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GENERAL

LORD CHESTERFIELD'S RECIPE FOR LIVING

Professor Simpson Talks To

H.K. Rotary Club

One of the most interesting and amusing talks heard' at Hong- kong Rotary Clud, tiffins for some time, gas that given by. Professor B. K. M. Simpson, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Professor of" English at the University of Hongkong, at the Hongkong Hotel yes. terday, on some aspects of the life of Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield.

There was a fair attendance of members and guests, which was presided over by the Hon. Dr. L Shu-fan. Visiting Rotarians wel- comed were Messrs. T. F. Waters (Wuhu), W. O. Nodes (Hornsey), T. C. Yu (Tientsin), A. Hofmeister (Canton), H. M. Van der Schalk (Canton), G. G. Bradford (Shanghai) and Gordon King (Tsinan) Quests were Messrs. J. W. Waterman (8an Francisco), J. R. G. Whyatt. I. N. Murray, R. A. D. Forrest, P. E. Annis. Robert Suez Kal Suez, and U Sze-wing (Hongkong).

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of

INCREASE IN DISEASE

Colony's Weekly Health Figures

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1938.-PAGE 3

An increase in the number cases reported of most notifiable diseases, a persistent- ly high dysentery total and the appearance of the second case of small-pox since the last subsidence of the disease are features of the official health. Reported were: Cholera, & cases, 11 deaths; small-pcx, 1 case (m-

ported); diphtheria, 9 cases, 6 deaths: enteric fever, 14 cases, 8 deaths; measles, 5 cases, 1 death; chicken-pox, 2 cases, 2 deaths; cerebro-spinal meningitis, 6 cases,

of

1 death; dysentery. 33 cases, 13 leaths: 94 deaths of tuberculosis.

During the 24 hours ended mid- tysentery, five cases of diphtheria night Monday, seven cases and one case each of cholera, en- eric fever and cerebro-spinal! meningitis were reported.

- Rotarian Gordon King, who is laughter should be avoided. the President of the Tsinan Rotary could heartily wish that you may Club. carded greetings from his often be seen to smille. but never club to Hongkong and presented heard to laugh while you live.... flag to the local body. He re- In my mind, there is nothing to marked that the Tsinan club was liberal, and so 111-bred, as audible not a large one, and though at laughter." It occasiona "a dis one time they had had 35 mem- [agreeable noise and shocking dis bers, the trouble last year had re- tcrtion of the face." And then the sulted in this number being proud boast. "I am sure that since

JUDGE'S WARNING halved. Their chief claim to fame I have had the full use of my

Gerald Stapley, 50. at agent, this year. he mentioned, was the reason, nobody has ever heard meald to have a distinguished Army winning of the long-distance laugh"

.ecord, who pleaded guilty at the Trophy at the San Francisco Con- vention.

last Sessions to obtaining credit enbonpoint too, which is so often genially asso- while an undischarged bankrupt, elated with hearty laughter, must Was bound over for three years at be equally avoided. He felt that the Old Bailey. fat was a handicap in the great competition to please.

Rotarians Mackintosh, Amps and Duclos were welcomed back to the Colony after their absence on leave.

That jovial

The Common Serjeant, Mr. Cecil Whiteley, K.C., said to him "I any complaint is made about your conduct. financially or otherwise, you will be brought here, and you will get 12 months. You behaved disgracefully for a man of your intelligence and standing"

PROF. SIMPSON'S SPEECH

For final graduation in the Prof. Simpson said in part

Graces, two studies are particular The letters, written in hundreds 17 recommended. The youth by Philip Doriner Stanhope, Fourth urged to cultivate the society of Earl of Chesterfield, to his only continental ladies, who will polish and well-beloved, although illegitt-him; and he must acquire the mate son Philip Stanhope, were craft of dissimulation. In recom- first published, against the wishes mending a mere boy to cultivate of legitimate members, of his feminine society, as it,then was in

Beginning from November 17. family, within a year of the Earl's fashionable European cities. the

oplum is now sold in public in the death in 1774. The publisher paid father mew that he was treading Japanese occupied areas in West £1,500, They ΠΠ into three on "dangerous

Such Shanghal by the puppet officials. editions in a year; and have been society meant gallantry, intrigue. It has been agreed with the "Re- a standard work ever since.

and often duelling. But for the formed Government" that all pro- Dr. Johnson mauled them on must be faced. He begins with a ed among them.

sake of the final polish, the risks ats thus obtained will be distribut- their first appearance. With one caution. "As for running after opium depots have been

At present 22 terrific pounce he declared, "They women, the consequences of that lished, ten of which belong to the estab.. teach the morals of a loose woman vice are only the loss of one's nose, Reformed Government" and the and the manners of a dancing master."

the total destruction of health, rest are under the management of But later on he said and not infrequently, the being the puppet municipality, Take out the immorality, and

ground.

they should be put in the hands un through the body."

of every young gentleman."

