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KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY.

TIME-TABLE.

Kowloon

A.M.) A.M.) A.M.Į KM;; AX, P.M.

Z.X. {T, M. P.M. § 2‚3⁄4‚ \ Y,M, | T.K' Dep. 6,37 8.00 8.85 9.16 10.09 12,02 1.162.37 3.00 4,87 5,487.28

Taumati. Dep. 6.45

Bhatin

Bheangahal,Dep. 7.32 9.02 10,08:11.00 12.33 906 3.14

4.44 6,60 7.30

4,56 6,03 7.42.

5,09 6,10 7.55

5.18 6.20 7.59

5.23 6,818.09

5.28 8.8% 8.13

Am 7,38 8.40 0.0810,1411,06 12,69, 2.123.18 3.40, 6,34 6.41 8.19

(41.30-

9.24 10.18 12.09 1.21

TaipoMarkut Dop. 7.16

Tipo. Dep. 7,11)

Dop. 6,57

1.34 1.47

Fanling.Dep. 7.27

13,03 10.88 12.48 2,01

BhuachusDep.-8.43

Canton ...ATT. 11.50

5.38 -

3.48 .6.47

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Arr.

8.05 11.06

8.40 8,33---

8.20 4.21

Shamoh

7.20

Dep. 7.148.01 10.18 16.40 11.09.11.40 8.00 4.174,45 5.52 6.24 7.15

11.47 3.07.244.52 5.59 Shengshai. Dop 121 80s 1025 106

11.51 8.12 4.26 4.58 6.03 12.02 8,22 4.38 5.00 6.19

Fanling

7.14 8.12 10.29 ...Dop.

Taipo Market Dep. 7,36 8,22 10.39

Taipo ...Dep. 7.40 8,2710.4311,06

Shatin Dep. 7,53 8.40 10.06

Yeumati.Dep, 3.07 8.5211.08

12.07 8.26 4.42 5.10 6.16

12.30 339 4.68 5,23 6.29 12.828,515.03 6,35-6.41-

Kowloon ...Arr, 8.13 8,68 11.1411.81 11.49 12.89 8.57 5.14 5,416,47 7.04 2.56

SHA TAU KOK BRANCH.

Fanling

Shatoukok

Bhatankok... Fanling

A.M.

Dep.

7.45

Arr.

8.40

P.M. F.M. 10.15 8.20 6.15 11.10

4.15

7.10

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4.M.

P.M.

7.M.

Dop.

8.15

9.00

2.00 5.00

Art. 7.10

9.55 2.85

6,55

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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 16th, 1927.

THE NEW RACE OF WOMEN.

MODERN GIRL A JOY AND INSPIRATION—AND HUMANJ

MY REPLY TO THE SOUR CRITICS.

marry, yes.

girl.

[BY ROBERT BLATCHFORD.]*

A censorious world my masters; they have marched. Queen Vic I ser the matrons toria, if she came back, would pro- are still strafing the modern ably be shocked by them at the Now will stand to it alert and charming Miss 1927 ibat the modern girl, in spite would not begrudge hur gracious of her lipstick and rouge-pot Majesty that pleasure 1 blemishes, is a girl to be proud of; and right valiantly, will I break a quill in her service.

陸拜禮

DIARY OF EVENTS.

To-day.

日陸拾月柒年七廿百九仟登英

Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. Lawn Bowls League:-Division I: Kowloon B.G.C. v. Craigengower C.C.; Kowloon Dock R.C. e. Kow loon C.C.; Taikoo R.C. v. Civil Service C.C. Division II: Kow- loon C.C. e. Taikoo H.C. Civil Service O.C.. Club de Recreio; Craigengower C.C. v. Royal H.K. Y.C. East Point R.C. v. Kowloon B.G.C.

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P

I would ask any man, young or

Tennis League:-"B" old Would you willingly go Division: Kowloon C.C. e. Clab de back to the London of the seven-Recreio; Royal Engineers . J.I.C.;

Nippon Club For as it fell upon a day, quite tics and lose the buoyant and active University recently, attracted by the Olympian figures of our modern streets?" Tournament, left my secluded This new London, with its new green retreat, for the first time women, impressed ane very deeply, since June, 1925, and adventured so that I came back full of en- iny venerable person in the per-thusiasm and hope for the future lous streets of London. And, by of our race, and the first thing I the white hand of any beloved, it saw was two columns of sour de Q new London, a London preciation of the most satisfactory brightened, lit up and vitalized by English girls it has been my for-

new race of women,

tune to admire and respect.

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Not once in a long day were my ancient eyes saddened by the figure

of a Victorian woman.

