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MARRIAGE.
DAY BY DAY
The health return for yesterday
fever.
Views of a Vandal.
By the Man with the Hatchet
SENSELESS SLIMMING.
dinustrous atrikos The simple solution would, he thinks, ap- parently lie in restoring the value of gold by degrees to 'somewhere near the 1925 level, but this would
IT IS SURPRISING, IT 19 OFTEN AB- involve. elaborate international
TOUNDING, TA..DISCOVER NOW AND financial negotiations, with their THEN WHAT POSSIBILITIES OF RE- IN THE Inevitable delays. The same re- HABILITATION THERE ARE
MOST UNFORTUNATE OF US-Alfred sult could, however, be achieved Buchanan. by abundoning the gold standard, and by regulating currency so that it has a definite relation to the shows one Chinese case of typhold7OMEN never know when to cal compulsion, or otherwise. The W stop. I see thnt, not con-issue is whether we are to call. must important needs of existence,
tent with making themselves our souls, or our solar plexuses, Mr. I. This latter proposal was brought
C. Wrigley arrived sim. they have declared war even our very own, or whether we are aboard the President Grant from on fat bacon and pork.
to surrender them at the command to notice by the inte Professor Manila to-day.
Pigs, it seems, will have also to of the slimness fiends. Knut Wicksell in 1921, when
put themselves on diet and become No man ever does anything of Jic made tour of several,
slim-a hitherto unheard of altua-much consequence in life until his tion, which, according to the latest waist measurement is, in relation European countries by authority
advices, has enused confusion and to cheat expansion, ns 2 to 1. of the Swedish Government in
diamny in the best pig circles: It is immaterial how loudly our order to propound It to their An- The "Empress of Japan" left This feminine craze for dictation, physical culturists may protest that aucial experts, but met with little Vancouver on the 20th December, and for interfering with other pee- epigastric amplitude is a sign of And absalescence. and is due here on the 9th ple's private affairs, has gone too deseneration encouragement.
proposal January.
The fact remains that all the most. successful men exemplify this was to make use of the ifidex num- bers of the cost of living as a
generous fulfilment of the
a waistcoat
The P. & O. a.s. Karmain from Hongkong arrived at Marseilles on 20th December at 8 a.m.
far.
•
..
The Ynumati School is holding Until now pigs have lived their anme Its annual sports meeting at King's lives in their own way. They have prime function of basis for a currency which should Park to-morrow afternoon. Mr. R. become as fat as they could. The genial expansiveness.
I must be more than mero keep that number constant, which. Kotewall is to distribute the fatter they became the better were
they pleased, and their owners were coincidence. Thousands of pro- would presumably be effected by prizes..
please also--not that the ples over perous company directors, to name
about that. periodically redefining the value
no others, show that there is some- But
to be
thing in it. everything a
WARN
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changed. Slimming having become
wonen, they Are we, then, to sacrifice all this?
The answer is obviously in the negative; or, in other words
Passengers who arrived here to-troubled much of the pound note in terms of gold day by the .. Tatsuta Mara in- | whenever the index number began eluded the Rev. E. K. Quick, Mr.
C. G. S. Mackie, and Mr. J. the fashion among to show a material change. Apart Bourne.
ordain Unt slimeas shall charac- Are these of us who look upon our terize every other feature of the Incipient waistfulness with hope, from the presert problem. Profen- Cor Drydale thinks there can be arrived here by the 8.9. President pigs. The probability is that they ahead. to turn over
Amongst the passengers who landscape. The have begun with as an augury of more opulent days a leaf and an doubt that this device would be Grant to-day was Mr. J. Harde, will turn to us men next.
become proselytes of the slimneas So, if we are wise, we will put call? manufac- of immense valty in clarifying pan, the well-known
our fortresses betimes, in a state turer of hats hearing his name. cronomic dineusslots. ir The
6 defence.
if we know it. There are some pound note became simply a token
Mr. Tse Tsan-tai has sent copies; Even before this disaster de things in life that may be cheer- for a certain amount of the pri- of his publications, "The Bible scended upon them--this ruthless fully given up because they are The marrings took place quietly mary needs of lite, the distration and the Peking Man" and "Notes restriction of their diet so that m-not worth fighting to retain. Bat
on the 22nd Decemley, 1999 between money
the Peking Man" to the lady's pork or bacon might be len there are other things which we. and ral Bibliotera Apostolien at the Vati-hat some sympathy with pigs. hold dearer than life itself, and at St. Andrew's Church, Kowe i
al 1 would vanish. Just of John, third son of the wages
They were-and are the sub- which shall on no account be sur late Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hiar-standard of life of the peuple
merged tenth of the animal world, rendered. The prize distribution of Wan-children of the dead end, who have Preaves of 'reston and Eileen ould
then be represented by chai Government School is to take never had much of a chance. They Boris younger
Our women, in their desire to Mr. M. Garred and the late their money wages, eliminating the place on Monday, 29th Inst.. nt would have been paragons of beauty see lines in all things, must
(0 a.m. 3r.
