FAREWELL AND ADIEU
Those gipsy dancers may soon be the only people to keep up the traditions of Andalusian costumo.
"N
said thanks," 0, Rosita. "I daren't, I my you know.
found
novio uver
out, he would kill me."
In England, to offer a cigarette to a indy is a mark of common
In Spain, is a ges politeness. ture fraught with danger, an in- citement to commit an unpardon- able ocial crime.
Rosita daze not smoke. She cannot play tennis. The idea that she might ride a bleysta or drive a car strikes her as so fantastic that she does not even bother to laugh at it,
Every evening she goes for a walk with her fiancé. He is a mild and pleasant young man. this same novio who holds such decided views on the "propriety of tobacco With his dark hair smoking.
smoothly brushed, and his pockets full of out-of-date lottery tickets- the wrecks of ships that never yet came home--he represents, for the present, Romance.
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8 for the future-"No," says Roalta. "I am in no hurry to get married. Marriage is worse than death. I
is the end of everything."
So she is putting off the day when the evening walk will have to be canceled because she will be too busy cooking supper. engaged,
While
they can Bometimes dance or go to the cinema, as long na her mother or sister is free to net as chaperone."-
But when they are married she will stay at home to look after the children, while Juan goes to the cate. The caté is all right for a man-but-it-la-ao-place for a respectabio woman, married or
-To-day's Thought- THE hardest victory is victory
over self.
It
-ARISTOTLE.
single. Rosita does not, as you might suppose, spend half the day dreaming behind an iron-barred window in some cobbled Andalu- sian street.
She is no languorous Southern beauty with a carnation gleaming
her hair beneath, the classic mantilla. She does not, in fact,
wear a mantilla. As far as I know, she has nuver touched a guitar or u castanet.
In That type has died out. Spain you will find it only on plc-- ture-postcards and in flims whose soting is Mexico.
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OSITA, on the contrary, works in an office, in a town which will soo11 She an possess trolley-buses. efficient typist, with some know- She is ledge of accountancy, typical of thousands, of young women all over Spain.
They are in a strange position, They have these Spanish girls. won freedom to work, but not to play. They may earn their living like men, but in their amuse- ments they must never venture be- yond the family circle. Economi- are independent, they cally
they are bound by the
s of a bygone age. Convention is a formidable thing.
.
It keeps alive the Spaniard's cen- towards his tury-old attitude
that semi-criental womenfolk, tradition which is the last legacy' of the Arabs.:
this tradition, to According women were cloistered before mag- riage and neglected afterwards.. Translated into terms of Europe. it means that the Spaniard puts his naucée on a pedestal but leaves his wife in the kitchen.
ΤΟ YOU,
You Spanish Ladies
by Geoffrey Brereton
Just returned from a visit to the New Spain)
course, have Anished, room with men, or work at the for ever with the office. She will become a good housewife and a de- voted mother. She i sure to spoll her chi dren.
- same bench in the laboratory, and remain distantly cold or bewitch- ingly coy.
cat 100 will She much and not bother greatly Visits to about her appearance. the hairdresser, beauty treatment, Glimming, will be neglected be cause they no longer have any point. Again, the Oriental, the Biblical attitude, crops up.
To be a mother of many children In the sole purpose of women. When they are this, they should desire nothing more. In return, no man should expect of them any- thing else.
such is the tradition. It is so trong that in the provincial towns lew have yet questioned it. Only in Barcelona and Madrid is it slowly being worn away, One day, perhaps very soon, it will inevit- ably break. What signs are there of the coming change?
Consider these
facts:-
three Isolated
The Republic has given Spanish women the right to vote. Although the concession has, so far, made Iftic difference either to them or 10 the Republle. it is equivalent to conferring on them equal citizen- ship with men.
dermany.
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Spanish
women's hockey team has just returned from a tour in
In a commercial class in Barec- lona there were once eight girls That was and seventy-two men.
To-day the same ten years ago. class contains forty girls and forty The proportion of women men. students has risen from ten to fifty per cent.
It is from this quarter that the Achange is coming. Women students are everywhere on the increase. They are to be found in the faculties of medicine, pharmacy, law, commerce, and literature.
a Some дге studying with
Others defalte career in view. have no thought of eventually the-earning their living. They merely
wish to continue their educa tion.
Translated yet again, it signifes that real comradeship between sexes is very hard to achieve.
Rosita, according to her social code, has two legitimate interests. The first is sex, the second domes- ticity.
When she marries she will, of
will all in the wash if you know
how
IN
to do it
the summer the tea, coffee, and fruit stains made on our table linen during the winter seem to be more conspicuous. There is a sub-
Whatever their ultimate aim, they will be very different women You cannot share from Rosita. for two years the same lecture-
come
out
aoda together with a pinch of vashing soda in a half- cup of boiling water. Then pince the stained part of the table cloth in this solution for a few minutes. In nine cases out of len the stain will disappear quieldy, and it is then only necessary to rinse the cloth thorough ly with warm water.
Hydrosulphite of soda is much used in the printing
of all kinds of labric and hus no harmful action whatever
on cotton and linen cloths.
