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Aristot
THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER 19,
1937.
Oxford never did anybody any good
Article which the man who
writes the headings for Letters
would call BAIT
could not right. His gift of pounds for a new at
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it, must make Oxford men
have suceceded so far,
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was pre-
FISHING WITH A LASSO
THE vast majority of anglers have probably never tried any method but that of rod and line for taking lesg fish. They
despise Would orthodox methods and class them with "poaching". Perhaps they the editor was going, very pro-are right, but the fascination of poaching must be instinctive, for perly, to fire me.
although I have a bed with rod and line in most parts of the Belish never been able to Isles. I have resist the temptation of trying other methods I have seen used.
A fellow undergraduate of mine is doing nicely in a big drapery store in Oxford-street. Another is adress designer. Most of the others are waiting for their fathers to dic. One or two have gone on the stage.
Here again the corollaries of life at Oxford prove valuable. The 0.U.D.S., whatever you may think of it (and I think plenty), has been the first stort for num- bers of hum actors,
The noose 139 gently lowered about foot. behind the pike's tail, Al- then silently brought forward. though I would rather have seen the pile chught by rod and line, I could not help admiring the steadiness of hand which brought the noose right over the pike's tail and up his body without touching him.
In dead slicnce the nooze was Worked carefully up until a fraction
Angling one day between Cam bridge and Ely, I saw a little knot of people gather nt a lock on one of the small canals, pointing excitedly into
! saw the water. Down below plke, mullonless in the clear water, and, knowing the ways of pike, I ang expected him to disappear like a flash of lightning at any moment. But this one
nd from a atnyed, nearby cntlage a strange fishing im- On the end plement was produced. The old theory that Greekf & sinut pole twelve feet long, was and Latin sharpen up your tied a length of string, terminating
in a wire nose. brain for absorbing more prae- NUFFIELD neither of them can possibly pletely useless to them.
Incidentally, the most suc- tical information later on is a be more pretend that their tutorials and
lectures had the slightest effect cessful (financially) of them all myth. on their careers. If they were is a former undergraduate of True, again, I know a former million not diplomatic they would con- my college who now holds a undergraduate who has been a college fess that it was in spite of what, very lucrative position in the great success in a very big firm Oxford, and another they were taught that they biggest combine of cheap stores of chemists.
in the world despite the fact I wonder, by the way, what hundred thousand pounds
that he read Greats, or what- Lord McGowan thinks of the for a site on which to build
undergraduates he has taken ON the other hand, the ever it was.
corollaries of univer-
What of the others. Some Into Imperial Chemical Indus-of a second the pole was swung up sity life can be valuable. Mr. all over the world regret Lelle Hore-Belisha
have secured Governmental jobs tries. Probably to be honest and the pike lay snapping on the bank. Afteen pounds if he was an that some other fabulous sident of the Oxford Union. # Woods and Forests; others they have proved the excep
not This taught him how to debate, are coughing out their lives on tion to the rule. They have ounce.
the Gold Const and other in- perhaps proved not unuseful in Caught on the Rise and proved valuable to him insalubrious spots; many are on industry.
half commission on the Stock But what an exception! Said Lord Nuffield, "I have his early political career.
The Foreign Secretary be- Exchange. (And long deplored the scarcity of
"Are you going to send him university-trained men in high longed to one
minor what that means, particularly to Oxford?" I asked him.
"Certainly not," was the in- executive posts, and I hope that literary societies when he was now.)
which no doubt Several are in the Inland stant retort. "He has got to the new college will help to at Oxford, bridge the
between prompted him to write a rare Revenue. But don't tell me that carn his own living." Kuff
'earni about As things are to-day that academic studies and practical little book called "Places in the anything they
Sun."
economics has done them any seems a very sensible point of
view for any parent. There is, of course. a good good since, THAT guif! I had my
time at Oxford, and medical school at Oxford which what I was taught by the long has some practical value for the and the lecturers was worth undergraduates reading medil-
But it is not until you one simple reason, I learnt-or in active working order things credited with lussoing a 6 lb. trout exactly nothing to me in after sine.
have "walked the hospitals" like to think that I learnt how should be different.
Whether or not the new col- life.
to entertain my guests at lunch
lege will be an answer to these It simply meant that offer that you begin to be useful.
or dinner.
