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CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor of the " Hongkong

Telegraph.")

Peak Tram Seats.

Sir, May I vanture to answer "Discontenteds" letter which ap- peared in your meat valuablo papor laat ovoning,

Firstly, I should like to ask if the Poak Tramways are for the use of "Ponkites" only ?'

FASHIONS THAT STAY.

Women in the East, as koonly alive as thoir Western sisters to the art of 'imparting their por- sonality to everything they touch,, are still in their modes of dross.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

BERNARD SHAW.

AND MODERN DRAMA.

If the East is unchangeable it is Famous Playwright Dislikes now only so as far as it concerns women's dross,

London.

In this respect Oriental women

are the pillars of conservatism, Goorgo Bernard Shaw made a The Japanese may revolutionise pilgrimage to 8tratford-on-Avon Secondly, bas "Discontented" their entire system of govern- on the occasion of the annual forgotten that while children are mont, and the men, may, with Shakespeare birthday celebration young they must be humoured. other Western ideas, adopt the and he there responded to a toast It-is-to-my-mind-a-poor-way-to Westerner's business-like gar-At a Shakespearo Club dinner and cool or ease one's lives" by orymonts, but Japanese women still satirist over, admitted ho waR Ing about the children occupants, cling to the kimono and the obo.just an bumblo follower in Shakes- Not only do I resent the Chinese and Indian women, also, Peare's footsteps. But this act of aforesaid, but also the grades in retain the styles of their great- Celtic wit, and ho used the lobaisance did not dampon his which the public are placed. Now great-grandmothers. In doing so let us dwell on the Onsual they reflect the standards of life occasion to proach a character- istiesermon on the modern drama. travellor." Doos this phase of their countries. include the tourist sightson-or In the Oriental regime there Once he broke away from his and tho mon in blue ? are no forces at work calling for heme. The Immortal Memory drab? If so why not a Pullman. incessant change. The styles of Shakespeare" to remark :- de luxe "Discontented," and also women's dress have boon doter-

Tho

"For somo yuars past the strong & notica depriving madam mined as immutably as the ethi-conviction has boon coming over of her perfume which she is using cal codes. By an unwritton law, me that Stratford-on-Avon was sa lavishly BO as to esuse roligious divisions, differences of my birthplace.. The prostic fact "Discontented" to cry out at it. rank and of countries and is, I was born elsewhere.

May I ask if the "casual subtle distinctions of the intol-place whore I was born I called traveller" is allowed to sit on lectual and labouring classes my country until I conquorod the top so as to cause no trouble, have

assigned their this one." I conclude by saying that if Bartorial indications with so firm "Discontented" is an ardent lover of solitude, Happy Valley, awaits.

Yours, etc,

LOVER OF CHILDREN... Hongkong, May 23.,

(To the Editor of the "Hongkong Telegraph.")

I

have

"

boon

MONDAY, MAY 26, 1925.

A FINAL WARNING

to those who cannot afford to have their winter clothing and other perishable] effects destroyed by the ravages of the humid weather.

COLD

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In recalling his early London The Dairy Farm Ice & Cold Storage Co., Ltd.

a hand that oven the inroad of Wostorn idons has not made any days Shaw declared: material changos, Dress in the

yours ago.

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A CURRENT MISCELLANY.

GLEANINGS FROM OUR EXCHANGES. ·

AN INSPIRATION.

