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SOCIAL
WOMEN'S PAGE
Don't Be A Serious Parent
The happiest chlidren I know have what my nieces and. nephews call "funny" parents. Funny parents let themselves Ko. They will take a joke against themselves, and know that they needn't keep dignity down by standing on it.
Being a parent is a serious bust- ness. But, like any other im- purtant job, you do. It best when you are Ight-hearted about it..
It is a pity to be so intent on checking up vitamins and regulat- ing fresh air that you forget to make the baby smile. The habit of laughter is far more valuable than the habit eating quietly!
Being a funny parent is perhaps more a question of temperament thin energy. You know the sort of mother who can turn' a day trip occasion for from home into an
hard labour, and the other sort who can turn the spring cleaning
fito a circuts.
One child know has two serious parents.
She WILK a Every detail
clockwork baby.
years
in her day was according to time-table. For seven Janet never missed her midday
rest' once.
FANLING HUNT MEET
We're All Human
Mark Twain bad a lüsurl- ously equipped studio, but. he seldom made use of it. He did most of his writing In bed:
William Cuilen Bryant's desk in his newspaper office was always about 20 inches deep in papers and books of all, kind. The heaps of opened letters, manuscripts and pamphlets many of them years old-left scarcely enough room for the famous editor's elbows.
TRUNK LOAD of hounds which took part in the Fanling Hunt
meet on Sunday.
(Photo by Leica).
When writing. Napoleon the habit of wiping- hls, pen his white bretches.
had
on
Whenever Isaac Newton that his experiments
were
NEWSETTES
Mr. Alfred T. C. Kao returned to | Mr. H.H. Smith, of the American Hongkong yesterday from Shang. Consulate-General "in
hal in the s.s. Carthage.
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Lieut.-Colonel W. D. Arthur will take up residence on Monday in the Hongkong Hotel
Mrs. L. Baines and her son re . Her mother tells you that with a ring of price in her voice. She turned from home leave in the s.s doesn't mention the exciting plc- Ranch! on Thursday. nics. pantomimes, the delicious! last-minute treats Janet did miss because of the adamant rule about rests.
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When she left home at eigh- teen to take an ill-pald Job in another woman's home they were shocked and angry. The child's only explanation was that she wanted to fuss about the house and look after' chili- dren."
The adamant father and the saintly mother are as dead as the dodo. Children
want
parents
Burns' Night will be celebrated by the St. Andrew's Society at a banquet to be given in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel.
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Shanghai,
armved Һете from the north yesterday in the s.s: Carthage
Mr. G. Yates, of Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co., was a passenger arriving here yesterday in the 5.5. Carthage
M P. W. A. Wilkie. of Messrs. Butterfeld & Swire. Shanghai, arrived In Hongkong by the 8.5. Carthage yesterday.
H.E. the Governor will pay an informal visit to the Commercial A dinner will be given at Head-Press plant at North Point on quarters on Monday by the Off-Thursday next. cors Mess. of the Hongkong Volun 'teers.
A cocktail party will be given by Mr. Drissen in the Jacobean Room of the Hongkong Hotel this even- Ing.
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found proTM ducing the results he had hoped for, he became so nervous and excited that he had to call in someone to Anish the job, fo: bla
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Dickens hated lead pencils and never used them. He Wd all his writing with ་ quill pen.
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During his career. Rembrandt painted eighty-four, portraits of himself, but he painted eightj before he portrayed himself as painter.
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During the last forty years o his fe, Franz Liszt gid all his music teathing free of charge..
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When Augustus Caesar had guests in to dinner, he sat at the table with them out ate nothing It was the Emperor's custom to Mrs. F. J. de Rome will distribute have his own meal either before the prizes at the Yaumati Govern- the company arrived or after the ment School at 11 am, on Thurs-! day. "January 24.
Mr. Manuel Riveira Inglesias. Consul-General for Peru here from 1932 to 1936, was recently appoint
left
.
Du Maurier, author of "Peter Ibbetson" and "Trilby," owned wonderfully relike dummy which he kept standing at the door o his studio. Wher the novelis. entertained. nothing amused him. so much as to see his gues Yesterday evening Dr. F. J. Ferwalk up to the figure and try t or Queen Mary Hospital, save a shake hands with it. dinner in the Gril Room of the Hongkong Hotel.
human enough to be "funny" and Mr. G. Rogers of Swatow will ar admit their own mistakes. They rive to-day by the 8.8. Yochowed to London. need fathers who spend less time and will reside at the Hongkong putting on what Selina calls "the Hotel. heavy act and more time finding
- out the right answeIS.
They need mathers who genuinely prefer good nature and chipped paint to a show house and nervous misery. Light-Hearted parents their job as an art and not as selence. And art is an elastic, fluid thing with pliable standards.
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There will be a special foor show at the Usual dinner dance on Tuesday in the Rose Room of the Peninsula Hotel.
