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PITBOY WAITERS. BECOMING FOOD AND WINE
EXPERTS.
Several leading West End re staurants and hotels have a number of young waiters who were miners
a few months ago.. ~
This is the result of the Ministry" of Labour's scheme for boys between 18 and 18. Every one of 60 selected boys who have so far reported to the London fabour exchanges have been found jobs as assistant waiters or cooks within 24 hours.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21st, 1928.
RHYTHM OF SPEED.
ENGINE-DRIVER DESCRIBES
HIS JOB."
TRAVELLING BY SOUND "AND FEEL.
An engine-driver who loves his fascinating occupation is Driver W. Barnes, of the London and North-Eastern Railway, who for a long time has bad charge of the "Queen of Scots" Pullman which runs between King's Cross and Harrogate
"It's, life, to me, running my
told engine he.
reporter. "When I am away on holiday feel lonely and want to get back to it as soon as I can. Running my train on the long journey to Har rogate is just like a verse of poetry to me poetry of sound and motion; and signals which fash
past as we tear along."
Driver Barnes added that he had been driving for over twenty years, and no longer went by watches or clocks, but by sound and feel."Why, I could tell just Į where I was, even though my eyes were blindfolded, by the sound of
my engine and the song of the lines," he said.
"There is a song of the lines. you know it grows upon you, and when you have been driving for!
years and years you can tell easily where you are by the clicking of crossings and paints, by the bridges you cross and the tunnels through which you pass. The noise of my
engine tells me almost exactly the speed at which it is running, and thus without looking at a watch I can tell if I am up to time or not.
DEMOCRACY FOR
INDIA...
FALLACIES OF "ALL PARTIES” PLAN,
-IMITATING——EUROPE.
[SY BAROLD COx.),
In view of the return of the Simon Commission to India, a committee of what is known as the "All Parties Conference" has issued a draft constitution which presumably will be presented to the Commission for consideration. This new departure has behind it the encouraging feature that it has received the approval of several prominent Indian politicians, both Hindu and Mahoramedan. Whe ther it will, therefore, command any general approval is, however,
more than doubtful..
on
The scheme is, indeed, based less Indian conditions than on European ideals. Its main feature is the establishment of democratic over the whole of government
India. The Committee recommends
that India should become a self- governing Dominion within the
THE MIRROR OF HER HUSBAND.
(BrA WOMAN DINER OUT.]”
My daily social round takes me to a great many public dinners and other gatherings to which speci- alists of one "sort" and another Bring their wives, The wives, I And, fall into types, just as the specialists do, and this is how they have appeared to me on careful observation during long dinners and dul speeches.
CITY FOLK.
Na set of wires is traes to type than those seen at a Guildhall ban. quet. They make a good show, ranged below the gold plate in the great hall, but bow odd they would look Baywhere else! They have dignity, hut beauties are among them.
Tare
Anyhow, their faces were struc- turally so good that even the oldest were still handsome without the irritating effect of having been prettier when they were girls.
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BRITISH INDIA 3.5. CO., LTD.
Fox CALOUTTA, PENANO AND SINGAPORE
HE Samship
** TREWELLARD
| haring arrived from the shore Porte, Consigness of Cargo are hereby informed that their Goods "are being landed and The young ones were keen, well placed at their risk in the Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown informed, and in a great many
Godowns at. Kowloon, where Company's cases architectural students them-Delivery may be obtained as 30003 selves.
Goods are
sare landed.
NOVELISTS.
+
A rather scrappy, worried-look-·| ing lot, showing the wear and tear of living on intermittent incomes and dependence on publicity and public caprice. Show an uncanny knowledge of other novelists' work and sarnings and a good deal of
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Mostly
jealousy and discontent. good-looking, or have been.
PAINTERS. They wear real jewels when wo-"}
Older painters' wires are rather men in Mayfair wear only "amaus- ing shams. They wear real lace melancholy, and display a range of when fashion is not bothering adorament. Some were obgiously idées fixes about beauty and ita
about lace at all" They do not
achieve," in their handsome evening gowns that present-day effect of there being almost nothing beneath them.
