THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1929.
WOMAN'S PAGE.
SHOULD WOMEN KEEP THEIR LOVE
LETTERS?
[BY BETTY ASHMORE.)
Many different things have been Well I, for one, think she was written about the so-called modern absolutely right to hoard these few girl both in praise and disparage- testimonials
to her charmi and ment. She has been called practical | beauty. and theficient, or hard and un- feminine according to the writer's personal opinion.
Some people dislike her, while ethers End her charming. But apon one paint everybody appears to be agreed. She is incurably unsenti-
mental.
Now do wonder who first started this extraordinary iden, and why And, above all, on what grounds?
A NOVEL QUESTIONNAIRE.
YOUR WIFE.
Has your wife made you the happiest man in the world, Sir Did you ever think she would? Has she made you as happy as any of the other half-dozen girls would that you could have married? Have you ever told your wile about those other girls you could have mar- tied i
What did the say Did sho aek you why you didn'o marry them Why, didn't you? Are you sorry you didn't?
YOUR HUSBAND...
Is your husband a model husband, Madam? Did you expected him to be? What is a model husband Is Mr. Brown down the road a model, husband? Is that why you are always holding him up example for your husband i
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Are you aware that Mrs. Brown holds up your husband as a model for Mr. Brown Can you explain this 1
Has your busband got a good in- come? Well, why hasn't he? Have understand what a good income you told hins that? Da husbands
means? What does a good income mean't Have you tried to explain to your husband what it means? Have you succeeded 1
After all men load their side boards and line. their walls with silver caps, and "oars, and groups of cricket elevens, and examination certificates, with the object of im- pressing their friends and cheering I shouldn't weren keep a few tro- how much money does she waste in themselves up in old age-so why i If your wife chonemical Well,
phies, too?
a week? How much money can you were the house-keeper could you run afford to let her waste? If you the house more economically How much economically 7 Why What does a good income mean to don't you run it then? When this friend of mine is very
How many more new.coats, You? How often does your wife say she hats, and dresses! old and looks for happiness in the wants a new hat? How often does How often is your husband delay- The only difference is that instead pastas old prople do, having no she get one! How often do you geted on his way home in the evening? of parading their softhenrdedness re-she will be able to untie her one? Have you pointed this differ. What delays him? Are these en
bundles of letters rather pathe-eace out to your wife 1
inga on which heis late the very tically yellowed with time-and re- live the days of her girlhood...
evenings that you have a lovely little dinner ready for him t
I know a good many modern girls and I say without hesitation that they are just as sentimental, no more and no less; na their grand mothers n'hundred years ago.
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a womanly virtue, as young women did in the time of Jane Austen, the girls of to-day hide it, deny it, and are heartily ashamed
of it. They might just as well be ashamed of their own noses and try to conceal them!
The Feminine Way. Because just so long as the world Insts women will fall in love. And when they are in the throes of that much advertised state of hlias they will be sentimental. Even soppy.
And a very good thing too, be cause nothing in the world gives them such a warm, comfortable feel ing It ranks with a good crya ather feminine habit the modern zil is supposed to deny herself!
This fact was brought home to me very strongly the other day when I went to see a friend of mine who is a mudel of what a modern girl should be according to all the popular standards. She swims, rides, plays gautes, drives a racing car at a shattering speed, and so
Testimonials "to Her Charm, But when I unexpectedly walked into her room I did not find her mending the wireless, or polishing her favourite golf club-nothing like that she was tying up. bundies of love letters! Needless to say, she behaved as if I had surprised her in the act of poisoning her mother or stealing a diamond necklace:
of fun and less annoying to their At any rate it is a harmless form relations than the stacks of silver objects which camber the house, and are of no use and little beauty...
She will remember with pleasant surprise that her white hair, was once the colour of pale gold" and her eyes-now so dim and tired "like the sea in Cornwall."
