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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932.

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

HOW TO BEHAVE The Very Idea!

A

By ROBERT LYND

these points, the fact remains that a very great deal more might be done in the way of mitigating the effects of the disease. Considerations of hu manity urge the desirability of some definite step being taken, to say nothing of the continued

CORRESPONDENT makes that it gave the excellent advice a discussion on the danger to public health implied by the presence of no

ma: the request: "Would you tell that "in

of Latin in education, a humorous gufferers in our midst. Existus of some books to read to help causes of panics, or of the place ing institutions, not specially us ordinary folk to talk better, to sally is not out of place." But all be able to behave in the correct the difficult thing is to think of equipped for the work, do they can, but even their best is way in company, in fact, books to the humorous sally. far from adequate. Difficult as help us in the ordinary walk of the problem is, it will have to life?" be faced sooner or later. A de- termination to succeed would open up the ways and means.

Those "Key" Words

Count Keyserling says in one of his books that the English aro of individualists who tolerate even the greatest eccen- I wish I knew of a recipe for nation talking well that could be found tricities of behaviour in society. in a book. If I did, I should As an example, he tells us that thumb it till I had made myself he was present at a fashionable party in London at which one of one of the wits of London,

the guests, a poot, appeared in As a boy, I experienced all the evening dress, but in bare feet, By process of drastic agonies of finding myself tongue- and that no one took any more elimination a French professor tled on being introduced to a notice of this than if he had been dressed according to convention. claims to have reduced the beautiful stranger at a labour of making oneself intelli-There was a prejudice in thos0 AT A PARTY gent in a foreign language to days against talking about the IN BARE FEET. memorising some eighty "key" words.

dance.

nt

of

I fancy the Count's experience Out of these, he con-weather, and on such occasions tends, several thousands of my mind was an absoluto blank of English life was exceptional. everything except the I certainly cannot think of a phrases can be built, including about all the conversation that a visi-weather. I could have been com- single house that I know tor in a strange country needs. paratively bright on the subject which you or I could appear at electrical of the recent rain or the recent an ordinary party in bare feet

without becoming an object With the aid of an "cramming" machine, which can drought, the recent cold spell. or interest-even, perhaps, of dis flush any desired combination the recent hot spell; but honour like to the other guests. Britons never will be slaves, but most of or permutation of the "key" kept me silent.

them are slaves to convention. words into the brain of the

In this, I think, they are right. Convention is the English sub stitute for the military training of the Continental nationa...

in THE PIONEER'S

It

OPPORTUNITY.

I

MEET THIS METEOR.

By Edward "Twinkla" Kelly: Matcors are expected to appear in the sky any time this year be- People wearing their new win- tween now and December 31. tot clothing nood feel for alarm, as there is no more chanca of them being struck by a meteor than there is of the Gov- ernment completing the Shing Mun dam in a blue moon.

ing.

Do cause

The speed of meteors is amaz- If you would travel around the a meteor you. earth as fast as would meteorself coming back.

That is only one of the marvels of our solar system.

The planets, for instance, are like the discussion on manufactured out of nebulous gases, China and Japan at the League constantly of Nations, and are whirling around each other.

If they stopped whirling, it would be the end of the whirled.

The vastness of the solar sys

tem can scarcely be realised.

If you were to roll a carraway seed down the Peak, it would only an opproximate idea give you how long It would take to walk to Mars in a train travelling at the spoed of light.

Comets travel even faster than this. Naturally, they would comet anything.

What, you may ask, has been done in the way of research to prevent this?

Well, offorts are being made moon. to shoot a rocket to the although so far it is not known лго being what arrangements made at the ather end to shoot it back.

We ourselves incline to the contraction theory, as we have noticed several cracks in Pedder Street and Queen's Road lately.

The only things we are certain about are the meteors.

It seems evident to us that the enraged inhabitants of another world are throwing off at us.

pupil, he makes a linguist of 'THE ART you almost while you wait. OF MUMBLING. True, test carried out in On one such evening began in London showed up certain desperation to mumble a remark

At the same time, I do not like rather obvious deficiencies in that seemed to me so little worth the Professor's abbreviated saying that I hoped my partner to see a fellow creature. Buffering dictionary, but gesticulation can would not hear it. She asked me pain merely because he has come bridge many an embarrassing what I had sald, and I mumbled in a black tie to n white-tle party.

