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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
SATURDAY, APmt. 2, 1938.
CAN APPEASEMENT GUARANTEE PEACE?
British people, although they may not approve entirely of the Government's foreign policy, must be impressed
by the
F
The Great Wide Open
Spaces of China
CATARRH
Nearly Every
CHINESE Hairdressers
IN H. K.
By
T. Paul Gregory
patronesses, and as each paid from three to five dollars month- ly for services rendered, it can be inferred that the income from such a source was deem- et eminently satisfactory. Of course, the duties of the hair- dresser were often quite
THE steady encroach-arduous; for she had to com-
TH
upon
ment of western mence her work' early in the ideas
the morning, going from houac to mediaeval East has resulted house, "tidying up" the disheve- in a sequence of inevitable led locks of her clients and ar- ranging them into neat looking them changes, many of
kai or chignon. fraught with hardship; for in any transition there is
<
bound to be distress and I these old-fashioned house-
holds the arrival of the hair, even tragedy.
dresser was an event; for she. Old trades which have was a veritable "walking news-
und
the with paper"
knew, all been handed down
latest gossip of the neigh-
pride for ages suddenly bourhood which she dutifully become useless when com-regaled for the information and pelled to compete with the divertisement of her various. ruthless efficiency of the clients.
In addition to her role of gos-..
the sol-t'au-p'ol Vast numbers of indivi-sip-monger, duals are forced into the made her patronesses amply aware of her versatility by her hordes of the unemployed: knowledge of all the little nice-
machine.
Briton is Born to It misery and uncertainty-ties about Chinese customs, wed-
19
an
were
bat them.
Says
FRASER
are
of a wooi or "money lending
the handmaidens of despair!dings, funerals and the like, so
could
advise with રા foreigner
-stalk those who have been that she
almost any authority upon writing
by bitter encyclo- HAMISH
cir- driven cumstance from the security opinion was frequently sought. procedure, consequently har paedia of human ail- ments probably he would
of their simple domestic Moreover. în her advisory begin one of the sections: germs. Now as to how we com-crafts.
capacity, she was often consulted. Even in Hongkong,
her theby "Catarrh, or the English
clients on mat- They are fought all along the gradual but unavoidable sup- ters of domestic finance, and Malady
breathing front by the same pression of manual vocations with this in view, she was often He would be only too right. weapon engulfment in a mire which in the past supported able to accumulate no little extra It is a particularly English com- of mucus. So far everything their adepts in adequate comfort income, especially, as she was plaint. There are hundreds of sounds grand. But unhappily may be seen in all its pitiless quite likely to be the innovator thousands of people walking Nature often overdoes it. She and devastating progress. about in this country to-day provides more mucus than there None, however, in a association" limited, of course, saying "I've got catarrh."
are germs to catch in it. She sadder plight than the to those of her clientele. What ia. this tatarrh that
gets in the habit, once establish soh-t'au-p'oh or Chinese female Like those of other profes- people have but never die of? I idealism of the Prime Minister refuse to call it a discase. You ed during a cold, of turning out hair-dressers a pitiful handfulsions who are in receipt of steady when he says that appeasement can't truthfully say, in fact, migrants demands.
more of it than the quota of in- who even to-day ply their incomes, the hair-dressers of a is the underlying principle
went in for a on "I've got catarrh" in the same
trade in the quiet seclusion of decade ago A nose sinus, or antrum, may some of the more retired streets comparative degree of extru- which he labours in Europe. way as you might say, "Tommy's thus become, instead of a clear of the Colony.
vagance, and their unvarying rne Foreign Secretary's declara-got measles, and father's gastric sound-box to amplify the re-
garb was fine black silk. A tion that Britain will exhaust ulcer is causing trouble again.". sonant tones of a lovely voice,
small fortune in gold rings and every diplomatic means to pre- both respectable illnesses that drains slowly, and thick voice for scarcely more than a decade love of jewellery to excess, in-
Measles and gastric ulcer are
of these water-logged cavity. This IN the case
women, car-rings adorned their persons, fate has been most unkind; and many of them carried their vent war is admirable as a one can write volumes about diagnoses its method of reassuring the public. One can talk of their cause, their catarrh."
trouble as ago, their profession was a most vesting their savings in a. CO., LTD. But what the individual must salient features, and their treat-
consider is whether the sacrifices ment. But catarrh in the coun- of remedy. One is to produce aquisite skill an income aggregat the wont of these women to
There are two broad methods lucrative one, averaging for variety of jades and pearls.
those who possessed the re- Besides hair-dressing, it was which may be demanded and try is like original sin. You state of immunity to the resing as much as one hundred and the strategic retreats which maywithout it.
have to be born an angel to be ponsible germs. This is now
secure additional incomes by act- being daily achieved, in spite of The opulence of such a salary tendants"; for it was the custom fifty Hongkong dollars monthly. ing as taai-k'am or "bridal at- be necessary are going to bring Britain, and Europe, any nearer Those Sinuses
all the soundest bacteriological
can readily be appreciated when of old-fashioned Chinese wed- the desired goal-permanent
theory, by 'means of vaccines STRICT medicine finds it
we realise that the average Chi-dings to have a number of tem- which can be swallowed ZEN peace.
