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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. MONDAY MARCH 4th, 1929.
THE WOMAN'S CORNER.
IF WIVES WENT ON STRIKE.
THEY WORK SO HARD-AND GET NO SALARY.
If husbands are not very careful, one of these days there will ba a atrike of wives. And- most righteous, proper and well-doserved strike it would bel
The bane of contention is this masculine refusal to treat wifehood as a profession, which most cer tainly is, and a very important
and difficult'one, too!
Men have got accustomed to women in Parliament, they havu practically ceased to abuse, women doctors, but the profession of wife, hood gets the cruellest treatment of any--it is ignored, it is not even recognised as a profession at all. This attitude irritates wonen in Lensely it is one of the most fer tile sources of sex-hatred, and the cause of endless matrimonial quar- rels.
(Br.BETTY ASHMORE.]
the nurtory" (these items of in- formation are usually given with planted smile and must be received likewise).
HOW HIS MAJESTY CHORUS GIRLS STRANDED,
DRESSES.
AN EXPERT COMMENTS UPON STYLE AND TASTE.
AND DRAWS COMPARISONS,
London, February $ist (U.P.)- The Prince of Wales is not the only member of the Royal Family whose style in dress is a subject George, too, has endeared himself for widespread comment. King
fession by reason of his meticu to members of the tailoring pro-
same tactful appreciation that he invariably expects himself that's all 80 men needn't be so stingy
I am willing to bet that a house Dreary People.
wife gets less actual free time (lous After several excruciating telecaa time to pursue her own ends) phone encounters with the plumber than her husband at his office any and the gas company, she sets out day. He works from ten to six to go the round of the local shy pretty elastic, and, after all, he is but the lunch hour is usually prodding joints of ment (could say occupation be less appealing. I ask his own master! you i) ordering groceries and scold Ing the fishmonger.
In the afternoon she puts on her best hat and pays calls on dreary people who are likely to be useful
her husband. When she does get five minutes to herself, she scans the newspaper hurriedly in order not to appear, too imbecile when he returns.
house-keepers, they would be far more appreciated by their mascu line employers,
that the average wife dislikes her I am not saying for a minute job, nor does the often grumble but she does object to his patronis ing unimaginative attitude towards
it.
care and faultless taste. The following extract from the Tailor, and Cutier explains why His Majesty's dress is so warmly approved.
The King is a most interesting between fashion and style, style study from the sartorial point of view. An exact balance is held and personal liking. In things, but not all, King George
most
has been content to do what all wise man do, adapt the current Indulgent Smile,
vogue, but never at the Sho resenta working at dulf but moderation of the unities.
expense of indispensable duties and then being
Whenever he wears a frock coat, greeted at night by "Well, my dear, morning coat, or lounge jacket, and what have you done with your there is the sense of exquisite taste, self all day said with an in-Yet there is no mark of over dress- ing or nibbling at erotic or one addresses a small kitten. As freakish modes. If one takes note ruuch as to say, "Men must work of the jackets which the King while women can play, bless their wears, and they are well worth little hearts!"""
attention, the subjection of fashion to style may be seen. Above all they have natural lines with no forced traita.
If all these activities do not The Daily Round.
amount to a job," I am at a Take a day in the life of any loss to know what does! The adulgent smile in the tone in which ordinary middle class wife and youtusi arranging of meals, day in, will see how unfair it is. From day out, would not appeal to most the moment she wakes up till last men. Yet it always gets taken for thing at night she is busy doing granted. her job. She gets up earlier than
If wives were engaged at a re- her husband to see that his bathgistry office and paid wages like is hot, to supervise his breakfast, and to help him on with bis coat. But it is after the door has bang ed behind the breadwinner's back that the real fun begins. First, the bearding of the cook in her den ( task that very few men would dare to undertake, alone and unaided). This means listening to a daily re- cital of petty disasters and diff culties that would depress the most cheerful heart; smoothing over domestic grievances; exercising the act of a Prime Minister and the patience of Job.
The housemaid follows the cook with her tale of woe. Please'm,
де
But a wife has promised to stay put as long as her services are wanted, and in her job no giving notice is allowed, nor holidays, nor compliments when she is a success. She has all the kicks of a hard profession and доде of the ha'pence.
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No Evenings Of And after all, when all is said and done, it isn't much an ordin- any woman wants, ne vast salary, nor evenings off, nor orders and her husband a penny of money or a moment of discomfort. Just the
I honestly believe that be imagines his wife in actual fact does nothing all the time except gossip and buy pretty clothes, If be thought at all (which he seldom does) he would say, "Oh! of course, there's the house keeping to do, but that can't take more than five minutes, and she's got servants to help heri
No wonder women are so often restless and discontented. No won- der they get sick of housekeeping and yearn to be film stars and dog breeders and what not. It's entire the fault of their husbands. Ap occasional word of praise when things go well, of sympathy when towards happiness in marriage than any presents or promises.
