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TELEPHONES...

the Government takes a certain course, everybody else must do

the same.

It is announced in the latest Volunteer Orders that troops will line, the streets on February 1 on the occasion of the departure of H. E the Governor.

As the result of a steel plate fall-- ing on him whilst at work on board a ship undergoing repairs at the Talkoo Docks, a Chinese named Lo Hing (25), auffered a fracture of his left leg, which necessitated his removal to the Government Civil Hospital.

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1930.

GIRLS WHO WASTE THEIR TIME

M

BY A MAN OF 39

HAVE always read that Forty

I was the dangerous to letting youth have Its fine, do not

while In theory I am all in favour of

like to ship of 'nice girl like that wasting herself on a callów youth.

1 bélfave it at Thirty hipe I smell danger ahead. I notice ex Mrs. Costello, living at Almal ternal changes which have their Villas, Kowloon, has reported to the horrid significance. I catch myself, Police that some time, between 7 walking with a jauntier air that of p.m., on December 20 and 8 p.m., on yore. I wear only soft collard and the 28th, a thier entered her bed-club tles. The last time I visited room and stole' a gold, and Jade my tailor I rejected his sober sarges bracelat worth $80, a pair of gold and insisted on a rich country able point of view, cuff links worth $10, and a pair of tweed. earrings worth $53.

Lady Lampson wife of Sir Miles Lampson, British Minister to China, is expected to arrive in Hong Kong by the s.s. Antenor on January 20, She will be accompanied by her young son, Graham, who is being, sent Home to school, in the care of fiienda. Lady Lampson will return North after a few days' atay' hère."

Members of the Automobile Association are notified in our advertising columns that booking for the dinner-dance, to be held in the Peninsula Hotel, on Friday January 17, is now open in the main entrance of the Hong Kong' Hotel, where they may purchase their tickets and reserve seats.

CORRESPONDENCE

'ANTI-SMALLPOX "MEASURES

An older and more experienced man holly feel I ought to explain this to her. I have even found my thoughts dwelling on the desirabili ty of kissing her as an argument.in favour of what is surely a reason. One of these ...days I shall. But you will agree that this is dangerous. Dangerous, but rather thrilling and not quite so unaccountable as it seems at firet - sight..

And, more threatening atill, I have developed an obscure affiction of the neck which causes my head to turn to follow the movements of me in the pretty girls who pass streets. Only the other day I found myself holding the typlat by the hand.

} There is a girl of eighteen who travels in my train each morning. By a strange chance, which is no longer chance, we now travel in the same compartment. She looks at me with big brown eyes (a year ago I could not have told you their colour) in what I believe to be an admiring kind of way and prattles about her friends and their doings.

It is curiously Interesting. Some times, however, she mentions a boy. friend and then I feel displeasure. Perhaps I am getting frumpish and puritanical in my middle age, for.

presence of a member of the Kal Fong. If any loss, damage or discolouring occurred, fair com- pensation was always granted. The authorities concerned might well consider whether the same measure should now be adopted as from past experience it proved to be a great success.

practised to' date. With the respect to all Government Officers who work for the health of the public, I venture to say had the sanitary laws been carried out with mere consideration and sympthy during the memorable epidemic of 1894 all the dumping and conceal ment, which are still carried on, would not have existed.

[To the Editor of "China Mail.") Sir-Since the series of ques tions asked by our able and learned member Mr. M. K. Lo at the last meeting of the Sanitary Board, there have been many comments on So that, if the Hon. the replies and resolutions" of the (Every evening except Sunday.

Mr. So-and-So is satisfied with Board and on the measures.to be Annual, subscription, excluding postags, abroad,.. $36, payable listening-in with his Radio set adopted for the eradication of

smallpex.

It is no secret that during the in advance, Local delivery free.}

every night, everybody in the If my memory serves aright, epidemic of plague in 1894 the in Overland China Mail. Colony is expected to enjoy, if not somewhere about 1907 when small discriminate destruction of pro- the cleansing gangs in Radio entertainments, then to pox was prevalent in the Colony, perty by

cut disinfection struck many cases of dumping of bodies carrying diversify themselves with similar and concealment, of this disease such great awe

Into the minds decorum. And until the Legisla-were practised by the Chinese of the Chinese that dumping tive Council has members upon population-hence the following and concealment are still being its benches who have not vege- measures were adopted by the Chi-, inhumanly

nese Public Dispensaries Committee, tated too long to forget the of which I was then Chairman of demands of youth, we may never the Eastern District:- expect to

see any appreciable, change.

