TUES JAY, AUGUST 29, 1922.
WIRELESS AND THE WOMAN.
A BOON FOR HOMES.
The coming of the wireless telephone
· is an event which will have a greater influence upon the life of the average woman than anything that has occur red during the last fifty years.
That is a bold statemennt, perhaps, but it is in no way an exaggeration; for woman owes no small part of the progresa she has made in the past to her power of seeing the possibilities of any new invention and applying it to her own uses, says a writer in home paper.
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The bicycle, for instance, did more
forther
BRITISH
PIECE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
business with an up-to-date houre- IN JUDGMENT ON 2-CENT hold cut it requires na attention.
When the receiver has not a load- connding attachment the head-set must be used; it is similar to those worn by operators at the telephone exchanges, and when it is in place both hands are free for sawing, or darning,, or any of the little daily tasks that can be done whilst sitting in a comfortable chair.
lant.
NEW JOY IN THE HOME.
LAW LORDS GIVE GRAVE CONSIDERATION TO. APPEAL OF SCOTSMAN.
SHADOWS BEFORE.
COMING EVENTS. ADVERTISED IN THE "MAIL"
118.00.
ENTERTAINMENTA
PUBLIC AUCTION BALES,
THE KING'S LEDGER.
HOW ROYAL ACCOUNTS
ARB MANAGED.
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the whole of the Court expenditure prepared every half-year, and laid be- fore him for his inspection.
WEATHER REPORT.
A shallow depression is still shown
over 9.W, China.
Hongkong rainfall for the 24-hours ending at 10 am to-day. 2:42 inch. Total ainoo January 1st, 69-21 faches, against an average of 83, 18 inches
Forecast for the 24 hours ending at noon on August 30, 1922.
wind
1- Formos Chinde). 8, og variable modemto; zenerally cloudy,
3-Kouth coast of China betwar Jongkong sai lammocks, 8, or variable winds, moderate; generally cloudy. occasional raio.."
For some time past there has been August 29d. 10h. 54m--Pressure a steady reorganization of the has decreased slightly at Wladivos administration of the Court, and took and has increased alightly at Only those intimately concerned when this is onmpleted the King Bhanghai. It is nearly stationary from Formoss to Indo-China, and with the Royal Household can realise hopes to have effected a saving o.
over the Philippines. August 23-Coronet Theatre; the intricate financial machinery ne samsthing like ten thousand pounds "The Bevengy of Tarzan.." The five law lords, constituting the Theatre; George Waleb in "Brave ure of the Court year by year, and siderable increase in the cost of living World cassary to control the huge expendit. year. Despite the general and con- house of lords, in version as the and Bold." Kowloon Theatre; therefore a few facts on this subject that prevails now as compared with The woman-at-home is specially supreme court of appeals, eat around Madge Kounedy in "The Danger may be of general interest.
pre-war days, the money allotted for catered for by those who are design-in solemn semicircle. Lord Haldane Game."
The bead of the Casucial depart- the maintenance of the Court remains ment of the Honsebold is the treasurer at the same figure as at the common. ing amateur receiving sets--though sat in the place of lord chancellor
of the Household. This position cement of the present reign, and the the description of these instrumente upon the woolsack, with the throke
is always held by a member of the King steadfastly declined to apply to as "fool proof" sounds a little ungal-itealf behind him. Lord Finlay sad Lord Cave sat upon bis right, Lord
August 30.-Lammert Bros.: Uham-House of Commons, who changes with the House of Commons for any addi-occasional rain. Donedin and Lord Wrenbury upon
tion. his left. In the magni-cent chamber, pague, gin, brandy etc., Sales Rooms, a charge of Government. The present
holder of the office is Colonel George THE XERPER OF THE PRIVY PURSE. August 31.-Lammert Bros. Gibbs, member for West Bristol. its red benches nearly empty except |
The Department of the Keeper of Bend Two South
Iathes for a group of lawyers and officials
To the Treasurer is allotted each the Privy Parse does not come under varial winds, maderate;generally cloudy,
occasional rain. year the sum assigned for the main the sarvey of the Paymaster of the near the entrance, the five law lords, in grave tores befitting their high accessories, Salas Rooms, 11 a..
