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SINISTER. ORIGIN OF MIRTH

By "AN OLD STAGER"

the world has before It, not endemic depression and poverty, but such an era of prosperity as it has never yet achlovod." After point- ing to the tremendous increase in the world's output of wealth in the

Indefatigable scientists

WAY goes another comfort-lord of hearty laughter? Childron able old superstition. Our laugh morrily over the antica of a years preceding the present brenk-ING.

are not clown in the circus, or oven at down, the writer naks: "By what

content with exploding the atom, the splash of water from a wofr. An eminent psychologist, im- It will take a platoon of university The .. Nellore, with the Austra-proving on Henri Bergson, has professors to convince porverse reasoning can new oppor-Han mails, is dac here on Wednesday performed a sort of analytical when they do so, they are uncon- me that, tunities to obtain a larger total of morning. economic

post-mortem on human laughter, sclously but scientifically imitat- goods, at an evor

The P. and O s.. Rajputana in due and pronounces it a thoroughly ing the bared fangs of the wolf decreasing cost in human effort, be here from Singapore with the English Binistor thing. Before we know hound. What ration has the regarded as an 'oxplanation" of de-mails at 6 am. on Thursday. where we are, some vigilant M.P. laughter that roa orowded will be bringing in a Blil, under music-hall, over the comic goa- pression?" And the answer is Mr. and Mrs. G. Franklin Nightin- the ten minutes rule, to extend the ture of a grant comedian, fo PRICE H.K.$5,320.

that "the world's machinery of cur-gale were present at their Majesties D.O.R.A. provisions to all forms "superior adaptation"? I signally rency, exchange and what, for want garden party at Buckingham Palace of human machinnation, and Mr. fail to detect its sinister echo.

on July 21.

George Reboy will be manacled THIS CAR HAS

Keats sings, in his most popular of a better term, may be summed

under an armed guard in the poom, of dance and provencal up in the term 'good will have wos Hung-yan, 17, a shop foki as The psychologist's theory is sunburnt mirth is rural mirth, and

A fractured skull was suffered by Tower of London.

songs and sunburnt mirth. Now SAFETY CLASS STUDE..

threatened to prove unequal to the a result of a fall from a cockloft, that when people laugh they are rural mirth BAKER FREE-WHEELING

demands made upon it."

signides laughter. SYNCHRONIZED SHIFT-

merely exhibiting the same maal- always. What sinister note is ING VACUUM SPARK

festations as a dog does when he struck by the resonant laughter The first Issue of the "Pletorial shows his teeth.. CONTROL AUTOMATIC

Laughter, we of jolly peasants at a harvest they do not appear to over-state | Review", a local journal consisting are assured, is a human evolution supper? STARTING

the actual

But throughout tho FULL

largely of photographs, is to hand. of the canine anal, and its basic latest scientific analysis of laugh- facts. Progressive The illustrations cover a wide range CUSHIONED POWER

thinkers in all walks of life, of local personalities and events, but reaction to primitive instinct is ter there runs. a half-binted aug HYDRAULIC

bankers, economists and states-duction. SHOCK

somewhat through poor repro-entirely sinister. It denotes a gostion that the world to-day de- thoroughly unaimable and nasty votes far too much attention to ABSORBERS NON-RESON- men, have long since come to

Impulse. In approved Relentille | humour, and that laughtor is ANT BODY---

realise that the whole económic The speaker at to-morrow's meeting phraseology, to laugh is to signal much too prevalent.

of the Rotary Club will be Mr. Thomas a claim to "superior adaptation.” i structure of the world is threaten. Barringer, former district superin- It means, in simpler language, The Acid Test. ed by the developments of the past tendent of the American relief ad- that we feel personally superior

ministration in Russin. Its subject to somebody or something.

What an unfortunate epoch for few years. The situation will not is to be "Sketches from the Russian classic instance, of course, is the In this post-war sge, whoa men The tho enunciation of that blasphemy. be met by merely muddling along

Famine, 1921-29."

laughter that greets the spectacle git and hear each other groan, the in the hope that matters will

Mina

of some other person's misfortune, more people can find to laugh at, Beth Berl is making a

When, we see a fat man come a 'and the more humour they managė eventually straighten themselves welcome reappearance at the King's

Theatre at present, and during the cropper on a piece of orange skin, to extract from life, the better for out. That way, disaster lies, week-end her work has been greatly or an optimist pursue a half- us all. I prefer the religion of since the absence of constructive admired. In particular, her Fan crown with an invisible thrend ¡Gratiano:

a most popular number. attached to it, we are moved to With mirth and laughter let old and co-operative effort will only She has the advantage of a moat able laughter. And that is just a further complicate and aggravate pianist in M. Moria Litter, whose modern development of the prime. And let my liver rather heat with

wrinkles come; the position, The world calls for notably composition of his noted a challenge based on actual also first-class, val baring of the teeth that con-

wine, leaders who will courageously which calls for much technical skill.

or assumed confidence in physical Than my heart cool with mortify- grapple with the problem. not Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney prowess superior to that of the ing groans." along preconceived lines, but are seen sharing the principal roles interloper.