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The Rt. Rev, Houghton arrived
Bishop Frank here yesterday Mr. G. Van Wylick, manager of fmm Shanghai accompanied by
Fone'er d'Extreme-Orient Mrs Houghton,
treat credit
The psychologists... who meet
returned to the Colony yesterday
in the ss. Carthage from Shanghal.
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When Baltae expected guests, he RAVE them
Bass- words which they were obliged to reveal to the butler before they were admitted. bringing Brussels sprouts," or "The plums ripe," his guests would an- where- nounce at the door,
with upon Balzac would roar laughter at his own clever- ness,
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Mr. R.H. Scott, of H.M. Commer- rial Counsellor's Office, Shanghai,
Miss H. Van Voast of the Ameri-arrived in Hongkong yesterday in
the children of too serious parents can Church Mission in Shanghai the as. Carthage from the north...
in their consulting rooms... 5ay.arrived in Hongkong yesterday in "Sit loose to parenthood."
My sister says, "My four children the s. 3. Carthage.
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Mr P. Leele, of Messrs. Jardine. Matheson & Co. Shanghal, was.a
are
11 Thoreau's guests dld rot
Mrs: W. L. Handyside will open passenger in the s.s. Carthage yes-like to walk, he was at a loss to
go to school well fed and decently clothed, but they go feeling pleased with themselves, too." There is a the new clubhouse of the Central dignity in plain, everyday family Hritish Association at Kung's Park happiness that cannot be equalled at 3 p.m. tu-morrOW.
by all the good form and eleganti manners in the world."
terday on his way to England.
Mrs. W. Mellor, wife of Mr. Meller, of Messrs. A. R. Burkill and Sons, Shanghai, passed through Hongkong yesterday in the ss Car- thage en route to England.
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SATURDAY'S MENU
BREAKFAST
Applesauce
Cereal Fried Eggs & Ham
Bran Muffins
CofTee
LUNCHEON
Cauliflower Soup Shrimp Salad Lamb Cutlets
Baked Stuffed Tomatoes
Buttered Turnips Hot Garlic Toast Orange Jelle & Whipped Cream Tea
DINNER
Grilled Sardines Beef Broth Assorted Cold Meats
·Baked Potatoes Asparagus and Butter Hot Ginger Bread with
Chocolate Sauce Tea
Nuts & Raisins
MAJOR & WIFE'S CLOTHES
Changes Her Mind 50 Times A Day
Questions about his wife's fur coat, which was said to have been altered a number of times and had five collars made for it, were put to Major Seaborn Marks, of Thorney- court, Palace-gate, W., in West- minster County Court recently.
He gave evidence at the final bearing of a case in which Norman Hartnell Court, dressmakers and furriers, of Bruton-street. W. was given judgment for £47 5s. with costs, against Mrs. Marguerite Sca- born Marks.
The claim was for the cost of re-.. Modelling · a £225 Persian lamb crat. Mrs. Marks alleged that the was faulty. that inferior work skins were used and that one of the original skins was retained by Hartnell's. She said it would cost 285 to recondition the coat. A counterclaim for that amount was reduced during the hearing to £15 and finally dismissed.
Major Murks stated that he was 1.ot satisfied with the coat after the first enlargement. The collar Inoked woolly.
Hartnell's had never repudiated is allegation that fur was missing from the original coat after the first alteration.
RATHER "NERVY" He denied that he took a great interest in his wife's clothes. She rather "mervy" and often changed her mind.
Was
"She changes her mind 50 times day," he added, amid laughter. know how to entertain them. Mr. D. Karmel, for Hartnell's: "There they sit," he complain: Did not your wife say someone told in one of his journals, "breaking her, "The man has made a fine collar for his wife out of the fur?" your chairs and wearing out th
It was what she was told. house!"
When
Louis XV entertained
His Excellency the Governor will The children who laugh easily be represented by the A.D.C., Capt. and often have a priceless heritage H. S. Batty-8mith, at the wedding!
.. and they can only inherit from of Miss D. P. Hughes and Mr. R. R. Mrs. W. Heaton. wife of Mr. one of his lady friends, the table parents who do not take them-W. Ashby, which will take place at Keaton, of the Ewo Cotton Mills, was completely set in the ment and then carried on
a lif Shanghai. is passing through
to the banquet room, where the. Hongkong in the s.s. Carthage en king and his lady dined attend- route to England.
selves too seriously.
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Kathleen Allison.
the Peak Church on Wednesday: January 25, at 3.30 p.m.
Are Hats Going
Crazier Still?
TORMAN HARTNELL, who is being honoured by France for his
as convinced that, haft is
down. And he has designed his new spring advance fashions accordingly. Just one or two of his new hats can be worn with the hair either up or down as a concession to those few women who will cling, in the face of opposition, to the Edwardian coif- fure just because they believe it suits them.
