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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1932.
THE CONFETTI
FROCK
A MIRACLE OF LOVE
The Story of A "Naturalized”
Frock.
She floated, like a mirage of lost both launched into the social stream. youth, above the gloom of the The noise of the jumble sale in- village hall; wringing her limp arma creased in ratio to its decreasing pathetically in the draught, writes a goods. Buyers thronged the stalls Times corespondent. Her frailty of home-made cakes and sweets. reproached me for exhibiting it to fruit and vegetables, needle-work, public humiliation. I could have and baskets from the Women's wished that a gust would whirl her Institute. Equally popular was the through the window to a decent corner devoted to adornment. There obseure grave in the woods. Per- clustered in unnatural amicability haps in Spring some bird might the ghosts of the parish; the feather his best with her. A Rector's tennis flannels, the Summer brighter race of songsters might hat of his wife, the Squire's Nor- grow up to confound their dowdy folk jacket (triumphantly unearthed Britlah neigbours, so potent are from its lair after many evasions the influences of beauty upon the of similar occasions), the Lady of youthful mind. Eventually she the Manor's gardening skirt, which would have mingled her alien fibres) even the scullery-maid had rejected,! with the dank soil of her adoption. the Doctor's macintosh. With all
these familiars the Confetti Frock: rubbed shoulders disdainfully.
scheme, red with spots," I said.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
SHARE MARKET.
Practically Closed Owing To Races.
NOTHING. DOING.
The feial summary issued by the Stock Exchange to-day states:
Sales. Hong Kong Bank, $1,850. Hong Kong Trams, $20, H.K. Electrics, $75.
Buyers.
HOW THEY TALK ABOUT WAR DEBTS.
[By Leslie R. Aldons.).
I cannot stand all this senti
No change to report, the market ment about reparations," announc being practically closed during the ed Plus Fours to his 'travelling Висез.--
companion. "It is perfectly ob- vious that Germany could pay, 'if she wanted to. Yet, since the Peace Conference we've done no- thing but pander to her. First the Dawes Plan, then the Young Plan, and now the Lausanne Con- ference! And to say that, if she is made to pay, it is going to hurt 14/-us, is absurd. Why, if my neigh- bour owes me a large sum of money, I don't let him off on the grounds that his payments will ruin me. Yet that is what some of these wretched International- ists, who pretend to be economists, are saying!"
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Union Insurance, $405, Hotel (old), $13. Chinese Estates, $95. Singapore Tractions (pref) Amusements, $194.
Govt. Loans, 8 per cent. Premium.
Sellers.
Hong Kong Bank, $1,350. Docks, $29.
China Lights (old), $21.
"TONS OF MONEY.”
The Lounge Suit looked up with an interested gleam behind his spectacles. "I fancy I know some- Famous Farce Revived at Savoy neighbour of yours," he said. thing about this hypothetical Theatre.
"His debt is so large that it would Impoverish himself and his chil-, "Tons of Money," the famous dren and their children after- furce which ran for nearly two wards. Suppose, moreover, that years on its first London produc- he has to put himself into the tion, and lived up to its name by hands of a moneylender, and that making the fortunes of everybody drives him into bankruptcy in a concerned in it, has now been re year or two. You won't get much vived at the Savoy Theatre. The out of it, will you?"
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BABIES. BONNIE SCOTLAND.
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CALL AND HERE IT AT
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ALLSOPP'S
BEER"
D. Circle 50 cts.
Complete Change of Programme weekly.
"Oh ah, fit my Emily a fair treat chief concern of the producer has "He should have to work hard /COMMON SENSE IN THE!
it wall."
show.
POLICE COURT.
We had been debutantes together. I recalled the morning, whose bril linnt sunshine smelt of Spain and "Ah, tes a bootiful dress, best whose keen air breathed of the in-ever seen," said the sexton's wife tervening Pyrenees, when we began appreciatively. "I mid make so bold our long, association. I had receiv- as to trouble ee for un, miss." ed an exuberant welcome at the "It is a good patriotic colour House of Dressmakers. In a mo-
blue and white ment retreat was barred by rolls of material, sheaves of sketches, crowds of mannequins. The con- versation swelled in animation. Its I wondered what strange sensa echoes floated into the street, allow. tions would thrill Emily's stolid hulk ing an interested population to when she wore it. Perhaps she participate in our passionate debate would recapture the exciting smell upon style. Other people's clothes of tan and horseflesh at Olympla, were abandoned, half-made, in the the rush of galloping polo-ponies on workroom; while frenzied seam-Ranelagh's level turf, the laughter
up and down staire and reminiscence of Old Girl's Day, for the uncanny precision with to whom he is already head over County Forum on "The City Police stresses Bed with their arms full of patterns and echoes of the finest organ in Landon which he can mimic Mr. Lynn's heels in debt-is to undercut youCourt and its work," Mr. J.j
voice.
