MEN ARE GROWING
PRETTIER.
DAY AS COMPARED WITH
YESTERDAY.
ASIER VIEW OF LIFE.
rty years ago it was a very us business being a grand- er, writes
Fannic
Miss
WATER POLO.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
RESULTS OF YESTERDAY
MATCHES.
There were two more matches played in the Water Polo Lengue last evening, the V. R. C. "A" and the Royal Navy, winning against the Kowloon School "B" and the Scots Guards respectively.
Navy, Scots Guards.
The first match was a tún-away victory for the V.C., who scored no less than eight goals, six of which were notted in the first half. Short the famous Americanly before the interval, Lyon retired 86, who * GO looks 26, from the V.R.C. side, suffering from is known as the "Eternal a scratch over the ye received dur per," to the Daily Mail., Sheing scramble for the ball. nuca: That dignified stale ssitated the wearing of a sort niform of a stately blank with perhaps a lively grey festivities, consisting of an ur-clad bodice mounted on hlining, and a full, solemn so long that children must believed that grandipas ed on-castors"
J
NEATER FACTORY
GIRL.
ROUGHLY DRESSED, UNCOUTH
TYPE DISAPPEARING.
TUESDAY,
AUGUST 16, 1927.
SWAN SONG.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK'S GRAND RENUNCIATION.
Shanghai, Aug. 15. Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's cir- The congress of the home is a cular telegram announcing the" term which might aptly be applied reasons for his resignation and to the annual congress of the expressing his wishes was sent Royal Sunitary Institute which to the Shanghai newspapers for opened at Hastings recently,
publication immediately after his One of the most remarkable fea-arrival at Ningpo..
The thres of the gathering is the num her of women who are taking part.
The conference opened this after- noon with the presidential address by the Home Secretary, Sir Wil- liam Joynson-Hicks, who referred to the proposals to be contained in The teams in the second match the new Factory Bill which, he were mere evenly matched and after stated, the Government are propos- hard and fast fight, the Navy woning next session to ask Parliament
to pass into law, by the ed goal in three:
Services Championship.. Attention is drawn to the Ser- vices' Championship which will be held at Thursday night's swimming y certainly had no ankle, fete it the V.R.L. Each year this feminine legs had never been event has received the support of d of outside.
the ballet both services but this year, notwith- dmother was crowned with standing the additional troops, in the tiful white hair, surmounted Colony, the V.R.C. committee has re- cap; she was hung, with crived poor response from the aer ne and weighted with bro-vices."
Up to date there have been only one Her principal occupation
entry received and should there be knitting, was almost as solemn a busi- further participants the race will
be cancelled. being a young girl. A girl
w nothing, went nowhere save
er the strictest escort, and
mufled up in innumerable in price, fashions change....und ra of clothing and corsets Lone hardly notices these changes,
the which have in ch pulled her waist into
ulation 18 or 20 inches. She altered it.
a long time to dress herself,
so short a time!
Certainly children have changed
no wonder. Seeing all the amazingly. At fourteen and six- ke, buttons, and tapes there teen they
her hair.
are grown-ups. Bat
retiring Generalissimo states that since he is considered by many as the obstacle in the way of Kuomintang unity (the re- conciliation between Nanking and Hankow) he is resigning for the benefit of the Party. In taking such a step, Marshal Chiang be lieves that though punished and expelled, ho is covered with glory. "I wish, however, three things, Marshal Personal hygiene among
the after my retirement," workers was a very important topic. Chiang says in his telegram.
First of all Marshal Chiang The old type of factory girl, with her rough clothing and uncouth ap-wishes that Kuomintang comrades pearance, had almost disappeared. of both Nanking and Hankow to The industrial workers of to-day abandon conspiracies. The com- were altogether cleaner, neater, rades in Wuhan should come over and more comely citizens than those to the Nanking side, where the Kuomintang effort should be con- of a few generations ago.
Sir William spoke of a food-centrated for carrying out the im packing factory where the manage-portant tasks' of the Kuomintang ment were unable to get the girls and the Nation. to keep their hands as clean as they wished until they provided mani- cure treatment for all newcomers. Vanity did the rest, he added.
"ONLY A PHRASE."
JUDGE ON SEX EQUALITY.
a
e and she took a long time to if they are sophistiented they in binding over Clara Louisa
are very sane. It is a better sys-Dangerfield, aged 27, a mirse, on
bigamy charge at Birminghum A sizes Mr. Justice McCardle said he did not recall any other occasion which he had tund over a pri- oner for the fourth time...
are
it had been stated that the sexes were equal, but he could not think when he saw the poor, wretched girl before.him. Sex equality was a phrase.
com-
Secondly, Marshal Chinng wishes that the armed comrades in the provinces of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi should unite together to carry on the expedition against the North. These armed rades should also unite with the Kuomintang forces on the Tien- tsin-Pukow line so that a united front can be presented for the. success of the National Revolu tionary movement,
Thirdly, Marshal Chiang wishes that the Ching Tang or Purge Party movement in the provinces of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangai should be unanimously carried on.
"If the above three things can be realized, the entire Kuomjn- tang party will be solidly united, and there will be no further an strife, for unification of the army, it for suppression of Internal for the overthrow of the mili tarists, for the unification of the nation and for the overthrow of Imperialism.
of Sur- ut she took no time at all totems than the old one ke herself up, because evanillance, Lhough they tell me
Of course, I der was considered iniquits killing romance. lip-stick an abomination. Un-do not believe that.
