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Hongkong Daily Press.

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Registered me a Newspaper at the General "Post Office in the United Kingdom.

No. 22817. NA BЯ**** HONG KONG, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931, N BERƑRÆCE** Price

KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE.

On and after MAY 2ND, 1931, until Further Notice (all previous

Time Tables cancelled).

No. No. No. No. No. No. 9." |_ 19 - | 14 | 18:||| 29.

UP TRAINS

STATIONS 4

No. No. No. No.

1100

Kowloon ...

Dop.) 6.40) 8.051 8,29

* 9,24) 10,24/′12.08 1.26

9.87 $10.30, 19.20 1.88

-9,82||10,50|12,83) 1.81

9,57 1054 12.37}'1,55

Taumati

Shatto

Taipo

Fanling

thaung Shumeht

Canton

Dop 1.85

Shumehan.

Canton Shengshui Fanling

Taipo Mar

Talpo

Shatin

Kowloon

9,15 10.18 18.00 1,18 2.33) 4,08 4,43] 8,85) 7.40

זי.

[4:49] [5,48)~7,48 15.000 0.55 8.00

6.18 6,085.13

TH

14" 5.19 6,12 6.17

∙10,00) 11.06 18.67) 1.05]: *** 16.29 6.22 6,97 9.06 10.1411.09 18.59 2.10 3,145,34 6.27 6.23

(ATT.] 7,4)|| 8,44 | | 9,11 | 10.28 11.15 12.58 2,10) 8.30€ 6.40) 5.40| 6,38) 8.38.

STATIONS

1540

DOWN" TRAINS:

No. No No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.

45425 17

•Dop...

7.50

Dep. 7.17 8.08), 3.55 10.85 11.38 2.35 4.28.107.017.11

$10.00

Dop 7.4 8.10 10.06|

申明

Dop, 7.20) 814:10,08||

|11,45 2,43| 4.80 [8,17] ***

11,50) 2,40) 4.85 - 0.22|

7.18

Dep. 7.40 8.23 10.18

...

12.01 268 4.458.82

7.45 8.30 10,2

19.08 8.0240 | 6,36|

7.888.48 10.BO

811 8.66 10.48)

21817] 2.01]:10,54) 11,12|

✪ Sundays and Public Holidays only.

12,908,16 4.09 | 6.40|| ... 12.32 2.7 5.14 | 7.01] .... 1938| 8.38) 6.30 | 7.07 7.891 7.8

*For First Class Pasungers only. Will stop at any station on request.

Sundays and Public Holidays excepted.

Further information may be obtained at the Railway Offoes, Kow- loon or Canton, from Mosses. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., Bong Kong. The Amoroian Express Co, Hong Kong, or The China Travel Servios, e Queen's Road, Hong Kong,"

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DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

-To-day,

(September 11.)

Service in Memory of Mastor, Deck and Engineer Officers, .. Kwongsang at St. John's Cathedral, 5.30 p.m.

Home Sport:-Cricket: "Leveson Gower's XI. v. New Zealandera at Scarborough.

Home Yachting: Burnham Wesk (contd.).

Home Racing Doncaster Cap: (2. miles 1 fur).

IS IT SMART TO BE VULGAR?

THE PENDULUM OF FASHION IN SPEECH.

INCONGRUITY OF ROSE BUD LIPS AND STABLE LANGUAGE,

In the days of my youth, writes who mellowed my speech, Elizabeth Craig in London memory of the celebrated Angue

dnys, tried to teach me the art of Jourani, I was taught that it was Ping Pong Tournament-Singles bad form to speak the King's Eng-

writing a graceful letter and of Championship: Leo Hon Koov.

entering a room without creating Chan Yuk Loong (Confucian Assolish in a slovenly manner. Then

commotion, and of several others, ciation), Lam Yum King. O. Mit was considered equally bad form at home in Edinburgh when not Xavier (Confucian Association).

Hong Kong Cricket League Most

bolding shooting parties at the foot ing Sanitary Board room, 3.16.p.

of the Grampians, who took a lonely Licensing Applications due Queen's Theatre: “Pardon Us” World Theatre: "Blood Spatter od Castle" (Chinese film

Star Theatro: Love, Live and Laugh,"

to use the slang of the day. As for arguing in the course of a

private conversation, or making fun schoolgirl, as callow as callow can be, and without hurting her feel- of anyone, such a thing was simply ings attempted to instil in her all not done. In those pre-war days the little courtesies that were

it was ill-bred to be vulgar. Now, characteristic of a culture since

passed away.

