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THE LEAGUE AND JAPAN
insist on compliance therewith? These are vital points which may be answered in the next few days. It may well be that the stronger line now being taken at Genova is based on the hope
Portrait of a Professor
TT is
THE BEST AGE FOR
PARENTHOOD
The Very Idea!
A FINE DAY.
By Edward Kelly, Tax Collector.
Fined $1,150!
under the now Summary Offences That's what'll happen to you
Ordinance.
Not for systematic thioving, or chucking a shroff down foar er five flights of stairs. Oh, no, AG thing as simple as all that.
Just for breaking in one day all all of us break sometimes. the rules and regulations which
show you.
Como along with us and wo'll'
Earncat reformers study pro- But recently we have changed all blems of eugenics and advocato com- that. Wo have discovered In the improvement of the human race, preserving youth thinn had previous plicated and Impossible plans for twenty years more about the art of and all the time old Dame Naturo ly been found out in two thousand quietly chuckles to herself and gats, years. And in prolonging the on with her fob of producing bigger years of active life we have lost 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, Pate. So we her wily machinations for quite a later marriage is definitely catab yarn. number of years that the scientists shed it la being realleed that the begin to tumile to her ways and to change is for the better in every the effect that this and that are the make momentous announcements to possible way. best and wisest things to do in the future.
Wo go down Dos Voeux Road, You all know stop and have a
Okay, that's $250. Section 3
(20) anys you mustn't loiter lu 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 poraons in the night time.
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the dog
So we committed suicide, Our estate was taxed $100 for yards of a dwelling house. discharging a firearm within 200
that Japan may be induced to Bỳ THE HON. MRS. FRANCIS LASCELLES. make some compromise and thus render conciliatory measures possible. Aa Dr. Benos, the thought that the vast majority A girl was not engaged by the time a somewhat humiliating tive, and thus it came about that if Czecho-Slovakian delegate, hna of people quite unwittingly oboy she was twenty-three, she was look. remarked, if friendly concilia- natural, laws which control thelred upon as an "old mald," while a tion fails, the League will have destinies, while all the time they man of thirty who still evaded the to take decisions. "The Lea are pluming themselves on acting matrimonial not, was a confirmed guc," he says, "must have tho with perfect free will.
bachelor, courage to act without reserve! and without hesitation, but with firmness, justice and dignity; the Assembly cannot afford to act with equivocation where questions of principle are in- volved." This utterance reflects the viewpoint of the small States at Geneva, and it should assured ly also reflect the feelings of all nations which have any regard for the future of the Lengue. Momentous decisions have to be
Calm Parenthood. made. They will be rendered
Phyalology tells us that the body is not properly formed until the all the harder if, neither side And Dame Nature laughs like age of twenty-four, and the brain shows any disposition to com- anything, because Mr. Smith and a few years later. To wed two un- pose the situation by peaceful Miss Brown have been doing thôno, doveloped bodies and brains is ob methods. But it is abundantly very things for years past without viously naking for disanter. Tastes.
After the Sarge has taken our clear that if the League shows a
noticing it.
and habite undergo drastic changes name and address we decide to go A most attractive console with weak and timorous frame of marriage. For years the scientists, tive years, so it is better to wait That's one place where they can't Take, for example, the aubject of during the latter part of the forma along to the Botanical Gardens. butt walnut control panel and mind, the problem, so far from have been telling us to marry young until these are completed than to arrest us for loitoring. But we pleasing design. Has a remark being settled, will assume even and have children as early as pos- run the risk of being mated for life on the able five tube Superheterodyne greater dimensions.
lawn. Presto, $250. chassis with Pentode and Screen
sible so that they shall have the to someone utterly out of harmony destroy any fruit, vegetable, grass You mustn't break, Injure or Grid tubes and rectifier filter
advantage of an upbringing by with one's temperament. youthful parents. And year after Youth, though system. The entire chassis is
sod or turf, glorious, 18 year the tendency has been towards notoriously unstable, and with our So we decide that Home's the completely shielded and includes an antenna compensating con-
later marriages. Pretty flappera present knowledge of child pay safest place, after all. have been deliberately falling in chology we are beginning to realise ! The front door is locked, and we denser Beautiful tone quality and
love with the man in the late the tremendous strain thrown on can't attract anyone's attention. a marvellous performance.
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 quarrel habitants of the flats by pulling
conceptions of professors do. twenty-five. The modern girl has and outburst of temper from their and ringing the doorbell. The fuss-budget species is on the been condemned as mercenary, and parent. The young father and As we went up the stairs we way to extinction along with the has been accused of lacking the mother may be better playmates" decided to do the landlord a good dodo and the model T Ford, ne- courage to face the hardship for their off-spring, but it is the tarn and save his electricity bill. cording to one who should know and poverty that her mother mature parents who will provide So we switched off the hall light. The gentleman who makes this dured during their early married phere which is so essential to stendy
and grandmother cheerfully en- the calm, quiet, balanced atmos, That cost us another $250. not altogether startling declara- life, but she has gone serenely on growth and tion is himself a professor. le her way in spite of all the dreadful physical and mental.
development, both
We had a stiff whiskey soda. Bays to-day's type is as different warulags hurled at her head. Modern economic conditions tend door saying that our Pekinese had and picked up the letter under the from the 1890 variety as is the And until it began to be noticed to discourage early marriages, not been found "Rumba" from "Waltz Me that these "inter" marriages were because it is financially impossible, stroot. $250 because
wandering on the Around Again, Willie." Like, turning out extremely well, and that but because an all-round higher wasn't muzzled, and animal to be wise, the long-haired musician, bonnier and healthier, and growing of a former generation may have
children as a class were getting standard is demanded. The mother, destroyed. the windsor-tic poet and many bigger and cleverer than the chil- been content to feed her children let us off with $100 this time, We turned on the wireless, They 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 ner- to-day 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 better men of commerce look more as
diet. Actually wages are so much artists are expected to look than
Lengthened Lives.
