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Mr. Winston Churchill, who re- cently returned from his three- weeks cruise in the Mediterranean, had what he calls a "restful holiday."
During his cruise he visited Athens, Rhodes, Crete, Jerusalem, Cairo, Naples, Herculaneum, Rome and other cities.
THE ART OF GROWING OLD HAPPILY
SPECTRE WORSE THAN
}
THE REALITY
OLD AGE TIME OF REST
(By Silas K. Hocking)
The novelist, who is in his 86th year
HE spectre of old age is gen-Jafter strife, and are content to
Teally worse than the reality. see the new generation putting on
His favourite was Petra, the The fear of it gradually vanishes the armour that they have laid Syrian town which inspired the line the nearer we approach it. aside, and are grateful that they
If profitable idling.
what we have
"n rono-red city half as old as time." Foets, not novelists, dramatists have done their job and earned
During his cruise Mr. Churchill have done their best to make old their rest.
Not in all cases, I admit. A painted six pictures, completed the age appear unlovely and even scenario of his film of King hideous. The old man is repre- happy old age depends on what George's reign, and wrote more sented as being blear-eyed and has gone before it. We reap in than 30,000 words of a new auto-toothless, with knees and shoul-large measure biography,
ders bent, lega unsteady, handa sown, or what was sown by our are factors For a man who will be sixty on gnarled, and a voice like the croak forebears. There
which go to the shaping of our. St. Andrew's Day this is energetic of a raven.
In reality speaking generally lives for which we are not res- --that is not true.
ponsible.. Inherited temperaments, I was walking along Parlia-weaknesses, disposition which ment-street not long ago with a mar the beauty not only of old Lord Snowden, in the second man who revealed: to me that helage but also of every period of volume of his autobiography, gives was ninety-five. His back
Yet how much we can do for a new version of a Churchill story. not bent, nor were his steps un-
steady. He walked firmly and ourselves if we only tryi He says that when Mr. Baldwin, briskly, with head erect and chin In 1924, offered Mr. Churchill the thrust out. Chancellorship, Mr. Churchill sumed that it was, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster..
*
{TALE OF TWO CHANCELLORS
was life.
ur even
who, are not so ignorant as they dropped into a chair and exclaimed a ghastly and frightening human themselves everybody else.
The
Your Daily Smile!
mistake.
1
Having a hobby is vastly im portant, and a hobby of some kind He appeared to be interested in is surely within the reach of all. most things: the movements of The man who retires from bust- the time, In the political situa-ness and who has never had a It only slowly dawned on him tion, in the state of Europe, and hobby of any sort is in rather a during the conversation that Mr.in the fate of civilisation. pitiable condition. Nothing can Baldwin
Boul- no be more boring, was offering him the Old age has its tragedies Exchequer.
doubt-but so has every other destroying, than to sit twiddling Another version is that Mr. period of life. No one can whol one's thumbs with nothing to do. statements to the Press, but, Churchill was under no such mis-ly escape the illa to which flesh is No wonder that such people be what is more serious, in discuss-apprehension. He bounced into the heir, but to imagine that old age come peevish and irritable and ing plans with other negotiators room of a well-known politician, is the quintessence of all that is pessimistic, and are a nuisance to POHOLATUM Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 24, 1934.
would like to suppose.
triumphantly, "I'm Chancellor!" experience is to make a profound Friendship Of Young One absurdity is the discussion
The politician (probably knowing
Perhaps the greatest thing of Japanese Negotiations. of mere numbers of ships as
think of the all in producing a delightful old all about it) looked up languidly Hence 1 like to though Navies were built by from his desk and said: "Oh charm of old age-of its restful-age is to cultivate the friendship The lesson to be learned from mathematicians and not be prae-
have spent their fury. Of the entering into the spirit of youth. lumbago, insect bites, sores, head-the very contradictory and fretical statesmen who are thinking Duchy of Lancaster; very good!" ness and peace after the storms of the young. We keep young by quiet backwater sheltered from We can find infinite pleasure in aches, coughs, colds, chilblains, quently absurd information sent all the time of what their Navy
the wind, where, rich in garnered sharing their pleasures and in piles, sprains and dislocations.
to us about the negotiations, now may be called upon to do. going on in London, which will British Navy was largely reduced
knowledge, and undisturbed by looking at life from their point of An autograph collector once wrote to have so great an effect on the without any treaty at all at the
{meditate in future of the Far East, is one end of the war, because the re- General Sherman asking for his signa-the fretful, noisy crowd, one can view.
quietness, and live I sometimes meet old men who face. It is simply the absurdity aggression greatly decreased the reply: "The man who has been writ that life has given..