at every turn and make a bold bid Mimicry carried as far as this for your customers. Probably you Magistrate, said the Manchester Wellesley Orr, the Stipendiary) is a mistake, for it can only be will soon begin to wonder why City Police Court was probably the carried out at the expense of an your trade is declining.". actor's own personality. Still, the "You, think that applies to Ger. busiest in the country. Five main point is that Mr. Daunt "got many?" Plus Fours queried. .
courts sat there daily. his laughs," and that the play bas
It was one "I'm sure of it.
of the best paying The analogy
concerns in the city. It paid all
their mouths of pins. Walting pealing a wedding march, and the customers were horded into the hall kaleidoscopic blur of bright clothes by Monsieur (whom rumour declarat Lord's.
ed to be the guiding brain behind "Won't she find it rather thin for the scissors).
the Winter?" I suggested, with a reluctance deplorable in a sales woman.
an
evidently been to make es exact a to pay the money." copy as possible of the original "Quite," continued the Lounge William Daunt, who plays Suit. "Let us presume that he is Ralph Lynn's old part of the much-in very much the same line of chosen less for any comic force way in which he can earn enough enduring hero, has plainly been business as yourself. The only
which he himself may possess than to pay you or the moneylender,
A Magistrate on His Job.
In an address to the Manchester
His wife's voice would have won applause in
opera. Without pause she launched ful-throated "Naw, she'm a wonderful warm-, heaps of life left in it still. Kath- would have to be a little more ela-its own expenses, and had recent- admonition to a dilatory assistant, blooded girl, her won't feel no cold leen Boutail, similarly hampered borate, because most of Germany's in the attic; crooned endearments in un. I reckon 'twill go lovely by having to copy Yvonne Arnaud's reparations go to France, beforey handed over £26,000 in relief of accent and methods in the part of France pays us what she owes. Wellesley Orr, "that we may be the rates. "So I think," said Mr. over every child of her fingers; and with her Sunday hat." proclaimed in a piercing recitative
the heroine, did succeed in giving But take our coal trade.. One way the part some impress of her own in which Germany could pay re-
called a fairly prosperous con- cern." separate individuality.
parations was by exporting coal
(Laughter.) Pho magis- from the Rhur. Those deliveries trate's functions were extremely of coal under reparations were reaponsible: His position was one severely felt by the United King- the most trying that a man dom. That helps to account for could hold, and that would be con- the fact that, according to
ceded when it was realised what
in
"A beret would be more suitable," I said, thinking that the company
of the Basque national headgear might console the exile.
"Wull, I haven't no time to waste'
The screen version of this play over they ite-stems. How much was recently at the King's Theatre
in Hong Kong.
de it cost. plase misa?"
I made a swift mental calculation
to whomsoever it might concern that Mademoiselle possessed, effect, that species of chic worthy only of her latest models. At last, In a silence more dramatic than the speech with which we had been deafened, the Confetti Frock arriv- ed upon the reverent arm of Monsieur himself. Swiftly a man- nequin was peeled and inserted. into sterling. The ticket pinned to The chorug subsided exhausted her hem said half-a-crown. round the supreme inspiration of the Muse of Fashion. Madame, presumably for the first time in her life, lacked words.
It was a miracle of love at sight. Mere financial consideration could not part a purchaser and purchase obviously destined for one another. Amid universal acclamation I wrote the cheque. Madame Insinuated archly that the frock's name carried good luck; without doubt she soon would have the pleasure of con- structing Mademoiselle's trousseau. Even that prospect did not damp my ardour. A week later we were
of the frock's really staggering price when translated from francs
A last consideration disturbed the purchaser. "I suppose tes English?" she asked.
DALES NOVELIST DEAD.
Halliwell Sutcliffe.
a
League of Nations report on the lan enormous influence he might have on a mɛn's life, and on the coal situation published in 1930,
The most there were 170,000 British miners lives of his family. without work..
trivial sentence might have very "Well," admitted the other. "it mere fact of going to prison might far-reaching consequences; the The death took place at Linton, certainly seems as if war debts be for many men the ruin of their near Skipton, Yorks, recently, of help to dislocate international lives. Magistrates were imbued Halliwell Sutcliffe, the novelist. trade. But we have to pay vast with a strong sense of their rea Mr. Sutcliffe, who was 62, had sums to America. We can't foot ponsibility in such circumstances,
the bill alone."
I gazed at her in auch astonish- ment that she, must have wondered whether I had been fuddling my been ill for some months. wits with the Boy Scouts' lemonade;
and were loath to send anyone to He wrote novels of Yorkshire hills or the strong tea dispensed by the and dales, the most notable, perhaps, your wretched internationalists avoided.
