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THE PRESENT ARRANGEMENTS FOR PLAY
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Local gating interests will be centred at Fanling during the Chinese New Year' holidays in view of the triangular. Inter- port matches which will take place there, in which the competing ports will be Hongkong, Shanghai and Manila,
The Manila team'arrive today on the as President Fierce and the Shanghai team are coming on the ss. President MeKinley.
In view of the fact that the Manila "team will have two days in which to practice and become accustomed to the course, Manila will be the first team to play against Hongkong.
Both the Manila and Shanghai teams leave on Friday next, the Manila team ailing on the es. President Taft, which arrives at Manila on February 21st and the Shanghai team leaving on the RM.S. Huspress of Australia,
The respective teams will be ne under: Royal Hongkong Golf Club:-A. H. Ferguson (captain). J. W. Shewan, R. M.. Smith, W. Douglas, H. U. Ireland and L. R. Andreyes.
Shanghai Golf Club-M. W. Budd, J. B. Ferrier, A. R. Elinko, L. Parbury, H. R. Malcolm and J. F. Pilcher. Mr. R. G. MacDonald, Fresident of the Golf Club, will act as captain,.
Manila Golf Club Lieut. E. 7. Bege. dict. B. F. Few, J. P. H. Mason, Comdr. H. C. Train, E. J. Nel! and G. M. Ivory: Mr. Mason has been elected as Captain of the Manila team.
LADIES GOLF.
On Sunday at Fanling the faal of the Lading Championship will be played. starting at 11.29 .m.
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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY,
EXTRATERRITORIALITY.
CHINESE AND THE FRANCHISE IN FOREIGN- SETTLEMENTS.
Dr. Alfred Exe, apoaking in Baltimore on December 19th, said:
"I am sure that ad American Audience will appreciate the essential injustice of this régime of taxation without representation which, so far as the Chinese are concerned, has reigned, and still reigns supreme in the International Settlement Shanghai."
PARIS-FASHION NOTES. WRAPS AND FURS,
(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, IBABES, RAMBAT-]
FEBRUART IITÄ, "1926
SHINGLING COSTS £21,000,000 A YEAR
AMOUNT PAID BY 7,000,000 WOMEN.
FASHION GROWING, Women of England spend at least 221,000,000 a year more with their hair dressers than they did before shingling became the fashion.
WHO FOUNDED LONDON?. A PROFESSOR'S THEORY.
Interesting evidence in support of his theory that London was founded by Cymbeline, who reigned A.D. 4—10, was given by Professor F. G. Parsons. anatomy at London University, and vice-
Professor Parsons, who is professor of president of the Anthropological Society. first made public his theory in a lecture at St. Thomas's Hospital
About 30 per cent of the entire po polation of women in the country have from coins about Cymbeline, or Canobe- In recent years much has been learnt shingled hair," said a fashionable hair-linus, who reigned over an area from scntative. dresser to a London newspaper repre- Kent to Gloucester, was the grandson" of Cadwallon, and was on friendly terms with Augustus and Tiberius
There
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"According Professor Haverfeld." said Professor Parsons to the Daily Chronicle, all the evidence points to
that it was founded in Cymbeline's half of the first century, and this means the foundation of London in the early
reign."
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But the question arises why did he Cymbeline, round whom Shakespeare wrote his play, appreciated the import- anca, of peaceful trade, and mintage in his reign indicateurmus wanted to
get merchants country.
