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EIGHT BELLS AND ALL'S
WELL, WELL, WELL! By Eddie Kelly, Sea Serpent
of the CLEVENTY
cont per tourists aboard the Matron What a heck of a break for the
MOST attractive spot of bear comparison with her parent.liner Larline are wimmen.,
women.
President Roosevelt, in seeking to clean up one, grave scandal in the aphere of aviation, seema to have produced, as the chief re- ault, the exposure of another: For some time pust, hluta have been dropped that all in far from well with the American air force.
colour in a brave, now world. She cannot cook, or sew, knowa The ill-starred attempt of the army to take over the operation That is how pert Mies 1934, slim little or nothing about domestic
What a too, too divinely exotle of the great network of air mail and elegantly coiffured, strikes economy, and is void of that
my ageing, but respectful fancy, homely lore so useful in sickness time for the men. services has forced the truth
her failings, and, and in other emergencies. Nol
It was different when we went the minds of the most unwilling Whatever
to aca, heaven knows, they are numerous ther in sho house-loving like her Xobservers. The tragle series of
crashes with many valuable live enough, she remains, taken singly mother, regarding any fondness. While we menfolk roamed the one and not in the collective mans, in this direction as a cramp on her seas, our women stayed at home. Berifeed, can mean only thing, serious inefficiency, whether challengingly interesting, and for freedom. A home is a roof over Tight laced affairs, they were.
her head, an addreas; beyond that.. A of the pilots or of their equip.all eyes, a gladsome sight."
Is in her mind. little, of the old Tho stays, not the women.
And
the Our modern young woman
wind whimed ment. As Senator Black puts it, if the American army airmen ean- interesting because of her glamor-significance.attaches to. it.
Half-possessed character. Miss 1031 maken scant secret through the stays (mako no who mistake about it, we are talking not carry air mafia,, of what use Lare they likely to be in the event rather than because of her mind, of her vlows. The man
our women) we plunged on and of war? There are charges from which is rarely troubled with what marries her in not taken In. about the ship's rigging now, not
called "The Eternal More often than not he wants that S many quarters, that the cause is Carlyle
her kind of wife, a woman who will on, towards the fishing grounds. of low-quality Veritics." Everything in
For food, nve lived upon weevils, the provision
which tasted atrangely like machines at high prices and the composition-outlook on life, keen live as much out-of-doors ns ho report of the committee which has desire for pleasure and excite-elects himself, will be ready to blucults, and any odd whale our been investigating along these ment, overalon to old-fashioned play tennis, or golf, be always
the doldrums. lines will be awaited with keen domesticity-expresses and accen- prepared for a run in the car, like cook succeeded in hooking during tuates her up-to-the-minuteness. a cigarette ovar an evening cup
Wo chowed our whale carefully, interest.
cafe, and be Her soul is the same mirror of of coffee at some fashion as her attire and, as simply crazy to see the latest film-8 we found them full of bones. often, free from weighty sub- She typines, дя Bho stance. adorns, the contemporary human
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PORTENTOUS ISSUES
to
ous.
Acene.
WIFE AND COMPANION,
Listen 48 one of these bands explains:
17th
218
These bones were always kept on the side of our plates as the cook used to save them to sell to corset hus-factories when we returned to
port.
ro-
Deferred Terms-Repurchase
The sudden cancellation of all Licence & Insurance Arranged
United States air-mall contracts Full particulars on application.
without exception has naturally
"I sought a wife, not a squaw; raised portentous questions. Some
IS SEX APPEAL NEW?
a companion, not a home drudge." HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
observers who agreed with the Show Room
protests of Col. Charles A. Lind-
Fearless, tremendously sophia- The woman, standing by, nods Phone 27778-9 Stubbs Road bergh that such sweeping netion
tleated, wonderfully self-assured, her head approvingly, and was unjust to thousands of men
young Misa 1934 preens herself marks: "Hurry, Jack, or we'll be honestly engaged in the commer-
on being miles ahead in fascina late for the pictures, and even cial aviation service have greeted
tion of that blushing young crea-sandwich out takes time!"
The man who is unreasonable the fallure of the air mail without
ture, her mother of thirty years any excess of grief. Yet many
ugo.
