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DODWELL & CO., LIMITED.

REGULAR SAILINGS TO NEW YORK & BOSTON] for NEW YORK & BOSTON vla Suez

5.L." BOWES CASTLE"

LLOYD

sailing on or about 26th Nov.

TRIESTINO.

TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING FOR LEVANT," BLACK SEA & DANUBE PORTE.

FIUME having been re-opened for trafia, oargo is alse sccepted for this port on through Bills of Lading,

FOR BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE

via SINGAPORE, PENANG & COLOMBO.

Alla

"NIPPON "

***

sailing on or about 10th December.

FOR SHANGHAL

"NIPPON".

siling on or aboɛ 23rd November. Prasengers' Luggage can be insured at the Office of the Agents.

NATAL LINE OF STEAMERS.

Sailing from Colombo to South African Porta-- SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS from CALCUTTA & COLOMBO, Through Bill of Lading issued from Fangtong,

For Freight or Passage on any of the above Lines apply to 1—

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED,

Agents.

N. Y. K.

NIPPON YUSEN

KAISHA

KAILINGS FROM KONUSUNG KONJEGI TO ALTKEATIN.

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN FRANCE.

LAW AND CUSTOM.

INFLUENCE IN THE HOME

it. Girls of humble origin and girls of good family coms up to Paris from the provinces and bear hardship and seelu- sion of their own free will to gain scholarships and pass examinations They literally give themselves, body and soul, for the time being, to the attainment of their end, and if they come out of the struggle less used up than their brothers it is because they do not burn the candle

at both ends.

INDO-CHINA

STEAM INAVIGATION COMPANY, LIMITED.

TIENTSIN MANTLA

BAILINGS, SURIBỘT TO ALTERATION

STRALIS & CALCUTTA

HAIPHONG vis BOIHOW

SHANGHAI & TSINGTAU via BANGKOK

KOBE

SANDAKAN Jud

CHEONGSHING "Fr,

YUENBANG.Fri

NAMSANG “...Sat.

*TAKSANG"

San

18th Nov.

Roon.

18th Nov. 32.8.

19th Nov, 9 PM

20th Nov., 10 a..

SWATOW TUNGSHING TA 23rd Nov, D'light.

CHUNDANG Thurs ich Now. Dlight. *LAISANG" Thors, sith Nor, D'ight ***HINSANG "Wed, 80th Nov., Moon.

They drop all for a maringe UALCUTTA LINE: This Line affords regular sailings to dalentia, Penang 200

The wide influence of Frenchwomen both in public and private life, is all the more remarkable when one remembers that they are but poorly supported by the the strange thing is that when they laws of their country. As wires they hold the prize they have fought for, they must submit themselves to their husbands in greater or less degree according to the 50 often refuse to use it to its full value. They accept a second place, with second- particular law under which they are mar- ried. Under that known as Communauté ay ay. Under that known acmiwy emiwurgrt des biens, husband and wife share equally each other's goods, and are responsible for each other's debts. Under the law of Séparation des bien, on the other hand, each holds his or her property apart from the other. But, as with all laws in France, where every citizen of the Re- publio is born with the spirit of

from- deur, the interpretation of the written word differs according to circumstances. Where the marriage is a happy one, law,

of mediocrity. But they insist on their de convenauce, and an assured position children being industrious in the same way, and use their knowledge to help them. The price paid for this strain on youthful brains is often-a-boazy one. SHANGHAI but there are signs in the educational world to-day that the development of the body will count more in the future and so make for a truer balance of power...

DISTRUST OF POLITICS.

MANILA

Singapore; returning from Caloutta steamers, proceed via Strales and Hongkong to Japan, occasionally calling Shanghai. All steamers have excellent passenger accommodation, ara fitted with Electric Light and Fans and carry a fully-qualißod Burgoon.

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LINE:-Seilings approximately every five days between Cantoa sad

Shanghal, sometimes calling at Swabow Through Hakobs be obtained and through Bill of Lading are issued to alk Northern and Yangtze Ports via Shanghai. LANK-A wookly service is maintained with Manila by vessels with good

passenger accommodation, saillega from both ports every Friday.

approximately weekly for passengers and cargo at Hoihow when inducement offer

HAIPHONGINE

do not count very much, but where it is 1 fluence is centred in the home, where it} BORNEO LINtly sailing, "E" and MAUSANG" both remaneza.

for

not they afford endless, occasions friction. A woman may on no account have a banking account without the consent of her husband. She must always have his permission to be a member of any public society or club. He has prior right over the children, and thus bolds her by a very strong cord.

