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WAR TALK

NOTES OF THE DAY

LUCKY NUMBERS

OUR MISLEADING SURNAMES

By STANLEY FARMER

natne.

The Very Idea!

CIVILISED KOWLOON

W

By Bheri Bogg

Bias Bay pirates said to have intended bringing their booty in for disposal, Kow- Joon nowadays seems in danger of becoming really civilised.

In the near future wo may ex-

poct. something liko this to be broadcast back to America:

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

On Saturday an exclted gentle- man telephoned the office of the H.K. Telegraph asking for confirm- ation of the report from the race

7HAT with a kidnapper's. track that a certain number had IR John Simon, the Foreign name corresponding to the part

efforts to reproduce won a certala awoopstake. We

Secretary, protested recently they played in the performance, were able to confirm the meKAAKU

American conditions, Union that had reached him and were against the suggestion that his Thus we have Bishope, Dukes, and name was of Hebrew origin. In Kings whose ancestors were of thanked

romised a reward

ard actual fact Sir John may well have quite lowly rank. In the same way men selecting it as the locale

of some days, late- come

the grill-fronted office of the been perfectly correct; but unless those who portrayed the part Jockey Club in the Gloucester the family history could be traced Death in the miracle plays would for a "roughing-up," and back several hundred years it be given this name as a surname. Building has been besieged by a would be utterly impossible to prove Subsequent generation, in a desire shifting storming party of some

to avoid the somewhat sinister sur and hundreds of people; mon

It either ono way or the other.

nama, occasionally changed this to weiner of every station, in life, There are undoubtedly many the foreign looking D'Eath.

were buy people bearing the surname Simon Chinese and Eurongkong Dorby to-day who owe nothing at all to ing tickets in the

Another loss common name is Sexpstake. Some of that motky the. Hebrew name, for the name that of D'Eville. Here, again, the mub will be happy before the Simund appears in the Domesday name may have been associated racing ends to-day. Some sweat Book, and the simple fact that with the French town of Eyeville, In pony will possibly bring one or Simons and Siramons 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 one who shall be very glad to hear of it.ties along the British const in-acted that particular part. The excited gentleman who tele- 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 occupation which has given us the but rarely of Italian origin. For aald. And we hope he has won surname Seaman, has also given us here again the play actors bore the enough to tids him over. There Simon. are many people whom gambling,

But there is a more interesting in any form, offends. Sweeptakes Indeed, in one family living on are a sort of bagay to the puritan the south coast of Britain the source of this popular surname mind. But የሶ

are inclined to change in the name has been traced Innkeepers are practically the only ones who retain their trade signs agree with the general view that back over a period of years to this day, but at one time all with Fencelation the the first record we find it as Sea-kinds of shopkeepera horo algus of aweepstake is probably the most mans, this became Semons, this in

trade. Within the last century a

renowned mildness of our winter, inocuous. A dollar ticket will not turn passed through Simens, Simone kind or another denoting their to seek recuperation in the world- ruin anyone; and evon A ton-ends, Symonds, instance alone pro- large publishing house has borne it is understand that business cont dellar book bought on shares is not Simmons.

name "Circero's Head," siderations also to a large exent a beavy gamble. The chance of vides ample proof that we have a success in remote, perhaps, but no British Simon as well as a Hebrew and there is very little doubt that have to do with the selection of there were at one time Caesars, Kowloon as a temporary domicile, more so than some of the stock to one.