Thus he wanted- A port for foreign vessels close to St. Albans, his capital;
into the
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"PARIS, January 4th, 1926" Winter has set in in earnest this last month, so that it is exceptional to wake up and not find Frost centremetres deep coating over the inside of your window pancs, and a world wrapped in a snow mantle of white. With winter hare Mr. A. H. Watts, of Tientsin, writing come winter wraps, and with these, the to the PT. Times, with reference to hundred and one furs in which Parisi this. paragraph anys:- As a residentennes love to wrap themselves these days, middle and upper classes, where as many This figure is far higher among the and ratepayer of the ex-German Con- I write "the hundred and one furs," as eight in every ten women have shorn
their hair." cession (now under the control of for ia verity there are so many different the Special Bureau for Administrative types of pelts being worn that they far women over the the age of sixteen years are approximately 14,000,000 Affairs, Tientsin) I claim that an outnumber the "animals of the furry in England and Wales, so that 7,000,000 identical injustice' is being perpetrat kingdom, and one is left wondering, so
are shingled. Every one of them has ed upon Europeans in this area by the perfect are
the imitations, to what to go to the hairdresser once a fortnight select this particular site? animal belonged the original pelt of twice weekly.
for a trim. Many women, however, go Chinese Government."
most of them. Of course, the chinchilla rabbit is the most perfect imitation that The average cost of a trim is 25. 8d., Enayet been concocted by that modern although some Brus charge a tha wizard, the Parisian furrier. In fact,first time a bead is shingled and £1 Ja it so resembles the real pelt in every for every subsequent trimming.
On the way that it is practically impossible to other hand, large numbers of barbers tell the difference, except perhaps by the have started shingling as a side-line, for butts in one's cheque book. This is be- which they charge as little as 15.. ing used a great deal as a trimming to velvet conts. I have seen some of the In addition to the money, hairdressers loveliest models fashioned of bleu du roi take for shinghing, the new fashion bas velvet and trimmed with collar, cuffs and hens band of this rabbit chinchilla.created a greater demand for permanent On a deep rich burgundy coloured velvet, waving and curling. it looks equally smart. This is
It a fur
is estimated that the extra which is particularly becoming to fair £1,000,000 women now spend in having women. Skunk and civet cat are furs their hair attended to, is divided be that are being used a great deal as a tweed 23,000 shops, thus giving the pro-and Cornhill, and marshes and fens made trimming to cloth and duvetyn coats.prietors an average additional turnover Dark colours are chosen for preference of pearly £1.000 every year. ... Also favourites in the fashion world just This amount is increasing every year, now are red fox, carncul, broadtail seal, as every day more women follow the role and zorinos. This last fur is some fashion and have their hair cut off. what in the nature of a novelty. comes to us by way of South America, this modern Tom Tiddler's ground being It There is little possibility, however, of and is the pelt of a small animal same-shared by any unskilled speculator who thing like the skunk, but lighter. in wishes to start an establishment of his colour, as it has a golden brown shade own in any attractive district. running through it. In most cases, this is lightened to a yellowish-brown shade, and the fur in this state is then used to trim beige or brown tweed coats, and the smartest of effects is obtained
NEW FASHION CREATED
DEARTH OF GOOD AHINGLERS. The demand for skilled hairdressers is far greater than the supply, and there is
dearth of good men and woman shing- lers on the market. This dearth of as- sistants is likely to continue, because, according to hairdressers, it takes a man three years to learn to cut hair.
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es £20 a week in an exclusive hair- A clever shingler may earn as much dresser's shop in London, but the aver age wage in the provinces and suburbs, it about £5 a week.
Saturday and Sunday have been allo- cated for the matches between Hongkong and Manila, which will leave four days free for the matches between Hongkong nað Slüoghaj and Shanghai zud Manila. Our Tientsin contemporary comments: At present no definite arrangementsThe point is well taken, but there have been made as to the order in which these matchos will be played or the exact is much more to it, than that. One of days on which they will take place. These the questions most often asked of the fixtures will probably not be definitely writer, while he was in America was fixed until the arrival of the visiting teams, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday how a state of affairs under which the and Thursday have been set aside for Chinese taxpayer in the Shanghai Settle- them.
