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sound. The
DAY BY DAY
the fact that sales and develop-| ment arrangements are said to be In accordance with the recom- mendations of the now defunct Town-Planning Committee. the fact remains that there is inter-
CONCISE PHRASES, MAKE FANA- minable delay in making granta. | ncs-Morley, Obviously this should not be the
KANO,
WHAT IS A
Sir Shou-gon Chow bus completely W
recovered from in recent inlin position,
Bay,
Whilst tending to a military hore At the Camp at Shamshulpo, yester- day, Pte Gillespie, of the Argyll and! Sutherland Highlanders, was bitten
BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
By GERALD KELLY, the Portrait Painter. THEN people ask mo about|like who had such immense power beauties I enrefully Inquire over Louis XV. and the taste of
hia time. The Commissioners. refer to
whether they niean pretty and at-
There is also Mme. Recamier, complaints of such delays, and we
tractive creatures, which is who was known for her wit, hor have ourselves often heard, them.
The many friends of Mr. E. R. We have, indeed, a case in mind Childs, of China Underwriters, will be subject easy to chatter about and grace, and her beauty, and who to investigate, or had the last of the salons. People kind to learn that he has now left delightful in which efforts have been made ital after his recent wperation whether they really mean Beaut raved about her. Gerard painted to secure a plot of land for indus-He has taken up residence at Repulse ful Women, outstanding figures superb picture of this exquisite trial purposes, but so far without
who have inspired artists, &arted lady. I should like my readers nlao to look carefully at the anything tangible accruing. This
legonds, and contribute to
portrait by Ingres of Mme. Aymon, is bad from inany standpoints. In
history.
known as "La Belle Zelic," which the first place, it hampers trade
Greatures በዩ superlative ass particularly interesting since it development, and, in the second,
Joyce Wethered and Shakespeare, represents a renowned beauty of it deprives the Government of by the animal. He was turi Bobby Jones and Sappho, Lindrum that time whom, I do not think we
by the military medient authorities. needed revenue. Developments in other parts of the Far East seem likely 10 enhance Hongkong's
Indeed, In the past there have been changes of laste. They tell prestige as a business and indus
rae, for example, that in Queen trini centre. but the Colony will
Elizabeth's time no. dark-haired not derive full benefit from this
Because I am a painter, and woman had a chance. I wonder trend unless it offers every fact
primarily a portrait painter, it is whether that wan ao? How odd unwise for me to express quite it seems. Was it a kind of flultery lity to those seeking grants of land
candidly what I think about the for that red-haired Queen? Or for the purpose of development.
The hollowed-out interior of a buni- people I see. This is one of the did they really not like them dack? The proposals advanced by He hon pole was discovered by Revenue questions in which everybody's Commissioners should overcone searchers yesterday to be the resep-| natural opinion, trained or un-
for a kaif-gallon of dutinbir trained, is the beat for him. tacle for much of the present delay,
Chinese wine. The would-be smug which reason we entertain 10 gler, coalie, was brought by Re- hope that the Government.
vonne Ward before Mr. Wynne-Jones reconsider its decision. Al AUN
at the Central Magistracy to-day, and was fined $10, with the option of a rute, some definite overhanding of ¦ week's hard Inbour. the existing in thods seeins. 20 uryent neeevity,
371433
Mr. B. Paul will speak on "From | Atlantis to England! at the usual weekly public lecture of the Hongkong Lodge, the Theosophical Society, 17. | Queen's Rond Central, to-day at 8 pan.) This lecture was postponed from last week, owing to the leath of Mr. Manuk.
An unknown Chinese is believed to have committed suicide yesterday morning, when, travelling as a 90- cond-elus passenger from Canton leaving behind
on the sa. Sai On, he dispters,
MRA.
amber of
Hong-
or Bradman, Einstein or Newton, should so clues to-day, for our taste
bas changed. Mary Queen of Scots, Titian or Velazquesz.
Good Looks.
of such words
as prunca and
Any reader of Balzac must be struck with the namby-pamby Lype be thought lovely. The pure oval The appeal of good looks is to of the face, slightly prominent
people the instinet; It comes to before they have collected erudi- yes, the tiny mouth (shrunk per- tion and, thank God, stays with hapa by the constant pronunciation them all their life. I really do! know an enormous lot that I did i prismus ?) seems to suggest a kind of egg and be reminicent of a bag at not know, but I can recognise lard. what I think is a pretty woman
Anyone who looks at the women when I ser one just as well as when I first sat up and took in the big picture by Ingros, "Le
Martyr Saint Symphorien."
what I am trying to
notice.
