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THE HONOKONG TELEGRAPH, Friday, DeCEMBER 23, 1938.

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CHATER ROAD.

Carnival Nights

at the

Cafe Windsor

King's Theatre Building

DINNER DANCE

on the following dates:-

Dec. 24th

Christmas Eve

New Year's Eve

-

-

New Year's Night

Dec. 31st Jan. 1st. '39

FROM 9 P.M. to 2 A,M.

(Liquor also served in Dancing Hall)

RESERVATIONS: Phone 24911

DINNER

об

at

the

Cafe Office.

$3.50 per head

after 11 p.m.

NON-DINERS ..$1.00

Toys, Confetti, Streamers, Paper Hats supplied gratis.

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Count the

"TELEGRAPHS”

everywhere

Hongkong Hotel Garage

Stubbs Rd.

The

Tel. 27778-9.

Hongkong Telegraph.

Wyndham St.. Hongkong 'Phone 26615 December 23, 1938

But Once A Year

WHAT A FESTIVAL

James Agate likes to

get

USELESS

Christmas

CARLYLE! thou shouldsť

be living at this hour: Christmas hath need of thee! For the old dyspeptic is being our first authority on Christmas! The Divine clothes, would probably in- Birth being its source and ins-struct us wisely in the mat- piration, it has gathered to it-ter of Christmas presents. self all the love and tenderness Mention of the old gentle- of childhood and of motherhood.man, and the hidden reference to two of England's major poets, The simple gospel story hus et me wondering what pre- given its setting and circums-sents at Christmas, or the pagan one would have Lance the Mother, the Child, New Year,

wished on say a dozen of the the manger, the cattie, the earth's greatest. Here are sheperds, the Magi and the gifts few of my fancies:—

these in their course down the nges have gathered round them an aura of tenderness and senti- ment, with their own benignant ritual and song.

Christmas stockings, bells and carols, roast

goose and turkey, little fir-trees, mistletoe and holly-all these and much else Christmas has gathered to

itself.

1. Curlyle-A new digestion. 2. Milton - Restored

sight.

eye-

3. Wordsworth-Duffodils.

4. Alexander-A new world

to conquer.

5. Cleopatra - Pearls and

some vinegar.

6. Mr. Pepys-Knowledge of

his future fame.

7. Henry VIII. Another

wife.

8. Horace Walpole-A fresh

scandal.

9. Marat-A lock for the

bathroom.

10. Napoleon--A change of

warders.

11. Florence Nightingale-Å

new lamp.

The season in which it has fallen adds to its strength by contrast; the festival shines out like the cheerful windows of an inn midway along the dark road of the winter, where there is

Then what about people living warmth and company and reto-day? Here I suggest:-

freshment. The sober reality may be a Hongkong heat-wave, but in the ideal Christmas of our childhood the ponds are all ringing with strong black ice, there are four inches of snow upon the ground, powdery and fine, with the fields buried deep below the dazzling mantle.

12. Dickens Time to finish

"Edwin Drood."

1. C. B. Cochran-A wow. 2. Greta Garbo-A passage

home.

3. The ex-Kaiser-A tin

sabre.

4. Mr. (Hore-Belisha-Toy

soldiers.

5. Mr. Thomas Farr-14lba.

more punch.

6. Mr. Littlewood-A swim-

ming pool.

7. The Japanese Sanity. 8. Any Spaniard-Ditto.

English 9. The

Cricket Team-Guts. 10. Gracie Fields Another

"Sally."

11. Strube-Another twenty-

five years.

The fireside is a seasonable pleasure which our ancestors set at its true value and which our more travelled generation is apt to misprise. Especially, is it a pleasure and a benefit when it unites the family group round its most ancient altar, the hearth, at the festival dedicated time out of mind to the child, the matter of Christmas pre- the mother and the family,

12. Gordon Richards-A Der-

by winner.

I

COME now to the most important principle in

sents. They must be useless. Here is a list of useful presents Thus Christmas gives to man- for which I, personally, should kind these beautiful homilies of bay "Thank you very much," kindliness, hospitality and the and then immediately dismiss giving of gifts, of charity, of them from mind-

1. Radio licence. friendship, and of family love.

2. Bed socks.

Life would be a sadder pil- grimage without it, and after the trials which have afflicted our Homeland these last few months, and the tribulations through which our great and! friendly neighbour is passing, we hope it will bring a rich moa- sure of blessing and consolation.

3. The Works of Longfellow, 4. Gramophone record of the

Quins.

