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AUCTIONS

PUBLIC AUCTION.

THE SECOND

SALE OF THE

STOCK-IN-TRADE

OF

MADAME JAYS, LIMITED,

Will tako placa

TO-DAY (THURSDAY) and

TOMORROW (FRIDAY)

the 11th and 12th February, 1909, commencing each day at 10.30 A.M., at their Premises, Des Voux Road,

'The Sale will include AFTERNOON

EVENING GOWNS and ROBES and a Selection of TRIMMED HATS. TermsCash on delivery.

and

On View from WEDNESDAY, the 10th February, 1909.

GEO. P. LAMMERT, Auctioneer.

Hongkong, 10th February, 1909.

THE

PUBLIC AUCTION.

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HE Undersigned bave received instructions from F. SCHWARZKOPP, Eay, to Sell by Public Auction,

TO-DAY (THURSDAY), the 11th February, 1909, at 11 A.M., at their Sales Booms, No. 8, Des Voux Road, corner of Ice House Street, SUNDRY

VALUABLE HOUSEHOLDI

Comprising

FURNITURE,

DINNER

Silk Tapestry-Covered DRAWING ROOM SUITE, TEAKWOOD OVERMANTELS with BEVELLED GLASS, MARBLE-TOP SIDEBOARD with GLASS, WAGGONS, GLASS, CROCKERY and E-P. WARE ENGRAVINGS WATER COLOURS and OIL PAINTINGS, TEAK WOOD WARDROBES with BEVELLED GLA88, MARBLE-TOP BUREAU with BEVELLED GLASS, AMERICAN DED- STEAD and BEDDING, TEAKWOOD BOOKCASES. AMERICAN ROLL-TOP DESK, TEAKWOOD EXTENSION DIN.. ING TABLE and CHAIRS, HOROCCO-

INTIMATIONS

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1178, 1909.

THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD,

[BY FRANCIS GEITBLE.]

HARMSTON'S A somewhat astonishing girl of the period

GRAND CIRCUS.

LAST 3 NIGHTS

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LAST MATINEE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH, AT 3.30 P.M.

Doors Open at 2.30 P.M. Children Half-Price at Matinées only.

between Post Office and the Circus before and N.BA Special Service of Cars will ran after the Performance,

Booking at ROBINSON PIANO Co., LTD. 3001

COL. R. LOVE, Manager, NEW CARTRIDGES,

COVERED DINING ROOM SUITE BY popular English Manufacturers.

quantity

CANTON BLACKWOOD' WARE, HEATING STOVES, FLOWER STANDS, &c. &c.

Catalogues will be issued. Terms-As Usnal..

HUGHES & HOUGH, Auctionears.

Hongkong, 9th February, 1909.

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(BY ORDER OF THE MORTGAGEE.) PARTICULARS OF SALE OF VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY To be Bold by

PUBLIC AUCTION,

On MONDAY,

the 15th day of February, 1909, at 12 o'clock Noor, by Ma. GEO: P. LAMMEBT, Auctioneer.

DEING all that Piece or Parcel of ground at Victoria Hongkong krown and registered in the Land Offee as the REMAIN ING PORTION OF SECTION "O" OF MARINE LOT NO. 71 together with the Mesenages or Tenements thereon known as Nogi 2 4, 6 and 8, Sutherland Street, Victorie aforesaid, The sait premises are held for the residue of the term of 999 years subject to the payment of the Crown Rent and to the per- Bormance of the corenants in the Crown Lease

of the whole of Marine Lot No. 71, reserved and contained.

For further particulare and Conditions of Balo apply to

MESSES. D'ALMADA & SMITH,

Bolieitors for the Vendor

or to

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TAROM the First of May, A FOUR-

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CALIBRE 7.65 m.

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Tweezers, Hinges, Linses, Flower Seeds,

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RUGBY FOOTBALLDEADLOCK.

PROFESSIONAL QUESTION.

My committee have only now learned in response to their request of Oct. 18. 1907, for the accounts of the New Zealand team which visited this country in 1905, that each member of that team, in addition to being allowed every possible expense, received an "allowance" of one guinea

haa ocempied the stage, although not visibly

SCOTLAND V. ENGLAND MATCH CANCELLED. present on it, during the last few days; and one naturally mises the question whether she is in in Rugby Union circles last month by the Something akin to consternation was causod any special sense a product of her period, and announcement that the Scottial Union would whether the girl of the present period really cancel their fixture with England sat for March differs in fundamentals, from the girl of any20 next, in London. The Scottish Union have previous period.

