FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1928.
AIR CLUB
RUN BY A GIRL OF-21
SPORT OF THE FUTURE
Reading (in England) is ambi tious to he one of the foremost flying centres.
ON DIVORCE
ITS PROBLEMS AND AFTER
AUTHOR'S VIEWS
"If only people realised," I once heard a middle-aged woman say, "all that divorce involves, they would It has the only woman secrethink twice before they applied for tary of a British airplane club, one," writes Mr. Alec Waugh, Miss Toky" Cribb, and now it the popular novellet in the "Dally is to have an aerodrome close to Express," the town and nearly twice the size of that at Croydon.
BERLIN SUICIDESTM
THE CHINA MAIL,.
DUE MOSTLY TO ECONOMIC
DISTRESS
IN OTHER PEACES
CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN TO JAVA
Mr. G. F. Bradney, Auditor Gen. eral, F.31.5, has recently returned |
A GRIM RECORD
Berlin. During a recent Satur | from leave." day and Sunday night no fewer than nine persons committed saİ- cide in Berlin and eight otherя attempted to end their lives.
Mr. J. W. Jefferson, Chief Super- Intendent of Physical Training, A postman of 24 was found Education Department, F.M.S. and banged in a neighbouring wood 6.S.. was recently on his peridole No one who has had any experi- [and no reason has been ascertain- visit to Malacca. enee of the divorce courts would ed. The body of a silverworker, Miss Cribb, a slim brunette of contradict her.. From the out-67 years of age, who has been
The Rt. Rev. Louis Perrichon, 21, has been running the club for side it all appears delightfully mat- suffering from Bevere nervous
breakdown, was found in a canal, adjutor to the Bishop of Malacca,
Titular Bishop of three months only, but she has ter of fact.
Corona, Co. already acquired for it 200 mem- There is no sense, it is argued, Passers-by diacovered in the
arrived in Penang from Singapore hers, all tremendously keen to in sticking to a marriage once it Grunewald, on the western out-
to conduct confirmation' services in foster flying in the district. has gone awry. It only means skirts of the city, the corpse of a)
In her home on Caversham
every one concerned. south of 20, who had killed him the various Roman Catholic parishes Heights, where she has turned Better to cut one's losses.
of Penang. The self with a shot through the left one of the roams into the club's world has become tolerantly broad-side, headquarters and office, this
minded. The Inw is swift and A woman of 62 threw herself
Col. Meredith has been elected bright girl related how she came
silent.
out of a four-storeyed window and President of the Selangor St. to be in her job.
WQ9 killed instantaneously, One day you meet a couple at a
In. Patrick Society for the ensuing Mr. Malley Hon. Secretary inner party; they seem happy and Spandau a youth of 21 throw him- contented. The
itself in front of a passing train while the Committee was re-elected
Fitzpatrick and Messrs. Walter, O'Riley and D'Arey Irvine.
"I am fond of tennis, golf, and dancing and all that makes for an activa life," she said,
ly took up flying."
misery for
next week,
year,
when the chance came I natural-seems, you are reading a paragraph and was killed. In the east of the en bloc with the addition of Dr. in the newspapers announcing their chy a woman of 76 took her life A few evenings later you by filling her small kitchen with "The club was started by just divorce. a few of us, young people who meet the same people again,, with gas, saw that flying was the sport of the pack reshuffled. Nothing in In a hotel in Invaliden Strasse al
nurse of 38 was found poisoned by The Hon. Mr. J. Lornie, the the future, and were determined the world looks simpler.
self-administered; a British Resident of Selangor, and And yet, in point of fact, a whole morphia, to be in it."
that Reading year has passed between that first woman of 27 hanged herself in her Mrs. Lornie, were present at a fare The aerodrome
that second meeting; and, flat in Anklamer Strasse, and a well meeting at St. John's Institu is going to have is due to the en- and terprise. of two men, Mr. E. J.though that year may have passed woman of 51 leaped into a canal tion, Kuala Sumpur, to receive the
good wishes for you, for the and was drowned. Phillips and Mr. C. O. Powis, quickly enough
of the Rey Bro. For a large proportion of the Director, the staff and pupils of Mr. Powis said:
three or four people who are in- We have acquired a site of volved in that dispute those twelve cases of suicide and attempted sul- the School, before their departure
acres months have been marked by the side economic distress was respon for Europe. 130 acres, which is more than Croyden has. It has bitterest emotion they will ever been approved by the Air Minis-know.
