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apart from other considerations.": It is equally true that no impres sion will be nude on the merely by requesting people to observe the decencles of life. Un- less and until the masses as JL whole are brought to realise that the authorities are firm in their intention of stamping out the habit, no progress will be made. Why there should be any reluct ance on the part of the authorities to take a definite line in the mat- tor, we are at a loss to know. There are many other bye-laws and regulations, designed in the Interests of public health, which are enforced in spite of opposi- tion and obstruction. That is so because the general welfare of the community is placed above indi- vidual or sectional opinion. The name principle should be adopted in this particular matter.
If the offenslers would only look at the matter in #1 reasonable light, they would see that it in in their own interests that action
IF YOU LIVED IN RUSSIA
THE TOPSY TURVY LAND OF THE SOVIETS
AS SEEN BY JULIA BLANSHARD
If you lived in Russia
What the well-dressed woman is wearing in Parku, how she fixes her hair and makes up her face would make little difference to you.
You can wear anything you have. Everybody does. Moncow has no fashion seasone auð only two kinds of clothen-iothen for hot weather and clothes for cold.
Frost came one night late in September and Miss Sophiana, a neighbour who the day before had gone plente- king with us, dressed in her steeveless white dress and no hat, stopped In to ace me. looked like an utter stranger, dressed in a tall, black uatrakhan cap, long, worn fur coat and high shoes. This is her September-to-May costume. She has no in-between things.
She
If you Ilved in Russia, you wou not care whether you are fat or thin. First signs of the
You
boylah form invaded Moscow this year. Brassiere salesmen appeared on the street. might see one of them trying on a brasslere over a fat woman's heavy cont and hear him tell her, "It's a perfect fit." They were white muslin, machine stitched, and they cost two roubles. Nowhere fu Russia do you see a smartly dressed group of women. Once a year the Foreign Office gives a formal reception when everyone invited has to appear in evening attire. The conglomeration of old and new styles makes it safe for you to wear any colour, any length, any lines, any style.
DAY BY DAY
THURLOS TELLS US OF HIMSELF THAT HE ALWAYS DISTRUSTED HIS
OWN COUNCILS WHEN THEY STRANG FROM MOMENTS OF DESPONDENCY- AN IMPLICATION OF THE TRUTH
should be taken. The deplorable THAT WISDON GOES WITH CHEERFUL tell of human life, represented by | NESS.--Morley. some fifty deaths every week,
The final dress rehearsal of "Miss
caused by tuberculosis in in part Hook of Holland" will take place to-
audienco
tributable to promiscuous spit-marrow evening before an ting in public places. Definite of the Services. war on the habit would therefore
The fourth annual dance of the have beneficial effects in this Hongkong Ladies' Hockey Club will direction. It is possibly true that taurant on Friday, January 8, 1032.
bo held at Lane, Crawford's Rer.
the prevalence of the habit is in large measure due to ignorance and thoughtlessness, but that in no reason why it should be tolerat- ed. We do not allow these con- siderations to stand in the way of
The annual meeting members and adherents of the Union Church, Kow- loon, lu advertised to take place on Friday, December 18, at 9 p.m. in the Church Schoolroom, Jordan Rond.
will
ceremony.
Club playground nt
The Rotary the enforcement of other neces- Wanchai is be opened at four
o'clock to-niorrow
Sir afternoon. In those days of en-willlam Hornell, the president of the sary laws, lightement, there is no excuse for Club
perform the opening condoning offences against the public health. For this reason, Mr. Denis II. Hazell, Eastern. as well as the others have Sales Director for Mesari. William Sykes, Ltd., who has just returned to Hongkong from a trip to the North, has taken an office on the fourth Floor of the Morning Post Building.
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If the resolution being intro-cited, we trust that to-day's step duced at this afternoon's meeting but the first in a progressive of the Sanitary Board betokens and insistent campaign against the intention on the part of the au- evil.
thorities to embark on a rigorous campaign against the spitting habit, the move will be welcomed,
Ireland's Problems.
