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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1925.

SHREDS AND PATCHES.

Some men rn│I have a habit of whispering over women's to myself as I write them are the prospects of prosperity that WOMEN'S DRESS.

fashions, and heard aloud by multitudes of are now held ont for them by re-even in Hongkong, voices are people whom I cannot see or

The shortest

son of the continued demand for rubber even at considerably on heard in criticism, and rebuke. hear."

But it avails nothing. Even "Seaboard Parish" was firat hauced prices. There are many here, of course, whose interest in Brigham Young, the Mormon published in 1868! the boom is not purely unselfish found it impossible to do any- thing in the matter in his day. and auch have doubtless beer per The following is taken from his THE SHORTEST. summing up in turbed as to the effects of America's threat (cabled recent ly) that the Government might adopt reprisals for the continued policy of restriction by restricting the output of cotton. As a very large buyer of rubber, America. has been considerably affected by a policy which by restricting the export of rubber on British plant- ations has forced up the price; but her policy of opposition to it right from its inception was surely short-sighted in view of the fact that estates who were before restriction producing at a loss would eventually have had to go out of cultivation if some soch measure had not been introduced. As, however, the Stevenson scheme of restriction provides for increases in export according to increases in price fetched by rub- ber, a release of 10 per cent, on what was already being, exported was put into effect from August 1. This, America claims, is not sufficient in view of the fact that (to quote the Rubber Association of America) "there are practical ly no stocks of raw rubber in

a court of law "life," one of many atriking

that we know of, took place some paragraphs in the book

1years ago at Liverpool. The pre- In the effort to standardize siding judge after listening to the dress of the Mormon the arguments pro and con in an women and to prevefit the action for damages, turned to the extremes which he dwelt upon jury and said: "How Much?" so often, of a dress which was That reminds us that there is a so short that it revealed tops of record-or it should be-held for the stockings, Brigham Young the shortest poem-and it seems designed a costume for the to be held by Shelley. It seems that Mormon women, which consist-when Shelley was at Oxford, his ed of a modest sunbonnet and a literary class was assigned to simple cape, but only a few of write a poem on the first miracle thern wore it for a short time of Christ, the changing of the and he was compelled until the water into wine at the marriage last years of his life to continue of Cana (John H., I-II). Shelley his propaganda against the was the last of the class to submit extravagant. absurdities of his poem, and then he only wrote fashion. He had been success-one line. It was ful in dictating to his people on almost every subject, but this was one on which he was destined to fail, because of the force of personality arrayed against him,

The conscious water saw its God and blushed.

A beautiful one. surely!

The lady from A PICTURE Hongkong com-

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A force against which all men are destined to fail, always. It is that her steward had forgotten to one of the rare facts of life and close her port window last night, we recognize it not alone through had to get up and shut it

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BEWILDERING.

Allegations have been made that Here is another extract from a myself. Quite suddenly the wind was terrible. And do you know the London market price has been book bearing on the subject, my window was open. I might manipulated in order that it which should interest Hongkong have got an awful chill, So care- should be kept just below the It is the sister of Louis XIV. less. Now, on the P. & 0..... figure which would ensure a fur- writing on June 16, 1716, to She had travelled widely, the lady ther release, but even if there is Caroline. Princess of Wales:

from Hongkong, by all the prin something in this (and no definite

The late King once said: "I cipal lines, and she would never proof has been forthcoming) the

confess that I feel rather an- travel by this one any more, don't sharp practice would only refer to

noyed when I perceive that with you know, Didn't the bacon taste speculators whose position might

all my royal authority as King the little bit queer? Did he think temporarily be disturbed by a

of this country, I have cried out there was any advantage to be got special release. The assurance of

against head-dresses being too uut of the French exchange? If the experts is that no such release

high, and no one had sufficient so, she would leave the ship at would affect the earnings of the

regard for me to make them Marseilles and stay in the Riviera. plantation companies or the value

lower. Then an unknown Steward, some more bacon-well of rubber shares and the only woman, a baggage from Eng-done! "Somebody told me," she objection to immediate full pro-

land, comes along wearing a went on, that the ship lurched, duction from the planter's point low head-dress, and immediate- frightfully once last night. I of view appears to be that on

ly all the princesses rush from always said it would, if ever it many estates a sufficient labour

one extreme to the other," met really bad weather." force has not yet been built up.

Is this a true picture? It occurs and that the training of additional

The "baggage" was Lady Sand-in a recent book by H. M. Tomlin- tappers takes time. In the mean- wich, wife of the English Ambas-son. We seem to have met the time, according to an erstwhile sador, and, of course, she proved type. Hongkong broker who has remov-only one thing, and that is, the

One of the

ed his sphere of activities to only way to change fashions is to Singapore, there is any amount change them. But how to do it EUGENE CHEN. stormy petrels of local confidence here" and remains with the gods."

of Chinese (something a little more solid and

politics and particularly of comforting) "7,000 cars on the

There is nothing Cantonese politics, is undoubtedly island as outward. evidence of BROADCASTING: new under the Eugene Chen, whose arrest has

be pardoned for failing to under-prosperity if any is needed."

stund. The trend of Chinese politics' since the revolution, has been bewildering. The revolu- tion which should have led to

THEY SAY THAT............

