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Hong Kong Friday. Sept. 25, 1936.

Salute To Frederick Johnstone

Although no doubt it is all very reprehensible, one cannot help feeling a sneaking serse of admiration for a boy whose escapades are recounted else For the where in this issue.

one

MR. D. C. WILSON

and

Everywhere.

KHAKI AT THE PALACE

Kbski uniforms made their ap pearance in the sentry-boxes out- side Buckingham Palace and St. James's Palace recently. Wellington Barracks

also had

Dur

an unfamiliar appearance. ing this month It will be occupied. by the 2nd Battalion Somerse:

Light Infantry.

GOOD AND BAD LUCK BELIEFS

ANCIENT ORIGINS OF SUPERSTITIONS

TRIVIAL TABOOS HANDED DOWN FROM OTHER DAYS

(By George Pulling)

THERE are many supersti-quote, with apparent satisfac- fatal ions, relics of the days tion, the number of

less civilised, accidents that have overtaken This is the unit which is re- when we were lieving the Foot Guards of duty which are believed in implicit a few people. But think of the the huge number of people to whom It is also (or self-consciously, as at the Royal Palaces. "providing the Public Duties" at case may be), by a much larger accidents don't happen on that

one day!

The Thirteen Club," whose the Hyde Park magazine and the number of people than

would think. Bank of England

Some are peculiar to certain membership is always 13, make local reasons, a cult of doing all those things be consider to many fairly are

general that

They break

At the Tower of London the 2nd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regi- countries for ment, also recently took up duties some as "holiday guard," later in addi-throughout the world; but. tak-courting Il-luck. tion mounting guard at Windsoring them as a whole, there is mirrors, spill salt without tak

a definite origin to each, and ing the "precaution" of throw- Castle.

that orgin will prove how trivial ing some over their shoulders, The object of the annual

they open umbrellas indoors, change-over is to give the Foot some of them really are.

Walking under a ladder is they. ornament their luncheon green carnations, It is with the greatest regret Guards an opportunity to go into supposed to be unlucky; well if tables with

you keep a weather eye on any-and they cross their knives on

that the cloth- that we have to say goodbye to-camp for training.

one standing higher up day to Mr. David C. Wilson, form-

And, moreover, though ther ladder to see that he doesn't er Managing Director of News-

drop a pot of paint or a tile or hold their luncheons once

their greatest other heavy object on you, you three months, Paper Enterprise Limited.

fall on Friday the Thirteenth. cannot be harmed either then delight is when the date that or at any future date.

I know, for I once lunched with

Your Daily Smile!

Naturally

Joining the Company in July, 1925, as manager of the printing More than one gramophone concern department, Mr. Wilson assumed enjoyed record sales

complete control of the firm on the period. Evening Paper. As one would expect.

death of the proprietor, the late

*

*

during

Clever of Them!

second time within a week. We are told, Frederick Johnstone aged 9, was found early

Mr. G. W. C. Burnett, in January, on Brighton morning asleep beach last month, after run-1930, since which time he has ning away from home to find shown very commendable deter- Teacher: Johnny, what do you con- adventure on the high seas,mination and enterprise in the in-sider the greatest accomplishment of He took a train from Norbory, terests of the Company.

We take this opportunity of where his home was, to Mor-

den, and from there walked 50 wishing Mr. and Mrs. Wilson the

He was very best of luck in England. miles to Brighton.

ATTEMPTED THEFT FROM CAR

Hard Labour For Unemployed Man

the ancient Romans?"

Obscure Origin

The origin of this is a little them. obscure, but is thought to date

in

can

There is a widespread belief back to the days when a ladder that a picture which falls from

a habit parti- leaning against a house formed the wall portends misfortune

breaker" of this was supposed Pictures have a "Trinity" triangle, and the for somebody in that hous.. to be doomed to be punished for cularly heavily-framed ones- of wearing through their cords his irreligious act.

Then there is the popular or wires by reason

Is this He liked showing off, and thought that the occasion of his dining with idea that to break a mirror is weight put upon them.

Goodness, then so very extraordinary? I some friends at a restaurant would unlucky.

Johnny: "Speaking Latin”`

•

As Ordered

Why?

be a suitable one for exhibiting his knows, but the origin of this doubt it

talent.

1J

Severing Friendship

of the

"Waitah," he called, in a swagger-odd belief is related to witch

And, again, the act of giving.

friend without ing voice, "bring me, some veralam craft; before mirrors were in-

vented, people used to see their a knife to a and ova."

The waiter departed to execute the own reflection in pools of water taking toll in the shape of a a significant and anyone throwing a stone at coin in return, is supposed to

there

bound actually for Dover, from where he wanted to go to sea” -but always. Tre are told, before the mast, in the manner of the crew of the schooner Girl Pat and go round the

order, but there was world, to find out whether thei

gleam in his ere. adventure stories I had read!

