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IS SCOTLAND DECLINING? ROYAL: COMMISSION ON SCOTTISH

AFFAIRS NEEDED.

Mr. Lewia Spence "contributes to the

Aculties are to be avoided.

:

Mr. Spence does not believe that it is

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, ✨ SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19tя, 1925

ON LOSING THINGS.

Following the well-established practice of people with a grievance, a correspon dent wrote to the Times to announce, with

WOMAN'S FEET.”

**NOT WHAT THEY WERE

* All · dealers agree that the foot of woman has attained greater proportions."

I do not

THE

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"HOME"

NOTE IN BRITISH DESIGNS.

Sir Cecil Barcourt Smith, formerly

This affecting nows is found not, as you director of the Victoria and Albert might imagine, says a contributor to the Museum, South Kensington, lecturing on Daily Telegraph, in a report on businessThe Modern Note in Industrial Art" in the slave trade but in a survey of before the Royal Society of Arts last fashions in bocts and shoes.

month, said:

In the matter of carpets and rugs, aa know whether anyone is surprised. Some shown at the Paris Exhibition, British of us may have fondly hoped that we only learn.

manufacturers seem to have much to Our market has been so long thought the modern female foot expan dominated by the demand for Persian, sive because we see so much of it. But imitations of these, that there would ap-. Turkish, and Chipese examples, and there must have been a general impres pear to be little incentive to independent sion that fest are not what they were.

abowing.

A QUERY'S LEGS.

· ་ ་

This does not persuade me. It was a period very, prudish about feet and legs. When a loyal maker of silk stockings wanted to present some to the Queen of Velasquez's King of Spain, the gift was indignantly rejected by the Court Cham advertisement, but because the "Queen of Spain has no legs." The Queen whe succeeded her had a fall while hunting and was dragged along by her feet. For some time (poor woman) nobody dared to help her, but two herole youths at last dashed in and separated her from her horse. Then they fled in fear of dreadful however, you will be glad to, know, after vengeance for this outrage. The King, full consideration, decided to grant them a free pardon.

Nineteenth Century a formidable article-humoured pathos, that he had just lost, his fifth watéh. Many readers con on the plight of Scotland. His conclusion is that her condition demands consideracious of a capacity for losing things tion at least equal with that which is must have pricked up their ears at his opening sentence, thinking that hers, was being lavished on the mining industry of and he declares that a Royal Commission an undisputed world's "record" holder. The rest of his letter perhaps disappoint on Scottish affairs must be set up as quickly as possible if grave future dif.ed them, since it appeared that our cor- respondeat had not lost the five watches wholly unaided: they had one and all been spirited away from his pockets in the possible to apply a merely provincial

Tubo." Nevertheless, methods should administration to Scotland with any hope

It is not for me to say what the swains

of success.

Her national individuality is not be too closely criticized when such of 1925 admire in the damsels of their affections, but they cannot be making a sy salient, and her customs. law, and results are attained, and the man who paint of minute feet If a poet of our extlook differ from those of England so can lose are whole watches by any means century wrote like him of the seventeenth, Ber feet beneath her petticoat hk fundamentally as to necessitate the sepa is not to be lightly esteemed. It is little mice stole in and out, we should rato administrative treatment of her difficult to appraise his achievement in think he was being sarcastic and mali- terms of umbrellas, fountain peas and cious. Where is now. to be found a interal affairs. Despite the existence of collar studs, which other and more ordi- mouse-like toot? And, for that matter, a Scottish Grand Committee in Parlia.nary person's habitually lose, while in our where a petticoat! I have, indeed, heard ment and the annual passage of Bills ex own case they have a facility sometimes is contested by a scoffer that the feet of clusively relating to Scotland, a sharp amounting to genius for losing themselves. the lady in Suckling's poem were not sense of neglect is permeating every class Hitherto the record has been gone really small. She deceived the guileless of the community. In the West there are rally conceded to the man in Charles poet, even as other ladies other bards, distressing and degrading social ulcers Keene's picture who lost the big drum, this theory goes; she kept her feet half of a character unknown in England, and but, if there were tables in this matter,hidden because it was just as well se Museow works her will there and spreads ave watches would surely be at least ladies in the contemporary portraits of show no more than half. Observe the her poisonous doctrines. Now sinister equal to one drum.

Vandyck Harest is spreading to the East. More.

They have no feet, not se it is a curious fact that those who are over, there has of late years been a theraselves losers do not merely sym much as the toc of a shoe, and the cynical extraordinary exodus from Scotland, an pathias with or admire a loser on the inference is that they had no feet worth exodus which may be described not so grand scale. With these sentiments nach as emigration, but as a genuine there is blended something of irritation. race movement threatening the ultimate | Many of us who could not throw any depopulation of agricultural centres. The stones at him must have been conscious great mass of land workers in the Scot of a distinct feeling of annoyance that tish Midland and Northern countries are after the loss of four watches from his convinced that the country is "dune," pocket the victim did not think of a wrist a notion fostered by emigration agents watch It was, to be sure, no business with the result that swarms of skilled of ours, but there the feeling was. Weberlain, not because it looked too lika no and hardy agriculturists and artisans are experience it in a railway carriage when fleeing the land. Last year more than a fellow-traveller search feverishly ia 90,000 of these sailed from the Clyde one pocket after another while the ticket ports alone. During the deende 1001 collector is grimly waiting. We are not 1911 Scotland lost by emigration 212,211,irritated because the train is being delay or ten per cent. of her people, that is ined, not because an icy blast is coming say nearly 55,000 more than Ireland lost through the open door. That would be in the same period. There are to-day 17 reasonable enough; but it is an unreason- counties in Scotland with a population able moral indignation that surges over less than it was 50 years ago, 11 counties us... ·

