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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1929."
THE ANTI-HUMBUG
CLUB
BY BEVERLEY NICHOLS
stur leef
truths that are worse than down-THEN I announced the formn-, by this lady which ends with the right lies--
tion of an Anti-Humbug ringing phrase: "Toasted Susie. is Club I was surprised by the almost my ice cream.” · That might do very universal assumption that women | well) in
NEWS IN BRIEF
The name of Mr. L. E. C. David has been added to the list of author- Tsed architects in the Colony.
Sir Henry Gollan returned by the s.s. "Malwa" from Shanghai, where he has been sitting in appellate jurisdiction.
The tennis star, Miss Helen Wills and a San Francisco broker, Mr. Fred Moody, aged 28, have applied for a marriage licence.
The Viceroy of India has agreed to the request to meet the political leaders, Gandhi, Motilal, Nebra, Mr.. V. K. Patel, Mr. M. A. Jinnah and Sir. Tej Sapru at the Viceregal Lodge.
Lt. B. A. Coad, 2nd Wiltshire Re- giment, has been appointed Assist- ant Provost. Marshal, Shanghai Area, vice Lt. (local Captain) D. s. Harvey, Scots Guards, with effect from November 11.
President Hoover has appointed a research committee, with Mr. W. C. Mitchell; Professor of Economics at Columbia University as chairman, to enquire into significant social changes in American life in recent
years.
would not be eligible for electióni
in aroḥhe shall be required to Women, to course, are humbugs, distinguish between the work of but men, being shyer and more re-the Vorticials and the work of the tiring, are even greater humbugs, more depraved section of London The legend of masculine frankness Pavement Artists. probably arises from the idea that after the ladies have left the room, and while the port is making its enchanted progress round the table, the men are telling each other dark and terrible stories.
He shall also answer, to the satis. faction of the committee, the fol lowing question:-
Give your reasons for disliking the Albert Memorial and accom pany your answer by a rough sketch illustrating its chief architectural
What really happene is that the women are telling the stories up.defects. ataira, while the men are trying to remember them.
In order to make this quite clear, the rules of the club are appended below:
1. Every member, before boing permitted to order wine, shall pass the following test:
(N.B.The
1
4
Albert Memorial makes me feel sick, even in a fog. The club, will therefore be open but I feel even sicker when I hear to both sexes. It will be non-people abusing it without ever hav political and non-sectarian, It ing sean it.)
4. All members who profess to does not desire the Empire to grow bigger or smaller, or women to aufer from ill-health shall be sub- Krow rounder or square. Its sola jected to an intensive medical raquirement is that members shall examination. No male member shall be allowed to complain of hia "be themselves."
rheumatism unless he is la posses- sion of a certificate allowing him to be rheumatic on the club pre- mises. No female member may re- fer to her headaches without similar certificats, and in every He shall be presented with one case members must submit proof glass of Chateau-Laffitte 1884, one that they have made every reason- glass of vin ordinaire, and one able effort to cure themselves. glass of South African Clare, 5. Before any member is allow- If he falls to ed to complain of the high rate of slightly corked. decides that the vin ordinaire is Bult of widespread unemployment) indicate these wines, ie, if he income tax (which is largely a re- the Chateau-Lafitte, da he, pro- they must provide the committee
Recently
The names of Mr. D. Black, Mem-bably will, he will be forbidden to with proofs that the following ar ber of the Society of Accountants drink anything but vin ordinaire la ticles in their use were manufactur article was repro- (Edinburgh) and Mr.. E. A. H. Udy,
ed in this country: This restriction will abollah all
Males-Cars, hats, shaving soap, duked locally from Member of the Federal, Institute of artificial ecstasies by amateur confountain pens, ties, walking-sticks, an Australian Accounts (Melbourne) have been paper telling of alleged large added to the list of authorised osseurs, which in the past hava typewriters, etc., etc.
80 greatly irritated other members,
Females. Stockings perfume, sums paid by Shipping Com-
besides lowering the morate of the cosmetics, household linen, gro- panies to the Bias Bay
ceries, etc., etc. The David Livingstone Centenary pirates. Now a writer in Medal for exceptionally Important which female members, before being 2. A room shall be set aside in the Rangoon paper gets achievement in the field of geo- admitted to the amenities of the this off his chest:"A few even-graphy in the southern hemisphere club, shall submit to the following has been awarded to Commander examination: A mannequin shall ings ago I met a sailor man from Byrd by the National Geographical parade before them, wearing, in Hong Kong who told me some Society. Previous recipients include succession, six evening gowns, thing of the extraordinary doings Sir Douglas Mawson and ex-Presl three of which were purclissed of the pirates what operate from
from famous Parisian houses at a Bias Bay, He was lucky enough
cost of fifty guinean each, while
Our Government: --- With jall The defence was opened yesterday the other three were made in Eng-warders (European) getting about to have been kept from serving afternoon, before Mr. A. W. Hland, at a cost of not more than $80 a month, palice getting $80, the on board one of the boats when Grantham, in the case in which a ten gulneas.
