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[BY MARGARET L WOODS, AUTHOR OF
VILLAGE TRAGEDY," "ESTREK VANHON- RIGH," TUR PRINCESS 'OF HANOVER," ETC.)
UNVEILING HEROI'S COURT,
WONDERS OF BIBLICAL CITY REVEALED.
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The discovery has been made at the Fund's excavations at Aakalon, where a buried Biblical city is being investiga ted. Digging is now going on round the famous cloiser which enclosed the great court built by Herod.
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WEATHER REPORT. October 10th," "at 10.33.-Pressure at. Tokio. decreased considerably
at the increased moderately Change since yesterday are small at other reporting stations.
and Bonins.
At i am this morning the typhoon was about 10 miles to the East of Tolic, moving N.NE
Moderate monsoon may be expected along the coast of Chins and over the China Sea Hongkong rainfall for the 24 heare ending at 10 am, to-day, 0.00 inch. Total since January 1st, 86.55 inches, against an average of 75.89 inches.
The forecast for the 24 hours ending at -1000 to-day la se followe :-- DISTRICT.
Further details of the discovery of the court of Herod the Great, already briefly reported from Jerusalem to the Palestine Exploration Fund, are eagerly awaited.
Professor Garstang, director of the When Oscar Wilde said, "There is no British School of Archaeology at Jeru- thing so natural an affectation," he problem, is preparing a report. sply only intended to manufacture a witticism according to his usual formula by turning a commonplace inside out. But accidentally or not, he produced profoundly true saying. One bundeed
A description of the wonderful work. and thirty years ago that clever woman,
manship of this court is given by Joseongkong to Gap Bock Lady Holland, as hard and non-moralphus it is only one of many splendid the heroine of the newest novel and die buildings which the ambitious Herod setFormosa Channel tidetly more amusing, went into violetup. hysterics on first seeing a glacier. Epit- ant that fit of hysterics. Every male heart in the vicinity immediately slipped its moorings and was swept into the vortex of her fascinations. Hysterics gradually became a bore, and went out by way of the servants hall: Nevertheless the Woman of Sensibility, with her battery of swoons, tears, and timidity, held the feld an unconscionably long while. There was once upon a time a Girl of the Period. Oblivion has swallowed her One might any there has always been a Time, the old rogue, is New Woman..
Chormous
some Besides the court, states have been unearthed. These in- clude figures of Apollo, Venus, and Victory, and a giant statue of Herod him.
self.
FORECAST. IN.E. winda, (moderate; fine. winds, JNE.
strong.
South court of China between (The same se
No. 1. Hongkong and Lamooks Hongkong and Fatman 1 South court of China betwees (The same
Writing in the date Review on the future of excavations in the Holy Landi, Mr. W. J. Phythian-Adams says the most interesting recent event has been the CHINA appointment of an Achaeological Advi can, French, Italian, Jewish, and Moslem sory Board, representing British, Ameri-
interests.
When the conditions which at pre-
we may hope to see the veil withdrawn sent rule us relax their hold," he says, from that mysterious past which has evET tantalised and fascinated the world."
PRINCE HENRY AND MANLY
but the same pattern never comes twice. always shaking the same kaleidoscope, More and more rapidly be shakes it so that the oldest among us may, yet see the passing of the young person who paints her face like a clown, is rude to her elders, is frequent in oath not strange but common, abjures a snowy neck for one which looks as though re- severe mustard cently treated with a plaster, and exposes her back and legs, as well as the front and arms, to which we are habituated. But behind this epheme ral manifestation there is a woman who is New in the measure that her environment and opportunities are new. She is not She is war invention, like a Tank. more like the blossom at a very slow-Prince. flowering plant of which the bud was
SPORTS.
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No. 1.
COAST-METEOROLÒGICAL
REGISTER.
Ocrozma 10TH, 1931,
Vladivostock 1 § 4. ---- Nemuro Hakodate
The freedog of the City of London was Tokio recently conferred on Prince Henry. In Rochi the course of his speech, he proclaimed his faith in the virtues of British sports.
waki
Oshima
goshima... The great war found me still too young shi to offer my services in the defence of our Naha country and all we hold dear," said the Ishigakijima The victory of the Allies did Bonin Inland
·Waibniwei not allow the 1900 Class to reach the age
about to open gradually when the hot of military service until after the Arm STATE
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tice, but to those who were too young to atmosphere of war burst it open with a pop. Hence the excitement; her's espe- fight and to the rising generation belong the sacred trust of honouring or per- sacrifice of cially. What three generations of women before her struggled for was Liberty-petuating the memory of the
of peril. Equally it is their duty also Amoy that is, the removal of artificial restricthose who saved our country in her hour bharp Peak... tions. It was the hard pioneer work of
to uphold under changed conditions the these women, educationalists, doctors,
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Durses, writers, and those wonderful or glories of the British race. Allusion has chu... and pastimes. All here, I think, will inan... ganisers, the Suffragists, that enabled the been made to my love of British sports new generation of women to play so im-
ngree that work without play cannot keep Koshan a nation young and bealthy. Eton. Sand- portant a part in the war,
hars, Cambridge, and the Army have taught me the value of games in which all, whatever their skill, are equal because they play for the good of their own side, then instinctively developing those quali ties which help to make a nation great. I cannot imagine a better means of pro- Phulien moting true comradeship than by en couraging all chases to join together in Cape James clean and manly sports."
