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| insist on compliance therewith ? These are vital points which may be answered in the next few daya. It may well be that the stronger line now being taken at Geneva is based on the hope
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that Japan may be induced to By THE HỌN. MRS. FRANCIS LASCELLES make some compromise and thus render conciliatory measures TT le
somewhat humiliating tive, and thus it came about that if possible. As Dr. Bences, the thought that the vast majority a girl was not engaged by the time Czecho-Slovakian delegate, has of people quite unwittingly obey she was twenty-three, she was look. remarked, if friendly concilia- natural laws which control their cd upon as an "old maid," while Not for systematic thieving, or tion fails, the League will have destinics, while all the time they man of thirty who still evaded the to take decisions.. "The Lea are pluming themselves on acting matrimonial net, was a confirmed chucking a shroff down four er
bachelor, guc," he says, "must have the with perfect free will.
five flights of stairs. Oh, no, ne- Earnest reformers study courage to act without reserve
pro- But recently we have changed all thing as simple as all that. blems of eugenics and advocate com- that. Wo have discovered in Just for breaking in one day all and without hesitation, but with plicated and impossible plans for twenty years more about the art of the rules and regulations which firmness, justice and dignity: the improvement of the human race, preserving youth than had provious. all of us break sometimes. the Assembly cannot afford to and all the time old Dame Nature ly been found out in two thousand Como along with us and we'll act with equivocation where, quietly chuckles to herself and gets years. And in prolonging theshow you. questions of principle are in volved." This utterance reflects the viewpoint of the small States at Geneva, nud It should assured- ly also reflect the feelings of ait nations which have any regard for the future of the League. Momentous décisions have to be made. They will be rendered all the harder if neither side shows any disposition to com- pose the situation by peaceful methods. But it is abundantly clear that if the League shows a weak and timorous frame of mind, the problem, so far from being settled, will assume even greater dimensions,
Portrait of a Professor
yarn.
on with her job of producing bigger years of active life we have lost We go down Des Voeux Road, and better human beings? It is not the necessity for abnormally carly and meet Pete. until Mother Nature has pursued marriages. Now that the habit of Pete. So We her wily machinations for quite a later marriage is definitely estab number of years that the scientists lished it is being realised that the begin to tumble to her ways and to change is for the better in overy the effect that this and that are the make momentous announcements to possible way.
best and wisest things to do in the future.
love
with the
Calm Parenthood. Physiology tells us that the body is not properly formed until the
You all know atop and have u
Okay, that's $250. Section 3 (20) says you mustn't loiter in any public place. If It's at night you're out of pocket another $250, because section 7 (4) says you can't assemble together with other persons in the night time.
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After the Sarge has taken our
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| And Dame Nature laughs like age of twenty-four, and the bralu anything, becaune Mr. Smith and a few years later. To wed two un Miss Brown have been doing those, developed bodies and brains is ob- very things for years past without viously asking for disaster. Tastes name and address we decide to go noticing it.
and habits undergo drastic changes Take, for example, the subject of during the latter part of the forma along to the Botanical Gardens. marriage.
For years the scientists, tive years, ao it is better to wait That's one place where they can't have been telling us to marry young until these are completed than to arrest us for loitering. But we and have children as early as pos- run the risk of being mated for life You mustn't break, Injure or sat on tho lawn. Presto, $250. sible so that they shall have the to someone utterly out of harmony, destroy any fruit, vegetable, grass advantage of an upbringing by with one's temperament. youthful parents. And year after Youth, though glorious, ia year the tendency has been towards notoriously unstable, and with our
So we decide that Home's the Inter marriages. Pretty flappers present knowledge of child pay safest place, after all. have been deliberately falling in chology we are beginning to realisoi The front door is locked, and wo man in the late the tremendous strain thrown on can't attract anyone's attention. Times change and so do pro- thirties or early forties, in pre- the sensitive minds of children $250 for disturbing the other in- fessors. Or should it be said ference to the callow. youth of, when exposed to continuous quarrels habitants of the flata by pulling Height 33 inches. Width 23-conceptions of professors do. twenty-five. The modern girl has and outburst of temper from their and ringing the doorbell. Inches. Depth 102 inches. The fuss-budget species is on the green accused of lacking the mother may be better "playmates" decided to do the landlord a gond been condemned as mercenary, and parent. The young father and An we went up the stairs we Weight 40 pounds.
way to extinction along with the dodo and the model T Ford, ac and
courage to Ince the hardship for their off-spring, but it is the turn and save his electricity bill. Demonstrations & Sales,
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not altogether startling declara- life, but she has gone serenely on growth and. development, both
We had a stiff whiskey sode. Morning Post Building.
tion is himself a professor. He her way in spite of all the dreadful physical and mental.
and picked up the letter under the Distributors:
says to-day's type is as different warnings hurled at her head.
