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WO O things have inspired this article. The first

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than the circumference of the island. If he has been to public school, he will, of course, have to guess this!.

Fifthly, he will take a stop- watch, which will enable him to determine his speed round the island. Sixthly, an, almanack on which to note his records. As young people to-day never think about anything except getting from one place to an- BEGAN my inquiry by other at maximum speed for no. I

asking a small boy purpose whatever, this young

man will be entirely happy..."

To-day's young woman pre-

is part of a nonsense rhyme which I had entirely what he would take. forgotten until the other day I came across it

Being a very small boy he was

again while I was reviewing the new biography of intensely practical and said: sents an equally simple problem.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1838,

reason that

This is the bit in question:- On the const of Coromandel Where the carly pumpkins

blow,

In the middle of the woods Lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a

candle,

One old jug without a handle

These were all his worldly

goods:

In the middle of the woods, These were all the worldly

goods

Of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo.

www. byw JAMES AGATE

possessed hardly anything at all. I began to wonder what is the minimum of earthly goods with which any one of us could find life endurable alone on a desert

island.

Or

"How long would you be on the She takes with her a vanity case, desert island ?" I said: six new evening frocks, a-full- don't know-perhaps eight or length mirror, a ton of choco- ten years." He did some montal lates, hogshead of slimming mix- arithmetic and then: "Would, ture, and as she cannot think of the wind blow very hard?" I a sixth requisite, some more lip- who always. said: "Probably. At some stick. Women

argue that they dress to please times of the year, certainly."

themselves cannot object that there would be nobody to see the dazzling vision.

He said with decision: "Then I should take a hundred shirts and some string!" "But twenty

shirts would do, two a year, one AT this point the render

on and one off!" I objected.

who has got so far is "Don't be silly," said the in- probably saying to himself: fant. "On desert islands you "Perhaps Mr. Agate, who is go don't wear shirts. They're for superior about everybody else, tying to the tops of trees. At will tell us what articles he in night you light a fire. One fine his extraordinary wisdom would day a passing steamer sights choose."

and the captain comes With the greatest pleasure. ashore in the longboat. He has The clever reader will long before your shirts or your fire this have noted that no mention through his spy-glass."

has been made of food or wea-

you,

secn

I

Precisely! Since nothing on

I began to ask myself what The second thing which sug- one would take if one were al gested all that is to follow was lowed a certain fixed amount of an after-dinner conversation at luggage-say six articles. Was the rather six sets of articles. my clubs as to what

"But my desert 'island would- pons. It would be manifestly absurd n't be on any trade route!" I JEWISH POSITION highest pitch of human happi-

he earth is going to induce me vo- ness. At once the ages were to take a packet of needles un- countered. "Silly again!" (IN PALESTINE)

laid under contribution.

less thread were included And, said. "The ship's been blown off luntarily to go ballooning or fly- One man held for the Greek therefore, for the purposes of its course!" It was. only then ing or pleasure-cruising or any- No fireworks are expected at Symposium with Socrates ex- this inquiry, needle and thread, that I realised how long it was thing which can possibly end up the session of the Permanent pounding the Laws of Beauty, or more generously still, a work- since I had read Marryat, Ballan- is being stranded on a desert island, I shall presume that I Mandates Commission of the Plato jotting down the immortal basket which includes scissors, tyne, or Kingston.

have been marooned there and League of Nations for the sim-remarks, and the young Greeks counts as one article.

In some essay or other R. L.

KNOW perfectly well left with gun, fishing rod, am- ple

the British sitting around taking a genuine

what that small boy munition, and sufficient food to Government is not yet in a posi- and not a perfunctory interest Stevenson has something to say tion to present more detailed relation of poetry to

in the function of art and the about the "Swiss Family Robin- would take if he were a young last until I have acquired the

conduct. son," and the absurd way in man of to-day. Remembering trick of rabbit-snoring.

