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~FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN KOBE.

Mr. A. Q. Prior Was Here In 1924.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932,

Romance

By The Riverside

The Small, Dark Inns Of The Thames-Side

CRUSHED BY WAREHOUSES

"The Inns of the Thames are like It was on the northern shore of the men of the Thames-small and the Thames that Whistler painted jocular and dark. They have his nocturnes of the river. "that" curious, air" of emerging from the Turner made these countless studian troubled past like familiar ghosts, of shifting light and rolling mast the elbowing phantoms of Dickens, and garish figura that lie in the Bard-x.pa even, and Shakespeare's cellars of our national galleries. great Falstaff himself," writes Wapping Old Stairs drawO US, 18 George Slocombe in the Evening it has drawn generations of the Standard.

curious. The original steps are ne

Grey as the tide that lape cease- longer visible from the shors. They, lessly af their worn stones, their lie, concealed from all but the boate rotting wooden piles, low-ceilinged, men who ply a careless oar up and

low-windowed," "broad of beam as down these reaches of the river, any ship's stern cabin, they are below the present higher quayside crushed now between the vaster or concrete. masonry of towering warehouses, m

Transformation.

they that were once isolated taverns. And the old "Tower of |with-arboured terraces on the green Ramsgabe,” which for several hun- News has been received in Kobe shores of Thames.

dred years has guarded the narrow by cable of the death in England of But still over the broad waters of passage which leads to "Wapping Mr. A. Quint Prior, a former Kobe the ancient river their bold inn- Old Stairs, is being transformed resident.

signs: by day, their glowing lights internally, and modernised. Born on September: 22, 1900, he in the darkness

siren The old, the admirable, the un-* cry their

served in the Honourable Artillery welcome to sailormen in search of a failing Prospect of Whitby"

however, unchanged. The fish in Company during the war, and join-promising landfall. ed Thomas Cook and Son in 1919. The Hanoverian Kings have left its glass tanks swim as auriferously He was first stationed at their then traces of perfervid loyalties on the as ever. From its modern balcony Head Office at Ludgate Circus, and south bank of the river. They are you can still see the Thames a was transferred to Hong Kong in remembered by ian-signs that In-Turner saw it, a pearly grey vision, 1924, to Shanghai in 1925, to Kobe cluded, until 1918, at least one a mirror shrouded by mist, under as Chief Clerk in 1926 and to "King of Prussia." The Prussian a sky thunderous with the smoke of Yokohama as Acting Manager in monarch suffered river, change factory chimneys, and reddened 1928.

into a monarch of nationality less with the setting sun, embarrassing, but the wings of the You can look up the river and sen Spread Eagle were not clipped, and the thin tracery of masts and spars, that admirable Inn still faces the a group of sailing barges abudowy "Prospect of Whitby" from the in the soft pallor of the river, dask shores of Rotherhithe

boats moving imperceptibly with the - The Rocking Lighterk. alackening tide, the remote further Stand on its terrace in the even shores, frregular, blunted, their ing light and watch the pearly harsh outlines softened, their tall shadows that Whistler loved creep chimneys become towers, their

SUICIDE VERDICT AT INQUEST.

Warder Acted Queerly For Some Time.

The China Mail, Hong Kong, Thursday, Oct. 6, 1932: the chief. The question is being Michael Rooney, who died from moorings, leaning together like the

Parents At School.

act

edge."

be helping educationists who really want to make school Anyone knowing whereabouts lessons useful for after life. Mr. of TAN PAIK SENG of PENANG Rusk, the Director to the Scot. tish Council for Research In inform him wife seriousty ill. Education, quotes, in his Re Doctor advises immediate return search in Education, a recent in By cable.

vestigator who has found, by questioning schoolchildren, that 96 per cent, of all the fractions) used by their parents are com" prised in a list of some ten frac An inquiry conducted yesterday over the river. The water is like a towers fortresses, in the fading

Hght. tions of which 14, 14 and are into the death of Prison Warder mirror of lead A long row of lighters rock rhythmically at their

Grim Jacularity, Broad figures sit on benches in debated among educationists self-inflicted ballet wound on Sep- whether frequency of use in tember 7 last, resulted in a verdict, well-trained ladies of the chorus in the bar. There is a grim jocularity after life should be the rule to from a jury that consisted of a revue A steamer dying the in the conversation. The bodies of decide what is to be taught with Messra, A.DA, Lopes (foreman), Sickle and Hammer flag of the So-drowned men and suicides have a It is good news that there is most emphasis, and whether, W. D. Johnson and Charles Black, viets lies quietly outshore. habit of coming up in this reach

while drapers' shops concentrate

of "suicide while temporarily It is low tide, and the green of the river. There is a legend, trouble afoot for parents who go on such fractions as an insane," Mr. H. R. Butters presid- strained walls of the adjoining the truth of which I did not stop to warehouse stand sheer from the verify, that the watermen who fish ed. teachers, can about boasting that they are athletes on 1/5, -

