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THE DIRECTORY

AND CHRONICLE

1926.

FOR UHINA,

BLITY-FOURTH ANNUAL

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THE DIRECTORY "covers the notable greats, poris and aities of the Far East, from Netherlands India to Siberis, in which European reside.

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PARIS FASHION NOTES.

Irnom os SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, ISMIEL DAMSAY.]

HONGKONG DAILY PRESS. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 1925

HORIZONS.

DISCUSSING THE INDIVIDUAL

POINT OF VIEW.

"How near to each other, how far away, we

cab be, how ignorant and blind! "How circumscribed the io.' dividual point of view Only thus can be explained much that is obscure, muchi that ought to seem incredible. Frederick. Sleach: The Gold of the Sansed.

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THE GIRLS OF TO-DAY.

A GIRTON PIONEER HAS A

· RE-ASSURING VIEW. Miss Lumsden, who is in her 84th year, is one of the three Girton Pioneers' whose triumph in the Cambridge Tripos of 1872-the Arst year women - were allowed to sit-is commemorated in the Girton National Anthem.' She was the first classical tutor at Girton,,, and is now a governor.. The D.B.E. was conferred upou her recently for her services to education: Here is a Kiirton pioneer, now 54, who really knew the penalties of being a woman in Victeriin days; and she toes not sigh for 'an imaginary past which,'" as she says, never existed.' Her fine- humoured and equable discussion "of the girls of to-day is a model of tolerance- and understanding."

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"Before that fateful Angust of 1911 women were already in a transition state, and DOW though with discouraging slowness, shap conditions were gradually, in themselves," writes, Danie Lumsden in the Erening "Newt.,

PARIS, September 7th. There was a time when evening wraps were events-when they marked epochs in one's life. So magnificent and ever bearing were they that any frock worn with them paled into insignificance. The FORKE JAPAN,

wrap was the thing and the robe beneath INDO-CHINA, SIAM, EFKAITH but a pale echo of loveliness in compari

800. But, the modern designer strikes "SKITLEMENTS, MALAY ETATER sich wier balance between the wrap

When a speaker or a writer refers to a point of view, he usually means the NETHERLANDS INDIA, EMILIP. | and the gown now that one merely com-

circle of vision, for he is thinking of pletes the other. One ensemble of this

onditions which limit the range of the PINES, BORNEO, EMO

kind which I was admiring recently show-mental eye. The horizon is the only ed a dress in a deep yellow shade of limit to the individual point of view, crêpe Romain and for wear over it, unless the sky bo pvercast.. It may be straight simple cont of the same materials whimsical conceit, but it seems to ma Tiny bows were made use of to tie to that "the individual point of view is the same in all men: its latitude and gether the turic of the fruck, a note longituds are invariable; and, strictly which was repeated on the collar of the speaking, it cannot be used in the plural. coat, this being nothing but a shaggy view to any and every individual, and seem regrettable now, the days when Do the Early Victorian times, then, for there is only one possible point of nass of tiny bows. Another ensemble that is the egocentric, a mathematical women submitted with apparent indiffer was in tomato coloured crêpe, with collar point as distinctly located as the North ence to be classed with children and luna and cuffs finished with bands of mink, le ca the map, and moriarer, just as tics; to have to voice in the governinent. for wear over a gown of the same shade. North Pole all lines of vision lead due to live to be excluded from the great from the eye of the spectator at the national or local, under which they had But, whatever the shade or whatever the south, so all lines of vision from the national centres of education, the univer

but sities, deeply indebted as these were to material,, the effect is that of simplicity egocentric point of view lead in

one direction. It follows that when wol the generosity of women in the past; rather than sumptuousness,

speak of the mental differetices amongst and in theory at least, often amusingly individuals, we mean differences in the contradicted in practice, to play an alto- MRITI RAPIDITY;

