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THE HONGKONG DAILY PEESS," SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 1926,

SCOTSMEN-AND · FAME,

MODERN ENGLISH HOUSES.

MEN WHO ANSWERED THE CALL' DRAWING-ROOMS AND PARLOURS.

OF ADVENTURE

Sixty-five years ago (says the Sunday Chronicle), a small boy walked along sandy Northumberland beach. He had run away from his Scottish home to be come a cabin-boy To-day this adventur- ous youngster, who crossed the Border with his pluck and wits as his only for tune, is Sir Waltor Runciman, the millionaire shipowner.

His quest for a berth as cabin-boy was successful; he got a job aboard a sailing vessel and began the bumble career which was to soar beyond his wildest dreams,,

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A recent careful search of those of our

DESIGN AND PURPOSE IN NATURE.

SIR O. LODGE ON LIFE IN OTHER WORLDS.

Sir. Oliver Lodge delivered the second advertisement columna which are devoted. to the estate market showed that a of his course of six free lectures on "drawing-room" is no longer regarded Science and Human Progress," under as an attraction in a small house, says the Halley Stewart Trust for research London contemporary to hand. "Dance towards the Christian ideal in all social rooma" were spoken of, the word lile," at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon

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There are known to be sixty miles of sewers in the City area. Some go back to Elizabethan days, and probably a few before that. It is, with the intention of...that supplies Advertisers with finding out where they all are and te mapping their whereabouts, mainly so

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Raging torrents and placid streams, weirs and waterfalls and great tunnels through which a pantechnicon could be hauled with little difficulty will be mat as the expression "ingle-nook," and there

Taking for his subject "Design and with by the men who are to survey the was even an occasional reference to Purpose in the Material World," Sir City of London sewers for the first time · has so little mention bestowed on it that and there was no other. The same sys "dining-room." But the drawing-room Oliver Lodge said the Universe was one, even the most romantic of estate agents tem of law and order ran through it all. and all estate agents to judge by their The same system of physics and chemis writings are romantic men-seems to bold try prevailed on the farthest star as on Sir Walter Runciman, »

it in honour no longer. Adrawing the earth-the same atoms, with the same From cabin-boy it was but a short stẹp room," one can hear a modern estate rate of vibration, all obeying the same to seaman, then slowly but steadily he agent saying to any client who should laws, and all welded, together into a began to climb the ladder. A few years be bold enough to mention the name, visible unity by the mysterious messenger saw him mate, another few years is a room that very few people seem called light, which winged its way across captain. Tough as nails, he soon got a

to want nowadays." And that, of course, empty space at a barely imaginable reputation as a skipper who would stand so far at any rate as the middle class speed. Of say individual world, like this no nonsense. He was out to get an, and is concerned, is the plain truth. For planet, the beginning might be traced and be didn't mean anything to stand in his the spirit which created drawing its end speculated span; but of the

everywhere, the men and women who Universe as a whole that was not possible In its ups and downs his career was peopled them, the furniture wherewith Suns might be born and suss might die, like a switchback Wrecked off the coast they were garnished, the very language much as a clond might come into being of Ireland he came up sailing for round which was spoken within their walls and disperse; but the materials of which two. Then he was caught in the terrified these bola sepresented in formal at it was composed existed before and would hurricane of 1979, and once again his drawing-room a a exist afte tate was in, the balance.

titude to life, and this is an unpreten-

He thought it reasonable to infer the tious world. The middle class is formal His.description of the gale has the no longer, as its addiction to "lounge habitations on which life in its various existence in the Universe of innumerable power of simplicity. There are no trim suita and its demand for "lounges mings. On the last day of the storm, in its homes apparently testify. This grades might have developed as it had on when everybody was worn out, the fiercest may be due to a quickened sense of this earth. It seemed absurd to suppose humour, but more probably it is due to that this earth was the only habitable. n changed outlook on life. These are world, morely because it was the only one difficult days for the middle class, and found here was that life, vegetable or of which were certain. What we there is significance in the fact that, animal, made its appearance wherever the the very moment when the drawing-room

conditions allowed. We might reason- passing, the demand for "parlour

is becoming insistent in the ably suppose that wherever the conditions houses**

allowed the same sort of thing would cottage, ulasa "The old order changeth,happen and that, amidst the hosts of yielding "place, to new."

way.

tusale came.

Before twelve o'clock that night a great blast fell upon us..

It blew the terrible sea Bat for a time, and it lasted two or three hours."

But his ship, the Coanwood, of New- castle, weathered the storm.

All this was valuable experience, but Runciman did not quite see where it was gong to land him. His ambition to make a stir in the world and amass obvious that he might remain at sea for fortune had never wavered, but it was fifty years and still be no searer the realisation of his dream...

Sir J. M. Barrie.

Just over half a century ago, perhaps the greatest of all Scots who have crossed the Border to fame, a shy, bashful lad from Kirriemuir, had his first lesson at Dumfries Academy. His name was James

worlds, there must be multitudes in which But the parlour is following almost the conditions-whatever those conditions exactly the same lines as those which might be-were suficiently satisfied. The determined the evolution of the drawing-Universe was a sort of law-abiding organ. room. A century ago the withdrawing ism, or organization, of which the parts room was a snug and intimate apart were worlds. It afforded evidence of ment to which members of the family design and planning. There was great might retire and in which It was then he made up his mind to might hope to enjoy the most informal what we knew of the details here, it was "they variety, but nothing haphazard From take the step which was to lead to the comfort. Little by little that pleasant legitimate to surmise that the object of foundation of his commercial prosperity; idea was transmuted into the idea of all the worlds in space was to provide an he left the sea and started as a ship-"best" room, the most formal and, opportunity for life and mind to develop, owner. Within a few years he was usually, the most uncomfortable room in and that the arrangement of matter in running a feet of 2 steamers

