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THE HONGKONG TEEEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1938.
BENEFITS FROM ARMS OUTLAY
Correspondent
United Prezz Staf Correspondent Henkow.
By Mail-Foreign reporters al- ways go to the Chinese, never come to the Japanese." It was a Japanese Infantry captain speaking to me.
"They should listen to both aldes of the question," he continued.
I agreed that this was right point- ing out, however, that Chinese soldiers always welcomed us, but 25 ก that Japanese soldiers gove grunt and a bayonet in greeting.
"We do not want to fight," the captain said. "The Chinese started | this when they fired upon us."
Another bit of conversation, this time with a Chinese ariny captain ensued after I asked him how he liked being a soldier.
"Well, what's the use of pretend- he said. "It's not so good, but ing." then it's not so bad either. But I don't get much chance for reading or studying. Before I was a soldier I knew some English, but I've never had a chance to study since. I don't see my wife at all. There's no sense in a soldier being married."
A street scene in war:
Fifty bodies were lying in a heap under a straw matting. Two. sol- diers would go out and pick one out and lay it in the middle of the road. Then some one would come out of a small building with a thin ribbon of tissue paper with the newly
drawn characters of the man's name on it. This was placed across the man's chest and his picture taken.
I didn't think Chinese soldiers went in for that kind of sentiment,
BLONDES are not the only
"THE VERY IDEA"
SOMETHING TO DO ON SUNDAYS
By Rev. Eddie Kelly
MAN-EATERS WHAT to do during the
"Please, Miss Orchidson... I'm not that sort of man.” PHIPPS' idea of a dizzy blonde,
Now read this article
By CECILE LAVIGNE
A
men.'
in their The real blonde rage set in after, around the time when Jean Har- low (in Hollywood) and Fran- Now, really..... We might ces Day (in England) showed have understood if he had com- the silvery heads that we later
called platinum. plained that artificial blondes
In that blonde boom a blonde under blazing sun frequently show dark partings
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when they haven't kept up the came to mean a girl plus that thing the others hadn't got. through fields for an hour, finally came upon two Chinese working men
proper peroxidling. sitting on a rock under a piece of matting slung upon a stick.
A scene in the open feld: Walking
-
Why are week-ends? Be- cause they're always sat upon!
Doubtless, readers of the Telegraphi will find time hanging very heavily on on Sunday, their hands waiting for Monday's issue
to
come out with another sparkling and brilliant ar- ticle by its leading writer.
So with the idea of keeping you occupied we have compiled a guide to amusements.
There are several things you can do to pass away the time.
Those with a sense of levity may pass it away by selling their wrist watch to a pawn- broker.
The most serious, however, should try writing a book. Have you ever thought of becoming a writer?
An appropriate title for a book would be "My Hair-Raising Ex- periences in Hongkong".
The hair-raising portion can be divided into three parts, one in the centre and one on each side. Unfortunately, a difflculty arises, 115 we understand hares are un- procurable in Hongkong.
Those about to be married can spend the whole of Sundny use. fully tearing up and burning old photographs, letters, garters, and atlier incriminating evidence. Unmarried people will derivo
long, long hikes.
The best way to start this is to catch a train to Fanting, or some other outlandish place, and then sit on the roadside until a motorist of- fers you a lift into Kowloon.
phone us and ask us to take them what different. They should tele- for a long car drive. The walking Swimming is also an excellent part will naturally fellow. sport for the week-end, but at this time of the year it is advisable to get your servants to heat the water
With girls the procedure is some-
MARGATE hotelier the natural and un-exotic stand-
About told a conference this ard of loveliness.
eight years ago, week that he does not blondeness had reached its zen-greater pleasure from going for I asked some soldiers standing near want artificial blondes on ith. It was Something to be or by if they really knew the names of the dead or was some fictitious name his staff because, he says, to go blonde.
