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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1931.

"

ON BEING ALONE'

:

“SILENCE ROOMS.”

By G. C. N.

KOWLOON JUNIOR SCHOOL.

Annual Distribution of Prizes.

LIST OF PRIZES WINNERS.

21

ANNUAL REPORT.

The

THE CHINA MAIL.

SNAKE AS GROUND NO UNEMPLOYMENT

FOR DIVORCE.

Woman Used It to Keep Husband Away.

GAVE HER A WREATH.

INSURANCE.

Surprise in the Swiss Plebiscite.

LARGE MAJORITY AGAINST.

Berne, Dec. 7.- The annual distribution of A snake, a tuft of hair, n fun-

The introduction prizes

Junior eral wreath and 42 years' absence

of unemploy at the Kowloon School took place at Parkside have recently been admitted in ment insurame was rejected by the this morning, when

United States courts

electorate with as Siles

a large large the

majority in Sunday plebiscite on at Nearly all of us hate being alone., It is not easy to set aside a period crowd of parents and friends grounds for divorce.

The snake case was in Norris-Government Bill for the introduc We inherit, I supose. the herding the day for a mental survey and were present.

of social services. 'Aside n Malaya, where we have few roots, The prizes were distributed by town, Pennsylvanin. Mr. Russell Lion

unemployment insurance instinct from our forbears, who

B. would seem that our mental side Mrs. R. M. Dyer, previous to Gerhart said that his wife kept a from an

strange showing has no which a short programine of en- 6ft. black snake as a pet. She system, the bill included provisions preferred the company of the com- by same

was given by the carries it round in a basket, and for panel services and old age bene- mtal campfire to the unknown roots either. We are more frivolous tertainment

And much mare tiresome both to pupils.

wraps it round her neck when shejls on the basis of small insurance dangers of a lonely bivouac. Some-

It was rejected by a ourselves and to other people.

Mr. G. P. de Martin, M.B.E., wants to keep me away," he said. įpremiums. how this berding instinct, commen Mental balms have not been found Director of Education, was pre- The judge granted a divorce on majority of 173,000.

The outcome of the plebiscite has to man, is more noticeable in the for us like they have in Britain. No sent and at the conclusion added the grounds of “indignity to the

Joccasioned much surprise here, as European living in the East than Chaucer or Shakespeare has woven his thanks to those of the head person."

Bolsterous.

it had generally been expected that elsewhere; and perhaps it is only the quiet muste of Malaya's loveli mistress, Miss Cooper, to Mrs.

news into literature. We have

no Dyer for coming to present the Two strange. exhibits were the Bill would go through in view produced in divorce cases at-Ter-of the increase in unemployment natural, for we are all a long way one who has set dowis the beauties prizes.

re Haute, Indiana. Mrs. May and the growing insecurity of from Home and many of us live of the country like Turner or Whisl

have no memories of

in prosperous Hubbard, suing for divorce, economic life, oven miks out in the jungle with our ler and we

as mure herrig

showed a tuft of her hair which Switzerland. The Press ascribes nearest neighbour ten miles off, ekildhood to hind writes G. C. N. in the Singapore to our present abode. For ever wa The head mistress read the an her husband, had pulled out in the result to the intense individu- one of his more boisterous mo-jallsm of the Swiss people and their Free Press.

are thinking of our next leave finual report as follow:-

Attendance. "

ments; and in the other a woman consequent aversion to Government Normally, this is not so in Bri-of the leave we have just had, there

in their private! tain, where it is easier to be alone. by fostering a spirit of restlessness. The attendance during the year showed a funeral wreath which interference

a laffairs. Transocean Kuomin. Where then shall we find a salve? has been satisfactory. The aver; her husband had sent her as There, man may quite happily

It is not difficult, but it will take age attendance was 90--an in-Christmas present. spend a long day by himself and feel

In a case heard at Seattle, the the better for it, and ning times some looking for. Malaya in the crease of 8 an last year.

Superior Court ruled that 42 WISE SAVING AND SPENDING. out of ten he will belong to that early hours of a sunny morning will maximum enrolment was 109.

