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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1932.
THE
PREST-O-LITE STANDARD
centroa, for limiting benefit or for denying it altogether. One ap- peal signed by religious and no- tical lenders in a Lancashire aren recently declared: "We are voic-. Ing the wishes of many thousands
DAY BY DAY
AFTER FORTY, MEN HAVE MARRIED
THOU SHALT NOT BECOME A HUSBAND
By L. C. MOORE.
of citizens, of all political parties, THEIR HABITS, AND WIVES ARE ONLY THE biggest mistake any man self go Is the most satisfactory can make is to imagine that husband. Because he, you sco, who view with alarm the impos- AN ITEM IN THE LIST, AND NOT THE by endowing some girl with all his|can always be made to apologise
MOST IMPORTANT.-George Mere- tion of undue hardships upon aj dith.
Not only for the goodly words, or whatever it is, he afterwards. automatically becomes 'a husband. things he said, but for the things class of people which has hither-)
Being a good husband is the he made his wife cay, and which to bean the backbone of the
very dickens of a job. Some men she wouldn't have said for the The battery on which Preat-O-nation," Something has been Mr. W. C. Felshow vill give "Aare born that way, some achieve world had he not exasperated her.
No Wife Is Perfect. domestlelty, and others just have Lite's reputation was originally done, admittedly, to remove some weekly public lecture of
Last on
who my list of man the long it thrust upon them. built-but given the benefit of new
While others wouldn't in the should never marry in the idealist of the worst features of the Means kong Lodge, The Theosophleal Society, improvements and discoveries which make it, to-day, a better Test, but there is still marked dis-17, Queen's Road Central, to-day at booby prize in a good husband the chap who talks about women competition if all the other en-being dainty pieces of Drosdon Batlafaction with the situation.
trants fell sick.
china, ethereal beings, and all the
Some few weeks
You just cannot knock the iden rest of it.
The husband who thinks his thero ought to be a law forbidding П
battery than ever.
Many of those improvements are
usual
the Astronomy" Chat on
8 p.m.
Mr. ago,
All rescued boat, P. C. Zaman
A
With the assistance of a motor-/ into the heads of some mon, and wife is perfect is too liable to be protected by broad, basle patents George Lansbury, the Labour which provont infringement. lender, declared that the condition Chinese who had thrown himself into them to marry. Or, at any rate, horrified when he finds out how
Let us demonstrate the many' features which make Prest-O-Lite of the working classes is becoming the harbour from Blake Pier, yester-women ought to be warned against much her perfection costs.
dainty piece of Dresdon china batteries give you the most value per dollar.
hls own importance, for instance. Waved, nor have mad scientifically Married life was never meant for applied to its face. him. If no man is a hero to his Apart from the coat there is The K.C.C. danco was such a huge valet, then certainly no man is a the disillusionment. It's all very success last month that the club win Ronald Colman to his wife. Fancy well to put a woman on a pedos- be holding another next Saturday. chap who thinks he really mat-tal, but the husband who expects The famous dance band of the Lintors in the world trying to main-to find her standing on it at break- colnshire Regiment will provide the tain his dignity with the woman fast time is going to get a bad music, and one or two novelties are who knows he has to wear bed-shock. And then he's more than
socks. I ask you. ladies in the spot dances, and a jolly evening is anticipated. For the con venience of Hongkong residents at- tending, a lato ferry will leave Kow- loon after the dance at 1.46 a.m.
more tragic every day, and it is. The man, who gave his name as them.
Wong Kam, is a destitute and is Take the fellow with a sense of doesn't have to have its hair
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notoworthy that the Daily Express, believed to be insane. In Conservative journal, in COM- THE HONGKONG HOTELmenting on this utterance, re-
GARAGE
marked that "it is impossible scoff at words like these." went further and declared that not only
was the plight of the Frost-O-Lite Storage Battery Sales millions of the unemployed tragic indeed, but "the plight of many thousands more of workers now facing further reductions in their mengre pay Is only less tragic," Hum adding that "a prosperous City is not worth the price of a desolate [community." These words suffice
impression to give some
of the gravity of the situation, for the unemployed problem is- no longer a problem of the unemployables, but one of people anxious and willing to work but unable secure jobs. The Government has a mummoth tank before it. Let
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1932.
BRITAIN'S BIGGEST '·
PROBLEM
Expectations that some indien-
dealing with the unemployment problem might be contained in the King's Speech have not been realised. Whilst it was stated that measures would be introduced
to
us hope that it will at least be sble to alleviate the lot of some
men whose lot is indeed pitiful.
