THE ROMANCE OF DRESS
CLOTHES
ק.
Men dresses for dinner. He stands by his bath mere man, buses, bones, blood, sinewe, serves the mysterious mixtures.
As he stands there (saga a writor in the Manchester Canedan) cannot be toll-from his Elizabethau ancestors, from his kind in the Middle Ages, from his pirate forefathers, from a godson of Neah
fle commences to dress; ho reaches out his
hand and tahows his vest; at that instant l
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3μ», 1906.
reverse, as in a double-breasted motor coat of¶ to-day and a uniform of the Waterloo period, This button-holo Javing become useless, remained to hold and originale the button-bete of flowers. The two horns on the back of the dry-cont once sorted to hold back the skirt of the full- skirted coat when gentlemen rose abread; when the skirts were cut away and cut-away or tail nonts or swallow-tails, came in the buttons remained.
Man is dressed for dinner.
THE VALUE OF MONEY.
SPELLING REFORM.
COUNTER, PROPOSAL TO PRESIDENT
BASEVELT,
WIDER ALPHABET REQUIRED.
Writing to the Times" on the Spolling Roform air. G. Bernard Shaw states that it is to be regretted that the scheme of the Simpl. find Spelling Board, so energetically and windy forced on our attention by President Ruarel (if he
he will allow me te simplify him to that
received, folly ortent) been
uot only with th
which outburst in ignorance and
aky
further time, and enlarge the alphabat nutil car consonants and rowels are for all practical purposes separately represented, and defined by rhyming with words in daily use. Wo abali then got a word notation which may be strange at first (which does not matter), hat which will be neither ladioreus ser apparently ignorant (which does matter very much indevil!
that
RATS AND PARASITES.
Ono other point is of importance. The na letters must be designed by an artist with a fully in writing and developed sense of beauty in
Thats must be no apostrophes or printing. dincrition signs to spoil-the appearance of the pages of the nowtypa. It is a mistake to suppose The Bible teaches us the Beredness of It is all-very well for Colonial Trasurera | cible proposal any nowadays cotat ou, but parado elymological spoiling; bat it does teach Now by sia vest and pantalonas: little toes and such-like professor of high finster, to twit he saw that he is perpefeating the winery of the average man of the community for want of with a false delicacy which has led gun-the-coneliness of a page on which the ar
understand that is phonetic expert to withhold various technical na apostrophes and no inverted comin intelligence in failing saintly bus of Venier, Suint Pantalome, curry!
criticism. it is bad enough to have men of let back a little furtar into dim apes, ls is--by
said and days allegat changes of dollars, standards
a recent, Partenzeia touch with the Greeks proff currenes, dogs of fires theters passionately defending such a rine, s her. I could carry you far on the sublat trade. It is their business ander absurd, and tranfinat: aberration as our pend
them whymological spelling on the ground that it is ject of Pantaleone, but the journey might stand-use rings. Likewise to make them
plain people who do not, The explanation the spoiling of the
of the Bible and Shakespeare ta tilsl gross enough to make Tyndale and Shakespeare His socks are on his fool, gouttiese kuns is not always adequate. For instance, not so
to have but it is years, sự, there was one of those
Frases but it of thi defrets of the scheme pas ever iu
it is far worse to kings who are mentioned in noseteten entreming bar for the civil service, which like r rocks it links him with the buskip-wearyng comedian, it
ian, it brings back the voice of Stubbe fan of li forest trop has all the flower at the that though the President does not overrate the
af spoling importance
reform, hix. here gay hason, not of cloth thegh uver sa top wont the discussion on the schedule of forms annot be rogarited as date on
increments was going can Connel. This is what actually took place,
in the Legislative merits Word and lesh Billings. I Chrk
ofCouncil: Colorial Treasurer, 98,tori | tried fa express i this myself
of the calendar by Mabour- action to the reform by comparing bis d, who dirided the year into 12 luner months. with wants in the caravan saad arrangements
WOLFINONDO.
tara in
when this sofiofi- carrian biin. Puke him with†nia! temets on for an increase of over by the people who know at 4 polite | sites, the princijaobject of their attorflons being
got: and so em šerdy knit, with repeti souza 40
or, i
Pr
enormans methods
from which Arabísu commercs has ant rSLOVÍÐ-
A Momber: I should like to know wheder | the duties of the Colonial Treasurer have grown more onrus of Malo years.