Stuff.

years' absence was sufficient rea- colerie of people who are really give us, if we are rezeptive enough

In January Miss Anderson was son for granting a divorce. The worth listening to And Why?a mental peace and a filling stage

from Relilios case was that of Olof Myron, aged Because when this man has been for any introspection. The coolness transferred here

Smith 66, whe asked for a divorce from) "The doctrine of wise saving and alone he has started to think tirings of the air, the blueness of the sky, Public School and Miss

Mrs. his wife Johanna. He said that wise spending is really the key to! out logically. He has gone below, the crispness of the shadows, the went to the Peak School. the surface

honolulu Jefford, of Victoria British School, he had not seen his wife since improving the critical condition in of the day's trivial depth of colour in the rosed and has tied the key To: Creeper and the far-away-purple then--did-two weeks Lemporary 1899, when he came to America which the country finds itself," said the sanctuary of his green of the sex. Then there is the duty, while one of the mistresses from Sweden, and his wife re-Sir Wm. Schooling, speaking at the time within

Misa Whitley returned fused to accompany him. They North-Eastern Regional Conference; own thoughts. On the other hand usie of the tropies. The toc' of was ill.

long leave In February, had been married two years at of the National Savings Movement there are many people in the world the night-jar, the even cadence of from wh nope and wit when left to the cicadas and if you live in Sing:- Miss Dyer, who had been our gym-the time. themselves. They must talk and tore the harmonious blending of a nastie mistress for several years, Unreat city's traffic. To see a Chin left to be married in July last, talk they must have listeners. fortunately, the desire to be alone isese junk well set in the monsoon, to and we unite in wishing her every

at play in the happiness. thought to be an eccentricity of watch children our race and the man who walks by Cathedral~grounds,-to-study—the himself or sits by himself at the beauty of human form, to listen to Club is a curiosity while the bache-heartfelt laughter, all those things the Inspector of English Schools

Rugby, Yesterday. lor who wants to live by himself is will release the soul from worldly came round on several occasions,

The projected attempt on the thought, to be perhaps just a little tres. So, easy to come by, so pre- and saw the work in progress. In

Minett, Medical world's non-stop long-distance. unsociable. The herd Inbet him at vious to harvest, so little regarded. February, Dr.

Fragrance helps too; the smell of Officer of Schools, inspected the flight record has been postponed accident to the Silence rooms would never go cut grass, of fresh coconut milk, of new entrants, re-inspected the owing to an down very well in Malaya? Yet if nutmegs and other spices, the scent epecial cases, and gave valuable Royal Air Force's Fairey Napier from over. The work they had to

the monoplane this afternoon. The go further of the garden after rain and of advice, when every Club, and 1 will

method of treatment to be adopt of its homeward journey, after the total influence of their grouped

machine was on

do to help the country would be; the final stage laborious and long continued, but and say every bungalow, had alaterite earth newly dug.

Hitherto The expression "it's been a plored. silence room there would be more

day to-day." never evenness of tempy and toere can- jous

comes been notified by letter regarding its successful non-stop trial flight organisations was vast in extant patibility all round. You can near readily to Makeyans. It is either too defects that needed attention, but to Egypt, when, owing to bad and high quality, and their

weather, it made a forced land- but parts

this time most of the parents were!

the past justified of parts day and

present, and had a personal intering at Saffron Waldon. Although the hope and the expectation that the machine turned over on its worthy view with Dr. Minett.

nose, both pilots escaped unhurt. they would be still greater in the Some slight damage was caused to the aircraft which will be taken to the Fairey Aviation Works for overhaul to-morrow. PHTHON DIES BY THE SWORD, British Wireless Service,

once.

ly always tell the man or woman who wet hungers for solitude and who knows of

find it. They are the not where to

often nervy, restless and insincere They bounce from one thing to an other, uncertain, mearing; craving for the limelight of humanity. The greater significance of life is lost to

them.

I do not mean by this that we should for ever remain within our souls. Life under those conditions would be impossible, we should be conte morose and murrow but within

limits it is not a bad plan to have a retreat accessible at

any time,

when the want for such makes it

self apparent.