What did Mamma know of enough to look for a home, as well feel with President Roosevelt that
sex-appeal, or, as Elinor Glyn as a companionable wife, had bet care; the general air-mail situation was
would say, of the precious gift of ter do is selecting with
otherwise, at night, when he finds so disgraceful as to demand dras-
"It"?
socks tie methods and a complete over-
Certainly, if une should recall no meal cooked and hauling is responsibility the seemingly artless wiles of the darned, there is likely to be a koep his Administration free from Edwardian young woman, awath- rumpus, and some callous ruffling graft is strong justification of hised in her ample skirts, there does of an expensive permanent wave. Time was when women used to courac.. But it requires, certain- appear to be a marked absence of ly, that the replacing of the con- sex-glamour. Yet the miracle is have a maxim: "The road to a is through his tracts by the Post Office. Depart-that she was just as cffective with man's heart ment shall be made an occasion
wrong. Also they had the Idea subtle daughter. the young men as her far more stomach," but, perhaps, they were the average that a man loved being fussed If marriage be woman's goal, then I do not see over. Probably another ridicul what the modern Miss has gained ous notion. The modern young by all her so-called progress. wife known better. After he has Certainly, she does not win a hus-finished work, she argues, a bus- boing band any more easily, and I some band positively dotes on times wonder whether the techni-dragged out, and, if he is in bed que of the sex has not gone awry before midnight, is apt to be In being a little too matter-of- extremely cross. fact.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1934.
Fac-
not for now kinds of favouritian
but for, real reform. Fortunate- ly, by the vigour of his action the President has placed the working out of the subject under the powerful floodlights of an arouse public Interest.
LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
THE BROWN ORDER
THAT WEAKER SEX.
In
SE
EAGER FOR MARRIAGE.
That, having little love for
Humoured a little, and sustain- ed in her pride, which Is con- alderable, Miss 1934. because she (Continued on Page 7.)
It was no life for a weakling. Once we reached the cod banks it was work, day and night.
We caught cod until we wore sick of the sight of them. My cod, it was terrible.
d.
Our last ship was called "Bali
she had Maid," because coppered boitom. We struck the storm just before nightfall.
The "Bali Mpid" rolled alarm- ingly, and we thought it was all Inst thought over. moment had come.
"Heave to" roared the Captain. We.heaved, too, and then we last moment wished that would come.
Wo
our
Our
When we came to, we were lying in bed in a strange room, A pretty young nurse, whom we with her recognised as Mas West, was smoothing our brow hand.
"Where are we? we asked weakly,
"Shhhh!" she replied, "Your ship sank and you were picked up by the Lurline."
"Isn't that the ship with over 300 women aboard" we asked.
"but don't "Yea," she replied.
So we died.
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i just. "I had a cat at home couldn't get rid of," aald Sorran. "I gave it away, but it came back. I tried losing it, but it always found its way back."
"Why didn't you drown 12" naked someone.
"I tried to," replied Sorran,
Alled
large 4 "but that didn't work, either.
i
barrel
with water, tied a brick around the cat's neck, and dropped it in. Then went to bed. Next morning, I found the cat there in the barrel alive and hearty."
EUROPEAN UNREST - Whilst it is easy to take 'un- duly alarmist views of the cur: rent unrest in Europe, there can be no questioning the point that 21 situation has arisen which, if not carefully handled, may result in another big flare. up. The mere fact that Lloyda are quoting war risks, and that
The President's action, com- business has been done at rates
bined with the present legal re- which reflect a very real fear of quirement that a company whose
In my young days, women posed domesticity, Miss 1934 should yet worry. Your wife will be here. the worst happening, is sufficient contract in cancelled for good
reason must wait for five years as being over-ahved by man. It show eagerness to be married, inoon." to indicate the existence of a
before bidding again, appeared at suited them to let the great, big, really not hard to understand. strong under-current of anxiety. first glance likely to wipe out the strong specimens of manhood who However outwardly changed-con-
companies came courting them imagine that trasted with her predecessor The trend of events in many existing commercial European centres is creating slace the operation of air lines they were superior in strength she is still Mother Eve's authentic intellect. Our mothers daughter, and, under all her pro without benefit of mail contracts and for
business of being the fessions of Independence hates widespread nervousness,
is considered almost impossible, made a
sex, and nian,
ever the thought of becoming an old whilst strong efforts are being Actually, however, re-establish- wenker
the service will un- chivalrous in the presence of maid.
Rather thun face that prospect made to prevent absolute failurement of
doubtedly be made without in feminine helplessness, handsome.
she would agree to do a little of the disarmament-campaign, justice-to-operators who-carriedly responded.
I see precious little of that plain cooking for her hero-that there is a growing feeling that out the purposes of the air-mall
when chivalry to-day. When, firming is, If he were, indeed, a hero, and the prospects of anything like subsidy. Congress if and
bilt
up her determined mouth, I hear had the constitution to face her general international agreement asked will assuredly pass
changing the five-year clause. the modern Miss exclaim that she cooking.