But under proper tutelage. It ceases to be a vice; and in learn-

and similar watch-words

For two and a half centuriesing how to please women, ore these they have proved a regular gold learns how to please everybody. we might expect that his career mine of witty and conclusive pleasing and governing women was that of a slimy lickspittle- Quotation for generations of pro-may, in time, be of great service crawling to eminence by getting

letters

to you.

fessional writers and occasional ora tor. Even exemplary parents,

They often please and the better of everybody who' was 'trying to maintain a familiar but

govern others." So we have a honest enough to trust him. Did series of famous dicta. Whether he become a minister of the crown helpful correspondence with dis-they are true or not. is beyond by making himself a doormat? tant sons, have turned to them for masculine arbitration to trspiration. This is because they"A man who thinks of living in necessary to launch forth on an decide, To answer this it would be are models of cultivated epistolary the great world, must be gallant.account of his interesting political style, and because the writer was polite and attentive, to please the career. beypad all doubt, a great humanist women." And as to the method, nor the occasion for such a lec

This is neither the time

GREAT HUMANIST

"Women who are either indis-iture. No one who reads the Chesterfield wrote the

putably beautiful, or indisputably volumes through can think them because he was a humanist bim-gly, are best flattered upon the the writing of a disappointed self, and wished his son to have a

score of their understanding! but cynie. They are consistently humanist education. He did not, those who are in a state or medio- genial,

liberal and humanist, belleve that this could be acquired crity are best flattered upon their "Gentleness, affability, complai. in schools and universities. He beauty, or at least their Graces" (sance and good humour" are thought that the universities of ART OF DISSIMULATION the great social virtues which he those days were liberal places.

sincerely commends and regularly producing only boots 'and pedants. If this is usually considered by displays.. He believed that humanism was to the best judges to throw an "un-

Finally he has an epigram which be attained by travel, so he rent pleasant light on Chesterfield, his might have served in the coat of his son to the Continent; by mix reckoned even worse. They come you meet a man eminent in any dissimulation Ar arms of Rotarianism, "Whenever ing much. In society, feminine as well as masculine, so he sent him general deceitfulness, that he has at the same time. You have fed near the recommendation of way, feed him, and feed upon him irtraductions, with instructions how to behave; and by regular

to begin with a sermon against me, and I have tried to enable you reading.

lying. Truth is "not only your to feed on Chesterfeld." (Ap- duty, but your interest." The dutiful son was expected to greatest fools are the greatest

"The plause and laughter). apply himself to a range of useful lars.

Mr. P. B. Cassidy, called upon by knowledge, far too wide for me to truth by his degree of understand",

I judge every man's the President, thanked the speaker. Indicate here. But he was expecting" but "People know very little ed to do still more. He was ex-of the world, and talk nonsense, pected to acquire. what the Earlwhen they talk of plainness and calls The Graces This old- fashioned ideal, obliterated by the

solidity unadorned.”

mechanism and violence

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Skill in human relations de-

modern life, was Chesterfield's mands that a man, or at least nation of the final almi in educa-man hoping to become a diplomat, tion; and the ultimate secret of

should have "Dexterity, enough to success in life.

conceal the truth without telling a Hé" "Have a real reserve with

By The Graces was meant attrac-

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tive manners, pleasing qualities, almost everybody; and have personal charm. Chesterfield knew seeming reserve with almost no- as, well sa you-and I, how seldom body; for it is very disagreeable to these are found in combinationem reserved, and very dangerous with encyclopaedic knowledge. But

not to be so." *., he never hesitated, to assert the It is impossible to read Chester- possibility of the combination. All feld's letters without feeling accomplishments, he writes, will curious as to whether his own life "Jose half their effect, it unaccom-was led in accordance with the panied by the Graces":

advice he gave his son. This is a The young man's brain must be hard question, to ask of any cultivated; but not to the neglect parent. Chesterfield can bear the of the other sides of his life. His scrutiny as well as most. In ap- clothes, his enunciation, his finger-plication to duty. In mastery of nalls, his manner of using his the things that can be séquired by handkerchief, his dancing and his study, and in the cultivation of the handwriting, are all dealt with in Graces, he was everything that he detail, essential to the graces; as desired his son to be. But in using it 18 by manners more than by those accomplishments as a means nbility, that men achieve their am of rising in his career, he was far bitionis

from being a success. He had said To make my way in court. I would neither. wilfully, nor by It is also essential to the Graces, négligence, give a dog or a cat and part of the art of pleasing, reason to dislike me." Els advice according to this fashionable was "Keep your temper and art- eighteenth century nobleman, that fully warm other peoples." From

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