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not rudo to their dependants." "Scott," he hastens to explain, "wan kind to his dependants. He was the ulcer sort of anob: the civil sort...He was sympathetic to the failings of others. He was loyal a degree. He was modest, humorous and wise." We will pass over these words and proceed to take nota that Mr. Partington's work has served to recall the tre- mendous number of letters with which Scott was called upon to deal. Day after day, it is shown, heavy baga of mail would be dump-

DAY BY DAY

NO

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OFF THE GOOD MANNERS BY DOUGLAS JERROLD STANDARD

to 1914.

The

PEACE OF MIND 18 FREEDOM OF EACH age faces life in a different casional assistance la pronunciation manner. Looking backward from the pseudo-Oxford accents of MIND, IN THAT IT SUBMITS TO THE over history we recall England ad- the B.B.C. announcers, give me the NECESSITY OF EVENTS, AND FOLLOWS venturous under Elizabeth and impression of being moral by com- THEIR LAWS AS IF THE HEART ITSELF timid under the first Stuarts; Eng-pulelon. A few broad jokes would HAD

CONCERN IN THEM land puritan under Cromwell and clean the atmosphero.

brond under the Restoration: Eng-

great race of music-ball Auerbach.

land drunk under the four Georges comedians la extinct save for a few A woman earth enrrier was injured and sober under Victoria; England veterans. It has bean driven off yesterday in a fail from an upper making a public display of virtue the boards by anomic double-jointed storoy of a house under construction at Yuchow Street. She was admitted from 1850 to 1800, and making a young men lisping their double en- to the Kowloon Hospital, with a public display of lovity from 1890 tente in accents capable of only ona

explanation. fractured arm and other injuries.

But if the manner altered, sonic- The simple vices are Fr. L. Banchio, of the local Italian times for better and sometimes for fashionable as the strong drinks; Mission, loft for Neplds en the worse, mannera remained, to testify ed at Abbotsford, costing the re-flakone Maru on Saturday. He has to the robust integrity of the social the modern hero profers bath salts clplent some £150 a year in postal been invalided home on medical ad-frame work and to a fundamental to beef steaks. The most damning

Ennutorium vice to enter~a

the reality and the imitation alike, fees. Yet, we are told, Scott was

norvous diseases, and may be expect agreement about the fundamental indictment of the whole thing, of

loyalties. always kindly in such matters,ed back in about a year.

To-day manners of any kind are is that it took Mr. Noel Coward with treating the importunate.

A corpae recovered from the water out of fashion. We say what we only two minutes of dumb show in amazing

the

near the Kowloon Godowns yesterday, think and not what society thinks the Night Club scene in "Cavalcade" The pre-war convention had ita think I shudder to has been identified na being that of we ought to think. We do what we to get it all down-and out. Leung ring-hang an unemployed sea-like, and the more it displeases bur

how many votes the late George Ed- man, of 20, Park Street, who com friends the better pleased we are drawbacks. mitted suicide on Sunday by throwing

wardes won for the late Lord Ox- himself from the ferry Man Wat.

ford in his House of Lords camp-

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with ourselves..

Musical Comedy Test. -

"Something Different."

Es un-

friendliness. By thirteenth letter book, Sir Walter's post bag became a thing of terror: "it bores," as Mr. Partington aptly remarks, "become more boring, its

It is requested that members of the boggata mere brazen, its toadies

in the ceremony! All generalisations are faulty, nign by his invariable habit of publle. Interested tondier."

connected with the distribution of and this one perhaps no less so than giving an hereditary title to the the student of dude in every musical comedy he What is to be learned, from these police medals by II. E. the Officer the others. But

Administering the Government in the manners in particularly fortunate staged. But at least the dude was

the Central Police letters, of the character of Sir compound of

arm of coincidence interested guide, one almost in-It took the Walter Scott? To quote the re- Station to-morrow, be in their places in one respect: he has one dis-a gentleman and behaved as such.

by 4,56 p..

fallible, because impersonni, source stretched to its utmost to get him viewer. "it is clear, in the first

During the week ended September of reference. Not his friends, net into even the most faintly com- place, that serious people trusted

17, four enses of cholera, with three his acquaintances, not even his promising altuntión. him with their most intimate con-

deaths, two imported) were report-enemies, but those whose business ed. Of the cholera cases, two were it is to hold the mirror up to nature.