The extra width of shoulder, and the draping at the back of the arm are ignored. The hip is fitted but not sheathed, and the fronts grace fully cut away.
TWENTY-NINE HOURS WITHOUT FOOD.
Liverpool:-A distressing story of a theatrical tour that failed was told when twenty Pantomimas. dancing and chorus girls arrived bere stranded after five weeks of privation in Ireland.",
The majority of the girls were from fourteen to eighteen years old, and some of them had never pre- viously been on the stage. One was so weak from lack of food that to a waiting-room for Arst aid she collapsed and had to be taken treatment.
Miss Doris Horley, of Manches- ter the oldest member of the com pany, who said she had "mothered" the girls, anid she had never had a
worse
experience during fifteen years on the stage.
Children's Ordeal The children have had an awful
declared.
time, and are half starved," she
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Miss Horley said the girls joined the pantomime following an adver-. tisement in a newspaper:
After a week's preliminary trial in variety performance, for which no Wages were paid," she said, “we left for Londonderry, expecting at least sight weeks' employment.
"When we had played for a week in Londonderry we were told it not possible to pay. full salaries."
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Visa Horley added that the com pany afterwards paid visits to Limerick and Waterford, and that at Waterford the theatre manager advanced their fares to Liverpool.
"When we boarded the steamer," she continued, "we had not had any food for twenty-nine hours, and the captain was so troubled by our plight that be provided us with tea and bread and cheese:!'
The girls were befriended in Liverpool by the Travellers Aid Society, which paid their fares to their homes in various parts of England towns.
No whim of the moment changes the moderation of style. Never do these garments button very high or unduly low; the sleeves are always temperate in line. The trained eye" | is caught at once by the rare lapels Often these of the royal coats. sections are hard and flat; but in
She was charged at Edinburgh the King's coats they turn over gently like a leaf or the petals of High Court with culpable homi 1 Bower. Like good reverses cide, and was ordered to be detain-
want. several new pairs of decorations, "nothing that will cost they turn out wrong, would do more should, but rarely do, they roll be-ed for ten years under the Chil-
sheets Please'm, the pipes are all frozen and there's a gas leak in
These Children Of Ours.
WHAT DO YOU EXPECT OF
"
YOUR CHILD?
"Children always give you what you expect."
This is the principle upon which ono prominent educater has found- ed a whole system of education. And she has been successful too!
There are a lot of parents who are going to disagree with this pro- minent educator. For instance, the parents of Willingn who aet their hearts upon raising an All-Ameri- can half-back. William's father and mother have seen that he went through the proper setting-up exer- cises every morning for the past fifteen years. They have dragged him, from one athletic meet to un- other, regardless of the fact that he begged to stay home with his booka. They sent him to the college where the father's favourite football coach was molding u sensational team. But William never reported for football practice. He is President Children of the literary club. girc what you expect!!" William's parents are going to gasp!
you
are
Well, the answer is that you must expect the right things and you must expect them "with all your heart." Of course, if you arbitrarily going to expect the im possible of your child, if you are going to expect him to grow up to be a giant, when he has the phy sique of a jockey, you are headed straight for disappointment.
It has already been proved that
in school, at least, most children are prepared to give what is expect
OSTRICH FEATHER BÅGS.
Above Ruffy evening bag of "pellum ostrich with tentre orna=" ment of gold paillettes.
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The other model is of laven- der vatrich with a velvet prány · for the centre decoration.
Many parents, who have the ut most concern for the physical health of their children, meglect their mental health deplorably. They if he has a sore throat; they have his teeth cared for regularly by a dentist, but pass by
"HEALTH TALKS.
yond the top hole and button, and do not end abruptly.
dren's Act.
Mr. Barrett, for the defence, said that at the age of twelve the girt ran away from home.
The writer next considers.general appearance as exhibited not by the muit alone, but by the whole out- Her sisters," he said, "gere ft. The auit is the groundwork, Red Cross nurses, and she stole, and the accessories conform to or eightpence to buy a veil in order contrast with it. It is here that to be a purse a perfectly childish the well-dressed man parts com- thing to do. She was sent to s SIMPLIFY LIVING HABITS. paay with him whe only wear reformatory school, but escaped good clothes, King George does and obtained s situation. Her not aim at the perfect match, with mistress discovered where she came suit and other articles all of a from, and decided to inform the shade. Neither does he favour the police. The girl, who was chop sharp contrast nor the bizarre ping wood at the time, struck her issue; there is ever the tasteful | with a hammer.” blend.
Cornario. an Italian contem porary with Christopher Columbus, was given up to die at forty years of age. He didn't want to die, so he discharged his physicians, and made up his mind that he would try to live upon twelve ounces of food per day. At eighty, he wrote his first pamphlet upon the art of living long. He died at 105, only once, having departed from his twelve ounce schedule.
In addition to eating too much, most of us are eating too rapidly. Eat slowly and masticatę the food well but not fantically. Don't eat when over tired, or unduly wor ried... Shock or nervous stress places digestive processes in abey
ancé.
