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PEACH MELBA GLASSES,

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THE HONGKONG

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Everywhere

VAUXHALL --Light Six 14 h.p.

MY 1934

THE CAR - SUCCESS

of the YEAR

STANDARD SALOON

-£210 DE LUXE SALOON -£230

THE CAR EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT

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| talking about the Vauxhall Light Six, Tale question needs an answer-how is it that ông

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1994.

NOTES OF THE DAY PATRIOTISM OR The Very Idea!

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

Publication in the Singapore newspapers of a list of sixty books just added to the Raffles. Library furnishes a reminder that Hong- kong's public library badly needs the Infection of some fresh iftorn- ture. Government has done Ita

SPORT?

By ROBERT LYND

irst work since taking over the A the Australian Batanes de sportman, us the dictionary,

Sent at Lord's and watched such inhuman sentiments. A the books have been re-bound and other into Verity's hands to the or practises sport; esp. one who library exceedingly well. Many of livering themselves one after an-a man who follows, engages in the now catalogue and lay-out are accompaniment of sounds indiea-hunts or shoots wild animals or

real boon to the library-user.tive of unholy joy on the part of game for pleasure.". But book-shelves that remaic

A

An ́end soon comes to

car should interest so many people people who want to use it. cauer, though bay be märkable, the Vauxhall Light Bia had features to suit thele

may

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the

demands. You, too, will And Your TINKERING WITH LAW

Night car needs fulfiled in the Vauxba)! Light Axl

Ask for a trial van,

Hong Kong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Road,

DEATH.

WARREN-In Landon, on 29th July,

1934, Joha

Percival Warren, aged 58.

The

Hongkong Telegraph. ·

TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934.

If

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others.

CORNS AND THINGS By George

EAR Agatha, De received your kind

glad to tell you that we are letter this morning and are

We really have no spare better than you expected.

"and so on.

*

GEORGE.

THE OSTRICH. EXTRACTS FROM ADA'S EXERCISE BOOK The Ostrich is a bird with a long

razor blades at the moment come worms-enten for lack of use. wondering how many of those pre-animals or game for pleasure; but try starving your corn or I have never hunted or shot wild but would suggest that you static in content must soon be the spectators, I could not help

nchisent could sincerely repeat the If I did go out for a day's shoot- dividual's list of volumes that ap"May the better side win!"

traditional sportsman's prayer, ing, I doubt whether I would tying a horse hair round it. peal to his taste. No very great,

able to do so in a mood of nustere In anticipation of your further effort is needed. Even the old I do not know enough to be morality which told me that it did enquiry we have to say that we City Hall Committee managed to sure whether the Australians or the not matter whether the partridges have no spare horses either but provide a small but steady supply English are the better side this or I got the better of it. I should would suggest that you take of now books. A thousand dollars year; but I cannot help thinking always want to beat the partridges, lessons in riding or crib a hair a year would make a world of dif- that, when the heart has once bo

It has always been the samo from the boy friend. ference. Later, when

(We have new gun to beat with excitement, the with any game in which I was in- no spare boy friends either). The youthful sporting motorist, the caretul City Hall in built, the public may normal man longs above all for terested. I should have liked the zarsily atat, the modern mias, the exacting ask a little more--a free circula-vletory for his own side, if it can Rugby fifteen at my school to win shingle or the bingle, the cringle We are sorry that neither the motorlat of long experience they're All Ing library that people, will want be achieved fairly, against any the Schools' Cup every year I was for the crumpet style of hair seems to use, instead of a library for aide in the world, however magni- there, whether it was the best to suit you but we are not ex

ficent:

team or not. I might admit at the hausted yet. Have you tried part- If it were not so, we should not end of the game that the winning ing your hair in the middle and And even the most magnanimous try was "fluky," and, rosy with a extending the parting to both ears? human beings chortling with glee sense of victory, might exude sym Your next crop may be a curly one. because the weather, after making pathy for the defeated side; but, Even more than the proposed things easy for their own batamon, while the game was on, I was as

We are inclined to agree with amendments to the Coroners Or-changes in such a way as to make ready to shout myself hoarse over you about the pants. It's too bad dinance, the reformis contemplated things extremely difficult for the gifts of luck as over the fents of your, brother was annoyed at you

superior genius.

cutting his flannels down but I' in the jury ordinance suffer from opposing batamen.

expect you would feel the same If the serious defect that they leave On the contrary, we should have There is a kind of "my-country-ho started cutting your flannels numerous important problems un- found there magnanimous human right-ur-wrong" spirit among the

much touched.

