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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1932.

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM

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process

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HOW TO BEHAVE The Very Idea!

Count Keyserling Bays in one of his books that the English are I wish I know of a recipe for a nation of Individualists who tolerate oven the greatest accen- talking well that could be found tricities of behaviour in society. In a book. If I did, I should As an example, ho tells us that thumb it till I had made myself he was present at fashionable party in London at which one of one of the wits of London.

the guests, a poet, appeared in As a boy, I experienced all the jovening dress, but in bare feet. agonies of finding myself tongue and that no one took any more tied on being introduced to a notice of this than if he had been dressed according to convention. beautiful stranger at a dance. There was a prejudice in those AT A PARTY

THE ART

OF MUMBLING.

MEET THIS METEOR.

By Edward "Twinkle" Kallyc Meteors are expected to appear in the sky any time this year be- People wearing their now win- tween now and December 81. ter clothing need feel no caune for alarm, as there in no more chanco of them being struck by a metoor than there is of the Gov- ernment completing the Shing Man-dam in a blue moon.

ing.

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

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

The planeta, for instance, aro manufactured out of nebulous

like the discussion gases, China and Japan at the League of Nations, and are constantly 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.

on

What, you may ask, has bean done in the way of research to provent this?

Well, offorts are being made to shoot a rocket to the moon, are being although so far it is not known what arrangements made at the other end to shoot it backe

Nor, for that matter, Is It known who will get it in the nack when the stick, falls off:

We do not even know how tho Milky Way gets that whey, and there are even conflicting theories as to whether the earth is expand- ing or contracting.

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 meteore.

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

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

By ROBERT LYND ́ munity urge the desirability of some definite step being taken, to say nothing of the continued

CORRESPONDENT makes that it gave the excellent advice danger to public health implied A

discussion on the by the presence of

the request: "Would you tell that "in a

of Latin in education, a humorous sufferers in our midst. Existus of some books to read to help causes of panles, or of the place ing institutions, not specially us ordinary folk to talk better, to sally is not out of place." But equipped for the work, do all be able to behave in the correct the difficult thing is to think of 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

By a

of drastic elimination a French professor claims to have reduced the labour of making oneself intelli- gent in a foreign language to memorising some eighty "key" days against talking about the IN BARE FEET.

I fancy the Count's experience an absolute blank of English life was exceptional. words. Out of these, he con-weather, and on such occualons tends, several thousands of my mind was

except the certainly cannot think of a

If you were to roll a carraway phrases can be built, including about everything

know at all the conversation that a visi-weather. I could have been com single house that I

give you an opproximate iden tor in a strange country needs. paratively bright on the subject which you or I could appear at seed down the Peak, it would only of the recent rain or the recent an ordinary party in bare foot how long it would take to walk With the aid of an electrical

without becoming an object of to Mars in a train travelling at "cramming" machine, which can drought, the recent cold spell, or interest-even, perhaps, of dia- the speed of light. flash any desired combination the recent hot spell; but honour like to the other guests. Britons Comots travel oven faster than

kept me silent.

never will be slaven, but most of this, Naturally, they would comet or permutation of the "key"

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

In this, I think, they are right. pupil, he makes a linguist of

Convention is the English sub you almost while you wait.

stitute for the military training of True, a test carried out in

On one such evening I began in the Continental nations. London showed up certain desperation to mumble a remark rather obvious deficiencies in that seemed to me so little worth At the same time, I do not like the Professor's abbreviated saying that I hoped my partner to see a fellow creature suffering dictionary, but gesticulation can would not hear it. She asked me pain merely because he has come bridge many an embarrassing what I had said, and I mumbled in a black tie to a white-tie party; more indistinctly. Some of the greatest men of old lacuna. The real trouble is that it again still this new system does not ap- To my delight I found that even might have done as much, and a noises philosopher can live through even pear to exempt the foreign these fow inarticulato

enormous blunders with

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

chattering comparativo equanimity. The golden to investigate the craters of the

about behaviour ja to moon, as it has so far been im suffering the customary and my partner began a

monologue that lasted (with oc- rule

ascertain whether outrageous indignity of being casional mumbled interruptions) do the right thing if you know possible to answered fluently in his own till, to my great relief, she was it, but, if you commit a blunder, theeo craters are members of the tongue! This experience is al carried off by a more natural to behave as if you had done it ogg-packing or fowl-erating genli.

deliberately. If you find that Our ignorance in these matters ways sufficient to discourage the conversationalist.

you have made a mistake in a brilliant. most thick-skinned tourist. Why

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 In again bringing forward experiment to its logical con- art of mumbling. So long as the go on drinking it as if you knew clusion and invent a universal other person does not hear the what you were doing and liked it. 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, in THE PIONEER'S the treatment of tuberculosis, of learning any new words, and ninety-nine cases out of a hundred OPPORTUNITY. 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 the Sanitary Board, situation in any clime? It to do all the talking.

