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DAY BY DAY

TAKE CARE THAT YOUR GREAT- NESS MAY NOT FAIL THROUGH CRAVEN FEARS OF BEING GREAT.

Depression Blues

SI sit by my window now, And I admit that those men the rain is coming down in and women, who have been active sheets. Although it is only in business and professional life, noon, it le as dark as night. In who wore our leaders during the direct view of this window is my World War and the days of rock garden, which has been economic complacency that fol- Injuries to her right Jaw and temple transformed into a regular water-lowed, have grown weary, were received by a woman named fall, washing away some bf the found themselves unable to popular, the expense will materially Wong Chi, aged 21, of 230, Reclamin- choicest plants and submerging with the changing conditions,

vices

more extend and become

and progressively decrease.

with

in

Association,

But how do I know that the

those speculators who built

St. Hilda's, Canton. During the know it isn't going to rain forever. security. Principal's absence owing to illness, Common sense tells me that.

Miss Wong was acting principal

tur

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Well,

I can't

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have

cape

up

the

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tlon Street, yesterday when she

Again it is only natural that slipped on some fruit peeling outside Home of the largest rocks. Two

young trees, which I planted last this should be so. In the face of At the moment, of course, Hong the Taumati Market.

apring, have been blown ovor. adversity, people who have been kong has no direct interest in these

Reporting the death of Mr. P. T. One garage door has been severely accustomed to success, are apt to developments, but it is a certainty Lamble, 1.5.0., the Japan Chronicle damaged. On the third floor become discouraged and grow that in course of time this Colony states that it followed an operation, from a test which has developed passimistic. It is as if the bottom

large bucket is catching the water; the Medical College Hospital, will be brought within the circle. Nagasaki. Mr. Lamble was Secretary around a dormer window. Ferhad dropped out of things. It is The proposed extension of the ser- in Japan for the Rationalist Press haps more damage has been done, as if our economic paradise and

but I am not in the mood to investumbled down at our feet. vice to India suggests one route by

tigate just now. All in all I am Yes, we must face the facts. Whilst on his way to the Tung not well pleased,

We must admit that the storm hus which we might become linked up. possibly via Malaya. But, quite Wah Hospital, a coolie named Sze Mo,

aged 30, of Quarry Bay, suddenly What will I do about it? Well, reached serious proportions. But apart from the particular route collapsed at the junction of Hennessy I have an idea that I'll get the We must not be swept off our feet by this admission. Wo must ased, Hongkong must eventually Rond and Percival Street and died. rock garden fixed up again as soon

to govern His body was later removed to the as the storm subsides. And while permit common sense come into the Empire system. The Public Mortuary.

it appears to be in a frightful our thoughts and actions. condition right now, I doubt if Amorica has become the most Hongkong Telephone Company in- Following n. quarrel between

the damage has been a serious pessimistic nation in the world. timated some eighteen months ago young married couple of 15. Fas I think.

The garage door can The reason for this is that we that negotiations were in hand as Yuen Street, the wife, Wong Pan be repaired at no great expense. have been disillusioned. Up until

fong, aged 18, attempted to commit a result of which it was hoped that suicide by drinking Sanitas disinfec- And I know that money will be October of 1929 we were led to She WAR taken to hospital found somehow to pay the roofer believe that prosperity had become subscribers in the Colony might tant,

for any work that may be nec-a fixture in the American scheme essary around the dormer window of things. This Utopian idea of in the near future put through calls Ultering from the effects.

be made our economic condition was pecu- to subscribers in London,

Mr. W. Woodward, of the Public Yes, everything will subsequent extension to embrace all Works Department, who was driving spick and span again as soon as liarly American. No other nation in the world was capable of such the important cities of the world.motor car No, 2553 in Hennessy Road the storm subsides.

yesterday, knocked down Chinese

dream. Quite naturally, when near Stewart Street. The Nothing has since been made public woman

victim was struck by the bumper of the storm is going to subside? How the crash came, we were totally unprepared for it. The paradise on the subject, but, in view of the ear but was not badly injured, as she do I know that the rain is going in which we had been living had enterprise which this Company has went away without requiring any to stop and the sun is going to snapped our strength, and we were

assistance.

shine? To be frank with you, I

helpless when the props were displayed in the improvement and

have no proof. I see no sign of knocked from under us. We be Miss Florence Wong, B.A., one of the sun breaking through the expansion of its services, we can the pioneers of co-education of Ilong-clouds, yet I know the sun is going the ones responsible for that state came confirmed pessimista. and not doubt that the matter is still kong University, was married to Mr to break through, maybe not to of mind are those politicians and

at the local

but being kept well in mind. The ad. Li, banker, of

Supreme Court yesterday.Miss Wong day, maybe not to-morrow,

soon. I find no indication that vantages which would accrue to the returned from England last year to the rain is going to cease, yet that falso idea of economic

fill the port of Assistant Mistress at Colony through being telephonically connected with the leading com-

