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DAY BY DAY HONG KONG HOMO ON OUR

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THE HALCYON HADES

NO 1,-THE SINGLE MAN.

RIDICULE 18 INDEED A FACULTY MUCH PRIZED BY ITA POSSESSORY;

The newcomer to Hongkong may with the traditional pioneering YET INTRINSICALLY IT IS A SMALL FACULTY, WE MAY SAY, THE SMAL walk into any book-seller's shop spirit of his trail-blazing ancestry, LEST OF ALL FACULTIES THAT OTHER and procure all the informative fully resolved upon registering WITH terature he can absorb on the ls mark in local industrial his- ANY ESTEEM.-Carlyle,

Colony's topography, it's flora and tory by hard-work, enterprise and MEN ARE AT PAINS TO PAY

fauna, the history of the place, frugality-doing something really customs and characteristics pecu-worth-while with his He.

lar to the Orientals with whom he will come fu contact-all sub-

Mr. 11. L. Schultz arrived here Ad-from Manila by this.s. Empress of

Asia.

Four cases of small-pox and meningit were notified to health authorities yesterday,

Ile is impregnated with

Journey. There, in also a marked Improvement in the local goode re- ceipts, which increased during the year by more than twenty-five per cent. On the other hand, the goods combined lines earnings on the show a drop of almost $6,000 dur- ing the twelve months, the total being only just over $31,000. AS considering the the report says, vast amount of cargo moving bo- tween the two big cities, this is a

tho very poor figure, and the lack of patronage is said to be a matter

the of serious concern to

jets of genuine loen! interent but glamour of the East and his heart ministrations of the two sections.

comparatively inconsequential in swells to an initial thrill of achi- There would appear to be still need

two their application to overy-day life.yment as his foot first falls upon of further improving the track of

the The one really important study the far-off foreign soil-the land the Chinese scction, and when this of

that all are called upon to take of the legendary pig-tail, intri up during their sojourn here is guing impassivity and Imponder- is done it is hoped that the journey

the idiosyncrasics of the social able mystery. First impressions to Canton may be done in three

Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., life of our little community, for of the Colony transcond expecta- hours. When we recall the wear!- some journeys of the past, it will Ltd., advertise that Mr. T. R. Mac which unfortunately we have notion and the week following his Donel will act as Manager of the instructional media but that of arrival is replete with the excite- be recognised that great improve-Insurance Department during the hard-earned and very often bitter ment of exploration.

The novelty of his new aur- experience. ments have already been effected absence of Mr. F. C. Hall,

wears through, There is no gainsaying that roundings Hoon In the service. This has been made

condescending, Im- Mrs. Hazell, wife of Mr. Denis social conditions out here are however, and a few day's submis

vastly different from those obtain-sion to the possible, of course, by the happy

the British Hazell, the well-known tennis player, co-operation between and Chinese sections, at no time is arriving in Hongkong togethering at Home and very few people patient patronage of supercilious the pernicious, what abashed and despondent more pronounced than to-day. On with their little daughter on board of either sex manage to achieve office colleagues loaves him some-

the .s. Naldera to-day, after a stay fmmunity from

demoralising influence that life after the convivial friendliness of cosmopolitan ship-board nur part, that co-operation is evi- in the Home country of two years.

enst of Suez exerts upon Western the denced by the fact that through

character. How after does one crowd. Everybody here seems to to somo MORE in Importion section engines.

ORE in beauty, performance. express trains are still hauled by

Yesterday being the Norwegian hear folks on their return from be irrevocably glued

to diminished in-small, ultra-exclusive social cliquo national day, all Norwegian vessels in leave confess

and In which there is apparently no There is one other feature of last part were bedecked with flags to com- torest in relatives, friends

memorate the occasion. Celebra-conditions generally at Homs. room whatever for the immature, new-comer and the tions by the Norwegian community The reception back there had left uninitiated year's operations which gives cause

in Hongkong were all of a private nothing to be desired but after a unutterable loneliness of the de- for satisfaction, namely, that debits

month or so things had become solate, Inhospitable hotel in respect of demurrage and hire nature.

somewhat difficult-an apparent sends his thoughts wistfully back of ralling stock for 1931 were ac cepted by the Administration of the

Last week's health return shows inck of common interests and sym-to the congenial home-life of the Illa self-esteem has been sub- Chinese section. Claims in respect nine cases of small-pox (six fatal), pathics-an inexplicable incom-Old Country, of the years 1923-30 were, however, five of diphtheria (one fatal), vel patibility of outlook on life.

