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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Tuesday, JANUARY 8, 1939.

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The Universe

SIR JAMES JEANS figures in

the New Year Honours. Hel is the scientist who has taught the world to be universe-con- scious by publishing books about the stars and planets in language school-children can understand. Ever since astronomy revealed to mankind that the lights of the heavens represented solid worlds in some degree analogous to our familiar earth, there has been curiosity whether beings of some nature akin to our own may not perchance inhabit them. The tourist traffic of fiction with the moon and Mars has long been popular, and the expeditionary forces which H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs und other writers have launched from the red planet in conquest

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legions. Not fiction, but fact, is dwelt with in Sir James Jeans remarkable books-and his fact' is almost stranger than fiction. Hoops, My Dear!

IT APPEARS that. English women are going back to the crinoline. One wonders if this

Stop This New Year Resolution Nonsense!

T is well, before making.

a New Year resolution, "to consider the meanings of the word. "Resolution" suggests not only "deter- mination" but "decomposi- tion," the condition one is usually reduced to when try- ing to amend one's ways.

Lightly undertaken New Year resolutions can do more harm than good, for to make them and to break them depresses, or breeds insincerity.

Some spell "resolution" with a "y" instead of an "s," and try to amend their lives in one terri- fle effort, which they speedily find they cannot sustain for s day.

Thus their revolution is true to its moaning. It becomes a com- plete turn round upon the centre of self, starting on New Year's Day and finishing a few hours later at the point from which it started.

Sunday

1

Monday

2

Tuesday

3

Wednes.

4

JANUARY

Botas karly, Brenkfurt To an, wen't to Chunch Berary musing In gonston, Shard hour in afternoon writing letters home. Porter my wine brand o tobacco-much better offe the sternal cymeltdo

Got ich dating letter late Busy day at Affrice

slept in. Went

Muil. Normal hangs work

Thursday work as vonal.

5

Friday

make ourselves level with the- beasts that perish? None the less, I think we are getting warm at last.

are.

I wonder if those who honoured with the grand old. Namo of servant sufficiently realise how the happiness of the household is in the hollow of their hands?

Listen to the words of George Herbert: "A servant with this. clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws, Makes that and the action fine."

A Thick Skin

This anvours of the Poker Face und happiness is not for turnips. The most melancholy looking creature in the Zoo is. the rhinoceros.

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To be thick-skinned is to be insensitive to the nobler, finer things. To be thin-skinned, but mixed with rubber, is to bounce each misfor- up smiling after tunc.

A Brilliant Carcor

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This has too often ended in tragedy to be given a place, let alone one so near the top. The next is £400 a year, and that

sounds reasonable until one re- flects that as soon as £400, is

The threshold of the year is thus littered with the debris of revolutions. Let us not revolve but be quietly resolute so to live that we set ourselves a standard

Some of the ugliest people I as the twelfth attribute to hap- for the other days of the year. know, as far as features are piness. A library does not bring

If we tend to overdrink, to concerned, have beautiful faces, it. drink less; if we are chain- full of tenderness, dignity, and

I have about two thousand come by one wants £600, and as smokers, to break the chain, light.

books, all classified, but when in soon as one has that....but let The ballot did not say now and then; if we are hot-

I have been told that the late moving or spring cleaning they it pass. tempered, to put a guard over Duke of Newcastle was ugly, get mixed up and take days to whether the £400 a year was the fire; if over-anxious, to take though his face was full of light re-sort; or friends borrow and earned or otherwise. no thought for the morrow; if because he was a man of prayer. do not return them, or return given to lazing, to take off our One day, when he was leaving them splashed with gravy: or cont to our work; and so on, till All Saints', Margaret-street, a one's wife waxes wrathful when the setting of the sun.

To aim at temperance rather than abstinence. To climb to where we know we can reach rather than seek to ascend in- accessible alopes.

An Artistic Temperament

A Blameless Reputation

That is ridiculous. It does not gamin jeered, and the words they are left lying about; they exist, even in clerical circles. It could never bring happiness, any- withered on the youngster's create unhappiness.

way, because to be truly happy, lips. Our faces are mirrors of

To be happy with books you one must forget oneself entirely. must own none.

A Charming Wifo or Husband the soul.

