The Archive · 1937

Going Abroad

A feature of the holiday season which is now, getting into full swing is the ever-increasing number of people who go abroad, The average daily application for passports at the Passport Office for some time past as been wearly 3,000 of which twe-thirds are for new passport vourite resort is Switze to ich all this month ther 20 special trains every week, Germany comes next and Belgium third, but Austria is becoming very popul:

Thousands of people take their cars abroad. A friend was showing me this week the information he has got from the R.A.C. for a trip he and his wife are making to Austria. It includes a really marvellous map, calligraphy and its intimate connection in China with painting, showing us how a piece of writing. however many lines it may contain, must represent to the eye. as well as to} the mind, the writer's mentality a whole; for which purpose speci strength is given to the last arid) first letters of any two successive lines.

In landscape paintir®, Pr Woo said that "to an Oriental mind, perhaps one of the outstand features of the European paint its aptness to work after a model The Chinese landscape painter may fill his sketch book with notes, ONLY Foreign Registered Optometric Eye Specialists in China is never accustomed to sit before a tree or mountain and bring his picture to such—perfection Westerner. He seeks to be dori and inspired by Nature and evolves his picture in the stu Roetizing her and—seeking bring out her different moods.

Kuo Shih, the great Sung dynasty painter, wrote, "The mountain seems smile in spring, to dree summer, to decorate in the aut to sleep in winter

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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