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It is fitting that England should have dubbed knight the man Hong Kong, Monday, Sept. 9, 1935. who could so write of her.

A Poet Of England

Here

There and

Everywhere.

DUCES AID TO CATHEDRAL

A traveller recently returned from Italy states that the renova tion of Milan" Cathedral is pro-|| ceeding, very satisfactorily..

ARE INTELLIGENT WOMEN SMART?

YES, ALWAYS NO, NEVER

TWO WELL-KNOWN WRITERS

VOICE THEIR OPINIONS

BAR the geniuses. because I HAT I

would be a glorious A web of scaffolding-to con

life to addict oneself÷ts. sist eventually of T1⁄2 miles of

amnot at home among steel tubing is creeping slowly them and the Bloomsbury ones perfection; to follow the curve over the 4.000 square yards of theho buy a few yards of velvet of the sentence wherever it Piazza facade. The wonderful in the bargain basement and might lead, into deserts, under roof, with its forest of spires, and proceed to the National Gallery drifts of sand. regardless of the floor are being virtually reto decide upon cut. Because lures of seductions; to be poor constructed section by section the National Gallery unfortun-always and unkempt; to be ri

There was some difficulty in ately doesn't give away paper diculous in Piccadilly." securing suitable marble, as none patterns, and if you are genuine So somewhere in that ex-- but that from the Candoglia Bloomsbury your rampant perquisite novel The Waves quarry might be used on sonality will intrude so urgent-wrote Virginia Woolf — and. Cathedral. This quarry, bly anyway that you will end by no one. I take it, will dispute: queathed to the Duomo some six doing with your velvet what her intelligence. Yet her con (centuries ago by Gian Galeazzo Gertrude Stein does with ception of happiness is not, in |Visconti, is nearly exhausted. words.

the common way, to be kempt.

the

By a decree issued by Signor The result may seem an aes-but to be unkempt. Not to be Mussolini other marble may now thetic misdemeanour to us, but smooth, smart, and soignee in be employed, and in a few years we are sure that to yourself Bond-street, but to be ridicul- more the myriad white spires will you are the water-lily in the fous in Piccadilly.

once more gleam over the plain brown pool, or the dark tulip on To be smart one must contin of Lombardy, visible for a dis- the green stem, or the Mona ually agitate the surface of tance of over 65 miles.

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WHY NOT 14?

Lisa or whatever was stirring life; to be intelligent one must

- at least from time to. in your mind when you created visit it. So we will leave it at that time the unpopulated depths-

No Time For Fashion From Melbourne comes a bill and consider the Other Intelli-

It is not to be supposed, how- announcing the concert which gent Women was to be given there on August. Blue-Stocking Tradition ever, that no one can be intelli- 22 by Yehudi Menuhin, the vio The blue-stocking tradition gent who does not look ridical- linist, in the course of his Aus-remains alive only in the mindsjous in Piccadilly. Intelligent wo tralian-tour.

of those who got it from their men may dress well, or even beauti- Advance bookings might be mothers, who in turn got it fully and sometimes they do Intelligence was But they cannot afford the made, it stated. "for reserved from theirs. chairs and balcony at 12s. 6d. then considered an unattractive time to watch the changes of plus tax (total 13s. 111⁄2d)." thing in women. The daughter fashion as zealously as a signal- sum-due to the with brains was tactfully ad-man watches for express trains This curious mathematical exactness of the monished to hide them as if which they would have to do Australian Entertainment Tax- they might be a kind of growth if they were going to be smart

Fashion often makes fools of reminds one of the "three-and-or a moral lapse, and the na-

*A so popular tural kick-back in the girl was all but intelligent women. Senator Long's Soaring eleven-three" once

with drapers..

a real or simulated contempt few years ago, for instance, fashion cut frocks off at the Ambition

for attractiveness.