If the island is full of prowling proposals regarding the future

Another member was all for the which the author of that book how Robinson Crusoe built of Palestine. Yet the examina- Roman Circus with Ben Hur in allowed the family, whenever bout, he would take with hima, lions and inquisitive tigers I don't think it matters what I tion by the colonial experts of form.

they were in need of anything, counting them as one article, a A third was in favour of to swim to the wreck and get bag of carpenter's tools specially take with me. The point is not the reports on the administra-

adapted for boat-building: how I should preserve my body, tion of the mandated territories Venice in the Renaissance and it.

The result was that, for what Next he would take a motor- but, how having preserved it, I is a task of the utmost impor- gondolier explaining that the tance. With Palestine on the plop you had just heard was the one might call shopping pur- engine to fit into the boat after should keep myself from dying

body of a traitor poisoned, stab- poses, the Robinsons were far he has made it out of planks of boredom. verge of great changes, the re-bed, and now finally disposed of better situated than farm suwn from the local trees. port received from the Jewish by order of the Borgiss.

labourer living in the Cotswolds, Thirdly, a quantity of petrol. me

(1) A gramophone. On the Agency will be studied with the

who walks to some village store Fourthly, a surveyor's chaln, seven miles away and then finds If he has been to a secondary pinciple of the work-basket this closest attention.

must include records, the ma- they haven't got it.

school he will be able to calcu- jority of which would be classi- In the case of my desert late how much longer the course cal, with the balance made up islander there is neither wreck of a boat, keeping at say a hun to light composers like Offenbach nor village shop.

dred yards out to sea, will be

The Jewish Agency, quite na- turally, looks at the situation through exclusively Jewish spec- tacles. At the same time it concentrates upon presenting the Jewish case in preference to adopting a hostile attitude to wards the Arabs. Its main pre- CHATER ROAD. occupation at the moment is the ♦♦♦】 question of Jewish immigration. In view of the serious diatur- bances which have reacted upon the economic depression, the British authorities have been imposing restrictions to limit This the influx of newcomers. policy is severely criticised by the Jewish Agency. Only ten thousand Jews, it is pointed out, were admitted to Palestine last year, the smallest number since 1932 and only one-sixth of the

Music hath charms

Sunday Classical Concert

at Repulse Bay Hotel

Under leadership of

Geo. Pio-Ulski

Programmo for Sunday, 17th July, 1938.

1.p.m.-2.30 p.m.

PROGRAMME

1 Vienna tood. Waltz

2. Serenata Braga

3. Capricolo Hallen

.Strauss, ...Smith. .Tschaikowsky,

4. Robert la Diable. Selcotton..Meyerbeer.

5. Bellove me if all those endearing young

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6. Quand l'amour meurt

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total for 1935.

Since Herr Hitler came into power 22 per cent, of the settlers

A fourth wanted the Oval on the last day of a rubber match with a worn wicket, O'Reilly and Fleetwood-Smith in form, and England set 200 to win.

The fifth, a young man with lank hair who deems everything vulgar that did not happen at least 6,000 years ago, dreamily held his glass of port to the light and began to quote old Omar:

A Book of Verses underneath

the Bough,

A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of

Bread and Thou Besides me singing in the

Wilderness-

O, Wilderness. were Paradise

enow!

a

a

I should therefore take with

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HOW TO GET UP

night before, one of those simple you may start the next day with a Morning Songsters

No matter how the night pusses,

THE first move is to go to bed the successful evening with the boys, facts about which there can be no headache. If you toss from side to dispute. Even Hitler and Mussolini, side, and are driven to count sheep whose pyjamas may be decorated, goats are not satisfactory-repeat most of us are driven out of bed in the morning by the necessity of hold- try or for all we know, with swastikas and the multiplication table, Roman eagles, cannot rise in the other soporifies, you probably get up ing down our jobs, and, outside of Sundays and holidays, when one, morning unless they have first been depressed and cranity. to bed.