Modern economic conditions.tend door saying that our Pekinese had THE HONGKONG HOTEL
from the 1890 variety as is the
And until it began to be noticed to discourage carly marriages, not been found wandering on the GARAGE.
"Rumba" from "Waltz Me that these "later" marriages were because it is financially impossible, street. $250 because the dog Around Again, Willie." Like- turning out extremely well, and that but because an all-round higher wasn't muzzled, and animal to be
children as a class were wise, the long-haired musician, bonnier and healthier, and growing of a former generation may have
getting standard is demanded. The mother dentroyed. the windsor-tic poet and many bigger and cleverer than the chif been content to feed her children let us off with $100 this time. We turned on the wireless. Thoy another example of that delusion dren of former generations. It did mainly on bread. The mother of Mustn't make any noise calculated called temperament are seen to- not occur to the scientists that mer-to-dny knows this will merely pro- to disturb or interfere with public day most often through the eyes haps the modern girl was a little duce rickets, and prefers to wait till tranquillity after sunset. of memory. Nowadays some bit wiser than they.
she can afford to give them a beiter men of commerce look more as
dict. Actually wages are so much
So we committed suicide. Lengthened Lives. artists are expected to look than
higher to-day than they were, say,
Our estate was taxed $100 for do the artists themselves. No body
Instead of exposing her tender thirty years ago, that people could, discharging a firearm within 200 doubt this is for the best. Man and the drudgery of running a home standards and still considered itĮ
the hardships of maternity if they were content with the old yards of a dwelling house. kind does not differ so erratically and caring for children before she praiseworthy to be able to claim as appearances would sometimes was out of her teens, she preferred they had "buried five," marry, even indicate, and too many an anti- to wait till she was twenty-five or younger than did their grand. pathy has been sown by efforts so before choosing a man in sight parents. Fortunately, however, in- to impress a mistaken sense of of forty as the husband who could stend of bearing twelve children,
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THE LEAGUE AND JAPAN
youthful intolerance.
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"PAYMENT DEFERRED.
we're here at last to deliver sur I'ts a long time coming, but
critique on the A.D.C's. "Payment
Deferred."
Assembly may eventually reach fessors certainly put in a vere consideration. beyond the dreams of four of the survivors to grow up on the last occasion we appeared Whatever decision the Leagur individuality upon others. Pro- give her a measure of comfort and letting six die in Infancy, and allow There was some slight friction
weedy, degenerate, and undersized. in the role of dramatic critic. from that they presented in the superficial matter of preferring bring two or three sturdy, healthy leading lady's Nearest Friend different appearance in 1932 This change is not merely the modern mother would rather
mauve decade." In some res- comfort to hardship. It is some children into the world and bring that Edward Kelly should be shot "Don't you think" asked the
Pects the difference may be an thing that strikes deeper than that. them up to perfect maturity. improvement. What is really it is the instinctive answer of
ut Finally, the world of to-day de more important, however, is Nature'a hint that mankind is mands quality,
"Why wait till dawn?" replied whether or not their thinking changing and that our habits must quantity. Throughout the
and not mera the lending lady. has changed-and whether for be amended accordingly. Life was the strongest mentalities have al shot long before dawn.
agen, As a matter of fact, we were better or worse.
once a much shorter affair than it ways been children of mature ja now. A young man was trained parents. Napolron's parents were to bear arms and auffer hardship in the thirties, Queen Victoria was But to get back to the A.D.C. from earliest boyhood. By the born when her father was fifty-two, business.
time he
dawn7"
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was eighteen he was a Kents's father was middleaved, and There was a little unpleasant- matured warrior. By thirty he was in our own time. the outstanding ness at the box office when we pre- either killed in battle or was look-literary genius of Bernard Shaw sented in 1.0.U. and what we want ing forward to settling down and was the product of a father in the to say here and and now, is that eating and drinking himself to forties.