"It has also not been decided yet whement was debarred from the right to ther there will be singles played in all vote, could be defended. We can reply matches, in addition to rounds of four most effectively, by asking and answering balls. This will be left until it is seen, another question." That is, how it comes what days are arranged for play between about that 810,979 Chinese (in addition the teams and the tiîne available, etc. to 9,947 foreigners) are residing in a This will be the afth interport golf Foreign Settlement with a total area of match between Hongkong and Manila 5,585 acres, or 8 square miles, when this and out of the matches played each Club area is surrounded by Chinese territory, has won two. Manila has only played and is close to an old Chinese city! one match with Shanghai, sending a team When, following the so-called Opium there in 1922, which, was benten by the War foreigners asserted their right to Northern port.
live and trade in five Chinese ports, the The Interport Golf dinner is to be held last thing the Chinese Authorities wish next Thursday evening at the Roofed was to have them establish themselves Garden of the Hongkong Hotal.
in their cities. At Shanghai an area below the city, on what was then a mud-fat, was set aside as a British Settlement, and this "was incorporated with what was known as the American Settlement, in 1863. The International Settlement, as it then became, was fur- ther extended in 1800. The original Fox is being used more than ever, not British Settlement WLS reserved for only the priceless silver fox that is slung foreign residents, Chinese first being so negligently round the shoulders of the admitted, on grounds of humanity, dur- fortunate possessor, but the white, blue, ing the Taiping rebellion. On these re, and ordinary grey vuristics. Sonic eight square miles of mud-fint, foreign of the smartest coats this winter have enterprise has developed one of the been made of some extra heavy type of largest and most prosperous cities in cloth, and trimmed with collar and cuffs the world. We may foreign enterprise red fox. For evening wear, one sees advisedly, for "though the Chinese mere of blue and white fox as both these population is now over eight hundred furs lock wonderful when allied to a thousand, having almost doubled since coat or a wrap of shining velvet. In the Revolution of 1911, it must be the new revue at the Casino de Paris, attributed to the fact that the Settle the Dolly sisters cause one of the sensa
CRICKET AND WIVES. ment has throughout its brief history tions of the evening from a fashion AN AUSTRALIAN DECISION. been under foreign municipal control. point of view, by appearing in velvet while the old Native City has remained trimmed with deep bands of white fux, friends, best masters, Lest servants. To that it has progressed and prospered evening coats in a pale shade of salmon, Umarried men, said Bacon, are beat virtually unchanged. The introduction round the her cuffs and collar. Hare this Australia would add they are also of western methods of sanitation, road and goat are dyed all shades of beige The finalists will not, however, be construction, building, policing, light and added as a trimming to some of the beat cricketers. In the present infirmity known until to-morrow, as the semi-finals ing, etc., have attracted Chinese into simpler types of day coats, but for stun of human nature the Commonwealth ark being played off to-day and to-
the foreign area, where, moreover, they ning effects, there is nothing equal the cannot find enough bachelors to make morrow between Mrs. Fitzroy Williams have learned by experience, that they fox. There is not much of the grey up an eleven. It has therefore been de and Mrs. Redmond and Mrs. Rowleycah enjoy greater security for their variety about, although I saw a wondercided to impose upon the members of the and Mrs. Piercy.
persona and their property than in the fully smart cont at Jenny's last week, ches & judicial separation for the period team chosen for the English Test Mat native City or any of the suburbs..
In 1910, when the last census before trimmed with fox skins laid on vertical Australian Board of Control which each of the tour. The agreement with the the revolution was taken, the Chinese ly round the hein and scalloped out population of the International Settle- round the top at depths varying from
player signs includes a proviso that no How are we to account for this enormous meat was 488,005; to-day it is $10,279 three quarters to half a yard. In the
wife or child of his shall be in England real furs, there are several novelties to
or any other country outside Australia increase? Is it not to be attributed to be noted. One of the most amusing is
at the time when the team are touring, the fact that, as a British Consul put chipmunk, or, as the French call it on The Daily Telegraph commenting on it recently in a report on labour con- account of the tiny black stripes this decision says: ditions, the real and crying grievance which suggest miniature tiger skina, We resist the temptation to speculate of the Chinese.
is the utter in-
tigrette.
