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evitable result must be for the good of the nation. That is a point. which we could develop, but we will content ourselves at the moment with postulating the con- tention.
With these thoughts in mind, we sumbit, at the risk of criticism from the "Die-Hards," that the time has come when women should
DAY BY DAY.
PEOPLE WILL NOT LOOK FORWARD TO FOSTERITY WHO NEVER LOOK BACKWARD TO THEIR ANCESTORS. Burke.
There was a clean bill of health in the Colony over the week-end.
The P. and O. a.s. Delta, from Singapore, is due here at noon on Wednesday.
CORRESPONDENCE.
English As She Is Spoke.
[To The Editor of Hongkong Telegraph.1
the question of whether "ass" should rhyme with "lass" or with "pass" seems particularly paarile
and futile.
Take the case of a few of the "she is spoke" or "wrote" : " outstanding errors in English as
The Very Idea!
Here are a few, showing the Chinese eagerness to do business with the British community;
Bank not of Allkinds Forsell. M. Karc:
'Men's Outfitter and Sunders.
May Chong. Ladies Tall or Milliné & Furrier.
English, as she fs spoke by the foreignor is always a source of amusement. In the Imparial Club Magazine, the new house organ of the Navy, Army, and Air Foreo Sir,-Apropos current topics Institutes, some examples are concerning the English Associa-given by a correspondent in China. tion and Broadcast Pronunciation: The B.I. 8.5. Takada, from when there are other glaring and be given some share in the direc-Singapore, is due here on Thursday.widespread faults to be remedied, tion of affairs in Hongkong. Far from seeing any reason why wo- men should not figure on the Legislative Council, the Sanitary Board, the Board of Education. The P. and O. 5.9. Macedonia, the Licensing Board and such from Singapore, is due here on other bodies aa are open to Un-Thursday at 2 pm. officials, we consider that their services as members of these in- stitutions would be of the utmost value. In this Colony as in every other place, there are innumer- able matters in which the advice and opinions of women should be welcomed, yet a glance through 1,000,000 the constitution of bodies fune
THERE ARE DOMESTIC MODELS OF FROM FOUR TO EIGHTEEN CUBIC FEET STORAGE CAPACITY,
OVER.
IN USE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
(1) The mispronunciation of the final short "a" in such words as "iden," "sofa," "soda," and "um. brella"-almost invariably pro- Miss Florence Wong, B.A., (Hongkong) who was for a time nounced "i-deer," "sof-er," "god- on the staff of the Malayan Deflyer," "umbrell-er" by the average Express, has joined the Straits Englishman and woman, even the Echo.
educated. I have heard an M.A. of Cambridge repeatedly speak of "Canad-er," "Calcutt-er" and "Malt-er" Surely an effert should be made, before too late, to remedy this horrible mispronunciation.
The exchange banks will be closed to the transaction of public business on Thursday, October 10, the Anniversary of the Chinese
Republic.
tioning in the public life of Hong, kong reveals the fact that the
Mr. Manuel Quezon, President membership of all, excepting one of the Philippines Senate, has ar
DOOWELL & Co., Ltd. dealing purely with medical mat-rived in the Colony with a party of
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(2) An, allied and even more painfut vulgarism, not just so firmly entrenched-at least among the educated-is the insertion of in such words as "law," "raw," "draw" mispronounced "lawre," "rawre," "drawre." The word ters, is restricted to men. For friends. They are on their way to
"armahr," so frequently written in Nanking.
chits for "amah" illustrates both time, the Board of Education did
types of errors, and shows further have one lady member, whose ser-
The forth coming wedding is an-that those who use this super vices were of very real value, but nounced of Mr. Francis Charles fluous sound are fully con
Brimblecombe, prison to-day that body is wholly com-Victoria Gnol, to Miss Fanny Blyth, connexion the irony of the matter warder, scious of its presence. In this
posed of the other sex. Not only No. 45, Wyndham Street,
is that, in words requiring it, the in regard to local government
""sound is omitted altogether. The Siberian mail route from
(3) It seems hopeless to draw to that "odious vul Hongkong is beng resumed. In attention future, mails for Europe superscribgarism," the substitution of the ed "vin Siberia" will be forwarded various tenses of the verb "lay" via Japan and Vladivostok. It is for the corresponding ones of the anticipated that the time of transit verb "lle," unless to point out its will be about 24 days.
having now reached the written language as an awful example of the non-adoption, in matters grammatical, of the "stitch in time" policy.