August 31.-Hughes and Hough, tenance of the Royal Household. This Household. The mossy received judgments one by one.
Į chai, 11 s.m.
those employed about the Court, and addition, the holder of this offion, concurred in one decision, abounding
September 1-Lammert Bros. the Treasurer is responsible for seeing Colonel Sir Frederick Ponsonby, in such portentous words as torte Blackwood ware, bedsteads, cottage that these sums are properly expend-handles his Majesty's private fortune
piano, phonograph, typewriters, ed.
and his revenaes from the Royal malteasances, condescendences and the like.
Under the Treasurer of the House Duchy of Lancaster, together with Clearly a landmark this, in the bis-leotrio fans etc., Sales Rooms, 11
hold comes the Comptroller of the arious smaller sams. It is out of tory of the development of the law
Household, likewise a political ap- these funds that the King keeps up of England. What grave matter was
pointment held at the present tims his private residences sich as Sand- by Major Barnston, member for the ringham, York Cottage, Balmoral, thua engaging the earnest considera tion of the noble and learned lords?
September 5.-Extraordinary gun. Eddisbary Division of Cheshire, who and other smaller onai, Surely nothing less than the late of some great township, or the destiny of eral meetings of Union Insurance draws on the Treasurer for such sums Society of Canton Ltd., British as he requires from time to time. some estate of millions?
To work these receivers so know tedge of wireless or even of the elements of electricity is needed, They are vastly more simple to use
cooker.
Notable
and
3 -inazkong to the Rok. S. or
4-oach at of Chios betweču kone and Elefan. §. or variable
for her in ten years than a century of than the sewing machine or the gas function, read out their learned 130 cases Japanese lanterns, at Gov. at present is £193,000, with a further here year by year, £110,000, is the winde; moderate; cloudy, occational for all the trammels of the long have often only one kaob to tura, documenta these, in which the five/ernment stores," Bullock Lane, Wan.£125,800 in respect of the salaries of private property of the King, aud, in
"movements" and "isms."
It enabled her to cast off once and
sweeping skirt; and with the "train" went a quele host of Victorian con ventions and restrictions that bad kept her bound hand and foot.
She became athletic; she was no longer a feeble creature who could not cross a two-foot stile without the aid of a masculine arm, or who paled at the sight of a mouse. Thanks to the bicycle, she got rid of the old idea that to understand anything of a mechanical nature was beyond her.
Machinery ceased to be a mystery, and she quickly began to instal all kinds of inhoursavings devices in the house, with the result that she gained a considerable measure of freedom from domestic drudgery.
WHAT SHE WILL DO.
What is she going to do with the wireless telephone?
At present she is a little shy of it. since wirelesss meaus electricity, and that is something that is still rather etrange to her; but when once she realises the perfect simplicity of the
Small sets for short-range werk
whilst
BYED the large receivers that will pick up what is being sent out by any broadcasting station in this country have been so simplified that anyone can operate them with- out difficulty.
With these very sensitive sets it is not necessary to have an outdoor aerial; a single wire running round the cornice of the room will suffice, or the aerial may consist of a coil of wire mounted upon a light frame. This is an extremely handy form, for it cau be carried from one room to another, to that the receiving set may be used at will in any part of the house. The only other essentia! is an earth cannes tion, which is made, as a rule, by at taching a wire to any convenient water pipe,
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COMPANY MEETINGS.
Fire Insurance Co. Ltd.
To enter the accounts branch of the Lord Steward's Department is like
rain.
ROTAL 'OBSERVATORY,
HONGKONG.
DAILY WHATHER REPORT.
AUGUST 28, 1882,-*.04. **
Arted
tation.
Hour.
Barometer
My noble and learned lords, in point Traders Insurance Co. Ltd. and China While the whole of the higher officials going into a large and well-conducted of the Royal Household are paid bank, particularly towards the end of quarterly by drafts on the Treasury, each quarter, when accounts are the minor ones receive their salaries literally descending upon the clerks in graivostock 6. 29.55 monthly, and the greater part of the shoals from almost every direction, Tomaro
of fact, were talking about a penny a two-coat piece. It sounds batter translated into American currency. My Lord Finlay seems to think some. thing the same himself, for through- out his judgment he referred to it not as a "panny," but as a " penty piece," or "a coin." Need it be said whose penny it was; that had been carried up all the various steps of the law into the house of lords? It was a Scotsman's penny.
