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FUNDAMENTAL NE IN FRIENDSHIP

ADVICE TO LONELY PERSONS

UNDERSTANDING AND LOYALTY THE ONLY FOUNDATIONS

(By Godfrey Winn)

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not necessarily for insertion, "but Lionel' Jellinck, defending in a Mr. Samuel Courtanid has re- cz a guarantee of good faith.. case, handed 360 in notes to Mr. signed the chairmanship, and Mr. Percy Lamb, for the prosecution. Robert Mayer, well known in

The case was

one in which musical circles for the Children's | James Alexander Colville, aged 35, Concerts which every season are TT is easier to make friends, the first time and be a real a timber buyer, was charged with given in London under his auspices, than to keep them. "And friend of his to-morrow. Your having stolen 260 from his em has ceased to be a director.

it's not always easy to make relationship is still inevitably ployers. Commercial Sundries

Sir Thomas, Beecham now be them. In fact the one thing in the acquaintance stage. Hong Kong, Saturday, Oct. 31. 1936 Ltd., of Leyton.

comes chairman, and it is under that is dead easy is to sit about. There is an apprenticeship to He was also charged with hay-stood that Mr. Philip Emanuel re- complaining because one hasn't be served in friendship, as in ing obtained, by two false cheques, places Mr. Mayer.. Lord Ester any friends, as though that was every other branch of life. E from Joseph Jones, of the retains his seat on the board entirely the world's fault.

Time is an important fac- Angel Hotel, Colchester.

You

feel Again, lots of girls who could tor. At the first hearing it

was have lots of friends, if they so once well y disposed stated that Colville obtained £60 largely instrumental in founding would only take the trouble to wards someone, you may be It is gratifying to find a pro- from the cashier to the firm with four years ago--has won an inter-make them, prefer to concer- instantly intrigued and attract- minent local educationist sup the object of paying a deposit on national reputation.

trate instead on the capture of ed to their personality, but that porting, if not în actual words deal in timber. He went on $ At that time be preferred not to male scalps. They would much is not enough. To assert, as I at least in inference, the view holiday and did not return to work sit on the board. His large public frather have one boy friend than am always hearing people do, long held by most laymen that When the prosecution's case will hope that the additional re-la dozen life-long friends.

"Oh, I met such a nice person . the examination fetish in 5nished Mr. Jellinck submitted sponsibilities he is now shoulder- Time alone schools ultimately defeats its there

can prove wheat a party last week, and we are case to answering will not take toll of the ener-ther they are right, or if I am great friends," is simply to own ends. The Rev. G. E. S. Colville always meant to repay the gies which music rightly claims when I assert that one really betray ignorance of the real Liosdell, in the course of his loan and the money was in court.

big friendship in one's life is meaning of the word "friend- speech at the prizegiving of the "Etiquette Of The Bar"

worth a dozen transitory love ship.” Central British School, remark- Mr. Jellinck then handed a roll HOGARTHIAN MARKET

affairs. fed that "examination results, of notes to Mr. Lamb.

was no

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though important because they Mr. L. H. Walden (chief clerk): "Pedlar's Market,” better known are the entree into many walks is that the correct way of doing as the Caledonian Market-now of life, are not by any means things?

threatened with extinction to make

modern London can show.

Love Or Understanding

Don't Rush New Friends

Never rush things, however I have tried both myself, lonely you may be for want of human companionship. I know the hallmark of a school." Mr. Jellinck: Colville is repay-way for houses or flats has been anyway, and come to the con- Unfortunately it is difficult to ing to the firm the $60 he has bort well described as the best approxi-clusion that it is far more satis it's difficult sometimes not to persuade business men of the rowed.

mation to a Hogarthian scene that factory in the long run than launch an avalanche of over- truth of that statement. They

being loved, however passion-tures at new-found friends; to After the magistrates had con- (will continue to zssess, other

Many of the stories of treasures ately, to know, beyond all doubt, do so may flatter them into salted in private. Ald. Dane

acceptance of invitations, but things being equal, the capabili-(chairman) said the Bench had picked up there for next to nothing that there is at least one per- ties of a diploma-holder, at decided to send prisoner for trial. are doubtless fiction. But some son in the world who will al- it is much more likely to em- barrass and upset them as be congenial, something higher that those of

They could not help having! Here is one.

do being a trespass on their pri- such

the right thing, the youth who has no

Four years ago a say noticed the passing of the £50 and purchased a string of dark the right thing, take your side. vate life. magic talisman to facilitate his

considered it was a most improper beads. A famous jeweller entry into the world; and as a

pro- just because you are friends; Never forget that everyone proceeding- result they will continue to give

nounced them to be real black who will be a comfort and supelse has their own life to lead Mr. Lamb hoped the Bench did pearls, and they changed hands port under all circumstances, as well as you, and if you want employment, very often, to the boy in whom brilliance displaces not think his action was improper for $20,000.

alone or in public; just the to share in their interests you Jin taking money which belonged to the sheer ability to plod, to the

Another lucky bargainer bought same after years of enforced must first go warily to see whe This client

for 15s from a pedlar's barrow a absence.

ther such a delicate engineering youth who gets his results by

Eat even when it is accom.