higher to-day than they were, say, do the artists themselves. No body to the hardships of maternity if they wore content with the old Instead of exposing her tender thirty years ago, that people could, doubt this is for the best. Man- and the drudgery of running a home standards and still considered it 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
"PAYMENT DEFERRED. indicate, and too many an anti- to wait till she was twenty-five or younger than did their grand- we're here at last to deliver our pathy has been sown by efforts so before choosing a man in sight parents. Fortunately, however, in-
I'ts a long time coming, but to impress a mistaken sense of of forty as the husband who could stead of bearing twelve children, critique on the A.D.C's. "Payment Whatever decision the League individuality upon others. Pro- give her a measure of comfort and lotting aix die in infancy, and allow- There was some slight friction Assembly may eventually reach. fessors certainly put in a very consideration beyond the dreams of four of the survivors to grow up on the last occasion we appeared
youthful intolerance. different appearance in 1932
This change is not merely the modern mother would rather
weedy, degenerate, and undersized. In the role of dramatic critic. dispute, there is evidence that from that they presented in the superficial matter of preferring bring two or three sturdy, healthy leading lady's Nearest Friend Japan is not likely to get matters "mauve deende." 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 all her own way. In Sir John pects the difference may be an thing that strikes deeper than that, them up to perfect maturity. Simon's latest utterance, it is improvement. What is really It the instinctive answer of Finally, the world of to-day de- at dawn7" possible to see a stronger British more important, however, is Nature's hint
mankind is mands quality, and
"Why walt til dawn?" repiled whether or not their thinking changing and that our habits must quantity. Throughout the
not mere the leading lady. attitude emerging-witness his declaration that both sides must has changed-and whether for. be amended accordingly. Life was the strongest mentalities have al-shot long before dawn.
As a matter of fact, we were once a much shorter affair than it ways make concessions. So far, Japan
better or worse,
been children of is now. A young man was trained parents. Napoleon's parents were has taken the stand that she has
to bear arms and suffer hardship in the thirties, Queen Victoria was done nothing wrong, and her Film Morals.
from earliest boyhood. By the born when her father was fifty-two business.
But to get back to the A,D.C. spokesmen have made it per-
time he was eighteen he was a Keats's father was middleaved, and fectly clear that she intends to
There was a little unpleasant-. matured warrior. By thirty he was in our own time, the outstanding neas at the box office when we pre- Has the motion picture indus- either killed in battle or was look-literary genius of Bernard Shaw sented an 1.0.U. and what we want. brook no outside interference. try, like Frankenstein, produced ing forward to settling down and was the product of a father in the to say here and and now, is that Mr. Matsuoka, in his speeches a machine it cannot control? In eating and before the Assembly, has not recent times there has been
drinking himself to forties.
people who advertise "payment deviated from that attitude. noticeable trend on the part of
a death!
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 His latest threat is indica- many industries to take the pub- our grandparents a woman was a ful romance with a benignant smile. ever been a stout adherent of tive of Japan's frame of mind. lic frankly into their confidence, matron when she was thirty and a Perhaps the time is not far distant Truth in Advertising. The point thus arises us to what indicating a desire to understand, to portly and slow-moving middle twenty-five or a man under thirty man of forty had resigned himself when marriage for a woman under Japan will say to the indica the needs and wishes of custom-are. Under such conditions youth-will be looked upon as a social crime tion that she will be expected to era and consumers. Can as much; ful marriages were almost impera-of 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 zeam 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 cunons of. what China says it is-a Japan- good taste must be added the ese-created puppet State. Sir equally grave charge of want of John Simon's remark that Lea- 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 re- it is an open question whether lease of a picture, this time, it the Assembly will deem it wise is truc, 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 offleers in a discreditable though it is difficult to see how light. From the viewpoint of this can be avoided, inasmuch the spectator, whether European us China rests her caso 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 Idefend the Covenant and a vision may inhabit. Every pic- that League methods are em- turo which emphasises with ployed in the future. What is nonchalant Irresponsibility, in- the preciso import of the fidelity, crime and dishonesty as words? Do they mean that cor- though these were predominant tain requirements will be posti- part and parcel of the social or lated and that the League wil der is fraught with menace to
civilization,
in regard to the Sino-Japanese
to be
that
FOR
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TOURISTS
"How was your crop this year, Abner?".
#Right. good, considering we ain't on the main" rond.”
agca,
mature
Deferred."
DRAMA IN TWO ACTS. Act I,
Scene: 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 ponsively against a lamp standard, a cigarette dangling from his lips. "What's happened?" wo demand- ed agitatedly.
"Aw," said the warrior, "he's our flaming C.O. One of the chaps saluted him!
Act II.
•
Scene: Court-martiaj. Action: Closing sláger of pro- ceedings.
Arraigned private: I could not say what camo over me. I will see that it does not accur again,
President: In view of accused's Assurance and previous good character, tha sentence of the Court is that accused be severely reprimanded.
ANOTHER ROAD TRAGEDY,
Old Pete has lost his norve. You've all seen him at the wheel of his battered old car-a six year old model-pottering around-the streets of Kowloon. Now he drives It with as much care as if it were a now $10,000 Rolls Royce. Gono are the care-free days in which he used to drive hell-for-leather up Nathan Road; gone is the planure, the freedom from worry, and the old cheerful recklessness.
Some new responsibility sits heavily upon him, making his life miserable.
As a matter of fact, Poto hae just made the laat payment, and now owns the car.
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