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Hong Kong. Saturday, Nov. 23, 1920.
STILL WATERS
the
Road and the other routes have to be painted time and again be. cause the white lettering on the red background gets dirty and unreadable, and the red paint turns dull. Instead of the words
it is beat to do without them-- why not just have the same iron pole, painted red, but with a dif- ferent top to it? Have something in the nature of, say, a red What about it?
arrow,
Mr. J. Hunter und Lt-Comdr. T. C. Stiff, R.N.R., have been ap pointed examiners for masters and
mates.
The name of Mr. Charles Simp- son Atwell has been added to the list of authorised architects in the Colony.
On Thursday three cases of smallpox were notified, also two cases of diphtheria. All word Chinese.
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER. 23, 1929,
IS BEAUTY AN AID
IT
TO MARRIAGE?
THE SECRET OF “SEX APPEAL"
the
might seem reasonable to
from Apart
fact that assume that in England, at any prettiness is not particularly inter- rate, where there are so many more eating, the majarity of men and women than men, and man's posi-it difficult to take the pretty woman tion as chooser in this matrimonial seriously. She is essentially for business is strengthened, pretty them a "pretty little thing." and women would be at a premium in it is the most natural thing in the the marriage market.
world to make love to her, but there is a great deal of difference between making love to a pretty little thing and falling in love so profoundly that a life-long union
It is, therefore, always a little disconcerting when someone we know marries a woman whose looks are not her strong suit. We feel instinctively that he might have done better for himself; and frequently it is possible to point to the lady's sister or friend, so much better looking and yet still lacking a husband.
For there is always this tendency to assume that beauty is love's appointed trump card-regardless of the fact
that in the last analysis it will al ways be found that personality, not. pulchritudo, is the quintessence of "gex appeal."
Mr. J. Barrow was Private Secretary to H.E. the Governor on November 17. He has acted in this capacity before.
It is notified in the "Gazette" that the Hon. Comdr. G. F. Hole, RN. (retired) resumed duty Harbour Master and Director Air Services on November 12,
43 of
When one considers one realfses that the most attractive women one knows and sees are vivid and ar- resting and interesting because of some indefinable quality in them selves rather than because of the A dance will be held at the Kow-way their features are arranged, the loon Football Club Chatham Road colour of their hair and eyes, or ta-night at 9.15 p.m., the proceeds the shape of their mouths and
of which will be devoted to the Earl Haig Poppy Day Fund. All are welcome.
To-morrow (Sunday) will be abserved as Diocesan Sunday in St. Andrew's Church, Kowloon,
noses.
at-
Some of these definitely tractive women are actually full of physical imperfections, but this quality of personality spreads a glamour over their deficiencies, and candlelight is to electricity most of the pretty women. are as
com.
pared with them.
Prettiness by no means neces+ sarily connotes sex attractiveness the quality which attracts hus- bands and lovers. Prettiness, in
woman
is involved.
It is always difficult for the pretty woman to get herself taken seriously; even in these days of paychological enlightenment the idea that beauty and brains do not go together persists.
For a really serious and Intel-
ligent woman to have beauty is considerably more of a liability and a handicap than an asset-at any rate, in her dealings with the op- posite sex. There is a curious fixed idea in the male mind that the pretty woman is empty-headed and frivolous-some men like to marry women whom they believe to be "pretty dears," but the majority don't; there is always the furtive feeling at the back of all her at- traction that the pretty dear will in all probability make a poor sort of wife.
.In a great many cases this at- titude is Д gross Injustice, of course; there is no earthly renton woman should
why an intelligent not be beautiful, and why a beauti- ful woman should not be intelligent The suggestion that the two things cannot be combined is absurd. But the prejudice nevertheless remains.
for a husband.
A husband.
