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HONGKONG THE
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MONDAY,
The Modern
66
'Ladies' Man"
says Charles Gordon, who has suddenly discovered that the modern Miss doesn't want chivalry any more
delighted giggle.
And her reply was a
seems to me that the average young human female is beyond belief." man to-day has been trained on the
I watched him for ten minutes. The girl round wrong lines-wrong, that is, in the estima- lai hung on his every word. He had no manners, but
tion of a modern young woman.
You see, so many "perfect gentlemen" have
Interminable mannerisma. His every other remark was! either a. feeble paradox or a piece of parlaúr cynicism.
But he was having a whole of a time. The rest of
been taught by tradition that women should be us, with a few exceptions, were nowhere.
put on a pedestal, and that their place is at the
I was having a much needed drink to remove the foot of it; that their manners should be impecca- taste of him when I noticed another man who had an
effective line." He was "suffering." blo and their attitude one of courtly service.
With a look of dark pain in his eyes, a weariness | But does all this really get a man anywhere
hant, eupled with with any of you? 1 Armly believe that it does about his mouth, a slightly shaky
an effective shrug, he was explained on my inquiring not.
What women seen to want is not a pleasant and of my hostess as "Poor Adrian Blante" (sigh and shake "Obviously had a most tragic life. You polite companion, but someone who, as the Americans of the head).
can see it in his eyes," say, husaine" of his own.
Suffer party the other day which I heard n remark at a
and you get there. Bring your crises to made me long to smack the speaker. She was a pretty riety for the stamp of its interested approval or mere-" rather sweet face, and y behave rather badly. That's another certain route girl, with a clear voice and she had just smiched-yes, snatched is the word-n çock- nowadays to social success. tall from the attentive young man who confronted her with a tray of drinks.
In-
Needless to say, she gave no word of thanks. deed, to a companion who evidently rebuked, her for her rudeness, she said in her high voice:
Unusual Features
"Well, he acts Collect a reputation for running off with
other
like a walter, so what can I do but treat him Bike one?" people's wives, crashing in on other people's parties and There was a clear, Rakling Inugh to round off this piece taking off with other people's money.
of social commentary.
He was
for the past
"An utter cal, my dear, wouldn't trust him on inch, pleasant, polite young man. I'd seen him but he's frightfully good company." fifteen minutes pressing members of the
The successful end has long been a cliche in club-
party to cocktails, biscuits, elgurettes. He had a pleas- ing smile and manners beyond reproach, But, quite ob- land, but he's now more than an established fact in the The self-consciously outre seems to werk as well. viously, he did not come up to this young woman's ex-drawing-room.
who has some obscure creative faculty (de- pectations. I wondered who would, nnd is minute after- wards had my question answered. The girl rushed The man
corating door-knubs of macabre inacks to hang on the across the room to greel a man who had entered, sur wail) who talks abscurely, who grows a full of beard, wears a dirty jacket and sports a thick woollen tie, too, rounded by a crowd.
seems to be all that a lot of you ask of life.
Absurd Remarks
I've noticed, too, that two thousand a year, and no responsibilities, help a man to success..
But the perfect little gentleman has edidently had
Ils greeting to her was "Mairn, that hat makes you Inok like a Jugged hure. Really, the absurdity of the his day.
Seven Rules
By
LIONEL G. SHORT
DSYCHOLOGICALLY
of Love...
for
stick when the worse, et bad thnes come along?
As an American
Universersity
Doctor Sees it
NOVEMBER
22+
1937.
Chlef Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States Supreme Court arriving at his home in Washington, from three months' vacation in Quebec and New Hampshire.
CORNER COMEDY
By F. W. THOMAS
YESTERDAY morning, on the
shady side of Hideaway" Hill, I met Mr. Ebenezer Puffeti, a farmer of my acquaintance.
But instead of farming, Mr. Puffett was squatting on the ground, biting bits out of his bowler hat, and singing "The Cows are in the Clover."
Percival Yeates, who never shul:
gates,
But let all the milky moo-cows
stray.
So he fell in arrents with his rent
And rales, And went to the workhouse on
Michaelmas Day.
WHEAT Is another common abject of the countryside of which knows the averuje towesmun
Whent, believe it or not, Is grown
When I bade him good morning nothing. Mr. Puffett stuck out his tongue at me and told me to go and take a run- for the making of bread. Heaps of ring jump at myself.
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Possibly, I thought, he had been in order that holiday-makers can le sitting too long in the sun. the Jug and Bottle Department. Su kettles, and brew tea in its welcome to soothe him I began talking agri- shade. culture, of which I know nothing.
