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Irritational Geneva.

rational lines in this matter. Nevertheless, we shall make our protest and set forth our plea in the hope that next year, some time, but not never, will? bunens learn to be the rational beings one has a right to expect them to be.

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As a newspaper said. "Opin-

We differ.. ions will differ

of the statement. In truth, pro- stitutes are just as different from one another as any other body of women engaged in one ozzupallou." They present no more adherence! to a common type than, say, hos-1 pital nurses of charwomen, highly-coloured picture is drawn! of the ultimate fate of the pro- stitute. She is described as de-j generating after a few years intoj

A

a drunken, diseased old hag, end-

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1931.

PUREE

DE POIS

By

· BESOMORO.

Ing her days in misery and OFFICIAL BAN ON SPITTING. squalor.

Government is to be lauded on

This picture is really?

Is she 80

has been a failure.

article, and all "who may find this evail anywhere in China will be

communicate with the Editor. Hong

true only of the prostitute whethe action I proposes to take, in i doing a. great service if they will very much worse off than a girl this matter through the medium of Kong Naturalist. The University, who has failed at domestic service the Sanitary Board. It is decidedly Hong Kong, without delay. or in any other occupation?

of drunken lovers.

methods of livelihood open

earn

to

to

MODERN YOUTH.

a step in the right direction, and It is pointed out that the pro- stitute has to endure the embraces only to be regretted that such a step was not taken before. But action

Has been the subject and object la she 80

of much vituparative criticism. Ita much worse off in this regard without explanation, and by that I

intensive propaganda, will shortcomings have been magnided than the married woman who hasan

bear little fruit. A very great deal and its most promising and encour to endure the embraces of a

has been written already on this aging characteristics belittled. And drunken husband?

Woman, as Mr. C. F. M. Joad nauseating habit, or disease, if you for some portion of this adverse Sce Trasyma-wish, so prevalent in Eastern lands, criticism the clergy has been res- has pointed out

It is an encouraging chus. or The Future of Morals) it that has been addressed directly pensible. has through the ages had two to communities in which, of recent sign, therefore, to come across a years, there has been a marked de-cleric, who likes modern youth, its herThroughout the recorded cline in the habit of spitting. In independence and daring. Says the history of civilization, the only teative propaganda, the value of Rev. W. Charler Piggott, president

which certain public bodies do not

of the Congregational Union. Man- recognized way for a woman

her own living has been yet seem to be convinced, addressed ehester," "I think the easier and through her body. Her body being directly to illiterate, Jess advanced freer companionship of the sexes is a very healthy thing." Precisely. her one saleable asset, she could and less educated members of buck-

two ward communities should be em "They show less outward respect employ it, in either of

She could sell the use of barked upon. Now that a start has for the authority of their elders ways.

indefinite been made with eating-houses, it is than we did perhaps. they break It to one man for an period, or she could lease it to a to be hoped that trains, tram-cars, away sooner, but they have their They do number of men for short and ferries etc., will be tackled in turn. own loyalties and truth.

The it will be some considerable while things openly that some of us of an strictly regulated periods. first method is known as marri-before we are able to reach the earlier day did furtively. They are age; the second as prostitution. stage attained in Germany and cer- neither more nor less curious about Are we justified in laying down a tain other Continental countries life than we were, and they are less

rule

ignorant about that one where spitting, except into recepta, hard-and-fast

the public pects..... Yes, the modern girl method is, in itself, more 'moral'cles provided. în

1 grant that streets is regarded in the light of and the modern boy are deeldedly than the other?

Alan offence and promptly brings ikeable and pleasing expressions the of life; they have evolved new atan- law.dards, standarda which ought to be directly encouraged rather than dis- couraged as is the fashion to-day,

זמונט

a wife who bears and rears

the offender healthy family may be of more down

hand- of the service to Society than any pro- chastising

I doubt, will 1 stage, stitute, but on the other hand one Such

the be reached some day. The great may well question whether

more point now is that a start has been Society prostitute does harm than a wife who bears and made. rears or leaves Society with the burden of rearing--a family of ACHATIKA FULICA. physically or mentaly defective children.

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Mr. V. H. C. Jarrett, in the Hong Kong Naturalist for November,

Home

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of its as-

ALICE IN WONDERLAND.