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is the rubbing and not the soaking which causes woollen garments to shrink during washing. But garments are sometimes so dirty that rubbing is necessary.
It has been discovered recently that the extent to, nikalinity of the washing water. The more alkali pre- which woollens shrink is influenced by the degree of sent the greater is the shrinkage: Rubbing is least harmful when cold plain water is used.
When washing dirty woollen garments it is thus stance which will remove most of these stains advisable to do the necessary rubbing in cold water quite easily. You can get it cheaply from the containing only a small amount of soap, and then remove chemists by asking for hydrosulphite of soda all the loosened dirt by lightly working them in a warm (about one ounce is suflicient); be sure that thin oop liquor containing a small amount of ammonia. substance is not confused with the "yposulphite. of soda which is used by the pho rapher.
First stain is best removed in this manner. dissolve about one-half ounce of the hydrosulphite of
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SALESMAN SAM
There is one woman member of Parliament. She is Margarita Nelken, Cominunist member for Blbao, whose tervent oratory has carned hor.the name of The Pas- sion Flower. Thus the women of Spain Are gradu- ally making their way into public life. They have had, no in oy C- suffragetto
ment.
The war, which knocked down the barriers of sex in 50 many countries, reached Aever theirs.
Slowly and timidly, fighting against prejudices which they half- shared, they have struggled into the strongholds of men. intellectually they Arc accepted equal terms.
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On the question of feminine sport, opinion is divided, of The majority Spanish men--even young men-disap- prove of it. It is, they will tell you, unnatural, ungrace- ful in a word, un- womanly, for women to run and
swim and develop muscles, Never- Begin- theless, it is happening. ning with tennis, the University women have gone on to hockey.
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They hold cross-country races. They go up into the mountains and ski.
The loss enterprising walk a few milles into the country on Sunday. They do not yet call,it hiking. It is not a sport, but at leant it exercise.
+Many look at them askarice. They themselves are a little aclf- conscious. They feel that they are doing something not precisely for- bidden, but unusual. In time the feeling will wear off.
The games-playing Spanish girl. is a reality. The next step is the games-playing woman. In a few years will come the incredible, the undreamt-of day, when the first Spanish boy plays tennis with his
mother.
Then Rosita will be definitely out of date. Poor Rosital
The young wife of a Barcelona fisherman: wears a balted jumper and bobbed hair,
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A
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Healing
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The End Of The Line
WELL, THANKS.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936.
EVERYBODY'S FAVOURITES ON REX RECORDS.
8773-Cloomy Sunday.. Maurice Elwin.
Solitude.
8704 Salut D'Amour.
Barcarollo "Tales of Hoffman."*
Musical Dawson's Famous CHOIR OF CANARIES.
|8711--Sunior Trail.
Maid of Brazil,
8719-Music Goos Round & Around.
There's a Song they Sing in Sing Song.
Primo Scala's Accordeon Band.
8715-Animal Crackers in My Soup,
When I Grow Up.
8636-Trcos.
Baby Durelle Alexander,
Smiling Through,
Grace Fields.
8604-Confessions of a Checky Chappy. Max Miller,
8041-Sandy the Film Star.
8362
What the Stare Foretell. 8578-Sandy The Dentist. 8387-Sandy Joins The Nudists.
8024-Sandy The Burglar.
8114 Sandy on a South Sea Isle.
110
Sandy Powell (Famous Humourist).
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY. Marina House, 19, Queen's Road, Central, Tel. 24648.
OUR BRITISH
CROSSWORDS
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B Form of punishment in which
the same ten are always kept in.
10 Beginning with Act IV., "it
becomes busy.
11 Taken away.
12 There is no necessity for the letter-box in which it is put to bo 10.
14 Tenderness,
15 Advance,
18 The American city that gavo accommodation to a king of France.
20 Bird having an almost historic
Drigin.
22 Thu English town that is to be
found in a Scottish county.
24 Omnia vincit
20 Love it and I follow on. This may be regarded as, a prayer. 29 "Little by Little," for example
(Hyphen, 3, 5).
30 May describe certain decorations,
partly by word of mouth.
31 Though it may serve to divert Sue, the modern working girl has little use for it.
32 What a snail contains but never
shows.
1 Illustrated. 2 The
DOWN
celebrated Carthaginian general who lost his head in 'n car.
4 Greenery.
4 Shot non-changers.
OH, NEVER MIND "TH": "THANKS ABOUT SHOVIN YER CAR WHEN JAGIN, BUD! "I DON'T YA. WERE OUTA GAS! ALWAYS/KNOW WHAT I
WOULDA DONE WITH GLAD TA HELP A PAL!:
OUT YER HELP!,
You will find this severo in your
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"district,”
The G.P.O. find
Д
UBC
for.
thousands of these foreigners.
Provides nourishment for man,
by way of a change.
15 No seal to use for wax (lidden).
16 Hidden in Clue, 13.
17 Collar shy (arag.)..
19 Put out.
21 Sane.
23 Stretches banquets will do.
25 Put it up and more down for
a good reasON.
27 Small collection of grass.
28 What they call the Docks at
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WISH. I COULD DRIVE YA FARTHER - BUT I. LIVE RIGHT ACROSS TH' STREET!
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