They are experts in civic tradi- tion, mostly being daughters" as well as wives of civic dignitaries, and they talk to one another some- what pathetically about their fe,
sumably being heiresses and tradi- tionally non-prolific.
Shaw types, or Rossettis, or Burne married because they were, Byam
Joneses, and still cling to the faded effects of their youth.
The young ones are jolly, rather boisterous, and, more often than
their elders, painters themselves.
Affectedly candid and frank in their choice of worda, but curious-' ly ill-informed about the world in
I never get bored there is far Empire bearing the title of "The adored children, most of them pre-general, and leas genuinely artistic.
too much to think of for that. From the moment I leave King's Cross in the morning until I reach Harrogate I must be watching and listening."
Commonwealth of India." The whole power of government is to
to
SCIENTISTS.
Gooda not cleared by 31st November, „1928, 'will be subject to Rent.
No Fire Insurance will be effected by
us in any case whatever.
Damaged Package be left in the Godowas for
examination by the Consignees and the Company's surveyors,
Mears Goddard and Douglas, at 10 A... Mondays and Thursdays.
All Claims must be
within presented
Tas days of the Stomer's arrival here, after which date they cannot be recognised.
No Olime will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.
A Protest, has been noted by the Master against bad weather. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO.
Hong Kong, 14th Nov., 1928. [6993
SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES MESSAGERIES. MARITIMES.
CONSIGNEE NOTICE,
8.8. "YALOU.“
ARRIVED Horo Koko on 17th NOVEMBER, 1928,
Frox DUNKIRK, LONDON ROTTERDAM, &c.
JONBIGNMES of Cargo by the
in their careless "arty" clothes informed that their Goods with the exception of Opinn, Treasure and Vain. than the well-turned-out fashionables are being inded and placed. at able woman of to-day.
CLENGYMEN.
their risk in the Godowns of the Bong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown
હતું.
; Ltd., Euwlom, whence Delivery can
pass an Indian Parliament. The Secretary of State for India I like the tweedy, flat-beeled Nursing The Locomotive.
is to be abolished, and the propoe Scientists must be neglectful, ab- wives at congresses of scientists. "The first thing I do when weed Parliament is to consist of The sent-minded and troublesome as the difficulties of dressing "auit-
Generally pathetic. Defeated by beshtained as the Goods are landed,
Goods not cleared within 7 days in. start to work up speed at Potter'a Bar is to look about and see what King, a Senate elected by the pro-husbands, but the typical scientist's ably in prasent-day fashiers and clading date of arrival, will be subject to the weather is like. If there is a
suggestion of the martyr. wife is a cheerful creature with no keeping old-fashioned houses run-
Ront strong wind blowing I must give
ning on fixed pre-war incomes. her just
little more throttle than usual, but if not I just set the re- gulator, and look out for signals.
vincial councils, and a House of Representatives elected by consti- tuencies, every person, male and female, above 21 being entitled to
vote.
An engine is a delicate thing, even though it is big and heavy, and you can drive it well or badly. It's beat will tell you if you are
That a professedly responsible working it too hard, and so atuncommittee should have put forward ed to its noise do your ears become that it is easy to detect the slightest such a scheme seema puzzling to trouble.
persons who have any knowledge whatever of the actual conditions prevailing in India The mere suggestion of a single Indian Gov. erniment, dependent on the demo- cratic vote of 320 million people, speaking 179 different languages with 544 dialects, and divided from one another by racial and religious animosities of
"Sometimes you get delayed and have to make up time at top speed that is the time that I think of any passengers and wonder how they are faring with their cups of tea or bottles of wine.
rss dozens of other trains on the run, and as we meet and pass at a relative speed of one bandred and twenty miles an hour I usually wave a Good-day with a cleaning rag. All the drivers know each other and "know which train a particular friend is travelling. We meet each day, you see, at almost exactly the same spot-there is hardly ever a train length's difference.
OR
10
In The Tungai. * Tunnels
are funny things Even though you cannot see them a different note in the roar of your engine tells you that the smoke of another train which has just passed through; is still font- ing about."