But common sense will extricate Common sense will give us merical centres of the globe are too the institution in the early part of! And while the elements

are us.

is Bo much my window, that strength that obvious to need emphasis, and any the year. She is a contributing edi-raging outside of

needed now. This depression had storm of the Ching Weekly Review, and there is another

raging

purpose. stops which could be taken to exar done journalistic work for papers over my hand, an economic storm. and it has pedite the provision of such a sin Siam and Malaya, besides contri- My garden of stocks and bonds, What that purpose is, I don't buting to English journals. Mias no highly prized and admired a know. But my faith in this world vice would be appreciated by re-wong is a niece of the proprietor of few years ago, has been washed and in that Power that overns it sidonts and business interests alike, the Commercial Press, Kuain Lum-way. That door of dividends, is such that I cannot doubt.

pur. The couple left for the North which I had closed and barred for the honeymoon. Monkeying With the Herring

against the approach of the wolf, Every day I hear poople-and' is being you hear people-talking about It was doublless well-intentioned

Mrs. WT. Southorr gave a most has broken loose and determination to do his bit toward enjoyable "At Home" to a large num-badly battered. A leuk has de-the depression. And quite natur- Long-distance telephony is no balancing the British budget thatber of lady residents of the Colony veloped in the roof of my economically the loudest voices

at Government House yesterday af-castle, and a flood of bills and ones that any the rain will not Folkestone ternoon.

The function was delight- foreclosures comes pouring in, coaso and the skies will not clear. longer a novelty. None the less, recently prompted a

I Whenever I hear in character, and threatening to

them, inundate me.

reminded of that quotation from such rapid strides have been maileCustoms officer to class monkeys as fully informal

bipeds able to duty. Four-legged everyone present was made to feel certainly am not pleased.

thoroughly nt home. It was quite

Shakespeare: "The empty vessel in this matter during the past few

creatures enter the United Kingan international gathering, and this

makes the greatest sound." ind What will I do about it? also years that we are apt to overlook dom duty free, and the eventual

fenture

manifested was

some people tell me

do "Are you an "empty vessel "Are to which the contributors were many weeks ago, another dream was scored a point for the few remain Madame Evelie, Faru von Winterfeldt, tell me the damage is beyond re- faith? Are you one of those poor,

Madanic in Britain. It Miss Elsa Alves,

Mein, pair. Some people tell me that deluded ones who believed that. realised when a direct service was ing free traders

Madame Ferrajole, Mrs. Sanger and this economic storm established between England and may also have come as a relief Miss Amelin Lee. Tea and refresh to subside until it has carried us ever and now believe that the de-

not going prosperity was going to last. for the long-tailed tree dwellers whogements were served, and

during the all downstream. And Canada. This eliminates the pecus.

I can't pression is permanent? If you are being afternoon Mrs. Southorn, who was a sity of using New York as an inter- possible sensitiveness at

charming hostess, intimated that she argue with, these people. I have one of those evil rumour-mongers, catalogued as two-legged beings hoped to arrange a series of such no proof to offer them, I see no one of those chronic pessimists, mediary and provides the penulti-

seems quite to have been overlook-functions during the cool season. bright sign ол our economic you cannot be the prophet of the

horizon. But I know the clouds new era that is about to mate link in a chain which it ised by an unimaginative bureau-

are going to break and the sun is We must look elsewhere. hoped will soon girdle the whole eracy. After all, though, Juifet's

going to shine. Common Bense Empire. When the service to tender reference to the rose is as

tells me that.

Oh, I realize it's easy to have the blues to-day. I realize it's India has been established, White-true to-day as when her sweet ac-

Oh, I'll admit that this economic rather difficult sometimes to keep hall will be in direct conimunication cents dropped to the eagerly at-

storm is violent. There are those a stiff upper lip. But the cagy who say that it is the most violent things in life are not generally with all the Dominions. Indeed, it tending Romeo, and the walls of hat moonlit garden still echo her

one we have ever' experienced, the big things. And we have need has been suggested that the time sentimental appeal, "What's in a Kwangtung River Conservancy Com-

The following table lasued by the And I don't doubt it. We are liv-of big things to-day. may not be far distant when, with { name?" Take, for instance, the case mission shows the height of watering in an age, of superlatives. Wel a perfected television system of the herring. Is it less de-in English feet on the dates named went through the most stupendous

in the West, North and East Rivers: war in all history; we enjoyed the periods like this before. If we do well, it would be possible to hold an lectable when it is gathered in its