AD
can
and
WHS
supreme
Money was not widely spread. But in Grecen, oh my! First and even among the rich many did And after the not make the best of themselves, The annual meeting of the League there was Helen. of Nations, Hongkong branch, will be stories told of her come the in- but people really did discuss the of a great beauties, and in London the St. John's Cathedral Hall, to hear the multitude of women celebrated by lovely Duchess of Leinster, Lady held to-marrow at 6.15 p.m. in the numberable stories told Secretary's report, the Treasurer's the Greeks, who were exquisite Dudley, Mary Anderson, and Mra, report, the President's address, and connoisseurs. Other nations less Langtry simply towered above their for the election of officers. The fol- profoundly occupied with beauty contemporaries, lowing resolution will be proposed.
That this Annual Meeting of the than were the Greeks have left us among them was Lily Langtry.
newritten records of their Tamous The Lovelfest Women. League of Nations Society,
and as the time comes į
OEIT Own the total
People seem to have gone wild about her, and strong men got up But what a tragic plty that we on little green chairs in the Park have no record of what they look so as to be able to get a glimpse ed Hke! I wonder what we should i of her. What should we think of think if we could see them? Mrs. Langtry if we could see her It no happens that there are in now as she was at her loveliest and THE EARTH'S CORE. Burlington House now some with the advantages of modern authentic portraits of renowned frocks? What would they think of from ques her at Hollywood? Would she beauties, and, apart
SCIENTISTS.-
I think the loveliest women should be visited by all enthusi-
sts of "the female form divine." ever saw were Lina Cavalieri and, A five-year study of the nature When or where in ancient Greece, after her, Lady Diann Manners, of earthquakes has been begun by or anywhere else in the world, and after her, Kay Francis. And Harvard scientists, with an attempt was there a lovelier body than after her And I have just
Nations, and in particular of its ef forts to deal with the present situn- tion in the Far East."
I.
Beat Races, Ruseftes and Ties, Sartorially the varsity man all
one of which was addressed to his The one thing that men have describe. It is almost incrodite wife at Canton. The matter was re-always been interested in is to think the world over is a curious creported by the muster to the police Benutiful Women, and i cannot ruined himself for such a ninny. that M. dla Nucingen
Pagesintuże. Take his attitude, for exam or the nerival of the bont here.
imagine how it can ever cease to And isn't it tragic bad luck for Ernest
All that Asinth ple, toward such thitiga as roseltes
tradition. and the girls who to-day resemble that A line of $7,000, with the alterna-be so. South and ties. On the morning of
[tive of one year's hard labour, was literature have brought down to type? Born too infe, poor dears, Boat Race Saturday everyone in imposed on a Chinese who appeared us is shut through with stories of they have little or no success be- London wears a huge rosette in- before Mr. Schofield at the Central lovely women, the joy they have ease they
are considered to dicating whether Oxford or Cam-Police Court this morning on a charge given, and the damage they have without character.
of 5 treis of
of done.
I think the "Raphaelesque" type bridge is the Battered posseggor of being in possession
prepared opium. He was arrested Only in the Old Testament does was rather blown upon by the time of his sympathy. Everyone, that when about to leave a wharf on the
seem to be A scarcity, began to take notice. When I is, except those whose youth has waterfront. The defendant informed there
Jewesses can be Iris Worship that as his mother had though
was young people were inclined to been spent at either of the two intended to sell his young brother he lovely. I can only think of the denigrate prettiness, which universities, these being distin- had decided to assist her financially Queen of Sheba and Esther and considered slightly vulgar. guished amongst the crowds who by carrying the opium for another Bathsheba. throng Piccadilly and the Strand LAND GRANT DELAYS, by the elaboraté ostentation with which they are not wearing ruset-
Yet 10s.
that connexion with One of the proposals put for learning which the university man ward by the Retrenchment Com-refuses. to admit in a rosette he mission which the Government hus whispers in his college tie, so that not felt disposed to adopt is the the curious situation arises that. creation of a permanent Zoning while he rejoices to see, the Committee for the purpose of mup.citizens of London boldly carrying kong, desire to express its whole women,
hearted support of the objects and hearer to plug out areas in which Crown the, rosette either of his own uni-general policy of the League of mounts up magnificently. land is available for development.versity or of the other place, if It is to be regretted that the sug. he perceives a single one of them gestion has not been more favonz-wearing (albeit in innocent ignor. ably received, inasmuch as, with ance) a college tie to which he is not entitled, he is moved to in- the complementary proposals ac- companying it, the idea appears to dignation and distress, and even he eminently
Reto writing to, the papers about it. trenchment Commission arged that Such is the situation disclosed in a REPRODUCTION ATTEMPT BY tions of painting, this exhibition overwhelm the beauties of to-day?
