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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. :- SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1935.

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NOTES OF THE DAY-

SILLY RECORDS

SWEET SINGERS OF SEVEN SEAS

By "SENTINEL"

of the 2x-

not only

Love bullds on the azure sen; And Love bullds on the golden

sand,

And Love builds on the rose

winged cloud

And sometimes Love builds on

the land!

BULLS AND INNERS

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From the Office Butts

It is learned in exchangs circles that double ongles show a ton-. dency to fly backwards with the dust out of their and/or specula-

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Italy wants a Protectorate over Ethopia. And Ethopia cortalaly needs some protection.

Fred, and Al Key have earned a few dollars worth of fame by fying in circles for twenty-three days and so many minutes; and they are still flying. They are

Kipling is the Laureate of All pure as Emily Bronto's. Isabella touring around an aerodrome out the Britains. He has had Invoice, clear and intense and apparent object of keeping the side a small town in Mississippi, numerable imitators there, fow of Valancy Crawford's best known and from many miles about 26,000 whom have succeeded in doing poem which begins: persons rode and walked to #ce them complete the last lap of a more than copy his mannerisms. Dight which was to bring them Robert Service, though a confess glory. These 26,000 raped alofted copyist, is one while Fred and Al waved to them ceptions. For he can and dropped mésanges attached to give us a hauntlag picture of the tiny parachutes. The flers were long winter-night of the Yukon, going to continue their remarkable when the sky itself is full of

Most Hongkong people would voyage in order to break another "colours of gold" and the rustling record, which does not actually of the green-to-golden rays of tho would have been a joy to Robert welcome any change in the situa

be heard, but also Bridges, that master of the songtion which left them some chango exist. This is just another feature Aurora can of a piece of crazy business which make us laugh at the tall tales of that sings itself. This rare poetess in their pockets; thrills a stunt-crazy crowd--or is the "Sourdough" or old-time pro-was no man's disciplo, and none

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Too much of the uplift In this poselble Joy anyone can get from sense of humour is keen as that is better than that of much-ap- watching an aeroplane repeatedly of Bret Harts Argonauts. I plauded Americans, Pauline John Colony is confined to noses. circling an aerodrome at 6,000 feet, have no doubt that fason's com-son (Tetahionwake), her sister-in- wa cannot Imagine. Presumably panions, who "jumped a King's art, is also a singer, who under- the fliers will claim credit for claim" with the help of his red- stands the Indian spirit and brings being men of iron nerve and en haired daughter, were vory like the sun-lit syllables of a river into durance, and the makers of the the placer-miners of California, her verse as she plies the paddle.. plane they have been trundling Cariboo, and the Klondike. round the Meridian drome will what was the legendary "Golden claim that it is, beyond doubt, the Fleece" but a grizzly blanket There is far, too much didactic HONGKONG HOTEL nest thing yet achieved for long- used to catch and keep the golden verse in the Canadian anthologica

distance performance. But is it? particles In the sandbars of But in Bliss Carman and Archibald a contrivance for letting us talk to Does the fact that it dew 26 or

Lampman Canada has elegiac poetspeople whom we don't want to whose far-listening sensenpes and meet. even 106 days without stopping. prove that it is out in front in its The other day I stened to a landscapes become pictures hung In writers the reader's remembrance. Lamp- class? Who wants to fly 26 days disputaton between two without stopping ? If you do you from the Dominions, one of whom man shows the eager observation Wouldn't it be fine If a fellow wna high time his and unerring plinae of Matthew was only as old ng his wife 'Phone 27778/9 must be looking for the same sor! thought it

of publicity as are Fred and Al compatriots ceased imitating our Arnold's "Scholar Gipsy" when he dresses? Key-happy Jundings to them-Inimitable

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SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1935.

STABILISING THE

DOLLAR

Pactolus!