Dr. Charles Porter.

sun, Solomon re-been announced. He WES minds us. This is true of Broad- peculiarly attached to the late Dr. casting of which we hear next to Sun Yat-sen, and unquestionably nothing in Hongkong. A curious had a lot to do with that gentle. anticipation of broadcasting is man's career; The writer re- found in the opening paragraph members seeing Chen in the unity. led to disintegration, A clean pigsty is safer than a dirty of George Macdonald's "Seaboard Hongkong Hotel with a view to

palice-Sir Henry Guuvain. Whatever corruption

Parish." existed

This book, a sequel to an interview with Sun. It was at before was exceeded by those en- The man who is wrapped up in "Annals of a Quiet Neighbour- the time when Sun had threatened gaged in the selfish task of himself makes a very small parcel.-hood." purports to be written by a to seize the Customs and diver

Chen country vicar who thus announces money to his own cause. feathering their own nests. Each province of the republic bears the sells is too good for £1 a week

The material we are turning out of his intention of continuing his was in Hongkong on "diplomatie" business and gave one the impres witness to a regrettable feature of City jobm-Mr. Spikes.

"I am seated," he says, "oncesion that what he did not know again at my writing-table to about the art of diplomacy was Chinese official life. Trite

Alcohol helps man, not to face, write to you-with a strange feel-not worth knowing. Eugene maxiums, glibby uttered, dis- but temporily to forget their ing, however, that I am in the is one of a number of Chinese able appeared when money came into worriesMr. H. G. Chancellor. heart of some curious, rather to write and speak English prob

awful acoustic contrivance by ably better than Chinese. view. The foreigner had sent his Plendilly is the Scotsman's

cinema and the most vulgar place in means of which the words which wields a particularly vitriolic pen. Great Britain.-Architect at a Newcastle conference,

missionaries, his medical men,

story.

:

THE RIGHT TO KILL.

He

G. FALCONER & CO. (HONGKONG) LTD. peaceable, with a touch of the hates levelled at "certain foreign inchised should be us for was hopelessly ill, and the Paris aberrations which suffering may

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and his educationists, to show the way. His 'owstandard of con-]?

Youth of England get their ideas duct approximated as near the of America fargely from the cinema. golden rule as it is possible to get Professor S. E. Morison. in competitive days, and if exam-

Wealth in Australia is probubiy ple is better than precept, he had more evenly distributed than in any supplied it. The bewildered for other country in the world.--Sir

Some time ago, it may be re, of the dressmaker "shows that eigner is probably open to convicArthur Cocks.

membered, a young actress in the time has come when the right tion. If he is to be convicted of Woman is filled with supremo con- sin, he would like the evidence, tempt for man's ignorace and help Paris was asked by her lover, who to kill in cases of incurable disease lessness in the presence of a baby-lay suffering from an incurable of a painful character should be. There is still to be written the So far there is none. From a Mr. A. 3, Martin.

disease, to put an end to his life, recognised by the penal code." bewildering sense of the strange book that will faithfully por-

The world is threatened with the observes a Home paper. She No one who has observed in such tray Chinese characteristics. The flights of Chinese politics, he total loss of some of the most heanti-killed him with a revolver, and a cases the distress of the patient comes to the knowledge of war ful of nature's creations by sports Parisian jury found her innocent speak without compassion of and of those nearly related will old books have pictured frugal race in the

main ring bands of militarists, and men. Mr. F. R. Rowley.

Now a

wild young, any of any crime.

act of theirs, The fact that 75 per cent. of dressmaker has killed a sister who But pity for suffering and for the ___________ ER DA SE NG ISA BEBE DUE TO MINEIRA courteous, industrious, cultured, those periods of boycotts and

Courts have passed on her a sen-cause should not persuade us to Inscrutable that added piquancy. nations." In South China in should be

serious concern. Mies Ellen

tence of two years' imprisonment. sanction any such desperate This picture dates; that is to say Hongkong-thesense of bewilder-Wilkinson, M.P.

It seems to be agreed in Paris sophism as the concession of a It seems to belong to another ment is as evident as it is clse. The thres things I like best in that the circumstances of the two "right to kill." That is a respon- era, to a time probably before the where. The foreigner "wonders London are the gardens and parks, cases are similar, except for the sibility far too heavy to be trusted (revolution, when the

Manchus what the real cause. of the politeness of taxidrivers, and the difference between killing a lover to the hands of any person. the trouble is: if it is wonderful shop windowe. Mr. W and killing a siater, between being There are cases in which, accord- reigned, and pig-tails were

Gaalon (U.S.A);

a pretty actress and being a pooring to human foresight, a swift badge of serfdom to be snipped to be laid at the door of

dressmaker. Without cyniciam death is the best we can wish the off at a moment's notice. Since Russian Bolshevicks, or those

we may suspect that this accounts sufferer. But no one considering then there has been an awakening Chinese extremists who have im-

for the difference in the fate of with disinterested calm the possi Father: "Did you have the car the two ladies. But another bility of being responsible for the of a sort. A glant has arisen out bibed the vices of unreason and

hatred-refused to regard the out last night, Jack?

theory le being put forward in care of such a case could endure of a long-age sleep, but his steps

lesson of history, and are as far

Jack: Yes; old thing; took Paris. The dressmaker was the thought of possessing a "right suggest that the awakening has:

from the standards set up by the some of the boys for a run." punished, after the actress had to kill," Do what we will, we been too - sudden." Samson's'

Father: "Well, I wish they been declared innocent, we are shall not abolish all the stress and shorn locks demonstrated his sible to be. Simple morality is lying about!"

Fold guard of Chinese as it is pos- wouldn't leave their powder-ruffs told, because the fury felt that a difficulty of life. It is tirely.

second verdict admitting the much that in these days are weakness... So far: China's shorn

fight to kill might have given sources of medicine can quenzor that principle legal sanction. dull the pain even of those for This, us representing the nation, whom there is no cure. To admit thay pr

unced the nation was the principle of killing” those not pre

red for. The lucid and whose plight was too," miserable and must be for themselves or their friends to

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