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OCTOBER 23RD 1926

LOVELY WOMAN

HONGKONG.

IN

THE NEW REGIMENT.

KING'S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS ARRIVE.

THE FASHIONS AND NEW IDEAS.

[BY A MALE ADMIRER.]

THE POWER OF THOUGHT.

MR H E LANEPART'S THEORIES.

MEETING OF THE HONGKONG THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

CYLIST THROWN UNDER TRAM-CAR

SLIGHTLY INJURED.

A young Chinese riding a push bicycle had a miraculous escape from death op- posite the Admiral Line offices at Des Toux Road about $.30 yesterday..

The cyclist, was coming into town when his machine skidded on the tramway track with the watering of the road in the morning and was thrown in the middle of the track in front of tram-car proceeding to Causeway Bay,

A HEARTY WELCOME."

At a public meeting of the Hongkong The 2nd Battalion of the King's Own Since the days of my youth, there have Scottish Borderers, who are to relieve Lodge of the Theosophical Society on been many changes Motor-cars, wire- less, the cinema and pictures in the the East Surreys, who are leaving for Thursday, Mr. H. E. Laneuart gave an papers can be numbered amongst them. India next week, arrived by HMT address on "The Power of Thought" The pictures, moving and static, remind Neuralia yesterday afternoon. The troop-

Thought, be explained, was a vibration us that, superficially at any rate, woman has also changed.

ship arrived just after 1 pin, and was of mental matter in man's mental body Stroll along the streets of "central" tied up alongside the Naval Dockyard. and directly affected the mental body, Hongkong and you will see many pleasing H.E. Major-General C. C. Luard (G.O.C.tending to set up a thought habit. specimens of the eternal feminine. You

But thought not only affected the will and all of the European women wall of the China Station), Brevet-Colonel thinker, tending to repeat itself and to dressed. You will see many of the Chi-F. S. Montague-Bates (Officer Command act on the emotions and the Ego but nese girls with bobbed hair and more than one has an Eton crop. If you have ing the East Surreys), and a large num- every thought also affected the whole sea made a study of woman's clothes, you bar of military officers were waiting to of mental matter surrounding the man.

acting upon will notice that theso Chinese girls in welcome the newcomers, while Guards of moving within that sea, by a radiating native brocades are also fashionably dressed. Shanghai appears to dictate the Honour provided by the East Surreys and undulation, which meant that thought styles of Chinese feminine attire. The the Scottish Company of the Valunteer was infectious decrees of fashion issued from, Shanghai Defence Corps were drawn up The are followed by Chinese girls in Hang latter was in command of Capt. D. C. kong as faithfully as their European siate. follow those that come from Faris. Logan, M.C.

It is all to the good that woman is spending more of her time and some body's money in the great and praise. worthy enterprise of making herself more Scottish Volunteer's Band, comprising with vibrations belonging to the loweyond this he was none the worse for the

attractive. It is the duty of every woman to look her best. And it is amazing how clever women are in the art. It must be encouraged.

THE WOMAN BEAUTIFUL.

Wherever there are

As the troopship came alongside, its Pipe Band played several

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three bagpipes and several adrias also played, and, later, the Band of the Eat Surreys played.

Colonel's Speech.

At 2 p.m. the Officer Commanding the Regiment, Lieut. Col. L J. C. Comyn, c.1.G., 8.0., inspected the Guard of Honour of the Scottish Company.

Anglo-Saxon women there you will find beauty. It is, perhaps, a gift of the Gods, for we were taught in the days of our youth that

After passing through the ranks of the wicked people were ugly because of their detachment, Colonel Comyu said that his wickedness. Plain women used to sell Regiment felt very highly honoured in themselves that Beauty is only skin that the Scottish Company of the Hong deep. The plain Anglo-Saxon woman kong Volunteers had turned cut to wel no longer exists. In these days there are come them to the Colony. They realized beauty doctors as well as priests-the that the detachment were all busy men doctors of the soul Perhaps it is and that they had been waiting a long hard to keep beautiful as it is to keep time for the ship to arrive in port. That, good but there is really no reason why of course, was to be regretted. Re, those who strive so hard to be good personally, felt sorry have kept them should complain of those who try to so long, but it could not be helped. He become more beautiful.

assured them that the Regiment regarded it as a great honour, and he hoped it was but the beginning of much inter course between the Regiment and the Scottish Company of the Hongkong Volunteers.

IT ALL COSTS MONEY.