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world. Something might surely have been added about his sym- bolical association with the sour- ing lights of American literary and oratorical.style. OPERA WITHOUT SONG,

express

the

East is still as much an outward duce what were called the plays "It was then possible to pro- token of the wearer's religion and of Shakespeare with two-thirda social status as it was a hundred of them cut out and the re- mainder totally unintelligible to It is possible to tell at a glance a human being. Such a play from a woman's dross, say, in would be gravely reviewed by Bongal, whether she is a Brahmo the London critics, and not one The following letter was re- or an orthodox Hindu, or, again, would ever notice any of it had ceived too late for insertion in a Moslem, and if her husband is been omitted. I am convinced last Saturday's "Motor Notes" a professional man or a labourer the great majority of them did Sir, I think that publicity In the face of the cast-iron social not know it had been. There given in your weekly motor notes rules tho zost for chango in to the following danger will serve fashions has disappearod, and, as did, but they were only too an- may have been one or two who

An inspiration to all yung & useful purpose and possibly slew of the Medes and the xious for an omission to say any mon is afforded by the career of avort an accident. During the Persians that a wifo of a ryot can thing about it. last few weeks I have wondered no more become the equal of the

Dr. Joseph Wright, who, at the age of 70, has been appointed why so many Chinese youths are wife of a Zomindar by donning "London is hopeless. In Lon-Emeritus Professor of Compata to be met with in the vicinity of kinkob than the Brahmin lady don there is a continual struggle tive Philology at Oxford. Dr. Professor Thorold, the German | Tain Wan on pedal "bicyclds. can become a Sudre, there is no between poople who regard the Wright was born in a one-room musical authority, who has! Quite a large percentage of them scopo for designers in the length theatre as a resort of fashion cottage at Thackley, near Brad- arrived in New York from Ham- are obviously beginners, while and breadth of the East. In the and the play as a necessary evil foid. His fathor. was dead, and burg, foresees those who can ride indulge in the West, however, society is in a to be made as short as possible his mother maintained the family songs, and this because the opera without! dangerous practice of carrying state of perpetual flux, and this and the people who really want as boat she could by sharing, orchestra with its new methods one, or even two passengers. To fosters abango in fashions to have the theatre as a place Joseph Wright wont to work unknown to the old mastore is motorists this is particularly of women's dress.-Englishman where you can find drama; and fat the Age

to earn proving adequate of six, to dangerous and

bad (Calcutta).

it is the fashionable in London 1. 6d. a week driving a donkey thought. Professor Thoroll who two narrow shaves in avoiding

who are continually getting the and cart. Ho taught himself for many years was head of the these youngsters. Last week I WORLDS LARGEST CLOCK. upper band. discovered the source of the

Grook, Latin, French, and Gor- Department of Music in the Electricity plays an important "If you go to a London theatre man, saved money to take him to Universities of Munich and trouble which is a matshed in part in what is claimed to bo the and find the acting manager in a Heidelberg, and mastered about Frankfort, declares it is getting the village where bicycles can be world's largest clock. This is the wild state of enthusiasm, you 12. other languages, from Sanscrit to be impossible for the human hired. If the authorities do not new clock of a manufacturing will find ho is boiling over not to Old English. He exhausted voice to rise above the volume think supervision necessary, they firm which takes the place of one, because his great actor or actrees all his financial resources on his of sound should at least cause warning that for many years called at-has given an exceptionally mag-Dialect Dictionary, for which ho

produced by scores of musical instruments. boards to be erected at either end tontion to their Jersey City facnificent performance, but because received a Government grant of The orly rainedy, he declares, is of the stretch of road concerned. tory. The now clook, wound by Lord Somebody or Lady Some- £600 and a pension of £200 a for composers to go back to the Personally I consider that as a quarter horse-power motor, has body was in the stalls at the year.

old methods of orchestration or with motor drivers when learn dial diameter of 50ft. The minute performance, the previous night. ing, a special district should be hand fa 38ft. 3in. long, and the

for singers either to adopt the

allotted for these enthusiasts,

apeaking voice or fall into pan- "The country is necessary not COINS OF THE NATIONS. hour hand measures 27ft. 6in., the only for Shakespeare's health but hands weighing together 3.8251b. for the health of the drama. New York, under the auspices the interpretation of the words,

There has just been held intomime, letting the orchestra do More than 200 lamps placed at regular distances around

am not sure if in the future Lon-of the American Numismatic | UNSPLINTERABLE BLASS. the