Martin, Mr. 1. G. Garrod, of Hongconfusion introduced by variations Director of Education, has con-places in the most orderly drawing-
ths and hygiene, and fit to take their and existence rather trying.
With what rebellious feelings in the cost of living It would sunted to give away the awards, room, had not a cruel fale persis-they commit their correspondence (also relegate money to a projeri
tently decree otherwise,
(which they have probably forgot- The ease against Wong Lol. place in economie discussions as a charged with kidnapping a
So it is that pigs have been more ten to stamp) to one of our blatantly four and more thrown in upon them-he postal pillar-boxes can be movement naus of exchange and measure year old boy freto No. 2, Reclama selves and given over into readily imagined. A of wealth, instead of being regard-tion Street, came up before Mr. pection--circumstances which, fosfor slimmer pillar-boxen will pro- Butters, at Kowloon, this morning tunately, they have not permitted ably be one of the next things, ed, as it almost always subisce for judgment. Mr. Butters disto affect their appetites. But now but it will leave un cold, an will ariously is, as being the only true charged the defendant.
descends this bombshell or thunder- wealth. Such discussions would
kang.
daughter
T
KEITH.
SPARY. On Sunday, 21st Decem- ber, 1930, at residence to Mr. and Mrs. A. Spary, a daughter, Muriel.
DEATH.
BROCK. On Sunday,
Hospital, Mr. A. 4. J. Bruck.
afternoon,
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
MONDAY, DE 22, 1930.
GOLD AND PRICE LEVELS.
attention to it as far back as 1913.
mony
can.
over
*.
It
It
bolt. Woman, envious of thosey demand for the placing of | then be reduced to their essential of the cane each, was impossed by ed that they shall be restrained.
A hue of $25, or eight strokes lusty porcine appetities, has orderly lean policemen on point duty and shadowy, sergeants in recruit- ing offices. Naval basis of the exchange of goods Mr. Rutters, at Kowloon this morn- Further, each pig must do its
A man, being a free-born Britain, Age 1. funeral will be Us and services, without the confusing, on three Chinese boys, Tsang daily phyvient jerks, or take equiva-a entitled to develop his Indivi-
Hon-keung. Mak Sol-chau and lent exercise. And all in order ing intervention of money, which Kong Tan-shing, charged with the that our lean women may have lean duallty, to bulk as largely in the anorama of life, ns circumstanies is certaluly "the root of all evil" in theft of six padlocks from houses rashers for breakfast. Did
will permit, and to be a person of under construction in Tai Nam Temale tyranny
itself Bo assert economie discussions, however e-Street on Saturday.
some substance and probity in the shamelessly 7 ★ sential it in as a means of exchange.
eyes of his fellows,
seldom moves Now, probity Very few people can keep clear in prosecuting two men, chrg- Now, the figure of the averago minds when the dual ratio, wages session of small quantities of the figure of the average pig. We s
ed separately, with unlawful posman cumpares none too well with abroad in a sinek wrnfatcoat. Its owner like a glove, and money-commodities prepared oplum, Revenue Officer need not be surprised, therefore, admits of no inglorious side-flapp- are the next involuntary pings and no revelatory bucklings Crops up at every turn; and the Grimmitt. before Mr. Lindaell at if we
the Central Police Court this victims of this slimming madness, amidships, aerosanet islea of money has al- morning, stated that both bad Soon
we may be compelled to The waistcoat worth while, the | ways been the bane of fiscal día | had the contraband tied to them.recognise in the humble pig a waistcoat that may be with safety
one having the opium accured to brother in mis
misfortune.
lapped and trusted, is the one cussions.
his arms and the other to his legs. Some of us are tall, some are which, like our latest dirigibles, There should be nu fear of re- Ons mon was fined $600 while the short, and many of us fall into showa 100. per...cent, man-hour peating the evil results of tamper-other was find $400.
the category ot nondescript afflatus efficiency. I apologise for The influence of gold
mediums. But few of us have been introducing these technicalities, ing with the currency in the past, evoziounir conditions has been a
An employee of the Tramway able to preserve in our figures which, however, are essential to if the index numbers are properly Company appeared before Mr. if we ever had it--the symmetry the argument. promirent subject of discussion
An in-insell at the Central Magistracy of Greek gods.