Or in and sleep in it, and light fires, boil Hong Bank Bldg.
To my surprise I found Mr. Put felt in an optimistle mood, and quite ebeery about the future of farm Ing.
This is not so.
Farmers grow Wheat in the hope of making a spot of money out of it, poor devils; and those who forget this will assuredly come to a bad end, like
Benjamin Bleat, with enormous
feet,
Who loved to go picnicking in the
wheal.
roll He and his friends would
about
Flattening acres of barley out. And so his potatoes got the blight, And burglars burgled him night
After night,
While on the subject of picnics,
"Last year," he said, "I had only nine plenie parties in my corn, but may I beg you to take a large dust- this year the number has increased bln to eighteen, with more to come.
"Rick Bres in 1038 totalled five, while this year we have had sever up to date, and mineleen cows have gone arstray ns against only cleven last season.
Dr. Groves, who Institute this country's first marital training course at his college, declares that obser-
Still chewing the brim of his vance of these rules would drastic-
bowler he assured me that things ully rude the growing number of
Everything in the were just fine. Anterican divorces.
garden was lovely, including the other university re Findings of anil
Of the 145 female members elected
rhubarb, and agriculture was deẞn- experts reveal some highly scientifically planned mar- search
itely on the up and up. the to the scholastic honour society since concerning facts rlages have lately become the aim interesting
success in modern mor- 1918, it was found that only 75 hud aulbarities, chances of
won husbands. A large percentage of "American college who are hopeful of changing mar-ringes.
For instance, girls who have posi- of the ordinary girl graduates from rlage from the h-ur-miss, roma-
better Grinnell during the past two years before marriage are tic nort of Eamble it has always tions
"bels" than those who do not work, are married, but none of those be- been inlu an organised business.
according to a survey made at Cornell longing to the honour selety is even
these engaged. Exceptions are Rules for love; how to choose a University,
I, after absorbing af this advice were usually nelive type of girl women who suitable male; what makes the best wife; and the com- in community affairs or were able and warning, a couple should be car- their. parents' ried away by the spell of the moon parative chances of brainy and benu- house-keepers
by tỏo muoy cocktais. New York tiful girls getting married, are among homes.
was indicated that a man is City at least offers one more sale- the intriguing subjects under study by some of America's leading pro- taking a serious gatable when he wins guard.
Under a law just passed a "time the playgirl who, after completing fessora.
her school career, has taken no res- stamp" will be applied by the clerk com to every permit issued by the Mar- in the home or ponsibility
ringe Licence Bureau. And not un- munlly.
72 hours have elapsed will minister or justice of the peace be allowed to perform wedding cere- Diste- mony for the cager couple. gard of this low will mean a £10 THIE
Comell study covered are for the person officiating at the the experiences of 323 wedding, so it seems likely that the students in planning their love life couples who had been wedded for ruling will be obeyed.
It is argued that wifehond will be
They were from two to six years. ultimate career for most Kit alvided into three groups whose mer- students and they should be educated ringes had been classified, and plain of the discoveries for it in the same way ng men are "pops. Other troinet to be successful lawyers, doc Cornell matrimonial experts were
Husbands and wives who, before
Marriage as Carcer
IN
of prominent
a number universities throughout the
United States courses on marriage
are now being offered as a guide to
the
tors, and engineers.
tt
thehr
One of America's foremost advo- cales of the look-before-you-lenp policy in marriage; Dr. Ernest R. part in
Three Groups
marriage, both enjoy taking
organised community life
Mc Katson's PETROLATUM LIQUID
Groves, of the University of North seem more likely to succeed. Those The smooth and
associated with religious groups were
Carolina, has drawn up seven rules found to have better chances, for a
of love. His formulae for wedded lasting marriage than those who be-
biles are as follow!
1. Don't let yourself fall in love long to no church.
Husbands who have been consist-
sale.
Laxative for
with the first person who comes ently employed and who show a sa- Adults. Unexcelled along-meet as many young ble interest in their jobs are one and people of the opposite sex n hall times more ilkely to have n possible:
2. Don't judge by party manner, well-adjusted marriage. The type of and dress everyday life is dit- work has a good deal to do with it, and those employed at regular hours
Icreal,
1. Study your own emotional reac for set wages make the most mils-
tions as you go along-your male factory mates. will bring out the best in you.