Colonial Treasure Hos very difflenlied to this day. But I find that most of your duties to perform. He has to-lu-sign che esatemporaries regard Mahomed's arrangement as an excellent one, and accordingly report mo applies today, and Chings.
as enthusiastically in favour of the Presiden Mis
tikl scheme.
f), for that is thought to be, but of jurney worshod, crerell, wike. threat such like,
37
tha cob els at the best, of the first yarn that can the leg, with quirkes and clocks about with quirks and clocks about the aules, and sorme al interliced about the angles with gold or silver threads, asde wonderful to behold. That was written in 1596, and it wally concerns long host, but it
wall. Car-ially new, ht Just Bx wall. Lut into his
The sir What are we now in these shoes of poun for that in the origin of the name: Shakspere's voice says in
Mid statner
Night's Drena,Sat good strings to beurd, new ribbons to your pumps.
this-soled, Low-hepler] shoes,, are
So why we are told that than is a lack of intelligens in understanding currency matters 20
Pipps, and again the wings of all we enta de je to negrinaça and think of th
The
Elizabetinn.
shorten
The rat-killing crusade in to shortly be start- el again tu Kola. E is interesting to nola that 1 Royal Institute of Public Health (England) was to discuss the question of the household cat hitherto regarded in Jatru as a válnable protection against rate. According to the Intest home papers the cat turus oat to bo one of the deadliest enemies of mankind. The ost harbour paritos, and the parasitos con municata diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles, und various other disettes, Therefore, the cat must But if the cat goes the rat comes, and tha rat not only harbours plagas parasites but is saspeted of complicity in the
of Publie
The officials of the Royal Pread of cancer,
Health bave out themselves & dificult task Microbes microbics microbes! Nothing, it seems, would please them so much as the thong ht that all of us wore setting to work to catch Øiss : arly in the season in the hope of reducing their unnibors, and consequently their perils, later one for Hiss also harbour malignaut parasites. -old rhyme-
The
Great Bras have little. Runs upon their backs
to bite om.
And the Bogs have lesser thens, mind un ré
infinitam theocones a
za a elinge of painful omen, Of all the evils, huyever, probably residents in this coun. try will be cualent to chone Has Jóns, so that there is still hope for the domestic cat,
ending some really authoritative comment tady who, when informed that her banking by Mr Hury Sweet, whos proposals of 1981 was overdraws, signed a cheque are hardly to the point to-lay, or by some expert
neloolamster
chor who do tell proud the scheme. The orth, 27. ased to tell the parents shortenings in the scheme. To begin with, it of the pupils who were leaving him: Don't is not randly a simplified spelling; it is let him have more than sixpetice a
awek to spend.
xpelling. which is quite a different matter, as He will learn the value of stoney. There was
short spadling malesco a foreigner or a child Man has arrived at the stage when he mast
more in that that in the question of the quite as much in the dark as to the sound of the o his shirt What an air of antiquity is about Jur
Junior the other day, who asked "whother, word as a long on. And it anxiously disclaims gathering of ghosta! A presosan
now that the scoren was Igal tender, how any pretence to be phonetic. Now it is doubt. shirts fills there
North shirt with aparinont
much the dollar went to work. To ask the
legs wid
when a reform is introduced, to embroidered necks and write. Tader whirls with
to try to wonderful patterns in black silt down the front. question "What is my over seriously, persuade the British public that it is not a m
Robert Fiel's famous question
form at all but appearances must be kept up to round the "eolar, about the cuffs, silk shirts, is to rent ro
What is a pound?"-this pound
turling.