The Colonial is apt to attribute |

form immediate this failure to not accepted, with the result that fatal cases of meningitis, and twe

friendship this incompreh¬"sible the amount now due from the Chin- non-fatal cases of typhold. There the change to one mind, having jest to unanticipated laceration by

tuberculosis.

the other was simply vegetating, intolerance of his newear and ese section is well over a million were also 67 denths from pulmonary been broadened by travel while

but viewing sights denied

after a few weeks of solitude and fellows by one's

itaclf, justifies any claim critical introspection, he begins to lose eunfidence In the merits of Among the passengers who arrived in

intellectual superiority. It

in Hongkong yesterday from Shang-to in

hat by the s.s. Philoctetes were H.E. Broadmindedness makes itself ap- his former aspirations. Gradually the G.O.C.. Major General J, Sandilands, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., and parent through toleration and un- but inevitably he gravitates to- his A.D.C, Captain D. R. Cameron, derstanding and while the hillswards the Colony's club-life, anda on return from an inspection tour in and lanes of Scotland are evolving a precarious niche in a coterie of A Burns, another man may be youthful blase rouses and ultimate the North.

travelling the seven seas and fivaly strikes out in deliberate.emula. the nefar continents with as little chance of tion of these stagnant brained, de- intellectual improvement as a ship's generate habitues in

lous drinking, gambling and wo-

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GOOD YEAR FOR THE RAILWAY

dollars. This is an old legacy, re- presenting a problem which hua, somehow, never yet been solved. would be interesting to know what light the Hongkong Govern

If there ment views the mutter. is.no prospect of ever getting this money-although according to the working agreement it is obviously dne-then it would be better to wipe it out once and for all, rather than to go on year after year keeping the figure recurring in the accounts.

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A more probable explanation for man-hunting exploits. this inability to mix at Home is

room

Occasionally he looks back and that never-failing vice of foola," reflects upon what might have beon. At times ho may even en-

Most of us come out here

to

salaries and personal service far deavour to fight his way free The following cable at the close beyond what we were accustomed from the tentacles of the vitiated of the sugar market yesterday has to in the Old Country and like the rabble but what other attractions been received by Messrs. Pen-beggar on his horse, we lose ailor interests does the Colony hold sense of proportion and ride to out to him? The church's bene- ficent influence has long been de. extremes of absurdity.

funct through sheer stagnation "Oh, wad Rome power the giftio and apathy-doflance of the uni-

gie us

Lversal, incontrovertible law of alternative evolution or extinction

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To see oursels as others see us It wad from many a blunder

free us

And foolish notion."

and even the sports-ground in- velgies him into the profligacy of an imbibing fraternity. So he just To the unbiased observer, the drifts with the polluted tide-read- resident going on leave presents, lutions undermined, work neglect-

A personality entirely different

from that of the man who first cd, debt necumulations ignored, health considerations flagrantly de- disregarded-unresistingly

sets foot on Eastern shores.

comes from outside,

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And yet the individual scarcely be blamed for his degenerating into one of the world's And the sex question naturally generacy. Only a paragan with worst wastors. stands the insidious influence of appears in the picture. Should he a noxious environment and happen to be abnormally attrac- superior complex is so easily active to the womenfolk, he runs his in the House of invariably compel the Lords to quired when positive suggestion drink-sodden head into the un- wholesome, norve-racking intri- The least and perhaps the most cacies of marital triangles, lost, consent to anything, however re- volutionary, that it really is deter- we can do towards mitigation of by this time, to all songe of moral mined shali pass Into law. Bri-these-deplorable Eastern mental decency unscrupulously wrecking. tain's safeguard against revolution opidemics is of a preventive na- is not refinement of the Constitu- ture--innoculation of

rivals. tion, but the good sense of the

The young "commercial asslat- ant" arrives in Hongkong imbued British people.