But criticisms will depend upon the youths of my age had a three
True, I edited the Isis. years atart
poses it seems to me it was in spite of that that I extent to which it is able to they went into business direct- that Oxford is more than use- went on to the Daily Express as resist the lofty influence of the ly after leaving school. less. I can look round at dozens a cub reporter for three months, older colleges and their mag-hun lake 22 brook trout in less than
It also meant that whereas I of my contemporaries to-day And it was probably because of netic tradition of superiority. had thought a five-pound note a and realise that what they it that I was forced to resign
philanthropist had thought of this before,
affairs."
of
me
because
or two
FOR commercial pur-
very great deal of money at my were taught has been
public school, it seemed nothing
to me when I was living at the
rate of four hundred pounds a¦
year as an undergraduate.
It is one of the tragalies of life that at the present minute
there are scores
of youths of
twenty and twenty-one who until six months ago were" in u fool's paradise
of heavy parental allowances, and who now find that they are lucky to get a job at a hundred pounds
a year.
Most employers will agree that they are not worth even! that. They have acquired rich habits, and an aversion from work, without
respon-i any sibility.
me
LOOK at the very few
men who were with
at Oxford from 1910 to 1921 and have since made a themselves. Mr. success of Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of
Why
such
State for War, and Mr. Eden. women. the Foreign Secretary, were both my contemporaries, yet
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MYSELF am glad i went to Oxford, for
It is not nearly so easy as it looks. I have tried the method myself, and have never managed to get the noose round the pike, At the critical moment he has always shot off in a Burry of water.
Hard as inssoing the pike may be, finding them in the right position, is even more lying In midstream
Jimcult.
This method of Inssoing a fish is WHEN, however, Lord easy compared to that once used by Nuffield's college is Mr. J. Ellison, the great American Using a light line, he is expert.
com- the day before I suspected that Charles Graves,
are cats?
women
it's because they're jealous says the MOTHER OF FOUR
having
I never miss an opportunity of pay- OMEN do not were well on the whole, although they weren'
the luxuries ing a genuine compliment, because
like to see people happy, and it's the enjoy the good they'd been used to.
She became a different woman: Ittle things that please, fortune of other
have triumphant look went the
We talked about the children, who from her eyes, her face grew softer were all asleep in the room over- Is so ageing heal. I said I wasn't as patient s
us rose to take a By!
I was taught to tickle traut by a boy who must be one of the greatest experts in this method of peaching Is skill in Anding in the world.
uncanny. On one occasion I 53W end catching the trout was almost
an hour. His skill came from jong practice, and he knew every stone of the small stream which, in those days at any rate, was so remate that I never saw an angler on it. It is not hard to catch the trout if you are reasonably patient. Remember that they always lie pointing up- stream, and get a good grip behind the gills.
I caught the first trout I "touched." and fell as proud when I laid him on the bank as when I had caught my first trout on a fly. On his first finger my mentor had a terrible scar, the result of trying to tirte a rat in a hole in the bank. He had not known there was rot there. 'but his experience made me as id- the holes and stones near the side of the river,
With Pointed Stick
I have tried one. or. two un- orthodox methods of sen fishing. On some beaches the best fishing rod is a pointed stick. Low water at a spring the uneavers many rocks, and in the nooks and crannies are to be found lobsters and congers. Edible crabs do not come so close Inshore. The conger can be driven out with the stick, to be subsequent- ly dispatched as best you ean; or he may be caught by lashing a large stick, making a galt, with which he hauled from Bilg lair. The
and younger. Envy They envy and begrudge their She shook hands with me firmly ought to be, but I always meant to strength of a good-sized conger is neighbours their new car, new and said. "I give you a ring and be better the next day. And I told furniture or new clothes.
we'll have tea together and a nice them what I do to remind myself of long chat."
my Hood intentions. But when the woman next door She didn't ring me up, of course,
Every day I wear, no matter what her husband meets with but she meant well at the time.
work I'm doing, a peart bead neck- is B, or an accident, or something happens
to
her children, then her neigh- She was Envious bour is full of genuine sympathy, and practical help.
