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so obvious as to make it an indisputable fact. It would be of great interest to know whether it still continues in any part of China as a practice that meets with no general disapproval from the local community. There can be no doubt whatever that the struggle for life China for centuries has been such a ter rible battle that other weapons than fair "give and take” have come into play The weak and the defenceless have had no other weapon but guile, and, despite
'MARRIED. SINGLE.
Major C. Willson, discharged a Chinees
the Central Magistracy yesterday THE ART OF BEING A CHAPERON. on a charge of having stolen a gold tooth pick from a woman. It transpired that defendant and complainant had once lived together, Mr. CA. 8. Rus defended.
[BY A LACY CORRESPONDENT.]
Chaperons to-day, are not what they used to be." On that point all are agreed. Modern thought has so taken.. ting of the possession of them that they seem.
entirely different type from their pre- decessors. This may be attributed to the
At the annual general Society of St. George, Hongkong, to be held to-morrow (Friday) evening at 6.30
in the Old Chamber of Commeros Room War when one might have ransacked
All the splendid teachings of the Chip City Hall, the proposal to hold a smok. London for one of them with no muccess
ing concert in the City Hall on St
George's Day, April 23rd. will be dis-
cussed.
Sages, guilé has become part and par- cel of the nature of large numbers of Chinese who see themselves almost daily
Chinese married woman, living at on the edge of the precipice. That guile is the cause of all of the difficulties about No. 52, D'Aguilar Street, reported to corruption in government offices, and the the police that at i am on Tuesday root of the trouble is the fact that in she was awakened by people, outside China there are always surplas millions shouting "fire." She found that some who must go under if the others are to paper soaked-in kerosene had been act alight, and thrown against the door. No damage was done...
BUEVİYO.
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issue at
for one's pains. In those hestia days
superior to lupervise one's Leave.?! there was not time to collect Mothers
One took charge of the situation oneself, enjoying the wild whirl with the friend of the moment.
But post war days came, bringing a certain reaction from the laxity of the
the order of the day, not in the good old- preceding years. Chaperops were agala
fashioned way of " dowagers lining the walls," but making as charming partners We have recently published the gist of a very fine sermon delivered by Father Straits Settlements 7 per cent. Loan as their young protegees themselves. SCHMIDT in Hongkong and, also some bonds, 1991-1998, are being redeemed on Now the pendulum has swung yet für- comments on it by a local correspondent. May 1st. The Municipal Commissioners ther. Many of the so-called chaperons They both re-nct to modern ideas about of the town of Singapore are advertis- wear shorter skirts, have better figures, the. Straits an
and are often smarter than the youthful family life. It is quite clear that the ing Christian Churches in the Far East will $22.000,000 Debenture Stock, 1958-1966, debutante, who even finds her Mother not support any of the economic sug bearing interest at 5 per cent. The stock sometimes cutting her out!
is being issued as par
The theory that men prefer married gestions for the prudential check" of population in China. What they have
At the Yaumati Government School women to inexperienced girls is amply done, and will continue to do, is to yesterday afternoon, Mr. E. Ralpha borne out in this Colony One can struggle against the practice of polygamy, (Assistant Commissioner of the St. John almost count the number of young girls, We cannot debate whether the so-called Ambulance Brigade in Hongkong) and and yet there is seldom a dancing man ancestor-worship is a religious eastom or Mr. Ho Kow Tong, also an officer of the a practice based on reverence, but it a Brigade, presented medals and certi more responsible for the surplus millions ficates to members of the Kowloon Diri of China than is polygamy. It is said sion in connection with an inter-Division to be a modern addition to the teachings contest. of CONFUCIES. In any case it causes early marriages with many attendant evils. As medical science spreads in China it must tend to prolong human life. Will it also introduce the pro- dential check" to the surplus taillions It is a bewildering problem. It ivolves all sorts of difficulties about Confucian and Christian ethics and morality. It is, however, certain that as Western ideas spread hroughout Asin the women will assert themselves: The day of large families in England seems to have passed, Perhaps in a few years the same cansca will operate in China.
Money and property to the value of 1800 was stolen from 236, Queen's Road Central, on Tuesday, by armed robbers.
Mr. H. W. Looker, M.P., formerly solicitor in Hongkong, has been appoint ed a member of the China Committee in London. .
A local Chiness paper reports that General Chen Chiung Ming has returned to South China from Shanghai, and is now in Macao.
