1936-12-23 — Page 24

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1986.

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"ESTERDAY we play-

ed charades, and trying against time to stuff a bolster -underneath

my waistcoat it struck

me

Giving the Game Away

For 364 days of the year we success would be greeted with

Hongkong Hotel as odd that I should feel so grovel obediently to an iron set laughter instead of admiration.

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When we examine the circles reproduced in this article and believe that the smaller of the two in the centre is larger than its counterparts to left and right, we are suffering from an optical delusion.

But to call the delusion merely

satisfied with myself for of laws which govern how we Why, though, do we accept shall dress; Britons, lulled by ugliness as an alternative dia- gratuitously increasing my an assertion that they never guise to beauty, and accept it optical is perhaps an understate-

girth.

will be slaves, more abjectly with the sort of satisfaction ment. The inner circle borrows- Odd, because in the cold, than foreigners; men, priding that I felt in folding my hands an effect of size from the really clear light of my bathroom I themselves on their manhood, on a hopelessly distorted belly? larger circle surrounding it, and watch a similar, though more more supinely than women. And We have to remember that it is hard to dissociate them gradual, process with alarm. on day No. 365, for no apparent there have been times in real without a conscious effort. Odd, because I really did feel reason, the laws are suspended, life when it has seemed a an important part of the uni- and we parade in those bearded, pleasant thing to play the vil verse as I barged my way among fattened tittering children with my hands shapes that our imaginations for our naughtiness, we stamped villainous, heroic, lain when, as children punished

IN the same way, when we wear a thick over- our feet and raged and hit our cont or a heavy suit of tweeds mothers until we we feel a more significant part seemed a living of the universe than we do in a. nerve of wicked-

DA SILVA-At her residence 23, Jordan Road, on 22nd December, 1936. Helena (Nelile) d'Azevedo da Silva, at the age of 51 years. Funeral will pass the monument spread comfortably above an at various times paint us, to-day at 5.15 pm. (Manikartificial paunch, papers please copy).

The

Essie Ackland. Thongkong Telegraph.

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Dream of Christmas (Kotelbey) · Ackland

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C2805 Pater Dawson's Christmas Party DA 768 Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht

O du frohliche

DA1288 Nazareth and The Rosary DA1289 Jesus Christ is risen to-day

Christ the Lord is risen to-day Star of Bethlehem Holy City

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A Party without music is a dull affair,

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PRACTICAL

Gifts

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1934.

AN. EXAMPLE TO HONGKONG

You may, of course, object that

Nor was this just some eccen- the explanation is tricity of my own, for I noticed too subtle, that if an aunt who had hitched a in dressing up we chenille curtain to her shoul- were merely put-

By

ders and knotted a doormat ting our private TANGYE

into n turban round her head ambitions into was suffering from a similar practice we should onset of self-importance.

all be clamouring

"Quite honestly,"

to play the part of

I said, the king of the sul

LEAN

☆

ness and nothing bathing dress on the beach. else. At those The thick material seems in times the last some strange way to become a

thing in the world part of ourselves. We feel that we wanted was to it is really us, and that in put- appear a saint. -

ting it on we ourselves have

To be an effec

tive villain or an grown, effective hero, for

power, and I think it is this de

Thus, as I stalked proudly

when she solicited my admira- tan, and there would be no can- that matter one must have round the room with my arti tion, "quite honestly, no, you didates for the role of villain. don't look remotely like a gul- tan. You look more or less like

" ✩

#

GIVE ME THE

BLACK-haired girl whose muslin

OWN

Audience had already guessed.

the

PRODIGAL SON! hoped to make good thing out c

dress hung against her the And Make Him limbe walked past our table, threw

I could even see the play of her us a coquettish eye and moved on. muscles as she walked.

A Scot

real cause of the trouble, too, a of women Imported for the labourers" benefit, and turned particularly nasty.. when Macintosh told him there was

His head was a purple pulp, and 1, "nothing doing." for one, was glad.

"You want to break the strike?" Here in the irrigation works Mac- asked Padre Cicero, mapping his Intosh and I got work, well paid, but knuckles and grinning like a school- arduous, Cotton was the great crop, boy. "Ah! That is cary. How many and at the end of the street of miser men do you want. A hundred a able shacks negro women solicited

thousand-what you will". the favours of the labourers. Twice

Robertson & Chorus. .Terence Casey. Refrain)

New Mayfair Orchestra,

It is given to relatively few Peter Dawson & Party, individuals to amass large for.

