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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY THOMAS BURKE ON
The various considerations' sub- mitted to Government in efforta to secure a reversal of the decision to turn the Chinese swimming clubs
OTHER PEOPLE'S PLEASURES
It is a common belief with most the wrongs done to them by their out of the North Foint district ap-of-us-that-othor people never untrue love-birds.
And they say they enjoy it, and really enjoy themselves. They pear to have made little impression,
only appear to do so. if we may judge from the report that Chaiwan Bay has been offered as an alternative site. The offer seems much in keeping with the
"A PURE UNDILUTED original decision to resumo North
JOY-
"The Vauxhall Cadet is a powerful, roomy and com fortable car and it possesses two obvious advantages. One,
a silent second, muss appeal alike to expert and novice. The other, the Synchro-Mesh gear changing is to novices, like myself, a pure undiluted joy."
So writes this Synchro-Mesh enthusiast. Try it for yourself you cannot make a bad "change!" Smooth acceleration, declalve braking, steering that le effort Icas and ample power-all these you will find in the Vauxhall Cadet.
You will use less petrol than you'd expect. Modern lines, riding comfort, luxurious coachwork, tasteful colour schemes, headlights and radiator flutes In gleaming chromium, muck the Cadet as being a distinctly different car. Prices from £295. Arrange for a trial
run
svonder at those others who say
we are plete silence.
certain of this because We are they enjoy lying in a punt in com-
"Had a lovely day. Sat in the garden the whole day and only
The Very Idea!
PUBLIC SPRUIKING. BY EDDIE KELLY, ORATOR
speaking, aproposof SPEAKING of public-
nothing and the same to you, We have seriously taken the study of elocution.
up
In these days of economic depression, voice production has had to face its difficulties. in common with other in- dustries, and we feel that it is about time someone of note should give birth to a really fine. the car out early went over to Gladstonian style, c.o.d., and all "Made a real day of it. Got speech, delivered in the old. some friends at Cookham. Play-
certain that nobody could possibly
If you hear two acquaintancos find enjoyment In the Idiotic describing to each other what they things other people do.
did over the week-end you will Other people's plenauros are to often note that each regards the Point. It ignores all the peculiari-most as obnoxious, as their vices.
us as incomprehensible, and alother as an oddity.
"What did you do Sunday ?” tics of the special needs of the We listen to their talk about their' Chinese who make use of the swim-pleasures as we would listen to ming clubs. Chiefly does it ignore candidates for a mental home. the transport problem. And, when all is said and done, the issue has arisen solely because the govern mont has adopted a policy of forc- ing on development, of stimulating the Colony's hothouse growth, of encouraging land speculators. It does not cause pleasant reflections.
WHY BOROTRA DID
NOT PLAY.
I am old enough to remember. when the car came in, and when all those who were not smitten with the car craze were emphatl- cally announcing that nobody was going to tell them there was any pleasure in motoring. Motorists were as cranky as their cars; they only pretended to enjoy it.
moved for meals." "Good lord!"
"What did you do?"
I
ed tennis till lunch. Then we all complaints to be addressed to the went off to Weybridge. Had a Public Prosecutor. round of golf-then went on to
some friends at Hampton. Had
Johnson's flowing periods ori
ten there and went on to Richmond ginated from a close acquaint- and picked up a couple of friends ce with the Old Apple Tree, and I have the same feeling when I and took 'em to town for dinner. we may say with due modesty that. watch people playing bridge. After dinner went on to the we ourself have already baen. Poor things, I feel; poor, unhappy Fandango Dance Club. Danced called to the bar where we have. things. With all the many real there till one and had supper attonded without a stop except for pleasures to be had, the best they then drove the whole Judging from observation passed know is to sit round a table and
parts an occasional coma. during the week-end, there appear-play cards. ed to be a popular misconception
home."
"Lord, what a day!"
It may be recalled that that fine
And they feel the same about Millions of our fellow-creatures orator, Cicero and How! split an in Hongkong regarding the rules me.
seem to find pleasure in playing infinitive way back in the B.C's. relating to the Davis Cup. It was I once asked a cartomaniac, who games or in watching horses run, When Women wore Women, and auggested that Lacoste would play was looking for a fourth- and or in watching automobiles race; wero their own pants. Cicero and VAUXHALL Jean Borotra in the final singles couldn't find one, to give it up and yet to some of us these things are Howl was not a woman, though
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come. with me to a concert. He the ultimate pit of boredom. Just looked at me with a puzzled didn't answer the invitation. He
frown, and walked away from the To listen to the talk of golf poor blighted creature whose Idoa enthusiasts, cricket
time.
enthusiasts,
that would be a compliment.com- pared with some of the things he was called.
