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they are, relatively speaking, new- ecmors to the game and CODAO. quently havo not behind them those traditions which have buon built up in countries where foot- ball has long figured as a national pastime. But the disinterested observer will say that there in a right and a wrong way of insisi- ing on compliance with rules and regulations, and that wiadom
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·BARONESS ORCZY aska
ARE WOMEN
SELFISH IN LOVE?
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THEN n lovely woman falls inshafts often seem to have been
W love, does the bereme selfish dipped in a virulent polson, which
to be found in not jeopardining the future of the game by rigid
or selfless? It is one of the ever-has the power of depriving of iralatence on relatively minor
lasting questions, and woman's their sight those who have been points of administration. It Is
answer to it is a Monna Lian struck by them. equally true that
smile, which may be interpreted the real in-
And woman suffor from those of blindness far the game terests of
cannot
more The Empress of Russia has been acquiescence or scorn, just as attacks be
you please.
frequently unit more completely served by clubs acting in a spirit delayed, and is now scheduled to sail
Ilintory tells of many
famous than men. at midnight, Friday, of pique when they
women to whom love apparently
Watch the girl who feare against authority, .
Is
come
up
When the points at present in diapute are reduced to their real significance, they do not appear to the observer to justify a con- tinuance of the quarrel. In fact, it ia sheer folly to permit the situation to remain where
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Thongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17. 1931.
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A PLEA FOR SANITY.
it is.
December 18.
от he
A Cangregation of the Hongkong meant taking all and giving no hopes for her lover. University for the conferring of thing in return. Whatever stood selfish? Let Destiny ask her to degrees in te he held on January 11th between them and the man from give her life for his, and see whom they desired worship, they then! For herself she cares no An amended notiftention states that destroyed it."
thing, but for him for him she the P. and O. liner Karmala, from
They were ready to pull him will be ready to sacrifice not only Singapore, is now due at noon on down from his high place, alienate her life, but the rest of the world him from his friends, heap scorn in a single blazing funeral pyre. Saturday.
on his wife and estrange him from if it would but profit him. Love's
The Hongkong University Christian his children. They have not poisoned shalt han blinded her Association will give a Christmas concert next Sunday, December 20, hesitated to sacrifice to thele ends need! not be helper hy at 9 p.m. in the Great Hall of the the lives of their own admirera and
She thinks for him, acts for University.
even the very honour of their him, schemes for han. plunges Women have shown, in fact, him. She sees a prize-ba must Into evil or good impersonally for
a further airing of the differences, In which charges nud counter- chargen are made; there has been | enough of that alrendy. The main
necessity is to serk
A brief: which was either thrown or
country.
An
it:
fell from an upper floor in the vicinity that in pursuit of love they can be have it: abe recognises of 64, Pottinger Street yesterday more ruthless than men, fearing obstacle he must overcome settlement afternuon struck a passerby, Pak Pul, neither God nor man in the pur-ale realises a goal-he muat nt-
shop coolie of 227, Queen's Road suit of their goal. Exst, and inflicted a nasty Injury to his head.
to
treatment.
Dmgged Behind Them.
11
tain it. For love of him xbp dreams dreams, and in her love. blindness she in obsessed by the
of
by every possible menus available. So we yet hope that BOIROSUDE
In the nature of things there dreams, and forces his weak sufficiently big-hearted and
fur. Members of the Institution of Eugi- seeing will step in and help
neers and shipbuilders of Hongkong must also have been thousands humanity to an impossible task.
incona- But are reminded that a dance will be held and millions of women,
make no mistake-the smooth matters over. There is, in the Rooms of the Institution on picupes and unknown, who have dreams are all for him. She is their willing to stand in the luckground. in the present situation, an aspect all be made to the Hon Secretary watchword.
Saturday. Applications for tickets at times made selfishness
Women.
perheps, fall out by the way; she is ready el oven greater and wider int-
as soon as possible.
who have used all their arts of to become a mere stepping-stone portance than a mere difference
seduction to persuade a lover to to his success. It would be the Whilst lowering a sail on board his stay at their side when the call divine height of unselfishno88. on sport. It is this targer issue cargs boat, a seaman, Leung Lin, aged of honour and duty rang a clarion were it not the blind height which we have particularly in 65 yents, wan struck by 2 hand
who, folly! mind in urging that no stone bedy. His condition was reported as
Berrick and received injuries to his note in his ears, or women
i order to satisfy their OWIE
A Longer Vision, teft unturned to effect a lasting being rather serious and he was admit ambition, have dragged their hus-
lover behind them
Woman has a longer vision than settlement of a most regrettable ted to the Kwang Wah Hospital for band or
their chariot wheel, soaring to A mun, but
she lacks his logical sevelopment.
height of social or political at-faculty for estimating obstacles. Invitations have been issued by the tainment beyond the power of the Woman will try to keep her lover Great Men at Play.