Hongkong Telegraph would we favour the admission of
MONDAY, OCT. 7, 1929.
WOMAN'S ERA.
of
of
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Convicted of a charge of attempt- ing to defraud a pawnbroker of $60, gilt bangles were of pure gold, a by pretending that à pair of gold Chinese was sentenced to six weeks hard labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning.
With two previous convictions for larceny against him, a Chinese was sentenced to five months' hard labour by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith,
avoidable cruelty to three pigs by For causing unnecessary, and
failing to provide their crates with matting, two Chinese were cach fined $8 by Mr. T. S. Whyte Smith at the Kowloon Magistracy this morning. His Worship pointed out was provided the animals' legs to the defendants that if no matting
would protrude through the bottom and when the crates were deposit- ed on the ground pigs would suffer injury.
(4) An error quite modern and somewhat similar to (3) is the use of "in" for "into". To "walk in and to "walk into a room are two quite different actions, just as are to walk on" and to "walk onto" the roof.
ENGLISH UNDEFILED. Hongkong, Oct. 7, 1929,
POLICE RESERVE.
ORDER FOR THE CURRENT
WEEK.
Police Reserve-Orders by the Hon. Mr. T. H. King, Acting Cap- tain "Superintendent of Police,
state:
All Kids of Embroider. Orders Promptly Excused. Fur Coats Made to Order.
Your Skin or Oura. Ladies Can Have Fita Upstairs. Clothing of a Woman Tail or Ladies Furnished in the Upper.
Storey.
They were talking of the new member of the Club, & Scotsman.
"You know," observed one, “a Scotsman once he gets to London, never goes home again, unless it's to fetch his brother."
"Oh." said another man, "that". may be; but there are not nearly
"days."
so many Scota coming South these
"Indeed!"
"No; you see they're born London now to save the fare."
·
It is far better to take people time in trying to make them as as they are than to waste valuable
they should be.
Mr. Justice Eve, in the Chancery Division-I have always found that people whose handwriting is legible are honest and agreeable.
Owing to the curtailment of the water supply at Khos (North Wales), a publican used buckets of beer to extinguish a fire which broke out in a nearby shop.
Cornwall policeman, of a woman accused of using bad language—I heard her 200 yards away. Woman--I was only telling my husband what I thought of him.
She was paying a visit to the doctor and had just reeled off her complaints.
"Now, let me see," he said, "that's headaches, spots before the eyes, insomnia, and indigestion. How old did you say you were?" remarked, twenty-two."
shyly Shesimpered, “and.
"I'm, loss of memory, too. Pretty serious."
He was a stout man, and his feet were big in proportion. He wore stout boots, too, wich broad, sensibly-shaped toes.. When he came into the boot shop to buy another pair, he found he had some difficulty in getting what he warted. A dozen pairs were arought and shown him.
No, no!. I must have square toes," he insisted.
"But, sir, everybody is wearing shoes with pointed toes. They are fashionable this season."
