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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1986.

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

my

Giving the Game Away

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

waistcoat it struck me For 364 days of the year we success would be greeted with right, we are suffering from an

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

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DA SILVA-Al her residenco 23. Jordan Road, on 22nd December, 1930. Helena (Nellie) d'Azevedo da Silva, at, the age of 61 years. Funeral will pass the monument to-day at 0.15 p.m. (Manila papers please copy).

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1938,

AN EXAMPLE TO HONGKONG

shail dress; Britons, lulled by ugliness as an alternative dis-

optical delusion.

But to call the delusion merely

satisfied with myself for of laws which govern how we Why, though, do we accept gratuitously increasing my an assertion that they never guise to beauty, and accept it optical is perhaps an understate-

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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 villainous, tittering children with my hands shapes that our imaginations for our naughtiness, we stamped.

heroic, lain when, as children punished

IN the same way, when we wear a thick over- our feet and raged and hit our coat 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- ness and nothing bathing dress on the beach. else. AŁ those The thick material seems in times the lust some strange way to become a

spread comfortably above an at various times paint us. artificin) paunch.

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

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cal research, and has now follow. And it was true. If she didn't ed up these gifts with a sum of i look like a sultan, she looked as two million sterling for the bene- though she felt like one. fit of those who are suffering dire hardships in the depressed areas. In making this gift, Lord Nuffield realises that there

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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:

To be an effecting it on we ourselves have tive villain-or an grown. effective hero, for

to play the part of the king or the sul- tan, and there would be no can- that matter-one must have

Thus, as I stalked. proudly power, and I think it is this de- round the room with my arti don't look remotely like a sul didates for the role of villain,

sire for power which we most ficial stomach in front of me, tan. You look more or less like One has also to admit that obviously betray when we are it seemed, I think, as though it anyone else who cared to parade the characters. in charades are uressing up for fun.

was genuinely me, as though I in one of my curtains."

nearly all grotesque. Far from

was spiritually and physically said. "You must admit there's seem to go out of their way to wearing clothes, he might reply Perhaps to other people I looked "But there's something," she beautifying themselves they neighbour to say why he liked mayor of a prosperous town. If you asked your next-door entitled to call myself the an air, a sort of distinction make their faces as ugly and that he disliked-wearing them, as ridiculous as my sultanic aunt, about it, because, at any rate, distorted as possible. The Kaiser or only wore them for modesty's but in the depths of our own Bill moustache, the hunched sake or because convention de private hearts we were both con back, the pillow under the manded it, or because he had no vinced that we had grown in waistcoat these are the most desire to die of cold.

power and glory. typical charade properties.

Probably he would not say And But it would be difficult, of that they gave him a senso of around us: my nephew with his those other people course, to depict one's self in assurance, that somehow they beard; his cousin with the AFTERWARDS, when we the splendour of household than he refly a bigger person black moustache and hunched was. Yet that were they also playing

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had duly appeared in daydreams with

dresses and flowing robes, I woman to emulate Greta Garbo, strongest motives behind his The charade, it occurred to me, all the glory of our head- objects as the only aids. For a would probably be one of the out their private fantasiea? helped a nephew to detach him- a man to rival Johnnie Weiss- singular habit of dressing might be depicting something self from his beard, and it muller, time and expert atten- singular because Man alone nearer life than the word of 83 struck me again how odd this tion are needed, and then we among the mammals is addicted many business was.

might reasonably fear

syllables, that to it.

audience had already guessed.

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A Scot

which the

real cause of the trouble, for he, too, hoped to make a good thing out of. women Imported for the labourers' benefit, and turned particularly nasty' when Macintosh told him there was "nothing doing."

His head was a purple pulp, and for one, was glad.

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

A hundred-a able shacks negro women sollelted thousand-what you will!” the favours of the labourers. Twice In a week I was shot at, just because at a flat wage rate, and within two We fixed with him for 2,000 men from the stokehold, dead as mutton, I had refused the "offer" of a native days they marched down to our loc with his arm swinging beside the overseer who hoped to run in a lot tion, singing stretcher, like a pendulum. He bod more women to please his men and should have seen the local priest's and shouting. You drunk cold water after his stretch in make a pile. peleaxed helfer. the slokehold, and dropped like a

face! He shook his fist under my The Padre's Power

"You Englishman" he hissed, look- ing like a black snake, "you forget I am also policeman herel You watch out for you go quick-latke that-zuit!"

nose.