"the one purpose Opinions may vary as to the put on the little slip of paper. advisability of
"They were our friends," was the minds is running extensively
answer. "How could we help but fortifying Hongkong-or per-know their names?” haps it would be more necurate to say, further forlifying the Colony, for the defence system is already extensive. There is who the pacific-minded mun feels that armament of any sort is unprincipled and a waste of time and money and land which might be used for something else. There is the professional soldier, who possibly has no very strong feelings about the ethics of the thing, but who knows his job and is "all for it" when the Government gives him orders.
brigade commander's hend-all. Between the two the average quarters in the midst of shelling was citizen stands. And since it too serene for me. Five large Chin- ese dishes were spread before me, no but I could do no more than peck at them with trembling chopsticks
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"Come and sit down," they said "It's cool under here."
They offered me a dirty cup of
water.
any
Japanese?"
"Have you seen I asked.
"No. They were striking at each other for two days. To-day there
eame no firing so we back was Tell your country to make them stop We can't work. We can't fighting. cat."
A
like straw.
The Chase
WE
to at least 70 degrees.
write
We could have agreed with She symbolised gaiety, jewels,
As far as we are concerned, we're him if he had said that artificial furs, gardenias, perfume, the blondes sometimes grow hair light-hearted, luxurious side of
living.
Make no mistake about it, a falready decided what we'll do dur- man liked to be seen with aing Sunday. We will sit down at an unprintable typewriter, lay our blonde.
Directly a blonde entered aadjectival head in our unmention- JE are definitely on his
side if he feels that roomful her personality regis-able hands, and try to think of some about for Monday's inflammable artificial blondes often have a tered itself. Her hair-was her exclamation mark thing to
unrhythmic appear-shop-window. The rest of us, paper.
That will be all we'll have to say tortured,
having no shop-window, had to ance.
But this slick reason about work hard doing our own regis-to-day. running after men will not do at tering.
“Just Another” different.
Going blonde did not-mean- Anyone would
that think and red-heads and IN those days I fought only a definite change of per- brunettes
hard and long with my sonality. It was a sort of chal- brown-heads and mouse-heads,
blonde. Half my friends had. ing to fate. yes, even grey-heads, did not hairdresser. I wanted to go lenge to destiny, a nose-thumb-
this stage, to assert that all wo- "Not machine-shops stani walking and over-excitement.
is "This
really
The
nothing.
Daring
Once
moral objection to fortresses and
A soldler sat beside me and watched. run after men.
Surely it does not need me, at Why not me? He was adamant.
with
your colouring, guns and air-bases, and naval told myself I was not afraid and that I was just exhausted from con-
IN far-away days it was To-day when a 'blonde is no
considered very daring drydocks and
are predatory? In a nice way, and magazines, it is probable I didn't like the soldier to watch me men-well, nearly all women-madam."
that way.
But most women longer an outstanding glitter- that he welcomes any enlarge-
Adjutant Ju sat out in the court- of course. ment of the defence system in yard fanning himself and he had a to-day have the bitter know- ing personality, but only the to go blonde. They called it
chair brought for me.
shells ledge that the right sort of man dizzy blonde of a Phipps or, dyeing, a word that smacked so this Colony. For it is obvious were flying right over our heads. has never been so hard to cap- quite simply, "just another of wickedness that women would
ture, "Very peor aiming," said the ad-
that competition was blonde," I am so grateful to my not own up to it. Heads black as coal became in a night the that the larger the naval and
Julant. military and air force establish-The particles are packed so close to never so fierce, and that the race unbusinesslike hairdresser.
the air.and the prizes-are to the Looking back, I recall that my colour of bright gold. And the desire to go blonde, like the owners said they had had them ments the better it will be forgether they just burst in
It's these mosquitoes that are really swiftest.
I should have thought this desire, doubtless, of a million "touched up."
The pendulum swung. Women business; better in two ways: bad."
As I had on shorts, I begun to
was known by One and All-let other girls, coincided with a
very went blonde as casually as they for the benefit to be derived, in
nolice the mosquitoes, too.
alone a seaside hotelier, who, of very dismal day, or ordinary commerce is consider Adjutant Ju that in my home tones all people, should have observed worrying day or a very unhappy tried out a new lipstick or pow
A day, in fact, when a der shade. Blondes had the mosquitoes four New Jersey able and the protection the de-in
could plek up a man. He seemed holiday girls on what we might day.
girl feels if she does not do limelight. great very surprised for he thought only impolitely call the prowl. is
something pretty desperate she fences
In Mongolla did they grow that big.