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her husband and the other woman, lude
new
sible.
SIR A. BAILEY
86,450 GUINEAS FOR YEARLINGS
AND, HORSES IN TRAINING
A Seremban correspondent aug- gests that a public telephone should be installed in the office of the
atation master at the Seremban railway station for the convenience of the public. Such an installation The horses in training and yearl: would also be an asset to the station ings of Sir Abe Bailey, whe, swing whenever the attention of a doctor to his health, is retiring from racar the police was needed, espécially.
submitted for sale at during the night.
Agency)
Cult by Gainsborough-Chine
SHADOWS BEFORE
COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN THE "MAIL “
To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Ra-
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To-day-World Theatre; "Safety
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To-day-Star Theatre; "Across The Pacific."
Dec. 9-10 — Queen's Theatre, "Swim Giri Swim."
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Dec. 9-10 - World Theatre; "Brown of Harvard."
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Dec. 11-12--Queen's "The King of Kings,
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THE FIRST NOEL
Dec. 11-12-World Theatre; "The Road To Romance."
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Dec. 11-12-Star Theatre; "Rough House Rosie."
GOOD CHRISTIAN MEN, RE-
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Dec. 18-15-Queen's "Barbed Wire."
Theatre;
Dec. 13-15-World Theatre; "The Prince of Pilsen."
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HARK, THE HERALD ANGELS
SING
WHILE SHEPHERDS WATCHED
Dec. 13-15-Star Theatre "The Escape."
Dec. 18-Concert at Helena May Institute, 5.30 p.m.
THE MANGER THRONE
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.....St. George's
Chapel Choir.
THE FIRST NOEL
Dec. 14, 15, 17, 18 21, 22—Thentre
Royal; The Hong Kong Philhar- monic Society presents. "Tom Jones," 9.p.m.
Dec. 14-H.K.V.D.C. Machine Gun Company Dance, City Hall, 8 p.m.
Dec. 16--Public Band Concert,
Botanic Gardens, 4-5.80 p.m.
Dec. 19-Theatre Royal; The
Society presenta "Tom Jones," 4.80 3.m.
Hong Kong Philharmonic Society
I Land Sale Dec. 10-At P.W.D. Offices, onc lot of Crown land at Shamshuipe, 3 p.m.
Sporis
To-day-Y.M.C.A. Basket Ball, } "C" v. "D" 6.15 pm.
Dec. 8-Fanling Hunt. meet at Lok Ma Chau cross roads, 10.30 a.m.
Dec. 12-Fanling Hunt meet at Kennels, 2.30 p.m.
Dec. 16-Fanling Hunt meet at Sheung Shui, 2.30 p.m.
Dec: 16-Fanling Paper Hunt Dcc. Cup, Jardine's Bungalow, 11|
Dec. 22 Fanling Hunt Steeple- chases, Kwanti..
Dec. 28-Fanling Hunt meet at. Kennels, 8 a.m.
Dec. 26-Boxing, Day Point-to- Point, meet at Mr. Potts's bungalow, Fanling, 11 a.m.
Dec. 30 Fanling meet at Sheung
Miscellaneous.
try, and we shall be ready to There are times when a year can begin laying down the aerodrome seem 2 century: for however and putting up the hangars by modern and broadminded people Christmas.
may think themselves to be, though they may talk of the changing of a wife or husband as they would taik of the changing of a cook or butler, "MUST BE QUEEN" no sooner do they go to law than
the bitterest possessive instinots, Ing, were
Newmarket. WIFE NEED NOT ENTER HOME are aroused.
The nineteen yearlings realised SHE DOES NOT RULE
They argue about property, they haggle for their rights. They be- 37,525 guineas, and the whale for many years. Chief Architect of a.m.
