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THE BRITISH MALAYA TRUSTER AND EXECUTOR COMPANY, LIMITED." (INCORPORATED IN SINGAPORE)

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH, 1925

CHINESE WEDDING CUSTOMS. A LECTURE AND A DRAMATISA

TION.

TARIFF AUTONOMY FOR CHINA,

JAPAN'S PROPOSALS.

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Mr. Hiaki, the Japanose Delegate, prs- sented the following statement at recent meeting of the Committee on Tariff Autonomy:--

"With a view to bring about an early restoration to China of tarif autonomy, I had the honour at the first plenary

An interesting lecture on the wedding customs of old "China, was given to members of the Tientsin Women's Club recently in the private theatre of Ex- President Li Yusa Hang. The lecturer was Mrs. Paul Young and her talk was THE

THE Company is prepared to act as made doubly interesting by a dramatiss.session to present certain concrete sug

EXECUTOR, ADMINISTRATOR ortion of a wedding, Chinese members and TRUSTEE and sa ATTORNEY or AGENT for Penons having Interests in MALAYA of desiring to acquire Interoris there.

gestions and, farther, at the first meet

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Birs. Young found is necessary at the beginning to defend the youth of the say, when they see a Chinese bride, poor little thing, why she is scarcely more than a babe, and of the groom

why he is hardly out of his short pants yet. But you must remember that un- less a Chinese has someone to perform the ancestral ceremony, he is never at pence. He will suffer dire penalties in the other world unless he has descend-simultaneously with the enforcement of ants to perform this ceremony, and be the national tatiff law. naturally is determined to see his child-

Our plan is plain and simple and, we ren married as soon as possible."

believe, practicable, since it is based Raab08 **** And then later on, Mrs. Young sugupon Japan's own experience in recover Trouch

Umal Carpiana gested that the very fact that they were ing tariff autonomy. married so young, tended towards happi- There are two principal points which H. & K. Wharts,

H.K. & W. Docks neas, Eusband and wife lived together may be considered inequitable in the

Now other Powers. One of them is that China cannot alter her customs tariff without

The other amen the revision of her treaties.

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while they were still young, and grew to existing treaties between China and the | Hongeering"..

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An engagement, carried out under old us the actual wedding. The betrothal restrictions on China in matters of cus was made through a match-maker, a toms tariff. The same features were pre- friend of both families, and usually an sent in the early customs regime of old woman, but sometimes a man. This Japan. In order to have the first of match-maker expounded to the parents these objections removed, Japan con of the future bridegroom all the virtues cluded treaties with various Powers in of the bride, leaving the qualities which 1804, which became operative five years were not virtues, unsaid. But the match-later and continued in force for another WELLINGTON & WARD,LTD., maker was strictly fair. He said nothing twelve years. It was only in 1811 that, to the bride's parents which was detri through another revision of treaties, the mental to the bridegroom.

succeeded in eliminating the second fea- ture, making a transition period of

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China Busce** proposed by as, China would be able to China Lights (combined). remova both of these features from her

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Great care has to be taken when the engagement is made," that there is no antagonistic element in either birthday, said Mrs. Young. "I for instance, the girl was born on a Tiger Day, and the boy on a Goat Day, their marriage would never be successful, for the girl would be of fery temper, and the boy meek, so that you would have a hen-pecked husband. To put into American slang, the best thing would be to find a girl born on a Fish Day, and a boy on a Goat Day. Then the poor fish would never molest the kid. and never get his goat." (Laughter.)

Therefore, on behalf of the Japanese Delegation, I venture to suggest to the Committed the consideration of the following basic provisions upon which a new treaty may be drawn up to be signed at this Conference.

3.-China shall establish immediately a national tariff law with a sched ale apper. taining thereto to be put into force within a period of three years and upon the abolition of likin by China, as de- slared by her,

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1.-The Contracting Powers, other than China, hereby solemnly declare their re. cognition of the principle that, as an

Do Mrs. Young gave a detailed account of inherent right of a sovereign state, the actual ceremony, commencing with China is to enjoy full autonomy with the procession ten days before the prin- respect to customs tariff.

China shall recover the exercise of cipal ceremony, and ending with the visit of the husband to the bride's her tariff autonomy in the manner in- parents, three days after the marriage.dicated in the following paragraphs. The bride was accompanied to the groom's house by her younger brother whose duty it was to report her sale at: rival. The groom had to meet the chair at the gate, and unid the din of crackers and blare of trumpets, he would 'kow-tow

4-During the interim period men- to the brother, and then to the bride. Following a ritual in the house, and wortioned in the preceding paragraph, ship at the ancestral altar, the husband Chins may levy on articles of import would be allowed to accompany his wife a surtax as authorized in Paragraph 2 to another room, and there raise the of Articles 3 of the Washington Treaty. veil which hid her face. He would then

3-During the same interim period, see his bride for the first time. The rest China, on the one hand, and the other. of the day was given over to merry- Contracting Powers. on the other, shall making, the guests playing jokes on the conclude severally treaties, which may

reciprocal incorporate bride to make her smile and blust.

tariffs to be applied on certain special articles if so desired by both parties. The new treaties so concluded shall con- tinue in Force for a certain definite period.