A City Unafraid. The new City Hall in Sheffield dealing with the problem, nothing enterprise. Built at
is an inspiring example of civic સ cost of was disclosed regarding the pro- 2443,000-almost a
pound her bable line of action. It is clear, capita of the town's population— however, that the Government has it is not intended to be used as big-scale proposals in view, wit- the headquarters of the city's nd- ness the recent speech of Mr. ministration, nor for the
IDEAL CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY
EMPRESS CRUISE TO
MANILA
·
1
The itinerary of the cruise will be as follows!
Thursday, Dec. 22-Sail from Hongkong by Empress of Asia. Friday, Dec. 23.-En route.
Saturday, Dec. 24.—Arrive Manila early morning.
It
Too Much Truth,
likely to start looking for some other atheroal being.
No woman wants to be put on a goes without saying, of pedestal and treated as though course, that that man should re-sho were without blemish. She main single who cannot tell wants a husband who will notice good-who is too truthful. I once all her faults, big and little; who read that a man's success as a will love her in spite of them-and husband may be measured entire tell her at least twice a day that
she hasn't any. ly by his ability to conceal the truth. I wouldn't go quite so far
as that, but I will say that if, ilke
that American gentleman for SNAP OUT OF IT!
got his name), he cannot tell
扣
lie, then he ought not to marry the girl.
Because, you see, he'll have to By Ed. Kelly, Quick Change Artlate. The Canadian Pacific Steam-praiso everything she docs. If she The people of Hongkong are al- ships, Ltd., has arranged to run knits him a pullover that makes ways being accused of remaining a cruise to Manila and return for his head ache he must vow that it in a groove. Let's snap out of it. the Chiristmas holidays. As De-is the best pullover he has ever
What we need is a change. seen. If she buys something that Real change. We have felt the cember 2011 this year falle. On they will never use, just because need of change for a long while. Sunday, Christmas will be obshe got it for one-and-eleven-three All this talk about paying the tion of the Government's plan for of these thousands of our country. served on Monday, December 26th, instead of two shillings, he must shroff when he calls, for instance. and Boxing Day, will be a partial praise her for her womanly thrift. Let's suppose he is paid. There's And every time she asks him ino harm in supposing it. What's if not a whole holiday; therefore
The never regrets giving up his next? there will be holidays on four bachelor freedom he must, like
echo, answer "no." dayn.
If the population is dissatisfied. And make it let's change 'em about. sound as though he means it.
Then there is the man without the people on the Peak want to Now that winter's coming on. in sense of humour. He ought to go down the hill, while those who be branded in some way so that live at Kowloon always wanted to unsuspecting maidens should be-go to the Peak anyway. Swop come auspicious, and shun him them around. What he ought to do is devote his Of course, to do the thing-pro- life to politics.
Half the troubles of married Perly, we'll have to change jobs Put the rickaka around, too. life are funny-in retrospect. The coolies in the banks and govern- happiest husband is he who can mont offices, and put all the bank- see the funny side at the time.era and pubile officials between the For instance, when a wife saya shafts. she is going to slip into a shop,! and won't be a minute, it is really Kelly Editor of the Telegraph, and vory amusing the way the minute make the Editor the shroff, dod- will become ten, twenty, thirty or so.
ger. So amusing that the right man will be all smiles when his).
Instead of avorking six days i wife comes out again. But the be allowed to work one and rest week, and resting one, we should The fare, £12 each person, in-husband without В веняе of cludes first-class accommodation humour will start talking about Bix. and meals on board from de- his poor feet.
Then there's the cinemaa. When- parture Hongkong, December 22nd
ever we have to sit through, The placid man is foredoomed picture we don't don't like, make to arrival Hongkong. December to failure in married life, for the cinema people pay us, instead
what's the use of a husband who of us paying them. 28th,
won't go up in the air now and The Itinerary itt ideal, the
This sort of thing has got to be a temper, he will just sit still
Baldwin to the effect that it was
fallen on such
trana.
