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VETERAN SOCIALIST COMMENTS ON A DELICATE SUBJECT,

WHAT MR. BLATCHFORD. THINKS.

FRIDAY, JUNE 18TH, 1926

PITY THE POOR ARTIST'S

MODEL!

HONGKONG VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS.

CONTEMPLATING FORMATION OF ORDERS BY MAJ. I. MELVILLE SMITH, M.RE.,

A TRADES' 'UNION.

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMANDANT.}

1.--The Administrative Commandant records with regret the death of No. 475 Sergeant Gilbert Evelyn Falkner, M.C., Reserve Company.

Discontent, wo learn, soems spreading, and now it is the artists' models who are expressing a strong desire for a union of some kind or other to help them to 2-In future all men joining the redress their grievances. The movement Corps will be sworn in at Corps Head- may quite conceivably result in the for- quarters in the presence of the Command- mation of an "'artista' - models' trade ant., Swearing, in will take place on union." The position of the models is Monday or Thursday every week if re- set forth by Mlle Sandrina Rousseau,quired at 8 p.m...

Monday, 21st June, 1028. 8.30 p.m.-5poon Competition on Minia. ture Rango at Corps Headquarters. 8.30 p.m.-Lecture on Mobility by Maj. F. C. Roberts, V.C., D.S.O., M.C.. at Corps Headquarters.

5.-ARMOURED CAR CO.

Mr. Robert Blatchford, the veteran writer and socialist, who recently cole brated his 75th birthday, has been roused by the repeated attacks on the modern girl" to make this refreshing defence of her. Mr. Blatchford writes as "an old gentleman " who has known the "modern girls" of three generations. one of the best-known models in the 3-All rifles and bayonets must be The wise amateur which is to say the Latin quarter, where for the last twenty-handed in to stores at once for overhaul elderly amatour-loves and admires girls two years she has posed for the most

by the Armourer. as an artint loves and admires beauty, famous sculptors. Models are badly

4-MOUNTED INFANTRY CO. a musician harmony, a poet poetry; for paid. For posing four hours a day are they not pictures and poems and daily at the Ecole des Beaux Arts they Bongsi Yet there persists a school of receive 50 francs a week, and a little those I call retrospective moralists, for more in the private art schools. But whom the world is an unwceded garden. this is not their only complaint. They These croakers delight in comparing the object to be what Mille. Rousseau saya alleged faults of the present with the they are at present, the "pariahs of the legendary virtues of the past. In par-workers"-meaning that they do not ticular thoir sporadic and recurrent cen-benefit from the social laws which apply sures of our girls are calculated to make, to all other workers. They do not come the judicious grieve.

under the law of compensation for LC- cidents at work, nor have they the right to appeal to the Counsel," den Prud' hommes," a tribunal of which every French worker with a grievance can make use. So Mlle. Sandrine is heading a crusade to give the models the righta which other workers enjoy, and to give them wages to raake them independent of other less respectable sources of income.

As an old gentleman, the son of a mother, the father of daughters, and the quondam friend of many good girls, I protest against these unmeasured scold ings. I would not have our girls preach- ed to death by middle-aged Jeremiahs.

These sweeping denunciations are not logical, for they argue from the parti- cular to the general; they are unhis- torical, for they postulate a decadence which is disproved by the facts; they are not cricket, for they magnify the motes in the oyes of Eve's daughters and ignore the beams in those of Odom's sons.

GIRLS WERE ALWAYS DIRLS.

As to the historic fault: Four thou sand years ago the Prophet Isaiah told the damsels of Judea that they were fallen from the grace of their grand- mothers and roproached them that they "walked with stretched forth neeks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they went and making a tinkling with their feet." In the cave paintings of Lerida we see the girls of fifty thousand years ago, dressed in skirts and capes, with narrow waists and with beehive hats. And yo see them dancing. And we note their port and gestures: grace ful, provocative, and saucy.

SINISTER SWISS PROPHECY.

MOUNTAIN THAT MOVES.

which towers over the southern Alps near Motto d'Arbins, a mountain peak Bellinzona, is threatening to tumble into the valley 5,000 feet below, according to forecast made by the geological section of the Swiss Topographical Bureau.