Probably not. Probably, in her heart of signed by the hon. secretary, addressed to the issted a bulky correspondence, and in a letter hearts, the girl of to-day wants protty much clubs and organisations concerned, it is stated the same things that her ancestresses wanted; and, conversely, her ancestressee probably wanted very much what she wants, And wanted it just as badly. Adventuresses, kinds of ambitions women. One sort of girl of after all, are of all periods, and so are all another period who became Lady Hamilton, and the period has her prototype in the girl of the actress of the Georgian period whe first Duchess of St. Albans cannot have had much to married Coutts, the banker, and then become learn in the matter of ambition and self-assur ance from the contemporary ladies who have discovered that the royal road to the peerage

lies through the stage door. The rent difference Doors that once had to be forced nee now, if not lies, of course, not in desire bat in opportunity

girl has to be very modest and very lacking in wide open, at least conspionously ajar; and a self-confidence pot to believe that she has a chance of squeezing through.

· ANPIRATIONS.

Some of us, no doubt, derive our conception of the girl of the period from the Press and platform utterances of feminists. It is a short, but a misleading, cut to knowledge. One gathers from that source of information that the girl and not so much a woman es a super-woman, of the period is not so much a girl as a woman, and that all that wrong in the world is wrong. chiefly because she has not yet been called in to set it to rights. One sometimes finds her standing on a chair and saying to outside West Kensington Station. If she

any large proportion of the y meant it--if |

of the period really meant it one would have to stop short, even in the midst of an article, and consider whether their claims were justified. But they are extremely apt--to make admissions in pri are extremely aptor at all erents some of them rate which throw doubts on these public pro fessions,

Where is the gathering, not of arowed suffragista, in which some woman, animad- verting on the proceedings of the suffragists, is not guilty of the cynicism: They only want votes because they can't get husbands" And are there not other woren, more or less suf fragists, who can be unstrained, under cross- examination, to admit that if they had voter they would also like to have elections onen a In that respect at all events the girls of fortnight, and a special costume for voting in? the period is not unfeminine has not un sexed herself; and few various men will be fannd to complain because she has not done so,

In fact, the girl of the period is not really unfeminine at all, though she sometimes affecte to be so; and the few girls of the period who dress a as if

they were are not so really. The real difference, it should be insisted, is one of heart seize them. Feminists are very fond of or instinot, bat af chances and competence to praising the girl of the period on the ground that ahe does not want to get married. Bachelore desiring to become Benedicks might just as rea sonably praise her on the ground that she very obvionaly does desire and seek the goal. That which she shows in her choice of a profession. seems & just inference from the preferences

per week for himself. At the same time they have learned that the players of the Austra lien team at present in this country receive like" allowance." These "allowances," being cash payments, which the players can either save or spend, my ermmittee are unhesitating- ly

and unanimously of opinion that they are contrary the principles of amateur Ragby football, and, in short, amonnt to profession alism. The English Union the Scottish Union under date Dec. 21, 1908, have written to stating that these allowances made with approval of the English committes. have been The correspondence reviews the circum- country of the New Zealand, South African, stances connected with the visits to this and Australian testas, and the visit of British teams to New Zealand and South Africa, which latter the Scottish Union disapproved of. The letter setting out these details con- elades with the following romarks:

The point now at issno between Scotland and England is the most serious that could be raised in connection with our Ragby football is to continue on the lines of game. If pure amateurism any attempt whatever to introduce conditions inconsistent with those lines must not only be stroniously resisted bat boldly donounced. In our opinion, players are entitled to receive generous treatment in the way of travelling and hotela, more especially in the case of an extended tour, but your committed never mu not in sym- pathy with any body which approves of actual enah payments to players by way of "daily -allowance" or otherwise.

There can be no half-way house” in *Engby football.

In conclusion, my committon now desire to take the opportunity of publicly expressing their opinion that protracted football tours are not good either for the game or for the players, and that these extended tours, where a proportion of the gato is played for, import an element into the game which is decidedly harmful and foreign to its beat traditions. But, while this is so, my committee also desiro to state that they have every sympathy with an occasional visit from or to one or other of the Colonies, provided the greatest care in taken in the conduct of auch tours. Un- fortunately the financial aspect has of late entored too largely into the consideration of recent tonra, with the lamentable result that the friendly relationship between the two oldest Rugby football anions in the world has been abruptly terminated.

STRAINED RELATIONS. There will be no England and Scotland match this season. The reason given by the Scottish Union for their drastic action is that the

each to receive a sum of 32 a day by way of English Union, under whose auspices the New Zealanders played their tour in the British Isles in 1905, permitted the members of that team personal allowance.

