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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1930.
WHY THE YOUNG ARE
BAD-MANNERED
(By Godfrey Winn, the Young Novelist)
ACH generation is the victim EACH gera landarts of be:
wo
so many of them blithely forfeited, thoma de mands woulithely
a very different nature.
men aft with a bland, Indifferent look on their faces, reading in comfort.
dustry in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It will cause us no surprise if before long canned pineapples figure in the list of exports from Hong Kong to countries abroad. To supplement the list of fruits grown experi- mentally by the Portuguese at Yaumati we may add that of the pear, peach and pomegranate.
The Victorians suffered haviour. When the re-
from too much suppression;
A woman expects to have her cake. Old sidential areas from too much expression.
and eat it. No doubt she did not 'Government on the island of
Temperament, that magic word, imagine that she would have to excuse for anything and everything!strap-hang in a tube while young Servant Hong Kong were
So much so that to-day rudeness is becoming con-
always being taken (or mistaken) gested by the rapid growth of for a sign of character, of per
Is the young
man a mannerless was the sonality, which is temperament's the British colony, it
Or if not actual rude, young cub? At least he has a Portuguese families who first twin sister.
noss. at any rate a bluntness, a rendy anawer. If she is so delicate, migrated to Kowloon Point and directness of manner and speech ho retorts, if she is only a poor weak. there built small two-storey re-which must make our grandfathers woman, why doesn't she realise the sidences which exist up to the turn in their comfortable Victorian the fast, stay at home, and expend. her energy on more domestic pur- present day in the blocks of graves.
And yet are our critics, when suits ? If she desire to compete buildings known As "Victoria they heap abuse upon our youthful with men, she must be prepared for the treatment of men, not to re- View" and "Rose Terrace" in heads, being altogether fair? Nathan Road. The mention of we not simply trying to adapt our-celve the politeness (where it still the name of Mr. Joao Maria A. selves to modern conditions? There exists) of a drawing-room tes party. There is a great deal of truth in is such a thing as too much polite- da Silva in Mr. Braga's article
that. ness, too much refinement, too much
Competition in every branch of life to-day is so terrific that there recalls to mind that of an old indirect speech.
This wave of expressionism has Is little time left for chivalry or servant of the Government of
The pace at least taught us the value of truth.evan ordinary politeness. Hong Kong who held the position And the consequence is, we believe of living is too breathless a one. of Chief Audit Clerk and that of in calling a spade so often and so the first Government electrician. loudly by its proper name, that club When the wonders of wireless members go purple in the face and choke while they write their letters telegraphy first became known of protest to the newspapers. But through the early invention of no one notices their demise, since It is no longer necessary elther to Marconi, the late Mr. J. M. A. da Silva gave the first demonstra- respect or be polite to the older generation merely because they are tion of wireless telegraphy in the old. big hall of the old Club Lusitano building in Shelley Street,
Book For Botanists
Mr. da Silva is the author of a book in Portuguese that should be of
Aro
That is to say, age by itself is to longer an asset. On the contrary, It can be a deadly handicap. My generation admires people who do things, not people who have done them. We loathe the past tense. We try, to believe it doesn't exist; we live in the present and for the
belief that to-morrow will never present, hugging a rather pathetic
come,
And we are encouraged to do so
by public opinion, which, sub- consciously affected by the lessons of the war, has swung right round from a slavish admiration of Age and the wisdom of Age to an even more slavish worship of Youth and the enthusiasms of Youth.
Press by the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga following the annual meeting of the Hong Kong Horticultural Society. Commenting on the article the Macao Review says, inter alia: At the last annual great interest to botanists and meeting of the Hong Kong Hor-naturalists could a translation of ticultural Society, the Chairman, the work be made into English in his speech, appealed to the so that the worth of the work widely known. Portuguese residents of Ho Mun may become more Tin and Kowloon Tong for ex-The edition of the book is a smail hibits for the next annual flower one; it bears the title Nocoes de From the show to be held under the Botanica Aplicada.
Can you blame us for exploiting auspices of the Society. The foregoing notes which amplify
Can you President spoke of the success-the article from the pen of the such worship to the full?
Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga, our readers blame us, when we are enveloped in exhibitors amongst the
of
will gather that our esteemed talk of sex equality, for taking wo the
man at her word 7 Portuguese residents
Portuguese citizens of Hong Women have demanded equal Colony in the early 80's of the last century, and hoped that Kong played an important part rights and obtained their demands. their descendants would emulate in the early days of its settle-But I can't help feeling that had they realised exactly the they were inviting, the example of the enthusiastic ment as their descendants are treatment
how pleasant WAS the horticulturists of those early still playing at the present time and
-in the development and state of petting and protection of days. This appeal brought forth a contributed article from the prosperity of that wonderfully flourishing British Colony in Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga whose
China
ful
Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 1, 1930. knowledge of the Portuguese in
STILL WATERS
Hong Kong and his intimate ac- quaintance with their early his- tory may be equalled by only u very few, but certainly not ex-
News in Brief
Yesterday a Chinese named Woo
!
The Directors and officials of the Industrial and Commercial Bank, Ltd., are holding an "At Home" on the occasion of the opening of their new building at 12, Queen's Road Central on Monday.
Attacked by ад unknown Chinese assailant on coming out
If you do not believe me, stand in the street and watch the crowd scrambling, pushing, fighting to get on an omnibus during the rush hour In the evening. Savages become courtiers by comparison. No, it is not a pleasant aight, but I am afraid that it is one that is typical of the age, which is one of ever- Increasing speed.
We Wo are drunk with speed.
Aeroplanes think of nothing else. and motorcars, faster and faster is they go, record after record broken, and it is obvious what the effect of this must be upon our everyday lives "I have no time..." It is a complaint seldom off our lips. There is no time even to be polite, for while the words are being framed, the gesture mado, a seat vacated, or a door opened, a rival opper- will seize the unexpected tunity to push in front of us in this struggle for existence.
It is a fear (either actual or em- brye) which dominates our lives to-day. A tragic fear, a bitter fear, a fear which, if it increases and spreads much farther, will soon obliterate the words "courtesy" and "good. mannera” from our vocabularies,”
Ten Years Ago
[From the "China Mall" February 1, 19201
To-day's dollar is worth 5/- 51⁄4d.
Japanese sailors on our streets yesterday wore influenza muzzles.. filter pads
and covering mouth nostrels. They looked very queer, with the lint attachments round their They looked queerer when, in order to smoke, or for comfort, many
ears.
of them allowed their nosebags to
It is fashionable to ceeded by any, Mr. Braga's ar- Hing (20), living at-35, Sing Woo from her residence in Reclamation hang like white beards from their
en-
Our Local spend Sunday He-Men morning in bed in the Colony. The pleasant lethargy which velopes one under the bedclothes, united to the happy realization that one has no need to get up and swallow a hasty breakfast, gives one a moral cowardice to face the cold. There are, of course, those supermen; leonine spirita, who rise by will power at
is printed below, Street, was alleged to have attonipt-Street, yesterday, a young Chinese. ticle, which presents a survey; in its briefested suicide by swallowing an over- woman, 23 years of age, was wound- form, of the success which at-dose of opium. He is now in the ed in the abdomen, necessitating her Government Civil Hospital in aadmittance to the Kowloon Hospital tended the early Portuguese serious condition.
for treatment. settlers of Hong Kong in veget- able and flower growing which a hobby. they indulged iq; as
The salient feature Kowloon of the article is Suburbla the outstanding fact that much
chine. Comments were various. was said by some that the thing was
an Insult to Hong Kong which has less
'flu than Japan. Others said it was hard lines on the gallant sailors, to spoil their shore leave in that way.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
A Western Cook In Japan: Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: "Dr. Livingstone, I Presume:" Story Of The Titanic:
St. Paul's Cathedral: Covent Garden Season
&
•
are
a pre-arranged hour, and, leaping of the pioneering work in the out of bed, make a dash for the suburban settlement of Kowloon
owner of the car came out, started to Titanic and rescued over 700 passen- cold water jug. Such men are was undertaken by members of An Eastern Veteran
drive away, then stopped and examinedyers. For that he was much feted in not our friends; we admire, but the Portuguese community. It MR. Michele Dentiel, for 67 years the car. Mrs. Downie asked if he had America, and was awarded the free we do not like them. They are was they who acquired from the a resident of Yokohama, died lost anything and he said his radiator dom of New York.
cap was missing She told him what so infinitely superior, with their | Crown the first leases of Crown on January 13 at his residence,
she had seen, and they overtook tho flashing eyes, ruddy cheeks and land as farm lots both at Yau-217, Bluff, aged 85. Mr. Dentici man who was still going from auto Re-opening the Dome
arrangements arrived in Japan 48
ELABORATE cook mobile to automobile and with the aid
being made to give it observance swinging limbs. Also, they have mati and in Kowloon. It is on board a cruiser of the Royal of a policeman took him into custody.