cat peas off a knife in a West End pursued a subject on which he should not be beyond the wit of Not that I entirely abandoned restaurant, and quell criticism by feels very strongly. He has be- man to codify the common law the hope of becoming a sclotillat- his coolness. The first woman I bought a little who powdered her nose in public hind him, also, a large body of-embracing, with discretion, ing talker. 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, 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 last, on realising her mistake, did not but found it strangely useless for turn a hair but deliberately con without

tinued to powder. Since then her a schoolboy. deadly scourge are totally in-mated conversations

entire opening their mouths, why |

sex has followed her adequate. Even on the basis should we not all do sot, The A MUSICAL

example. of official figures, nearly two world would become a much less thousand people die every year noisy place for one thing, and

The conventions of to-day are. in this Colony from tubercu- there would probably be much

Since then I have dipped into many of them, breaches of the famous losis; the

figure, startling less dublety about what people many works on the subject, but conventions of yesterday, so that time he had too. But I always enough though it is, would be intended to say to each other with no more success. There was the man who commits a breach of think it's so interesting to think 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- does so without too obtrusive an not know how to read or write. that so many Chinese who conferences. Perhaps simple ges- tive conversationalist I

arrogance, may be justified in Don't you? But, what I mean to must telling himself that ho is a Bay is, you cannot be too careful tract the disease go to their tures conveying simple emotions ¦ “cultivate a musical laugh." It poineer.

with the kind of books you give native districts when it is ap- would even make most confer-sounds easy enough, but, if you

to nice girls like that, can you?” try to practice a musical laugh Which of all the conventiona parent that they cannot hope to ences unnecessary.

"No, madam, I am sure you recover. Nearly three years

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

politely. ago, Mr. La urged the provision

that it comes out as a ghastly,ways feel curiously envious when Now I must know," ahe pur- of a property equipped sanitor-

tinny, mirthless cackle, occurring I see a countryman drinking tea sued, "have you read these your fum, and the upshot of a full-

so often in the wrong places that out of a saucer. He looks and Relf, and can you assure me that dreas debate in the Sanitary Cats when they become vocal 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 Board was the passing of a re-usually discourse such futuristic next to you.

am a slave of custom, however, her to think that I was giving her solution, sponsored by Dr. Wel-sort of music that it is difficult

As for the last book that I read and drink it out of a cup. Here, daughters anything which her lington, requesting the Govern- to belleve in the Rottingdean on the art of conversation it was definitely, is a pioneer's opport- mother would have forbidden her ment to give consideration to cat who sings sweetly in the equally useless to me. It is truc unity. 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- has now seen fit to again bring, derings of very Hungarian the question forward, and the rhapsodies by throwing old boots at the performers, perhaps we Government attitude is that, whilst fully alive to the neces- ought long ago to have realised sity of an infirmary, the matter that here was promising ma- cannot be further considered kindness (and training in voice terial only requiring a little 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 menta, 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 admirablo laws de- portions of their anatomy. We signed to combat overcrowding, woo nightingales with the 'cello; why should we not Woo cats but they are not rigidly en- with the saxophone, and then forced. The trouble is that, by atages introduce more civilis- in the newly-developed | ed Instruments into their train- Arens, the masses of the ing? Chinese will crowd together in partitioned rooms, largely because 80 many of them cannot afford to rent anything better than bed-space.. Another aspect of the question is that by providing anything

even

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The Singing Cat

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 BEST Iterritory. But, granting all OF ALL

LAUGH.

er.

XAMS SHOPPING TRAGEDY. "Now are you sure," she ask- ed, "that these aro-ahem, ahom, all right? My nieces are not like these modern girls. You know their grandfather was

missionary, Dreadful

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these

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to read. I remember when we were 1.girls together, how thrilled

were when we wore first allowed to read 'Robinson Crusoe.' Have you ever rend 'Robsinson Crusoe?' You must one of these days. am sure you would find it most wholesome and refreshing. Real- ly, some of the things that printed nowadays modern novelists. And he Buch a good missionary. The Bishop sald 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 these books to your sister? .. Oh, you haven't asistor? What a pity! I be lieve in lots of girls in a family." So jolly, don't you think..

to Compassion persuaded us assist in the removal of the body, though we suppose, we should be after regarded as an accessory

the fact. We don't mind. That's nothing to what some people call-

Us:

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AND ANOTHER. We have just received the Hon. Mr. Edward Taylor's Christmas Card a beautifully printed bro- chure conveying his beat respects and would we kindly pay into the Treasury within three days the sum of 65 cents, this being the second demand, and if it is not paid, our water will be cut off. and proceedings will be taken. against us..

We think it would have been kinder and more appropriate if 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!!!