully, we call him a among his inner motives anything nor was it produced. There seemed without a college accent or a certified motor oycle for use of the Police not be an adequate remedy for torn Sergt. Ellwood, in evidence, stated $1,900, subject to any increase the hypocrite. We do not call a gentle more than that. He came here and to be something wrong in the working pedigree, well and good. If they Department. At 3 o'clock that after them out of the factory and godowna, manly proletarian a snob. At least learned, from a worldly wise woman, of the department which was very don't Laleep just as soundly o' nights. noon he set out toward Taipo in comOn three premisas 750 people were we should not. We should call him that the people who had power to extraordinary.

gentleman-a proletarian gentle advance him would think

Now Mr. Editor, please drop this pany with Sergt. Earnshaw, who employed and he would call evidence man, if you like; but that would be of him if

Defendant was discharged. ho went to the

snobbery talk. It isn't serious enough was a short distance behind. The to show snobbish. We are getting nearer to Cathedral on Sundays than to the

to make one perspire and not funny road on his right had been broken within a reasonable tiu e find suitable that they could not it now, evidently. Is a snob a com- Baptist Chapel, that they would give

enough to raise a smile, According to a dictionary, a snob moner whs pretends to be an mote consideration to his claims if he

up. He was on the left proceeding accommodation and to re-establish is a vulgar person who apes gratility. aristocrat? Scarcely. His true des belonged to one club rather than to

at about twelve miles an hour, and the factory in a new building would This definition is unsatisfactory, if cription would be a liar. It could another.

continually sounding his born. Abant take three years. The Company had only for the reason that it is a easily be a snobbish pretence; but themselves snobbish, you say? We Villas, Kowicon, last night and made

milestones he saw a car approaching They paid to the Government sever These requirements are

half way round the bend befour factories in the Colony, in which nobbish remark containing a very there are thousands of enots who do will concede it,

Burglars entered No. 5, Minden

tween the fourteenth and fifteenth 3,000 or 4,000 people ware employed. Very nobbish word. The word vulgar | not claim" blue blood." Nor would

well then. Where used in the Prayer Book is not an uncultured man who emulated

Dobbery rules haul of silverware worth $291. The

about twenty feet ahead. He applied fakhs yearly in duty, of which aquarter · obbish. It simply indicates that culture and acquired some of it be a worldly wisdom to be a

and ban the power, it floor was not discovered until this

his brakes and shut off the engine was attributable to the premises in the vulgar tongue is the common suob, as we understand it. Buch if you desire ite countenance and

Bir-Speaking of Snoba, I read in The Dragon car swerved to the left on question. They made profits in respect anob, morning.

a war book the other day that the to the stones, skidded, and struck the of the four factories of over two Songue, the tongue common to the man has done something we would Julger, to us all. As new misused praise, not condemn, something we snobbish when in Rome to do as the quarters of No. 180, The Foak, the servicemen explain the use of this the handle bar and breaking the If they had to give up the premises Army boat repairer was always known front wheel of his motor cycle, the car million dollars a year. The factory It is a price paid. Is it Found dead in the servants as the snob." Can any of our ez mudguard coming into contact with made considerably over four lakbe colloquially, the words vulgar and would encourage, not discourage. 1 Romans do? som-non are both snobbish. It must ostentation of risies snobtery? anche, yes. Never mind. It is sai employed in the place as a houseboy, sidelight on the topio your correspon-tain his seat. The car moved on clear lakhs in duty and 750 people- If the Romans are body of a Chincos, aged 41 years, term? It might chance to throw a magneto control. He managed to re- the Government would lose aix have been a snob who originated their tardly, though it may be related. midal not to. If you want nothing was yesterday afternoon removed to dents have been discussing. modern significaner, as it is snobs the riches are real, it need have from them, if you do not care for their the mortuary. There who parciet in using them in their no trace of mobbery. It couldn't spproval or disapproval, then do suspicious circumstances attending

of the motor cycle before it stopped. would be thrown out of work. modern implication. The implication be "aping"

At this point the case was settled.

JUXTONG, THURAbáť, Jozy 13, 1922.

