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PUBLIC AUCTION.

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PUBLIC AUCTION, THE Undersigned have received

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PUBLIC AUCTION,

AN

TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY,

THURSDAY, TRE Ryu, óra anD 7TH MARCH, 1920,

AT

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AND AT

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COMMENCING FACH DAY AT 9.3) .M. WIFE AT INTERVAL FROM 1 NOON

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INTIMATIONS.

AN OFFER OF SERVICES..

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd, 1929.

INERGETIO YOUNG FOREIGNER, Woll Versed in Shipping, Book-keeping, Insurance, and Import and Export Routine, destres

"BOY! HAN LAY!" found me a pony, packed my kit

WITH

EXPERIENCES

CHINESE SERVANTS.

THEIR MERITS AND -DE-MERITS.

VOCAL" AND "PIANO RECITAL.

in a mute-cart, and followed it s day's journey on a small donkey, his dignity no whit impaired by the fact that he could base carried the MR. AND MRS. BOWES SMITH auimal more gracefully than the

AT HELENA MAY INSTITUTE. donkey carried him.

I began to conceive a great re spect for the fellow and to-consider

It must be very delightful to myself, singularly fortunate. Alaa Immediata Employment. - Alivarkiser

Mrs. Bores Smith to be the porses- write First-class English Business Cor

for youth's inexperience! A week later he had passed, like a ship in

sor of a gift which can give so much respondence, and is a Fast Typist Quite

Bland, the author the night, and I was obliged to fill pleasure to her friends. Her sing Capable of bandling an Entire Depart meat or de Secretarial Work. Replies and journalist, formerly correspon- bis place with & heavy-handed ing yesterday, at the Focal and to Box 7418, c/o Rong Kong Daily Presdent of The Times at Shanghai and bucolie, youth

of imperturbab'e Piano Recital, giren jointly with The manner of Liu's a resident of that city for many stupidity. [2418

years, contributes an article on departure, like his taking service husband, at the Helons May Chinese Servants in Chambers' with me and many other things Institute reached a wider audience Journal.

about hin, was mysterious. -

than those who found sents in the Eall. It was breadcast and must have come as a delightful change to the many who "tuned in " anticipation of the usual programme of gramophone records.

· DEVELOP YOUR TRADE.

There are those, he says, who,

After Getting a' Rise.! - TOW is the Time to push your Trade misled by the strident clamour of All I knew was that on Saturday There is a Good Market for the students and political adven- night he had asked for an advance Various Commodities in the Interior. A turers, will tell you that this old et wages, and that

on Sunday LIVE GO-GETTER is OPEN for China has gone for ever, and that morning my tes was brought in by, IMMEDIATE ENGAGEMENT. Spraks Several Chiness Dialects, and the character of the people has a grinning coole, who announced, Well Conversant with Business Methods pletely changed since the Re-Liu no got."

volution. Superficial observers I then learned that he had arisen Willing to travel for Firms who_devire to da Business in the Interior. Replies these, usually visitors or residents at dawn, shouldered his bundle, to Box 7419, d/o Hong Kong Daily Fross.hose experience has been confined and departed without a word into

£7419

to the Treaty Ports, who think the the unknown; and, so far as I "noisy cackle of their bourg the know, he was never seen or heard

purmur of the world."

af-again in the small world of for Because they see Chinese eign devildom in Peking. No doubt woman doctor dancing the Charles he had his reasons for disappeal ton, because they read the specious g; a Chinese who pursues the gay claptrap served out, by Mr. Alfred Lothario's path, as Lin was sup. Sre and his friends to the foreign posed to do, must be ready for Press,, because they see at their alarms and excursions at abort awn doors unpleasant evidence of notice, and the pricas binted darkly the influence of Western education at a damsel with angry parents in in the shape of strikes, boycotts, the offing. and chauvinist agitation, they rush. He had, at all events, no quarrel. to be conclusion that the Canons | with me, and he took away nothing

WHY Continue to suffer when

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Thinese Herbs.

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Deski, Filters, Ornamental Stares, Hoa-

TC. 5009

quito or Fly Netting. Megaphones, HOUSES AND FLATS. the limbo of creeds outworn, and cne treasured possession of no in

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MONDAY, 411 MARCH, 1929. ALSO

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ཏི པ ཡ ཨ ཨཱ ཨི ཀྑཡན, དྷ 1 ནཱ, ཙྪ%a" FOR SALE-BUICK TOURING

CAR 5 Seater in Good Condition $1,400 or Near offer.-Apply Bot 7294,. a Hong Kong Daily Pres. 17294

FLATS WANTED.

