1937-02-24 — Page 42

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937.

"Don't wear a Truss"

Brocks

Brooks Rupture Appliance for Children

Follows the Child's growth holding the displaced organs always truly in position till natural building up processes strengthen the abdominal muxles and the rupture opening closes permanently.

Write for booklet "Rupture in Children'

-BOLE DISTRIBUTORS

A.S. WATSON

HOME DELIVERY

LUTO

of the

now

1937

Vauxhalls

If you are going home on leave, this will interest you.

You can arrange now to stop ashore at home and drive away in a now Vauxhall;

We assist you in this connection without any trouble or complica- tion to yourself

delivered

to you at home and subsequently in Hongkong.

Catalogue & Full Particulars from

The Debunking of

GRETNA GREEN

Hongkong Hotel ONLY the unpractical

Garage

CO., LTD.

Stubbs Rd.

NOW ON

SALE

"H.M.V." and "REX"

RECORDS FOR FEBRUARY

All

the

Popular Artists

are

by "H.M.V."

and

Featured "REX"- Call and Hear their Latest Recordings

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. York Building

Chater Road

།

SPECIAL OFFER!

UNTIL FEB. 28th

25%

Discount Off

By

W. L. Greig

HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

THE printer's craft is not, generally

speaking, one which attracts men of violent passions.

Its practitioners indeed, as anyone comected with ho Press will nifest, аге men of sober mon and balanced humour; nor is it surpris ing that, when banded together for the collective purposes of their call- ing, they dorm nothing less dignified than a "chapel."

But news from Central Europe stems to show (as all too often it does) that things there are different. For murely neither Gutenberg nor Coxton could have foreseen, how "in or about 1900 Mackie La Ge last to Crocrgyi Szabo, a youth lately their planeering work would lead at

na farmer) discontinued the black-

he

smith's business and turned the shop apprenticed to their venerable art in Into a museum with a room for the the heady atmosphere of Budapest. purpose of carrying on a marriage Complex his name may look, but business,

his story is simple. He was disap- "It was Maclde who started the pointed in love, frame in marriages in order to take To many printers, even

on the advantage of the spurious air blue Danube, this must have hap- romance which had been associated pened before now; but none, so far On the Road to Gretna Green-as the artist imagined with Gretna marrloges.

as records stow, has ever sought so "He purchased in the neighbour- austere consolation as Gyoerkyl it to be in the old days.

hood of Gretna a number of 60- Szabo. Stricken and brooding, he called relics, which were exhibited did not turn for relief to versifying Marriages not celebrated by a in the museum. A charge of God. or defiant dissipation. No, he turned

person is made for admission simply to his craft. Carefully romanticist will regret

minister of religion, after due per

to the museum. It is quite well set up in type the one of his faith- notico to the registrar or Jenown that at least 12 of the so- less beloved. He bore away the the passing of the Gretna publication of banns, are known called relics are spurious, and as hard but precious vocables. And he Green weddings "over the in Scottish law as "irregular" they were all purchased after the swallowed them.

year 1900 the genuineness of the

Love may laugh at locksmiths, Phono 27778/9, anvil" which seems likely to marriages,

remainder is open to doubt. Even a marriage in which the "Mackle thereafter exploited these but physiology da not be taken so follow the report of the contracting parties appear be- premises for the purpose of conduct- lightly. Very soon it was necessary Lor the surgeons to intervenc in Morison Committee on the fore the sheriff immediately ing a marriage business. Vervice this metalle idyll, and on the opernt-

presented by those in his marriage laws of Scotland. after the "ceremony" (the near-int his promises were the Old ing-table Gyergyl was happily un-

at which the burdened, Certainly the people of Scot- eat equivalent of the English Blacksmith's Shop'

marriages had What, or how long, the name of been contracted.

his innamorata was, is not recorded; CUNHA.-At French Hospital, on and would shed no tears at the register office wedding) is "irre. romantic runaway

gular" in Scottish law, although "There never was a blacksmith's nor are we told as yet whether he passing of an institution which popular-so popular, in fact, shop at which such marriage were chose to make his magnificent ges

ture in diamond, nonparell, or picap has no merit in their eyes ex- that sheriffs on days before conducted.

They took place in various houses vaguely it may be supposed that in cept, perhaps, that it has public holidays have been hard in Greta, and we understand that any case an italic type would be

a publie-house, which had an anvil casier in the gullet inn a roman. BOTELHO-On Tuesday, February brought much good money over pressed for time.

The proceedings take place in on its signboard, was a favourite The gallant compositor's name, to the least, has a rather jagged "In the certificates issued the at- look about it, and for his sake ne couple merely standing in front tendant or caretaker is generally can only hope that the lady's was described as a 'priest' and the cere- brief and melilfluous. And we enn- of the dock instead of in it.

Cynics have been known to monies that took place were can not but wonder what effect, if any, comment with bitter emphasis netwe are of opinion that these mar conjecture impossible.

ducted in the most perfunctory man- this propitiatory act had on her. As to this history so far is silent, and

BIRTH.

