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THE DỤNGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 31,
REMINISCENCES OF THE
STRIKE:
[AY ALICE GRANT-SMITH-] One hardly knows where to start with your strike recollections. There has been such a jumble. comedy and discomfort overlapping one another, and already the comedy, takes prstaler place in meinbry's gallery
1942.
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THE DIRECTORY
AND CHRONICLE
1922.
6
91 FOR
NOW IN THE PRESS
CHINA JAPAN," KORIA.
INDO-OHINA, SIAM, STRAITA
On the whole," however, things weat merrily, and if the strike had lasted an other week think numbers of women in Hengkong, barring those with young families, would have refused to take their
Played at Sookunpoo Valley on Satur servants.buck. I heard of our emergency day, the Navy deleated the Indians by mess where the returned cook's first meal | the small margin of 12 runs. Scores: was greeted with very wry faces, and if you want to know what mess I diean your will not have to search far. It was: Of course, such an experieur as
win a very well-organised, centre and three have recently passed through in Hongkong very capable women were doing the cook- was funnier and infinitely more uncom
ing for thirteen, people; not one of the fortable than it could have been in any thirteen: ever wants to eat Chinese cook other country, where the ordinary coming again, but wobleraz oblige" and "if you' forts of civilisation obtain in bath-room are geatlefalk, why you are and there is and kitchens and where people are not
an end of it; you have jolly will got to absolutely dependent, as they are here, one servants, your position demands it.
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classy their little atom of compensation in life, that of knowing that they are, ger- ting value for their money and not eating bad food at top prices.
We used to talk of the Peak Tram as a leveller, where Taipan and junior met on terms of equality and clase distinctious could only be indicated by the frigidity or
Great fun it seems to have been to go cordiality of bows; but now we have had a supreme and more effective leveller, and shopping at the Peak Hotel, where, unless Taipan living in the wilds of the moun-you signed a requisition order for milk tains have had more menial tasks to per-ur iient or bread, you could not be served, form than many of their humble employés not even it your husband's banking who have had the good fortune to live in account ranginto lakhs. * flats on the lower levels.
Rather amusing, too, was Lane, Craw- Life was hard enough down below. butted's barricade. They had my sympathy, it had its compensations even when the those much-abused assistants tearing their kitchen oor gurgled and sobbed is the hair and rushing frantically from sugar damp oond up underfoot for two cruel to Hour, consulting papers, and piling up days, and husbands came home laden with the parvels, till at last they crented a mops and wooden trellis mats to keep dry barricade of acreens and one man sat at the feet of the act-a-sudden capable a table and took all the orders and most cook-general who had taken the place of of the bricks, and tried to look as if he
staff
of Chinese servants. On the loved the frantic women. I had to laugh whole, the cook-general took kind'y to the then on a bed of sickness some days jab-especially if she happened to be in afterwards, I read that stores laid in dur
ood health, or did not possess younging the strike might not be returned, for good babies, and even in these cases the spirit I know that many recklessly extravagant of good fellowship or advrature which orders were given with the mental pro- prevailed brought a-sistant from all viso that, after all, we are "jolly good sides a Cook-generals who only had the customers and they will take back what
coolies, and we do not Use !
hurried
A
duti af cook-generators, aliipinctor, in the strike, settlement was said
I nearly forgot to say that another
not baby-amahs, to through their new work took
bies off the hands of unpccustomed to be fues. mother's who. many of them, were getting to know their babies for the first time and were wondering whether they had not rather over-rated the charms of the little darlings.
E can quite imagine why! While I was ill I used to lie in my bed and wooter "if an army of plague rats was settling down my chimney, but it was just soot, and it came down in tor- rents and settled on the Botes and every- where, so that if my kind volunteer nurses and house-maids had wanted to skimp
A. R. Isail, run out S.-H. Jail.... c Henderson...
Sparkes
Al Arculi, e Stewart, b Wood 6
S. D. Ismail, b Beatty
S. A. Ismail, b Beatty.....
0
J. S. Curreem, Wood, b Hardy 18 N. B. Kitchell, d Healing, b Hardy 11 1. Ramjahn, o Henderson, b
Beatty
A. H. Madar, not out O. Ismail, b Beatty
Extra's.
Total
101
FRIENDLY MATCH.
0. H
R.
Beatty
13.3
30
5
Wood
28
Hardy
8
3
Sparkes
*
Bowlod 1 Wide Ball.
NAVY.
