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TBH CULT OF NOISE MODERN OUTRAGES UPON SENSE OF HEARING.

Dean fage writes in the Evening Standardi- die

Herbert Spencer, amoeg-hu-other- eccentricities, had a pair of ear-pada mads for himself, and when the conversaN. tur bored him he used to adjust them and sink into meditation

1

HUN IN THE CATHEDRAL

afterwards argused-

The poistest sarvice we ever had in St. It is a surprising thing that der Faul's was a beautiful memorial service civilisation, which takes such extreme care honour of artillerymen who had fallen: to protect our other senses from anything in the war. A gun was brought into the which might offend them, makes no effort cathedral, which greatly scandalised cer-

tain the where to check outrages upo ha de cartulry by naking wis ther they with to smelt two miles off when the wind was in follow the example by introducing the right quarter and I believe the contented a battery scout hand-be

horse.) The artillery characteristically breezes which blow soft from Capton and Hayti are still anything but spie But bind the High Altar, and opened fire just in Western Europe this nuisance has blow me down the steps.

when I reached the secrarium. Is nearly been abolished.

It remains to be seen whether the in Our eyes also are protected from we rensing tenderness of the nervous system ing anything worse thau yellow advertise under civilisation will lead to a ricogni. ments of motor petrol Slaughter houston of the rights of the citizen to enjoy are relegated to by ways; and the absurd comparative quiet, prudery "of town councils at watering places ordains that bothers shall be enver-

CLOSING QUOTATIONS

OCTOBER 25TH, 1923.

from neok to knee, though the chief | HONGKONG SHARE MARKET benefit of bathing consists in exposing the body to the air and though there is no pratiar sight that young people bathing, clad only in ́s lin cloth. As Havelock Ellis says, “In an ago when savagery has passed and civilisation has not yet arrived, It is only by stealth, at rare moments, that the human form may emerge from the prison-house of its garinents.”)

But Bumbledom shows ne mervy to our ear. One of the chief pleasures of guing into the country is the silence that we find there, broken only by the natural joiges' of birds and animats, which are musical and pleasant. Poce Carlyle, however, who was a bundle of nerves, Was tormented by the crowing

and once at least recons of cocks. strated with the owner of the bird. The farmer's wife replied that the cock only crewed about twice every morning."Eh, but, woman, said the philosopher, "yon don't know what I suffer while I am whit- ing to hear it crow!

* THE CLOCK AT ST. PAUL'S. Intermittent noises, recurring at regülaï. intervals, ard the most distressing.

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worst offenders, for our big clock at St. Paul's is most aggressive, When I first came back from a holiday I would not sleep at all if I did not shut my bedroom window. The clock was silenced during the war, since it was supposed, no doubt OFFICES rightly, that the Germans could easily hear it ten thousand feet up. I often GODOWNS. TEL No 269

reflected that “it is an ill wind that blows, Bobody say good.

We may be thankful, however, that our streets are no longer cobbled. Horse-drawn vehicles rumbling over cobbles make a terrific din, I think Florence is the noisiest town I know; for the drivem there add to the commotion by a peculiar way of cracking their whips like a pistol shot.

America is also any entry. Ou certain occasions especially, such as a pre sidential election, large crowds will show their enthusiasm by karping op deafen. ing din, the duration of which is timed

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American orators must have good lungs for open-air demonstrations, On one occasion a speaker with a voice'like bull of Bashan was most unreasonably inter- rupted by shouts of Louder, loader: from the outskirts of the crowd in the city of Buffalo, Tho urator threw out his chest and bellowed in salemá tones: "On the great day of judgment, when the Ancient of Days shall sit, surrounded by all tho heavenly host; when the trumpet sha!l sound which shall rend the skits, and wake the dead-e durned fool from Buffalo will be heard shouting, Louder, louder."

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But the greatest of all nuisauces is the 67, QUEEN'S ROAD motorcycle. Until some improvement in their mechanist succeddy in silencing them, these pests of the ronds ought to bef prehibited, on the sole liut spry reasonable ground that u single traveller has a right to make more than a limited amount of noise. It is really unfair that the ameni tics of our once quiet villages should ho destroyed by these racketing riders. Even the comparatively quiet motorcars have deprived the village children of their usual playground. E

BOIEY MUSIC.

The cult of uaine is also apparent in the fewest and most popular forms of music, And what can be more perverse than the prevailing practice of spoiling a public dinner by nu ólstreperous band or musici. ans How many tinxx bayo I enjoyed the princely hospitality of the Corporation of London and the City Companies ́and noticed with satisfaction that I have been placed next some highly distinguished public man. And thes, as the conversi tion, bocmes interesting, the band strikes up its abominable wise, and the pleasure of the entertainment (xpart from the ex cellent viands and drinks) is gone,

I usually ask my waghbours whether they agree with me, and I have only once find a man who did not wish to silence the. baud. It is, I suppose, as old tradition, dating from the period when au alderman did not wish to be disturbed while attending to the main business - of the evening. It is significant that the Company of They talk during dinner Musicians never profane their

and after dinner give their guests a selec tion of music which is probably na choice

art in

as their wine, though I was less able to

appreciate it,

A single shouter at dinner-party may turn the most evused company. into u monkey.house I once dined at a great function, given by d learned society at one of our universition. One of the hosts, from lecturing” to" Înrge audiencos, bast acquired the habit of always talking at the extreme, pitch of a unturally powerful voice. The result was that everyone else hat "to theut, "and the diu was so tremen:]

that I could not make my next word. Two guests from

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the Fatherland · loked at each other

marement, though the Germans before the war were taught to assert tho majesty of their country by talking much louder than other nationalities. On the other, hand, at the Royal table this conversation bas to be in such gentle 'undertones that those who are at all hard of hearing find it difficult to entch what is said.

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