1923-12-25 — Page 8

Never say

"DYE

say: “RIT”

"RIT" is » DYE SOAP-not a powder,,

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25TH, 1923.

*"EIT” ↳ EQONOMICAL-One cake may be used several times.

“RIT” will dye any fabric without harm.

"RIT" is made in 24 NON-BOILING and only 7 boiling colours. "WAITE RIT" removes the colour from any fabric.

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Peter Dawson is the kind of Scotch Whisky which is none too plen. tiful to-day."

It is a genuinely old whisky matured by time in a natural way and mellowed in wood.

Its blending is a heri tage. Its character 15 something by which men who know it can identify it. Whenever and wherever "you get it, its quality will always be the sam

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·BILIOUSNESS, SICK HEADACHE, LASSITUDE, IMPAIRED DIGESTION." POOR APPETITE and all other troubles which arise from disordered liver or stomach. They cleanse the

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FORGIVING WIVES.

REFUSING TO EXERCISE THEIR

DIVORCE RIGHTS.

Considerable interest is being mani. fasted by the Bar as to the effect of the Matrimonial Causes Act, giving equality to the sexes, on the work of the Divorce Court, Bars & writer in the Statesman,

Critics of Major Entwistle's Bill brought forward many arguments against the measure, the chief being the inate differ- ence between men and women, a difference no law could destroy. As is general before A reformative measure on radical lines, conservative critics in this Bill the opening of the gateway which leads to national decay. They regarded this grants

of ing of equality rights and remedies as the first step along the path that was travelled by Rome the dissolution of the marriage contract and the breakdown of Family Ho

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It is interesting just now to see what' effect the new law has had. How many women have availed themselves of their new right? The answer is-Hardly one.

as much Lawyers, perhaps, even doctors, see-the-seems-side of life; they are in a position to gauge the chief causes that go to the wrecking of married life. If none or few women have claimed their tevodem unites the new Art it is because the average woman

will not think of de troging her horne, with the inevitable consequences to herself and her children, a single lapse on the part of her hus band.

The overwhelming majority of wives instinctively desire the preservation of the family. Love niay be lessenet, respect may be lacking, yet there remata those deep-rooted and unanswerable argu ments for the maintenance of the family intact.

PERIODY OF CRISIS.

fa most marriages there are periods of crisis, a time when there is a tendency to drift: A these times most wives are for more concecuri in guiding their husbands back to satity and self-respect than in rushing off to claim a legal privilege.

The greatest disaster that can happen to a woman is to witness the breaking up of her homet It means the wrecking of -her life in most cases, it means the handi capping of her children. Therefore it it instinctive with wires who are mothers. to fight for the preservation of the tie, not for its dissolution,

1 remember once being consulted in an informal way by a charming woman who had obtained evidence of her hu-band's fafidelity. She was the mother of two charming children, and her marriage hal been, up to that crisis, a very happy one

came to me, not to ascertain how she could get rid of her husband, "but how she could get him back. She was more than willing to overlook the lapse, her whole instinct was to evade a catastrophe which would involve the orphaning of her children. It is not a question of "for giving him," she said, but of getting him to want forgiveness."

BANKRURICT OF MARRIAGE

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In every marriage there is a critical phase when things go wrong. It may be temperamental differences, lack of mutual interests, misunderstandings arising from lack of sympathy and mutual forbearance. It is in these erises that most marriages come to ruin. But seldom is it because of the wife. It is usually the man who forces the pace, overrides duty obligation. The woman rearly always stands for reconciliation and forgiveness.

Hence the little difference to the work of the Divorce Court which has followed on the new Act. Women are prepared to forgive, they will strive to the utmost to keep intact the marriage; and they will do this, often in the face of many dis- couraging conditions. So that one inay be verr sure of one thing-those wives who sue for divorce under the new Act will be few and far between; and their action will represent the end a long, long struggle to navigate to safety the matrimonia! back Such case will typify, not lack of capacity to forgive, hat the real bask rupter of everything that makes marriage Bacred, and in those cases the remedy of the law is the only one which meet the

cate.

TROPIC BORN CHILDREN.

NO EVIDENCE OF MENTAL OR PHYSICAL DEGENERATION.

Dr. Cilento (the Director of the Aus tralian Institute of Tropical Medicine) will read a paper before the Australasian Medical Congre, and a discussion of various aspects of tropical Australia and the tropical territories from the medical standpoint will form a Aature of the proceeding of the congress.

An inquiry has been conducted from the Australind Institute of Tropical Medicine during the last twelve months couering Northern faniities resident ili North Queensland for two or more generations have been chtained.

some very interesting observations Oce curious result

-has been a composite photograph of n number of third generation white child ren, which bears a remarkably close ressens- hance to the typical Northerner at the average of the

positphotograp? included in the com-

The results of the inquiry have shown very clearly that there is no evidence of mental or physien! degen- cration in the tropic-bora grandchildren of persons who were themselves born in the Australian tropics,

These results go to confirm the previous observations made by Dr. Breint, Dr. Priestly, and other workers connecteă. with the Instituto in its earlier years of activity, and expressed by Dr. Bref and other speakers at the Australasin Molical Congress meeting in Brisbane in 1990.

TEACHING DANCING BY

CABLE.

Anxious to know how to dance the new Blues fox-trot. a cable was sent from Cape Town to Mr. Casani, a London dance teacher: Please send chart of Blues and latest accounts-urgent, back as follows: Walk, taking two beats to bach step, first left right left forward. Two, join right left right to the side three-quarter turn to left and twickle back in line of dance, Turn both ways By walking. Dance to ordinary fox slow time.

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