Lient, Stewart, b Curreem Mid. Sparkes. b Curreem Coudr. Wood, e and b. CurrECTI
Rev. Purcell, e A. H. Rumjahn, b
Arcuili
24
alid. Conway; std. D. Rumjahn, b
S. H. Ismail
35
Lieut.-Comdr. Henderson, e
Runijahn, b Aculli a. Mid. Wynne, Kitchell. b Arculli 9 Sub. Lieut. Humphries, b S. H.
· Esmail
D.
(
18
Mid Healing, S. H. Ismail,
Arculli....
B
Lieut. Hardy, zot out, Lerut, Beatty, b Arculli
Extras
Total
Bowling Analysis.
0. M.
1
1
9
42
Q 0
2
A. el Arculli *J. S. Curreen
S. H. Ismail
-Bowled
No Ball.
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One young mother could not think why baby suddenly turned from a peaceful beautiful. sleeping young ged into work they simply could not. Some of the pooyish crying brat, until she discovered Penk taipans had terrible times when that her amah had been giving
him
they cleaned the kitchen grates and made Thoa members of the Ruyni Hongkung powders to keep him quiet
night. Eam told the
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mother is now going in for the daily fire-all the wood was damp, Golf Club who went to Fanling Inst week-
fied that no cadi- | arranged, with the Initials as well as the Bar- and sodden, grates rusted over night, im- end were surprised in Mothercraft. a course of
Not only in the baby line have there Penetrable fog on all sides. Ough: One lies offered themselves for cumployment.names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, ac that been revelations. Perfect treasures of who looks as if nothing in the way of Some time ago son of the parents of any name can be found instantly.. boys have been discovered to have feet of good solid work could frighten him found those boys approached the management. surh maddy clay that their imprints have a very obstinate kitchen-range one day of the Club and complained of the high
the boys were able to carn been icft wherever they went and it will be searched for cause and effect (great, addi
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braces
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were able to to In the good old days, id-fashioned due to clear the soot away, so he proceed more than their parents, who worked in rght up to date.
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The CHRONICLE covers notable svents. together with the Ters of all the most import to women-kind said that "the hand that fed and staggering, he fell back on the to stay away when it pleases them from Eastern Asia, the varions Customs Taxide courag home
Dont Treaties concluded with the countries of rocks the cradle rules the world. The to the back of his head. rushed from
As with be Hongkong public has discovered a new kitchen, clothed himself in garbs of clean-earning easily made money.
Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce, trutha woman who can cook a főbd din-1liness and decency, and caught the first seen from our advertising columna, the Scales of Commissions, Consular and. Court
Committee have taken the only course her, may defer a strike settlement...
tram and motor-car tu Government House
den to engage local caddies at Fauling Weights and Measures
Codes, Chinese Festivale, Tables of Money, As early as the second day after the and found His Ex, in an early morning pea to them, and members are forbid, Hongkong Stamps Datier, Signal departure of our servants a rumour was state of bliss (my informants do not state until further notice. Private caddies are mercial Information. circulated that the strike was likely to whether His Ex. had also been cleaning still doing their duty in as buys at this be settled within a few hours and all grates), and demanded: "For the love time may offer themselves for engagement It is published at the „Office of the “Borg- the demands of the seamen be granted of a blazing are stop the strike.? because one of our big noises" was tall had a very hard time, but most of, our private caddies should be engaged mean. In conclusion, let me say that we have as caddies it is laid down that no new
The Directories and Descriptions are of -- suffering from indigestion. His wife, a social star of extreme brilliance, a dresser women have lost the Hongkong expres
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are requested to beyond criticism an artist in making the sion: there is a look of lively interest course as much as possible-carrying home beautiful, could deck her table and and healthy fatigue on many a face that one's own, clubs is no great hardship. grace her board, but she could not pro- was disfigured by boredom and a smile Private servants or caddies may be Women have learned that brought from Hongkong The Superin. vide the table with food. Think of the of superiority,
gedy Mony to bura, means to pay even, the best of servants think of them-tendent has instructions to see that the No. and No."2 boy, a. No, I and selves first and their employers second-above rules are strictly enforced. No. 'cook, and a "makee learn." several even when the servants were amabs and house and market coolies, not to mention have the care of their most precious La-wongs, chair-coolies f at least, possessions and a good many golfing stores in eup-board, all the material-bridging-mothers have made resolutions to and no magic ring of knowledge to apply sacrifice a certain portion of each day to it. The poor kipan husband, formerly so the duties of controlling their homes and proud of his beautiful and socially suc-
their children. Here's to a new Fra! ccesful wife, climbed down one more step of his unassailable ladder of “no render
every time be arose from his which cut glass and silver and table, on" choice flowers mingled with Lazenby
Which makes the better screen play-in tinned-foods, charred mutton and soup adaptation from some famous play Of 8 of the recent strikë), who mur tablets, what time the men who had or serenario written specially for dered his wife at thus fout of the White domesticated (and not necessarily "home alming?" Colorado," playing at the
cloud Mountain, about une month ago, Iy") wives or who, perhaps, being grass World Theatre this week, was taken from period of twelve years. He was also was sentenced to impriscament for & widowers or bachelors, took their ineals the stage success of that name by ordered by the judge to pay $1,300 at the Hongkong Club or Hongkong Augustus Thomas. In this era of stories compensation to the court policeman.. Hotel, vid Starvation before Sur especially written for the screen it stands whom he wounded when he was arrested render."
