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IF MEN. MANAGED HOMES.

{BY & WIFE]

It is a constant academical argument of my husband that if men had to man age homes they would succeed better than women.

"PEACE ABOVE GOOD FAITH.”

AMERICAN PROFESSOR'S INDICT

MENT OF MR. WILSON.

Professor J. M. Baldwin, the dis with his wife and daughter was on board tinguished American psychologist, who

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 1er 1916.

VERDUN

SCENE OF THE GREAT BATTLE

[BY DR. FROISLAND, PARIB CORRESPONDENT OF THE AFTENPOST 17 OF CHRISTIANIA.}.

W

AN AFTERNOON IN THE ARGONNE,

WEATHER REPORT.

On the Sist at 11.25 m. Presture hu a greased lightly over Tongking and Lason, It has increased slightly along the east coast of China. 4.

I last of those arguments, "that we could the cross Channel steamer Sussez when summit of one of the hills surrounding World to be with the quiet blue-coated atout latitude 19 deg N. and 108 deg. F..

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he has

NOTICES TO CONSIGNEES

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. THE P. & O. & N. Co.'s Chartered Stoner

“SANGOLA,”

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS

A depresion lies over the Son of Japan. At 6 1his morning the typhoon was 10 moving N.W.

Consignees of Cargo by the above-named Hongkong rainfall for 24 hours ending a feel are hereby informed thai tüsir goods are being landed and placed AT TEMUR HIGH in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown The forecast for the 24 hours ending at Non Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where sch Consignment will be sorted out Mark by Mark and delivery can be obtained an the Goods are landed.

today is as follows:

DISTRICT

Formos Channel

FORECAST.

(E. to B.B. winda,

|| equally, overcast,

Traing. (N.E. winds,

fresh.

South Coast of China be won. The same as alcagkong and Lamosku, (- No. 1 Bouth coast of China between fresh to strong, (B. to Swindes Hongkong sad Halimu

CHINA

COAST

{equally, in METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER

318T MAT, *.*

FRENCH AND RUSSIAN CONTRASTS. I do not pretend," he said, in the

After having spent 16 months on the are standing in a fortress on the Russian front it is like coming to a new over surpass you in mir departments she was torpedoed, has made a statement Verdun, sad looking down into the buruin the Daily Telegraph. that are essentially feminine. Our

soldiers of France, says Stanley Washburn patience might not extend to the manage: York Tribune, Professor Baldwin, who Mouse, filled with a glorious sunshine, that I have seen since I left Paris in 10a.m. to-day, 9.87 inchos.

to the Paris correspondent of the Newing city. Below us lies the Valley of the

Every detail ment of children. I sometimes doubt whether we could manage servants. It is is now at Wimeroux, is an old and inti- and for the first time this year one feels entirely different from all that one had military motor car early this morning is possible that our houses would not be an mate friend of President Wilson; bis the soft warmth of springtime in the air become used to on the distant front where needlessly spick and span as wives keep daughter was present at the marriage of one sees traces of the early springtime the patient soldiers of the Tsar are fight- them. If you saw his stady you would President Wilson's daughter. The pre-verdure here and there on the vast plaining in their own way for the same com share his doubt;)" Men, my dear giri, fessor says .--

that slopes to the banks of the swollen mon cause that imbues the thousands on have the capacity of rising above metien- I have studiously refrained from voin Meuse, whose green waters resemble at this front. Lunching at noon with the Hangkang & Neighborhood moderate so fresh, tous details. But where we should beating my disappointment, grief and, more the valley Great clouds of smoke about General commanding an army I had my

emerald necklace thrown at random into you hollow is in household economy. A recently, my shame at the policies of the two kilometres in width cut the necklace first glimpse of the fighting officers of man's business life teaches him to analyse President, who was my colleague at in two where Verdun burns upon both the French forces. expenditure and cut down waste. He Princeton for many years, and whom I sides of the river.

