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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1938.

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Songs my Mother Taught me (Dvorak)

PHILHARMONIC

When I Have Sung my Songs (Charles) DA-1524

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER. 5, 1930.

THE SLEEPING GIANT

The troubles of Europe have gained world attention and scant

interest is taken in Far Eastern

events, though two of the most momentous phases of China's

struggle are now taking place. TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:On the Yangtse two great armies

Semiramide-Overture (Rossini) DB-3079-3080

GIGLI BENIAMINO:—

Lost Chord (Sullivan) DB-1526

Goodbye (Tosti)

STOKOWSKY AND THE

ORCHESTRA :----

PHILADELPHIA

Dance Macabre (Saint-Saens) DB-3077

CORTOT AND CASALS;-

are locked in the struggle for the Wuhan area, strategically the, most important area in all

T

Where is

my "gunker"?

a

small child

asked James Douglas

I'nometimes suspect that most Mr. Bernard Shaw may be of the ills of humanity are due right in his gloomy conclusion to arrested

The best child

heard saying. sayings are overheard,

I

WHEN a child looks at a mustard pot with un- disguised loathing and remarks, "Dirty mustard," it is not easy to explain the difference between mud and mustard.

HERE is no doubt liberty of body and mind makes

It is no use to say that grown- that the child of to-

them more intelligent.

ups like the taste of mustard day is a miracle of

The new child is allowed to Now, a junker is a perfect and dislike the taste of mud. express its own personality. It word for a croquet mallet. It The fact remains that to the happiness and health, of is not treated as an automaton is far more descriptive than the child's eye mustard looks dirtier grace and gaiety, of liberty without a will of its own and an word mallet. How did the babe than the dirtiest mud. and life.

imagination of its own.

think of the word gunker or the It is a mistake to bully a child verb to gunk?

into enting food which it detests. When I was a child I was forced FOUND this little boy growth. If

to eat porridge with lumps in it. the

pretending to row as that man is a failure as a poli- adolescent mind were allowed to he sat on two rubber rings,

if I left the lumps on my plate tical animal, but at least we have grow as rapidly as the child

I was not allowed to leave the "I'm ouring my ear-boat," he table till I ate them. Hence my discovered the secret of giving mind grows the fatality

and sald.

It must be admitted that lifelong dislike of porridge. the child a chance.

stupidity of the human race "onring" is a better word than would be eliminated.

"rowing,"

The forcible feeding of chil- and that "onrboat" We are hardly aware of the change in childhood which has in many

The mind of a young child is is a better word than "rowboat." dren is an outrage. I knew a little boy who reacted against it ways immeasurably been produced by its emancipa- superior

The same boy was warned so violently that he refused to to the mind of the that he would hurt himself if he eat at all. He would sit defiant- tion from all the old tyrannies adult. It is for more plastic. persisted in some nerobatic feat ly at table staring at his uncat- and all the old inhibitions. If It acquires knowledge with which he had invented for his table food. He was cured by we are not free men and free amazing rapidity. It is in a arms and legs. "No," he re- letting him go hungry. women our children are prodi- state of constant expansion. torted, "I won't hurt myself.

The palate of a child is more gies of freedom.

If you watch the ripening of I'm a tough guy.

sensitive than the adult palate, the child mind you are astonish- Nobody knew, how he had which is corrupted by eating un- If we could do for ourselves ed by its receptivity. It absorbs picked up the phrase "a tough wholesome food. what we have done for our chil- ideas unconsciously. It Invents guy," or how he was able to use dren we should be supermen and new words to express its it correctly as a metaphor. The old glutton, "since I was hungry, "It is forty years." said an superwomen. In the first place thoughts. The routine symbols thing was an insoluble riddle. but thank God I am still greedy." from the shackles and fetters of to reveal the play of its imagina- and somehow divined its exact have delivered childhood of language are not rich-enough He must have heard the slang

menning.

We

superfluous garments.

I

The new child is allowed to

tion.

Any mother or father can tell

A child should not be deprived

of the opportunity to eat when it is hungry and drink when it

Another child was taken for is dry.

breathe through its spine as well stories about the talk of infants the first time to the seat. "I CHILDREN

are not through its lungs. It wears which are almost inexplicable don't like it," he said. "It's 100 less and less every year.

spoiled by liberty. now got down to the irreducible of the untaught and untutored more direct or more precise.

It has revelations of the vigorous mind busy." Even Homer is not. They are invigorated by it. The minimum

dangers of repression are far of clothing. The child.

greater than the dangers of ex- result is that its skin breathes

A little boy was rebuked for pression. If the child is father

1.

through every pore. Its holi IT is a pity that the say- licking his spoon. His mind of the man, the free child is the

bath

SYMPHONY Central China, while at Geneva

an equally momentous struggle days are passed in a perpetuni

ings of young children worked with lightning logic. father of the free man.

Within reason we should allow is being waged by the League of

of sunshine and sea air. are not more carefully preserv. "What is the word Tjek for?"".

ed, for they are often master be It is sun-free and air-free,

triumphantly

childish. We demanded, childhood to be Nations a struggle for its exis-

pieces of originality. A child of His parents could not explain period of life by letting it alone. can make childhood the happiest tence. By its decision with WE have given up the four was told that God made why it is not rude to lick and setting it free from the urr- regard to the imposition of

bad old habit of bully. everything. He replied by ask- stump and why it is rude to necessary Do and the unneces sanctions against Japan and ing and beating our children, ing this, unanswerable question: lick a spoon. its invocation of Article Sixteen They live without fear. Their "Who made God?"

