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POR ACCOUNT OF THE CONCERNED, TO-DAY (TUESDAY),

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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9TH, 1909.

"KISSING THE BOOK”

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enus of a whist drive at least once a week, and somtimes more often.

Gocasonally hundreds of persons take part in

HARMSTON'S Cort was not permitted to swear in the Scottish one of these contacts. As a rule, the prizes are

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(BY ORDER OF THE MORTGANEZ.) PARTICULARS OF SALE OF VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY To be Sold by

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the 15th day of February, 1909, at 12 o'clock Noon, by Mu. GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Beat Victoria longkong ko gn and EING all that Place or Parcel of ground registered in the Land Office as the REBLAIN

ING PORTION OF SECTION "O" OF MARINE LOT No. 71 together with the Monsanges or Tonements thereon known as Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 8, Sutherland Street. Victoria aforesaid. The sail premises are held for the residine of the term of 999 years subject to the payment of the Crown Reut and to the per formance of tho covenante in the Crown Lease of the whole of Marine Lot No. 71, reserved and contained.

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somewhat, but as a rule each competitor pay's The entrance fees charged to players vary is for his or her ticket and 20, for cloak-room accommodation. during the intervals also add to the profits. confined to coffee lemonade, and confectionery The refreshments striolly

and other expenses, those who run the drives

From when every allowance is made for must and thom both pleasant and remunerativo. prizes

in those drives. Of course, the winners of good feature in all or nearly all those who take part The absence of the gambling spirit is a markod

prizes are delighted, but people who go away empty-handed oppurently feel that in spite of have had sufficient amusement for their money. bad cards-and sometimes worse partnera-they

A short time ago a witness in the Supreme.' fashion whereby the eath is duinistered by the worth having. Sometimes the first prize is a witness holding up the right hand. The, and on these casions a large number of following letter whick appears in a recent issue in south London suburt, a case of cutlery

players invariably face the music. Last wook, j of The Times over the signature of Colonel said by the managemont to be worth £25 was Henry Mapleson is an interesting comment on

principal prize, and there were about 500 the custom of "Kissing the book" :-

competitors. "Sir,-A very eminent prima donna (who is at present under engagement to me, but whose Dame I purposely withhold for fear that this was recently subponaed sa 'n witness in s law lotter might be regarded as an advertisement) case. The Book which was handed her to kinn was dirty and ill-smelling. Some days after the lady in question was troubled with a rash on her mouth and chin, which finally affected her itch and he felt no hesitancy in declaring it to throat. The doctor pronounced it a malignant have been trammitted to his patient through the foal Testament she had been compelled to the ailment, and during this time the prime kiss at the Court. It took two months to cure donna lost a considerable sam through inability to fulfil professional engagements. Ever Riuco serious study attention has been drawn to the the science of preventing disoase become a nad risks which vitnesses ran in

IS IT LESS THAN MAN'S? Court Testaments. Eron Acal palpitating quastion has become one of the "Are women less honest than men?" This of these books is moiont to coveal great subjects of discussion in Paris, thanks to copical examination would their horribly gring condition and a micros a symposium in La Reved the bi-monthly publi

undoubtedly reveal : state of things to disgusting to contemplate.

cation so cleverly conducted by M. Janu Finot, The late Judge Pitt-Taylor is reported to bare stated that he considered the practice of kissing the Book as insanitary, ropalsive, and absolutely woman is dishonest, but some show a disposition There is not one doras openly to affirm that unnecessary; aut he advocated, in ngage to adopt that line of argument so common in not less emphatic, that the older ceremony of English courts: I am not guilty; but if I laying the hooil on the Testament should be reverted to.

In this case, it is all the fault of if she equivocates, is she is sly, if she is not the men. If woman does not tell the truth,

door of the other sex. Man made her so, by- ,"square" then the offence must be laid at the cause he kept her down with long years of sorvindo.

Not long ago it was prevod that a witness the lips was allowed by a High Court Jurigs to suffering from a rirulent contagious disease of kiss the Book: and although there was a talk of drawing the attention of Parliament to the matter, nothing has been done to remedy the

avil

Why not adopt in this country the Scottish system whereby the oath is administered by the witness holding up the right hand whon taking the ordinary cath

"I remember about five years ago, during an epidemic of smallpox in London, that the High Court Judge had notices issued informing witnesses of their right to be sworn in the Scottish form in accordance with the provisions of the Oaths Act. Kissing the Book is naknows in fontinental countries, where the old English form is used as laying the hand upon an open Bible whilst repeating the words, I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, excepting in France, where the same formula is used, but a witness holds up his right hand instead of touching the Bible.

"Witnesses in English Courts should take the law in their own hands and refuse to kiss filthy and unclean books, rather thun ran the risk of catching a cataricons disease or something worso.

