SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1931.
CHOICE OF A SCHOOL.
New Service for Parents and Guardians.
Once the right school is found, *hen people can have the inestim- cble comfort of knowing that, in, spite of their absence during the most critical years of their child's fe, that same child can be brought up in the very best traditions of British education, among children. Thos. Cook & Son, Ltd., have the same age, in tranquil and happy, surroundings, in a healthy Instituted a Scholastic Department climate and amongst all the com- to advise parents and guardians on forts of home life, under the eye, the choice of schools. Enquiries oreover, of men and women whose will be welcomed and assistance life-work it is to give that child gindly offered without charge. In every care and every help in the the following article the character development of body, brain and istics of the British school system character-men are discussed.
It is significant of the importance which the Britons have always at tached to education that the first
been called "The School-master."
and women who
lake their responsibilities perhaps more seriously than those of any other profession and are always on the left for the welfare of the children under their care.
lies abroad
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IN FACT AND
FICTION.
A Scotland Yard Comparison.
THE CHINA MAIL.
"Detective Action and fact" was
the subject of the speaches at a dinner of the University. section and the Authors and Journalists' section of the Forum Club. Mrs. Howard was in the chair, and the guests Included authors of detec
tive stories.
NEW
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To-day-Tea Dances at Hong Kong and Peninsula Hotels.
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murder haunted the thoughts of Misa Dorothy Sayers, said that detective novelists: to them it was sheer bard bread-and-butter work. (Laughter.) For their realistic
Today and blood-curdling description they made great efforts, and if the "Atlantic." public only realized the agonies of mind writers of crime stories on- dured more sympathy would be felt for detective novelists.
To-day "Mamba.""
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prosework written in the vulgar tongue should have been by a learn-
Pressing Problems. ed pedant, one time tutor to Queen
One of the dificulties, however, Elizabeth, and that it should have of those British people whose work is to find the irieal Roger Ascham knew that the subhool. for their children. This jeet of his book was dear to the question of choice is so vital to hearts of all English people, even their own peace of mind, so all im-
those days.
Indeed, Britain has always been in the vanguard of children, that it is no exaggeration portant to the future of their progressive education, and to-day to say that it is one of the most more than ever it is to Beltain that young foreign patentates und pressing problems that a parent can rather nice human beings. Theyminster Glee Singers."
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wealthy foreign children are sent to reccive, at any rate, part of their
education.
face.
"Black Magic."
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Lieutenant-Colonel Carter, of
with them. In India and London for Scotland Yard said that real detec- tives he had lived and worked
25 years—were just ordinary and
Should a mother and father de- were not freaks at all. The modern
Home Maiia cide that, they wish to send their detective had to be quite an adept
To-day-Inward from children to a co-educational school, in preparing cases for trial. The The British school tradition 13 the problem arises,
which is the detective in the novel was freed and ports (President Hayes). unique. How many men will scrape test within their means?
from all the ordinary conventions: To-morrow-Inward from Europo and save and gu poor for many
Should they wish for a school that the real detective had to up-vin Siberia (Rondo). years in order that their sons muy with a definite religious trend of hold. What surprised him was the
Land Sale. Ko to their old school? How many teaching, again which is the best Action was able to spend Govern-lot of Crown land at Wong-Net-the 31st instant will be subject to
ease with which the detective in Monday At P.W.D. within their means? Should they desire a school where special care ment money. (Laughter.) He had Chung, 3 p.m. is given to nervous or delicate boys noted that some of the novelista' and girls, again which shall they
detectives, on a quarter of hour's notice, would be off in
parents spend exious days con sidering which school in Britain is likely to be most suitable for children who need some special care or attention? When two or three mothers are gathered together
it is always of schools and training that they talk.
choose?
To parents living abroad these questions are sometimes desperate ly difficult to answer and are a poignant anxiety.