"Agreed. That is why many of prison if it could possibly be Mothers' Union at 4d. for the first, being "A Man of the Moors," and and economists are urging the mast ever have in mind the pro- |
At the same time they and 2d. for every succeeding cup. its sequel, "Through Sorrow's cancellation, or at least a scaling tection of the public. For a moment an ethereal clamour Gates."
down, of all war-debts. Not be- of French roared in my ears. I
In listening to the witnesses on His recent novels include "Storm" ing an economist, I am not going either side in a. case pictured Madame's expression when and "Master Passion," and a won-to venture an opinion as to whe-trate's job was largely one of the magis- confronted with that question. "Of derful study of the West Yorkshire ther, later course, the frock
on Germany will be reading between the lines the was naturalised dales under the title of "The able to pay something. long ago." I said.
Experts, whole time. He must bring his Striding Dales."
like those who met at Basle a own common sense and knowledge month ago, ought to decide that of the world to bear on the case. Suffice to any that they are agreed, No man ought to be appointed a that it is inviting a complete police magistrate who had not a European collapse to make her pay good knowledge of the world-who at present."..
did not know what life was.
We "You almost 'persuade me that it do not want as magistrates men would be a good, thing to wash out who are merely lawyers, because war-debts altogether," confessed the work of the police court is as Plus Fours reluctantly."
much a work of common senso, ás "Yes," explained Lounge Suit, of law."
A BUSINESS WOMAN.
Accurate, acute, and quietly self- possessed, she gives all who know
manner that were not gained there. What ages have dowered her with
her the impression of one who has she will not abandon now. Rather, A LECTURE ON "DREAMS AND ["but England is only a sort of
found her true place in the world. She could not go about her work more serenely or with less sugges- tion of the unusual, if women had been engaged upon such tasks as hers for thirty centuries instead of thirty years. No special privilege will she ofther ask or accept-partly because she needs none and partly. because to do so would lessen her pride and pleasure in her work. Not at all amazed at her own achieve ments, she does not take it as a compliment when successes which would win little notice, if gained by a man, are made much of in her. It is name of her concern to show that she can do her work as well as men are doing theirs, or better than they,
in a new ground. She can be clear she will make it flourish and spread eyed without loss of tenderness and
"THEIR MEANING.”
honest broker in the business. America, in a way, holds the whip hand.
My American friends. In
AMERICANS AND INDIA'.
"Dreams and their Meaning" serious without lack of humour. She was the subject dealt with in the Middle West, who help to sway Boycott Proposed By A New York and patience and human under, Allen, MA., Ph.D., at the European about £600,000,000 a year, on carries Into business the courtesy paper read by the Rev. Dr. E. that nation, see Europe spending
Meeting standing that have served her well Y.M.C.A last night, when, under armaments. elsewhere, seeing no reason why the auspices of the Literary and write to me, if you can afford all patting into effect the boycott of
Look here," they Plasa were being worked out for|| they should not serve here as well. Debating Society, he entertained that money for wax preparations, Britisir goods, steamships, and She learns from men without self large gathering, as well as radio you can afford to pay what you securities in accordance with a re abasement because she knows that listeners. ahe, too, can teach. In reailty, there From dividing dreams into vari- World Disarmament Conference held in New York under the sus we owe us." Mark my words, the solution adopted saty a mans, meeting ous categories, Dr. Allen went on which the League of Nations is pices of the All-Work Gandhi
is little that is new in her position, for during all human history there to show how certain psychological calling in February is the biggest Fellowship. The intesti has been much of this same partner tests could be applied for the inter- opportunity Eur ship. Women have always been the pretation of their meanings, and of paving the way to a saber a resolution which was adopted Europe has ever had such a boycott was recommended In chief chafferers in the market contended that when honestly, and policy about war debts. If a real without dissent at the end of the places, at least of the western world diligently searched for, the insight reduction of armaments doesn't meeting when perhaps one tlf of and their business experience began into the meaning of dreams brought persuade America, nothing else the large crowd had already de with business itself. If the bonds of people much nearer realities than except perhaps a general financial parted. Another resolution deplor- this ancient partnershipre now the prejudices which they fostered crash over will" given to doing it as it should be drawn somewhat closer, the gain to and the excuses which they made we live and learn," Plus Fours The majority of the members of
ed the arrest of Gandhi done Men and women alike are her her is no more manifest than the during their waking hours. companions, with whom she works gain to those with whom she works Mr. J. Hunt, O.B.E, presided, sation. Baver dreamt that was the speakers incinded
declared,winding up the cenver the audience were Americanby, and Oswald akdebts had anything to do with all Villaro, cultor of the Nation; WE tea, water ghbrthis talk about disarmament Durant, a popular writer
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