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in Great Britain, and it is the boast of their members that they are the most punctual women in the country.

Their club meetings begin on the stroke of the hour; they break up at the appointed minute. Lunches and speeches begin and end as if regulated by clockwork.

I am strongly in favour of punctuality, but it seems to me that, if it is carried too far, it may easily be turned into a vice. The clock is a very useful in- strument, but I do not see why

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Hongkong Telegraph. What a nuisance punctuality

THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1938.

LAST CHANCE OF COMPROMISE

can be was shown lately when

to

Foreigners do not seem mind inte starts so much. Some years ago, I went to a theatro in Rome about ten minutes late and found that most of the audience bad not yet arrivéd and that (with, as it turned out, some reason) nobody expected the curtain to rise for at least another quarter of an hour. But nobody cared. Possibly, since the triumph of Fascist, the Anglo-Saxon vico of punctuality has spread even to the Italian theatre.

IT is certainly one of the proudest boasts of the Fascists that, since Mussolini came into power, the Italian trains have been among the most punctual in Europe.

On the whole, however, the punctual people have the best time of it. They may not be the world's hardest workers, but they live enviably unruffled lives. If only they would stop

OU PUNCTUAL?

IF you want to have an easy life, my first ad-

trying to make the lives of the unpunctual a burden to them, I would praise them as unre servedly us they praise them- selves.

Punctuality should be the oil that makes the wheels of life go smoothly. It should never be allowed to become bad vinegar.

"Be punctual."A

THERE was I, panting around him are all as fresh as with the haste I had paint, having no consciences to the B.B.C. decided on a policy made, flushed with apprehension compel them to exert them- of rigid obedience to the clock as I thought of my school- selves. in its programmes. Many master's gift for putting me in listeners will remember how the wrong with cruel words, and one evening a talk by Mr. C. B. working my brain at high pres- Cochran was cut off in the

sure in order to invent an excuse middle of a sentence in order In spite of the reported and that the next part of the pro- a python, while all the time the vice to you is:

that would win sympathy from

GARDEN probably exaggerated optimism gramme might not be late.

punctual ones were sitting in I once knew a man who got in the chancelleries of Europe, And Mr. Cochran was just the class-room with consciences through life admirably with no

WITH A developments in the current coming to the best part of his selfishly at ease and basking in other qualification except punc-

the sunshine of the master's tuality. He made it

a habit Russo-Japanese dispute are

One can imagine how exas approval.

always to be in the right place PAST rapidly tending to throw these perating it would be to have the From a purely selfish point of at the right time, with the re- two powerful and natural foes broadcast of an exciting foot- view I would have given almost sult that his employers thought into headlong collision. The

ball match faded out in the last anything on such occasions for him the most efficient man in the critical five minutes or a syn- the gift of punctuality. To be office, and kept enthusiastically James Stuart of Finkle House. high-lights of yesterday's phony cut short in the middle unpunctual was to walk into raising his salary. Yet he did Like a king he is commemorated in despatches from the Manchukuo- of the fourth movement.

a dangerous thunderstorm. It scarcely any real work at all. stone, and a noble gure he makes the

may have been the more diffi- He was so busy attending to his on his pedestal, with its inscription:- cuit thing to do and therefore watch that he had no time for the more virtuous, but it was anything else. decidedly unpleasant.

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JAMES STUART,

1750-1838. 54 YEARS

GARDENER AT PINKIE. BORN AT ULAINSLIE,, PARISH OF MELROSE. DIED 13TH MAY 1838, AGED 10 YEARS,

The bust is erected at the back of this historic mansion. From this

Japanese reports of fierce fight- ing which was obviously spread-

There are other than selfish ing dangerously fast along the

tidiness, it must be

All through life I have found reasons for being punctual, how- affected border; the neutral admitted, can degenerate into a that the punctual people are the ever. There is no doubt that by Reuter story of the thunderous bad habit. After all, it is only really happy people. See them being punctual you make other

a convenience, not one of the

well as your-; as they sail into their business people happy as Russian bombardment directed noble virtues. Dr. Johnson and offices in the morning, looking self. against the Japanese positions Lamb did very well without it. as if they had not a care in the Cheques that arrive punctu-point of vantage he gravely surveys and the spirited reply of the With many people, I suspect world, so gay as a result of hav- ally are a cause of unalloyed his life's work, and the sight) good Japanese; and, probably more it is a form of self-indulgence. ing arrived early that they can pleasure, such as we never get over the gracious expanse of per- important than anything else, is obviously much pleasanter scarcely settle down to work till from a dilatory, dawdling cheque, feet

fect lawn to the old pink prunus that the summoning of Japan's War to be punctual than to be late after lunch-time.

in rich beauty If postmen and the boys who every spring glows

when the usual coloura of nature are Council and the conferences in for most things. The man who

