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As parties are aligned at present,
it might mark a move to the right.
DAY BY DAY
It certainly emphasises the anta- gonism of the Government to Communism and its abhorrence of
MARGERY LAWRENCE, the Novelist on MAN THE INCONSISTENT.
THE MAN WHO CAN MAKE UP IS the crime in Fukien. It might MIND QUICK MAKES UP OTHER PEO- also be said that the adoption of PLE'S MINDS FOR THEM.-G. H.
Lorimer. Christianity, would facilitate the relations of the Nanking Govern- It is notified that the name of
THO said man is consistent? jany form of work she is wrong ment with foreign nations by the Wai Hing Company. Limited. 1. declare him to be glorious-again, since she is. Occupying a
has been struck off the Régister.
ly, completely, and com-position that someone else might removing the suspicion that there
placently inconsistent! It is for need for actual existence. Should is in it either reactionary dislike
It is notified that Mr. J. D.tunate that women as a whole, she take up unpaid work, she ja promptly accused of undercutting of things, including religion, Lloyd resumed duty as Super- tako man and his opinions with
intendent of Imports and Exports, pinch of salt-for if, in truth, we the labour market. which come from abroad and aon 31st October.
were to be guided by them we
If a "superfluous woman" may should find ourselves very often in
nor remain idle, welcome to truth from whichever
The annual ball of the Hong-a pretty quandary. He contradicts neither work direction it comes, or, on the other kong St. George's Society is to bethimself as a habit, and changes his what does runn suggest she is to
do with her life! hand, that it was becoming so held at the Peninsula Hotel on opinion with every wind.
If a woman marries a poor man a January 6th next. radical that it. threatened
and has more children than he breach with the more sober
His Excellency the Governor has Here are a few instances of the can support or educate, she is elements in international life. It appointed Mr. R. A. C. North to be inconsistency of which he is so fond wrong again-it is wrong to have is not impossible that in the way Chief Assistant to the Secretary of boasting we are the sole posses-children one cannot afford; yet if of sympathy these political con-
His Excellency the Governor has siderations may have had weight: but
we Incline to the view appointed Mr. R. R. Todd to be an
Assistant Superintendent that unless there were genuine!
Imports und Exports. conviction of the truth of the religion adopted, they would have The Gazelle intimates that
from Monday, November 10th, little influence. Probably
to Murray Pier will be closed had conviction has come through per-traffie until further notice. sonal relationships with Chris
Hongkong Telegraph.relationship.
SATURDAY, N 108.
1930.
CHIANG KAI-SHEK AND CHRISTIANITY.
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persons of the
for Chinese Affairs.
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she marries and declines to have la child she is even more hideous- When, some years ago,
our ly wrong. In our grandmother's day man raised an outery against hair was cropped short as a mon-woman's lack of brains and educa- skirts shot up to our knees, key's, and corsets, in common tion. Now that she has educated encumbrances, vanished, the aut herself to his level, he growls be- ery that arose from every male cause she occasionally cuts him positively deafening. The out at his own job. When she was simply wife and mother he newspapers were snowed under grumbled at her "dulness." Now with letters signed "Disgusted,' "Indignant." "Lover of True Wo-he grumbles more loudly still be- Mr. Douglas D. McKay arrived manhood," and the like, and one's cause, having come out of the kit- cher and the nursery, she, is not and uncles, tinns, one of whors in the person here by the s.s. President Pierce father, brothers, of his wife is in the closest yesterday to join the lumber de- friends all united to tell us how minded to go back here, excent domestic relation,
two partment of the Robert Dollar Co. altogether unwomanly, disgrace for visits to see that all is we!'.
ful, and abandoned we not only In the days when others in the
Now that we adopted a pose of swooning ar The Government is inviting looked but were, Foreign Minister, Dr. C. T. Wang. tenders for Aberdeen lower pump-have changed all that, and fashion tificially, she was sneered at for a style of dress that weakness and folly-now she has and the Minister for Finance, 31r.ing station. This is in connexion decrees
with the Aberdeen Valley water-should arouse shouts of masculine cast aside, that pose, behaves as approval, to our bewilderment we she thinks right, and expresses her Soong, are in the closest official works scheme.
find ourselves still in the wrong. opinions frankly and freely, she is for being "crude," His Excellency the Governor has
For the man who attacked the attacked How much most eventually be!
appointed Mr. T. M. Hazlerigg a short skirt is now attacking the "hard," and "unwomanly!" If we the put down to
far-seeing act as Land Officer and Lieut. Col. When our Yar short use make-up, we are attacked for that. And if we, in despair, leave the Frederick Eaves, D.S.0., to act as
·looked
"In- "hideous," earnestness and policy of
noses to shine, as natural feminine." "all alike." Yet now wonderful figure who has been Assistant Land Officer,
the cropped head, that once roused noses are all too prone to do, the
Inconsistent male sniffs and behind the fortunes of the Revolu A bankruptcy notification states such storm, is "charming."
women never look as soignee að tion as mother-in-law both of Dr. that a first and final dividend of our just-growing long hair is "un marks that "of course English-
$8 per cent. has been declared in hygienic."