Mr. W. Schofield, a Cadet officer, have, what may be rightly term on return from Hume leave, has ed, an apology for a library, and Police Magistrate, Kowloon, which been re-appointed to the port of
to allow it to function
as he held previously.. The appoint- it is is
a great insult toment has now been gazetted. the
of the intelligence *
And finally there is the cock- reading public. Not only is there
sureness of the average pretty wo- an insufficiency of good
man; she is so sure that she can modern reading
amuse herself with men because matter, but when the preacher in the morn-fact, has surprisingly little to do
with this quality. The volumes ing, will be the Rev. A. O with personality can "get away" them on many of
she attracts them so easily, dangle a string as-long as it that are in the City Hall at pre-Stewart, M.A., Headmaster of St. with deficiencies in character,pleases her, and finally secure one sent are tattered and worm-eaten. Paul's College, Hong Kong.
education, poles, which prettiness There does not appear to be
of itself could never neutralise. The annual drill display of the much-if any attention paid to Fire Brigade, including finale in
The pretty woman, In fact, needs them, although there is a large competition drills, will take place a very pronounced personality in in the compound of the Central order to overcome her good looks and up-to-date printing book Police Station on Wednesday com- and create. an impression. For bindery outfit at the Victoria mencing at 3 pm. Members of the prettiness is quite depressingly Gaol. It is a deplorable fact that public are cordially invited to at whilst the Government is spend- ing huge sums of money on other
Mr. Lalchand Watanmal; the well utilities, nothing is done for the town Indian visitor to the Colony intellectual benefits of the com- was the host at a tea party given munity in general. Is it not time in the Hong Kong Hotel to a large number of friends and others. He that the whole Library
was gave
a very inspiring speech, thoroughly overhauled and placed thinking all who were so cordial to in charge of an expert librarian him during his short stay here. Messrs., V. Rupchand and G. P. Waterloo Road,
Daswani sultably replied on be half of his guests.
Mr. Lalchand at the junction salled for. India by the French mail It takes a whole lot of personality of Shanghai steamer and In his honour a party to live down the ordinariness of a Street, is a com- was given on board by the Sind pretty face in these days, and the Hindu Merchants' Association, A sooner the hosts of pretty women
A Centre of Interest
fend. -
ordinary, particularly nowadays Ninety-nine women out of a hun dred are pretty enough; pretty girls pour but of offices and shops and factories every evening between five and six in their hundreds, every theatre and restaurant and omnibus and tube train is full of pretty faces; they are as common' as aliken knees. The pretty wo man is so usual that one needs to be either positively plain or else very vivid as to personality in order to create an impression.
Whose Fault? of Supplemen- mon centre for hawkers and group photo was also taken. Mr. realise it, and that they are not all
If she has any personality at the back of her fading prettiness the may develop into an interesting. woman who finally secures herself If she hasn't-but what does happen to all the pretty when their prettiness has faded office and shop and factory girls and they are not so young any more and nobody, is interested?
TEN YEARS AGO
[From the "China Mall," November 23, 1919.3 To-day's dollar fa worth 5/1 1/43.
The Rev. Dr. Bonfield preached yes- terday at the third of the special ser- vices in connection with the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations of Union Church.
The foki of a Wind Lok Street shop which aufered the "loss" of $100,000 worth of gold leaf, on arrival at Yun- nau to report to the head offles, con- fessed that he had converted the money use. The majority of the money wan for the purchase the gold to his own
recovered.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
The Prince's Mail: A Daily Epistle: Monsignor Ricard: Good Claret,
"The Phantom Wal?”
is opened, if not carefully perused. | stanally varied, in the middle of the One of them once contained a five day, by lager beer or "soft drinks.. pound: note.
In the list
tary Vetea kindred-fry, including the for- Lalchand
received many presants exuding high-powered sex at- which the Finance Committee of tune teller. On a moderate from his friends on the boat, among tractiveness because of their good the Legislative Council were ask-sized table made of cheap wood, silver Taimabal" presented by position in the matrimonial field which was a beautiful engraved looks, the sooner the pretty woman's ed to approve on Thursday was and roughly hawn, the fortune Mr. G. P. Daawani."
will be improved. a sum of $906 for steel filing teller spreads out his envelopes cabinets for the Colonial Secre- (every one with an omen) in a tary's Office and Legislature. row, folded up. Immediately be- The official explanation states: hind these envelopes there is a "The steel filing cabinets which bird cage divided up into three were ordered through the Crown compartments, in each of which Agents in 1928 and arrived here is a Java fsparrow.
