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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH,

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OUR SOLITARY WAYS,

"I hold every man," wrote Bacon, debter to his profession." I think, at all James Moors writes in the Daily Es events, that engine-drivers are in a great prie:-Now light clothes always make z debt of grasude to their profession: Not man look and feel younger. But some only do they follow a way of life that we men have sequired the knack of ap have all, at one time of our tires, most parent youth aven without the nid of new tremendously euried them, but they com-clothes.

To find a reason for this, I made mand, as I have recently learnt, a field of aesthetic appreciation denied to a other mortals. I chanced upon this won derful face only a few days, ago, travelling up from the country. In my compartment were two enginedrivers (or one, perhaps, was a Areman: I am ignorant of the badges of risk). They were talking in low voices, like any mere morsala, on the misfortunes of the pace-course. Then, they fell silent, and

The first wore a smartly, though not gazed raptly out of window. I, in 'as too tightly, cut suirof dark blue material through which was woven a vague white romantic ignorance, Delteved they ha..

stripe. His tie of plaiu blue, slightly been touched by "the metrowess of lighter in shade than the material of his September luxuscapé, watted out of the suit, was carefully knotted, and a small, cogs and oil of their lives to a Word pearheaded' pin kept it in position. He worthian, contemptation But no. The wore a bowler hat, and over his arm hung rolled-up umbrella. Such are the para. phernalia" of youth.

back and exchanged, sympatheti. glances of pleasure and admiration, ad ons of thea-I think it must have been tha Breman-said with bated breath: As lovely a bit of smoke as ever

ger, '',

whether members of other unwritten-up I have been apeculating ever since professions have similar secreten thusiasms. We all know a little of un. dertaking, if only from Mr. Omer, whose

It was obvious that deportment had a great deal to do with it: "but an attrac tive deportment and vital walk could not alone be offered as the explanation of the paradox How was it that the man of fifty looked younger than that other man across the road, whom I knew to be barely thirty

His clothes were in startling contrast with those of the ether man, whose suit, had she made it. would have been the disgrace of the dressmaker of a faidy old material were of that vague and dreary spinster. The shades and pattern of the confusion known to another age as pep- per and salt mixture. His tie was equally age of design, although a pin, even to keep it in order. A soft felt hat, worn out of shape, covered his head.

Before I had concluded my little tour it became apparent that the, smaller articles of dress, such as collars and ties, hat and shoes, play just as important a part in the creation of that fresh ap pearance of youth as do suits and the bigger articles of apparel..

1925

TRAGIC POSTAGE STAMPS. ISSUES WHICH HÀVE” BROUGHT DEATH.

ARTIST AND AN EMPEROR.

Postage starap, and the "postmarks used to cancel them have frequently been used as evidence in criminal cases; and at times have played an all important part in sending men to the gallows. In

one instance, one of these scraps of paper brought the shadow of death to

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an innocent man, whose only crime was that in designing a new postal issue, be offended the dignity of an Oriental Em-

peror.

Towards the close of the last century. the Imperial Chinese Government decid ed to issue a set of stamps in celebration of the 60th birthday of the Dowager Em press; and instructions were given to a Mr. R. A. de Villard, of the Imperial Customs at Shanghai to prepare the ne cessary designa

IN COURSE OF COMPILATION

THE DIRECTORY

AND CHRONICLE-

1926.

FOR "CHINA, JAPAN,

INDO-UHINA, BIAM, BIE

SETTLEMENTS, MALAM

NETHERLANDS INDIA

PINIE, BORNEO, Ers.

SIXTY-FOURTH ANNUAL.

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ISSUE

Abridged Edition

812

Quite unwittingly, the artist committed what to the Chinese was a heinous offence by abbreviating the words "Imperial Postage" to "Imp. Fost," and also by infringing a royal prerogative in using the imperial Purple as the colour for one of the values. He was immediately sum Not only is the Directory as full and complete moned to Peking and severely reprimand in each case as it can be made, but each Colen ed: and was then seat or a surveying ex-Port or Settlement is prefood by a DESORIE

TION

arefully revised ́esch year, the that the artist should not return alive is Gums 208 258 Tovat, giving every detail pedition into the heart of Thibet.

That the intention of the Emperor was majority of which will serve as an accurate- certain. For Mr. de Villard wrote to an connection with the places, their History old friend in Ipswich saying that it was Topography, etc...

The Information in thees Descriptions, consist- of a hundred interesting articles, packed

THE DIRECTORY covers “the notaðla -- ants, ports and cities of the Far East, fronta Netherlands India to Siberia, in which Europos reside.

sole recollection of poor little Davin of the worst type, might have done much probably the last letter he would receive basta sunciasly set out, and containing.