There was not much more to knee, and countless thousands Your Daily Smile! Sir William Watson in

it than that. The bine-stock-of innocent women were be- Senator Huey Long has in-

ing went doggedly on her way, trayed Obedient to the mode. later days was a poet more ad-

A woman came out of her flat one and in spite of her, or because slaves to fashion, yearning to mired than read great Vic formed his colleagues that he

jbe smart, they went abroad in. torian, born a generation after will run for the Presidency next morning and rang for the life

Now the time, he acquired in year. Neither of the two great came up for her, she got in, the of her, intelligence persisted.

pendulum bas dresses that would have done" This due

he parties will nominate him, and doors closed, and the lift, instead of youth a., reputation which

swung so much the other way well enough on little girls, and failed to sustain, not because of according to American political going down, started to go up

“Hey!” said the wonzan

that even Hollywood has de-suffered a fate that was worse no candidate stands a ang falling off in the quality of theory

chance without the support of said, reversing the controls. “I just

"I'm sorry, madam the lift boy creed the glorification of the in- than death: for they became ri- his verse, but because poetry

A heroine dicilous. jone or other of the great ma- came on the job this morning, and I telligent woman. was beginning to explore newchines. Mr. Long has risen by don't know my way around very well who was the 1934 conception of paths while he continued to fare

Cleopatra can be a psychiatrist along the old. It is not an ac-defiance of that theory. When yet."

in 1935 without detracting from The prophesied 13 years ago that

ther appeal cident that recognition came to

"The cookbook say 'Best till stif him in 1890, for retrospect and he would become Governor of

Louisiana, he was treated as a Ah thinks it must be done now,” said the contemplation of establish- ed glories in which his musé de Joke. But the joke, as he knew, th lighted were then the fashion made good newspaper reading serious calcula of the day. It is an accident and there was

tion behind it. Forty per cent. that the laurel was not placed on of the State electorate, be con- his brow when Tennyson died.

tended, were sufficiently miser-

his

Kitchen Note

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It

Speaks Volumes

Assortment Of Legs

Such an assortment of legs. was paraded before the world jas was never meant to be shown. to any but the most loveblind: That speaks volumes surely of husbands and tolerant rela-- "Is it stiff **

If the ghost of the blue-stock-tions Legs like match-sticks "No, ma'am, but Ah is.".

ing were not well and truly laid and legs like bolsters; calves Hollywood would run no risks that had slipped and no calves Byron's Dog A lady had a favourite pet dog of losing on the psychiatrist at all; legs that were all knuckle for no poet of his day could so able to support the uncompro

which she called "Perchance" what they gained on the Cleo-and shin, and legs like an only

"What a singulas name for your:

child's Christmas stocking, Ipatra well celebrate patriotic themes mising champion of the under-beautiful pet, said a visitor, and I in dignified verse.

The root of this is the fact that stuffed too full by loving par- But when

dog. The 50 per cent against would like to ask how you came to the laureateship next fell vahim would vote either Republi-choose

the really intelligent woman, ents; all these were proudly cant, Robert Bridges. gallant

“Oh," she drawled languidly, it active, spirited, tremendously paraded, while Good Sense and was named after Lord Byron's dog-interested in life, with a disci-Good Taste shrieked with dis- adventurer after new rhythms can or Democrat and he would and cadences, was more typical/get in between them. The car you remember when he speaks of it plined mind to guide her, could may and hid themselves in the

culation has made him Dictator and says, "Perchance my dog will of his age than Watson, always of Louisiana. He believes that bowl content to work within the great it will yet make him President tradition.

of the United States.

never be anything but smart-depth of the country.

The sense which she acquires That is what fashion may do A Shift in Prospect for the best in books, in music, to a woman who does not use Male Straphanger. "Madam, you in the theatre, in the cinema, is her brains; and that, indeed, is are standing on my foot."

not going to let her down in the what it is always likely to do. matter of clothes

But intelligent women are indepen-- |dent of fashion-ERIC LINKLATER.

thought it belonged to the man Female Ditto: "I beg your pardon sitting down."

