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Chesterfield Letters

Eighteenth Century Parental Advice Retailed To Rotarians

A talk on "Chesterfield", the eighteenth-century nobleman whose classical letters to his son are still an influence in parental relations today, was given at the Rotary Club yesterday by Professor R. K. M. Simpson, M.A., Professor of English at the Hongkong University, Dean of the Arts Faculty, and Vice- President of the English Association.

The Hon. Dr. Li Shu-fan presided, and welcomed the following guests:-Rotarions G. King, former President of the Tulpan Hotary Club, T. F. Waters, Wuhu; T. C. Yu, Tientsin;- A. Hoffmeister and II. M. van der Schalk, Canton; G, G. Bradford, Shanghai, Messrs. J. R. G. Whynti, 1. N. Murray, R. A. D. Forest, P. E. Annis, R. Suez, K. Suez, J. W. Waterman and Ng Sz-wing.

President. He

where It members.

The dag was acknowledged by Dr. Id, who wild the Hongkone Rotary Club would be glad to send one of their flags to the Tsinan Club,

"One

Rotarion Mackintosh was welcomed back from Teave, as was nisu Rotarinr Amps, who said he had visited inany countries and was nt Greva during of the the European crisis. things that we all felt at that time," he sati, "was the present need for friendship and understanding between the nations. In this Club we are unusually well representative of many ullamities, and the principles of friendship which we can carry out in practice here are the answer to many world probleme"

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23,

1938.

everybody; and have

knowledge. "Useful, knowledge? he almost declares "consists of modern langu-seeming reserve with almost nobody for it is very disagreeable to seem uges, history and geography".

reserved, and very dangerous not to be so.

Bocial Graces

The dutiful son was expected to apply himself to a range of useful knowledge, far too wide for me to ndiente here. But he was expected a do still more. He was expected to acquire, what the Earl calls "to Gracen." This old-fashioned ideal, obliterated by the mechanism and violence of modern life, was Chester- feld's notion of the final aim education; and the ultimate secret of success in life.

The young Stanhope may be sald to have acquired some tincture of dissimulation. When he died he left, for the Eart to look after, a wife whom he had had the dexterity to conceal, and two sons about whom he had been completely reserved. (Laughter).

It is impossible to read Chester- field's letters without feeling curlous as to whether his own life was led By the graces was meant.attractive in accordance with the advice he gave his son. This is a hard question manners, pleasing qualities, personal to ask of any parent. Chesterfield

Chesterfeld know as well as can bear the scrutiny as well as

in you and 1, how seldom these are In application to duty, found in come

combination with en-

acquired of the things that can be But he never knowledge. cyclopaedic

by study, and in the cultivation of the 'of

he was everything that he graces, Ches

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HANOKOK Rotarian King, who is the newly witty and conclusive quotation for races, and part of the art of picaturg in his career, he was for from!

Recording to this fashionable

make my way in court, I would

by

AcEligence nobleman, that neither wilfully, nor.

BATAVIA century appointed gynecologist to the Hong-generationg of professional writerteenth

cat reason to dislike BOMBAY kong University, brought a flag from and occasional orators. Even exem- laughter should be avoided.. "I could give a dog or

CALCUTTA ften be me". 1 advic

"Keep your may

CANTON the Tsinan Club of which he was plary parents, trying to maintain Ecartily wish that you

warm

other CHEFOO said the Club was familiar but helpful correspondence

smile, but never

and artfully beard to

temper formed in 1932 and had a full strength with distant song, have turned to laugh while you live

In my people's". From these and similar COLOMBO

DAIREN peop watch-words we might expect that

HIS; YOOCHOW of 35 but the hostilities had reduced them for inspiration. This is because mind, there is nothing so

modela

cultivated of

so -bred, un audible

his career was that of a slimy HAIPHONG and this to about 18 at present. The Club they

beentive the occasions "A disagreeable noise and Bickspittle who succeeded by getting HAMBURG won the "lung distance trophy at the epistolary style, and

JANKOW HARBIN San Francisca flotary Convention writer was beyond all doubt, a great shocking distortion of the face". And the better of everybody who was

was represented by two humanist.

then, the proud boust, "I am sure honest enough to trust him. Did he HONGKEW As I am not delivering a lecture that since I have had the full use become minister of the crown by LOILO

IPOH JOHORE on how to write letters, it is in the if my reason,

KOBE Incident With Klog cond of those two aspects that you my son, nobody has ever heard making himself a doormat?