The

Copperfield's father was that he was hive foot nine and lay in five and twenty foos of ground, if he laid in a traction. have all sympathized with. Mr. Omer's distress at not being able to ask how a party was when a party was il, and bis wish that parties was brought up stronger minded.

Bux consider the pawnbroker. With our national determination to brighten the darker side of life, we have made the pawnbroker comic, along with mothers -law, twins, sausages and policemen, And yet, perhaps, the pawnbroker has sorrowa and joys we know not of: picture one pawnbroker who might say Ed another What a charming shade

Stiff, pointed collars, for example, look much younger than narrow, double ones with rounded frouts, although both types: look youthful in comparison with those straight, stand-up collar-Gladstone's favourites Soft collars to match the shirt, which, in its tura, should match the suit, never add to one's age.

All tie pins, except very simple ones,

from him, as he regarded the forthcoming expedition as a sentence of death!

But, though he survived the many dangers of the Thibetan mountains, his end was tragic enough. For when he re- turned to civilisation some years after, he was totally blind, in broken health, and did not long survive.

AN ILL OMEN.

statistics of the Tran of each Comly and part, would slime suffice to fill a large whine

The Book is printed from New Type specially sarved for the purpose, and uniformity in every arrangement greatly facilitates reference.

The tragedy of Russia is well told in the pages of a stamp album. SAR Until a few years pregious to the Great War, this country's stamps had never portrayed its Emperor or his predeces sors. But in 1912 in celebration of the ALFHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in Romanoff dynasty, a new series was pre- the Far East contains the names of over pared, each value having a different de- sign, including portraits of the Czar,

20,000 FOREIGNERS,

Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Firme, the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LANTS- of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at its larger -- Commercial Centres.

So-and-so's new tickets are. A Matisse are dangerous: scarab and cameo tops Peter the Great, and other famous arranged, with the Initials er well as the Sar-

are fatal.

Ties themselves demand great discre-

pink should judge. Or we may hazard another gilums of bei private in selecting. Sombre, muddled "lives. This same gentle, susceptible pawnbroker at a convivial meeting, with styles, classed neat and subdued" by

persuasive shop assistants must be avoid tears in his eyes, might guddenly exed, as we avaid starting any important claim: Poor old Such-and-anch. I business on the thirteenth day of the know now why he's late. I'm afraid I month. Either one-shade neck wear have his watch” me

should be chosen, such as plain blue or black.or if it is to be pattened tie, let the pattern at least be a clearly defined one.

rulers.

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The CHRONICLE covers the notable events together with the Texts of all the most import ant Pucation oncluded with the contries, of Eastern Asia, the various Customs Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commaren. Beales of Commissions, Consular and

Court Fees, Hongkong Stamps Duties, Signals Codes, Chinees Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights and Measure and other Cam- mercial Information

There were not wanting superstitions names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that folk who predicted trouble because they name can be found instantly.

THE MAPS AND FLANS Lace of The Little Father" was per- force, besmirched every time one of the valuca bearing his portrait was used, of the principal ports of the Far East have been How truly this was proved when the engraved by one of the most eminent Firms In Balsheviks obliterated the Romanoffs with Great Britain and are annually corrected. mad

hrungthup to date. the red cap and sword of revolution! Am I too fantastic? Let me be more

They even went so far as to overprint so, for this holiday mood of spectation

large blocks of stamps with the wording of the Czar's abdication. must run fantastically pr it is as dull

The same discretion required in choos- 13 serious thinking. Let ́as imagine two

RUSES DURING THE CIVIL WAR scavengers in conversation over a pínting the tie should be exercised when

In the American civil war, too, postage of beer. Might not one, say: Now choosing material for a suit. Il a man is that. Bond Street is being re-made wa tall and slim the suit will look best made stamps played a tragie part. The newly in 'the doube-breasted fashion Other- formed Confederate States required shall have some chance of keeping it, wise, & single-breasted jacket is smart stamps, and wanted them urgently. And both aesthetically and bygienically est. Coats must never hang loose and the Northern States promptly demone- worthy of its proad position as the sack-like from the shoulders, as in Ametized their Current issues, and issued a fashionable shopping thoroughfare of rican style; they must be shaped in at Fresh set, the earliest printings of which oar metropolit" And to him the other; the waist and thoroughly moulded at the are now of considerable rarity.

You are fortunate. My lot, alas, is back, for the back bas to give shape to cast in Wapping High Street, where the the figure and show that a man's muscles quantity of daily refuse, and the cobbled are still active-and young... surface preclude any really satisfactory results.

