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NOTES OF THE DAY!
THOSE WOMEN IN TROUSERS
By ROBERT LYND
50
ቤ timo Jare allowed to dress anyhow. "And the more attention they pay to their
at their work.
The Very Idea!
HOW TO LOSE AT POKER
The week-end" typhoon bardly played the game. Having headed steadily for Hongkong for two days and taken a peep of Gap
off. Rock, it suddenly sheered south for no obvious reason,-dis-
By Edward Kelly, Busted Flush There has never been appointing the newcomers—who
SINCE
we last wrote about were keyed up. an anticipation of when human beings worried theft first experience of a real much about other peoplo's clothes as uniforms, the more expert they are
poker, we have learnt "blow"
and discomfiting the they do at present. Scarcely a
had month passes without a mild vol-pleasant enough; but with 50 per wiscncre old-stagers who
Go-as-you-please in dress is a lot about this subject. been.seeking to impress the griffins canic aruption of public opinion over cent, of human beings-I do not
They say you've got to pay with their predictions. All the reminiscencing presumably intend-
some such question as whether put the figure higher than that-it for your experience, Last. ed to convoy a senge of superiority lawn-tonnis players of the female becomes a symbol of go-as-you- night we paid $45, vhich is sex should or should not wear please in other things. I do not be stockings or
leva that a professional army could about all the experience we whether postmen should be allowed to wear shirts ever attain a high level of efficiency intend to buy.
it soldiers were allowed to dress as open at the throat in hot weather. they pleased on parade some of
It all happened through Pete. And now we have a hubbub over them wearing hikers' shorte, others Pete approached us on Saturday.
in their shirt alceves, others in two nurses who went out for a top-hats, others in sandals, if a
"What about a game of poker Guardsman wore seen doing sentry- to-morrow night?” he asked A rather serious accident in
duty with a paper hat instead of a Prince Edward Road Inst night
It is true that novelty of costume bearakin on his head even the most may serve to draw attention, once unless it is sanctioned by Fashion, unconventionally-minded again, to the street-lighting ques-has never been popular. We have would realise that the Guards were tion in Kowloon. A Chinese youth the same Instinctive objection to not what they used to be. was badly hurt and a motor-lorry damaged. While it is possible anyone who dresses in opposition HEARTS AND SHIRT SLEEVES.
to the fashion as sparrows are said! con-
Another reason for believing that
was so much waste of time. The joke was on the amateur experts. Perhaps Mr. Jeffries will arrange things a little better' next time to give the old hands a chance to recover their self-esteem!
STREET-LIGHTING
that several other factors
walk in trousera.
"Sorry," we said, "we're tak-
of using the girl friend to Church,”. "Well, can you make it Monday night?" he said.
move-
|
"Too bad" we replied, we're visiting the dentist on Monday,”
"Oh, well, surely you can..come.
are
tributed to the amash, it is fairly to have to an escaped canary. clothes may exert a powerful in- safe to say that but for the fact
The women who used to wear fluence on life is the important part along Tuesday night?" he said.
“Oh, damitall, all right. We'll that Prince Edward Road is light- ed on one side only and that each bloomers were glowered as outcasts played by shirts of various colours
como to-morrow night," we cried. light on that side is fifty yards who affronted the sense of decency. In modern revolutionary
ments. It might truly be said in- from the next, the mishap would It is not long since young men who deed, that what Europe is suffering explaining to us just what poker They had some little difficulty not have occurred. Bearing in wore no hata in the open air were from to-day is mainly shirt-trouble. mind the fact that Prince Edward regarded as half-insane to many The traveller in Europe will learn was. For instance, there Road probably ranks only second
more about the foreigners he meets three or four different kinds of to Nathan Road in volume of sane citizens,
to-day from looking at their shirts poker. There's stud poker, as trame, the lighting system is quite It is very difficult Indeed for any than from looking at their faces. played in America, Strip Poker, as Inadequate. At the very least,
on their Jack Pot Poker, and Whiskey the Government should centre the one who is not a dress reformer To a greater and greater degree, played at Shatin, Draw Poker,
Poker. shirt-sleeves; in other words, to a existing lights or provide addi-to believe that a dress reformer is men wear their hearta tional lamps on the other side. quite right in the head.
favour of greater and greater degree thoir We were all in ence of dress from the normal hearts are in the wrong place. The whiskey poker, with a dash of usually suggests lunacy. That is restoration of the masculine heart soda.
to the old why pocts and artists in the last from the shirt-sleeve century, with their long hair, their position in the breast is one of the velvet jackets and their cloaks were rent tasks of the Immediate
ture for good Europeans. regarded as mud by the majority of sensible citizens.