And marriage-that, too. has tunately she neglected to care
ago altered. Young people are marr her skin. Forty years re were many more apottying much earlier and with much
there 8 than
to-day lighter hearts. You have hardly many . mort
suffered had time to wonder how they will m indigestion. Looking ret on before you hear they are k I sometimes wonder how divorced, in fact, I notice now
It had been stated that the woman had the physical force to fn-adaya thyl it is unsaly to ask
was legally married when 35 years ge in the strenuous dancing of arg in you have not met for a
Since I am responsible for all t day, hampered as we were by year how his wife is. in case she and 7 months old, but that the mar
skirts and constricted by is no longer his wife and you ringe was never consummated. In blame au complaint. I shall not alebones and coutil. Many find yours? guilty of a func pus. 1921 she went through a form af hesitate to resign and retire to Not that these yung people mariage with a man who robbed private life, in order not to dis- 'as possible. heed as little wadays hardly anyone seemM seem to mind very much you see her of £150 and left her.
at the lowing year he was convicted of appoint the people." However, I out, and they tell me conserva-fcx-husband and ex-wife
Party and the Nation in my capa- ies are not what they were.. same party, chatting like good bigumy, and in 1924 and again in shall continue my services to the
friends, even dancing together. 1926 she was convicted of theft.
Not having seen her husband for city as a member of the Kuomin- That certainly is a change Or
tang, and I shall do my utmost to to be a course, a divorced woman-even 12 years she thought she had a as it is to be a grandmother; one who was an innocent party right to remarry. She stole money strive for the realisation of the fact, it is much the same thing. Used to be rather in the position when she was ill, and she was mainlate President's will in securing
Nation." ne are the white hairs, the roof a person released from prison.taining two children of an aunt liberty and equality for ules, the knitting. and the She had to hide her head in se- with whom she was living. ailing black silks. of yesterday; faded spots; divorce was ne are the sweetly innocent,hought nice! To-day it is frilled maidens with their uparently
All Girlish Now.
To-day it is as easy
11
un-
The fol-
It is no longer thought in-
thought natural. and fresh air and exercise they ob- riant tresses. Is that alender in the United States you fre- ph with an abbreviated Greek quently see women referred to interesting to be delicate, but silly. nie of scarlet, just a little less the Press as Mrs. Jones (3) vid than her lips, Awaying well Mrs. Brown (2). Sometimes the her slim, flesh-coloured sucressive Mrs. Robinsons 1.2 and
may all meet at the same fune sees, a girl or a grandmother?
Impossible to tell at sight. Hef air is bronze, her complexion vid, her skin unwrinkled, her
ove
the body as, fit as
a schoolboy's!
Better is Part. Personally, It seems
all
er Surely that is a sign of progress. And while I myself do not really like bobbed and shingled hair (though on a sudden impulse" and wet day hobbed my own), be cause a fine bead of hair is a real beauty, and while unskilful mak- the up is unpleasing and harms face, it does seem to me that to
one's appearance everentie dors now,, to make
he swims, rides, dances. Whosensible to me; if you cannot get
an say whether she is twenty, with a person it seems so un-care for orty, or more?
comfortable and end to force
༣པ
the
ble, even moral, and not by any euns a sign of decadence. And what is the same? Not
What would the world have pretence of happiness and unity best of one's locks, is highly sen-
of a which is far from existing hought forty years ago randmother in a short. clinging nely better to part, kirt singing and dancing on the What has changed then? Poo- tage, smoking cigarettes-and take their pleasures less sad-London, for it is very different till being Forded, as perfectly by and fury they in less evnubrion. espectable?
People are always asking
that changes I notice must.
are kinder from the London I know long age, of other Al rot grandmothers and girls. They try harder to have a good Thinking it over, I believe that the ime. though perhaps they may thing that has changed least is is just It is hard to say, The pas put surveed, and they certainly on Marish climate. It Dass quickly, one's children grow have lenent to take misfortunes the same as it always was, and we
eramble about the summer p overnight, became men and wo-mere bravely. But otherwiw "I
Horse-bus male principally that they are as we used to when I was men, marry. The
WON: 13 especially. young girl very proud of my anish, the hansoms go, motors healthier, - get lower in the body and higher. That, of course, they owe in their bustled dresses.
tight, loose clothing, and to the
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The Chairman, in his opening re- upon the importance marks, dwelt the honour which has fallen to the of this representative meeting, and teams' to represent China at the Far East Olympiad. They were out to ful- fil the expectations which had been formed on this account, and he ex- pressed the hope that when they re- turned they would bring. back all honour and fame. He wished the departing athletes every success.
Mr. S. W. Be, coach and trainer to the delegation, suitably replied for the athletes in echoing the sentiments of the Chairman.
Mr. Lee Yin, of the Committee of few spoke a the Federation, also words of farewell.
Mr. K. C. Lam, on behalf of the Honolulu visitors, expressed the con- fidential hope that whateyer they did at the forthcoming games would only reflect to the credit of China.
The gathering broke up after the partaking of refreshments."
We learn that the 54 delegates delegation from comprising the Hongkong, will leave on the 22nd on the Tenyo Maru together with the officials. This will enable them to spend a few days of the track before Games which participating in the will be held from the 27th instant to the 3rd September.
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