1929-01-31 — Page 7

THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929,

MORALS & POLITICS "FEMALE DON JUAN"

AN UNUSUAL AGITATION AROUSED

NEW MOVEMENT

HER FATHER'S 'BUSINESS RUINED

GIFTS TO HER LOVERS

THE CHINA MAIL.

IN OTHER PLACES SHADOWS BEFORE. | CHRONICLES FROM JAPAN COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCE

TO JAVA

IN THE "MAIL:“

The engagement has been an-To-day-Queen's Theatre; "Hang- nounced of Miss Angelo Solomos man'a House." So of Peking to Mr. Michael Mavro- To-day-World Theatre; "New maras of Tientsin.

Lives For Old."

To-day- Star Theatre; Why Worry.", DE

To-day-Majestic Theatre; "The Unholy Three,"

Feb. 2-Theatre Royal, Farewell:

of Coyne's Musical appearance Comedy, in a special programnie, Church joined the Women's Execu- said to have misappropriated a sum The report that Mr. S. Yada, 9.15 p.m. tive of the South Kensington Con-equivalent to $10,000, which she the Japanese Consul-General, is Feb, 2-Repulse Bay Hotel Car- servative Women in their oppost- spent mainly on her Innumerable leaving for Hankow, to take up annival.

to the tlon, and this majority la apparent- male friends. These were drawn appointment as adviser

Feb. 2-Star Theatre; Children's ly strongly supported by its clergy. from all classes of society and quite Japanese military forces stationed Matinee, "Old Clothes." 2:30 p.m.

The new movement will have the recently a simple messenger in there, is incorrect, saya a Shanghai only. effect of dearing the air of a grow Government office received from her paper. ing idea that this gesture which has drawn all eyes to South Ken- sington was purely feminine, and but a foretaste of the sort of thing to which we shall presently have to become accustomed now that women vaccum cleaners. form the majority of voters and themselves sit in the House. One of the bogles frequently paraded by anti-suffragists during the cam paign for votes for women was the prospect of members of Parliament

The agitation in the South Berlin-Marianne Waldmann, Kensington Division against repre- banker's daughter, of Freiburg. sentation in the House of Commons Silesia, has been arrested on her by Sir William Davison, on the father's denunciation for ruining It is reported in the Chinese grounds that he is a divorced per- his business by her defalcations. papers that the losses suffered by soa, is now broadened by the entry Described in the papers as athe China Merchants S. N. Co. as of the Church party, says the "female Don Juan," this woman, by a result of the sinking of the str "Evening Standard." At a confer-manipulating the books, which for a "Hsinwah" exceed $8,000,000. ence, a majority of the laity of the few years had been in her charge, is

being elected merely because they had the domestic virtues, irrespec- tive of their talents for oratory or administration, or their wider na- tional loyalties and ambitions.

"Ultra-Respectability"

a complete equipment of household furniture.

Messra. C. McBain & Co. were Her gifts to her other favourites fined $10 by the Registrar in H. M. Included such diverse articles as Police Court, Shanghai, for operat- Persian carpets, for collars, and ing an overloaded motor truck in Nor was she at Yangtszepoo Road on January 11. all petty in her largesse. Thua, she The extent of the overload was 650 recently gave a clerk a motor-cycle | lb. worth £100, and at the same time bestowed a valuable present on his fiancée.

Her attempts to recoup her em- bezzlements by speculation having

failed, she fell back on credit.

The claims against her inelude £50 for cars hired for joy rides with her cavallers, and £280 for wines for their refreshment. The police

Armed robbers committed two crimes in Shanghai recently. At with 876 Peking Road six men pistola atole $629, and at 532 Canton Road, both places being In the Louza district, three

Feb. 2-5 World Theatre; "Why Worry."

Feb. 2-3-Star Theatre; "Seventh Heaven."

Feb. 3-Star Theatre; "Seventh Heaven," 2.80 p.m. p

Feb. 8-5-Queen's Theatre; "Lost In The Aretle."

Feb. 4-5-World Theatre; "The

Worl Ring."

Feb. 4-5-Star Theatre; "Chang." Feb. 6-7-World Theatre: "Cam-

pus Flirt."

Feb. 6-7-Star Theatre Rosita.” Feb. 6-D-Queen's Theatre;

men intimidated 11"Street Angel" shop assistants and took $75.

