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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1993).

THE LOVE OF MONEY.

Do people to-day think too much about money? It is an old query, eonstantly recurring, but it comes with more than usual force at a

TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1931.

DAY BY DAY

THE FUTURE WILL BELONG TO THE RELIGION THAT FIRST FITS ITSELF TO AnyTHE FUTURE--Jarmol Zangwill,

population, which will not cut down expenses for fear of losing caste in the eyes of its neighbours. Thin subservience to the money standard Indientes a very serious Baw in the ' make-up of the individual. For he becomes unuble 10 form valuation of himself beyond that which others put upon him. A man's success to-tiny is too often judged by the amount of wenith which he possesses, and this, in

money,

Confeiously

The P. and O. 9.8. Chitral, from Singapore, is due here on January lat nt ahout 8 a.m..

A Chinese was admitted into the Government Civil Hospital yesterday,;

51.191.

PUBLIC OPINION.

The Greatest Bogey of All Ager

anys URSULA BLOOM,

It seems to me that the greatest, it would give me preatigate, and turn, le gauged according to a con-suffering from the effects of any of all ages is public opinion, would be the right thing for me

Men and women dare not do this, to do. ventional formula. Thus a rich overdose of Adalin,

and cannot do that, because they I like walking, I can always man will spend his money Re- The R.M.S. Empress of Japan are afraid of what people will say, hire when I go out in the evenings. cording to the popular conception of arrived at Manila at 7 am. to-day, They are for ever cast into a rut Frankly, I don't want a che, d how a rich man should spend his and is due here un Wednesday and routine, into a definite shape what is more, I do not intend to

which perhaps they would not have have one. She sits for Vancouver at 0

So silly of you, people chosen, just because they are grunt, and then they start a much uheon-ju.m. on Saturday, or

afraid of those mythical beings meaner attack; they say it is sciously he is a stove to public The 16th annual athletic sports of who ordain that only this or that stingineas. Well, if it is, it only

For if he does not lead the Yaumati School will be held at

proper.

effects myself. the existence which the world has King's Park to-day, commencing at

Public opinion is overdone. Once it would have hurt me. Min. J. Halston is to present Those who have made good have Once I should have been driven prescribed for the rich, if he pre-the prizen 1 3 p.m.

defied it.

into buying a ear just for the look fers to live in simple places, to ent

Public opinion his broken of the thing. I was young then. simple food, to entertain onlying to the success of the Tea their rút, smashed

Lane, Crawford's announce that hearts, it has flogged people into I am older now.

homes, and those few friends whom he likes, Dassants at the King's Restaurant, it crashed love. We are getting to What Chiefly Matters then he is in danger of being call-

has been decided to make them a daily) a wiser generation now, a genera- feature as from to-day.

that is learning that publie that plenses me; outside opinion Liver

1 spend my money in the way jed mean by the world.

opinion does not matter too much does not disturb me.

much. When

I am ok! wanted to become

opinion.

To say that the rich are Fiat

happy is a sweeping statement. But money spent us so many rich prople spend it to-day, and as the average poor man longa to be able to spend, i

noon.

A $100 reward is offered for the recovery, with contents, of a indy'atten

handbag left on a motor boat at 2.30 writer my people explained, quite enough and wise enough to be on Christmas morning. An advertise nicely, of course, that I couldn't, merely amused about it.

because was my duty to marry When people start interfering-

Do lay down the law about It. All successful women married.

of succEAS

inent appears on Page 4.

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deal with it your

An additional appointment. com.they told me, because the secret and I admit that relations are the

worst type to it, dulls the vital facultion, war ferred in Profesion Williams, and their loves ny in their homes foot down once and for ull. It is

William M.D., D.P.H., in that of Honorary That of values.

a very charming way of your life, and you will live it as true sense James, the psychningist, wrote

Consulting Physician to HM. Naval looking at life, but I happened to you choose.

