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No. 23068,

號撒拾陸仟叁式第

日式初月陸年申壬 HONG KONG, TUESDAY, JULY 5, 1932.

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS

MONKS WHOSE LIBERTY IS PENANCE.

THE VIRTUES OF WHISKY.

Beying MODERATELY taken, sayeth be, it sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth it helpeth digestion: it cutteth fleumeit abandoneth melancholie: it relisheth the haste it lighteneth the mynd: it quiekeneth the spirites: it cureth the hydropsie: it healeth the strangury: it pounoeth the stone: it repelleth gravel: it puffeth away ventositie: it kopyth and preservath the hed from whyrlyng the eyes from daselying the tongue from Ilspyng-the mouthe from snafflying-the teethe from chatteryng-the throte from ratlyng the weasan from stieflyng -the stomach from womblyng-the harte from swellyng-the bellie from wirtching-the guts from rumblyng the hands from shivering-the sinoews from shrinkyng-the

veynes from orumplyng-the bones from akyng the marrow from soakyng-and tralie it is a soveraign liquor if it be orderlie taken."

Holluisked's Chronicles 1577.

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Rotary Club Tiffin: Lane, Craw- ford's Restaurant, 1 p.m.

Sanitary Board Mecking, 4.18

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CLOISTERED PEACE AND A RESTLESS NOVICE.

STRAW BEDS AND EVENING MEAL OF EGGS AND FISH.

[BY A CORRESPONDENT.]

It is the hour

Yeepers. The hell in the spire is tolling tolling tolling

The priests take their placos in their stalls, the brothers follow calling them to their kneeling, stools in the the monk 'in the solitude of his cell, [outer chapel. the monk in his workshop, the A voice comes stealing though monk on the farm lands that sur-the silence. It is the voies of the round the Carthusian monastery, to prior-the signal that the evening prayer.

sang of praise is, to start. There is In the cloisters, with their Norno organ, no, music of any kind but man arches and latticed windows, this beautiful, untrained voices of I have watching the birds, which these monks, rising and falling, in are tame as canaries-through com- the rich old Gregorian" chant," panionship with the monks. Horo. Star Theatre: "* Shipmates.". I meet these hidden men of cease World Theatre: "A Death Fearless prayer face to face for the first ing Hero" (Chinese film).

King's Theatre: "The Silent Witness."

Central Theatre: "Suicide Fleet." Queen's Theatre: "Dumb-bells in Ermine."

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, King's Restaurant and Peninsula Hotel.

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time.

Back to Middle Agen,

Still fresh as I am from the 'out-

Now and again the chant ceases, the monks bow low, almost to the ground, for a miunte in humble sup- plication to God.

Straw Beds,

Then one of the lay brothers

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straight from the twentieth century cense burner, which he carries to

back to the middle ages.

the priest who is waiting at the en- trance to the inner chapel, where the Blessed Sacrament, is exposed. Three times the pricy swings the thurible towards the altar, then he goes to each priest in turn, begin- sing with the prior, and swings the incense before him. And last of all,. |

You see Parkminster at the feet of the tumbling South Downs long before you reach its gates, Its stately

spire seems to pierce the aky. You can hear its bell calling the monks to the chapel when you are a mile or more away.

This bell is silent at last. The the brothers.

Whist Drives at Seamen's In-hour of vespers has struck," stitute and Kowloon Dock, 9 p.m.

I watched with fascinated eyes Lawn Bowls:Open Champion the slowly moving procession from ship: S. Randle v. J. B. Chapman. the cells to the chapel. I looked L. E. Longbottom. II. Hampton, into the faces of these monks of J. M. Jack. C. G. Silva (C.C.C.).

silent prayer, and some of them 3.30 p.m.

looked at me as they passed in the cloisters.

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Central Theatre: "Suicide Floot," Queen's Theatre:" Four Infantry. Men,"

King's Theatre: "The Silent Witness."

Star Theatre: "Great Meadow." World Theatre: "A Death Fear ing Hero" (Chinese film)..

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Tides: High at 12 and 10.19; Low at 0.23 and 17.50.

Others avoided me as though they did not wish to look at me and all that I stood for in their eyes-the world they had left for ever. Monks of all ages passed, some of them

old and bent.

In the Gallery,

I went up into the gallery. There were two young megovices in loose-fitting black con and brown girdles-kneeling. They had been at Parkminster a few weeks.

One of them looked at me as

Another prayer, another chanted hymn, and vespers is at an end. The monks file slowly out of the chapel-bowing low to the altar as they pass-back to their cells, to solitude, to their evening meal of eggs and fish, to their straw, beds, ". I am still looking (down at the chapel, still seeing with my hypno- tized eyes the monks in their empty stalls, when a brother comes to fetch mo. Parkminster is at rest, in silence once more

An hour before midnight the bell tolls once again. The monks slip. out of their cells into the darkness of the cloisters, lighting their way with little oil lanterns which they make in their own workshops.

And so it goes on, from day to day, from year to year," Time

seeme Ito stand still. One day is just the

same as another-solitude, prayer,

entered, He was handsome, with a strang-looking face and beautiful meditation. dark eyan. I wondered what had brought him to Parkminster, into voluntary lifelong exile..

WINE BOTTLE ON CHAPELY

PINNACLE.

UNDERGRADUATE CLIMB.

While every Cambridge college was flying a Union Jack in honour

He

Perhaps he had grown weary,

Weekly Outing.

Once a week the monks leave their cloistered scclusion and tramp the country lanes around Park though he was, of the world.minster, for an hour or two. They scomed restless; unlike his com- do not like this freedom, this con

thet with the world outside, slight panion, who had his face buried in though it is, and would sooner re- his hoods all the time he was in main in the monastery, the chapel, and I could not help feeling that be, like so many who come to Parkminster, would find the life unendurable.

of Empire Day, King's College I mentioned this to one of the chapol was decorated with an Einbrothers later, and he told me that

·r,

perhaps I was mistaken." After pire wine bottle.

This is the chapel on which un-all," the brother said, he may dergraduate roof-climbers last week have been praying quite as carnest fixed two umbrellas. One was shut ly as the other perhaps more so dowa; the other, in a tattered con- I thought of the Pharisee and the dition, still remains, and Publican, and said no more.

During the dark hours yesterday

a party of undergraduates climbed

to the roof of the chapel by means

"This is our penance," one of the brothers told me as he walked with me to the gate, and I, who had learned much to the repose that is less than fifty miles from London, understood.

I walked back to the railway station thinking of the men I had left to their solitude, nad at every low yards I turned back and looked at Farkminster salcer, while the world all around was still wide very wide-awako!:

of the lightning conductor and fixed but the flag was still-flying last who placed the ing there had to

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An undergraduate who made the are seeking to make the climb by REISS, MASSEY & CO., LTD

A Union Jack on one of the eastern night. pinnacles, 110ft, above the ground. The bottle, which had contained Australian wine, was slung between the pinnacle and the orora shove the cast window.

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Empire Day prank. We do not. It was revealed yesterday that K think it funny," or wish it to undergraduates had mixed vegetable supposed that we slung a bottle seed with the grass seed recently Vegetable and Grass Beed over a chapel." A LOVE on a lawn at St. Catharine's The bottle was removed in the The stonework of the pinnacle is College, and the grass, is now afternoon by a man within ladder, so brittle that the climb is very struggling up, among the shoots of, (Continued at Joot,of nem column.), dangerous, and the undergraduats l the vegetables, ULT

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