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frat-class sleeper to Berlin, and from there double back to Copen- hagen, and that they wore often to The girl of the present day,
be seen smoking big cigars, In thanks to the pioneer work of such
It is with a full appreciation of real life detectives had to face the Matheson's Offices, 12.80 p.m. women as Miss Benle and Miss Dove, also has a wide
these problems that Thas. Cook & audit department, and it was not range of schools, each of which has its his Son Ltd., have instituted for the easy to journey about all over the Continent in Arst-class benefit of parents and guardians a tory and its tradition of learning service which, they feel convinced.
sleepers. (Laughter.) Then there or sport, or both.
was the inclination of the detec-the Lidustrial The great head masters of Bri-will fill this crying need for au-
tive in fiction to be telling every thoritativo information regarding tain may be famous partly because schools. The newly formed Scholas body all about the crime. That they have their imitators and distic Bureau is in the charge of an seemed quite wrong from the point
of view of the detective in expert possessing practical experi- ence of schools and intimate low-life. There was always a weakness in most of the novels as to the ledge of the litest educational
legal proof required when the de- movements.
He wondered why it was that there tective had solved the problem.
were so many murders in fiction,
they directed famous schools, but
"I was talking to a man yester day whose name will live for
ever."*
"A remarkable man!" "Oh, no. His name is Smith!"
-Table Talk, Melbourne."
ciples in every type of school, some of whom have gone much farther than their masters. Britain has been the birthplace of most of the pioneer movements in education, and the British genius for common sense has prevented any of that "crankiness" which too often re sults from the ideas of the ardent reformer.
Character Building.
It may be as well to note down some definite examples of the value of a British education.
Mens sana in corpore gano may be an old and hackneyed tag, but,
it does sum up in a succinct mari
Any responsible person applying to one of Cook's hundreds of Eranches, at home or abroad, will
real
because in Britain there were
noon.
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STYLE IS THE WOMAN.
No claims will be admitted after the goods have left the Godowns, and all
be asked to state frankly what type not many such crimes committed. of school he is looking for. Not a general questionnaire, but a acienti.In London, for the last 20 years the average number of murders fically planned series of questions. which will bring out exactly those had only been 22. Professionally The first harpoon in a whalebone goods remaining undelivered after the points which the parent has in his he much preferred the good old-war has been hurled in New York. 31st January, 1931, at 4 p.m., will be
fashioned burglar, who
Mme. Binner, a Fifth Avenue cor- subject to rent.
All broken, canted and damaged eight New York corset manufae-where they will be examined by turers in an effort to secure con- Messrs. Anderson & Asha or the
mind.
was а
This inquiry will then be referred cleverer, a much more courageous setiere, has called a conference of goods are to be left in the Godown, to the Scholastic Department at man, and a finer character than the Head Office and carefully In-/ the murderer; but one did not find certed action to prevent the return 30th January, 1931, at 10a.m.
burglars na
in Action murderers.
80 many
due vestigated. In
the course, names of one or two specially chosen schools will be forwarded to the enquirer, who will be recom- mended to send some responsible
FIGHTING FISHES.
person to inspect them, or, should PENANG MALAYS FINED FOR this be Impossible, the enquirer
GAMBLING.
may none the less reat content that any school recommended in this
Caught betting on fish-fights way has been thoroughly inspected fourteen Chinese, three Malays and by Cook's own Scholastic Staff, an Indian Muslim were charged in whose standards are exceedingly the Police Court on January 7 and high.
after trial convicted,
It is felt that this new educa-
tional service will be of real value
Detective Inspector Gordon said that acting on information he raid-
to British people all over the world, ed house No. 163, Campbell Street,
of the "wasp waist.".
Mme. Binner, who numbers so-
BAY'S
ciety women and actresses among her clientele, believes that the pre sent fashion trend toward smaller waists is the first stop in bringing back the hour-glass figure. She
won't go walsts if
"They're coming to me to-day— women of 45 and girls of 18-cry- ing for small waists.
"Don't tell me women back to pinching their fashion demands.
"They see one of the new frocks, and the saleswoman tells them they
and that the pressing problem and arrested accused who were at must have a small waist to wear it. "which is the best school for my the time wagering on fighting- Everything they read about style child?"
can now be solved by the fishes. simple expedient of calling at, or writing to, the nearest Office of this World-Wide Travel organisation.
SERMON STOPPED.
JUDGE HISSES ADVOCATE OF NEW IDEA.
