THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936.
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TOY TIME
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HERE are few things that give
us greater ulea-
sure in children than imita- tion: Children will even
imitate a funeral service as
a game.
And their pleasure in imi- tation is shown not only in their invented games but in their
passion for toys, most of which things in the real world.
are. Imitations of people and
Much as little girls may enjoy the company of other little. girls, they find the world made
still leveller by the presence of
those imitation little girls (from the age of babyhood up) called Stubbs Road dolls. And their delight is in- creased if the doll can still further imitute a human infant by closing its blue eyes when put to bed and by squeaking
MARRIAGE.
waist.
MACKINLAY-JEFFRIES-On De-"Mama!" when' pinched at the
cember 16, 1930, at St. Andrew' Church, Kowloon, by the Rev. J. R. Higgs, assisted by the Rev. H. W. Baines, Shellah Mary, only. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Jeffries, of the
the Royal Observa- vatory, Hongkong, to William Andrew, second son of Dr. W. H. Mackinlay and the late___ Mrs. Mackinlay, of The Green House, Redenr, Yorkshire,
The
Symphony Orchestra. Hongkong Telegraph.
Dream of Christmas (Ketelboy) Ackland
C2490
C2703
C2716
Fifty Years of Song (Organ) Ballad Memories (With Vocal
C2805 DA 768
Peter Dawson's Christmas Party Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht O du frohliche
Nazareth and The Rosary
Jesus Christ is risen to-day
DA1288
DA1289
Mail the
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Star of Bethlehem
Holy City
Robertson & Chorus, .Terence Casey.
Refrain]
New Mayfair Orchestra. .. Peter Dawson & Party.
A Party without music is a dull affair,
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Chater Road
What a waste place the world would seem if the dolls were banished from it! populated! less!
By ROBERT LYND
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grew up to write one of the most militarist English books written during the war, "Ordeal by Battle." I, on the other hand, played with toy soldiers to my heart's content, and yet grew up as pacifle as a pet lamb. So you never know how things will. turn out.
At the same time, if there
are to be toy soldiers, T-should- prefer them to belong to the pre- Great-War era, when soldiers were na brightly-coloured as butterflies and were one of the most entrancing decorations of a world at pence.
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TO-DAY, however, the deadliest instruments modern War аге being produced as nursery toys. It is anid that children can now play with a submarine in its bath, and may find itself presented by Its grandmother with a clock- work 'aeroplane that can be sùs- pended from the ceilings and will drop bombs in the course of its circular flight.
This Christmas you will see some stores offering.a toy tank with a machine-gun that fires as the tank proceeds. I bought
H de- little family can be taken out cutting as to see a mare with a one myself, and there seemed How companion- of his little ark and can be set new foal, and the variety of the to be a much rendler såle for marching at the head of all motor-cars on the road delights them than for the mechanical his little animals. In such a them no less than the variety of babies that crawled on all fours Was there ever architecture, diminutive world a substantial the poultry in a farmyard. or the mechanical elephanta that from the time of the Parthenon human child becomes monarch The fact is that to the child waved their trunks or the down to the Regency, that gave
of all it surveys. It becomes all these things seem a natural mechanical doga that stood on more pleasure to human eyes which at this size and in this
master of the very wild beasts part of the world in which it their hind legs and wagged their than the multitude of dolls' guise aro its mere playthings. houses that time has brought to ruin in 90 many nurseries? Was there ever a banquet in a West End hotel more delicious
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old fashioned toy horse-and-cart
Aeroplanes and motor tails. MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1036.
coaches do not spoil the world for the modern child. To the child, indeed, the world with-
HAVE heard that in PUBLIC ORDER
out them would be unthinkable.
some countrics there AND
ND so you will see It is not generally known that
There has been some con- are now even toy battlefields to the imagination than the crowded with tiny imitations not whether it is right to reduce not shell-holes
the Christmas shops troversy in recent years as to with toy dead soldiers and toy .Offers. the law recently passed in Eng.
courses that have been served only of the works of nature but only the world of ordinary children: and in time we may Richard Crooks. and prohibiting the wearing of
on dolls' dinner-sets with of the works of man. The toy machinery but the world of war even have toy air-raids showing Richard Crooks. Į political uniforms in public has
grave na incitation of reality?
world contains not only the little to the dimensions of a child's the toy victims of the toy Richard COOKS. its counterpart in Sweden, Nor-
horse and bear and rabbit and plaything. Richard Crooks.