"I'm sorry," said the stout man gravely, as he prepared to leave the shop, "for giving you so much trouble. "But you see, I'm still wearing my last season's feet!"..
women into the councils of the Colony, but we think an equally good case can be made out for women jurors. All this may seem a trifle revolutionary in a Colony given overmuch to tradition and precedent, but we must move with the spirit of the times. There are The growing influence women in the Old Country is many women in this Colony, both foreign and Chinese, who have the agnin demonstrated by the
time and the ability to render ser- selection of Miss Susan Law-
the vice to the community, but whose the chairman of rence as
To remedy these and similar next Labour Party Conference. activities are circumscribed by She is the first woman to have conditions as they are. Not only
serious errors should be, it seems to me, a "first charge" on those been appointed to this position, would the opportunity to do their
interested in the maintenance in and the choice is as much in share be welcomed by those, cum-at the Kowloon Magistracy this its purity of our "priceless heri-
morning, for stealing two chopper tage." The standardized pronun the parting within this category, provid-blocks. Another Chinese was given ciation of "off" and "gene" can Acknowledgment which women
in ing them with new interests in one month's imprisonment for "a come lator-Yours etc., can play the political life of the country life, but what is more, the Colony like offence. as it is
a tribute to Misa Law would benefit. If we have hopes un-of the Colony one day possessing renee's past services and doubted abilities. No-one who its own Municipal Council we takes note of present-day ten-must visualise women among its dencies at Home can fail to be menibers. But even before that struck by the manner in which time let the break with tradition womenfolk are taking their place be made, thus bringing Hongkong side by side with men not only in line with the spirit of the in national politics and local times in which we live.. government but in practically every sphere, of social and com. The Hongkong Dollar. manal activity. For many years, The drop of nearly a penny in the
Mr. Roy W. Howard, the well-
Chinese Company, of course, women have rendered sterling value of the dollar in the who arrived here by the President kaown American newspapermaṁ
Squad Drill-All recruits of the space of an hour on Saturday invaluable service to the country morning, caused a flutter in busi Adams on an Oriental tour with
Chinese Company will' at on various boards and councilsness circles and among dabblers in his wife, had hoped to lie able to tend at Central Police Station on
exchange. It also gave
rise to transfer to one of the Americas Thursday, October 10th. at 5.30 charged, with the task of local some little anxiety among dollar destroyers whilst at sea between p.m. sharp for squad drill under government, to say nothing of salaried residents with Home leave here and Manila in order that he P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt. Dress- their work on behalf of benevo-impending, or families in England, might full an important engage Mutui. lent and charitable organisation. by the rumours with which the air the destroyers which were to pro- a feeling which has not been allayed ment in the latter port. However, They have also begun to invade is thick of a further heavy fall to ceed from Shanghai to Manila are certain professions and trades come. A prominent broker ex-still at the former port, and the presses the view that Saturday's plan has therefore had to be formerly the preserves of man, remarkable fall was due to normal abandoned. until to-day there is scarcely a influences, but it is difficult to be- calling in which they cannot be persuasion was brought to bear, lieve otherwise than some artificial found. But most striking of all and it is hoped that further deve- has been the growing participa-lupment of this policy will be more tion of women in national affairs. deep ncquaintance with economic carefully measured. It requires no This has been made particularly laws to realise that currency in- evident by the extension of the flation, in any community is, in the long run, unhealthy but so also is franchise, to an extent which has it a fact that artificial deflation, resulted in more women than men particularly when hurried, carries
The Warwick Revue Company, The next fortnightly patrol of now being on the electoral roll, its own dangers. The merchants which will commence a short the Hong Kong Section will take of the Colony, we are told, scason at the Star Theatre on on Thursday, October 17th. Fall whilst to-day there are more are anxious to see the dollar October 10th, will receive'a warm in at the Central Police Station at women Members of Parliament brought down to its silver parity, welcome here. It is some years 6.15 p.m. sharp, Dress Khaki
but we have yet to be convinced of since one of Mr. Warwick's attrac- Uniform. than ever before in the history of the full justice of the plea that the tions visited Hongkong, and the the country. Yet a further sign Hongkong's trade generally is suf- type of production he is sending fering under a severe handicap as is one that should make a decided of the times is to be found in the a result of a high dollar. It is appeal at this time of the year. Shoot which took place on Sunday, The result of the Handicap Prize. fact that one of the principal elementary that, other things being for it is designed solely to amuse, September 29th. at the Kennedy Cabinet poste, that of the normal, currency inflation operates and, judging by reports from Road Range are as follows-Cons
to the benefit of the importer and elsewhere, it has been doing so in table R435 P. Fletcher winner of Ministry of Labour, is in the to the detriment of the exporter. hands of a woman, in the person It is presumably the exporter, no uncertain fashion.
