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THE FUNNY SIDE OF
MOTORING
ALD cracks inspire usany of the tales
cet. Of one battered all sports pur, they relate how the traffic light d turned green, but the ear abstinutely ( refused to move, The your owner, red-feerd and perspiring, vainly tried the starter, while the cars behind hoot- ed noially.
"Come along there, sir," sang out the points duty policeman Impatiently.
turned the
The owner desperately
handie. But In valn?
" tell yut, nir, you can't stay here; and bioch the traffle like this," the policeman remonstrated.
One long, aanhaling tingle pasard, i while the awner made strenuoua efforts to move his car.
"You simply must get on, even if you have to push the ear, went on the min
Blowly thr yourų? owner emerged from beneath the bubnet of his enr, And he looked at the policeman with sonir- thing ke hatred in his eyes.
that ngnia," "bej "IT
cepeat you threatened, it give you the durard thing."
The garage proprietor rast a business the 1922 model which The rye over owner psel to leave for the night.
rant £1 in advance," he said! "I win.
briskly.
"Itu It is only for one night, sund 1 shall be nek in the morning."
"You might not come back," the ex-) pert painted out.
"Of
•
all our curs," said the motor Baleamun hopefully, "this is the oor E feel confident in pushing
"But that's no use to me," ubjected! the prospective customer. " want une! I can ride in."
Recently as drow up alongside a very dilapidated old car. The bonnet was wide ugen, and a brilliant un wan whining in on the grenny engine.
"Look quick!" the conductor of the
bus commented, "He's giving it Tay treatment."
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The reckless driver is the subject of man stories.
one member of the species, It is told that he pulled up with Lereiße grinding of brakes when friend on a country road.
he now a
"Hatlut" and his friend "so you've became a motorist. And how long did it take you to learn to drive?"
"Three or four-" began the other.
Werks?
"N-nul" the maturist admitted sadly, "Cara!"
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Anatoly teled molarist, on a most urgent errand, had been repeatedly hel up by traffic signals. And in the pollee. un puits duty, he Anally un- burdened Elmself, "There's tue cany dashed raspberries on these trees and not enough gooseberries."
A very smart car rolled up to the garage, and supercilious young man, accompanied by u Indy friend, noially sounded his hora.
"One gallon, and be quick shout it." he haughtily demanded of the atten- dant who come out.
The garage man summed him up at a glance.
Will ye drink it here or take it: Away?" he asked with a twinkle in his
ayo.
The misdeeds of lady motorists have Elven rise to innumerable talen
**This
person you're
In the Aft knocked down this year," one lady driver was sternly informed.
"Fordon mei"
protested, "the fourth. One of them was the same per.
twice,"
she
there is the story of the lady driver who was encountered na she was adly legying a police court.
"I was told," she complained, "that I I were very polite and cheery with the Judge. I'd get of. So I said quite niec- ly. Good morning, my lord, and how are you to-day? And the brute only Bald, Tise--five pounds."
A. W..
THERE has just been a threat to exterminate the great St. Bernard dogs which the monks have kept at the famous Alpino hospice ever since it was founded
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY,
AUGUST
10, 1937.
Thank you, SWEDEN
for a
"BATH of
T
SANITY"
by W. N. Ewer
HANK you, Sweden!
I am just back from ten days' stay in its northern cleanness, And I feel as though I had had an invigorat- ing bath.
I do not mean physically: Sweden, though midsummer
with its sen benches and its rivors and its myrlad forest lakes, is a land for swimmers and all water lovers.
spiritually, But mentally, psychologically-call it what you will-I have been bathing myself all day long for ten days in a great sanity.
I have been living among a people who are not hag-ridden by fear or ambition, who are not victims of mass hysteria or jangled nerves, or of the fevers which have spread epidemically over Europe.
Here, in the fever and the fret of 1937, is n people calm and sane and civilised, knowing how to live, with its sense of values not disordered.
We have been from the south not quite to where, beyond the Arctic Circle, the midnight sun looks down on the Lapps and their reindeer herds, but so far north that it is broad daylight all round the clock.
And everywhere, from Malmö to Ornsköldsvik, we found the same: a people living, not rest- lessly and wretchedly from crisis to crisis of some strange malady, but as men should live.
T is a land at peace with itself, and wish- ing only to remain at peace with its neighbours.
Not only wishing. Here in these Scandinavian lands you may find-unique in Europe- that same phenomenon of an unfortified, but unguarded,
of
entirely "safe" frontier, which, on the other side of the Atlantic, Amerleans and Cana-
dians are so rightly We sat at proud. dinner in Hülsing- borg, looking across a narrow strait-no wider than South- ampton Water-to Denmark. Above us the old castle of Hal- singborg: across the water Hamlet's castle of Elsinore.
