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HONG KONG DALY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1931.

ON LOVE.

CONSIDERED NOT TOO

DEEPLY.

[BY TINDAL KING.]

My dictionary tells me that one | definition of love is, nothing, as in tennis, billiards and some other games, but its editor being a Scots man the said dictionary haa inany sly jokes, and this is possibly our of them. Another-splendide men dichas rendered lying in state," which may be true perhaps of the Divorce Court but is other wise hardly applicable to the sub ject of this article.

S.S. ANGERS BADLY HOLED. FATHER FROC IN

AN UNEXPLAINED MISHAP,

When the Messagories Maritimes 5.5. Angers came into port from Shanghai yesterday morning, it was noticed that she had's very big hole on her post bow, well above waterline. The refusal of the cap. tain to make any statement has converted into a mystery what ap- penred to be a mishap to the vessel on her voyage here from the nor thern port. The hole was about five feet in length and two feet wide and appeared to have been caused by a sharp blow. Although it was said that no one had been injured, confirmation of this was not forthcoming.

to

re-

to

Arfil yet there is a truth in the statement that love is nothing. Enquiries on board the vessel Has any poet, for instance, ever threw no light on the matter. The fold us really to our satisfaction purser had ging nshorą, while the | what love in? - We are told what it second officer was unwilling la like, but is it not left to each | speak about the mishap, “es of us to discover for ourselves what gards the captain, he refused it is, only perhaps to find out what see anyone and to make a state- it is not, or rather, not what we ment. Other members of the crew thought it was I think so, as the were also very reticent, although absent-minded curate said when asked if the two children at the end one man said that if the ship had of the room were his

encountered a storm, he must have alept through it!

Calf Leve-and "Lucky Youth To-day.

complained the path of true love never runs smooth or straight1 Why should it and who wants it.

HONG KONG

ROTARIANS, HONOUR DIS TINGUISHED. METEORO-

LOGIST,

''MR. CLAXTON'S TRIBUTE.

Rev. Father Froe, S... Director of the Ziccawei Observatory, who passed through the Colony pester day on his way to France, was a

eat at the Rotary Club yesterday, when Mr. T. F. Claxton, of the local Observatory, paid a great tribute the service rendered by Father Fros to the cause of meteo. rology in the Far East.

Father Froo did not stay to lunch, as the French mail by which he sailed, left Hong Kong at

p.m.

Sir William Hornell, in intro dacing Father Froe, said that leval Rotarians were all delighted to see him. We thank you for all, you have done, not only for Hong Kong, but also for China: I am sorry that the French mail cannot delay its departure to enable you to have lunch with us.

Mr. Claxton's Speech.

Mr. Claxton said:-When 1 heard Father Froe was due to pass through Hong Kong to day by the French monil, 1 thought an excel lent way of honouring him would be to invite him to a Rotary luncheon party, as these take pince on Tuesdays and the French mail ally arrives on Tuesday morning and leaves in the evening..

Take youth's experience of what is called rather callously calf-love, is is often centred on someone con siderably older than himself, änd

Quito a number of people of we have in Young Woodley a to Isn't a straight road extreme- Hong Kong were anxious to do poignant picture which those who ly boring? And doesn't & winding honour to Father Froe on his re saw the play will not easily forget

tirement, but no one person could That kind of love must obviously tortuous path offer not only the have done it so effectively as the vary with the social conditions of probability of adventure and Rotary Club. Nowhere could Father the age, and, I believe most early thrills, but also variety of scenery Froe have met such representa Edwardians to think that I should ng well as the possibility of esonpevo gathering ne you have at these have lived to describe myself thus To-day it is simply absurd to talk meetings.

will agree with me that the Geor about love being blind, though I

Unfortunately, the French mni! gians are probably very much better am told--and I can well believe it leaves, to-day at 2 p.m.. so Father off than we were in this respect in some isolated instanges one of Froc will not be able to stay to By which I mean they at least are the parties may figuratively have luncheon but we shall have sufficient understood, which might not always been in this condition to awake next time in which to drink his health have been our lot?

ing natrimony! Here a Beeza tof meteorology in Hong Kong, I morning to a bad head and impend- and to say goodbye.

First of all, as the representative have immediate evidence in favour should like to thank the Club for of the tortuous path as opposed asking Father Froc here to-day, the straight road.

On school-boy love Calverley has "some delicious lines in Gemini and Virgo:

She was 2 blushing gushing

thing;

All-more than all-my fancy

painted;

Once-when she helped me to

wing Of goose--I thought I should have

fainted,

The people said that she

blue:

was

But I was green, and loved her

dearly,

She was approaching thirty two; And I was then eleven, nearly.

Oh' sweet as to the toilworn man The far-off sound of ripping

. river;

As to cadets in Hindostan

Said Adam to Eva,

We are, all charmed to have him with us again and regret that his stay will not be so long as we could have wished.

And yet if someone were to tell me that love is sacrifice-which is I first met Father Froe in 1011 a really beautiful word-1 would be when on a visit to all, the obser prepared to agree that it is 'probatories in the Far East, and we ably as good a definition ze any established an immediate friendship.. other. But who, makes the sacrifice Since that time we have correa- is not so easily determined, or per: ponded frequently and met, I regret haps it can be put more clearly by to say, less frequently. We have stating simply that there is no love occasionally differed over matters of where there is no sacrifice. This detail; what intelligent men have i sounds sententious, but nevertheless not? But this has not affected our we must put stet to it:

friendship, which, I am proud to think, is as firm to-day as it has ever been.