..Offers. tunes and to fewer still to make anyone else who cared to parade the characters in charades are dressing up for fun.

sire for power which we most ficinl. stomach in front of me. One has also to admit that obviously betray when we are it seemed, I think, as though it Offers, wise use of their accumulated in one of my curtains."

was genuinely me, as though I Richard Crooks, wealth. Lord Nuffield, the

nearly all grotesque. Far from Richard Crooks. British motor magnate, comes

was spiritually and physically "But there's something," she beautifying

If you asked your next-door entitled to call myself the themselves Richard Crooks, within both these categories. an air. a sort of distinction make their faces as ugly and that he disliked wearing them, as ridiculous as my sultanic aunt, anid. "You must admit there's seem to go out of their way to wearing clothes, he might reply Perhaps to other people I looked they neighbour to say why he liked mayor of a prosperous town. Richard Crooks. He has already made hugo bene about it, because, at any rate, distorted as possible. The Kaiser or only wore them for modesty's but in the depths of our Richard Crooks. factions to education and medi-I feel exactly like a sultan.

cal research, and has now follow- And: it was true. If she didn't Bill moustache, the hunched sake, or because convention de private hearts we were both con ed up these gifts with a sum of look like a sultan, she looked as back, the pillow under

the marided it, or because he had no vinced that we had grown in two million sterling for the bene- though she felt like one. waistcoat-these are the most desire to die of cold.

power air glory. ft of those who are suffering

typical charade properties. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. dire hardships in the depressed

Probably he would not say But it would be difficult, of that they gave, him a sense of around us: my nephew with his And those other people course, to depict one's self in assurance, that somehow they beard, his cousin with the areas. In making this gift, Lord Nuffield realises that there all the glory of our head- objects as the only aids. For a would probably be one of the cut their privato fantasies? AFTERWARDS, when we the splendour of than him for a bigger that back, moustiche and hunched duly appeared in daydreams with household than he really was. Yet that back, were they also playing is a limit to what the Govern-dresses and flowing robes, I woman to emulate Greta Garbo, strongest motives behind his The charade, it occurred to me, ment can do at this juncture, helped a nephew to detach him- a man to rival Johnnie Weiss- singular habit of dressing- might be depicting something when there are so many pressing self from his beard, and it muller, time and expert atten- singular because Man alone nearer life than the word of so calls on the public purse. The struck me again how odd this tion are needed, and then we among the mammals is addicted many syllables, which contribution which he has so business was.

might reasonably fear that to it. generously made does high credit to his humanitarian instincts. The thought suggests itself that There is an example which could be more widely followed by men of wealth-even here in Hong- kong. Much has been heard latterly of the terrible plight of the children of poverty-stricken parents in this Colony, whose needs are only partially met by charitable organisations. In the "Come on out of this!" said Mac-By SIR MICHAEL BRUCE absence of any large-scale Gov-Intosh violently. "Let's get some ernment social service, the prob. unscented air into our lungs. Why lem remains largely in the hand not join me and go to Fortelcze, from the stokehold, dead as mutton, I had refused the "offer” of a native days they marched down to our laco- In a week I was shot at, Just because at a flat wage rate, and within two of these bodies. It is to be a dam beneath the tributaries of the stretcher like a pendulum. He had more women to please his men and should have sece the local priest's

where a British engineer is building with his arm swinging beside the overseer, who, hoped to run in a lo tion, conceded that if a year's contri. Rio San Francisco?"

singing and ahouting. You drunk cold water after his stretch in make a pile. GIVE GREATERbutions paid into all the Colony's The Scollie was a prodigal son polenxed heifer.

the stokehold, and dropped like a

face! He shook his ast under my charitable nocieties were totalled from somewhere north of Edinburgh;

The Padre's Power up, the sum would be startlingly have met miners in Jo'burg, "also 30 miles from the coast we came to and a very stout. fellow at that, i Through the filthy stretch of water large, but it remains a fact, as rans" in Mayfair, and a few others. Forteleze, a hotbed of engineers in- was stressed by a speaker at the But when you are up against the terested only in the £33,000,000 recent meeting of the Society stark realities of life, give me a Scot. works going forward inland. $9.50 for the Protection of Children, digal sons are made, though they de Money-Makers