Coats and short jackets are what would happen if some revolting security of his life? Under whatever being made of these pelts, and worn with wife should defy the control of husband other disabilities be may suffer by reason much effect, mostly by the younger set. and Board, and in spite of his digna- of residence in a foreign Settlement, the Another "Tür, in the inexpensive clasa,ture, sally forth from the Australian Chinese knows that his property is safe is gazelle, and another that resembles shore. The English law, in its old as- from confiscation, his business is immane it very closely on account of the pretty sumption that a wife can only act in from the exactions of local militarista, grey spots with which it is speckled, is obedience to her husband's will, has late- and his person is as secure from moles- Aissliky. Mole is soft and becoming, but ly been discovered to be what Mr. Bum- tation as in any other big city in these terribly soft and delicate that it ble aid it was. But perhaps the Aus world. That he has not 4 vote in rarely keeps its lustre or lasts longer than tralian wife is better disciplined. The municipal affairs may, at first sight, a couple of seasons. Seal is being reason for this compulsory celibacy is appear to be an injustice. But is this imitated in so many cheap furs, auch unofficially stated to be anxiety for con- really the case? Has any Chinese who as rabbit and musquash, that furriers centration on the game, the whole game, reside in the International Settlementing collars of ermine and squirrel to coats it has been found that the company of comes from any other city in China to are now resorting to the strategy of add- and nothing but the game. In the past | had a municipal vote, unless he has of teal scal" in order to differentiate.wives persuaded players to go into lived in one of the Foreign Concessions Panther is to be seen made up into coats, society and hear the chimes at midnight. in which a limited franchise has been also that delightful soft brown far, Even though a husband might be deaf nutria. But, the greatest novelty from extended to Chinese?
to the siren voices of hostesses, the in- a fur point of view in the reason exorable duty of living with his wife Fashions is the tendency to work up furrestrained him from living with the into all sorts of patterns and actually team. Hence the fitness of individuals to trim it with embroidery and incrusta and the esprit de corps of the eleven tions. I noticed this tendency in the were not what they might have been... A fur models exhibited at the Exposition cynic might add that the possibilities of des Arts Décoratifs, numbers of the ex-friction in the team are multiplied if hibits in the fur section showing ermine there are wives in the background-or the following:-W. D. Edmonds (capt.), Introduce Me," starring that well mixed with seal. Furriers have develop the foreground. It is not for us to F. H. Harper, T. Carr, E. Booker, Cown actor that appeared in Theed this idea to a great extent since then, criticise, the rules of training which Sara, F. Haynes, E. W. Bastin, Bing at the Queen's Theatre to-day the and wraps to be seen decorated with in- Obviously, some sort of self-denying or Hottentot " and Going Up," is replac-with the result that there are now coats Australia thinks best for her eleven. Spillett, J.
C. Fletcher, W. Ursell, D. screen drama of amouldering love £res, crustations in different tones, and em- Westlake. Reserves: R. A. Smith and A Lost Lady," which had a successful broidered in varieties of materials, silks wants to be at the top of bis form in a dinance must be obeyed by gay man who H. Rosc.
run on Tuesday and yesterday.
"Introduce Me" is a film in which the model at Vanck's, that master furrier of
and metallic threads. I saw an evening Test Match Wondrous tales are told fun waxes fast and furious and the climax Paris, which had been fashioned from of some of the past masters of cricket. of the prowess in eating and "drinking is reached in furec-comedy situations; The following have been selected to whilst every opportunity for laughter has pure white of the one contrasted delight likely to keep his eye in on a little cat
winter and summer ermine, so that the
Your modern first-class player is more. represent the Indians in an all-day match been used to advantage throughout. fully with the faint ivery of the other meal. But there will be ne enthusiasm with the Craigengower. Cricket Club on
Plays may come, and plays may go, but Another ermine evening cape I noticed Monday, February 15th, on the lattis aid in the theatre that "Charley's was trimmed with designs picked out in
in England to imitate the Australian ter's ground, commencing at 10:30 am. Aunt," styled as enough to wake a cut narrow bands of sealskin.
