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TELEGRAT’II. THURSDAY, MARCH
15, 1934.
HALD OF THE DAY A HONGKONG TENANTS' The Very Idea!
Ath
էր
SEVOLUTION
PRAYER:
So the tenants are to have the, THEY ARE rough end of the stick.
ALARMED.
By One of Them
A
MODEL HUSBANDS FTER a long silence, we
have decided to break
our silence on the question of
When an England cricketer bowls for catenus on the log-aide, on una Australian wicket, au the world fears of it; bat à revolution can come to an end, attracting scarcely
That, in effect is what the duci- Rather, they are alarmed by any attention at all, A revolution 18 in its last stage in Great Britain of the landlords who have position permitting landlords as a threatened to disconnect their body to trifle, at will with An at tao pecent moment, and but for water meters, will amount to. essentially vital need to the commodel husbands.
munity-a need genealogist and historian, Mr.
the on which
Let us say at once that Landlords claim to be overtaxed health and happiness of the com J. Hurden Ward, no one would have noticed it. To be sure, the by an excessive water charge in munity depends. To speak of the world is simply teeming sale of the house of Drakelow, near addition to being obliged to pay a piped water as a luxury is to bo,
arton-on-Trent, Derbyshire seems capacity house assessment tax classed with that mentality which with Model Husbands but to be merely an incident in an Recently, they petitioned the Gov. views the present type of jerry- they invariably belong to the IX
auctienear's office. But in this ernment for reconsideration, but built houses as being also too Hauctioneer's office it completed the not having yet received a reply good for those who are obliged to woman next door.
last chapter but one of a story that they seem to be annoyed; annoyed live in them.
For only those with a woeful A royal council chamber with having to wait so long; and
at midwinter in the year us, they now make the threat.
ignorance of living and housing when, in the words of the historian
That was how the situation was conditions in this Colony will Maitland, "William the Conqueror wore his crown at Gloucester and Interpreted by the general mass seriously believe that the coat of
to generally with there...had deep speech with his of the community, until, as ten- the wntor needs of any
woke up to familles, will end at three dollara Swlso men." The outcome of that ants, they suddenly
the realisation that it is proposed as other fixed amount. Nor deep speech wns the Domesday
to make of them a direct and much will tenanta be easily misled by Book, in which was entalogued all the land in the kingdom, together with the names of its owners.
ONE LECT
etc.
are
two or
The number of individual wives who alone of all their friends have failed to pick a one wonder paragon makes noor, more where on earth all the friends
are riding out.
Still, one does occasionally come across a woman who is prepared to go ball for her husband in rather the same way as a circus trainer might vouch for one of his so-
interested party. Willy-nilly, they an alleged benevolent Intention
into the being dragged quarrel, by depriving them of their now instilled into the proposed
proceeding that of giving usual cater supply.
ploynient
to distressed coolics. The move cannot be camouflaged There is a ring about this which by the Assurance that
tions. tenants is too virtuous to be trustworthy. Of all the land-owning families needs will be otherwise cared for. If landlords as a body are per- Deferred Terms-Repurchase- recorded in Domesday Book, only
Tenants were told that with-mitted to have their own way in It is all a question of what we Licence. & Insurance Arranged in the entire length and out being greatly inconvenienced, this, as in a much more prosperous who are behind the bars call the Full particulars ony application. breadth of Great Britain, to-day they could still have their water past, they have had in another Resistance-Capacity ratio.
holls the same property that it in another way from the man end there. Tenants visualise a matler, the problem will hardly HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE did when it first cought the eye of
Resistance may be of two kinds: but by employing hired porters King William. They Are .the Show Room
and of course, paying them. dreadful prospect directly ahead Good (e.g., Resistance to idea of Shirleys of Ettington. Until the
if the threat is carried into exceu-lodge, Week-end or Club) and Bad Stubbs Rond fall of an auctioneer's hammer. Magnanimously, it was proposed lon.
they had companions in the owners to make tenants an allowance of Ablg-scale return to
(o.g., Itzsistance to idea of Bridge street
Rolling the of Drakelow. The salt of Drake- three dollars to each floor, to be queues, competing for supplies at with Robinsons or low, therefore, though not an epoch-secured by: a corresponding deduc street fountains: professional Lawn). Capacity (x) is measured making event, is certainly epoch-tion from the rents,
water carriers exploiting pus by the equation x-" where y-Results marking. It dramatically draws But renta insofar as they can sible racket; Government being (eg, repair of scullery tup or dis- altention to the fact that the order be held down to one fixed level-forced to give additional facilities tempering nursery) and z-time of society which is recorded in the economic level for tenants-at water mains, with all the trouble
taken (including intervals whore Demesing Book is now in the last are as dependable as the mercury and inconvenience to everyone. stages of transformation. That in the thermometer: they go up In fears of the dark days to Capacity is purely verbal.)
ciety was based upon the owner and down, according to the tem-come, tenants can only offer up ship of land; to-day, society aperature of the Limes and cir- the prayer: From the intentions bunt une Fundation of com- cumstances. Tenants are not a of the landlords, may we be detivity. merce and trade.