have
action of elvic business. This hoped to evolve a scheme which City Hall, a magnificent structure that recalls both the Greek and would stand the test of the next the Renaissance styles of
arch- quarter or half century. In the itecture, is designed largely for Commons debate which followed concerts of music, the presenta- The King's Speech, the Primetion of stage playa, banquets and Minister gave some possible ink-speeches. It is primiarly a Te ling of the Government plans when cognition of the value of culture he remarked that a revival of and beauty in the humdrum of a
to the great industrial city. The Sheff agirenlture is essential schemes, in view and stressed the Beld municipal authorities need of a much larger percentage out criticism. It has been urged not accomplished their work with. of people being put on the land. that in times like the present It is not easy, however, to see bow Sheffield cannot afford to spend this progess is to be effected such a sum on what is more от promptly, since agriculture has less a luxury. However that may bad days that a be, large numbers of workmen no very considerable period of time doubt are grateful to have enjoy. must elapse before the land can ed continuous emplyment on the And absorb any appreciable number of building for a long time. new workers, to say nothing of Sheffield may also perhaps feel the Impossibility of turning what unreasonable that out- side critics who, in the past, have artisans into farm labourers over-complained of her characteristi night. There are other aspects, eally industrial lack of beauty. ulso, such as the conditions under should, now that she is attempting which work will be offered in to remedy this defect, tell her these people. We fear that the that she cannot afford to do so. unemployment problem is not tổ But is it true that Sheffield can- be solved quite so easily as the not afford her City Hall? This is back-to-the-land enthusiasts would a question that, in its wider im- us hope. However, it will plications, affects the whole world. be wise to await details of the For the whole world is buny tell- Ing itself that it cannot afford this, Government proposals before
that, and the other, and the re- abandoning hope that something sult is stagnation of trade, and worthwhile may be attempted. i want in the midst of plenty, Can There can be no doubting theit reasonably be maintained that point that the unemployment issue] Sheffield, or any large city is the most serious of the domestic England, is poorer in material re- problems with which the Govern-sources than medieval Lincoln or ment is faced. With the approach York, which erected buildings of winter, there will be a sharpen-Hall The world Is wealthier now even grander than this latest City ing of the anxieties and worries than it has ever been before. A by which millions of our people chief reason
why it. doeg not are aaniled. The aperation of manifest this wealth in its daily the Means Test has been anything existence is that it is afraid to but satisfactory, arousing, ns it take up and use its riches with
have
in
has, strong protests not among both hands. Shefield has net an the working classes alone but example that is fired by courage among representatives of publie and confidence in the future. authorities and prominent men of affairs in all parts of the country,
After partaking of a meal, five irrespective of their political members of a family surnamed leanings. Men and women as well! Cheung, iving at No. 57, Shing Wo Road, hind to receivo treatment at the have undoubtedly been penalised Government Civil Hospital yesterday. because of their past thrift, their suffering from polson believed to have been prosent in meat which they ate. life savings and pensions being They were not in any serious danger," utilised as an exeuse, in many and were not detained.
Sunday, Dec. 25.-In Manila. Monday, Dec. 26.-In Manila. Leave in evening for Hongkong.
Tuesday, Dec. 27-En route. Wednesday, Dec. 28. Arrive Hongkong early morning.
Then we could make Edward
a
with
weather in Manila in at its best. again? If the big stiff hasn't got gone into thoroughly. The Empress of Aalu is due back while his wife quarrels with him. Just reverse everything we do in time for business on December and never say a word. He thinks
Instead of digging up 28th and three days before the this pleases her, since he knows Company dig out the Shin Mun Queen's Road, make the Electric New Year festivities in Hongkong. that women like talking. What dam. We'd kill two birds
he doesn't know is that they only The Canadian' Pacifie and like talking when they are pre- Philippine Tourist Association re-venting someone else doing it. If presentatives will meet the Em- only he'd attempt to protest it press of Asia to give assistance would be better. and information regarding trips But actually, of сонгас, the ashore.
fellow who will really let him-
"Plense, darling, drink your milk so that you'll grow
big enough for mother to spank."
one stone thon,
OLD PET DOGS
By R. SCOTLAND LIDDELL. Old pet dogs never die-they're simply "put away." Our dogs. inevitably, age-unnoticeably, for time. Then, suddenly, there comes a day when we discover that they are less active than they
fi
were.
We notice that their bark har lost Its bite. They wheeze. Only their loving hearts remain unchanged.
And wa?.... 'Well, we look at our dog-and sigh-and say, re- gretfully. "We'll have to do away with him."
Of course, it's hard. There are few decisions harder.
we
Sooner or later, though, have to "do away with him." The evil day, postpone it as we will. of will surely come. The case Potor has reminded me of this.
Peter lives in a flat--which, by - the way is not the best place for a dog of his particular breed, And Peter has grown old and fat.
Said Peter's owner, several days ago,..
"We'll have to do away with
him."
He apake of kindness-the usual Arguments-and Peter's owner's wife cried bitterly.
"I'll take him to-morrow." the man said.
It was a sunny day. The man went off with Peter a long way round-by way of King's Park. A most rejuvenating place, a park. They spent five hours in the park. Finally: "The place will be closed by now," he told himself. He rang the bell boldly--with that same courago that a man (Continued on Page 7.).
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