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across the harbour, and, if our information is correct, then there fa so-much more reason why the public should be advised of every development. We hope that the "heads" of Government Depart- ments will realise that the public has a legitimate right to know what is being done for the Colony on land or in the harbour, and the only way it can be informed S is through the medium of the Presa.
Rifle Practice **On' Ships
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1929,
THE UNMARRIED
WOMAN
BY OSBERT SITWELL
NHOULD the unmarried woman pract's of tacties. Into these char
but condescend to use her in-ming heads, but herself has never fluence, this "émerald isle' set in aninda a conquest, say to her wards. sapphire sea" would soon be a "There is nothing so becoming to a spinater-ridden land.
young girl as coming in half an hour late för dinner, You'll look so attractive and all the men will wonder who you are."!
no
Many girls, of course, do not need
Yet in her amazing tolerance she forma no political union, takes no steps to protect her name. And she might well do so, for during many years a conspiracy has existed than encouragement; they will be to protect man against her designs, late of their own clever accord. while never a popular novel or play | Yet, definitely, unpunctuality is of appears but an unattached woman attraction to men. It may
a Jack of Anor and her attempts to capture her show
feel- prey are theren ridiculed.
ing on their part, but they do not It remains a wonder how any like to be kept waiting. spinster can tolerate so well-worn and ill-formed a joke-a taunt which at the best must make her yearn for a husband to protect her and at the worst must fill her with a deep despair.
As for the chief causes of the Increase in spinsterhood, they are sad and obvious. There are not enough men; there never have been fewer since the war.
and there are, naturally, far
After the "Hai- ching" piracy Mr. E. Kewell, the second en gineer, suggested that all the officers on the smaller passenger ships trading in Chinese waters should be instruct- ed in the art of handling rifles and revolvers. It may be recalled that the first time he had fired a revolver. was during the battle with the pirates. His gun jammed and an Indian guard had
But, then, what can she do? She is born a victim to British humour. to put it right for him. If they For if she marries, she will in all had had regular revolver practice probability om. day become a they might as Mr. Kewell suc-mother-in-law; a situation widely cinctly put it-been able to hit a recognised as one only a little less
funny. few more ugly faces. There is one other point which Mr. Kewell might have mentioned but, ap- parently, did not, points out the "Straits Times". Pirates usual- ly book as deck passengers board small steamers and one can well imagine what a deterrent To our mind the effect the sight of occasional Love's
whole matter shipboard revolver practice by Labour Lost savours too much the officers would have upon a of official red gang of desperadoes keyed up for tapeism. 'It is not only a matter a piracy. A few petrol tins, haul of "love's labour lost," but it ed astern by ropes, and systema tends to make a laughing stock tically riddled by bullets, might of the Unofficial members of the make all the difference between a Board. To be invited to join the shambles and a quiet voyage. Board for the purpose of improv- And revolvers and rifles which ing and-safeguarding the health are in regular use do not jam so of the Colony, and then to find easily and, even if they did jam, the officers would know exactly themselves treated like irrespon-what to do to remedy the defects. sible school-boys who cannot be it is a subject which deserves the trusted, is certainly most galling. consideration of shipowners. The Government should have act-r ed in a more discreet manner and should at least have shown little respect for the feelings of
Now tenders accepted by the Govern those who came forward to serve ment have been announced as fel- the Colony at the Invitation of low
TENDERS ACCEPTED
on
Wo Hing:-29 cents per cubo yard its "Head." Furthermore, auch for the disposal of materials dredged action on the part of the Govern by Grab Dredger Nos. 1 and 2 through- ment cannot do Hong Kong any good. If the health of the Colony Hong Kong, Baturday, Dec. 28, 1929. is to be looked after by the Gov
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For instance, I joined my regi- ment in 1913, By December 1914 nearly every contemporary of mino had been killed can only think of two of my exact age who are still alive; and all, nearly, were unmar ried.
Yet no section of the population has in the past supported war more unthinkingly, and "therefore whole heartedly, thar the unmarried wo- mus. Let women who do not re- main unmarried of their own choice, now that they have the vote, use it on behalf of peace, for the sake of their nieces, so that their lot may be less lonely.
What, then, apart from these natural causes, are the reasons of the progressive increase in spinster- my
One, I think, is that so In order to help support their many more girl now go out to work
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And now we come to the success- ful--that is to say, the happy spinster, most admirable type of all,
Many women there are who have rejected many offers of mar riage and in the end have accepted one: perhaps because the suitor is so insistent that they feel sorry for him, perhaps because they doubt the wisdom of remaining single all their lives.
But many other women have been proposed to as frequently and have conalatently refused every proposal. This requires great strength of character and a certain fine sense of abnegation. They feel that their mission is some other one.
And then, too, there cha be observed round us in the everyday world many unmarried women who appear to have been drawn from the romantic stories of Guy de Maupassants, women who, having failed for one reason or another in their Arst love, over afterwards re- main faithful to the memory of It, This helping in some great cause. surely is the highest expression of what psycho-analysts. call "sub- limitation, or the diverting of one atraum of energy Into another channel.
Now let us consider two great spinsters of history. It is difficult perhaps to decide whether they were happy or not, There is Queen Elizabeth, 80 lately In the
biographical limelight, who, though
capable of high deeds, was all her to make up her mind about any life the prey of indecision, unable
Had
families and their unselfishness thing until the last moment. they realise that if they marry it the found suitable consort she will be more difficult for parents and ¦ might, Indeed, have been spared for younger brothers and sisters. this bewilderment.
