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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH.

--XMAS-1934

Best Wishes

for

A Very Merry

Christmas

from the

HONGKONG HOTEL

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The

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DEATH.

HARSTON-Passed away peacefully on 21st December, 1934, at 10 Colinetle Road, Putney, Loudon, Dr. George Montagu Harston, M.D. LOND., D., OXON, late of Hongkong, in his 62nd

year. (By Cable).

The

MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1934.

NOTES OF THE DAY

AIR PIONEERS

Too often have we to pay our last respects to these gallant fellows who blaze the air trails over continenta anil oceans.' It is

ROYAL HONEYMOONS

OF THE PAST

By MAY EDGINGTON

The Very Idea!

WRINGING WET

By George

HE old familiar church

THE in the nature of things that the A HUNDRED years ago the and then at the Marquess of chimes have got us

honeymoon,

we under Anglesey's Beau

Desert, near

pioneers shall have to sulfer, and that they should sacrifice them-stand it now, was not a royal Lichfield. The Monr 1922 was a again. Every year they big one for us. The King's give us that little twinge of not then daughter-our Princess Mary, well

solvea for the benolltof later generations. Through their ex-custom. Royalty had perience the world learns what claimed what is the simple right beloved-then married Lord' Lag-conscience that comes to a ronds are safe and what are fatal. of all lesser persons-the personal celles-now Earl of Harewoodman who has made his mark The big Dutch airliner which was right of a newly wedded man and and that wne another romance to in the world and rests on speeding from Amsterdam to tho

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Far East and crashed in the desert wife to a time of glamorous re-make the heart glow.. And once

more the bridegroom took the Sundays instead of going to was a sacrifice of these heroic treat the world forgetting: by bride-King's daughter, no less church. pioneers. The seven men who the world forgot." It would be to a quiet house, the great house died in that dienster were martyrs Idle to trace here the devious of Weston Park, Salop a house of to progrRS. What have they stages by which all this has tries, its suporb library, its heaven-show that to intimate friends.

treasures, with its Gobelin tapes- complished? They have taught

ly gardens all of which the bride, as; if we have not already learned changed; minds, manners, travel-

her royal mother's the lesson, the necessity of mao-ling facilities have all played inheriting ping safe routes of air travel, of part.. We are happy, anyway, to-tastes, could appreciate and. ad establishing emergency landing day to know that the royal couple mire. fields along there routes, charted

Mediter.

Later on in the honeymoon when, by blinking pylons in the night who are so generously elaborating and aatomintic beam signals which and prolonging their wedding cere- in the case of the Duchess of keep a machine on its

correct montes for our delight may after-Fife's young daughter, a husband course though the pikat may be warda drive qulatly away-just as wise in the ways of the world took blinded by fog or snow or rain.

we can do ourselves and, out of an untravelled bride for her first the blaze of, the limelight, leaving enraptured glimpses of the formal splendour of national ranean land, Lard Lascelles's cou- Occasions and festivities bohind sin, Lady Sybil Scott, lont them them, are to live for a while for the Villa Medici at Fiesole, themselves and for each other, just the radiantly happy man and woman that they are.

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NAMES WILL LIVE

them as pioneers in a still conquered element. Their names must be written with those of Columbus, Cartier, Cortez, Cook; Livingstone and Stanley; and the Inter pioneers, Bleriot, Lindbergh and a gallant youth named Uim.

Hongkong Telegraph. WHO CARES?

MONDAY, DEC. 24, 1934,

move some

manly

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Of course this doesn't apply to us. The only mark we cari show is n birth mark--and we can only

But the bells certainly do seem to hit a rhyme. King out the. old, ring in the now. Seems that wringing out the old moans getting rid of the nicoholic con- sumption-and after all that is the only kind of consumption worth having.

On the other hand we may have Perhaps forgotten the words. they say Wring out the old, bring in the neIV, Anyway We never drink from a wrung bottle--nor from a wrong bottle if it contains water.

Another royal young girl, Lady May Cambridge, married Captain Abel Smith in 1931, and they spent We wonder whother 'the land- We are all no enraptured with their honeymoon, first, at Didling-lady will put a little rum or whisky the Princess Marina, the new

ton Hall in Norfolk, and then at in the pudding this year. Wo ex- Duchess of Kent, that we like to Lord Waterford's hunting box in pect she won't but the proof of say: "They are spending their Co. Wicklow, where they could the pudding will be in the eating. lead-for the first time together Another silly adogo is that one honeymoon in the English country the country life which they both about you can't ent your cake and side an we did": or. "Afterwards."

have it-who would have it if they they are going abroad

couldn't eat it?

