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ous forms of afflictions, but they ara sufficiently alert to keep a'ready eye on the "cumshaws" which their. charges pick up. Mr. Haz- lerigg spoke of the need of special
THE EDUCATION • OF legislation to deal with this pro- MUST BE THE EDUCATION OF PRACTI- blem; we can only hope that some CAL MEN, BY PRACTICAL MEN, FOR attempt will be made in this direc- PRACTICAL MEN. IT MUST BE HID- OF DEAD tion. In particular, power should DEN DEHIND NO BARB
LANGUAGES.--J. S. Remington, be given to bring these child beg- gars and their employers before the
The name of
Union Bank,
MONICA HUNT on
TIRESOME ARMCHAIR
HUSBANDS.
Secretary for Chinese Affairs so as Limited, has been struck off the Re-THERE are many types of tire-feelings and give in to the selfish-
gistor.
The name of Mr. Pun In-tat has been added to the ilst of authoris ed architects.
somo husbands. But none. ness of such a man. The stronger- I think, is more exasperating minded woman will try by all pos- laible means to make him are the than the armchair husband.
The man, I mean, who would re-error of his waya and what is due quire something in the nature of an to her.
She believes in the kind of hua- explosion to remove him from his The local weather forecast town fireside once the day's work is band who will "yank" her out even against her will, if nooda be, and noon to-morrow is:-N. E. winds, over.
This kind of man is usually of the who shows his pride of possession moderate; fair.
smug, self-satisfed type, and inten-by taking her where she can be seen
and hie taste admired. scly selfish.
If he refuses to awken to a sensQ she will "jolly wall go
The P. & O. s.8. Rawalpindi from Hongkong arrived at Marseilles on 2nd January at 7.30 am.
Directly his evening meat is over of his dut and have as good n
to ascertain the real relationship between them, and where it is found that the adults have no claim by parentage or otherwise to their charges, the children should be re- moved from their bondage and placed in some appropriate institu- tion whore they will be well cared for and properly looked after. The question of providing some such in- stitution, together with that of in- stitutional treatment for youthful sufferers from tuberculosis,, in one which the Society would do well top.m. take in hand.
Another matter on which Mr. Hazlerigg spoke very pointedly was THE HONGKONG HOTEL that of the dumping of children's dance in the Roof Garden of the just that.
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*
The Old "He-Man."
was dealt with almost exclusively from the personal point of view. It was all about how Carol had been
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he settles down with his pipe, pa on her per, syphon, bottle and glass, and time as possible with other people!
She'll join a club, go with The management of the Union expects to be left undisturbed just
parties of friends to theatres and dances, Photoplay Service, Ltd., is holding as long as he wishes.
What matter if his easychair and and if "hubby" prefers to stay at a tea party at the Ming Yuen restuarant this afternoon at a long legs cover more than half the home, why let him! She's not go- fre and rob other users of the rooming to break her heart on that ac- of their legitimate share of warmth, count.
These supremely selfah armchair We are asked to state that owing If he considered the matter at all- to St. George's Bali being held that which he usually doesn't he would husbands make wives like that... evening, there will be no dinner argue that he'd had a hard day and and they get just what they de-
servel He is the most unsociable creature Imaginable. If his wife who has bodies in the streets of the Colony, Hongkong Hotel on Tuesday next.
been burning to tell him some parti- Close on two thousand such corpses Through taking A dose of executor naw nil day begins to un-THE TRUTH ABOUT are picked up every year, or about wash in mistake for medicine, unburden herself, he either takes no forly per week. It is impossible young painter of 8, Parkes Street, notice whatever, or throws in a
CAROL Yaumati, was taken to the Kwong non-committal "umph" or "really": to gather from the annual police re-Wah Hospital on Now Year's Eve.now and again. ports whether any effort is made to
If she did what she felt like she'd i A shop foki of 24, Hollywood probably heave a book at his head, TN reading the newspaper reports. trace the parents of these children, Road was sent to the Government and perhaps it would do him good of the Rumanian "coup whilst the fact that no Inquests are Civil Hospital yesterday suffering if she did. More often than not d'etat" une can hardly help being Mr. and Mrs. L. H. King Announce held on the bodies does seem to leave from the effects of opium poison-she valiantly refrains--which is struck by the fact that the story
the Engagement of their the door widely open to infanticide. ing., said to have been self-ad-perhaps'a pity.
