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THE SPIRIT OF CHEERFULNESS.

Cheerfulness is largely a matter of outlook. The world is never such a bad place if thoughts dwell on its bright side. After all the happiest life is made up of working hard, playing hard, and rightly appreciating upon suitable occasion the really helpful partnership of

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THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.

DAY BY DAY

production for the sake of one or two million tons more per annum at an increased cost? The fact would appear to be that wheat- | SamantmNARRATIANANACHAGUASCHENKENŐ

growing in the Old Country is, in || IF GOOD PEOPLE WOULD BUT MAKE

to

THEIR VIRTUE, NOW MANY WOULD THEY WIN TO THE GOOD CAUSE Archbishop Usher.

the main, a waste of energy, and

THEIL GOODNESS AGREEABLE, AND that far better results could be SMILE INSTEAD OF FROWNING IN obtained by concentrating on other branches of agriculturo which are not in need of artificial atimuli such as subsidies, quotas,

The P. and O. s.. Malwa, from Hongkong, arrived at London on or Import boards. Farmers are the 14th-November at 11 a.m. paying very little attention

Members of-the-Volunteer wheat production, as is shown by

Defence Corps are notified that, the fact that its area is declining until further notice, Corps Orders rapidly and its annual value even will be issued on every Thursday This fact should be instead of Friday during the more so.

period of Camp, commencing from contrasted with the other that the 20th instant. value of other agricultural prò-

Following a full from the rst duce is being steadily maintained one verandah of 299. Hennessy in the region of £230,000,000 as Read, whilst hanging out clathi compared with about £12,000,000 woman named in a

(C) was removed to the Govern-i ment Civil Hospital suffering from injuries received.

For wheat crops.

lis

EVELYN WAUGH describes

ONE WAY TO IMMORTALITY.

There

ahows two chaos of diphtherisory distinguished.

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acquire after a

rally

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WENT to luncheon not long ago imediate pecuniary reward, so that with some people who make it the Journal invariably languishes their hobby to collect prominent and dies in a week or two. But for people as their guests,

people who are less mercenary und I was asked, at the last moment, more ambitious than I am it seems to fill

enked round the room and enema C. Squire once wrote i

Kap in the table, and as a very simple way of accuring im

portance land-immortality. tered Live after free make famous to me by caricaturists and Press delightful story about a-man who photographers, I was overwed earned a C.B. by pretending to keep

He went diary, He discover that I was the only nopen-

to politicni out nt. I was made souscloud receptions and was continually fint- ||fity present.

of this by my introductions; for the tered by Cabinet Ministers, who others their name alone was neces wished to hand down to history I had to be explained. This their own version of the purity of Mah. He writes for The their motives. At his death the Daily Mat. I stood in the corner row of bound volumes which had very shy and uppressed.

attracted much curiosity

ever, whem could

ere was one "celebrity," how-found to be empty.

not identify. But it is not necessary to be in According to one commentator,

Ilis sombre clothes and unobtrusive touch with famous people in order Britists agriculture will prosper li

manner made it clear that he was to write a valuable diary., I still The health return for last week

His eyes, too, think that the funniest book in the it faces the stark reality that It

had that vigilant, hunted look, world is Grossmith's "Dlary of u is better and cheaper for England cone death), one of which was im- which "celebrities***

tr only

people would keep Journala like that. No- to rely apon imported wheat.ported; two cases of enteric (ever week or two in Londem,

Conr death); and one fatal case of

luncheon, British farmers have, on the other

He sat oppposite me at

wants to read other people's influenza, Yesterday, two cases and the woman next him WILA reflections on life and religion and hand, a wonderful market at their of typhold, were notified.

clearly having the same difficulty politics, but the routine of their na 1. In those blissful moments day, properly recorded, is always in. very doors for products of which |

Chinese who was ar- when my two neighbours were teresting, and will become more so England is imparting Luo much

countries rested at 2ti. Tai Youn Street in talking away from me and I found as conditions change with the yearn. from Continental

All over the country there are pesession of 3,8 taels of prepared myself isolated from the conversa- fresh meat, eggs, poultry, pigs, quum and 6.5 taels of raw plum tion, I was amused to watch her people who secretly nurse literary the young women milk, butter, cheese, vegetables was ordered by Mr. Lindsell, at the efforts to "place" him. She tried ambitions. Half

are engaged in writing Central Magistracy this morning. him on polities, literature, art, ar-I know and fruit. These are products on,

te receive ten strikes of the case. cheology, diploniny, law, science.novels: the other half write articles ເ On Sunday, No which it would undoubtedly

Each time he eyed her furtively und for magazines, few of which Van DORSSER.

vember 16th, at his home, † profitable tu concentrate. Th At the Kowloon Magistracy toexpressed emplele ignorance of the ever pablished. Amateurs will em. bark on drumus in blank verso, 8, Algburth Balt. May Rond.

