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SOCIAL

WOMEN'S PAGE

“SILENCE IS G

DISCRETION OR LACK OF COURAGE ?

Negation Of Everything

Thought And Life-

BY JOSEPHE BRICE (Special to the "Hongkong Daily Press")

Of course you all know that famous story of Æsop, the Greek philosopher-slave, but I like to remember it and I shall tell it to you again. Once, his master ordered him to go to the market and buy all the best things for dinner, and nothing but the best. Esop bought only tongues which he dressed in different sauces; the guests at first praised the originality of his choice, but as, from the hors d'oeuvres to the dessert, there was nothing but tangue, they grew tired of it and the master exclaimed, with anger: "Did not I tell you to buy the best things? "—" And what can be better than the tongue?" retorted Æsop. "It is the link of civil life, the key to sciences, the organ of truth and reason; by it we build towns and govern them; we teach, we persuade, we reign over assem- blies, we fulfil the first of all duties, that is we praise and honour the gods."-"Well," said the master, who..." wished to catch him, "for to-morrow you will buy all the worst: these same persons will come and I want to change."

TWO MARRIAGES WAITRESSES SET

AT REGISTRY YESTERDAY-

FINE EXAMPLE

IN "OFFER GOLD” CAMPAIGN

Two marriages: took: plaice, yester-

the Registry, [day at

Supreme Court, Mr. T. J. Gould, Deputy The "Offer Gold" campaign in Registrar of Marriages, officiating Hongkong is meeting with splendid at both ceremonies. The partles response from all classes of

nese, rich and poor alike.

were:

NEUROTICS CAUSE OWN FAILURES

LONDON, Aug. 3 (By Alr Mall)—The real; tromble" with' the neurotio to-days that he does not see the world with the eyes of the people He makes for himself an idea of the world that suits his pur pose. Dr. Franz Plewa stated this at the summer school of the London group for Indivi~ dual Psychology at.. Oxford

Chi-yesterday,

Recent donations come from the Luk Kwok Hotel and Cafe where approximately 52,000 has been con-

Mr. - Valentine. John Phillpov, marine engineer, residing at the Seamen's Institute, and Miss Kaleria Kolcheva;

Mr. Ng Hee-yun, salesman, of No.tributed by all members of the 155 Queen's Road Central, and Miss |Wong' Fung-may.

FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES". The following forthcoming mar- įriages are announced:

staff.

Two young Chinese waitresses in the Lak Kwok Cafe set an example in patriotism when they each gave $600.

The real failures of life were not due to outside eircumstan- ces but to the person himself.

Nervous Tension

Illnesses, he said, "might arlse as a result of psychological difi- culties: No one could produce symptoms, but it was possible to produce something else nervous tension

and the symptons followed.

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Lieut. Charles Alexander Headon The employees Miss Low Ting- Dr. Plewa quoted the case of a Owen of H.M.S. Westcott, and yuen and Miss Chow Yue-ching schoolboy who failed to Miss Edith Mary Dorning-Timmins, without hesitation gave most of pare his lessons. He was afraid residing at the Helena May In-their savings and "tip money" to go to school and equally afraid stitute;

gathered in the hotel and cafe.

to play truant. " Mr. Thomas Lamb, chargeman Many other Chinese concerns! He could not decide what to of fitters, residing at No. 148 and individuals are contributing to do, so he worked himself into a Nathan Road, and Miss Margaret the "Offer Gold" campaign and state of Stewart Mackie, of No. 7 Havelock officials expect a high figure from The result was a headache, which Terrace, Kowloon Docks;

the total donations.

Considerable loss was sustained

a

nervous

tension.

He

the

made his decision for him. Mr. Ahmed Jindoo Hussain, clerk,

was kept at home. of No. 9 Tsing Fung Street, ground

No. Pampering floor, and Miss Gertrude Clothilde

Speaking of the nervous child, Mackintosh. of No. 41 Waterloo

never at the godown of the puppet Dr. Flewa advised parents Road:

Mr. Simon Lal, clerk of the Federal Reserve Bank in Pelping to pamper a child, because it was

discouragement. to Credit Foncier D'Extreme Orient on the afternoon of August 11only Rent Office, Taipo, and Miss Lim when a Are of unknown origin child, and made him dependent Chol-kung, of No. 182 Tafpe Road, destroyed large quantity of on them.

goods stored there. The fire lasted They should never pamper almost two hours. The godown of the ambitious ... ¡child,

Bank the

situated inside Dr. Plewa, but, on "the Chienmen in the Forbidden City In trary, should try to find more one of the busiest business sec- ways of giving the child an tions.

interest in"" Hf-

Mr. Cheung Shiu-kee, teacher, of No. 53 Leighton Hill Road, and Miss Lo. Pok-hing, teacher, of the Heep Yun Girls' School.