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Thus it is that the Frenchwoman's in-

in strengthened by tradition, not by law. Tact and taste are two of her guides in life. She dislikes to be called eccentric. To be considered masculine is, to her mind, undesirable. She distrusts politics, and the idea of being openly associated with them does not appeal to her, Cer- tainly the will not fight for the right to vote in the way Englishwomen have done. The word "suffragette" ls the synonym for all that the average Frenchwoman If the vote most dislikes in woman. comes to her it will be through the sup port given to it by men, and they will give that support mainly for political reasons. Already there are members of Parliament who have voiced the idea in the House. The present Prime Minister, M. Briand, is in favour of it. The Church is not averse to it. Among the Socialiste women have many supporters. There are, in fact, grounds for believing that woman's rights have many political supporters in various political camps. There is less enthusiasm among the the average masses, and, particularly

On the other hand, parents are truly reininded by the law that they must be responsible for their children's material welfare, They may not disinherit them, and their property must be equally divid ed among them. In the event of parental extravagance, the children can put a legal check on it, and, by means of that mysteriously powerful family meeting known as a conseil de famille, they may forced their elders to pass a most uncom fortabte quarter of an hour. The reading of all these legal forms depends very much on the strings that are pulled by those concerned, for cold justice is not a common thing. The human element plays a great part in its administration, and those who can find the way to temper the wind in their own favour are those who win. In such matters women have learned man is against the idea of women in politics. There are men who believe to be very skilful, and they have but one

that the vote will come to women slowly serious rival: Mammon, the God of Cor- and in the natural order of things, but ruption. Of all written laws concerning they are not the most intellectual. The women's rights. the most directly favour women who are earning the right to vote able to the individual is that which gives are those who are quietly working or the a woman the right to her own earned welfare of the nation-those who are income. This law is about 10 years old.

fighting tuberculosis and drink, those who *UN WEITTEN LAWS.

are interested in hygiene, child welfare, the housing of the working man and the improvement of general hospitals. There are many such in all classes, but they are inadequately supported by law. A still greater drawback to their success is that they do not work together. The aristo- crat works with and through the Church, the bourgeoise with and through the milieu to which her husband belongs the Socialist with and through the particular Each sus- Napoleon I. did everything possible to group to which she belongs. tighten the Roman code, and, wherever peeta her reighbour, and no amount of be could, he turned the screw against good work is allowed to cover a multitude Unity is a charac women's freedom. But he reckoned with- of political sins. out his host. He failed in his under-teristic of the French people under armis. standing of the nation he governed by As civilians, they are divided into little saw women in two lights-domestic and well according to the tenets of its group, frivolous. He did not believe that they but refusing firmly to collaborate with counted as citizens. He misread the mean its fellow groups. ing of their power in the past, and he entirely ignored the possibility of their political influence in the future. The smoke of battle. never cleared away enough to show him that he had im poverished France of her young manhood. He reckoned on a vigorous male age to mould the future, and bis mistaken con clusions have only been less fatal because Manila,- Zamboanga, Thursday of those very unwritten laws which he refused to observe Had Frenchwomen been less conservative, had they not suffer ed from reaction after war, as they are suffering now, and had they come out into the open as citizens after the Napoleonio wars with & constructive policy, the tale told to-day might have been vastly different.

VICTORIA,

SEATTLE & VANCOUVEE Japan ports

vis Shanghai

Through Bills of Lading issued to all Overland oummon Folate in U.B.A. and Canada.

FUSHIMI MARU (Nagasaki direct) ... KATORI MARU (calling Nanija) KASETNA MABU

*** Frilag

SUWA HABU (omitting Manila)

Saturday, Tuesday. Saturday,

18th Nov at 31 sm. 3rd Dec., at il am 17th Dec, 11 mm 14th Jan, at 11 am.

So much for the written laws They appear to be definite and limited, but prove to be open to wide interpretations The unwritten laws are felt, not seen, and they are amazingly strong and binding & They have grown up with the people Their roots go deep down in the soil of national character. It is not possible to explain them. They are there, and they are accepted.

MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP ris Singapore, Penang, not realizing the power of women. The parcels of prejudice, each one working

Colombo, Baez and Port Said

SHIDZUOKA MABU.....

HAKONE MARU

YOKOHAMA MARU

YOSHINO MARU

Thursday,

Friday, Friday,.. Friday,

94th Nov., at '11 0.1

9th Dec, as. 11 MIL 23rd Decy at 11 am 6th Jan, at 11. p.m.

Wednesday, 23rd November.

HAMBURG, vis LONDON & BOTTERDAM.

