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NOT FIT TO PRINT. REFLECTIONS ON REVELATIONS

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There is a growing opinion against the "liberty of the Press to repert in full the appalling details of such cases as have recently occupied the sittings of the Law. Courts.

THE

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 21ST, 1923

WOMAN AND HER DRESS. AND HYGIENIC."

4 SENSIBLE

DIVORCE MADE FAIR. HOW WIVES GAIN FORTUNES IN ABYSSINIA,

"Mountains of loose stones pissed to-

A MAGISTRATE'N VIEW, Social morals are undoubtedly sitter from a grave defection, due, in my

The adverse criticism passed on wo- opinion, to a lessening of the sanctity in which family life should be held. W2

men's clothes aut fashions by Sir Frank hava let go our bold on the family as Dicksee. President of the Royal Academy gether by thorns-this is how Mrs. We believe the unit of society, and the relaxing in his speech to the Royal Amateur Att Rosita Forbes, the woman explorer, sums this fundamentai moral safeguard bas Sucisty, has not been very" widely, en-up her impressions of Abyssinia, on her dorsed, Most of the opinions given by been in the highest degree prejudicial to the people at large, writes Mr. J. A. R. artists and others to a London Morning return from a journey of 1,100 miles by Pest ropresentative were, briefly, that caravan through country probably never Cairns in the Weekly Despatch,

women had never dressed more healthily previously traversed by a white woman and sensibly.

There will I-

Newspapers are no longer the guard- ed preserve of the adult. They come. freely into the hands of readers of s That is one more impressionably age. of many good reasons why it is time for Parliament to take the question in ban

Legislation is overdue. there is a strong public opinion to war Put the Government in giving the fact- lities requested by our-third of the To iaroke the name of freedom in House of Coions for Sir Evelyn

Norel forms of marriage and divorce Experience as a London magistrate defence of the mass-production of scandal Cecil's amended Bili

forces me reluctantly to "the ccnelusion dubases it," says the Observer, "Neither ways be individuals to furnish the ma

Sir Frank Dicksee, had declared that practised in the country were described he bench of democracy nor the freedom trial of scandal.

that the infection has unmistakably mov of the Press, which is a main factor in The law in its utmost stringency caned downwards that is from the higher to obey the dictates of fashion, women by Mrs. Forbes. So far as royalty and sometimes had to forget modesty. While priests and concerned, marriage is "for to the lower strata of society. But the law can, and kim health, sequins the systematic exot prevent it. hibition of dirty linen from the Law should, prevent the true scandal, the "I am profoundly convinced that the Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs. Sit-eternity."

A divorce can be obtained in a civit! much greater mischief, which is the

morals of the poor are sound at bottom.dens was now a splendid picture for all! "In fact, as several of our contem-1 broadenst publication, ruler the force of In the all-too-frequent exses of marital time it was difficult for a painter to marriage, and in such an event every porarice have pointed out, newspapers, appearate, of necessity, of nows that is unhappiness that I come across in my depict a lady in the height of fashion thing is divided equally between the matt daily work I find them, as a class more and make it acceptable to fature genera and woman, even to cutting a carpet

The clothes of to-day disguised

in two, In a civil marriage a husband which would gladly abstain frous the assuredly sot is to print'. "

responsive to their domestic and social tions,

has to provide guarantors. If a husband reporting of objectionable matter wee not;

bents his wife she is, entitled to mone- Free to abia. Their freedom in that,

obligations than those whose superior good looks, and the modern craze for

The following are some of the comtry chapensation.. The result is." aase is threatened by competition.

ments made recently; nexus safeguarding either by a convention

station in life protects them from many bobbing and shingling was ugly. inadequate means."

Viscountess Cave, wife of the Lord binding all, which is unattainable, or by

of the hardships and petty miseries of

Chancellor-Modern dress is very as loren of law.

It is ble, healthy, and hygienic. apted to the conditions of to-day-you could not board bus in a bustle, and it is ugly only when carried to eng geration

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A CANON'S VIEW."

If it was hard' for a rich men to enter into the Kingdom of God in the time of Chirst, it is harder still to-lay, le is we ourselves who have made it harder," writes Canon Donaldson in the Daily Herald.

We have all conspired to ignore or to excuse the deadly sin of avarice which taints our commerce, and that idolatry of the money-power, whch is the supreme

curse of modern life.

The atmosphere of divorce and broken pledges, of responsibilities shelved in the interest of purely selfish ends of naked human baseuess indulging itself with impunity, is at once the chief result We see on all sides to-day. and cause of the spiritual disintegration

"A section of the community seems to have lost the sense of moral responst

the sins of God', "

said Mrs. Forbes, that very, aften, the, hasband continues to beat his wife, and the wife continues to build up a small fortune."

Then there is marringe by agreement, which is oftentimes blessed by the priests. This can only be described as legalised concubinage," said Mrs Forbes.,

pres in law, the public will follow thej are our own creation. We are all in.ility--what old-fashioned people chile the time. The fashions of Gainsborough's victim met his doom, ami the execution |

COMMON MISQUOTATIONS.

the victim.

Miss Viola Tree expreased the opinion that modern clothes set off the figure as

A murderer has to be killed in a a thing of beauty, and are suitable to similar manner to that in which his days, however, may have been more bis carried out by the nunrest relative of coming to the, average face.

One of the main objects of the trip was to procure fins of the troglodyte. eity of Lalibela, where there are eleven wonderful churches-hidden-away-under-)

Mrs. Forbes visited each one ground.