Hongkong Civil Service Cricket. Club man to reach, with the result that by her side, knowing that they for an "at home" to be held on a fall was inevitable, and the man would be happy together even The recent researches of Mr. Saturday, December 26, when the buried down from giddy heights though his name were disgraced. All true sportsmen of the Colony | Philip Guedalla into ancient sports formal opening ceremony of the unregretted, uncomforted by the or his entry were in more need will regret the continued breath and pastimes hus provoked inquiry Pavilion will be performed by Lady very one who caused his downfall, of hint. But mae, whose creed between the Hongkong Football into the
Perl at 3 p.m. Following the open- manner isi which
History shows us Cleopatra and different from hers, puta ing ceremony, there will be a prize the wife of the late President second in his thoughts. Association nil the Chinese clubs. England's famous men of to-day distribution and Christmas tree, ten Harding in some such roles, and "I could not love thee, dear, an
passagemuse themselves. The discoveries and the children's sports,
we, each in our respective walka much, loved I not honour more!" in some cases are surorising. Mr.
many enses less I. G. Wells has invented a round Fretwell, master of the s.8. Planarbis,
We are informed by Captain W. of life, know
is his rule of life. He is solish famous but equally strange. game of his own into which all that our report of the evidence giver.
Yet, in fairness to my sex, let for his honour's sake, while she would sacrifice both her honour who pay visits to his countryhouse at the Marine Court of Inquiry into it be said that selfishness in its and his regard for her in order are initiated. Mr. Bernard Shaw the recent stranding of his vessel was true sense is not what driver
to keep him safely within does not care for sporting with in regard to the courses steered. We patra was not intentionally selfsh
inaccurate in niany respects, especially these unhappy people on. Cleo-shelter of her arms. Amaryllis in the shade, He pre-tender our regrets Tor any error when she held Antony to her side: It has been said that if we only fern to bask on
a raft in the which give
a wrong impression of while the cold, ambitious Octavian had Faith, we could say to this Mediterranean
Captain Fretwell's seam inship. in toincloth,
had time to conquer worlds in his mountain "Go hence!" though, according to his own statement in Who's Who, he joices in every kind of recreation except sport. Mr. Stanley
We had hoped that the
of time would have brought both sides to perceive the necessity of a spirit of sweet reasonableness, and that long ere this the points at issue would have been adjusted on a mutually satisfactory basis. Unhappily, the Association's latest and, sceraingly, final, word on the subject does practically nothing to keep open the avenues to nd- justment: In short. It lays down a condition precedent which in no
way touches the causes of the dispute, and would seem likely to block the way to any composing of the unfortunate differences. For this reason, the spirit of the reply to the Chinese Clubg must deplored.
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and it
That is the
A successful whist drive was held stead. Mrs. Warren Harding, in would actually go. at St. Patrick's Club on Tuesday acting as the motive force which creed of the woman who is in love. evening, Mrs. Higgs won the Brat drove a country politician to the Her faith in her love is so great that. should she covet a throne prize for ladies while Mrs. Hyde helm of one of the greatest Bald secured the second and Mrs. Noad the Powers in the modern world, has for her lover, she would try to
has win and Mr. Lloyd George ure booby. The successful Rentlemen always appealed to me as being remove every mountain that stood more prosaic. Many people who were Mr. Deb and Mr. Light while more of a tragedy herself than in her way. have never been Prime Minister drives are being held every Tuesday band. And pinin Mrs.
Mr. Reeves wan the booby. Whist even the tragic figure of her hus Sometimes the man also is of of England read the classics like and are open to all who are interested who turns her husband from an woman's vision, and make
Smith, herole mould, and can follow the the
keenest flights of his chosen Conservative leader. It is in the game. probable that even more share Mr.
enay-going, sporting Briton into Lloyd George's hobby, which
a whitefaced business robot, is all come true. But such a man is Passengers a Yaumati ferry herself, more often than not,
on
he Fore; is the real Fairy Prince Inunch which arrived in Hongkong
for whom every woman pines. just before 16 a.m. to-day were prstricken statue of self-denial. vided with some excitement when a Chinese narrowly escaped serinus Injury in trying to jump to the whari
is
the
Schemes for Him.