Nor, for that matter, is it lacuna. The real' trouble is that it again still more indistinctly. Some of the greatest men of old

To my delight I found that even might have done as much, and a known who will get it in the neck this new system does not ap

nolsce philosopher can live through even when the stick, falls off: these fow inarticulate

enormous blunders with

The object of the experiment is pear to exempt the foreign visitor (even in London) from were enough to break the ice, and more

chattering comparative equanimity. The golden to investigate the craters of the my partner began a

about behaviour is to moon, as it has so far been im- suffering the customary and monologue that lasted (with oc- rule

to ascertain whether outrageous indignity of being casional mumbled Interruptions) do the right thing if you know possible answered fluently in his own till, to my great relief, she was it, but, if you commit a blunder, these craters are members of the

natural to behave as if you had done it egg-packing or fowl-crating genii. tongue! This experience is al carried off by a more

deliberately. If you find that Our ignorance in these matters mistake In is brilliant. you have måde ways sufficient to discourage the converantionalist. most thick-skinned tourist. Why

We do not.aven know how the Since then, I have always, as a drinking water out of the finger- does not somebody reduce the conversationalist, practised the bowl, do not feel confused, but Milky Way gets that whey, and experiment Lo its logical con- art of mumbling. So long as the go on drinking it as if you knew there are even conflicting theories In again bringing forward clusion and invent a universal other person does not hear the what you were doing and liked it as to whether the earth is expand-

ing or contracting. the matter of the desirability of

sign language, which would ridiculous things I am saying, I special provision being made for absolve one from the necessity am perfectly happy. And, the treatment of tuberculosis, of learning any new words, and ninety-nine cases out of a hundred Mr. M. K. Lo, at Tuesday's meet-yet see one safely through any the other person is only too eager

A brave man, if he chose, could cat peas off a knife in a West End ing of the Sanitary Board, situation in any clime? It to do all the talking.

Not that I entirely abandoned restaurant, and quell criticism by pursued a subject on which he should not be beyond the wit of feels very strongly. He has be- man to codify the common law the hope of becoming a scintillat his coolness. The first woman little who powdered her nose in public hind him, also, a large body of embracing, with discretion, ing talker, I bought a public feeling, for there can be parts even of the very common work by Dean Swift on "Polite was probably a woman who did If the Conversation," hoping that the not understand etiquette and who,

XAMS SHOPPING TRAGEDY. no questioning the fact that the law-of gesticulation. existing means for fighting this Red Indians can carry on ani- secret might become mine at laat, on realising her mistake, did not

"Now are you sure," she ask- but found it strangely useless for turn a hair but deliberately con- without

tinued to powder. Since then her ed, "that these are ahem, er, deadly scourge are totally in-mated conversationa

n schoolboy.

entire sex has followed her

ahem, all right? My nieces are adequate. Even on the basis opening their mouths, why

example., A MUSICAL

not like these modern girls. You of official figures, nearly two should we not all do so? The

world would become a much less LAUGH.

The conventions of to-day are, know their grandfather_was

missionary. Dreadful thousand people die every year noisy place for one thing, and

many of them, breaches of the famous in this Colony from tubercu-there would probably be much

Since then I have dipped into conventions of yesterday, so that time he had too. But I always losis; the

figure,

many works on the subject, but startling less dubiety about what people; with no more success. There was the man who commits a brench of think it's so interesting to think enough though it is, would be intended to say to each other the book, for instance, that told the conventions of to-day, if he of all these poor heathen, who do much larger but for the fact especially at international con- me that in order to be an attrac docs so without too obtrusive an not know how to read or write. that so many Chinese who conferences. Perhaps simple gestive tract the disease go to native districts when it is ap parent that they cannot hope to recover. Nearly three years ago, Mr. Lo urged the provision of a properly equipped sanitor- ium, and the upshot of a full- dress debate in the Sitnitary Cats when they become vocal Board was the passing of a re-usually discourse such futuristic solution, sponsored by Dr. Wel- sort of music that it is difficult lington, requesting the Govern- to believe in the Rottingdean the ment to give consideration to cat who sings sweetly in the establishing of some form village choir. Perhaps we have of Poor Law infirmary for the done cats an injustice. Instead care of chronic cases. Mr. Lo of discouraging midnight ren- of very Hungarian has now seen fit to again bring derings the question forward, and the rhapsodics by throwing old boots Government attitude is that, at the performers, perhaps we whilst fully alive to the neces- ought long ago to have realised sity of an infirmary, the matter that here was promising ma- little terial only requiring a cannot be further considered