In France there submits to no hard-and-fast precedents expected always to admire and acclaim. he accommodates expenditure to current But things have reached a pass at which northward, giving the effect of a gigantic feeling, thigh no less potent, is far less There is a gentle suppressed fervour which one feels in breew in the valley which waits the smoke stantly one comes into the country and prices; he"

silence would be culpable. National leaning tower at one moment, an enor

goes among the troops. In Russia the honour has been betrayed and sullied. mous torch waved aloft the next. The administration has accepted excuses

easy to understand, or to realize. One At our side, sheltering behind the to realize the depth of their character. has to live with and among the Russians scorned in private life by honest men, has telling us that for the past two or three moral, which carries them on month after from Germany which would bave been stone walls of the fortress, the officer 18 and the fundamental nature of their even itself suggested reasons for palliat wecks three or four hundred bombs a day month, and which varies little whether ing the meanest breaches of treaty and have fallen into the city, but that only they are winning or whether they are faith, and has sought to save appearances by minor verbal severities and the timid bombs begin to fall. It is probable that deep steeped in mysticism and tinged two or three days ago did the incendiary losing Here it is the moral of a people Punishment of attachés, while the prin the energy, finding ho could never take with melancholy The Russians, as a cipal-Bernstorff has remained, guidthe city, decided to destroy it if possible. Russian once said to me, have not the ing and directing a warfare of bribery us through the accompanied us tookultur of highly developed science,

General treachery and open insult.

#s We visited a station for the shelling of dustrial and economic learning, but they of widespread education, of intricate in- air-craft. Five minutes before our erri have the Aultur of simplicity and faith, "To say he has deceived the President val a Fokker had been driven back into would be to say that President Wilson the enemy lines by the fire from this pets in the hearts of 180 million was a fool, for everybody else has under-station. It was the fourth which had stood it. It only remains to say that, tried to fly over our lines this morning, commander of a corps in the Argonne Naro

We reached the headquarters of the Vladivostos, 8 a. understanding German bad faith and said the officer in command, a mere boy country at 3 in the afternoon, and were Hakodate tolerating it achieving mythical diplo shells have been fired from this station once offered as the hospitality of his Koshi Mars

of some twenty years. matic victories which in every case move

How many met by the General commanding, who at Tokio further back the line of our moral de asked the General. Environs de cinq corps, and assured us that we might go Nagasaki wie fences the President has either conscious mille, mon General," answered the boy.anywhere in his command. We walked ly sold our national honour or has pur-

It was a comparatively new station. and moral sense in the monstrous Ger sued some visionary bubble, hoping to, man. If this latter be the case, let him now know that the nation is not so to be When do you live scraggily fooled, and that it expects him to strike interposed with natural beat.

Well, perhaps I ought not to use the in the name of our heritage of proud word. But there are weeks when cold traditions. For we are already incredibly meat seems to recur with the ironic fre- disgraced. The name of our country to quency of zero at Monte Carlo."

Aynonym overywhere for coward You are hinting, I suppose," I rece, commercialism, and hypocrisy, torted, "about the week before Insty

"The President, it is said, has avoided when you were at home I wonder whe war. Yes, he has. And Belgium might ther men, when they are lanching at have also Belgium would have had a their restaurants or clubs, ever realise thousandfold more reason to submit to how often their wives are having to sit German bullying and aggression than we down to cold meat at home ?".

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Explain, I interrupted. Certainly," he answered, settling down in his chair with a bland and kindly smile and lighting another shill ing cigar.

I will take the housekeeping allow ance," he commenced. Ah, how often The very fact taken" it). that in nearly every home it is a fixed allowance, exacted by the wife, accepted as an unvarying item by the husband from week to week Even in war- Lime." I interposed, but he ignored mo)

is proof that something is wrong in it. Your housekeeping allowance WAS nany pounds a week when we married, The same number of pounds a week when Boris and Norah wore babies and ate next to nothing; the same number of pounds a week when they were growing like beanstalks and eating like buntere and it

the same number of pounds & week now they are at boarding-schoool and consuming nothing at hores except in the holidays. It is the same number of pounds & week when we entertain friends or have little extra luxuries. It is the same number of pounds in the weeks when we live scraggily."

A NATION NOT TO BE FOOLED,

city its environs,

毒

peasants.

Station,

line after line of barbed-wire entangle- ments and reserve positions prepared by the French against the day of a possible German advance.

forward, while the General pointed out 20akkam 101-

HAIN OF FRENCH SHELLS.

aka sens

Bonds Is.

