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Hongkong, April 1, 1924.
LAMOI BEER
CENSUS FACTS.
THE CHINA MAIL
FIVE MILLION UNMARRIED WOMEN.
MAN'S SPHERE INVADED.
MISS DUGGAN.
A WHITE AND RED WEDDING.
In many cases, no doubt, this leads to childless marriages, in which both parties continue their occupations. That is happening very widely in America whore one-roomed flats are being built SIR T. BEECHAM'S ORCHESTRA. as mock homes for "marriages"
The wedding at St. Margaret's,
Census papers are full of un-of the new sort. truths (writes Sir Leo Chiozza It is for these profound and Westminster, of Mias Marcella Money in the "Sunday News"), menacing economic and social Duggan and Mr. Edward Rice acal- It is still very difficult to per- reasons that the surplus of mar-ed a charming romance.
Miss Duggan, the beautiful 19- suade women to reveal their ages, ringeable women is enormously even to the most austere of cen- greater than the surplus of years-old daughter of the March- loness Curzon, is holress to a large sus collectors; hundreds of thou-females.
part of the fortune of £4,000,000
sands of women never advance The latter, although serious left by her father. Mr. Rice, who beyond thirty for census and enough, is comparatively a small is the elder son of Mr. Henry Rice, other useful purposes. The thing. When we speak of an ex-of Dane Court, Eastry, Kent, is 27 divorced, also, are shy of reveal-cess of 1,786,000 females over and a barrister.
ing their status, as is sufficiently males, we refer, not to adults When the engagement was shown by the fact that in 1921 alone, but to men, women and originally reported Lady Curzon only 16,682 of us confessed to children. The actual excess of issued a denial. But love triumph- being matrimonial failures. females aged 15 to 45 in the ed. Miss Duggan was determined But, as to one important de- United Kingdom is about to marry the man of her choice, and a fortnight later Lady Curzon tail, the consus gets the truth,700,000.
at-
and that is as to the division of When, therefore, we know that announced that the wedding would
take place. the sexes. We have all been there are over 5,000,000 un- The brilliant ceremony astonished to learn how great is married women of those ages, tracted a very large number of the surplus of females amongst we see clearly that the excess of people anxious to gain a glimpse of us. A nice word this "surplus," unmarried is much more than is the bridal pair, and women swarm- a term calculated to embitter accounted for by the dispropored up the railinge surrounding the bosom of any woman. tion of the sexes.
Westminster Abbey.
All the commentators seem to What 1931 Will Reveal.
A Bower of White and Red. think that, where women are The truth is that so many
The church was a bower of white concerned, it is possible to have marriageable women
White lilies and flac, are un-and red. too much of a good thing, and married because men are unable with palms and ferns, were massed certainly it is food for thought or unwilling to marry. And at the chance) steps and at the end when the census shows that, in when we ponder the reasons for of red roses mounted on tall staves of the nave, and beautiful bunches England, there are eleven females that inability or unwillingness, were placed at intervals at the ends to every ten males, which means we understand that they are rea of the paws. The bride's bouquet that in England and Wales there sons which are becoming stronger was of white lilies, and her are not enough males by every day.
bridesmaida curried red-roses, 1,736,000. A surplus of nearly When the next Census is While the congregation WAS two million females!
taken, in 1931, it will assuredly assembling the London Symphony
under reveal (1) a further decline in Orchestra,
Sir Thomas A Growing Evil. The disproportion of the sexes the rate of increase of the popu- Beecham, occupying several pews has grown enormously through lation, (2) a further consider-in the corner round about the font, played Bach's preluđè and the war. It was serious enough able increase in the excess of fugue in E flat major, while at the at the census of 1911, when, again females over males, and (3) end of the service they played the to speak of England and Wales very great increase in the army only, the females exceeded the of unmarried marriageable males by 1,179,000. When the women. war broke out this surplus had increased to about 1,200,000, Then came the war with its sacrifice of our finest young men
and the making, on a larger scale than ever before, of widows, or phans and old maids.
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We are famous for our CHINESE DELICACIES and our liquors. The bride, who was warmly
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Warrender, Nicholas Mosley, and
Lady Curzon, looking very hand- some in a long grey coat trimmed with fur and a feather toque of pink and grey, with brush plumes to match, grected Lord Balfour at In the nursery they are ad- the door of the church, and he mirable dogs, particularly if they escorted her up the nave to her are brought there as puppies. seat in the front pew. People in England have an idea Given Away by Mother. A great army of unmarried that they are not trustworthy cheered on her arrival, escorted by
I think that is marriageable women has been with, children. formed amongst us, and it is because those they know are im- her brother, was given away by her
She looked mother.. rapidly growing. It is a social ported police-trained doga, im- pretty in a white satin gown, with evil which multiplies itself. It perfectly understood by their long train of silver net, beauti- is bound, in the nature of the owners, dogs who have been carefully embroidered with lilies over case, to make increase. It is well lessly handled and have, there- silver, and a flowing tulle veil
fore, become vicious. A fully covering all. that we should think about it.