King's Theatre: "Soup to Nuts," Central Theatre "Resurrection." judging from the modern vocabu Tea Dance at Lane, Crawford's lary, it's a question of autres Restaurant Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula temps, antrée muuri. Hotel

European Mail-Inward Europe ria Siberia (Cuthay),

Tides High at 8.15 and 9.48) Low at 138 and 3,00,

Saturday.:

Stäblp Language.

Now every time I hear some of the FoRise words which so often popper the converantions of to day I wonder what my mentors would our language would develop. I 'havo, said if they had known how

also wonder why the moderns think, as many of them do, that it is smart

Of course, I may have been old fashioned when I was young. As girl in my early teens I often sat at the feet of a grand old lady who, after invariably lunching me on roast chicken and stewed apples and whipped cream, lectured me Jewish New Year, 6692.

from a high-backed chair on the to be vulgar. Home Sport: Association. Footart of speaking English. A perfect ball, Full League Programmes.

Home Cricket: Champions (Tork- shire). Rest of Engined as the Oval:

(September 12.)

Home Yachting Burnham Week (contd.).

Home Swimming ABA Long Distance Championships at London, Lawn Bowls 1st Division: Civil Service Cricket Club . Craigengow

cameo in her old lace cap and nod: ding white ring-lets, with her slim little hands decked with beautiful old rings, she nearly always began the lecture with a know you should not use so much slang.'.

"Do I really use slang?"

I

er C.C.; 2nd Division: H.K. Eleo-would generally, ask, wanting to tric v. Club de Reoreio; Yacht Club add "Madam," because this aged 4. Craigéngower C.C. Dorrance

Cup Kowloon Dook e. Taikoo scion of a ruling house in Angus

Dock

Queen's Theatre; Pardon Us” World Theatre: "Blood Spatter- ed Castle" (Chincie film),

Star Theatre:"Love, Live and Laugh."

King's Theatre: "Mr. Leman of Orange."

was like a queen on her throne,

The first time I ever heard a girl use what some people call stable language in a drawing-room she had a mouth that seemed form-

ed-to any prunes and prisms. But she twisted it into sentences that should not only have made sher grandmother, turn in her grave, but her Bevonteenth Cenury ancestors, who so often called a spade a spade;

blush for shame..

craze for vulgarity: Up to only a "I cannot understand the present" few years ago you had the courtesy refuse invitations... accept or

to

You did not ignore them, as so many do to-day, and then orash in at the last moment if something better does not turn up in the mean- time,

That Unpleasant Word.

You any, a good deal." she shivered, delicately. under her Spanish laes shawl, “and you use

I cannot find any word but vulgar that unpleasant word awfully," " Central Theatre Resurrection." she gently roprimanded me. I

or rude to describe the behaviour Dinner Dances at Peninsulh would bow gravely in reply, and of anyone who ignores invitations Hotel, Hong Kong Hotel and eventually go away yowing to keep and then turns up at a party when King's Restaurant,

a closer guard on my tongue the not expected.NAM European Mail Outward: next time I was honoured with an Europe in Suez (Cathay) 10.30 invitation to dinner... a.m.; Europe via Siberia (Empress of Japan) 9.30a.m.

It is a far cry from those days, Tides: High at 9.05 and 10.16;when we were taught department as Low at 28 and 3.40,

well as how to conduct a lucid conversation, and learned to avoid anyone who indulged in course language, Edinburgh, known then

East-windy and west-endy, was insistent that those who grew under the shade of the castle should try to carry the stamp of gentility down to the grave.

Sunday.

(September 13.)

As

Fifteenth Sunday After Trinity.up Jewish Second Day.

Queen's Theatre: Cimarron." World Theatre: "The Persona

tor."

I abell always be glad of the years I spent in Edinburgh. Look Stár Theatre: Devil May Caroing back to them, I bow the knee. Central Theatre: "Resurrection." in memory of the "Grande dame"

LANE,

I sometimes have to laugh when.. I overhear ano little group of people criticien another. I some- times feel like weeping when I sec. girl who has just made her début try to find a niche in the limelight by behaviour she would deplore in anyone out of her own class.

By asking why is it smart to be vulgar," I have, however, mado. a mistake, for I am admitting that it is smart to be vulgar, and I don't agree that it is. I would have been better advised it I had asked the question why so many, smart people are vulgar.

(Continued on Pogr. 4.)

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