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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933.
NOTES OF THE DAY
REAL COURAGE
The successful dictator neods the wisdom of a Solomon, the, thoroughness of a Napoleon, and the rash daring of a
Caesar.
had doubts whether Herr Hitler possessed all theau qualities,
IS A HUSBAND'S PLACE The Very Idea!
AT HOME?
By LIONEL HALE
Frankly, some people may have A PROFESSOR of Philosophy his own socks, or rolling his own In Swansea has lately con- palliasse, or carrying slop-buckets. fossed a passion for house-work. That is one of the things that has always struck me as unfair about He is perfectly content, I read the Army. (not without a certain amount of
especially the rash daring of n Caesar. But now who can doubt it? Through Frau Goebbels, wife ill-natured laughter), to be loft a between a héró und a housemaid. of his Minister. of propaganda, at a time because it "amuses him grass widower for long stretches Hitler now proposes to set up a government fashion bureau and
THE GLACIAL AGE -
By Eddie Kelly, Up the (North) Polo HE other day-we wrote THE
something about George Bernard Shaw.
Which is as it should be. A man is expected to alternate Nearly always we are short at this time of the month. All this time, women were in So to-day our article is going the rough and tumble of the civil- to deal with the household."
lan's life. They were wrangling to be the same way. become arbiter of dress to the Gor Two days later, a defendant in with sub-contractors, or bickering man woman. Nobody can now a London court was unmasked in with farm horses, or bullying the Besides, we always get question the daring of Herr Hitler, his true colours as another of males who remained in Govern- this way in September.
mont departments.' What a dread- who proposes to toll 80,000,000 these homelovers. Oddly enough, ful four years! The women learn- What with all the anxiety, won- women what to wear, even through his wife was pleading for a separa-ed to fight, and the men learned to dering when the hot weather is a feminine minister-without-port- tion on the grounds of his cruelty, wash up.
going to end, whether we're go folio. But it is distinctly possible Even she, however, had to admit that it will not work. You can tell that "he was very house-proud."nouncements from Germany the to "Cavalcade," and whether the Judging from the latest pro-ing to get one of the free.tickets a man how to run his business. The professor had owned up only war has taught the world very Hotels will stop our chit account dictator's-underling that You can make him salute every to spring-cleaning and redecora-little;
comes tion, alhough he announced the evolved
before the summer ends, we along. You can tell him to wear praiseworthy intention of going in the maxim on which the future of haven't much time to con- a black shirt, or a brown shirt, or for cookery; the gentleman in England may be based: the hus- contrate on writing. even a nightshirt. But when It court was a confirmed dressmaker band's place is in the home. comes to telling a lady that she as well. The magistrates decided I, myself, if I may so far unveil any time. If there's one thing Give us the good old winter must wear a straw hat, or a felt that he could not be as cruel ns his my private life, am not à marrica we regret, it's that we didn't live
hat, or a large hat, or a small hat, or no hat at all-well, we can think of many things that are just innocent fun beside that!
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wife thought, and she is still in man. his home, listening to his blithe whistling as he scrubs the floor, or his gentle domestic crooning as he piles the needle.
THE HITLER PURGE.
but it has apparently
Is it, I sometimes wonder,
because I am not very good with in the Glacial Age (between 45 my needle? Or when I have seized and 70 among the Latin people). some small, soft hand, and mur- mured passionately I am not It has been called an age of worthy to black your boots," has frigidity among the sexes, but vo my subsequent failure been due to feel sure that this is on in the fact that the owner of the hand has doubted not only my worthi-
Hitler is driving, the women of ness, but my ability? Germany back to their homes. PRELIMINARY TO From office and factory, from busy MARRIAGE DELLS. they are returning to what their typewriters and whirling machines, Dictator calls "trair proper place." black her boots, then I am almost For surely, if I am not able to If Mr. Ramsay MacDonald took a certainly untrustworthy with the high hand to-morrow, and the wo-china and inartistic in the arrange- homes under the compulsion of a men of England returned to their ment of the flowers.
accuracy.
The inhabitants of the Glacial Age wore the Glaciolithic man. Around him there was nothing but Ice, which was obviously worthless
So they invented the Hongkong without whiskey-soda and gimlats.