The day after, Æsop served tion is often a kind of hypocriti-first-door; only the same dish, saying cal pride, and sometimes worse that the tongue was the worst than sneer. thing in the world. "It is the mother of all quarrels, the source of divisions and, wars. If it is the organ of truth it is also of error and, still worse, of calumny. By it we destroy towns and spread evil! ideas, inducing people to wrong doing. If it praises the gods it also utters blas- phemy against their power."

A NEGATION;

!

The young and pretty Mrs. White is severely cut to pieces. In the reception room she has just left; Mrs. Brown, her best friend, however does not enter the concert of slander and charitable suggestions, but she would not say a word in her defence; silence is golden, is

not. It

More than discretion it is lack of courage that make people adopt and keep to that motto. Fear of the neighbour's opinion often, who might not agree with us, and laugh at us or Invent a quarrel. Fear of effort too; speech requires think. ing and we are often too lazy to

human passions; poetry, the rhy- thmical. enchantment which creates a new world for the evasion of the soul far from the low realities of life.

For all that, cannot we suf- fer the few wrongs that IDO much talking may produce and forget the rare compensa-. tions that silence may pro- curt? On the contrary the only thing to regret, or the only fact which might induce us to wish for silence out of pure-spite, would be our im- pessibility to express all what we think and feel.

So often we remain powerless

The popular wisdom which is sald to preside over the birth and life of proverbs, saw only one aspect of the question: "Silence is Golden." it said. This affirmation really think and have arm ideas,; is, in fact, a negation-negation of personal and honest. Even then. everything negation of thought many people have a difficulty to and life. because life is noise and express themselves and rather while our heart is full: I cannot thought is speech,

than working out words and sen- and the words!" we cry. We can térices. they keep their ideas never succeed in giving the exact "inside." unuttered: Silence is expression of our wants, of cur golden, after all!

conceptions, of our sorrows. A poet [said. somewhere. that human speech is as a cracked cauldron on which we play melodies to make the bears dance. when we wish to move the very stars.

Between the two: to have à tigue and all the troubles and evil it may bring along, or to have no tongue and none of the advantages and plea- sures that it gives, I would choose the second alteratative. Would not you?..

Imagine everybody sticking to that popular axiom, what would become of society? These charm Ing words of affection and good wishes would never be heard, sweet Have not you ever seen your and comforting as they are to poor dear dog looking at you so ears and heart,

tenderly and fixedly, as if wishing POWERLESS;

to utter something, to tell you his)

love with words instead of merely

Witty conversations, the charm

FASHION NOTES

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NEWSETTES

Mr. T. K. Teng left for Europe: In the m.v. Victoria on Saturday.

Mr. J. W. Welis, of the PW.D., will observe his birthday to-day,

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-Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Silcock were among the passengers bound for Europe in the mv. Victoria,

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Mr. R. S. Buchan, the Shanght broker, arrived here in the sis. Hector from London.

Mr. F. S. Gibbings, head of the Dunlop Rubber interests in the Far East: left Hongkong in the m.v. Victoria on Saturday.

Bald

con-

Mr. Archibald Zimmern, Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths, celebrates his birthday to-day."

The offices of the French Con- sulate will be closed to the general public to-day, being the Feast of the Assumption of Our Lady..

Mr. Lyman Hoover, acting. Execu-- tive Secretary of the Stüdents' Department of the National Y. M. C. A.. left Hongkong for Shangħal by the s.s. Mingsang on Sunday.

Dr. Shanglin Fu Professor of Sociology. National Sun Yat-sen University, who has just returned The speaker before the Rotary to Hongkong from Kunming, wil Club-to-day. will be Captain A. B. be the speaker. at "Thursday's Whatman, whose subject will be meeting of the Hongkong Y's Men's "A Year in the Arctic." The ad- Club at 1 pm. at St. Francis Hotel. dress will be illustrated with lan- | His subject will be "The Universi- tern slides,

tles in the South-Western" Frontier Territory,"

wagging his tall? What is the of society life, would no longer despair of a mother when she bring an always welcome relaxa finds that her child is dumb!

