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ROBERTSON-On November 25th, 1935. at the War Memorial Nursing Home, to Mary Margaret, wife of W, G. Robertson, daughter.

DEATH.

AVER since you or E can

E remember all human insti-

tutions have been by general consent, on the decline; even, it might be said, the very days of the week.

Look, for instance, at Sunday, the far-famed British Sunday. It is by no means what it was: and I, for one, regret its trans- MACKENZIE-On 25th November,mutation, albeit because of the

1935, at her residence, Surig Wong Toi, Harriet Hargaret Mackenzie. Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day.

The

decorative side of it, as I will explain, rather than from an entirely religious point of view; because, while myself convinced that my countrymen, even if a little less sectarian, are no more generation

Hongkong Telegraph. irreligious than a

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 1985.

ISOLATION NOT. POSSIBLE The small but noisy minority

ago,

it must be admitted that they lack their former extrava- gance of ornamentation,

It was, I fancy, in seaside towns and in this very autumn. when it felt cold enough for furs already to be worn, and yet at Home Known as isolationists

was enough heat in the -people who believe that Bri- there tain should have nothing to do sun to impart a gentle sparkle with concerted efforts, to pre- to the scene, that the British serve world peace-were recent-Sunday could be observed at its ly brought down to realities most typical, and therefore at by the Prime Minister, Mr. Ballwin,

it

who declared that stand impossible to was completely aloof from in-

its best.

In the early morning, the band of the Salvation Army

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at a price which no one would but joyous counsel to passers- be willing to pay. He pointed by, droning on and on and as out that if the British Isles though all this blowing through were isolated and refused to play brazen instruments were in their part in war, it would be reality a scientific device-and necessary to make Britain an assuredly it could be no musical armed camp and to give up all one-to dispel the light cobweb hope of social progress. "Co-mists that clung to the autumn operative effort for peace," said morning, the clouds soon cleared Mr. Baldwin, "is not a dream. and the sun came out, dimpling It is not quixotic; it is hard the rough surface of the sen commonsense applied to things below with the meaningless as they are. Alone we cannot affectation of a smile, and evok- find peace. We can seek it with ing a pale golden glint from the the other nations of the world. myriad glass windows of ter- crescent; glass And that is the basis of the race and League of Nations." There windows behind which ancient can be no disputing the point invalid images, in shawls and that the tendency for war, once lace caps, lay propped upon it breaks out, is to spread, and their pillows.

if no attempts are made to stop

it, the end may well be a world

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was

very

noticeable in that epoch; late

conflagration. The League of AND. indeed, it Nations was founded with the

this

THE RIGHT TO DIE

that, however pious might be animals, the long dead play- the atmosphere of the day, yet things of palacentologists, had the name, Sunday-Sun-Day- made their contribution to this still retained to a degree its old startling parade. These stoles, heathen significance, for by these capes and tippets and church-time-between, that is, boas, which, only so few days March and November-it was ago, had been shaken free of nearly always fine, even though their summer hail of naphtha- the leaden cords and ropes of bails, had surely been fashioned the rain had uncoiled themselves of no mere mink or badger, but endlessly down into the streets were all that remained, except the reconstructions of upon almost every other day of in

scientists, of auk and elk and the week.

dodo and giant-sloth.

. Now bells began chiming

hundred sham-gothie Once safely disengaged from

the their vehicles, as drowned steeples, and

from a

some rare

The men twirled their mou. staches and returned the blue and unmenning gaze of the sen eye of every below. The woman, however young or ancient, was occupied in noting minutely

clamour of the sea below, and molluse might be enticed to bravely, to the jingling of re-

its shell, the old ladies ticules. soon little processions set out, leave hurrying along from their neat showed themselves surprisingly houses, cihaping their prayer- alive and active, nodding, hès- books in their hands.. But until towing here a welcome, there a you neared the street in which frown. The men, for the most your church stood, it was dif- part, wore top-hats and frock- ficult to imagine what, in the couts and, as though already, way of vivid pageantry, lay in in their imagination, seated in for you: the fact being church, inclined to be silent and that these towns constituted, as preoccupied. it were, a museum of vehicles,

Zoo of dead fashions.

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was

DIRECTLY the service

over, the flock poured out of church, exchanging_notes____on

sermon.

the clothes of those

round her and the more irreligi OUN or invalid, who had not attended service, peeped out shyly at the parade from be- hind lace curtains.

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The most fantastic equipages drove up, one after another, to the church door, depositing

The pressure of BUT what happens to-day? their loads of fur-decked and the

Sunday. mornings one frilled old ladies at the lych- the crowd, moving even more Kate (then something of a slowly than at the pace of the hears the barren repartee of novelty in the way of antiques slowest, was very great; which tennis balls at the clubs and on revived). Wagonettes,

vic-

torias, broughams, barouches of to a degree constrained the talk, private lawns. The golf courses. a myriad of many an unnamed variety drove especially among the men, who, are filled with up, and their occupants almost though they threw out their people. Horse-riding is in full- chests never 80 much, were swing. There are bowls and

of making some silly I wrote inhabitants (since the nervous more elaborate vehicles ap- remark that would be overheard the nineteenth hole for the less-

strenuous inclined. peared as much the home of the and repeated.. equally elaborately dressed

So all wended toward the A man in a heavy coat lolls. creatures they carried as ram- shackle caravans are clearly the promenade, where the old ladies on the balcony reading a Sun- of unkempt would leave their carriages, to day paper, and a gramophone.

follow at #snail's pace by

can be heard playing on the dwelling - place gipsics) were helped out in due course by rather rustic footmen their side, and would walk in buff coats and cockaded top along, leaning on the arms of first floor, even through the

pealing bells. hats, who beckoned and lured nieces or paid attendants. them on.