A bit impressed by the offer!
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THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.
THE OVERCROWDING
EVIL
NEW CONCEPTIONS
livered.
GIVE ME A LIGHTH OUSE--NO, DON'T
By MAURICE LANE-NORCOTT
There are many husbands in cap
with an irreproachable Resistance-Capacity ratio, but they are seldom admitted to Model status by their wives owing to the fact that bridge with Robinsons, Lap-repairing, and allied industries seem to sap the more romantie faculties of manhood.
Conversely, many
Of the social order bared on pro- Despite the serious overcrowd- ing which persists both on the said. It lacked, perhaps, that sense perty there is much good to ha
cave-man stand and in Kowloon, it is of equality, of the potential worth
who can hit his wife with unfail- seldom that action is taken by of every individual apart from ques- the authorities with a view to tions of birth and status, which HAVE you noticed how frequent- "Dearest Aunt Maud," we could ing accuracy unaccountably loses combating the evil. The Sani-s #10W happily becoming more ly lighthouses have been in write, "By all means come and stay form when required to turn his at-
A con- the news lately?
with me for a month, as suggested.tention to a picture hanger. tary Department has been con-widespread. But it had
"My goodness!" I expect you Just give me a-hail when you ar Taking it all round, it seems that tent to act. on the principle of copt.on of social
Barvico have said to yourselves, opening rive and I will throw you the life a husband only becomes Model when prosecuting only in really seri-tradition of disinterested and a
at apparent in some recent dis-your newspapers at breakfast and line. Bon voyage and we'll have he is dead-particularly if his closures of government corruption turning to the latest lighthouse biscuits for dinner."
widow murries again, · Fuzh financial dishonesty in the story,
"Tatkins, my man," we could "Here's another lighthouse western world. Nevertheless, onkeeper mareoned on his lighthouse observe sternly, "permit me to say balance, the modern social order and nobody acema able to reach that you are making yourself con las immense advantages over that him or even send him a letter." | spicuously ridiculous.”
True, we couldn't post any of in existence when the wners of And then, I dare say, you have Drakelow first took over their pro- eighed enviously and added as an these letters, unless we cared to party. In the first pince, it has ine afterthought: These lighthouse pat them in a bottle and confide benefit of nearly 900 years' 'addi- keepers have all the luck.'
them to the deep. Still, just to tional experience.
MUTUAL TRUST
LIBEL
A fair reader (we hope she is fair) hua discovered our long cherished secret. This is what she
writes:
ery.
reason for
Inkypoo Voice. Although Mrs. Margaret de Val Kelly has om- barked bravely on the actual labour of her undertaking,
ous cases, two of which, from Kowloon, were dealt with in Court yesterday. How serious were the breaches of the law in these cases may be gathered from the fact that in one in- stance there were no fewer than the equivalent of 37 adults ac- commodated on a floor
| where
Personally, I belleve, a man write them would puss the time
Dear Kelly-Remembering you the legal limit was 13, whilst
could be completely happy, lolling away very pleasantly. It would be once stating that the placo and rea- in the other, instead of 13 there
on the verandah of his lighthouse, of little interest to us whether they son of your birth was unknown, I wore 30. High
Jazily staring out over the storm-renched their destination or not. though the
have succeeded in tracing the preas | figures are, these two instances"
swept-sen-Think-of-it-All ¦—As-for-the-repeated-threate-to-notices-to-Inkypno, Texas.-The- and cross cut off our light, so common to enclosed clipping, together with the are merely typical of the condi- It has much greater command those gigantic waves tions which prevail in slum
over the forces of nature, as well currents between him and his rela- us flat-dwellers, we could studious fact that they are from Toxas. as an enormously higher level of tions! All those dangerous rocks ly ignore such silliness. Cut off adequately prove the actual town arcas all over the Colony. If,
general education and accomplish- and treacherous shouls safely our light, indeed! Well, let them of your birth, etc., therefore, the latest prosecutions ment. And while it has not over-hielding him from the fury of try it, that's all. A nice fuss it which, however, will remain per- imply a determination on the worked the Golden Rule, it has at Mesers, Tatkins, Tatkins, Tatkins, would cause at Lloyd's.
manently mysterious. Here goes: part of the authorities to under- least increased men's faith in its Son and Tatkins, Solicitors and Of course, I can't deny that in take
Inkypoo Guzette 1902-John J. a thorough clean-up of practicability. And this is well. Commissioners for Oaths!
certain ways life on a lighthouse these areas, so much the better. For the more high powered the car. How pleasant it would be to at-1 would have its drawbacks.