Married couples with more or less 4. Decide if he or she wears. well, the same social and cultural back-
married life than those If you are bored with each other grounds are likely to have a more before marriage, think of what successful
would have to be endured later, with very differing backgrounds. In & Decide if he or she will grow with other words, "opposites may attract,"
nhead as a but not for long you will you to
team, or will one of you have to
the load in advancing
carry. through life?
or
4. Will he or she put father
mother ahead of wite or husband? -look out
Kiringo.
for
your appron-
Super-Intelligent
T the co-educational Grin- nell College. in Jown, a survey reveals the rather disconcert- fact that super-intelligent girl
1. Can he or she take misfortune ing
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will he or she remember that the students have only about a 50 per Showan Tomes & Co. -marriage vow says for better or cent. chance of getting married,
with you? It is so much - dier. And don't forgel what hap- pened to
Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Jay, Who went for a pienie down Devonshire way.
When it was over they left behind bacon Six paper bags and some
rind.
cardboard box, two lins.
sking.
A has also been a steudy **There increase in the number of gates left open, the fures for the present sca- son being 20, or eight inore than our previous best.
"Sixteen rods, poles or perches of wheat and burley have been rolled fint by children and courting couples, and the grass has been set alight in 43 places; eleven more than in 30.
"These figures," mld Mr. Puffett, "to to prove that the British Public Is at lost taking all interest in agrl- culture, and I only wish it would rain hard for the rest of August and send the blighters scuttling home."
With which the poor old gentle man burst into tears, ran down the hill, and jumped into his own duck- pond.
nineteen
yellow
sardine
banana
And And Jefferson Jay the very next
day
Found the dickens and all to pay. His temperature rose to a hun-
dred and four. And his wife ran away with the
man next door.
Personally I put it down to the fairies. They have a way of paying! one out for these things. I am a great bellever in fairies and wish there were more of them.
Look what happened to Robert P.
with an Rees, a stockbroker's clerk who lived at Homsay. Rise
artistic wife. She loved sticking lumps of
As there was no water in it I left trees in fars all over the house, and and were went on my didn't care a dump whose trees they him there, way; musing much upon the manners were. So- and customs of the town-dweller turned out to grass, and scratching my mosquito bites as I mused.
Poor benighted couls, it is through Ignorance that they err, and maybe A few little tips on the common ob- jects of the countryside might be help to the greatest of our rutal in- dustries.
GATES for instance,
Lots
Those people named Rees, broke
branches off trees.
and all the flowers Picked
threw them down.
Agents.
Telephone 28021.
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
1 Power with a doubt about it
(5).
4 The kind of representation that
might carry conviction (9).
8 Most of this kind of resin is
llable to go oft (7).
9 Lean (7).
10
A place for warmth, and after a century might be by the sea (4).
11 Flood finally consumed (5), 12 A little one's little one (4). 15 This is going back (13).
17 Between races, one wishes one could change this feeling for the better. (13)VO Result, they got water on all their 20 Can it form merely a light
knees,
And
lost their last train hack
town. Then there is FIRE.
Farmers simnly hate having their Innd set on file. Especially in hot
bollocks and
of people think that gates weather. It's so frightfully bad for are put up by kind farmers for them the bealroots, to sit on in the moonlight, Others Inmbs.
be left open.
So let me
900
WARN those careless
get it into their thick noddles that gate are meant
The purpose of people who will burn the landscape, They are not.
and beg them to most gates is to keep the cows from
Think of the fate of Christopher
Sprout. Retting out and swarming into the local church, pub or cottage hospl- tal. It is dreadfully annoying to a farmer when he goes out to collect his milic, to find that his cows are It is niso all in the next country. bad. for Lie milk.
People who habitually leave-gates open should remember the dire and horrible fate of
Who threw his cigarette ends
about:
Set light to the gorse, was caught
In the binze,
And sizzled and frizzled for days
and days.
Rather than do that. Just knock at the farmer's front door and ask him to lend you an ash-tray,
connection? (4). 21 Drab, and mostly nolay (3).
23 Indian town (4). 25 The
Weila
of imagination brought him to Earth (7).
26 The biggest sweeps imaginable
come from here (7),
27 "Creen lint" (anag) (D).
28 War followed this cross (5).
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7 The fisherman may carry it as
it is, or beheaded (6).
9 Bury a kind of china fish for
fusion (13).
13 Bird that sounds as if it might
have a flower on it (6),
14 Reading is per this (5). 18 Mean (9).
18 A vegotable fooler (7).
10 The holiday-maker may need
bags of it (7).
20 This animal has swallowed a
bird (5).
23 1 down has this beast in con-
fusion (4). 24 A branch output (4).
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1 One who is much in the news
these days (8).
2 An engine tender (7). 3 One word suggest many
4 What the lover hopes for when he declares his feelings (13). 6 This is only amall distance
from a part of the face (4).
B Start with a little journey and
Ko on lo a. Mediterranean port: (7)
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