About 15 minutes later he returned his neighbour's image in the sever the friendship as neatly pool was supposed to have wish-as could the knife. This prob were true." When his mother

with a plate of ham and eggs

ex-led him harza.

ably dates back to the days of “Bacon and eggs. sir!" he arrived at the police station to

And the number of folk who the original handshake, when Un- Tam King-lam, aged 22,

claimed. "In ordinary English it take him home. in reply tol questions she called out: "He is employed, was this morning sen- would be a shilling, but in classical believe implicitly in the "13" the employment of the "dag- no hero." and the boy himself tenced to three months' hard lab-language it costs half a crown. Let myth is unbelievably large. If gerhart proved that refused to give any interviews our and to two years" Police sup- the punishment it the crime, you sit 13 at table, one of the was going to be no sudden un-

With the utmost respect we ervision by Mr. S. F. Balfour at used to say at Oxford! Anything else, company will die within a 12-friendly gesture or att

month! Friday the Thirteenth

(Continued on Page 6.) suggest that his mother was the Central Magistracy, when he ir?"

too; Friday is easy to under- died on mistaken. The boy is a hero, appeared charged with the

stand, for Our Lord In tempted theft of certain articles if ever there was one.

that day, but the thirteenth in! addition seems rather unusual, mediaeval times he would have from car No. 3409, belonging to founded colonies. captured Dr. G. L. Shaw, while it was park-

andled at the Star Ferry last night.

When a deaf and dumb girl, to say the least of it.

"Thirteen Club* prizes on the open

crowned It was stated by the Police that Beatrice Richards, was to brought everlasting fame

Dr. beauty queen of Woodford, Nor- his country and his people. the defendant was seen by His is the sort that climbs Shaw at about 10.30 pm. sitting thants, recently, she made her on that day of the month, it stole £20 worth of jewellery re- Everests (or endeavours to), in the back of the car and going speech by signs, which were trans- creates Bhodesias and discovers through two bags. On the doctor's lated to the large crowd. North Poles. If it had not approach the defendant ran away, been for, men like him there but was arrested by a Police con- would never have been a British stable.

seas

at-

Empire on which the sun Defendant had two previons con- never sets--such as it is,.even victions.

in these degenerate

days.

True, nowadays, like Alexander,

he would probably look in vain was great in every sense of the for fresh worlds to conquer, but word and the other was not; nothing can dim his everlasting that where Elizabeth accom- spirit nor quench his insatiable plished and built up something thirst for adventure. We shall which has endured, Herry's

towards dis-) be very much surprised indeed influence was

if Federick Johnstone, aged 9, semination and disintegration is not presently in the news of all that he inherited. again still searching for Life But we were forgetting that with a capital L and refusing all this pride in accomplishment to give interviews to news is out of place in these days of hounds.

internationalism. When a girl

our

It is fortunate that he had of 14 included in an essay the a "book of sea thrillers" to opinion that the British Em- draw upon to stimulate his pire was a pretty good thing obviously lively imagination, recently, questions were asked Parliament about her because, in accordance with the in

solecism. All stupid methods of teaching his hideous

"Little Eng- tory nowadays, be would pacifists and otherwise have come across landers" thought it a very The {2.11 too little in his own naughty thing to do.

“island story" to do so. How child, one gathers, should have many of us, for instance, heard been sent to the stake or at of a great explorer, soldier, least incarcerated in a dungeon sallor, statesman, courtier and for the rest of her days But historian because of the things fortunately, to our mind, the he accomplished for his time spirit which made Old England and his country, rather than what it was before because he once put his cloak formers got to work is appar in a puddle so that a queen ently still simmering in the Frederick John- might step on it? Who will young idea

:

Yeting,

our re

deny that the best history of stone, aged 9, is more of a par- He mediaeval England is Mark tent than anything else. Twain's "A Yankee at the is an outward and visible sign Court of King Arthur? Does that the present generation, 28 would hardly think on it matter a tinker's cuss that one

witnessing their Henry VIII had six wives or casually that Elizabeth was known as apparent enthusiasms (slither- "blues" moong-inoony the Virgin Queen"? these are the stupid bits of about love, moons and music Which our going 'round and 'round-the information

even strictly "memorable history" provides wretches are for jaded scholars, when they grammatical in their hideous- would be getting mach more nesses), has a substratum, a moval sustenance out of the in-soupcom, one might say, of the formation that Henry was a old spirit In spite of what and his mother may think, he is ghoulish Incompetent Elizabeth

magnificent undoubtedly a hero-and good (organiser and patriot, that onelluck to him.

DEAF AND DUMB BEAUTY

QUEEN

AW

MILLER

of

Aronson,

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MOTOR-CYCLE BANDITS

A motor-cycle combination, used by bandits, who raided the pre-

Of course, when Friday falls mises of Streatham jewellers and has been the custom for years lcently, was later found abandoned for a section of the Press to in a South-West London suburb.

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