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SALARY CUT ISSUE
Since last May four ministries have gone down to proclaiming their intention of putting finances on
A Bound footing. And the political deadlock is still unbroken. In order to justify the screwing up of taxes, which have probably renched the breaking point, Te ponsible chiefs of the Radical Party Beck a counterpart in the Alminu- tion of official salaries. This is the key to the prolonged dispute. To make these cuts palatable to civil servante it was proposed to demand additional income taxes from those ordinary citizens whose revenue has not fallen for three years. But
this suggestion, while arousing criticism for its unfairness, did not console officials who considered they wore specially penalised. An im partial observer cannot but feel that undue importance has been at- FRANKLIN-At the Victoria Hos-tached to this issue. It has become pital, Hongkong, at 4.15 p.m. on a political rather than a financial Monday, 27th November, 1933, quarrel. Arthur Cawte Franklin, aged 58 years. The Funeral will take place at the Crematorium, Cause way Bay passing the French Hospital, at 4.30 p.m. to-day. No flowers by request.
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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933.
DOCTOR'S PROPHECY
WOMEN WERE ALWAYS The Very Idea!
"I CAN'T
VAIN
By MARGARET LANE
man virtuously, "what you want to put that stuff on your face for."
WERE WE BIAS-ED?
(By Edward Kelly, Pirate.)
THE other night a gang of vanity, under glass in our museums,
amateurs from Bias Bay Those red fingernails you so dis-pirated the Commandant approve of were in fashion n Henri Reviere, ratted the thousand years before the Christian
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Ex-
The girl went on rouging her lips, opening her mouth a little nad ern. rubbing in the scarlet with the tip hands, pallid palms and nails, and bucks, took four passengers- Egyptian girls have brown safe for a few thousand of her finger,
they discovered that dyeing them "Paint," said the young man red with henna made them decora for a ride in a sampan but severely, "that's all it is. Un-tive and startling,
failed to catch the compra- Dr. Margaret Murray, of Lon- natural. Can't think why women
dore. nowadays always have to be tinker- don University, who knows more
about these things, probably, than What we'd like to ask is Ing at their faces....
Dear young man, you have only that now, as then, women's naila These fellows couldn't, find the any woman breathing, will tell you"What is piracy coming to?" been alive in the last twenty-four-were grown long and coloured years, so you have no idea (like so prettily to show the world, they did many nien) that what you complain no manual labour, So it is all a of as a disgraceful modern art kind of snobbery, you ace, like a ficiality is a good deal older than mandarin's gilded finger nails, and history. That nice girl opposite that nice young lady of yours only you, working so attentively at her manicures her nails to convince you little mirror, is doing precisely that she is a lady. What other (rather more brown- skinned) girls did to their faces 6,000 years before the Christian era, when your ancestors were living in huts of turf and stone, and finding out about bronze for the first time.
Cosmetics
are
nothing
now.
Cosmetics became extreme in the 18th dynasty of Egypt. between 1600 and 1400 v.c. Men as well as women used paint and perfume, and nobody tried to pretend that their colouring was natural. When you remember, in a later age, how That, of course, is not an entire de powdered the most manly men were Nero painted, and how patched and fence, but their respectable anti-at the French Court. two hundred quity robs you of one argument years ago, you will have to admit ngainst them. Women havo al- ways used them. Always, always, censure. dear John-or whatever your name is. And since they have been em back you go, never thought cos- Chinese ladies, no matter how far ployed for ten thousand years or cnetics anything but respectable, to deceive you because you are con and they plucked their eyebrows, sidered so well worth deceiving, too. It is from the Chinese and no you ought to be flattered and not other, according to Dr. Murray, fancy for eyebrows denuded to a that American women first took the pencilled line,
scornful.
Do you know, for instance, that in the year 1770 our solemn British Parliament passed an Act to this 'effect:
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our sex is not the only one, to
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compradore. After our periences, we felt like publishing handbook on piracy. The title would be "Compradores-and How to Catch Them-A Treatise on the Rudiments of Piracy.", In gold letters, on the cover would appear the words "By Ed. Kelly."