A CITY IN THE GRIP OF WHISTITIS. TRAGI-COMEDY OF THE GREAT YORK DRIVE

A York correspondent wrote last month as follows to a London paper:-

The lady whose fair, frizzy hair bristled with pale blue bows simperol girlishly as she took her seat at the grest whist drive to-night.

THE HONESTY OF WOMAN.

The list of people appealed to is formidable- prominent men and women writers.

am:

The lord of creation has a there awty without the least shame or campana mauvaise presso," I remark

Masculine writers give their bro- tions. Hardly any one has a good word to say for the dethroned, or partially dethroned, tyrant, liberary, or, fortified by the presence of other Did any one ever whisper in the secrecy of his males in the smoking room, that woman did not always "play the game." there is no sugges of it here. The awe of the Suffragettes is over. all, or, at least, the fear of Feminisme, which is Estion

nut quite the same thing. You may be Feminist and think nothing of the vote, and you may not admire Pankhurst methods in the least.

FEMININE DOMINANCE.

is striking enough. Not a one bat says the This inquiry amongst the intellects of France enfranchisement of the sex is necessary for the full realisation of the highest human ideals. The is examined, the more positive the reply, the mare scientifle the spirit in which this question more favourable to woman the verdiet. There who wrote "Degeneration,' is to question of gallautry in it. Max Nordan, and Inveighs O eenselessly against the conventional falsehood. declares that social morality is entirely the work of woman. She created it, she developed it, she guards it. The only thing to foar in oase of feminine domination, he thinks, is an exaggerated respectability and hidden vice. Puritanism, with all that it implies of apparent

."

SERVILE BIAN,

well-known society woman, the Duchess them do not make up the human race. Then 'd'Uzès, isks, whether man and woman--both of there is Tristan Bernard, famous as the author plays. Ho is paradoxical. Woman will not of "Toddles" and other delightfully amusing only equs man, but surpass him. When that arrives, man will take on the characteristics of oppressed woman. He will become servile. He will cringe and try to carry faronr with power. fal feininity, which is ne longer feminine Wo man will be the top-dug, and I suppose, will pay off old scores, the accumulation the conta

“I am afraid I am an awfully bad player," she said. Her partner young Mr. W from Messrs. X's, the grocer's looking very natty in evening dress, with a scarlet handkerchief shin ing like the ace of hearts against his spotless shirt-front, smiled with gentle melancholy.

The smile continsed all through the dealing of the cards, nutil, the king of spades having been played, the lady plucked the king of therios, but, mercifully, M. Bernard draws a yell diamonds from her hand, alapped it on the table, and cried triumphantly," Soup!"

He never smiled again and the stewards assisted him away.

The whist fever is growing steadily worse. It has spread from York to the neighbouring suburbs, Dinners a hurried through, omni- buses chartered, and the family heatens to the exhibition hall.

1,500 PLATKES.

The committee have added, aupther room to night, and there have been nearly 1.500 players, The good people of York have already spent more than £160 on playing whist, and by the end of the week £500 or more will have been realised for the Lord Mayor's unemployed fund. The rooms themselves are a fascinating study. Never before have so many types of card-players boeu gathered under one roof.

There is the servons player, who fidgets with his moustache and draws out his cards with tremulous hesitation; the grim player who. frowns heavily; the expert player who argues- after each game with a string of endless" ifs"; the excitable player who thomps his cards down with a beat-that-if-you-can" air; and, laat→→ the truth must out the player who can't play at all, and simply gets rid of all the soen in her or his band, and trusts to luck.

Silence broods over the hall from the moment of the ringing of the bell. You may see men with white ribbons on their ecata. They are ladies for the purpose of the game, so there is a shortage of remining players,

Keen-eyed stewards walk about the rooms ready to settle knotty points.

There was, for instance, the problem of the elusive ace to-night which will go down to Posterity as an nasolved mystery. The undis- puted facts are that four people started a game, and at the finish found that they had boon playing with fifty-one cards. An ace had vanished,

ACE MISRING." Stewards searched the chairs and tables and counted the cards. Where was the ace? Every one looked guilty. The chief steward arrived on the seine and counted the cards again. La! there were fity two! For players looked guiltier than ever. Dark ramoni in peaceful York.

over this painful prospect. Finally, Anatole literature, questions whether man is so virtuous France, the mastor of contemporary French

balance against woman that he should desire to weigh himself in the masculine arrogance and ferocity and brutality,

And he speaks of i 'A bad lỡ, ovidently. The last hope of the sex is gore..

And so woman according to the judgment of Paris-is not more dishonest than maai Whence sprang that legend that who was? Is it merely the reil of lies spun by the adversary to impede the progress of Eve Victorious? Your opinion, reader.Paris Correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette.

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