Aug greatest era of prosperity the not believe so, it is because record. un record. 14 Imperial Conference-or at least infunt form and becomes "surdine," an Imperial consultation-with the for, duly smoked by a process which principal delegates sitting comfort amounts almost to ritual, changes ita cognomen to "kipper," that ably in their own lands in their res-

breakfast delicacy dear to all trite East River at mctive armchairs. Whether that

Britons? While no mention is is an idle dream or not there can made to this most proletarian of be no questioning the advantages fish in the "Pirates of Penzance," of speedy and direct contact be one of the sights in that Old World tween various parts of the Empire. port is the little fishing fleet which It is worthy of note that with leaves at sundown for the outer the recent linking of Britain with harbour. There i anchors, in fair weather plainly in view of the South Africa, Egypt and Canada,

townsfolk, and with great seines, the British telephone subscriber throughout the night, sunres the can now put in calls, to ninety-five larger herring that shoal the waters, per cent. of the telephone-using | of the English Channel. And when London has, in fact, become the fishermen dump their catch the most imporant telephone junc-along the beach at dawn, no longer tion in the world. What has been are they merely herring. No one who has ever visited the rock- accomplished in the short space of girded Cornwall city will forget five years may be gathered from the the sturdy fishwives cry, as they fact that at the beginning of 1927 clatter along the cobbled streets, the only foreign areas in direct con-of "Pilchard herring! Pilchard tact with England were parts of herring!" Less picturesque but France and Belgium. Now, the in-vastly popular to the cockney dustrial magnate or the newspaper the same herring when, by still an-

other

process, it becomes a editor in need of urgent informa-

"blonter." And last, but certainly tion can, with as little trouble ns by no means least, there floats on is necessary for a trunk call in the wave of memory the musical England, get into touch with New | call of the plaid-shawled fishwoman York, Cairo, Moscow, Sydney, Wel- of Abordeen, "Wha'll buy my caller lington, the Senndinavian capitals, herrin', fresh horria' ?" the Balkans, and the principal

what has been accomplished. Not ruling that monkeys are quadrupeds the programme of music and daue anything about it. Some people you one of those persons of little

workl

The death is

to

in

announced in Д

towns of South America. All these Glasgow paper of Mrs. Jane Camp- services have been inaugurated bell Garraway, wife of the late James

same instrument Death occurred in

Garraway, from the

of Hongkong and Glasgow. home on Indy and her Enlling. If this rate of progress is Juno. 23. The decensed Indy maintained, within another ten husband were well-known in long- kong, the late Mr. Garraway having years wo shall find it almost im-been for many years employed at the possible to conceive how we have Kowloon Docks. Quite a number of the older. residents of the Colony will. got along in our international re- remember them.

WATER LEVELS.

WEST NORTH AND EAST ¦

RIVERS

Highest on lowest Aug.

:

17

Went River at

Sholing -+-41.7 North River at

Tingyuen 4.41.7 1 North River at

Samshui -4-27.3 -.3

Shacklung 4-15,5 2.5

0

33.3

9.7

8.1

1.6

C.0

dawn.

America has been through

because

We

we

world has ever known; now we have forgotten, or

our ceonomic 33. appear to be suffering from the have not studied

worst depression. Everything history. We had storms similar to-day is either "the best" or "the to this back in 1937, and in 1873, 21.0 worst." and right now "the worsts" and again in 1893. We have had numerous squalls of lesser degree. c., are on top.

And each time we have recovered. Each time the sun has shone, a little brighter and a little warmer. And I believe now that the sun- shine will be all the more glorious fafter the clouds have passed away.

"I hope passengers aren't expected to do anything, as I

know very little a bout aeroplanes."

As I glance out of my window again, the rain is still coming down. The clouds are still hang-

wind ing low, and the

Ig still howling. There is still no break in the west.

But I know it is going to clear. Common sense tells me that. I know the storm is almost over. It can't last much longer. And to-morrow I expect to go out and ix up that rock garden. I expert to prop up those trees and repair the garage door. And when I get through, I expect to go over and help my neighbour, for the atorm has done considerable damage there, too. And the day. after to- morrow-well, just wait and sec; you won't even know we've had a storm.

Oh, this weather is very dopres- sing, and I could be blue, too. But I find it more profitable to bo gay. So I am planning my future along. the lines of Edward Everett Hale's famous motto: "Look up and not duwn, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lond R hand."

II. G. M.

The many friends of Mr. B. D. Evans, of the Royal Observatory, will regret to learn that he is at present, a patient in the Kowloon Hospital, where he has undergone operation for appendicitis. He is progressing as well as can be expected,