What are our credentials, you ask. Well, that's
A perfectly reasonable question. Wo'll give the story we are about to tell you, you the low-down. Incidentally. was not published because of the intense jealousy of the editor,
You see, the Commandant Honri Reviore was pirated twice! We occasion. There was no proud led the pirates on the second lying of skull and cross bones, no shotguns, no wild shouting and waving of daggera and sawn-off walking the plank. It was all A .matter technique,
A
of technique-just
under our
fow small fry in the journalistic world accompanied us, throughout, showing exemplary. and acted training and a great thirst.
orders
We arrived alongside the C. H. Walla, bearing the insignia of the Reviere in a high-powered Walla House of Kelly. Seizing a rope dangling over the side of the ship, we went up hand over hand.
However, that is a fashion that hasn't lasted, for what looks well on "That all women, of whatever the Buddha-ilke face of a beautiful ape, rank, profession, or degree, Chinese looks hard and expression whether virgins, maide or widows, less on your young lady or on me, If the social sciences could catch
that shall, from and after auch Act,
As for Jewish women, you find up with medical science, this impose upon, seduce, and botray in plenty of references to painted ones ought to be a pleasanter sort of
to matrimony, any of his Majesty's who were not Jezebela. In the 23rd world in our children's frime. subjects, by the scouts, paints, cos chapter of Ezekiel, for instance, Dr. G. W. Crile, a medical man
metic washes, artificial teeth, false |** thou didst wash thyself, who sees visions and dreams hair, Spanish wool, iron stays paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst dreams in the laboratory where hoopa, high-heeled shoes, bolstered thyself with ornaments." he examines the riddles of life hips, shall incur the penalty of the and death, told the recent con- law in force against witchcraft, and
On the deck wo met two Chinese gress of the American College off like misdemeanours, and that the
Eighteenth-century England to boys. "Where is the compradoro?". Surgeons that the human race marriage, upon conviction, shall lerated far more making-up than we asked, an eye to business. Both will be much finer and healthier stand null and void.”
we use now. I have a charming boys flung themselves over the side AMERICA SHOWS:
at the end of a century. Doctors
Whether that Act has since been book of the period, the "Toilet of of the ship and began to swim des- then will prevent disease instead repealed I have no idea, but suspect Flora," which has often pleasantly perately in the general direction of THE WAY
of making their task that of cur- it is one of the many that have killed an hour for me with its Lyemun. ing it; indeed, the doctor who
merely been conveniently forgotten. "Receipts for Cosmetics of every them about 60
Latest reporta place miles N.N.E, of Although there are still over has to treat a disease will confess It does rather look, though, as if kind, that can amooth and brighten Luzon, and making commendable
smart eighteenth century the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and progress. ten million people out of work venting its inception. Such pla hussies had been having so much take off the Appearance of Old Age
that he failed in his duty of pre-some in the United States, official re-
auccess through the tricks you and Dechy,” gues as diphtheria, typhold, small- ports indicate that the new civil pox, malaria, and typhus will be condemn that they
These little things are sent to were getting- So you see, dear young man, it is try us, so we wandered on. On the works project, recently institut-eliminated; tuberculonis, diabetes into trouble for it.
not all a wicked Innovation on our quarter deck we met the captain, ed, to take four millions off the and most diseases of the heart
part. You are only inclined to be and our old friend Police Chief relief rolls by the middle of will be mastered; cancer and the The first_face-painting we know.cently-come-out-of-one of those The captain leaped into the air.
shocked at us because we have re- Timothy Murphy. December, ia-producing-hopeful social diseases will be reduced results. It is computed that sharply, and childbirth will be about was practised by the Egyp-eras when cosmetics were for a "The pirates" ho
tian women of the Bronze Ago. while considered scandalous.
roared. "Mon over half a million unemployed made safe.
They ground down green malachite Yet even the Victorians were not-
Diou, it is they." were put to work during the first
to powder, mixed it with water, and so innocent in the matter as they three weeks of November alone.
painted it on under their eyes.
"Bejabbers, and it la" made out, else how did all the firms Timothy, "but not the ones we're заув This policy of seeking to absorb
Though this probably had a advertising pearl powder the unemployed by
And yet Dr. Crile docs, not be- bizarre charm it was not only for "natural" rouge
and after, me lad."- means of
In the ladies' public worka development is one
lieve that the human race of 2033 vanity that they did it. The dark magazines ever make a living?