diameter of the horizon, not variations gether subordinate part in life-do these It would seem that fishions change in the locals of the standpoint. It is times really seen worth; regretting now ? slowly in this age when everything else within the circle of the horizon that wo nd lay down the base-line for the trian. hoves with such a bectie rapidity, for whugulation of the universe as we see it. can remember the time when any kind of The wider the horizon the larger the handbag but a large But envelope-shaped raind, and the extent of the horizon de one has been smart. It must be years, the level of the standpoint. That base pends upon the height of the eve.above But, now a new type is becoming chicine is, in many cases, very short indeed, it is large and fat, but made in a pouch which is explained in the clumsy Ger- fashion and fitted with a clasp that is aan-philosophic way, that the average running little locked inetal device. Leaman has too much ego in his cosmos. In ther is the material most frequently common speech we confine the word ilk is also used a great deal, especially fact, the greater part of the actual employed, but heavy ottoman or noire horizon to the sky-line: as matter of for the more པ 1:|:| ཏྠཾ མཱལྤཱ ད ས ཅན ཐཱས སྐྱབ

miociela. Very horizon is infinity. All men have lines "No, assuredly, the world has moved simple and severe, they are, yet far more of vision that stretch to infinity, without since then. Our Elizabeth Bennetts will imaginative that the purses we have been what is called the horizon to interrupt walk ten miles, and more unhampered by "used to carrying for so long. And, more- uver, they permit of more elaboration in them; many are unconscious of these. the muddy skits which so shocked Miss the way of atting a boon to the prudent and never use them. They are mually edly giving to our girls a sound and

Bingley. And our schools are undoubt unconscious of the fact that that horizon thorough education, preparing them, not is merely a casual interruption of an in- for a life of sheltered and unwholesome finite line of vision, on which there may ease, but for one of active interests "A" be, and probably are, other potential

practical works ..... objects of vision of greater interest and importanee, and therefore accept the content of the horizon as the limit of vision, so far as they are concerned, and the measure of things visible.

Not only is the Directory as fall and complete rech na as it can be made, but ash Colony Port or Settlement is prefaced by a DESCRIĚ. TION,

carefully

revised each year, the majority of which will serve as an scenratá GUME FOR THE Touzin, giving every detail in connection with the places, their History Topography, etc.

The Information in these Descriptions, consist ing of hundred interesting articles, packed with facta concisely set out, and containing statistics of the TRADE of each Country and port, would alone ruffice to fill a large volume.

The Book is printed from Now Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity ir every arrangement greatly facilitates reference.

Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Firm, the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and FROFESSIONS it the larger Commercial Centres.

The ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS in the Far East contains th names of over

20,000 FOREIGNERS, arranged, with the Initials so well as the Sur names, in strictly Aphabetical Order, so that any name can be found instantly,

THE MAPS AND PLANS

of the principal ports of the Far Eaat bare been engraved by one of the most eminent Firms is Great Britain and are annually corrected and Brought up to date.

woman who wants to fit into her bag aj whole array of cosmieties as well as her money purse, handkerchief and other oddments.

The diamond's the thing! But the lovely stones don't express a great many wonten and certainly don't go with a great inany costumes. Moreover, there are women, smart women at that, who simply won't wear them. Semi-precious stones for rings are quite the vogue, The CHRONICLE covers the notable evants happily enough. Black onyx cut in large together with the Texts of all the most import oblongs is worn on rings on the little at Treaties concluded with the countries of finger; jade, of the pink, white or green Eastern Asia,

the various Custom Tariffs, Trade Regulations, Chambers of Commerce, curiously-carved pendant of jade bang

variety is worn in the same way, to match Scales of Commissions, Consular and Courting round the neck on a narrow moire Fees, Hongkong Stamps Daties, Signal ribbon, an Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money through the front of the hat, or, perhaps ornament of jade stuck Weights and Measures and other "Com mercial Information.

une of the fashionable cigarette cases in It is published at the Office of the "Hortul with the initials of the owner set JONG DÁLY PRZ:8,"

in the corner in diny brilliants. A novel idea is to have a little finger ring com- poséil of two pearls (imitation if one can not afford the genuine species) one black and other pink. Plain wide rings of chain is another inexpensive novelty of the season. As to the wedding ring. it grows thinner and more transparent than ever. Soon, if it continues, it will be almost invisible.

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One has

WORK, NOT EASE.

"Or, looking get farther back, shall Mr. Darey was divided between admira- we regret the days of Jane Austen, when

plexion and disapproval tion of Elizabeth Bennet's brilliant com. her having walked three miles alone? Or, in educa Amelia Sedley's friends to be our model, that in music, in dancing, in ortho- graphy, and in every variety of embroi- dery and needlework she will be found to have realised their, fondest wishes'?

tion, is Miss Pinkerton'n zurance to

True, we may not welcome some of the new developments, Women and girls have not escaped-how could they f--the new lofluences so powerful now every. where, and perhaps especially so in our own country. We live in a world of feverish rush.