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But perhaps love is only love, and indeed need be nothing else Take lovers in fiction or history, commencing if you wish with Adam and Eve, and you get con-

The fleeting remnant of their tinuity if you get nothing more. As I heard it put in song in the

liver

To me was Anna; dear as gold That fills the miser's sunless

coffers:

As to the spinster, growing old, The thought the dream-that she

had offers.

The thought, the dream, when we come down to brass tacks, I think we have in these two words scme- thing to guide us, futile though the quest may be. I remember seeing a play in Tientsin some years ago-it was na A.D.C. show, French Žeaví, I think when in the last act the girl was being proposed to but didn't know or pretended not to know what the man was driving at until he said quite simply: That is a picture of my dream-wife and she has your face. "In the play

was extremely touching-le larmes en vuis may have been responsible for that but in real life, in broad daylight, so to speak, wouldn't most girls to-day probably just say: Oh, yeah! Still, I think men can and do bluff as well a women, For instance those with gramophones-apart from their re corde will be familiar with

Just a little, love, a little kiss-- And I give all my life for

it

this!

revue A to %:

Though it seems most difficult to

believe,.

Adam said the very same things

to Ever and so it will go on, I suppose and hope, for ever. As an obscure poet wrote:

There are things you cannot

crush-

A Useful Life.

Time does not admit of "even

giving a brief resumé, of Father meteorology in general and of Froo's activities, in the cause of

typhoon warnings in particular. I will only say, their name is legion. If any man deserves well of his country, that man is Father Froe. for that life. Ho has lived; the world is better

I admire Father Froc tremend ously, but what" I admire most is his youth and indomizable spirit.. His body is a generation older than

Spring, and the song of the mine but his spirit is a gencration

thrush.

Nelson and Tristram,

As an illustration of sacrifice, Nelson's love for his Divine Lady

younger.

Father Froe's health broke down in 1923 and he returned to France, tenens fell sick so Father Free his native country, but his locum came back immediately to his be twin infatuation, on the one hand years, and bas since carried on the is to my mind supreme. It was a loved observatory, in spite of his for his Country--possibly the work there with all his old energy other for his beloved Emma alight interruption, a trip to Stock greatest love of all-and on the and enthusiasm, with only one Passion on the grand scale. Yet" holm last year to attend an inter- land-could do no mure that erect the spirit of a young man of about Enginnd ungrateful, anebbish Eng-national conference; andertaken in monuiment to his memory, leaving 30 If I were an American I should his "darling Emma" to revert to say, can you beat it??.. type nod die moat ingloriously While wishing Father Froo a practically in the gutter!

very pleasant journey Home, I sup

1 €

Other unhappy lovers were Tris- pose I should add a well-deserved tram and Iseult, though after rest; but this, I believe, would be wringing one's vitals out over their quite useless. On arrival at Mar- tragic story it may be some conseilles I expect Father Fröe will solution to think that perhaps after tech off to Paris, reorganise, the all they never existed. They are French Weather Bureau and make with Nelson and Emma-my General Defcambre, the Director, Is there a girl to-day, especially favourite lovers, and I may be wonder why he had not thought of those with even a casual acquais permitted to conclude this article these things before. tance with exchange, who for more by quoting Matthew Arnold's ex- Gentlemen, I ask you to drink than a fleeting moment would enter.quisitely touching lines when Iseult to the health, longer life and happi tain such an empty promise I hope and Tristram meet after many ness of Father Froc, the dis not add rightly so for heavenly years, the latter at the point of tinguished Director for many years. knights (for which I ask pardos) death:-- may be altogether delightful, but some of them have a very definite habit of not being too punctilious when it comes to the mundano work of settling accounts And ugam, in what we may call the Peetotaler's Song, wg have a variant of the a theme: 2

Drink to me only with thine eye, And I will pledge with mine; Leave a kiss within the cup,

· And I'll not ask, for wine!

A kiss within the cup! What memorica that stirs And what draughts of wine would be neces sary entirely to efface them even at this late date Page

And why should people fall' in lova, if love is not a species of ur- cident 1 And, be heart-broken? Or

Tristram:

Thou art paler, but thy swent

charm, Iseult, Would not fade with the dull.

years away.

Ah, how fair thou standest in the

moonlight!

I forgive theo, Iseulti-thou wilt * stay! Ficuler

Fear me not, I will be always

with thee;

of a renowned observatory, Zicca wei. (Applause)

Ambition to Serve the Sea. Replying, Fatifer Frog remarked: They call me a typhoon maker but I am not a speech maker and all I can say is that I thank you very much for the words you have spoken."

Continuing, Father Froe said that'| in spite of years and years of dif- ferences of opinion he had a strong and true friendship with the Direc

I will watch theo, tend thee,tor of the Hong Kong Observatory.

soothe thy pain? Sing the tales of true long

parted lovers

Join'd at evening of their days

again.

If you have never met an Iseult it is certainly your misfortune, bat,

do these merely come under the term it may mean you could never be a façon de parler! And again, it is Tristram; while if you have well,

(Dontinued on nëzi Column.) you were or are-lucky}'

He went on to say that his great. ambition was to serve the sea and become a sailor, but, having oberen. the cloth, he made up his mind to render the best service he could to sailors, and he was sent to the Maritime Observatory. "I did my beat to save as many sailors as 1 could. I am glad to mẹ Hong Kong Observatory is doing the same.

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