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She can burlesque affairs of love delightfully too, as in Lesley Castle, when the bridegroom breaks his "scull" and the bride's sister complains that all her pre- paration is in vain. So intensely human is she, that she must have loved dearly once at least.
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of existence, and gave them a bed and a comfortable...lodging. He | felt confident that the "Trustees had no intention of contravening any of the Sanitary Board regula. tions. He thought it was a matter. where the Department could ex A meeting of the Hongkong
A resolution enquiring of Gov-tend its benevolence in not en. Branch of the English Associs
ernment whether it was consider forcing too stringently the regula tion was held yesterday at 6.30
ed that conditions were sufficient- tions against the Rest House. He p.m. at Government House. The Jane Austen has been accused of ly normal to justify the introduc roalised that like every other ins- chairman, Sir Henry Gollan, de primness, but this idea is irrecon- tion of bye-laws for the regulation titution, it would have to con- clared the meeting open and call-cilable with a passage in a birth of food-preserving establishments form with the laws of the Colony, (HESHIRE, ENGLAND.ed upon Mr. Birch Acting on day letter to Cassandra, where she was adopted by the Sanitary Board and he felt sure that the Moslem Secretary, to read the minutes of says that, "I and my Irish friend at the fortnightly meeting held authorities comply with the re the last meeting. After these did everything that was profligate resterday.
It was moved by Hon. Dr. A. R marks merely as a suggestion,
quirements. He made these re had been duly read and confirm and shocking in the way of danc-
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The Chairman said that he took Southora and asked her to deliver
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On the other hand, she was censur-Medical and Sanitary Services, it that that was exactly what the ed by Mrs. Mitford as a "pretty, who pointed out that as food was President"
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The lecturer began by referring silly, affected, husband-hunting but the medium for the spread of a should be given a period of Bix Every experienced traveller knows
ed her as description which might create consternation among those who began to read the novels with no other knowledge of the author: Chesterton, in his preface to "Love and Friendship" (sic) saya that she could have been a buffoon, like Chaucer's Wyf of Bath, while others have compared her fools" to those of Shake- speare. Such comparisons are odious. Jane was
unique and inimitable.
Another type of critic - complain that of Jane and
novels "there is nothing to -nothing ever happens."
Cer- tainly neither Jane nor her characters were heroines of the cinematograph type; but in her own life and work there is tar more material than can be dealt with easily in a lecture, and every incident therein is invested with a subtle charm and interest.
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The motion was put to the meet-
food-preserving establishments before the Legislative Council."
various estimates of Jane terfly" This tallies with no other number of diseases, it was right months.. Austen's genius. One learned portrait. On the contrary she was and proper that those who pre- professor of English had describa forerunner of the splendid, inde-pared food for sale should be sub-ing and carried.
Food Regulations; a comic writer, a pendent woman of to-day, who pre-jected to reasonable rules and re-
Correspondence relative to the fers no marriage to a loveless one. Fulations made for the purpose We can see from the portrait, inof protecting the health of those
proposed bye-laws for the re- A further motion was for the gistration of food-preserving es words by her nephew that in ap- who partook of such food. pearance she was attractive.
sixtablishments was laid before the For twenty-five years her life suspension for a period of flowed on peacefully, varied by months of a warning notice re meeting. The Hon. Dr. Welling quiring the removal of water ton moved the following resolution: mild gaiotics such as balls where closets at the New Rest Hotel in "That the Board write to Govern minuets and country-dances were in fashion, and a master-of-cere Shelley Street. It was adopted ment enquiring if it is considered by the meeting after the Chairman that conditions are now sufficient- monies introduced the young people and Hon., Mr. J. P. Braga hadly normal to justify the placing to one another. There are pleas-pleaded for a benevolent attitude the bye-laws for the regulation of ing sidelights in the novels on cus by the Board.
Catherine Mar- toms. of the day.
