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SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.

CARE OF BOOKS

DAMPNESS, SILVER FISH, AND

""COCKROACHES

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For the con- by one, and to them Tientsin in venience of the time was probably little more foreign resi- than 4 memory, though a very dents of Hong pleasant grie, we make bold to say Kong, if for no other considera-Fulford, full of years and hon- tion, those almost all unpro- ours in the Consular service of

There are many people in Malaya nounceable Chinese names should his country, retired to his native who pretend that they would have be replaced by good British ones. Australia and settled down in the plenty of books in their houses if it What is the objection to such fine city of Melbourne. Goodacre, were, not for the perniciousness of pretty names as Princeton, Peace-broken in. health," continued the Malayas climate. "Impossible haven, or Windsor even, and work similar to that which to keep books in such a climate," is

Salisbury or Aldershot (either of he had been doing at the expression frequently used. the latter two appropriate for Queen's Hotel, Tientsin (which Tve tried keeping them behind Stanshuipe with its military can he started after leaving Messrs glass-but nothing seems to do" tonments)? Or, if we must be Jaques) in the sunny county of

says another. And so the tale of Devon in England. about. Stubbs- original, how

Both men, lamentation goes on. We are led borough, Clementiville, Southorn, unfortunately, stem to have been

of ill-health, but to wonder, however, whether these Luardham and Sandilands (the the victims latter also appropriate for Sham-doubtless they plodded on, cheer-me people who complain-so much about the climate of Malaya and its ed perhaps by recollections of effects on books have ever tried to shuipo, being the name of our

happier and GO.C.)? They are certainly bet-better days in

keep books in England or elsewhere. healthier times. ter for British ears and British

Shut up a house in England and have no fires in the house for a tongues than Shaukiwan, Tsim-

But sad deptor- few weeks and see what the affect shatszi, Shektongtsui, Mongkok-] tsui, Taikoktsui and the many

ably sad news is upon your library! “Ah! but it other 'tsui's" and "wan's". By

has come to us and is not only the dampness of Malaya to those in Tien-that we complain about, it is the all means, let the Chinese names

Life's Sad Tragedies

*

be retained for identification by tsin who still remember both awful bugs that get into one's books

the natives, but the official names Fulford and "Charlie" Goodacre-the silver fishes, the cockroaches

It certainly is a problem to look number of books in this

of all districts and thoroughfares from the old days of Tientsin's etc." should be British. Some of the "Bodega." Fulford and Goodacre Chinese names at present applied are now no more in the land of after a to places in the Colony are un- the living. Their day is done. country, and sometimes even when

Fulford, evidently in

amood the utmost precautions have been imaginative, and in cases, even of morbidity, shot himself taken there is disaster and a book objectionable, yet they are official-dead in his house in Melbourne, is ruined. But there are a number ly accepted and used. One glar while Goodacre (news just to of simple precautions which ought ing example which should support hand from England tells us) hang- certainly to help in the preserva- the argument in favour of Bried himself in one of the lovely tion of books and readers may be tish names is Ngaushiwan, lanes of sweet Devon. which, translate into plain Eng- knows?

Who glad to know of them. Perhaps before those lish, means "Bull Dung Bay!" worthy Tientsiners of a day that

Open Book Cases First of all I believe strongly in is gone parted with their lives so having open book cases. No glass Fifteen. or twenty tragically they may have cast for me! In Old years ago Tientsin their thoughts back to North may keep out some of the damp air, Tientsin was a very different China, to Tientsin, to the old but unless the cases are extra- place from what it "Bodega," where never a morbid ordinarily well made the chances is to-day. To-day, it is practical-thought was ever known to enter?are that the glass will keep in the

ly a city-though not a large one

with most of the amenities associated with cities, and sur-

prisingly progressive notwith-

One case of diphtheria (British)

standing the vicissitudes through was notified on Thuraday.

which it has had to pass, like other Treaty Ports, owing to China's

ordinate, whose sense of right incessant political upheavals. Dr. Hilmar Florenz Sommers has and wrong may be atrophied by Less than a score of years ago been appointed a member of the the inane belief that all persons Tientsin, though of large area, local Dental Board for three years. taken into custody must be guilty was actually in appearance not It was not long ago when Mr. unlike a village-a European vil-

.

And glass in this country

harmful air. If possible open shelves with a through.draught, and then it is possible to know all that is happening to your books-whe ther they are getting mouldy. whether nests are being built among the books, and whether ants or other insects are attacking them.

All books should be varnished as soon as they reach this country. Ordinary Chinese varnish mixed

The "Gazette calls for tenders with methylated spirits so that the

L. H. C. Calthrop, Assistant age, for we are referring to the Superintendent of Police, Kow- European concessions only. Vic (up to July 6) for the supply for books are not sticky to the touch loon, was even

censured by the toria Road, the main thorough one year of photographic stores to when they have dried, and so that Chief Justice for the way he held fare, was essentially the hub of the Prison Department.