Mikitin, the girl student from the Ukraine, is shown at the left wearing the gay Russian peasant costume that she traded to Julia Blanebard for the latter's appricot coloured slip and silk stockings. At the right, a Russian Rapper delighted with her first lip-stick, which a village boy gave her.
pensant
wear
Rusein has no fashion magazines) and stockings and she took off her nor are there any style or beauty blouse and gave it to me. Rev. John Lake will deliver a Lec-store advertises clothes. Radio profer goods in trade, rather than articles in the daily papers. No: Russian women would always ture on "With Pirates and Lopers on a Leper island" to-night at 8.48 hours for women never touch any-roubles. There is an actual scar- at the Union Church, Jordan Road, thing as inconsequential as per-city of practically every kind of Kowloon. This lecture is held under sonal appearance. They explain' apparel and material. Their the auspices of the Young People's Russia's economic aims, her need roubles can buy little. A gift or At the moment, the proposed bye- The situation in Ireland still Society.
for more co-operative kitchens to trade of foreign clothing is so releast home women for industry, welcomed. laws cover only Beensed eating-provides the Free State Govern- with plenty of cause for houses, where, obviously, hygienic mest
Probably you would not With reference to the annual dis-or give the latest figures on pro The Public Safety Bill Recreation Club, Commodore A. II. ter plant, which thrills all Russin. Russia to-day. Most women wear tribution of prizes of the Dockyard duction from the Stalingrad tree silk stockings If you lived in conditions are extremely desirable, anxiety. There will be a widespread hope, rushed through the Dail has Walker was reported to have said that
the Soviet-made, rather sleazy cot- resulted in the arrest of many of "the precarious financial state of the Gay, embroidered
ton ones, usually light grey, beige however, that this is but the first the known ringleaders of terroris- Empire was reflected the Service blouses, traditionally Russia, are or dead white, or the heavy-ribbed step in a move aiming, as far as the activities, but, at the same than others. We are informed that had been there a whole month be- difference between
people in the Colony far more heavily missing from the Russia scene, black ones. They don't know the possible, at the complete suppres-time, there is an impression that Commodore Walker did not make fore I saw
the cheap one. Mikitina, a rayon and the full-fashioned silk xion of what is n most disgusting this corcive, measure has arous-financial depression which is now Lars in girl student at a colege product. But they are fond of any habit, and one which, unfortunate-ed hostility which had not before general, both in the Service and out-in the yard studying. We stopped 18 roubles a pair. You can't buy
near Moscow, wore it as she
Rayon hostery costs ly, shows no sign of abatement. manifesteil itself. The Bill abro- de.
the car and approached. "See if full-fashioned silk ones We observe in to-day's resolution gates all the ordinary rights of
she will trade that blouse for price. Rayon bloomers are Commander A. M. Wiliam hur something," I requested the corres- newest addition to the Russian aproviso giving the Sanitary
The Military Tribunals may impose sentence of death been selected for the command of
with me. pondent Board, in its discretion, power to
He told Miki- 11.3.S. White ad to join the Eighth tina that the American woman ad- discovering that they are to per wardrobe. Many peasants are from which there is no appeal.troyers which are to join the Eighth exempt premises from the new re-
The summary arrest of any Flotilla on the China Station in mince mfred her blouse, quirements. Why that should be person can be effected if there is of the "S" class now serving there, 1 raised my white dress and fect gift to take home to
sweethearts. necessary, we cannot see. If the the least suspicion. The gravity She should
scrapping showed her an apricot coloured Barels are fast supplanting the leave for China Alip
on with lace edging. She regis- great national headgear, the ker- measures contemplated are consi- of the situation is beyond doubt. January 2 Commander Williama tered immediate interest and when chief. You will seo gaudy rayon dered désirable, it seems to us Once again those groups of was promoted at the New Year after I suggested adding silk stockings berets and some worsted ones that essential that they should be made irreconciliables which for nine ship in the Mediterranean and has her dormitory, and while 18 girls facturing now. But it is the for- a commission in the Warapite, fing-it was a bargain. We went into the Soviet government is manu- of general application. At any years have stopped at nothing to since been studying at the senior watched the trade, I peeled off my olgn bercts that the Russian wo- rate, further enlightenment on the keep alive the old spirit of ran-officers' courses.
