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PAINTHEUNISERICORUMERKKIKO
TRIFLES ARE GREAT THINGS IN
"WHAT I THINK ABOUT MARRIAGE”
BY ETHEL MANNIN
England generally, or whether they should to go to depressed depressed The importance. in this connexion, of economic fuc- tors, such as accessibility lo raw materials and markets, transport facilities, adequate Inbour supply.poleon.
it as we will, complain the emotions it. never "learns." etc..
stressed. It is felt
about it as we must, there is no And a very good thing, too! It from marriage. It is an would be the end of all romance that from the point of view
The theft of a white linen counter-escape of social cast the decline of exis-pane valued about $10 from the unsatisfactory institution in many and glamour and Illusion and ad-
clothes line of 9, Stanley Terrace, has Ways; it is the death of personal venturo in human relationships. heen reported to the police by Mrs. freedom; it asks too much of Intellectually it is, in something N. D. Meffan.
ure
ting industrial regions is a very serious matter. In these com- munities a full civic life has been organised, houses and shops have been ballt, trades people have set- tled and can only live if Industry flourishes, while a vast body of labour has grown up and taken interests, root. In short, many
both human and financial, have developed In association with these highly organised communities.
areas
FRANCE, REASON NOTHING.N«- ET un face the fact. Criticise, timistic. And in the matter of
1
Whilst working on board the .8. Granville at the Kowloon Dockk yesterday, Wu Lee, a coolie, of 18, hold neid sustained a fractured thigh. Wuhu Street, fell down the No. 2
are thank
human nature; it imposes an at-like seven cases out of ten, I sup most intolerable strain on love; it pose, mistake for men and wo- la uncivilised in its possessive- men to try to live together; emo- ness; in the slow process of human tionally it is absolutely essential. evolution It is inevitably doomed; You hear reports from America yet in the meantime-it of couples marrying and "living and must endare because humanity happily apart ever after." Well, has evolved nothing better.
I for one don't believe it; human When people ask me--as they nature just isn't made that way. The body of a girl Li Hoi-sau, aged frequently do"Do you believe in When people
in love their 17, of 356, Laichikok Road, was marriage?" I in turn ask them, emotions,
Heaven, are removed to the Kowloon Mortuary "What do you mean by marriage?" stronger than their intellects, and yesterday after she had committed
If you mean by marriage that they cannot live happily apart, suicide by cutting her throat with a two people should take each other however much reason might coun- wiser to do so. for better or worse and stay to-sel that it were gether until death do them part They live together and lose a lot Lee whether they continue to love each of their illusion, and quarrel and has other and want to remain together fight and hate each other, but one 10 or not, then ? answer It most of the inescapable facts of Hfa in emphatic No! If that is what is that you can't have love without meant by civilised marriage, then bate, or ecstasy without pain, or the sooner we get rid of so bar-laughter without tears. barous an institution the better.
BORÉDOM THE ENEMY.
chopper.
13
A whist drive on behalf the
art the Police Recreation Club
All are weledare,
In these circumstances, it is
Mr. W. G. Harrison, of 82, held, it seems essential that there Building, Wanchai Gup Rond, should be a national policy to re-notified the-police that between
a.m. and 11 a.m. yesterday same gatute the development of new in-person stole from his backyarsi dustrial enterprises in the inter-wallen blanket. ests of the community as a whole.
But if by marriage you mea J "The economic advantages of new M.C... (Police Branch) will be held that two people who love each It's not quarrelling that is the
should not be ignored
topther should live together and Enemy of marriage, but boredom; given less than their due weight,rew evening commencing at 8.30 build up a mutual home and have when husbands and wives become p.m. Admission $1 includes refresh-children, and be loyal and faithful indifferent to each other that to each other, mentally and phyathey cannot raise sufficient energy but it may be possible withoutments.
cally since physical fidelity to quarrel with each other, then harm to any economic interests to
A woman residing at the Ping worthless if there is no mental and it is time to part company per direct the flow of new industrial
Shan Police Station was bitten by a emotional fidelity) then I answer aps; quarrels are virile, healthy Įthings, part of love, part of human activity in such a way as to pro-dog helenging tone of the villagers an equally emphatic Yes. And i
life, as pain is, and tears and Kowloon would say yes, legalise the union. duce the greatest social benefit for and was admitted to the
laughter and loving. It's the sout to Malnuka' for observation.
ward token that it is a serious union and no fight "affair" and other one needs to be sorry for, fight; because living in society it is not those who bicker and A report has been made to the palier by Mrs. is Fevre, of "On Lee," better to conform to the laws of they're all right, the bickering and not? Peuple Aghting means that they are still Mount Davis Roust, to the effect that society and-why
or Tuesday who live together and won't get alive to each other, and so long some time on Monday some person stole twenty fect af legally married "on principle" areas they are sufficiently alive galvanized from from the hillside really rather a bore. If two peo-each other to quarrel they will be.
ple have sufficient faith in their sufficiently alive to each other to above Pokfulam.
love and in each other to want to Jove, too.