LOCAL news BREVITIES

Trusting Taste

TOUR OF BRITISH RAIL EXPERT

In two respects he stood in Part buffon, part tyrant and the true succession of English wholly demagogue, the King poets. On occasion he was fish is not at first sight a master of the English lyric figure to be taken seriously compact of music and fantasy. But a period of economic stress Top Summer is iemmen in" to gives such men their chance and

It is ten to one that she will do April. April, laugh thy girlish Mr. Long is a master of the arts

as much with fifteen pounds as a laughter. there is no break in of popular appeal The prin

less intelligent woman would do the chain, and the last link is ciple of his share-the-wealth"

with fifty, because she can trust worthy of the first

The ss Mantua left Singapore her own taste and judgment to... Watson

campaign is one that the poor- himself was conscious of his est voter can understand.

for Hong Kong last Saturday with buy what she likes where she Mr. Hammond Returns kinship with the masters of our body is to have more than the outward English mails, and is likes. Itongue, and his tributes to poets million dollars. The rest of the due here on Wednesday.

Wordsworth and Shelley, vast fortunes "accumulated byį Matthew Arnold. TennysonAmerica's wealthiest men are are at once noble poetry, and to be diverted to the public by hours ending at 10 a.m. to-day was tion of the London season. You Having completed his tour of just criticism. Further, he taxation. Mr. Long thus pro-0.59 inch. The total since Janu-have only to go there once to railway inspection in China, Mr. possessed in exceptional mea-poses to effect by the passage of ary 1 has been 58.55 inches, as see what a foolish woman Hammond, British railway expert, sure a sense of the greatness of Finance Bill the redistribu- against an average of 70.20 inches-the hands of her dressmaker will leave here for England on England her landcape, her tion of wealth which is the ulti-

can look like. Turn up an old board the B.M.S. Empress of

No-

Consider Ascot for a minute caly, because it is perhaps Hong Kong rainfall for the 24 the most dress-conscious func

To England

Shanghai, To-day. -

seas, her historic past. The mate aim of the New Deal, and The EMS. Empress of Japan number of your newspaper and Japan to-day Central events of his lifetime inspired he is astute enough to perceive leaves Shanghai to-day at 5 pm see what I mean-LESLEY STORM. Agency. his pen to what Keats called that Mr. Roosevelt's difficulty and Yokohama on Friday after large utterance verse that at will be his opportunity. In nom for Honolulu, Victoria and its highest was Vergilian and availing himself of it he is not Vancouver. that never forsook the grand likely to forget the example of Dy

manner in a little prose Woodrow Wilson, who became a The RMS. Empress of Asia volime called "Pencraft," a national figure when as Gov-arrived at Kobe yesterday and title which reveals his attitude lernor of his State he triumphed left the same day for Nagasaki. to his muse he appreciates and over its legislature, or of Theo-where she is due to arrive to-day- justifies the type of verse in dore Roosevelt whose im-She will lease that port at mid- which he excelled. But exam promptu "Bull Moose" party night to-day for Shanghai and ple is better than precept, and made no bad showing against Hong Kong Watson, Joftily mediating some the orthodox machines. angust occasion, reaches the

FALSE EVIDENCE

Six Chinese Fined $100 For Assault

False evidence and conficting tements were heard at the Kowloon Police Court this morn Repulse Bay again proved the ing when six Chinese, Chúng- heights with his ode on the A variety of amusing games main att

action last Saturday Ngai-sal, Chan Shuen, Lam Coronation of Edward VIL No for skill and guessing was pro-night and over two hundred Muk-chum, Ching Lam-kun, touch of tawariness mars the vided as entertainment to a huge guests

including residents, Yeung Lam-sai and Chan Kong

before splendour of his rolling lines gathering of over 200 people at danced to the music of Silverio appear

pageant of English history the Convent building Sham- and his Bevellers.”

Thomson Con through his verse, and

having ssaulted shuipo, Kowloon, as the occasion of song hits from "The

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