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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL

1935.

CURSE OF YOUTH ---AND AGE

MENACE OF COCKTAIL PARTIES

BY GILBERT FRÁNKAŬ

For the due preservatiem" of stich good mannera us remain to un, and more especially with a ride tu avoiding my personal muz pleasantness, I wish to state that wone of these remarks should be taken on applying either,

fat to any cocktail party which I amyself any give or nay have given, ur

(b) to any similar entertainment giren or about to bruiïeu by way of my venue friends andfør arquaintances--whither accepted or refuzei.-GF,

Subject to the exceptions referred to in my foreword, I maintain that Parliament should immediately declare all cocktail parties (said ' term also to include sherry parties) illegal. For that such parties are rapidly be- coming the main curse of modern existence only a do- butante or a dotard can deny.

Let us consider the cocktail andjor sherry party scientifically. Let us ask ourselves, first, exactly what such a party is; secondly, exactly what purpose it serves; and, thirdly, most importantly, what will be the ultimate / effect on English civilisation if this menace to our tran- quillity is not dealt with in time?

First, then, cocktail andfor sherry parties can be scientifically classified into three grades: Grade A, the Big (or purely publicity). Do; Grade B, the Mediuni

· (or “such a lot of people have invited us to their parties that we must do something about it, darling") Do; and Grade C (the Small or apparently insignificant) Do.

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of these, for the struggler after pover, to attend this last eles of Doj social eminence, it may be stated | where business transactions that the Big Do demands your often be inaugurated--and formal acceptance but not necct=| vere occasionally. fram a sofa ør sarily your corporeal attendance chair.

it being heavy odds against either At the Big-Do, it seems hardly | necessary to mention, there is

your host

hostess noticing +3

The longer the

whether you actually turn u never even a clair, not. Whereas the Medium Domare people stand at such a Do once peropted, should be attended, the greater The success

expense.

the

Here are pictures of Shanghai's Hongkow Market area where Mr. Nathaniel G. MacDonald, Bris tish engineer, was killed by a stray buliet ne police chased no armed robber down Boone Road and into the crowded market. At left is a view of wall and the back entrance to the Hongkow Police Sta- tion, where Mr. MacDonald cofiapend with a bullet through the hourt. Through this entrance, upon hearing the whistles and shooting, police ran out to answer the alarm. At right in a view of the markai, at the extreme left of which the armed robber was brought down. Mr. and Mrs. MacDonald parted at the corner of Woquung and Boone Ronda, shë to do her daily shopping.

The approaching Royal receptiona at Buckingham Palaco will be very solemn during King Goerge's Silver Jubilee, and the young ladies who make their debut nự Court are energolically exercising to learn the

correct procedure.

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not even the subsidiary purpose...' | Jamlable to pay all social obliga. of us. who are not addicts will be only the prime - necessity" of the tions, is it equally landable to pile to replete with the olives, with the Cocktail party-giver. Since how up the social debt?

Ishrimps, with the prawns, with the otherwise can he or she break up

The giving of ine such jollition enviave, with the sandwiches and those chilly thrungs of weak, dumb women and strong, silent men intoon as I have ultenipted to des the hot Frankfurters, which are the gay little chattering launches, and tribe incites, encourages, any, af- inevitable concomitants thus dispose of twenty-five, filty, met makes compulsory the giving | cocktail, that we shall be unable hundred or even two hundred of twenty-five. Efty, a hundred, or to face even the prandial kipper, far swel even two hundred similar jollifieu-less the mutton broth, this boiled social obligations at one

tions. So that. scientifeally speak-col. the roast mutton, and swoop?

ing. the total social indebtedness is savoury of the good oki days. never deercaseit.

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as it is just conceivable that your doings. And at suck parties, be absence may be spotted--though a further remarked, all introductions refusal to attend this type of Delare made inaudibly, if at all. will be even more gratifying to

It in customary, by the way, to your hest. nnd hostess, who will: have thus satisfied any obligation reel one's host or hotess at a Big they may feet towards you at no Do. But this red only im done or arrival. One tok "How nice of you to come: I'm sure you'll find N.B.--- In order to ensure maxi- mrm gratification, semb auch rets of people you bbw in the next room," you are at liberty to cir- fusals early when the D is to culate, is as far as circulation is take place it on Patel, gehere the possible. charge is nzmally arranged per Whereas at a medium Do it is head in advance.

definitely de rigueur to signify both The last class of jollification weone's coming and one's going. are considering, the amall Do, is

WHAT'S ITS USE? neve given at a hotel. Almost

Which brings me to the second invariably it is heralded by a per part of my thesis: What purpose sonal letter, which begins. "Beates the cocktail party serve? "So-and-So--We are asking Just a¦ And here let me statą, must em- few of our most intimate friends phatically, that the main purpose to drop in here next Friday after of the cocktail party is not the noon." Refusal, therefore, presenta consumption of strong drink. The an intricate social problem, except enreful host. Indeed, always In- to those who are modern enough to Ferenson the percentage of fruit leave all invitations unanswered, juice and decreases the percentage whether they intend honouring the falehel-decarling to-a-carefully-von-on-this second ground, how when every afternoon is a cocktailsupper, and even of England's ligh function with their presence or not, calculated ratio with each supeeed-

when that time fea." "Citizens, car you face-this ever, should not feel justified in afternoon; and SOMETIMES PROFITABLE ing cocktail consumed.

alemanding the total abolition of comes, English civilisation will ghastly prospect with equanimity 2 the cocktail party,

It is on the perish for the simple reason that

not have your Tel. 20135. If you would its greatest achievement dinner-- third and most vital part of my will be a meal of the past. thesis that I depend.

It is frequently profitable, more. ! The imbibing of strong drink is

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ON THE CONTRARY!

the

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Legislators of England, save for Sole Agents:-- us these good old days. The cork-

For that the wholesale paying ut of socint obligations at the cheapest rate is the basic purpose of the cocktail party is another scientific On the contrary! Unless this tail party is ringing the death-knell | tenth that only a debutante or a | dotard could deny.

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Aiready the cocktail-party addict yo supporless to bed every night, Because even if we almit, as we¦ is learning to disperse with his or my friends, write to year M.P, at are bound to admit, that it is her evening meal. Soon even those lunge!

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