This sinister prophecy, according to examination of the strata of the moun- news from Berne, is based on careful tain's summit. Forty years ago geolo gists noticed for the first time that Motto d'Arbine was moving. Minute observa- tion revealed that it was shifting to wards the valley at a rate of one inch la year, but this rate later increased to

four inches a year.

Horizontal shifting at that rate, would not signify imminent danger, but during the last ten years or so the enormous innsses of rock have also been listing to wards the valley. This list, has been progressing at the rate of about an inch and a half a year. During the last twelve months, however, according to careful observation, the summit of Motto d'Arbing has shifted six inches both perpendicularly and horizontally, and geulogiats fear that the final collapse will be hastened. The surface affected is about 100,000 square metres.

In a poem of Theocritus, written about 200 B.C., we have a wonderful picture of two Greck gossips, Gorge and Praxinoe, who prattle of their dresses, their husbands, and their houses in man ner so modern that it might have been written for any issue of Tit-Bits."

The moral of all this is that girls are girls and always were girls, thank good. neas, and that Time has wrought no substantial changes in the eternal feminine. Woman was woman a hun dred thousand years ago, and she was a bussy-some of her and very popular with the man.

But doubtless even then she was plagued by retrospetive moralista who taunted her with the superior virtue for which her sex was reverenced were not needed. I have never known in the grand old days when men made better or nicer girla. They would go to their nests in trees.

dances or concerts or threatres, or parties with young men and, as the lawyers any, without prejudice. They were sensible, companionable girls, and made excellent wives. I don't believe there was a lip- stick, or a powder-puff, or a cigarette in the town, and if there had been no girl would have touched them: it would have been regarded as bad form. As for cock- tails, they had not been invented. not Victorian discipline which kept those girls straight; it was sensible parents and public opinion,

As to the unfairness of these ungallant criticisms: When Voltaire's Candide was told that the English admiral had been shot for not getting near enough to the French fleet, ho answered very logically that the French admiral must have been as far away from him." Well, if these dance halls and night clubs are such iniquitous haunts of vice, what are our boys doing there? It is not pre tended, I presume, that the jazz music and cocktails are for "ladies only. I have seen many ballrooms; but never one where none of my own sex was pre sent. Then why put all the blame on the girlai

It is like that rascally proverb, "cherchez la femme." Find the woman: but, gentlemen, it surely takes two to make a scandal. Why not and the man It is a habit with the retrospective moralist to shed tears over the passing

war

7.—PROMOTIONS & APPOINTMENTS

The following promotions and appoint

1984- wenta will take effect from the 10th June,

MOUNTED INFANTRY COMPANY,

No. 188 Leo-Corp! T W. Doyle to bu

Corporal.

No. 500 Pte. A. N. Lucey to bo Lance-

Corporal.

No. 300 Pte. D. B. Peat to be Lance-

Corporal.

NO. j PLATOON, No. 949 Carpi. J. S. Rodrigues to be

Sergeant. No, as Pte. E. A. Remedios to be

Lance-Corporal,

NO. 5 PLATOON.

No. 240 Pte. S. Hope to be Lance-

Corporal.

No. 633 Pte. P. M. Stewart to be Lance-

Corporal.

NO. 7 PLATOON. No. 509 Lee. Corp. R. K. Hepburn to

be Corporal.

8-TRANSFER.

No. 827 Pte. W. D. Goodfellow, M.C., in transferred from No, 1. Platoon to the

1090,

9.-LEAVE.

Parade at Corps Headquarters at 3.30 Reserve Company, as from 19th May, p.m. on Monday, 21st June, 1998.

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Drivers as detailed by Sergt. Bruce at Happy Valley.

Major F. C. Roberta, V.C., D.8.0., M.C., There will be a lecture on Mobility by at 8.13 p.m. at Corps Headquarters, which these interested should attend.

fully qualified drivers: No. 573 Pte. V.

The following drivers are passed as Coulborn and No. 530 Pte. L. M. S. Lloyd.