At last, exhausted but undefeat- eples, sex-novels, historical ro Cornelis

market is huge anti near at hand, day, three Chinese were fined $60, subject. Willern Ottu

ur, in default, one month's imprison- Dorsser. Manager o the and in any well-lovised organisa

men, for having stowed away onfed, he said. "But surely you do mances, treatises on philosophy and Netherlands Harbour Warks

tion there would be .. hteo for the batch steamer Tas, which something? Why yes," he replied; heaven knows what

$10 koop

Why won't they keep diaries in diary." Company

no one in the rmed as well as the large farm- theived here from Sandakan.

meu had no money in thele prossosej There happened to be a slight stend? There is

on when discovered.

hush at the choment he said this, country whose life, properly record and the statement was heard byl, would not make a thrilling book. The annual display of the long-half the table and hastily repeated. The routine of life in an office cr kung Fire Behzade takes place in theThe effect was instantaneous, le factory, with its various squabbles Police Compound t 3 pm, to looked round; sened by the interest and jokes and occasional tragedy. made things the life of an English village with Oon of the Rectory and morrow. Members of the publice had created, and

the conversation of the

Manor I just write the aut diary, you know. down all the places I go to and the trigues of the Women's Institute: people I meet and what they look and the Mothers' Union; the life of like and what they say.”

a commercial traveller with continual change of company and with the seeme a hospital nurse

encounter.

The Hongkong ▲ Abanghai Iistel, Ltd. Incorporate in Hongkong, 26. Queen's fond C. and Ribbe Stand

DEATH.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, Nov. 18. 1935.

THE WHEAT PROBLEM.

Modern methods, competent mauagement and extensive pro- duction would reap their du re wards and in course of time än proßtable employment for capital and labour alike,

that 023

his

A young

A

¡ who may be interested will be wet. ] worse by adding: “Not an impor- they can the pub, the in-

CON170. After the display there will be the presentation of life-saving beertificates and medals.

CANTON-HONGKONG TELEPHONE.

TO BE IN OPERATION NEXT YEAR.

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Men Who Hate Civilisation.

The House of Detention, The very

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the statement made by the Canadian In commenting gestering upon vagrant who appeared in the

What they look like and what succession of patients all the wheat quota system, which Follee Court yesterday, Chat ke

A sudden self-consci-ed in a relationship which makes for DUANERS descended on Day party, immediate intimacy; a governess has apparently inude a favourable attempted to get away from the

Everyone began wwarching his men watching children develop; a impression on the British Govern- | Colony btt:t!J4༥་ be feared the

my. What had he been saying? farmer whose whole livelihood de nent and the averseus delegates punishment likely to attend

Was it anything indiscreet ur, still pends on observance of nature. late arrival at the House of Deten-} to the Imperial Government, we

The underground cable for the worse, anything silly? suggested that it was scarcely then, is Heels to create dome Canton-Hougkong long distance men, began brooding about their

We Cuneusines in the public mind re-telephone he has been shipped | hata,

ourselves face to: felt Type of project 10 which Wi

face garding the conduct of the House, from England some weeks ago and

with posterity. Eventually. should expect Labour to commit which we trust can be easily dis is expected to arrive in Canton in perhaps, under modern unreticent conditions, quite soon, during our itself. We had in mind the point | pelled.

distant future. not

The route It matter for regret

PHE world is full of pessimistic that the Government has been at that he was not mere specific has already been surveyed, but to lifetimes, this dausgerms little man particular pains to oppose Proter-though it is probable that no realder it is the intention of the com-

ensure that everything will be in www publish his vile journal. We

imagine it. Four or five THE

pamphleteers against civilian- tion for the reason that it would persion was intentiod. the nun pany constructing this ling to

I could imagine how each of us, tion. writes Mr. William J. Makin Chambers's Journal. These put up food prices at Home, and merely fearing's charge similar ta durt another survey preparatory to

however. rarely which he subsequently laying the cable, and for this pur-with trembling fingers, would turn The further point that this is pre- appeared. Nevertheless, it would pose an englarer of the company is tu.the index. Were we mentioned ? | pamphleteers,

Victions. They will revel in the eisely what may happen if the seem desirable that doubts on this the work.

on his way to Canton to superintendAnd whether we were there or not, possess the courage of their con- it would be equally humiliating. wheat quota system is adopted. score should be removed, for while

The telephone cable will be laid Those of the parts whose attain luxuries of the age, while decrying M. Anatole France, The system. it may be noted, is the majority of the individuals alongside the Canton Rovicon Rai ments or ambitions led them to exits decadence. Läke

1 could began,

nee, they will be comfortable in just as keenly approved by the who find the way to the house way track. Begotiations with the pect lasting fame

fore switching off the electric light, Conservatives as it is by the Domi- of Detention are worthy of very railway authorities having been see, to imagine their future bi-lippers and dressing-gown, and, he- alegraphers dipping into this man's will conclude their outline of his- Hule sympathy, there must be satisfactorily concluded th

diary for racy, contemporary repor

with picture

of the last man nion Premiers; indeed. Mr. Baid-

ting. A cold wind seemed to have tory

another Ice, win definitely committed himself genuine hardship, men whe bave Hongkong preparations have been was a failure.