There will be, roughly speaking, record straw, so called simply be- two types of hats to choose from. cause its surface looks like a
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Mr. William Field. of the Hong- kong Hotel, is confined to the Kowloon Hospital
several with broken ribs. suffered when he ac- cidently slipped from the launch belonging to the hotel,
ed.
Round
base
About
On the question of the present: size of the coat, Mr, Molony, for Mrs. Marks, remarked that there: WCFC two inches missing some- where.
manufacturing Albert Clyne, furrier, of New Burlington-street, W, said that the 30 skins used in the original coat was an unusually large number to use. The coat had been so much altered that the original glossiness had disap-
Life on the junks and sampans peared. moored at the Kowloon piers al- Judge Sir Mordaunt Enagge, ways furnishes the "sight-seer and giving judgment, said that the spectator with humorous incidents. case was naturally of importance Mr. A. Nielsen, retired Commis.
Usually totally unaware of ob- to the parties, one of whom had a sluner of the Chinese Maritime servation they go about their dally very high-class reputation and re- Customs, is now visiting in the activities quite happy and natural. sented any imputation against his Colony after two years' absence... Practically all these floating workmanship. He is staying at the Hongkong homes derive their living from Hotel.
cargo work and transportation.
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Mr. W. T. Bartlett, of the Shang- because. "according to Norman gramophone record, shiny andhal Municipal Council, Revenue De- Hartnell, there are two types of grooved with close stitching. It's partment, and Ms. Bartlett were people..
simple enough, and certainly ef-passengers arriving here in the as. One type which can wear their] fective enough.
Carthage. They are on their way hair and their hats high, and one
Home: The little piece of elastic to type which should, though they which women have clung rather
and hats low,
Low Hats for Tall Women
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The other afternoon a large Junk was completely loaded with wooden crates. The fami- ly and their assisting workers were ready to 'depart with their load when the baby of the household was missed.
A man and a woman in a great don't always do it, wear their hair despairingly for some months past His Excellency the Governor and
to call hurry commenced
and is being replaced by a small grip Lady Northcote will attend the
search up and down the pier. comb which fastens the hat to the Fanling race meeting to-morrow. Momma anally located the child. head through slits in the crown. On Monday His Excellency and Grabbing her large, sharp cargo Elastic is ugly, and doesn't suit Lady Northcate will return from hook she pinned it through the
to Governruent back of her youngster's thin gar the new Mozart and Pompadon Fanling Lodge
ment and so carried him to the waiting junk.
Tall women, for instance, how- ever much they may lean towards acme of the more extravagant high hats, should think twice before buying them
They're apt to make them look stupid, an unforgivable fault, and su, depressing for the milliner..
hair styles.
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Eighteenth Century Curls
House.
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Mr. N.B.W. Clarke. 'Deputy Com-
The baby hanging like a piece of missioner. Public Works Depart beef laughed and gurgled during ment, Shanghai Municipal Coun- the short ride at the end of a cargo cil, arrived here in the s.5. Cart-hogk. hage yesterday from Shanghai.
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The Judge added that he was of opinion that Mrs. Marks had not established that she had been deprived of any skins. He had come to the conclusion that the work in all the circumstances was reasonably. Cone.
SOON TO MARRY Two forthcoming marriages are announced:-
Mr. Arthur William Augustus Chase, ship's officer, of Deal, Kent, England, and Miss Edna Christine Sherwell, nursing sister, of Hendon. London, England; Mr. Mak Man- chung, advertising manager, Na- than Cinema Theatre, and Miss Cheng Lai-ching, of 'No. 16 Tak Bhing Street, first floor, Kowloon..
His Excellency the Governor and
For your further information, It's equally obvious that low, the Mozart coiffure consists of a fairly flat-though none of the new curled fringe and a "plece" at the
A conference of overseas Chinese Lady Northcote will be present at hats is really flat-crowns worn back tied up with ribbon. Re-
a Retreat by the 2nd Batt, the The third concert of the Cham-who are natives of Hainan Island over the forehead are not for those member?
And the Pompadour coiffure is ber Music Club will be held on Fri-will be held in Hongkong in the Royal Scots, at the Hongkong who stand 'under 5ft, 2in. In their stockinged feet.
really stolen from the men of her day next at 9.30 p.m. in the Fung next few days to discuss measures Cricket Club on Friday next at 5 time. Louis Quinze, if you prefer Ping-shan Library of the Hong-for the, development of Hainan | D.m. it.... It consists mainly of ringlets kong University. His Excellency Island and refuged relief and medi-
Gramophone Record Straw
The material most favoured by at the back, a fairly plain, sweep the Governor and Lady Northcote cal service on the Island. Twenty- the Straits Settlement by the s.. Hartnell is the new gramophone at the front.
wil be present.
four delegates reached here from Ranchi on Thursday.
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