OF SNOBBERY.

is that the community consists of a the oatantation

anyway.

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favour.

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LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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were до

not rail against them. imaginary them. You will avoid snabbiahness, causes."

Ignore the death which was from "natural minority of superior people, and ariches, caled "keeping up an appear but you will majority of inferiors, To be in the | auce,' asd "maintaining one's

a pariah, majority is to be inferior. To pretend position," it seems to bring us Vary Discovering presently that you are a dairy at No. 16. Cochrane Street, was or ons of a small pack of parisho. Lau Mar, the proprietor of s to be in the minority (which may close to the thing we are after select minority, you pariahs will charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton Consis entirely of pretenders) is to be Snobbery is a name for the attitudesert

among yourselves your at the Magistracy yesterday, after-

A week's

Yours

AN OUT-AND-OUTER.

[To the Editor of the "Chins Mall."

Yours etc.

CURIOUS.

KINEMA NOTES.

"THE SAGE HEN,"

"THE ROMANCE OF HAPPY VALLEY."

Hongkong in not the only place in the world that boasts a Happy Valley.

"If a stick or stone strikes this Ohio has one and it forms the locals

A competitor might pay a vary large sum for the factory in order to put a considerable portion of de- fendants' business out of operation for

sometime. He therefore contended that they were entitled to specific per formance regarding the whole pro mises.

Proceeding.

SALVATION FOR LEPERS

GREAT RESULTS EXPECTED FROM BRITISH RESEARCHL

a snob. To that extent the diction which takes credit for a 'superiority superiority to the majority. Thas noon, at the instance of Sanitary ay is right. Arming that there that does not really exist. That is a the vicious circle will have made Inspector Lockhart, with having sold were a really genteel section, the man gooi shot, but it does not cover all. another revoluti.n. You will be the milk not of the necessary eubstance child I'll kill the person that throws of The Romance of Happy Valley" ho successfully aped gentility would The man who denounces snobbery in nobe, and the majority the valgar and quality required under the Food it e genteel. No one is born genteel. others does not trouble to satisfy and common herd that is snobbianly and Dang. Ordinance. All are born naked nad savage himself that they are not his superiors. despised. That's what snobbery is, formal remand was granted for the had been aroused by the narrow-

to-day's star attraction, at the Animals. All start level; all start, He starts with the prejudice that they so far as we can see.

All her protective maternal instinct Coronet.

It is an Artcraft picture taken from convenience of the defence..

minded women composing the Home & published stony suud it is played by Parity League, who drove her and an exceptionally capable caste. Also A crowd of Kaumati Chiness ber baby out of the village. It was it is a Griffiths picture. Hongkong A permanent cure for the scourg were stealing water from hydrant sixty miles across the desert to the picturegoers who saw The of leprosy is anticipated from the re- in Jordan Road yesterday afternoon nearest town, and she was on foot, Birth of Nation” and salts of the latest London trials with Armed robbers last night made a

when a number of Sanitary Board without food and with no protection

"Intolerance and who are chemical injections. Several cases gali interfered. The crowi attacked against coyotes or marauding Indians. cagerly awaiting the arrival of Way under treatment are showing markadi acebaul of $214 in cash at No. 340, Shang- the Sanitary men, who, snatching away

"The Bage Hen they called her, Down East" will not need to be told improvement, a chemical research:

Fis

A TEASHOP ROBBERY.-

treatment.

as sporting

BBY, from cannot be. The suggestion of his scratch. In gentes) society (ugain own inferiority enrages him. assuming that there is such a thing, very denunciation of the snob implies for the sake of the argument) the his on superiority. "Thank God I And in taught and trained to be am not as other men," he saya. Ho genteel. When he is old he does not is, in fact, snobbish. Pharisaiam it depart from it. A suming, as we now moral snobbery; but Annet, that there is a still larger socie-accustomed, when it appears in