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not know the

ways are perfectly well authenticated.

always

Whereas people who are just derstanding has been born be- simply friends must under-tween you, do take care not to stand, because it is the only trade on that understanding. possible foundation for a last-

Share Alike "friendship." Necessary Apprenticeship is a contradiction in terms, but:

flashes of native skill as opposed The Clerk: A most improper globe map of the world made in People who are in love never feat is possible. to the much more valuable proceeding.

opals by a clever lapidary. Two really understand. each other; qualities of determination and Ald. Dane: Many persons in the years earlier it had been accident- that's why they're in love. plished and a bond of real un- grit. In short, it is not by any dock would like to get out of it in ally left in a teashop. means always the boy who wins that way. I do examinations.. who is really etiquette among gentlemen of the worth his salt, nor should the Bar, but we think it a most im- examination

According to the Health Enlletining a proper. thing to do successes of

of Mr. Jellinck: If it is improper to of Eastern Ports, nine cases school necessarily be considered the brightest part of its record, give. it is equally improper to cholera occurred in Calcutta and

Madras, respectively, while At the same time, such un-many women fail to realise that, One sees, of course, the point, Mr. Lamb: I accept your critic-Rangoon five cases of small-poxderstanding cannot be won in fact, and in consequence are that some sort of a yardstick ism had will band the money back. were reported during the week end-a moment, any more than you surprised, if not indignant, when of general capability is re This he did. If anything im-ed October 24. Only one case of can learn to talk a foreign lan their one-sided affair peters quired, and that examination diplomas provide an easy and proper has been done in court it plague was recorded in the east, guage straight away. You can out

and that occurred in Colombo. not meet someone to-day. fori (Continued on Page E.)

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Ald. Dane: It is at an end. Colville was then committed to Essex Quarter Sessions.

Your Daily Smile!

leaving certificate, for example, presupposes that the pupil has reached a certain level of accomplishment in certaic school subjects; it forms a general yardstick of the Be careful of plausible strangers in standard to which he has railway carriages. A correspondent attained. But just as "Failed allowed himself to be drawn into con- B.A." is frequently cited as a versation by a fellow traveller and recommendation by Indians after a short time found himself and

denly cornered and helplessly listen- looking for a job, so the lacking to a long tale of a two-yard putt lof a particular certificate at the ninth-Panch.

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exclude an aspirant from a par- When a house in a London suburb. ticular position. For examins-caught fire a stranger rushed in and Un- tions are generally brilliantly rescued the radio-gramophone. taken in their stride by clever deterred by the hissing of the neigh boys, as opposed to hard-work-boars, he then went back for the re

cords. ing boys, by brilliant students rather than those who have The skipper of the Queen Mary given the most application to made no effort to break the tram- their learning. In Mr. Upsdell's Atlantic record on the first round words: "The character of the trip. He had to give the passengers children and their ability to fit time to write all their postcards. into the corporate life of the

A reformer says nine tenths of our community are among other criminals never are punished. things extremely important.” ther, did you ever see a criminal law-

Disenssion of these and allied per's bill? subjects again raises that

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hardy annual, the question of torture to any conscientions homework for school-children, child, the "holiday task.” giving We have no hesitation in ex-rise in most cases to a most pressing the opinion that home-unhealthy dread and fore- work is an abomination and boding in-case it should not be should find no place in any up-wholly accomplished or per- to-date educational system. It formed to the master's absolute is a bugbear to most children; satisfaction. We are quite con- it is a positive danger to those vinced that the mental harm its who are slow in assimilating contemplation coes is not by knowledge or find it difficult to any means balanced by the marshal their conclusions. It actual educational benefits to be results in the large majority of derived from it. Not all the cases in "cramming" to a post-balderdash that is talked about tively harmful extent. There child psychology can be trust is also the point that children cd; but when our neo-educa" at school, just as much as adult tionists condemn these prac workers during the day, are en- tices we, personally at least, feel titled to their own leisure after that they are talking sound com- working hours are done. Re-monsense. The experiment of gulate that leisure as far as pos-absolutely abolishing homework [sible, by all means, but the and holiday tasks might well be actual study of school-children tried temporarily. We are should be kept strictly within convinced that the general gain the watertight compartment of fit the mental happiness and school working hours and not contentment of the child would be permitted to overflow in the be most marked, and would be form of homework All this found to justify itself in the applies equality to that mental, long ruz

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Of course, a selfish friendship

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