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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRES8, NATURDAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 1918.

FEMALE MEDICINE

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ADMIRAL BEATTY'S ROMANCE HIS MARRIAGE TO A MILLION- AIRE'S DAUGHTER.

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A dashing young admiral wedded to a millionaire's daughter is a matrimonial

met with combination more often fiction than in real life, but the love story of Admiral Sir David Beatty provides]

In 1901 the young auch an instance

and

THE EFFECT OF WAR.

[DY E V. LUCAS.}

The war any have a weakening in- fluenes on many things, but there is no doubt that it 18 afrengthening our language. I hear stronger and stron ger language,

more of 14. all aidos. That sturdy Jack-of-all-admiral married Miss Ethel Marshal Trades adjective, for example, with which Field, the daughter of the American mil Mr. Bernard Shaw, always a pioneer, tionaire, Marshal Field, who built up a nought, some seven or eight years ago, fortune out of the greatest dry goods to shock a London audience, is passing stores in the world. Lady Beatty brought into general currency. I have heard it to her husband immense wealth, on the lips of quite nice women Wur being bloody (legitimately), other things amongst her wedding presents was a col- claim the right, however wrongly, to be

lection of precious stones given her by connoisseu‡ of bloody tuu. And we oblige them. Editors her father. who was a have not yet gone all the way they still jewellery, and toured Europe in search A few years ago insist on ruddy or blinkin but of choice specimens. it is only a matter of time ore it con- Lads Beatty's famous jewels aroused the.

covetousness of gang of skilled thieves. quers type alse,

Not yet, however, is this corpuscular who broke into her house at Melton Mow- epithet spoken aloud in mixed company, bray and decamped with several thousand They also wherens

pounds' worth of valuables. has become sʊ much a

number of Admiral took with them a part of ordinary content on heat at Beatty's medals and decorations, but their effiency as a laughter maker on the stage

undermined, is being seriously

were dropped by the thieves during their and

ultimately recovered. dramatists will be driven th work very

the outbreak of the war Lady bard to replace it Editors and they Beatty has been using her wealth to aid after all, are the best sociological baro the wounded. She has turned bor private meters who unce shied at it, and either yacht Sheila into a hospital ship, and substituted a dash or, as a mark of dis

superintends its good

damn

and

ork at

approval, omitted the vowel, now prints Royalty and society are in-1

it in full, or blithely cut on the 11 and tara no bair. Every narrative from

peppered with it.

the front

"

And

for hell".

Year centuries or is it mons ago people used to laugh over the famous opening sen tence of the schoolboys' nuvel: "Bell!! said the countess, who bitherto had taken no part in the conversation. But it very flat to-day. And there was a time when editors insisted also on the umis sion of the vowel in this word, by way of mitigating its crude horrors. All this is, however, over Not only is the war itself hell, but it has brought hell into every-day speech.

GIVE THEM HELL

Prime Ministera, visiting raided da tricts of London and thinking of the foe, murmur or do not murmur, but get the credit for it- Give them holl and the phrase is printed in every newspaper in the country to become u slogan; and I have just read a cabled extract from a Berraon by the Rev. Billy Bunday in which be adumbrates a bell beyond hell, describing with characteristically vigo row strokes the day when the Kaiser's shivering soul shalt arrive at the gates of the present establishment, only to be repudiated by the devil as unworthy to consort with the ordinary damned, and sent on to something worse.

Hell, then, as a word to shudder at and refrain from, except under very special conditions, may be said to have disappeared

in the charitable work of the handsome admiral's wife, for she is one of the

American wives best liked ណាបកម្ម of English husbands and quite a favourite with the Royal Family Sir David Beatty is an aide-de camp to King George. The late King Edward was often

guest

of the Beattys during the aboot- ing for their residener at Inver could faces Balmoral from the other side of the Dec.

