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OUR CHANGING CUSTOMS.:
PICTURES OF SOCIAL LONDON TWENTY-FOUR YEARS AGO,
[BY THE OLD STADER IN THE EVENING" STANDARD."]
As for nur conversation, we were at the tail end of the acknowledged' recon- teur period, which was in its zenith' under Masculay and Rogers and tottered to its grave with George Russell and Sir Algernon West. Matgulay was woat to hold a farge company spellbound at-of all impossible"meals-breakfast. It is re- worded that, often`nt Bowood the guesta. would sit on listening to him sometimes til o'clock. After that, there would be n walk in the. Shruberries to see the new Water Garden or the new Sham rains, Things moved quietly and exercise was
ut s obtrusive as now!
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BANGKOK is SWATOW TSINGTAU via SWATOW
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38th Ang, p ...Tuesday,
Wednesday, 27th Aug., 10am ..Wednesday, 27th Aug. 3pm.
Saturday
*Sunday, Sunday
30th Ang, 3p10%
31
at Ang, 10
3n
Sept
Aug.,
8.
CREONDSE Tenday, Sept. Poft
"OOSHING" LEERANG
MAUSANG
YUENSANG
NAMANG
"MINGSANG
"KUTSANG
4th
6th Sept, 11am. 5th Sept Noon.
When men speak of changing customs it is almost universal to find them speak. ing with a touch of contempt for what is past and a well-grounded confidence in the wisdom of what has heen evolved. *
Yet such a frame of mind is both illogical and ill-conceived. It necils but Discursive and formal breakfast lasted a arsory review of history to reach the long after Macaulay's death, but George conclusion that custom is dictated by Russell and Sir Algernon, of course, de necessity and that not custout only, latpended only on dinners. The former gain, givilization itself, does not change, huted silence by a compelling demeanour and CALCUTTA LINE This Line now affords regalar sailings to Calozita, Pawang and follows the destiny of the plam-budding strong voise; the latter by great apt ripening, and rotting and budding again; nes to point a moral and adorn a tale. or of the pendulum, swinging hackward insinuating a story very apropos here and
Such thing
now would be an intolerable, nifliction.
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HALPRONG is HOIHOW STRAITS & CALCUTTA...
Moodsy.
7th Sept. 7.
8th Sept., 3p.m.
Singapore; returning fpm, Calautta steamers proceed via Straits and Hongkong to Japan, socasionally calling at Shanghai. All steamers have excellent
Surgeon
fitted with Wirolees and carry a klonger accommodation..
Shanghai, sometimes calling at Swatow. Through tickets sa be a
abtained and through Bills of Lading are issued to all Norikerk and Yangiare Porte via Shanghai. LINEA weekly service is maintained with Manila by raels with good passenger sccommodation, sailings from both ports avery Saturday at 11 am. LINE-Sailings approximately weekly for passangers and cargo, calling **
Heihaw both ways
and forward, and backward and forward there. Both kept up and used notebooks | SHANGHAI LINK-Sailings approximately very three days between Canton and again, according to the nerds of the day; naging up their repertoire while the utility of the moment.. the mental they dressed for dinner. state of short-lived humanity..
We think of the age of Aune as an age The teleptone killed the art of letter MANILA · pre-eminent in noble and original thought, writing, the motorcar killed country life, clothed in majestic literary style. Yet we aula combination of the two-the speed- must accept it that the Romans, wohlding up of all methods of communication have held the citizens of 1700-from the killed conversation and the decasió u
it. point of view of hygiene and eugenics at least as dark and filthy savages. recall that there are buried civilizations which had little to lean" in domestic architecture from the greatest periods of their successors, and could indeed supply more than one solution to the present-day riddles of science and engiacering.
We
The meticulous abservances of the forinal dinner were, of course, practized in 1903 in every department of the social round." Mather, should I be yours sin cerely or yours very sincerely to Cap- tain Brown It wase all supremely im- portant Young people, utually attract CiISM AND LICENCE."
e, who had sat at the same dinner-table And if history forces us to" humility in night after night must perforce remain contemplating the progress of civiliza as strangers because the magic mumble Lion, how mch more must it demand had not been said over them. Nor was humility, when we contemplate changes there any good reason, short of marriage. in social customs. Doubtless the Piriwhy girls and boys in the same set shoul tans inngined that the theatres they shut all each other by their Christian names, down were shut down for all time, and even after several years of friendship that purity of life and solemnity of It would now be a matter of weeks only.
Balls startel very little before mid- thought had coure to stay.. Yet they lived to see universally practised a habit of night, and for the young man in a Gorem- cynicism and frivolity never before attainment office or the City the late hours, And so, combined with the real physical exertion ed in the history of our race. later, the licence and frankness of the age of waltzing. made the season very of Fox and Georginia. Duchess of Devon arduous affair. Nice-maniered or pr shire, led invitably to what we call the dent youths left visiting cards on their drab deariness of Early Victorianisaan dance hostesses, or on prospective dance. age to which already bar sous are begu hostesses. The practice of giving ballų at ning to attribute qualities of pictures the Ritz abont 1910 killed this custĞIE, for the guests ceased to recollect the queness, and even grandeur....
name of the hostess of the evening-ne ball being exactly like another.
That age of frank and brutal speech has already once at least repeated itself, "I wish to God," said Anna Maria Duchess of Bedford, to the footman be- hind her chair at a dinner party in the '30's. I wish to God, John, you would take your great greasy belly off the back of my chair." It was she, by the was who first served ten at five o'clock as a regular meal.