Not that the modern girl is psy chologically different from her How grandmother. No. But she is free. used to pity those maids and mat- She is dressed so that she can move rons of the stuffy and rigid years her limbs. She can mix with men with their long skirts, their tight on equal terans. She care te belt

their hate lacing,

grotesquely own living. She can trust herself and and be trusted. She is no longer confining monstrous, their

Take a doll or a drudge, She is o stultifying conventions! care of your women," I would re- longer insulted-with a moral bear- Her mind is free of anark to Master Shallow, and the ling-rein.. race wall take care of itsell." And swaddling clothes, her body is not now the dear creatures have learnt bent and hobbled, and I will dare to take care of themselves. With tell our prudes that her dress is brave hands they have cut their the most modest I remember, for skirts and their conventions both it da not constructed for a sex ap- and now move among us on equal peal. terms, independent, capable, alert and happy.

The impression I got from the new London

12f blessed vitality, a gaily growing for The vivid feminine figures, trip. pingly adroit, had a purposeful air. I felt that things were to be wall with us, now that we have two sexes in co-operation and comrade ship, not one sex with an army of bangerson.

U. S. R. C. t'. C. R. C. "0"

Kowloon C.C. Division: K.B.8.F.P.A.; 5.0.A.A. v. Craigen- gower O.C.; O.R.C. . T.R.C.

H.K. Baseball League: Japanese Club de Recreio, Happy Valley Diamond, 4 p.m.

St. Peter's Y.M.C. Launch Picnic. Launch leaves Queen's Pier, 3.30 p.m.

Picnic, Island Bay.

European Y.M.C.A. Bathing

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Friendly Football: Chinese Ath- In association with the GRAND HOTEL letic Association U 1st Queen's

D WAGONS Lite, Paxing.

Ropal Regt., Seokunpoo, 5.45 p.m.

Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel! Savoy and Cafe Parisian, 4.30 p.m. Concert for Servicemen only, Theatre Royal, 8.30 p.m.

Dinner Dansant nt Cafe Restaur- ant Parisien, and King Edward Hotel.

3rd Grand Promenade Concert by. Band, Pipers and Drummers, 1st Bn. The Cameronians, Lei Gardens (if wet Leo Theatre), 9.30

p.in.

Paris,

Queen's Theatre: So. This is World Theatre: "East Lynne." Star-Thontrer The Sensation "Seekord."***

Principal MailsInward: Europe did Negapatam (Santhia). Europe vid Siberia (Hakozaki Maru), Out- ward

Europe vid Marseilles (Nakozaki Maru), 2.30 p.m.

Sunday.

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THE KING EDWARD HOTEL BAND WILL PLAY AN UNDER TIFFIN HOURS: DINNER HOURS:

1 10.2....

7.30 to 0. DINNER DANSANT SATURDAYS: 8.00 to 12.00 .. TEA DANSANT TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS: 5 to 7

5th Sunday after Trinity. Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. HK Baschall League: Dragons (8.0.A.A). Tigers (S.C.A.A), Happy Valley Diamond, 4 p.m.

Lawn Tennis League: A Division: M.B.K. v. University,

Naval and Military Y.M.O.A‚'s: -| --- Men's Meetings,-*- Cheer - 0,7,45

AND

Paox. 0. THERESES. Better Ole," 8 p.au."-

MISS MARGUERITE SENOUR After dinner dance, Lee Gardens, Queen's Theatre: Oh, What a WILL GIVE EXHIBITION DANCES OF EACH Nurse.

OF THESE EVENINGS,

The changes in dress, in bearing, in conditions aro all to the good, The superiority of the modern girl The Greatest Social Revolution.

over fer predecessors and her A most admirable development, especial charm and merit are due most inspiring change, the to the fact that she is natural. She greatest social revolution I can rene longer pretends, she is no longer member. These women, in their subdued, she is, to put it frankly, meat and simple frocks, their preity the most honest and gemine vo- cloche hata, which show so pleasing man hunan nature and civilisation ly the shapely heads; their short have yet evolved. skirts and straight, trim legs in dainty hose; their well-shod" feet, walking with free gait and easy carriage, have given a new and de lightful character to the pageant of our busy crowded thoroughfares. Are we to grumble about all this or to give thanks? What male per son with eyes in his head and red blood in his veins would have our women and girls go back to the

The age of patronage and simper- crumsy and inconvenient garments ing affectation is past. But the uge and narrow spiritual horizons they of chivalry is not past. Chivalry. have abandoned? Who among us is based on facts. Nature ie not would denude the streets of their gallant. Now as in the past the radiant and living figures? Such

woman pays, as she must always a vandal would clip the wings of pay, and that is why men will al; the swallows, muzzle the dogs and ways doff their hats and spread the wild robins into Russian their cloaks. It is not well that put boota.

cae balf the race should be crip The women of this new and galled, enbined and confined, that lant race are à joy and an inspira-one half the race should be driven tion. They are beautiful they to dissemble and pretend. Juman. Elderly ladies must be No man is good enough, or wise have logs and feet. They are enough, to be a woman's innster. hard to please if they can find in The manly man does not want these briek, frank, smiling crea

servant, but a friend. And it is tures nothing to admire. Surely not the men who find fault with to one would rob these emancipat Miss 1927, it is the older women ed new women of their sparkle.

