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LAND WHERE WOMEN DON'T COUNT
ADVENTURE IN SOUTH
AMERICA
LIVING THE DANGEROUS LIFE CANNOT BE DULL
DANGER!
(By Winifred Brown)
Fascinating These fierce gentlemen have Usually, heard nothing and care less
of Major G. Lloyd George, Mr. has been Dingle Foot and Mr. Harold Mac- Sir Herbert Marler
thrilling wo millan, and condemned the Gov-written in blood-r! jappointed Canada's diplomatic re-
presentative in the United States ernment's foreign policy in terms us to stop-so, of course, we go their own women. some tribes
ment."
rzeli in 1964.
some-
a
defeated Denmark.
Lon.
During
表
It tells about Modern Women. As for
The new Minister to Japan is identical with those tabled by Dis-
have so great a contempt for my childhood the our sex that they throw gid Hong Kong. Friday, July 31, 1936. expected to go to Tokyo
time in the autumn.
The word Abyssinia was sub-word "Dangerous" continually babies into the river at birth, The Victoria Daily Times destituted for Denmark, but
occurred. “It is dangerous for just to be rid of them.
Useless In Warfare Hong Kong Nuisances scribes Hon. Randolph Bruce 35 motion otherwise repeated the little girls to play with fire." one of those Scotsmen to whom condemnation of the British Gov-
So I burnt my fingers because To the Indian, a woman is Canada owes a lot for its develop ernment expressed when Prussia vanity? I remember how I does not hunt or fish. of what lof my curiosity or was it useless in warfare, and as she From time to time loud com- plaints are heard, generally at a
Born In Glasgow
howled, but. at the same time other use is she except as a Residents' Association meeting, He was born in Glasgow in 1863) The Prime Minister whose I felt rather pleased with my-household chattel? about smoke, or dust, or noise, and graduated from Glasgow policy Major Lloyd George thus self for being "so brave."
Poor little Indian women!" in one district or another. Two University
The wish to "dare" grows up My trip made me very thankful' 363 Bachelor of condemns equally with Mr. Bald-
3 years ago the great grievance Science in Engineering As awin's was Palmerston.
with us. It gives us the urge I was not one of them. How of the Kowloon folk living on or
he yearned for young man
Yet Palmerston was held up by to do "seventy" on the road could they find time to be com near the harbour-frontage was more adventurous career than that Mr. Lloyd George, senior, last It nearly proved my undoing 10 panions to their men? Married the Coal Dump. To-day the
offered by the Scottish shipbuild-month as one of the great men of years ago during tests for a at seven years of age; grand- ievance of the Mid-levelsing yards where he worked. So history whom the present Govern-
pilot's licence. I decided to mothers at twenty-one. residents is the Smoke Nai-at the age of 13 he immigrated to ment were anworthy to follow.
give my examiners an exhibi- When we are just starting sance. Various suggestions Canada and took a job at $1 a
tion of "stunt" flying that was life, attending our first parties, were made as to the origin of
For 10 years he did con- ECHO OF THE PAST day.
not in the programme. I lost and wearing our pretty frocks, the smoke, one member stating struction work for the famous
ccatrol of my plane. Was the Indian woman has finished her belief that it was caused by Canadian Pacific Railway.
Events of 1864 certainly Invite frightened? I do not think I hers; she sits, fat and old, be- people using explosive powders
Before the turn of the century comparison with to-day. Pal- had time to be! I was too busy side a smouldering fire on the (we used to "blow out the
Mr. Bruce had become aware of merston was accused of having fighting to save myself as Ifoor of her dirty hut. The fire copper" with a small charge of
the big mineral opportunities in allowed Denmark to count on our spun nearer and nearer to the serves a double purpose: it gunpowder in far-off days in
More by luck than smokes out mosquitoes and he active resistance to Prussia, which ground England) to clear their chim- Canada and for many years
was associated with various min-was not forthcoming.
judgment I regained control cooks the juicy boar or monkey Palmers- neys, rather than employing a
Ling ventures-
ton, in defence, claimed that the Then I felt frightened!
with only a few feet to spare. for her lord's supper. Several sweep to do the work.
generations inhabit one hut. French had proved reluctant to
I "Dared" Myself
Masses of children roll about jact
the floor, in company with dare," Between Disraeli's speech of This impulse "to the following year went back to 1864 and that of Mr. Lloyd George heritage of my race, has called scraggy hens and lean pigs. imagine scores (or hundreds)/Scotland in triumph for a holiday last month there is a remarkable me to many strange places they plait the palm leaves for
Returned In Triumph This explanation of the
In 1926 he was appointed Lieut- presence of soot in the atmos-Governor of British Columbia and phere is both ingenious and in- But it is difficult to genuous.
of Hong Kong householders and received the honorary degree being
of Doctor of Laws from his old! simultaneously seized with a violent desire to "blow university. out" their chimneys with gun-
During his Ave years at Gov- powder, to the wanton destruc-ernment House in Victoria, fr.. tion of the virginal cleanliness Bruce was very popular. He took of the Mid-levels. No, the real an interest in sports, dramatics causa causans must be sought and all community endeavours. elsewhere.