Hongkong Telegraph. THE DAVIS CUP
MONDAY, JULY 31, 1938.
COST OF PUBLIC WORK SCHEMES
A differ-
Three of a kind, they told us. would beat two pair, and a full fu-hand would beat three of a kind.
Which was rather unfortunate, for on one occasion we were - Just It is quite possible that some day the State, realising that, this pipped by three deuces when wo
had two pair of aces in our haud., pestilence of coloured shirts la n peaco of
This was termed a Jack pot, serious menace to the
in
The whole sporting world will join in congratulations to the Eng- lish tennis players who, during the week-end, captured for the first time since 1912, the Davis Cup. There was nothing resemb ling a fluke about the achievement, I am not myself enally perturbed which has set the seal, at least in matters of other people's dress. for the time being, on Britain's claim to be the leading country I do not really care whether a wom-ordinary life, will set up a Minis because, they told us, it was won The main argument used. by in international lawn tennis. Aus- an is or is not forbidden to enter try of Dress which will prescribe | by Pete.
the patterns of shirts to be worn
If we had won it would have the Chancellor of the Exchequer tin, Perry, Hughes and Lee have a church because her head is un- by men each season. Every kind
been a Queen pot. At the time in Parliament and Mr. Runciman come through a gruelling test with covered or her sleeves are too short. of shirt that made men feel "shirty"
we considered this rather un at the World Economic Con-ying coloure. The cream of Aus- Last summer I was compelled to it is significant that even
insult, but they calmed us down. tralian, American and French ten-walk through a church in Venice slang shirts should be associated ference in rejecting all appro- nis has been overcome within in my shirt-sleeves, as my com- with temper-would be prohibited;
In the next deal three pat handa aches for cooperation in the space of one month. There have panion's bare arms were objected and we should all be compelled to
high straight, Wally sat with threa Roosevelt programme of exten-been individual triumphs through- to and the guardian of the church appear, say, in white or in temper- were dealt. Pete held a King
out the contest, but it was left to suggested she should wear my soothing blue.
Kings and a pair of deuces and wo sive public works is that Bri-
Fred Perry finally to win the Cup jacket as a means of qualifying for
Some people would object that the held a King George IV and soda, tain's experience has shown for Britain. Good captaincy, respectability. I did not mind:
State must not be allowed to inter- These are called Royalties. also I rather like theso old customs. fore any further with our private had half a bottle of royalties. that "the average cost of put- especially against France,
are not ting a man on relief works for Played its part and the English-
This is also known as straddling men can regard their performance Again I cannot feel indignant lives. But these shirts a year is approximately £500." with complete satisfaction. France either because a man weare only a private. They are about the most the blind. But first of all you Were the figure correct, the has lost the trophy for the first bathing-slip on the beach or be- public thing in Europe, and con- must be blind. This is easy, pro- Government's attitude would time in six years; but she fought cause the authorities order him to stitute a public autsarice. On that vlding you drink enough Royalties. The winner of the pot takes the brilliantly, forcing the issue to wear a university costume. I am great day on which liberty has been receive a wide measure of sup- the final rubber after losing the no enthusiast for bench pyjamas, brought back to Europe, from the port, but their
first two singles. There have nev- but I do not resent the innovation, Ural Mountains to the Aran Is-Kitty. Unfortunately there were
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if Britain can guard the cup as pass.. jealously and with the same amount of national pride, there is no reason why Britain's tenure of custodianship should not be as long as that enjoyed by France. CLASSES WITHOUT CLASSES
A
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could be more fittingly celebrated than by having a bonfire of shirts places. Mr. Maynard Keynes
on every hilltop in every land. has worked out a scheme to the
If clothes are so important as all At the same time, I sometimes final details which he declares
wonder whether I ought not to take this suggests may there not be would create new employment at
clothes more seriously. After all, some reason on the side of those the Army, the Navy, the Church who object to women's wearing a cost of £133 per man per an-
and the Law would not have taken trousers? If a doctor went about num. While decidedly less
It has been not altogether un-ao much trouble during all these in a skirt he would certainly lose the optimistic, the final report of the
centuries with costumes and uni- confidence of his patients, and it justly remarked that the educa- Unemployment Grants Com-
tional ladder in Britain bears a forms if costumes and uniforms did la important for both men. and off-women in many professions to wear not somehow increase their mittee also disproves the Go-strong resemblance to
ciency.