One cause, again, of so many women's failure to find a spouse is that they bungle if so masculine a word can be applied to what used to be called the 'Weaker Sex"the tactics of their purauit," :
Let us take the example of many "finishing-off" schools all over the Continent, and especially in Paris, to which numbers of the girls of the
TEN YEARS AGO
From the "China Mall"
December 28, 1919.1
Today's dollar is worth 4/- 111⁄4d.
Wo aro informed that the members richer classes am sent between leav ing school and coming out." of the Hong Kong Police were advised I have little doubt that in those two days ago that they would be mysterious mansions, dedicated sole- granted a temporary increase of a far- ly to the arts of future captivation, ther 20 per cent, as from January 1 the debutante of to-morrow Is de pending the decision. from Home as to the actual increase which, it is stated, "Don't ever be too punctual, will not be less than 40 per cent, per- hops 45 per cent. The tentativa 20 dinaer when there's a dears, for
per cent., however, will be deducted man thera," I seem to hear the monthly and final increase until re -white-headed lady who instils the paid.
ernment and its officials, without STILL WATERS the aid of the representatives of the people, then why constitute We sympathise with a Sanitary Board? Why waste Kee Sanitary the unofficial mem-
the time of the Unofficial mem-Kee. Board
bers of the Sanitary bers by allowing them to design Schedule No. V1 for washing-Takliberately taught to be late. Farce
Board, and join with ways and means to improve the Cheong
Tin Sun Co., of No. 1a, Kennedy them whole heart health of the Colony only to have Street, Wanchai, for the supply of edly in saying that it was not them wiped away by one final castings, to the. Kowloon-Canton Rall-
way during the year 1980. exactly "playing cricket" on the veto" from the Gover
Government? part of the Government to voto This incident is by no means the anything recommended by the first one, for on looking over our Board after mature considera-file ten years back, we find that tion. Such action reduces the the members of the Licensing deliberations of the Board to a Board Iwere treated in like man- farce. The véto by the Govern-ner, and great consternation was ment of the two health posters caused at the time. designed by members of the Board after most careful con- sideration is indeed a matter to
alluded to in the Practising for Pheasant Shoots be deplored. And we are more
foregoing is by no THEY are having a busy time than surprised at the pronounce-
means the only just now at the shooting schools ment, made by the President of
Government near London, where people are in the Board that the Government Board farce in this model Colony the habit of going for a little prac surely has the right to put the of ours. There is another in tice in preparation for the big. final approval or veto to anything cident of official red-tapeism to pheasant shoots that are now com- recommended by the Board. If which we want to refer The Ing along.
MEN, WOMEN, AND AFFAIRS
The Mystic Harbour Board
What we have
Clay Bird Shooting: Women Cigar Smokers: A Strange Predicament: Problems of the “Talkie",
Old China Residents? End of Kidnapping Outrage
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her, to a choking barrage of smoke, for sho puffed fieredly, and incessantly.
The atmosphere became very trying, and If a dozen sich eigar-stickers had been functioning It would probably. have been intolerable..
Coals of Fire
A WELL-KNOWN Guards officer
After the appropriate department had rewritten this passage it read, "There will be a wholesalo massacre of our Einsmen across the sea.
I feel I could have done better than that myself,
Old China Hands
notice published in the
TN the
North China Daily News" of the
know
was placed the other night. in an awkward predicament. A pri formation of Chinn-Japan Society the name of Mr. such is the case, why waste the first meeting the Harbour The unusually Tate autumn in tad in many respects, transgressed
Vate in his regiment, quite a bright at Victorin, B.C.,
L. A. Whittaker | among those pre- time of the unofficial members of Advisory Board was held on many
any parts has made it impossible; rather too many rules and regulations sent. The correspondent now writen the Board who are either busi- Monday last at the Harbour to get at the birds until quite re- and had to be "fred" from the Army, that this name, stould have been Mr.
not without ignominy.
BANERO. Whittaker. He adds: "We all were a old ness or professional men? Time Office, but Press men on apply-cently, and in consequence there is The offer was entertaining & small China tands settled down here, but
50 party at a reslairant a few days: to them la money, and the mera
Making for admission, were told by much leaway to be made PPANNABE927 gea, "dancing with an attré - 10" many; as, there dre, “A” paragraph and noticed the man, immace were not aware that there were fact that they consented to join the Secretary that the meeting No little ingenuity has been errepared smiling at him in a appeared in the Iscal papers about the Board shows that they have was not open to the public. And ponded by some of the gunmakers, friendly manner. When that dance f two days we received applications yet, as far as we understand, the in securing conditions for flying of the officers taber with two bottles from over 80 people who formerly re- the proper civic spirit. They are
Harbour Advis men who have the Colony a wel
Board was the clay birds which reproduce of champagne and the whispered resided in China or Hong Kong." fare at heart and have a deep
pur very closely those of a real shoot mark, "With Mr compliments TEM
Mr. Aaron Brenner sense of their civic ob We do not know what
vetoed) posters?
have
mind
constituted, ma pose of imp) Vessels and im
But the pract
more
Walter approach
"Talde”. Difficulties.
the meeting of the Bociety, and with-
¿troni
rinher, the victim of kidnapping outrage redis almost entirely bale Qexparlancsand to his businear mint madd that Me arest of the gang charged witA Jetter pays the