CONDUCTOR REFUSES PENNY.
OTHER MEETINGS.
September 4.-Extraordinary gene-domestic staff weekly. ral meeting of Hongkong Jockey Club.
inspector had been injurious to his feelings and his reputation. He lost the first round of his fight in Scotland when the court of session dismissed bis claim, on the ground that the corporation was not responsible for these actions of its employees.
THE COMPTROLLER.
The Comptroller has his head quarters at Buckingham Palace, and he is responsible for all payments at all the Royal Palaces. All the depart insats of the Court, and their various sub-departments, have their alloted sums handed over to them, monthly or weekly as may be required, and before the Comptroller issues these
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Can you doubt for a moment that woman will welcome the household rado receiving act and the opport unities that it offers ber for keeping in touch with the world I In a few weeks from now wireless telephony will be bringing joy into the lives of modern receiving act, she will thousands of women in all parts of the the radiophone her own. She will see in it a heavensent menus of country by reviving old interests and escape from the mental stagnation creating fresh ones; and thanks to its aid the woman at-home may rid and the detachment from the affairs Lerself for ever of the haunting dread of the world that must too often be of falling into the deadly groove of peany which John Percy had him fighter," and he carried his case up to the greatest speader in the Royal utomatic tids rusɔritag machine in the Palasa
monotony and stagnation.
thelot of the woman at-home.
Though the bousewife is in many ways far better off the she was days at still so fully occupied with all the big and small things that have to be dogs that she has little leisure to devote to music or to reading and bar opportunities for indulging in ic- teresting conversation are much more limited than those of her husband.
He can read the papers as he jour neys to and from bis work, but abs finds it difficult to devote more than
a few minutes to her paper.
The man is sure to meet friends during his luncheon hour and at other times during the day with whom be can exchange ideas, whilst she must often spend days with no chance of anything more than the hattiest of
The coming of wireless into our homes thould make this a nation of happy women-and when its women folk are happy the whole country wears a smiling face.
Almost two years ago one John Percy climbed upon a street car in the city, of Glasgow. He tendered to the conductor of the car in payment of his fare a penny which was slightly But John Percy is evidently what marked and indented. It was, in fact, they call in Scotland a "bonnie
ONE "BONNIE" FIGHTER.
suus, detailed accounts have to be submitted to bim, and passed for payment.
The Lord Steward's Department is
Household, suce not only the Bell received earlier in the day from the house of lords. He did not pay another conductor, and he determia-his railroad fare to London for the whole of the domestic staff are ed to return it in the way by which it purpose, nor is he being put to any paid from here, but also the bills had come to him. The conductor, expense in the costly process of suing for food, wine, uniforms, &c. Next however, did not like the looks of the before the highest court of appeal. He comes the Ceremonis! Department, or penny, and demanded another in its has taken advantage of the legal pro- the Lord Chamberlain's Department, place John Percy said it was good vision which permits a poor parson to as it was known until quite recently, enough and refused to give another, eat the law in motion at the state's This has its headquarters in St. James's An inspector was called to reinforce charge if he sues in forma pauperis. Palace, and it is from here that the the conductor, and still Joho Percy And now the house of lords has decid- whole of the money necessary for the
ed in his favour.
holding of State functions, such as refused. Onco a mother has used Baby's Own
Whether John Percy's penny really Courts, garden parties, levees, and in- Another police station on a charge of refusing was good or no better than it should vestitures, is provided. nothing elso. The Arst few doses make her realize there is nothing to equal to pay his fate. He was kept there be is still got decided. What the law official who receives substantial sum them in making baby wall and keeping only ten minutes, but this was long lords have ruled is that the corpora- from the Paymaster of the Housebold him well. Concerning them Mrs. G. E Stilwell. Winthrope, Sask, Canada, writes:-"I have used Baby's Own Tablets for the past ten years and have found them in good for my 'ittle ores that I always keep a vial in the house."
Own Tablets ara sold by
NO MEDICINE AS GOOD
FOR LITTLE ONES.