How

their clothes, as they emerged from the darkness of closed carriages, blazed out in full glory, extraordinary and in tricate creations of artifice!.

As

It seemed, indeed, sometimes, though not alone extinct

NOTES OF THE DAY

After church the few old The promenade lay above

now and people who still tremble along lofty cliffs, tamed turned into municipal gardens, like spectres, among the round- wherein stood stunted trees, eyed staring of pushing, impi- their

n

heads averted from the

waves, their trunks stretched in ous crowds, now look as though static agony of flight from the world belonged to them no them, Up. and down this long more, for they are hidden in the walk the ancient relics tottered haze of petrolfumes.

THE WILL TO LIVE

use.

would have shown the strength and courage of others of his breed.

idea of stopping wars before Victorian or carly Edwardian. they begin, but, should they occur, the full powers of its members should be used to [localise it and bring it to an end

Take the ense of a prospector- as soon as possible. It is a recog-

300 miles from the nearest outpost nition of these points which has caused Britain to take the initin- Though the mensure for presenta- compared with the fortitude which frozen, without food, and without civilisation-and that only a village tive in getting united action tion to Parliament, to legalise the this right to dle would Involve. the remotest chance of obtaining of cabins on the bank of the upper any help. Even if Bona North Peace Rivor, Hudson's Hope. This among the League members to right to a quick and painless death First the patient, having made his

to face dreadful pain. restrain Italy in her war of ag-in cases of incurable disease, has resolve, must obtain an application woods traveller stumbles through man had the will to live and the

the blizzard Into the hump of courage powerful backing, it is exceedingly form. He must consult his nearest gression against Ethiopin. Un-doubtful if it will obtain the necesrelative and put his affairs in order.drifted snow which is the trapper's There was one chance in a thousand that he might win through with happily, hostilities began before sary popular approval for many ate must sign the form in presence shelter, he can be of little

his life. Ile had frozon the fingers the League could actively inter- year. The proposal raises various of two witnesses, one of whom must. The man with the frozen feet is too vene, but this is not surprising objections, mainly moral and rell-be an oficial witness. Finally, the far gone for that. Gangrene has of his left hand and two toes on his set in. He knows for a certainty left foot. He filed his knife-edge when it is borne in mind thatgious, and such objections, are very completed form must be sent to a

is the first occasion on slowly overcome. But even if they euthanasia referee appointed by the that a most unpleasant death lies into something resembling a small

Just ahead.

aaw and amputated his own fingers He knows all about it which

concerted pressure has were overcome it is not likely that Minister of Health, and an interval

of days will elapse before the opern-because he has seen a good friend and toes. Then, with a sack of flour and a few pounds of bacon on been brought to bear on a nation this new freedom would be exer-

tion fa carried out. Plenty of time die in the same manner. He is elsed by many persons. Even

his back that is all he possessed adjudged to be guilty of going healthy people are loath to face the here for resolution to wax and lying on the floor of the cabin and

in the way of food--he trudgi back on its sworn obligations, duty of making a will. They do

A patient might readily, in he drags himself painfully to the

Hudson's Britain has played, and is still not like to contamplate the implica- a paroxysm of pain, call out for wall, struggles up to a low bunk through. the winter cold, on snow- playng, a leading role in the tions it suggests, though their sudden death. But it would be a where his rifle lies. Kneeling, with shoes, all the way to

than the other fellow, who blew out preservation of the only system reason tells them that it brings very different thing to make up his the muzzle in his mouth, he pulls Hope. He was no more courageous which promises a death-blow to death no neurer. Many persons mind, as it were, in cold blood, and the trigger. Three days later a unrestrained aggression. To have have an uneasy aversion to that act. hold calmly to his decision for days Royal Canadian Mounted Police his brains. He had a fighting constable found the man's body. chance; the other had not. If you Surely it was no crime that that were faced with certain death from stood aloof in splendid isolation There are also many who approve while he went through all these

thirst and hunger, with both lega trapper should have taken his own at this juncture would have of cremation in theory, yet negicet legal formalities.

life, preferring the swifter passage brakon and a rifle by your alde. would you take the short cut? been to encourage international to write instructions for the dis posal of their bodies, because they

into the Beyond. Nor was his act lawlessness and to have condoned shrink from thinking of the process

And if you did, could it be called. a situation fraught with untold and of the "nothingness it involves,

any sign of weakness. The same man in different circumstances a crime? future danger:

These, however, aro small-mattera

wane.

This is a theoretical statement of Lét us now consider the case. facts. A trapper is lying in a anow-bound cabin with both feet