They are the very stuff of which pro- that the money comes from a manage to accumulate a fair amount

"Cursed Inglez!" he bawled, "You' relatively circumscribed section of mass! We were sitting outside a

He snapped his fingers, just as bis We will show them!"

use murderers and cut-throats, eh? .50 of the community, the same pool of South America, and save for ing and all, intent on making for- me with his knife, but my .45 bullet a third-rate melodrama, und when I

Here were scores of prodigals, revolver snapped at me in the dusk cafe in Rio, that paradise and cess hard-working fellows, harder-swear three days later. Then he came for names constantly recurring in the drink Macintosh had ordered we tunes, In a Forlelaze cafe we saw took him in the midriff first. He was gripped him savagely by the should

He was just like the villain out of published lists. A further point had not Sa between us, If you have to be emphasised is that the made the trip from Flo to Pernam the last of those seductive dancing no loss, MacIntosh laughed my fears ers he went as white as a sheet and .50 donors are not, for the most all about it. If you have not, don't! Bright blue plates. From Fortelcze

buco and Curitabaya you will know girls, and hte piles of prawns off away.

slunk off to plot with his fellows. part, those blessed with abur-At Pernambuco a man was carried up inland we came on sheerest savagery. that he said. "His greatest enemy he found a disunet lessening of his "Don't bother about scum like fallen very flat indeed, and after that His plot to hold un British labour had dant wealth, although there are

Grotesque rocks rising above the will slip into his job and thank you following and his authority some outstanding examples to

plain, marshy pools backed by for the chance" Canubya palms and so to Qixerom- the contrary. If we take the tackle the problem without im-beer when there was a shot.

bin. Scottle and I were drinking hot Then it was I met one of the most digals cared for none of these things.. Yet Macintosh and the other pro-- normal contributions to these posing further taxation for the

amazing persons in the whole "Come on, Bruce," he yelled. "You Brazil A priest of 88, living in a In spite of the heat work was the of so long as we made good progress. By

various societies, it will be found. purpose. There could thus be don't know these Cenrenes. Get a strange walled city and ruling the only thing that counted-hour after that whilst they aggregate a big no more appropriate moment move on." MANFIELD & JAEGER sum in the course of the year, than the present for some of the ran out and saw a little girl of that frail, white-haired man always alx English, Welsh, or Scots. They

wildest band of cut-throats you could Imagine with a hand of fron, Yet our of it without cessation. Five or they suffice only for purely really wealthy men of the Colony i topple from behind her father's wore the kindest of smiles. He day and dead-beat by night. When strove manfully, sweat-ntreaked by- ameliorative work, leaving the to come forward and supplement sprawled in the dust, while the dis- caster, head-hunters, cannibals, and to London talk of prodigals

saddle. She twitched. pitifully, radiated good humour, whila half- core of a big social problem what is already being done by tracted mon galloped hell for leather heaven knows what of riff-raft fawn-ther they have ever done ten hours largely untouched. Major treat making it possible, to provide after a man who disappeared into ed upon him and regarded his slight-toll for as many shillings in a tem am often-tempted to nak them whe ment of the evil is impossible Institutions for those who soley of shouts, auto smoke, a med-est wish as law. One or two were perature of 100 degrees!! from this source. The Govern- badly need them. What Lord was matted with blood. It was all native, who would never return to Armchair critics always did "get

girl whose hair white men, real prodigals turned ment, as we all know, cannot at Nulfield has done at Home can, part of a family feud amongst family Britain. Yet for the most they were my goat They talked loosely of present allocate big sums for given the will, be accomplished whoss grandmothers were alaves, good lads, handy with kalfe or re the effeteness of modern youth." but this work, and, as H.E. the here on a scale relative to the and Guarany Indians, and who would countrymanggung muscles and empty stomas. They whose grandfathers were Portuguese volver, and always ready to back a themselves know nothing of racked Governor indicated a few days needs of the poor of this Colony, steal the gold from the tests of their It was to the Padre Cicero Twont cast the stone of porn at the prodigal ago, there is little prospect that Is it too much to hope that the later in the scrub we came on the labour troubles engineered by local ruch beside me in a Ught corner than: dead mothers. A bad lot. Two days when we were really up against son but I would rather have one it will be able eventually to example may be followed 7 corpse of that murderer of children. half-cakes. Another priest was the ten thousand critics wÊN

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