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"PILSNER" BUT THERE IS ONLY ONE ORIGINAL AND GENUINE

Inerthone

Birotiches

IN PASEN

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Shilkret & Victor Orchestra-with vocal refrain PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ

Reisman's Orchestra-with vocal refrain THERE'S DANGER IN YOUR EYES, OKERIE

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SATURDAY, MAY 31. 1930.

THE SCHOOL-LEAVING "AGE.

The diversity of opinion on the Home Government's Education Bill, which raises the school- leaving age to fifteen years as from April 1st, 1931, was well Illustrated by the closeness of the

voting for the second reading of the measure, which was passed by 280 votes to 223. None the less, the question of raising the age has long got beyond the region of

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The Government is inviting tenders for a waiting hall at the Yaumati Railway Station.

His Excellency the Governor has apointed Mr. W. G. Lockhart-Smith to be a Deputy Registrar of Marri

ages.

IN A BOOKSHOP.

The Delightful State of Browser.

post-primary curriculum, but, al- most universally, this is not the

LIBERTY, HAPPINESS, LIKE case with the Non-Provided OFTEN OVER-LOOKED IN THE SEARCH Schools. These latter represent "AFTER IT. the real difficulty, since the Churches have not got the money for building new schools or adapt-- ing old ones. In such circum- stances, as one writer has pointed out, there seems to be only one method of procedure-interim im- provisations will have to be allow. ed, but in each "aren the local. authority must be required to pro duce an approved system of Modern or Senior Schools by a specified dato. If, as part of the system, the Churches can finance some of the Modern Schools, so much the better, except that in areas in which only one school is available, the Modern School should be a Council School, and Cenotaph are given in an advertise books themselves wear a contem-directions, why cannot I take a bit

not denominationally controlled.

is to be com-

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Mr. Lo Ka-mo to be "Forest Officer" for the control and superintendence of the Forcats of the Colony,

"What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and

stare.

Some time ago a contributor to serious person ought to feel justifi this column presented this equa-|ed in so dawdling with apparently tion, "Secondhand Bookstore, nothing to show for it. But one First Rate Civilization." Before I day opened a volume in which had laid down the paper in which was William H. Davies poem this essay appeared it had a well Leisure," and there I found these thumbed look and was as limp as lines: only a wellread newspaper can be:" I know exactly what that man means, and my underscoring and double underscoring, and the com- ments on the margin of the article are my approbation and applause.

Book-loving people have always been drawn to the secondhand book- Here they may not only pur- Volunteer shop.

And there you are! Cows and their favourite books for the price sheep can browse, and if so inclin chase two or three or four or five of

sheep can stare, and cows and of a single new book, but also they ed, cows and sheep can meditate. may browse for treasures yet un- If they can enjoy this altogether In a secondhand bookstore the ing a restless eye in more active pleasant occupation without, cast-

His Excellency the Governor has appointed Lleutenant Harry Owen Hughes, ilongkong Defence Corps, to be one of his Honorary Aides-de-Camp."

Traffic regulations for H. M. the King's Birthday Review to be en forced during the Ceremony at the

known.

plative look, as if much thinking

"No time to stand beneatha the

boughs

And stare as long as sheep and

COWB."

ment appearing in this issue,

had given them lines of character of time to stand, if not beneath the venient, at least beneath the shelf The Government is

During the bathing season the The atmosphere is quiet, brooding, bough, the bough not being con- Hongkong Hotel Garage will run thoughtful, and one naturally falls which is made of the same woody mended on taking this "definite special buses to the Beach Road at into the mood of browsing. A ne fibre as the bough? And why can step forward in education reform. Repulse Bay. Faller particulars ble here and a uibble there, a line, I not afford the leisure and It is one, incidentally, which has appear in an advertisement in this page, a chapter, and before you and stare and to 'meditate if I

know it you have had a repast.

issue. Advetween

been warmly endorsed by the Na-Pa

Union of Teachers, which,

at its recent annual conference, urged the Government not to delay putting the Bill into operation, at

chuen, $50.

