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22623. 叁廿百陸仟式萬弍第捌月弍拾年午庚 HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931. 奇拜禮 陸廿月登盛世百九仟麼英 Price)
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.
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Un sur after AUGUST 28ra, 1910, until Further Notion (all previous
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Time Tables cancelled).
UP TRAINS
Ko.10 No. 6 No, 1 No.10 No.10 No.23.13 0.36 No.10 No.38 A,KAJ A.M.
F.M.) Y,M,|| P.M. P.K. P.M.
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Kowloon.Dep. 6.85 8.00 8.24 9,05 10.00 12.02 1.182.34 Taumati.Dop. 6.44
Shatin...Dep 8,50
• Dep 7,101
Markat.Usp. 7.15
Sundays & Holidays only
9,15 10.08 12.10 1.28
0.28 10.20 12.92 1,88 9.43 10.39 12.35 1.51
9.49 10.87 12,39) 1,55
3.20 4,80 5,407,45 4.88 6,48 7.53 4.50 6.00 8,03 5.04 6.13 8.17
-6,03 6.17 8.91 -- 5.18 0.97 8.88
6.28 8.69 8.57
ohan...Arr. 7,38 8.40.9.0710,11 10.88 1,00 2,163.19 3.40 6.98 6,38 8,48
Fanling..Dep. 7.25
Sheung
Baum-
shai...Dep. 7,80
Canton ... Arr.' *** 12.34)
10,00 10.47 12.49 2,032 -
9.01 10,05 10.52) 19,54 2,157 3.18
5.42
DOWN TRAINS
17,84) —
STATIONS
do.1 No.3 No. 7 LX. 40 AM
No.18 No. 2»,1750,19" | No.1 No, Na, Is
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8.25
Canton
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Shumahun...Dop. Bheung-hui Dep. Foaling ...Dep TaipoMarket. Dep.
...Dep.
...Dep.
8,46
7.13 7.59 10.34 11.41 12.19 2.35 4.39 5.47 6,537,19
7.20 8,08 10.42 | 11.49
| 7,35 | 8,10 1047 | 11,52 |
7.88 3.31 10,57 12,09
7,408,26 11.01 13,09 7,53 8,89 11,14 12.8#
log in Dep. 8.00 8.61 11.28 13.35
Kowloon
Arr.
| 2,49 | 4,48 || 5.84
7.00
2.40 4.50 5.69
2,56 5,00 8,08
8,03 6.04 0.13
9.16 5.176.28
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ENGLISH LADY VISITOR'S FLEETING IMPRESSION,
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We reprint from the Daily Erwork ngn man, has complete con- I have her own house, And in that press the following impression of trol over family matters, and is home she rules supreme."
practically as free as her counter- Chinese women formed foy an
part in Europe; English womati traveller, Miss Molly Poolo, during a flæëbing visit to the East. Miss Poole writes all the modern women I have metoxceedingly subtle. She is Mons
Dominant among my memories of three months in China--Hong Kong, Canton, Shanghai, Tientsin, Paiping peraials the impression of woman. And, my conclusion is that, in the great game of life and love, the women of China are formidable rivals to their Euro- poan sistara.
That segregation of the sexes which used to prevail so rigidly that at the age of seven brothers and sisters were sharply divided from each other is being abolished. Now, instead of boys not mixing with girla boforo marriage, they go
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Box education begins early. A friend showed me a volume entitled 'The Book of Love." It is pro fusoly illustrated with fantastic pictures, and its contents constitute a whole encyclopedia of the wiles
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With all this Westernising, tho Much more is that true of the pharm of the Chinese woman re- better class Chinese woman. Of mains as potent as fever. It is Lisa in real life. All the baffling mystery of Leonardo da Vinci'i pore who gather around the shrine enigma is hera Those worship- in the Louvre,, trying to unravel that inscrutable smile, would dis cover bewilderingly numerous idols in the streets and homes of China.
in many countries, she is in class alone for fascination, charm, easily, and uses it with dexterity: and wib She absorbs knowledge
The famous Dowager Empress was not an exception; she was merely fortunate in having oppor tunity,
I saw a fow who might be placed in the category of Franks, who gloried in the outward symbols of emancipation" by donning gry flannel trousers and soft silk shirt and ties but in general the adop tion of European thought and custom is more skin doep than that,
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That good taste in dress which has always distinguished the Chinese woman has not failed her in her choice of Western clothes. She has an instinct for the chic. I recall, vividly the smart little girle, with their look bobned hair, | of fouinine artifico.
their yellow complexion, transform- And this is the book which, ated with coemetics from Paris, dain the age of seven, is placed in the Lily dressed in frocks with tight hands of girls of the wealthy and fitting bodices which displayed their lower middle classe alike, to be supple boyish Ogures to full ad- studied and absorbed with as close vantage. attention as the. Western girl do- votes to her alphabot.
Even in the lowest social rank it is no longer true that the Chinese woman is always subject to the male-before marriage to her father, while married to her hus band, and in widowhood to her
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Their Jong, transparent skirts, and their alluring almond eyes, which soomed to veil half-spoken promises, added to their seductive charm.
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Mona Lisas would greet them at every glance. And I dare to assert that no matter how intimately a man may know or deeply love a Chinese woman, he never fathoms her inmost soul. She will always keep him guessing."
Of course, the now freedo affected by Chinese women, and their addiction to Western clothes and manners, aro a theme of woeful lumentation among those who have not moved with the times.
It is all terribly scandalous; it the downfall of the pressages nation.
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A retired coloneel whom I met. he had been in the Military In- teligence--painted mo a depressing picture of the pressent-day dis order, and declared that troubles of modern China hayo scarcely begun. But conservative nativos are just as confident that the old régime will return with the swing of the pendulum.
Meanwhile the little bride gode And this air of the East is domanding European conditions of to her wedding with an apple in marriage. The courtyard of a her hand, so that she and her mother-in-law. with sarvitude to bridegroom may cat a half osch as. that half-parent, does not satisfy the symbol of their mutual hap
ambition for a home. Like I pineas.
sister of the West, she will (Continued on Page 2)
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