same extent at least; and the fact is that a board hollaudabiris, camleie shirts. Shitscuties to
Chi Is is excusable; considering the which disclaims phoustic spelling puts itself out show the neck of hump shouldered Richard shirts growa higlar to hide the perk of steaddle. Confusion that exists, to explain that originally of Court. Unphonetic spelling is as impossible stead the und of silver was coined intright adopt a sytem of Chinese id-ographs, and learn agment as sentar education. Unless we lagged Henry
Shirts
ilding gigantic and the!
mirags which fact is contained in the Proy surround the socks of Ebzabeth's admiros:
14 ounces one -weights are eunce ; shists showing
by art aparata, arkitary symbol for prury
doublete, with
• Felth tim glasin ME ('avalier wound. That subsequently the actuel weight word in the dictionary we must spell phoneti-
Vandyck **
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* shels of the silver po-be-than-a-pennally. We may corrupt and squfuse aur phonetiz
Shirts
to be stained with Charlee's blood - Viser to wright, does not alior Bus origin. Finally spelling by etymologic faás, spolling dai with
at vám k mnant of gahl of a certain fineness b" and "foron with an ig, just as wo might was deelmen to be qual in sale to a pound
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I was valimit big 33iss Aleut Barsel til Berks of Bites Meechai, ze Presikats The girl! arreve meters" you havn avtoristera) nas wit HURT KLARGIT, loux! Jamaditen every handsmap-ece of white paper, end this with tid kan stijg
cedez la paver pungent, Do it now. ✔ bo amarod.
embroidered, persze, with a text. Prestrelor of England, and a plain, broad, falling
man mun er mkyou to show that we are des band fu go round his trek in the day next is put away in a land box at night. Shifts with fine of silver, or rather to 200 penies. Having conted from upes or monkey; but we shall not rules at the wrists to fall over the end of faxed the issue as to what is spell won ape nor shall we ever sull cat dog. If we did the poly rosait would be that we should Sunnel Pepys wide-sleeved shirts died with thy w will stop and fry another tack.
Everything in this world at mately dependently spell
calona Wo cannot get ribbon to show under Mur boringh's burned-back
spelling. because spelling is its 32511 value
leasing out of consideration as necessarily
ader memories is stamp. Tosay that English and French spei
cuff. Bhirts to add untily nerkcloths siuitust for human pretion on its exchange value fr | away from phyly phonie as moistur:
by Dr. Jobart with ten and snud: shirts with such sentimentaliti "Weymouth for Farmer
frilled fronts wasued at
George. Shirta to show
und azaarutation and the pride of exlingar not, plonsiir is absurd all that i6 mosas
· collars and to holl Bramollis darks, Singel shirts dusse
janel at last 10
shirt, ma'
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England the value of a clean shirt and a spotless collar. Ile it was who tired of the Seppy greasy neck clath of such men as Fox, made point of stillsuing his white neektio and sulting it in fulls of great artistry. To Lia did was ow all the family y of stiff stocks; all the hor- rible patentator stocks or soldiers in India:
COD-
spelling dres
the French and English spell mach worse than the Germons and Itstions, being of archange Qu's files or relatively conceita and inhibitive people was kan uppish delight in making knowledge
Englih far pasishing children. tains thousands of excuses for rebaking for bating them, for imprisoning them after
_for_breaking_their_spirits witli. schori:_hours._ impossible tasks. It is more effective oven than teaching a liort sightel child the look and thou beating it because it cannot tell the time
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in thu vara enkes when the maimet man makes the railgus company wurder; it does he picture Mes
ay ap for the leg that has been cut off. Dollars Turner as the gallows at Tyburn in a lava rutt starched with her yellow
invartion; tha
inya berafu whatever, although they might if drilled
used for weighting fishing nets or hangouts himself is in band and calls of yellow melted down into coat-hettous Five dollar Iar starehed helbed. His collaris
more on and his fix is tind, na luotes have no use-valan: son as curl papers,
Their function
consists in being
•h thankful enough that his rolar may be changeuble that is of us from Big Ben.