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without a partner. The reason is simple, There are numbers of "young marrieds who dance as well, if not better, and are often more amusing than the young hat who appears to be seldom missed. girl whose absence is often deplored Even with the modern girl of to-day most men have to restrain their conver Mr. E A. Leggatt, the Superintendentsation, more than with a young married At the same time the young in Hongkong of the Eastern Extension, woman. Australasia and China Telegraph Com. married woman is so much easier to pany, is shortly going on leave and his take out" than a girl whose every move-
young marrieds place will be taken by Mr. E. J. Pater meat is discussed at great length. No son, the present assistant-superintendent wonder then that the
girls. It is not only of the Company. Mr. Paterson's succes put it over the son is expected on the St. Albans from that they out-de them in attraction; Melbourne. Mr. Leggatt will spend his the whole environment of Hongkong is leave in Australia and New Zealand against an unmarried, girl having a really occupying part of his time at any rate good time. If she dines and dances alone in looking for a permanent residence as with a man, which she would probably do he has only one more period to serve frequently in London, she is taboo in A man can before retirement. According to present respectable society, while the man feels arrangements he will return to complete he is being conspicuous.
bardly show a girl ordinary attention that period of service in Hongkong.
without having their names coupled. A Mrs. Alex. Mackenzie, who with her girl has remarked that the one- great eldest son, Mr. W. Mackenzie, left by thing to be said for marriage, in her the Surpedon yesterday to spend the opinion, is that one could have a good summer at Home was the recipient time without incurring the censure, of before her departure of a pleasing the Penk! tribate of esteem from a number of the ladies of the Colony who are interested in the work of the Helena May Institute, of which Mrs. Mackenzie is President for the year, and in the notivities of which she has always taken a very keen intercat. In addition to an address expressing their esteem and appreciation of her work, bring the signatures of some forty prominent members of the Institute, Mrs. Mackenzie was presented with a cheque to procure a suitable memento at home, Mrs. George Grimble, Vice President of the Institute, made the presentation.
On the other hand one of the distinct advantages of the East is that one is never too old to have a good time. Married women, who would spend their lives be- tween their parlour Bre and suburban garden at home, here get as much fun sweet young thing." out of life as any But if Youth does not grudge crabbed age tripping the same measure to the same-Jazz Band, then, the latter, in re-. turn should allow the young to disport themselves unhindered and uncriticised.
Otherwise they will deserve to have the tables turned on them, and to find they have reared a generation of débutantes freedom of their elders! who insist on chaperoning the greater
LOCAL WEDDING.
LOWCOCK-KOTEWALL
THE SURPLUS MILLIONS. THE recent publication of the figures compiled by the Registrar-General of Great Britain have caused a considerable amount of comment. The indisputable
at Statue Pier yesterday morning There was a numerous gathering of to bid cu revoir to the Hon. Mr. F... fact is that the birth-rate for England
and Mrs. Holyoak who left by the and Wales during 1925 fell to the
Sarpedon to spend the summer at Home, astonishingly low figure of 18.3 per 1,000
An amah employed by Mrs. Hidden, Mr. Holyoak, as is generally known, is
just recovering from a very severe ill of the total population. The London Daily Express says This compares with of Pratt's Buildings. Kowloon, was ness, and the Hon. Mr. Holyoak'a health
A very pretty wedding took place at many friends in the Colony trust that 18.7 in France, and is the world's lowest bitten by a dog belonging to her mistress of late has been far from robust. Their
contracting parties were Mr. Henry Low- rate." - Lest, readers of this statement yesterday. Mrs. Hidden sent the dog the voyage will have a bencficial effect St. John's Cathedral yesterday, when the a
on both, and that they will return in the cock, son of Mr. G. Lowcock of No. 13, Autumn fully restored to health The Babington Path, and Miss Mabel Kote- Misses Dorothy and Joyco Holyoak are wall, daughter of Mr. S. Kotewall, of should come to hasty and gloomy, conclu to Kennedy Town for observation.
While riding in a chair along Robin-accompanying their parenta A large No. 37. Conduct Road sions it should be mentioned that the population of England and Wales is still 800 Road on Tuesday, Mrs. Matthews, number of the friends of Dr. T. W The Rev. G. R. Lindsay and the Rev.
residing at No. 9, Mosque Junction, Pearce foregathered at the same hour at T. B. Powell officiated. increasing. The same official source in-had her handbag, containing $180, soatch- Murray Pier to wish the veteran mis ne bride who was given away by the sionary a pleasant holiday at Home Hon. Dr. R. H. Kotewall, was charmingly forms us that the death rate in 1995 wased from her. The thief was not caught.
