THE HONGKONG DAILY.
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COATED TEXTILES
Auto Truck Specist Fabrikoid
Book Finish Fabrikoid.
Uraftaman Fabrikoid
Fabrikuid for Baggage Fabritoid for Home Uses
Fabrikoid for Railway Upholstery
Vestibule Curtains
Faorisoid for Upholstering
Fabrikaid Sheeting
Fairfield Hospital Sheeting
Fairfield Rubber Cloth
Fairfield Rubber Top Materials,
Hat Sweat Material
Marine Special Fabrikoid
Motor Fabrikaid
Ragntits Fabrikoid Auto and
Ricksha Top Material
Rug Anchor
Shoe Fabrikoid
PY-RA LIN
Brushes
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Challenge Cleanable Collars
Colored Sheating
Lombs
Desks Sets
Manicure Seta
Mirrors
Novelty Sheeting
Py-ra-lin Pipe Bits
Py-ra-lin Rods and Tubes
1y-ra-lin Specialtica
Py-ra-lin. Toilet Goods Toilet Sets
Transparent Sheeting
PAINTS
Anto Finish
Auto Paints and Enamels
Barn Paint
Blanc Fize
Colors in Oil -
Concrete Paing Decorative Stains
Dry Colors
Du-Lite for Mills.
Du Pont House Paint Enamels
Ferro-Koep (Metal' Paint)
Floor Faints
Floor Varnishes
Flowkite Enamel
Industrial Painte
Litharge
opene
Painta
Pegamoid Aluminum Paint
Pulp Colors
Railway Paints.
Rabbar Makers White
Shingle Oil
White Lead
Wood Lacquer
Wood Oil
Red Lead and
Sanitary Wall Finish
Shellao
Stain
Sistack Paint
Varnishes
Vitrolac Stain Finish #Vitrolne Varnish
Wagon and Carriage Paint
Wire Screen Paint
Wood Filler
CHEMICALS
Acids
Alume
Barium Chloride
Belt Cement
Benzol. Products
Bronze Powders
Brousing Liquids
Carpolene (Wood Preservative) Carpo (Metal Paint) Colce
Creosote
Dela 01-
Dye Intermediates" Ether DA, KA
Chemicals
Hea Cement
Leather Hazovators
Leather Substitute Solutions "Mantle Dips
Metal Lacquer
Nitrate of Boda Nitre Cake
Parlodion
Patent Leather Solutions Pitch
Pontoklene
Py-ra-lin Enamels
„Fyramplin-Bolutions
Salt Caka
Holventa
Split Leather Solutions
Tar Derivatives
Waterproof Cement
BLASTING ACCESSORIES
Blasting Machines
Blasting Cape
Cap Crimpers
Delay Electric Blasting Capa Electric Blasting Caps Electric Igniters Electric Squifa alvanometers
Leading and Connecting Wire: Rheostats
Safety Fuse
Waterproof Electric Blasting
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Black Sporting Powder Hand Trapa Pistol Smokeless Powder Bifle Smokeless. Porilar Bmokeless Shotgun Powder
(Bulk and Denise)
Representatives for the above Du Pont quality products are wanted in China, Japan, Siberia, Indo-China, Malay States, Siam, India, Philippine Islands, Dutch East Indies, Straits Settlements, Australia and New Zealand. Inquiries should be addressed to
L. I. DU PONT DE AFYOURS EXPORT to.
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CRIPOLY BELTING
Solid Woven
Get the most out of your Machinery by using a belt which does not slip or stretch:
triple-twisted and which grip. A slipping belt in your [ indestructibl
edges
Joabreds
factory is as bad as a leaking petrol tank in your motor-carGripply" has proved it self under test to be the most efficient all round belting. It does not stretch or slip; it resists heat, damp, grease, friction and guide forks-as no other belting, can. Have the best being and get the utmost power from your machines
Let us know your requirement and we will advise you as to the best type of "Gripoly for your needs
LEWIS & TELOR, LTD., Grange Mills, CARDIFF, and “ 51, Gracechurch St., LONDON, E.C.3. England Agents holding stocks.
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ZKEBRUARY 4342#
WOMEN IN HONGKONG.
February Mod 1990.
I wonder if all women in Hongkong get a hopeless frding of exile, or if is peculiar to people who have vivid imagination", or toasuch as, like myself, anve lived the greater part of their lives in an "overica~!
awdominion, in STAT
In countries like Australia, Africa, and Canada, life, though, different from life in England in some respects, still runs open the same fines, and one has the feeling of more or less carrying on the old conditions of living. There are, per haps, moro Imps: and dawgs! financially, there is more domestic work for women to do, they have a greater hand in the apbringing of their families but other WTSO, existence la much the same, with w Juggineral widening up and enlarging of Ribeir scope of interest, and their import- ante in carrying on or inluencing affairs
In the East, overything, from start to nish is different The European, po- pulation is so small that it is looked upon" has the foreign element to be exploited 3D
siderati*947ith surfaga,respect and cons
because of the money and the Idigbtj. powars behind it, Look at it whatever way you like. we are stringers In a strange land, we occupy little stripe j.of territory and play our little games of carrying on British justice and British administration, knowing all the time that
our little strip is just a bit of reclaimed land, salvaged from the sea of the Orient.