Testimony was given by Dr. 7. river bed. Two old barges, black these corpses out of the Thames can like pals with their children, and omit bothering children with the B. Mackie, Medical Officer at Kow- and melancholy, He high and dry on claim twenty shillings. who have for too long felt super-habits of 1/7 or even 1/10. The loon Hospital, that the deceased the foreshore. A man and boy Facing Limehouse Reach stands parent who has the good fortune had been acting queerly for some stumble over the gently shelving another old in, the "Grapes." It for to the older tradition of in- to attend a school whose teacher time. In fact he was sent to Kow- bank, bowed under burdens of drift is narrower than the others, as if vesting parenthood with a rea- is humble, and only anxious to loon Hospital for mental observa- wood. In the deepening twilight an it had been squeezed in its rush to sonable awe. The People's In- teach what is really wanted, wition shortly before his desperate among the wet stones at the water's Short, unshaven, silent men, with

old grey rat wanders uncertainly the river side, ve find that he is himself the stan stitute of Brooklyn, New York, dard by which the curriculum is

that wideness of the eyes and that which has been bestirring itself measured. Few sensations will

The river frontage of the "Spread squareness of the fowl that lighter- on behalf of the new matiness, be more gratifying to a middle WITNESSES TELL OF Esgle" is full of surprises. Two men acquire from long squinting at

see all his has observed that children do aged man than to

idiosyncrasies and mental bad not find their parents such

achabits being accepted as the ceptable friends as they would if proof by experience as to what parents were more genuinely in the young must be taught, so terested in those school lessons means nothing to him will be the a mere declaration that history which dominate the schoolchild's end of history masters. But A witness at the Inquest into the | day.

The Institute, therefore, the educational world is not en- death of a woman named In Case of Accident. reviewing the situation, decided tirely composed of humble people Wu Ah-ngo yesterday, alleged A couple of life-belts of the Royal confiding to the other a long, and in the grip of behaviouristic that the deceased was kill- Humane Society are hung con- involved story about a broken nose. in favour of school lessons. for psychologists, and there is greated by a truck which passed veniently at hand, so that the con- "I fell over somethink, I did, and parents, and has just complet danger of public humiliation for a stationary tramcar, knocked a boy templative mariner, musing over the my nose hurt me somethink cruel. ed a most successful course in the parent who is made into an down, swerved to the left and final- advantages of frothing ale on a When I come home, my husband he object-lesson. There is now ly ran over her. Mr. Schofield sat Sammer's evening, may not neglect goes out to see what it was 1 fell which parents and children sal flourishing in the pleasant coun as Coroner, with a jury, and the the claims of compassion at the cry over, but it had gone.. on the bench side by side and ty of Surrey, by Reigate and hearing was adjourned.

A of a sailorman who has drunk too

Mayflower Memorles, learned about Egyptian civiliza. Redhill, an eminous school for Lu Cheng, driver employed by deep and missed his footing on the The "Prince of Wales, in Cubitt tion. It was not age but igno- palants, where fathers are taught the Hong Kong Tramway Company, narrow plank.

how to look after young babies said that when he stopped his There are vestiges, too, of the rance that was wrong

was wrong with t parents, and schools can be used never received at school. The to cure ignorance. The innova conscientious modern man is told tion seems likely to spread, for that he cannot be a good hus

band unless he can help with the the country is full of teachers children from their earliest and of text books that are not months, or a good father unless read as much as they might be; he learns the science of infant chalk is cheap and blackboards welfare. Of the philosopher W

G. Ward men say that he kept An organ recitali are easily made. There are few his children at a distance until parents who could pretend for they were old enough to argue L.T.CL Cathedral Organie long that they know the subject with but philosophers ar matter already, and there are ent probably some who will welcome

WOMAN'S DEATH.

Lorry Struck Boy And Passed Standing Car.

MAGANDA M With the and receive instruction that they tram Watson's

any means of escape from the

the

only

intolerably superior

of their young..

means kely that

News in Brief.

One ease

ritis was led to the Health authoritie

Frederick Mason,

be giv

Church on October 10, at 9 pm. Mr. Mason will be assisted by three Cathedral

oristers

great black mooring posts uphold contrary, winds and tides and long the little square terrace. It is as if leaning against a bucking sweep, a thirsty shipmaster had merely to stand against the long bar, tie up his adventurous barque at the In the inn parlour & crowd of Indoor. They replace the more young men are playing darts. Two prosaic, but equally obsolete, hitch women sit in one corner, nervously ing-post that goes with landsmen's clutching small glasses full of a inns.

dark liquid. One of them, a small, red-faced woman with spectacles, is

originarural innocence of the plac Avine growing over the wall shrubs in curiously-a

ware. pots which are confessed be discarded crucibles from a neig

ring antimony smelter's

Town, has still an

dour. It stands

as if it still

Lavern, among greenef

not yet become It stood there cast off from

wall Pier, and from its stone,

a thriving young chestnut and low will, doubted now covered with burra, stared at the departing ship curious and promising tavern, it had rounded the point for "Spres1 Eagle with a billiard A tablet marks the pier

Ikea barg when which the Mayflower sall phenomenal tide sets commemorative sign adorns the

English inn on which

Rother

Fathers looked..

Skatte