5. Garden roiler. 6. Loofah.

7. Bulbs for window-boxes. 8. Skid-chains for

car,

9. Horso-muzzle. 10. Beetle-powder.

Asparagus tonga. 12. Goloshes.

presents

I'm

not going to

put up with one of

those things, so pou

might as well not

unwrap it."

Herm, where he used to spend the summer holidays with ten brothera and sistera. Herm was of all islands the most

the glorious,

most glorious of all being Jethou, "which we all thought must be much better than Herm because there were only two houses on it." Now comes my golden sentence: "The next year we went to Cromer or some stink. ing hole!"

Woe to the parent whose off- spring should write in Inter years: "We all wanted to go to 'Cinderella.' But father in- sisted on taking us to The Glass Slipper or some stinking fan- tusy!"

But to return to our books. Here the matter is largely one of age. Boys up to the age of twelve should be given what- ever is the modern equivalent of the school stories of Talbot

What I do want and am give children children's books. Baines Reed and the adventure

Dr. Johnson knew about this, as yarns of G. A. Henty,

yearning to possess is:-

1. Pair of budgerigars. 2. Blackpool Tower in cork.

purple 3. Smoking-suit in

corduroy with tangerine lapels.

We x00 from Mrs. Piozzi's From twelve to fifteen "Anecdotes" :-

the masterpieces which they "Babies do not want to hear will read now or never-such about babies; they like to be masterpieces as "Robinson Cru- told of giants and castles, and son," "Westward Ho!"

"Tom

4. Tie-press in mother-of- of somewhat which can stretch Brown's Schooldays," Master-

pearl.

and stimulate their little man Ready," "The Last of the 5. Tortoiseshell walking-stick minds." When in answer 1 Mohicans," "King Solomon's

and celluloid buttonhole would urge the numerous edi- Mines," "Treasure Island," and for evening dress.

6. Pagoda for poodle.

7. Poodle for pagoda.

Dietrich in seaweed.

tions and quick sale of Tommy anything by Jules Verne. Prudent or Goody Two Shoes: From fifteen to eighteen the "Remember always (said he) Heart of Midlothian," "David 8. Silhouette of Marlone that the parents buy the books, Copperfield,"

"Vanity Fair," and that the children never read "The Cloister and the Hearth," Abraham them."

"Adum Bede," "Barchester Towers,.. "Many. Inventions.". THE same thing applies "Kipps," and "The Old Wives'

to plays for children. Tale.

9. Portrait ΟΙ

Lincoln in wool. 10. Hookah.

11. Howdah for white ele-

phant.

When I was a child the kind of From eighteen to twenty-one of

the I National pantomime I liked was

recommend "Tom Jones," grown-up sort. I doted on one "The Vicar of Wakefield,” “La- in which the Principal Boy, at- vengro," "The Ordeal of Rich-

12. Model

Theatre.

BUT the people really tired in tights and top-hat, ard Feverel," "The Mayor to be considered are slapped her thigh and sang a of Custerbridge," "Almayer's

the kids. Here the rule is that rousing ditty of which the bur- Folly," and I venture to suggest they must be given things den was:--

one Gissing and one Henry which fire the imagination. The

For I'm a man of the world, James. bitterest moment of my boy.

A man of the world am It And, of course, any age from hood was when a hard-won First Prize for Proficiency in I cherish an undying admira- fifteen onwards is right for

Boswell's "Johnson" and Science turned out to he Dar- tion for the late Macdonald Diary of Samuel Pepys win's "Formation of Vegetable Hastings. For many reasons, About girls, I suggest the

the

of though Mould through the Action

one golden sentence Worms."

must suffice. This occurs in his same curriculum, with the ex- Mac is ception of "Tom Jones," which But let me begin with the "Memoirs of a Child."

they will not understand, and ли of NEVER talking

island called iots. Never, never,

"Many Inventions," which they will dialike.

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IN the matter of toys I am inclined to think that boys should have thing corresponding to modern invention, which means air- planes, motor-cars and speed- boats. I am not in favour of trains, because father will play with them and the child never get a look-in.

As a thorough fogey and were I the father of two child- ren, I should give them a chess- board of nobly-smelling leather and a set of weighted chess-men of the dignity which suits the gume.

In my view, nothing is better for an afternoon at this season than a roaring fire, an old- fashioned sheepskin hearthrug, black for choice, a supply of oranges, and a set of chess mon.. You play the game on your stomach, and instead of chang- ing over the picces at the end of the game, change places on. the hearthrug and HO got the other side scorched!

Little girls still, I suppose, liko dolls. In my day demure maidens of six required a wax effigy which opened two china- blue eyes and said "Mamma (" Now I shall reluctantly concede bedizoned that they prefer a

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