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wish? With that, from that day forth was freely content to be a Browser.

At a very early age I became a The Hon. Treasurer of the St. acknowledge with thanks the re- John Ambulante Brigade begs to Browser. I think it happened when

I first found the inviting sign, Of course, when one goes to a ceipt of the following sums:-Mr. Come in and Browse around," in new city or town, the proper: thing a secondhand bookshop on my way to do is to inquire politely for the Kwok Siu-lau, $200; Mr. Chan Pek-home from school. But the habit points of interest. One should of browsing is inborn, I believe. show due deference to the tallest newest park, the Children love to go to places where building, the everything is different, and where homes of the most prominent men, they may touch everything. This and to the play "they are all talk- is not idle curiosity, it is a desire ing about." When I go to a new to know and to become familiar with place I skip as lightly as possible things that are new.

several of these details, and though

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the same time expressing the view. that its passage into law would His Excellency the Governor has assist the Government in dealing appointed Mr. F. C. Hall to be

member of the Sanitary Board for with the unemployment problem.a

term of three years, vice From the remarks which Sir Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. Myles, Charles Trevelyan made on the O.B.E., R.A.M.C., resigned. Becond reading, it is clear that The American Consulate General the Government has taken pre- at Shanghai is interested in ob taining information regarding the liminary steps in paving the way whereabouts of Garnet Carroll for the change in the leaving- | Moore, who is reported to have school age, and, with sufficient served as a seaman on various ships

in China waters since 1926. teachers and buildings assured, there will assuredly be no difficulty

A copy of the Yeliono Dragon, Queen's College magazine, is to in evolving a satisfactory curri-hand. In addition to school notes and sports, the magazine contains the winning holiday essay competi- tion and an article on the West River.

culum,

of

of the McGill University,

noon,"

Map.

по

and

Rate Civilization" the more friends. E. G. in the Christian Science Monitor.

I like to think of the low dark I do not exactly ask where I may doors I have pushed open find a bookstore, secondhand pre expectantly, . lured by the ferred, I ask questions which I promise of dim colour and hope will lead to the desired in- glinting titles in little base formation, and I take little tenta- ment windows. Of course, I had tive walks which ofter lead me to intended only to look in the win the right spot. dow or at most to glance at the And having found the right kind books in those long-legged Bins out-of a shop, do what all good Brows side the door. But I can never be era do; I go in and become ac- satisfied with this. I must peck behind the display, into the little quainted with the Bookstore Man

and with the books." "And book-lined alleys of the shop, to matter what the town or state or see what sort of a shop it is, I country, I am at once at home. tell myself. Then I cannot help thinking that this may be the shop Yes, the equation is right, where I shall find that copy of Scot-Secondhand Bookstore, First Rate Health Insurance,

tish Ballads I have been looking Civilization." Disturbing facts are revealed by His Excellency the Governor has for, and so I must go in, for if it For how, could civilization fail to the report of the Government appointed, provisionally and sub- is, I remind my wayward self, if it be found in a place where two Actuary, based on the experience ject to His Majesty's pleasure, Mr. is, I may be able to write that little people, strangers to one another, Antonio Ferreira Batalha Silva essay on "The Lovely Ladies of the become friendly at once, only upon of a group of Approved Societies Netto to be temporarily an Un- Ballads." Once I did find such a recommendation of their mutual in the period 1921 to 1927 which official Member of the Legislative book, and foolishly listened to my love of something that stands for indicate that all is not well with Council, in the place of Mr. Jose prosier judgment and did not buy culture, and for the best achieve- National Health Insurance

ments of mankind. Where better in Pedro Braga, who is temporarily it. But in the few minutes that

turned its finely printed pages; the would one find civilization--first charm of its indies flung itself rate civilization than where there Great Briin. The report covers absent from the Colony. reform, it is generally agreed upon Societies which have a total mem- Mr. H. Sedick, the managing about me like a perfumed scarf. are to be found people who love and by all, political parties included:bership of 219,000 men, 172,000 proprietor of Messrs. H. Sedick and And since then I have played with cherish books so much that they The Labourites have been the most unmarried women, and 64,000 mar-Co., of Hongkong, was the guest of the thought that it would be a pass them reverently from one to For sickness benefit honour at a tea party yesterday pleasant thing to write an essay on another with little regard to age

For condition. vocal exponents of the reform;ried women.

given by Mr. G. P. Daswani of those lovely ladies.