Never turn a deaf ear to kindi Forces in Hangkong.

want to be a writer, and, although Somas ngo: "The prevalent fear of

married, I still wanted to be advice, but do learn to weed out. A collapse of debris occurred yester-j writer.

from the wheat. poverty among the educated classes day at 5. Staunton Street where

because of public the tares

Tears what matters, and what is Kind friends thought it entirely useless to you.

Older people have an idea that which Ol? civilisation suffers."sequent on the recent fire, a wesuan would be "such a pity" "But you coolie being. Injured and bent ta

have your dear little baby," purred they know best, and they presume is it the case that this is even more hospital, where she died later.

others. "What

their age, would people' upon

using it as n abundantly true today?

weapon against you. Age does not think?"

But

Is the worst moral disque from demolition work was in progress com-j chane very nearly missed my!

year

A vumern, worth about $80, has been

Do

left at the B.B.C. shap in Ice House that it matters not a single fotu right of experience, for life goes I have come to the conclusion know best by right of age, nor by

A fashion in there Is In nli

My mother was a belle in the early part of this century, but

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with their straw boaters

and their cavalry moustaches

WAR useless to me when I dabbled in love. Times had changed. Girls had changed. Men had changed, too.

I do not offer my son my own

Street by a customer, who is now New Year Resolutions.

being sought by the police in com- what people think. Whoever you on and there quence of the arrest of a foki of are they will say ankind things experience nu Most people at the end of the the shop at a pawnshop while enden.; and think nastily about you if else. year take stock of themselves and The foki, who is charged with larceny life. Those people don't matter.

vouring to dispose of the article, you cut out your own road through! their fellow-mer. Christmas is by finding, has been remanded for a Public opinion doesn't matter. It her experience in the handling of reminiscent period and we

have week.

14 yourself that matters most of her adorers leisure to think about

ali. the

Plense Yourself about to die and the year nearly born. We are or should be-at peace with our neighbours and with a tranquil mind, we weigh our defects and qualities in the balance, and there springs forth a New Year resolution, perhaps several. Which raises the числ tion repeatedly asked, Are Your resolutions worth The answer is, we think, to be found in the fact that, if we think

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You have only one life to live. and when you have thought it over carefully, and have mapped out a certain theory for that life experience, for I know that now it be old and jaded, and not don't be set aside by the idiocy of will public opinion being against you. what he wants. It is a commodity

Because nobody ever before has that

great bazaar of life. Ho will The opening after the holidays was made a success of the thing which there must buy for himself in New somewhat quiet, but rates were not you contemplate attempting, do pay full price for it.

not for a moment believe that you

But this truth I have learnt. while? materially altered at the marine to make a failure of it. Faint and it is wisdom indeed, that public

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time when conditions are depressed it necessary to make a resolution In most countries of the world. A at all, we have been criticising

examination at intervals do We this subject recently, declared that discover our failings, and New the desire to obtain money. and Year is usually selected for the the fear of losing it, are the all-process simply because it happens absorbing emotions in the life of to be the first day in a year which average man to-day. Indeed, we hope to make a better one than she even went so far as to express the lust. The cynical individual who laughs at Now Year, "re- n doubt whether, at any perind of

solutionaries" might be employed history, rich ajen-chiefly because better in taking stock of kimmelf. they were become more wealth Cynicism about a constructive iden conscious--have led more stupid suggests there is room for im- lives than they do at the present provement in his own make-up. time. "There is," she said, "less It is well accepted, of

course, education. Jess taste,

that New Year resolutions loss

are the very seldom kept. But this does artistir

sensibility Am

not matter a whit The fact re- wealthy classes than there

mains that there has been a desire has ever been before.