Nothing that modern progress on this issue are becoming more Now companies can take over the is better without auch demonstra- remote as time goes on.
has spoilt her craving to be loved. tors contributing to the present existing ones by a simple re-tiveness, I have the feeling that has done for our young woman
organization. This will clear theft is a caso of sour grapes. tension are many and varied. ground for the writing of new
There are, of course, no lean, or Her goal is the same as that at fat, years for women's fascination, which, from time immemorial, all Most of them, however, can be contracts.
Helen of Troy, the Queen of human beings have almed-hap she plucka ber traced back as legacies left over
Sheba, Cleopatra, Mary Queen of piness. Whether from the Great War. Ger-
Scots, each, in turn, charmed her eyebrows, or, for the sake of a any graceful allhouette, disciplines her many, with her new-found unity,
When the Post Office Depari- generation as Intensely is following a policy which is
ment in 1925, after doing the reni 1934 beauty does our less spacious diet, all is to that one elusive viewed with misgiving in many
In particular, the plencer work with army pilots Age. And, in her own quieter, end-happiness. Up-to-date, cool quarters.
and planes, turned over the air simpler way, the average Mamma and trimly-poised, she le yet wist
was as destructive of man's ponce fully human. spread of Nazi influence beyond mail to private companies, it was her borders is producing de- with the expectation that the mail of mind as ever her dainty daugh- velopments which certainly do payments would ald the develop- ter to-day.
As a wife, in the old-time sense, not help to compose, the situa- mont of passenger-carrying lines. tion: Austria's position is such Merc speeding up of the mails the modern young woman does not that she is being forced to turn hardly warranted the step. Sub- designed to carry formative for sympathy to Italy, where the sidies were
aviation through the necessity of preserving the in-
years until it could attract a self- dependence of her neighbour is sustaining volume of travel. This strongly felt. In other quarters, is the obvious intent of the law. Yet for nearly five years after Italian intervention in Austria would be looked upon with commercial operators took over the air mail few efforts were made marked disfavour, Meanwhile,
to develop passenger services, France shows not the slightest
while a generous subsidy was paid sign of receding from her firm
for carrying the malls. It may be stand against anything in the
conceded that much of this went nature of drastic disarmament,
for new equipment and expansion, whilst even Britain deems it but it has been shown that even wise to take precautionary mea- in the early days large profits
in sures
the interests of were being taken. So far was the intent of tha law security. And so the process original goes on-no nation professing to neglected that Mr. Walter F. former Postmaster- Brown, the desire war, but all, in varying
ordered mail Inca to carry degrees, influenced by the fear General, soon after taking office of wars to come. Where it will
passengera. all end, no-one can tell. There is, of course, a way out, and that lies in the direction of peaceful adjustment of outstanding dif I was this order which pro ferences. That involves negot-duced the emelaney of the com- iations, and negotiations again morcial companies. Obylously to passenger-carrying pay, bring politiciana into the pic-make ture. The trouble here is that speed, regularity and safety were contracts CBuential. When the there is a growing distrust of
were eancelled recently, there politicians almost everywhere. were air services carrying passen- There may be some grounds forgers at 200 miles an hour through the growing cynicism in regard all sorts of weather and exacting to political procedures, yet the no more than the railways in fact remains that the only alter fares. Against auch remarkable native to negotiation is force. achievements, the army pilots But it will be a sorry, comment-
with army planes, even without the responsibility of carrying ary on present-day civilisation
passengers, put up a deplorably If no better way than that of
poor display, so bad indeed that force can be found for the, ad-
rumours of sabotage wont around justment of differences and mis- only to bo abandoned when "the understandinga.
truth could no longer be hidden.
AND ITS RESULT
"You kids hurry up and change your clothes; it's already past
milking time."
one
"What rot!" protested listener. "You couldn't have put enough water in the barrel."
"The barrel was full to the top," declared Sorran, "but that cat was clever. It saved itself by drinking all the water in the barrel."
ROMANCE
He showed her the place,
where a cottage he'd
planned,
If only with him she
would care to unite. The maiden was flattered
and promised her
hand:
It was simply a matter
of love at flest site.
ས་
Bedtime Story
Ho aut dejectedly in a chair. "Darling," he said, "I'm bitterly ashamed of the way I behaved last night. This morning, when I came to my Benses, I realised that I must have been mad. I faol like a cur when I think of what I dict.
"Darling," he begged, "I fact like a worm, and want to ask your forgiveness. Tell me, he im plored, what I can do to recover my self-respect!"
Bho remained silent, apparently lost in thought. Ho fell on his kncos. "Darling," he pleaded, "won't you tell me what I must do to regain my self-respect1":
aff you "Yes, I will," she said, promise to obey mo."
I will," he vowed. "I'll do any
thing you any!"
Well then," she whipored, "just behave as you did last night!"