For

Old 11 June day In

All day in garden alleys moist and

dim The humid air is burdened

master

literature describes of and we have nothing to say about cleared for action. He actually Ontario:

lines of it. But we wonder if, out of that quoted the familiar crowd of 25,000 on-lookers at Meri-J.K.S.: dian, Mississippi, there is anyone who can tell us what good this | record-breaking, breath-taking. nerve-shaking stunt has achieved for humanity,

THRILLERS

When the Rudyards cease from Kipling

And the Haggarda ride no more which are the best elips of a pen Lapsus Calami) ever perpetrated by an Etonian. I was surprised to, Crowned houda, statesmen, sold-find he knew the name of the per- been clean iers, business men. all sorts and Petrator, which has conditions of men, have confessedThe trouble is," he went

forgotten by most Englihmen. n to to reading "blood and thunder" atories as

relief from the tension "that Kipling's predilection for anapaests has infected nearly of work. Hilberto

high

(all our verse-makers. They can't

yet away from them--nny more. than your Georgians can escape the contagious chtrruping of The Shropshire Lad, "

alories and other thrillers. And there are business men who find

like:

with the rose;

In mass-deep woods the creamy

orchid blows;

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A bachelor says most Hongkong Kirla can be read like a book. Especially the bold type.

New Definition :-A telephone is

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When the average man seta out to make a fool of himself ho often uses the cheapest material available.

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And now the vesper-aparrow's | ' What gets us is why anything From every orchard close

pealing hymn

as sweet and attentive A the

At eve comes flooding rich and Average Hongkong bachelor never

got married.. silvery; The daisies in great meadows

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of the sea

Roars in the maples and the top.

most pine.

It was a nameless poet, however, who told us how the pageantry of Canadian forests

ocean to ocean:

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marches from

The white-leaf'd poplar sues for

rains,

The birch ʼn maiden-ghost re-

mains.

About the only thing a lot of modern girls know about a needle is that you can use it twice on the phonograph.

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And then there was the old maid who sued a hotel for "Montal cruelty" because they put her in the bridal suite."

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The maple flames in a lone hour, A reador states that in many

Ever the pine's a secret tower. hoarding houses eggs Ara But perhaps the most inspired boiled long enough. Nor, Wo and inspiring of all the Canadian fear, soon enough. pacts is Duncan Campbell Scott, Old Man Homer, first of old; who takes us along the historie

time sharps,

waterways where he himself has Ez earned their beans tambas-often voyaged as a guardian of

tin' stand-up harps.

the Indian "nations":

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The arrival in Hongkong of a Treasury official from Home, to investigate the Colony's econo- ecclesiastic has admitted resource to that kind of sedative. Till now mic position, has very naturally when we have an Anglieno tishop riven rise to a belief that the not only confessing to the habit but question of. possible stabilisa-Preserlbing it for others. There are millions of people in this coun- [tion of the dollar is engaging thetry, whose lives are monotonous

To which the other replied, ¦ attention of both the Colonial and humdrum. Knowing no ex-

degree nt u Office and the local Government. in some degree life becomes intoler-you might just as well despise

citement, or variety, without which having taken his

famous University down under: It is to be noted that Mr.able, they seeks relief in detective Virgil for writing hexametera Young's presence here is linked with the pending visit, of Sir such reading the only ready way of Frederick Leith-Ross to Nank-excaping from the grinding worries ing, for the purpose of advising shop says he finds such books give of modern competition. The Bi- China on economic and financial him a real and welcome relaxation. questions. This circumstance | Where the mischief Hes is in mak-Anapaests nuke. galloping serves to reinforce the beliefing such reading our exclusive diet. Hac. Remember that Kipling is Then it, like any other stimulanta poet on horseback, and I needn't. that an effort, may be made, taken continuously to excess, luses tell you the name of his horse."

M amongst other matters, to de-its beneficial effects, and the "A very good mount," I added,

Our heart goes out to the man reader's mind becomes vise some form of currency than a toy shop and

no better "for any poet who can ride him...

who joined the Navy to see, the a very dis hard and yet keep him balanced. His meditation in an Ontario world and then spent two years in agreement as between China and ordered one at that. In this, as in A better conveyance than the churchyard is the Canadian equiva- ja submarine. Hongkong. Time will tell whe-most aspects of human conduct, it scooters of some of the Georgians lent of Gray's "Elegy," but it SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTther these conjectures are cor-

is excess that breeds the evil. Aand the single roller-skates of the would be anerilege to tear a quota moderate admixture of this sort in later Spasmodies."

tion out of it, rect. In any event, there is a the intellectual diet will harm no ...SSSSS......SSSC growing feeling in Hongkong in well-conditioned mortal.