Patron- tu

improve GT amend our nge of the arts. in the sense characters and the very desire will which the term implied in the arise agnin and again--no matter vighteenth century, is how, with a how frequently we fail-until fow notable exceptions, quite negli finally, out of sheer desperation Rible."

almost, it becomes a habit. It will be argued that, in the pre-comes off, the process, which hurta only one resolution in a thousand

sent industrial crisis, there is nobody and costs nothing, is abundant excuse for this preoccupa-worth while. And WC cannot tion with the subject of money. But afford to dispense with anything the point in that with many this which has the remotest claim to is more than a preocupation; it is being worth while after a year an obsession. The present crisis such as 1931 and with 1932, which has simply been a rare show-up of the world's history, upon us.

may provide the turning point in

provalent state

of mind which. ethically and morally, cannot be too much deplored. It has shown the appalling extent to which many of the upper and middle-classes have become slaves to the money god.) For with them, as opposed to the poor, there is, whatever the crisis,

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The following cable at the clone

little question of complete ruin or of the eugar market on Wednesday starvation. All they have to do is has been received by Messra..Pen-

La reduce an eminently reducible treath and Co.

standard of living, but the iden of this terrifies them as much as if they were being ordered to jump off the dome of St. Paul's, They sim- ply cannot visunllae, a mode of life below that to which they hays been accustomed. Snobbery has a good deal to do with it. Lack of money has long been regarded almost us a moral stigma. Though this atti- tado shows algne of modifying, there is still a big section of the

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Sales.'

China Lights, $271⁄44.

Telephones (part puid), $2014,

Juyers.

Waterboats, $24. Providents (old), $6%. Providenta (new), $2.40. Hotela (old), $16.15. Hotels (new), $14%, Chinese Estates $95.

· Trams, $22,

Cements combined), $19,10, Cements (old). $1ZM. Dairy Farms, 129. Powells, $34. Constructions (old), $5,56, Constructions (now), $14, Wharves, $153.

1.K. Lands. $81%. Realties, $11.60. Ewas, Ts. 15.06.

Telephones (part paid). $ZIN. Rapes, $18.

China Agricultural Developments,

$30.

Watsons, $16-10, Amasements, $19,00,

Sellers,

Raubs, $40, Trams, $22.

"I'm

蛋

heart makes failures; faint hearts opinion does not matter, and that and the fear of what the world will your own individual desire and think of you.

Tikes and dislikes do matter very

Have the courage of your own considerably.

convictions. Do not be pig- I believe that every man knows headed and obstinate about it; but his own business best.

you have, & definite reason for making up your mind on a point, stick to that point. Unless you are entirely convinced by some

argument of the contrary conviction, do not awerve because people tell you you should. Life is an individual matter. Live it individually. In

In the

neore years and ten which have ben allotted to you, there is plenty of time for you to do all those things that you want to do, and to bear

In mind that nothing

is impossible, that no goul is out of reach, and that everything is there for the reaching.

LANE-NORCOTT on the

MARVELS OF SCIENCE

(Sometimes).

In this fascinating now series, commencing this morning. I am Do not conform your life to the going to do my utmost to show Jules which are about you

if those what an important part Science plays in our everyday lives and rules do not appeal to you.

no motor car. how grateful we should be for the happen to have

ever telling me many wonderful inventions which People are for that I ought to have one. Why? surround us on all sides. Only bernue they consider that

relieved since Henry's gone back to window washing. door work was endangering his health.”

For example, take that smalt electrical device called "Bell for Lift," which we press each morn- ing on the Underground Hallway. How many of us have the faintest idea how that works? What actually occurs when we press It. and press it, and Press it, and in what manner, if any, may it be Isaid to be superior to shouting?

Well, I will tell you. It is lenn vulgar than shouting and far more Heientific.

The truth is, when we presa this small electrical device called "Bell for Lift" we are doing a very refined and intricate thing. We are setting a whole lot of dectrons In motion that until then had been static.

And when I say "static" I mean "static." At least I think I mean "atatie." Anyway, they had been pretty' idle until we came fussing along.

However, with the pressure of a we soon aller aff that. poll, with one accord, these electrons hurry below and with great molecular force ring a bell which would certainly attract the attention of the lift attendant If only ho were there to hear it.

Unfortuatoly, he is Not there to hear it. He la right at the other end of the pasenge, discussing a matter of life and death with a ticket inspector whom, for the time being, wo will esll Football Fan No. I, although, of course, that is not his real name...

"You know, Football Fan No. 1, he is saying miserably, "which- ever way I look at it Chelsen DTO a great disappointment to me

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