An unwelcome member of the
ner the essence of the British congregation at the Cathedral of
He also took possession of tells them, waists are much smaller. several jars containing fishes. But how much? The women don't
A Detective who accompanied the know, Inspector on the raid corroborated "If we don't nip this business in the latter and added that he had the bud it will go on until women's been to the place several times be-walsts are pinched as they used to fore and lost about $2 on bets.be, and their health will suffer. Many people used to gather there accordingly." and bet with one another. Nobody! Mme. Binnar finds no fault with acted as banker. He knew the styles as they exist to-day. Thu game of fighting fish,”
present mode, gbe declared,' is `a, natural one, and as such reveals figures to the best advantage.
Chinese Claim Trial The Malaya and the Indian plead
educational Ideal. There may, per St. John the Divine, New York, was ed "guilty while the Chinese, haps, have been a time when the arrested early in December after" healthy body was insisted upon at a most unusual disturbance which among whom were a shop-assist-
the expense of the healthy mind. upset the whole congregation. The ant three tallore, a wayang pro- AMERICAN
but nowadays we have arrived at man arrested was Judge Ben B. Prietor, a clerk, a hawker, a me Chemical Diamonds are equal to real the happy medium, and every Lindsey, the country's leading expositor, a vegetable seller, claimed hardness. Cut glasses like real dise chanic, a planter, a mason, a com-diamonds in brilliancy, lustre and parent who sends his children to a ponent of "companionate good British preparatory or public ringo," who attempted to turn had merely gone to the house where HK. 35 nott Terms Cash or C.O.D. max. trial. Some of them said that they monds. Proof against fire, steel fle school knows that their bodies and Bishop
and natrio acid. Price per carat: William T. Manning's minds will be looked after and morning sermon attacking that there was a Billiard table to watch The American Chemient Diamond developed on the best possible lines. practice into a debate.
others at play when attracted by Ca.. P.O. Box 360. PENANG, The British, school master or
Bitter Controversy.
a crowd at the back of the house STRAITS, SETTLEMENTS. school mistress who loves his or her work does not treat children en Bishop and the Judge. started a side and while reurning he was ar The controversy between the they wont in and were arrested. One man said he had some food in- masse, but devotes special care and week before when Bishop Manning rested. Another said he had gone attention to each individual pupil, demanded that the New York to meet a friend, and yet another notices the difficulties which each Churchmen's Association, should one may have to meet, and cares withdraw its Invitation to Judge it was a festival day and ho not merely for their minds but for Lindsey to address that body on
bad gone there for his bath, their characters.
All were convicted and two man companionats, marriage. The As- The advantages of this system to sociation, which is not an official who had previous convictions were Parents living abroad may be im organisation of the diocese and toned $25 each and the rest 38 each. agined. The fact that the British hence outside the Bishop's auth- The fshes were ordered to be
Empire is an Empire on which the ority, overwhelmingly voted to hear
[confiscated.
sun never sete may be a wonderful Judge Lindsey, although several on this subject." He told Inter- and glorious fact, but it does imply of its members discented and reviewers he might take lasue with many an agonising separation befused to attend the talk the Bishop during his sermon, and tween husband and wife or parents Judgo Lindsey made several ata a result four policemen were
and children, tempts to draw Bishop Manning ordered to be on duty at the
Many parents, living in the into controversy, but the Bishop Cathedral. tropics look forward with dread to refused. He announced, however, Judge Lindsey, arriving early, the time when their children reach that that day's sermon would be took a front pew, and when Bishop the age when they cannot for their "a message to the diocese as to Manning began to attack Judge "healch's sake live with them, and certain issues now before us, and Lindder's views, the latter Inter- have to be sent home to the care of as to the meaning of so-called com- rupted. The congregation distinct relations or friends or to board panlonate marriage. ing school. It must be no MUIG comfort to them, however, to know
that there are schoola ki tar
which specialise in the cape education of boys and girl Darenta Ara abroad.
Four Policemen.
by resenting Judge Lindsay's action regardlest of its attitude to his Then the text was announced vie began to boo and hiss, and
indsey wrote to Bishop
His attitude
the Bishop: Tll be
Ushers, accompanied by Icaman, escorted Judge Lindse
the Cathedral under arrest
audience to hear un speak or disturbing the ponce
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