the Silver Cup presented by Constof them, if they were to do The Company left London as R406 Ho Ying Kwong; Constable therefore, who has provided the re- Miss Margaret Bondfield. cent agitation for the deflation of recently as December, so it should R419. A. J, Raptis winner of the There are conservative-thinking the dollar. His argument, however, be up-to-the-date in every respect. Cup presented by Crown Sergeant people was look askance at these has yet to be presented in a convin- Press cuttings from other centres R407 W. V. Field. developments, but we know of export trade consists of re-exports, staged, full of brilliant dancing volver practice will take place at cing form. The bulk of Hongkong's describe it as witty, delightfully Revolver Practice. The next re- no evidence In support of the that is to say, Hongkong exports and colour, and an ideal form of the Kennedy Road Range on Sun- fear that the country may suffer what it has imported from else entertainment for a hot summer Belts and Holsters to be worn.
day, October 27th. at 10.00 a.m. where. On the surface, therefore, night. It presents no problem as a consequence of this opening it would seem that what the ex-whatever. the slogan "Just for up of new channels of activity porter pleads he is losing on the Fun" hever being lost sight of.
roundabouts, he has already gained. on the swings. The greatest: dan- belleve that the progressive ger of the downward tendency of emancipation of women is not only the dollar, moreover, lan rise in the cost of living. Things would, good in the sense that it widens no doubt, adjust themselves eventu their outlook and increases their ally but we fear it would not be until after the damage had already responsibilties," but that the ind
been done..
of
to women." Rathor
do
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WARWICK REVUE COMPANY.
OPENING AT KOWLOON
ON THURSDAY.
Indian Company. Squad Drill. All recruite of the Indian Company will attend Police Headquarters for squad drill un-
der P/Sergeant R. J. Hunt on Tues- day, October 8th. and 15th. at 5,30
Dress-Mufti. p.m. sharp.
Flying Squad.
The fortnightly patrol of the Kowloon Section will take place on Tuesday, October 8th. Fall in at the Taim-tsa-tsu Fire Brigade Station at 6.30 p.m. sharp. Dress -Khaki Uniform.
Sharpshooters' Company.
(SA) W. KENT, A. 8. F. Adjutant.
"...
the
During the season different productions will be presented,
Passengers leaving on The Poep Show" "High Lights" "Airy Nothings", "Stop This Haruna Maru on Saturday includ Way" "Come Inside" anded Minister A. Kagama, Rev. and "N'Everything."
Mrs; F. Lawa, Dr. and Mrs. Lach- The box plana is now open at mann, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Baines, Mourie's and the Star Theatre.
Mr. L. Ryan and Mr. Ji Greenaway.
WHO WAS ?
GIGADIBS.
Successful clergymen are often accused of bypocrisy. Clever young Mr. Gigadibs, writer and free-thinker, was sure that the great. Bishop Blourgram was far too in- telligent to believe In the dogmas. of the religion which he professed. He pretended to despise the prelate for his sup posed insincerity.
All the same, Mr. Gigadibs" was mightily flattered when an: Invitation come for him to diner. at the Palace, and accepted with. great eagerness. Something In his attitude at dinner, gave his host an inkling of the young man's opinions of him: and over the walnuts the bis- hop explained his philosophy of life. D
A definité belief was necesя~ Bary for some men himself one
their work in the world, said: he. Why should he be accused, of cant almply because he chose... to believe in things which could. not be proved true by ordinary scientific methods? Neither should he be despised for hav- Ing succeeded in his chosen de- partment of life,
AMA Mr. Gigadiba was taken. aback by this unexpected train of argument, He departed "a aadder and more thoughful man than he arrived. D
It was Robert Browning who Invented these two, and pitted them against one another in his poem "Bishop Blou- gram's Apology."""
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