It appears that the rumoiared negotiations for the purchase of a Bubbling Well Road site for a fourth, greyhound racing track are an tual fact, though it is understood the deal ha" not yet gone through. As a matter of fact, most of the people who by now have found out the best that can be expected from this modern business venture—for that is what it is—and what it costs to set best, are not concerning then selves regarding further opposition from such a quarter, because they nay there are insuperable difieulties, That may be so, but the fact remains that a group of people have thought fit to make a genuine proposal which one supposes would ost well over " million taels to pat into operation, und surely it ly time now to call a halt. Shanghai was willing to fall into line and try one course, It went further and nccepted two, Before very Tong, it is to be asked to support a third, fand yet there are people who want. to force still. more upon ust Obviously Shanghai cannot support and does not want so many, and surely there are enough people of fluence here to enforce a halt before real mischief is done, This is tio attempt to be "'moody-goody" of "spoil-"port," but really the thing is going too far, We have a pony rac ing programme which averages more than a day a week throughout the year, with only a brief interval of a little over two months, and to this has been added four evenings per week of dog racing, with pre~ sumably two more evenings per week to be added before the end of the year, and even then someone wants to add more! The obvious fact that all cannot survive and that eventually there must be much ind wailing is not the worst ide of it, What does cause grave cern is the thought of what must inevitably happen to a lot of young: people if the curb is not applied. thus designate the classical' variety. They wil however, not be the first to argue that proficiency in music is the of a weak mind. The father, we think, Thad done his} quarrelsome daughter greater justice had he described her as point might adjective to be highly uncomplimentary, while those with a modicum of respect for facts would readily concede its appropriateness in the eireumstanees. The musical ind is abnormal.
So, for that matter, are the literary and traly artistic minds.
Were this not 30. genius, as we understand it, would be unknown, Curiously enough, it is in music and the arts that one associates genius with abnormality.
he sanity of your genius jathematies and allied fields la' never questioned. But that musical proficiency should be cited as a cor comitant of mental deficiency, is something quite new. As to the violent temper of the musician in question, let readers take heed. It would indicate that even those who are assailed on the score of incessant piano playing, may suddenly retaliate by assaulting their traducers.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.