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WHY DIARIES SHOULD BULLS AND INNERS
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By ROBERT LYND
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features of this "plan" include abandonment of all military re Bervations in the islands by the United States and Independence in four or five years, with free trade in the intervoning_tran- sition period, Adoption of such a plan would in all probability still leave Quezon in the domiln- A man who has kept a diary forțin the coffee-house. I should ant position, unless a secondary 50 years has been asking whether therefore adviso every diarist to split developed over the reserva he ought to destroy it before he keep a minute account of his daily tlona, Most observers believe that dies, or leave it to his executors to expenses.
wade through it and to decido I like, too, a diary that records Quezon's position is secure whether it contalus anything of symptoms. The ideal diorist will While Damena and Roxas were interest to posterity.
tell us of his. Indigestion and of busy in Washington, Quezon was How like the moddaty of the true the resolution that he has made in Manila, building his political diarist!
never again to take a second help. Bankers, we presume, will got draught, Almost every other kind of ing of roast pork. He will tell of their H.B. beer on fences. During 1932, the for- mer Governor-General, Mr. writer is impatient until he has his sore throat and of the two barrlaters preferring to get theirs. Theodore Roosevelt, worked found an audience. A post can- tablets he swallowed before going by the case.
closely with Quezon. There was not address sight lines to a robin to bed. He will note with alarm n without thrusting them - enthus-twinge that may be rheumatism complete government
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Edward Kelly calls his car Matilda. Sho. Was quíte skid- denish yesterday.
sons during the year, and the novelist would feel that he was error and repentance all help to shake-up of office holders gave wasting his time if nobody but make a diary Interesting. Quezon an unprecedented op himself road his novels. Mr. There are some diarists who portunity to strengthen his Wells did not write his "Outline confine themselves to an account position. Thus political obser- of History" as a secret hobby. of each day's weather.
American Indian language had no vers bellevo that if the split The anthropologist who writes a land nothing could be lesa mo- should come, Quezon will have book of 600 pages on Totemism notonous; They are, for the most swear-words, declares an investiga-
and Exogamy in the Ruritanian Roxas and Osmena effectively. Archipelago is buoyed up by the part, men who seem to apond all tor. But then the Indiana didn't checked in the Philippines, even hope that he will be read by at their lives looking at the baro-have a civil service. though Quezon went to Washing-least six other anthropologists. meter and the rain-gauge. An ton with a flourish to get a Even the man who writes a love-extra-inch of rain is for them a "better" bill and has returned lotter docs so with an audience of more exciting event than the
triumph of Hitler. empty-handed. In this con-one in his mind.
There are diarists who have The diarist alone writes without nexion, there has been some speculation in Manila as to how desire of approbation or reward. great subjects-who are at the
An export says movie actresses- "You've been reading my diary!"heart of great affaire, like Pepys, much Osmena and Roxas may have had to do with "stopping" crles the child indignantly, when or are in close association with a
one of its prying elders is caught great man, like Boswell; and are not so slender Quezon in Washington. The reading the secret
document. whose journals in a measure be- trickery makes them appear. But full extent of the Washington Poets do not fly into a fury like come secret chapters of history.are they as dumb? picture was obscured by the this if they find you reading their The ordinary man, howeyer, ilves in a comparatively ordinary world, pressing domestic and inter- latest book of poems.