people who advertiso "payment denth! a
Foolish sentimentality has, in the deferred" should be prepared to Even as recently as the days of past, made us look upon the youth take the consequences. We have our grandparents a woman was a ful romance with a benignant smile. ever been a stout adherent matron when she was thirty and a Perhaps the time is not far distant, Truth in Advertising. to portly and slow-moving middle twenty-five or a man under thirty man of forty bad resigned himself when marriage for a woman under
ROOMS TOURISTS
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in regard to the Sino-Japanese dispute, there is evidence that Japan is not likely to get matters all her own way. In Sir John Simon's latest utterance, it is possible to see a stronger British attitude emerging-witness his declaration that both sides must make concessions. So far, Japan has taken the stand that she has done nothing wrong, and her Film Morals. spokesmen have made it per- fectly clear that she intende to
Has the motion picture indus- brook no outside interference. try, like Frankenstein, produced Mr. Matsuoka, in his speeches a machine it cannot control? In before the Assembly, has not recent times there has been deviated from that attitude. noticeable trend on the part of His latest threat is indica- many industries to take the pub- tive of Japan's frame of mind. lic frankly into their confidence, The point thus arises as to what indicating a desire to understand Japun will say to the indica- the needs and wishes of custom- ave. Under such conditions youth will be looked upon as a social crime tion that she will be expected to ers and consumers. Can as much; ful marriages were almost impera-lof the first magnitude. make concessions.. There is a be said of those who bear res. further development of the ut- ponsibility for the film industry? most importance in the forecast The answer would seem to be that the Assembly may pass a "No." Hollywood turns an un- resolution refusing to recognise hearing ear to the protestations Manchukuo. If that happens, it of the many who, recognising will obviously be a tacit condem- the potentialities of the screen nation of Japan's action in ac- for good, plead only for the cording recognition. It will, elimination of the offensive and indeed, be more than that. It immoral. To the indictment of will imply that Manchukuo is offending against the canons of what China says it is-a Japan- good taste must be added the esc-created puppet State. Sir equally grave charge of want of John Simon's remark that Léa- patriotism. Lord Irwin, former gue methods have not been em- Viceroy of India, has stated in ployed in the dispute would also no equivocal terms that the in- appear to be directed against fluence of meretricious movies Japan's actions, since from the has been one of the potent causes very beginning China has acted of the disappearance of the in strict conformity with League white man's prestige In that requirements. At the moment, country. And recently, the rc- it is an open question whether lease of a picture, this time, it the Assembly will deem it wise is true, made in England, the to declare that Japan's policy in director and star of which, how- Manchuria has been an actual ever, are American, has become Infringement of the Covenant. the occasion of strong protest in There may possibly be a disin- Britain because it depicts British clination to pass judgment, al- army officers in a discreditable though it is difficult to see how light. From the viewpoint of this can be avoided, Inasmuch the spectator, whether European an China rests her case on that or Asiatic, it matters little which allegation. The chief British side of the Atlantic the charac- delegate says the Assembly must ters portrayed to his credulous defend the Covenant and gen vision may inhabit. Every pic- that League methods are am- ture which emphasises, with ployed in the futuro. What is nonchalant Irresponsibility, in- the precise import of these fidelity, crime and dishonesty as words? Do they mean that cer- though these were predominant tain requirements will be postu- part and parcel of the social or Jated and that the League will der la fraught with menace to
civilization:
"How was your crop this your, Abnor?". “Right,goods.considering wo ain't on the main road.
DRAMA IN TWO ACTS. Act I.
of
Seene: Kowloon Railway Station. Action: Anzac Co. H.K.V.D.C. returning from camp at Fanling,
A sudden commotion. We rush over. Some-one has fanted.
One of the Anzacs is leaning pensively against a lamp standard, a cigarette dangling from his lips. "What's happened?" we demand- ed agitatedly,
"Aw." said the warrior, "he's our flaming C.O. One of the chaps saluted him!
Act II
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Scene: Court-martial.
Action: Closing stages of pro. ceedinga,
Arraigned private: I could not say what came over me. I will see that it does not occur again.
President: In view of accused's 68Burance and previous good character, the sentence of the Court is that accused be severely reprimanded.
ANOTHER ROAD TRAGEDY.
Old Peto has. lost his nerve. You've all seen him at the whas of his battored old car-a six year old model-pattaring around the streets of Kowloon. Now he drives it with as much care as if it were a now $10,000 Rolls Royce, Gone are the care-free days in which he used to drive hell-for-leather up Nathan Road; vone is the pleasure, the freedom from worry, and the old chearful recklessness.
Some
now responsibility alta heavily upon him, making his life miserable.
As a matter of fact, Poto has Just mado' the last payment, and ARROW OWNa the camis AS CORE MANA