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CHUBB-At Foochow yesterday, to Irene (nee Rogers), wife of Thomas Chubb, of the Standard- Vacuum Oil Company,
Edwina, daughter, Veronica both doing well: (Shanghai pa- pers please copy).
Hong Kong, Tuesday, February 1, 1938
every girl of honourable family was to give no encouragement to a loyer in orders; and "that if any young lady forgot this pre- cept she was almost as much dis- graced as by an illicit amour.
Macaulay on the seventeenth- century parson is somewhat sus pect, but there is no questioning the authority of George Herbert, who married a lady of rank and "county" standing. But when he became rector of Bemerton he admonished her in these terms:
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You are now a minister's wife, and must now so far for- get your father's house as not to claim a precedence of any of your parishioners; for you are to know that a priest's wife can challenge no precedence or place but that which she pur- chases by her obliging bumil- ity; and I am sure places purchased do best become them. And let me tell you that I-am so good a herald as to as- sure you that this is truth. Mrs. Herbert took the warning in good part and was notable among clerical wives. Archbishop lary of a member of Parliament Harcourt of York may be said to from £400 to £600 a year there have demonstrated a somewhat was also raised the question of a similar idea when he drove possible pensions scheme for the abroad in his coach and four (or benefit of ex-M.P.s who, through even six) while Mrs. Harcourt advancing years of illness (and, had to content herself with of course, the absence of an ade-carriage and pair behind. quate income from other sour-
PENSIONS FOR EX-M.P.S
When in June of last year it was decided to increase the sa-
ces), had fallen upon days which
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were not only evil but an ill re- Imported Charm ward in the eyes of the world for An Englishman who happened one who had served his country to be in New York recently says in Parliament, The Prime Minthat on one particular morning ister himself had such a scheme his attention was frequently call- in mind, and a Departmental ed to an article which appeared in Committee was appointed to the New York "Herald Tribune” examine the possibilities. That and which his American acquain- Committee has just reported and tances' evidently thought would it is hard to think that its sug-be of great interest to him. This gestions will not be acted on. was a statement that the scheme
The proposed scheme will cost for an Anglo-American trade the taxpayer nothing. The basic agreement contains a clause un- fund is to be created by deduct-der which Great Britain will ing £1 a month, or £12 a year, agree to take from the United from the salaries of all serving States some 40,000,000. false M.P.s, and it is reckoned that the teeth a year, the inference being sum so derived will be enough to that Uncle Sam not only intends cover the award of eighteen pen-to send Britain more food but sions to ex-members or their wi- will also the teeth to eat it with. dows in the course of a Parlia- As a matter of faet 40,000,000 ment, which is to say something is about the figure of Britain's under five years.
normal importation; last year There are sure safeguards England received from the Unit- against extravagant living on the ed States 41,797,000 teeth, their part of the selected beneficiaries. value being returned as $1.201,- The ex-member's income from all 000. There is evidently some sources is not to be brought up truth in the "Herald Tribune's" to more than £150 a year; his comment that "4,000,000 Britons widow (the female of the species a twelfth of the British Isles, lives more plainly than the male) population owe their flashing is not to receive more than half smiles to the United States. that amount. For this purpose One small g point about. this existing members must not draw type of international trade which on the taxpayers money, nor are may amuse some people is the they asked to be unduly reckless fact that the United States tariff with their own. But the scheme, schedule has false teeth classified as will be appreciated by anyone under the heading “Scientific In- who reads the details of it, means struments.”
á genuïne effort to relieve a ne-
cessity which, though rare, is Interference none the less real and pressing when it arrives. It deserves to
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Since the sinking of the Panay,
go through without delay or dis-there have been no incidents on pute.
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the Yangtze that can compare in gravity with those recorded at that time; but there is one little story which has just come to The signatories to the recent hand which is a painful revela- memorial to the Archbishops on tion of the mentality of war. The clerical celibacy mentioned that Ladybird, three miles above Nan- "Young women are particularly king, saw a Japanese motor-boat attracted to the social position collide with a sampan, the coolie hitherto attained by the wife of occupants of which were thrown a clergyman” That would have into the water. While they were made curious reading at various swimming about a second motor- times in the past. There is, for Boat fired at them. The Lady- instance, Macaulay's “Oxonian," bird lowered a boat and rescued who, writing a few months after the coolies, one of them wounded, the death of Charles II, complain- For this her captain received a ed bitterly not only that the protest from the Japanese, who country apothecary looked down said, "If interference of this sort with disdain on the country cler is not stopped the Japanese will gy, but that one of the lessons not be responsible for the conse- most earnestly inculcated on quences.”—