up. We agree pants are It seems a futile thing beings looking up dolefully at the young artisans, of the football- better this hot weather... "As merely to tinker with legislation sky during the week-end of the stand that may be very reprehen- pants the hart for cooling streams of this kind, if there is no real Test match and bemoaning the sible but without which the foot- intention of remedying basic fact that owing to the rain the ball-grounds would bo half-

Yours cornfully, faults. The Coroners Ordinance Australians would not have the emptied of their spectators. is less to be criticised on this same fine batting wicket to play) Who is there who, however much i score than that concerning jury-on as the English had had. men for it does, at least, furnish

he admires the masterly play of the machinery for supervision-us are so magnanimous as all that, when one of the other side makes The truth is, however, few of the other side, does not rejoice and a strong Attorney General can we do not pray for the weather a mistake that lets his own side prevent a repetition of incidents to be impartial. We like to take in? If I had been a Cambridge neck and a kick like a mule. that have occasioned publie cen- sure in the past. The changes into become, as it were, a twelfth match at Twickenham last Decembird as it thinks when it hides its hand in the game on our side man at the Oxford and Cambridge The ostrich is a pretty dumb the jury ordinance, on the other layer of genius in the team and ber I should certainly have been head in the sand that nobody can hand, consist principally of legalis- we welcome any accident of sun, ecstatically happy if the ing minor Illugalitice which have cloud or rain that may turn out footed, sure-handed Owen Smith think it is a banyan trec.

sure see it or if they can they will grown into practice, and, desirable and necessity as this in itself may to the vantage of pture of the ho left the way open for B. Cam- time dropping eggs. In the Sand

had fumbled the ball just once and The spends be, they supply no real advance.

bridge victory should have and looking for them again. THE CHURCH AND

This seems to me to be right. I perhaps, even expressed my regret tralia, the ostrich is not a great been generous afterwards and, Although It comes from Aus- WOMEN JURORS. WHY NOT? auspect most of the people who say that so great a player had marred cricketer. It has good delivery. ITS MINISTERS

"May the butter side win!" of not quite meaning what they say but not till the game was over.

a glorious day's play by an error; and can put its head under the The Colony will be all the local jury service was worthy of ay "May the better side win!" on the legislation governing The only man who can honestly

mat but it can't stand a big belt In the same way, every English with the ball in the belly. poorer by Dr. E. L. Allen's re-official attention in order to bring the eve of a great match is either spectator at the Lord's Test match The ostrich has a very musical signation from the pastorate of it up to date, a little extra time a man who believes that his own was delighted when the never- voice and has been called the Kowloon Union Church, spent in extending the principle side is so good that it la certata failing Oldfield dropped a catch Nightingale of the Bush. When which is to take effect from the been wasted. There is a heavy of victory or a man who knows and so allowed Ames to score his startled it will imitate a mudguard that his own side is so bad that century. Everybody was sorry for pushing a coolie against a wall During weight of argument that could buhe in resigned in advance to de-Oldfield and glad that the thing and when calling to its mate if This stay here, Dr. Allen has re-

brought to support a suggestion feat.

had happened. At the present makes a nofee like 4 fire extin- vented himself to be not only a jurors. And a still stronger char for the empanelling of wonten

Thus, if the Australians were

stage in the evolution of human guisher with a sore throat..

A good ostrich egg is a very deep thinker and a keen student could be submitted for ending the playing an English schoolboy éle nature, that, I think, is as far as

sportsmanship can go.

impressive sight, being about the of world affairs, but, above all system of acceptance of majority ven, everybody on both sides could

verdicts in criminal cases. The say "May the better side win!": "May the better aldo win?" is a size of twenty ordinary eggs. The else, a man of deep religions con-ald system was perhaps necessary when Australia is playing Eng-Ideal to live up to. But, mean- good ostrich egg is a bad ostrich with a clear conscience. But not fine sentiment. It gives us an only egg more impressive than a victions, the guiding principles to save undue waste of time in of which he endeavours to apply days when the number of persons land. Here the lasue is still unwhile, if a player on the other side which smells twenty times as to everyday life. It is precisely limited. But to perpetuate the Englishman will be

available for, service was strictly certain, and, till it is settled, every slips on the wet grass and so bad as the ordinary egg.

an eager misses an easy catch, we shall ac because he possesses the courage system nearly fifty years after the partisan, longing for victory.