who never had the fortune to Queen Victoria Might Be spread their wings; who

were Nuge obliged to stoop to conquer. Shocked. Imagine it, to take away all that We will not take, their animad- Seckers." their splendid war service won for versions seriously. Or 1, for one, them; to wipe out the beneficent will not. I have seen a new Lon-Cyclone.": effects of the bicycle, the wireless, don and a new race of women. the kinema, the modern press and have seen a new fulfilment and a hand then back to the freezing newer promise. I give thanks. It These was an uplifting and enlightening tyranny of Mrs. Grundy. women and girls have awakened, experience.

THE PRINCE AND IRELAND.

-

I am authorised, says a corres- pondent to a London paper, to state that the Prince of Wales has no: intention of visiting any portion of Ireland during the present year.

Such a visit, it is pointed out, could only take place by a serious dislocation of his Royal Highness's existing plans.

There is no doubt, however, that he will visit Dublin in due course, well; and, probably, Belfast as though when this will be it is im- possible-to say at the moment.

RAT BITE FEVER, BOY'S MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS DIAGNOSED,

BELFABT. The mysterious illness of a boy at Fivemiletown, Co. Tyrone, has been diagnosed by a Belfast special int as rat-bite fever.

The boy became feverish a fow weeks ago, and every Thursday his temperature rose to 104 and 105. It was then discovered that the boy was bitten on the foot by a rat which had been trapped..

Rat-bite fever occurred in a num ber of cases during the war.

FATE IN YOUR "FIST." YEAR OF DEATH FORETOLD FROM HANDWRITING.

BERLIN.

them.

Tol. Add VICTORIA." Telephone Ne. C.. 373,

World Theatre: The Sensation Private Lessons can be, arranged with Seckers.",

Star Theatre:

"The Black Cyclone."

Principal Maile:-Outward: Europe vid Siberia (Muensterland) 8.30 am..

Monday.

Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel; Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30

p.m.

Social for Servicemen, St. Peter's- Y.M.C.

Dinner Dansant, at Cafe Restaurant Parisien.

Queen's Theatre: Oh, What a World Theatre: The Sensation

"The

Black Star Theatre:

I Principal Maila:-Inward: Canada, America, Shanghai, etc. (Empress Canada, President Cleveland, President Hayer and Siberia Maru). Outward: America, etc., Europe vid San Francisco and vid Siberia (President Lincoln), 6 p.m. Tuesday.

A strange experiment has re- ceatly been carried out here by an insurance expert, who claims to be able to estimate the length of a person's life by his or her hand- writing.

A German insurance company gave this expert ten thousand in Aurance forms of persons already dead. The only data supplied to the expert was the age of the ap plicant at the time the form was alled up.

J. H. WITCHELL,

Manager.

The Only Hotels CANTON Directly under Еигореал Management.

SHAMEEN

THE VICTORIA

HOTEL

Guides

and Trips arranged for

and Special Care

Taken of TOURISTS Cable ZAddress: "VICTORIA."

Tea Dances HK Hotel, Hotel PALACE HOTEL.

Savoy and Cafe Parisien, 4.30 p.m. and King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dansant at Cafe Re- staurant Parisien and after dinner? dance at Lee Gardens.

Queen's Theatre: Oh What a Nurso."

World Theatre: "Sixty Conta an Hour."

Star Theatre: "The Heritage of the Desert,"

Principal Mails:-Outward: Europa vid Marseilles (Sphinx), 12.30 p.m.

Wednesday. Extraordinary general meeting H.K. and Kowloon Taxi Cab Co., No. 38, Des Voeux Road, Central,

4.30

p.m.

Portuguese Company, E.V.D.C. meeting, Club, Lusitano, &.30 p.m. Dinner Dansant at Cafe Restaur ant Parisien.

Jn. 75 per cent. of the cases the moon. expert's estimate was correct. In Tea Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel the other 25 per cent, the average Bavoy, and Cafe Parisien, margin of error was not more than six years.

According to the expert's theory, a regular script denotes will-power, resistance, determination, fixity of purpose, endurance, and, of course, regularity of life, all of which are essential to good health, while an irregular handwriting means the opposite..

1

Even in the case of accidents this theory is said to give good results, as people who lead irregular lives are more liable to accidents thon others..

Principal Mails:-Outward: Australia and New Zealand, etc. (Aki Maru), 9.39 8.m.

Thursday. Baseball: H.K. Baseball Club v.

Tigors Dragons"

Happy Valley

(S. C. A. A.), Diamond, 4 p.m.

Ten Dances: H.K. Hotel, Hotel Savoy and Cafe Parision, 4.30 p.m.

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