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an intensity un-
known in Europe, alone suffices to show that the scheme is inspired not by thoughtful consideration of Indian problems but by an ill- considered passion for European practices,
An Unconsidered Problem, The whole conception of the scheme, of course, comes from Eng- |lish-educated Indians, whose am- bition it is to place themselves in the position now occupied by the
Night driving is. little harder, as you must go by signals and sound alone, and even though you are certain that everything is all right, there always lurks that "knowledge that you are relying on- English rulers of India. Whether somebody else, and you cannot helps democratic franchise would help asking yourself sometimes whether them to do so, even temporarily, is he has done his job. You get so teed to rushing into darkness that after a time it is just the same as day driving. Thunderstorms hard Driver Barnes said that he never felt any strain or overtiredness from his long journeys. "I am too busy to get tired," he said.
ly affect a driver at all."
150 BEDROOMS AND NO BATH.
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final resort the maintenance of law
All Allaiman menit be sent to the Under
before Tuesday, ths 27th 1928, or they will not be
the looks very mobile—as though Most have been pretty, but, have kagës must be left in
- JOURNALISTS.
B
the Godowns for examination by the Consignees, and the Company's Bur veyors, Messrs. Goddard & Dougins at 10 am on Saturday, the 24th Novem- ber, 1929,
Na Olaims will be admitted after the Goods have left the Godowns.
No Fire Insurance will be effected, by us in any caso whatever.
L. LESDOS,
Agent Hong Kong, 18th Nov., 1928. (7004
she would go off to gather ferns in rather less than the average air of the Andes or snow crystalnar
aplift or spirituality. Spitzbergen at half a day's notice. Perhaps she owes her brightness to her contact with youth. She
A serappy lot. The common does not took maternal ia the con- features are & Bort of social lives in a university, town and gets Evidently Mrs. Journalist feels ventional way, but sometimes ahe courage and
ветве of fun. more attention and adoration from less compartmented than most of her husband's young disciples than her married. sisters. Good looks on falls to the lot of any musical the whole, but rather neglected. comedy star.
BUSINESS MEN. The wives of men who make An air of determination, is the money without making anything common feature of doctors' wives. else to speak of are the best This may be due to the fact that duced of any. They are exqui- BRITISH INDIA 5.S. CO., LTD), many of them were nurses, accus-sitely dressed and groomed. riage, or perhaps it is because ran- and yet they are the hardest to tomed to domination before mar. They look healthy and petted, ning a doctor's house is a real job talk to and most discontented of and not pastime.
DOCTORS,
They are extraordinarily easy to talk to, having fewer conversa tional grooves and inhibitions than most wives who live on similar in- comes.
ARCHITECTS.
The best-looking set of wives I have seen for a long time was at an architects dinner,
Evidently they had been chosen because of their beauty that was more than skin deep and went right through to the bone.
. *
Barriers of Caste,
all my types.
pro-
Frox CALCUTTA, PENANG
AND SINGAPORE.
Steamship
"TAKADA" I suspect that they read adver- tisements in American magazines having arrived from the shore Parts, about all the things a woran might Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- huve, and then brood if they formed that their Goods are being baven't got them. Usually they landed and placed at their rink in the and Kowloon Wharf and Kong owe everything to their husbands, F
Godown Company's Godowns at Row and yet seem to despise them.
They seem to think money maken, where Delivery may be obtained
as soon sa the Goods are lauded. ing dead easy, and so wonder miserably why their husbands are not Mare Antonys and Valentinos E well as providers of, ermine cloaks and diamonds..
written
states,
сале
Goods not cleared by 26th November,
No Firs Insurance will be affected by 1928, will be subject to Rent
whatever. Lany Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for Fation by the Gon-. kign ves and the
Surveyors, Monara Goddard à Donglas at 10 am, on Mondays and Thursdays..
All Claims must be presented within
Ten days of the Steamer's arrival hero, after which date they cannot
be recognized.