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A DRILLIANT PERIOD
Nowadays the average young man would be as likely to carry a sword as In 1905, mari perforce n canlease. dressed in evening clothes when dining. at his club. In 1903, there were almost as many chaperones as gira, at a bali, and you led your young woman back to her chaperon at the beginning of the next dance, and were formally introduced if unacquainted with that formidable digni- tary
We were all for formality and observ to-ance you perceive. Tiresome, stupid,
narrow-yes, perhaps. But can you show. in the whole range of English social bis- tory a period so brilliant, so distinguish- edl An age when the very best of every- thing could be acquired so easily. I ad- vance the theory that the times in which we live and the social customs of those times are mutually corrective.
People seem to forget that the pen diluu has worked evra in the habit of smoking, Smoking as a babit rose froth the time of James I. and receded again,'| to rise once more when the Crimea intro: duced the cigarette. Youngish"men day can real: curious incidents anent the nasty, newfangled habit of tobacco sinok- ing, which Pepys and his cronies would have ridiculed as absurdly old-fashioned
THE NASTY WEED."'*
I recall how at a dinner, party "only box of cigarettes, only to return them to
The formality of 1905, harnessed to the the other day," the host pulled out a his pocket regretfully, remarking hard times of 1924, would be a prison suppose if we are going to a ball, we regime indeed. But the freedom and in- daren't indulge." And again: If you formality of to-day, combined with the ease and luxury of 1003, would have brought about an age of Nera, and the roof most assuredly would have fallen in.
RIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES-ria Saigon, Singapore, young men are going to the saddle room
Colombo, Durban and Capetown..
"SEATTLE MARU”
BOMBAY via Singapore and Colombo.
"HONOLULU MARU"
"BORNEO MARU
ALTAI MARU
"BANGKOR, SAIGON VIA SINGAPORE.
"BUSTO MARU ”.
-CALCUTTA via Singapore & Rangoon..
"INDO MARU
4th Sept 7th Sept 15th Sept.
4th Sept. Thursday, Friday, 5th Sept.
Friday,
12th Sept.
Thurs Lay, Sunday. Monday,
Monday.
Friday,
1st Sept
*29th Aug,
i
Friday, 26th Sept.
Wednesday, 15th Oct.
for your nasty weed, remember to change your coats if you mean to return to us ladies again. And, indeed, the smoking jacket was designed for nothing else but to shelter the votaries of tubacco from the contagion of that nasty smell...
The Sundays we spent in London, not so long before the war seem now incre. dibly stupid, tedious and short-sighted: yet an age will surely come which will find there prewar customs more congenial
suit of variety.
How did our fashionable day speed in 19031
VICTORIA, SEATTLE, TACOMA & VANCOUVER via Shanghai and than our present athil and feverish pur-
Japan Ports.
ARABIA MARU"...
NEW YORK yia Japan Ports, San Francisco and Panama,
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JAPAN PORTS.
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"LONDON MARU '
"AMUR MARU"
KEEDUNG via "Swarow & AMOY..:
"AVAKUSA MARU"
KAIJO MARU"
TAKAO via, SWATOW & AMOY.
#KOTSU MARU
TAKAO & Keelung
"KWAYO MARU"
Tuesday, Tad Sept. Friday,
5th Sept. "Saturday, 13th Sept
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Sunday, Sunday,
"Thursday, 28th Aug., 10am
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In frock or tail woat and top hat we attended a fashionable West End church, smiling and whispering to our fashionable friends before and behind us; we gasped at the audacity of our fashionable preach- ct, and a discussion of his audacity, car- ried us in the fashionable stream to Church Parade in Hyde Park. Here we strolled, raising our hats, pausing to pass the time of day, etaring politely.
Our
A late and heavy luncheon prepared us for the round of afternoon visits. Our top hat and gloves accompanied us into five or six drawing rooms, and reposed under our spindle-legged chair, while we criticised the Opera and. the Weather, and balanced a polite tea cup on knees and rose and reshuffled as fresh callers arrived. Calls over and visiting cardi solemnly deposited in the halls, we proceeded again to the Park, where ninong the green chairs that stretched from Achieles. Statue to Stanhope Gate, decurous form of garden party-devoid of tea or the dictions of a hand- brought to a conclusion a well-spent Sun- day of social activity
J
Our dinner parties in 1905 were still very formal (and very duth) utairs," long and indigestible. Here and there, no. "old guard carried his opera hat with hins into the dining-room Aerowd of Bervacts, often in evening liveries, silk stockings, and powdered hair attended to our needs. As we were herded together, entirely according to bluences of blood, the dullness is perhaps accounted for. Howeter narrow the staircase, "arming- in "was essential. The host, tying his white tie, would worry his brain over the table of precederico y dear, do I take in Lady B. or Lady C Lady C, of curse its as eighteen century enel- dom" "Shouldn't Mrs. Proudie go in before Mrs. Thorie !" "My dear, Mrs. Thorac is the wife of the younger son of Viscount, and Bishop's wives simply don't count." Very meticulous wo were.
If, however, one had to indicate in a word the sole arbiter of change in social customs, that word would be reaction.
We have reached a point when bureau- cracy is sapping the independence of the people and throttling trade--The Earl of Midleton.
HAIPHONG
BORNEO
TIENTSIN BANGKOK
Lahad
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Cargo taken on excellent passenger accommodation. BUL
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LINE-3 regalat service is run from March to November between Her
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8.8 LAISANG" will be despatched on or about Wednesday, 27th August, 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA.
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.. 7th Oct.
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