Demonstrations exhibition of hand make it as easy to tell the don may not disappear. I hope Association, an timo by night as by day.

coing, which included many unspliuterable it will.

glass, which "We are all looking forward curiosities. Among them were can be ground to any more or less to the time when specimens of the old Siamese lens curvature required for life in London-the ordinary bullet money, and there was also spectacles, were given at the life of the people-will be far shown the smallest coin known Refraction Hospital, Nowing- mora like life in Stratford-on-a minute gold piece issued by the ton Causeway, London, recently. Avon, We all go through a principality of Nepal, represent- The lonees of spectacles made development in which people ing a 128th part of a mohur, and from the new glass were struck will come down to Stratford-on-of the value of about four Ameri- with a heavy hammer and flungi Avon as I have come down, and can cents. In contrast were upon a concrete floor, but though feel happy, instead of going to several of the heavy bronze pieces the glass starred and cracked no London and feeling miserable. used in Sweden until the end of splinters flew, and no irregularity "Shakespeare wrote plays of the seventeenth century, which could be felt on the cracked lens. the right length, the length which were, strictly speaking, not so

Before the demonstration at the myself use-three and a half much coins as survivals of the hospital the lenses had been fired hours. That is correct. Anybody early system of paying by woight. at with a twelve-bora shot gun who does not get a play of that And, of course, all varieties of from a distance of thirty yards. length has not got fair market American currency were on view. No shot penetrated the glass, and value for his money.

each of them bearing the eagle no splintors flaked loose. For

its "The problematical playofas

predominant design. people who have to wear glasses, Hamlet was the beginning of the Of this bird an official of the cricket, hockey, football, or hunt- modern drama, the drama which Numismatic Association has olo-ing, it is claimed, will no longer alone We can make an in-quently remarked "As the eagle be dangerous pursuits. Though strument of the continual now stands, realistic and serene unsplinterable sheet glass has purification of our criticism, cur- on the maintain-top of the silver boon in existence for somo years rent morality and therefore, our dollar, he may be considered sym- and been largely used for motor spiritual problem.":

bolic of bis ownçareer as well as wind-screens, airmon's goggles, of the United States. He has and so on, scientists have not come through the tortures of con- | been able to produce a herd, clear ventionality and opposition to the safety glass that would take the pinnacle of honour as the emblem curves prescribed by opticians for of the greatest country in the spectacle lenses,

Thanking you in anticipation of your valued assistance..

Yours etc.

SAFETY FIRST.

Kowloon, May 22nd.

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(OHHUMAT

A telephone girl was Miss Lizzie.

The buzzes and rings made her dizzy.

One day she grew tired

And, of course, she was fired

NAME..

ADDRESS

THE LINES ARE

ALL BUSY

FLAPPER FANNY says

Most

mon who understand women are bacholars,

ONE WHITE MAN.

And 200,000 Nomads.

of க new

months later presented them- selves at the Church Missionary Society's hospital at Isfahan and renewed the invitation.

made for a

Dr Carr and Mr. (now Bishop) If the right man can be found Linton decided to visit them, and for tho job, the long-ex- received a warm welcome. Again prossed wish of . an import the request was ant nomad tribo in Persia, European doctor and teacher to numboring about 200,000, will at live with the tribe. last be gratified.

Now a gonerous friend has offored financially to support: a Ten years ago the chief of the doctor among the tribe, and the Kashgais bagged that a mission C. M.S. is asking for volunteers. ary, might be sent to his tribe.

"It will, of course, noed some Nothing has yet been done, mainly because there was no one able to rough it," said an doctor to go. The roquest came official of the Society to as a great surprise, for, as far as London newspaper representa- "for whilo vory' was known, missionaries had had tive yesterday, no provious contact with the friendly the Kashgals are a tough Kashgais.

The tribe howovor, would not

4

ot and will be quite a handful for one man.

"But here is a real obance for

let the grass grow under their a man strong mentally and sound foot, and a group of thom a few in health."

Powell

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