а

certain identification parade. old-time Tientsin. It still is; but

It now behoves the CS.P. to in the old days it was so to an

they will dry the quicker. Apply this mixture lightly and evenly and

The Government has accepted the by the end of half a day the books tighten up the obviously weak extent much more complete than tender of Messrs.

can be put on their shelves again. Man Gang for In addition to varnish it is as well points in the present method, it can ever be again, unless, of $2,042.40 for repairs to the wall of to strew all bookshelves with boric which is deplorable, to say the course, the concessions, as has Kowloon City. (G.N. No. S. 164) powder. Cockroaches hate this! least.

Is Hong Kong un-British?

occasionally been feared, revert

*

A first and final dividend of $2.50 per cent, has been declared by the Official Receiver in the bankraptes of the Chan Loong firm of No. 168 In the old Tientsin, Queen's-road Central (case No. 33 "Ye Olde to which reference of 1927).

Bodega" is being made, i

there was for many

PLEASE DON'T

WASTE WATER

There is really very little more to do... Giving the books a sun bath should be quite unnecessary except

particularly damp weather or in places where the humidity is much greater than it appears to be sin Penang.

Examine Them Frequently

Books should not be too tightly packed together on a shelf, and they should be examined frequently. Of course, whatever precautions you take, it may be that some insect will defeat you! But as a rule the In- sect takes a long time to do his fell work and frequent examination

to the Chinese when, not un-- The answer is naturally, they will gravitate in the affirma downwards, as is the way of tive, as they things Chinese."

the say in Council Chamber. There is no reason or excuse for the fact that so little has been done to bring home to those resident in this little outpost that Hong Kong is a a day a rendezvous beloved of all part of that great community of Europeans there. That was the nations the British Empire. Bodega." It was a place of re- From the names of places and freshment; and as at times Tien- thoroughfares, both on the island tsin can be as hot as Hong Kong or as most places in the East, of Hong Kong and its dependency on the mainland, this "bit of the while its winters are of arctic Empire" sounds more like character, very naturally the

Following a meal yesterday after well patronised. noon, fai which some food of a a British Bodega was Hong Kong, Saturday, June 22, 1929. Chinese city than

Crown Colony. It is bad enough Likewise, it was admirably doubtful character was eaten, three deal of experience, most of the mix- with street names, which with a situated in the centre of Tien- Chinese men and a woman living at tares sold as book varnishes. They By: No, 534, Shanghai-streat, were re lose their effect very quickly and few exceptions in the case of the tsin's main thoroughfare.

day and every day-there was moved to the Kwong Wan Hospital, then the books (to be adequately principal thoroughfares, are! Chinese. This is pardonable, then no press of business, while suffering from the symptoms of protected) have all to be done again. however, because it can be plead at night Tientsin was deadly poisoning. ed that there are too many tho dull, badly lighted a village, in-

deed, in every respect. roughfares to find British names for all of them, although after a little thought one cannot How is it even concede this. that the great city of London can find Anglo-Saxon names for all

STILL WATERS

The "China Mail" Poser for is in receipt of a Mui Tsai communication from

Society

an old resident of high standing who is perturbed over the appearance of little Chinese girls at the queues formed up to the water fountains

will catch him out before he has

done much harm.

I do not recommend, after a good

Chinese varnish and methylated spirit, in proportion about half and

In connection with the Shakki half (perhaps there should be affair, the anniversary of which rather less spirit) is the best mix- The "Bodega,"

falls to-morrow, the Police have ture that I know; and this experi- Little Class therefore, was to find a number of anti-British ence of mine is confrmed by many Distinction many just pre-

It is nonsense to say that books cannot be property looked after.

cisely, what to posters posted up in various parts people who really do keep a number its thoroughfares and little old weary and despairing travellers is of the town. They were taken down, of books in this country Hong Kong" cannot? All we have the oasis in the desert: Here but it is understood that no arrest to do is to borrow some of the cat high gut (socially offe street names, not only from Loncourse). But in old Tientsin

has been made.

Most English books are well bound. to begin with (that is one of the

don, but from numerous other there was then, happily, very Yesterday Mr. E. W. Hamilton reasons that they are so expensive), large cities in other parts of the little class distinction, making the discharged the Chinese restaurant and if they are looked after as soon a striking keeper of West Point who was as they reach Malaya there will be Empire. Then, too, names asso place then and now ciated with the late War could be contrast to Hong Kong of to-day charged with receiving stolen pro- no difficulty in preserving them for applied.

and of any day, for, alas our perty, namely, 125 lb. of Ceylon ten many years. Schools should parti- little Colony is rather a snobbish and 120 tins of preserved meat, cularly note this. Nothing is worse. sort of place. It sadly lacks the alleged to have been part of stores than for boys to think that books "Bodega" spirit.

missing from the R.A.SE. Supply are just things to be thrown about. Decot, Queen's-road East.