She was followed by four pages, In the United Kingdom at the trained imported police-dog, and present moment, with its popula- above all, a stud dog, is a delicate the Hon. Michael Ceeil, Simon tion, including all Ireland, of proposition, and not a possession John Godley, in white court suits about 48,000,000 men, women and to be lightly acquired. As with Ince jabots. There were six children, there are already over Constant companion the Alsatian bridesmaids-Lady Diane Bridge- 5,000,000 unmarried women aged him better than to follow the the Hon. Betty Grosvenor, the is unbeatable. Nothing pleases man, Lady Catherine Willoughby, Thus, it will be seen, it is not horses. He has the long, untir- Hon. Esme Glyn, Mias Rosalie ing wolf-lope, and he will go off Willoughby, and Misa Cynthia merely that there is a surplus of foraging on some business of his Burns--who were also in white.
King Manoel and Queen Augusta own and be back again before more significant that the army of you have noticed
nis absence. Victoria, the latter wearing a the unmarried is exceedingly To see him silhouetted against golden brown velvet cont, were greater than the disproportion of the sky, with his prick ears, the among the many guests, and Capt. strong, graceful line of his back Patricia Ramsay came with their the Hon. Alexander and Lady from neck to tail, and his strong-niece, Lady Jean Ramsay. Prince A number of causes combine to ly-muscled, well-let-down hind and Princess Paul of Serbia make marriage difficult for men. quarters, is to see something brought Princess Marina of Greece, Luxury grows apace, and the which reminds you of the and Prince and Princess Obolensky taste for luxury is inconsistent world's youth, when the morning were also present. with marriage on moderate stars shouted together for joy.
The Ambassadors. means. The application of He is the incarnation of the The Diplomatic Corps was 'well science to work, as at present or- joyful spirit of the wild places of represented, the members includ ganised, produces a wealth fund the earth.
ing the American Ambassador and Perhaps one of his Mrs. Houghton, with Miss Hough- which is not sufficient to provide greatest charms is the fact that, ton, the new Itallon Ambassador, more than moderate comfort for so far at any rate, he is still, the the German Ambassador and Frau people who desire to live a re- unspoiled and primeval type. So Sthamer, and the Swiss Minister spectable domestic life.
many breeds of dogs have been and Mme. Paravicini.
1.15 to 45.
women over men. It is even
the sexes.
Why Marriage Declines.
On the other hand, cheap turned into unnatural forms An interesting couple were the luxuries can be commanded by wnich Nature must abhor, auch newly engaged Lord Weymouth those who remain single, and who as pugs, bulldogs, and Pekingese, and the Hon. Daphne Vivian, who avoid civil and social respon with their deformed noses and came with Lady Mary Thynne, and Bibilities.
snuffling snouts. But the Oswald and Lady Cynthia In the contest between domesti- Alsatian is the expression of Na-Mosley and Sir Victor and Lady city and luxury, the taste for ture at her loveliest and best. page sons.
Warrender brought their little luxury easily wins in a large pro- He is built for speed, endurance, Lady Powis was wearing black portion of cases, There are all and strength, and he represents and gold with a black velvet cloak, sorts of social engines to stimu- the Greek deal of purity in line and Lady Oxford was in an old- Late the abandonment of the and form. The question of world shot pink and grey taffetas
domestic life. Having what is police training is a vexed one. with swathed mole-coloured called a "good time" is widely There is no doubt that a fully-velvet toque, and she alac carried advertised as desirable, and as it trained dog is a most enviable moleskin muff.
is utterly inconsistent with mar-possession, and personally I like
Lord Balfour and the American riage and the rearing of children, to have one police-trained dog who signed the register.
Ambassador were Among those real marriage grows increasingly always with me. It gives the) unpopular, and the birth rate most
So. dense was the crowd as the enormous feeling rapidly falls.
of bridal party left the church that aecurity, and is a far better pro-many women only saw them by By their wholesale invasion of tection for a woman then a re-standing with their backs to the men's occupations, women are volver should she be forced to procession and holding their hand- making it obviously impossible live in some lonely spot. Lady bag mirrors above their heads. for men to marry, if we use that Kitty Vincent in the "Royal is being spent at Nuneham Park, The first part of the honeymoon term with its ancient meaning. Magazine."
The war greatly stimulated the independent economic existence;
crease.
near Oxford, lent Harcourt.
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of women, and the economic col- lapse due to the war croated an July - enormous amount of male un- employment even while it floed- ed the labour market with women seeking men's jobs. In these extraordinary circumstances, we can hardly be surprised that marriage seems impossible to millions of men.
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