He received the following unsigned over again the sweetest moments tell me that they cannot get on. that does not appear on the sur-moval of the threat of German ture and a lock of his hair.
with, the younger generation.... at of rigorous Press Censorship and need for defence in home waters ing my autographs has left, and my
Pall-don't understand-to.. Don't Satisfying Charm 960 the manufacture of a public In the same way limitation to a orderly is bald, so I cannot comply
No sex to 25 know? whither they are drifting. Just as the closing hours Don't know what will be the end opinion based on ignorance of the further extent became possible with your request." The great diffi-because the five treaties made at
summer's day are often the most relevant facts.
A Limited Field
of them. culty of the Japanese negotiatora Washington in 1922 decreased
He: "You are always wishing beautiful and most restful, so the
There are
frivolous, is not to make a useful agree-probable danger in the Pacific what you haven't got."
closing years of a long and busy She: "Well, what else can one wish life may yield the deepest content and women in every generation, addlepated spineless young men ment, but to make an agreement The result was that Japan had a
and provide the most satisfying but the quality of the mass is, I of any kind that will not offend security which no ship-building for?". popular opinion and involve the programme without the same
Experienced
think, finer than ever it was. All the beauty of the world is They are Government in what would look guarantees is likely to better.
Editor: "Do you know how to run
not really at eumity like a recantation of former de One can trace lines of thought as
a newspaper?""
not in the springtime; nor in the with the old. They want our help, clarations or a betrayal of na-simple facts such as this are re-
Applicant: "No, sir."
hot, and sultry days of summer. our sympathy, our encouragement. tional interests.
cognised, in the demands report- Editor: "Well, I'll try you. I guess
Autumn is often richest in colour. They have a rought road to travel, ed from day to day. The you've had experience."
and winter has a beautynknown It would be possible to count
a hurd battle to fight. five treaties are not to be con- on the fingers the countries insidered as interconnected, Why?
to all the other seasons. LOCAL NEWS
If we show .ourselves friendly. which at the present time any why should the other Powers
Life is like the seasons, and they will be glad of our friend- BREVITIES information unpopular with the agree to be bound by only such
tacular charm. Hence to look ahip. And their friendship will Government can be freely pubparts of a general settlement as lished and discussed; but as John happen to suit Japan, while Japan. Two cases of diphtheria were forward with fear and distress to The old and the young fraternise. Morley said "things are what denounces her obligations that reported in the Colony during the the coming winter to imagine They were meant to do so. The
that old age can yield us nothing but they are, and they will be what made the quid pro quo? Then 24 hours ended November 22: they will be; why then-should we comes the recognition that equal-
pain and anguish, is to reveal a timidone is the complement of the other. The young. and the wish to be deceived? Any comity with Great Britain
Mrs. J. Smith has kindly con- and unheroic spirit and to make even and petent observer looking at events the United States Will after sented to distribute the certificates the brightest day's dark with fore middle-aged will not be afraid of old age when they see the
ан octogenarians
blithe and from an outside point of view all not mean equality when to the graduates of the R. Chin- bodings that probably will never like Mr. Saito, the Japanese Am the two act together.
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cheerful as they are themselves bassador at Washington, who re- we are old that Japan will only night at the Young Men's Christian Rest is sweet only to the tired. cently made a very frank speech make unilateral agreements with Association at Waterloo Road, if we were never tired we should and perhaps a little more so. on the subject, cannot fail to either, but on no account sign a Yaumati.
never know the delight of relax notice how unnecessary is much multilateral treaty. The object
ing our limbs and laying our
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BRUTAL CRIME AT
HAPPY VALLEY
of the present suspicion and of course is to drive a wedge The RM.S. Empress of Japan beads on a pillow of down will which Japan has managed to between the two Powers whose left Yokohama yesterday and After a hard day's work, or a long arouse against herself. When interests are practically identical. due at Vancouver on December 4. tramp over hill and dale, who has the military party seized the why should they agree to accept She will leave for Hong Kong on not said as he has thrown himself reins and ran away with the ent-
into his easy chair, "This is good. bassies as well as with the milia proposal of which the mischief-December 15,
This is delightful. This is bles tary and naval services method making possibilities are so cb-
vious?
