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QUICK NEW STRENGTH

AFTER ILLNESS.

LADY BARRISTER ON SECOND

WORLD CRUISE

After a severe illness you feel so weak, you often despair of ever get- ting your strength back. Especially after operations, or wasting and other diseases, that affect your digestion," the thought of food is distasteful. Yet you must rebuild your body - you must have highly nourishing food

Doctors everywhere recommend Horlicks as the food that not only can. be easily digested, but that stimulates your faded appetite and pours quick new strength into your exhausted body.

Convalescence is shortened and in an amazingiy shart time you feel full of vigour and strength. Always keep Horlicks ready at hand.

In these difficult times of anxiety and worry, the task of carrying on and doing work which must be done is a doubly difficult one which must tend to exhaust one's nervous energy

Horlicks builds up strength, vitality and prevents that listlessness and tiredness caused by constant nervous strain. H. M. Hodges. Kayamally Building. Queen's Road, Hong Kong

Miss Ashworth Among The First Women To Be Admitted

by Ursula Jeffries

One of the most interesting and distinguished passengers on board the RMS Empress of Britain Miss Mercy Asaworth, a~ London barrister who, got only was part of the driving force behind the move-

ment

to urge Government to pass the Sex Disqualifica- tion (Removal) Act in 1919, but

THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 11, 1988.

FROM THE SAME mighty studio that gave you “Maytime"..."Naughty Marietta” and "Rose Marie". comes this rousing new musical romance! With lovely Jeanette MacDonald! Allan Jones! Rudolf Friml's songs of lovel Cast of thousands!

WEARING A THEME SONG. The charming head-scarf fashion, so long a campus style and always becoming to a young face, has emerg- ed from college gates to go about with tailored suits and coats in town and country This scarf, "America the Beautiful," is one of the theme-" song designs. Its pattern includes the notes of the song, pictarizations of typical American scenes, and words “Old Faithful,” “Old Man of the Mountain "Another of the theme song scarves is "The Sidewalks of New York, in which the roofs of the tall buildings follow the position of the notes of the song as they appear on the musical staff. The fabric of these theme song starves is pure silk satin.

Jeanette MACDONALD The Firefly

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was also among the very first of her was, therefore, only required to eat sex to break into that guarded three. The size of the helpings in- stronghold of man the Bar! dicates long custom in catering for

the male appetite!

Meeting and speaking to Miss Ashworth yesterday, I found it COMPULSORY EXAMINATIONS hard to realise that this kindly,

Apart from this very pleasant gentle old lady had worked with social side of the proceedings, there such determination and zeal to pave are the Bar examinations. Part 1 a way for women through profes consisting of four papers" which sional fields hitherto reserved for may be taken separately, and Part men only.

II (the Final) the four papers of which must be taken together.

FIRST DENNER IN HALL

It was fifteen years ago since she In the old days, students were "ate her way to Bar as she ex-not required to pass any examina- plained it, but memories of her first tions, she stated. They became dinner in Hall are still fresh, main-barristers after completing a term ly because not even the most pro- which is known as "Reading in sale student could fail to be stirred Chambers", which means that they by it, she said.

were admitted into a barrister's Some of the thrill she felt was office and merely acted as his as- imparted to me as I sat and let her sistant for a certain set period. draw a mental picture of that im-Now, however, the examinations pressive event. I saw the large are compulsory, and whether or not Hall with its polished oak and a student is admitted to the Bar, is gleaming silver and napery. I saw left entirely to the discretion of the the long rows of tables where sat Benches of the Four Inns of Court the staff of the four Inns of Court, They may reject any person they the barristers and students. I was deem unsuitable.. impressed with the custom of Since her admittance to the Bar, formal drinking, whereby the bar-Miss Ashworth has dealt principal- risters and students greeted each by with cases involving the Rents other in pairs, first sideways then Restriction Act, and because of this diagonally across the tables of she is immensely interested in the four Then there followed the Colony's problem. ceremony of lighting a candle in In conclusion, the lady barrister the Senior Mess this was a sign revealed that this is her second that they were permitted to smoke cruise round the world, and that "I have never seen anyone smoke her last visit to Hong Kong was even after the candle was lit. Imade thirty years ago when Lord don't know why they didn't" she Luggard was Governor at the Co- lony. She stayed at the Hong Continuing, Miss Ashworth ex-Kong Hotel at the time and remem-

that no one can become a bered that Kowloon was then mere

ut being a member ly Chinese territory. In making the four Inns of Court the trip round the New Territories Lincoln's Inn, Inner yesterday afternoon, she was amaz- and Middle Temple. She,led at Kowloon's growth, and ember of Lincoln's though the weather was wet, mak- for

that matter, can ing visibility poor through the win- become a barrister without dow of the car, she saw enough of “eating her dinners", which means the New Territories to be enthu jast exactly what it says.

siastic about it from a scenic point There are four terms a year, and of view. "I can't go about Hong must eat at dinners a Kong now without comparing the three if she is a member of old with the new," she concluded.

shworthwho Miss

making the Cambridge

uise for health reasons.