We accuse the poor flustered with less than in. 1921, and a with a po- wretch of a lack of method which is pulation - smaller than in 1801. Over positively depraved. We feel sure that population is certainly not a problem in | he is always losing his ticket just because All this evidence, and there is plenty Scotland. Mr. Spence adds:

be will not take the small amount of more suggests that the concealment of So powerful a hold hax the idea of trouble necessary to have one allotted feet had nothing to do with inconvenient emigration, especially to Canada or the pocket. We know that he could amend size. I am, also, old enough to remen United States, upon the mind of the Scct this exasperating fault if he would only be when concealment was still the rule tish farm labourer, artisan or miner, that admit that it was a fault, a thing that no Skirts were not as long as Vandyck's were he enabled in all enses to quit the loser will ever do,

when I was a child, nor were our grand. country, it is safe to say at least one Car indignation is, of course, greater mothers quite as particular as these poor half of the native labouring population still when we have to join in the haut Queens of Spain, but every woman when would at once embrace the opportunity. for the things that others have lost. There she sat down arranged her dress to hide

The wretched conditions obtaining in

was once an old lady who said to ber her feet. That little movement of con- agricultural life before the war, and now husband that, when she was asked at the sealment was as general as a man's pluck- but little ameliorated, and the im Day of Judgment how she had spent hering at the knees of his trousers. If possibility of that personal betterment so time, she would answer, "Looking for malicious creature says that it was only dear to the Scotsman of all classes in an your spectacles; and indeed there are dodge to draw attention to the feet agricultural environment are the chief few things more infuriating than other do not condescend to answer him. But causes of rural decay in Scotland In people's spectacles, unless it be their am not to be persuaded that our grand. the Lowland villages the absence of adult purses It is repeatedly pointed out to It is not a matter of opinion. The shoes. mothers shoes were as large as ours. exeitos. general remark among them that, if they would only affix these ob

Save in the jects to themselves by some simple device, shoes much older. I have held in my are extant. So, for that matter, are strangers and visitors. mining communities, the very young and such painful incidents would not occur hand the shoe of a fair creature of the the aged chiefly inhabit the comatose but they have always an unanswerable 15th century which, according to tradi villages of Lowland Scotland.

reason connected with their garments why tion, was filled with champagne and Highlands anything of the nature of a this is impossible. This is surely to drained by some adorer. Unless settled community dependent otherwise unreasonable; and yet it cannot be denied than upon & summer tourist season is that the real, born loser is almost beyond potent than I have any reason to believe, century champagne was much more In 1883 the collective area of the human or mechanical aid. "What is to such a bumper would have done the fe! deer forests was 1,709,602 acres. In 1912 be broke will be broke," said Mrslaw no harm. In fact he would it had increased to 3,589,741, or by Poyser" for I never dropped a thing 1,889,882 acres in thirty years, or more my life for want o holding it," ani so sctice, it. The shoe is tiny. Yet if we than its original area; and it goes on for some people what is to be lost will daughters have grown monstrous feet I jump forward to the conclusion that our increasing. It is possible to travel from be lost, however tightly they hold. And think we are unreasonably gloomy, the Kyle or Tongue on the coast of indeed this holding tight, the mere fact Sutherland nearly to Loch Lomond across of being frightened of losing something,

** BASK BEFORE ELEGANCE." deer forests all the way. Much of this often of less than no avail. Once we The flaw in the argument is the uncer land is, of course, of little or no use ex-lose "our nerve we lose everything else tainty that these tiny shoes of the lost cept for sporting purposes, but large as well It is likely enough that many ladies of old years were a comfortable fit. tracts of what is at present deer forest) of us whose, watches have passed un- For my part" I have the graveat doubts. were once cultivated, and could readily scathed through many "Tube " lifts The dear creatures would have squeezed be cultivated again. The Royal Commis without our giving the matter a thought, their toes to the last pitch of endurance sion on the Highlands and Islands which will now hold them tight beneath button to be correct. Would our daughters do investigated the whole question in 1899ed coats, and be suddenly and mysterious? I think not. Ease before elegance is 05 reported that of, the land devoted to ly bereft of them.-Times. sporting and grazing purposes in the seven crofting countics 1,782,785 acres were suitable for new holdings. This was considered by many a very cautious estimate.