Links With Happiness. And she will be far happier than other old ladies who have forgotten their youth and have no means of remembering it
I know perfectly well that we are always taught not to keep any lettery nt all-the danger and stupidity of such a procedure has been persistently dinned into us from childhood; but in Heaven's name-why 1
Granted that you are not a mur derer, er forger, or a bigamist, I can see no conerivable reason to destroy all the most vivid and last ing links with youth and happi-
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Has your wile many, friends Does she ever meet any of them when she goes out shopping in the Isn't this an extraordinary coin- afternoon? Are those the evenings cidence? Do you take care ti point on which your dinner is badly cook-out to your husband how extra- edt Then what do you think of ordinary it is? What does he say? your wife's friends?
Are you a bad cook 1
Have you voiced this opinion to your wife? What did she say? Did he tell you what friends think of you? What do her friends think of yon t
Is your husband sometimes com pelled to work late at the office? Does he ever have to work late at the office during the visits of female relatives of yours? During spring- cleaning operations? When baby is thing to you? What? teething? Does this suggest any-
Has your wife any relatives? Did hert Why were so many of your you know this when you married wife's relatives kept in the back- Do you expect your husband to ground till after marriage? Are tell you that you're growing they the kind of relatives that younger and prettier every year? should be kept in the background Does he? Would you believe him if for ever? Why? Do they visit he did? Do you believe much of you ? Do they repay your hos what he tells you! How much? pitality by sending you Christmas presents. Do you wear them
ATTRACT MEN?
[BY JANE GORDAN.] There
Just as the silver atrocity on his DO WOMEN DRESS JUST TO dining-room table will remind an old man of some triumphal progress on his favourite golf course, so will a bundle of fadel letters bring back to a woman familiar scenes and be loved faces-in fact, the best years of her life.
So can you blame her for keeping them, even if she is a modern girl. and so much pretend it is the last thing on earth she would be guilty of doing?
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are several good reasons why we should dress as well as our figures and incomes let us.
We naturally want to look our best always to satisfy our own fasti- dious taste, and sometimes to cause envy in other women.
Shall we admit though, strictly between ourselves, that we also take trouble with our clothes and per- sonal appearance party to arouse admiration in the eyes of men'?
If this is true, then it would be wise to study men's opinions of women's clothes... We are not usual- ly inclined to take much notice of their theories on the subject.
When men admire our clothes we consider, it a very personal compli ment. because we know that they are technically ignorant about dress.. If a man indicates that he dislikes what we are wearing, we simply explain "That is the fashion."
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It is, however; well to remember that men have certain very definite ideas with regard to
women's clothes.
For instance: they like the woman they are entertaining, and spending money on to be elaborately dressed and well sprinkled with jewels, in fact the more striking her appear. Lance, as long as she in a smart
woman, the better they like it.
This does not by any manner of means hold good with the girl ther love, her clothes are admired most when they are charming, feminine.
Generally speaking men expect their mothers to be dressed in non- descript black garments and their sisters to wear strictly conventional clothes. As our brothers' opinions on clothes count for lest than noi thing, we can afford to forget thera
at once.
Fine handkerchief linen in a deep roze colour is used for this dress with its frilled vent and cuffs of white muelin.
The effect of our personal appear. terned materials? Nor do they ad ance on other men, h wever, counts mirs superlatively smart dresses, a great deal to most of us, so it is any more than they admire very well worth while taking an intel clever women. They really love ligent interest in this.
both women and their clothes to be simply pretty and appealing.
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These
pay too much attention to fashion; Evory summer batches of smart the whole art of dressing well is and amusing American girls arrive to adapt the season's fashions to in London for the sCLAQE suit, your individual style and char-girls go to dances, and country house parties, they pay flying visits It is foolish to buy a dress or cont to Oxford and Cambridge during simply because it is being worn **Eights and May Week, they this Benson, and hundreds of other do" Ascot, Wimbledon, Lord's women have bought exactly the same model.