Should you have a restless night, may indulge in "a little folding of

sleep," the

zero hour The sixth, a handsome man The condition in which you go to it is a mistake to tell your friends, the hands to

You "I heard every hour strike, and didn't for going over the top to attack and subject to almost as much bed affects your getting up.

vili another day is definitely fixed

Of course, it is permalssible to rise feminine adulation as Archibald may retire calmly, after a glass of get a wink of sicep," for they will hot milk, or even a medicinal dose know that you are exaggerating, like Grosvenor in "Patience," said:-of toddy, and rise in the morning, the club member who emerged from before the zero hour, and there are

his afternoon nap, and inquired an-people who have their own good rea "You want to know my ideal with a cheerful outlook on the day.

you sons for doing so,

is, for If you return from a late bridge xiously, "I say, did any of of earthly bliss? I'll tell you

a book of verses, a jug of wine,

a loaf of bread, and no Thou!"

party, full of supper and hatred of fellows ever wake up in the morning example,

the

ས

health

your resent partners, or have a tooland and you hadn't slept all night?" enthuslast "Opend."

THERE was, you see, a GRIN AND BEAR IT

certain similarity be-

tween the last speaker and the in Palestine have been Jews Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Ono de- from Germany, They number manded very little and the other 38,000. The total Jewish popu-| -

at

416,000. Two-thirds

lation of Palestine is estimated hood by the laws of those states. are Various countries will accept as concentrated in the towns of immigrants certain classes of Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa. these refugees. But as the anti- spreads in Land in other parts of Palestine Semitic feeling

is still being acquired, more than Europe, this movement of Jewish half of it from absenteo land- emigrants is going to increase lorda, and sixteen new agricul- tural settlements were started is going to be more and more

last year.

in importance, and the problem

complicated. The necessity for

a suitable territory for the In many of the big industrial { settlement of large numbers of Arms, it is pointed out, Jowish these people becomes increasing- and Arab employees work toy evident. Palestine, perhaps, offering. gether on excellent terms. The is not the only aren operation of Article 18 of the There may be sections of Africa and South America, for instance, mandate, the Jewish Agency

which their owners would be alleges, is to the disadvantage of willing to sell; and such a sottic- Palestine, resuling as it does in ment schome would be infinitely anomalous trade relations with preferable to that boing forced other countries.

upon the unwilling Arab people who, in spite of their trying Meanwhile, nt Evian sym-attitude in the present dispute pathetic nations are doing their in Palestine, have strong argu utmost to Improve the lot of the monts against the partitioning Jewish refugees from Germany of a country they have long felt

have been deprived of a livell will

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. and Austria, many of whom was theirs to graze or farm at

By Lichty

1000 JOHE

"Now here's a book the little lady thould like it grips the inter-

est from the last page to the first!"

and so

on, before an open window- who, sooner or later, is likely to fall from grace, and let bis waist mea- surement look after itself.

People who sing in the morning never fall to get up too early. We do not refer to bathroom performers, who are bad enough, but to those who burst into song in their bed-

It

is all very

well social gathering at night

rooms. entertain with

"Ding,

to

dong, I gallop along from the "Yeoman's Wedding but the man who dings dongs and gallops along in the bedroom, seven days a week, about seven o'clock In the morning, is a public nuisance and an offence to civilisation.

The Art Of Living

Getting up in the morning is one of the dolly items of living which cannot be avoided. You may be among those fortunate people who are not called upon to make an un- pleasantly early start, and if you are in a position to fix your own zero

Iatish, and

hour, use discretion, and do not make If too early. Those who

the can get up and enjoy a leisurely break- fast, are likely to go through the day mensured pace, They do not worship at

at the altar of efficiency, and are not hounded by a desire för

at

fame or money; And though they may not reach the topmost rungs on these ladders, they are more expert. in the art of living than the man who

gote heart failure. from

rushing to save a few minutes..

A felend of ours came to that con- clusion when he moved into the coun- try and travelled to business by tho aight-throw morning train. Ho had to walk nearly a mile to the station,

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