clothes that inspire confidence. vernment estimate. The report pole; it is easier to fall off than
As I have said, however, I do not On the whole, I imagine, the states that over the whole field to climb. And it is often forgotten
that education, though it is felled woaring of uniforms makes for the much caro what clothes people of public works of the character on to unite nations, may some prevention of untidiness and gener-wear-apart from their shirts. And The wat-I do not even care very much what approved by the Committee "it times be so turned us to set up al "slummockiness." may safely be accepted that a barriers between classes Doubi tresses who wear uniforms are, so kind of shirts people wear so long capital expenditure of £1,000,000 less Mr. H.S.M. Brangham had this far as my experience goes, always as they are not red or black or provides fully 2,500 man years thought in mind when, at the re- better waitresses than those who brown. of direct employment." The cent annual conference of the Na- tlonal Association of Head Tea- Committee had no information chers at Hastings, he, declared on which to base an estimate of that Britain's educational pro- the volume of indirect employ-blems would never be solved until ment provided but the report the children of members of Par- states the "such employment is liament county councillors, cap clearly substantial and duo allow taing of industry and manual ance should be made for this workers were educated side by factor in considering the employ-side in the same properly equipped fent value of public works. It schools. Mr. Brangham's sugges- tion is radical; and it goes down is almost generally admitted to the roots of the matter not so that for every man directly em- much to water them as to pull ployed another is indirectly em- them up. It le hardly desirable ployed by public works ex- at this advanced stage of develop- penditure." This brings us to ment to abandon the whole regime un average cost per man-year, and traditions of the anciont. Brit- based on official figures, of £200.ial systom of public schools mort- ly because only a comparatively Again, the Building Industries small number of children can enjoy Council has taken figures given the privileges of that system. by Mr. Noville Chamberlain, Nevertheless, there is a fundamen which the Ministry of Labour, tal of social justice in Mr. Brank when approached agreed to be ham's proposal that ought not to be correct, showing that an expendi- ignored..
ture on special works in 71⁄2 | SHADES OF MOLIÈRE years of $250,000,000 has om-
now
ployed an average of 180,000 The cinema, which recently Its first appearance In men, directly or indirectly, overy mada year. This means that on the French politics with the construc. average an expenditure of $185 tion of a projection room in the
Chamber of Deputies, is on public works has employed rapidly making its way into uno man for a year. This Parisian diplomacy, art and music, estimate too is based upon off- In at least one important embassy, tial figures and it is mysterious motion picture shows aron fre how the Chancellor arrives at quent feature of social gatherings, his estimate of £500. The facts Finally, plans have been
nounced for the presenta- seem to suggest that nationally tion of motion picture programmes planned public works are really once a week in the Opera Comique. an economical way of reducing And now there is even talk- unemployment to more normal although so far it is no more than proportions and that the Go- that and is not likely to become vernment would do woll to un-so-of giving occasional film per dertake a further examination of formances in that sacred precinct the questionades
of the stage, the Comedie
an-
"She wants you to change this salmon salad into a chicken
sandwich
Which recalls a former ocension when, using every possible, strato- gy, we dealt ourself four aces. The bidding went up to $25 when we called our opponent.
He Inid four accs down on the
table. We quietly slipped ours into the pack.
This was the origin of the famous phrase "More Ace, leas pleased".
Besides, poker is a vile game. Why, It's gambling.
Sooner or later, a man who hets at poker finds out it's bets not to.
What would your poor, dear old mother say if she knew. (Sho's afloat for a dollar),
Think of your children at home, crying piteously for bread, while, night after night, you fritter away your earnings in a poker gambling den., (Gimme three cards). Your family should have first considera- tlon ('t raise you fifty.)
Face the facts. This gambling spirit is the curse of our manhood. (Up another fifty). Fellow citizens, while we're gambling here, night after night, our womon and childron are without a stitch of clothes to their back (Pll look).
We want a Reform Icador. Give our women a chance. To whom can we turn in this, our hour of need (Three Queens).
HOW COULD RED RIDING HOOD ?
Hongkong government officials make nice pets. They are choor- ful, friendly, easily amused, and companionablo little follows about the flat. They do not make good watchdogs, and must be muzzled when allowed out on the streets, but, after all, ono can't have everything:
Yet how fow people have tried keeping one? "They take up so much room in a flat." "They ex- We pect such extravagant food.".. hear similar objections every day.,
Buch excuses are totally un warranted. What could be better, for instance, than a little P.W.D. PLAKenese.A lot of our girl friends simply dota on thom And we know for a positive fact that all the dancing girls in the cabarete are just too, too thrilled with thoir nutty little wolves,