A
With irus
13
them
woman as bla
guile and helpmate ho cán riac to heights supreme, and having Mark-- do not say that these reached success, he can listen to before the cruft had been tled up. As women are right, merely that they the plaudits of a wondering world. the launch was getting alongside the
in serious danger of being crushed wharf, he jumped but miscalculated are not, in the true meaning of taking them all as his due, for the the distance and fell short. He was word, selfish.
world seldom sees or guesses that When the pagans would have it woman has given him her help, against the side of the wharf, but that Cupid was blind, I think they her guidance, her sustaining love, willing hands pulled him from the made a mistake. It is not the so that he might attain his goal. water. He was none the worse for little god who is blind; he his
hig his minadventure beyond getting a tributes
precious shafts "ducking."
judiciously, as a rule; but those
be golf. The statesman's reputation for originality in his lighter moods There is no call at the moment is better upheld by Mr. Winston go into the merits, or the Churchill, who has been known demerits of the dispute. Enough to exploit his leisure hours in a ink has been spilled on this aspectusun! of all recreations, however, ittle brick-laying. The most in-
of the matter already: possibly
must surely be that of Sir James too much. But the point which Barrie, who has papered the veil must and does suggest itself to ing in one of the rooms of soccer followers and sportsmen in home by placing wet postage general in that statesmanship stamps on
" penny #nct them must be sudly bankrupt in this flicking
up with 14 jerk of the thumb and Colony if some means cannot be
forefinger. This remarkable in- discovered of settling a dispute
door apert has only just been dis- which, if allowed to continue. closed, but there Is rengon to will completely ruin the major believe that Sir James takes it aport of Hongkong in the future. earnestly and conscientiously, This is what the matter really The question naturally arises that boils down to. for I must be if famous
men affect strange patent to everyone that football amusements, can strange amuse- cannot progress here except with ments produce great men? Tho the co-operation of the Chinese Duke of Wellington claimed that the Battle of Waterloo was won clubs. Alrently, the present sen-
on the battlefields of Eton. son has been reduced almost to a Philip Guedalla reveals that the Mr. farce because of the unfortunate most Important game on the play. quarrel, with the reault that ing fields in the days of the Duke thousands of would-be spectators was hoops, while the virtues of have bven robbed of their hopscotch were not neglected.
battledoro customary Saturday afternoon's en- Pugtop
in the athletic joyment. When all is sald and principal items
curriculum, and the done, the business of the Football
budding sportsman wBS put through Association is to promote the
course of puss-in-the-corner. game and to do all in its power Finally. the virile game to encourage its growth. Its marbles was given a place
and
were
of of
of
crities will say, with some measure honour. It is also to be noted of reason,
that it is at present that the authorities of Oxford failing to discharge that primary University still find it advisable obligation. On the other hand, it to Include in their official statutes a warning against Indulging in b: disputed that there cannot
the dangerous attractions must be
• central controlling marbles in certain parts of the rulings should bocity. From all which perhaps It may be that the, the valuable doduction may be - have not auficiently: drawn that if any boy wishes to .... thất point," although grow up like the Duke of Welling
currembered that ton. Us should play marbles,
Open Till 6 p.m. Till X'mas, Saturday 5 pm.
body, respe
Chin
Appr
fant
bibland get this through your fat head.. If you aren't on the
foh the cloute the store opens, out you go!"
dis-
Alone in Eden.
It is not a fatal contrariness in woman that makes her dream such uncomforable dreams? Would she
not
OWN
а million times rather be loft alone in an Eden of her creation, alone with the man she loved?
And that is why most of UM are, perhaps, glad when we find that our Idel kan, after all, foot of clay, and we can love him just na illogically and absolutely with all his failings and his elne. R
JR
Is heroic, this giving all for love,
and we are
so constituted that we like doing it; but a
happy home, contentment, and family
Hto are usually worth a thousand times more than dreams of ambi- tion, so few of which aro, satisfy ing when they are attained.
PHIPPS finds a
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