A genial and democratic host, When the Kowloon residents he entertained King Edward VIII Wales) * during rose in their wrath and de- (then Prince of manded the removal of the Coal one of his visits to Canada Dump, drawing lurid pictures Reuter. of black scum floating on surface of their batb-water, the authorities yielded and the Coal Dump went but the soot re- mained. However, the damp was a hideous eyesore and un- doubtedly detracted from the amenities of the neighbour- hood: so the selection of that: particular stick with which to beat the dog was a matter of no great moment.
the EXPLANATIONS
OF TO-DAY'S CARTOON
The Martyr Of Vision
TOSEPH PLATEAU (1801-1883),
ramo Kong, from the lessor of physics and as lordly Peak to the lowest levels, tronomy at the University of suffers from time to time from Gand, Belgium. left his laboratory the soot nuisance; offices and and gazed unblinkingly at the mid- houses alike are invaded by the day sun for the incredible space of fiying particles. often in un-20 seconds. He had looked at the pleasant quantities; soot may source of all vision for a longer frequently be seen lying or time than any mortal bas ever blowing about the streets, to the done, but it cost him his eyesight. ruin (temporarily) of summer But while he was blind, he con- frocks or clean white trousers. tinned to write monumental works On almost any still and wind-on vision. which rank with the less day a pall of smoke may most important ever written. Pro- be seen, especially in the early fessor Plateau also invented the part of the day, hanging over Fantoscope, a contrivance which is the harbour and sometimes, en-considered to have been the pro- tirely blotting out the view of
of the totype the upper part of the Peak machine.
moving picture from Kowloon: But only a small proportion of this comes from the town, where the great majority of the inhabitants use Iwood or charcoal for their
Your Daily Smile !.
Second-Best Man Usher at Wedding: “Are
SO TE
cooking-fires, and a very large lated to the bride or the groom, sir?" proportion of the wealthier
classes warm
their houses in
Stranger:-"No."
"Then what interest have you in winter by means of gas or elec-the ceremony?"
tricity
No, Hong Kong is paying the penalty for being one of the
world's greatest
fcrowded, almost
sea-ports,
"I'm the defeated candidate."
Solved
He: "You're good at conundrums; try this one."
every day, She: "Sure, go ahead."
with steamers of all kinds, from He: "Take away my first letter, giant liner and freighter to coal-take away my second letter, take burning tug or launch Let away all my letters, and I am still anyone watch the volumes of black smoke being man." belched skywards every day by
enormous
the same.
What am I?” Sher. "That's easy. You're a post-
dogens, sometimes scores, of A student declares that he did not steamer-fuels and the real pass a recent examination because cause of Hong Kong's smoke he was unable to give the meaning of and-soot muisance is at once "Sejme," "phrontistery” and “**zodo- apparent. Much, of course, montade." Words failed him
depends upon the direction and
NOʻNET GAME.
force of the wind as to whether Hong Kong or Kowloon is King James L went round its links A Scuts golf club ís' claiming that favoured with a soot shower or in 1803. Gross or met whether the cloud is carried
far enough out to sea to be dis- water-front, though they curse, sipated and lost there Singa- know that it is unavoidable. pore suffers in exactly the same And, until the whole of the way, when 2. slight breeze car-world's shipping, „ great, and lesinthe soot-clouds inshore small, is converted from coal-to from the harbour; but the foil, Hong Kong will continue to Occupiers of offices on the receive its quota of amute,
similarity.
#
•
Mr. Lloyd George said: .
I have never before heard *
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The women build new huts;
Curiosity, coupled with a long- ing for thrills, took me three new roofs; a nice gossipy after- noon's recreation! They are thousand miles up the Amazon.
always working.. British Minister say that Britain I wanted to see what it was was beater Britain and the Em-like. I "dared" myself to ex-- pize beaten, and that we must plore the yellow waters of that On one occasion I thought I abandon an enterprise which we mysterious. and dangerous should really have a hand-to-
hand encounter with Indians.
had taken in hand.
I
We Chose The Indians
cannot understand it of an E-river. pire which faced one of the great- Tet, curiously, many of the We were in the tiny "town" est emergencies any Empire was dangers I expected were not of Iquitos, 2,700 miles up the ever confronted with, while thor there. Few people realise that Amazon. Seven of us set out. oughly unprepared, and for 4a woman may safely penetrate to explore the interior-myself, years fought her way through.
into the heart of the jungles of an Englishman, ́s · Peruvian Disraeli said:
Brazil and Peru, where a man interpreter and four Indian
paddlers. reason to It was high river and the
I remember that there WAY 2 time when England had not a tithe alone might never return.
No, there is no of our resources, but, inspired by a patriotic cause, triumphantly en-preen yourselves; you women! forests were flooded. Hour countered a world in arms.
The reason is far from flatter-after hour we paddled, stiff and Another parallel with 1864 is ing. It is that, to the Indians cramped in our small canoe, that Palmerston, like Mr. Bald-of the Upper Amazon, a woman vainly searching for dry land win, won in the debate. Palmers is a useless creature unless she on which we could pitch our ton's majority, however, was only tends them, and bears male tent for the night.
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of Belgium THE BLIND OPTICIAN! ALTHOUGH HE COULD NOT SEE HE WROTE THE MOST IMPORIANIT
WORK, ON VISION