will go mad. encouragement to investment in
"When I was fighting with Feng such troubled times. It is per-Yu-Hsiang." Ju rejoined, "we used haps not too much to say that to send medical supplies up to the
front by mosquitoes.' for any expenditure in naval and military armament here the returns, direct and indirect, will be commensurate and equal, if not superior. And it must not
assure
n
part of the Colony's gross
Dangerous
To-day they are eclipsed. The pendulum has swung again. It was not go much the ques- Artificial blondes being twenty BUT if you don't know tion of whether it was going a penny (Twenty?--a hundred a no, longer, mean any- it, sir, let me tell you to make you more attractive. penny) A junior officer who was standing brown-haired girls and It was going to make you thing significant. near me shook his finger in my direc-brunettes and red-heads, not to tion and said with pride:
"You can't talk over Adjutant Ju
that
mention mouse-heads and grey-
hends (even bald-hends), are
just as dangerous to men as arti- Hobbies That Cure Mental Ills
ficial blondes. More dangerous,
even
be forgotten that a considerable arms scheme might have been in fact, because, as they do not FEW people realise that many of incapable of doing anything
the aliments which are com-moderately well. revenue finds its way into the put to more remunerative uses, carry their shining weapons somonest to-day can be cured by the |
there can be no question that at blatantly, their Fated to Failure
Not long ago a woman whose case
Starting out in life with this If you are going to ban a girl had baffled half a dozen doctors found attitude towards herself, it was in-
her way to a quiet little hospital. Home. To those earnings wo this time the money is well apparent.
it happens
that because she has peroxided her Racked with Insomnia, unable to eat evitable that she should have falled in life, she went whatever she tried, every failure paving the way ever more certainly refer when we speak of direct spent.- If
in Hongkong is to derive certain hair, you should, logically, ban or to take any intereplete wrecke
to the next. Worry, depression, and returns on the investment
immediate benefits, as well as her because she powders her described as a
Under expert supervision, she was final despair had led to the complete security.
encouraged to occupy herself with a pervous breakdown which at last the profits a secure future may face and paints her nails. Most Because it has been contended bring, this Colony has cause for working girls do either or both series of handicrafts, one after the brought her to the "mind hospital."
The problem which faced the doc- modelling, rofila work. She
tors was obvious-to prove to the that military and naval re-gratification in the policy of the to-day. Peroxided hair is, after other-dress-molding, painting, plas-
all, merely another manifesta-ter
showed neither interest nor aptitude tion of make-up.
in any of them. Six months later woman, or rather to induse her to armament, on the scale Britain British Government.
the hopeless Incompetent which the is attempting, is a burden to be Quite apart from the matter
It is rather late in the day to that woman was practically normal prove to herself, that she was not borne with patience, and that of income to bo obtained from make a fuss about blondes, arti- and well on the way to being Perbelleved herself to lie, but was actu
cure was weaving. such things as warships are the Government's spending, and cial or otherwise. After all,manently cured. The secret of her ally as capable as any other ordinary
It had not taken the experts of this person. non-productive investment, it the added security. It gives, they are no longer news. They
hospital long to discover that the root
because it is impossible for. the woman's trouble was not proving proved the key to that must not be thought that there Hongkong people will take pride are definitely out of fashion,
raven-wing
she was method used at this hospital. Grent- questioning revealed that are no advantages to be derived in the fact that this is ro-
child the succeeded at this hobby; the rest from thene expenditures by the cognised as an important Em-brunettes are far, far amarter, physical but psychological. Skilful any sane person to fall nt it by the con-pire possession and that in its far, far more siren-ish to-day, the youngest of a large and brilliantly to her own surprise, the woman
If, indeed, it is the thing to be family. While still
followed naturally. general public. On the
It is estimated that one person in and sisters had been "rubbed in" to trary, they are numerous.defence and the maintenance of nirenish. Actually there is, atehievements of her elder brothers
(Continued on Page 4) Ffinite trend towards the aimpic, that she was a complete nonentity, la spending on her five-year' ment will sparo no effort.
Red-henda
and
of
LFRIDAY NIGHTER AMAMENIGHT While the £1,500,000,000 Britain its prestige the Home Govern- this very momont, a most de-her until she had become convinced thirteen in Great Britain to-day la n