: 6. STRENGTH. The following is taken on the strength on 14th June, 1933, and posted to Armoured Car Company:-

No, 1057 Pte. T. W. Southam.

No. 507 Pte. H. J. Armstrong. No. 1 absence from the Corps, from 23rd June Platoon is granted two months' leave of to 22nd August, 1928.

10.-RESIGNATION.

No, 835 Spr. T. O. Edwards, Engineer Company, is permitted to resign from the Corps, us from 1st May, 1926.

11-STRUCK OFF,

No. 475 Sergt. G. E. Falkner, M.C. (deceased), Reservo Company, is struck off the strength on 11th June, 1020..

G. E. SWINTON, Capt.,

Adjutant; H.K.V.D.O. Hongkong, 18th June, 1926.

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And follow in the footsteps of d'Albuquerque, Drake and Houtman,

As far back as 1511, Java was first visited by a lieutenant of the famous Portuguese, d'Albuquerque. Not until 1577 did the English, under Drake in his

memorable voyage round the world, touch at Java,

Being educated men, physicians should know better than to argue from the par- ticular to the general. Perhaps their professional experience has inisled them. Having ha! as patients young women reduced to nervous wreckage by -over- indulgence and late hours, they make the mistake of passing on their individual NOW- failings to the modern girl.

If any reader of this protest is alarm- of Victorian discipline. The argumented about our girls, the remedy is within

Let any

nervous

is that all Victorian girls were strictly immediate reach. brought up and that as a result they doubter go into London when the workers THEN were virtuous and modest. Apropos, i are coming back from business and would gently suggest that while we are watch the regiments of girls debouching rejoicing in dear Amelia Sedley, we on to railway stations and bridge. Let should not forget naughty Bocky Bharp: But the truth is that the legend of Vio torian correctness is allowed undue im portance. I am a Victorian man, and I know.

him scan, the multitude of nice young faces in search of the marks of evil and dissipation, and I warrant he will render to those crowds of worthy and indus trious young women due sympathy and. respect, and wish them all the enjoyment and success which an imperfect world

When I was quite a youth soms de lightful friend reported to my Victorian mother having met me in the gloaming, can afford. arm in arm with two girls, in the public

comprise only a street. Mother was vory shocked, and

BRAVO, THE WOMEN OF TO-DAY!

those who seek talked to me like a colonel at orderly happier, or more intelligent. They are

Our girls were never healthier, or summer. room. She also expressed unflattering modest, they are capable, they are

Then in 1596 came the

Dutch, under Houtman, who 6 years later founded the famous Dutch East India Company. In those days it need- ed months of weary voyaging to reach the far-famed Spice Islands,

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opinions of my lady friends. She did womanly, they are somely, they are The Spice Islands are within your reach! not know what girls were coming to. Tn pleasant, and they are young. Most her youth such shameless baggages would certainly not one in a thousand of them have been simply unthinkable. Now, ever so much as saw a cocktail. Why that was in 1870. And they were really should they not dance? They work. very good girls.

LIP-STICKS AND POWDER-PUFFS. wear rings on their, fingers and boils an Why should they not be free17 Let them There is a deal of misconception about their toes if they desire. I wish I were the Victorian girls and their chaperonea a poet for their sake; and their musical glasses and their The girls of to-day will make the Eng tatting and their demure reserva. No and of to-morrow. Let us honour nad doubt the girls of the middle classes were not upbraid them. In those hurrying closely guarded, and how they, must have industrial crowds every weary stom beon bored, poor dears. But among the comes trailing clouds of glory, Cen- masses of the people that strait-laced rotaries hence the descendants of those busy gime was simply impossible. In the girls will be running the Empire; writ town where I passed my boyhood nearly Ing poems, healing sick men, and build- all the girls went out to work. Ing ships and bridges And in those And it is obvious that girls who go out remote days, no doubt, there will be to work six days in the week cannot be sulky old curmudgeons prating of the Wrapped in cotton-wool and sheltered awful decadence of the modern girl, I under glass. Those girls were indepen-have confidence, for all they may say, dent., Chaperones were unknown't they that love will still contrive to make the

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