Lady Envery-One generation is apt to deery the fashions of another. consider modern dress healthful, und

·beautiful----

with the exception of that dedicated

is allowed to enter that court," said Mira. Forbes. "I wonder," she added, to the Virgin Mary. Nothing feinale with a smile, "what would happen it n female sparrow built its nest there."

We shall not stop to argue the divi- sion of responsibility between the Press which publishes and the public which Pruths. Whatever the proved appeal of indecent eases may be, we have no doubt that dirersey, when the issue is pus, chooses deberes and rejects the opposite,

It is easy for us to denounce and con dema, those who are found out." But MUST BE EXPRESSED IN LAW.

red Texalve is ex-

these people, and thousands like them, Bup nila fine of Irst resistance. Already the velved in, and are all responsible for statute-baik gives partial expression to those conditions of Society, which it is such a resuly, 1: is na offence to put useless, to deplore unless wr earnestly list indecent het con: «Therm is-in-distine L-serive-for-their-reformatión..

Mr. Richard Jack, R.A-Perhaps cus tion worth interning between the ex- And let every man begin with him.

I should think, writes the author of ploitation of indecency in the pages of self,”

"The poor in the old days knew the several books, that the misquotation tom decides opinions f like the cloths

women wear now. has years ago Ection and is the enfinns of the Press,

*The case for extending the principle, gentry, and had a practical knowledge of of Browning's, "O to be in England," of restraint to which Betion already sub their vartus on vices. The dispossessed is not by any means so frequent as that thought the bustle handsome and the

Mr. I quoted it in the

John Husal R.I.-Women's mits becomes imperative when the arga classes to-day know nothing of the great of Milton's "To-morrow to fresh woods leg-of-mutton sleeve attractive.

The pub clothes have never been more taking: ments are filled in with the facts. The except what the newspapers tell them and pastures new. past few weeks have supplied them in And their newspapers pairt a picture preface to one of my books, inore than sutez quantity. The Press which must exert in the minds of honest)lisher, or his reader, pencilled in "fields"the fashions of to-day give a pleasing itself has raised a wamber of protests." working puple a feeling of contempt for in place of "woods," This emendations cond, youth to many whom the moxies of the past would have relegated to

Bobbing was in- During Imperial Baby Week, at the "We are only surprised that the volume those whose moral standard is far be erased, but the typist, firmly re-in- and vigour of protest-have not been low their own, and whom they wrongly stated the crroneous correction. Re-corunassuming dulness.

July 5th to th, there will be a display grvaler. Berg is an occasion if ever fudge to be typical of the whole body of rected, the compositors combined to retroduced by common-asse in the Middle British Empire Exhibition, Wembley, Br. Roy Horniman, the playwright of the Empire's bonniest babies" photo- there was one for aetion by the Churches those who, in their agitators words, store the wrong reading on galleyslips Ages

sass and paye-proofs, alike. Finally, that and by every Society or educational teil not, weither do they spin.

superior person the printers' reader re-and novelist-Modern clothes make dif- graphs. These will be culled from the ez- organisation that has any responsibility; the Church Tigre.

"Aristocrack ince amused the poor. stored Elds" in red ink on the final culties for the dransist. for 'untries. received in connection with the Em- for, or induen os, the formation of

I, therefore, had to replace doubtedly they diminish intensity of pire's Mother and Baby Competition. It may, if we have more revelations of proofs.

Possibly the fashion heilthy public opinion.

Whatever dispute there may be us to this kind, soon fill them with unspeak woods, choosing a striking shade of effect on the stage. remedies and be do aos think there is able horror. The "disguise may not go green ink, and giving him page and line makes worn took younger. although

Mr. W. H. Barribal-I don't care for now much com For dispute on the princi- far enough to bring on a red revolution, references to seven separate editions of that is more to do with their attitude Probably mine is the only of mind. Our dress is appropriate to pie-there can be no difference about the but it may destrey in the vast numbers "Lycidas." effrets of detailed reports such as those of the toilers all sense of religious "popular" book published in the last our period, but for semi-ceremonial oc- the straight form like a trouser-leg or

Egure unfeminine. laxation towards the pizturesque. which have been circulating by millions duty and public service with terrible "re-twenty years in which the line is correctensions I should like to see more re for anything that makes

isults for the nation."

Is cited. of copies during the present year.

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A

WEATHER REPORT.

May 20th at 18.35.-Pressure has decreanni moderately from Chefoe to Shanghai and slightly over N, Japan, Formoss and Tongking. It has decreased slightly over S. Japan, and the Loochon Islands, anil is early stationary over.. the Philippines,

Total inco

The depression over Koren is moving eastward A Frekla natiyclone appears to be farming over the Yangtzo Valley.

Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 19 hours, day 20th 0.02 inch. January law, 199 inches, against ma average of 18.36

inchea. The forecast for the 24 hours ending at 15 hours, May 21st is as follows

DISTRICT Formoss Channel.....

Hongkong to Gap Rock

FORICAIT N. or variable winds, light to moderate, (E. winds, moderate:

fair.

"do. do

Bouth coast of China batween į

Hongkong and Lamocks South coast of China between

Hongkong.and Hainan. HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTEL

Hongkong Observatory, May 20th.

(Previous On Data;On Deza-

Day

at st"

st2 pm 6am 9 p.

Barometer Temperature

29.77

29.75

29.74

74

Humidity

,85

70

Op

0.04 0.00

Wind Direction... Porca Wenther...

Bain

Hightest open-air Temperature on 19th Lowest open-air Temperature on 20th

HONGKONG TIDE TABLE From May 21st to 27th, 1925. HIGH WATER

| Dack.

Month.

Days of

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24 m

Tues. 28.

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Height

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Low War.

H'kong

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