Kelly Jr. by Margaret de Val For example, it seems to me that Kelly. In this, their baby, weigh- There have been times, in the the greater the danger if it be not tend to our neglected correspond-
ing only six and a half pounds, past, when the shortage of properly controlled. The faster the ence in such favourable circum-it would be extremely difficult to
speed, the less satisfactory the stances. No longer need we rack back a greyhound. Only by the Mrs. Kelly has managed to include" housing accommodation made overcrowding inevitable. Con-direction. No matter how
most intricate signalling could all the objectionable features of result, unless it is in the right our brains for suitable excuses.
ad- "My dear Mro. Marplethorpe," one intimate to passing ship: her own and her husband's family. ditions to-day are, in this res-vanced the state of materint know we codd Bay with perfect frank-"I want ten shillings each way on The inheritance of his father's peet, not what they were, howledge, nor how admirable may be ness, "I would love to come to your Flying Cloud at the White City volce was noticeable with the first
11 Home on Friday, but, ever, Even if they were, the the organisation of society, in a
20-to-night."
One can only hope that if obligation resting on the authori- world that depends for its har fortunately, for the past month I And even if the dog came home
the authore of Edward Kelly in- one would never afst upon another they will make ties, to see that overcrowding monious existence upon mutual have bem confined to my lighthouse first-a fact
(Continued on Next Calumu.) it a girl. The infant seems does not persist, would remain. trust, there is increasing need of with a scuero storm."
normal. loyal adherence to the rule of do- In England at the moment, a.
ing unto others as you would have tremendous scheme. of alum them do unto you. The revolution clearance is in operation, which started with this rule must Neither vested interests nor any other considerations are being permitted to stand in the way of the campaign. Local authori- ties are being compelled to take nction and, where hesitancy is revealed, the full weight of central government is being brought to bear on obstruction ists. The need of some definite, progressive plan along the same lines in this Colony is obvious. It is something to the good that in recent years there has sprung up a newer and better type of tenement house and that much of the older property is gradual, ly falling into disuso. Even so, there are whole blocks of tene ments on both sides of the har- bour which ought to be condemn- ed out of hand as being totally unfit for human habitation. Even in the newly-developed areas there is a tendency to But what alien rulership. and perpetunto the evils of over-subsequent friendly British suze- crowding. Economic considera-rainty, fulled to effect: the peaceful tions are, of course, partly res- ponsible, whilst in some in stances the sub-letting system laja factor. It is, however, up to the authorities to see, at least in respect of now property, that there is reasonable compliance with the laws against overcrowd-cats still purr on cottage hearths.
go on.
CATS & COATS OF ARMS
Although Manx is not listed in the languages department of schools of correspondence, the news of its fast-approaching extinction will strike a chord of sympathetle regret among those whose good fortune has ever led them to the lovely Inte of Man. For centuries aftor this variant of Collle speech was brought in remote pre-Christian times to the picturesquely situated island of the Trish Sea, the hardy Manxmen were in constant conflict with Viking pirates and Scottish and Engllah marauders, all of whom in turn ruled, or misruled, the tiny Province. But through it all the nativo's language survived.
TRIPPERS SUCCEED
Invasion in these latter days by holiday seekers from neighbouring Yorkshire and Lancashire has or- complished. Fortunately there still remain mementos of the day when the Manxman proudly disclaimed connexion with other races of the British Isles. The famous tailless
and the Manx coat of arms-thres
Ing. These laws are quite de legs in armour pointing in different finite and specific, but, like so directions sill kick sturdy de many others, they are rarely enforced.
flanco of England, Scotland, and Ireland!
"I'd rather stay home with you, dear, but business is business."
she has brought it to a somewhat indeed, humilia- disappointing ting, conclusion. There is nothing out of the ordinary about this child,
Inkypoo Trader-Another first baby. Edward J. Kelley in a some what unexciting infant, and cries without trentment. He had to be slapped into breathing and coaxed into nursing. Has well developer adenoids and tónalla that should be removed at three years of age. and unless his diet is carefully watched, rickets and anexmia may be anticipated,
know-it is most unlikely that une would receive the money. Sullora are so uncertain. In their move- menta. Hero to-day, they are goodness-knows-whore to-morrow,
Further, I think the circular staircases in lighthouses are quite unsuitable for bachelors. After all, who wants to crawl round and rótind on his hands and knees each morning, brushing yards And yards of circular, sinir-carpot7. Particularly na no one is ever likely to call. · · ·
No, all things considered, I can Reo now that it isn't a lighthouse 1 want. What I really require is a small, warm, fertile, uncharted. Island
One without a léttor-box "on"it' anywhere, and no telephones, "no" tolophones at n[!!
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