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Comprising: Sorge, Manuel Clothing WANTED), Mid Level or FZAK Tabis Gear, Including Culery, Hard-Apply: Bax No. 7415, c/o Hong Kong ware and Tate Linen Clothing, and Daily Press. Candemuel Provicioas for Ponitry Faed

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of the Sages have gone down into that did not belong to him except that the frothy nonsense of Sun trinsic value, namely, a cherished Yaz Sen's Three Principles recatapult: Damsel or no damael, I presents a complete change in the have, always attributed his sudden mentality of the Chinese people. departure to भव uncontrollable longing to possess that catapult, Little weapon, of curved sycamore It was a scientifically constructed

curately up to tweny-five yards and square gutty, that carried ac-

Nothing New in China. --- In all this there is nothing new. It has ever been one of the com- monest of human delusions that new eras, implying a sudden chang? In the instincts and habits of a race, are to be achieved by the waving of a new flag or by the magie of a paper constitution. And since delusions of this kind are at present extremely widespread and Iashionable, and most notably en cantaged in God's Own Country, one must be content to let time and the hour dispel them.

The programme was divided fair. ly equally between the two artistes, ra. Hargreaves Browne playing the accompaniments for the vocal items..

Air. Bowes Smith played Chopin, Schumann and Hachimaniuoft, cheg

the least well known composi ons for the most part. He at tempted, among others

the very without Etude Lo E Minor ut Chopit, and played the middle part very well indeed. The Prelude in

Ε Major was also well rendered but was the Valse in A Flat in which he scored his greatest Chopin suc-

1.cess.

Mr. Bowes Smith plays with an almost feminine delicacy of touch and sometimes faris in getting the full colour and roundness, out of the notes His playing is always pleasing to listen to and is thus very well suited to the needs of a friendly concert like those given at the Helena May Institute."

was beautifully given. Mimi's Aria was very pleasing too, but San- tuzza's Aria from Caballeria Rus ticaaa is in places a little too high for Mrs. Bowes Smith and in tempo too dramatic.

so well, although the first and third Her Italian songs did not suit her "vere very pleasing. The four Eng ish songs, one of which was com posed by her husband, also gained inuch applause..

tainly in voice" yesterday. Her Mrs Bowes Smith was very cer- rendering of the three operatic songs-in Engish-was charming, Liu bad watched me bag a golden especially Butterfly's Aria which griple with it in the temple enclosuited her voice to perfection and sure, when, for once, bis stolid He followed me about, asking all aperturbality was visibly shaken. sorts of questions, and when an- other lucky shot picked a magpie his excitement. I think it was the off the roof, he could not conceal deadly silence of the weapon that took his fancy, Anyhow, Liu and But when these same people de. the catapult disappeared together, clare that Chinese servaata are no and I was left chastened by my first longer what they used to be, that introduction to the mysterious work. the old-time qualities and sirtuesings of the Chinese mind. are now conspicuous by their ab sence, I take leave to differ. times, like the present, of lawless- ress and terrorism and unrest, the innate virtues of these people, how. soever stoic, must often yield to the imperative instinct of self preservation, to the exhortations of rarenta or the lamentations of children. But, given peace in the land, and some hope of security, they will surely flourish again, as they have done for ages.

Setting politics aside, let me at tempt to give some idea of the hunible tribes on the domestic fron. tars of the foreigner in China, of the working of their minds, and

their outlook on life.

His First Boy." My earliest contact with them im. pressed itself very vividly on my untutored mind, because, the fire "boy" engaged for me by someone in the Inspectorate, when, as & raw "grifin," I joined the Customs Students' Mess at Peking in the

early eighties, water, any differ a remarkable character, very ert from the common run of North-

ern Chinese servants.

Did Hat Squeeze "I Liu's personality remains more distinctly impressed upon my men- ory than that of many of his so- cessars, partly because he was the first that ministered to my verdant "griffin" hood, but also because Le was a very unusual and pictures que individual. Without ever being tactless or unkind, he made me realise the helpless inferiority of my

osition; also, he made me feel that any squeeze which could possibly be extracted from a stud- ent on seventy-five baikwan toes a month was hardly worthy of bis policemang in

It is a rare thing for a Chinese servant to make you feel that he despises the day of small things.

