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HOW often does one hear the question: How much does it cost to run a flat here?
WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.
CRECHES FOR THE POOR Nothing is more appropriate than that the Society for the
And how often does one Protection of Children should be
hear the rejoinder: A associated with the proposed establishment of a creche for single man cannot run a flat babies of Chinese women who
-after a couple of months are employed as factory workers or as coolies and who are faced he is up to his ears in debt, is getting more involved with his flat and has a year's lease on his hands to
with the daily problem of what to do with their infants when The need of institutions of this type in the Colony is beyond
Five Melodious Notes, Accurately they are at work.
S.
Voiced and Tuned
question. prevent him getting out of it?
Mothers are frequently to be scen breaking stones, at the roadside, or carrying loads of building material, with children strapped to their backs. Others solve the problem by paying a for someone small daily summ
MOUTRIE & Co., Ltd. else to look after their babies.
York Building.
JUST
Chater Road.
ARRIVED!
NICE SELECTION OF
WASHING
The average carnings of women of this class are about twenty or thirty cents per day, and when it is stated that from this meagre wage they usually have to pay ten cents a day when en- gaging outside help, it will be seen that they lose a big per- centage of their income in this way. What is of even greater importance is that the kind of
DRESSES
FOR LITTLE GIRLS
0
From 4 to 10 years
CHILDREN'S DEPT.
care
own
and attention which the
or
After several years in this Colony, during which I have
FEE
seen many of these bachelor and spinster failures, I con- clude that it is time some- body set out to draw up à
Plan of Procedure which, if not perfect or accurate, will at least serve as a guide to the unwary and may draw further, correction from those who know.
In
Don't Make A Mess
of
vein
Your Mess.
In which a local writer gives some hints to Bachelors on running a
flat
new
FROM my own experience and
auc- New
KNOW a couple of young
that of others, I estimate chaps who went on in this
until they kidder each that for a mess of four people other into acting. They rushed the following expenditure would off to Prince Edward Road, took be incurred, bearing in mind that I am catering for 12 people, half a house, filled it with use.
furniture the maximum number of guests less junk at prices, the case of young men
engaged a marvellous at a time, bringing the house- round the $500-a-month mark cook at twice his proper salary, hold up to that number.
Furniture complete for housc and girls who arrive here with strewed the place with coolies
wash amans and copped can be bought cheaply at no family to put them right, the and same sort of thing always hap- their folly with a house warm- tions for $250 to $300. pens. The arrival puts up at ing party which cost them the furniture ranges from $360 for the Y.M.C.A, the Helena May better part of $400, half their a dining room suite to less than or a hotel while he or she settles furniture and cutlery and the $600 a whole houseful. Furni- can be had for down, looks around and decides good esteem of the police and ture to order
even less and Chinese crafts- their neighbours. the future domicile.
can be re- After three months of semi-manship is quite good in this
respect. Carpets
handsome grass lonely meals, more entertaining, placed by and mounting expenditure, they squares, which are about $30. to crawl out of the Linen should be bought in the managed lense and dismiss the household. roll and made up for something For the next year and a half like $50 the whole job, though 1 am not very sure of this figure. they lived in economic recupera- Cutlery, good Sheffield steel- tion.
would be in the neighbourhood of $100 and glassware another $50.
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WE will take the case of a
"He" as he dons the sillier things, has to pay out more to live and invariably pays out twice more than he needs even
NOTES OF THE DAY to do that.
"The international situation has become serious in a degree that we are obliged, in spite of an economic crisis, to spend 236.000.000 franca for national defence. The buse of international order has been des troyed. Even if it is supposed that no government is aiming at war, a relatively unimportant event might cause the catastrophe."
These words were uttered in the Swiss Federal Council Chamber
recently when the little mountain Republic decided that it must arm to protect its neutrality. It is
afraid of invasion from one side or another by some power anxious to
These estimates are about right for people wishing to possible, as I am not concerned make it as cheap and efficient as with those to whom price-is- little object.
After a month or so in the
precincts carefree
of the On the other hand I know a Y.M.C.A or the Hotel he comes fellow who lived in the City for month furnished. He to the conclusion that he has. $150 a plenty of money to throw about, had a flat with two small rooms, the reason for this entirely a bathroom and boys' quarters wrong impression being that so and kitchen. He had his meals far he has not made many out at a monthly rate and could out for them as he friends and consequently has be in or
Four in a mess is about right, Life was occasionally as there is then someone not been inside the bar much, wished.
moderate at hand willing to join in anything has not joined any clubs, has lonely but not contracted to take out nice tendance at the club and a few and one is not such a slave to expensive young things and goes games of bridge and poker at mealtimes. Servants for the the Rat kept him satisfied, household would comprise a though he never made enough cook at $20, possibly a House Boy at $20, a coolie at $12 and to help the rent.
two amahs at $12 each. Another young man got his
to bed early in the true Y.M.C.A. tradition.