Reduce the cable capacity of the this morning on a charge of since Sir William Ashley directedept. says the authority.
ternational gold currency would aplarceny of a quantity of copper concentration
It may be the result of over-waistcoats of the land, by diet or on golf or other otherwise, and you strike at the pear to be desirable for internation- from the Company. The defen-serious pursuits of life. Or it roots of all the most catimable Recently, in a memorandum which he contributed to The Eronomist, rencies would be quoted, and this three months. We had only just to our persons. Into these ques-slander, and all manner of mean- doors to graft, corruption, Sir Benry Strakosch Jaid stress on
currency might be available for, started to get access to the store tions it is unnecessary to enter. ness. the enhancement of over thirty
and be a great convenience to and had not committed any theft It renily does not matter whether Your lean man is always up to
before. Sentence of six weeks' per cent. in the value of gold dur-
we acquire a certain rotundity by some mischief. Hie mind is a travellers. Important as this or hard labour was imposeit. ing the past five years, an abnor-some similar device certainly is at
[personal predilection or by spheri-ursery of miching mallicho, Or mal and important phenomenon the present juncture, as a means which has undoubtedly had a large for giving an initial stimulus for share in causing the present in the revival of industry, It must not dustrial depression and unemploy for a moment be supposed, says It has been pointed out, in Professor Drydale, that currency this connexion, that if free com-questions are normally of prent petition ruled both in prices and fanilamental importance. The es wages, slow changes in the valle sential conditions for improvement of gold would not greatly matter, zealous and efficient work, thrift, but in these days of stulbora reprudence in procreation. abolition sistance to reductions in money of unemployment relief and Trade- wagen, this 32 per cent, apprecia- Union restrictions, and hearty co- tion in the value of gold has heet operation between "Capital" and equivalent to a considerable "Labour" (preferably where pos- erense in real wages. High wages, sible by some form of prodt shar-: of course, are to be welcomed if ing)-are as cogent as ever; but they are accompanied by an equí-this simple scheme of currency re valent high efllelency, but no inform would, he thinks, have an im dustry can hold its own if the medintely useful effect in helping Jabour costs of its products are Deltain out of a sporadic emer- too high for it to compete success-genicy, and an over greater ultimate fully.
beneficial effect in asslating the un-
ai trade, in which all national curta have been employed for only way of adding dignity and poise side
Jant was stated by Mr. V. Walker may be merely Nature's pleasant national virtues. You open the
ment.
It has been suggested that an deratanding of fundamental econo- imediate redaction in wages, 40 mie truths.
far as Britain is, concerned, com-
bined with a determination on the
part of the workers to Increase Shaukiwan over the week-end on A Chinese was arrested nt their efficiency, would provide the charge of being in possession of means for a rapid revival of pro-Soviet Russia.
seditious Ilterature relating to Ho also had sperity, But, in commenting on
papers relating to the Talkoo this matter, Professor C. V. Drys- Sugar Refinery. On his appearance dale, says that any attempt at re- before Mr. Lindsell at the Central Police Court this morning, the ducing money wages at the present man was remanded for one week time, would almost certainly for the translation of all the
UN In another series of documents.
land
"You should: get something dignified this time, Henry, You're not, as young-na: you were when we bought your last
hát.
his soul any enterpillar of average respectability would be ashamed. Of his waistcoat the less said the better. -
This is the sort of person unto whom we are naked to-conform our figures. Not in these trousera, nor yet in these waistcoats. The tempers of the so-called gentle sex, never of the sweetest, have become perceptibly worse since they enter- ed upon this slimming business. Woman has always had a strange fondness
for for martyrdom, sacrificing herself in the name of some cause not worth mentioning. And as soon as things become slack In the martyrdom line, she must Immolate herself on the altar of fashion.
What
瞻
is the gain from this siimness anyway? "Egad," said Sir Mortimer Buckelbracket, slap- ping his chest, "I like "em plump, and so, I believe, it still is with man to-day;
There is no sense in being slim. Nefther from an ethical nor from & playsical point of view is it a desirable state of affaire. Plump ness comes nearer per
In that direction It f possible to ert, as certain walking Schehallions attest. But between mountaing and wireless maats there. is a world of happy medium, and that is what I commend carnestly to our ravenous and cadaverous
women, whom you adorned with with
Nature generously
freehand curves, but who, disastrous results, have been sub- stituting straight lines.
them restore their allipsos, and at the same time reinstate - our lost illusion