recent Porrespondence in the areas be mapped out in advance,
London press, The dimeulty of and, further, that the Government from time to time publish in the course results from the fact that Gazette particulars of such areas, the ordinary man's choice in ties is restricted to quite narrow thus preventing Applications for sites which are not available. The dimensions because an anny com- standing Zoning Committee, it was binations of attractive and taste- neged, should be under the chair-ful stripes and colours have a manship of the Director of Public ready been appropriated by schools "or colleges, Three places of education might nibly save the day by following time example of a society in a famous Oxford col- lege, which concocted a tie of such a remarkable collection of colours, f yellow and purple, and geven, and helictropes that no rational present multiplicity of reference.citizen rould ever have been temp which inevitably erentes delay,
It is, indeed, on this point of delay that the Commissionera base their recommendations. The rea son, apparently, does not lie sa much in individual oflcers, but is rather the result of the unwieldly system whereby applications have to be referred to so
aub many departments. What is obviously needed is a simplification of the procedure, which would result not jonly in saving of time, but would also put the whole matter of land The grants on a better footing. Government. in rejecting the pro- posals, points out that there was previously in existence 1 Town Planning Committee doing work newspaper L'Avenire d'Italin similar to that suggested for the argues that the major cause of this Zoning Committee, but it ceased is the question of the Prayer to meet nine years ago. Further Book, town-planning schemes are
Works, with expert unofficial YO presentatives serving on it. The whole scheme strikes us as being businesslike in character, And, if put into operation, it should, as the Commission supposts, enable
speedy grants of sites without the
ted to remove, it from a shop win-
dow.
But there is-n snag about a fie such as this; no single mem- ber of the society in question was ever persuaded to wear it.
ROMAN CATHOLICS IN ENGLAND.
ITALIAN
PRESS ON IN- CREASED NUMBERS.
Rome, Mar. 6. Discussing "the continued pro- gress in England of conversion to Catholicism," the Roman Catholic
now The question of the Prayer being prepared, and the Govern. Book which has so aroused An- ment says that when those
glican clerics and laymen seems
are
rendy they can ho scrutiulsed by a to have made wider than over specially appointed Committee,vance of Roman Catholicism in the road for an overflowing ad- adding that only when tnrgo new England." areas are opened up for develop.
Discussing statistical ment Would a permanent
figures Com-published in La Liberte the Ital- mittee be required. We cannot Ian journal continues: What Ree that these arguments dispose has favoured this orientation of of the enne put forward by tho the English spirit towards Nome Commissionera. Apart altogether is undoubtedly the undecided, if from big town-planning schemes. titude of the Anglican Church and not cold and diaconcerting, t there are constant applications bo-the eternal queation of the India- ing made for land, and, despite solubility of marriage."
to reproduce, artificially, a heat that represented in Ingres's "La seen Annabella, the French atar. pressure comparing with that of Source**? the earth's core.
It is expected that the project Tastes Have Changed. will reveal how the earth is built
a form
And yet it seems almost ridicul ous not to mention Lily Elsie, who was more than pretty. Remember
mote
and minerals created, and how they Though Mme. de Pompadour this is not a discussion about pretty may be found. The scientists are was not so lovely as Phryne, and girls: of them there are
so great, an about now than ever. We are not using apparatus which has squeezed Boucher was not water into five different solid forms artist as Praxiteles, visitors to occupied with the good club player as the Royal Academy enn gather whose handicap is about two, but und pressed ale into
sum fair idea of what she was with the champion class plus four and better. There may be soute dense as water.
who attain this class by ahein“ · physical perfection, but, of course, the outstanding creatures are those who in addition to loveliness of body bring grace, charm, or in- dividual character, and it is pro- extra bably the absence of these qualities that make us call certain women pretty Instead of beautiful. When I think of the women who were marvellous to look at and im- possible to forget I must add tho names of sweet Ellen Terry and Pavlova and Pastora Imperfo. Was it the voice with Mign Terry, the grace of Pavlovn, the wit and passion of Pastora?
"Toll the Herberts, darling, what all you said to that fresh
elevator boy."
I suggest that we can each of un take a much more intelligent in- terest in this thrilling question than could our fathers have done. For the cinema has come and shown. us so many more lovely creatures than we should have seen without It; our interest has been aroused. and our taste and standards must now be much higher.
Let those who will take the trouble to go to Burlington House und see the pictures that I have mentioned, and then, remembering Romney's paintings of lovely Lady Hamilton to add to their personal. experience at home and in the cfnenta, they can proceed to nattlu this important question.
Fashion decreen the nature and type of what we rato highly, and Fashion is constantly changing, Probably in questions of Beauty we are also the slaves of Fashion. But at least we are leaving to our descendanta very complete re- cords of what we deem beautiful. Will they like them, or even bother to keep them?
GERALD KELLY..