Mr. H. A. Stallwood, who was The best prices When a wife summoned her husgin to think in terms of vengeance. 86,450 guineas.
the Straits Settlements Govern- Dec. 19-Fanting meet at Mr. band at Highgate for desertion she They do and say things of which realised were:-
ment, has taken over the practice Potts's bungalow, 230 p.m. Gna said she objected to the presence six months earlier they would have Beef cait (Capt. 11. Macdonald! 7,300 of Mr. G. W. Webb at the Market of another woman in a new home believed themselves incapable; that Colt by Son-in-Law-Bracket
Place Chambers, Reading. Mr. to which her husband had invited a year later they wonder how they (Capt.) I. Macdonald) 6,100 Stallwood is a chartered architect,
Cult by Son-in-Law-Morals of her.
can ever have done..
Marcus (Capt. E. Tanner) 0.000 a Fellow of the Institue of Arbitra- She made no allegation against There could be no worse pre Tourist (British Bloodstock tors, and a member of the Royal
The to a marriage.
4,600 Sanitary Institute. but the woman said that she, the marriage begins in bitterness in- wife, must not do this or that, andstead of sweetness. There is a she objected to having orders given harassed instead of a happy time to her in her own home by another be looked back upon. Nor after.
Woman.
wards are the difficulties, going to The court found that the wife decrcase. was in ill-health, and that the other. There will be the problem of the women's position in the house was children; for you cannot divide children as you divide an income. that of housekeeper.
The wife said the woman be Sooner or later, they are going, to grudged the money her husband feel they have been cheated. They spent on her (the wife). She have been given a step-father or agreed that if the present woman step-mother instead of a real father was not employed in the home an or a real mother. An injustice other woman would have to come has been done them. They ask in, as she, the wife, was net strong themselves who is to blame; and enough to work.
nine times out of ten they take the
The Police have a report that the Asked if she would object to the side separated.
quarters of Major Hodges, of the employment of andther woman, the wife replied, "It would all depend." think that their father has been her. He has taken her away from were intruded upon by some person
If they go to the mother they will He can never really feet certain of 2nd. Welch Regiment at Tanglin mobile Association's annual dinner! Mr. Ebblewhile, the magistrate, ill-used. If they go to the father one man; how can he tell that some at midnight recently.. aald the bench felt that the hus it is with the mother that they other man will not, in just the same ler went into the bedroom of the band's offer af à home was not
European governess who was sympathise. They are resentful. way, take her away from him? such an offer, having regard to the Nor will they make any attempt. A marriage that has been pre-
awakened. The person, whoever; presence of the other woman in the to conceal that resentment.
ceded with divorce has to face he was, escaped and the Police are home as the wife could accept. And that is going to be a dis-difficulties from which a first mar investigating the affair, but the "It is not the home in which the turbing factor at the very moment riage is free. A second marriage is governess is unable to say whether wife could be queen,” he added. ·
the man was Asiatic, or European. The husband's solicitor said that when the new marriage is starting more likely to last for
the "other woman" rendered ser- vice of value to him.
Mr. Ebblewhile replied that the wife must be supreme in the home. The hearing was adjourned, the husband being ordered to pay his wife 308 a week.
GIRLS' DRESS
:
"WALKING LESSON TO ALL ARCHITECTS".
1
Blue (Mr. A. Taylor). 4,500; Anne Lovely (Compton Stud) 4,100 Bold Stroke (Mr. J. de
A farewell dinner and presenta-Shui, 10 a.m. Rothschild)*****
3,400
tion of an address in honour of Mr. Filly by Gay Crusader-Royal
Blue (Capt. C. Boyd-Rochfort) 3,000 Vernon S. Smith, of the Asiatic Optimist (Capt. Wills) Law Suit (Mr. W. Payne)
2,800 Petroleum Co., took place at the Filly by Simon Pare-Maranor
2,800 Yin Lok Hotel, Petaling Street, (Mr. J. C. Rush) Apple Royal (Compton Stud)
2,700 Kuala Lumpur. Among those Fily by Gainsborough-Good
Game (Mr. F. Darling) 2,200
Lacca (Mr. G. Armstrong) Colt by Gay Crusader Alope
(Capt. C. Boyd-Rochfort)
2,000 present were Messrs. H. B. Talalla, Pat Zilwa, F. L. Pentelow, V. 2,200 Ezechiel, L. D. Gammans, and mem-
borg of the A.P.C. Staff.