This childish book, alse work of social philosophy to the mature, has been inade as a "talkie," and, in due course, may be expected to be So long u15 we regard any activity as utterly degraded and draws attention to the possible screened in Hong Kong. The text threat to Chinese agriculture has been strictly adhered to, so that We were told last week that

contemptible, we tend to make it Government's policy upon the

worse, by driving it into secrecy through the discovery made this all the fantasy and charm of the social problem in Hong Kong

and by making the persons en-year of this land-snail in Amoy original has been preserved. More That it may spread through a large films of this nature are wanted, had crystallised, so that it had

gaged in it feel that they

If once we cease to re-part of China la to be expected, says there is a real demand for them, if been officially announced that all

pariahs.

That is more than producers could only be made to gard the prostitute as a moral Mr. Jarrett. brothels were to be abolished, as dared to be criminals of the leper, she will, at any rate to probable having regard to this realise that. I am glad that they

....

In the matter of prostitution, there are those who would have every brothel closed (as is to be done here, if practicable), pros- titution made illegal, and the prostitute and her partner de-

are

cial evil, and any scheme by! If this problem is really to be metal by America and France."

DUELLISTS BLINDED.

Tragic Outcome Of Quarrel Over A Woman.

it

are beginning to reulise. soon as practicable. And for this worst type. One can but mur-

some extent, regain her self-suail's history. If the snail should

and have under con- indefinite annencement

making of other of vel at such crabbed mentality, respect, and cease to regard So-find its way into Hong Kong our to-day,

And until beautiful gardens will suffer enor-templation the ciety as her enemy. policy as soon as practicable" auch intolerable intolerance, and

such utter respectability. Does! we do this all our effort to atopously. All interested in garden-similar filins, such as, Through the Government has been lauded. not Shaw say "The more

the spread of venereal disease ing are advised to read Mr. Jarrett's 'Looking Glass, Rip Van Winkle etc. We shall not burn a pinch of in- things a man is ashamed of, the will be futile,”

As lucid as it is bold, and withal cense at the shring for two rea-more respectable he is"? Then,

there are those who are opposed rational It effectualy dispels all patient sued a dentist for a faulty sons. First, timidity deserves to the suppression of brothels, the cant, all the humbug, all the gold filling. The dentist agreed no applause. Secourt, the policy and who advocate control. conventional nonsense associated

that it was faulty; he had been adopted is irrational and so, Let it not be thought that we with this subject.

Society has less

compelled to use not the pure We to fear from the prostitute than metal but an unsatisfactory alloy again, deserves no support. We approve of Prostitution.

Indeed, from those who permit prejudice to because gold was almost unobtaiu-

One of the most remarkable recognise, of course, that in this most certainly do not.

we regard prostitution as a $0-dictate to reason.

able owing to the hoarding of the duels ever fought has just taken matter the Government of Hong

place at Afragola,, near Naples. Kong is acting under orders which that evil may be lessened tackled with hope of eradicating the

That seems to be one result of The duellists were each 22 years Our evil inherent in it, then let it be from Home. At least we under- or erndicated will receive stand this.to be the case, and earnest support. But we oppose, tackled fearlessly and in the right getting off the goid standard that of uge, and each was named Jaz-

bitterly all irrational busybodies munner.

But let us cease to talk no amount of paper currency will

They agreed to settle their quar, hope that it is not a voluntury (and irrational nostrums, for they balderdash and to legislate bulder/remedy: 's material for Alling zelta, though they are not related. teeth the one-pound note slumps rel with shotguns loaded with small piece of legislation. We believe and these in, themselves are more dash. us face facts, how right away to nothing at all. How shot. Having taken up their posi it to be a ripple caused by a stone evil than the evil they elect to ever unpleasant they may be.

shall have to grin and tions, they fired simultaneously. cure. Those who now write and superficially treating the sore we cast, by busybodies at Geneva, think so irrationally on this sub-encourage it to fester within and bear it-even though the grin no No further exchange of shots was lunger displays the golden lining. possible, for both duellists were into the pond of social life.ject, who favour to regulate the at some later date either poison What's the good of complaining, Like the stone the ripples will public's morals by means of the system or break out afresh else. cense to be observed, and like legislation, will do well to ac- where in a more aggravated form anyway? Even those who feel in- clined to gansh their teeth at their quaint themselves of what the and more greatly to our annoyance neighbours will still have to bite the stone, the Irrational effort world's foremost thinkers have to and inconvenience. In order of

on one of the baser metals-unless will be swallowed by the waters say about this matter. At any merit, Society, our economic system, the Banks of France decides to on- of ineffectualness,

rate they might give such opin-jand Jack of frank education, are It is never untimely to discuss talking wildly and lending sup-of prostitution.