y which is ungente:l, we can imagine morals, to call it priggary, or tai Stient. The robbery won com some of their attackers' poles, rotaliat that being a name the old West gave that a picture that has the name of expert stated, and the leprosy bacilli: the child growing up, and not knowing hypocrisy. If hypocrisy be the mitted on the ground floor occupied by ed with the result that three men to women of doubtful chamotor. Be D. W. Griffitha connected with it have entirely disappeared from hat he has missed until he mesta homage vice pays to virtue, to what the Man Chun Yuen tenshop at 8.30 were injured in the head and bad to cause she lived alone with her son bears the ball-mark of perfection in certain skin areas in which they were inteel adults. He then assiduously is it that snobbery pays homage? p.m. The master was sitting behind go to the Kwong Wah Hospital for and held her peace, she was an object la production. At home Griffithe previously very numerous. bdela himself upon them. Is he to Let us find the answer to that, and

of suspicion, bat, bad they known all, pictures attract mash the same type The expert explained that the basic The called a ancb ? Let us recall bere, w shall have our definition. Does money changer's counter run in con-

perhaps their hearts would have been of audience that goes to see the leg agent used is shanimoogra pil what should have Leoa admitted at it not pay homage chiefly to any junction with the teasbop, and occupy the outset, that by general consent a cial position which ap; ears to enalling a portion of thefront part of the Lammert Brothers, auctioneers, enld The Sags Hen" is the title of Ed. as being so far removed from the Assam, Burma, and Siam, and the

By the order of the Court, Mars moved to pity.

itimate drama; "they are recognised (obtained from a tree which grows in the epithet snob is disrespectful By it to look down on" others who are shop, when suddenly be was held up by by public auction yesterday, without gar Lewis newest production for ordinary run of films as to make the moogrot injection", is being, very- ommon consent a sneb is noworthy excluded, or supposed to be excluded, two men. One of the robbers pointed reserve, the s.o. “Kam Ms,” na the Pathe and is showing at the World occasion of their survening a notable widely used, baja

cemia to us that one ungenteslly from that position? If that be so, nous revolver at the shopmaster a head now lies in the harbour off Sarmahnino, Theatre on Friday, the 17th. It is event that should not be missed. Its lame haaspread to the Hondlala ared man, who copies the refine are more numerous than we realized, Ants and graces and virtue of the and our Tuesday's correspondent was while the other exhibited a dagger. A hands of the suctioneers for several visualizes the power of mother love The vessel which had been in the an outdoor drams ani forcefully teel, is a worthy character. He right, horribly right, when he third man kept watch outside the en-months was at last disposed of yeater: The action transpires in a small Ari- trying to be a better man, which suggested that all snobs have lesser trance of the shop The intruders day for $10,000 to the Asia Corpora zona town during the gold rush diye fall should de. Therefore, if gen-nobs upon their backs to bite "em, forced the shopmaster to open up alition and Development Co. The Gladys Brockwell plays the title y be a good thing, the man who aid that there again have smaller the dowers in the counter, and they approximately 1,600 tons capacity handsome. Wallace MacDonald play WHEN YOU EAT TOO MUCH tes himsell genteel is more worthy snobs, and so ad infiniteni. Let us

"Kam Ha" is a wooden abip of role. Charming Lillian Rich and the bo who was reared to ace facts frankly, and confess that we emplied them of their contents, taking with mooommedation for about 800 the romantic leads. Others in limport Distress in the stomach after eating i He does not deserve the distes know this to be so. Whether among bank notes and silver to the value of Okinase passengers. Her length or ant parts arefiel Case, Arthur Altre over be taking won ful opithet As a matter of the Dukes there are snobbish dukes, 1914. All three men escaped in the 1 262 feet and Ler bram in 25rison, James Mason, Alfred Allen and more than you hold for me Yo

wo do not call a man who minority of dukes who pretend to be direction of Hunghom.

feet.

thres-year-old Richard Headrick” Chemists and Storekeepers

the current programme at the Coronet cent of the lepers treated have been Amongst the supporting feature in lopar land, where actually 50 per are pictures of the Carpentier-Lewis released on parole as being clinically

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behal

oured and non-infections,

It is a triumph fór British chemf cal research, the expert concluded, * and, even on the results of treat- mente in London we are looki

manent ours for

grestant