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FOUND,

NEVER SPOKE.

THE CHINA MAIL

WHY CIVIL SERVANT LEFT

HIS WIFE.

A modern "Mrs. Caudle" and a

STYLES IN HEROINES.

her husband lectures at night and nagging him go that he had to leave 'for'n man to receive who was eery. "A cheerful letter," said counsel, bedroom." But she admitted ing his country.

changes going on about her, Rachel that after her husband was demobi. CASH BENT BACK. lised and they were in the same. Mr. Tyndale urged that no the

HISTORY TOLD IN FICTION. the Family," is honestly bent upon Temple, The Clever Woman of house they never spoke to each magistrates had found the wife's man "Cinderella" (according to other.

helping women not of her own class.. the description given them in ori-breakfast for her, the daughter, and should have considered whether or try the changes in manner and keeping their femininity unscathed. Mary K. Ford in her recent The lady who, some forty-odd years In the mornings her husband got what it should bare been, they! Heroines claims that novels por with some initiative while still condect towards her husband not article on "Changing Fashions in go, wrote under the name of Mrs. dence) figured in an unusual appeal hisself. Hers (the wife's) was not the husband had good cause or customs far better than any studies heard by a Divorce Divisional

Aloxauder, endowed her heroines Court,

brought upstairs to her room. The case concorned domestic re

reasonable excuse for leaving his in sociology, and we would add fur-ton burst upon the scene with the She, did no darning of socke or wife. LOWE, BINGHAM & MATTHEWS. ROUND.-At Happy Valley on 28th servant; who appealed from a deci came into a room where she was tended that the Justices has made was perhaps the first English instant and abiding change in noval

lations of Kennedy Martyn, civil serving for him, and wheuerer ha

About this time Rhpds Brough- Mr. T. Bucknill, for the wife, con- "Miss Austen," writes, Miss Ford, rightly heroine and worked an

thor that they make easier reading. has been handed over to the Deputy Mrs. Alice Martyn, of Foster-road, the habit of speaking to me at did not learn in that time how to obarming to-day as when she re-life, always under the direction of February a sum of money which him guilty of deserting his wife, Mr. Martyn, before the magis These two people had been married mind of her own, and Elizabeth eroine of fiction has been emanci-

sion of the Acton Justices finding she walked out.

proper order in the circumstances.novelist to depict a heroine with a Superintendent of Pelloo.

writing. From that time the. trates, complained that his wife was about twenty-eight years. Chiswick, P. P. J. WODEHOUSE, Mr. Tyndale, for the husband, great length, which, amounted to live together.

To President: It is a pity they "Pride and Prejudice,

Benpel, beloved by all readers of novels the women of the upper class Deputy Superintendent of Police.

pated. In Trollope's political said that the magistrates, although nogging, so that it affected my

" .is 08 holding Mr. Martyn guilty of dear-hoplih I had to leave the room be sent back to the magistrates on Ming Edgeworth's heroines; estim-the beaten path by showing sym play the part that they do in real tion and ordering him to pay his sometimes us the would not atop the question as to whether or not able as they are, sutirely lack

The President said the case would piece of her mind at the same time.men. It was left to Mra, Humphry freed Mr. Darcy and gave him a wife £2 a week, also found that the talking. He denied leaving his the husband had reasonable ex- charm, and if we feel sympathy for pathy for a poacher in her excur- conduct of the wife was not such as wife without reasonable exqueado,

Word's "Marcella" to deviate from: it should have been.

By Order,

Becretaries, FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION OF HONORUMA, MARINE INSURANCE ABSOCIATION OF

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Hongkong, February 20, 1923.

HONGKONG BOXING

ASSOCIATION.

FOURTH TOURNAMENT OF THE SEASON,

SATURDAY, March 3rd, at 9.15 Par

AT THE

THEATRE ROYAL,

MAIN EVENTS.

Fifteen Round Contest for the Light- weight Championship of the Colony and the "Gedge" Belt.

AB. Chadwick v. Stoker P.O. Morgan

H. M. 8. Marazion. H. M. 8. Hawkins.

AND

Bilteon Round Contest for the Middle- weight Championship of the Colony and the "Daily PressTM Belt.

A. B. Duncan

H.M.S. Magnolia

v. Pte. Ainsworth,

B.M.LI.

ALSO

Four Six Round Contests,

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HONGKONG & SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION.

THE FINAL DIVIDEND declared

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By order of The Court of Directors, A. G. STEPHEN,

Chief Manager. Hongkong, February 24, 1923.

A, S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED. TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that NOTICE

the THIRTY-EIGHTH ANNU- AL ORDINARY GENERAL MEET ING of the Company (since its registration) will be held at the Hong- kong Hotel, Hongkong, on MONDAY, the 12th March, 1923, at 11.00 for the purpose of receiving the Report of the General Managers, together with a Statement of Acconats for the year

anded 31st October, 1912.

The REGISTER of SHARES of the Company will be CLOSED from Tuesday, the 8th day. of March, to Tuesday, the 13th day of March, 1923, both days inclusive, during which period no transfor of shares can be registered.

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HONGKONG JOCKEY CLUB.

RACE MEETING, 1983.

MARCH 2nd and 3rd.

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HE STEWARDS request the pleasure of the presence of the LADIES at the Races.

Hongkong, Febrary 22, 1923.

counsel) Mri, Martyn said her hue In her evidence (referred to by band was bad-tempered, and did oat recognise the obligations of a husband.

CURTAIN LECTURE DENIED.

Cross-examined, Mra. Martyn said she did not remember reading

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sent by the wife to her husband on lettere were read before the justices

Mr. Tyndale pointed out that case for leaving his wife.

Roamond Peroy it is owing largely one into local politics. active service. In one she wrote:

to the shabby conduct of her mother

The latteriay beroine gets little in that matter of the purple jar.

sympathy from Miss Ford, who I see that you contemplate leave. dospondent. When this is due to comtales represent faithfully the upper especially in Galsworthy's "Saint's

"Miss Younge is a writer whose I shall be glad to know the day you stipation it is easily corrected by taking middle class life of the day. Her Kennicott are little to her liking, se finds her "most unpleasant,** arrangements to be away for the and pleasant in effect. For sale by of female virtues. One young a type of extrane individualism and intend coming, as I intend to roake ocasional dewe of Chamberlain's earlier books show how highly she the first is dismissed, as the Cin Progress." Lalp Bett and Carol Tablets Then tablets are cesy to take rated submission in her catalogue derella type, and Carol "stands as tire you will be here.

woman, caught in the streets of Paris during the uprising of 1848, warning against its result. With behaves so well as to elicit & com Victorian woman was a more sterl all her absurd limitations the early pliment from her companion on hering character than Carol." presence of mind, to which she re- Misa Ford implies in her introduc plies that in most cases a woman tion, fiction represents life tauly, beat shows that quality by ̈ not j thinking for herself but doing as the girls ought to model herself on the are we to infer that the modern is told. But even ise Younge Victorian type? But that is any could not remain untouched by the

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