ગ desperately unin- tablets or drops.
nese maid-servant deems hér-
porary attendants to serve the It is quite useless to harp teresting subject. In brief, it
self especially fortunate if she prospective bride on the three We used to think that germs upon the circumstances which is a state in which the upper air were only fought by the body
can secure a remuneration of days.previous to the actual cere- resulted in Mr. Anthony Eden's passages are prone to be con- once they had broken through
more than $10 for a month of
mony. Such vacancies were constant toil. dismissal, and of no avail to gested with nothing more re- its surface layer of cells, and
usually filled by the hair-dres- markable than the secretion pro- that only injections of vaccine
The change of feminine sers, who asked leave from their argue the rights and wrongs of duced by the cells which line the could induce the body to counter fashions in coiffure brought clients for the short but well- the Cabinet majority's stand passages. That's all.
about by the introduction of paid job. Indeed, a bridal at- effectively. during the recent foreign policy If bacteriologists get to work
bobbed hair has wrought havoc tendant usually received not Now we know that defence, in the domain of the hair-less than twenty dollars for her crisis. Britain has set out upon they find this secretion contains forces are at work even on the dresser. a certain course; and it is neces- germs that are quite normally surface, and
brief services, and as a wealthy: can apply Government found in the throat and nose. stimuli by local applications or of Chinese women have gone in gratuity, it is to be expected that As in the West, vast numbers family might even extend the sary that the
new the average hair-dresser accopt- and beauty parlours have pro- The second method is by man-fited, the old style hair-dress opportunity to gain extra in- agament of the ventilation pro has been forced to acquiesce in come. should follow their leaders with pensive Abyssinian and Spanish blem; ventilation within and the trends of the times. their eyes open, alert to the campaigns," as Hebe Spauli
A few of the younger ones THE hey-day of the hair-drea- writes from Geneva. Supposing
have possibility of failure, and the all this is done, and the agree
taken up barbering and ser has now passed, and the have opened shops for them- few who still ply their ancient. consequences, and prepared to ment signed and sealed. Will use what influence they
selves. Others, especially those vocation are tragically im- can Britain have done any
who have followed their trade poverished. Very few have any wield to prevent a diplomatic than improve the Italian position
for a quarter of a century or clientele to speak of, and their retreat which
may have
the for any future adventuring in
longer, are loath to admit defeat only means of supporting them- appearance of a rout or a sur- which Signor Mussolini may be the way of Empire-building
and carry on with a greatly re-selves is to sit on the kerb of render.
duced clientele. It is these few some retired strest with their of utensils before them- The British Government is contemplating?
tilation should be to keep the air who may be frequently observed tray treating with Italy at
It comes to this: by giving of any building where people Colony in the
in the Chinese quarters of the brilliantine, hair-gum, combs, moment with the object, it is way to Italy, and other aggres work for hours on end in a state
course of their 'mirror, etc.—and wait for this sive powers, in other words by of constancy, with draughts of
professional tasks. presumed, of furthering
customers. Those who do come, plan
In the not very distant past, nowadays, are women of the of appeasement. The policy of appeasement, is cold air, no abrupt changes of
Chinese women agreement sought, though its Britain making It any
were justly lower middle class who cannot temperature. terms are not officially revealed, unlikely that treaties will be
proud of their abundant tresses, afford to pay more than a few Nose ventilation is more im-and expressions like fact ch'eung cents for the linir-dresser's pro- ia authoritatively stated to be broken and the weaker nations built on the following points: bent to the will of the stronger? portant. It requires you merely wai-tei "hair long enough to fessional services. And, no Determination of the frontiers Is Britnin getting any guarantee to go out in the open air and take touch the ground," or feat kwong doubt, as each goes about her of Italian Ethiopia, Kenya and that her own interests are to be vigorous enough exercise to oh kaum "hair of such polished appointed task, she dreams of force you to take in air in gulps. smoothness that one could use those vanished days when she the Sudan; control of future permanently respected? activities of Italian. and British
At first catarrh victims can it as a mirror" were often quot and the sisters of her profession It is significant that while radio propagandists in the Near Lord Perth was pursuing the breathe only through the mouth, ed in praise of what has been were in such constant demand. East; freedom of transit in the appeasement policy of the Gov- but gradually, as the blood cir- truly called "the crowning glory Suez; an agreement as to forti-ernment in Rome, in conference culation improves, the nose be- of the fair sex," |fications on the eastern shore of | with Count Cinno, Italian comes clearer and the pure alr
It became the wont of Chinese the Red Sea; safeguards for Foreign Minister, Signor Musso- circulates freely,
ladies of fashion and refinement
Toledo. British access to the headwaters lini was telling his Senators of Noses that have rendered to hire others who were versed Fiction on public library shelves of Lake Tuna; Italian assurances the "now victory in store for N and M alike for weeks sud-in the art of hair-dressing to at- is a sign of good business, Russel|| not to raise à "black army" in Fasciam" and that Italy was denly become as clear as atend upon them, and thus arose of the board. "A library is an exact Shunk, city librarian, told a meeting Ethiopia. Finally, it is sug-ready for an Implicable and clarinet.
a class of spinsters who made a barometer of business gested, Britain may be planning|rapid war" by air. What, the
very good thing of their skill. he anid. "When business In good,
Ench
of these professional people have more money to spend hair-dressera possessed a clien-aro bad they stay at home and for their recreation, and when things tele of from twenty, to thirty read.".
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should have the whole-hearted co-operation of the people so that its endeavours will have every chance of succeeding. But it is equally necessary that the people
the
We
Only there are more of them by these oral vaccines. These whole-heartedly for the than usual. And there's your do unquestionable work effec-mode, and whilst barber shops ed with grateful alacrity every
catarrh.
So much for our guide to the
more
moro
tively.
without. The aim of room ven-
Ten Billots For Catarrh Germs
4 Sets of Nose Sinuses. 3 Sets of Turbinate Bones. 1 Larynx. 2 Tonails.
That's not a cure. It's only a to lend Italy a large sum of opposition to the British Gov-beginning. But it shows the economic ernment's policy will ask, is the method by which Nature meant money to assist her reconstruction following the "ex-' use of appeasement?
Icatarrh to be swept away.
FICTION IDLE-DUSINESS
GOOD
conditions,