Hotel.
THE TARIFF TRÚCE
Holland has given a start to de- nunciation of the Tariff Truce and its disintegration may be expected to follow rapidly. It has really ceased to have any value although it was probably necessary when drawn up at the Instance of the United States in order to give the World Economic Conference a Again thero are rumours chance. It was designed merely an impending abandonment of to prevent its signatories from the gold standard by France, snatching at new tariff expedients, the suggestion being that the whether for bargaining purposes or otherwise, before the Confer budget deficit will compel such a ence met or while it was sitting step, Pressure from outside is Without it, the temptation to such
tic virtues in me. In the be-known to turn into ice, tactics would have been strong, increasingly strong, although and if any one Power succumbed band in the matter of the house was a bread-winner and not a
The Victorian ideal of the hus nighted old times, when a husband Which reminds us of an Eskimo it is claimed by French financial to it conspicuously there might was negative rather than positive. potato-peeler, young men intend- found her mate frozen in the arms woman, who, on entering her igloo, circles that it can largely be have been a landslide. Tariff All that was then required of a ing to marry were advised to ride of another woman. After beating ignored in view of the fact that extremists resented, the Truce, man was that he should not be over and surprise their loved ones them back into consciousness, she
But no country could not have actively. inimical to cleanliness, unexpectedly observing whether said to her husband: the greater part of France's ex-stood outside without courting should not walk on the now, sky- they were bright and cheerful and port trade is conducted with her acute trouble. It was, however, blue, drawing-room carpet in mud- tidy about the house before break- "Who was that lady Ithawed you Colonies. It is still, however, agreed that the Truce could be dy boots, and should not allow his fast, for instance.
with ?" onded at any time on a month's cigar smoke to hang about the believed in some circles that the notice being given after July 31 boudoir curtains, franc cannot long resist and the only surprising thing is the tendency of the rest that Ita termination, should have
been delayed so long.. of the world towards # gigantic experiment in controll
Even to-day we have evidences of Hovere Order in Council, there I do not like the idea at all, if, the Glacial Age during the winter would be fearful struggles over the when I have been brought up to in different parts of Europe, where gas-cooker, and the most embit expect women to look after the water, which has stayed out in the tered rivalry between husband and house, they turn the tables and cold and gone to sleep, has been wife about making the beds. expect to find the graceful, domes-
E
HALE HITLER.
All house commandments, as I say, were negative. Nowadays Must I expect, when the time standards of active virtue are laid comea that some, dear lady has down for the husband. He must begun to think seriously of me not only spare the carpet, but tack (over-looking my shameful weak- it down; not only respect the cur-ness in the matter of blacking her tuing, but sew them and hang them boots), that I shall be liable to up.
committees and--more
the
(Message from
Editor, following submission of above: You're wanting a holiday, Eddie,
aren't you?
Eddie: Yes, an ice long one.)
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS HUNTING: Pursuit of young female of the species. Favourite. Sabbath sport in Hongkong. The champions of the game are usually found in the lounge of the Hong. kong Hotel or at Repulse Bay, but church choirs have provided more than one record beater.
ed money, although they placeAPAN AND BRITAIN greater stress on the internal Anti-British feeling is still run- conditions rather than to ex-ning strongly in certain circles in
early morning visits just as I am Japan. In any other country it
WHAT'S IN A NAME ternal pressure, and they see a would
coming down to breakfast, and seem rather remarkable HERO
that I shall be surprised by a When wo first met our wife we fundamental weakness in the since the whole agitation arises AND HOUSEMAID,
charming but inquisitorial appari-used to call ber Miss Whalesteeth. position of the franc. At the directly from the fact that Japan
is flooding the markets of the This change in husbands I put tion, who will give me marks for Then we fell in love with bor and moment the French Treasury British Empire with ultra-cheap down, dogmatically and recklessly, being resy and shaven, and tako called her Arabella. Within a encounters no particular dif- goods, being enabled to do so part-to the late war. I am aware that them off again because I have left week we were calling her "darling.' ficulty. But oven on paper the ly by low money wages paid in Mr. John Buchan has remarked last night's shirt in the middle of We were married and she became budget, despite many promises, her highly-efficient factories, and somewhere that a good many the bedroom floor? This is a very "dear." Then just "Bell." But we overdid it last night. While we partly because her currency is things are now put down to the bleak prospect for me. has not been balanced, and in the much more depreciated on the in-war that used to be attributed to
For if my wedding bells depend ware asleep we called her "Jessie!" autumn it is certain that grave|ternational exchange than it is in original sin; but I persist in add-
respect of its internal purchasing-ing to the scapegoat's burdens. on such domesticity as keeping problems will present themselves power. Not only, for instance, con During the war, women stepped my own bedroom tidy, they will be, to the French authorities. For excellent Japanese all-wool socks very gallantly out of their kitchens I fear, for ever mute.
