1932-03-15 — Page 7

For Women

TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1932.

LADIES WEAR ON P. & 0. LINERS

GAUDY ENOUGH TO SHOCK

A PARROT. ·

journal illustrated yesterday the the modern ship's swimming bath, very costume which Mr. Harris de- followed by a promenade in cool sires to Bec-as if to prove how costume, bifurcated or otherwise, Heems an attractive institution. especially in the heat of the Red. Sea.

suitable its visible constituents (and also the invisible corsets, which he was too modest to name) were for

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A Confession.

ST. JOSEPH'S COLLEGE

ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES.

Inspiriting Addresses.

The annual distribution of Prizes is to his wonderful tact and ability in St. Joseph's College tock place and untiring real that St. Joseph's yesterday at 11 a.m., the Rev.) is mainly indebted for the proud Brother James.. O.B.E., Visitor of position it holds among the leading the Christian Brothers of the Far scholastic Institutions of this East presiding.

Colony. St. Joseph's College-it is

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Under the title "Quis Separablt?" from the earliest times (Virgil, Georgics, fl. 121) been a menace to Mr. Walter Harris referred recently

public propriety. Its use was cen- in "The Times" to the startlingly sured in the reign of Tiberius, by vivid pyjama sults worn by some of the gravest of the Romans; Pliny, The passengers on the Rawalpindi too, has condemned' (VI, 20, xi. 21) the exposure to the public eye of

After the singing of the College a fact of experience--has establish- during its recent homeward voyage naked draperies and transparent

rally, “Our Alma Mater's Call," ed a world-wide reputation as a through the Red Sea and advocated, matrons (tam longiquo orbe petitur.

the Rev. Brother Matthias, Director popular seat of learning and moral of the College, read the following culture. In common with the other *a return to the Jess gayut in publico matrona transluceat

address.

Christian Brothers' Schools in the but

ut denudet feminas vestis). more decorous costume...

Rev. Brother Visor, We are Far East the Old Boys of St Gibbon, gravest of English his- of the nineties. This has given torians, rebukes the wanton lub-

very grateful to you for honouring Joseph'a are proverbially noted for rise to a number of

umus-ricity of a dreas which showed the

us with your presence here today their good manners, their unswervi ing letters in the correspondence turn of the limbs, and colour of the

and for having kindly consented to ing loyalty to the Government, their give away the prizes to the most inseparable attachment to their columns of The Times and a lead-skin, to gratify vanity or provoke

Įdeserving pupils of the College. Alma Mater and their persistent ing article on

desire and mentions (Ch. x1.) that the subject in the

The scholastic year ended De-fidelity to duty in after life, it was, Elagabalus who was the same paper:

[cember, 1931, was perhaps the most I take this opportunity of appeal- first, by wearing silken garments,

memorable in the long and success-ing to you, the present pupils, to Not for the first time (says the to sully the dignity of an emperor

ful record of St. Joseph's College. ever live and act up to the motto leading article) Mr. Walter Harris and a man though, modestly worn,

The. Bro, Aimar, who for so many "Labore et Virtute" proposed for has been playing in these columns they were the apparel of the vir

years guided the destinies of the your guidance in your youthful at the game known as pulling legs. He reflects with pain that if the Ituous woman of Proverbs xxxi. 22.

College and maintained it in a high years. It is only when you will From the depths of his deck-chair importers of silk had introduced

atate of efficiency, was to our deep | have attained the age of manhood in a P. and O. boat in the Red Sea into Europe the art

regret obliged to give up the reina and faced and experienced the of printing. he reached forth a (purely meta-already practised by the Chinese,

of administration, having been ap-etruggles of life that you will fully phorical) hand, and lo! there was the youth of this country might

pointed Director of our newly realise and appreciate the true a leg in it, a pyjama leg. It was have been nourished on the entire Harris, the originator of the cor- He will for all time be gratefully are now receiving from the Ch

To finish up with Mr. Walter established College in Kowloon. value of the sound education you! gaudy enough to shock a parrot, and decade of Livy instead of on mere respondence, sent the following remembered in St. Joseph's and he tian Brothers. It was worn by a young person of fragments.

amusing letter to The Times'? carries with him our best wishes; I offer myk. the female sex, which shocked Mr.

Has history to teach us? Shall

The leading article published in for the fullest measure of success the prize-winners and wish them west congratulations to Harris. So shocked was he that)

we never learn to avoid the follies The Times of February 5-begin- and prosperity his new field of continued success, first he held it (again meta- of past generations?

