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SAY IT WITH SONGS.”
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, DECEMBER 21st,
Little Davey Lee plays with Al Johnson again in this new Warner Bros' Vitaphone_pie ture, "Says It With Songs." Davy was the famous "Sonny Boy" in "The Singing Fool."
A new picture of the Five-Storey Pagoda situated on the bill of the Goddess of Mercy at Canton. Many hundreds of years old, it has just been reconstructed in reinforced concrete, as a Provincial Museum for Kwangtung. The walls. at the base are 18 feet thick.
THIS "SEX EQUALITY.” Phyllis Ward says It's Foolishness.
The phrase "sex equality" is be. coming a catchword, almost n music-hall joka. It is developing: into an excuse for bad manners, which wo women are encouraging.
"Sex equality," murmurs the tired young man as his fair-com- panion pays for both seats at the cinema, "Sex equality," again mutters the man in the Tube as hef osconces himself more firmly be hind his evening paper while drooping females tread hopefully on his fect.
Our physical strength is not, was, never intended to be, and never will be, equal to that of men, in spile of such example as Russia's women volunteer army. Women are not allowed to play more than three sets in lawn tennis matches and championships while men play five.
arc cour. Physleally women Ageous, otherwise there would be no birth rate, but few wamen could have stood the awful, nerve-rack- ing strain of defending a' front- line trench, the mental agony of anticipation, and the bodily strain. Woman is the complement of man. 1.do not believe in dex equality and I am convinced that in actual fact the average girl does not believe! in it either. I believe most emphatically in girls earning their own living, for what could posslily be more lowering to-one's self- respect than to sit at home and wait for someone to marry you?
The only trouble is that we are learning to be too independent, and it is becoming Impossible for an intelligent girl accustomed tu typing her employer's letters, dent-1 ing possibly the welfare of thousands of people, to Bettle down to the title-tattle of the suburban ten table.
It is all very well for some men to cry The women's place is at home," but we all knew that there are far too many of us to fill these potential homes.
Tun
Therefore let those who fall in love and want to get married stick to their choice and make a success of their married life, for it is an exceptional woman who can both her home and her business successfully. The remainder must sort themselves out and make use of their talents to the best of their ability,
Jam full of admiration for such pioneers as Miss Agnala Ramsay, who in 1887 was the first woman to achieve firal-class honours in the Claznical Tripos at Cambridge. ten years after the first public school for girls was started; and Mrs: Pankhurst. whose per- tinacious efforts eventually obtain- ed for us the jealously guarded yote.
They are our representatives, | and men must recognize, them us such. The rest of us, married' or ingle, must aim as high as we can, for even with our increasing responsibilities and knowledge there can nover. be, true sex crowd to equality while men musien) comedies to admire tha legs of the chorus-(Phyllis Ward" in the Daily Express,
1929.
Gifts
PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT
"that live longer than a day'
"A few suggestions:
Silk Ties and Handkerchiefs,
singly or in sets Silk and Knitted
Wraps and Scaris Dressing. Gowns
Bath Gowns
Slippers
Socks and Golf Hose Jewellery
Braces.
HE pleasant custom of gift making at Christmas provides an admirable means of expressing one's friendly wishes in durable form, though one sometimes finds it a little difficult to hit upon exactly the right choice for the wasculine portion of
your list.
Your problem, however, will be much simplified if you make your selection at Mackintosh's, for there you cau see the very articles which men would choose for themselves.
These goods were personally selected by Mr. Mackintosh, who was recently in London. Thus, they are fresh, new and attractive, and as gifts their daily usefuluess assures them of appreciative welcome.
To choose wisely is to enhance the satisfaction you derive from giving. It will be a pleasure to show you our Christmas selections, and to offer assistance in making such a choice.
Mackintosh's
A visit to us entails no obligation whatsoever.
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The presence of 320 V.C.'s was an outstanding feature on Armistice Day service at the Cenotaph, which was again attended by a vast concourse of people. In the absence of the King, the Prince of Wales Inid his Majesty's wreath on the Cenotaph. Our photograph, taken during the march past of the V.C.'s, gives a general impression of the scene in Whitehall. (Times copyright)
FOR XMAS GIFTS
GIVE THE PRACTICAL.
SHOES- SLIPPERS,
OR DECIDE ON
HOSIERY
GIFT.
WILL
YOUR HAVE A DEEPER.
MEANING IF CHOSEN
FROM
GORDON'S