The man early in 1929 were found, after actually sits by the table, at the inspection and test, to be insuf. side, on a wooden box usually, ficiently strong for the purpose probably an old apple or orange The Prince's Post Bag for which they were ordered." case. When a person comes along IT is a tribute to the popularity It will be interesting to learn at and pays one cent to him, in re- of the Prince. of Wales that his whose door. the blame for this turn for his fortune to be told, daily post-bag rarely, if ever, con- lies. Have the Clown Agents not the fortune, teller lifts up the tains an anonymous letter of the
unpleasant variety." fullled the requirements? Why door of one of the sparrow's com-
Each morning his secretaries should the steel filing cabinets, partments and lets it out. Does are occupied in opening 3. 200- ordered in 1928 but not arriving it fly away? No, indeed! The biderable volume of correspon till this year, be found to be "in bird, with its beak, picks out one dence, much of which is purpose sufficiently strong for the purpose of the envelopes and walks back cludes a certain number of latters less, and, not unnaturally, In- for which they were ordered" to its "comfortable" home! The from people who believe that
write the aforest Or, were the aforesaid Clown fortune teller then opens the en-they have a grievance. But they Agents not fully informed of the velope, and reveals its omen (it are seldom couched in menacing
terms. purpose for which they were re may be good or it may be bad
His Royal Highness's secre quired? There has certainly news) to the interested person.tarlis are, however, familiar with been a mix-up indeed an unholy The bird's reward for this turn is one correspondent from Glasgow, mess somewhere. And the poor a single grain of padi! As the who has never defined herself more clearly than by the signa- milch cow the Colony has to people come along to the table so turo Margaret" fork out another $906 "Who is the sparrows take their to hang. 7
of
The Late Bishop of Nice MONSIGNOR Ricard, Bishop
Nice, who has died in a monas- tery in the neighbourhood, was very well known to the British colony.
Vintage clarets and first-rate bur- gundles were, therefore, stocked only in a meagre selection or not at all The new vogue for, rather, the return to an old one) is a definite Improvement.
Sir Oliver Lodge's Next Book
Oliver Lodge remains the supreme populariser, of modern clence, and no one exceeds him in the power of presenting in simple It has been said of him that he can form obscure theories and processes. explain the election to children and my reveal relativity to babes and zuck-
lings
A man of great charm and sym- pathy, he spoke English well, was a farvid Anglophile (sometimes in ir SIR cumstances of no little dificul of the Riviera as being under his and looked upon visitors to that pet care, for he was always at their dis. their religious des posal, whatever
"You are all nomination. parishionere," he used to say.
His enthusiasm for things British dated from the visits to Cimiez af He was asked to undertake the Queen Victoria, for whom he had the supervision of a vest new work of popular science, ...but refused. Instead highest admiration.
One of the Bishop's chief coeerns he will finish a book ho la engaged, was the improvement of the lot of upon dealing with the future life. the dumb animals in "blac
dfocess,
Bir Oliver has, beim travelling in. many of which suffered sadly from Norway and has come back to com cruelty and neglect. Almost his last plate The Phantom Wall, which, in act was to give bis patronage and the highly appropriate title of the active interest to a fete organised to book, Provide funds for their ameliorationi
China's New Seal
tive turns at the act, for which. Religious Mania - one must admit, they are very For the past nine years Margaret Father Byrne's lec well trained by patience.None has never falled to inditea daily The Demand for Claret BX ziandate of the State. Coun- Local ture on Libraries: has yet been
epistle to the Pance. Their Hürden ound."
to suggests that she is obsessed by a MORE claret is being drunk, and all the new Seal of the Republic Libraries Their Aims and
give the winning horse
int not so though really good claret in not at Chi came into use from the Happy religious mania, Kan
but of touch & with Teveryday affairs easy to obtain, restaurants and dance 18th anniversary of the Republic of Ideals, at the Club'
Valley or the
mber in that the does not acquaint herself clubs are doing their best to cope China Kiristyst week
most
was with his movements. Should he go with the demand on the part of their The new Seal has been out from the Shang
sweep bond the lattam be, and (rosum lunch-time patrons.
Frare epecimen of flesh-coloured Jade chis Is, from the pleurean, bolat which will presented to the Govern of view, an excellent, for there ment by General Chin Shujan, chairs Fare, town wines, that's
are is
delicate palate, or goz 15.
who frequented fashion-
Chose only" châmì
that
and soda, preceded
cocktails, and ooca- lover the In
The Seal fékrved in
aphy of tra- Chow
plam Efonsoms, China, archen