It would be a serious allegation to make if one were to say out right that the Government is sending, our young people to the bars, but if it wishes to vindicate itself of any such charges, let it take a census, showing how the young men (Government cadets and the Services included) spend their evenings: Such a census would take us to the principal hotels and other places of re freshment in the Colony; and if asked why they spent, evening after evening, there, the bored young men would. reply, "Well, what else is there to do?" Wẻ | have no answer to give them.

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Hong Kong, Friday, Jan 10, 1930.

WANTED A CABARET

The Government is not expect- ed to turn itself into a theatrical

In this column has been management, although the Hon. reiterated the need of a stimulant Mr. Braga might. vie successfully to the social and recreational life with the celebrated. Mr. C. B.

1-Beside Issuing notices in Chinese urging vaccination, etc., lecturers were engaged in dif. ferent districts to conduct pro- paganda explaining to the Chi- nese the beneficial effects of dis- Infection, the serious danger to the public health through dump Ing and concealment, and the facilities accorded for the volun-

tary report tof cases.

2.-When disinfection was about to be carried out by the Sanitary authorities, the Chi- nese Public Dispensary of the district in which the case oc curred was invariably notified and nothing removed until an in- ventory of the clothing and other belongings was made out by the clerk of the Dispensary in the

In my humble opinion, no measure, however drastic, can prove to be effective without the support and co-operation of the native population; and, to attain that end, it is essential that their confidence should be, re-gained so that they may be induced to do all they can to assist the Government and the Sanitary Board in carrying out the various measures for their own benefit.

Yours etc.,

FANO SIU-HANG Hong Kong, January 9.

I have discovered the reason for this madness which falls upon early middle age. One of those young men In the office came to me the other day and asked me to join their non-playing football club, as a member.

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A non-playing member) Did he know that I had been captain of my school team and played centre for- ward for my college? Why had he not asked me to turn out for them?

Then I remembered that all this Was

about 20 years ago. 'I said. nothing.

The second shock came when ordering that tweed suit. My walst measurement had been stationary for the last 15 years. This time, however, it has increased by two inches-an ominous sign.

It is in a desperato effort to recover the past, to hang on to fleeting youth which has slipped away unawares--that we look for it. In the continued admiration of dewy": adolescence. Vampire-like from her red lips we hope to draw the Elixir

of Life

Ten Years Ago

[From the "China. Mall* January 10, 1920.1

· To-day's dollar is worth 6/- 1⁄4d..

Operatic music is unintellectual staff that proves nothing.

There are no actions appropriate le operatic singing.

There is no illusion; we know that men and women do not sing their pas slons. They talk or they shout.

Opera in unreal and always uncon. vincing.

A melody that puts one man in ose mood may put another man in another. Handels, dead march from "Soul" suggests cheerful sounds to many people and the "Wedding March” may be a distinct death knoll to some.

A high tenor singing his jealousy makes us want to giggle.

Opera and grand opera, fimplicate

such things as psychology, the pro cesses of deglutition, and digestion, sexual jealousy, sausage, amella, auc- tion bridge, religious faith, advertise Ing principles, flattery, patriotism, human. Inconsistency, kissing, chemis try, ripe, anlpa, cannibalism, Australian rabbits, and other heterogeneona mat.. ters.

Opera is in fact akin to the case of the haggis from Carmen to the Chief Scottish Padding.

MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS

here Adventurers, Meet: The "Cowley Carol Book": France's Wealthy Premier: "Story of The Kimono": Sir Ernest Stow." Salraging the Bremse

at Harzow with that other grand old Japan biinlater's Will veteran of the Victorian era, Arch-

bishop Lord Davidson, of Lambeth,

Ernest Mason Satow, of Beau- mont, Ottery St Mary, Devon, formerly successively, Agents and Con

sul "General for Siam, British Binia- ter to Uruguay and to Morocco, and to Jabab, and for some years head of the British Legation In Beklag, afterwards "British. Plenipotentiary: to the Feste Conference at The Hague, an authority on the Japanese-langu loft estate in the United King with net personalty £18,821. He dom of the gross, value of £19,308,

His journals and private corres

M. Etienne Clementel, has been a strong candidate for the Fremier ship for many years past and bad filled many Ministerial offices, faroly- ing a wide knowledge of finance, left commerce, and

agriculture, During

of the Colony. At present, like Cochran as a producer of snappy good little children, we must be revues But the Government Seven Seas Clab aatisfied with going to the pic- could (if certain stupid opposition SAILORMEN from mystery ships,

who towards the end of his tenure tures or, occasionally, to a dance were removed) grant a licence all the branches of the Navy, the See of Canterbury, conferred If one is patient enough to sit for a' cabaret show to be run in the Merchant Service, and pilet the degree of Doctor of Music on his on uncomfortable, cane-bottomed Hong Kong, We are quite age services in for distant parts

old school-fellow... chairs at the Helena May Instl aware of the peculiar fate of a of the globe attended at the The French Fremler tute and listen to two hours to previous enterprise on similar Hotel Cecil in mail week the THE new French Prime Minister, talented amateurs distillating lines; but in that case, if we recol-monthly dinner of the Seven Seas out-of-date music like Bach's, or lect rightly, a concensus Club

opinion was face the draughty drabness of local public

The object of the club is to the City Hall in order to hear at taken. If eighty per foster the brotherhood of the sen, third-rate touring company fray on the upper storeys of our was a singing of chanties the like the Allies by helping to organise to deposited at the Public Record Office, cent of the residents living and after brief, speeches there, the war he rendered great service to pondence, M88. and other documents the of historical or public interest to be one's nerves, one may get some little Island were to send us a of which few landsten have the supply of raw materials London

192 attended

Chancery Lane, London (su*for, an thing out of life here. But it is

and-free difficult to believe that people Petition demanding that permis privilege of hearing. It is the Conference as Finance Minister In may be approved by that ofica), at

pride of the club that they are M. Herriot's Government, from which the expense of his estato for a çabaret be granted, we sung as sailors sing that, and not, he resigned next year during the of duty. with any taste, judgment, or in- do not doubt that the opposition as they are arranged and conven-ground that the Prime Minister would it will in his service a quen or servant," Sabure, crisis of

the French franc, on the To his "Faithful serv dividuality are willing to submit to which we have referred would tionalised for the concert plat- not authorise him to lay the exact his return to Japan and some ar

cient to provide for the expenses of ta auch cheap substitutes for en vanish.

form Russian singers, who were financial altuation before the Benste. guests of the club after there is a Radical, his party effects of the approximate value of ticle from his household or porional joyment.

broadcast performance, gave a Binée 1927. he has been president of To sich other servant in his sec numbering nearly, #150; 7-membora. number of Russian Kaa songs. the Finance Committes of the vice at his decease one month's - Rear Admiral Oliphant, Super Senate. He is 87 and by comparison Hospital: School who replied, said why man Intendent of the Greenwich Royal with most French statesmena wage in respect of mich reompleted

In fact, the fuller one fees the various local Clubs and hotel bars!

News in Brief

the

become, the more one praises the Victoria City, and two at diphtheria Time cases of Smallpox, from members' sagacity. After all, it (one from Kowloony were reparted is surely a far better thing to on January 9. All the cases are ald not now want He hoped they "Japanese Art listen to a fairly amusing story.

Chinese than to be bored to a state of invitations have been sued for digestion by Inadequate profes- the annual dance of the residents sionallem? And our point does Lurarf Hall, Hong Kong Univer not up with, the theatre. sity on Estiledar,”

18, start- the trouble iles in the fact ng af 8.80

he had 900 boys whom the Navy person and John 1881)

nts of this Colony

would find positions, In the mer BACON Aloid, the retiring Italian chant

Ambassador to Tolye, has been working on a book of “Japannis Art, with #ylew to introducing 16 40 for eign countries, as the general editor The work is being produced at the cont for 2.80,000 for conso

Bbory of

A ̈Carol Revivalist

George

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year spent in his service,

Balvage Work at Scapa Flow ANOTHER salvage feat has

accomplished at Scapa when the German cruiser which lay

of Eckpa towed bottom py