fons earnest consideration before actually responsible for the evils courage the tourist traffic by run- ning dentistry as a sideline.-Man: this aspect of our social life, and port to a course

chester Guardian. of procedure

fundamental prin-

the more rationally, and even that is failure in itself, because nakedly, without pornographic it ignores

We are convinced that much

limita, it is discussed the better. ciples.

harm is done by dealing timor-

We quote at length from

ously with the subject; by in- "Hymen or The. Future of Mar

Lot

By

ever, we

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From Other Pens.

News in Brief.

The lowest open air temperature At 10 yesterday was 69 degrees. ja.m. the humidity was 81 and at 4

The pastor of Broadway Temple, p.m. 84.

vesting it with an opaque atmos- riage," of the To-day and To-Queerer Choirs, phere which, humans being what! morrow serice, for the benefit of they are (and not what visionar. those interested. This is what New York, who, asks his congrega- arles would like them to be) will Dr. Norman Haire says:—— probe out of sheer curiosity, and, unprepared for that which is to be revealed, in many cases, come to grief.

The theme, therefore, to- day is Prostitution primarily. and the broader aspect of sexual intercourse without the pale of matrimony - Church or Regis- try. Other newspapera, sub- scribe wholeheartedly to the pro- pased legislation, and support! the mothod to be employed. Also, they have made out a seemingly strong case for even the timor ous action. that is to be taken. We do not propose to enter into a controversy with them or with anybody else, but do intend to place before readers the other Talde of the picture. It seems against the proposed legislation hopeless. to-day, to protest or to plead for thinking, along

blinded.

A woman was the cause of the quarrel.

To-day's Thought.

Some men are known in history. only because they failed to live up to the opportunity presented to them.

Ten Years Ago.

[From the "China Mall" of

December 8, 1921]

To-day's dollar is worth 2/73%.

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At St. John's Cathedral next Sunday, at 11 a.m., there will be

tion to whistle rather than sing For fighting and causing a com- "There is scarcely a single sub-some popular hymns, with an idea motion outside the Peak Tram ject relating to sex on which we of brightening the service, cannot Station, two rikisha coolies were, seom capable of thinking and act- claim to be quite original, for Cal-to-day, each fined $3, or, in de- ing rationally, and our prejudices vary Reformed Church, Philadel fault, sentenced to five days jail. Irish Agreement for which pray- give rise to incalculable harm to phia, instituted some years ago a

a special Thanksgiving for the

ers have hoen offered, for many

which uns bean-

Society. A flagrant example is choir of boy whistlers which is said Whilst visiting his sister, who months past, The Bishop of Vic. the matter, of prostitution. In to have proved very effective. Evon is an amal employed at 8, Victoria will be the preacher and stead of realizing that in the more daring was an experiment tory Avenue, Homuntin, Lal will at the same service dedicate present state of Society pro made at Lincoln Baptist Church, Cheung (23), unemployed, le atat-the new rerado stitution is inevitable, and doing Cincinnati, where forty canaries ed to have swallowed some opium, orected in the Cathedral in the our best to improve its conditions, were hung in cages about the He was taken to the Kwong Wah memory of Mr. Edward Bowdler by we make, the worst of it. church and trained to chirp to the Hospital where he died last right. his widow. regard” prostitution as a social

accompaniment of the organ. Sing- evil, and have no desire to singing birds have also been tried in

the praises of the_women

who other

but

· American churches, earn their livelihood in this or allowed to warble at will.—Man- cupation; but I cannot subscribe chester Guardian.:

to the almost incredible nonsense

which is so frequently talked

about prostitution and prostitutes. That Gold Shortage.

We are commonly, told that pro-Another aspect of the great gold alitutes all belong to one. type, grab as practised by certain of our and long lists of 'typical charac- neighbours is presented by an no- teristics are adduced in support count of a lawsult in Budapest. A

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