As for what the modern librettist [fidences. It is clear also that men

from Victoria and two from Kow-

To study contemporary manners and women of distinction realised loon. There were also three cases of

from but to the theatres of Piccadilly radiant innocence would have made that behind his vanity there exist- typhoid, with one death, one case of we go not to Mayfair or Belgravia would call his "girl friend," her

diphtheria, and one death

very parison. She tou, of course, was n the truth ed a core of dignity, pride, and ox-meningitis. Deaths from pulmonary circus and Shaftesbury-avenue. The Dickens's heroines fast by com

peer's daughter, when cellent sеnsе.

It is clear that this tuberculosis last week totulled forty-play's the thing. And n

eight. On Monday there was a clean strange, thing it is tool

We must take our cuc, of course, was known, or at least she was an convention of by ken bagħatau 'darling of the public' could flout bill of health. -

not from the theatre proper, which heiress, and it was the publle whenever, us in the

apes the manners of the epoch it those simple days that heiresses from the were unfallingly aristocratic. And Byron scandal, loyalty was in-

284 representing, but musical comedy and the farce. And as with famous men-according to valved. It is clear also that he was

their official biographies-the other what do we find? adulation politely bored by the

All our old friends are gone. The girls--circus girls, Qunker girls, offered. M. Charles Nodier, no in-

innocent country girl with a voice country girls and what not-had all considerable figure, sent him some

of silver and a heart of gold; the Intong noticed "something different" - adulatory verses. Scott docketed

able friend: The following table issued by impecunious Earl and his inseparabout her. How. klotic it all was. equally im- But was it? William of Wyke- this effusion as follows:-French the Kwangtung River Conservancy pecunious but slightly more in- ham, when he founded Winchester CHRISTENSEN. Jens Peter Chris-jeluge. Moonshine in water. Three Commission shows the height of telligent younger son; the sinister and New College, Oxford, some een- tensen, of Green Island Cement blue beans in a blue bladder. Con water in English feet on the dates company promoter with designs on turies ago, chose as their motto the named in the West, North and the heroine's virtue: the stern celebrated "Manners makyth man." Works, Hok Un, Kowloon, aged traat this sort of sense with the East Rivera: 05 years. Funeral will pass Monument to-dný ní 5 p.m. hysterical complacency of a Victor

Huge. There is no comparison. West Rear st Scott, as a character, emerges at North River at His centenary virile and supreme."

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

The family of the late Mr. Lo Chung Kue tender their heartfelt thanks to all friends for their presence the funeral for letters of condolence and for flural tributes in their sad bereavement.

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1932,

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these old hindrances!" Thus are beauty spots butchered

to

Old England Disappearing. The battle in England between mellow old beauty and insistent modern utility has recently found THE SCOTT CENTENARY quite a number of lovely avenues, old cottages and quaint villages in the front line. Mr. Justice Eve, | Hongkong Scotsmen do well

Il distinguished. London High night to honour the memory of Court judge, says of the new traffic "I regard those long black Sir Walter Scott, the great novelist, ways: historian and poet, the centenary of streaks of roads that traverse mile country with whose death is being observed in after mile of the

Pro- nothing short of horror." all parts of the world to-day.

gress, the motor-car, the char-a- has well been said of Scott that he bancs and the packing of 76 exalted and purified the novel and per cent. of the English people "We Inust made the name of Scotland known into towns, shout, throughout the world, Prior to his get about quickly! Out of the way advent, Scottish history was vir-with

the tually an unwrought mine;

make an omnibus holidny. Waverley novels changed all that.

Desecration of rural scenery in What is more, by his erudition, his recent years hus called into being unconventional manner of writing, a Roads Beautifying Association and his total freedom from the which is striving to endow high- ways with something of the beauty Academic point of view, he exer- cised a vast influence on the intel- of old English roads and lanca. In one or more of the English lectual life of his country. In housing laws in which compulsion character, courageous, generous and

was used against reluctant land- genial, he made a deep impression holders, Parliament inserted a on those who enjoyed his friend-elause saying that "regard should ship. Of his works, it is sufficient be had to the amenities of the to say that they have won him last- neighbourhood." So with roads and other "improvements" and ing and worldwide fame.