When taken into the police station to the re-opening of the Dome of St an unpleasant habit of banging established as an historical fact, Italian navy, and after having
was found that in small pockets Inside Paul's Cathedral next summer,.
One of the events will be the opening doors with a noise that resem-that the first brick building to be terminated a service of five years his cost and in his trousers the man bles the approach of a typhoon, erected on the mainland, since on board, left the ship and becams had concealed four mascots and dozens service of the Lambeth Conference on July 6. This will probably be attend chier cook of the Russian of radiator capa
ed by nearly 300 bishops, including of barking familiarly to one at Kowloon was acquired as a de Legation in Tokyo. In 1874 he
Native African and Japanese, prelates, awkward early, hours, and pendency of Hong Kong, was founded & French bakery In A Black Incident
as well, possibly, as some opiscopal gulping down absurd quantities that of two Portuguese life-long Yokohama and together with a pen MR. J. L. CROUCHI, a barrister, revisitors from the Orthodox East.
ferring at a Surveyors Institute. sion which he established at that dinner to the prevalence of coloured drat will be enriched by memorials to
Before long the crypt of the Cathe of undiluted water. Most un-friends who erected the summer sims, he and his family introduced men at the English Bar, kald: two eminent Royal Academicians. One reasonable of fellow creatures, villa of "Delmar" on Farm Lot to the foreign community the real
This story is told of Mr. - Justice is Bir. Frank Dicksee and the other Sir they have no nerves and no need No. 2 at Yaumati. To the credit essence of the European table. Eve, who is a member of Lincoln's Ian. George Frampton, several examples of A little while, ago the entered the whase sculpture are in the possesKİON of warmth or comfort. Never of the Portuguese also belongs In 1899 he built a new place at 109. library of the Inn and saw on his left of the Cathedral
Yamashiacho, which was occupied black men, on his right black men, and reg feeling cold, they glost in the the first experiment in sheep unill destroyed by the earthquake all round him black mons. Then he Forthcoming Opera Attractions.
of power
their circulations, breeding at Yaumati when à of 1923, when both he and Mrs. caught night of a white man and, ruth- throw out their chests, and speak small flock of sheep was import Dentfel were badly injured asing up to him, exclaimed, "Dr-Living- OPERA-LOVERS at Homs may ex- pect to hear, at any moment of some alimportant engagements for next In the disdainful manner of a ed from Australia by Mr. Marcos Dentlel was credited with having minor Government Oficial. If do Rozario and the sheep herded
ARTHUR POSTRON ptain The Captain of the Berengariammer's season at Covent Garden.
+Colonel Eustace Blois, the managing
one of these fiends would design in pens erected withip.
of the Berengaris, has had an ad venturous voyage to New York with his huge liner, which arrived two days Ho had had plenty of experience of the Atlantic in all its moods, and been with tha Ginard Co
to accept my hospitality, I think grounds of De
1. might summon sufficient cour age to drop ardenic in his beer, and - thur - rid humanity but, aling they never
The
Canned, failed, we are
orticulture
Colony
Japan, and to-day/there are 20 introduced foreign pastry into
bakeiles in Japan which have been established by his former spprentices. In all his years of résidence in Japan, Mr. Dentici never returned to his homeland.
stone, I presume.
g
ained 1895, when they Observant Lady
Jonicor af
ilta,old Umb TDOWNIE of 108 Route her sister, the Etruri
ship in the
In Front
zónsidered
director of the syndichte, has huts left for Italy In order to make a round of the Italian opera houses, to shaur various singers who have been recom mended to him, and to arrange cer tain contracte: This is of course, diment and responsible tank, bat Colonel Biola, - besides being a good judge of mu
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