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No. 22,258 WINGERILALA BRKASTEZ HONG KONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1929.

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DIRECTORY

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THE FAR EAST

1929

HIGH LIFE IN HONG KONG.

THE LITTLE THINGS THAT INTEREST.

COMEDIES OF MONTHS, FLOORS, AND AGES.

SHOCKS FOR WORTHY MR. AND MRS. GR" "FIN.

[BY HERBERT FIELD.}

Hong Kong is essentially Lon- adjoining flate, John will always be don "also," it in surprisingly a floor nearer heaven than I. If we Chinese. A more speck on the map use a lift to reach our respective of the world, it nevertheless con abodes. I shall ask for the second tains within its few hundred square Boor and John will ask for the third miles in using the term "Hong floor. Kong." I of course include Kowloon and the New Territories-enough of interest to please the most blase traveller.

Its buildings and personalities of note, its scenic attractions and centres of commerce, its past and present history-all of these are constantly being commented upon by more illustrious and worthy knights of the pen.

The Iditle Things,

It is the leaser surprises which Hong Kong holde in store for the newcomer upon which desire to comment from time to time. It is nearly always the ease that the older residents in the Colony grow more than accustomed to the sights

But we will both leave the lift at the same landing, and each will have done right,

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moment to dislocate its neck. The sun burns down upon the infant's head; the tightly-tied shawl threat ens to choke the child, besides giving it permanent curvature of the spine and the danger of de- formed limbs!

Later, Mrs. Griffin learns that Chinese babice are composed main.

Again, the colution to this prchy of rubber and leather, that they iem is easy.. The Chinese always can be quite comfortable in atti call the ground for the "Arst" tudes that would be uncommonly. floor, therefore our firet" floor is, painful to Western children. She to them, the second floor, and lears also that a Chinese baby 100% bawls out as lusty as any European child if it is not quite comfortable. Thereafter, tender- hearted Mrs. Griffin ceoses to trou, ble her head: about the ravi trul and their charges,

eo on.

John is quite correct, too,

Amahs, Rickshas, and Coolles. Strange to say, while it is the little things that captivate the in- terest of Sir, and Mrs. Griffin, it is nise the little things which dis please them. In time, they get serustomed to the little things, and the big things pass unnoticed.

"Mr. Gri feels "unicomfortable

Both worthy Mr. and Mrs. Griffin are shocked beyond words at the sight of the street sleepers-those poor dregs of humanity who, win- ter and summer, sleep on the pave wente in the business quarter with

ns their only covering.

and sounds around them. Some when he takes his first rickshan old sack or a piece of matting even cease to take interest in the habits and customs of their Chinese neighbours. They take all things, in time, for granted.

For instance, tell your old-timer that when it is January in Victoria and Kowloon it is December for it's equivalent) in Kennedy Town or Mong Kok and he will merely eniff in a "tell-me-something-new

manner.

"A disgrace to divilisation ".de- clare the indignant couple.

ride. He feels uncommonly menn to be drawn along the streets on a broiling hot day by a panting, perspiring human being. He thinks Later, they learn that a kind it a horrible thing to degrade a philanthropist once attempted to man to the level of a pony. But, house some of them at Kennedy after residing in the Colony for a Town, but was cursed by the sleep- month or two, Me. Griffin, staunch ars for his pains. They earn twenty Churchman though he may he, will centa night for sleeping

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unt hesitate to prod the lagging guards outside the shops nud ricksha coolie into greater speed.offices, have never known a roof He may even do so far as to "toe" over their heads, and could not

sleep under one if they tried.

reasons.

But tell the newest Griffin the same thing and he will look at youhim fairly vigorously-in rank and wide-eyed and, when you explain utter defiance of all the laws of In time, the Griffins get accus that it merely the difference be Hong Kong-should the coolie show tomed to them. Mr. Griffin still says tween the Chinese and the Gre- undue insolence concerning his they should be banished from the gorian calendars which accounts eumshow at the end of the journey. | Colony, but for different for the discrepancy. his wonder in In ke manner, his heart goes He has seen them, stripped to the no wise abates. Instead, he writes out at first to the poor fellows who waist, picking insects from their home about it!

carry him in a sedan chair up to filthy rags and tossing them into the clouds which enshroud the the air to he blown, where the. Peak. His shoulders and legs ache | winds will! from sympathetic aute-suggestion. Mr. Griffin gets accustomed to In time, worthy Mr. Griffin grows the sight of women dragging carts as indifferent as everybody else, along the streets. handling the and the day soon, comes when he great pars and sails of deen-eon declaims long and loudly against junkes, acting as coolies and labour. the extortionate demands of the ers generally and she is quick to coolies.