The Hon. Mr. H. T. Creasy land drank mulled wine on return (Director of Public Works) pre- maying from a party (not cocktails as sided in the absence of Mr. G. R.
her do modern girls!). say We realise that Jane knew noth-Sayer, the President of the Board, and other members present were ing of the comforts and luxuries the Hon. Dr. A. R. Wellington that have come to us to-day. The (Director of Medical and Sanitary Parsonage was furnished in Services), the Hon. Mr. J. P. was only one- severe and formal style. There Braga, Mr. T. N. Chau, Mr. Wong sofa-to which Kwong-tin and Mr. J. Watson pathetic interest is attached. It (Secretary), was always occupied by Mrs. Aus- ten, an invalid, and Jane when at-1 tacked by her mortal illness re- fused to usurp her mother's sofa but contrived a couch for herself out of chairs, knowing that at the but least sign of needing it on her part, Mrs. Austen would refuse to use it.
Her surroundings. harmonised with her tastes. Fanny Eurney, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot all knew storm and stress,
Mohammedan Rest House.
The Chairman referring to the water closets installed at the New Rest Hotel at No. 30 Shelley Street, said that as a result of an inade uate supply of water being main tained, a warning notice had been served, but efforts had since been made to supply better water for
In support of this he said: As food is a medium for the spread of a number of diseases, including diarrhoea, dysentery, enteric, para- typhoid, cholera and tuberculosis, it is right and proper that those who prepare food for sale should be subject to reasonable rules and regulations made for the purpose of protecting the health of those who may partake of such food.
Under section 16 sub-section 19
section
the Board has power to make bye- laws for the regulation of bake- houses, dairies, aerated water manufactories and food preserving establishments, Urder 16, sub-section 32, the Board has power to make bye-laws for the prevention of the manufacture or sale of unsound, adulterated or unwholesome food. Bye-laws have ten adopted for ensuring the cleanliness of bake-houses, dairies, markets, slaughter houses and aerated water manufactories, but p to date none have been adopted for the regulation of food preserv ing establishments.
the story of Jane's life brings with it the peace and fragrance of the English gardens and of the In 1801 Mr. Austen died, and to flowers, she loved so well. Al-Jane's real sorrow the family mov-flushing purposes. The Inspector though she lived in a period of ed to Bath. The last eight years had reported that the present great historical events, her work of her life were spent at Chawton, supply was satisfactory, but he gives no picture of wars or、 re- the scene of her greatest literary doubted if it would last until volutions; the only glimpses of activity. "Pride and Prejudice" Easter. The President, however, the "world" we catch from them had been submitted earlier to Mr. suggested that the notice be sus are pictures of the gray streets Cadell and declined; in 1803 "Nor-pended for a period of six months of Bath or the stately streets of thanger Abbey" was sold for £10 to allow the owners to take steps
to meet requirements. London, where she used to stay and left in a drawer till it was re-
Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga said he with friends or relatives. This purchased for the same sum from may appear dull, but it is not, for a too-willing publisher. He did not wanted to suggest one thing. In with her breath of humour Jane know until he had sold it that the view of the fact that the Mo- also the author of hammedan Rest House was a Austen breathed life into her author was
benevolent institution, and not run confined world.
"Pride and Prejudice."
just for the sake of money, "Sense and Sensibility" was the thought the Department might book which first won for her re-take a rather benevolent view of for the introduction of such bye- counition, but she never became the circumstances, and give the the pet of the gay loud world; she authorities some time to carry out was only read and appreciated by the required improvements in or a small circle and even then her der to obtain the necessary sup- name remained almost unknown.
ply. He personally had visited the A Distinction.
Rest House and thought it was doing a very good charitable work, Mohammedans, who assisting either arrived in the Colony more de or less destitute, or those who were in the Colony without any means
Affection for Sailors.
Ber father Was A
Cassandra's fiance. Jane shared
to
Bye-laws were drafted and ap- proved by the Board in 1925. These were submitted to Govern- ment for approval in that year, he but Government considered that the time was not then opportune laws, and proposed if the Board saw no objection, not to bring the regulations before the Legislative Council until conditions became more normal. The matter was dropped and it is now proposed to bring the matter again notice of Government.
to the
he
Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga said would like to second the motion. He thought it would be very fitting if he made one remark by way of comparison. The D.M.S.S. in the
ference to bakehouses. At the course of his argument made re- moment he did not happen to have a copy of the licences relating to bakehouses, but it struck him in looking up the Municipal Gazette of the Shanghai Municipality that the regulations included, or rather
what a convenience it is to have ready at hand a simple and easily- taken remedy such as Pinkettes.. Just a couple of these dainty little laxativeşt aken when needed, are all that is necessary to ensure
daily regularity, to correct sick. headache and vertigo, and to dis- pelt he ill-effects of strange or ill-cooked food. Chemists every- where sell Pinkettes, 60 cents per vial.
