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"MY DUTCH WIFE":
KIEL CANAL FREEDOM.
EMPÒRTANT · JUDGMENT.
Where is my Dutch wife ?" I demand end of the startleik chambermaid who appeared at the door of ang room inj The Permanent Court of Internation! answer to my sthumous a few hours after instion at the Hngur, has decided that the iny arrival in an up-to-date Londyn hótel. German authorities, were not justified in It was clear that she regarded me as preventing the ses, Wimbledom frim enter. sufferer from an unknown type of demon- ing the Kid Call, and that they should tin which hall she knew I had but pay compensation. The action, was bright recently returned after seven long year of the Germans in March, 121, bat by the Allis against Germany on neenukt exile in the Straits, she would have attri
allowing the British xa, il'imbledon, arith anted to the action of a tropie sun ap eng munitions for Poland from a weak intelleet. The question, bever;
France, to pass through the Kiel Canal. theless, was an absolutely sensibile cone,
nit the greate them so let mantiss
that German neutrality 200 prompted by no febrility of mind, and yet culatin I was obliged, intimidated as I was through to either Busia or Poland, then the mixture of compassion and four de
at war with each other, The Allies! picted on her face, to dismiss the young claimed that the Treaty of Versailles stip- lady with a muttered "Tid'upu," which ulated that the Kiel Comml should be open must still further have strengthened her to all vessels n£ all antions at pence with resolve to seek the assistance of the first
According to the Treaty of medical gentleman she could find. Imly disputes regarding 'ransit of hope, however, that that young lady will the canal may cho submittel to the Por- wee what I have written here and think manent Court, Daf oe kindly.
16 is remarkalde how custom will upset the ordered scheme of things. Life in the Straits leaves one with "Tiah apa as a stock expression on cine`s lips, and its
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The judgment says that the Grmat authorities on March 21st, 1921, were wrong in refusing, access to the Kiel Canal to the steamships Fimbledon; that Article as of the Versailles Treaty should have prevented Germany frouk applying to the
menning af never mind typifieil in Kiel Canal the neutrality order w
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Artion: that charters as a result of this the prejulier sustained ning be estimated at a sum of 140.719f. 35e.. with interest at from the date of the judgment.. to the rate of 8 per cent, per annum reckoned paid to the French Gaverunt in Frases within three months from this day: and that each party shall hear its own sts,
one's overy day actions. Only those who have spent part of their lives in that part of the world where the Straits of Malaco flow smoothly down past the town of their nine, into the Java Sea, can understand the wave of desolation al neliness which unged over me as I regarded the bed on which I was to pass a fevered night. longing for ny Dutch mouse What eared for the bright swans-down quilt, the warm blankets and the sweet snelling vez, sheet! For years I had slept without their warmth. I would not miss the thin setting which for suvenquire. Probably, he is now as bad as the years had enclosed me during long hot rest of us, but we are not Don Juanístic nights From the ravages of mosquitues. In our attitude, e gool"wife is kent bong- But my Dutch wife! Never has "antii. P. H.R. in Stagejar Free Prexx, monial separation burn as eruel.
As I have said, only those who have lived in the parts I have spoken of, will appreciate my sense of loss. They will 'support me too in the what may seem || astounding Assertion that within 24 hours. of his arrival in the "inmorni cesspool," Singapore, the formerly upright and moral assistant fresh from home finds himself provided with a companion who will share his nocturnal existence, at all events duri fg his sojourn in the East. Even after ohe has shaken from one's feet the dust i of the Orient, one cannot frem one's self from the lady who has been' thrust upon une, in the days of one's freedom from guile.
I hope you moralists. however, will read further before you commit yourselves' to opperubrium of a custom which is so firmly routed. Absent-mindedly I have deprived you for the moment of the explanation of my seeming lause from sanity in the pre- sence of the chambermaid. Your oppro Jarinu would be wasted, indeed, it is not nerited, in spite of the fast that babes, barely a muthall, are among the adher ents of the practices, to which i have referred.
A Dutch wife is a wife only in name, I cannot conceive of the most persecuted. of husbands treating his spouse with the brutality which is meted out to the barm-- less bolster which, finds a place in every bed worthy the nine to be sight on fram Pemag to Singapore, from "Kota, Raja to Deli How the laily achieved marital rank "And her name is shrouded in tnys- tery. The only clue is the fact that her use undoubtedly had its origin among the
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As soon as the new born infant Dukes its napearance into the world a miniature Dutch wife is provided for it: in less then a year the bike has become un expert in its treatment, throwing its leg across in the abandoncaf childhood, even as do its ellers in a more dignified fashion, or hugging it tightly in the armia too woo the sleep that is often a long time coming in the tropics. The Dutch 'wife is intend- ed, and alors bring relief luring the hot nights of the East. It is a ̈wonderful companion which I can also recoinnend to the English schoolboy for breaking-up pillow fighting occasions, for it inakes an exellent weapon of offence.
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How X-will get on without his " through the long voyage to England next month, particularly as his vessel swelters through the Red Sea I cannot imagine, for, although the East has known him for. barely three years, he is a Plutch wife fanatic. Very probably he will resort to 67, the use of one of his pillows, as one is obliged to do on the night innil which runs through the Yubber country of the Malay, States, and also on the sil
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But one attempt has been made and, so far as I know, has been successfully accomplished by a returning exile to England, and one of the dignified P. and .'s gave refuge to a pair whose' union was certainly not in accord with the can- venances. I saw the beginning of the affair. for I was on the spot when it hap- pened, intending to see a brother journál- ist out of the country. The departure of the steamer was imminent when, my friend, as we werê talking tapether, gave expression to what sounded like a good Anglo-Saxon oath. In a trien be had hounded down the gangway and into a waiting motor-car. The cause of his ex- citement was made apparent on his return when. all miles, he triumphantly, came on board. bearing over his shoulder the "white-clad Dutch wife, without which, as hardened Easterner, he could not face the voyage.
It is not everybody, however, who takes kindly to the Dutch wife. It would be interesting to know how piany mothers, wives and sweet-hearts have raised horri.. fied protesta non learning that everyone in this part of the East' has a Dutch wife. There is a story told of "young assistant who every night for months religionsly disnored of his wife" beneath his bed. But that was due to absolute ignorance. of its use and his disinclination to on-1 (Continued on next column.)
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