If you compare any newspaper of to- day with those of thirty years ago you will realise that this matter of woman's dress and woman's personal appearance is brought more vividly before the general public now than in "the good old days." The advertisements of to-day would have made the ladies of three generations ago blush and the old gentle. men choke if the illustrations had op peared as nakedly frank as we see them. Some of us wonder what the elderly Chinese gentlemen whose daughters have been educated in America or Europe think about these things. If we judge Chinese feminine character by the stan dard handed down to us by the historians of Yebonola, the wonderful Empress Dowager, then the daughters of Cathay enjoy spending money. It certainly does cost money to be well dressed in Hong- kong-whether the dress is in European or Chinese style. It is money well spent

SECURITY..

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To be well dressed," says George Eliot in one. of her novels, "gives a woman a feeling of security that religion is powerless to bestow." Any married man whose wife does not suffer from religious mania will agree with that senti- ment.

The Puritans are passing away- they made themselves ridiculous with the perpetual craze for super-propriety. They imposed much more drastic rules for women than for men. They frowned on anything that made women appear more attractive. This age ranks bypo- crisy as a first class sin.

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The Anglo-Saxon girls of today are perhaps no better and no worse than those of the Victorian and Edwardian eras. They are ever so much more inde- pendent. That does not seem to prevent marriages. The eternal feminine still has a certain weakness-it is a dependence upon the opposite sex. The laws of Nature are eternal and one of the most insistent finds an echo in every woman's

heart.

Captain Logan briefly replied, saying that his Company had come to welcome the King's Own Scottish Borderers to Hongkong, and they one and all highly appreciated Colonel Comyn's sentiments. He, too, hoped that the two units would see much of each other in the future.

The first batch of men to leave the ship were these bearing the regimental colours and the guard. They were pre- ceded by the Scottish Volunteer hand, who played." Over the Border."

It was not until considerably after 3 p.m. that the whole regiment had left the ship. The Band was the last to leave, and it was preceded to Barracks by the Band of the East Surreys.

Large numbers of people watched the troops march past, many of the specta- tors having remained on the street for some two hours. The Surreys, in camp on the Murray Barracks ground, crowded near the railings, and remained there until the last batch had gone to Barracks.

Nineteen Years Ago, z

It is nearly nineteen years since Hongkong was favoured by the pre- sence of a Scottish battalion and on that occasion the 2nd Butt. The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders were only station- ed here for some four months whilst waiting for weather conditions to permit continuance of the journey to North China.

The King's Own Scottish Borderers, is, as its name implies, a Lowland Regiment, having its depot at Berwick and its territory in the counties of Roxburgh shire and Selkirkshire:

The Officers.

other men's mental bodies

The motorman promptly applied the

mishap and was able to walk to the dis- pensary to have his wounds dressed.

brakes, but the car had already gone half its length over the youth"before it was brought to a halt.

Passengers on the car and in another In the average man the mental body, unlike the desire body, was only partially which had crossed shortly before the ac developed at our stage of evolution. Indent gathered round and were surpris the majority of men the higher portions ed to see the youth scramble out alive. of the mental body were as yet quite The youth had a cut over the eye and dormant, even when the lower portions were in vigorous activity. The whole was bleeding through the nose, but be mental atmosphere was therefore surging

mental subdivision, but there was ав yet comparatively little activity on the higher subdivisions of the mental plane..

The action of a thought-undultion was eminently adaptable. It might exactly reproduce itself, if it found a mental bady. which readily responded to it in every particular, but when this was not the case it might nevertheless produce a de- cided effect along lines broadly similar to its own. A good thought, even in the case of a less sympathetic recipient, could not fail but stir a higher part of his mental body into some sort of activity, and the final results could not be other. wise than be good.

The machine fell clear of the track and was slightly damaged.

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WAITER STABBED.

INCIDENT AT WEST POINT.

ASSAILANT SENTENCED..

When three Chinese were charged be The action of an evil or impure thought tore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central was governed by the same laws. A man who was so foolish as to allow himself Magistracy yesterday with assaulting a to think of another with hatred or envy restaurant waiter, Mr. A. J. O'Donoghue radiated a wave which tended to provoke was not present to defend the Arst two similar passions in others, and though men. The case was about to be adjourn this feeling of hatred might be for someed until to-day when Division Inspector. he quite unknown to these others, yet Grant asked for permission to withdraw the radiation would stir in them an the charge against the two, as he had no emotion of the same nature towards a evidence against them. These men were discharged and the case against the totally different person.

third man was continued.