KOWLOON are expected to be interested.

That jovial embonpoint too, which

To answer this it would be neces“ | RUALA LUMPUR YOKOHAMA Chesterfield

Current Accounts opened in Local Cur wrote the letters is so uilen geulally unsoclated with

sary to launch forth on an account be equally

one year or starter periods in Loca because he was a humanist himself, bearty laughter, must

aavoided. He felt that fat was of is interesting political career.eney and Fixed Deposits received for Bon to have

not handlemp in the great competition to This is neither the time nor the and other currencies on terms which will and wished his

did

occasion for such a lecture. But I be quoted on application.

dato BAFE DEPOSI ALSO up to umanist education. He

might give a typical instance of hla bellove that this could be acquired please.

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HONGKONG SAVINGS. BANK. thought that the universities of those two

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George II, a commission for which only boors and pedants. He believed cultivate the society of continental that humanisin was to be attained alles, who will polish him; and he he begged the royal signature. His conducted by the liongkong and Shang by travel, so he sent his son to the must acquire the craft of dissimula-

rather sig

sign a commission for the abtained on application. continent; by mixing much in society, tion. It was on those two topics that Majesty looked at it and said he "had hat Banking Corporation. feminine as well as masculine, so he Dr. Johnson led the revolt of sturdy devil." "With all my heart," replied FOR THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI

to put sent him introductions, with Instruc-tanlood against Chesterfield, in the Chesterfield, "I only beg leave

sur Majesty in mind that the com- wations how to behave; and by regular hard words which I have, already Rotarian Major V.

Trusly

and mission is indited to Our welcomed back from a trip to Saigon. reading. So from 1738, when the quoted. Feminine Society

Cousin' The Well-Beloved speaker said, in brief, the son was only six years old, to 1768. The

In recommending a mere boy to light to King

and complied. Joughed The letters ranged on, over every Chesterfield letters, written in hun-

believe that that But nobody can dreds by Philip Dormer Stanhope. aspect of human life and manners. cultivate feminine society, as it then fourth Earl of Chesterfeld, to his

The father believed that his son, was la fashionable European cities, was the speech of a man whose sei though well-beloved. unly

Such society is attitude to the great Prime intrigues, illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope, by the age of fourteen, was already on her juthath such society ambition was to rise by pleasing.

often were first published, against the sufficiently grounded in the classics, on dangerous ground.

for the sake of the Minister, Sir Robert Walpole, was duelling. But wishes of legitimate members of his and must be urged on to more useful meant gallantry,

even more Independent. He twice final polish, the risits must be faced. Jamilly, within a year of the Earl's nowledge.

lle hopes that the youth will te begins with a caution, "As for refused a Daledom. His best known

declares, 1774. The publisher pald

blographer donth in

"Chesterfield women, after

the con- running £1,500. They ran into three editions escape what he describes as his owne

and positive genius for exasperating thut vice are only the of sequences

those whom he should have been at year; and have been a standard Drst unfortunate prejudice, namely

the idea, acquired at Cambridge, that loss of one's nose, the total destruc-

pains to conciliate. he never went work ever since, Dr. Jonit. With there had been no common sense portion of health, and, not infrequently a step out of his way to please a

since the being run through the body" possible patron",

quarrel between two street them on their first They common honesty in the world since

LADY NOBLE ARRIVING which led to

one of them sleepers who reads the volumes teach the morale of a loose women, the days of the great Greeks and But under proper tutelage, it ceases

dancing Romans. He is to maintain classical

and in learning how to

But no one

Lady Noble, wife of the Com- on November 4, had a sequel at the But later on he said, "Take į study as "an ornament while you are please women. one learns how to through can think them the writing striking the other with a penknife

everybody, "Pleasing

and of a disappointed cynic. They are

and Central Magistracy yesterday, when mander-in-Chief, Sir Percy' Noble, is Jiberal out the immorality, and they should yours, and a comfort to you when please "eve

consistently

cainl be put in the hands of every youngstd" but he is to be modest in the

humanist.