On the long run phonetics have their 5 Pairs of to 236 (White or Beru.) of a reasonable height and his tie any beauti.
bail, in ila simplest
If f your tive dollar The whole neckwear, diff and at, in the note would always, buy the rumo
ouvenient revenge. Whon we begin by refosing to spall result of the Bruunsys reform of the stalternly manuers of his day. He it was who taught ity of lead, it would be an ideal currency. us we pronounes we end by having to prononces Whether it will do so zot depends on the as we spoil. The stealogists, to show the quantity of broad available, and on the belief of Fruck origin of the wort oblige, refused to she baker in three respectable gentlemen who spell
it phonetically; and a
ag-neration of sign it on behalf of the Colony, and finally of superior parsons despised those who did not say the British Empire Now governments cannot obles, and wore themselves despised by a still conbred the quantity of bread available but they more select circle who said obleesh. But whe estabilal a record for stability that dares say obloge now, except Joseph Surface on will make their tokens acceptable every the stage: The history of the word envelope tells where. The British sovereign has such a
Ongealope the same story.
and ABD Velope reputation, beau
has shown bave had their day; we spelt it envelope and experience the work that the Mint De var
American reformers want us apell hakey
catalogus catalog, a word in such corruan use that its pro- unciation has been traditionally maintained in spits of the spelling. But what of epilog and English- prolog These two words, which most men never utter or hene uttered in their lives. and the rost use perhaps once in 20 years, are en those rare occasions mispronounced, nine-
times ant of tou, as epiloag prolong. As the working classes become litterate and please themselves by dragging iuto
ordinary conversation more und avre long words which they have never brand
ways of their
of pronounced, they introlare pronouncing them, founded necessarily on the spelling. Programme, a vulgarism which
and the age a Faris proto
pronounced. Parez
DOW
with the amount of gold put into we have to pronounce it enelope. Th
all those friends mavats in startling colour and patterns worn byar grand Fathers
Bat it is through him that we still! wear white ties for erremony, and had be red to rule the fashions none of the cohered storks sovereign. The backing of the Straits dollar er ties would have been worn,
is the imparable British sovurigu, and ther fore it would not really matter (save for the eas with which they could be inuitted) if the Straits dollars were made of tin-plale. Thus we arrive at the conclusion that the Value of Moung depends on the faith of the Native in the British Raj. But the next time I am asked what is inoury I shall think of this storg:-
Jew,
White always was his neokwear until the last pitiful wisks of his life, when, half erway, poor, lonely, he shrank about the back stents of Calais in a black tie
and mourned the fuct of its colour. Now for his breeches, bie brace, his bragos, kis breeks, his bres-Latin, Sparish. Sound avion, Saxon derived
imd garments, Or if you care to call them trousers, „ortroyseis or trowes or tross, or the old French word for trunk hore, fredesses pois He was no inepector of schools, and he was will fit yourself giu inthe mists stif aniquity. The actual history of transers and their develisting the knowledge a eles on the sale of tous. Ile pulled out a halfcrows, flew it
mont would take us tan longs t this let me
cap.
*Well, what is that:'," lieady, sir,'
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THE WAR STORES SCANDAL,
the drone trenases of to-ong is the child (taking lightly frau ons husal to the other, and asked them astus germent, of the tight trousers of 12 that battoned just above tho sakte, and the grandchild of knee-broches. This braid down the side of the trousers in the remaiɛs of a pices of the unsterial folded over to bide the buttons that were nuduse to allow the passage of military high boots. Also the cavalrymon wore trousers over their knon-breeches, aċi button flap wux fined with rod the red flying back shower often, and it was finally adeptet und warn sewn on to military trousers. The black silk was worn first by diors in plain evening dress, and afterwards became a fashion.