Liberty is now theirs. But, frankly, it is not a thing in itself Liberty only means a clean slate. It is what you are going "to write upon it that matters. That is the New Woman's responsibility, In future women cannot put the blame for any special failings of their sex on. the artificial restraints imposed upon them. In the past they have justly doue ao. In looking backward one undoubted ly notes is the class that has been for something like half a century most affect-
But 1 think I do not err in saying ed by modern feminine education and ideals, that the petty vices of jealousy, that the great majority of the young quarrelsomeness over trifles, absorbing ladies whose views and subjects of con- personal and ser vanity, and the rest,versation are calculated--perhaps care have markedly decreased. The railing fully-to make our flesh creep in their accusations of incapacity for friendship actual conduct obey the temperament they and untruthfulness brought against wo have inherited and the traditiions of men were always inise. English women. modesty and self-respect in which they In short, once in real like English men, have, generally speak-have been reared
instinctive tendency towards contact with the facts of life, the New ing, an truthfulness; which is, perhaps, the ut Girl feels and behaves more like her most one can say of any branch of our mother than she would willingly admit. human family, which is all exposed to the There exist certain sets of which this temptation of possessing speech and in- could not truly be said, and lower in .vention. Loyalty to her own sex was the social scale we find in our towns a formerly not a popular virtce in a class of girl once only" vulgar, who be woman. To exhibit a trace of it was came in war-time also immodest, and has to run the risk of being, like poor Mary continued so." Behind all these there is Wolstonecraft, described as a "hyenn in a great mass of young women and girls petticonts An unattractive creature, a who remains unaffected by revolutionary hyann, and in petticnats so odd. It is social views, while they have benefited in not to be wondered at if such loyalty was physical strength, in general efficiency rare. It is still by no means universal, and intelligence, by modern conditions but in the years, of struggle of emancipa if these are not the New, they are the tion it sprang up, grew and Bourished. Improved Woman. And while we are sometimes to the point of fanaticism. lamenting the Failure of the Churches," Sine the Suffrage fight was over, the we overhear a Bolshevik emissary grol- sense of solidarity it promoted has showning that ear nation is eaten through itself in efforts to educate politically the and through with Christianity. Broadly woman voter. It is a pity that men speaking. English women are still Christ- Yet he dare not disregard a whatever have never thought of similarly educat-lians. ing the masses of ignorant male voters threat to cirilisation, from
Revolutions are said they have from time to time burled into quarter it comes the seething pot of politics.
19 SHE AN ANARCHIST!
to be brought about by mall and clever minorities. There is no lack of clever- ess in the New Woman Writer, at any But after all, these solid gains and rate. If the New Woman has really gone changes, though they have gone to make over to the ade of Human-herdism, up the New Woman, are a what is state of things in which her sex must suite new, and, therefore, incalculable supremely sufer-because it is physically in her. It is a dizzy moment for her; handicapped, boenuse out of the maternal even more than for the rest of the world instinct has developed a more general for the moment which has given her com instincet of self-sacrifice, which is also plete freedom coincides rather fortuitous handicap, and because animal appetite ly with a period of general revolutionary has always been its cruellest enemy--the and anarchie movement, which threatens New Wong will have to find out her
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It is useless to clamour for the return In the shelter of European civilisation she has developed in a personal freedom, of the past. It is only in the East that dignity, and, influence unknown to her in the sun can be made to stand still. In any other and impossible for her to main this great flood-time the plank to which tain in a state of anarchy, which spells most of us eling is a belief in the sense barbarism. Is the New Woman" throw of justice, the collective wisdom, the ing her weight on the side of Anarchy moderation which has hitherto distin- in the relations of sex and in the ques guished our race. Hesponsibility for the tion of the home? One would say so if general well-being lici to-day as much one took the witness of a large and with women as with men, and one maz important class of modern novels, "cape hear some former feros opposents of cially those written by women. The feminism now appealing to feminine heroines practise free love, and if some do practical senso and religious principle not preach it that is, only because they to steady the pace of the whirling world. Tace assume that everyone who counts is Perhaps the first thing that the New slready converted. This type of heroine Women can servicenbly do at this junc- Wed 12
ture is to leave off thinking and talking begins with a Past, runs through a Present, and ends with a Future; which so much about herself qui Woman. It is Thur. 13 obviously will become a Past in its good not sex which is the most important fact time, only oven a free novel cannot go about her, even in her relation to Man. Fri. 14 m on for ever. The opinions expressed in Man and woman share that with the
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two solitarily on may be heard echoed by girls of the together, they world, well-brought-up, intelligent girls throne of the earth, solitarily in the Sun. 16.8 44 of the kind who like to be" in the mare whole tremendous universe, is the simple 17m 92118 am
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