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HERE, THERE
atrod
EVERYWHERE
Outsize In Yachts
Lord Moyne's conversion of an old cross-channel steamer of 1426 tons makes him the owner of one of (the largest yachts in Great Britain.Į
Some big vessels sail under the American flag, but the British yachts are under 1000 tons.
“WAR CHILDREN” ARE GOOD VINTAGE
NOTED NOVELIST ON THE
NEW GENERATION
A
CLASS HANDICAP REMOVED
(By Gilbert Frankan.)
came
from,
Stock
WES DO
Nex-sergeant-major pleading) comparatively easy job. We had. Lady Yule's beautiful new Nahlín looks imposing, but is only about his son's cause before a magis-been born to peace; and very few 500 tons; Lady Houston's Liberty trate at Wimborne, Dorset, asked of us had any doubts that we should on the ground that die in peace. Our livelihoods, is somewhat larger, and Lord Fair- for leniency
class haven's Sapphire about the same the boy was "a war child," and was whatever size.
therefore "not entirely responsible seemed more or less secure.
Exchange crashes for his actions."
were no bug- The Duke of Westminster's des- On the other hand, a frlend of bear to us. Unemployment was do troyerlike Cutty Sark is only 333)
commands a famous|bugbear to us. Turation tons, and Mr. Ernest Guinness's mine who 40-year-old Fantome,
with her regiment says, "Nonsense. I was bugbear to us.
Never Known Certainty square rig and fine lines, still one a bit worried about the type of subaltern they were sending me a
The past had been good. The the lovellest vessels afloat, is;
few years ago. But now we're get-future would be better. What smaller still.
ting a jolly good vintage."
Which of these two Is one to any rate-were of our own con- [believe 7
triving.
But these war-babies have come
of
The Fantome, with the owner on board, is now cruising in the Mediterranean.
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Cautionary Tale
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thy
troubles we had-for most of us at
Personally. I plump for friend the colonel; and consider to maturity in a world of troubles. that his judgment is correct for all They have notor had not until
of our war this last year of Once again Britain has been ranks in the army
our magnificent warned this time by the National babies-who are just starting national recovery-known any cer- tainty. Their very teachers have Safety Congress-that the home Is
I have great hopes and great ad-been bemused and befuddled (and. ja more dangerous place than the
miration for our war-babies. mauy of them are still bemused and streets.
sand
wife lying on 1
den
the on
Soap and through the window.
mature.
ternationalist-thinking.
Although the saying is just an feel that they are going to justify befuddled) with speculations that
nowhither,
with a that themselves. I feel that they are a lead ather
mass of example of the fact
different breed, or 2 different conscious revulsions und subcon- figures can be made to prove any
as my friend put it,scious fears. thing, it gives the chance to tell "vintage"
The war-baby generation, never. the sad story of Mrs. Beulah Hop from those pre-war babies who-if
I am to tell the stark truth about theless, seems to have no revulsións kins, of U.S.A.
no fears. pear good. Encouragement may
Physically the be drawn from the migratory in Her husband heard a scream and with their
One day she went to take a bath. them-have rather disappointed me and
"bright young people" highest authorities now tell us-it stinct of those most precious dashing upstairs
no handicap. While Rong Kong, Monday, June 11, 1934. Ashes. On the experience of re room empty.
found the bath behaviour and their delight in their has suffered
own inferiority complexes, and mentally, it is as utterly confident cent tours, both in England and Looking through the open win their general cocktail-drinking, in-as any youth of any are ever was Australia, it would appear that dew he saw his
jazz danc-confident in its own capacity and the cohesion and co-ordination
its own wisdom. Although, queer which a visiting team is able to frightened but almost unhurt.
heap three storeys below, ing ways of life.
Not all of them, of course, arely, it has a discipline-possibly in- It seems now to be beyond develop more than offset the dis- She explained that she had trod-like that. Nor can any sane think- herited from those years when we question that the diplomatic as-[advantages of playing under un-
skidded help realising that the pre-war were only saved by discipline-that. surances of the M.C.C. may be familiar conditions with but!
