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No. 1 Turkish
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No. 11
do.
USCAL PRICES.
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50's
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18TH,
POSTERITY'S HATS.
Paris bas a certain reputation as a school of the prophets, What Parisians think to-day about frocks and sauce, pad other of the greatest thing, in life, the st of the world will be thinking next month. But hitherto the prophets of Paris have made, if we may say so, no great shoir at the longer range. Of the mure remote future, whether in tricks and frills or cook- ideas, they have not pretended to know much. Thus they have rxhibited the good sense of their nation. Hut there bas (*1 a changs policy. I occurred to Some rash spirit to organise a display of the hats that are to be worn in thể, year of grace 2000. Th milliners were persuaded that it woul be good business, and the result was like nothing
this suffering earth.
cry or
an
the tow b
that to say so does not in the le
-
Trast its
That the prophetic authority, hats of the ladies of 2000 may he differr from anything we can expect is
is probable enough. That they will be unlike any thing woman has worn since Eve came out of Paradise is "possible. Yet we will not believe that any prophet in Paris has son a true vision. For the prophecies are aý- palling The alpshed reporter hints t con fetions
o which will
lovers hf uni. sppal mals. He tally of hats
like church- Shaped bells, champagne bottles, paran; of hats with aerials for wireless; of hats contains ing an apparatus of the toilet ample ens ough for Jezebel. Why
shout be crowned with these creations? the prophetic milliners demand. Our - Is it not cestresses wore more, and worw shown in a thousand eighteenth-century prints that the women who curtseyed to Lizarp. 11. and Louis the Wellbeloveit "wore the head built up
ser enshion, and
progeny
nut vur
on the summit plus of feathers, ships in >ail, coachey and horses, batteries in blown glass!
We as agree that nens |
Paris can yet do is worse than what has done. We think of the vast wimples of the Middle Ages, of the turbans and the Fuse poke bonnets and the porkpie hats of century. To bycid controversy we refrain from one word against today: but, in anything which any Fair head will wear spite of women's awful past, we decline to believe that ap Prophet in er cut of Paris can foretell what her future with e. Who, in the days of the Pompala
uld have foretold the fa-hions, of the Directory? These things are outside the sphere of the human reason-Daily Tele- graph.
RADIO TRANSMISSION OF THOUGHT.
Ether waves have been used in Chicago" by three eminent pychologists in an attempt to transmit thought. Profor Gault, of the North-Western University, Professor Gardner Murphy, of Columbia and Profesor English, of AD- University tioch College, projected by radio their thoughts into minds many aides away, according to the answers received foxlay
One text wil from various persons, Professor Gault to think of a number, and he asked listeners in in sit passively during which tior each
for three bed to write on in
person was
paper
in
the number which came to Various other three-minutes tests followeri the profesor announcing that he had thought of a wild animal, certain hues of
article of faol, &c. fais de red that
the tests generallys whils complete, were satisfactory so the as they went. Thousands of answers cane trem those who had volunteered to asist, anal they will be tabulated." Professor Galt inclines to the view that so much mysteri cus power is associated with the other was that n immerse firk for experi- ment and vast possibilities are now be to all radio enthusiast amours bilder!
Thesis of hypowiem by radio,
more
[
when the practitioner arul the subject cute inte prismui view -200 this advance, it is believed, will & mach here within a few years-is now discuss. Brondensting stations in the United State are now cupied with entertainment that they hitate to enlarge the existing programmes, but for purposes of medici experiment a fund is being raised for the equipment of a special station Dully Triegraph.
WOMEN IN HOUSE OF LORDS.
Viscountess Rhondda, opening a spring' sale in Wimpole street, on February 29th, to provide funds for the political work of the Women's Freedom' League, con tended that some of the beer women of to-day shrink bo created jegresik, and be rendered eligible for the House of Lords. It had become the fashion to sast that the House of Lords had very little power, but as a matter of fact it had great deal of power. The present Glav- eraucot from the women's point of view-was essentially a Government_for women's questions, and there were far things which, if pressed, it ought to give them-equal franchise, widows' pensiona equal guardianship, and rectification of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Bill, which would mean equal opportunities for men and women in the Civil Service.
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A MARRIAGE. COMEDY.
BRIDEGROOM PUZIUED BY HIS MOTHER.
When
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At the subsequent marriage the bride. groom secured jolics protection from his mother, and after the ceremony left the register office by the back door. The
was unsuccessful.
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