Both fortresses are anolent monuments. To-day the ferry boats run to and fro: the clti- zens of Hiltsingborg go into Copenhagen for their week-end shopping. Danish-Swedish war is a legend of the past-as un- thinkable to-day as an Anglo- Scottish war or an attack by Wessex on Mercia.
F
OR 700 miles or so, from the Skagerrack nearly to the Arctic, runs the long land-frontier be- tween Sweden and Norway. Along all its length there are neither fortresses nor garrisons. It is completely unprotected. Yet no Swede and no Norwegian feels a whit less safe for that.
So, also, It is a land of peace within, Sweden has, of course, her problems and her difficul- ties. She was-since her export trades are vital to her economy -hard hit by the depression; to-day she is recovering and prospering. But she faced, and faces, all her problems in the sane and sober manner of democracy.
Nobody discusses nervously the possibility of dictatorship ---whether of the Right or of the Left. Nobody wonders whether Sweden is "going Fascist" or "going Bolshevik." In that sane atmosphere such nonsense can- not live.
It is a Labour-Farmer coal- Llon Government which has steered Sweden out of the de- pression, and which to-day has the confidence not only of its.
LIFE SAVERS
Caesar, he established there a number of native Swiss dogs, ancestors of our St. Bernards and believed to descend from
The Town Hall and modern residential quartors of Stockholm.
supporters but of all the coun- try.
Of course, the Opposition criticises and opposes. Big busi- ness men grumble, after the manner of their kind, at the heaviness of taxation. But for all that they are unaffectedly proud of "old Per Hansson," the Prime Minister, who still lives in his small working-class house In a Stockholm suburb and takes the tram every morning to his office.
Of course, the workers too One have their complaints. thing that surprises and shocks the English traveller is to find that (with a few exceptions) the factories work all day Saturday: a forty-eight hour week.
But the trade union organisa- tion is strong, and on the whole conditions of living for the workers are as good as, or bet- ter than, those of any other land I know.
One thing stands out. "You will find no alums in Sweden," said a Socialist newspaper man in Malmö proudly. Certainly, if there are any they must be hard to find.
P
ARTLY, that is good fortune. Sweden's in-. dustry, based mainly on water power, has created no Only large industrial towns. three cities (Stockholm, Goth- enburg and Malmö) have more than 100,000 inhabitants.
The typical Swedish "Indus- trial, centre" is a small town grouped around the works on
NO MORE?
those household dogs that the is closer to a blood-hound than lake-dwellers of ancient Swit- to the modern St. Bernard. zerland kept for hunting in the The loose cars and folds about Bronze Age.
the jaw that are stili conspicuous in the St. Bernard suggest the same ancient strain. But the On stormy winter nights they dog described by travellers as set off to look for lost travellers, far back as the middle of the seventeenth century sounds very carrying a little barrel of brandy unlike the dog we know. tied round their necks and warm blankets wrapped around their bodies, as they have done ever since.
Not until ten generations of English travellers had been com-
There was one famous dog menting on the size of the sure- called Bairy, who died in 1814. footed, keen-scented St. Bernard
column in Trafalgar Square in London it was the dog Lion that largely inspired the form in which he moulded them.
St. Bernarda were imported steadily after that. One of them lived to be 17 years old. Two, named Alp and Glory, were given to Queen Victoria in 1846 and they always walked out with her in Windsor Park.
the banks of a river or a lake. The workers live in cottages among the trees, each with its own garden-a few hundred yards from the forest or the open country.
Each with its own garden. For the Swede, like the Englishman, Not the is a born gardener. least reason for the popularity of the most democratic Royal Family in Europe 1s, I suspect. the Crown Prince's passionate love of gardening,
A
ND that love of gar- dens-perhaps because
it is a symptom of something very deep in char- acter-is only one of so many between likenesses
the two peoples. In all Europe I know no people with whom we British feel so quickly, so spontaneously, and so completely at home.
They feel it, too. To be British is, in Sweden, to be assured of the warmest of welcomes every- where.
And the warmth is unfeigned. They are indeed anxious, these Swedes, for closer relations be- tween the two countries, for more trade between them, for more British visitors to Sweden. For all of which there is more than good reason on both sides.
But their friendliness is not based on calculation of political or economic or financial advan- tage. It is just-friendliness.