example. To insist upon the rigour of 17. M. Omar (Captain), SA Ismail, laugh," will go on for ever. Now that jacket of nutria was trimmed with Match players that they should be ft A short the game is excellent, require of Test J. 8. Abdul-Curreem, A. H. Madar, it has been translated into the universal crustations of fur a deeper shade of to go all out till the last ball of the M. el Arculli, H. D. Rumjahn, O. Ismail, language of the screen, the old lady" brown. A mole cont was decorated with last over is reason and right. But Eng S. EL Ismail, M. P. Madar. S. A. R. may take on a new lease of life. Ismail, and Y. Abdul-Wahab, Seover: On Sunday the Queen's Theatre should other with cubist designs worked in ricket, even in a Test Match, is only a motifs picked out in sealskin, and antish people will be inclined to add that J. S. Arkber. Umpire A. O. Madar.
be packed to see Syd Chaplin in Char tiny patterninge of ermine. On many game, and there are dangers in taking ley's Aunt." H.K.C.C. 25D KI, K.C.C..
of the furs of a short-haired type games too seriously patterna are worked out in satin and lamé outlined with a gold or silver
Lady Clementi is visiting Fanling on February 27th in order to present Cham nionship and other prizes won in con-
ection with the Ladies' Golf Section.
The play for the Subscribers' Cup on Fanling New Course on Tuceday fast resulted in a tie between Mrs. D. J. Lewis and Mrs. Rowley.
HORNELL. CUP.
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There will be a competition against bogey on the New Course, Fanling, for cup kindly presented by Mr. W. W Hornell on February 10th, 20th, 21st and
2nd.
Further particulars can be seen at the notice boards at Fanling and Deep Water Bay.
CRICKET.
0.8.C.C. 1st II. . KOWLOON. The following will represent the C.S.C.C. first eleven in this match to the Kowloon ground at 2.16 p.m., on Saturday-FJ. de Rome (captain), B. Evans E. C. Fincher, E, W Hamilton, A. E. Wood, H. E. Strange, H. Wallington, F. E. Lawrence, "B. C. K. Hawkins. B. S. Paterson. F. Baker. Reserves:-W. Brudley and B.. Spillett.
D.
C.8.0.C. "A" v. R.E.
In a match against the R.E. on Satur- day, the 0.3.0.0. "A" team, playing on their own ground, will be represented by
TR.C. C.C.C.
QUEEN'S THEATRE.
CHARLEY'S AUNT HERE NEXT WEEK.
HOCKEY.
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The following have been selected to re present the HK.C.C. 2nd XL in a friendly match against the K.C.C. on Monday, February 15th at 10.30 am. The Punjabis met the Navy on the sharp, at Kowloon W W Mackenzie Kowloon Marine ground, on Tuesday (captain), H. Grifin W. Brackenridge, evening, and
that was made of bottle green cloth, and
Fhread. Gazelle fur lends itself parti example. Before I conclude on the mat culary to this form of decoration. Long ter of furs I must tell you of the ago, Jenny outlined each long strip of imitation mink that furriers are making pelts in her ermine coats with a narrow by tinting skins just that delicate golden piping of silver or gold lame, and then brown of the mink. I saw a number of brocade to match, and now all the smartel fur that a mink's own mother would furriers of Paris are following her certainly not recognise it once it had (Continued at foot of nez! Column.) been transformed in this way.
H. M; Watson, W: T: Fetherstone D. to three oro victorious by six goals lined them with silver. or.: gold, lamé these at Venck's last week, so like the
E. B. Nicholson, O. Skinner, G. R.
Vallack, O. L.-R Becher, H. C. Burgess, and W. L. Smith."
At the U.S.R.C. ground the Club II, met a team from the Submarines and won by three goals to two,
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