No Claims will be admitted after
the Goods have left the Godowns. by A Protest has been noted by the
Master against bad weather. MACKINNON, MACKENZIE & CO. Hong Kong, 19th Nov., 1928. [2007
CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
THE BEN LINE STEAMERS LIMITED.
►
YEON LEITH, MIDDLESBRO", LONDON AND STRAITS.
The Steamship "BENLOMOND,"
lems, for otherwise they would be From this of Indish life is the atrocious point of view it is not, surprising
One of the outstanding features hopelessly outvoted.
"untouchable" that the traditional hostility be treatment of the classes. High caste Hindus regard tween Hindus and Mosleme has themselves as contaminated if they been emphasised to introduction of touch, or even pass on the road-ry degree by the introduction of uncertain, but there would still say, people of the lowest castes. the Montagu reforms and
They would never tolerate for a threats of the extension of parlia main behind them, the problem, moment the idea of walking to the Indian monarchical
mentary government. Indeed, in which they have evidently not in polling-booth together, ár of giv the least considered, of how to ing equal justice to those whom where no attempt is made at the maintain their power if British they thus despise. Happily with pretence of democracy, Hindus and bayoneta were withdrawn. In the in the last few years these lowest bloslems get on far better together
castes have begun to organise for than they do in British India... and order throughout India rests their own defence, and they regard This point is emphasised in a upon the shoulders of Tommy At- Force
the late Theodore Beck, kins. If India is to become a self- with suspicion any scheme for book of Essays on Indian Topics
by changes in the government of Weather
governing, Commonwealth, Tommy India which would transfer to the under whom I served in India In Rain
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The International Genera Ame
Atkins will no longer be there. higher caste Hindus the authority more than forty years ago. The new scheme assumes that In- Highest open-air Temperaturo, 19th: 79 ciation of Hotel and Restaurant
now exercised in the final resort these essays, published in 1888, he Lowest open-air Tempenture, 20th: 5. Employees has arranged that these NEW IRISH TOURIST HOTEL.
dia will defend herself with her by the Government of
describes a visit to the State of Great own military, bat and air
Hyderabad, and Britain. and other young, waiters shall be
mentions how
informed that all Goods are being B-Bluesky C-Cloudy; D=' given lessons in French, English, Drizzle; F-Fog; L-Lightning; hotel accounts, and physical exer
A town which aspires to become forces, which are to be controlled
At present, it should be added, much less he there found ONSIGNEES of Carge are hereby i
by & Defence Committee. a popular tourist resort, but has no To appreciate what this proposal in the election of the various legis Hindus than in British India, and/or extra hazardous Godowns of the M-Mist; O-Overcast; P-Fassing cises. The practical side of a public water supply (though it
only a very few persons take part animosity between Moslems and landed at their rink into the bazardous showers; Q-Squalls; B-Raia; T waiter's work is taught by the stands on the shore of Laugh means, it is sufficient to compare lative assemblies which were creat Exactly the same point is made by HoG KORS AND KOWLOON WHANE AND
India and Europe. The compari ed by the Montagu-Chelmsford re
Sir Walter Lawrence in his book GoDOWN COMPANY, LTD., whence, and/or superintendents of two famous Nengh), and an hofel with no bath- London restaurants.
son does not tell the full story, for They teach among other things room, were criticised by Judge the racial and religious differences forms, and the assemblies then call-on "The India We Served;" re- from the wharves Delivery may be
Thompson, Recorder of Belfast.
ed into being have only & limited viewed in this column Inst May. Claims will be admitted after the how to handle wine and what He was considering at the Antrim in India are immensely greater authority. If the advanced demo Both these writers, with forty certain dishes. contain. Several Quarter Sessions an application for
than those in Europe, but, a Eurocratic scheme now, put forward years between them, join also young ex-miners can now detail, a licence for an Antrim hotel. pean comparison is suficient for were brought into being, and if the pointing out how much better the Goods remaining undelivered after the
the present. for example, how sole colbert is á
All Claims Does any rational depressed classes were intelligent relationship between Englishmen
against the Steamer måst The judge was informed, says the person imagine for a moment that enough to exercise the franchise and Indians is in Indian States presented to the Undersigned on or fried sole, cut open in the centre, Irish Times, that last season up to and served with maitre d'hôtel 7,000 people had been brought from of Europe to be governed by a
it would be possible for the whole entrusted to them, the power of the than in British India.