Old age is essentially a time of which scorned to explain either the present Government is an University Club (Hong Kong) will to outsiders or to their own peoxious to recover her old repute hold their Joint Annual Dinner rest and, relaxation. The scarred and weather-beaten veteran takes ple was adopted. The Japanese as a good neighbour,to use Mr. Darte this evening at 8.80 p.m. at off his helmet, removes his Army was trained by German Saito's own word but does not the Roof Garden, Hong Kong heavy armour, gets rid of Sitting as Coroner at the Central officers; and the Bismarcklan tone feel quite ready yet to avoid the
his mud-clogged boots, and wrap. Schofield commenced an Inquiry Magistracy yesterday afternoon, Mr. ping his dressing-gown-round
of "blood and fron" diplomacy It is quite clear of course that Graduates' Association and Thesedness deep and satisfying." -
Hotel.
Inquiry Commenced At Central Magistracy
TRACTOR DRIVER'S DEATH
Personal Pars him, and pushing his tired feet into the circumstances surrounding
into his chair with a sigh of con- the death of Fu Kit, a tractor e driver, employed at the Golf Club,
af speech roused reminiscences of incompatible pose of Ajax defy- similar claims to dominance ing the lightning. There is still which at once set the teeth of plenty of time before the treaties formerly friendly Powers on lapse. It is quite unnecessary to Mr. Shinzaburo Hirooka, man- tent. edge. The first result was that take too seriously, these preli-ager of the Mitsul Bussan Kaisha, Outside the bitter wind may Happy Valley, whose body was dis large increases of Army and minary manoeuvres for position. Limited, returned to the Colony [rave, and the pitiless rain beat covered with multiple inuen
Navy dotes were required, and they had to be justified by giving the impression that the reat of the world was hostile and en- vious, and preparing for an at-
POLISH NOBILITY ARRIVE
yesterday by the mv. Chichibu against his window panes, but he the morning of September
The jury empanelled consisted of | Maru:
does not mind. He only feels sorry for those who are still ex-Messrs. L. D. Purves. (Foreman), Mr. Kazuo Sugiyama, of the posed to the storm.
L. C. de R. Scusa and A. M: Tye. Mitsui Bussan Kaleha Limited, re-
During the proceedings Mr. Murphy, Assistant Director of There may be a few old people Criminal Intelligence (Crime), in- who would like to fight life's formed the Coroner that the Police
tack which could only be met En Route To Melbourne turned to the Colony yesterday by Eventide Of Life Enjoyed
with an intensive extension of armaments. Hence a strict cen-
sorship of news backed up with Ludwig Alex Francis Joseph,
the m.y. Chichibu Maru.
Japanese thoroughness by com- Duke of Ossolinsky, Count More Mr. Jyuichi Mayene of Messrs. battles over again endure the wore expecting to make an arrest in muniques from the official spokeswitzky de Topor,
por, and his Duchess, Horal Marine Products Company, pain of disappointed hopes and the very near future man, and a campaign of Broad Isabella, arrived in the Colony was among the passengers who re thwarted ambition, see their Dr. I S. Begble, who held casting tendencious accounts of resterday morning by the N. V. K. turned to the Colony by the m.v. dreams fade like summer clouds. post mortem examination on the or more rarely feel the momenti body; sald it was that of a male foreign affairs, which have left liner Kitano Maru, Chichibu Maru yesetrday.
ary ecstasy and thrill of a battle about 48 years of age.The body the ordinary citizen with no The distinguished visitors RTE
Paco was identified by Yeung Yu-san and means of forming an accurate accompanied by their son, and are Mr. Tatsuo Kawal, Consul Gen- fought and victory won
But, speaking generally, the Tsang Chuen as that of Fu opinion of what can and what on an extensive world They eral for Japan at Canton, was cannot be done. It is this situá-are en route to Austra Where among the passengers on board the quiet and calm of eventide are After further evidence, the bear- tion that the negotiators have to will pay visit to t
m.v. Chichibu Maru, which arrived much more to their likingThey ing was adjourned until Tuesday keep in mind, not only in their
enjoy the rest after tail, the peace afternoon,.. urne Centenary Celebr
the Colony yesterday.
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