"Gentleness, affability, Pun Cheung, 25, unlicensed hawker, arriving in Hongkong by the P. and use of the ornament. Consequently overning women may, in time, be

before Mr. R. O. liner Corfu on Thursday, gentleman".

of great service to you. They often complaisance and good humour" are appeared on remand classics) reference and encourage-

Edwards, charged with wounding Gold Mine of Wit

he

It is notified that the Commander- So we have a a series of famous the great social virtues which For two and a half centuries they ment in ancient languages, are quite please and govern others".

in-Chief's visiting book will in future have proved a regular gold mine of verbalanced by advocacy of useful dicia. Whether they are true or not, sincerely commends and regularly Mak Chuen, 41, hawker, causing him

the gate of Admiralty displays. "Never retail or receive grievous bodily harm. is beyond masculine arbitration to

in the case of, scandal,

Pun denied the offence, declaring be kept at of scandal decide. "A man living in the great world, must be us in that of robbery, the receiver is that Mak and another man attacked House. gallant, polite and attentive, to please always thought as bad as the thief." him first with choppers.

And as to the method,,

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Detective-Inspector L. R. Whant, When he rays that "letters should said both men frequented Tit Chak le familiar conversations between Lane, of Shing Wong Street, in the best flattered upon the score of their absent friends", he means it. He Central district. understanding! but those who are in gives his son pushels of advice. a state of mediocrity ге best he is never the heavy father. flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces".

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Mak assisted owned a hawker's business, On November 4, about 11 even in a letter which begins, pan., Mak had finished work and re- bill for ninety pounds sterling was turned to Tit Chak Lane. He sat on

If this is usually considered by the ought to me the other day, suld to the steps outside the entrance to the

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drawn upon me by you. Line, and had been there about 10 (Laughter),

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.Sidney Torch. Quentin Maclean best judges to throw an unpleasant ght on Chesterfeld, his counsets on

Finay he has an epigram whichnutes when Pun arrived.

Mak asked Pun for the return of Pattman.

arc

reckoned dissimulation

even might have served in the coat of arms

Rotarianism: "Whenever you 35 cents, which he had lent to Pun worse. They come so near the re-of Patiman.commendation of general deceitful- meet a man eminent in any way, feed some time before. Pun began abusing

ness,

that he has to begin with a him, and feed upon him at the same Mak, who smacked his face with his .C. D. Cunningham.

"not time. You have fed me, and I have open hand, Pun then struck Mak a sermon against lying. Truth

blow on the left side of his chest, only you ca

feed you to

and Mak felt a near the shoulder, our duty, but your interest" tried to

alest Chesterfield. (Applause),^ Quentin Maclean.

The greatest fools are the

sudden pain. It was only after the are the greatest

The

by was thanked speaker

Pun held a Lars

1 judge every man's truth his degree of understanding". Rotarlan P. S. Cassidy who said he, blow that he realised

his hand. Quentin Macican.

ke many others, was a father who knife Quentin Maclean. But "People know very lillie of th

Just as Pun dealt Mak the blow, Quentin Maclean world, and talk nonsense, when they ad to write to distant sons seeking

quide them in growing up in the Muk Yu, n clansman of the complain- talk of plainness and solidity un-

He ght way.

did try to avoid ant, came into sight from a street Torch and Sandler.dorned". Skill in human relations temands that a

the heavy father, but he nearby, and by the light of a street man, or at least

aubled whether he could be so lamp, sow Pun deliver the blow, and domat. 2 mizer je hamamın should have "Dexterity enough to ntent as Chesterfield in starting a chased him. Mak Yu caught hold of conceal the truth without telling at

n the subject of drawing £90 Pun, who had then put the knife lave

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After evidence by the complainant, his clansman, and another witness, who testlied that the complainant held nathing in his bands when at- tacked by Pun, the defendant was declined to give convicted. Ho evidence.

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