But perhaps this fancy is too "giddy and unfrm. Maybe that the scavenger of the East and the scavenger of the West are a twain that shall never meet I do not know. It is when we attempt. thus to pry into realms beyond our immediate lives, that we realizamos how little we do know.. Mea work obscurely, hammering out this vast, intricate filigree of our modern lives, eachintent upon his microscopic, allotted portion; and if ever, in such a rare as that to which I have been in fellows, their work is so strange to him, their social relations, view points on all matters, systems of life, sorrows and joy, 60 utterly mysterious, that he is appalled to semember that they are, like him, men. Buzely the life of the dog or cat in better known to each of us than the life of our neighbour, who, it is ten to one, moyen, as we say, lu a different world.

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We make our companions of those who have something in common with 1. Would it not be well sometimes if wo sought out a friend who moves in different world? This moral reflection having come to me, as the result of a great deal more desultory speculation than I have dared to set down here, I attempted to day to learn something of

the life of my window.cleaner. “He is a quiet, insígnificant little man, who Arrives once a month, with pai! and rage, where from I never thought to wonder before I found him very diffident, very nervous, but after a little encouragement he told me a great deal about the technique of window cleaning We took a cup of tea together, and 1 tried to be very affable and to tell what I thought were funny stories. Ho did not laugh much. After a time the con Teration lagged. Then he said irrels vantly My wife died this morning

The proper" study pi mankind is mán, but how to set about. itt: How to scan those whose lives do not touch ours at any point, or how to enlarge the narrow glimpse wa may gain in the whirl of business? That my friend cleaned win- dows ably, it was my right to know, and I knew it. Beyond that, how to go without blundering? Shall I next time I travi, approach the engine-drives ! " As pretty a bit of woke "shall I say 1--" as evor I are?' And then what shall I say Saturday Review:

-- LADY CYNTHIA MOSLEY. WHY SHE BECAME A SOCIALIST.

HER EXPERIENCE AS A FARM GIRL.

Following her speech in which she prospective opened her campaign s Socialist nudidate for Stoke, Lady Cynthia Mosley, daughter of the lata Marquess Corzon, explained to

All the necessary plant for stamp manu- facture was in the hands of the Federals, so the Southern States had to make shift with rough and ready labels of a tem- porary nature till better printed speci mens could be prepared.

The paper had to be smuggled in from the North, mostly by way of Charles- town, and also the printing ink

Some values were ordered from the famous English firm of De La Rue Co., but many of the consignments were rap- tured en route by the Federals. In one caso the Confederate agent just managed to prevent the capture of the printing plates by throwing them overboard..

The difficulty of procuring an adéquate supply of paper was acute, and any make- aashit had to serve."

Erening indeed reporter the reasons which induced her to join the Socialist Party.

WHEN THE "EMDEN" WAS RAIDING The tearing up of a famous document "I wanted to find out things for my at the outbreak of the Great War was self" she said. "I had realised long responsible for the issue of many thou

sands of postal scraps of paper" dar- before that the capitalist system was

Stamps doomed, so I decided to earn my owning the years of Armageddon. living like an ordinary worker,.

"I started in the Intelligenes Depart went at the War Office during the war at a wage of 30s, a week. The work was of a very confidential nature, consisting mainly of dealing with telegrains.

SALARY DOUBLED."

I datter myself that I became so proficient that in two years 'wy salary was raised to £3'a week. At any rate, I started as a bottom dog and unished up one of the top dogs in that particular departments 19

captured in enemy territory had to be converted to show their new ownership: supplies ran short, and provisionals had to be created'; extra charges of war tax"| were levied in many countries; and stamps for the benefit of the Red Cross were almost too numerous.

Certain stamps of British, Honduras, amongst many others, serve as souvenirs of the greatest tragedy the world has ever known. A new supply was on order from England, and the authorities were afraid that it might be captured by the Enden or another of the German raiders."

Each stamp, therefore, was overprinted with a device formed in wavy lines, so that in the event of capture, they could be demonetized, and would easily be dia “I worked on a farm down in Bussextinguishable should the Germans try to for, six months, used to get up on a turn them into mones, † cold morning at half-past five, feed the ducks and chickens, milk the cows, plant turnips, gather the eggs and make butter and cheese.

After that I had a breakdown in health, and decided to join the Army of Land Girls.

A

GOOD

CANDIDATE'S WIFE

It was the real simple life, and I enjoyed it for a time, but I soon pined for the noise and hubbub of City life.

1 was too young to go to France and then (turning laughingly to ther husband), at the crucial moment, met my husband.

Since I have been married I have been mainly helping him in his political fights. I think I made a fairly good candidater wife, but what I shall be like as a candidate I don't know. Anyway. I am tremendously proud and honoured at having been saked to stand, and, am looking forward to taking my part în a general election."

Postage stamps are usually regarded as harbingers of peace and goodwill, yet on occasion some of them have indeed play ed their part in tragedy--Gi L. TINKER

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