ministered. daughter Margaret, to Rupert, At any rate, it is clear that the law Bob of Mr. und Mrs. Ivor
Described as the manager of an Foster of Bedford Park, Lon-on birth and death registration is
Many a disappointed wife, look-ja naughty boy who ran away with insurance company, Chu Kam-ing at her husband sitting there, a pretty lady, instead of staying extensively flouted, and it seem
chong, aged about 40 years, com-oblivious to everything but his own at home with his wife and being that unless kume effort is mitted suicide yesterday by jump-Immediate comfort, wonders howa Loud King, and how he had now made to enforce it, by prosecutions, ing into the street from the third the "sporty" and sport-loving repented and decided to come home this will continue to be the case. House in Connaught Road, Central, come so completely metamorphosed. amid the cheers of his
floor of the Tung Ah Boarding Adonis of courtship days has be- and be good, and how he did ́as e.
happy sub- In this matter, as in so many others, where he occupied a room.
What has happened to those "he-jects and brave soldiers. man qualities she then admired? This is the atmosphere (almost). people are apparently permitted to
It la notified that architects, She certainly never visualised the of the child's fairy-tale, in which respect or ignore the law of the barristers', dentists (whether re-youth who was all too eager to go the King is head of his poople, just Colony, just as it pleases them. The gistered as dental surgeons or exhere, there, and everywhere to give as Daddy Is the head of the house, empled persons), medical practi-her pleasure oven after the and the Princo la a handsome young points which we have mentioned are tonera, pharmaceutical chemists", "hardest day at the office-as this hero, just like the big brother, and sufficient to show that there is amand solicitors' certificates to prac complacent, indolent creature the soldiers are just like the tin ple scope in Hongkong for good time for 1931 may be obtained from sprawling at his case and leaving soldiers out of the box, and. the service by the Child Protection So- the Stamp Offico on payment of the her to her own devices (so long as people are just "people"-er, rather
like children Stamps Duty of $25.
they don't interfere with his!)
eager to love their ciety, and as its Secretary has given
Women themselves are often to King or Prince if he will only be emphasis to the matters. referred
A report has been made to the blame they are afflicted with such good and nice to them.
In the early days of mar- The story was not quite so simple - to we may assume that the Society police of the lose by Col. Skinner, partnera,
rosiding in Room 408. Peninsula ried life they love to fuas over, as that. There were vague Agures will soon get to work on these se-Hotel, of a gold ring with five coddle, and "mother" them. They of politicians in it-Maniu cial evils and shortcomings. diamonds, of half moon shape, set make everything so "comfy" for Bratianu and
in platinum, valued at £20. An-"poor darling, who has had such a even they would have passed as the
Uncles ΟΙ other police report states that a busy day at the office," that he Wicked
Bad the French Obligation.
string of pearls, valued at $10, pleads pecasionally: "Let's stay in Courtiers, without too much ex- Judging by his remarks at the
Le has been found near the Kowloon to-night, dear, and enjoy our own amination, And, as for the Queen- Accurately described by
Mother, it was rather uncertain annual meeting of the Child Pro-Journal as disagreeable, the con-
Hotal, Hankow Road,
сону поте!"
At first, wife, only too anxious to whether she was just angry with tection Society, this organisation troversy between the French and
please him, gives in.
her naughty boy or was not, In- A reception in honour of Mise) could not have made a happier British Governments in the matter F. C. Wos, the Principal of the children. They soon take advant-serted) really helping him to come But men, alas, are very much like deed (as some reports quaintly on- choice than that of Mr. T. M. of the claims of British holders College, will be held in the age of a woman's anxiety to hu- back. Hazlerigg for the position of of French War Loan ja only
College Hall of St. Paul's Girls' mour them. So, with some, these As a matter of fact, there was a Honorary Secretary. From some because it has become necessary. College, Macdonnell Road, on Wed-
requests
become gradually more great deal of this merely personal, standpoints, it may not be an ideal a second time, to urge France to recently January 7. Ming. Woo has frequent. Before long they take it almost childish, element in the returned from j Bucas a "right" to stay in whenever story of the Rumanian. "coup arrangement that the officer filling Strangely enough, in view of the raised a large sum of money on out. The wife's preferences cease primitive stage of development obligations. cessful trip to Amerien, where she they don't just feel inclined to turn detat:" that is because of the still this post should be a Government heated retorts of the Paris news.behalf of the College.
to count. She is expected to calm which Rumania has reached. But servant; yet, on the other hand, papers, there is no dispute as to
ly submit to staying quietly at home thero la
great
deal more, and far there are compensating advantages, the facts of the claims. British
Sir Miles Lampson, British if he so wills it.
more important, behind it all.