French?" Sun Yat-sen and of the present the matter of the Yue Wo Hing becoming."
of the administration, Firm, contractors, of 34. Swatuw Whether looked at from the bead strictly religious or the religio-another of whose daughters is Street, Hongkong.. political point of view the recent married to Dr. Kung, the Minister' reception of Chiang Kai-shek into of Industry, and whose son is the the Christian Church is an event capable Minister of Finance, is She is, however, ul the first magnitude. It was not yet clear. unforeseen, and although it was already a figure of romance to the
implore us to be "true to Chinese mind. She. her brilliant
selves" (whatever that cryptic carried out in comparative
phrase may mean). Never to privacy, yet the high position of laughter, and their circle have those who were present with him doubtless brought a
Con-of dress that man is so gloriously, pose, tell lies, or flirt. Yet if we. at the ceremony, and the extra-natural influence, and the Marshalsulate and permanent offices es-shamelessly inconsistent. Take ure ever foolish enough to follow ourselves left at the post for some ordinary crisis through which the has come within the circle of tablished in Exchange Building, the vexed question of "working your advice to the letter we find
Vorux Road Central, wives.". According to men,
wrong for a wife to work, since typical minx in French heels and with make-up, (Telephone No. 22847).
flimsies, coated Christian movement is passing in religious forces the strength and Des
she should give her whole time to present-day China, give a drama-reality of which he doubtless had
the running of her home. But it diffusing perfume like a hoth- Paragraph (1) of Regulation tie quality which inevitably sug-little conception when he first
14 under the watchmen ordinance, at the same time, quite dis-house, and beguiling you with gests comparison with the only approached them.
has been rescinded and the follow-raceful for her to be a "para-every lie known to Eve!
site," battening upon her unfor- other conversion which is any
ing paragraph substituted there lunate hard-working husband. If for:"Every employer of a police she is unmarried and has a little Perhaps it is a good thing for degree parallel, the conversion of
the watchman shail on or before the money, she is wrong to remain us that we never take your stric- Constantine when, after three
todle; the idle young woman is altures too seriously, but go hundred years, at least the Roman noted political scientist, committ-last day of each month pay
ed himself to a rather remarkable the Treasurer in respect of each favourite Aunt Sally. People pic-lown sweet way, smiling a tolerant Empire gave a nominal allegiance criticism recently when
he de-police watchman who shall have ture her living a life of vice at smile, and knowing that, in the been in his employment for any cocktail parties, night clubs, and long run, you may criticise, jeer, to the Christian religion. Per- precated the potential spread of part of such month, other than as the like both forms of entertain- expostulate as you will, but in the train-even haps never in history has the university education among Enga casual watchman, the sum ofment, in my opinion, a weariness end you will follow, as you have
view is so as-$2 per month or part of a month. to the flesh, but that is no matter always done, in qur ruler of so large a proportion oflish youth. The
Yet should the poor girl take up if you dislike the length of it! it might well be for police supervision." the people of the globe accepted tonishing that the Christian name. It may be queried whether the learned pro- fessor was jesting. But he was freely acknowledged that Chris-
unequivocal about it, declaring tianity has a long way to go before that if university education is China can be in any sense describ-given to too many people, two re- ed as a Christian country, and that sults appear one, the universi. Chiang Kai-shck cannot in any ties are congested and their teach- way carry the country as a whole ing becomes mechanical, and two, inadequately employed intellec- with him. Yet nothing can
tuals are developed and become deprive of significance the fact
the germ of revolutionary that within a few weeks of the
economic. ments, political and most horrible martyrdom of Professor Barker is almost as modern times the cause for which severe a critic of the positive effect the two Fukien ladies suffered of education as Oscar Wilde was
When we went corsetless men sighed for the trim waists of our You exhort us to be "natural." when To wear "sensible" shoes with The silk forwarded from here grandmothers. Yet now."
on the we are cautiously, very cautious-low heels, to adjure flimsy under- rouge and by the Empress of Asia
wrong still, and man powder. You declare that the (St. John's Park) and Hoboken in the 15th October arrived in New York, taking to corsets again, we are clothes, as well as on the 6th November, having been sighs, "Where is that supple, smell of perfume makes you sick boyish grace?" and says we shall and that no nice woman needs all develop internal ailments and anything but soap and water. You 22 days in transit.
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Educational Problems, - Professor Ernest Barker.
move-
has won as recruit the first person of its negative effect. It may be recalled that in "The Importance
in the nation.
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so circum-
of Being Earnest" Wilde retriarked It is impossible at this stage that "while the whole theory of either to estimate the motives or modern education is unsound, for- to gauge the consequences of this tunately in England at any rate event. We cannot say that the education produced no effect what- motives are not purely religious. ever." For the peace of mind of Were it not that the Marshal had many, there is ample reason to dis- made his profession at a time agree with the conclusions of both. It seems reasonable to sug- when the Kuomintang seemed to gest that if there is a danger of be making a marked attack on the universities becoming overcrowd- Christian system of education, and ed, extensions might be effected when the Tang Pa at Nanking as a beginning. Equally, it seems had shown a distinctly anti-absurd to suggest that higher Christian bias, it might have been education should be thought that the religious motive scribed that there should be no murmur of any kind from the 128 mixed with the political proletariat" in the future. What What, must also have been almost is really required is the formula- excessive absorption with military tion of educational plans. which affairs and the exceedingly.com will strike, an even balance be vocational plicated diplomacy which has tween practical or accompanied them would als training and the classical or aesthe- suggest that the Marshal must tic. It must be remembered that have bad little time for the quiet learning for the purpose of carn- one of the study of the doctrines of the ing a living is only
channels though which education Christian faith. Yet when we
expresses itself. Education for come to ask what the political leisure is just as important. It motives can have been it is not is the only way to make leisure a easy to put the finger on them social asset.
The ollice of the American been Commissioner hus Trade
from removed
the temporary location at the American
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