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ms, papally felting on IS THERE "A RIGHT AGE" The Very Idea!
gime, especially Inststing equality in the inatter of menta. If it can be induced to attend the Disarmament Con- forence, the omnibility of an agreement on this issue will be all the more promising. Vlow. ing the positions in lis general an- | pect, it will bo anomalous that a great Republic should again have to rely on a virtual dictatorship, but, in the circumstances, It is difficult to see what alternative there is. Germany in panaing through a crisis in her internal, affairs, and it in Inevitable that incongruitles should persist.
"Jerry" Building
FOR MARRIAGE?
"Youthful Marriages, Plonse!" Says RT, HON, GEORGE' LANSBURY, M.P. JOUTHFUL marriage should bo
the single life in many cases.
the sexes.
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PANTS FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS. "One Is Always Ton Young."
(By Edward Kally, Dress-Reformer-> Says WILLIAM GERHARDI
We notice that the Finance Com- TN my opinion, one is always too mittea of the Legislative Council young to get married. I ad- has made provision for the pur- and photo-. for the New
We also learn that the amount
for
encouraged and not derided, vise both boys and girls of twenty, chase of a camera The pity in that both marriage and and men and women of thirty-or graphic material birth-rates are falling, Many men oven forty or fifty-ngainst it. As Female Prison. and women of forty, rendered far as youth is concerned, it fa cynical by the war, are preferring more a question of "Can you afford in question will be met frem savy-
to marry?" for, as a general rule.ious in Clothes and Shoes But, I would not say that young the less your years the less you Staff. poople of between twenty and earn. And marriage, if it is to be. Is this right? Is it proper? twenty-five are taking advantage well and truly carried out, should What would the alaters and. of the new relationship between be an affair of glamour and mothers of our civil servants any romance. Do it on the grandif they saw their brothers and sona The prosecution of a number higher than ever before. The old-
The standard of morality is scale, or not at all,
walking the streets of Hongkong of contractors for permitting time
I am against doing it at all my-without a shirt to their backs? dark mystery has been self. Matrimony is surely an Illu What would their sweethearts material divergences from the banished for ever, and therefore sion. Nature in this respect has say? What would you say? specifications of buildings under marriage is a finer and more solld whatever is far away is, once with stance, of the breakdown in morale
spectacles but with Acid-glasses.
We shudder to think, for in- construction in Kowloon almost thing. deserves to be ranked among the Once thone who were embittered in focus, clear and beautiful, while in the event of the No. 1 of, any, best local news of the week. It by the war cease to advise against objects close at hand are blurred, the Colonial Secretary's Omco going is time some definito action was marriage, and once the new gen-
and to be distrusted.
to his office one morning with a taken to protect the public and eration comes into its own. I am either look through our binoculars to be met by the No. 2, who had Wo get to the distant hills, and patch in the seat of his trousers. property owners from the confident that we shall see more builder whose main object would marriages and more stable alli-At the hills still ahead or else at limped to work with the soles out seem to be the cheapest and, unces.
the clearly-seen plain. And we of his last pair of shoca. A most attractive console with shoddiest work capable of sur-
regret. On that plain aro the Is the Government really as sole- clements but walnut control panel and viving a cursory examination.
of adventure and less as all that! romance, the perpetual partners of And besides, there's no telling pleasing design. Has a remark. The extremely heavy penalties Says MRS. J. R. CLYNES freedom. Around us A blurred where this economy ΠΟΤΟ able five tube Superheterodyne imposed-the highest in the
May THERE should be no objection (mist.
end. chassis with Pentode and Screen Colony's history, we believe
to young people marrying as
The civil servants should pro- Grid tubes and rectifier filter should have a salutory effect. soon as they are intelligent and
test at once; while they're in the system. The entire chassis is Further satisfaction is afforded responsible enough to realise that
mood. Before they're In the nude! completely shielded and includes by the obvious Inference that marriage is a practical contract
This is n an antenna compensating con. the authorities are keeping
respectable Colony, and bealdea, Winter is coming on. within which both parties have to denser.Beautiful tone quality and closer watch upon this type of work.
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A brief examination of the draft Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to summary offences is sufficient to bring to mind the phrase: "There but for the Grace of God goes. Nothing appears to have escaped the engle eye of the maker of laws, though it may be good for the peace of mind of
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"Love Giver the Incentive".
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"If You Earn Enough Cash.”
Says MAY EDCINTON. ▼OUNG people should stand on their feet as soon as possi
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We must stand back to back
behind each other, and firmly face the position.