Civil Service (and especially the the chief officer who took his firm of Nam Pak Houg is charged to distinguish the French frocks their lives) waiting more or less Chinese foki of the Lee Fung Hang Any woman who falls instantly Sanitary workers, who also risk place was brutally murdered. It with the unlawful possession and from the English will be forbidden, patiently for the outcome of Salary is some satisfaction, even If only uttering of aix forged $500 notes of as long as she remains a member, to Commission, with education etarved, a melancholy one, to know that the Chartered Bank. The hearing
and with our channels for legitimato has not concluded. the dependants of any officer who
Bias Bay Pirates
so meets his death get £2,000 |
accountants,
dent Roosevelt.
future.
staff.
སསྶ
spend more than ten guineas on a dreas.
|
TEN YEARS AGO.
[From the "China Mall" December 21, 1910.1
To-day's dollar is worth 5/4 11⁄2d.
and first-call expenditure open to
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
3. Every member of either sex them, the Government is lavishing Yesterday afternoon Mr. E., W. who may be suspected to possess money on rounding off road corners compensation, while if one of Hamilton took further evidence in advanced artistic tendencies shall for the gratification of the motor these officers loses a limb the case in which the Canton au-pass a brief examination in litera car using minority. Those who can.
thorities are seeking the extraditionture and art. In literature the ap own or hire motor cars are decided. Hong Kong, Saturday, Dec. 21, 1929. or an eye he gets £1,000. But of a Chinese named Au Ying on plicant shall be given two shortly a minority. They say $80,000 "surely it ought to be worth some-charges of armed robbery and mur-stories, one by the inmate of any was spent on altering the grade at body's while to clear out this nest der of a young woman two years well-establlabed lunatic asylum and the entrance to the public gardens, of pirates so as to avoid having ago in the Au Chuon village, Namhol the other by Miss Gertrude Stein. and now we see they are easing the
district, Kwangtung. to pay these compensations, and
(There Is a pretty little' love story corner opposita St. Paul's College. Some months ago make the families of these naval Kowloon's when it was moot men free from anxiety. I was ed that the traffic surprised to hear, too that there authorities con is now no limitation, perhaps templated vetoting the parking there ne
never had been, on the of motor cars near the Star entry of Chinese into Australia, Ferry on the Kowloon side of the The prohibition is only against harbour, it was imagined that Japanese, who are apparently any such proposal would create more feared than the Chinese" Bir Chas: Wakefield considerable dismay and lead to af the "Information given on the T was once said of Siz, Charles public protest. Nothing more Bias Bay pirates is as reliable has been heard of the matter
er (sic!) as that of Australia and until the publication of the com- the Chinese, the writer of the municated report of the meeting paragraph quoted above has a big of the Committee of the Kowloon guess coming! Résidents' Association. That body is one that has studied the traffic problem most carefully and hence should be expected to re-echo any dissatisfaction regarding the pro-
A. Convinced Imperialist: Dollar Line Changes: The Contents Bill: Where is Hong Kong?: U.S. Missions
Cheers Wakefield that there no human misery which, meet with immediate and gener coming to his notice, did not
ong rellét.
·Dollar Line Changes
"Hong Kong in China!” THE new schedule of the Dollar A China: Express and Telegraph,” TTENTION" in directed by the Steamship Line / showing-time fa changes will be ready for distributo a curious anomaly, which results on in stiproximately ons week. A the facility of the cheap twenty- other feature will contain is the word cablegram, called the weekly announcement of direct Sailings from letter, which originated with the "San Francisco to Singapore via the cable companies and has proved a ports of Honolulu and Manila. The boon throughout the Empire, not be former round-the-world liners "Praling extended to Hong Kong, and dent Hayes and President Monrow that because "Hong Kong But it is not only as a cheerful will be used listhis: service. Thurs China!! Aglatter was passed ove Apropos of a re- giver that he is so widely known.
will be Ballings from Manila to the counter at a Home Post Olies Singapore on February 1, March 8 with 5 fee. It was returned to "Girl Slaves kent paragraph, els a great benefactor both of April 12, and every five weeks there the would-be sender with the remark In China" says Truth," motoring, and aviation as well as after. Return seilings from Bings that the cheapest rate was "defer
to Manila, Honolulu, San Fran red, vis, 256. On dsking the rea- My Walter of hospitals and other deserving disco and Los Angeles will be an son, he was rather astonished to be posed banning of private cars Buchler has sent me a letter from insti
February 8, March 15 alter he the lab of places for which the week- 15, April 19 and told that, as Hong Kong was not on from the parking place at the which have taken the following time is an oil magnate in the City new service will provide Singapore ly letter rate was accepted, it must
Institutions, and Wi
and in his ep
spare every five
with its first direct passenger trans be in China." Not He Is of medium height thick portation» system with the Pacifced the Cable da virit-
Ferry. Instead, however, of con-
demning any such scheme, it ap- pears to be content with inquir ing of the Police what alternativ parking places for pri can be offered and intentions of
with regard to scheme for
of traffic
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pore
courge, affect;ny.comments net has a ruddy complexion, and Coast for many years NEW
prohi
eradicate the evil
in shina
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point
Journalism in France
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London, chag never hitherto absen prominent in Paris, but it keetas"-"co
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some months the Crowne
Sir
prac-
paper
For
modest little sheet/
have displayed
office and
war there told China, that is how Lahat although Hong Kong
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