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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1937.

SATURDAY PAGE

Super-Resolutions

for the

Subconscious Self

By an

ANNUAL PENITENT

on January 1. Then, at least, one is the thought: "I can and I will" Armly fuly conscious of one's limitations. und confidently in mind and drop of

Paychologists will tell you that lato a childlike slumber. making a resolution, which one doca not want to keep, is merely a matter

of instructing the subconscious. Ex-

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THERE must be something perience suggests that psychologists Next morning, if you can remem- Tatimulating in the spectacle

peculiar ber your Incantation of the night of an elderly stockbroker, some brand because I have had no success before, you repeat it with even what imperfectly decorated with with this method.

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1936 1937-?

your "I say, Subconscious, old man

greater confidence and even friendlier and frmer lonos. If you are a psy- what are known as "Carnival

chologist your subconsejous will give Novelties." frisking with elephan- Briefly, the iden is this. Just you a docile but unmistakable affirm- tine grace round the ball-room of before going to sleep on December 31 otive to all your assertions, however (those who stay up all night should preposterous, and, throwing your the Magnifique.

consult a physician) you tell your cigarette case out of the window, you Or perhaps it was the Pro-Consul subconscious exactly what you want will proceed with a smile on your and his Indy, very Simia and corect, it to do, and not to do, in the New lips and a song in your heart to the mainialning Imperial dignity under

Year. The subconscious must be Arctie pleasures you have outlined. hall of woollen missiles.

human natu But if you are like me, and, I am Or perhaps it was the Magninque's addressed in firm but friendly tones

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an old friend." I talking to Cabaret, registering the true spirit of (Personally I would never dream of afraid, the majority of mortals, the what the maitre d'hotel described as talking to an old friend in this way, only reply you will get from your subeongelout--if you get auy at all... a "guila nayeet."

but that is beside the point.)

will be the difiant and unmistakable circulation, "Line."

Or perhaps it was just the third old brandy.

Whatever the explanation, when was only minutes old I had 1937 made a series of New Year's Resolu- tions, not one of which have I kept

The time, if any, to make resolu flors is just before or after breakfast

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"YALOU"

Stining a yawn, you say: "I say Subconscious, old man, don't you think it would be a good idea to give

The psychological method, then, is up smoking in the New Year, what? not one that I recommend. It in a (No reply.) Well, I mean say, you pure waste of time, and, to tell the know it is a silly habit, which you truth, one feels embarrassingly footleh don't really like and you only do as talking aloud to one's subconscious. a matter of nerves, don't you? (No

pre-

reply.) And then don't you think The best thing to do is to wall unit you ought to take a good deal more after breakfast and have a exercise, a little more mens sana di Uniinary canter by resolving not to corpore sano, if you know what I do a few things which one has not mean? You really like bounding out the remotest intention of doing. This of bed, doing your physical jerks, and gives one a necessary feeling of con- then leaping into a cold bath. It's Adence or, as the psychologists prefer not at all bad fun, really, is 7 (No to call it: "A Sense of the Power of reply.) What? (Still no reply) the Inner Ego."

And then this matter of drinking. How much better and brighter and happier you will feel if you cut out

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that quick one before lunch! It Having warmed up both the Inner would be much better for you to have Man and the Inner Ego, and feeling, glass of warm milk if you really in consequence, atmost Incandescent,

feel the need for stimulonis, and one can proceed to consider the most think how much Better Business you unlikely and the least unpleasant of would be able to do in the nfier- potential resolutions. noons!" (No symptom of a

reply.)

A

No. 2 AEO/37 Bringing Cargo from Dunkirk via ports ete, arrived Hongkong on Saturday, 26th December, 1936.

Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon

If you can survive this rather chill-

One may venture, for example, the Wharf and Gadown Co. Ltd., Kow-Ing opening you can proceed to general thought that in the reming loon, whence delivery may be ob- further injunctions such as the need year one must Detach Oneself More tained immediately after landing. for reading some really good lifera Chance. (Angilee: Get round to the

All claims must be sent in to me ture every day

instead of "Peter Club a bit earlier in the evenings.) on or before 6th January, 1937, or Simple". Ör

might you they will not be recognized.

the

value gest

of learning If that goes down well try some- Damaged Packages will be exomin another language

two, от

thing a little more difleult, such as ed by the Company's Surveyor learning to look beatine when your "I will answer all my Christmas. Messrs-Goddard and Douglas in the wife expects you to engage in in- Jelters before the end of April, Instead presence of the Consignees at 10.00 teresting chat above the sonorous of the usual August." h.m. on Thursday 31st December, strains of a Cookery Talk from 1936.

Cardiff on, the radio,

Consignees must have a Revenue Oncer in attendance. when any duti- able goods, are examined by the Company's Surveyors.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in any case whatever.

R. ONL.

Agent.

Hongkong, 26th December, 1936,

BERVICES CONTRACTUELS DES

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

The Steamship,

Bug-

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from Routine or Give Onc's Vision a

Then, if all goes well, one may pro- Then, all you have to do is to hold ceed lo something more serious.

A LAY SERMON

By HUGH REDWOOD

COD'S leading and man's turning reverse before it can turn. But the are here brought into conjunc- turn must ensue and the repentant tion. Few texts hold a deeper truth, man go forward, for the desire of but our appreciation of it depends God is that the sinner should turn upon our understanding of the key from his wickedness and live.

Heroin Hes the sinner's great hope. words.

and

mercy follow him; Repentance is more than confil. Goodness on

tion: it implies an active change.

follow, with infinite patience. up The wrong-

roads, often for terrible dis- wrong

to hail tanees,

to doer must not

him,

In revers- help in ing, to come with him when he turns. only cease from Thousands on thousands, the writer wrong doing among them, have heard that linil, he must become have reversed and turned

Kone ned and

"CHENONCEAUX". No. 3 A/37 Bringing Cargo from Marseilles via poris etc., arrived Hongkong Saturday, 20th December, 1938.

Consignees are hereby informed that their goods with the exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables are being landed and stored into the Godowns of the Hongkong Kowloon Wharf and Godown Co. Ltd., Kow- loon, whence delivery may be ob- tained immediately after landing,

All claims must be sent in to me bn or befare 6th January, 1937, or they will not be recognized,

Damaged Packages will be examin- cd by the Company's Surveyor Messrs Goddard and Douglas in the presence of the Consignees at 10,00 a.m. on Thursday, 31st December, 1936.

Revenue

Consignees must have Officer in attendance when any dull- able goods are examined by

Company's Surveyors.

the

No Fire Insurance will be effected

by us in any case whatever.

R. OHL.

Agent.

Hongkong, 20th December, 1936.

N. Y. K. LINE (NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA.)

*From EUROPE and STRAITS.

The Motorship,

The goodness of

God leadeth

ce

to repentance.

ROMANS, il., 4.

It is, course, a profound illusion Jo suppose that conduct is influencedt by the formation of resolutions. But cherishen the Illusion

as an anodyne for conscience-that nasty, lif-disposed monitor which it- self has no filusions and which is never tired of reminding its owner of his shortcomings-especially when they have been successfully concealed from other observers. The good resolutions that we make for the New Year are really a votive offering to consolence; and they should be re- sarded not po much as an assurance of reform as a diagnosis of what is amiss with the resolver's character,

falling of the

TE EN EL common erran to suppose that confession la tantamount to cure; that the listing of faulls is the same as the elimins- tion of them. But like causes will always produce like effects; the future is, as Pinero has sold, only the past entered through another door.