Are these marriages happy?" asked Mrs. Young,

"Welt looked at from the Western point of view, it is difficult to see how they can be, but we must re- member that if the busband does not choose his bride, he is young, and the pair are easily adaptable to each other. There is no law by which the man or the woman can divorce the other merely because they do not care for each other, and so they always try to do their best, and make their marriage successful. It is also said that the Chinese husband is You do not see him not affectionate. holding hands, or calling his wife endear- If he did that while a third ing names. party was present, the wife would.com- sider it an indignity, for only children do that when a third person is there."

DOLLARS » TAELS. CHINESE CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE

AND CUSTOMS DUTIES.

The United Chamber of Commerce of China, which has been holding a national convention in Peking in connection with the Special Conference, has made the following proposals in regard to the customs administration:-

conventional

6-The national, tarif law mentioned in Paragraph 3 shall become operative, so far as the Treaty Powers are concern ed, simultaneously with the enforcement of the treaties above mentioned.

The new treaties to be concluded shall supersede the existing treaties be tween China and the other Contracting Powers in matters relating to customs tariff.

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SALT WATER FOR TEETH. ADVICE OF THE KING'S DENTIST.

The best thing to use for the daily cleansing of the teeth is salt, water- teaspoonful of kitchen salt in one-third of a tumbler of water," said Sir Harry Baldwin, surgeon-dentist to the King, in a lecture,

Pastes and powders might be used for pecasional polishing of teeth, he added.

You will never have pyorrhoes if you keep the edges of the gum tight and hard. by daily friction." The gums should be rubbed with a tooth-brush, vigorously but with a light hand, night and morning Every part of the gums, back and front, should be brushed.

Pyorrhoea did not cause pain, but was a serious disease which might eat through the bone of the jaws and penetrate to the

nose..

Decay of the teeth was caused by the destructive action of acids resulting from

· MR FIRESTONE ON THE LIBERIA stagnation of starchy food in the mouth."

SCHEME.

Tac following New York message, dated the 10th inst. is published in Manila papers-

la order to make the United States independent of foreign rubber producers, Harvey 8: Firestone, president of the Firestone Tire and Hubber Company, has male the following detailed announce meat of his plans. He is preparing to spent $100,000,000 in remodeling a whole country...

It is proposed that instead of the use of tacle in the calculation of customs

The newly organized Firestone Planta duties, which is a highly clumsy system tions Company, Mr. Firestone says, have and involves waste of a good deal of money in the conversion of dollars to ins obtained concessions for 1,000,000 acres of rubber plantations in Liberia, Haikuan tsels, and vice the West Africa, will organize harbours, Chinese Government should suggest the roads, towns, hospitals, and possibly adoption of straight payment of the steamship lines. customs duties in dollars, which is the two thousand acre. British rubber accepted standard of currency everywhere plantation has already been purchased in China.

to serve mainly as a nursery for the larger plantations to be located on the most suitable Innd. A harbour will be built at Monrovia, capital of the Negro Republic

PRESENT SYSTEM MEAMISOLEES:”? It is pointed out that as the present system in Laels is meaningless and possccses no advantage to speak of, it is difficult to understand why the authorities of the Customs Administra tion have been reconciled to it for so long-

Nature provided an alkaline saliva an in antidote to the acid, and what we ahould do was to stimulate the formation of this healthy saliva. Fruit was a most excellent thing for the purpose, and it also cleansed the teeth."

The natives, who are large and on the British plantations in Malaysia, muscular, will work for less than these who get a shilling a day, Mr. Firestone

saya.

Investigators have been studying the question of Mr. Firestone for two years. The Philippine Islands were considered firsty because of the tire manufacturer's desire to keep the project under the United States tag, but there was oppo sition from Filipinos, who feared it might prevent or retard independence. Inves tigators then went to Mexico, and lensed Experi- 35,000 acre plantation, of which 350 acres are planted in rubber. ments will be continued there. Revolu rubber lands of Contral and South Ame- tions or labour conditions eliminated the

Mr. Firestone said he was not interest ed in the 300 aere experimenat rubber plantation in Florida of Thomas A Edison and Henry Ford, and did not believe that rubber could be grown successfully there

Liberia now has no shipping facilities, rien from consideration. and ships load and unload with the help of surf boats, but since five or six years will be required to bring the new planta tichs to maturity, this method will take care of production until great, break water can be constracted me

It is not made clear in the proposal, says a Feking despatch, that the conver

The United States now controls only: sion of the tasks to dollars in payment of Employment or 300,000 men is contem- customs duties must be necessarily updated when the organization has reach three per cent of the world's rubber proved by the Powers at the Special Con- ed its full stride. The prevalence of supply, but Mr Firestone believes the malaria in Laberis is & drawback; but Mr. Liberian plantation can produce enough ference. A WARN

Inasumch as there is no international Firestone thinks that it can easily be to give this country control of fifty per understanding on the subject, it is pre stamped out. Otherwise, it has a better cent sumed that the proposal is made by the climate and is more attractive than United Chamber of Commerce in the Florida, he declared. nature of a suggestion to the government.

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(Continued on next column.)

October 14th with his wife to open an Harvey S, Firestone, ir sailed on office in Loudon for the plantations.com- pany:

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