A man, not knowing the nature of thought, feeling the pressure, the con- The complainant said that the defend. stant suggestion of the thought-forms ant made a threat on October 8th, to do from without, might very likely, if his him harm for meddling with his affairs. thought was evil, belicre himself to be At 2 o'clock the following morning, while tempted by the devil, whereas the evil he was seated outside a house at West thoughts might be entirely of his own Point, defendant with several others creation in the past. The whole atmos rushed at him and stabbed him on the phers was filled with thought forms, left arm with a dagger. They then made vague and indefinite, and if our minds their escape.

A district watchman in evidence said were not already definitely occupied," these fragments of other people's thoughts that be heard cries of "save life" and would seriously affect us.

saw the complainant bleedingly profuse- All who could think could send out ly from the stab wound. He searched kindly, constructive helpful thought, to the vicinity and found the defendant afike, disabled in the backyard of a house. The the living and so-called "dead" and no such thought had ever failed, man had been injured by falling on au or could ever fail while the laws of the iron spike in trying to evade arrest. universe held.

Defendant, who denied that he was the assailant, was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour.

CAUGHT AT LAST.

SEQUEL TO CAFE ALBERT THEFT HEALTH OF EASTERN PORTS. A Chinese boy, who absconded from the BULLETIN FOR WEEK ENDING Cafe Albert in May last with a sum of

OCTOBER 15TH. money, was recognised by a European police officer and arrested at Kowloon on Thursday.

Yesterday the boy was charged before Major C. Willson at the Central Magis tracy with larceny by bailee of $200 and

bank paying in book.

M. Albert Guetat, the proprietor of the Cafe, said that he sent the defendant to the bank to pay in two cheques and 820 in cash (total 8290) which had been enter ed in the book, but he disappeared with- cut carrying out his errand. Witness visited Kowloon yesterday and identified the defendant, when he was pointed out by the police.

"Defendant said he lost the document and was afraid to return. He offered to repay the money in instalments if com- plainant would take him back.

The Magistrate sentenced him to two months' hard labour.

PLAGUE

2 cases at Mauritius. 1 саве at Rangoon.

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CHOLERA

8 cases at Calcutta. 1 crac at Bombay. 1 case at Bangkok 3 cases at Shanghai. 13 cases at Amoy,

SMALL-POX

1 cases at Durban,"

3 cases at Calcutta. 4 cases at Bombay:

5 cases at Madrai.

I case at Colombo. 1 casc at Belawan-deli,

2 cases at Bangkok.

The Master of Napier, eldest son and heir of the 12th Baron Napier and Ettrick, is a lieutenant in the battalion. Field Marshal Earl Haig is the Col-in- Chief of the Regiment and the command ing officer of the 2nd Batt, is Lieut. Col. WE ARE GRATEFUL.

LJ. C. Comyn, C.M.G., D.6.0., whilst We have to acknowledge with gratitude under him are Major W. J. Wilkinson, that lovely woman does make a good job Major G. M. H. Ogilvy, Capt. 8. C. D.S.O., Major R. H. W. Worsley, D.S.O., of framing the picture. It must be con- Reany, Capt. A. G. Dobbie, Capt. A. N fessed that she finds great satisfaction in Lewis (adjutant), Capt. C. H. R. Abbott,

The Regiment's History. doing so, but think of the delight that she

Capt. C. J. D. Church, Capt. J. B. M. gives to others!

There are two battalions of the King's Woman has won her freedom in Europe Lieuts. N. A. Thorp, R. & L. Kappey, which has a remarkably fire historic Stanton, Capt L F. Machin, M.C., Own Scottish Borderers regiment and America. That has created a M.C., R. J. Sandeman, W. G. Matting career. It was originally known as the word for the Anglo-Saxon race.. English. men no longer suspect and abuse women, ley, J. Y. E. Myrtle, I. M. Ker, the 25th King's Own Borderers.

Hon. W. F. C. H. Napier, f. G.

The 25th was raised by the Earl of them and Frankly admire the Wong Maxwell, C. R. Rennie, A. H. MacLaine, known as Leven's as did the puritans; we "make" friends at Shillington, D.. V. Kennedy, WA H. Leven in Edinburgh in 1888 and was first of Richmond and Lennox, as Diana, proud when we see our wives looking. G. Walker, J. B. A. Hankey, J. Scott Regiment. more attractive than the other women.

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FAMOUS PICTURE FOR THE NATION.

BEAUTY OF THE COURT : OF CHARLES II.

A MEMORY OF PEPYS.

A portrait of Frances Stuart, Duchess

have been painted by or The Edinburgh which is believed

Lely, is bequeathed, to the National The title of the King's Own Bordereza Portrait Gallery by the late Lieut. Col.