шеп Wherever civilized it is revealed that the claims have Messrs. Lalchand and Gagandas, indeed, they have almost tried to

All good Browners get to know women go there. books

go. And risen among men by 41 per cent, on the occasion of. Mr. Sedick's establish the sole proprietary in-

among unmarried women by 60 return from India after a long the Bookstore Man, and all good wherever books go, culture goes. Bookstore Men can recognize a good And wherever true culture goes terest in it. Reasons which have

good number per cent, and among married holiday. A

Browser at a glance.

men are friends, and in this inter- friends were invited. caused a delay in putting the idea women by no less than 106 per

"Good morning," or "Good after-change of books the secondhand into force have

or whatever it is, the bookstore with its shelves for concerned the cent. For disablement benefit There has been added to the availability of money, the pre-the claims have risen among men list of medical practitioners the Browser says to the Bookstore browsing plays an important part. So it is the more secondhand paredness of the authorities, the by 85 per cent., among unmarried name of Dr. A. S. Donaldson, of

How do you do?" asks the bookstores the more books, the women by 100 per cent., and among the Canadian Pacific Steamships,

more books the more "First. Rate Then the Browser begins to get Civilization," and the more "First provision of adequate buildings, married women by 159 per cent. Ltd.. Dr. Donaldson is Doctor of Bookstore Man. and the choice of date. Now that It is impossible to account for Medicine and Master of Surgery his' bearings. He runs his eye the Government has felt itelf able these heavy increases by any ab- Licentiate of the Royal Collage along the shelf and here and there touches or reaches 'down 'à" book. to take the step, it meets with normal conditions prevailing dur- of the McGill University, and

At last he finds one which he takes opposition, not to the principle ing the years under review, and Glasgow.

a bit more carefully than the The Rockefeller Foundation has cthers and turns its pages given £10,000 to the Bibilotheque involved so much as to certain the disquieting facts

The health bulletin of Eastern thoughtfully.

Nationale in the Rue Richeltet. features of the measure

vealed would appear to threaten ports for the week ended Saturday The Bookstore Man has been "To make good the setback caused have not commended themselves the whole actuarial basis of Na- last, issued by the Director of watching from a little way off. If by the war in the maintenance and tional Health Insurance. The in- Medical and Sanitary Services, con there chances to be someone else enlargement of the library," is the to various groups of educationists crease is most remarkable in the tains the following cases, the in the shop he merely gives the purpose of the gift.

figures in parenthesis indicating, Browser a three-cornered glance to case of married women. It is no deaths: Plague, Alexandria 4 (1),

see if he is reacting adequately to Local education authorities, doubt right to make allowance for Baghdad 7 (4), Rangoon 8 (1), what is spread before him. As the

1, Prom-Penh urban and rural, have, for the the fact that they are learning to Bangkok"

(1) Browser fingers that particular Cholera, Calcutta 142 (83), most part, been against raising take adanvtage of the provision

book, the Bookstore Man finds oc- 2, Manila 1, Bangkok 6 casion to dust Rangoon

a speck from the the age immediately. They dread which has been made for their (2), Haiphong (2) Prom-Penh shelf near by; or perhaps a shelf a measure which will involve keep special liability to sickness, but (1), Saigon 48 (24), Canton 1 suddenly demands to be put in or-