For centurios men and women A small fire broke out on board the form a partnership, why not pay have been complaining of mar- Standard Oil launch Virginia yester each other the compliment of open- day afternoon when a small quantity ly admitting it that is to say, riage and its demands, kicking of kerosene which had been spilt by legalising the partnership. against it, fighting it, yet for cen- endured, for the nught alight, Chu Sing, a seaman, only as a declaration of that turies it has was burned about the hend and arms mutual faith?
simple reason that humanity has in extinguishing the outbreak.
been unable to solve the problem of "this man and woman business"
the nation." A national anthority Hospital for treatment. The dog was ref on moral grounds but in out-couples who are bored with each
-*-*-*-*-*-* || representing all the interests con- func- cerned, is advocated. Its tions would be to exercise a gen-
White
Fot-eral supervision over new develop- tage, Taip, on August 14th,
ments: to co-ordinate functions 1932, Frances Benbow-Rowe, the dearly beloved wife of the late now distributed among the Board Mr. Samuel Bryant Rowe. Re- quisent in Puer The Funeral of Trade, the Ministry of Labour, will pass the Monument at 6 p.m. the Economic Advisory Council, the Industrial Transference Board and other bodies.
to-duz.
The
Hongkong Telegraphi.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1932.
arm.
was fatally
to
LOVE'S GLORY OR ILLUSION? Machine-Made Murals.
And therein lies the "Inescapa- more satisfactorily. It is doubtful ♫ woman isinule of 21 Ship Street, bility of marriage. No amount whether "free love" associations Something more than a hint for named Tsang Wai-kio, amateur photographers was to be injured outside the French Hospital of arguing and theorising will work out any better; there is too yesterday when she ዩኒ knocked ever convince two people who love wide a gulf between the intellec- discerned in the camera-nade down by a motor car owned by Dr. each other that they may well be tual and the emotional, and not murals recently exhibited in New Seck Wah-phoon of the Tung Wah; signing love's death warrant by marrying does not make people to run attempting to live together. Im- cease to be jealous, possessive, THE PROBLEM OF York. Improved methods of mak Hospital, as she attempted
neross the road.
passible to convince them that it quite unintellectual. There is only NEW INDUSTRIES ing enlargements from small nega
is desperately difficult for man and one way to abolish marriage, and tives resulted in the production of
As a pussenger boat was
being woman, so mentally and emotion that is to abolish love. Humanity single panels as large as seven by taken ashore near Island House, at ally different, to live harmoniously being what it is, capable of loving, The special problems created nine feet. One of these presented Taipou, the mast came in contact with together. Futile to bid them look needing to love, and needing to be overhead high tension wire, round and ask themselves how loved, it is inevitable that men by the decay of industrial activity an amazing aspect of the George an
causing a flash through which the many of all the married couples and women should cleave together Washington Bridge. With the master received a burn on the right they know are as happy as has in marriage; when people fall in in large areas, while at the same
assistance of a wide-angled lens
lie was attended La v the band and wife us they were as love all their instincts demand time new industries are springing there was presented on a single Assistant Medical Officer of health lovers. Inevitably they must an- that they shall be together "for
New Territories. up in parts of England which flat plane a view straight up into
swer, "But we are different. No-always"--that they may want body was ever loved as we love." something quite different in a year have not previously been industria one of the great arches and at the
There will be a new Coamander-in-This may be love's illusion, but it or two cannot affect that elemental lised, are dealt with in a report
same time looking straight across Chief of the Home Fleet at the end which has been adopted by the the span to the arch at the other of the year, when Admiral Sir John is also love's glory. Good heavens, urge which drives them into mar Trades Union Congress General side of the river. The supporting Kelly retires says John Bull. His if we had none of us at one time lage-or its "free love" equiva There is, too, the all too often Howard ever loved before, we should nonenverlooked problem of children. cables, the vast symmetrical net-successor, we understand, will be his felt that we loved as nobody had lent.
brother, Vice-Admiral Sir Council. The report urges the im-work of the structure, are all Kelly. This will be the first time on of us or few of us-ever have |portance of a national policy to re-brought into a new focus in illus-record of one brother immediately married. And supposing marriage! The natural desire of people who
Would you
love each other normally is to have guinte these developments, and tration of a thema in steel geome- following another in command of our does disappoint us?