Chito W

the side of the hill opposite and only a Frie

The French trenches are well up on Hankow few hundred yards from those of the lang Germans. We are fortunately here at the Con very hour of the French artillery activity, in the earth we watch the German line and for half an hour from our refuge but & meagre 1,000 yards away being heads we hear the uninterrupted rusk dronched with French shells. Over our of our shells going on their errands to

the guns are vibrant with the crash and rear of

There," he said. triumphantly, ASTO. But glorious Belgium did not place had begun to vibrate. Most of us know the enemy, while the woods behind us

you

anconsciously support my argument. In sman-managed house cold meat would be regarded as a blot on the caterer's escutcheon; fie-pie would be admittert an adaninistrative blunder: baab world give proper occasion for a vote of no confidence in the Government. Half of the meals that the wives of small homes put before their families are makeshifts, Pies to disguise, tactical mistakes. im Provisions to cope with lack of

Have you the faintest conception of the rise in food prices?" I asked. "Certainly," he said, in tone of one who concedes. I believe that food prices have risen, generally speaking, by about 40 per cent." Have you risen my housekeeping by 40 per cent. ?" Certainly not," he replied decidedly "It is urgent that we must all economise. If I raised the housekeeping allowance 40 per cent, we should be living exactly as we lived bofore the war. It would be unpatriotic, it would be a crime."

peace above good faith, nor material com- fort above the integrity of the heritage of her children. Lion's early protests were commercial, Our administra of the conventions to which we were in and only sent after the gravest breaches every moral sense committed had been ignored. We must not be provincial in Heavens! This altor, advising us to be 012 commerce (says the President) neutral-which is worse than provincial in moral sympathy and political policy Can a nation trade with other nations, making profits from their distress, while rejecting all responsibilities for the essential guarantees and sanctions on which even trade reposes? Are we Amer cans such solf-seeking moral cowards as this? The Lusitanin settlement remains in the lurid light of later events. Why don't we know the German terms to which our President yielded? And why was this diplomatic victory followed by a new outburst of devilry at sen? The country has only itself to take counsel with. It must demand all the truth and force its President to action

"I AM NO NEUTRAL"

That I was on a torpedoed boat has nothing to do with what I now say, I have never been neutral, and the Germans

away

But now some shells had begun to fall apon the town. They came from the north, in the direction of Douaumont thandered without ccasing, but one could not distinguish any definite sound; it was and the Cote du Poivre. The cannon

a roar as of thousands of logs being hurted from enormous water-shoots. It seemed too powerful, this intensity, to be the work of man. It seemed as though whirling burning lava out to cover and a gigantic volcano had opened, and was

lowed the General back towards the au exterminate all the world. As we fol tamobiles by which we had coms we were conscious suddenly that the air above us

burst, sad a hail of bombs fall not far this odd noise. A shell was coming. It

fire that followed their course. One of positions, now like the crater of a very diary bombe, and we saw the spurts of sible to see the details of the German into the city. They were incen Even without one's glasses it is pos

little cottage standing alone. A great fealer of bursting shells and the steam- them fell upon the verandali of a trim active young volcano, studded with Baume arose which licked the cerandah off ing abysses hung with black smoke that the cottage. Then spread two red black they leave behind them, arms, one on either side, which seemed evt can reach one can pick out the Ger

As far as

the foamy smoke. This smoke was wafted that hangs in the air the burst of one to lift it into the air in a part of ourlingman line by the cloud of dust and debris backwards by the fresh spring wind from shell being instantly followed by that of the valley, revealing only space whet snother. The Germans are not apparent. the cottage had stood. A grenade tellly disposed to be into a grove of big oak trees below the for within a minute or two their guns, Ticob

strafed in silerice,

neatly and whirling their fresh young begin to reply, and the noise of our shells walls of the citadel, cutting them up hidden away somewhere in the distance, e buds about our heade.

going over and their shells coming overabun Burigao

guns, makes a chaos of sound about us. our lines, coupled with the roar of the So confusing is the uproar that an enemy shell burst within 10 paces without our even noticing it until the officer with us called our attention to the fact.

underground shelter waiting for the fury We spent the next half hour in an of the bombardment to abate.

Clape

moti

Barometer

Tmperature.

at Sea Level

29.89

53821222EAFKIRT

Humidity

RADIO TELEGRAMS, "Kashima díeruð 2, 29,70

*Lat. 16 25 N. Long. 111.20 E

Wind

Di colon.