23rd. February, 1937, to Dalin, wife of Fred N. Cunha, a son.

DEATH.

23, 1937, at her residence No. the Border from the simple Eng- the ordinary court, the hanno locus for these marriages. 35 Granville Road, Kowloon, Melania Joanna, aged 83.lish race. Funeral will take place on Wed- nesday, 24th February. The Looked at from south of the Cortege will pass the Monument Border Gretna romantic.

is at 5 p.m.

From the north it is merely sor- did and altogether foreign to the nature of the Scottish people, The Morison report makes this.

(Macao, Manila, Shanghai and Saigon papers please copy.}

The

Hongkong Telegraph. very clear.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1937

THE TEACHING OF HISTORY

Simple Laws

on this latter point.

Dealing with these irregular marriages the committee states

The defect is that the sheriff

generally realised that the sons to contract."

was the

have occasioned much misery and intended either to startle her roving. rlages serve no useful purpose and Her romantle admirer, no doubt, anxiety to many innocent people. fancy into complaisance and toke The proceeds from the marriages abandon hope of the latter, and be his own risk of survival; or else to has no means of ascertaining the circumstances in which the de- ware

and the entry fees from the museum consoled by the prospect of on

divided between Macide and autopsy

which should reveal her claration [of marriage]

attendant, and we understand fickle name graven, almost literally, made, and no independent ovi- that Mackic admitted to have re on his brolten heart. Be that as it ceived much as £1,500 a year may, the deed is done, and has been IN England, however, it is not dence of the capacity of the per- from them. The attendant's share undone, for better or worse.

was about £350 a year. In 1932 the Burton records no such Exem- Valuation Court held it proved that much publicised wedding at is made before a solicitor prac- changes amounted to over £2,000," melancholy; even the extravagances The declaration of marriage the income from visitors' fees and. Plary folly in his dissection of love- Gretna could take place just as tising in the Sheriff Court, and

of post-Byronle lovers in the moon- The report states that Renni-struck 18.30's did not take quite this

the casily in any part of Scotland. the report, deprecates, "the son, "blacksmith" since turn; the name of Szabo stands The Scottish laws relating to advertisement... of the so- 1927, was previously a saddler alene.

But, whatever the ultimate result marringe are so simple in them called marriage agents who tout in England. He called himself for his affections, one thing he has "priest" in the certificates. achieved. In foreign, eyes at all selves that their very ease has for marriage business." led to the undesirable features Gretna Green come in another ages" followed by registration now need fear that passion and gla

Marringes over the anvil at The number of these "marri- events he has confimed the romantic legend of his native land. No one which brought about the pre- class of irregular marriages, before the sheriff is small, al- mour in Budapest are restricted to sent official inquiry.

known as marriages by declara- though in recent years there has the tsigane broadcasts at five-thirty or ten. Romance cannet languish: tion de presenti, Nothing is been some improvement.

In a country where even a printer's necessary except an interchange Letters to local officials ask apprentice is so true to type before witnesses of consent to Ing if a marriage is or is not The Times. become husband and wife-no legal are common. matter how privately. If the The committee learned of marriage is disputed a declara- cases

ringe certificate" as "just a where young people, tor must be obtained in

the "rashly, without consideration, piece of humbug." Court of Session.

Other forms of irregular mar- probably half in jest," married Romantic Illusion

nt the anvil and found them- riage will vanish, too, if the re-. selves tied for life with no way certain

commendations become law. In well-defined circum- stances at the present time a pledge of marriage may become a legal marriage.

But as for Gretna many

It is, in fact, much easier to -be married" in Scotland at any hour than it is to buy a packet of cigarettes in England in prohibited hours. More then one Scot has found this out to his cost.

One of the subjects in school curricula at Home regarding which numerous proposals for reform have been made is the teaching of English history, The matter is at length being taken notice of by no less a body than Cambridge University, which has decided to bring its School Certificate history ex- amination into closer relation with modern life. In future, such utilitarian subjects will be considered as the social effect in England of refrigeration and cold storage, or, to take another example, "why has a child born course, with a specified period of in 1900 a better chance of long residence-is all that is re- life than one born in 1830?" | quired. 1.8 The old style teacher may regret The marriage is legal and such a development, but it will binding, but, unless it is follow be warmly welcomed by many used by registration in proper evidence that at last history is form, might not be easy to prove coming to life. There is a grow it at a later date.

should either party wish to deny ing number of people who think it a waste of effort to delve into

No strange and complex formula, no intricate documents, need face the would-be spouses. Declaration of marriage before

witnesses-coupled, two

of

It is this state of affairs that

the distant and misty past by the Morison Committee urges committing painfully to memory the Government to alter.

long lists of dates and names of Chances of Blackmail sovereigns that are little more

ON this basis has been built the out except a Scottish divorce. illusory sentiment which sur- A Judge and “Humbug” rounds the marriage smithy,

But no author, no playwright SUCH episodes, of course, could ever succeeded in so completely take place anywhere in will consider it a pity if the destroying a romantic illusion as Scotland. But only at Gretna famous smithy vanishes alto- have Lord Morison and his col- has the marrying of people be- gether, Scotland might present leagues, who have debunked come a profession. Lord Pit- it to Reno, that American city Gretna Green. Read this from man, the famous Scottish judge, of easy divorce. Together they the report:

once described the Gretna "mar- should do a thriving trade.