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"Cursed Inglezi" he bowled.

"You

use murderers and cut-throais, eh? He snapped his fingers, just as his we will show them!!

latterly of the terrible plight of A BLACK-haired girl whose muslin

dress hung against her the And Make Him the children of poverty-stricken Ilmbs walked past our table, threw parents in this Colony, whose I could even see the play of her us a coquettish, eye and moved on. needs are only partially met by muscles as she walked. charitable organisations.. In the "Come on out o' this!" sald 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 hands no join me and go to Forteleze, where a British engineer is building of these bodies. It is to be in dam beneath the tributaries of the |conceded that if à year's contri. Rio San Francisco?"

from somewhere north of Edinburgh, 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 nithy stretch of water rans" in Mayfair, and a few others, Fortelcze, a hotbed of engineers in- But when you are up against the terested only in the £33,000,000 stark realities of life, give me a Scot, works going forward inland. digal sons are made, though they do Money-Makers They are the very stuff of which pro- that the money comes from a manage to accumulate a fair amount relatively circumscribed section of moss! We were sitting outside a

cafe in Rio, that paradise and cess- Here were scores of prodigals, revolver snapped at me in the dusk

He was just like the villain out of of the community, the same pool of South America, and save for hard-working fellows, harder-swear- three days inter. Then he came for names constantly recurring in the drink Macintosh had ordered we ing and all intent on making for-me with his knife, but my 45 bullet a third-rate melodrame, and when I published lists. A further point had not 5s between us. If you haves, In a Forteleze cafe we saw took him in the midriff first. He was gripped him savagely by the should- to be emphasised is that the made the trip from Ilio to Pernam-he 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! inland we come on thecrest savagery. that he said. "His greatest enemy he found a distinct lessening of his alunk off lo. plot with his fellows. buco and Curitabaya you will know girls, and ate piles of prawns off away.

bright blue, plates. From Fortelcze "Don't bother about scum like fallen very fint indeed, and after that His plat to hold up British labour had part, these blessed with abun- A.Pernambuco a man was carried Up Grotesque rocks rising above the will slip into his job and thank you following and his authority. dant wealth, although there are

plain, marshy pools backed by for the chance!" some outstanding examples to.

Canubya palms and so to Qixerem- the contrary. If we take the tackle the problem without im- boer when there was a shot.

bin. Scottle and I were drinking bot

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 of so long as we made good progress. "Come on, Bruce," he yelled. "You Brazil, A priest of 98, living in a In spite of the heat work was the various societies, It will be found purpose. There could thus be don't know these Cearenes. Get a strange walled city and ruling the only thing that counted that whilst they aggregate a big no more appropriate moment move on."

wildest band of cut-throats you could hour of it without cessation. Five

hour after sum in the course of the year, than the present for some of the ran out and say a little girl of that. frail, white-haired man always sixa English, Welsh, or Scoin. They

Imagine with hand of iron. Yet

or

ameliorative work, leaving the to come forward and supplement sprawled in the dust, while the dis-castes, head-hunters, cannibals, and I am often tempted to ask them whe they suffice only for purely really wealthy men of the Colony topple from behind her father's wore the kindest of smiles. He day and dead-beat by night. When strove manfully, sweat-streaked by Kaddle. She twitched pitifully radiated good humour, while half-neools in London talle af brodigals core of a big social problem what is already being done by tracted man 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 ment of the evil is impossible institutions for those who 80 ley of shouls, a lttle girl whose hair white men, reals prodigals turned Perature of 100 degrees,"

the matto.. A curl of smoke, a med-est wish as-law. One or two were 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 ment, as we all know, cannot at Nuffield 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 tho will, be accomplished whose grandfathers were Portuguese volver, and always ready to back a themselves know nothing of rocked folk whose grandmothers were slaves, good lads, handy with knife or re- the effeteness of modern youth," but this work, and, as H.E. the hero on a scale relative to the and Guarapy Indions, and who would countryman. Governor indicated a few days needs of the poor of this Colony dead mothers. A bad lot Two days when we were really up against son, but would rather have one steal the gold from. the teeth of their

muscles and empty stomachs. They ago, there fa little prospect that Is it too much to hope that the later in the scrub we came on the labour troubles engineered by local such beside me in a tight corner than It was to the Padre Cletra-1 went cast the stone of corn at the prodigal it will be able eventually to example may be followed? corpse of that murderer of children, half-castes. Another priest was the ten thousand criticst.

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