Compare with them the un- bring round the morning papers pale in hue whites or yellows; Chater Road. Tokyo of her veteran generals, arrives punctually at a play, for punctual man. What a nerve became unpunctual, what a great the left the famous sundial on the example, experiences none of racked expression he has as he diminution of human happiness lavender bushes of immense height. wall, flaniced on either side by Only in matters of the highest the miseries of the late-comer bolts for his train or bus! He would ensue! I like even cooks These glant, aweet-smelling plants import are such conclaves called,who has to push his way to his has no joy in the sunlight. He to be punctual if they do not were, in all likelihood, planied by At no time during the Sino-stall past the angry knees of arrives in the office with a bad expect me to be punctual too. him, Japanese hostilities has there men and women who, he realises, conscience-which is another The truth is, even the most; Through a Renaissance doorway been such activity among the loathe him.

name for a good conscience, a unpunctual of us like other we enter his domain, and as we Japanese military commanders. Even when I was a schoolboy conscience that is doing its pro- people to be punctual. I have ever the tablets on the high wails we are reminded of Abbotsford. to school in the per work. When he sits down seen a man arriving five minutes Their luscriptions are in Lall, and Elsewhere, too, there are in-s I hurried dications that at last the world morning not more than five or at his desk. he is in no mood for late at a Rugby football match part of ane of them reads: "In ways ten minutes late, I could not light conversation. His con- which was supposed to begin at these for the honourable delight of is awakening to the terrible help comparing my

of pleasantness he has laid out all unhappy science fiercely bids him "Work! three; and, finding that body und of soul." danger an extensive Russo-plight with the good fortune of Werk! Work! Make up for lost match had not yet begun, he im Japanese clash may bring upon my fellow-pupils who had nr- time." And, by, the time the mediately joined in the im- all nations. In London there rived punctually in their places. lunchi-hour comes round he has patient stamping of the crowd in have been swift and unadver tised goings and comings at the

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‚probably done about three times the stands and declared angrily (as much work as any man should that these late starts would be

do, while the punctual sybarites the rain of club football.

Foreign Office, the Prime Minis-Russians commenced mobilisa- and Lord Halifax have tion in response to the Austrian hurriedly returned from their ultimatum to the Serbs. it was holidays, though they do their found impossible to stop the GRIN AND BEAR IT

utmost to make their movements

progress of the milltary appear quite unextraordinary. In machines once they were under Italy the press thunders against way, so it may well be now in. Russia; and in Berlin it is this remote corner of the world, probable that diplomats of Changkufeng. It only remains Germany and Japan have dis-for Germany and Italy to move cussed the extent to which toward Japan's assistance to Germany can assist her anti- have all the major powers tear- Comintern ally in a possible waring at each other's throats. with the Soviet, There was The prospect numba imagination. newspaper talk of a test of the And still there is no apparent strength of the anti-Comintern attempt at mediation, but only allinnce, in which Italy, Germany the expression of the feeble and and Jupin are partners. And possibly insincero hope of the | finally, according to the Tokyo chancelleries that "the affair War Office, the fighting lines in can be localised" and will not the danger aren are slowly draw- involve major operations. ing nearer each other. The time Operations are already on a is rapidly approaching when the dangerously large scale; and armies there will be at close there is no "localising" a major grips. One side or the other is war. Only by the exercising of going to win an advantage.common

on the part That will mean reinforcements of Japan and Russia can and counter-attacks, and a catastrophe be avoided, for gradual strengthening of the apparently Changkufeng is too opposing forces until there is a far afield for the world to major action which will end all appreciate what might grow out this pretence and bring Moscow of its shell-torn trench lines, and and Tokyo into open warfare.there is to be no attempt at, Just ns in 1914, when the mediation.

sense

By Lichty

Spánt by Tattok Testare Bradleet, DE

"That sort of thing gives me the shudders always slows ma down for a couple of blocks.”

In 200 years only four different gardeners, is the proud record of Pinkle House; of these, two at least. were father and son.

The first owners of Pinkle House - were the monks of Dunfermline, as the site was a gift of David I, that "comfort of the sorrowing" and "best of all his kin." The original struc- ture consists of the square tower which now forins the centre of the house. Pinkle, as part of Inveresk, belonged to Dunfermline Abbey.

In the sixteenth century Alexander Seton, Earl of Dunfermline, extended it greatly. As Chancellor of James VI he had often acted as host to that King

Would his lovely, Il-fated mother, Queen of the Scots, ever render more romantic these lovely

gardena ? Would she ever sweep arched doorways, with her laughing under the train of Marys? Was not one of these a Mary' Seton?

"There was Mary Beaton

And Mary Seton

And Mary Cormichael, and me:" A well of exceptionally cool water in the centre of the old garden was recently an interesting find. This is now diverted to water the trim do- main of to-day.

It may have been the house's only source of water in the twelfth

The famous

well in front of the mansion is ornate and covered with ury.

heraldic devices and monogrums, and shows the work of an Italian sculp- tor. Its motto, translated from the Latin, is: "From this fountain un- surpassed for coolness and purity there flows water benign alike for hend

and for limbs." When night falls and shadows pedestal steals this king of gar- down from his perchance deners to keep lusty nature in order. For this true Stuart hates "an un- weeded garden that grows to seed," and so familiar is he with this soll that he is part of it.

E. M. L

tengilien,

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