Weather,

Force,

888-4.0

T. F. CLAXTON, Director.

1. BAROMETER, reduced to 32 degrees Fahren Bu hundredthshare

2 TEMPERATURE, in the a.ade, in degrees Fahrenheit.

have the right to kill me if they can, but down the street he now came carrying activity is were normal afternoon 100

But don't you realise 1 demanded. "what efforts and contrivances nust be put to, then, to keep the household catering on so much like the former bas13 coat even. you have not plained ye

com do not like those words 'eyen you,' said my husband severely. "When have 1 ucen & Hun over my meals loathe they have no right to murder inneen cold meat, I hate fish is abominate their weak voices be heard in the land worden on unarmed passenger ships. May hash. but I eat them--and say nothing. 1 accept their inevitability. But I do where the clarion calls of international say that there should be no hard-and-Right and national honour fall on deaf Jast housekeeping sum every week, espe ears. In Washington's words, uttered in einfly in the weeks when you tone things 1783,It will depend on the nation itself. down, so to speak."

to be in the future happy and respected. or unhappy and despised. They are at the moment of their political proof, the are fixed on them, the moment when they moment when the eyes of all the world will save or lose their national reputa tion."" Reuter.

4. DIRECTION OF WIND, to two points. 6. FORCE or Wind, according to Boa fort Seale. 6. STATE OF WBarugi, 6 blue sky, o dotached clond, d drizzling rain, f fog, e gloang, ki bait, i lightning, o overast, p pising anomer o qual rain, snow, thuador, v vidbility, w low (was)) 7. BAIN in laches, tenths had hundredths.

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE

When we ro-entered the town fire was burning in six places in one street. Is Verdun destroyed! Yes and No. There were many quarters of the city quite utter hand had touched & switch, the sounds, on the level of the sea in inches, tenths Then, as suddenly as though some mas touched. Of course the civilians had. gone long before. We saw but one lone of our guas ceased, and there fell a civilian during our visit, and he had silence so profound that the notes of a obtained permission from the general-in-

bird singing in a distant free hundreds chief to return in search of some precious of yards away armed loud and shrill. books he had left there. Le civil de As we came out of trenches and walked 3. HURDITY, in pe centage of aturation, the Verdun the soldiers called him and back through the wood I asked the gen-buidity of ar maturated with moletare buing

eral if some of the books.

Hardly," he said with a my former visit, and I spoke to him now. haps, stop firing when we do."

I had made his little smile, it is unusually quict here acquaintance three months ago during to-day The Germans, as you noted-ver-1. He was very tranquil, jike all the rest

His about the city. My house is destroyed, mis vanished for a moment and then he said a little sternly, And it is well said, "but what is that if the way of the vandals is barred ?"

for them that they do, for I shall reply What is there to say of these soldiers us. Perhaps they know it, because you with two for every shell they send against streets of Verdun with the bombs falling their shelling." I think this impressed and firemen working in the burning see they are not anxious to continue

these are words much too ordinary for 10 German ones, about them constantly Courage, inne more than anything. I had so far seen. the soldiers of France. difference towards death, self-sacrifice-- In Russia one of our shells brought hack

But here it is quit Every one of clear that they are beginning to feel the ő them should be named Chevalier of the wisdom of conserving their fire for their Legion of Honour, and even that would be nothing

great o beside the immensity of their

offensives. valour. Somebody said that there were house around which they were working, was a great litter of old shoes and sardine When I came home I was shocked a search. I saw them Fick in the door and bushes standing untidily above faint at- and five men at once volunteered to tins, thrown hastily among the budding the appearance of my husband. He had disappear inside the little hallway, from tempts of spring-time verdure. Wh

F lost weight and was anemic. The plain fact," he said evasively, you been feeding yourself properly spouting

**Have which smoke and flame were already shall tend the gardens of Verdun this Satur. 4L is. that our expenses are inelastic. asked severely. Oh, rather, he an Also that the housekeeping allowance, in swered absently, and tried to turn the We walked some hundred metres two, and from its upper storey the re-Sun.

spring Here was a house cut quite in any case, exceeds what I have always conversation on to my holiday. Press from the windows of several numbers, space; a picture in a gilt frame dangled Mon boen

through a burning street. Flames shotmains of a bed stood out strangely into given to understand ought to be

ed, he admitted that he had perhaps When we returned to where the men were from a broken beam the nurinal, allowance per hord.

"How much is that?"