As to the Poker Face, which,

Substitute "good" for "charm- Ten thousand times no! Be I suppose, is a mask assumed

bute of happiness. Why they hold a good choirmaster when when playing Puker, a game, if ing" and you have a real attri- his boys have done their worst! it is a game, of which I am igor- left out children I do not under- A New Year's Day well spent Remember Francis Thompson ant, I suspect that it has a more stand. Yet, as bachelors can be is a tonie to soul, mind, and body. seated on the edge of his bed in subtle meaning-a face that radiantly happy people, we must The encouragement of mo- a garret, miserably looking at does not betray the heart; a leave it out of our estimate. Re- unstirred by member, we are in search of a common quality which every one emotion.

can share. derate success will spur us to editorial rejection slips enclosed frozen surface

morrow. with his peerless poems. on the new effort

My face reveals my moods, An artistic temperament can anvil of continuous effort. It lift one to the skies, but that and that is what I like a face to Character is smitten out on the cannot be moulded in a day ac makes the fall more painful. The do. cording to a paper pattern. peasants in that famous picture A Persuasive Manner

"The Angelus" look profoundly happy. I bet wasn't.

If, for the sake of convention, we must have a New Year re solution, let it be that every day and in every way we shall try to

their painter

An Assured. Future

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Every time one crosses the street it ceases to be existent.

The top three items are ad- That merely results in getting mirable, as I think you will things done, good, bad or indif- agree. ferent. Confidence tricksters

The next two alleged attri- have it. Do you suppose them Congenial Occupation, a Sense

happy?

A Good Cook

put the best into and get the beat butes are bracketed as equal. out of life, in the spirit of the Cockney woman who said: "Life A Library: A Poker Face

I should never huve supposed Must we admit that happiness be a result again of that Parisian ain't all you want, but it's all you

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for, if so, it is amusing to reflect that once it was hoped in Paris that the influence of foreigners would abolish the crinoline.

Saint-Simon relates in his memoirs how the example of the Duchess of Shrewsbury led to the ladies at the court of Louis!

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I assure you that if you em- brace her philosophy you will have a happy New Year, with a happiness that will daily in- crease until the little cherub grows whiskers,

"A happy New Year" is a con- XIV abandoning their great ventional greeting we seldom seek to analyse. What do we

headdresses, and he adds: "Sen- really mean?

sible people await with im- The National Union of Stu-

patience the advent of another dents among the English and foreigner to disencumber Welsh universitles once held a our ladies of the enormous hoops ballot competition to define the attributes of true happiness, and which are as intolerable to them- the result was illuminating. I selves as they are to everybody made a note at the time, for I clac."

thought it might one day come handy. There were fourteen The modern crinoline is not attributes discovered. We will such a full-rigged affair as its go from last to first. Here they predecessors of the eighteenth are:

of

century, and of the Victorian A Schoolgirl Complexion era; moreover, fashions are more

Itut only handful transient than they used to be; humanity, relatively, is com- so that, although the times are plexion-conscious. As a univer- scarcely spacious enough for the sal attribute it wholly fails. mode, it is not likely that the

Anyway, a good complexion No-Crinoline League of does not create happiness, though nineties will be revived to op- It may enhanco it, for character, pose this new attempt to put rather than more looks, are what Ladles through the hoop,

the eye delights to rest on

the

GRIN AND BEAR IT

lichty

of Humour, a Sound Constitution

I boggle over the last and the top one, because I have so often

but that, I reflect, may be super- met radiance in the sick room,

natural happiness, a compensa- tion to tho consecrated ones of the earth; and here I am con-

By Lichty sidering only earthly happiness.

Yes, congenial work to do, and strength to do it, and a capacity to laugh heartily, at ourselves most of all, these three are price- less boons.

An

One item has been properly omitted, a good conscience. That can bring no happiness, because it simply does not exist. easy conscience is a sign of spiritual sleep. Saints never had good consciences.

ISLAM

Each of us must, of course, mix our own ingredients in the Happiness Ple of 1939. For my- self I want plenty of tobacco (forgive mo for most of my pipes are knocked out as soon as started), time to pray, and time to read, and a little timo to sleep (I like eight hours but count my- self lucky to have seven), lots of bairns to play with, and no telo- phone.

Now slp your 1939 like a cock- tall. Don't gulp it like a bitter draught.

"America? Do the sea that on the way to Hallywood?"

D. M. B.

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