Reforming the House of Lords.

A meeting of the central council of the National Union of Con-treath and Co. servative and Unionist Associa tions recently passed a resolution advocating a reform of the person- nel of the House of Lords. This resolution crystallizes the desire British of a certain section of

has not public opinion, which ceased to regrot that the reconsti- tion of the Lords was the herald of a sunrise which never actually took place. The House of Lords already represents far more sec tions of the British people than is commonly supposed. The aristo- cratic element does indeed greatly preponderate in it. But there are and it contains Labour members of almost every grade, including clergy, authors,

journalists, lawyers, Slowly but surely the Kowloon-

servants, Canton Railway is proving a useful business men. It is in one sense as representative as the House of source of revenue to the Colony.

Commons, though in a different The report for 1931, now issued, re-

representa trades and veals a year of steady progrèsa. It

way. It was not so many years back that it

professions instead of geographi- seemed as if the railway were des cai areas. Its defects as a repre- tined to become a burden rather. than a source of profit. As recent-ntative assembly could be easily ly as 1927, a loss was shown on the removed, either by a restriction of year's working, it since then there the hereditary element or by a has been a steady upward trend on strengthening of the democratic the right side. Last year showed section of the House. The central the biggest profit of all, over council also proposed that the $150,000, and if we take the years powers of the second chamber from 1928 to 1931 inclusive, we should be increased by making it find that close on four and a half necessary that a, non-money bill, lakhs of dollars have been brought passed by the Commons, but re- Jected by the Lords, should be Gratifying us the situation is, presented in two successive par- it might easily have been even liaments, instead of, as at pre- better but for the regrettable mis-sent, in two Buccessive stasions of hap enused by the cloud-burst in the same Parliament, before bo- This would insure April which resulted in serious coming law. damage to the line, caused the loss that no bill opposed by the Lords of several lives and made it necas- could become Inw until the people sary to suspend all traffic for ten had been consulted at the general! dayn. Until then, the railway had election. An obvious objection had a proud record, having carried this suggestion in that it would no fower than twenty-four million still further delay legislation. passengers without serious injury | Moreover, the samo purpose could to anyone or loss of a passenger be achieved by the Institution of life. Tho interruption was all the the referendum. Such an amend- Constitution might' more regrettable since during the 'ment in tho

in.

to

whole of the year there had been also be construed as an attempt express to hamper the Labour Party when- no suspension of the

ever it may return to office, and services on account of military or

tho welcome this in itself might urge political activities-a change from past times. There is Labour Party to those very ex- ovidence to be found in the cosses of policy which it is a main statistics included in the annual object of the proposal to avoid. these are only report that more passengers are But perhaps using the railway, one of the factors academie considerations, for no no doubt being the Improvements long as the Crown, that is, the which have been made by cutting Prime Minister, can create poors down the time occupied in the at will, the preponderating, party

new Ar

"For A steak to melt in your mouth, air, is BOMETHING but it's not EVERYTHING.

the lives and happiness of others In his mad stampede for nordid sensation. Or Nature may not have endowed him too generously in the "sex appeal" line so he drinks with the boys till closing time, drifts like a dismasted, rud- derless derollet into disreputablo, post-midnight resorts..

The last scene of all that ends this ignoble, eventful history finds him destitute of ambition, moral integrity or self respect, losing hie dobt to job for insobriety and wake up in Tilbury Dock a sadder and a wlser man.

CORRESPONDENCÉ,

A Water Suggestion.

(To the Editor, Hongkong Telegraph.]

Sir, I wonder whether it is modically safe to make use of the sea water off the Praya at Wan- chai and in the Central. District for bathing and for washing dishes? If it is, then a lot of water can be saved by encourag- ing the Inhabitants of those two congested areas to get sea water and use it where ever possible.

Everyono hates to use briny water for bathing when fresh water can be obtained, but I feel sure that the case with which one can get a bucketful of sea water, contrasted with the long and tedious waiting at tho "atreat hydrants, should provide an Incen tive suficient to counteract any, dislike for salt water..

Perhaps some of your medical. readers will enlighten us on this Isubject. Yours, sto,

WANOHAIIAN.