girl but the little motor-ear and there were families that ex- I confess that I prefer the
Even in the past bombs. 1 way, Denmark, Finland and .Richard Crooks.
railway train with a railway line cluded lend soldiers from the Switzerland, where it has been
Home. I may be that toys have and stations, deemed prudent to take similar
become too elaborate
or the old-fashioned goat that action for the purpose of putin modern times and that a mechanical age deplore this lead soldiers ever turned Into a
People who dislike the doubt whether playing with blented when it was wound up. ting a stop to what threatened normal little girl would be quite intrusion of machinery into the militarist a boy who would not toy tank will do any child the Not that I imagine that the to become a serious nuisance, as happy with a stuffed Aunt however, who dislike machinery. case. The late F. S. Oliver told odd imagination man must nursery. It is only the adults, have been a militarist In any slightest harm. But what an causing aggravation of political Sally as with a more life-like Children love it. Children will us in his reminiscences that as have who thought of a tank as feeling to the possible point of fair-haired figure with all its walk as far to see a railway--a child he was not allowed to the perfect thing to put into u grave disturbances. When the additaments of dolls' tea-sets, engine pulling its way through a play with toy soldiers. Yet he child's Christmas stocking! Blil was introduced in the British dolls' chairs, dolls' tables, dolls": House of Commons, Sir John mirrors, and even--I saw one in Simon bluntly referred to the coming into being of groups, often trained, carrying weapons and wearing uniforms, whose members by their overbearing
The pleasure. given by toys, and insulting behaviour and
however, is a pleasure caused their organised rowdiness were
not only by imitation, but by threatening other members of littleness. Most of Us re- the public. It Is this evil which member how in our infancy we the new law seeks to combat. enjoyed seeing things through The main idea of the Act is to the wrong end of a telescope or prohibit the organisation and a pair of field-glasses. For the equipment of bodies for the pur moment we were Gullivers spy- pose of enabling them to be eming upon the world of Lilliput. ployed in unsurping the func Toys introduce the child to tions of the police and the arm-a 'Lilliputian world of a compar- ed forces of the Crown. Anble kind. Little Noah and his qualification, however, has been | made so as to allow the wearing widely. prevalent that the police in public service vehicles in London. the Cayenne canary is due to a red
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shop-window this week- dolls trousseaux. I doubt this, the child enjoys imitations of howover. It seems to me that
everything that can be imitated..
Things You
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British Post Ofee delivers over The little bow of ribbon at the 160 million parcels a year.
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Gallery is Titian's Cornaro Group; Costliest picture in the National bought for £122,000 in 1929.
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Miguel de Cervantes, author of
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carbonic-acid gas instead of fer-
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of political uniforms in cases had no right to enter a public where the risk of public disorder meeting unless they were in would not arise, such as at cere-vited. That was actually never monial occasions to celebrate un-the case, for a policeman, even niversaries. But in these in- in uniform, is a citizen and has stances permission. has to be the same rights as all other obtained from the police, with citizens. It is provided in the new law that if a policeman asks the approval of the Home Secrethe names and addresses of peo-an Italian scientist called Galyani. mean "dwelling-place of the snow." tary. A point of importance is ple who are guilty of persistent that there is to be no banning interruption, with a view to Colosseum, held 80,000 people.
Longest and oldest canal in the of political processions under the smashing up a meeting, re-
world is the Grand Canal of China between. Hangchow and Peking new law, as it is conceded that fusal to comply with the request America there were no horses there. century B.C.
Before the Spaniards landed in 1,000 miles long, work begun 5th demonstration by way of pro- becomes an offence. All in all, cession is a very old and well- the new Act 'deals fairly and in established method of exploiting a sensible manner with matters a point of view. It is now de- which needed attention, and its finitely Inid down, however, that enforcement should have a con- the police have power to controlsiderable effect in preventing the routes which processions public disturbances which have take. There is another aspect been all too common in recent of the question which is worthy times, whilst at the same time of note; it relates to public meet preserving freedom of speech to ings. There used to be an idea the people.
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Ancient Egyptians used a band round their head to keep the hair in place. We wear this band round our hats now.
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20 once in 182 years. Next in A.D. Shrove Tuesday falls on February 2028
mourning amongst the Israelites, Covering the head was a sign of Greeks, Romans and Anglo-Saxony- hence the black cup of a judge pass- Ingin death sentence.
The first private letter written in the English language was received: by Sir John Pelham from his wife.
Only mammals grow hair-even in 1390. st whales a few,
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The Scottish kill was the idea. of an Englishman," Thong}}NEWMA 'Inson (1728).
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