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are those districts which have been blessed with bountiful crops; for then The carnival spirit is most marked. But sometimes, if fate has been un- propitious and the harvest has been not as plentiful as in other years there is manifest an air of pervasive Gadness; for as the Chinese Bay:

"Paat-yuet shaping' iki Chung-

ta'au

Yau-pan shau,

et

faat-woot, yau-yon

Yau-jan tau-sheung hul ch'ut

sith,

Yau-yan tel-ha t'œan-fung-lau." This may be freely expressed as follows:"

"The Afteenth of the eighth moon

Is the mid-autumn (festival) | Some people at this time are glad,

and others are sad, Some, enjoy themselves with the

music of flutes, While others endeavour to have_K good time with feasting, drink- Ing and song."

TO-DAY la celebrated day till her husband was away, she tude of the average worshipper in

one of the most in placing it in position ascended. and native temples. teresting and picturesque of Chi- she climbed ung by rung she saw the festival, and the fact that it occurs The religious atmosphere of the ever-increasing nese festivals, that of the fifteen- vial glowing with th of the eighth moon of the noticed the words Sin-yeuk-Fairy rice reaped, suggests that after all it brightness, and upon reaching it she autumn when the crops have been garnered and the golden harvest of lunar calendar. This fete is medicine on its label.

Is a period of thanksgiving. The

very known among the Chinese as An overwhelming desire to taste date itself recalls" similar events upon her, and among other people, one of which is the Chung-ts'au-tsit, or "Mid- the liquid come

out reaching

her hands,

the sho

Hebrew Feast of Tabernacles, autumnal festival" and is obser- clasped the bottle, and with a swift occurring in the civil month of El-lul

almost exactly. ved throughout all sections of movement, withdrew the cork and which corresponds the country. It is, morcover, poured the contents down her throat, to the date of the Chinese setc.

As she did so, she felt herself ve- There is, moreover, an air of one of the oldest of Chinese coming lighter and lighter, and like abandos about the festivity; for the *Chinese legend aïems that origin- ceremonial customs and boasts some ethereal creature floated

ated massen become singularly care-free, ally the earth was illuminated by ten of an antiquity that goes back casily in air. Sheung Ngont this time.. Every family, suns, and account for their reduction to the beginning of the Chinese was delighted at her amazing trans- even the poorest,

scarcely control cura to maintain an attitude of by the story of Haú Ngal and his nation. Originally, it was her glee, but suddenly her gaiety was galety and joy. Fortunate, Indeed, marvellous, bow. simple harvest festival, but du- turned to sorrow; for at this moment ring the passing centuries, the her husband returned, and upon his fundamental import has been

formation,

the and could

largely obscured by popular Lowing open

the door, a breeze

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hei.

farth

her outside and into the open nir. A gust of wind whirled her legend, so that if one were to alott, and crying out aloud she beg-

fred

to rescue her husband the historical factors, he could his bow and atting an arrow to the not answer, but would relate string fired it at his wife in the hope Instead the following myth: of bringing his beloved back to earth.

Unfortunately, however, the missile! "Some four thousand years ago caught in her streaming hair, and the in the so-called Golden Age impetus of the rushing projectile of China, there once lived carried her higher and higher into

the realm! uf

a prince of the royal house by the sky-far into the name of Hau Ngoi. He was pace and into the domain of the regarded as one of the most skilled moon. archers of that day, and accordingly

BY

T. PAUL GREGORY

The sorrowing husband clamoured for the return of his mistress, and so piteous were his cries that the Sun God look pity

upon him, and Have him another pollon. The grateful Hau Ngai swallowed it at a draught; but instead of being ear- ried as was his hope to the presence of his wife, he was wafted by the breezes of the earth Into the bosom of the Sun. He isolated than ever; but the Gods and Buddhas took pity, and granted him the boon of meeting his beloved once a year on the fifteenth of the eighth

moon."

was now mure

Profound Religious Element

endeav- to the one solar body as at present,

MR. PEPYS in

HONGKONG

thanks to Providence,

1st October. This day I doc take my pinnace and repair on board the King's great chippe Birmingham where I doe drinke a glasse or two of Hollands in the Wardroom. After coming ashore to the Clubbe where

20th Sept-Up very betimes this momentuous day and did walk to the eight o'clock Tramme, not know ing if wee were at war or at peace But there I And a friend who tells mee that by the mercy of Providence I doe find a great gathering and all there is no war, at the moment at

men in cheerful habit. Later, doing least, but that by Mr. N. Chaymber-

on clean garments, to the Cathedral lain's statesmanship there Is to bee

to the wedding of my elde friend Four Power Conference, for which Mr. T. Martin, who marries a sister mercy I do render most hearty of another olde friend, Mr. Robby, And later at of the Banque, At the reception one o'clock to the Hostelry to drink after Mr. J. Macgregor makes a a posset with Mr. A. Jay, who tells good speech and wee all doo drinke ince that my San Mauricios which their health most heartily in excel- did drop to alxty were already back lent Champaigne wine. Many pretty at sixty-nine and he doubled not Indies there with whom I did tall they

would go higher.