the house. The parlour began its career, the Universe was subsidiary to that great just as did the drawing-room, in a cosy end. Could anyone rationally suppose lour now too often become the "saloon which it was held together were accident- atmosphere of informality. The bar par-that the Universe and the system by bar" is an example, and so also is the alt Everything that existed appealed to Lord Mayor's Parlour." But already the human mind and indicated a kinship parlour, even in country farmhouses, is enabled us directly to perceive only the comfort is fleeing away. The modern with its rational processes. Our senses too often a place to shiver in. Its very superficial aspect. furniture reproaches the genial utility of Universe. The rest was all inference, but of the material the farmhouse kitchen. It is filled with legitimate inference. impossible possessions, is damp as a rule, intuition outran, reason, but sooner or Speculation and and has a musty odour. Its uses are al-later they come within reason's scope. ways formal. Why human nature should desire such a room is difficult to under- stand; yet the desire is widespread and intense as widespread and as intense as was the desire for the Victorian drawing room. It may be that the parlour in its) present form, and the drawing-room of thirty years ago, represent a definite but transient stage in human evolution, a els conscianing self-consciousness, "of consciousness" a special means ing of that term. That stage will pre- aumably disappear when there are no

non-parlour houses to despise.

Matthew Barrie

Sir James's rise to fame is one of the romances of literature. As a boy he was a puzzle of his class-mates. Now he is 60, but he has never grown up.

Even when at school Barrie had the writing habit There was at the Academy in his day school magazine in manu- script called Clown, founded and edited by a schoolfellow, Wellwood Anderson, a nephew of Sir James Anderson, who laid the first Atlantic cable. Barrie was one of its principal contributors.

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It was in the Clown that the first editorial recognition of his literary gifts was published. "Reckolectiona of Skoolmaster: Edited by James Barrie, M.A., A.S.S., L.L.D," was the title of the contribution which ran serially in the Clown.

Barrie quickly realised that it was little use to him trying to carve out a literary career in Scotland, and, after graduating at Edinburgh University, he went to Nottingham to seck fathe on the staff of a newspaper.

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on the croft he managed to get a posi tion in a dry goods store at Aberdeen. Ambition still sparring him on he then resolved to join the ranks of the great adventurers who have crossed the Border. He came to London.

Journalistic back work, however, was not climbing the lauder of fame, and But it was a sad blow to the, lad who- Barrie's ambitions were soon centred in bad imagined that the streets were par London. Nobody will ever know the true ed with gold to find himself compelled story of those early struggles-Barrie; to tramp the pavements day in day out, himself is too shy to tell it but there is week in week out, in search of work. no doubt that he had a hard fight.

Somehow. or other in the intervals of pening articles to provide the sinews of existence he managed to write a book. For several days after it was published, he has related, he carried it about in his For a time he seemed content, but once pocket and took surreptitious peeps at again the wanderlust seized him, and

Luck, however, was with him, and just when his tiny store of money was almost. exhausted he managed to secure a posi tion at Pawson and Leafs, in St. Paul's Churchyard.

it to make sure that the ink had not with the little money he had saved be set faded.

off for Canada to join an uncle who "I watched a bookshop where it was established a 'dry goods store Et exposed on a shelf outside a window, and Montreal. Under his guidance the busi one day a lady-aost attractive-picked, ness prospered. up my book and read whole paragraphs, laid it down, went away, came back, read more paragraphe, felt for her purse, but finally went away without buying.

I have often thought that if say book had been a little better she would have bought it. The little more and how! much it is. In that case it was a shilling. But what should be written behind the scenes is The little less and how much it is.""

And, then, just when he was departing came fame.

Lord M.net Stephen.

Lord Mount Stephen, one of the makers of modern Canada, was another Rajak of commerce who began life as a poor Scots lad and turned his footsteps across the Border to seek his fortune.

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In a short time he came to be regarded one of the most-talked of men in Canada. as a coming man. In a few years he was But for his diplomacy, courage, and commercial ability the Canadian Pacife Railway might never have steered through the rocks of its first perilous days.

Curiously enough the driving of the last spike was performed by the Hou. Donald Smith, afterwards Lord Struth- cona, another financial genius who began life as the younger son of a Morayshire farmer, and for some time before setting out across the border was a blacksmith.

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald. From a two-roomed cottage in Lossie mouth to Prime Minister is a far cry. Born in Banffshire in the humblent But Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has made parents, the boy who was destined to be abject poverty, he had miles to tramp to imaginable of homes and of very poor light of the journey. Brought up in come one of the pioneers of the Canadian school every day. Then for some years he Pacific Railway worked all the summer worked on the farms round Lossiemouth, reading voraciously and dreaming, the

the sum of 10

on a neighbour's croft for his first wage dreams that seemed to arise out of the Five years previously Donald Stewart, Scottish mista Then putting the pack afterwards Field Marshal Bir Donald London.

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To seek their fortunes, however, one and native talent to aid him, he began speech, with nothing but his perseverance went East and the other to London at the bottom and was not quick to rise.

when, 40 years later, they met again, it He knew what it was to be cold and was in Lord Stephen's house, then in hungry. He lived meanly and obscurely, St. James's place. Sir Donald, with a the recipient of odd jobs, like the au vivid recollection of the circumstances dressing of envelopes for 125, a week, surrounding his friend when they part out of which he sent remittances to ed, burst out, as they clasped hands: Lossiemouth.

And is all this really yours?"

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What was the secret of Lord Mounting in newspaper offices, made Stephen's success! It can be given in Triends, and began to assert his in- two words hard work After working dividuality. His feet on the ladder and

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