There is the story of a people in any event, we have Mr. Haz.investors, during the War and in his daughter and Mr. C. N. | Minister at Peking, accompanied
Goods and Chattels,
atruggling painfully with ecouenile lerigg's assurance that he will response to an eloquent prospectus Stirling, third secretary at the Nothing is more galling to a wo-self-seeking politicians, oppressed problems, governed by cliques of work solely in the interests of the in which all sorts of guarantees British Legation, arrived in Hong-man than to be put on the same by
sum kong on the P. and O. liner Ranchi plane as the household "goods and threatened on all sdies by the am- sorts of corruption, and Society and that he will be in no totalling over $50,000,000 to the yesterday. Sir Miles is on a holi-chattels"-just to there when-bitions and intrigues of much more sense an instrument of government-French War Loan. To-day, they day and expects to be absent for ever wanted and ignored otherwise. powerful nations. And the way in al control of the Society's activities, are being offered the equivalent two months, visiting Indo-China,
The meek and mild woman, (which Rumania extricates herself rare species to-day 1) may hide her from that morass will be of very lila obvious enthusiasm for the of $10,000,000 for their invest-Bangkok and Singapore.
Berlous Interest to all Europo.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, JAN. 3, 1931.
CHILD WELFARE.
meet her just
were given, subscribed
J
work to which he has put his hands, ment, the French Government,
and his succinct summary of some aspects of child welfare which need immediate attention, are sufficient
showing no disposition to repay the loan in currency other than the debased frane. The argument is that it would be impossible for
to show that he is the right man in the French Government to treat; the right place.
British or other foreign bond-
It was especially gratifying to holders discriminately as compared note Mr. Hazlerigg'a reference to with French subscribers, who have the problem of child beggars, for had to be content with the the Colony at present seems over.ceipt of one-fth of the value in- vestment. The answer which is run with these poor little mites who equally, to say the least, logical is pester passers-by at every whip and that the French Government re- turn. The nuisance is more evi-celved payment in gold and should dent in certain localities than in repay in gold. If, as a matter of othera, mainly near hotels and at nuttonul finance, it has been con- the stopping-places of buses. One sidered necessary to wipe out naturally wonders where the
largo part of the national debt by youngsters hail from, to whom and the French people have boun the expedient of currency Inflation, they really belong, what kind of content, that is their concorn. places they pass their nights in, Governments, if they choose, are and how badly they are ill-treat- in
♬ position to force much
ed. The great majority are obbitter pille upon their awit viously in the service of profession-people. Attempts at similar al mendicants. They are usually administrations abroad, are rare- as In the to be seen in groups, with their ly made, because real employers somewhere handy in present case, thay very often a little too obvious. It would be the background so as to be in a misfortune should it become position to lay their hands on the necessary for Britain to take the youngsters takings. Many of sauen before the International these, adults are quite able-bodied Court of Justice at the Hague for individuals, who ought to be doing decision. Wodall, however, to a good day's hard, work instead of any alternative course of ac living on these little mites. Others tion unless a more favourable " is recuived to Britain's 'pints. reply are soon to be suffering from vari-
Villiam has promilsed me another, gold one for right here,
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all
nud
some others. Yet
Carol's Uniform.
The reason why Prince Carol came back to Bucharest in the uniform of a flying officer was, It- self significant. It was not merely that he thought it was a pretty uniform.
Years ago, before his exilo, Rum- ania bought a number of aeroplanes from France. It is said, that the machines wore Inferior, and that certain highly-placed persons had profited by the deal. Prince Carel, who was interested in the Flying- Corps, heard the complaints of the olcera about the machines and the stories of corruption, and holling with indignation, he went to King. Ferdinand himself and rafeed n tremendous row about it.
Ever since, the Rumania Flying Corps have regarded him as their champion they eagerly awaited hig return, and sent out army auro- planes to bring him to Bucharoat from the little place in Transylvania where he had had to
dash from Paris. With the rest of the army Carol is probably nearly as popular, largely because he, re- presents the army type rather than the politicians, who, in the average soldier's eyes, stand for
but corrupt-intrigue and thing
politi
But who, really, are those cians who are thus seen dimly as the villains of the piece, and whose names are occasionally mentioned
Correy
[by the Kodan Moulds
pondents na 1 khowN
rough
ly, the position this. The grea mass of Rumanians have, alway