Doesn't do to Boast
THE
THE most
breathless piece the day, I cross the earrings on the of eattiness I've ever ex- little table by my bed and squiggle perienced was from a manic I the necklace Isto u anake.
Then when I've switched off the employed years ago, Some months
almost incredible. All your strength may be insuficient to win the tug- o'-war that develops with your in- visible quarry.
Near Land's End is a cove that lace and earrings which my sister, seems to have been made for gave me. Al night, if I think I anglers. A ridge of rocks ran out haven't been a good mother during to 20 feet, and here the mackerel at certain times of the year come in with the tide. On orthodox rod and line you may entch two or three in an evening. The “locals” have a much deadlier method. A length of string is tied to the end of a fi-foot bamboo and a hook baited with a strip of mackerel attached. This is simply dropped into the water with- nut weights or float and is moved by the currents, up and down.
VE never boasted about any before Clive was born I had my light I weep a little and think miser-
good things
that have photograph taken with Alan on my ably that I don't deserve to have four such beautiful, intelligent, hea- come my way because I've always inp.
"I've never had the slightest claims venly children, and I will be patient. had the uneasy feeling that what's here to-day will be gone to-morrow, to beauty: my friends call me plea- aind, jolly, and understanding. And Yet in good times, when signs of ant-looking and the others say my at 5 nm. I am fighting and scream-
full of character.
inj. prosperity in the home couldn't be face concealed. I have seen woman look However, this photograph was in-
spired: it revealed a radiant woman Down to earth Again
at me with hatred..
Not long ago I was coming out looking
THE artis cleared
up at
throat. "Well,"
"if anybody woke me
We
his he said. Ave
They have an uncanny knack of detecting a blle, after which the fish is simply heaved on to the rocks. I have seen a hundred taken in a couple of hours in this way, and
sport can be fast and furious, with mackerel jumping all over the little For some reason this ledges of rock. crude apparatus is much more effec- than the finest. sea-rod, line, and font.
have seen
by
at her child with love, of a cinema with Leslie and Alan Everybody who saw went Inlo For the when I met a woman who used to taptures over it even my mother-
to me. She was in-law approved. live next door relief of
good, fur coat and foldWilen this nannie came to me I a'clock in the morning I should un- when there are a dozen anglers, the chafing.. wearing a
her the photograph, She gross my earrings ke lightning, un- dressing for me proudly that lier son was away showed
bonding school and all the was a thin-lipped, good-looking was snake my pearl bends and rush along skin
mon, a few years older than I. She to the nursery and give them all n irritations.masters marvelled hit his tallness.
Especially And his clollies! Two new suits hadn't married, but she said she'd thrashing."
tive all Iauthed with rellef, be- useful in every term, six pairs of new socks had plenty of chances.
I waited expectantly and after cause I'd been getting too sentimen- the care of they simply wouldn't allow darned
socks two pairs of white flannels long silence she said flatly, "You tal. I took them up to the night Infants.
show your guns a lot when you smile, liursery: they had never seen four
Osh enught and two pairs of grey.
'children all sleeping in one room.
dynamling. but it is not n very She said that the servant prob- don't you?" Puss, puss.
The artist said that Baby Clive
sporting method, for young and old lem didn't improve, although fie was just able to manage with two Tried to please Her
hind a very well-shaped head, which are destroyed alike. Men have told
trout me that
are sometimes of course pleased me immensely. malds and n dally woman, She
bums by two once had my palm read, and the pal-"poached" in Scottish wound up with: "Lesile doesn't grow
ar-mist said that one of my children striking the rock under which they rived, an artist and his wife, I was would become Jamous,
bringing are sheltering with a heavy hammer and thus stunning them. I have I could have screamed with rage, looking and feeling about a hundred honour to himself and to us.
I don't know; which child is des- tried the method, but the shock I but I said meekly that the servant years old.
have given the fish has never been She was imartly diested and tined to have this glorious future. TELEGRAPHS "problem didn't worry me any more
as I couldn't afford to keep makis looked as young as she did six years but Leslie, the eldest, says he thinks more than enough to make him all my own ago, when I last saw her. I told her that Clive and Max are about the teave the neighbourhood in a hurry.
Stanley X Robertson any longer. and did
toughest kids round here. vork. And I thought the children to and she was pleased.
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1 A striking weapon of old sug
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