gher. And this I and all very merry. Home belimes doc hope right heartily. Very busy and did dine upon a dish of ham in my offee and then reading the and eggs, and so to bed. evening newes sheete 1 doe learn that the Morona, who do manage the 2nd (Lord's Day).-Up pretty be- Consequently, because of the fact me of all others to recommend and thereafter in the garden weed- League of Nations, doc chpoze this times and writing in my Chamber that these two individuals have each their separate abode in these great means I suppose that all the other nigh to breaking my back, in that sanctions against Japan, And this ing my beds. And Lord! I come luminaries of our universe, there has arisen a pronounced religious cle- this, and then to step in and seize some three feet to pull

members hope to get England to doe I must bend down and then stretch

the At length, however, Hau Ngai ment, which causes the masses of the

dead forma-agreed but declared that before people to seize upon

our trade. And I trust wee shall leaves from my African Daisies he could entirely forego his ston as an opportunity for expression To the Clubbe this night and all bed and mighty hard to come at. I not bee such fools as over Ethiopla. which are in a corner of a terraced enjoyable pastime, he must of pious fervour. Saeriaces are pre-pretty inerry, the opinion being that had bidden guests to drink a glasse succeed in till even inceded the other payers offered, and an on Herr Hiller doth at last believe that of wlue in the forenoon but one did which no mortal had ever succeeded in achieving

*** England means to before. Little

fight and is forget und the others came Inte. did people, it is the women who are the anxious not to precipitate a world About one of the clocks there is Sheung Ngoh dream that what her husband desired to be the target of fact, for the past

most devout in its observance. In

week

more rain, and I did never suppose in most of the

the final rubber of bowls for the his powerful blow were

the the *ten old-fashioned households, each pious 30th-Having read in the newes O'Sullivan Cup could bee played. blazing bodles the firmament. matron has been busily enga

engaged in sheetes last night that there was but But rolled it was and I did miss it. which are the lumps of the day. Hau preparations for the day. The peng- little chance of rain, I was mighty to Ngal, of course, did de- that

SATURDAY, October 8, 1933.

KEY MEN OF THE EMPIRE

The proposal for the tion in London of a permanent Empire Cabinet, comprising the Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand,

their representatives, revolutionary

REALISM in MUSICs a

H.M.V. RECORDINGS

KOUSSEVITSKY AND BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:—

Damnation of Faust (Berlioz) DB-3009-3010

HEIFETZ AND RUBINSTEIN:—

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FLAGSTAD KIRSTEN:-

Songs my Mother Taught me (Dvorak)

parture from the old system

en-

spent the greater part of his time in the fields and woods in pursuit of his favourite sport, much to the re- gret of Sheung Ngoh his beautiful concubine. In vain, she expostulat- ed, beseeching him to be less ardent in the picnsures of the chase,

of

that such was his tention, and nevertheless he

he presbition,

not

but

the Octa-

as

wor

infrequent consultations af in sending nine of the earth's suns known 15 yuct-peng, or "moon care not a straw, for rain now is and I believe I doo so. After to

down crashing

seized with

an

In addition, pomelos and

toros I

the

sure.

tell her n'o or "cake shops" have likewise not glad to bee waked in the night by to my greatest possible annoyance though doc rejoice the Officers of been idle, for custom dictates that an a heavy downpour, which did last the Custos Rotulorum doe have the was successful servances is a special kind of pastry get wet in going to the Tramme I to see if I can but find a newe booke in his in- essential adjuret of the religious ob- till well after eight. And tho' I doc better of it. To the Peake Clubbe

through Imperial Conferences. Yet, with Scarcely, had he done so than he was

space, cakes."

most precious. At my Office I did Mistress. Monk where I drink a on dry garments and this being

done. the increased share of responsi- to speed his last shaft into the heart form an essential part of the offer space, the rain being taken off, and did, methought, take some favour-

uncontrollable urge

walk upon my verandah for a classe talking with her and her two daughters, of which the younger bility that has devolved upon of the Tat-cung-the Sun God ings, and singularly enough are em there I did see what I have not seen able notice of mec. Shee being but

self. Naturally, himself.

that deity be- ployed in the religious observances of these many years, the King's good two years of age, however, I doubt the Dominions under the Sta-cnine alarmed, and bereeched the im- no. other festival. These, In com- shippe Tamar at rea. And I do if I may feel flattered beyond mea- tute of Westminster, it is a offering to bestow upon him as

petuous youth to restrain his hand, pany with the customary waxen believe was not the only one to lapers, the sticks of fragrant incence, bee moved by the sight, as rumour procedure that is apparently reward for his promise the gift of the thick sheets of imitation paper hath it a signal was made wishing 3rd-To my Office very betimes

the vial of immortality.

money, and the dish or so of chicken her well upon her Autumn cruise. and busily at work when my partner overdue.

are the paraphernalia for as interest-But now she is back in her old comes and tells mee the first Signal With such a bribe in his posses- ing a sequence of religious worship biliet, which when empty did make is up, of which I am heartily glad. Outside the Dominions them-sion, Hau Ngal returned home, and to be observed anywhere.