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contatry parson, a scholar of St. John's, Oxford, and held the living of Steventon in Hampshire, where the novelist lived, for the first twenty-five years of her life. She stayed at home. learnt the The only mark of distinction domestic arts, and mothered the she received during her life was in parishioners. Two of her brothers 1815, when the Prince Regent became distinguished admirals, hearing she was in London, and it is observable in her books puted his librarian to walt on her that the warmest corner of her and invite her to view the library heart is for sailors. In all her at Carlton House, and said he would references to ships and sailors be pleased to accept the dedication after so much labour." That is there is no inaccuracy: she never of one of her books. Emma was the secret of her genius, which has
dedicated duly touched a subject of which she
him. The moreover, strength and vigour in Librarian suggested she should spite of her laughing disparage was ignorant.
Her family circle was a pleasant write a romance on the illustrious ment. She had an astonishing gift house of Coburg, but this sugges-for making everyday things live one, bound by the closest affection,tion she declined (with her tongue for ever and it is the little things and touched by no sorrow till the in her check) as she "couldn't keep that hold our imagination and embodied, in the licences, made death abroad of her Bister it upwithout laughing."
thrill us across the years. She spitting in the bakehouses an of- She had a just appreciation of had, too, an unerring instinct for fence against the licensee. It oc- intensely in this grief. It is only her own gifts, and criticised her the right word in the right place, curred to him that the D.M.S.S. natural to speculate a little as to self severely, but of Elizabeth Ben- and an unfailing sense of humour had brought to the notice of the her own affairs of the heart, het she had to say she was "as de-Jane Austen proves for all time Board the existence of regulations though of them we have no first-lightful a creature as ever appear that small beer need not be flat for food preserving establish- hand knowledge, and we realise ed in print."
ments, which they had submitted. how much she herself would have The novels were written at a The lecturer then touched on to Government for approval, but disliked to have her romance desk in the public sitting-room, on the delicacy of Jane Austen's Government considered that the dragged into the cold light of day. small pieces of paper that could irony, her neute perception and time was not then opportune for Her nephew tells us that in her be casily hidden on the arrival of firmness of touch, on her wonder the introduction of such bye-laws youth she refused the addresses visitors, and the writer, was grateful blending of attention to detail and proposed not to bring the re- of a gentleman eligible in every ful for a squeaking door that gave and breadth of vision, and on the gulations before the Legislative respect except the one-essential warning of their coming.
strength and depth of a nature Council until conditions became -he failed to touch her heart; Mrs. Southern said that she had which created such love in the more normal. and once Cassandra revealed that no intention of giving a detailed hearts of her family, at a sea-side place they had met discussion of the novels,
The address was fully and de- one whom she thought worthy of people may not read them, sightfully illustrated from both Jane's love, but he died before others will not hear classical músic the novels and the letters. they could meet again. The in case it is dull: if they knew the The chairman, after thanking pictures of unrequited and hope best music they would like it, and Mr. Sauthor for her excellent less love in Fanny Price and Anns: if people will read Jane (though, and witty lecture, opened a dis- tice of spitting might be effective- Eliott seem to refleet something her works may be less accessible cussion, in which other members ly incorporated in the licence. of Jane's own life, particularly than those of Edgar Wallace) they took part.
The Chairman said that Mr. Ann's remark
The next meeting that it is women | will enjoy her when they know her.
an- Bragg's
commentary regarding who love longest "when hope is Jane said of herself that she nounced for Tuesday, April 1. in spitting. would be brought to the gone." But this is legitimate worked "on a little bit of ivory two the Cathedral Hall, when Fr. Mc-notice of the President. speculation, and beyond it we must inches wide with so fine a brush Donald, S.J., will speak on "Liter- The motion put to the To.
which produces 80 little effect ary Links between East and West." meeting and carried...
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