Magic Flute, (Mozart) Variations on air from Beethoven

DA-915-916

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S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

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Hongkong

with no more than a half hearted

He followed up this poser with the philosophic remark, "If you

PLAYFUL

sary Don't.

+

DOLPHINS

[OBODY should ever make, a real and no splash, us if the force--of- keeping watch for the lively dolphin, ed just before they reached the voyage, however short, without gravity had suddenly been suspend-

displays more graceful or amusing for no

LTD. blessing and with no attempt at nations wrangle, neither asking could tell me that, I would want

firm or united action, the League her help nor willing to heed her to know who made the man who N Chater Road.admits its impotency. True, advice or offers of her good ser-made God, and who made him." the situation in Europe at vices. The fault lies in Europe, “You are full of vim-to-day," present is such that determined not in the League. For the a nurse said to a child of three. action by foreign Powers in the machinery of the League may The child replied. "No, I'm not

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Under feadership of

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Programmo for Sunday, 9 Oct., 1938. 1 p.m.2.30 p.m. PROGRAMME

1. The Call of Bagdad, Ouverture. Boieldieu. 2. Melody

3. Tres Jolle. Waliz

.Dawes. Waldteufel,

4. La Belle Helleno. Selection ..Offenbart

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evalutions.

other creature of the sen water,

How they accomplish this evolu- tion is puzzle, considering the

propel themselves into the air as a height from which they fall. The same child was trying to harlequin does through a stage trap-

Far East is practically impos- not be perfect, it may not be full of vim; I'm full of fun." One of their favourite games is to weight of the creatures and the

the

sible, and the League, after all, ideal for accomplishing is but the common council of the original aims of those who hammer a stump into the ground door, and descend into the water Effortless Speed Great Powers who are involved designed it, it may be slightly with a croquet mailet. He in-again with a resounding splash. As soon as they see a ship these

Then suddenly they will change cetaceans almost invariably make a

in European worries. It is an rusty and, as an engine, un-vented a new word for the unhappy plight when the League economical, but it is at least a mallet. He called it his gunker. their method, and, after making their dosh for it and start to play about is unable to intervene in one war good model and has by its; "Where is my gunker?" he was the water with apparent slowness, of their movements are marvellous

leap Into the air, will slip back into the bows. The grace and swiftness. because her members are too successes established the fact much involved in conflicts among that the principle upon which it

themselves, more especially since is built is fundamentally sound GRIN AND BEAR IT

move

the League mude no

to and that a newer and improved solve or help to solve the recent model would be worth the effort crisis and attempts to preserve entailed in constructing it. For peace in Europe reflect no credit this reason the principles of the on that body elected to render League should not be forgotten to the world the very services nor allowed to fall into disuse, which are so much in demand but should be recognised as to-day. This state of affairs worthy of applications and

is not so much a reflection support, and, more important, on the League of Nations of development and improve- Itself, however, for the Leaguement. The world, in vo far as it Is but a number of units is

advancing and not de- rather than. a corporate body, generating, is seeking peace, and than оп world conditions

up to the present the Longue is and world thought, which takes the most successful attempt at no advantage of an organisation solving the age-old problem' of formed to de good, un organisa-convincing mankind of the tion which has already proved fallacy of the bellef that might| on a number of occasions its ls right. Until some better plan ability to handle the most deli-Is evolved for settling the differ- cate situations successfully. It

ences which scom inevitable

Is indeed a sad day for the among nations, it is fitting that world when the association every

person of intelligence terrific con- should support the principles of flict to provent the recur- the League of Nations in so far

formed after one

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.rence of such a catastrophe, as they appeal to reason and not

Doomust look on Impotently whlic to force.

Cep 114 Talled Feature Bražiosio. Zan

SO UCHISL

Da Y DENGUE,

By Lichty

·DA LOM

BHATCH D.D.S

"It tn't that I mind the drilling-it's having your mouth tolde. open, and not being able to say anything.”

u watch, and here again a very puzzling thing is noticeable.

Although they can easily outdis- tance the swillest stcemer, and they swim quite near to the surface at such times, It is extremely difficult to detect any movement of either tail or fina.

They appear to shoot inrough the water by means of some JRvsible driving power.

They delight in twisting over and under one another, while still forging. nhead, with a sort of spiral motion. Then they will suddenly change to racing abreast in a straight line just In front of the bows and with their dorsal fins cutting through the water like knives.

Then is the time to see the lovely slopes of their tapering bodies to- wards the wide-fluked tails.

Parasites Theory

If une listens carefully the short slurp hiss of their Intaken breath. eun be bend, for, like whales and porpoises, they require air.

Und whod ke to, believe that the scemang sportfulness of these crca- ture really due to a sense of fun, and fondness for games; but the at- tributing of such human characteris- ties to animals is usually a 'mistake,

Most Inrge creatures of the sea are preyed upon by numerous parasites, and it is much more likely that, far. from any intentional game-playing. the dolphins joyfully dash towards; the bows of every ship they see for the practical purpose of scraping? themselves upon them, and thug rid ding themselves of some of their un- welcome tormentors...

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