Are we, or are we not, to have
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When I married I know I should ble, and in these days they do. Soeltizens, protest, to the, uttermost have to do real hard work for my long as you earn enough cash to against the Government's infamous husband, such as scrubbing the support two people, the very young proposals, luors of our home, baking, cook-should not be rebuked. They may ing. washing, and mending. The find misery Incalculable or they pity is that in these days we talk may and treasure incalculable.
But there are pitfalls. . . . so much of adjusting one's per- sonality" and the "paychology of I do not agree with the theory marringe" that many people are that marriage puts an end to a ragshop public servants, just be- young man's career. The best and cause the Government wants to made afraid to face realities.
In reality, it is only love that strongest men make or mar them-buy a camera? gives the incentive to the accom- their wives, for help and comfort,
selves. But they can be helped by The answer is in the negative. plishment of hard work, and there- fore only love that ever brings gaiety and care are necessary com-
ponents of marriage.
A FISH STORY. happiness or success,
Do not marry before you have We hired a sampan with Pete studied each other's failings last Sunday and went out fishing. many to know that, up to the week, and our marriage hne been minutely, warned your partners,, We didn't get any fish, but we had present, there has been little structed on confidence and mutual facts of partnership, always a
successful because it was con and straightened out the main a bottle of 0.P. rum. sign, whether by inference, sug-, trust. I was prepared to take the gestion, allusion, metaphor, im-rough with the smooth, and it was curious business. Do marry when occasion taking a worm out of the plication, evidence-concrete, because I fancled I might
you have made up your minds to balt can, he dipped it into the mug FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1932.
circumstantial or hearsay or tually be able to make life per ask for advice outside the home it on the hook, saying as he did Go: even live within your incomes; not to of rum besides him before putting otherwise, that the vast majority fectly even and smooth for at leant unless there is no help to be had "Have one with me, you wriggling of the offences will not remain one person that I took the tremen in it, and not to burden each other blighter. All you'll ever get after THE GERMAN PUZZLE the dead letter of tradition. I dous step.
Wyndham Street hawkers, the
with worries, tempers, uncomely, this will be a lot of suit water." rakers of dustbins and the carly
relations, and unfair expectations. morning radio hounds have not, yet commenced to quake.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Chinese Invoice Officer
I married on thirty shillings a
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" She the Only Girl?" Asks COLONEL SIR ARTHUR
HOLBROOK
W about matrimony, I put
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Pete is a kindly fellow. On one
Scarcely had his sinker touched bottom than there came a mighty tug. Pulling in rapidly Pete hauled in a 2lb. garoupa.
we hauled that fish aboard, the Belleve it or believe it not, when worm had him by the throat,
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REAL LIFE DRAMA.
A dozen men, including a Scot, meet at dinner. The chit is pre- sented. The Scot says:-"Here, bring it to me. 'l pay." He doca so in silence.
The newspaper placards shriek:
MURDER OF
Although the German political puzzle has by no manner of
There Are Three Rules" means been solved, there
are
Says REV. B. G. BOURCHIER prospects of the early formation
THEN young people ask me]OUNG men and women must of a new Government with Gen. eral von Schleicher as the Chun-
undoubtedly be told that the cellor. The change will be little,
the leading question, "Is she the single life can never be complete. only girl in the world for you?" Ever so slightly more than enough other than a change in name,
If they say "Yes!" I reply, "Well, for one tu a sufflciency for two. since von Schleicher was Herr Mr. Y. H. Wen has assumed marry her?"
And the three rules of marriage von Papen's righthand man in duty as Chinese Invoice Offlcer
That is why I married myself, are to know what one wants, to the last Government and re- in Hongkong and he will be wel-and that is the reason with nine get it, and then to be grateful. presents the same school comed by local merchants as people out of ten. It is all a case After all, the married of thought. Indications are relieving them of a good deal of of selection. And in these days, always be grateful for their escapo that the new Chancellor will anxiety regarding the possibility when wo grumble against the from celibacy-though few of form a Presidial Cabinet, whose of difficulties arising from the alleged incompetency of youth, them look at it in that way. The policy will be one of conciliation, new Customs "regulations, why do we not realise that the thing is that they should be grate- it is to be assumed that the Par- Until the negotiations between quickest way to success Hies in ful for getting what they want liamentary form of government the Hongkong and Nanking Gov-happiness?