dress and gave Mikitina the slip man like. cour which divided Ireland. into paint would appear necessary.
two camps, have seized the oppor-
In the past, many attempts have been made by the health authori-
*
rītizens.
a
tunity provided by unemployment and social discontent. The secret; ties to take some definite sten nucleus of the old Irish Ro- against the spitting habit, but they publican Army still exists and have, unhappily, often met with there is a small organized group resistance on the part of the Chi- of women which has never abon- doved the doctrine that no nese community. We recall
crime is unpardonable except that lively controversy some twenty of compromising with the Govern years ago, or more, when the Sani- ment* in power. There has been tary Buard set out to deal with the secret drilling, and the importa-{ ovl. It is not necessary, or do- tion and distribution of firearms. sirable, at this stage to set out the There have been acts of violence arguments for and against the and even murder. Mr. Cosgrave proposed action. Suffice it to say has described the trouble as
"Communist. menace" due to that the habit has long since come "Muscovite teaching with a sugar to be regarded as not only revolt conting of Irish
nationalism." ing, but also dangerous to public But it is clear that the issue does health. There are, indeed, many not rest with Mr. Cosgrave and parts of the world in which it is the majority behind him stond. an offence to expectorate in pub- Even more does it rest with Mr. lic, even in countries where the De Valera and his party. If Mr. habit is by
De Valera and his friends would no mesna
pro-
denounce outbursts of disorder nounced as it is here in Hong-
as strongly and emphatically ne kong. We should like to think Mr. Cosgrave, and condemn them that Chinese Idans of hygiene na forcibly in private as in public, greatly advanced in the heart would be taken out of the past twenty years that any those who seek revolution by war. į general move in the direction of suppressing this nuisance would
have
While on visit to his sistor, find general approval. Cortain is employed as an amah at a house at It that the better classes have no Victory Avenue, Homuntin, a young misconceptions on the subject, attempted suicide by taking a larg
inan named Lal Cheung, yesterday and that they fully realise the dose of opium. He was conveyed to [the Kwong-Wah Hospital in un try- dangers of the practice, quito conscious states,
which are date бездо
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Everybody in Moscow seamed to have shoes this summer, which means progress over 1925. Then It was na oddity for me to 800 11 group of cheery Komsomol girls, dressed in printed calico dresses, their
henda bound up
in red kor- chiefs and their feet and legs bare..
girls were sneakers this
However,
ng CORFORERI oxfords.
see how much
Tikes
will
surprise you
to- girl dainty, high-heeled,
sturdy Russian Im- practical slippers. Olga, steno-. grapher earning 85 roubles a month, saved spring and sum- mer to buy a pair of fragile belge slippers
with
alender high French heels and
straps, which
cost 18 rouble
Communist lendora' wives dress no differently from the rest, When. you see a woman on the street, there is no way of telling, from her' costume, whether she la Stalin's wife, & portoffice employee or Sascha, the maid. There is no such thing as "keeping up with the Joneses in Ruseta. There aren't any Joneses:
Competition between women over their per sonal appearance would be con- sidered by overybody as bourgeois. If you were at the opening of the Bolehol when the popular” Red Ballet was given, you would see no
men, leamartly dressed" wo
Jewels, tow
evening gowns, no chic ensembles." But everybody wask/renbetted up.) Boys and girls looked alcanzand. wore di adn blouses. And-drespassi noticed a number of the new prin ted-silk/drosios that they mant store WAR "MISIE "Brő: hörbitant pride (patrouble
ar