58 (44), der; and

as he dusta one hand ing children for another year in claims of men and single women araca 7.(1), Madras 15 (0), slightly disguised satisfaction," "I

the tendency is general: the Small-pox, Bombay

Calcutta 52 (40), Cochin 7 (2) against the other he remarks with schools or improvised buildings in exhibit it only in a less extreme Moulmein 20 (6), Negapatam 1 picked that up the other day.". which it may be found difficult, degree. The increase continued Rangoon 3, Tuticorin (1), through lack of space, equipment in 1928 and was even more mark Vizagapatam 1, Penang 2 (1),

Now, if you are a Browser, you and teachers, and, in rural areas, ed last year. In the face of these Batavia 5, Prom-Penh 1, Shanghai know exactly what happens from

(2) Cerebro-spinal fever (10). sufficient numbers, to develop a facts it is difficult to escape the post-primary course of four years conclusion that the Ministry of from eleven

Health is being victimised-that- to fifteen. But it must be conceded that for those the Fund is being used as a kind of bran-tub in which every children already attending equip insured person is, entitled to dip Paris ped senior schools the gain will and pull out a prize. A case was

Brussels Amsterdam be immediate and complete. More-quoted recently in which a woman Berlin over, it is not a small gain, expe- had fraudulently drawn sickness Copenhagen

Vienna cially in the towns, that growing benefits for twelve months and

Helsingfors children in early adolescence no doubt other similar cases could Labor

be brought to light. The problem Bucharest should postpone for another year

is one for the Minister of Health the entry into industrial life and on the facts which have.

Shanghai now Even if they remain in the old come to light there is every justi New Yoric schools, they will at fifteen be fication for a thorough. overhaul Milan stronger and dess liable to forget of the system. If there is laxity Stockholm

Oslo how to read and write, as thou in the investigation of claims for

Prague sands do now. So far as the sickness and disablement benefit,

Madrid Council Schools are concerned, then there should be a general Athens

Rio they are so organised and equip tightening up in the interests of

Bombay bed that they can without much those who have a real call on the Hongkong

funds to which they are compelled Silver (spot) difficulty take in the extra age to subscribe..

Silver (forward)

and politicians.

which

now re-

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Buenos Aires

Yokohama Geneva

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then on, and if you are not a Browser either you will be some day, and then you know, or else you will never know and nobody, can ever tell you.

No true Browser ever goes into Lendon, May 30.

123.04 Becondhand shop to look for a .84.815 book that is rare in the sense of 12.08% being a first edition of monetary .20.365 value. If he did he would not be. 18.16 a Browser any longer, but a collec 34.465 tor, and Bookshop Men do not take .193 a keen interest in collectors. To be 108.26 sure, Browsers do find rare booke,

.818 42.13/10 but they are rare because of the

1/7 beauty cf their contents and be cause of the joy that they bring 2/0.13/32 4.86 15/16 to their discoverer. They are not 25.115 rare because there are only two 92.76 other known copies of that par- 18.11 ticular edition where "receive is .18.16

spelled "recieve" on the sixty- 163 seventh page, or because there are .89.895 only five others with that blue bind- 66ing and black lettering, nor "for ..5.65/61

875

1/6.25/82 any other reason apart from the 1/44 use, or beauty of the contents. * 17.9/16

I have in time gone by had a feeling that time spent in browsing is luxury-time, and that no truly

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WHO

WAS GANYMEDE?

When Zeus and his company" of immortals feasted in High Olympus they were served by a youth, surpassingly beauti- ful of face and form, Gany mede, son of Tros, King of Dardania: Falling ertamour- ed of the boy's comeliness, Zeus had stolen him from his father'a home, giving Tros in Compensation four immortal steeds to draw his chariot, and made Ganymede cup. bearer to the gods, conferring upon him the gift of im mortality, so that his bright beauty should not wane with the-years.

For this reason, Ganymede was taken by the Greeks to be symbolical of eternal youthful manhood, and as such he was worshipped by the boys who made offerings at his shrine when they assumed manhood..

As each of the immortals was identified with one or other of the phenomens of nature, s6 Ganymede, was sup posed to have the sources of rivera and fountains under his especial care, a task-con- sidered not incompatible with his position as dispenser of the nectar of the gods.