MATSUYE MARU

LIVERPOOL · vis MARSEILLES.

KAMAKUBA MABU

THE

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE via

Wednesday,

Island, Townsville & Brisbane. TANGO MARU

NIKKO KABU

AKI MARU

Tuesday,

Tuesday, Tunday

Friday,

NEW YORK, VIA PANAMA & CUBAN PORTS.

DELAGOA MARU

+E

NEW YORK vis BUEZ.

TSUYAMA MARU

BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS &

KAWACHI MARU ...

BOMBAY vis” Singapore, Penang

GENOA MARU...

Fo

7th Dec.

20th Dec., at 11 am. 17th Jaa at 11 am 16th Feb, av 11 am,

15th Nov.

End of Becember.

BUENOS AIRES. vis CAPE,

Wednesday, 16th Nov.

and, Colombo,

Saturday J9th Nov.

GALOUTTA via Singapore, Penang & Bangoon.

· MORIOKA MARU

The root of the evil is political dissen- sion, fanned by the Press. It is common to hear men and women declare that they Yet they abbor and flee from politics know that politica come into the smallest details of their lives. The parish priest, the parish schoolmaster, both have their political role to play. To be accepted as the member of any society in art er letters is often a question of political interest The jurisdiction of the country is swayed by the same thing. Everyone knows it... Everyone deplores it. And yet everyone puts up with it-Times Supplement.

MILLIONS INVOLVED. BRITISH FIRMS LOSE CASE: AGAINST GERMAN FIRMS.

But Frenchwomen are profoundly con- servative. They are afraid to let go the things they have inherited. They have little sympathy with that splendid illu- sive doctrine which speaks of the sub- In the Chancery Division, Mr. Justice stance of things hoped for, the evidence Russell delivered a roserved judgment in of things not seen." They are always a test action brought by British com inclined to build the future on the phat panies against the controllers of six com- (and and their past is too big for hem.

panies established in England grace of a day that is dead" casts a wound up under the Trading with the shadow on all they think and do. They Eneiny Acts) for the sale of German dyce, build with old bricks on old foundations claiming damages amounting to many There is much to say for their methods, millions of pounds for breach of pre-war and their material is good; but they risk faxiure because they refuse to do away

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NAGASAKI

KOBE & YOKOHAMA,

NIKKO HABU

Thursday,

Friday,

with Nov.

Monday,

18th Decy at

falat Nov at 11 am. 4148 Nov.

SHANGHAI, KOBE & YOKOHAMA:

YOKOHAMA MABU

The

Donractá

Claimants, selected from a large body. with some of the old prejudices. They of plaintiffs, were the Calico Printers claim a logic they do not practise, and Association, Ltd., the Bradford Cotton although they are the most common-sense and Woot Dyers' Association, Ltd., the NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA people in the world, they lose the benefit Indigo Buying Amalgamation, Ltd., Scott of their qualities by stuffing them into & Co., Ltd., and the executors of Thomas bags which are too small to hold them.

LIMA MARU (calling Nagasaka & Kure) Monday, for forshær information apply 10-

Talepbane Kos. 229 & 293 ....

KAH KAMEL, Minager.

YAMASHITA KISEN K

KAISHA

(THE YAMASHITA S.S. Co. L10.)

REGULAR FREIGHT & PASSENGER SERVICE

BETWEEN

KEELUNG, HONGKONG & HAIPHONG.

Salling from Hongkong.

| FOR HAIPHONG vla. Holhow & Pakhol

8.8 "TAIKWA MARU”

on or about 24th Nov.

FOR KEELUNG via Swatow & Amoy

8.S." KOZUI MARU *

For further particuleza, vlouse wpply"to"

Branch Office, Colom

No. 37, Banham Strand, Wert,

Tel. No. 165

on or about 24th Nov.

M-KOBAYASHI AGENT, Top Floor King's Building

Tel No.160.

THE FRENCHWOMAN'É HOME.

Welch Hespondents were the controllera of the Badische Co., Ltd., the Bayer Co., There are no homes so sheltered as & Co., Ltd, the Berlin Aniline Co., Ltd., Led, the Greishein Elektron, Ltd. Kalled French homes. and when a-Frenchwoman said that the English made the word and Meister Lacius & Brunning. Ltd. and the French the thing," she was right outbreak of war rendered obtaining of It was argued for respondents that the A Frenchwoman's home is her castle indeed. She surrounds it with meat and battlements. No uninvited guest may enter therein. She rules supreme as its mistress. Her son is her son all her life, Her daughter is her own always, Both With regard to the latter point, claim- are hedged about with rules and regular ants replied that there had been an anti- tions peculiar to the family as well as

supplies impossible, that the fulfilment of

the pontracts would have involved in- tercourse with the enemy, and that as the contracta contained: opensory clauses the claim for damages was premature...