"a few scamping

meals. Fur-

what does that mean? Iyked: Wolf, the weeks, when I ain late several nights and dine at the club, or when we are both away perhaps a whole day, or when as you insist 100 men tion or it again-cold meat occupies a main strategical positivi In those weeks you ought to hand a balance back tonie

And what of the weeks when you how to cater well at fifteen, shillings a explosives in the collar of the barning have several Inuches at home, or our head. friends come to meals, or we have little Juxuries, or both children are at home for the holidays? Will you allow me extra in those weaks?"

*** I have read somewhere that you can nourish an adult for fifteen shillings a week??? **** What about washing, cooking, clean- ing, and household requisites

climbed

From 1st to 7th June: 1916 HIGH WATER

Height

∙LOW WATER.

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B'keng

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Mean

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Thure, 1 m 8

1. m. 2 29

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and tinned tongue for breadfast and had fallen across the street, and over wilderment on their faces. A pack of ther pressed, he admitted that sardinest work we found that an obus had cut The saddest thing was to see the de- Tues. dinner are an ideal menu the first day; the burning scaffolding and hot brick we them dashed wildly by as though madness One of the rubber hoses in two. A wall serted animals-thin with a terrible be

Wed day, barely palatable the third day, shop and a pharmacy burned on opposite by the falling bricks. We asked the sol- quite delightful and simple the second

as best we could. A jewellery had seized them. Some had been injured Oh, I suppose they are included, he to the flesh the fifth day, and that it the upspurting of coloured flame regular been shot, our oficer told us. The birds monotonous the fourth day, a loathing sides of the street, In the latter we saw diera to shoot them. Many had already said weakly. In any case, you could saved trouble thereafter to have only testy at ten-second intervals from bottles were making a great clatter in some include them. The plain fact of it is that women do not understand economy. the same for supper.

and bread and butter for breadfast and of inflammable liquid na the fire crept trees by the wall. Six little dead birds Bat I wish that I could have a week's catering to show what a man would do."

And my husband catered thus miserably along the

shelves. My husband's opportunity came. I

were porched upon a broken live" Wire for one for a week at the following ex

from the fallen telephone post pense (not including household re

sites and laundrying h with friends. He insisted on my going. Six lunches at club at 2s. 6d. "You haven't had change sings tho Bread (s new loaf daily and the war broke out," he said." Let the maid go home. I don't mind being alone in

loaves wasted)

น

week

Butter

the house. I can get a solid lunch at Tea

the club each day and pig it for break- Sardines (4 tine at 1s. ed.) fast and dinner.rose to cook? I Tongue (2 at 45, od)

How do you propose

Milk Anybody can make tes and boile eggs ho answered. That accouuls: for breakfast As for diorier

The gutter in front, swollen with water from the hose, became dammed with hurn ing books, but these were carried rapidly 150 away. We heard the snapping of tele phone wires, and from the empty house 8 beside the pharmacy the insistent ringing

General look us over the lactress, from which we could see glimpses of the cross-fire between Dousamont and the Cote du Poivre. We descended into the lowest cellar, where we were invited t

to

No infer. high or low, water

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FROM NEW YORK.

THE Steamship

"LOWTHER CASTLE,”

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All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods A to be left in the Godowns, where they will be examined ca BATORDAY, 3ed June, at 10 a...

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Hongkong, 29th May, 1918.

"SHIKE" LINE OF STEAMEBS, LIMITED.

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Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

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anted to the Undersigned on or before the 20th June, or they will not be recognized.

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No Fire Insurance has been effected. Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

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a gurgle-s death ottle as a great green metres of rock, and there we spent & most Game surged from the window. agreeable hour with the officers of All along this were the locked Verdun. There was no pessimism among doors and barred windows of the de- them. The question of Verdun was quite parted population. In some cases heavy settled in their minds. They had at it But I have now had my homekeeping but they were of no avail against ina ne i

beams had been nailed over the windows, aside-withTENING DENTA never hear janything new about woman's on the door of a tiny cottage, whose

Ferme

ne seront jamais, jamais! A was written of food monotony. Two articles of diet, wondered where the two-old men faults an economist or any complaints occupants had been known to me, and though, are barred from the table-they gone. Father on in some garden plots, are sardines and tinned tongue-Daily Mail.

lighter He hesitusta little allowance raised by 40 per cent, and I vading flames.

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Well 1" I persisted. «Never mind," he said briskly 1 haven't thought things out pat Don't you worry about me. But I'll show you (Continued on next Column)

(Continued on next Column)

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