We must, in fact, disabuse our before the 6th December, 1923, or they
will not be butter containing chopped parsley England to Antrim. The lack of a single Parliament, elected by a de appear: We may therefore take it minds altogether of the oven bent
recognised. upper castes would promptly die
All broken, chafed and damaged Goods Some of these waiters have ating itself
public water supply in a town Patmocratic franchise and finally for certain that any support giver a democratie system of government
forward to attract responsible for the preservation of chance of gaining experience in tourists was an open scandal, and peace and the maintenance of order to the proposed scheme by upper is in the least degree suited to the are to be left in the Godowns," where 10 4x, by Masara.. Goddard and caste Hindus will be merely a varied peoples of India. Their they will be examined on the 21st instant, hotels on the Continent, as the more particularly so when they had throughout all the different coun- political pretence. As regards the whole outlook on life is not demo- Douglas. will be eligible for schemes run as their very doors the largest and tries brought under its rule? The fostems very few are likely even cratic, but aristocratic.
They for that purpose by the association. finest lake in the three kingdoms.
idea is palpably ridiculous. It struck him niso that in an formulation
to indulge in that pretence. They want a Sovereign to obey, not a of (such ́ ́ fantastio hotel designed for 160 people there schemes for the government oform only a minority--but a very Parliament to elect. It in to the was not one bathroom. He was India arises from the habit for important minority of the popu Indian Rajas, "both Hindu and lation of India. They put their Moslem, that we must look for real told that people never used bath which English politicians are per faith before everything else, and it reforms, and it would be an im- rooms and never asked for them haps as much responsible as Indian is not likely that they would en mense gain. if we could retransfer
portunity abould be provided in (laughter). Even so, he thought the students, of treating India as if it trust their future to an electorate to princely rule some, at any rate: case some oddity asked for one. If land. Not only is there no racial
were a homogeneous unit like Eng of which more than two-thirds
would be Hindus. anyone should happen, in a moment unity in India, but the differences of eccentricity, to ask for a bath between diferent sections of the "de Was entitled to get 16..
population are aggravated by re- kering was adjourned unit kour tradicions "the next autuma sexton to glos the applicant an opportunity of making improvements.
HONG KONG TIDE TABLE,
From November 21st to 27th, 1998.
Hien Water,
Days o
Date of
Bong
Standard
Arde
LOW WATER,
Bong
Forg
Kong
Tims. P
Standard Time.
b.
Wod 21 996 710 56
Thur. 31
Fri.. 230 19
Sat 24 m 6.99
7 8. Bun. 157. 24
17.80)
[aos, 27 m 9 37
Height
0 38
$1.0227
6m 3 15 T3. 8.438.42.37 3 8
and lemon.
OM BALAN.
H FORTS of the MEETING
ONG KONG HANSARD BE of the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL
for the Session 1927.
PRICE
Horo Kong Daily Press CreICE.
The
en
which English people find it diff cult to realise.
(Continued on next Column.)
in
Goods have left the Godowns, and all
22ad instant, will be subject to Bent.
st
No Fire Lasarabos has been affected. Bill of Lading will be countersigned by GIBE, LIVINGSTON & Co. Izo
Agents, Hong Kong, 15th Nov., 1928. 18997-
ON SALE."
of the territories that were annex. of to British India either by the BUONG KONG WEEKLI East India Company or by the
VOLUMES (of the
Beligious Rivalries, ̈ ̈ ̈
British Government in the last. | PRESS, January to June, 1928, One of the points on which the century. Democracy has "not, bear
WITH Inder, Pric■—$7.50, Moslems simile that whatever auch brilliant success in Europe changes in the direction of deme that we should commit the ty tracy may be made, separate reimposing it upon India.-Sunday On Sale at the HONG KONG DAILY presentation must be given to Mos- Fines
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