Exhibiting the aplomb for which which, unhappily, does not find A. D. will be a very happy one. Rreen under the eye protected it And I have a very cut-and-dried we are famous, we stalked majestl favour with the British Govern-lieves, will be menaced increasing also slightly.antiseptic, discourag- 1855, which offers the statistics down in the very bowels of the ship, The peoples of the world, he be-from up-ariking glare, and was little chemist's book, published in cally from the quarter deck. Far ment. Some little time ago, Mr. ly by the development of techno ing ophthalmia germa. Runciman not only threw cold logy. The pace of day-to-day liv-
that 2,000 swan skins a year were we heard the popping of corks. When they found that black was being imported into England for That way we went. water on the idea, but declared ing will continue to increase, so
more becoming they used black the purpose of manufacturing pow that the Government was not that there will be more disorders antimony, and put it on their der puffs, and that as much rouge forced our way in and there was the even prepared to discuss the of the mind and the nervous ayя- eyebrows with little carved sicks. was sold then as in George 111.'s compradore. We knew he was the matter. It is true that, follow. tem than before. This prophecy. The jasper pebbles for powdering reign, when the extravagances of compradore because of the bene ing public reaction against. this seems to indleate that we
have down the primitive mascara, the female maquillage provoked the volent look in his eye, and a pile of declaration, efforts were made to mastered or aro on the high road slate pallettes they did it on, and scorn of Swift.
Elderly ladies who in minimise its real meaning, but to mastery over practically every the carved pencils they applied it
science except the simple and with have all been found, and are (Continued on Next Column.). homely one of conducting our; beings can be happy instead "of every-day affairs so that human
unhappy. Scientists can conquer. the greatest problems the physien! world has to offer, but we cannot an seem to solve what should be one of the simplest riddles of human nature.
WHERE HAPPINESS?
HUMAN RELATIONS
comes
it may be taken for granted that, except under pressure, the Government is not likely to give very wholehearted support to any scheme of public works de velopment involving heavy initial expenditure. Such. attitude is not only directly in opposition to the policy of ex- pansion now being tried out in the United States, but is opposed | to expert opinion in many coun- tries, where it is felt that trade motor-cars instead of the spring- We ride in aeroplanes, and la unlikely to rovive, and work less ox-carts of primitive man, we be found for the unemployed, tunnel under mountains and dam unless some driving force is pro- up rivera and cure disease and vided by the only bodles capable, weigh the stars and send our of doing so the Governments of voices across the seas. But when it the countries most affected by
to getting along happily the depression. One important with one another, and giving every point which sooms to be over- human being a friendly hand in looked by the British Gov- life, we seem to be little wiser
than the citizens ernment
of Augustan fact that judicious schemes of public before us to-day is that of human Rome. The great untouched field works not only have a direct
relations. The great problem is effect on unemployment, but
the one of putting our "triumphs that they also have indirect con-
in the physical sciences to work sequences of the utmost value.
80 that they can provide the Apart from the men actually greatest good for the greatest employed on the schemes, ac number. count must also be taken of the number of men employed in pro- ducing materials for the work, | purchasing powers of the the transport workors who bene-workers, the wholesale trades fit from the carrying. trade, the and manufacturers who supply producers of raw materials who the retailers and '80 on in benefit from the demands for a seemingly unending circle. the raw materials which make Above and beyond all this, also, up the finished articles required is the fact that public works for the construction work, the schemes of the right kind leave rotallers of all kinds of goods behind them a permanent legacy who benefit from the increased I of great national advantage.
is the
You're lucky to have a natural have... I have to get a per-
mañont every six months,'
,
their
At last we came to a cabin. We
chita ho hold in his hand.
"Parlez-vous Francais?" we nak- ed in a superior, tone. He said something in French.
"Avez-vous te..le.le whisky- soda?"
"Mais oui" he replied. "Monsicur Linspectaire is welcome to the very best I have in my cellar."
Well, wall: We couldn't disillu- sion the poor fellow. We welcomed the very best he had in his collar. That's the way to pirate.a ship.
•
NO BAWL
Babe, enjoy your infancy;
Rovel in your life of ense; Years that lie ahead will be
Not at all as nice as these. Life, you'll find, is quite ap-
palling
Creasing brows and bending
" backe;
So, for heaven's sake, quit
bawling
Shut your trap and just relax.
fouth were presented at Queen Victoria's Court have solemnly assured me that the widowed Queen herself appeared on these occasions in the "royal make-up," a delicate kind of thin enamelling, most dia- creet in effect so will you be per Bunded that the habit is respect ablo? Queens uso cosmetics oven more concientiously than the rest of 18.
It is a custom men nearly always protond to disapprove. But it is all for your sako, dear disapproving one, for we should look much worse without it.