Matthew Arnold's days are fijs lines:-

Far more true now than

But we, we rush from pole to pole,

And glance, and nod, and bustle by, And never once possess our soul

Before we die.*

These profound reflections were in duced by a conversation which I had with a railway-man in a goods' yard lastin July, when the country was disturbed by the threas of a coal-strike with the port unions. Surely you men will co-operation of the railway and trana think twice before you lend a hand to lieve is is for your interest to starve the girl should he this hold-up" I said. You can't br Is it, then, strange that the modern a departure from old country, your own families included, inodels and a problem to some of us? and ruin the country's trade, which is

The unanimous verdict of the elder in a very critical state as it is."

women who knows them as they really are, and the educational training of which they are partially at aay rate the pro- ducts; pronounces the girls and young heart and head and full of promise for the women of our own day to be sound in

Ah weel," he replied, we'll has to come cot, if we get oor orders frue the union!"

But isn't the country more to you than the union!"

future.

"We eat at any rate fearlessly assert that in our girls school-I mean, of course, in schools of the modern type- moral and intellectual training is given on absolutely sound lines.

In the discipline of schools the girls themselves hear a part-the old system of distrust, the watching and "pying by unhappy governesses, hus given place to trust and honour on both sides. Sound learning has put mere accomplishments once all in all for girls-into their fitting place, and the old dull erocodile walk, still remembered only too well by older women, has been ousted in the play. grounds by games which give health and vigour of body and invaluable character training. teaching endurance and courage and self-sacrifice in a worthy cause-all, in fact, that we mean by playing the. game' for the game's sake.

The country!" he retorted. What has the country ever done for us?"

"It would take me longer to tell you what it has done for you than it would for you to tell me what it has not done." Now that it is smart to have only a "Humph!" said he incredulously. very few articles on one's dressing table,

"Well, your country has protected the day of colosun! "sets" of "toilette your life from infancy, educated you at Mongtas

implements, figuring in engraved silver, its own charge, secured fair terms and gold or tortoise shell is over. Hokow Bremso

unly ine hare necessities, now, but these reasonable conditions for your work. must be chosen with consummate care.

surrounded you with the conveniences and Tengyueb Changahus

Two lovely buttles, a flat bowl for pins amenities of civilisation, and through Hanebun

and jewellery, and an amusing powder its command of the sea supplies you jar were the only implements figur. daily with both necessities and, luxuries ing on a charming Empire dressing table that would be beyond your reach other I saw the other day in a tastefully-decor-wise. Is that nothing?" ated home. The bottles were Empire in

"But I'm a member of the union, and shape, and of cut erystal, and in the I take my orders from it:"

"Think of the life you would have yellow one was a huscious niber perfume, and in the other an essence of violet, had, if you had been born a Hottentot, which is as we know, of deep velvety and not a Briton. Do you mean to say green; shade. The powder jur. was you owe nothing to your country!** modern in design, of amber crystal like

"So trained in our schools, our young He was not to be moved. If the the bottle, and with n charming nude unien says we've to come not, oot we'll won for the most part go on to our figure bent across the top for a handle. come." he repented stubbornly. I to sonie of the, many technical colleges universities, or it may very possibly be Not so long ago, a bat was a synonymncredible attitude, yet one that is assum- springing up now on all sides, and there for a felt hat, so overwhelmingly popular ed daily, and not only in the politico-they learn all sorts of useful arts, cook- was this material for headgear. With economic sphere, by the dwellers in ing, laundry, dressmaking, gardening.

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the arrival of Spring, came straw, then cramped horizons. There is a pathetic poultry-keeping, thas following the ideala a mixture of straw and silk. Now the kind only in that railway man's of a much older time the lads of At the Sign of the Lantern.

silk hat has arrived for showing off with attitud, the loyalty of a mind with an the house, like the virtuous woman of the silken dresses of Summer, This is extremely limited horizon, seeing only the Proverbs, was expected to be skilled only as it should be for a silk hat seenis what is within its circle, dreaming of enough to conduct all the labours of house to be the natural accompaniment to a silk | drues. Crêpe-de-chine is used, a lot for nothing beyond: and one is forced to re-and farm and garden hata of this type. It is stretched over cognise how life's little loyalties may

& form and then stitched in a variety breed life's great treacheries. Education of designs' and patternings. Appliqué in

is supposed to widen the mental horizon; a contrasting colour is another form of and England has had more than half a adding ornament to hats made of crape century of compulsory education. There or crêpe-da-chine, and painted designs. is surely something wrong with the also in a contrasting colour, is another material or the methods, or both, of that form.

