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NOTES OF THE DAY

LUCKY NUMBERS

OUR MISLEADING SURNAMES

The Very Idea!

CIVILISED KOWLOON

By Sherif Bogg

WHAT with a kidnapper's efforts to reproduce American conditions, Union men selecting it as the locale

On Saturday an excited gentle- man telephoned, the office of the H.K. Telegraph asking for confirm.

By STANLEY FARMER ation of the report from the race track that a certain number had

CIE John Simon, the Foreign name corresponding to the part won a certain sweepstake. Wo

Secretary; protosted recently they played in the performance. were able to confirm the message against the suggestion that his Thus we have Bishops. Dukes, and that had reached him and were thanked and promised

A reward name was of Hebrew origin. In Kings whose ancestora wore of actual fact Sir John may well have quite lowly rank. In the same way "some day." For

some days, Jato- ly, the grill-fronted office of the been perfectly correct; but unless those who portrayed the part of Jockey Club in the Gloucester the family history could be traced Death in the miracle plays would for a "roughing-up," and Bullding has been bosieged by a back, several hundred years it be given this name as a surname. Bias Bay pirates said to would' 'be utterly impossible to prove Subsequent generation, in a desire have intended bringing their atorming party of Bome

to avoid the somewhat sinister sur- dreds of people; men

and it either one way or the other.

name, occasionally changed this to booty in for disposal, Kow- women of every station in life, There are undoubtedly many the foreign looking D'Eath.

loon nowadays seems in Chinese

and Europeans, were buy-people touring the surname Simon Ing tickets in the Hongkong Derby to-day who owe nothing at all to

Another lean common name is Sweepstake. Some of that motley the Hebrew name, for the name that of D'Eville. Here, again, the danger of becoming really mub will be happy before the Simund appears in the Domesday name may have been associated civilised. racing ends to-day. Some sweat Book, and the simple fact that with the French town of Eyaville, pony will possibly bring one or Simons and Simmons were to be but it was frequently a corruption more of them a little fortune. We found in great numbers in the coun- of the name Devil, given to ona who pect something like this to be shall be very glad to hear of Ittles along the British coast in-acted that particular part. The excited gentleman who tolo dicates the origin of the name in The Caesars and Cayzers were phoned for confirmation of his many cases. The great national success needed the money, so he accupation which has given us the but rarely of Italian origin. For sald. And we hope he has won aurname Seaman, has also given us here again the play actors bore the enough to tide him over. Thero Simon. are many people whom gambling,

more so than some of the stock to one. which the public has subscribed. from time to time, here and else

In the near future wa may ex-

broadcast back to Amorien:

Chief Fong Tung of the Tung- chow outfit has to-day created a mild sensation by the intimation, conveyed, through a pigeon-atool, that he intends to honour this State with a visit,

if not hide-out, until something better can be arranged.

If you are contemplating to

rumo. become a motorist owner-if you

But there is a more interesting are desirous of a change-if you in any form, offends. Sweeptakes Indeed, in one family living on are going on home leave-a word are a sort of bogey to the puritan the south coast of Britain the source of this popular surname. mind. But wo are inclined to change in the name has been traced Innkeepers are practically the only

In ones who retain their trade signs Although compelled by over- ACQUAINT US

agree with the general view that back over a period of years. YOURME

of all form8 of speculation the the first record we find it as Sen-to this day, but at one time all work on account of his last exploit REQUIREMENTS AND WE WILL sweepstake is probably the meat maps, this became Semons, this in kinds of shopkeepers hore signs of FURNISH YOU WITH FULL us. A dollar ticket will not turn passed through Simons, Simone kind or another denoting their to seek recuperation la the world. PARTICULARS..

rutu anyone; and even a

ten- onda, Symonds, and was oventually trade. Within the last century a renowned mildness of our winter, dellar book bought on shares is not Simmons. This instance alone pro-large publishing house has borne it is understood that business.con- the name of the "Circero's Head." | siderations also to a large exent HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE.eavy gamble. The chance of vides ample proof that we have and there is very little doubt that have to do with the selection of Stubbs Rd success is remote, perhaps, but no British Simon as well as a Hebrew there were at one time Caesars, | Kowloon na a temporary domicile, Phone 27778-9.

Virgils, and Homers used as trade signa. It was by no means un- where. There are all sorts of The Simons are, however, not the usual for the trader's alge to he arguments against the sweepstake: only familles who bear a foreign-come his surname, and there are and probably the strongest is that looking name which has actually many curious names to be found, the unearned increment accruing an English origin. It is almost in modern directories which owa from It does more harm than good. Invariably taken for granted, for their origin solely to this. But the same may be true of every instance, that the surname Leah is speculation. The sweepstake offers Hebrew. This is true quite fre the man who has a dollar to gamble quently, but the name is often a little adventure in Imagination, a merely a form of one of the most little thrill, a little spice in the familiar and most numerous of all routine of things, and if he wins of our English surnames. everything! We should very much like to win a sweepstake. And to those who do, we wish continuing good luck and happiness.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.“.