I know a man who in the midst

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to hat'

the

night

are

well

Inspection.

The Director of Education and

necessary, on

the parents have

Thi

of remark. a still moonlit evening change, of procedure is certain to with a view of the sea from under have better results. In September the whispering palms holds the 2001 she also inspected the older chil ar eradicates temporal things from dren and tested their sight. one's mind. Sunset time, too, wheej

Health.

reds and yellows and greens al lend The health of the school was their brushes to paint the drop good throughout the year, and { serven of the day's course, and tacnam fortunate in not having ang again the col husn which precedes epidemics to record.

BAD LUCK.

Mishap to Long-Distance Monoplane.

child.

We are all grateful to Mrs. Dyer for coming to give away the prizes

the dawn and the first cock crow. During the hot months we adopt-

When a lama in Tibet enters his ed Summer hours, with beneficial today and thank her for a liberal

donation to one prize fund, novitiate's course his first care is results. This obviated the jour-must also thank the Kowloon Dock

We

at Leeds,

There was, he added, a simple rule which worked out well-that was to buy lasting satisfaction)

rather than temporary gratification.

Economic analysis showed that the kind of expenditure which gave' lasting satisfaction to the individual, was the kind of expenditure that was best for industry and trade tof the country and that gave the largest amount of employment.

The nation's crisis was very for

achievements in

future.

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A ten-foot pythom was noticed at to exclude from his brain the odds ney, to and from tifin, la the hot Company for the use of their flags. Dehigahapitiya, Ceylon, between the and ends of his world association; test part of the day, which made Mr. Jenner for seeing that they 31st and 32nd mile-post in the i. he can create a state of vacuity the children too tired for any were arranged as artistically, and Avisawella-Ratnapura main

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for

early one morning.

Hearing the voices of the crowd

aside an hour every evening for his has the time to capture thoroughly; The typhoon in July was respon I cannot close without a word

undivided use. He A ben but, if we could go but a short way sible for a good deal of damage of appreciation to the staff that collected round it, it gradually doing this now for nearly fifteen along the road and cultivate the art and thie while ants destroyed some their co-operation, and for the ex- years and never does he forgo it. af banishing work and worries of the woodwork. Frequently he only spends this time that we may the more readily re have had the matter in hand, and cellent work which they have done in dreaming in a comfortable chair ceive the aesthetic values of life, we most of the repairs have now been in the course of the year. or in having forty winks, yet on the shall be journeying towards a more done. ather hand he often reads or writes, lasting happiness in a land where To my way of thinking he has solved there is much beauty, the greater

I part of which has yet to be dis-the a great problem and of all men know he seems to meet the varied covered and put into words. turns of life in the right spirit,-- And the best way to find it is to philosophically.

be alone.

SPEED KINGS. Kaye Don and Gar Wood to Meet Again.

WAS

General.

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To-

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NOBEL PEACE PRIZE.

Delo, Dec. 7,

turned round and started crawling

One of the men there went in search back along the bank of the stream. of a gun to shoot it, but before he PRIZE LIST.

returned, the python was seen beat-i Scholarship to Central British ing a hasty retreat. In July, Inspector Saunders, of School:-Doreen Brown.

Considering It likely that the Kowloon Fire Brigade, super

Mrs. Dyer's prizes for first nython might hide in a bush, and jvised a fire-alarm, when the school place in Class 7, Doreen Brown; come back later in the night to the cleared in record time--18 Class 8, Jeannie Felshaw; Class roadside, and attack the passers-by, seconds. He afterward made some 9a, Brian Mahony: Class 9.a man named K. D. Aloysius sud- helpful suggestions as to the best Bunty Dalgleish; Class 10a, Tally denly ran inside his house, which method of conducting the practice. Hall and Jimmy Lindsay: Class was close by, and bringing out a Notices have been sent to all 10b, Poppy Arnold.

sward, chased after the python and pel the idea that he has admitted to parents regarding an increase In Prizes for second place in:-ord gave it one blow with the sword tricking Kaye Don to beat the gun the school fees, as from January Class 7, Jack Stokes; Clans 8, right en its head. The python Sheena Taylor: Class 9a, Dorothy struggled for a little while and then and so disqualify himself and lose next. the trophy.