Those who phorically) un to obloquy;

This comes from An Old Travel: ning "Not for the first time Mr. labour

have not been so fortunate should then, dropping it like a hot ler: I have been much intrigued by there columns at the game known as Walter Harria has been playing in¦

The Beal Purpose.

not be discouraged. Let them coal, he seized bis per and the comical dismay expressed by a

Before referring to the general rather console themselves with the wrote a rhapsody of reminiscence on aly correspofident in your issue of Pulling legs"--fills me with

con-work of the year I should like to thought that they too, have worked the female dress of forty years ago to-day at the "goingâ on" în board a

sternation and remorse. Such an emphasise the fact that the real diligently, Let all bearin' mind and a demand that the steamship British liner. The lippenings to accusation demands a reply and a purpose of an educational establish the college motto "Labore et company should prescribe the cowhich he draws attention are, with-

confession. Peccavi.

Iment like St. Joseph's is to teach Virtute." Yes, Sons of St. Joseph's tumes not only of its officers and in my experience, not confined to Hong Kong early in January on earn a living.

The true story. Is this. I left how to live rather than how to College, by labour and virtue you crews but also of its lady passen-ships. Any British (not to

will make your path through life, gers. And, by a lucky accident, Continental) Summer or yachting

Say board liner of the P. and O. Com- Our education record in Hong, bright, happy and prosperous and only three days after his letter ap resort will afford equal examples of any. As we progressed southward Kong covers a period of nearly ultimately win the Heavenly prize. peared, the picture page of this

visions of Spring appeared. such charming iniquity. A dip in

Just seventy years and is well known in At the conclusion of his speech as the butterfly issues from the all circles. Our pupils are found he distributed the prizes having a chrysalis so the youth and beauty in every walk of life and occupy word of encouragement for each among the passengers emerged from positions of honour and trust. winner, their wraps and rugs. Georgette Loyalty to, and respect for law- The function was closed-by the replaced tweed, and necks and backs fully constituted authority, incul- announcement of a half day, en- and bosoms that had been concealed cated during their formative years, thusiastic cheers for Brother plenics on the Inis or for deck-sport Your correspondent suggests, led by flimsy nothings, or a chain of life work. His Majesty the

behind furs were now only protect-are characteristic notes In their James, and the singing of God Save On the same day further support practices of a bygone age. But why

'a remedy, a resort to the sartorial;

King The King. beads. Shapely legs that had been Emperor, through the good offices for Mr. Harris (and for his learned stop there? The complete remedy seductively through the gossamer given public recognition to

Prize List. enveloped in woolly plaids peeped of the Malayan Government has Amelia Bowdler for the shocking state of things threads of quite inadequate cover- meritorious work done and the the Grundy) came from an unexpected which he describes would be

College Scholarships. quarter. Quis separabit? Not wel separation, afloat, of the sexes-ings. After Singapore and Ceylon honoured place

Senior Bolillos Scholarship. reply eight clear young voices from gentlemen to port, ladies to star-

I the transition was complete. Brothers and their schools in the

Woo Hay-tong Scholarships. the squash racket courts of Queen's, board, with, for entire liberty to the Pyjamas and what divine pyjamas! British Colonies of the Far East.

Bro. Joseph Memorial Scholar- -Club. United we stand into the

-were to be seen on the decks. The Government of this Colony has fifth round; divided we fall out longitudinal bulkhead. Noah per- pretty wearers of pyjama suite, a

There was, however, a little timid given us constant encouragement

Bro. Peter Memorial Scholarship. pretty quick. Or, as the report of haps made a mistake. Two arks hesitation on the part of some of by its generous support, thus en-

Li Shek-pang.Scholarship. the matches put it in this journal, would have been better.

Junior Belllios Scholarship. the young women which had to be abling us. to extend our sphere of yesterday, "the eight survivors to the Afth round were all skirt Eileen B. Moon) I read with delight

As a younger traveller (writes overcome, for I realised how largely usefulness by the establishment of

Lugard Scholarship. the pleasure of future travellers de La Salle College, Kowloon.

Simon Tee Yan Scholarship. wearers. The more flamboyantly Mr. Walter D. Harris's letter to-day. Pended on the more general adoption

Montargis Prizes for French. The great aim and object of the garbed competitors were, for the I have uncles like unto him, charm of these translucent garments as an Christian Brothers is to uphold and

Hong Kong Matriculation. most part, eliminated in the early ing late-Victorian uncles, of whom article of feminine attire. How maintain these, high ideals and (Dist. Physics, Co-ordinate Geo- Honours List: Ho Shiu-la! rounds." That is what happens to I am very fond, but they, too, will was it to be accomplished? "Oxford" bags, and shorts, and new-

principles of religion and morality With a long experience of female which are the foundation of all true metry & Mechanics), Peter Nguyen fangled, schismatic things like say things like that.