The wedding took place at Union Though cleared of the fog which at present aro. recovering for Church, Tientsin, recently of Miss so often hangs about a "sex war," the benefit of the bank's Pauline Renee Landau, only daugh- the South Kensington affair till creditors AS many ая poster of Mr. and Mrs. A. Landau, to presents a serious question,Issible of these gifts, for the Mr. Steven William Jandrokovic. merely an expression of that ultra-temporary warehousing of which it second son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Jan- respectability for which Kensington has been necessary to hire several drokovic of Brownsville, Tean. has long been famed or is it a large rooms. Her father, who had U.S.A. shadow of a coming swing of public owned the bank for nearly half a opinion towards a puritanical stan- century and had the highest reputa- dard in politics even more rigid tion in the neighbourhood, has also ing marriage of Mr. Hugh Cathe- than that of our easily shocked been arrested. Apparently, how-rell, mercantile assistant, of Mesary. Victorian grandparents? When this subject of the relation between pri- vate conduct and public service a raised, two names invariably leap to the mind-those of Charles Stewart Parnell and Charles 'Dilke.

Notice is given of the forthcom-

Denial."

Feb 2—Ann

distributions&E, Prizes at Ella Kadoorie School for Indians, 10 amps TTT. WA

Feb. 4-Lantern'Slide lecture at Helena May Institute, 5:30 p.m.<z

Feb. 6 Rev. Fr. P. Joy, B., speaks on "Religion: The Fetters of Freedom," at St. Patrick's Hall, 5- Garden Road, 5.30 p.m..

Feb. 18-Lecture on The Ra Haion Of Today, And The Science Of Tomorrow," by Rev. Fr. R. Gallagher, S.J., at St. Patrick's Hall,.

Garden Road, 5.80 p.m. Feb. 20-At St. Patrick's Hall, 5 Garden Road, the Rev. Fr, P. Joy, S.J., lectures on "A Book And its Btory," 5.30 p.m.

Feb. 23-Laying of Foundation stone of the Kowloon branch of Chinese YM.C.A.

Feb. 27-Lecture at St. Patrick's Hall, 6 Garden Road on "The For trees Still Standing," by Rev, ‚Fr. G. Byrne, S.J., at 6.80 p.m.

March 7-8 Church of England Diocesan Conference, St. John's Cathedral: Hall, from 5:15 to 7.15. P.m.

Edward Johnson;, aged 75, clvil? sarvant, was, fined £35 and £15 costa'.

at Clerkenwell, and his wife £50. for keeping a disorderly house in Brunswick-square, St. Pancras,

Feb. 8-9-World Theatre; The The Pope's Physician

Pays Strong Tribute of Prales To Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

Feb. 8-9--Star Theatre "Bardelys The Magnificent."

Feb. 16-Variety entertainment by the K.O.S.B. as farewell to Mrs. Luard, Theatre Royal, 9 pm.

Feb. 19, 21, 22, 23-Hong Kong Amateur Dramatic Club presents "On Approval," at the Theatre Royal.

Land Sales

Feb. 4-At P. W. Offices, four

ever, the charge made against Kim Jardine, Matheson & Co., who has lots of Crown land at Shamshulpo, is only of culpable negligence, his been nine years, resident in Tion- 8 p.m.

Alice Hepburn, daughter having stated that, though tain, and Mrs.

the responsible head of the business, widow, who has just arrived in the he gave no proper attention to it.

port.

Both these brilliant Parliamen- DOWRY IN RUSSIAt Sun Sun Co's. store, and in

tarlans were defeated in their

highest ambitions by law sults

Lammerts' Auctions

Feb 1-At No. 4 Tantallon Ter- race, The H.K, & Whampoa Dock hold furniture, 11 a.m. Co., Ltd., Hunghom, valuable house-

Many physicians prescribe Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. to their patients when tonle treat- ment is indicated. No less an authority than Dr. Andres Amici, physician to the Papal household, writing on the subject of anaemia, impoverishment of the nervous system and disorders attributable thereto, strongly endorses Dr. Williams Pink Pills, recommending them as superior to many other tonic media.

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Dr. Amici's testimony reads as follows:-"For several years I have made use of Dr. Williams Pink Pills in my work and I have always found them efficacious in the treat-

There is no change in the strike Pooting at the Nanyang Bros.* Feb. 2-At 334, Kowloon Tong,ment of disorders due to impover- OLD CUSTOM SURVIVES NEW verything is quiet, says a valuable household furniture, 10.30

MARRIAGE

Moscow.

against them by which their per- sonal conduct was shown to be at fault. But though Parnell's lapse is held to have set back Home Rule for almost a generation and Dilke's certainly kept him from the high Cabinet rank he would otherwise have attained, neither of these men was automatically driven from the either partner, the old custom that a House of Commons.

bride should be provided with a "Guilty Parties" In considering whether we should dowry, has by no means

On a.m. Shanghai paper to hand. Thursday (Inst wesk) at the latter place, however, 2,000 workers met.

Sports

While the stability of marriage and appointed a committee of 100 Fanling Hunt Steeplechase, noon.