Tablets for her little ones he will use
Finally he was marched off to the
enough to fire him with determination
tion can be ened upon a mistake made to see justice done between himself by the conductor and inspector. That and the Glasgow corporation, which is enough for John Percy. It may be added, as a matter of historical in- was the street cars.
terest, that of the five law lords who
John Percy then commenced an ac-
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August 15 to $1.
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is the Master of the Horse who is charg en ed with the maintenance of the Royal at Mews at Buckingham Palace, as well as the stud farm at Windsor.
chats with friends as busy as herself. Baby dealers, or by mail at 60 cents tion against the corporation for upheld John Peroy in his fight for his his Majesty has shown his intensely
MUSKAL PROGRAMMES
per tisl, pest free, fem The Dr. Most women before they manyang Medicina Co. 93 Szechuen have some great interest ench as pain. Road, Shanghai.
ting or music to which ther give a large part of their time. After mar-
riage these things are too often gra dually dropped. No one can sing or play to her own satisfaction without constant practice-aad he can the modern woman find time for practice with a house to run and a family to 'look after, especially if she is servant.
·less or nearly so?
The musical woman may manage to go to an occasional concert, but even that is difficult-and there is always the question of expense. She hears fewer and fewer of the new com- positions, knows less and less of the great artists of the day, and so her -interest in music wanes.
The wireless telephone, when it comes into her house, will enable the wom in at home to keep up her olt interests. and it it will provide her constantly with new ones.
In a vary short time from now the great broadcasting stations will be at work, and then between five and eleven o'clock saoh evening there will be continual entertainment.
Their programmen have not of douree been settled yet, bu -it may be taken for granted that. they will do things at least as well as the stations in America. .Here is the Saturday evening list of one broad- casting station in the States, sent oat from five o'clock till gaarter to ten :- Music, weather forecast, new, orchestral concert, fairy tales for the: childred, fashion talks to women, hints on physical fitness, dance musio by a fintista orchestra, popular songs by a saprano singer and two songs by
a.tenor.
SUNDAY AT HOME
The next day's programme included church and chapel services, an address to boys tongs by a-quaster of well known si gers, classical concert.# sacred recital, and a theatrical per formance played by the entire com- pany from a New York theatre
One of the joys of the wireless telephone in that you can listen to it whilst you are at work. There is no Gneed to wait until you san spare time for a rock. Once it is tuned a simple
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O. W JEFFRIES, Director.
Hougtong Observatory, Aug. 29, 1922.
1. BAROMETER, reduced to 39 dezesen Fahrenheit, on the level of the sea in luches, tenths and hundredtha,
9. TEMPERATORE, in the shade in de
grees Fahrenheit.
3. HUMIDITY, ta percentage of satura tion the bemidity of air saturatal with moisture being 100.
4. DIRECTION O Wiar, to two pelate. 5. FOELL OF WIND, according to Beadford Scale.
H STATE OF WEATHER, blinsky, o detachei clood, d drizzling rain,
fog.
E gloomy, h hail, Eghtning, o overrun pping showers, q'squal?, & Jain, 4 'snow
thandar vizibility w dow, wet.
7. RAIN in 'Inoher tenths and pub
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director, Hongkong, Observatory, Aug. 28, 1999,
WHARY.
HONGKONG TIME 819NALS.
The Time Ball on Kowloon Signal Hill is dropped daily at 10 am, and 4 p.m.. except on Saturdays when it is dropped at 10 am, and 1 p.m., and on Bandays and Holidays when it is dropped at 10
The Ball is hoisted half wat at the 55th minute and fall mast at the 57th minute. Should the ball fail to drop as the correct time it will be lowered it a minutes past the hour and the ordinary routizo repeated at the following hour. if possible.
Should the Time Ball be out of order the above routine will be carried out - with the flag "Z,* on the_Storm_Bignal.
Time Signals are also given at night by means of three white lat, a mounted vertically on the Obervatory wirelem mast
From 8.50 to 8.00 p.m. the lamps are extinguished momentarily at the even seconds, except at the Sind. #th, 80ta 52nd, and Bith'of each minuta.
The hours refer to Hongkong Star Car. imoite bourn East of Greenwich,
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