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and consolations of the bachelor
Kong.
lights,
fall to zero.
and
equipped light" will
Excellent these lights doubt- less are as a means of prevent- ing collisions, but surely it is no All communications intended for part of the business or street publication should be addressed to lighting also to prevent ma the Editor, and be accompanied by riages by ruthlessly dissipating the Writer's Name and Address those gentle illusions whic not necessarily for use
as a guarantee of good faith.
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MARRIAGE
but
ALVARES-BOTELHO -The wed
members of the opposite se have for thousands of been entertaining towards one another
It matters not particular whether the light of ill-omen be green or yellow. They are all
fing. as cruelly
The ladies tricks of make-up are many and wonderful. If they could only make up their minds ding of Miss Socorro Maria as successfully as they make up Botelho and Alfred Victor their faces, there would be no Alvares will take place to-day stopping them. But under these (Feb. 6th, 1937) at 4 pm at green or yellow lights all the Rosary Church, Kowloon. No artful aids of cosmetics appear invitations are issued, but all to be in vain, and even to make the latter case worse than the friends and relatives are
first cordially invited at the wedding and reception at 6, Cameron Road, Kowloon.
A new technique of face- camouflage, therefore, might he the correct answer. Colone
be met with co lour, quashed, controverted, decarbonised.
Hong Kong, Saturday, Feb. 6, 1937. could
UNFLATTERING LIGHTS
counter-blasted a
When she approaches the green- lit or yellow-lit area the woman determined to look her best in all circumstances will whip out her anti-awful apparatus, and, after a few deft touches, pass through the controlled region all smiles and without scathe.
Among the devices we have introduced to ake our streets safer for the motor-menaced de- mocracy are a variety of special type bulbs for street lighting, than which nothing is more des The process would have to be tructive of fond delusions. Any-reversed at the other side, but one who comes within range of the results in enhamed peace of the Post Office corner or wan-j mind would be well worth the ders in the North Point region, trouble. is immediately endowed with 3 A simple strange jaundiced or bilious hue
-
plan would be for
women to demand that the blank-blank lights be taken A man looks bad enough un- away, and to go on screaming der this too candid illumination; until the demand has been a woman, in all her glory and granted. But only mice, it Max Factor, looks too terrible seems, can in these docile days for words.
drive the sex to such desperate measures. Man dressed in a lit- Yet, though these lights have the brief authority still the been in use in certain districts boss.
for many months, we have had
no protests from the sex to A Woman Dared
which beauty is all-important as
of
a means of getting on in the
It may or may not have been world. Women have spinelessly observed that recently for the accepted this electrical affront rst time in more than 1,000 without demur.
years a woman tried to win a Yet every one of them must seat on the Common Council of not to be dread the occasion when her the City of London sweetheart or husband shall see confused with the County - her under one of these lamps, London, which is a far different and must regularly make wide thing. detours so as not to be caught The city is limited- the in their baleful glare.
single square mile around the We are sometimes told, we are Bank of England, a part of Lon
full not sure why, that the Colony is don in which the air is 80
and stability that largely petticoat organised, but
alities have got things like these make one wonder. Women seem to be just into the aldermanic forms of the City Corpora- as tamely under the thumb of
tion all-powerful officialdom as men are...
Clearly, if the traffic experts should have their way and the use of these lights come extended, it would
ock-out blow to little who already in these
es is hard
the business ent firm of which
(700)
of solidit some of
her
Still
ected, to and ponder- She
346 votes
that such an attempt
should be made ence that t is moving may be of the
lives m but it
be end-
with the times
dignity their soup
i