I was sorry to see in a school library the other day many books

in the streets Surely, he asks, some of these must be muitasi" He adds that he has seen a num ber of these poor children litter- ally stagger along under a pole from which two tins of water are suspended. If the girls are mul

If the names of tsai," it is suggested, then there

Lack of streets are un is obviously something wrong

Imagination satisfactory, it is and cruel. And, the correspon

worse when we dent concludes, he looks to the Anti-Mui Tsai Society to make income to consider the names of dis- quiries into the matter.**

Parades

Years and An Old-Time years ago might

Mr. J. H. Battomley, an engineer which were neither properly ar- Store

have been seen in the Buldings Ordinance Office ranged nor cared for. No boy will im Tientsin's

you know. S. in Straits Times.

CONTINENTAL PORTS

tricts in Hong Kong Here the lack of imagination-one could well-known rendezvous two of of the Public Works Department, be encouraged to read such books, mind to possess many books for even say patriotism in our city Tientsin's best known citizens. has been deputed to act on behalf of or will the desire ever grow in his Last Tuesday fathers is appalling. It is true Messrs. Fulford and Goodacre, the Building Authority in all cases himself. After all we treat our Identification was not the first that we have a City of Victoria, Both had known Tientsin so long referred to in sections 205, 206, 207 pictures with ears: we look after our time that the a Kennedy Town, an Aberdeen, a that doubtless they loved the and 2073 of the Public Health & furniture we spend many dollars Chief Justice, Stanley, a Whitfield, a Smithfield, place and possibly were not very Buildings Ordnance of 1903 in can on keeping our floors clean; but Sir Henry Gollan, had to express a Glenealy, and a Cape d'Aguilar happy when out of it. Though, nection with dangerous buildings, as for our books. "Oh no, I have hardly any books in this coun- his great dissatisfaction of the (all known to the Chinese popu of the place, they were (ranked

as of Portuguese Police method in kolding an iden-lation either by their original strictly) very different indivi- Described tification parade of persons sus native names, before Hong Kong duals while in it. H.E Fulford nationality, Joseph Henry Michael simply can't keep them don't pected of crime Such a hap became British, or by phonetic was British Consul General and Gordon (35), of No. 21, Temple- hazard method rightly calls for Chinese pronunciation of the "Charlie Goodacre was in charge street, Yaumail, was charged before criticism, and his Lordship acted British names) but beyond of one of Tientsin's old-time Mr T. S. Whyte Smith, at the very fairly in the interest of these few British names, which stores-Messrs. Jaques, which Kowloon Magistracy, with obtaining

New Waterway arrivels Hurine justice to instruct the jury to can be counted on the fingers of was open for business when the money, with intent to defraud, from

of 529,172 net register tons, compar throw the case out of Court. It one's hands (all given to these dis staff, from the very genial "boss" a foreman at a house under con-week snded May 11 numbered 328, is, Indeed, a pity that our Police tricts by the pioneer settlers in downwards to the youngest sales-straction in Sai Yeung Choi-streeted with 291, of 471,071 mes tens in Force should be falling in its duty Hong Kong), what hate we dore man, did not happen to be linger Hong Kong, Accused was alleged the corresponding period of last in a matter of lo rital an im- to make this Colony Britishing in the aforementioned to have represented himself as a year, and included 90 Brith, 04.

Bunker calls numbered 20,

20, against portance to the community. The Absolutely nothing for several Bodega" kept lively by its Sanitary Inspector and obtained 60 Netherlands and 39 German vessels. parading of suspected persons for decades. We have been content habitues under the happy lead of cents from the complainant by pri 10 last year

Rotterdam 277 vessels of identification, as the Chief Justice as new districts developed, to call "Billy Mitchell, the proprietor. tending that he would summon hit At

Chinese

for allowing the drains in the 162.301 net tens arrived, compared has rightly pointed out, plays a them by their original

tons last of 426,445 met very important part in the detec names, being too

Mention is vicinity of the work to get into all nay too crime careless, to bother to find British HE Fulford here made dirty condition. The case was Arrivals at Amsterdam numbered

77 last yea 70, compared them From this one. And Charlie" specially of adjourned.C

with Fulford and

Imports of British coal at Kotter- dam and Amsterdam were lower than Goodacre, as good old Tientsinergi Amsterdam 5,50 tons of Polish coal

in the preceding week, at $7,300 the right

sort, not because arrived, then particularly out Coal and coke shipments from Rotmetrical beas, and 19.930 tons respec terdam were also lower than in the tively compared with 18,700 and just because of the news preceding week but exceeded est 10,000 tons respectively in the core At has come to hand of late of rigure; 14 coal and coks renondlik week of last year. Fasic late. Years ago they argues were dermatched, compared (Continued at foot of preceding

with 37 last year.

Columns

or un-names

recu, Brit

office and belief that

auberough for Hong Kong.

tered away we all did one