Hor All the arts that spring out Let us be thankful then for or speech would disappear: elo pact

Judy Garland carries her com- and handkerchief in an Having a tongue and let us use it:quence, the art of expressing evening bag made entirely of lace. The Air Raid Precautions Officer DISCRETION?

beautifully what others have not The bag is gathered at the top announces that a course of ARP. discerned, of explaining clearly with braided silver twine, and its Lectures in Chinese will be givan new and original ideas for the rows of Valenciennes lace are on Tuesdays at 7.30 p.m.

at the benefit of the uninitiated:" kand-sewn on, a net foundation. drama, the magnificent picture of

Y.W.C.A., 38c, Bonham Road, com It is lined in white taffeta with mencing to-day. Mr. Chak Tail sections for change, compact, lip Kwong will be the instructor. stick and comb. It is a gift from her mother.

What is it that generally refrain people from speaking? Discretion, sometimes. But I am afraid discre-

Insist on

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Over a two-piece waistcoat frock in white and brown.cambric. Ilona Massey wears a short came! hair jacket buttoned in miniature gold knobs. The actress, who will next appear with Nelson Eddy in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Balalai- ka, has a bonnet made of the cambric.

During the winter, Miss Massey wore a series of bonnets in pastel suedes, to match each outfit." She now has them copied in' washable ¦ material to Wear with frocks.

Summer

It is smart to, band' veils in gingham or tazeta to maten, checked town suits, declares Rosa- lind Russell, who wears a black and white checked taffeta siit.

The mesh vell to her cartwheel black straw hat has a two-inch wide band of the checked material around its entire edge,

The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star Is currently working in "The Women with Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford.

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TUESDAY'S

MENU

BREAKFAST

Melop Cereal Poached Eggs French Rolls Coffee

LUNCHEON Cabbage Soup Tomato & Lettuce Salad Macaroni & Sardine Rarebit Creamed Spinach Stewed Celery Blancmange & Blackberry

Sauce Iced Tea

DINNER Crah Cocktail, Asparagus Balad

Fillet Steak Mushroom Gravy Reamed Rice

Green Fees Carrot Bonne Ice Cream & Cake

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Sentences totalling four weeks' hard labour were imposed on an unemployed youth, Kwan Cho, when he appeared before Mr. T. 5. Houston, at the Central Court yes; terday, charged with loitering and possession of an offensive weapon. Kwan was sean wandering in Ice House Street about 2.30 8,m” 'on- Bunday. When arrested, a chissel was found on his person.

The following forthcoming mar- riages are announced: Baridaman James Wilson Bruce, of the 1st Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, and. Miss Daphne Churchill Weir. residing at the Arlington Hotel, Mody Road, Kowloon; Mr. Chen Hung-wal,-- teacher, of No.: 230, Hollywood Road, second floor, and Miss Wong Wai-lin, of No. 4, Bat- tery Street, first floor; Mr. Wong Tse-ful teacher, of the Langriam: University Office, care of the Hong- kong University, and Miss Chan Chin-tak, of No. 36, Kai Tak Road, first floor.

The following passengers sailed. by the s.5. Minsang on Bunday for the < North-For Shanghai-Mrs. Remedios; Matr. Remedios/ Miss Remedios, Miss T. Barretto, Mrs. 8. Gardner, Mrs., Nobbiri," Mr. Pollon Mra Blynn and two chl- dren Mra, J. WM. van Bakersën, Mrs, Boppela, Mrs. B. L Chang and two children, Mrs. M. Muli and Miss Mill, Dz, Reifler; Mr and Mrs. Wu and Infant To Wel-Hal-Wel---- Miss Griffith; For Tangku Mr. C. H. Hu, Fr. Malone, Mike Crost, Mrs. Boynton, Mr. and Mrs. Ng M Yang Wal-fat

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"Lovely smell of cooking in the club this moming: Strambled eggs, cut= lets, and that excellent curry, the secretary introduced from Penang. Makes a feller's mouth water, I've Half a mind to go through the lot." "Emi't you talk of anything except food I doubt if I shall ever eat again.“ "Fairly dripping with sweetness sod light this morning, aren't you? » Advanced case of hangover, I'll bet

**On the contesty, I have in the past cultivated some of the finest hang- overs of all time. But that was back in the bad old days before I'd besed of Rose's Lime Juice."

* What on earth has Bau's got to do with hangovers ?!

*Everything, my dear Waison. It wipes them out. If you, stick to Gimlets or have a good stiff swig before going to bed, you'll have no

a couple of chipe. Some of you youngsegretain the morning." fellers haven't enough sense to come in out of the rain."

“That's right." „Moralize, you hypo- crite. I suppose you saney wake up with a head or a tongue' Tha'a Krip of ancient gunay big.

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