The bludgeon The centenary is being markedshould be used sparingly by those

"developments." by the publication of a wealth of engaged in carving England for Scott literature which is sure to the new speed. England is in n find a wide and ready market. peculiar position in this matter. Amongst these may be mentioned She is amall. There is the story a "Pageant" in which the best of "the American visitor," who is passages from Scott's novels will said to have remarked, "In Eng- land I'm afraid to go for a walk appear in R anthology selected

before breakfast for fear of falling by Mr. Hugh Walpole. Then there off the island." It is not so small is A

selection from

as that. But the more of her Scott's Letter Books, which Mr. rustic charm she loses, the less Walpole has enabled Mr. Wilfrid she has. And the carvers.of Eng- Partington to produco. It is en- land for the new speed might well titled "Sir Walter's Post Bag," and remember that the country of Sul- it includes those letters which were gravo Manor and Boston, Lincoln- omitted from the earlier volume, shiro, and Stratford-on-Avon can- The Private Letter Books of Sir not afford the loss of her quiet countryside. The more turbulent- Waltor Scott," In passing, it may the aparking plugs of progress, be noticed that Mr. Walpole intends the greater the value.of, the leafy to bequeath this his acquisition to peace that is England. the National Library of Scotland-- a gesturo which is most welcome, In connexion with the rodecoration Boeing that the letters are of sur of the King's Restaurant aming-room and dance hall, which has won much passing interest, and value. The favourable comment, it may be noted publication of those now letters has that the curtains and pelmets of modern design artificial slik, in shades In comment. of gold, crap gif raised some inta

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disastrous results, and so there is No Man's Land.

a certain superficial logic in our With their corporeal presence has elide from the manners standard. gone their language, their idioms, But in it really wise to cut our- ecives off so quickly and so com- and their accent. "Mine's Scotch," I actually, heard a musical pletely from the habits of other and. The following cable at the close comedy hero say a few weeks back. certainly more prosperous days?

There is a case against romanti- nced our of the sugar market yesterday has Shades of George Grossmith, whose

bohn said, to make the ridiculous Shaws, our Maughame, and our been received by Mesars. Pen-privilege it used to be, as Max Beer-cism, of course. We

sublime. But not in that language. Lonsdales to take the gilt off the gingerbread occasionally. Nature Sez you? Oh yeah!

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I don't profess to have this patois has two sides and the mirror must of the half-work at the tip of my reflect them both. But there is no tongue. Indeed, one's only pleasure Justification that I can see for in visiting the world of the modern idealising the second rate, for musical comedy is to feel that one romanticising the vulgar, and for is getting an authentic glimpse of gilding the suburban hollyhock and a world where no white man has housing it as an orchid. ever penetrated. We might even say "no man."

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The Modern Hero,

Bright Young Things.

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"Manners makyth man." But bad manners do not even make bad men: These yearning young suburbans, they only make gigolos. Let us get with their

pertly sophisticated back soon and for good to our silly speaking the romantic world where every girl language of Hollywood with oc-speaks with the tongue of an angel

-women

and every man is brave and strong and chivalrous. Mannors may be artificial, but so are the virtues. Hearts of gold may and do beat. under rough exteriors, but a man who deliberately refuses to learn or Bets aside manners has a heart of brass.

Great men in overy generation have spoken to their contemporaries in the accents of the common people, but never in the argot of the con- temporary bright young things.

We are not horo to express our- acives, but to help other people. Manners are the grammar of virtue. Conventional "good manners" many only be an imitation of this reality, but when good manners became a habit tho Yahoo became a citizen... An age of bad manners is an age of bad citizens; an age which treats unpleasant vices as jokes is an age without a sense of humour, and an age without a sense of humour is an age which will never learn to 1eriticise itself.

Better than Haarlem, Whon wo rogain our sense of humour we shall realise that the language of Shakespeare is superior to the language of Haarlem; that the accents of Gladstone aro superior to the accents of a love. sick saxophonist; and that the re- ticence of our parents was more sophisticated and more expressive than the "frankness" of Bloomia- bury. In which connexion, as they say in the House of Commons, students of sociology may note that the fall in the birth rate from 25 to 12.per thousand in seven years le the most catastrophic fall over to-- corded in the whol blatory of thể ng