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DIN OF MODERN LIFE

HOW WE GET USED TO NOISE.

NOT SO BAD AS MANY THINKI

BY AN EDWARDIAN.

Of recent years many articles house where either building opera have been published and lectures tions or road excavations are tak given, by eminent physicians on the ing place in the vicinity Facuma- noise and din of modern life, and tic riveters and drills can make its detrimental effects on the life unbearable after eight a.. nerves of the population. An in- cident which happened the other day struck me, therefore, as being

curious.

But the moderns do not seem to mind the din, so perhaps after all Nature, asserting herself, is gra- dunlly adapting our nervous sys-

DIARY OF LOCAL EVENTS.

TO-DAY."

(August 30.)

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Auctions: Lammert's Household Furniture at 9 Road at 10.30 a.m.

: Sale Posk

Meetings Sanitary Board 4.35 p.m.

Lawn Bowls-Open Champion- ship Final: L. A. Gutierres and H. Nish (Kowloon C.C.), & p.m.

Racing Entries close for Fourth Extra Race Meeting, Macao, & p.m. Queen's Theatre: Lovers Courageous."

Oriental Theatre: "Rich Man's Folly."

Star Theatre: "Politics." King's Theatro: "The Outsidor.” Majestic Theatre; "Husband's Holiday."

Central Theatre: The Common Law"

In a shop where I am well-known tems to these useful but nerve-rack- I asked the assistant who had beening machines. serving me where he was going to According to my friend Col spend his holidays. He told me he Crompton, one of the pioneers of was a married man, with a family, electrical enterprise in Britain, and that he usually took his be- we are better off in London in longings to the seaside, but that this respect than our grand- last year they had gone to a farm fathers were in the fifties for he in Somerset,

described to me how, as a boy, ha

Garden Theatre: "Ingagi." "Going there again I asked. was brought up from the country

Tea Dance nt King's Restaurant; "No fear, sir; we could none of to see the Great Exhibition in Dinner Dances at Peninsula and us sleep a wink."

Hyde Park and how, even at his Hong Kong Hotels, and King's When I expressed astonishment be' tender age, what struck him most Restaurant. explained that the members of his was the appalling noise of hun- Miscellaneous-Rotary Club Tif- family could not go to sleep be dreds of iron shod hoofs and tyres fin; Whist Drive, Civil Service cause of the quict, and, when they clattering over the cobblestones Cricket Club, 8.30 p.m.. finally managed to do so, were ag- with which, in those days, all the grieved at being awakened avery main thoroughfares of London were morning at four a.m. by the farm paved. yard rooster-in-chief or by cows, mooing and other familiar agricul- tural sounds It's funny, boo, sir," when you come to think of it

as the back of our flat looks on to the Great Central Railway, and, in front, lines of milk vans drow up in the road every morning, but we're so used to those poises that wo miss them when we don't hear them."

I went out of the shop thinking bow odd, and wondered whether people who have lived in towns all their lives are ever really happy in the country, and vice veran, and whether the eminent doctors are really right.

Country Sounds To-day, When wandering along the banks

of a trout stream, if the fish are not rising, it is a joy to watch the bird life and listen to all the little odd sounds. Five and thirty years ago the humming of insects, the song of a reed-warbler or lark, the tap-tap of a woodpecker,

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A "SIMPLETON'S " PLOT.

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Almost incredible revelations of Seamen's Institute and Kowloon or the soft cooing of a dove would this naive plot have come to light Dock; 9 p.m. only have been interrupted by the as the result of the examination of Home Mails. Inward distant rumble of an occasional the doctor by the Tokyo procura-America by Empress of Asia:

tor's office. Four other reaction-

Tides. High at 3.34 and 22.06; train, the pleasant drone of a

aries have been "arrested as

Low at 1.50 and 15.20.. threshing engine, the-clop-clop of the farmer's horse along a by. Bories, and all have been jailed in road on his way back from market, lehigaya Prison to await trial on instructions of the mysterious pri

charge of plotting murder. The or the peaceful note of a church

brief statement that the arrests had with Shimane, who agreed to shoot saner, the doctor got into touch. bell, How different is it now!

been made was issued by the Tokyo Admiral Saito for Y100, Not long ago I found myself on

But as the banks of such a stream, and further communication to the Pressbolted with his sweetheart.

police three days” igo, and in a

soon as he got the money, Shimane like most fishermen, ast and medit ated on all the beauties of Nature Not for long was I allowed to rai main in peace.

...

the police now give the results of the preliminary examination.

The plot would scarcely be takon seriously but for the recent murders

"Don Juan "* Not Trusted,

Buoichi Ob

Obayashi, the doctor's

A motor cyclist scorched past on of Baron Das, Mr. Inoue and partner In this haphazard plot the reed & few hundred yards Premier Inukai. The first two, it promptly wrote the gorotsuki "tell away, making a noise like a ma will be recalled, were shot in the ng him he was dismissed from caine-gun-why can't motor-cyclists street by individual gunmen who his post," and need no longer con be content with an offcient

sider himself one of the plotters, as pressed close to their victims. Ap his love-making indicated that he siloncer? Soon afterwards a motorparently some similar method was lorry filled with empty milk to have been used by Shimaue, the

unreliable, an churns rattled by. Then five mili gorotsuki who was hired by Dr. tary aeroplanes, in perfect forma Imamaki. tion, like a gaggle of wild gense, thundered overhead, and grand finale the guns on the ranges of Salisbury Plain boomed in chorus

Murder Was Meant.

not to be trusted

Shimane used the letter as a blackmail threat, and to save ox- posure. Obayashi paid over 1,000. When further pressure was applied, That murder was meant is ovi- denced by the fact that the doctor and the plotters had no more had come under the influence" money, they went to the police is a rural apot in England where of a certain reactionary who is now themselves and appealed for pro-

in prison for complicity in the tection against the blackmailers.

I doubt nowadays whether there

one would not hear a discordant

mechanical noiao..

Building Operations):

One of the most

murder of Mr. Inukai. The man's

namn is not givende te maa

It was then that the whole story Dr. Imamaki is said by the police came to light, and the murder gang to be a simple sort of man, and s

was arrested. Shimane, however, excruciating; ensily influenced; Acting under the things in town life is to live in a (Continued at foot of sest column) has so far escaped the police net..

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