Khanh

tom (Diat. French & those, while the orthodox old skirt, Their idea seems to be modesty character--and incidentally of the education.

Mechanics), Horacio Lula · Osório effect of letters published in The alli 1 (as they conceive it) above swings its single-natured way to things; but if

(Dist combine Times-I came

Secondary Department.

Co-ordinate Geometry), the last eight places and to victory modesty and seductiveness, so much that the only methods to further the As regards the Secondary De Francisco Xavier Rozario... (Dist. For Lidos (Lansburian, Vanetian, the better; comfort and healthiness wearing of pyjamas by attractive partment has maintained its time- Mathematica, Co-ordinate Geo- Southcoastian ΟΙ whatnot) the "pyjama craze" may indeed be "do not come into the picture. We young women on board ship was to honoured reputation. Out of seven metry, & Mechanics), and C. B.

all know the old adage "Beauty is attack the habit in your columns. Honours in the whole Colony in the Wing Lee. sensible" (as one of the victims of! painful." It was, in these good old wrote the vehement protest which Matriculation Examination five Pass List-Simon Chan Look,

correspondent's little joko days, which Mr. Harris recalls; you kindly published, and I added were credited to St. Joseph's.. The morning assures us); but, if Mr. when waists of all sizes were drag an appeal for the adoption of dress Sir Paul Chater Memorial Scholar Harris still possesses an umbrella, ged reluctant as near to 18in. abandoned 40 years ago.

ship was awarded to Ho Shul-lal. he may aafely use it to protect his possible, when I shudder at the

My letter was too convincing. The Junior results were, as in pre- eyes from such forked lightning as thought) starched blouses with high deceived not only your readers but vious years, only fair, forty can- filckers about him on these tropical collars held their sway, and hats also myself. I had connived at my oldaten having passed including 28 Young

were perched precariously on top of own conversion and fell a victim to Distinctions:- work to be done, as in squash racket the head. Would Mr. Harris my own arguments. Quite uninten Mr. A. O2 Erawn, Inspector of Abraham (Dist. Arithmetic). C. M. courts, union is still strength. And to parade the deck and play deck-tionally I turned over a new leat. English Schools, spent three days Agon (Dist. Biblical Knowledge), there will always be plenty of legs tennis in a serge skirt down to his My views met with general ap-in examining all the classes of the PF. Barendtasen (Diat. English for him to pull.

ankies? Would he like to come Proval received dozens of en-College and expressed his satisfac & Mathematics), dos R. Campos Among the Times' orrcespondents through the Tropics in tight-at-couraging, earnest letters from tion with the general work. He re-

(Continued on Page 11.) on the matter is Mr. H. M. Barker, ting, long-sleeved, starched muslin people of undoubted position. I posted the Upper and Remove who writes: When I met Mr. W. blouses and long linen skirts, and was acclaimed

as a daring

pro-School as very satisfactory "It Hardia in Delhi I regarded him as the appropriate underclothing--if I pagandist of modesty. Requests gave evidence of very painstaking a humanitarian, a champion of the may mention such things? I wish reached me for articles to parish teaching underdog. Yet even he shows an he would try. And has he ever magazines and an invitation the wish to express the indebted- Achilles heel of cruelty in advocat thought about the reasons why omnibus fare paid to address se ness of the Collage to the generosity ing a return to the torturing feruin women do not faint as much as they young women in the outskirts of of Mr. Woo Har-tong, to the Society ine garments of the nineties (and used? I do not like the pyjama had been limited to the shady pur-Benevolent Society, and to the other Londen. For years my social lifs of Saint Vincent de Paul, to the earlier) for 10 months ago I saw craze either, so few look really tens of diplomatic surroundings, worthy scholarship and no feminino pyjamaa by day; but nice, but it is so sensible. now that the pendulum has swung And now for the men! Mr.

but here were the portals of a bet-donors, so far, perhaps the answer to Quis Harris does not mention what the ter world thrown widely open. I... Rey, Bro. James' a separabit? is—Mr. W. B. Harris,

men wore. I can imagine Mr. Har saw myself

In the Red Sea.

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Ho has decided that the men are ris, and some others, in nice white

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Mrs. Amelia Grundy, write wish, at the sugge neighbour Damo ciate my and ent

and moderately comfortable what about the rest? I have. recent

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to the conclusion

held by the

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