The trailing founeex and circular capes in chiffon both printed and plain are very becoming to thin
women.
and Goodwood, they have mild flirtations with young Englishmen, and return to their homes in New, York or Long Island in September, when they are more or less forgotten by their English friends,
There was one season, however, The long princess silhouette with when a girl arrived in London from & circular flounce on the skirt that lichmond, Virginia. She was a real dips at the back makes, short women Southern girl, with large blue eyes look ever so much taller, while and a lazy drawl. She took her ad- bolero, bodices, floating panels cut mirers very seriously and had a in one with skirts or bodices lend conscience. the plump woman an impression of slimness.
On the whole women are much more attracted by pattern materials than men.'
She wore home-made organdie evening dresses; blue organdic with ruffles, and pink organdie with frills. When she returned to Vir ginia abe held the record for broken hoarta left behind in this country! Have you noticed that men as a Which seems to prove that, there rule do not admire dresses of patis n great shortage of ingenues in
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WOMAN FOUND
DEAD.
BODY IN HOSPITAL
COMPOUND.
CORONER'S DECISION
RESERVED.
SINGAPORE, Aug. 25.
The death of a Cantonese woman aged 23 years whose body was pick. ed up in the grounds of the Gener- al Hospital during the early hours of August 12 was the subject
of an inquiry, which was conclud- ed by Mr. F. G. Bourne, the Singapore Coroner, yesterday
afternoon.
The woman, who was described as the mistress of a Chinese but; eher, was found lying on the five- foot-way of her husband's house suffering from poisoning and was removed to the General Hospita! by the police for treatment on August 6.
Escape From Hospital.
An Indian police constable who was detailed for duty at the hospi tal on the night of the woman's escape and subsequent death was charged in another court with negligently allowing a prisoner to escape from legal custody. He claims trial and was remanded on bail of 8200..
In the course of the inquiry evidence showed that the deceased was drunk and had taken caustic soda in mistake for sugar water at a provision store.
Medical evidence given by an Assistant Surgeon at the General Hospital showed that deceased wrs brought in at 2 a.m. on August 6. She refused to say anything, but was said to, have taken poison. Later it was discovered that she had taken caustic soda and was accordingly treated for this..
At about 1.30 a.. on the 19th, witness was on duty and was in formed by the sister-in-charge of the ward that the patient had absconded. The police were in- formed at once and at 2.m. she was found dead "about 200 yards from the female ward.
When found the body was still warm. There were no marks of violence,
Lying on Pavement."
A postmortem examination was held and the cause of death found to be corrosive poisoning. The patient was not fit to be walking about and should not have left the room. All necessary conveniences were provided in the ward itself. In the opinion of witness, she would have died in any case in a day or two.
"A Cantonese butcher of 66, Tan- jong Pagar Road said that the de- censed was his mistress and owing. to her condition he had advised her not to go to work. Witness was married, having a wife with whom the deceased was on good terms. The deceased eventually moved to Hong Kong Street, but witness saw her every morning at Temple Street selling bean cake.
On the day she became ill an em- ployee told witness that his mis- trese was lying on the five-foot- way. Witness saw her and thought she was drunk. She was removed to hospital by the police. Witness visited her in hospital and on questioning her was told that she was drunk at the time and had gone to a provision store to get some sugar water but had been given caustic soda by mistake.
Saw Constable Asleep.
An Indian police constable .at- tached to Sepoy Linea police sta tion said he was on duty on the ground floor of the female block at 10 p.m. on August 11. Earlier the same day he was similarly em. ployed between 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. The nurse had pointed out the deceased to witness and order- ed him to keep a watch on her.
At 1.20 .. on the following morning the deceased woke up and went to a building and after a few) minutes he looked for her and found that she had disappeared. The nurse was not there and wit- ness could not report the incident until her return.
Nurse Lily Fegen next said that on the night in question she was on duty with two wards to attend. The deceased was in a room toge ther with another patient on the ground floor. At 12.30 a.m. when .she visited the room she saw the
constable asleep in a chair.
Witness woke him up, and told him to watch the woman as she (witness) was going for some food. On returning at about 1.30 a.m. the constable to.. her that, the wo- man had disappeared. She assist- in the subsequent search which led to the discovery of the patient lying dead on the gruss outside. Nurse Vivian Smith corroborated this evidence.
The Coroner reserved his deci-
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