Later on, I came across other house-bors (like McQuigg's), who, either because they had no family, financial difficulties, refrained from or because their employer was in squeezing but Li was the only one who ever made me feel that money, was not the first object of

his existence. "."

What the humble, everyday Chi-: nese thinks in his heart about the inatranger within his gates remains

matter for speculation.

TERMS OF SALE detailed in SITUATION VACANT. dividual, who bad been taken to

Catalogue.

-LAMMERT-BROTHERS,

By Appointment Auctioneers

to the Admiralty. Hong Kong, 16th Feb, 1939. [7410

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Mr. and Mrs. Bowes Smith are to be congratulated on having given so very pleasing a recital and we hops they will collaborate again to give us something similar in the near future. The well got up pro. gramme with explanatory notes on the different items added very con siderably to the interest and plea sure of the concert.

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Liu was a tall, good-looking

Europe by a previous employer'; he claimed to have served for a time the Belgian roy, and was gearrolls redited with a semantic 4 ASULcomfortable, unaccountIGHT ("OH-KAY"- career. He was certainly well-able works of God," and leave it But racial instinct not- educated, spoke intelligible pidgin at that. French, and bore himself with a withstanding, the individual Chinese dignity that was at times too state- retainer.contrives, in process of ly for the atmosphere of the time, to bring into his everyday Students' Mesa.

relations with his employer à leaven Bnd finarticulate friendliness. fidelity which comes very near to good fellowship:

There must have been several flies in his ointment, or skeletona n his cupboard, to account for his taking service with a Customs ser. vice junior at ten Mexicana a month, but he treated me, the all- gnorant tenderfoot, with nice admixture of conventional respect E. The Late and condescending forbearance, King Edward setting my feet patiently in the way

TIL

they should go.”

By Appointment to

B.M. The Late Queen Victoria

and His Majesty King George V.

PURE SCOTCH LIQUEUR WHISKY

Anyone who has lived for any length of time among the Chinese, and learned "something of their mental processes, will readily recal many instances to justify this state. ment, though to the globe-trotter who has suffered at the hands of hotel hirelinga, it may ecemi, to aavour of sentimental exaggeration:

It happened that, at the time of my arrival, Peking was sore afflict-

The record of the present throu- ed by one of its periodical visita blous times has shown many exam- tions of cholera. All day long the ples of loyalty as steadfast and voice of the mourner was heard in courageous as that which the ser-

ur street, man being hurried to vants of the East India Company's his long home with scant ceremony supercargoes displayed a hundred and in large numbers Our gate- | years ago, when first the official man's daughter bad died that after word went forth that the foreign noon, and tho mess was inclired to devils were to be driven into the take a somewhat depressed view of sea and despite the corruption of things.

good manners resulting, from the Whist on a Barrel,

feverish unrest which we call "Pro- Those were the days when cholera areas, it will take more than one was held to be fan air-borne cycle of evil communication to pestilence, so the compound was destroy the simple "virtues and GLASGOW AND LONDON.prinkled with carbolic, and we native dignity, the spirit of order,

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played whist over a barrel of tar, industry, and thrift, which are the in whose vapours apme healing birthright of the race. DISTILLED IN "SCOTLAND virtue was supposed to Jurk. In In the serenity of the Chinese the servants quarters, where, by race-mind lies, I think, the secret If you want a really first class order, certain sanitary measures of the respect which the restless Scotch Whisky at a reasonable price, bad followed in the track of the tasterialism of the West instinctive- Destroyer, there had been symply yields to the moral philosophy you can have no better than

toms of panic, but Liu had taken of the East, a philosophy of which “Ballantineʻg-Idquen Whiskyvelties and and song, painlah salia may be ja zem

Also, I think excellent.

ed discipline and calm. Alworthy exponent.

He was, as I have said, a remark that the loyalty of the better class uble character. Two days later the. of Chinese servant appeals the to its huge, delight, was trans more strongly to one's imagination gency quarters in an eld Buddhist late." Heard melodies are sweet, temple at the Western Hills Eiu but those unbeard are specter."

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