A

HUMOUR ON THE RACE

COURSE

RACING Upster, a darkle avho usually dresses in a costume of Oriental design to attract notice, has a habit of shouting anything ai than mere names and to relegate IT has even been held that the all to draw the people's attention.

"I've got a

I've got · 1 nct of registering as man and horse! I've got a horse!" he bawled 'Arry?" wife at an hotel could in certain one day as an opener to brighter

battle cries. "Ladies and circumstances be construed into men, I've got a horse!"

to the background significant movements and events taking For place under our very nóscs,

all

party take the matter to court. The opening thus provided for blackmail is not altogether un- recognised in Scotland.

It was the cumite's first visit to the races, and he was met by a friend. The big race had just come off, and the friend asked, "Well, Algy, did you spot that winner?” “Oh, quite

First Punter-"Did you do it, easy, yes," said the curate. The Jockey wore such jolly bright colours and was Second Punter No; why the

shouted back, "H! Don't make so on your ruff." have a joke at the tipster's expense, you five weeks ago. You wrote it much noise. I've got a motor car, "Bilmy, Ait, so you did! Well, I'm

Second Punter (examining cuff)-

It was Timothy's first, too. His brother owned a few racehorses, so Tim had been persuaded to go, For the third race his brother gave him

certainty. * 20 to 1 shot... "Try: five shillings on it." said the owner. Timothy did, and the horse won by a neck. A fine race.

gene blazes should I do it?" "I told you."/film at 2 yards ahead, so I spatted too long the teaching of a legal marriage should either A nearby bookmaker, thinking to "You never," "Course I did, I told English history has begun in the mists of antiquity and moved ponderously to the Victorian era,

but I don't shout. about it."

Quick as fighting came the retort, Her horse had passed the win- then gradually fading away with

"No; if you did, somebody might ning post first, but riderless. Her como along and claim it!" little reference to present-day

Indignation was great when told she A well-known Epsom trainer had lost her money.

When the last race came Tim's times. Unacademic people have

brother tok him that he had another caught

one of his lads stealing onts, "But, madam," explained the held the view that the further helps greatly also towards an and was undecided what course to bookmaker, the horse had no jocure thing, but Tim cut him short. "Nothing doing," he said with a history goes buck, the less likely understanding of the present. take. Meanwhile the boy had asked key."

the mistress to intercede for him. "What's that to me?" she retorted, wise shake of his head. "Why, that is the knowledge gained to be of But the reverse is equally the Pleading with her husband, she quot "I backed the horse, not the jeekey!" last tip, you gave me only won by a

case. Objection to the orthodox ed in support of her arguments, "We practical use to the present.

were taught that when somebody

*

"John," said the clergyman's wife teaching of history at Home took our cont lo give our cloak es It was the morning after the night suspiciously, "when I was cleaning generation. The new school of rests mainly on the belief that it well."

before with a certain bookle, and out your desk this morning I found "Quite true," the trainer replied, ho wan't feeling well. Having im- several slips of paper like this," and "and as he has taken my cats, I am portant business to do that day, he she placed on the table a bit which way after much obstruction, of undue prominence and entails going to give him the sack." summoned his runner to his bed-read, "Roman. Tackle, 7 to 1." tends to encourage teaching in the wasting of much fruitless and a cautious lady backer.

"Half-a-crown for a place, please," room.

"Ah, my dear," repilet her spouse, "Tom," 育 said he, "go round and with admirable coolness, "I've taken the opposite direction-begin-effort on details that do not real- Ere,wot dyo think this .da, usk Dr. Smith to call and see me." up, archaçology, lately. Those" noten

mum?" asked the disgusted bookie, When the lnd returned he looked you saw are rekes of lost races.” ning with the present and work-ly matter. Nothing but good servants registry office?" very pleased with himself.

An apprentice Jockey was mounted ing backwards to the past. can come from the movement .o At a Manchester November meet- "Say, guvinor," he said, "I found on a horse inclined to be playful. Knowledge of other days is, of bring history more and more in- Promptitude romped home at 33 a better man than Dr. Smith for yer. By the time they reached the dirt

lo 1, and in the crowd that seetheld | It sez on 'Is decir, ["11 to 2, but 1 he was in a "blue dunk.” course, absolutely essential toto relation with present-day life through the archway from Tatter- found a bloke further up the rond "la give ave pounds to be off this

sälls the following dialogue tools wot offers $10 to 1,' so I tells 'im to jboast," he mild, to nnother jockey. the serious student of history; it and activity.

place,

come-an1 ́sco ·yer."

(Continued on: Pape-5.)--

ALL OVERCOATS thought, which is winning its elevates the past into a position

Men's Wear Dept.

LANE, CRAWFORD'S

་་། ་།་་*་།*

*

*

(neck!"