NB-The husband of the social star outs a good argument for the adapta in the Yet With Hotel..
. There are those who claim that in was more influential than the men who order that a story may get across in Higher Court.
Chen declares that he will appeal to the were well-fed."
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The Cunton Times reports that in tho final hearing of the local Court, on March 19th, Chen Bing-sing (Chairman of the Seamen's Guild in Hongkong at the
Talking of hotels and clubs, they do aims it should be written specially for
"Colorado" them, but after seeing Bay that cold meat will get the cold fed that a good story always gets
AUSTRALIAN TRADE. shoulder for many a long day to come, and across," no matter when or for what it that the cold tide took a longer time to
SENATOR BAPHAPS VIŠIT subside at this club than anywhere else in was writted. In spite of the fact that it one can imagine Hongkong. Many of the members wonder if was well worked out,
chut on the stage it would have greater
Following the decision of the Australian the innovation of pretty girl-helpers could melo-dramatic value. The speaking roice Federal Government, Senator Baphup, not be kept up; they say there would not would be an added factor in this parti Chairman of Committees, Australian entar play, for it would lend more forcu Senate, is at present visiting China in to the hero's work Augustus Thomae connection with Australian trade matters. Stories from hotels and boarding houses dinlegue is not easily dispensed with in He arrived in Hongkong per ss. drufuru come in shanks. Some of the boarders in his plays. For this particular splendid and took his departure, yesterday, by the a big establishment were very indignant flm and the special scenario to be pro same vessel for Shanghai. Interviewed by when the proferred "aid of soldier-cooks
be anyeold shoulders, in such a contin дедеу.
them.
was refused on the ground that the board. perly appreciated one must go and see ers were managing quite nicely. Of course, it is quite possible that the man- agement may have realised that the soldi ern-cooks, being defenders of the realm, HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE into certain matters connected, with the
fl
CORPS.
our representative. Senator Baphap said he had nothing to add to the ministeriu pronouncement made prior to his depar ture from Australia, which was to the effect that bis mission, was to inquire]
Australian Trade Commissionera office and to glean any information as to trade
trulin
might be needed elsewhere, while the women had an excellent opportunity of showing that they were not only able but eager to step into a breach and for once URDERS BY LIEUT-COL. L. G. BIRD, 1.8.o., poihimes between China and Aus
get the opportunity of showing their nea-folk that they could be something better than a parasitical growth, battez-
·ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.
VISIT OF ILL.H. THE PILINCE OF WALER"
ing on other people's labour and return A Practice Parade will take place at
ing nothing but a pretty appearance and
an insatiable appetite for namusement.
-
A juster esuse for complaint was that
of the boarders in those establishments
Volunteer Headquarters on Thurs day, March 23rd, at 5.30 p.m. for Guard of Honour and party to line the streets.
On Sunday, at the invitation of the Bue Yip Chamber of commerce, the Sebutor addressed a large assembly of Chinese bisinese men, many of whom had already established trade connections with Australia. He was well received and the meeting expressed its appreciation of his
remarks.
where the management simply declined It is hoped that all trained men who are The Federal Government's choice of to-be bothered, saying in effectEtch able to do will attend this Senator Bakhap for this mission seems a
parade
particularly happy one, as the Senator
all." It is rumoured that in some cases Dress: Plain clothes, rifle, belt and side was for some years a résident in China,
man for himself and the woman for us
the boarding-house keeper did not scruple
to take full advantage of the organised offorts of the boarders to cater for all and sundry.
armoë,
He has a thorough knowledge of several R.. B. Youva, Major.. Chinese dialects and a distinct impotus Adjutant, H.V.D.C.should be given to China-Australian Hongkong, March 20th, 1922,
trade as a result of his visit.
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