The drew waistcoat, a garment that chops and changes year by year, which was first porn cut round and wide at the
I think, by way the opening, father, Jobe Closter Caltrop, has come to ha
one of the garments on which the nion may show his taste or lurk of it. Certainly in the dry waistcoat he pay proclaim his sport Istinels or his sense of the daudical. As Tho tis retreated and the raille ou the shirt be-
х
OWU
tank
in English offends the ear, has been is cy hearing procouneed so as to rhyme to Down That how we stall all have to pronounce it come day. I foresee the time when I shall be forced to pronounce semi-conscious as
preciosity. Already I blash when old habit betrays me into culling clothes clove. I have heard a tenor pronouncing the I in Handel's Where s'er you walk.
Apropos of the British War Stores. Com-Bo my Conscious. Then there is the march of mission, the finding of which we published in detail in our roheons a few days ago, u London paper says that it needs but little acquaintance with historiend writing to tell of that one of the doenments included in this seconmiant's official report to the Commission wil live long in the pagos of popular historians of the twentieth century. 10 is the following a
30th-April, 3004, From Stepany, Potchefstroom, to Stepper, Krugersdorp. Try supply offese to pass your hill
The woral of it is that this went of erin seionge in spellug bas led to auarely and indifference in the interpretation of spelling. London children
deliberately taught to speak hideously by teachers who speak that way themselves. Alrondly the ratend and Czford save acquired more than half this horrible pronunciation, and will soon acquire completely. They
it tulled into a fato semurity by the fact that the Coarsely unsell resonance of the costermonger The outcomes, if any, of this piece of advice is distinguishes in socially from the Oxford
or
to kurr, Will save me waiting. I believe he drinks whiskey and stout.
not known; but it offers an interesting field for graduate in
esme smaller, so dil the waistcoat becurea lower speciation. Did he link them together If hisprchund spits of the identity of their
iu
stands.
But the snarl will no doubt.
cut, ratil, whan the skirt tank its plain. prominent position, the waistent was reduced to a mere strip of cloth thres hutous donn
At last sur man is into bis cout, and here in this ourions survival of odds and ends he The coat retains mest of the shape of the Jean- de-Bry cost, intro
introduced about 1708 or 1799. It' is, er fras, a
a double-breasted coat cut high in the persona trade rival, say bad spread the khow the waistuoat under it; the double report that the officer worked on whisky and waist, c row of bailous still romains. The buttons are sout, whereas in truth sud in fust the said indistinguishable still on
I on the slouves, though they serve no par- pase: they are the remains of the batton first
to free the cuff
from the swordarm, then le hold up the turned-back cuffs to display a prodigious quantity of white, fine linen shirt; then they kept up the broad William and cnif, the brus før Goors the Second cuff. reained on the tight, Barrow cuff of the
not, in what order? Or by alternate drinks did conquer Oxford in time.
cer transacted the national business nader
cannot be affected by "ollzz which
he drink them And what cubic measure of One governing classes dropped half the each went to the passing of a dubious bill continent of North America from sheer Again, there is the painful possibility that the carelessness. Sooner thau drop an h they would transmitter of
of that wire had been misled as te steep Europe in blood. I therefore bit them the particular wasity of the officer in purposely in their valnerable point. question. Suppos that sone svil disposed
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kim down as
wa as an lliterate and knew. Or suppose that the said officer was inconsequent plebeian, no matter what Hoard or man of a severe amplicity of habit, and did not what potentata sanctions his orthography. mix his drinks at
At all, sticking always to or Really phonetic spelling is quite
is quite unmistakable the in
this
way. No lady or
will ever be or geniteman will persuaded to spell
to spell like the late Sir Isaac Pitimes, what was
vory energetic bookseller and a etic bad phonetician; bat anybody might energetic
faroured intoxicant.
In such a case the
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A Bot
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