Of that fact the Scottish Union state they have only just beuse aware. They reward it Lo, the permission to receive this moneys an not of professionalism on the part of the English Union, and Bones. their decision to break off official relations with that-body

but rarely leads to matrimony. Consequently THE "CAREER." Teaching for instanes, is a noble préfession, it in, very naturally and properly, most napo- pular with a large class of women. Nurses, on the other hand, often marry doctors as the best of them most areilly deserve to do; and the hospitals consequently have no lack of Teorite Chorus girls similarly, often marry lords and stockbrakes whether they deserys to do so or not; and the stage-door is therefore Louieged by a larger crowd of feminine affaire. A study, however, of the voluminous Suoh is, briefly, the present position, af applicants then any other opening in life. correspondence which has been published Even clergymen's daughters, as one learns reveals the fact that for about a year past from paragraphs, stoop to conquer behind there has been a tendency for the relations the footlights and in the conliases, One between the toe bodies to become strained, noed not blame them; but one may fail to see The Scottish Union are unsympathetic generally any essential difference between the spirit of on the subject of tours, of Colonials over here their policy and that of the young woman of an and of toure of British playera in the Colonies. Barlier date who took her stand where she might They think that these visits should be few and reasonably attract the attention of King far between, and they do not hesitate to say that Cophetes.

they do not like them at all.

To sum it all up: The "career, in the majority of cases, is pretty much the same career as of old; but it is "open to, the talents," and the girl of the perlod knows it. Lose levels ranks, of course more or less--and always did; but education helps it to do so, and so does adroitness in grasping at the skirts of happy,

chance.

In a way, therefore, the decision concerning the daily allowance may be regarded as the culminating point of an unfortunate correspon fence. The matter, however, is not as simple

its actual facts as the Scottish Rugby

me it to be. They rather beg the question Union whaps without reservation or

qualilleation of buy kind, they state of the New Zealand football players who teared in the British Isles in 1905 that each member of that team, in addition to being allowed every possible expense, received an allowance" of £1 is per week for himself.

The inverted commas enclosing the word allowance are put there, presumably, with a reason in the Scottish official letter.

Now, it is obvious that everything depends upon the interpretation of the term, overy possible expense. Clearly, if that is an accurate expression of the exact state of affairs, the pay. tent of £1 is a week, or, indeed, of Id a week, is without dontt, an unmistakable act of pro fessionalism,

The girls of old, if we may believe what we read in books and what our partate tell ns, sought husbands by stopping at licme, and looking demure, and learning to make good pastry. We may be quite sure, however, that they did so not by choice, but by compulsion, and that, on the whole and on the average, they preferred noblemen to commoners and millionaires to paupers, much as do their sisters of to-day. Only they were not allowed, except i rare cases, to go out into the highways and hedges to look for millionaires and noblemen, whereas & good many of their modern sisters cau and do. The number of them who are doing that, one feels assured, though no census can be

The reply of the English Union is scarcely taken, is much larger than the number of these likely to admit that such is the case. Pending who knock up Cabinet Ministers at the dead of that reply, it would seem that the Scottish night, bidding them get out of bed and give Rugby Union have been premature in publish- them vetes.

ing the correspondence in question, even if they have not been premature in taking, on Whether they have lost any of the bloora Kad such gromels, their charm of innocense in the process is a point

*present action. It may be added that the Scottish Union have which controversialista debate: On the whole always taken a strong attitude with regard to opinion seems to be overly divided on that branch pure amateurism, and in this connection it may of the subject, their elders declaring that they be recalled that Scotland met both the New have and their contemporaries maintaining they Zealand team and the South African team, and, have not. It is, at any rate, their contempo in plaes of a guarantee, handed them the net raries whom it is most important for them to proceeds of each match. Thus the New Zea please; aut, as long as they supeand in coing landers received £1,710, and the South African that, there is no urgent need for any one to make team £1,101. Originally the New Zealanders ugly, pessimistic faces. They are more interest were anxious that their tour should be managed ing than their grandparents; and that may be from this side; that the home unions should the principal reason why they keep their youth guarantee all expenses and take whatever profits lenger

in spite of their habit of smoking might accrus, This nausial project did not cigarettes.

commend itself, and the New Zealanders and It is further said, of conres, that they prove South Africana came here on an ordinary themselves specially of their period when they guarantee, with the expoeption of the Scotch

FEMININE AFTER ALL,

..

are wicked, by engaging independently of man matches alluded to in fraudulent transactions; bat even that charge cannot be allowed to stand In the first place, the frauds in which they engage, when they ara frandalent, nearly always run on the same lines. Their dishonest instinct, as in the notorious ense of bime. Hambert, is nearly always to bearow something on secount gf an imaginary Merry ance: and that

particular device, as the queries demonstrated at the time of Humbert casa, is at least na old as the eighteenth

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SCOTCH WHISKY contury In the second place, it almost invari

ably turns out in such cape that the dishar women is merely a stalking herse; and that.

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