kindness (and training in voice until the Colony's finances per production) to bring it to full mit. The subject, however, is fruition. One recalls the vio- much more than a financial one.linist who prevailed upon his cat It involves many issues. First to supply an obbligato by pull- and foremost, there is overing its tail at the appropriate crowding, which is the main passages. It is only fair, con- contributory factor in the spread sidering how much we owe to of the disease. Here we touch deceased members of the tribe economic problems which are for the melodious sounds that extraordinarily difficult to over-emanate from stringed instru come. Until the overcrowding ments, to give the living repre- evil is seriously tackled, no very sentatives a chance of proving great impression is likely to be that their vocal chords are as made, so far as prevention of potentially capable of charming are other the disease is concerned. We, the human ear as have very admirable laws de- portions of their anatomy. We signed to combat overcrowding, woo nightingales with the 'celle; but they are not rigidly en-why should we not woo

that, with the saxophone, and then forced. The trouble is even in the newly-developed by stages introduce more civilis- of the ed instruments into their train-

ing?

The Singing Cat

you man

arrogance, may be justified in Don't you? But, what I mean to conversationalist I must telling himself that he is a say is, you cannot be too careful their tures conveying simple emotions "cultivate a musical laugh."

poineer.

with the kind of books you give would even make most confer-Rounds easy enough, but, if you

to nice girls like that, can you?" Which of all the conventions try to practice a musical laugh

"No. madam, I am sure ences unnecessary.

and to punctuate somebody else's of our own time would you pre- can't," agreed the young conversation with it you will find for to see changed? I myself al- politely.

"Now I must know," she pur- that it comes out as a ghastly, ways feel curiously envious when tinny, mirthless cackle, occurring I see a countryman drinking tea sued, "have you read these your BO often in the wrong places that out of a saucer. He looks and self, and can you assure me that people will be nervous of sitting sounds-as if the tea tasted bet I shall not get in trouble with ter when drunk in that way. I their mother. I should not like next to you.

am a slave of custom, however, hor to think that I was giving her As for the last book that I read and drink it out of a cup. Here, daughters anything which her on the art of conversation it was definitely, is a pioneer's opport- mother would have forbidden her

It is true unity. equally useless to me,

arcas, tho masses Chinese will crowd together in partitioned rooms, Iargely because 80 many of them cannot afford to rent anything better than bed-space. Another aspect of the question is that by providing anything.

cats

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

WISDOM ACQUIRED BY EXPERIENCE

like Poor Law institutions, SHOULD TEACH US NOT TO LAUGH AT the Colony is liable. to be THE EXPENSE OF OTHERS, FOR HE flooded by people from adjacent WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS THE DEST territory. But, granting all OF ALL

WO

to read. I remember when we were girls together how thrilled were when we were first allowed to read 'Robinson Crusoe.' Have you ever read 'Robsinson Crusoe?" You must one of those days. I am sure you would find it most wholesome and refreshing. Real- ly, some of the things that are printed

these nowadays.

Уда modern novelists. And he auch a good missionary. The Bishop said some very nice things about him at a sale in aid of the work. It's so difficult nowadays to raise money for the missions. This dreadful taxation and all this dumping. And you would not mind giving ther books to your sister?... Oh, you haven't asistor? What a pity! I bo- lieve in lots of girls in a family. Bo jolly, don't you think

Compassion persuaded us assist in the removal of the body, though we suppose we should be regarded as an accessory after the fact. We don't mind. That's nothing to what some people call

us.

W

AND ANOTHER.

to

We have just received the Hon. Mr. Edward Taylor's Christmas Carda beautifully printed bro- chure conveying his best rospects and would wo kindly pay into the Treasury within three days the Bum of G5 cents, this being the Bucond demand, and if it is not paid, our water will be cut off and proceedings will be takon against us.

We think it would have been kinder and more appropriate f the Treasury Department had with holly leaves 'round the edge.

“So this is little Jimmy Town sen! Lord's sake, how you have printed their Christmas greetings

grown i"