There are various kinds and de- grees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costumė fashion. It may be used where an which has long since gone out of
other cultivates the grotesque in garb. The King's is (and this is no mere courtierlike utterance) the most delightful individualiam of all. His garments are carefully cut to suit his bodily form, yet with due regard for the mode. But his personality peeps forth in little touches, which doubtless please him and certainly make him distinct.
His jackets carry a naval trim- ness in design. His trousers are never creased down the front-a fashion started in the Army, but are pressed at the side and follow the sailor style of an easy rolling
Eat meat only once a day, and effect.
a small amount then. Many of us- Since his young days the King
allow the meat of one meal to weigh in excess of the total amount of food that kept, Cornario alive for a whole day. Make the main bulk of your meals put of fresh fruits and vegetables, and cat a minimum of the sugars and starches.
Drink plenty of water between meals. All the processes of the body are chemical ones, and almost every chemical process is aided in
ed-no more, no lem. Why is it take a child to the doctor. speedily,,the presence of water.
then that this principla does not apply at home! Why can't we get what we expect. The answer is, we
nerves
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just
turn.
has remained faithful to the tie. which slips through, a gold ring. He has adopted the double collar; one. cut on orthodox lines, neither opening so widely as that of the Prince of Wales nor with such deep points as that of the Duke of York. it In town, at various race-meetings and other places," the writer goes ch," I have scanned His Majesty's clothes. A tiny note about his gloves has caught the eye. Whether white and worn with a grey frock coat at Ascot, or tan and put on with a lounge suit at Goodwood, his gloves are always black-point ed. There is a feature about his Exercise up to point to sweating, grey top hat, which differentiates it from the hundreds of others at cach day. Walk somewhere, grada smart race-meeting: it is very can. In fact, we do. Only beware waywardness, symptoms that may "or overstudy or moods or
ually "adding distance, and going light in colour, with a band to of what you expect Know just what lead in later life to serious dis- only far enough so that you feel match
"In fine summer weather, too, it is. Don't expect too much nor
better and not worse when you re- he likes a grey bowler hat, with too little. Nor the wrong things orders or to chronic unhappiness,
That girl was has a nervous
ribbon in accord, to accompany from that particular child.
Remember that when your boy breakdown from overstudy doca
rule need less study, but Take five or ten minutes exercises grey lounge suit." does not put away his toys, nor not as
attention of a each morning, paying special atten- hang up his clothes, and you pat may need the them away on the assumption that specialist in nervous disorders or a sli boys are untidy-you are getting visit to a clinic for such disorders;tion to movements that will build just what you expected. Remember as may also the girl who is jumpy up the abdominal muscles, and and twitchy. That boy who bud follow this exercise with a quick that if the same boy were attending dealy wants to be by himself most a military school where neatness
warm sponge or shower bath, and a wore axpected of him as a matter of the time may be a genius, but of course, he would not have to be he is much more likely to be suffer-brisk towelling and massage of the ing from a nervous disorder that aagged, but would obey the regula needs attention. It is part of the tions without question.
job of modern parents to study child psychology and it is especial ly essential that they understand the mental and emotional problems of adolescence. Faychologists tell us that it is of supreme importance for the adolescent to accomplish two things: first, he must cut loose from apron-strings and try out the world for himself to a greater extent than be has ever done before, and, second, he must develop a pormal attitude toward the opposite ser If he is hampered at this time in his development, he cannot grow up into a self-reliants self-respecting
THOSE TROUBLESOME- TEENS.
To grow up successfully to pass from childhood into adulthood, is zot a simple matter. Parents of adolescent children have a twofold problem: first, they must help the child find himself mentally und wo cirlly in a world of now, and Fer, plexing demanis, second, they must safeguard him with especial care. from straine that may affect his physical health
(Continued on next Column),
adult, with a well-balanced outlook on life.
whole body,
If you are going to live at peak, your skin must be given a chance
of "breathe." Cleanliness allows
The writer concludes with an allusion to such "pet fancies" of the King's as black and tan boots, double-breasted waistcoats. turn-back caffs to overcoats, and
GIRL'S REMARKABLE
"....CAREER.
MANSLAUGHTER SENTENCE AT FIFTEEN..
Jean Dawson, aged twenty-five, a for skin "breathing," and a stimu- servant, who was stated to have lated skin is thus aided in riding the the age of fifteen, was sentenced been convicted of manslaughter at body of tissue-made poisons which, at the Berkshire Assizes at Read- if allowed to accumulate, spelling to eighteen months' imprison
ment for stealing jewellery valued sleeplessness and at £300 from her. employer.
!! nervousness,"
and lack of general tone.
Bleep in a well ventilated room This does not mean that the bed
them from blowing off in the covers must be tied down to keep
draught.
maid
Superintendent Goddard escaped from a reformatory school, that in February 1918 Dawaon and obtained a situation in Boot
ber of times with a hammer, land with a Mrs. Anderson, whom she killed by striking her a num-;
(Contihued on next Volumn),
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