Virgils, and Homers used as trade. which the public has subscribed

aigns. It was by no means un- if not hide-out, until something from time to time, here and else- where. There are all sorts of The Simons are, however, not the usual for the trader's sign to be better can be arranged. arguments against the sweepstake: only families who bear a foreign-come his surname, and there are

It seems that the last hold-up the unearned Increment accruing an English origin. It is almost modern directories which owe has not accomplished the financial and probably the strongest is that looking name which has actually many curious names to be found

results expected of it, and this from it does more harm than good. invariably taken for granted, for their origin solely to this.

dismal failure, already very dia- But the same may be true of every instance, that the surname Leah is speculation. The sweepstake offers Hebrew. This la true quito fre- Even English local names oc- appointing in itself to Chief Fong the man who has a dollar to gamble quently, but the name is often casionally take on a foreign twist. Tang, has presented him with a a little adventure in imagination, a merely a form of one of the most although this can sometimes be pretty problem of how to dispose little thrill, a little spice in the familiar and most numerous of all accounted for by the fact that Eng

hundred thousand 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.

It is surprising to note that Mr. Anthony Eden, the Lord Privy Seal, has recently been taken to task. for anying that war is not imminent and for STERLING'S TRIAL deprecating so much talk about the possibility of hostilities in. volving major Powers. The criticism appears to be based on the argument that, in the past, great wars have broken out when least expected and when states- men have declared that there was not a cloud in the sky. It is, however, surely the height of absurdity to regard an uncloud- ed sky ns indicative of danger.

the

This

·

Although compelled by over- work on account of his last exploit

sh villages thereselves frequently of several

One who lived by a meadow was bear foreign names. Beaumont, dollars facial worth of unsigned called John, or Jack "atte Lee." for instance, is most certainly a banknotes. The "atto" 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-

owa'surname.

wero

One of the longest surnames to

After dropping several hundred

of this unconvertible

quently being altered to Lea, costry, There was a parish of bundles

A Leigh, Ley, or Legh, and Leah was Beaumont In Cumberland, and but another of these variations. Beaumont-with-Mozo in Essex, and wealth into his native Blas Bay It may be mentioned, however, that it is quite certain that many famla gesture which can only be con- Reports of the heavy strain upon Leg itself was a name not infre- lica coming from these villages strued by malicious minds, as acknowledgment of sterling, caused by unloading ofquently adopted by those whose have retained the name as their being an Continental holdings in London, true name was Levy.

piratical impotence in the face of are reminiscent of the dark days

Brummell is usually taken for a opposing circumstances-the great There are numbers of other of 1931, when England went off

indicate the gold standard. It was Lord deceptive names which would seem French name, chiefly perhaps be- desperado has been persuaded by Hebrow ancestry. cause of the natural association his chief Lieutenant to hold on to Rothermere, (was it not?) who to cried in an agony of helpless wrath: Amos, for example, although cer- with there all act the remainder, as the latter has a those who lived at the brilliant idea of disposing of it, England has been beaten in the tainly foreign, was actually, like fact the first Brummells greatest financial battle of all time. Ames and Amies, taken from an "broom-hill," probably alope to their mutual profit, in the back- She has been beaten by the very old French name Amis. The an- nations whom, with her gold and cestors of those who bear the name where the broom plait flourished. country of Kowloon. her blood, she ao valiantly helped Bacchus, surprising though It may

Consequently any day now we In war. The foreigners have seem, had a good old English origin be found in English directorica is In point of actual fact, most wars have been preceded by long dragged us into the street and they for their name. They were simply yet another example of a local same may expect Fong Tung to drop 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

house"

or the "bake-house." periods of growing uneasiness, Lord Rothermere had foreseen

therstonehaugh merely meant one of cordial greeting, to all the and if in some cases the coming cracking of defences, and had While the surname Balaam origin-who dwelt by the "feather" stone Police Chiefs and Sheriffs of this of hostilities has not been forewarned-against-pouring-good-goldated not in the Biblical character situated on the river bank. For

but in the fact that the owner of "halgh" or "haugh" meant the land county. seen, this may be accounted for after bad in an effort to stem the the name dwelt at the village of bordering a stream. In northern by the fact that the men on the torrent which was sweeping the

Whilst several posses have been Baylham.

counties the same name is said to look-out were not keen enough Lord Rothermere did not foresee,

country into insolvency,

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

chi named Frithestan.