Mins Swift took over, Miss Dyer's Tremees; Class 9b, Robert Booth; died.

gives Class "I was not mis-quoted,” said Gar work in September. She

108, Kathleen MacTavish Wood, "but my explanation was mis-lessons here twice a week, and has and Wilson Lang; Class 10b, June

weighed and measured all

the Barrett understood."

An annonymous Detroit sports-children, and tabulated the

Prizes for third place in:-- man has offered Kaye Don £20,000 Bults.

Class 7, Francis Crabb; Class 8, One not having a Drill Hall; Freddie Clemo; Class 9, Frank for the purpose of building a new specd-boat for the 1932 Harmsworth when lange classes have to be Bishop: Class 9b, June Moss. Reports that the Nobel Peace Trophy.

taught, naturally limits her work. Miss Cooper's prizes for hard-Prize, would not be awarded this This sporting offer has been made We hope that, before long, an As-work and good conduct:---Class 7. year were definitely denied with the in the event of Lord Wakefield de-sembly and Drill Hall will be Pauline Baxter: Class 8. Jeannie announcement, made this morning, clding not to enter another boat erected on the school grounds. Felshaw; Claes Da, Douglas Ifa; that the special Committee of the next year. Kaye Don will not have The concert, which is to follow, Class 9b, Joan Macfayden; Class Storting, the Norwegian Parlia to avail himself of this munificent has not been specially prepared 10a, Joyce Sturgeon: Class 10b, ment, which has the prize in is gift, as Lord Wakefield has every for this occasion but is selected Eva. Grady

gift, would meet on December 10 In intention of building a boat for next from what had been learned in the ·Special Prizes:--Class 7 (Nature the presence, of the King and the

jordinary school routine. year's contest.

Here Study), Ketty Scriven and Jack Crown Prince, to make the formal might say that I consider the so-Stokes Ciusa 8 (Miss. Benington's announcement of its choice for the called "Recreative subjecta" as M- Pelko) Evelyn..Morrison RUSSIAN CENSUS.

and prize this year. No authentic in

the The Dorothy. McCaw; Class 90, (Mrs. formation regarding portant as the three R's, Moscow, Dec. 8. child has to be fitted for life-not Hooper's Prize), Dolores. Hensley; mittee's decision has been divulged, A census will be taken throughout merely for earning living.The Class 3b (Mrs. Beattie's Prize).& secrecy which has not always Russia on January 1. Preparations whole trend of this mechanical Betty Goodwin Class 10a, Sandy been observed in former years. It was stated, however, that the mamps for the work have been completed age is for the leisure Lime to be Baxter and George Scott. by a special Commission, attached to increased, and we mist see that Mide Cooper's Needlework Prize: so far mentioned as candidates were the State Planning Commission, he child's interests hre un caletdat, Dereen Browa; 2rd, Evelyn pura conjecture, though it was ad-

Drawing games, etc. Morrison

mitted that the prize might be England II.

which it is expected to publish next Gar Wood in alilianxious to dis Spring-Transocean Kuomin.

"Any time, anywhere," said Kaye Don when he was informed of Gar Wood's willingness to meet him in a motor-boat race in England.

Kaye Don was feted by the City of Hamilton, Ontario, in mail πευκι Amid scenes reminiscent, of last year's Empire Gamob, he was given a civic reception; and the Mayor afterwards presented him with a golden key of the city..

I will gladly race against Kaya Don in England or Ireland," raid Gar Wood on his arrival in New York.

"Improvements I am mak

ing to Miss America IX wil), I think, make her the fastest boat in 'the world, and I am also planning's new boat which I shall build short ty."

Thus it is probable that the two

great speed-boat acea may race on

Lough Neagh, in Ireland, where

com-

Don made his first record with Miss which will also compile the résulla, po necessary partnyork Prizes:-Moira, Law-divided amongst two or oven three}

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