It is a hotly disputed point, in in Merrily We Go to Hell," the A great many much more learn-popular opinion, whether or not with a determination to apply any

at the King's ed authorities than myself have some animals possess a sense of remedy that gives promise of Theatre, and they both emerge with nccepted this theory as a true humour and the gift of laughter,

flying colours in this dramatic comedy! success. The alternative is

of fast life. The film, which is ad revelation of human psychology. Scfentlic paychologists deny I bave the greatest imaginable either possibility. Thoy may or mirably produced, never dags in in- complete breakdown of the pre-terest, and the casting is, nimost respect for these pundits and may not be scientifically correct. without exception, all that could be savants, but I flatly refuse to toe Man was long ago classified as wished. The minor roles ure in most the line with them on this issue. "an animal that laughs." But capable hands, with Adrianne Allen, They presume, to analyse the most of us have a fooling that Florence Britton, Esther Howard, and atavistic reactions of human laughter is the quintessonco of Skeeta Gallagher all doing excellent beings. They actually do not un-civilisation, and that it signifies work. Decidedly worth Heeing.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1932.

INDICTMENT OF WORLD ORDER

of pro-

gent economic system.

A

Books Authors Read.

What books de authors enjoy most? A question simply anewer

Dance

Solo efforts are

current attraction

爽

especially for the fine neting of the derstand even the modern dog. two principals.

Nothing Sinister.

imankind's emergence from the bruto creation. Scientiße or other- wise, that view appeals to me as the practical truth

sense of

ed: their own, of course. How- ever, in an effort to obtain It

The health bulletir for Eastern My dog bares his teeth if he far nearer "The indictment of the present serious answer to the question,ports for the week ended Sept. 24, senses a personality hostile orthan the doctrine of the essential world order is not that it is un-the French Line recently wrote to

shows the following cases of infectious nimical to the house. He does the sinisterness of laughter.

lisenses and deaths therefrom.same, in just to certain nations, but that it lending American, English and Plague, Baghdad 1 ease 1 death, when he merely wishes to express her baby, and the infant laughs very different way, Why, a happy mother smiles on is ruinous to all." This is not a French authors asking each writer Beirut 1 case, Colombo 3 cases 8

to me his intense appreciation of back. Are we seriously to believe specimen of Socialfat propaganda, to suggest ten of his favourite leaths. Cholera, Calcutta 10 cases

deaths,

From-Penh 2 cases 2 denths, fine sunny afternoon, the near that joyous Infantile crow is a but an extract from the leading books. With this information in Micao 1 case 1 death, Amoy 17 cases promise of a delectable bone, of a survival of the primitive bared

hand, a corner of the library of 5 deaths, Canton 5 cases

I death, jolly walk in country lanes where teeth of caveman savagery? When article in a recent lasuc of the the line's new cabin cruiser, the Shanghal 21 cases i death. Small- rabbits may inhabit. Between the leminent psychologists try to tell Westminster Bank Review. The Champlain, is to be stocked with Baghdad 1 case 1 death, Basrak 2 cases they are tickled to death by some rejoinder. I feel most powerfully pox, Alexandria 2 canes 3 deaths, laughter of human beings, wlienime that, it prompts me to impolite article is entitled "Britain and a the books selected by the writers, 2 deaths, Bombay 7 cases & dicaths, funny episode seen, or narrated, moved to ejaculate a rude America

Calcutta 5 cases & deaths, Madras 14 and the mocking laughter of the "Sez you!" New World Order," and its plea Is and reserved as a tempting re-

canes 1 death, Rangoon 1 case, that Great Britain should take the treat where authors may enjoy Tuticorin 7 cases 1 death, Pondicher villain in the melodrama, when he It was n sturdy

fancies he has the hero or the humour, and the capacity to laugh lond in un endeavour to create a their favourite hooks. John Gals-ry 4 cases 4 deaths, Saigon 1 case,

heroine at his mercy, there is just amid the crack of doom. that dis- new world order based on Inter-worthy, Christopher Morley, Booth

The Straits Settlement Retrench-jus much difference. It will take tinguished the British soldier dur- Tarkington, Gertrude Atherton, ment Committee'a roport has been more than a whole waggon-load of ing the ordeal of the war. national Co-operation.