Fleet.
rather not have had those splendid children and establish a home, a powerful try. Similar experiments on
dreams, that superb faith? Pre- family, and this is a smaller scale are distinctly within
Business nt the fortnightly meeling fer not to have had that most vital factor in the inescapability of the resources of ingenious camera
of the Sanitary Board, held yester of all human experiences? Better marriage for the normal person, users, and our camera competition day in the board room, was purely to have married and made a mess normally sexed, normally averae has illustrated that their number President, Mr. G. R. Sayer, the Vie-all.
formal.
Those present were the of it than not to have married at to living alone, with a normal pro- creative instinct, and the porfectly the establishment of Industrial in Hongkong is legion, as a means President, the Hon. Mr. R. M. Hen- Proof-if proof is needed--of normal, natural desire to be with Development Councils in certain of providing home decorations, or derson. Dr. G. W. Pope, M.O... Mr. the inescapability of marriage lies the beloved not merely occasional-
even murals for public buildings Wong Kwong-tin. Mr. M. K. Lo. Dr. in the number of people who hasly but all the time. areas, and indicates two lines of
R A. de Castro Basto, Mr. L. C. approach. In the first place in which local segnes of pictorial Retiamy Dr Li Shu-fan, Mr. elling made a failure of one or more that whilst it may be an intel-
and historical significance could Champkin, Mr. J. H. Gelling, secre- marriages marry there is
the the problem of
be combined into arrangements of tary. and Mr. Ng Mut-kai, assistant third, or depressed areas and the effects of panels or friezes,
Devices per-secretary. declining activity upon employ-fected by the motion picture photo- ment and the general sociul fife of graphers may be utilised in the the people. In the second place assembly of fragments of many there is the question of the indus-related scenes into new ensembles. trialisation of areas hitherto of # rural or residential character,
outlines the prime factors which should be taken into consideration, 11 points out that the questioni has
been raised in a pressing form by
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Being renewable, it would be pos sible to change details of these murals from year to year, some- It is reculled, in connexion with thing that might be desirable in the first of these points, that about the decorations of a schoolroom, a year ago the Inte Labour Govern- for example, where they are built ment arranged for industrial sur- up of camera records of passing events. A new type of visualized veys in depressed areas, Southhistory is thus made possible as Wales, Lancashire, the North a modern expression of progres- East Coast and South West Scot- sive education.. Another manifes land being selected. The two-fold tation is here, in the machine age, possibility of so called,.of the | object of theķe surveys was to as-
and space, for telescoping time sist attempts to attract new enter-such pictures could have a scope prises to the depressed areas, and of many years and traverse many to get a complete picture of the lands. probable surplus of labour with a view, presumably, to possibilities of transfer to other districts. It ia pointed out that while carlier Industrial Development Councils were set up in depressed areas, with the object of attracting now enterprises, Development Councils The following table issued by the have since boon started in relative-Kwangtung River Conservancy Com. mission shows the height of water ly prosperous areas, thus, to some in English feet on the datea named extent, nullifying the efforts of in the West. North and East Rivers:
Ilchet on Lower Ave. depressed areas. A point, now
record, on word. 16 raisod is whether it is to the gen-
WATER LEVELS.
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Briefly, then, it amounts to this a second,
lectual mistake for men and wo- even n fourth time.! Human nature is incorrigibly op-men to try to live together, it is. nevertheless, an emotional neces- sity-a natural urge. And since this is so men and women will go on doing it and hoping for the best, in deflance of all intellectual arguments and all experience and example. There is, in fact, simply no escape from marriage for the natural man-and woman. Which perhaps is juat as well, since Nature is, in the long run, gene- rally proved to know best.
THIS SEX COMPLEX
By Edward Kelly, Wife Beater. We are appalled to hear that a man has been chucked out of the Y. M. C. A. on his car by a woman. We shiver-no, not shiver- sweat, to think what the out- come of all this will be.
Therefore we say, cocksure of the backing of all self-respecting citizens of this community, that this insidious 'Invasion of man's rights has got to stop. Wo give it in writing! When there's any- one who needs to be taken by the sent of their pants and chucked out, we, tho representatives of the stornor sex, will do our own dirty work.
We have often been chucked out of places ourselves, but never by women. Wo.wore chucked out of a hotel once, Someone told us, that there was no charge for-bear- In the dining rooms