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How many of those who go through the New Year ritual of forming good Jesolutions fave the candour to com- mit hele resolves to writing, and then to compare the undertaking.with. the achievement at the end of the Old Year? The effect of such a compari- son would be humiliating:

but mercifully happens that the person who aspires to become a reformed character, all of a sudden forgets his aspiration before the month is out. The burden of his deficiencies sits so easily on his shoulders--it is such an old and familiar burden-that he is able to carry it through the twelve- month without any discomfort, and indeed without being conselous of it,

It is only in the Old Plays that the stage-direction holds true-"Here the miser leans against the wall and be comes generous," or "Here the villain. repents and repairs his villainles,"

old gentleman of an earlier An Keneration, whom infirmity had con- tined to bed, used to have his meals brought up by his daughter. His ap- petite was unimpaired, and after a hearty midday meal, he would in- variably say to his daughter, "Polly, tell your mother I shan't want any ten to-day." And "mother's answer always was, "We'll see about that when tea-time comes."

tea was

never

The appetite for found lacking at the due date. And so it is with the New Year reformer. the

He feels so full of virtue and good intention, that he is sure he will have no further need of repentance and re- formation. But the sustaining force evaporates with the passing of the days. He is the same man as before.

a doer of right. Nor is reversal of forward. and only then have realised wrong sufficient. It is frequently an what the goodness of God meant. essential preliminary, as when a car, However far they wandered in sin, having taken the wrong road, must His hand was there to lead them.

Life

FTER 40 years of constant observation I - "still don't understand why the best people usually have the worst manners, or what leads the Underground having arrived from the above ports, Railway to suppose there is Consignees of Cargo are hereby in- formed that their Goods are being more room in the rear of their londed and placed at their risk in trains, or why most women put the the Hongkong and Kowicon Wharf struck matches back in the box and Godown Company's Godowns.st Kowloon, whence delivery may be

tand replace telephone receivers obtained,

upside down.

"KASIHI MARU,"

Goods not cleared by the 7th

January, 1937, will be subject to rent. Cinema mystery

I can see no reason to hang a doll

Damaged packages must be left in

the Godowns for examination by the in the rear window of saloon motor- Consignee's and the Co.'s representa-

dry

still

me

As Sir William Harcourt said in the middle of the Boer War, "Nothing is over, but the shouting."

"So what about it, Subconscious, Old Man?"

at

shortest dresses. the fattest women always wear the why people prefer to count sheep in I can think of no logical reason preference to other animals when they wish to go to sleep, and tatil can't understand, how the hat in the

cleaners' windows Before Cleaning" can be the same marked hol us the one marked "After Clean

don't know why the wheels of motor-cors revolve backwards on the films, or how a key put down a per- son's back enn stop hils nose bleeding,

.. So this Irishman told the English

"HE is unique, and the best of

the dictators, in that alone

of all the dictators can it be said of him that he himself is under the dictatorship of clear and |cherished principles, consistent, unselfish, honest, his name un- stained by a June Purge or, a Matteotti."

So says Mr. Desmond Ryan in a book about Mr. de Valera just pub- llshed: "Unique Dictator" (Arthur Barker, Ltd., 105, ed.).

The President of the Irish Free State Executive has been accused, says Mr. Ryan,

of being un ambitious zehemer, of being an outsider who by guile and circumstances became the enigmatle leader of warm- hearted, unsuspicious and simple- minded natlon,

of nele or chief responsibility for: the Irish Civil War,

of being a "Kerensky" before be came to power

and a "Lenin" afterwards,

of being a dull, pedantic, piqued professor who only took up Irish polllles because he had not suf- Belent brains to learn enough Erse to pass for some petty post in some backwater of the Civil Service,

of vanity, lack of humour, In- humanity, duplicity and selfishness.

"All these charges," declares Mr. Ryan, "are without exception untrue, and can be proved untrue.

"They have picked de Valera to pieces and found everything but an answer to the question: Why has this unpretentious, persistent, scru- pulous, scholarly and courageous man retained the affection and trust of his people for more than twenty years, and why, even with his course un- finished, has he achieved so much of his original alms as he has?”