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I hear the wolf-tongued rapid Haul in the rocky break; Beyond the pines and the portage

I hear the trapper wake His En roulant ma boule

From the clear gleam of the

.... lake.

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According to an old Serbian superstition, bunches of garlic hung outside the house koop away undesirable visitors. Another method is to eat the garlic.

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Before marriage a man swears to love, after marriage he loves to

swear.

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But we all agreed that English-} men ought to be better acquainted with the poetry of the Dominions, Newfoundland, anchored by the which is not so much infested with great Dominion like a schooner by anapaests as you might think. a liner, has not yet found hér own Just because a man brings homo It would not be difficult to make poet. Yet there in poetry in the the bacon to his wife la no sign A small anthology which would folk of that sea-girt Devon, as you that he hasn't made a hog of lilm- far lands which govern themselves, sayings--for example, that of the he a poetical panorama of all thejny learn from their unexpected, self somewhere else. Suppose we begin with Canada, Grand Banks Asherman who saw which has produced many poets of his dead grandfather and two of distinction.

his friends riding out of the mist Out of the past comes a lyric on a wave and "warming their clear and intense and (Continued on Page 7.)

favour of stabilisation. This has become most marked recently, owing to the daily ductuntion of exchange, which is, without question, seriously considerable dificulty in repaint Many owner-drivere experience injuring trade transactions.ing the wings and other parts of Support for - this Iatter the car by brushing on cellulose statement is to be found in ceed admirably; there are others enamel. There are some who sue

the recent report of the who do not seem be able to voice. Hongkong Economic Commis-grasp the details of the work. sion, which definitely stated that alternative method of enamelling If brushing is found difficult an

currency fluctuations have seri- the parts is to carry out the work ously hampered the Colony's with a spray. Cellulose enamel is applied at the factory in this way, trade. Silver, on which Hong-but then expensive machines are kong's currency is based, was employed for the purpose. Cost stated by the Commission to machine is out of the question for

must be kept down, so such have become a veritable gamble the owner-driver. But a simple ing counter for speculators the spray surves well enough. world over, "and in consequence Jacks that measure of stability necessary for sound trade." Yet, despite this finding, the Commission, strangely enough, reached the conclusion that the

kong could not stabilise, that interests of trade are best

argument being that we must re- served, for the time being, by re-tain our economic and financial taining the Colony's currency on link with: China. Ever since a silver basis. This conclusion China applied her currency mea could have been understood if, surcs, the two centres have as was the case when the Cur-drifted apart. Whether it is. rency Commission visited the possible to restore the old re- Colony some years ago, both ationship remains to be seen. Hongkong and China currencies But whatever the precise remedy followed the trend of silver, may be for the present un- thereby establishing a more or satisfactory position, it does legs definite relationship be-

seem essential that an effort tween the two. But China now should be made to achieve some manages her currency, with the measure of atability in local eur- result that the link with Hong-rency. Until that is attained,

extermination can be used.

A spray specially made for fly- One of these should be filled with the enamel, when it will be found easy to distribute the paint evenly over the whole surface.

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words, the relationship has gone, these reasons, it is to be hoped pored by uncertainty. For and, with it, the argumont on that stabilisation of the dollar is which the Currency Commission one of the objectives of Mr. ***** based its contention that Hong-Young's visit to the Colony.

"The local carpenters think I'm a little bit crazy.

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Divorce is said to be almost un- known In Sweden, which, as you may know, is the home of the safety match.

It's now being argued that Gor- many didn't lose the war. If this can be proved, 'It makes Germany: positively unique among the partl cipants.

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A scientist says bow legs are a. [sign_of_courage. Especially when.

they're in plus fours,

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If the Government would only pin the dollar to the temperature, luctuations would at least be seu- sonable,

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We suppose that if a dentist. Imarried à manicurist, they would

bo llable to fight tooth and null..

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Why not encourage these nir.

lines to come to Hongkong, oven:

although some of us are a trifle "flighty?"

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Presumably Bath buns will figure in the menu at the now Lido.

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A Perry won the British golf

championship, and a Perry is the

tennis champlon, hence the terms perryventure, perrygrination, and perryscopo!