MONDAY, FEB. 18, 1935,

WAR TALK

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It seems that the last hold-up has not accomplished the financial results expected of it, and this dismal failure, already very die- Even English focal names oc appointing in itself to Chief Fong sionally take on a foreign twist, Tung, has presented him with a although this can sometimes be accounted for by the fact that Eng-pretty problem of how to dispone

several lish villages themselves frequently of

hundred thousand One who lived by a meadow was bear foreign names. Beaumont, dollars' facial worth of unsigned called John, or Jack "atte Leo." for instance, is most certainly a banknotes. The "atte" was dropped after a French name, but the name alone time, and we find the name Lee fre- is certainly no proof of French an-

After dropping several hundred quently being altered to Len, costry. There was a parish of bundles of this unconvertible Leigh, Ley, or Legh, and Leah was Beaumont in Cumberland, and a wealth into his native Blas Bay but another of these variations. Beaumont-with-Może in Essex, and

There are

numbers of other

own surname.

GA

It is surprising to note that Mr. Anthony Eden, the Lord Privy Seal, has recently been taken to task for saying that war is not imminent and for STERLING'S TRIAL deprecating so much talk about

It may be mentioned, however, that it is quite certain that many fami- a gesture which can only be con- the possibility of hostilities in- Reports of the heavy strain upon Lee itself was a name not infre, lies coming from these villages strued by malicious minds

as their being an acknowledgment of sterling, caused by unloading of quently adopted by those whose have retained the name volving major Powers.

The Continental holdings in London, true name was Levy,

piratical Impotence in the face of criticism appears to be based on are reminiscent of the dark days.

Brummell is usually taken for a opposing circumstances-the great the argument that, in the past, of 1931, when England went off deceptive names which would seem French name, chiefly, perhaps be desperado has been persuaded by

It was Lord great wars have broken out when the gold standard.

*** to Indicate Hebrew ancestry, cause of the natural association least expected and when states-cried in an agony of helpless wrath:

Rolhermere, (was_it

It not?) who

Amos, for example, although cer- with Beau Brummell. In actunt his chief Lieutenant to hold on to Brummells were the remainder, as the latter has a men have declared that

there England has been beaten in the tainly foreign, was actually, like fact the first was not a cloud in the sky. 1 greatest financial battle of all time.

Ames and Amics, taken from an usually those who lived at the brilliant idea of disposing of it,

"broom-hill," probably A old French name Amis. The an

slope to their mutual profit, in the back- is, however, surely the height of She has been beaten by the very absurdity to regard an uncloud-nations whom, with her gold and ceaters of those who bear the name where the bream plant flourished. country of Kowloon.

One of the longest surnames to ed sky as indicative of danger. her blood, she so valiantly helped Bacchus, surprising though it may

Consequently any day now we in

have neem, had a good old English origin be found in English directories is In point of actual fact, most dragged us into the street and they for their name. They were simply yet another example of a local name may expect Fong Tung to drop wars have been preceded by long would strip the clothes from us! those who lived in the "back with a foreign appearance. Fea- his New Year card in, with a word periods of growing uneasiness, Lord Rothermere had foreseen the while the surname Balnam origin who dwelt by the "feather" stone Palice Chiefs and Sheriffs of this hottse" OF the "bake-house." theratonchaugh merely meant one of cordial greeting, to all the and if in some cases the coming cracking of defences, and had of hostilities has not been forewarned against pouring good goldated not in the Biblical character, situated on the river bank. For seen, this may be accounted for after bad in an effort to stem the put in the fact that the owner of "halgh" or "haugh" meant the land county,

the name dwelt at the village of bordering a stream, In northera by the fact that the men on the torrent which was sweeping the

Raylham.

Whilst several posses have been counties the same name is said to What look-out were not keen enough country into insolvency.