Ue elocutionista; or cuties" as wo permit ourself to call ourselves when we are on good terms with ourself, have to sacrifice a whole. lot for the sake of our art. We lost our tonsils in our early teens and a whole lot of face at our first public meeting.
in an attempt to snatch a victory. Unfortunately perhaps for France. Lacoste, the non-playing captain, bad no such power to produce drumatic climax. Were such of pleasure was listening to a lot racing enthusiasts is to set one power invested in the rules, and of mon scraping musical In- wondering whether one is the Borotra had been willing to re-struments.
only sane creature left in a mad In all world or the only mad creature in scind his earlier decision, there is I have a friend who not the slightest doubt that he general matters is wholesome and a sane world.
intelligent. But I am certain I have friends given to all these would have been against Perry in that he has a kink andill one things, and I puzzle them as much the final rubber. But the regula- day 'crack up,
as they puzzle me. They cannot Every budding Socrates now- tions prevented any switchback
understand why I don't "doadays must stand on a soap-box- The greatest pleasure that things" and are always trying to before he can address the great work of this kind, definitely laying
man knows, one that he loses get me out to do things in the unwashed, but, to be candid, we down that 24 hours before. each
no opportunity of indulging, is firm belief that, sitting about as found it better to bring our wee contest, (the four singles matches
to sit in the gallery of the I do. I must be having a miserable bit of soap and towel with us. An interesting suggestion has and the doubles match constitute
House of Commons and listen
We recall our first after dinner One of them has for years been speech with the same mixed feel- been made as an outcome of the two separate contents), the teams
to its debates,
trying to introduce me to a reelings that we remember our inst. agitation concerning the coal shall be nominated. Only if onc
He does
4 not make guilty pleasure-a pleasure surpassing dump nuisance in Chatham of the singles team falls ill or is in
secret of it, or confess it with wine, woman and song. So to for it was the only one we made.
We are always' maintained that Road. It is that part of the any way incapacitated is it possible shame. He will tell you openly, says. This is
we should not have mixed our to go up to the Peak district, motaphors if our host had not of the railway should be utilisedBorotra, therefore, could only have-rose-Bushes, that he has spent
take off most of your clothes, mixed our drinks, nor should wo for the new Central British played in the singles if Merlin had three evenings of a week at the
put on a suit of overalls and have referred to his wife as a School. When the reclamation become incapacitated. It is, per- House, and thoroughly enjoyed then crawl on your stomach blushing dandelion if we had not scheme in this region was em- hapa, as well to clear up the point, them.
through narrow passages into spoken with the truthful tongue barked upon, the purpose in mind or it might seem that Lacoste "gift I know who live together in a Then there are two old men
of inebriety. dene-holes and caverns. And
But to pass on from this painful. was the construction of ware-ed" the tie to Britain by ignoring large house and have plenty of then search for more passages to subicct we come to our next public through railway route to Calais an obviously attractive proposition, money-for-all-the-pleasures of crawl through. And do this for appearance, which was before the mind and body. And what is hours and hours. I asked him magistrates. We'll be seeing you their notion of pleasure? They why one did this and he said: there.
the-er-the fun.". have knocked the top floor of "Well their house into one large, room, The method of ameliorating the and there, with three hundred pounds' worth of model railway
and
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LONDON CALLING
and the development of Kowloon a great railway depot, the terminus of thousands of miles of railway linking the Far East with Russia, Europe and Great
We are waiting for the day when Britain, ousting the sea route in lot of Hongkong's waifs and strays lines and tunnels and signal-travelling to the South Coast by importance for the carriage of y assisting them to become shoe-boxes rolling-stock-there a slow train. The only other man Hongkong will be linked up with
in my carriage
brond- the Homeland by radio telephone. goods. That was many years blacks, is praiseworthy, but it is a they spend their evenings.
a shouldered, farmer type of man. Boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, won't ago. Transport facilities have method which can easily overdone. There are those who have
and yet He sat moodily with folded arms, it be fine when we can ring up developed along lines which have of recent months the number of right idea of pleasure, caused those ambitions to fade youngsters so employed has grown perversely poison it. To spend a staring out of the window. I had the Girl Friend and tell her how peacefully away and while a very considerably. A check taken summer evening lying in a punt my usual assortment of seven or we're missing her? At $30 a benoficial effect will doubtless be yesterday along only the Pedder on a beautiful reach of an Eng-eight daily and weekly papers, minute it would go something like
lish river is a sensible thing to do. and as he looked bored and rest this: experienced when the Canton Street and Des Voeux frontages That, I believe, is true pleasure: loss I said: Would you care for Hankow Railways completed, of Jardine's Building revealed no because I do it myself.
