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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER CTs, 1919.

VICTORIA THEATRE.

FROM TO-MORROW NIGHT TILL MONDAY.

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ALSO

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TALES WÈ TOLD OUR SONS"

HOW THEY GO DOWN WITH THE

MODERN BOY.

I told my

FBY BASIL TOZER,1 When I was your age, son when he was small, "we were not taught to swim-we were made to. My father took me to the end of the pier.

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He believed me, of course" just as he had, when an infant, believed the fable about the stork. In fact, I felt instine. tively that be held me in, higher esteem for my alleged prowess in floundering in the son with my father peering down as me off the pier to see it, I should sink or swim than he did before.

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When I was your age."""I told him when he went to school "my ambition was to snatch all the learning I could and to lift as many prizes as possible at the end of each teru I used to tako Homer's Iliad" to bed with me so that I could read about Agauemoon" when I awoks early in the morning, and I could have told you off-hand exactly how many times Xenophon retired into win- ter quarters in the spring of the year B.C. and bow many stages and parasangs be marched from first to last, whrie as for Euclid...?

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Again be believed me at least, I think ho did. At any rate, he had the polite ncaa or it may have been fear of chastisc ment which prompted him-not to let me suspect he fancied I might be walking round about the truth.

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When was your age." I told him the other day was not interested in borse racing, nor did I philander with girls, nor did theatres and other places of amusement, except Exeter Hall, ap peal to me. No, at your age I already bad my nose to the grindstone" and was earning my own livelihood and-"

Look here, father," he interrupted abruptly, isn't it about time you wasbed out all this talk about what you did you were my age? Try one of these he handed me his cigarette case

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and listen to me. When you were a small boy your mother les you learn to swim in the bot-water bath at Bath be cause it is only three feet deep, also because she feared you might catch chill if you batbed in cold water. When you went to school you were such a dud you took your "school books to bed with you to swot them up in the early morning for tear of getting caned. And when you were the age I un now you were Act earning anything; grandfather call- cd you a lazy rascal and said you would never do a stroke of work until he was dead, and you never did. Now, isn't that the truth? Uncle told me it

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I agree with "parents who declare that "young,

men today are not what they used to be When I wa

believed without question everything my a young man I father told me:

And I have regetted it ever since.

GOOD-BYE TO THE WAR

WORDS.

JEY JAMES ROBSON.)

Nearly ten months after the signing of the armistice how many of our war words remain i Seven months ago I used to hear Whitehall officials speak of a Mini- ter na “having the wind up.”

"I wonder if any do so DOW

Most of us came back to civil life with a plentiful stock of phases coined in the trench, barrack-roum, ur CSE. A frightened man was sometimes spoken of Ap sweating tin hats," a man who had made a mistake was 21 for its" and the parting word on the telephone or in the street was invariably Cheerio

Potatoes were known to us as spuds,"

jam, was "puzzi, gravy was

tea was char and bread

If

we desired anything swiftly we used

the words "tout suite," and if we wanted Bal.

to go away called " allez !

21" or mahi!

according to whether our

diering had been among the mud of Flanders or the sands of the East

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Anything good we were wont to describe Fray Bentos (from a popular hrand of bully beef), and a malingerer WDR dodging the column,

swinging the lead," or "swinging, the hammer." Stealing was winning от scroung

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man ecofined to barracks was doing jankers

what a prison favour that word has) and one in cells waa "is the behind the wire" or " in the or in the mush." A frequen tor of the Y.M.C.A. was nicknamed a "bun walloper," a frame was +2 'a tank,' and it we wanted to borrow & we asked a man for an issue."

cigarette "Jerry or "Fritz "Old

Boche,

bean

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Tho

and old thing! as affectionate

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and blotto for intoxication came

us, I think, mainly from the RAF.

It has not been easy for me to recall these phrases. They are now little used. The occasion for them has gone. With our civilian clothes we have sexuried polite tongue Who for example, would think of asking for the rootle And no one would readily refer, even play- fully, to a sick colleague as

swinging lead

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When we were coming home on leave we used to wonder whether our speech would betray us." We found usually that it did not. And just as we forgot words temporarily so now we have lost the part of them permanently wind up" seems to be the only phrase esential

war-made that has stuck end will

We are stili, on occasion, "ald bean,” "Blotto" is heard in

our clubs, and "Cheerial will never die out in this generation, but just as we are forgetting: the war because we are forgetting it.. whether for good or ill-so the language, of dug-out, of tent, of battle, and of bar- rack room is passing away.

I am not sure whether I am glad or not about it. Those rude words had an invigorating quality--Daily Mail.

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