Feb. 1-Closing of entries for relations in Russia has been some-

Feb. 3-Gymkhana of 2nd Battn. what shaken by Soviet legislation person to visit the Social Bureau making marriage a purely civil con-ment of the amual bonus.

to ask them to press for the pay-King's Own Scottish Borderers, at

Kwanti. tract, terminable at the

will of

Feb. 9-Boxing Tournament at At about 9 a.m. on January 3, the City Hall, 9.15 p.m... the special branch of the Bangkok

Feb. 9-10 Paperchase, etc., at

Jost its

pre-eminently champions of the

of Bhanubandh bridge, occupied by

ishment of the servous system annemia and neurasthenia, stomach weakness, retarded development in young women, and irregulartities. There la no lack of tonic remedies, but in my experience, not one of them manifests a superior efficacy to that of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills." No more 'conclusive evidence of the therapeutic value of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo- ple could be asked for or given than ance and employment by medical fession. Besides this, however, they practitioners eminent in their pro-

have enjoyed worldwide public

sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, or post confidence for more than the third of a century, Chemists everywhere

free $1.50 per bottle, $8 for 6 bot- tles, from the Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co., 60, Klangse Road, Shang-

hope that the South Kensington at. force. The peasants in Rusaka are Police raided a house, at the foot Canton by invitation of Members is found in the fact of their accept- titude is merely sporadic or rejolcemarriage of convenience," and the Khae Chinese and his wife. There of Canton Ride: Stag that it is représentative of the usual preliminary to a village match the detectives found a big tin con-

nation in general It is as well to is an elaborate process of bargaintaining fifty counterfeit notes of Hunt, at Kwanti race course.

remember the nature and incidence

of present-day divorce. In England and Wales there is one divorce to

Tes. 20 denomination, which were ing between the parents of the pros-gaid to have been imported from pective bride and bridegroom.

Hong Kong. The authorities The question of the dowry is also further raided another room nd- overy hundred marriages in the often raised in the cities, even by joining these premises, also occupied same year, which provides a large Young Communists who are pledged by a Khae woman, and there they proportion of "guilty parties" to be to battle for the world revolution,

Feb. 17-China New Year steeplechase meeting of: Fanling

Kong Jockey Club Annual Race Feb. 25, 26, 27 & Mar. 2-Hong

Meeting.

Meetings

Feb. 1-Monthly meeting of the

Hut, Scandal Pt., 6 p.m..

Feb. 1-Annual general meeting A Malay woman named Sulong of the Hong Kong 'Benevolent So Justice Swift, who ought to know, ing of a dowry is simple enough in binta Mohamed Salleh, charged her clety, St. John's Cathedral Hall,|

Bon in law, a Singhalese named 5.30 p.m.

avoided as legislators if we are all but find it more comfortable if their succeeded in seizing over 300 taels Referees' Association at Chaplain's | to follow the South Kensington wives bring with them a full set of/of smuggled oplum dress.

lead. And on one occasion Mr.

declared that quite one-half of the divorce cases brought to-day are

household furniture. Now, the giv-

wealthy and middle-class families;

but when a Russian working-girl

Feb. 2-Extraordinary meeting collusive. That is to say that in a who earns, perhaps, forty or fifty Stanley Amrisinga before the Dis- great many divorces husband and

The Shanghal Banking Corporation, wife are equally eager to form some roubles a month, is required to sava trict Judge, Singapore, with using of Shareholders of the Hong Kong other matrimonial alliances: More out of that meagre sum enough to abusive language to her.

February 5-Forty-first ordinary evidence had been recorded, the over, though it is declining, chiefly perchase a trousseau and a trunk in case took an unexpected turn after City Hall, noon.

which to keep it, a samovar, a through the spreading of the femia-

Judge ordering both the parties to general meeting of shareholders of ist Ideal of an equal moral standard divan, bed with its four posts sur shew cause why they should not be the Hong Kong Land Investment &

mounted by gilded balls. (this last

The Agency Co., Ltd., at the Office's of

prevails in some circles that a man Russian family), and piled high accused who alleged that his mother-Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., | for men and women, the notion still festure is very important for the bound over to keep the peace. must pretend to be the guilty party with fluffy pillows, it involves/In-law had induced his wife (her Ltd., 12.80 p.m.

In a divorce, or deliberately acquire

had no objection. the legal qualifications as such, even genuine self-deprivation, and some-daughter) to leave him, said he

against his Inclination. Setting apart the particular circumstances

times permanent injury to health and beauty.

Chances of Marriage and personalities which have in- But it is the consensus of opinion among readers and correspondents

spired the South Kensington uplift-

sober consideration. It is unlikely

Both were made to sign a bond to keep the peace for three months.

