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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

January 21, 1939.

ST. GEORGE'S SOCIETY

Governor and Lady Northcote At Englishmen's Annual Ball

Beefeaters and the Red Tudor Rose were the prevailing note

at the Peninsula Hotel yesterday evening, when the annual Ball of the local St. George's Society was held with all its old- time custom and ceremonial.

H.E. the Governor and Lady. Northcote were the guests of the President, the Hon. Mr. S. H. Dodwell, ni a dinner attended by leading citizens and oficials in surroundings redolent of ancient cllies and honoured crests.

To this atmosphere the excellent decorations contributed to a great extent, but the menu. the popular venue "George and the Dragon", and the costumed ushers, were in keeping with traditional English feasts.

A large number of members of the mingluum, Leeds, Maidstone, Bath, Penzince, Hereford, Society and their guests attended the Gravesend,

were manimous in Bradford, Grantham, Hastings, Liver- function, and ICE HOUSE STREET. congratulating the Decorations Com- pool, Cambridge, Devonport, Walte- mittee on the Ane result they bad field, Warrington, Westminster, Her

Guildford, Ply-j

SL achieved. The facade of the Hotel rogate, Donenster,

Swindon, was floodlit in red and across it in mouth, Worcester,

lowed the words Helens, fracombe. Rioon. Netting- gigantic letters

Blackpool, North- ham, Dewsbury, "St. George for England."

When the Yeomen with their fint ompton, Derby, hats and long pikes had been ad- found miringly passed, the dancers themselves in the Rose Room and the Roof Garden, hung with the crests of famous English cities. Plaques of Tudor Roses lined the walls, and from the centre of the ceiling was sus- pended a magnificent picture of a fifteenth century ship in full sail.

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rounded by so many friendly Celts, HER LIMBS CRACKED all securely muzzled. (Laughter),

LIKE DRY WOOD Kipling realised, when he wrote those lines, that the beginning of all wisdom in people and in nations is to be able to laugh at themselves, It is n gift so precious that if only the Almighty had distributed

all nations, we equally amongst should have been spared much of the trouble in the world to-day, and that Utopian relationship, called the Brotherhood of Nations, would have emerged long ago from the land of make-believe Into the realms of reality.

Suffored with Sciatica For 25 Yoarn When your joints start to creak and crack, it is a sure sign that your system is producing too much harm- ful urie neld. If you fall to heed the warning, you are storing up trouble for yourself. Read this letter, from one who suffered for years before the found out how to obtain relief:---

We English of course have the faculty developed to a very high de-

"For 23 years I suffered from happy gree, uut not by any means to the same

forced me to which extent as our Scottish neighbours. sciatica in my right side, and I had They have reduced it to such a fine backaches art that the thousand and one stories remain in bed for two or three weeks the Aberdonians tell about themselves at a time. When I got up in the I were breaking Be though crack not only provide a fund of amuse-mornings, my arms and legs used to Kruschen Salts. I took a bottle of them without feeling much improve- that time I felt beller. I have kept on taking Kruschen ever alnce,"

our guests from Ulster, in a and contented frame of mind. of you will remember them:

"The Celt in all his variants from

Builth to Ballyhoo, Illa mental processes are plain-

one knows what he will do. ments for all of us, are gradually And can logically predicate ils eradicating the very trait. in the dry wood. One day, I heard of

finish by his start;

Scottish character they ridleule. At

but are

having

But the Englinh-ab, the English-cast, that In my expernd-minded / ment. I tried a second hottie, and

they are quite a race apart.

so many large-hearted, is bovine, their psychology Thele

Scottish friends in the Colony. oullock crude and raw.

Of all the stories emanating from They abandon vitai matters to ho Aberdeen, perhaps the best is the

tickled with a straw,

sequel to Sandy MacPherson's visit to But the straw that they were tiekled London to ser a specialist about his with the chaft that they were heart. You all know, of course, how

fed with

Sandy booked from station to station They convert into a weaver's beam

to break their focman's head in case his heart gave out on the

with.

way up to London. When he arrived For undemocratic reasons and for in London, Sandy was warned by a friend that the specialist's tee was motives not of State. They arrive at their conclusions-five guineas for the first visit and two guineas for subsequent ones, with largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they the result that Sandy entered the

in consulting room

that confide their views to none;

debonair manner so chne

But sometimes in a smoking-room,i jaung's cons

une learns why things were neteristic of the Aberdonian, and, brandishing two guinean, greeted the done.