a
on
avoid an antagonist's fortifications while bent on striking at a vital
With a couple of hundred and unprotected point. Switzer-
A system of giving the cook land was one of the last to join the dollars already saved and a rearmament parade. Like Britain, plump wallet he begins to look friends together and ran a mess boy $50 for each member of the the mid-levels way. It mess and leaving him to do Switzerland was all for disarma on life with an anticipatory air. about ment until she saw that the goa! He wants to play poker, he is used to cost them $180 each be everything with the coinpradore
tried by some people but I. was chimerical. Like Britain, too, glad to shout more than his cause they insisted on luxurious. As regards provisions, has been. she requires armaments not for share of rounds, he joins up at appointments and a well-stocked should not cure to recommend Immediate use, but to rattle in future when they may help to turn the scale against aggression.
and most of the smaller powers,
children secure under such conditions cannot be altogether satisfactory. Under the scheme which, aided by the generosity of an anonymous donor, the S.P.C. is sponsoring, there will be skilled attention by qualified Canadian Sisters, whilst the food to be supplied to the in- fants will be infinitely better and more adapted to their needs than is possible even in their homes. Moreover, the surroundings will be cleaner and healthier. Creches, public nurseries for children engaged in whose parents are daily work and are unable to provide such facilities them- selves, are common. in most parts of the world. They were first started in France as far back as 1844, and in Great Britain
largely they are left to private initiative. Of their utility and value there is no doubt, and it is worthy of note that they have been large- ly instrumental
checking Infant mortality. Hongkong has lagged behind the times in the provision of such Institutions, but a beginning is now happily to be made. The proposed crecho is *nn experimental venture, but if it is a success there are prospects of the idea being ex-1 tended, in which connection it is understood that the benefac- tor who is making this first ven- ture possible may be prepared to facilitate the opening of one or two other institutions of a like character. The example not is one which might well be followed by other public
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.
in
Ispirited residents who are able in this way to bring a little
to
the club. Later he joins con- cellar. ference with the old grousers
of the Y.M.C.A.-diehards who stay there year in and year out but like the P.B.I. of the Great War retain their ancient privi- lege of grousing. To a new comer they put up a tale of woe. He doesn't like the food! Good God, what does he think of my constitution after blank years of this Hell! (I hasten to say here that this is entirely fictitious and conditions at the Y.M.C.A.
17:
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THE ideal thing to do, in my opinion, would be for four young fellows to rent a house at Kowloon Tong, the model Garden City of the future, they tell me, or at Happy Valley or even a flat at Pokfulam,
the idea mysef. It is better that some member of the mess make himself responsible for the bills and hold a committee meeting at the end of the month oyer them.
Such a mess would cost round about $120 at most, after the initial expenditure and would in- clude some drinks and enter.. taining.
The rent ranges from $65 a month unfurnished to $150. I
As to girls' messes, I cannot have seen quite capacious flats
a month speak so well. Generally they in Kowloon at $80
rnished and although some of are content to stick to boarding though I know of them are old-fashioned as re houses, gards sanitary arrangements, several who share flats and I Continuing our imaginary others can be found in good con- have no doubt, manage to run dialogue, it eventually dawns on dition. the newcomer that he is a sap.
them very cheaply. Being a woman gives one the preroga- With the location settled it tive of being inquisitive about
It is probably with an eye to the dangers ambitious imperialists may create for leaser powers, as much as for the protection of her own possessions, thal Great Britain has given notice that, she intends increase her naval strength beyond the limits of the expiring London Treaty. For Britain is still com- mitted to the theory of collective security. The time may come when her championing of this cause may involve her in grave complications, Her demand for action to prevent the violation of someone's sovereign are in fact excellent). rights may be answered with a challenge. If someone is going to "call the bluff it is well that His Majesty's Government is seeing to it that there will be aces to lay Of course, the other poor old'
timer has got to stay at the "y" remains to furnish. Modern prices, a grace which men do tendency is to have as little as not seem to possess, in their -he is going Home in a year possible and that is where young domestic affairs, so I'll not ten- comfort and happiness to the and it isn't worth while chang- fellows often go wrong. After der any advice to them. children of the poorest of the ing but there is no earthly rea- all, they need only beds, ward- poor. What is more, employers son why he should not enjoy the robes, chairs, cutlery, a couple One last word to the young of labour may, if it is shown benefits of a flat where for the of carpets, curtains, a few men who are thinking of run- run at a reasonable cost, them- same sum of money he can live tables, sideboard and cupboard. ning a flat. If you find that in privacy, get just what he These can be obtained extra- your budget is getting out of selves provide such facilities in wants to eat, have his washing ordinary cheap if one goes to the hand and you have a long leave or near their factories or work done cheaply, get drinks in and trouble of looking round the to finish, try marrying. You'll shops. Thus, in course of time, the generous action of an anony generally make an Englishman's City and studying newspaper probably find that a woman can
nds. of people leaving the run it more cheaply for two than“, “
is you did for one. refrigerator Colony.. usually supplied; an electric fan, a wireless, and car are use- ful accessories,
on the table.
that such institutions can be
mous benefactor may have far-reaching effects in a sphere
castle for himself.
Up to this point his reasoning of social service locally which has been harmless, but when he has hitherto remained largely comes to putting it into effect untouched.
he begins to go down the drain.
A
-An Old Hand