note that the women of this genera- tion in China are stronger than the

Yat, Fi Sam —

So, although we are a month and more ahead of the Chinese in one sense. we are a year behind them in another. That is to say, it John Chinaman and I both saw daylight for the Arst time on the 6th day of May. 1898, when I reached the

Ir. Griffin pazes zhast upon nge of four, my Chinese "brother" would be five! And so on through the sight of a tiny chid' tied in a our lives until, if the Old Age Pea-bundle to the back of a little w sions Act ever finds its counterpart who is hardly big enough her in China, John will draw his & a self to be cut of a nurse's rare. At week for a whole year before I can first she is corry for the diminutive awah: then her remaining stock of put in my claim.

sorrow and sympathy goes out to the baby on the girl's binet.

Of course, the answer to this riddle is easy, Chinese babies are a year old at birth. And, judging from the wise expression lurking in their dark little eyes. I do not doubt it for ad instant!

Street Sleepers.

Its bare, bullet-shaped little head drooms over the edge of the grimy If we take unto ourselves wives shawl and rolls from side to and live in the same building in leide alarmingly, threatening every

men!

Yes, it the nimportant dr. tails of tile in the East which harm, shock and grip the imaginn ion, and it is to there that I intend to devote my men. Let the mors learned extol the virtues of Wuchow vases fuadé in Birming har, Fuehow laquer (from Nazi- saki) and Tientsin carpets (manu- furtured in Bradford),

I shall be more concerned with the back streets of Chinatown for "copy."

Diary of Coming Events,

To-day. (November 13.)

Sule of Crown Land, Inland Lo: No. 2970, P.W.D. Officer, 3 p.m.

Half Yearly General Meeting of Voting Members of H.K. Jocker Club, Club Room, 5.15 pm.

Queen's Theatre: "Movitone Follies 1829

Star Theatre: "The Cowboy Kid."

5 p.m.

Thursday. (November 21.)

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Ten Dance: Hong Kong Hotel, "Annuni meeting H.K. Horticul

tural Society, Board Room Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel,Messra Jardine, Matheson,. 5.15 Peninsula, and Repulse Bay Hotels, p...

8.20 p.m.

Tides: High, 11.30 am and 10.20 p.m.; Low, 6.00 a.m. and 4.01 p.in,

European MailsOutward: Star Theatre: "The Kid's Clever."Europe vid Marseilles (Porthos),

World Thestra:"Give and Take."

Ten Dances: Hong Kong Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, p.m.

Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel, Peninsula and Repulse Bay Hotels,

Classified List of Manufacturers 3pm.

and Merchants in Japan,

China, Straits, Etc.

Hong Kong Daily Press Office.

2.30 pm:

Wednesday.

(November 20.) Interport Tennis: H. D, and S. Rumjaha (Hong Kong) .. Gori don Lum and Paul Kong (Shang hai), H.K.C.C. ground, 3.p.m.

Hockey Club 2. H.SR.A., U.S.R.C. ground, à p.m.

V.D.M.A. "At Home," Helena

Tides: High, 10.54 a.m. and 3.39 p.m.; Low, 4,99 a.. and 3.33 p.m.

European Mails:- Inward; Europe rió Negapatam (Kutsang Outward: Europe vid San Fran cisco, and rid Biberia (President, May Institute, 4.30. p.m. Taft), 6 p..

Tuesday.

Queen's Theatre: "Movitono Follies of 1929."

World Theatre: **The Veiled

(November 19.) Lecture: "Impressions of Java" | Woman.". be Dr. G. A. Herklots, Helena May Institute, 3.30 p.m.

St Andrew's Society, Practice Dance, Peninsula Hotel, 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre Meritone Follies 1920.

World Theatre: The Veiled Woman"

Star Theatre: "The Coyboy

Kid."

Extraordinary general meeting of seatholders and subscribers of St. John's Cathedral, Cathed al Hall, 5.30 p.m.

Interport Tennis! M. W to (Hong Kong) Gordon Lum (Shanghai), H.K.C.C. ground, 3.

p.m.

Hockey Club v. H.K.S.R.A., Marina ground, 4.50 p.m.

Concert, Helens May Institute, 5.30 p.m.

Queen's Theatre: "Movitone Follies of 1920,"

World Theatre: Where East is East."

Star Theatre! Trent's Inst Case."

Tea Dances Hong Kong Hotel, Peninsula Hotel, p.m.

"Dinner Dances: H.K. Hotel. Repulse Bay Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 8.30 pm.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, and Peninsula Hotel, 5 p.m.

Tides: High, 2,34 p.m. and 11.53° Dinner Dances: Peninsula Hotel ari Hong Kong Hotel, 8:30 p.m.

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