Dockyard look mighty strange Later comes the welcome rain are few peoples, of his dwelling. He did not reckon, for the offering of sacrifices is not with

hid his treasure among the rafters

from above. This day Unlike others, however, the hour Hostelry I did take my nuncheon very sure of the exact position of at the though in my Judgment no one is curiosity;

Mistress Louisa and her the typhoon. Later the wind har however, with feminine for like Pandora, Sheung Ngoh xed: it may be any time during the Lord. Mr. A. J. and

be repealed in the MacHeath being there

Captain dens and I am glad I had the fore- espying the glowing vial above her day, provided head, determined to see what was In-being, that then the moon is address-and

evening, the reason for

well, sight to bid my Fa Wong put my the

all side it Accordingly, waiting

vory merry

though I seed boxes in my chamber for shel- ed. Those who have had the oppor-must needs back to my Office before four of pansies but lately sown upon- ter, there being two of tomatoes and' Lunity

of observing the worshipping the others bee done. My work be the roof. Dined with my children women have remarked how over-ing ordered, I did gue to the Clubbe and so to bed. whelming is their devotion, the and bowl in the Alleys, but very ill,

4th-Last night the gale did wake- bodies being uffered in " state Home in a friend's motor coach and me at a half after one and so fierce ecstatic piety, quite the re-dined with my children, and so to do the squalls become that I do bar verse of the usual lackadaisical atti-bed."

up my shutters. But Lord! they rattle to, or the windows outside, that I get no sleep until alx of the clock, and as my boy calls me at a half

after six it is little enow. On doe And the Fa Wong had put four boxes of lettuce seedlings as he thought in shelter,

When I Have Sung my Songs (Charles) DA-1524 KREISLER FRITZ: AND LONDON PHILHARMONIC|selves there

ORCHESTRA:-

Concerto in E Minor (Mendelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462 even Britons, who realise the RUBINSTEIN ARTHUR:-

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Proludo in a A Minor (Debussy) DB-2450 Tombeau Couporin-Forlane (Ravel)

TOSCANINI AND PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:-operative. To-day, the

Somiramide-Ovorture (Rossini) DB-3079-3080

GIGLI BENIAMINO:-

Lost Chord (Sullivan) DB-1526

Goodbye (Tosti)

House

one

да

of Commons or House of Loria/Dominions would remain peut lengthy petitions to the heavenly and I doubt not I doe lack practice,

in London have no more right if Great Britain went to war. to interfere in the political life Mr. Chamberlain pointed out

STOKOWSKY AND THE PHILADELPHIA SYMPHONY of the Dominions than they during the debate in the House

ORCHESTRA:—

Dance Macabro (Saint-Saons) DB-3077

CORTOT AND CASALS:-

Magic Flute (Mozart) Variations on air from Beethoven

DA-915-916

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"You can't believe everything you hear-but you can repeat it!".

but

it was not so, the wind sucking in behind my house, And I am like: to get but a half of them preserved. But thanks bee to God for the rain which falla most heavily. To the Clubbe for my nuncheon where I hear the Freneir shippo ChenonceIWT: grounds outside Lycmum though she comes off inter, and

orie hurt.. But it is mighty strange how many accidents these boats have, though- mostly by fire. While speaking of thin, comes Creed who says hee ha it for a fact that the great German shippe did sail direct to Manila, and thence back to Singapore to Innd her passengers and now comes diree! here. And this I am minded to speak of when our folk doe persist in travelling in other shippes. than British. Again to the Clubbe this evening and met an old friend In the Servloe and drank several glasses of Hollands with him while wee doe speak of the old days.

war.

5th. In the Commons there is much trouble as the Labour Party it seems did want war, though I doubt not they had assalled Mr. N. Chaym berlain even more tercely, had he fought. For this party politics s a foul matter, and dirt is thrown at the man who hath saved a world But Lord! he is the one states- man wee have to my mind, the others being but politicians, and mighty uscicas at that. Bowled in the alleys to-night but very ill, making less than five hundred, and Arty, but I do not it down to my Theumallek affliction. Home dinod early and no to bed,!!

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