One

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muy

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Bot to get back to bells reminds

That is why we are going to make a resolution on January 1 never to shoot another carof singer. The last one, we shot with a few well thought out remarks from our verandah but he retallated by drowning us in a B Flat abortion of none of the famous composers.

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

Juliet Lowell

9-22

The pilot of the mangled Dutch machine attempted a forced land- ing in, a thunderstorm. He did not know that the ground on which he hoped to bring his plane, to rent had been turned into a RwAmp by the sudden rainfall. He sought to land, the wheels touched, bounced once, caught in the sticky earth, and the great plane somersaulted, splintering as

rolled, catching fire before it we did." Love is the same all the Another of the King's nieces, catme to rest. We shali mourn world over, so the royal pair do Princess Maud, sister of Princess them as brave men and remember as we should do ourselves; they Arthur of Connaught, married us that we must forget to put our un-seek peace and quiet and privacy. Lord Carnegio in November 1923. dustbin out for collection to-day so A typical English country house This happy pair began their honey-as to save a little for the carol will provide this ideal setting; not moon, at Hull Place, near Deal, singers.

We have engaged these night a huge paince of a house, but Him which was fent by Lord Carnegie's ley Hall, one of the loveliest, cousin, Mr. Gilbert Elliot. But birds or night jars would be though not among the biggest, they slipped very quietly over to better-in guerilla warfare for mansions in Staffordshire. After the Continent and went to Italy; some years but with the possibility wards they will go abroad; but, happy, and practically unreported. of Hongkong becoming a "silence" wherever they choose to wander, How can one write of these charm- zone, we have some prospect of there, in this quiet rural spending ing royal personages without pay victory at last. of the first part of their honey-ing tribute to the greatest of all moon they follow the example of one who preceded them: Queen They tell us that the Hollywood |other young English royalties who Victoria? cinema stars are threatening to go have married within the Inst on strike. We do not know just twenty years or so, When the Victoria married her Prince what they are seeking to accom- Duke and Duchess of York were Albort in February 1840, and SCHOOL CURRICULA | nlish; something to do with married in 1923-it hardly seems allowed herself only a three-days

salaries, no doubt. If it were the so long ago to us-the lion. Mrs. honeymoon at Windsor Castle, Although the classics do not "extras" or those rather pitiful Ronald Grevilla lent them the fam

Our best resolution for the com- loom largely in the Colony's ing for consideration, they would sentinel this

dollar-a-day people who were cry our Foladen-Lacey. Beech woods

house, and a deep people so

A brief period, indeed, for two ing year is to stop paying chits. much in love! But Next your we are going even fur- scholastic Ilfe, it is not without have our sympathy. But for valley separates it from Ranmore perhaps it was long enough, just then if it proves a success, and we

the stars of recent Common: it spells serenity. Interest, in view of the intended people like early visit of an expert to over- anything there than they have pretty daughters of the Duchess duty, and it was not likely that

pictures we have seen to ask for Twenty-one years ago one of the then. For the greatest Queen in hall stop signing them.,

our history never put self before haul the local education system, already seems a piece of efron of Fife married Prince Arthur of he would have given oven her tery. We are with the producers. Connaught, and Mrs. Waldorf to take note of the fact that some Many people have thought seri Astor lent them her house at Sand-beloved young husband first place. All Actual Missives Compiled by alarm is being felt in England ously of attempting to organise a

wich-Rest Harrow,

A wonderful wife and, in due time, wonderful mother, she was, at the position to which Greek, "strike" of sorts among the ple- suggest that Prince and Princess nevertheless, first of all the Queen. Arthur of Connaught set the But in her great love for her hus and to a lesser extent Latin, are ture-going public in order to re-

of the more adious fashion for royalty to accept the band-only excelled by her love being reduced in the school cur-thlugs and persons from the loan of some friend's homely house for her country-she must have riculum. Under the pressure of screen. Perhaps this strike will in which to pass their honeymoons; made all their intimate life, to various and increasing modernis-direction and reformers will be royal young couples to enjoy a When her eldest son-afterwards accomplish something in that they certainly act the fashion for gether a series of honeymoons. tic or utilitarian studies, defend- apared the effort. We could well little Continental galety by way of King Edward VII married the ers of the ancient classics, if not do without some of the

celebrating their weddings, for dazzling Printeas Alexander of "on the run," are certainly on the mannikins which Hollywood from they went on afterwards to Paris Denmark, in March 1868, they

time to time poses before us. Let and Biarritz. defensive, pausing now and then them go on strike. Who cares?