(even if they no longer want it half will still be an
The miserable man is never suc- so much. impossibility, eraments resulted in Mr. Wen's
cessful. To command the things since there is small chance of appointment, the prospects were
I am in favour of a compulsory any coalition which could com- rather
that mortals desire alarming. Under the
you have betrothal period of at least three
I hope you got my cable.. I have mand £ majority in
rich or else years. In this way, there would had rather a good trip; compara- the new arrangement, the regula- optimistic. The cynie will per-jbe fewer plunges in Reichstag. Control will be vest-, tions are likely to be beneficial haps retort that a man who mar- Both man and woman should then on board who were not obsessed the dark. tive calm, and at least three fellows ed in the hands of a small group, rather than otherwise. It is rles has to be both. In reply, I in-be able to find out the facts, not with the contract bridge. One was which, in the absence of Parlia- conceivable that Д mentary support, will have volume of business will pass ment and fellcity that marriage has of their own natures and the port cultured, he turned quite faint greater dicate the many years of content-enly of life around them, but also Cribben, who was at college with
mo. He is a don now,, and they are to play.
either to be very
autocratic powers. The Ger- through the hands of local Im-¡mennt to me. mans need ruling, and, indeed, portera and exporters, for 'the like being ruled, so the pro- reason that those who have boon bability is that as long as the grumbling, British manufac Chancellor can keep order in the turers, for instance, will be saved. country, the nation will ac- the trouble, expense and incon- quiesce in the rule of von venience of seeking out a Chin- Schleicher, The view was ese Consular official in England. strongly held by von Papen that They may send their pro- it was not necessary for the duets to Hongkong for distribu- Government to be backed by a tion, leaving it to the local mer- constant coalition of partics. He chant to obtain the necessary went further and felt that gov- certification of the invoices when ernment, in the absence of Par- the goods are despatched into liamentary control, should enact China. its laws by decrees. The Ger- man people, he held, were sick of being ruled by parties which, he believed, as shown by the last two years of Parliamentary rule, frequently placed their own in- terests before the interests of the nation as a whole. It may be assumed that von Schleicher
21 YEARS AGO
Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files
The following extracts are from
Is of the same opinion. He may the Hongkong Telegraph for the
be expected to net on the week ended Dec, 2nd 1911. principle that the first duty of
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the Government is to maintain The rate of the dollar on demand the authority of the State, and, was 1s. 10.7/16d.
In so doing, to apply what it con-
Mr. (now. Sir) Cecil Clomanti
siders necessary measures to was appointed to act as Colonial
curb any disturbers of the public Secretary.
pence, regardless of their posi-
tion or party. The Government
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Mr. O. I. Ellis was authorised to
will be regarded as above all par-alen for Mesars. E. D. Sassoon and
ties, and will seek to give Ġer-Co. many the peace and quiet and
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The
St. Andrew's Ball, held in the the return of business confidence City Hall, was a big success. which it so much needs. Drastic Hon. Mr. C. H. Ross was Chieftain. reorganisation will be called for.
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On foreign policy the new Gov- -The death occurred at tho Naval ernment is certain to follow the Hospital of Engineer Commander line taken by the von Papen re- Campbell, of H‚M.S. Kont.
"They must have been hit hard. She can't afford to
have a nervous breakdown this year."
VENTRILOQUIST.
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LETTER FROM JOE.
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when I told him I was selling tea. He is going to address the Rotary Club of Singapore on the Lyric and its Emotional Content. There was also an elderly youth in very hairy clothes. I gathered that he was going to study the Siamese,' on behalf of some society and co- ordinate something statistical with something else.
BY BALLOON ASCENT. Unadvertised, unheralded, we descended from the stratosphoro yesterday. We had ascended to a record height of 38.002
Our assistant, Prof. Juff, did not come down with us. We had to, throw him qut-ballast being ex- hausted at a height of 33,000 or 80. He died a hero's death. Next time we shall take a heavier assist. ant and roach heights as yet un- recarded,
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THE DEAN AND THE TESTI. We are all very glad that Maurico Tato has arrived safely in Austra lia, although with him went, un- luckily, England's last chance of sending out Denn Inge. We had been hoping against hope that the M.C.C. could avail themselves of his services after all.
"I am disappointed, of course, said the Dean in an interview. "I could have given the team that Bittle something that some others haven't got. And it seems to me a shade dysgenia to be playing so many professionals.”
"And your journalism?”
"Ab, yes," said the Dean. "There you look on the bright side. I should hate to have been banned along with Bradman."