2,000
pulse once; how can he be sure that she will not follow it again 7
numerous
The prow
News has been received in tho.
In a hurry to go through them twice. People grow less adventurous as Straits of the death in Glasgow, on middle age comes on.
to settle down harmoniously; for reasons. No one who has been that process of settling down is through the divorce courts once is not going to be a simple business.
The marriage that has bogun with a divorce is always going to be fretted by the spectre of jealousy. No man is going to have complete faith in the woman he has taken from another man.
men.
Oct. 20, of Dr. James Roy McVall, 'They have learned fact and late of the Straits Settlements patience, too, in the conduct of per- Medical Service, who retired on sonal relationships. They expect pension in October, 1925. He as- lesa, possibly. They feel, also, sumed duties at the Port Health that they owe it to the friends Office, Singapore, In 1911, and who have stood by them, who made after officiating as House Surgeon excuses for them during that first at the General Hospital and as act divorce, to make a success of their ing Medical Officer-in-charge, Tan second marriage.
Tock Seng's Hospital, he proceeded to Christmas and Cocoe Islands on
He will be suspicious of other He will be distrustful of their friendship with her. He will not find it easy to say, as her hus- hand may have done, "Oh, well, that's simple comradeship; there's The proportion of second marri-
He will remember ages that have survived may be special duty, nothing to it." "Among the benefits that the
the dance, the dinner, the tennis pretty high; but that does not after-war years have brought "I place the emancipation of woman party at which he himself met her necessarily mean that they have
And as ho sees been happy ones. from the thraldom of superfluous for the first time. and inconvenient clothing," said her laughing and talking to some
It would be interesting to know
Mr. W. H. Angell, in the course of man who has taken her down to what percentage of remarried people an address to the Architectural As- dinner, he remembers how, in just at heart regret that they ever en-
that way, she had laughed and talk-tered upon divorce. Bociation at Bedford-square.
"The modern girl," he proceeded, ed to him.
"In the simplicily and efficiency of! How is he to know that this meet- Three nuns have been burned to her attire, the freedom and beauty ing is not to be a prelude to just death in a convent fire near Huil, of her dress, is a walking lesson such precipitate wooing as his own Quebec. They had been rescued, to all architects. She has had the has been ? She has followed im- but returned to save their clothing. courage not only to shed unacessary trimmings, but to alter governing
-principles of design.
The trend of life in our days had resulted in a demand for buildings which were as peculiarly the pro- duct of this age as were the Greek ⚫ temple, the Roman bath, tho
mediaeval church of theirs.
The
two notable London changes, the driving of Kingsway through the slums of Clare Market and the pul- ling down and rebuilding of Re- gent-street, had been epoch-mark-
ing.
"I think it only due," he said, "that we should recognise here the. superiority of the work in the Quadrant and the Circus Cover much of the commercial building higher up the street, and admit that the regret still felt over missed opportunities ja tempered by the fundoubted success of the fine sweep
of buildings recently completed.
During the War he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps and upon returning to Malaya became acting Chief Medical Of cer at Penang and, in 1918, was Medical Officer in charge of Tanglin Military Hospital, says the "Straits Times."
He afterwards returned to Penang, and later, was seconded for duty in Kelantan. At the time of his retirement he was Medical and Health Oficer, Singapore, Dr. McVall was in his fifty-first year.
Dec. 9-Drawing of a Pontiac Six b-seater sedap moter car at the Society of St. Vincent de Paul's
fete.
Dec. 10-Final dance Committee meeting of the H.K.V.D.C. (Ma- chine Gun Co.) Volunteer Head- quarters, 5.30 p.m.
Dec. 11-Formal opening of the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, by H.E. the Hon. Mr. W. T. Southern,
C.M.G. at 4.80 p.m. and reception at the Hotel from 4.30 to 6 pm.
December 14-Hong Kong Auto- dance, at Peninsula Hotel, 8 fm.
- EXHIBITION, EXHIBITION OF PEARLS: Mr. Kadaka arrives on the 14th to open his exhibition of pearls at Messrs. Komor & Komor. See advertise- ment on the 15th.
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