in, through any of the New Terri- right place, or did not know the when the Prime Minister called the One or two very foreign looking

Peculiarities of local dialect or torles passes he may care to come, symptoms of war when they saw newspapers to No. 10 Downing names have been produced in an them. It may, of course, be plead- Street and begged them not to effort to avoid a rather more un-word forms have often produced feverish and elaborate prepara- name. The aurname the foreign appearance. Porthero, tions are being made for his ac- ed that circumstances in the panic the nation, was that the blow pleasant present day are so different from, struck at. England would recoil D'Eath, for instance, night well be for instance, might easily be taken commodation during the short former human experience that upon foreign interests who had mistaken for a Continental name. for & Continental surname. But stay ha proposes to make here.

In some instances it undoubtedly it actually came into existence as a

Only the best is good enough do not apply. The world has relinquishment of the gold standarding come from the town of AC in the same way that "Mac" was The biggest hotel which this God- the ordinary rules of diagnosis word used at the time. England's is, the founders of the family hav-result of the use of "Ap" and "Ab"

in Wales to denote "the son of," for the distinguished visitor, been passing through an un-

used in Scotland. The original exampled ordeal, and it is still suffering acutely. But, when this time when there seems to be all is said and done, wars are

a movement afoot to bear down on not created merely by talking sterling, it behooves British people to remain calm if there is to be a about the possibility of host-crisis and to remember that the 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-

What

bullied her. "Bullied" А the

did not materially hurt her credit,

or Etho.

and it helped her trade. And at There are many families who got was Ap Roderlek, but this some- forsaken country can offer has

the name in quite a different way, what clumsy form was soon shor- been

in

ably lead to war, no matter CABBAGES, KINGS AND GARLIC whether they loom largely in speech and in writing or not. From Paris comes the report that If the issue were left to the French professor has aucceeded, peoples of the world, thereafter, lengthy experimentation, in would, we imagine, never be any Just how the cabbage feels about it grafting garile 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 war means ruin in antiquity and they have dwelt to all, victor and vanquished apart so long that the assumption alike. But if there be any in-is they preferred to lead separate dividuals, dictators or leaders of existences. A cabbage, of course, is no rose, but it la not any sort or degree, who dream entirely a stranger to romance. of war, they ought surely to be "Mon petit chou," is

a fomillar of endearment restrained by the thought appollation 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 even linked reasons why we should be justi-with royalty when the creature fled 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, thebages and klags. The propriety of apirit of pacifiam must be en mingling it with garlic may stlil be couraged by

possiblo means. Happily, in spite of all the foolish talk which is to be a brake on bellicose individuals encountered nowadays, there or nations who may appear in- does seem to be a growing con-disposed to read the lessons of viction of the utter foolishness the past aright. Certainly, the settling differences. This, in its out war, the less likely is war to cumulative effects, should act as come.

every

questioned.

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Six Lines.

transformed Into the The actors in medieval miracle toned and altered until it became semblance of a home, in the hope plays were frequently given a sur-Frothero.

"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 on- sure that this State will not have disgraced itself in the royal re- ception due to one of Fang Tong's position, it is to be regretted that a hitch has been threatened to the arrangements by a dispute that has now arison between the authorities of the different New Territories counties.

It transpires that in the general. desire for the exclusive honour of accommodating the visitor, the counties are once again at logger- heads, as to the demarkation line between

Federal and County control..

The Mayor of Talpo, in re- suscitating an old Constitutional law, is seeking to break down the barrler marking his limitation of county control at the 5-mile muzzled dogs' boundary stone. Ho contemplates bringing habea corpus proceedings against the Governor of Laichikok State Peni- tientiary in claiming his own right. to lodge the body of Fong Tung within his own territory.

Meanwhile Chief Fong Tung has Bont in this especially-worded wireless message: Your biggest gael will not have enough room for me."

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