We cannot
to be effected deeply by the customa of the overwhelming millions, aven if it is only in a panotionary manner, and it is a constant marvel to me that we are allowed-to-keep the footing we. have gained-that our airs of superiority as that of the dominant race are tole rated It shows how profitable, we must
be
When I first came to Hongkong, and visited Canton and many other cities on va the Delta, my raptures over and intarest in Eastern customs made me wonder why people were so keen on making their homes as European 'as possible," ed at the Wiltin carpots, the English laugh tez sets, often imuation Coalport or orcester, pathetic muslin curtains and chiotse of conventional design, and thought how much more beautiful the solid and comfortable houses would have Jooked, decked out in artistic local pro- duction. I thought the people Philistines, but suddenly the meaning of it all came to my; these exiled women wanted their bouses to remind them that they are Eng- Tish women. They wanted to feel that they had one little bit of home to come back to altor wandering through streets of strange faces; shops run by people of every nationality but their own thing as unhomelike, as un-English, as “a
"every different side of the world could make it.
There are so many little mely taila
we women miss, and all the little
of housekeeping that occupy our minds and give us a feeling of responsibility.
healthy and stimulating We cannot do our own household shopping; there aro no vice provisions shops, offering tempt ing warga and reminding one, of ampiy Jats in the larder; the butcher, the baker, the fruit and vegetable shops, with open windows on the streets. Women have to depend on their No. 1 boy for all infor- mation as to foods in sceson of procur able and 90, by degrees, more and more
is left to the boy, and the housekeeper a duties dwindle down to a half hour with boy and books planning out the meals for the following day, Women have ve lot of fun, a lot of pretty clothes, and a terrific, lot of spoiling, but with it all they are extles and they cannot get away from it Their children are taken away from them at an early age and sent to boarding schools overseas, so that they cannot even see them for years at a stretch, unless they decide to sacrifica their marital relationship and part from their husbands; so gradually they ding themselves into a whirl of social engage ments plan out every day for weeks and months ahead in a lever of restless dis- content determined not to have time to think and to realize that they have been aprooted and transplanted to a foreign soil. No wonder many of them get hard and unsympathetic, and that their laugh. tar is often forced and harsh and that most of them look jaded and old before their time. There are very few woman who look contented and happy in Hong- kong. The East is for the yellow man, the West is for the white, and one wants a lot of compensation to make it worth while to stick it.
WOMEN.
I am not denying that we get the com- pensation, but I do swear wo need it. Wo come to accept, and in time to enjoy, the compensations and conditions, and one must admit that everything is done to make life amusing, especially for the We rather like being spoiled, and a good big dose of it hapeno Cher- vating and drugging effect upon the con- science; we like having everything done for us that ormerly we have done for ourselves, we like having heaps of ser- vants, to look after our children and oar clothes and our husbands clothes. We learn that we always hated mending and darning and that it in a beastly bore to superintend our kitchens and pantry, that the children really are very good with the amd and perfectly happy ander ber unintelligent rule. If their miners be come rude and intolerant and their little mindsimilate the duplicity and general code of morals of their native associates, who sleep with them and live with them night and day, the mother, gradually influenced by the customs of the place, acquiesces and says "After all, amab is very kind and the children have to go to England in a year or two, when everything will be put right, at school,"
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IN Manufactures the most Important Point is improvement,
Dietetica
Celess. Science always indian or Edeso-Mazima. Groundnut or Peandy Of A be used as a rubellute for Olive Oil, "Butter or land, but when Sightly Dirty beijarious to health.
In China, by the Ordinary Mathode of Extraction, Dirt and Dant, are not warded against: Our Method shows a great advance. By the awe of New Machi
á New Methods Scrupulous Cleanliness is Assured.
Our Madhinery during the Process Filters be Oil while our Factory is Free from Trust Our Oit Clear, Sweet and Fragranty and Compares most favourably with Buber Oth wed for Culinary purposes: there is no residue.
Prices are modernią so se to induce new businem. Analyds is always given before Shipment to Foreign Countries. Foreign Correspondence wanted. Capanty per day 90 tons.
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Personally however, I do not believe that any after-training can remove the influence of the first few years of a child's life. The mind gradually opening up to its surroundings assimilatos good or evil, and the, foundation of the character is laid. It is the mother's time, and women. who entrust the entire charge of their children to the care of an amah, are sell- ing their birth right. for mess of pottage Personally I cannot believe that many are content to do this And yet when you see some of the young mothers at 7.30 p.m. only to dine and go out again" cza bare to spare for the big responsibi leave their bomes, at 9 or 10 mm. return to dance four or five times a week, you lity and duty they have undertaken.
(Continued at foot of next column.).
cannot but wonder how much time thes
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