Most of the models show high education, when we find millions of our erowas, and with narrowish brima turn- contemporaries living compläcently with- ing up in the front. Ribbon and grosin a liarizon whose circle could easily grain hats have been in favour for some be covered by a bearth-rug.

time; they are still being worn but in.

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width is heing used that it is possible.

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couraging sign of the times.

Surely an en-

Moreover, is there no gain to the whole community as well as to the in- dividual student through the opening of university and college life, to worden? There surely is...

12, PEDDER STREET. TİZATHONI CESTIA 4864. (Tam FLOCK),

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TROUBLED WITH TETTER 9 YEARS Whole Body Affected. Of

a Dry Nature. Itched Ter- ribly. Cuticura Heals.

**I was troubled with setter for ning years. The whole of my body was affected. It was of a dry nature and itched terribly. Large, dix scales formed that used to peel off and leva red patch. It itched" great deal and mado, ma very rest Teas at night..

**I tried different remedies but the trouble never completely disap peared. I began using Cutlqura Sompand Ointment and they helped ine and after three weeks' use I was completely healed." (Signed) Miss A Moseley, 10, Wharf Rd., No. Kensington, London, W. 10, Eng.

Dally'use of Cuticum Soap, su sisted by Cuticurs Ointment, will keep the skin healthy. Josy and Ciachment sold | world. For moepta mch Cras addreu the

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MISTAKE GRUMBLENS MAKE

The mistake which grümblers make is to imagine that the gracious and charm- THERE SURELY, IS AGAIN,

ing womanhood of past times, which they' When they go out into a difficult justly praise, was the fruit of unnatural world they may make mistakes (after all,repressions and limitation-in truth, of are the young men of modern days, fauita distrust of Nature. What they praise less), but certain it is that whether as was in reality just Nature, expolled with teachers, or as social workers, or in busia pitch-fork of custom and convention to make an entire crown of a single, FOULARD RETURNING..

ness, or in political life, or in the most and fashion, but always returning, always important task of all and the one which reasserting itself in spite of adverse in- width, and a brim of even less again. Foulard, as is its custom, is returning will come most readily their hands, fluences.... For the ribbon hats, a very nurmw with with the summer months and promise of home-making, their value to the nation "Nature will not fail us now any is chosen, and this is woven into a basket holidays ahead. A use is being made of will more and moro prove to be above more than she failed even the artificial charming geometrical designs, squares, rarely heen put during the many years weave or elae arranged in a host of this material this year to which it has price... ..

eighteenth century. Lady Jane Grey, diamonds, and the like.

The prettiest of its popularity: it is heing used as past which never really, existed. The time before the unlucky theory that there "No, do not let us regret an imaginary lover of Plato, was the child of an earlier effects can be obtained in this way by trimming. I have seen numbers of the careful and undeviating use of the black should be a specialised education for girls Supplies Building Material. Undertakes to choosing a number of ribbons of differ- smartest possible frocks made of a plain board, recommended by Miss Pinkerton, the girls' chances of sound learning. ent shades and weaving them together, navy blue material and trimmed with and the erocodile walks produced only

different from that for boys had spoiled into fancy weaves or designs. The cor- scraps of foulard figuring as yake, collar, crooked spines and feable health Miss send forth into a perhaps unworthy world.

"And Nature, we may be sure, will. rect angle at which a bat should be worn cuffs, belt and pockets. Another vieux Cohhe, were she still among us, would continues to be perfectly straight on the rase crne, was trimmed with panels of not need now to deplore the little health women just as gracious and charming an head, any tilt either to one side or the foulard in the same shade, inlet at the of ladies..

na in bygone times so in the ffture." other being fatal to its effect of chic, sides and pipings outlining the lines of

"Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother, (Continued at foot of next Columin.) the bodice.

Learned and fair and good." "

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