bables the young men who came my own youth, to take only one accepted as meaning that there limited
Chapman's)
of age just too late to prove their instance, would have most furiously will be no "body-line" bowling invictories in Australia were no
manhood-had rather a poor deal. [resented. England this season, a decision less decisive than Jardine's, yet
Gorki Loses His Son
It is far Unbalanced Children
eusier every school- which does credit to the states.in the intervening campaign the Maxim Gorki (real name Flesh-
master know tolla me-to control manship of the Marylebone com- Australians humbled the pride of koff), the famous Russian author,
You cannot expect children who modern boys and modern girls than mittee, and perhaps also to its English cricket on
English has lost his only son. He died in were at their most impressionable it was to control
their predeces- ustuteness, since there is little fields. There is every
ages during a time when the whole sors: provided always that the con- evidence that the packed leg field son to hope that on this occa
world was topsy-turvy to be alto trol is exercised sympathetically, as would be profitable on English sion there will be as effective de-Maxim, and he was only 34, He gether balanced. You cannot ask from one intelligent, being to an- grounds. In welcoming the ap-monstration of the wonderful re-showed none of his father's talent, either your public schools or your other; and not as a mere preroga- pearance of a new English skipcuperative power of Australian and was. Indeed,
secondary schools to turn out their tive of higher position and riper per, Australians will be generous cricket. The Commonwealth's His father was devoted to him.
a ne'er-do-well. best products when all the best men age. enough to admit that the loss of failures in 1928-9 gave Brad. Gorki has also
and all the best women of a coun
These modern boys and girls try are at a war,
resent, and rightly, all preorgatives Four years of mass-hysteria and and all privileges. They are mass-neurasthenia does not make their own time-a time that has no Pleshkoff for stability in the schoolroom use for
reserves.
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rea- Moscow of pneumonia,
Like his father he wAS
called
an adopted son,
Jardine robs England of the man his chance; their re-Colonel Zinovi Picshkoll, who now acutest cricket intelligence she verses in 1932-3 have brought halds
黯 high command in the
ot
had discovered for many years. into the team several young French colonial army. and a captain whose generalship cricketers who may prove worthy was a brother of Sverdloff, first Youth, like any other plant, needs authority exercised without reason,
President of Soviet Russia.
Although they
have
No Blind Following They will follow a leader-but they will not follow him blindly
Your Daily Smile!
to me proved. On the (contrary. It seems to me to have
been an advantage to them.
I believe these young men and into the ditch.
The lawyer, whose office
the
the
shibboletha--DO use for will be remembered after the to stand in his succession. On controversy which he provoked the partial evidence of the few
placid soil to grow in.
for "the heavy-sterned amateur ald matches played, there is reason- has been forgotten.
travelled Yet that the war has been a dis-men, who hamper and hinder and Cricket as
a game needs nyable ground to believe that the opposite roads they still correspond. {advantage to the war-babies does scold men." embellishment of politics or dis-tradition of Australian left-hand. Last year Colonel Picshkoff mart scent
ried the Vicomtesse des Combetter traction of controversy. Its un-ed batsmanship is about to be re- de Caumon. certainties, less traditional only vived and that a team in being than its sportsmanship, crowd built up which will be fertile and thickly upon this Australian tour resolutè in stroke play, using the
young women, the eldest of them
Because they, you see-anly so so auspiciously bégun. To what bat not to stop but to hit the
twenty and the youngest about six- extent will influenza be an ally ball hard and often, and so chal-
many of you refuse to see!-are was teen-sired by men and bred by not ignorant, and cannot be kept of England, either by giving lenging bowlers to abandon ex- on the sixth floor of a large city women of almost superhuman for ignorant, about the everyday fac visiting batsmen the sorry sub-Jéess of both leg and off theory, building," was expecting a client. titude, by the victors in a righteous tors of everyday life. stitute of high temperatures for and to attack the wicket with the Suddenly the door opened and a struggle fought unflinchingly high scores during the Tests, or shock of pace, the refinements of man staggered in, puffing violent-through every imaginable horror theatre,
The book, the newspaper, by depriving them of match prac-spin and flight, and the subtle-ly.
to the bitter end-to have inherited wireless of to-day (though person-
the film, and even tice beforehand? Will the Eng-ties of swerve. Nothing better "What a climb up those stairs!" only their parents' virtues, and thatally I find something queerly old- lish drought be followed by a can be asked for. It will be a he gasped,
if any children of any generation fashioned about the wireless) al! wet summer to drown Australian happy coincidence if, with the re- "Why don't you take the lift?" were the children of light, they are combine to teach the youth of to- hopes, or, when the sun shines establishment of normal cricket asked the lawyer. fitfully, to reveal Australia's lack relations, some of the vigour
A Pronder Race "I meant to, but I just missed the
day those things from which our And as they grow older, so, youth was of an orthodox left-hand sticky-wasted in controversy passes into bloomin' thing."