I could not keep a diary myself. with no great figure to add lustre serious. Things have come to a Hongkong Telegraph.generally believed that the long would not voluntarily write any-perhaps, is why his dinry so often coffină from a coffin-sho
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national questions during Que- zon's short stay there, but it is I dislike the act of writing, and I to the pages of his diary. That pretty pass when, thieves steal
telegram. atopa short in the third week of labours of the Osmena-Roxas thing longer than a
Senator Pittman wants to change mission with friends of in-Like everybody elao, I tried to keep January. He does not feel that a diary as a child, but the effort his life is romantic enough to be
the paints of a daily the theme song from "Happy dependence in Congress mustlasted only A few weeks. By worth
rule, feel that Threads Among the Gold." have brought about a consider- February the entries dwindled in description. To keep a diary Days are Here Again" to "Silver
"Ditto," man must, as able warmth and understanding, to "Nothing." "Ditto,"
that is happening
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either to him or around him is
Many a man who bought shares and exceptionally conference at the White House blank pages. between tho President, the
Yet I am sure the days were enormously The battleground in the long Secretary of War and Con- crowded with events. My "Noth-interesting. The feeling that life in Ice House Street and thought he gressional leaders shortly before ing" was a mensure, not of the is enormously and exceptionally was a shareholder has since dis
strongest elements in personality,
Edward Kelly says he has always fight of the Philippines for in-Quezon's arrival, which was day's interest, but of my indolence, Interesting is, perhaps, one of the covered te is only à bagholder.
and it la personality that makes dependence has shifted from followed by the announcement NEVER FAILING
boon accused of being pretty low. the best diaries. Washington to the Orient with that the administration was not The truth is, there are far too
The greatest of diarists, Pepys, But never so low as he felt when the arrival of Manila's outstand- disposed to further Congress-many thinge happening every day however, is as eagerly interested he dragged out last year's topen.
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on through the day down to the at his father's, the fact that he but we think you ought to go!" lant penny wrung from the un-and his wife showed two ladies to willing diarist by a belated flag-their homes, "and so to our own
home," seller. This kind of diary may scem prosale, but who is there who THE INTERESTING ia not interested in the cost of DIARY. things in past ages? Everybody
It seems to me that any man who.
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As the old lady remarked, most people would rather bimetallism than botulism I.
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We deeply sympathise with the
"Speech is silver, silence is likes to know the size of the tip takes as much interest 45 Pepys Peak horticultural enthusiast who
Dr. Johnson
gave
the waiter
has been carefully tonding a cutting of a green carnation, only to discover that it turns out to be a lomont
this morning. They are sailing the Islands exercised the option but a very industrious man to begins his diary as for the Philippines next week and of accepting or rejecting the bill. make a complete record of them. obscure of men might, with the from a rotten bean" stated a learn
The decision of the Philippines To begin with, there is breakfast. aentence: "Blessed be God, at the led magistrate during the week. from the moment of landing in may be made either by the The diarist who loves food, you and of last year I was in very Excepting, of course, Manila, the political combat is legislature or a convention. will notice, likes to make a note of
my old pain, but upon taking expected to begin. At the mo- Virtually all public expressions what he eats. Turning over his good health, without any sense of former happens to be a runner! ment they are divided into two still maintain that the people of pages years afterwards, he will be cold." His first entry for the first
reminded to his great satisfaction of January is concerned merely the vogue. There is no limit to Pyjamas parties are apparently an ordinary the Osmena-Roxas the Islands are unequivocably that at the hotel in Falmouth, on with the events of
"This nightcaps! group in favour of acceptance of for independence, and the con- May 6, 1988, he breakfasted on man's ordinary Sunday.
troversy lies only in the means porridge, fried solo, egg and bacon, morning," It begins, "we living the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act to independence, although many and four slices of toast and honey. lately in the garret) I rose, put on The Telegraph has solved the granting independence after ten prominent Filipinos in business If a man kept a dlary describing
not lately worn any other clothes ashore near the Colony during the years, and the Quezon group talk privately in favour of some his meals alone, what a shelfful of my suit with great skirts, having mystery of the buffalo washed. avowing opposition, demanding sort of permanent dominion volumes he would have filled by but them"; tells how he went to week. One of our big game ang speedier liberation. The destiny status, similar to Senor Quezon's the age of seventy! And with church, and gives the text of the fers lost his bait!