OF

STRAIN THE WOLF

STATISTICS published by the

Kennel Club show that in 1920 the Alsatian was the most popular dog in Britain, To-day It has fallen to sixth place.

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This is largely due to the rumour that was spread abroad that Aisations contained

strain of wolf blood.

Since the wolf is one of the few wild members of the dog family, there is good reason to suppose that the rumour is true. Most dogs have a wolf strain.

It is also true that Alsatians are of uncertain temper in some oircumstances. But why should anyone expect dogs bred for. police services to lick the boots of every stranger?

Another reason for the dë cline of Alsations is the Increase of flats. Fashions in pets are a good indication of changing social habits. Witness an ad- vertisement common in New York papers: "Buy a cat and a dog in one" meaning the Siamese cat.. Any social his- torian would see that that was Inspired by a bed-sitting-room- kitchenette age.

puzzles

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Obviously, the man who invented white slips for waistcoats must have had some good reason for doing so, but to me they stem as useless as the fob that north countrymen wear on their watch-chains. I could think for a week and still not know why a whisky and soda served in a dining car should cost twopence more thun It does in station buffet.

It defeats me how any one can cat

word like "protocol." And If bolin- ists are correct when they say that a tree breathes through its leaves, then I don't understand why I doesn't suffocate in the winter.

and the girt are standing there for him to count. I don't know, why, makes an American rub the back of a whelk or keep a canary or use a though. Nor can I explain what

his neck when he looks at a high building.

Sometimes, while I am trying to wondering how mon who travel to roll up my umbrella, I catch myself

business in trains six days out of every seven con willingly spend their holidays camping out in disused rail- way carriages. Before I can think of an answer, though, my mind is busy with other mysteries.

tives on, any Tuesdays and Fridays cars, and I can't imagine why tallors and I am frequently mystifled by the at 7.30 of Depression enigma

Q

I have notleed that women no

but I am unable to account for this.

period. For the examination o alde of cont collars or sew buttonholes longer scream at the sight of a mouse. dornaged dutiable goods, the coralgon cuff slcoves. nees must arrange for Omeer to be present. Revenue I often wonder who buys all the change, and I don't know how a sew- All claims must be presented with-monkeys in the windows of the pet ing machine or a zip fastener works,

shops, and I fail to understand why in ten days of the steamer's arrival cinema ushers show me to a sent in to have their photographs taken si!- or why people on plers should wish here, after which date they cannot be the side alates when there is plenty ling in motor-cars, recognized.

of room in the centre,

Why are nightingales niwnys coox- ed to sing with 'cellos? What has become of all the shocblacka and crossing sweepers who used to fre- quen't the street corners? Is a deep depression the same thing as a trough of low pressure? No. claims will be admitted after I see no use for the little pockets In a restaurant

I don't

at know what causes a rabbit the goods have left the Godowns. that cats have in the side of their

to twitch its nose, or why women ears, or for the small holes in brogue

who wear vells usually have mauve shoes, and I don't know

you know why a head complexions, or what would happen if I took a banknote to the Bank of bankrupt theatrical Impresarios man-, a restaurants invariably asks for age to live so luxuriously, or why how many, artegh The alla England and asked to be given gold

Koristus

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·Hongkong, 31st December, 1988.

how.

Woman.a man"and a girl enter

Waking thoughts

And when I wake up in the morn Ing I still don't know why I should step off escolator with the left foot or walk on the right side of the pavement. Or should I step off an escalator with the right foot and walk on the left side of the pavement? My heavens? I'm not sure.

And so I go through life, constantly wondering, constantly bewildered. I have yet to discover what. "the liftle something" is that barbers put on their customers' hair, and I can't imagine how the glass morbica get Into the necks of lemonado bottles or why people look exactly like their dogs, but never like their cats, es

Do you think that I am just one. of nature's mista? I often wonder..

M. L.-N.

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