Yes, sometimes in a smoking-room, specialist with a cheery "Here we

through clouds of "Ers" and are again, Doc".

"Ums"

Obliquely and by inference

lumination comes.

specialist eyed syed him suspiciously. but nevertheless 1-overhauled Sandy with meticulous care, and then pocketing the two

carry

on with guiness, told him the treatment he had recommended on his first visit. The specialist also hailed from Aberdeent (Laughter).

On some step that they have taken,

or some action they approve Embellished with the argot of the

Upper Fourth Remove. telegraphie

In

half

sentences, nodded to their friends, They hint a matter's inwardness

and there the matter ends. And while the Celt is talking from

Valencia to Kirkwall,

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Dinner Party The President's dinner party was held on the first floor, when the fol- lowing were present: Is Excellency the Governor and Lady Northcote, His Honour Sir Atholl MacGregor and Lady MacGregor, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Southard, Commodore and Mrs. E. B. C. Dicken, Hon. Mr. N. L. Smith, The dais was magnificently dis- Mrs. Smith and Mies B. Smith, Bri- played, with furniture draped with sadier and Mrs. A. B. Thomson, Sir the banners of St. George, whilst be Vandeleur Grayburn and Miss Gray- hind a large figure of the Patron burn, Col. and Mrs. N. M. S. Irwin, Saint stood out in sharp relief he- Copt. C. B. Barry, R.N., and Mrs. The Barry, Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Potter, tween the flags of St. George.

was Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hughes, Mr. and crest of the City of London adorned with the red, white and blue Mrs. H. R. B. Hancock, Mr. and Mrs. Mac- ensigns, and the tableau was floodlit T. E. Pearce, Mr. and Mrs. J. F.

Gregor, Me and Mrs. W. Kay, Mr. to show it to the beat effect.

and Mrs. J. H. Taggart, Dr. and Mrs. F. B. J. W. Anderson, Mr. and Mrs.

A. P.

The English-oh, the Engilsh- Winter, Mrs. D. Wardle, Mr.

don't say anything at all" Cox, Miss R. Vickers, The Misses

Out of Ireland Dodwell, Mr. R. K. Valentine, Mr. R. MacGregor, Mr. David Humphreys,

And now of course you will all by some of my predecessors. Un- disclosed that St. Andrew, St. to sit dow In the supper room there was an-Capt. S. II. Butty-Smith, Lieut, J. P.

without It self-expression", to

Patrick and St. David are all well other large figure of the Patron Saint. Gunner, R.N., Mr. G. Treverton, Mr. expect the President, "being void of happily, my search was unavailing.

Sommerfelt. The chlet bar bore the familiar sign toast to England was proposed further ado. Unfortunately for you! "George and The Dragon," and was hunt with pictures of beauty spote by the Ilon. Mr. Dodwell, who said: all, years ago, in the dim and distant established in mythology, if not in When Kipling wrote those five past, my forebears were turfed out history, as godly men, but all the and traditional scenes of England.

The following cities were repre- verses in his "Actions and Reactions" of Ireland (as it was then called) evidence points to St. George having fellow of the adventurer type that against the decoration: London, which he called "The Puzzler", he either for being too much for or too really been the somewhat dissolute described Jim. sented in the

predecessors Oxford, Shrewsbury, Southampton, must have written them especially much Bristol, Chatham, Carlisle, Windsor, for the benefit of the Presidents of which, has never been clear-and

George's Soclelies for these seem to have inherited a dash of Nevertheless, with that lonate con- Wolverhampton, Winchester, Hull, St. Leicester, Bournemouth, Dover, Ips- occasions, to help them break the Irish which has rendered me slightly trariness of us astonishing English,

(Continued on Fage 15.) wich, Lancaster, Burlon on Trent, ice, and put our Scottish, our Welsh, less inarticulate than the average we adopted him, and who shali say Hanley, Brighton, Birkenhead, Bir-land our Eire-ish guests, as well as Englishman, particularly when sur-

On the first floor, where the Pre- sident entertained his party, suitable decorations had also been prepared. the place of honour being given to the Creat of Oxford from which City the President halls.

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