Lord Rothermere did not foresce,

have been derived from an ancient sent out to welcome. Fung Tong of vision, did not look. in the at least on that momentous day

chief named Fritheatan.

in, through any of the New Terri- fright place, or did not know the when the Prime Minister called the

One or two very foreign looking

Peculiarities of local dialect or

tories passes he may care to come, symptoms of war when they saw newspapers.

names have been produced in an to No. 10 Downing

word forms have often produced feverish and elaborate prepara- them. It may, of course, be pleadi- Street and begged them not to effort to avoid a rather more un-

surname the foreign appearanco, name. The ed that circumstances in

Porthero, tions are being made for his ac- the panic the nation, was that the blow pleasant

D'Eath, for instance, night well be for instance, might easily be taken commodation during the short recoil present day are so different from struck at England would

mistaken for a Continental name. for a Continental surname. But had Former human experience that upon foreign interests who

stay he proposes to make here. In some instances it undoubtedly bullied her. "Bullied" was the do not apply. The world has relinquishment of the gold standarding come from the town of Acth

Only the best is good enough the ordinary rules of diagnosis word used at the time. England's in, the founders of the family hay been passing through an un-did not materially hurt her credit or Ethe.

war. The foreigners

it actually came into existence as a result of the use of "Ap" and "Ab"

in. Wales to denote the son of," for the distinguished visitor. in the same way that "Mac" was The biggest hotel which this God. used in Scotland. The original forsaken country can offer has

exampled ordeal, and it is still and it helped her trade. And al There are many families who got was Ap Roderick, but this some. suffering acutely. But, when this time when there seems to be the name in quite a different way, what clumsy form was soon shor- been transformed info the allis sald and done, wars are a movement afoat to bear down on The netora in medieval miracle toned and altered until it became semblance of a home, in the hope not created merely by talking sterling, it behooves British people plays were frequently given a sur- Prothero.

about the possibility of hosti-crisis and to remember that the to remain enim if there is to be n lities; there have been very real nation has weathered a worse storm, underlying causes in all the than that which may be brewing major outbreaks of the past. at the moment,

Certain policies, if followed to

their logical conclusion, inevit-

ably lead to war, no matter CABBAGES, KINGS AND GARLIC whether they loom largely in speech and in writing or not. From Parls comes the report that If the issue were left to the French professor has succeeded, peoples of the world, thereafter, lengthy experimentation, in would, we imagine, never be any Just how the cabbage feels about It grafting garlic and cabbage plants. more wars; they have no illu-remains unchronicled. Perhaps the sions about either the glory or modern mania for mergers has the gain of armed conflict. something to do with it. The They know that there is none; origin of both vegetables is lost they know that wer means ruin in antiquity and they have dwelt to all, victor and vanquished apart so long that the assumption Jalike. But if there be any in-is they preferred to lead separate existences. A cabbage, of course, dividuals, dictators or leaders of Is

no rose, but it is any sort or degree, who dream entirely a stranger to romance. not of war, they ought surely to be "Mon petit chou," is a familiar restrained by the thought-appellation of endearment in unless they are madmen-that France. To the less sentimental failure to achieve early and Briton the cabbage vies in favour complete victory would, to put it with its smaller cousin, the Brussels no higher, spell doom to them-sprout, as travellers have at times noticed-and remarked. Alice In selves. These are some of the Wonderland's walrus oven linked it reasons why we should be justi- with royalty when the "creature fiod in feeling that war is not pointed out that it was time to talk Imminent. But if assurance is of other things, among them cab- to be made doubly sure, the bages and kings. The propriety of spirit of pacifism must be en-mingling it with garlic may still be couraged by

qucationed. every possible moans. Happily, in spite of all

the foolish talk which is to be a brake on belllcose individuals encountered nowadays, there or nations who may appear in- does accin to be a growing con-disposed to read the lessons of vletion of the utter foolishness the past aright. Certainly, the

LTD. of armed conflict as a means of longer the time that passes with-

Six Lines,

settling differences. This, in its out war, the less likely is war to cumulative effects, should act as come..

"Rex, who was that celebrity we met last night? I want to give. a talk on him at the club to-day.”

that the great outlaw may be. sufficiently attracted to take his residence there, in an atmosphere redolent of his native small-town homestead.

With all this being done to en- sure that this State will not have disgraced itself la the royal re- ception due to one of Fung Tong's position, is to be regretted that a hitch has been threatened to the arrangemonta by a dispute that has now arisen between the authorities of the different New Territories countios.

It transpires that in the general desire for the exclusivo honour of accommodating the visitor, the counties are once again at logger- hends, as to the demarkation line between Federal and County control.

The Mayor of Taipo, in re- suscitating an old Constitutional law, is soeking to break down the barrier marking his Imitation of county control at the G-mile muzzled dogs' boundary stone. He contemplates bringing haben corpus proceedings against the Governor of Laichikok Stato Peni- tientiary in claiming his own right to lodge the body of Fong Tung within his own territory.

Mennwhile Chief Fong Tung hòa sent in this especially-worded wireless message: Your biggest gaol will not have enough room for me,