That Edgar Lee Masters and many issued. The chief recommendations | psychologists to persuada me laughter may have been Homeric, hibitive tariffs, exchange restric-other famous authors bit their provide for cuts of 13 per cent that honest laughter. from the but it certainly was never akin to in personal emoluments as com- tions and other devlees which are pencil tops. But they answered pared to 1931, and 13 per cent. in lunge and not merely with the the canine snarl." throttling world trade, and which the questionnaire. Perhaps they the annually recurrent chergen for the teeth,

anything sinister The truth is that humour, has are ostensibly emergency defen-more than liked the iden of brows. 1089 estimates to be made effective by either in its import or its ancestry. always gravely. offended the un

December of that year. Other pro Hamlet moralises over the grim humerous. There an order of sive measures, it is remarked that ing among books which they had posals Include the following: All fact that a man may smile, and dismal mortals, of the category to read, but overtime allowances to be abolished, be a villain. But nowhere does friend Gratiano inveighed against, "In effect they Intensify the crisis selected, wanted

with certain excoptions, as in the Post Shakespeare suggest that laughter to whom laughter is always "mis- they are designed to counteract. never had time it home even to

Office; no new money for public works is the hall-mark of the minister. timed in tragic A policy based on the assumption glance through. Authors have al- extraordinary for the next two years He was much too acute a psycho-Laughter in other people's tragic presences." ways been interested, in what the

no new recruitment in any branch of that every separate nation can publie thinks of their books. And

Government and no additions to pens legist for that. Is there anything presences is an insult. In our Rionable establishment until the in the least sinister about honestown tragedies it may be an opic. suspend its purchases from other they probably are just as Interest situation improves.

Jack Falstaff, the very source and nations and simultaneously per-ed in knowing how other writers sunde the latter to buy as much judge their work. At the top of of its own goods as before is so the French Line's list, tieing for obviously self-contradictory that

first place, were “Moby Dick" aud "Babbitt." The third group in no conference of any large group favour included "Arrowsmith," of natione representing a con- by Sinclair Lewis, and "The Age siderable share of the world's of Innocence." by Edith Wharton, trade can be expected to give it Other book, which were selected any but the shortest shrift."

more than ones are "The Auto-

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Regarding the forthcoming biography of Lincoln Steffens," World Economic Conference, the "McTeague," by Frank Norris, view is expressed that if it is re- San Luis Rey," Fearl Buck's "The Thornton Wilder's "The Bridge of solutely to endeavour to build a

Good Earth." Stendahl's "Lo now world order, it would appear Rouge et le Noir," Edith Whar essential that no relevant part of ton's "Ethan Frome." Still other its field of inquiry should be barred books selected were "Poems of from consideration, for political Emily Dickinson," Emerson's or any other reasons. Those upon "Esways," "Kim," "Alice in Won- whose shoulders has been placed | derland," "Huckleberry Finn" and the heavy responsibility of deter- "Tales of Poe." So it seems that: mining the future of millions of

a library of authors will, on the people may be asked, not merely to

Champlain, become in part an authors' Ibrary. The idea is Bottle, once and for all, the "tragic good one and well worthy of book-keeping of war," but to doter- imitation, both afloat and ashore. mino the foundations upon which An authors' corner in any library they may build a now and better should serve the double, purpose edifice. "They may be asked to of pleasing writers, potential and act upon the

full-fledged, and of systematically maxim that all measures

informing the reading public what are harmful which seek to attain the pros and recommend.

books discriminating authors rend

pority of any one State by the restriction of the activities of

A pet monkey has been sent as a another. They may reflect that precautionary medical measuro, to prohibitive tariffs close the only servation subsequent to its biting its the depot at Kennedy Town for ob- nvenue along which International owner, Sapper Himbury, of the 40th ¡¡trado may flow." The article ex-ington Barracks.

Company, Royal Engineers, at Woll-

hus

"He stopped writing when I sant him my ploture and told him I would expect him to pay me rent on this place

after we got married.”

The real acid test of humour is the ability to laugh when we jourselves, and not some stranger, are the comic victims of the trancherous orange skin. And that gift of laughing at oneself is one of the most valuable safeguards mankind posuenea. It might, I fancy, be a saving grace even for some.crudito psychologists.

LET US BE ILL

By Dr. Edward Kolly, Assassin. . We have had a dirty trick ¡played on us,

One of our most cherished possessions was blood pressure. We went to ace a doctor about it, and he sounded and plummet- led us and said, "Mm'm!" He {thon retired to his office and.

sharpened his pencil.

That was just the dollars.

Ho came back and wrote some- thing which started off:-"Bin X 22/9/'82; R/ Sedi Chlor, gra x; Ext. Glyey. q. m. XV. | Mitte M & C pal

Which meant a hot bath between meals, in water, and a complete change.

We were cured and we foully done out of a complaint. which we had nursed for years and had got us a deal of sym- pathy while we had the oppor tunity of suffering.

An even foulor trick is whan you go to the consultation room: {suffering from all the symptonte jof cancer, and the fool pounda

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