cept this as one of Fortune's gifts of these convictions that he has, when the number on the live originator of the pious phrase exning the toss or from the weather

passing of the original ordinance

with not ungrateful hearts. Any I do not know who was the little help that comes from win-Nasty? after much pondering of the register is more than ten times pressing the hope that the better or from any other piece of luck step, reached the conclusion that greater-is definitely bad in prin-side would win. It has been at-will be duly welcomed. he should drop out of the pro-

ciple, and a slur on the ways of tributed to Mr. Dooley; but I sus- justice in Hongkong, fessional ministry. So much is apparent from the terms ing which he announced his decision on Sunday morning. It is no over-statement of the facts to say that Dr. Allen's case is that of many other ministers of the Gospel who feel that they cannot make their maximum contribu- tion to life under the conditions required of them by institutional or organised religion. Some of them, whilst feeling thus, none the less refrain from making the break; the more courageous and the more honest-minded take the plunge and are prepared to put Ordinance submitted to the Legis. memory serves, has an their principles to the test, come fative Council been challenged what may, Like many others, in any single particular by an un- Dr. Allen feels the constant over-over, it is wrong to raise the voice official member. Perhaps, how- emphasis on finance which is en of criticism; perhaps the correct countered in the professional thing to do is to compliment the ministry, and here also he is at Colony upon a succession of in- one with many other pastors who fallible incumbents of the office of

Attorney General, fear that the spiritual life of the church is being in large measure

the

end of the present year.

of modernisation would not have

OUR LAW-MAKERS

pect it was the invention of u We know that it does not really Victorian school-master anxioue matter who wine a game, but we to restrain the too ardont passions are not absolutely sure of this till of his pupils on the eve of the the game is over. game of the year.

Til then, most of us can say

It is possible that good reason could be advanced by the Govern- to formulate the creed of a true side win I only If under our breath To many people, I know, it sooma from our hearts, "May the best ment's legal advisers for limiting sportsman. I looked up the de- we add the whiaper: "And, if reform to the point set down in finition of "sportsman" in the there is any luck going, may It issues were ever debated. But is I could find nothing in it to sux- the ordinance as amended, if the Oxford Dictionary, however, and come to our side!" there any reason, to expout dis-gest that the sportsman harbours raitt.

Anyhow the country needed cussion? Such a development in the last ten years at least. It Council would set a precedent for would almost rock the Constitu- tion. A commentary upon local government that needs no adorn ment is contained in the simple statement of fact that never once in open Council in recent years, as

far

subordinated to financial con-humanity if they continued in siderations. Feeling as he does, a given sphere against the dic- Dr. Allen naturally finds his con- tates of their own convictions. victions, closer to those of the Dr. Allen's case is, as we say, Society of Friends, or Quakers, not an isolated one; we recall than to those of any other another such hero in Hongkong, Christian sect. For the whole in which an ordained minister basis of the Quakers' religion is of the Anglican Church felt im- purely individualistic, depending polled to follow a like course for upon one's own personal experi- similar reasons. In the last re- ence, and is in this respoct wide- sort, tho matter is one for the ly separated from the spirit of individual himself. But it is not institutionalism associated with without its significance, nt a time organised religion. To some when organised religion in some people, it may be difficult to ap- of its forma seems to have lost preciate to the full the considera-much of its hold on mankind in filons which. Induco men like Dr. general, that there should be

Allen to break away from the these recurring instances ministry, but they are none the ministers of the church coming less real on that account. Nor to realise the relative futility of can the sincerity of those who their work under the conditions take the step be questioned; they in which they are required to would be poor specimens of labour..

of

"I think your father ought to pay these fines. He's the one! that bought you the car."

CHIELD AND US.

Chield: Uncle, please what is a

Us: A nasty what? Cheild A Nasty Austrian... Us: Hush, my child, you musta'l say things like that.

Cheild: Well What is it? Us: A Nazi is a man with a brown shirt who does Swedish exercises in the street for his country's sake.

Cheild: Are thoir

Swedish:

Us: How should we know? Cheild: Why do they do Swedish exercises?

Nazis?

Us: For the same reason that an English-speaking German Jehv settles In China, bays American dollars, curses in Hindustani and plays Russinn Pool,

Cheild: Why does he do that? Us: Why does who do what? Cheild: Why does a Hindustani Jew settle In Africa, swear in China, buy African dollars and play the fool?

Us: Go away. Cheild: Why?

Us: Because you give us a pain In the neck.

Chelld: Why?

Us: Never mind, why. Just do as you're told or you'll get no candy, Bun along now, you little brat. Shoo!

LOCAL RHYMES.

(111)

An amiablo beak and bon- vivant Some nauseous, filmis must sec

and con

They sicken his soul, and to

make himself whole

He quaffs at the barre does

H*******

(LV)

A man of song, whose top note

'D'

Ja purer for than others 'C' Whose magic runes and tender

tunes

Enchant us. Here's L* C***

C**..

(V)

A self-made man-and sure no

Jaggard

He sits on Boards, but he's no

braggart:

The Bears and Bulls his special

care

Ho boards them in their frimost

lair,