Travelling on the Sarpedon with him are attired in a dress of white crepella - Before Mr. J. E. B. Nihill at the his daughter, Mrs. H. Grifin and bepliquéd with a wide circular flounce of 12.2 per 1,000 of the population. It is
silver lace. The beautiful train was figure that may well be contrasted with Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, a Chi. husband and child.
made of the same material, and was also nice, living at 168, Portland Street, was Kan Ting Po
appliquéd with silver lace. Her veil of Pong Wai Ting Chan Ching Shek that of only half a century ago when the fined $10 for having failed to report a
tulle illusion, was finished off with a diadem of pearls and orange blossoms, Every description of Banking and Exmortality was recorded as 81.4 per 1,000 case of small-pox, which occurred at his
and she carried a shower bouquet change business transacted. Loans grant- There is the same tendency in all coun
A Chinese was sentenced to 14 days'
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BATE DEPOSIT Boxes To Let
KAR TONO PO, making progress. On the one band the yesterday, for loitering on the roof of No. 13, Nathan Road, for an unlawfully Chiot Manager.
doctors are prolonging the average human purpose. Mr. W. J. Stenham was the Hongkong. 8th February, 1926.
life in Europe and North America, while complainant. on the other hand the spread of know- ledge the reader must decide for him- self whether it is good or evil knowledge --has fed to a great decline in the birth-
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Misa Maine Kotewall, the little flower Letters of administration of the will
bride's path. Her dress was made of of the late Mr. Herbert Beat, of The girl, led the way strewing flowers in the Mount, Shoreham, near Sevenoaks, Kent, very fine shadow face, finished off with and formerly of Canton, have just been dainty hand-made flowers. Her hair was granted in the Hongkong Supreme Court similarly trimmed b
Miss Babby Kotewall, a pags-boy in At the Kowloon Magistracy yester to Mr. J. R. F. Corley, of the Chartered
the style of Louis XIV., wore a costume. day before. Mr. JH. B Nihill, a Bank, Hongkong
The will is dated 14th August, 1911. of white roman satin, lined with silver billposter from the Tai Yat Theatre was fined $20 for posting bills which had Deceased died in Kent on August 18thy tissue
He left property in Hongkong not been previously passed by the Secrevimed at 824,100, and left it wholly to honour, was dressed is white georgette, tary for Chinese Affairs.
dengan at SM, Bent, of Warlingham, boomed with silver and pale blus co
Surrey. Mr. Corley was appointed at broidery. torney for Mrs. Bent
The most casual observer of life in There was a full-dress rehearsal parade of European, Indian. Weinsiwet and China quickly comes to the conclusion Shantung police in the compound of the that, under existing conditions, the Central Police Station yesterday after- noon, in preparation for the inspection country is over-populated. One of the by H.E. the Governor, which takes at first impressions carried away by the early Police Headquarters next Wednesday
afternoon, European traders who came out to the AD
There was to have been a sale, by order Far East was of horror at what seemed
of the mortgagee, of leasehold property to them to be the callous murder of situated at Nos. 5, 9, 11, 15, and 17, Central Street, at the Chins Auction thousands upon thousands Chinese Booms yesterday afterncon, but the pro girl babies No European with any reperty was withdrawn from auction prior fined feelings would attempt to defend to the time of the sale. The property has an aros of 5,006 square feet and the the practice, but that it took place was annual Crown rent is $48.
Miss Phoebe Kotewall, the maid of
Her bandeau and bouquet were made of forget-me-nots...
Misses Doris and Helen Kotewall, the J. E. GOMES, KOWLOON.
bridesmaids, were dressed in pale pink Mr. JE Gomes of No. 45, Granville -ninon, trimmed with bands of silver. Road, Kowloon, formerly an assistant They also wore bandeaus to match the with Messrs Lapraik & Co., who died dresses of aller and pink tissue, and on February 2nd, 1928, at the age of 65 carried bouquets of pale pink roses and yeare, left property to the value of sweet peas. $223,800. Probate of the will has been Mr. George Zimmern was "best man. granted to M. Gomes, of 45, Granville Following the ceremony a reception, Hoad, and J. M. d'Eca, assistant Bong attended by numerous friends, was held Long and Shanghai Bank, Ltd The will at 57, Conduit Road is date: June 20th, 1923.
He bequeathed his estate to be shared equally amongst his sisters, ATH. 'Gomes d'Een, C. A. Gomes, M., A. Gomes de Carvalho, and G. M. Gomen
The honeymoon is being spent in Shang- hai. The bride's going away dress, wan of silver grey marocaine lined with pale pink chauneuse. She wore a grey hat to match the dress"
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