what interesting matter!:
sermon; reports that he dined on the Philippines may
There are other diarists who the "remains of a turkey," and conception of a "free-will part- be
nership" which he advanced keep a record of all the money that his wife burned her hand in irrevocably cast in the next few when he returned to the Islands they spend down to a halfpenny; dressing, it; makes a note of the several Kowloon motorists have weeks. The influences which two years ago.. His suggestion Their diaries, if preserved, would
at home looking over his accounts; Peak, otherwise crime on will be brought to bear in ap at that time failed to take seed, provide fascinating reading for fact that he spent the afternoon been noticed at the top of the
higher levels is normal. proaching the decision include and he has since been laying the economists of future genera mentions the walk with his wife to
from Hampstead the natural nationalistic aspira- emphasis on early independence, tions. "Tram
cently set up in Fleet-street which This week's popular song at the tions of the Filipinos; the politi- apparently believing that the to Holborn, 2d,; lunch, sausage his father's, some great posts re cal fortunes of the various lead partnership plan is now beyond mashed, 10d.; roll and, butter he passed on the way, the supper gaol, "We don't want to lose you, 2d; coffee, 3d.; tip, 2d.;" and so ers, who have frequently been the realm of consideration. accused of using the independ- ence question as a political foot- ball; honest differences over the form that independence should take; the Philippine sugar in terests who waver between two loves, one the ideal of in- dependence and the other free golden," to millions who have trade with the United States; an quoted it has remained an adage uncertain future in the troubled and nothing more. A man in affairs of the Far-East; con- Delaware has transmuted it ap viction in the minds of manyparently into actual coin to Eleven Filipinos, influential in business liquidate his debts. affairs of the islands, that disas- years ago, Mr. Melvin Train! ter for political independence at persuaded friends to invest in a Through the the present time lurks in the new business. economic situation of the Philip-fault of another their money was pines, and a closely related be- lost. Mr. Train resolved to lief that complete political in-make good his friends' losses and dependence is not essential to never to speak until full restora- the development of Filipino tion was completed. A day or nationalism and individualism, two ago he mailed the cheque the future of which might hold which cancelled the remaining more promise under the Amer-indebtedness. Then he spoke ican flag than otherwise. Any for the first time in eleven years. one of three things may happen: Unlike the dumb wife in Anatole Unqualified acceptance of the France's diverting comedy who, Hare-Hawes-Cutting act, accept recovering her speech, talked ance with reservations, or re-with terrifying volubility, Mr. jection. Either out-and-out Train said little. The habit of acceptance or blunt rejection taciturnity has grown upon him. probably would mean a split in Writing his wishes on a pad has the Nacionalista. Consolidado taught him, brevity, doubtless. party, the majority of which is But he spoke to some purpose: controlled by Senor Quezon. There seem to bo two morals to A victory for acceptance would the story-Be silent, and Be probably mark the overthrow of honest. Without going as far Quezon, with the new national as Carlyle's dictum that - "no leadership vested in Osmenn and speech ever uttered or utterable with Roxas. Maintenance of the worth comparison party intact will lie in the com- silence," most will admit that promise proposal, to accept the that "unruly member," the act with reservations, which tongue, needs constant curbing. would again throw the question And, at a time when too many, back to the American Congress, without a real excuse, take and prolong the uncertainty of wrong advantage of prevailing the islands future. The re- conditions to evade their obliga- servations, if this scheme is tions, Mr. Train's code of hones- adopted, may be in line with the ty points to a code of honour Emilio Aguinaldo. The main worthy of wider application.
"Angela, may I ask someone in for 'diów
will that interfere with your dancing-
Judging from the heat gener- ated after a game of bowls the
now other day, we
understand how Drake went out and smashed up that armada!
A fashion writer asserts that "necklaces must match the com- plexion. What about heads of perspiration?ADDE
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Referring to the cong driven into the Kal dromo, contemporary these plies going to be are and allowed to rot? Not
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