as welt s jar breathed over all of its. The party hudding for warmth in to it in his revent statement of been brought to their position by made for the connexions between

Contempt for civilisation is, too policy.

no fault of their own, and whose] the long- distance line niul the

often, only expressed in art. Sent- I wonder how many people, apart tered about the world, however, ure When we come to analyse the plight is miserable enough in all respective local telephone exchanges

choice spirits who express system as it would operate as be- conscience without the addition of so that it only needs the cable to be from schoolgirls, are in the habit

to their

lonely exile. Per- contempt in tween the Mother Country and the the trinks of a too stern discipline. in position for telephonic conversa-of keeping a diary. From time

ting to be possible.

time I purchase a thick notebook haps the most dramatic example That there must be disciplinary

Residents of Canton will be in-and record a few pages of my daily was Gauguin, the French painter, measures of some sort is not likely terested to learn that by September found, but I have a deep-rooted who began life as a business man be every ground for thinking that to be questioned, but when the 1931 they will be able to converse feeling that it is a mischievous and and ended as & leper in the South life provided Mr. it would result in higher breadonly "crime of an inmate is that with friends in Hongkong at very degrading habit to write anything Seas. His

which will not bring in an In-Somerset Maugham with the finest pricce in the Old Country. In of poverty. cara atiould he reasonable cost.-Canton Gazette.

of his novels-The Moon and Six- nence.* this connexion, it has been pointed exercised that the demands made

These revolta have had to sink farther and farther into bush out that England produces only upon him are not onerous. There: about 18 per cent, of her annual Was a scandal over the manage- ment of the House of Detention wheat consumption, and has to

some nine or ten years ago. Soinu import the rest, and during reof the accusations made at that cent years more wheat her core litme v re not without justificas

Dominions, there would appear to

among them numerous

111

this to be done.

loth in Canton

from foreign sources than, from tion. It is very much to be hoped the Dansinions. In 1920, for ex- that any RexKestion, or fear, that latestple, only 31 per cent, of the malpractices have again crept in total supply came from Empire can be readily refuted,

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MISHAP.

SCHOOLMASTER AND WIFE THROWN FROM CAR.

per cent, came from foreign coun- EUROPEANS IN MOJ DR | tries. This large extra-lmperial. import accurred because it Was cheaper and of equally good quality. So that under existing conditions, an increased import of Empire wheat can only be effected by paying a higher price, to the Canadian and Australian farmers.

What might easily have been a serious accident occurred in the Wanchni district yesterday after noon when Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Handitan bad a rather unpleasant Was experience as Mr. Hamilton This increase would inevitably be driving his car along Hennessy passed on to the consumer in the Road,

form of higher bread prices. In

reaching the junction af

It. When Rond and Fleming Street,

other words, a wheat quota sys-a motor vant belonging to the Im- tom must mean that cheap wheat ports and Exports Department

suddenly emerged from around the corner out of Fleming Road, caus ing Mr. Hamilton suddenly to awerve to the right to avold a collision.

is to be excluded in favour of costly system of guaranteed home prices and Imperial proferences. Economic considerations como In

So sudden was the swerve that here. As one writer has naked, Mr. Hamilton's car, No. 2481, turn- seeing that England has to Im-ed over on the side and threw the

cont port about 80 por

of its owner and his wife Into the rond- way. Both received minor. In- wheat, Is it worth while to foster juries, but the car was extensively. Ian unimportant and uneconomic damaged.

1

"But I'm sure Fluffy didn't mean to frighten you

Age at the bottom of a pit.

few

and

The

Jungle to escripe civilisation. advance sign of the empty putrci tin is now to be found In the sands of the desert.

Africa has provided a sanctuary to many of these men who hate eri Hastion. Some of them, ong taust admit, are merely refugees from seandal; others are while men who Thave retrogressed to the level of life in the bush and "gone native." Is fatally easy in Africa to slip Hnto native wáyé and habits, much easier than fighting against climate and environment for that myth we calt civilation.

I recall an

ocension when, having

crossed the Kalahari, our expedition was approaching the western edge

cam-ner

-ACTORS B nu-grass house, around which a few cows. Bushmen and a

of this sen of sand and scrub We

a lonely mad!

man, dressed in the.

п

Victorian

gentleman, came out of this hut to muct us."

His long grey locks fell across a Dickensian type of collar, but his cravat was tied with care. The extraordinary excitement that our appearance must have caused kim was hidden behind a courteous and restrained greeting.

Ho was ready enough to give us lo our route, but directions us

curbel a curiosity regarding him Belf

"You нест to be very curious and Inquisitive," he said to one of our party, who asked him why he lived in such a lonely and fomaken spot. We did, however, discover that he had once been

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