Prior to the outbreak of the war Ad miral

Beatty and bis wife were popular society entertainers, and many nanies toi

of be found in the pages Debrett's Pourage But since figured on their visitors' list. her husband has been watching and for the German Navy on the waiting North Sea. Lady Beatty has closed her town and country houses, and is working under the Red Cross banner, and per- | d

aristocratic frinde to do the same. suading many of hor

Despite her fabulous wealth. Lady Beatty is very modest. A few years ago, when her husband was Captain Beatty, she induced him to do cline a title which might have been his

EXPLORER-SOLDIER IN PALESTINE

LIFE AS AN ARAB

The adventurous career of Colonel T. E. Lawrence, whose name has been men- tioned as one of the geniuses behind the great victory in Palestine, would fill a It cannot, of whole book of romance course, be told in detail yet, but the mare outline of some of the achievements of is this extraordinary

officer-he Young not yet thirty-is full of thrille. knows Colonel Lawrence intimately, to a The story, as related by a friend who representative

Daily Express,

What are we going to do to season our language when all these old allies of anger and scorn have become common places Bevert perhaps to simple terms and let our demeanour supply the em phasis Not a bad thing. Or force our selves to pick our speech more carefully and apply to cach new situation the

begins at Oxford Lave

ord University, where the "The world fitting expression?

the may fature explorer agused brilliantly in be, as a famous poem--one of the best

est schools, and won a Double First. Archeo poems which the war has produced logy was an early lure, and his work in announees, very bloody but there research brought him, while still at the of Professor are degrees of bloodliness, fine shades of university, to the notice

of the sanguinity, which we ought to be parti-Hogarth, the learned curator cular to indicate.

Ashmolean Museum. At Professor Hogarth's desire, young Lawrence, inme diately after he came down from Oxford, went out to Syria to dig at Calchemish for historical remains.

At the moment, largely owing to the uncompromising rigour of this national first aid to censure, we give our brains

far too little exercise.

WON BY WIRELESS

WED BY PROXY.

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Lawrence was not the man to attack a task of this kind half-heartedly. He found in the deserts of Syria, with its AND half-buried cities and ancient monuments, a country and a people after his own heart. To study thom the more effectively and with better comfort, he turned him After a courtship by wireless, a wed self as nearly as possible into an Arab. ding by proxy, with the bride thousands Just as the Oriental in London Ands the of miles away, will unite Miss Emily Orsi surest comfort in European clothes, Mr. of Cairo, Egypt, and Lieutenant Rudolph Lawrence, as he then was, adopted the Winzer of Chicago, the Great Lakes costumes and speech the

of people with Naval Training station to-morrow morn-whom he had gone to live and work. ing (says a message from Great Lakes, It was not exactly an easy country for or foreign, in the old misrule. Mr. Lawrence

Hl, dated November 1st).

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The romance began in Egypt when utenant Winzer was assigned to tha

North Carolina. Miss Omi is the

10

The

native

of and down it, alone or with

up

a

only, lived their life, and shared daughter of an Italian marquis and her their risks Does he was nearly killed mother was English.

marriage in an attack by bandita near Akka. He licence was obtained

two survived it and continued his study of Waukegan months ago and a copy mailed

to the the country. He soon proved himself bride,

who obtained a similar document not only an archeologist of m

mark, but a master of men, who and

labour sent a copy to America. FRYPL At the ceremony the bride will be ressituation with success, and the problems

Miss prosented by Grace Belle Reams, of of labour in the Orient are at least as

those and the service will be read by troublesome as in Chicago, and the W Moore.

England. A blue- He was still travelling and working in jacket orchestra will play the "Wedding Syria when the war broke out, and, im March." At the close a wireless will be mediately realising that his knowledge| relayed to Egypt and Mrs. Winter will of Eastern life might be of value, ha start at once to meet her husband.

offered his services to the Egyptian Army.

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If all the tickets are sold one prize alone will be about £4,000. It's worth an effort.

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