Lyons, of was bestowed on the regiment by King George Babington Croft

Neville-street, Kensington. George III, who also conferred upon it

Colonel Lyons was a antiquary and an. the badge of his own crest, with accom re-panying motto, chosen by himself. This authority on English heraldry.

Frances Stuart, the original of the pic-

We have grown out of that foolish state Elliot, 2nd Lieut. F. M. V. Tregear, and of becoming jealous when some other man expresses admiration The Oriental ides;

theforties" and later when there were

Cant. Quarter Master 8. Brocklehurst, M.C.

was in 1805,

Battle Honours. that women are simply chattels is last disappearing. Anglo-Saxon women of The Regiment has a splendid war to-day are delightful because they insist cord. Ita battle honours include

"Minden," on pleasing themselves. Their chief plea- 1895,"

"Egmont Aamur

In 1881, the 25th became a territorial ture, was a famous maid of honour at the sure is to make themselves pleasant to Martinique 1609,"*

Afghanistan regiment under the designation of the Court of Charles II. Lely painted her 1878-60, Chitral" "Tirah," "Paarde King's Own Borderers, and six years more than once. Pepys described her as others. What a wretched place Hong." "South Africa 1900-02 Mons," later the title was altered to that of the the greatest beauty he had ever seen. kong must have been for Europeans in Cateau," "Retreat from Mons! King's Own Scottish Borderers. On be

Objects of Art, Basser, Messines 1974 Ypres 1914, adopted trews of the Black, Watch tartan and societies were contained in the will **Marne 1914-18," "Aisne 1914," "La coming a territorial regiment, the 25th Many other bequests to public bodies. 1517, 18, Nonne Bosschen," "Hillar part of their uniform. In 1897, how of Colonel Lyons, who left £30,504. The

Gravenstafel," 80,"

St. Julien,

"ever, in recognition of the fact that the Board of Education, the British Museum, Frezenberg, Bellevaarde,Loos" Earl of Leven (a Leslie) had raised the and the City of Birmingham received "Bomme,'10, 18," Morval," "Le regiment, it was permitted to change the objects of antiquarian and artistic value. Mr. Solomon Lebus, of Portman- Transloy, Arras 17, 18, Vimy, sett of its tartan for the Leslie one. "Scarpe,"

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Plicker,"

The regiment has two badges. Curious square, partner in a firm of cabinet

very few white women living here. For the Anglo-Saxon women always creates a refining atmosphere,

days.

The European woman of to-day in the "

"Lys," Estaires," Far East is able to take care of hersell "Kemmel,"

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There are local critics who say that this is an age of jazz music and extravagance. It is surely better to pass the evening in healthy recreation such as is afforded by a dance than to sit in a room and drink to excess That and worse was the Langemarck," "Menin Road," Poly ly enough, territorial insignis is display makers, left estate of the gross value of normal enjoyment" in the good old gon Wood," "Broodsiende," "Passchen-ed by only one Scottish Corps the £110,951 28. 1d. He stated that no child,

Cambrai," dacle,

"St.

** | K.0.8.8." who have a colour badge and grandchild, or husband or wife of such Quentin," "Hazebrouck" display on their appointments the Castle child or grandchild should take Biossonnaia Ourcy," of Edinburgh. The regiment's motto is benefit under his will unless they were "Hindenburg. Line," “Nisi Dominus Frustra," from the open- of the Jewish Faith. Canal du Nord," " Courtrai," "Selle," ing words of the 127th Psalm Except A ploughman is one of the legatees of pretty she is subjected to considerable France and Flanders 1914-18," "Italy the Lord build the house, they labour Colonel Middleton Biddulph, D.L.; of criticism by her sisters and to mach 1917-8 Hellea," Landing at Heller, in vain that build it." This also is the Cheyne-walk, Chelsea, who left estate to admiration by the opposite sex. She Krittria "Buvo Scimitar Hill," tuotto of the City of Edinburgh. An- the value of 232,710 198 enjoys both. She knows, just nå well as

Gallipoli 1915-16," "Rumani," "Egypt other badge of the corps is the Royal Among other legacies to servants, will, Jalla, Palestine 1917-19, monarch coupling with the badge the should be paid by his executors to 1810,

"El Maghar," "Nebi Crest mentioned above, the pious old Colonel Biddulph directed that, £50

(Continued on nezt Column). motto: “În verilate religionis confido," " Michael Guy, ploughman.

Even if the is married she does not hesitate to enjoy herself. If she is "very

you do, that of all the beautiful things on this wonderful earth there is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful women.

"Bapaume,"