London for Gd. into Government offices: instead of On these lines, I would not hear, more than a year the need of be bought in drastic retrenchment has been air (some were recently shown ten-parties and scandal, they had my wedding bells ring for all the
at the House of Commons even
scandol. proclaimed. It was to have been cheaper), but in regions like Men, on the other hand, joined the wives in the world, bread-winning
as they might be. the first task of the new Radical tropical Africa some of the best Army in France; and, as every-
In this matter, although I never of Lancashire's remaining textile body knows, a soldier when he is. Government. Yet three govern-markets are being filched from not fighting is scrubbing the floor thought to write the words, I am 'ments followed, and although her. Japan's complaints arise of the sergeants' mess, or darning as one with Hitler. they each made an attempt to from the measures taken by Bri- wipe out the deficit, they found tain to protect her industrica, themselves handicapped, first.by.
SIMLA PARLEY the peculiar composition of the French Parliament, and secand India has responded to the by stir anti-Japanese by the general disability under duties, and in West Africa Britain which popular parliaments suf- has denounced a trade agreement fer when it la necessary to re-so as to obtain (though not for trench. Apart from the special twelve months), future liberty to
do likewick. Unless some kont situation of the French Govern-promise agreement can be reached ment, it is frequently asked with Japan, there really seems. whether parliaments, which aretion of such measures for and no alternative to the multiplifica-
willing enough to increase statewide, But direct negotiations are liabilities in days of prosperity now arranged to take place in are capable of decreasing them Smia and we hope that some friendlier solution may emerge in days of adversity. They from them. The interview given think of the electorate. Never by Mr. Sawada in Hongkong theless, that electorate is com- Intentions, but he spoke of good voyed littlo concerning Japan's posed not only of beneficiaries will and friendship,which alone of state expenditure, but also of are likely to provide an amicablo taxpayers; and the taxpayers in arrangement.
Franco are clamouring for some
menace
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relief. It is calculated "that|tion of a government which there will be a deficit on next would have a broader basis- year's budget and on the rail which would be supported by ways of something like 11,000,- most of the parties, including 000,000 francs: unless there is the Moderates. Such a govern- ment would act moro boldly, decreased expenditure or increasince no particular party would ed taxation; and M. Daladier has be blamed for unpopular re announced that. ho will forms. Unless a solution of this endeavour to effect - Draconian | kind is found possible, the posi» reductions. In those crefreum“, tión, of the franc will certainly mentALOMSTVs be endangered before the end of Vat the problem.
SENATE
SWIMMING: Seo SUN-BATH-
ING.
SUN-BATHING: Seasonal re- creation engaged in extensively by those who wish to show off their figures. Generally coloured a bright red in order to identify, them.
BOWLING: See DRINKING or D. RINKING.
DRINKING: Moat popular sport. in Hongkong. Played with bottle," glass and chit book. Only skill required is ability to wield a stick, from centre of which protrudes small
ploce of lead. Also called LEAD SWINGING, LEAD SWILLING, LEAD PENCILLING, and LED TO BED,"·
HIKING: Hiking is what bag- pons to all your joints and muscles when you go king. See also POODLE-FAKING:A
DANCING: Winter pastime, Similar to hiking, only difference. being that females hike backwards, and males stand on their (female)
MOTORING A form of Hunt ing. Pedestrians are substituted for foxesi 800 RUNNING, WALK" ING HOME, SKATING, and the Undertaker
HORSE RIDING
AS
by the Filte. Strenuous
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