something to read?" it' is more or less taken for less than twelve shoe-cleaning out-
"Something to what?" "Something to read." granted that the original con- fits. At one place there, ception will never materialise many as eight in one group, cagor- this pleasure, will turn it to pain. collection of papers; then again. He looked at me; then at my and, it is suggested, the land ty importuning passers-by for cus- They will bring to it their portable at me. He spoke one word in a owned by the railway from tom. Nobody wishes to discourage gramophones
and befoul the tone that put me and my pleasures Holt's Wharf to Chatham Road them from earning an honest living, sanctuary with dance-band music into their true place Bridge will never be required for but they should not be permitted and hoarse voices moaning about]
"R-READ!". the purpose for which it has to become a nuisance. been reserved for many years.
If this view of the situation is
an accurate one, it seems a de BRITISH POLITICS featist sort of attitude to permit the area to be used as a coal
wore as
dump, hence the suggestion..for. British political activities have. exploiting it usefully. To-day, brought some interesting develop- there are few projects more ments lately. In the first place urgent, in the public interest, it has been clearly shown that the than the provision of a now men who control the British Lab- Central British School. The our organisation, both on ita poli- accommodation, or lack of it, intical and its trado' union side, are the existing building, is little very far from having the revolu short of a scandal. It caters tionary tompor. Some of them aro for children from both sides profoundly conservative in their of the Harbour; it is gross-instincts and habits. And these ly overcrowded; many ap-loaders will not easily be displac plicants for education there ed. They know that whon explo aro turned away because there sive elements flare up from time is no room to squeeze in even an-to-time at party, conferences they other one. Adding to this pro- can afford to proceed, quietly, till blem is, the increasing.tendency
ovor. No for more and more Europeans to the storm has blown make their permanent home in doubt a critical moment will oc- the Colony and to educate their cur a fow years honce when So- children here. The Government cialist loaders are returned ls seeking to meet the require-power by the electorato with a ments of the situation and has strong Independent "majority. already allocated a alto for now When that happens as it surely school buildings in the Prince will happen-it is not likely that Edward Road district. But there these men, whose whole concern are many objections to this site.will be not to shock a nation which It will involve Hongkong child- ren in hours of travelling. Con- has just declared confidence In aiderable site preparation will be them, will proceed to swift revo necessary. On the railway lutionary action. The more poss ground, construction work could sible danger is that Conservatives, be commenced almost at once, fearing such consequences, may with ample space for playing throw themselves into the arms of grounds and rawimming, facilk, Birk Oswald Mosley and
to
But there are some who, given
UB: Darilng HER: Hello, darling, is that you.. Guess who I saw yesterday.. Do you remember Mir. Whalesteath, who used to nurse me when I was a baby. Well-
US.: Darling-
HER: No, I didn't think you'd re- momber him. As a matter of fact, now I como to think of it, I don't mot him. Now bolleve you ever I wonder who it was that I'mlatook for you. That's really fu
UB: But, darling
Wo
Her: -nny. Anyway, had quite a long chat, and, dear, I mentioned about you being in that awful Hongkong, and he told me that he used to live there about twenty years ago, only he had to leave be- cause the police closed all the ca- barets, or something silly like that. I didn't know there were any caharols In Hongkong, dear, but I suppose-
US: (urgently) Yes, darling, but
HER: Oh, he must be right then. Anyway, wo had some' tos, and I took him shopping. Eddie, dear, I bought the most marvellous pair of pyjaman, all for you when we're married, dear (giggle). It's pale pink organdio, with white stripes and pink spots, and has the cutest buckle in the front, Mother sald
US: But, dearest, how
HER: Mother? Oh, she's allright, although she still fools the same about mo marrying you. But, never mind, dear, I'll do it whatever
she says. Anyway, about the pyjamas, "sho sald
EXCHANGE: Your three minutes are up. Do you want an extension?
HER: Bother, Eddie, our time is up, and I've hardly had a cbany to say a word to you. You haven't told mo a thing about yourself alther, doar,
and det
EXCHANGE: Do you want an ex- tension?
HER think it's awfully mean. of you. Hero I've been looking for ward to this phone call for
EXCHANGE: I must cut you oft if you don't take an extension
| ASKER Ja whole,Wook and "^1
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