For ten days we were in Sweden. They were busy days, We were in Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö. We visited the bathing places of Skania, the lovely forest and lakeland of Dalecariia, mining and steel and timber towns of the North.
W
all
E talked with "sorts and conditions" of Swedes-with the Crown Prince and Princess, with Ministers, with business men, with captains of Industry." with journalists, with workers, with everybody.
And from one and all, with- out a single exception, we had a friendliness and a frankness which made us feel almost ashamed, fearful lest Swedes travelling here might meet at times with coldness or even rudeness.
I am in debt. Up and down Sweden there are Swedish men and Swedish women from whom we have had Swedish hospitality (which not even hospitable America can rival), Swedish kindness, a Swedish welcome to strangers. I cannot hope to repay them all: but I can promise to remember.
B
But it never occurred to any- body to breed them over here until 1866, when two British- 1,000 years ago,
He saved 40 travellers. Now he
was the first one brought over to born St. Bernarda, Bernard and This was because one of these stands stuffed in the Museum at England the
year before the William Tell, created a sensation creatures was said to have wor- Berne, a valuable piece of
at the Crystal Palace. Since ried a little girl to death. Luckily evidence on the appearance of Battle of Waterloo.
Lion, as he was called, made a then the breed has spread over the native St. Bernard dog be great stir. But no
one was the whole world.
When the monks of St. Ber- fore It was crossed with the
more impressed than the painter, Newfoundland strain.
Edwin Landseer. He painted and nard went out to found a hospice In Britain we are accustomed repainted that dog in every in the mountains of Tibet three to seeing St. Bernard dogs with Alpine setting that his imagina- years ago they took several of thought and speech, where they
those dogs to carry on long rough coats.
tion could suggest. But in the Alps this was found And when he came to design rescue work in the snows of the
the snow, 80 the the lions at the foot of Nelson's Pamirs.
a last-minute subscription for an enormous kennel has now saved the dogs, while at the same time to future giving protection vistora.
to catch up dogs could not move about free- ly, and they are now bred with a short, amooth coats.
Just a hundred years ago the breed had a still narrower es- cape. An avalanche swept away a slope where the entire monas- tory team was hunting for traveller lost in the snow.
A great deal of care is taken
HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN
The total Expenditure up to October, 1037, on
The monks searched franti- to get the right colours: brindied behalf of sick and destitute children is estimated cally to get back two dogs which tawny coat with white markings, at $20,000, against which the Income to date is had been given away as presents. dull red at the eyes and ears, a $20,000. "These, when recovered, were white nose
and collar with
the oyes and over the head.
A The Soclely asks for the balance of
These denote the priest's stole, chasuble and scapular.
crossed with imported Now- white line running up between foundlands, so the original breed has been rather altered.
When St. Bernard of Clair- vaux, first man to say "Love me, love my dog," set up his monas-
The St. Bernard breed must have changed many times since
tery in 960 on the track over the hospico was first built. The
Hon, Treasurers:
$5,000
Mr. D. BLACK, O.A.,
c/o Perey Smith, Bath & Fleming.
* Des Voeux Road, Central.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo China,
Hongkong.
which travellers had been used dog that stands by the founder June 25, 1937, to pass since the days of Julius in his picture in the refectory!
their
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UT most of all my thanks to Sweden for that bath of sanity, for that all too short stay in a Iand where there is neither ter- ror nor the dread of terror, are free of where all men
respect themselves and each other: where they know how to live as civilised, grown up, hard- working cheerful men and women should live.
There are not many such countries in Europe these days.
It is good to visit ono.
Thank you, Sweden!
-To-day's Thought-
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sea.
11 Alteration that involves two sets
of men.
12 Does he sing "Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage"?
13 One of the nuts.
15 Still in front, but heavy-headed. 17 Pressing. 19 This is above the heads of most
church-goers.
21
There's a good scent in this town on the Adriatic.
22 News of this interest would not
convulse the world.
24 The nursery part of the nursery
garden?
27 Can gent's ears bring such claim
to fame?
28 A low part is lower.
20 This is to me bound to contain
knowledge.
30 A literary master-ploco needs
but this and Ideas.
DOWN
1 The throw of the play.
3 This gock to pot every spring.
3 True epithet.
4 This may lead to "copy" or a
"find."
Q Late
7 The initial article is part of this
subject.
8 Slander.
9 A compilation of notions for the
unpractical?
14 Fashionable diners are
suddenly taken by this,
otten
10 Rude claim to be otherwise,
18 Rather complicated,
20 This one you should guess flrat ·
of all
21 An old lamp.
23 The best of everything.
25 A source of various scales.
20 Tax.
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