kept sheltered. It is wicket bowler? These would be the game itself.
believe, will they grow prouder-developed in forcing-house of with that pride which is now main knowledge. Yet unlike a plant in ly subconscious of what their a forcing-house, its growth does not Author: "I would like to hear fathers and their mothers achieved. seem weakened. Rather · the
That there is a "white feather reverse. brigade" even among the children
(Continued on Page 10 born between 1914 and 1918 is ́ap- parent. But youth is always the sleeplessness 7" the iconoclast. How many of that correspondent. Any-brigade would actually develop con- a bad conscience to scientious objections when the bombs began to drop? Not one of them, I am sure.
weighty questions did they not
pale into insignificance beside
the anxieties of England. What
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Overheard in the Foyer
of Larwood, who supplies the MAN WHO ESCAPED what you think of my play
pedal note in pre-test specula-
tion? We are told of the "feel-
ing of relief which awept Trent
FROM HOSPITAL.
Bridge," to be later diffused Re-Arrested By Former
throughout the kingdom, as he thumped his weight on that pro- blematical left foot in his try- out against Somerset. Truly may we say with Shakespeare,
Captor.
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MY TAME TYPIST Thought "face-lifting" was what that statesmen had intervened, ployed Chinese was fined $30, in a girl did when her tall boy friend or should intervene, to restore default six
weeks' imprisonment, called. cricket relations, "the age is by Mr. E. I. Wynne Jones at the grown so picked, that the toe of Kowloon Magistracy this morning the peasant comes so near the for having been found in unlawful heel of the courtier, he galls his possession of pinewood branches. kibe." But on the whole it is In prosecuting, Sgt. Poyntz stated 1 very healthy sign that cricket-that on May 31 a Chinese detective ers should be interested in Lar-saw
thu defendant
wilb
SLEEPING OWNER
ROBBED.
Cigarettes That Might Have Been Paid For.
For the very young men and the very young women of to-day, what ever else they are, are not cowards A fine of $10, in default two Their love of speed, their love of weeke' imprisonment, was imposed | dangerous 'sporta and dangerous on Li Fuk, unemployed, by Mr.' Q. games, proves thom of the same! A. A. MacFadyen at the Central stock as those pre-war "knuta" Police Court this morning for some of us used to laugh at. And stealing four packages of cigarat- should the call ever come to them tes from Chau Kam; a cigarette
NO PICKINGS At a London night-club, the a guinea and cover-charge is champagne £5 a bottle. Now we they will answer it in the same hawker In Des Voeux Road Central know why bandits do not think it the
worthwhile to hold up the patrons in fact, the only difference, at I had the intention of buying of night-clubs.
· PAINSTAKING An American has amassed a for-
way.
yesterday,
least as I can see it, between the the cigarettes, but when I saw very young men and the very young complainant was dosing, I picked women of this, day and the very up the cigarettes and walked off," young men and the very young said the accused, who was arrest-
wood's toe rather than in politica, branches, and went up to question which should have no place in him. The defendant, however, saw the game. The doubtful toc le at him coming and dropped the least a big one. The adjective branches and ran. He did not get cannot be applied to some of the far, however, tripped and fell subject matter of recent contro-heavily, sustaining injuries to his tune of two million dollars out of women of my own day is that the ed by a district-watchman,
head,, which necessitated his re-digestive tablets. One of these war-babies of 1934 realiso, an the Even if Larwood proves sound, moval to the Kowloon Hospital.
Big Mamuth men, and even if that great bowler is -On the morning of June 7 it was invested with something of the noticed that he was missing from
BRIGHT CHILD [demoniacal air which used to be his ward. Oh the following day he "I'm glad I don't like spinach," attributed to Spofforth, the pros was recognised by the same Chinese(said the Hitle girl, "for if I liked pects of the Australian team ap-¡detective, and re-arreated.
lit I should eat it,and I hate it!"
versies.
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striplings of 1914 were totally un- A fine of 10 cents was imposed able to realine, that life is very far on L Yung, a woman newspaper from being an easy, job,
hawker, by Mr. Q. A. A.'MacFad. With us in our stripling-timeyen at the Central Police Court be frank with yourselves, men, and this morning, for háwking without women of my own agel-life was a'a license;
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