At the fifteenth annual general

No. 8 St.

of

Feb. 8-Annual ordinary meeting Humphreys Estate & Finance Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Hotel, 11 am.

Feb. 16 Tenth ordinary meeting of shareholders of the Bank of East Asia, Ltd. at Chinese Merchants'

8 pan.

Feb. 16-Annual meeting of

ing of hands, this question requires of the "Komsomolakaya Pravda" meeting of the Thong Nghee Kok Club, China Building (5th floor), that we can afford to waste good organ of the Union of the Com-Association held at Mr. Chia Poh

munist Youth) that the dowerless Heng's residence,

Gregory's Place on the 12th Inst. elected office bearers for, the current year: President: Mr. Chia Poh. Hong Vice-President: Mr.

legislators by way of a moral ges-girl has little chance of finding a ture which becomes increasingly husband. Here is what I. Martiney the following were rare in social and professional life..

writes from the town of Stalino, in the Donetz Baainz-

FORGED NOTE

Leung Ping-kwan, cashier of the Prince's Cafe, Beaconsfield Arcade, reported to the police that at about 1 p.m., yesterday two Chinese who were not known to him visited the Cafe and or- dered meals which were duly served.

After the meal, one of the men purchased a box of chocolates for $10, and tendered a $20 note of the Imperial Bank of Canada in settlement of the bill.

shareholders of Hong Kong Realty & Trust Co., Ltd., Exchange Bldg., (2nd floor) Des Voeux-rd. Ctli, Noon,

of

hai.

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FAREWELL TO MRS. LUARD

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Saturday, 16th February,

at 9 p.m..

In aid of

Soldiers and Sailors Families. Association and

1:

Garrison, Ladies' Help Society.

Well-known Local Artistes, Highland Dancing ..Full Military Band and Pipes

"BOOKING,- at Anderson's.........

Feb. 23 Further extraordinary Our girls deny themselves (re-elected).

meeting of shareholders of Hong necessary food, grow, thin and Lee Tian Seek (re-elected). Hon. Kong & Shanghai Banking Cor-

Tun

Ah Bah peration, City Hall, 1245′′p.m." pine away, but they rejoice in Secretary: Mr.

(re-elected). Assistant Hon.

Miscellaneous p

· Tickets $3, $2, $1. every new thing they get, how-

Secretary: Mr. Ng.. Kena To-day-Annual Inspection ever small It may be, calculating

Liang (re-elected). Hon. Trea- Sharpshooters' Company, Police Service Men in Uniform, half price. that the larger the dowry the

surer: Mr. Tan Miang Yong Reserve, Police Headquarters, 5 quicker the marriage. The Young Hon. Auditor: Mr. Chua Lim Chua. p.m. Communist, before he takes a girl Superintendent: Mr. Kah Soon Chia, in marriage, puts the question (re-elected). Aset. Superintendent: about the dowry and, if he gets Mr. Chus Lye Phew, Committee and a negative answer, quickly ends Public Officer; Mr. To Seal Whee the negotiations: "I won't marry re-elected). Members of Committee: you without a dowry.”,

Messrs. Yap Gim Chang, Lee Peng

Even if the girl without a dowry Slong, Ng Yeow Kiah, Tan Yew Leung accepted the note and finds a husband, her life is often Kalam and Tan Buck Nghee (all gave $27.60 in local currency made miserable by the reproaches of re-elected).

Some time after the customers his family, and the young man in

had departed, he took the Cana- whom romantic love momentarily

dian note to a money changer's got the best of thrift, sometimes re-

to change into Hong Kong inoney sorts to the easy method of Soviet Silk and crepe de Chine worth and there found that it was a divorce. So, while the Revolution £500 were recently stolen from the forgery...

SHANTUNG SITUATION

HMS. "Magnolia" salled" from Chefoo yesterday and arrived at Wel-bai-wel.

has torn the veils from the faces. of premises of Messrs. J. Picken and tens of thousands of women in the Co.; gown manufacturers, Bruns Soviet East, the old peasant custom wick-square, Camberwell, S.E. of demanding "a good match," in

the financial sense of the expression, Scottish coalowners are to raise peradata even among Young Com-the prices of domestic coal by 1s munists who work in factories 6d. ton on all coal below 208. a ton This movement may be taken to which have replaced the more at the pit, and la: a ton on all cont Indicate that the tension has eased prosalo names of their former at and above 208,

"..

In that part of Shantung near Che, owners with such resounding titles |

foo, where "Northern", militarists 89,"Proletarian Vanguard”, and More than $12,000, a record, was have been seeking to regain, a foot- Communist International.” --- “Ob-raised for the Mayor of Islington'a ∙ing.

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