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their motto The old doctrine that one must suffer to be beautiful is an abomina- tion. To her the frst duty of woman

is to be wealthy and vigorous, which is only industrial centre of Falkirk states that to be achieved, a my fashion writer. the majority of the inhabited dwellings chastely put it, by "the spread of tennis. which it is now found necessary to hockey, and other games exercising the demolish were constructed in the six muscles of the feet. Mr.

teenth century,

But housing is,

If rural conditions are bad, housing "conditions in the cities are worse.

Spence writes:-

indeed, the root-cause of the discontent in the Clyde area, and the sheer insanity

Of the entire population of the country more than 45 per cent., representing over two million persons, live more than two of neglecting it can only result in condi-

So it must be, I am no Mrs. Fartington

to sweep at the tide of large feet. But I cannot contemplate them with perfect complacency. There is an ancient tradi-

•

A NEW DRINK.

"SWEETENED HOT WATER.".

national design.

I was greatly struck by the great variety of designs, mostly quite modern in character and many very pleasing, which were to be seen in the Swedish ex-

hibit, for instance, and especially in the French section.

may say that I am convinced that the Without wishing to appear insular, I best furniture for domestic use that has of the 17th and 18th centuries. ever been made is the English furniture

It is not a question of atavism, nor pet- prejudice in favour of what Sir Law ace Weaver calls the Jacobean - brella-stand: but I am still waiting to see something produced to-day which offers a happier combination of the practical with the beautiful.

in a room. This means that on the aver- tions of such imenace as no municipality tion that largezens of the feet goes with a age at least five people exist and sleep can hope to cope with by police aid alone. certain thickness of head and of skin. in a room-and-kitchen house. The great The picture, in this respect, could not You will find it on Robert Louis Steven- majority of these houses cannot be des possibly be darker. Were Dazte enabled son. When David Balfour was being cribed otherwise than as rookeries, and to walk the slums of Glasgow to-day, in rather more of a lout than usual, some- English visitors on beholding them are habited by the besotted and the bare- body can it have been the admirable usually moved to pitiful disgust. It is footed, clad in fluttering rags, wild-eyed, Barbara Grant-told him that he had not generally known that the refusal of haggard and desperate, he would discover the largest feet in all Scotland." Per- the tenants at Clydebank to pay increas there more than, sufficient material for a bapt there is something in it.. Elegance ia pleasant as well as, case: at any rate, ed rental originated with the English second Inferno. families who had settled there during the The Irish immigrants and Scottish disdain "thereof does not make people war, and who indignantly refused to pay born in the West of Scotland now num- agreeable company. the statutory increase for such accom.

ber more than three quarters of a million, modation as they found in the burgh, or about one-soventh of the population of Any Englishman, whatever his political the country, Their influence is the re- Creed may bo, on inspecting the hovels of verse of delectable. Equally disturbing Glasgow or Edinburgh, muat give thanks is the growing power of Communism or that, althopgh he has his own housing rather, the menace of Bolshevism in the problem, such festering alums are uncom-West of Scotland. It demands the most

A writer in a London paper says: mon in his country. The effect upon careful and urgent consideration by Par-" dublic health is deplorable. Rickets, liament. The continued neglect of the hardly think that Sir Charters problems of Clydeside must Symonds's recommendation of sweetened chthisis, and general physical degenera social tion are the "fruits of the neglect of eventuate in widespread disorder to hot water as a substitute for alcobol will

British Scottish housing. The municipality of.

commerce and · prestige. The be anthusiastically received by those Glasgow is now catering upon a heroic Scottish position has not been improved persons whom one so often hears com- cffort to remove the most noisotne of the by the amalgamation of Scottish banks 'plaining that there is no palatable "soft" ruins within its radus. This, it is esti- and railways with those of England. The drink. Of course, the relations between mated, will entail the expenditure of Admiralty decision to close Rosyth may sugar and alcohol are close, and one often many millions, and as the entire annual save the British Exchequer £100,000 a observes that even», very› moderate grant at the disposal of corporations in year, but this saving will scarcely drinkers, when for any reason they re Scotland for the removal of slum pro- counterbalance the evacuation of an duce their consumption of alcoholic ย markedly increased perty amounts to only £30,000, and Glas- entire township, the ruin of many liquore, "show gow's share of this amounts to about flourishing businesses, and the unemploy.appetite for sweet things. "But, though 8,000, the inadequacy of the present as ment of 3,000 men. This incident has nature makes this compensation, I can- sistance received from Government is heightened the growing suspicion that not imagine any individual seeking it by obvious, especially when it is borne in Scotland is not justly or adequately voluntary choice. After all, though Sir mind that the buildings to be demolished treated. A Scottish national movement Charters, like many other medical, men, ara of stone, not of brick, A recent re is arising among the strange new gene seems to overlook the fact, most people port on the slume of the considerable ration which essays to make the best of attach some importance to the davour of

things at home,

a drink

(Continued on next Columns."

1 sometimes wonder whether our pre- eminence in this matter is not partly due to the fact that we of all nations best understand the word "home."

"GONE TOO FAR.”

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A despatch from Washington says the number of pending prohibition cases over- crowding the courts grew from 20,000 at the end of last year to 25,000 at the end of October, according to an official an nouncement

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