LIGION OF CONTRACTS. The hearing occupied 20 sittings of the Court, and 10 King's Counsels and a similar number of juniors" engaged in the case.

wero

to the nation. They are eduasted accord cipatory breach by reason of the winding- ing to tradition. Their future is planned up orders which put it out of the power with scrupulous care for their material of the companies to carry out the

contract." good. They are made to walk in a straight and narrow path while they are under the parental care, and only when the hour of manhood has struck for a son, and that of marriage for a daughter, does the road turn and widen. Bo far, the result of this early training has been a His lordship said that the number of highly intellectual manhood and woman contracts as legion, and 31 were selected, hood, with a valuable knowledge of the so that he had really tried 31 actions for practical side of life, and a cultivated breach of contract. With regard to the taste for the beautiful in art and letters first five, compethies, he held that on the In different degrees, these results are to outbreak of war they were in the hands be found in all classes of French social of persons resident in au snemy country, life, with the exception of the peasants and therefore became of an enemy charac The aristocracy, the bourgeoisse, and the ter, and the contracts came to an end. petite bourgeoisie believe in intensive A to Meister Lucius & Bruning, they England but with instruction for youth, and work their manufactured in children hard. The influence of women in materials procurable only in Germany, so these matters is great and as a matter the source of supply absolutely, stopped of fact, the most hard-working-students-in when war broke out Ho saw no differ- lycéra and colleges to-day are women, ence between these contracts and the They have a passion for knowledge and others, and directed the controllers to are prepared to sacrifice much to obtain reject all the claims

TIENTSIN

BANGKOK

steamers a.x.

to and from Sandakan by two 5,000 to

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Daving excellent passenger accommodation. Carga taren De brough Bill of Lading for Kadat, Josselton, Labuan Tawso and Lahad Datu, LINE:-A regular service is ran from March to November between

Hongkong and Tiantain, calling at Weihstwel and Chatoo. LINE-A wookly service is provided between Hongkong and Bangkok via Bwatow, by four steamers fitted with up-to-ciate' pramën, POS accommodation

CALCUTTA

LINE!

1. NAMSANG" will be despatched on or about Saturday, 19th Nov., at 3 p.m., for SINGAPORE, PENANG & CALCUTTA

Through Bills of Lading issued" to RANGOON, PORT SWET. TENHAM, MADRAS and DUTCH EAST INDIES.

For Freight or Passage apply to-

Twaznown No 515,

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd.

GLEN

GENERAL MANAGERS

AND

SHIRE

Joint Service of Steamers.

U.K.-STRAITS. CHINA & JAPAN SERVICE.

Vesser

MY GLENAVY" MAY, "GLENGYLIU MV. "GLENLUCE,"

Vettel

“OUTWARDS,

HOMEWARDS.

Leaves Hongkong

Das Hongkong

11th Deo. 16th Dec,

17th Dec.

Discharge

88. "CARNARVONSHIRE* 16th Nov. London, BotteldaM & HAMBURG. SS. "PEMBROKESHIRE 6th Dec. Guroa, London, AutWERP, ROSZERDAM &

HANEUES

Movements are subject to change without notice. Cor freight or further particulars please apply to p

Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd. The Glen Line, Ltd;, a

Telephone No. $15 sub-ez. 13 and 8696.

Cable Addres

Kawakizus, Kobe. Bentley's A.R.C. 6th Bi and Bagtis Colas

KAWASAKI

KISEN

Telephone: Baxnemły

1944 1988.

(KAWASAKI STEAMSHIP CO.)

CANTTAL PAID-UP.

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KAISHA

$130.000.000

President, Mr. Y. Kawamaxı, Vice-Presidenti Mr.K. MATKUKATA, Managing Director: Mr. Manera. Am

Company has on hand a Large Number of

NEW CARGO STEAMERS

ALWAYS BRADY FOR CHARTERS of all descriptions.

The following are comprised in the Company's Fleet M

Eleven steamers of 9,100 tons each "deadweight.

And under the Dorpssy's Management a

Twenty steamers of about 9,100 tons deadweight each. Two steamers of about 6,400 tons deadweight esch (Belonging-to-the-Kawamad Dockyard: Oo, TAL)

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For Charter Bates and all other particulars spoly to the

KAWASAKI KISEN KAISHA,

No, 8 BUD Kos,