spent their honeymoon in the Isle of Wight; and when, is his turn, lo fight · stubborn rearguard ac-

In 1919 the Connaught family their second son-then Duke of tions. A strong case for

the

celebrated another wedding, for York, now our own King. George, she who was perhaps the most V.-married the popular "Princess preservation of the classics can

beautiful Princess then living-May-now Queen Mary-in July be presented on paper. - In prac- Remarkable as are the experi- Princess Patricin, second daughter 1893, they spent their honeymoon tice the principle is not easily ments conducted by Professor of the Duke of Connaught-really-at Sandringham. Windsor, Sand-

ed the desire of her romantic heart ringham, Osborne-even

simple implied. Always there is the Cannon of Harvard before the auspicion that for the great College of Surgeons, it is not as

Clinical Congress of the American and married the then Captain Osborne-all royal residences, all Alexander Ramsay now Rear- fully in the eye of a public which majority of young people time tonishing to learn from them that Admiral Sir Alexander Ramsay, not only adored but demanded spent in the acquisition of Latin the living brain is a generator of Thoy honeymooned at the Duke of ceremony!

electrical Aileges. Even laymen Sutherland's sent, Sutton Park, Autres temps, autres moeural and Greek will not yield adequate

have long been convinced that return in the workaday world. thinking and living are electrical We hear much talk of the right processes. We have always known use of the leisure which is being that an electric shock can make us conferred to an ever-enlarging brain can make the Indicators of jump. Now we know that the

extent on all classes of the com-instruments jump. The discovery munity, but, so far, the cultural is important. It was long sup- approach to that problem has posed that the only animals capable of generating electricity and giving been erratic, tentative, and in-us shocks were a few fishes. Now effective. No one has the courage it turns out that we are all to suggest to a great democracy dynamos. Must we conclude that that those languages which are sympathies and yearnings are but ambitions, ideals, cravings, the keys to the classics should be manifestations of volts at work? studied for the enrichment of The secret of consciousness. of man's awareness of himself and leisure. In any case, the likeli-his surroundings, lies deeper than hood is that that leisure, for that. Even if we knew exactly most of the populace, will be what each cell of the cortex did in the act of responding to external frittered away in dashing along impressions, we should not have the roads of the country in motor fathomed the nature of thought. The physiologists have far cars, in attending "the pictures,"

to go before they catch up with and in other devotions the cul- the physicists, who have had to give tural value of which is practical-up their mechanistic theories in ly nil. The President of Mag- explaining the vagaries of mere

matter, New York Times. dalen College thinks it will be a disaster of the first order f Latin goes the way of Greek.this; after all, is not the decisive headmaster of Daniel factor which is elbowing the Stewart's College belloves that clasales out of the schools. It there is as much joy for the lads-the pressure of subjects which, in the worldly or brend- in Greek grammar as in gym-and-butter seme, are able to: nastics. This is one of the little present a stronger case. It it points on which teachers do not were possible to lighten the take a plebiscite of their pupils. curriculum, there would bo Moreover, the plebiscite, if better chance of survival for

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March 16, 1932, Model Brassiere Company, New York City, N. Y. Gentlemen:

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I have a lot of baby turtles that I want to sell and thought you people might help me sell them.

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Tennis Racket

Wo often wonder when the miserable, hypocrisy of profession. alism in sport will end.

Recently Fred Perry, lawn ton-

down nis champion, turned offer of £20,000 because If he accepted he would lose his amateur status and would not be allowed to play again for England.

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This means that everybody con- corned, except the people who, by their skill, draw the gato-money and all the stands, can take. share of the profits.

Would any actor who can fill a theatre by his skill be such a fool as to work without his share of the gate money? And wouldn't a theatre manager who-Inslated: that all actors should be amateurs,, so that he needn't pay them any thing, be described as a awindler? It is said that Fred Perry will eventually join the Stock Ex- change, where people" get money for nothing gambling with other people's savings.

But as they are all profes sional gamblers they will allowed to make profits and atiti be regarded as renti