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TIMID, MODEST, DULL MODERN GIRLS.

MID-VICTORIAN MAIDS WITH ONLY ONE DIFFERENCE;

LOVE IN THE LIMELIGHT.

[BY ERNEST RAYMOND, THE WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST.]

Please do not think my opening sentence is satirical; it is a plain statement of a true belief, and it is this: the trouble with. the younger generation is that they are too restrained, too timid, tou self distrustful, too modest.

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the flock reached the brow of the hill, and then began to descend the further slope.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18th, 1927.

CHINESE CHANDU,

SMUGGLED IN FALSE"

BOTTOMED DECK.

A Chinese, named Tan Ah Heam, who arrived in Singapore from China by the Graemar, blithely declared at the Customs shed at Telok Ayer that he had nothing illicit in his baggage.

A rattan deck chair, however, caught the eye of the Customs man, who proceeded to lift it-and-found it to be unusually heavy for a piece of furniture.

Two strides at least have they made in descant. The first was when the leading ewes decided to be cropped-Eton cropped, I mean, And in this respect, as in every This, for me, had the sudden effect

Examination revealed that the other essential quality, they are no of shrinking the girl in ber different from the youth of mid-twenties to the dimensions of a boy hollowed out portions of the chair Victorian days or any other days in his early teens. I had not per-contained Chinese chandu, a' fur- in the world's history. They are ceived before that she was physical. ther quantity of which was found in no whit brighter; they are just any comparable with the fourth-form dull. Always they have followed the crowd, showing a complete dis- trust of their own individuality and a pathetic terror of diverging' one hundredth part of a degree No from the standard pattern. matter what violence it works to their inner nature, they strain to do what everyone else is doing.

We are all wrong to-day when wp-condems them for their exces sive holdness; ws should compas sionate them for their excessive The Viotorian maiden modesty.

had not the courage to be im- modest or to show the calf of her

leg, though doubtless she longed to; she had not the courage to know all the facts of biology, though beyond a peradventure she had a mind to it. Our Georgian

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boy. It was a shock to me, and my feminism, to which I had been devoted, my conviction that women were the equals if not the superiore of men was abakeo...

When I

this slim little schoolboy I could not believe that he or she, rather-was the highest development; the most parfect achievement of nature the crown of humanity. And so, by a process of elimination, I could conclude only that I was that party.

The Short Skirt Mistake. Thus

reach we

the absurd paradox: that the Eton crop should have raised the cry, No Votes for Flappers"; which "fact, I have a horrible feeling, might find dippant expression in the atatement that the young women

a tin of oil among the gentleman's luggage.

On production before the District Beam pleaded guilty, Judge, Mr. . D. Mudie, Tap Ah

He was foed 82,000, in default six months' rigorous imprisonment, A fine of 81,000 was ordered by the District Judge, Mr. Mudie, in a case in which Ng Beng, on arrival from China, was found to be in illegal possession of Chinese chandu.

It was stated that the chandu was found on July 23rd, during a Customs search of the accused's

luggage, in the false bottom of tint

containing coconut Times.

oil.-Straits

HAD RASH ON CHEST AND HEAD

Was Almost Frantic. Suf- fered About Two Years.

Cuticura Healed.

My trouble came with a great irritation and then a rash broki out all over my chest and bead. At times the irritation was so bad that it almost sent one. frantie, and I could hardly keep my Angers aWXY from it. I spent many sleeples nights. I suffered off and on for about two years.

A friend recommended Cuticuta -Soap and Ointment en 1 sant for a tres sample. It helped me so I purchased mors and now I am bealed." (Signed) Mr. B. Gowl 2nd, 27. Forest Side, Forest Gate, London E. 7, Eng.

Use Cuticure for every-day toilet purposes. Hathe with Soap, sooths with Ointment, ditet with "Talcum. | Coussent, sold thyrouabout the

Ale for MasƐ orders with pelan,

Dey tha Cuticura Sburing Stick.

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PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION 00.8 STEAMER KIDDERPORE" ARRIVED HONG KONG.ON 17TH AUGUST, 1927:

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maiden has not the courage to be would have kept our loyalty if only Peterel; No. 1 Buoy, Argu; No. contrary. Six hears before arrival of Goods have left the Godowna, and all

modest; that is the only difference. An earlièr generation had not the courage to be noisy; our own has not the courage to be quiet; that

is all.

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A Pitiable Pageant,

they had kept their hair on.

The other grave mistake, I can tead, was to raise the skirt kace-Buoy, War Brahmin high. Here again it unveiled for

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us a sharp disappointment.. The Pampanga. knee, to my mind, is a disappoint- "No: youth in all generations is meat, and speak now from a the same restrained, timid, self-wide experience. The fadies them distrustful, unduly,; modest, selves, I am persuaded, are of the sheepish. All that happens is that same opinion, because the most.) in 1870 the bell-wethers of the universal automatic action in the Rocks say, "Now we'll all go due world to-day is that of a lady strivDLE CLERE'S VIPERIENT West," and the whole multitude ing, with indifferent success, to DALE CLERG'S ARAMA, PEN

of timid, jostling creatures, shoulder to shoulder, haunch to haunch, move towards the West; and in 1998 the bell-wethera 25, About turn; now we'll all go due East" and lo! there is a moment of disorganisation, a moment of hustling panic due to the terror of those who were in front lest they should now be the hind most, sud then all are walking with their faces to the sun.

draw a curtain over,her knees.

The most universal automatic ac tion used to be that of a young dandy, as he sat down, pulling up the knees of his trousers to save their crease; it has now yielded place to that of a young beauty palling down her skirt to save her reputation for perfection. At least, I can conceive no other rea son why she does it; it cannot be modesty.

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Gradually they became so im-

Bewildered Young Men. pressed with this new orientation,

The crease in the trousers bringe and with the sun's rayap that they believe they have done something us to the young shan of to-day. vigorous, and call it emancipation. Alas! the young rams of the flock have gone as sadly astray in their It is a pitiable pageant, but a lovable.

Let us study the movements of the sheep to-day." There's this mat- ter of their dancing. A generation is to be judged by its popular arta; above all, perhaps, by its com munal art of dancing. The chief thing to say about the modern dance is that it has shed almost the whole of its character as an art, and stands forth as something less, but not leas delightful.

Legalisad Flirtation,

dress as the ewes have taken, on the whole, the true road.

Take the pull-over. Is it not symptomatic of a dazzled, confused mind, a slack, unbuttoned per sonality. Or there are these Ox- ford bags. Good pity these Ox- ford baga! All Oxford bags give one the impression of being piti- ably empty, and in this they are beautifully symptomatic of a piti- able emptiness of mind. One could carry the parable further, and say: that they were symptomatic of a Bappiness of mind.

·Better still, one could say they were sympto matic of an umbraced mind.

Let us be perfectly frank about it: the nuggle, the caress," the maiden's head 01 the swain's shoulder, used to be stealthy Unbraced. This is the word pastimes fcz the alcove, the corner and the passage; they have now The younger generation in every to sum up all that I have said, taken the centre of the ballroom, and the limelight, and are done epoch has been mentally inverte

brate, built on cartilage instead of;

to music; the dance is not a dance bone. To grow up is to stand erect any longer but

a legalised firtain all the integrity of one's own tion, and I, for one, mjoy it im strong, individual bones; but be mensely. That which was a com- munity art has become community

not distressed, young people: not cuddling. Diferent in kind, more All that I have here said of you one in twenty ever does grow up. primitive, but undeniably plea might be urged against ninety per

Something similar may be ident of your elders.

sant.

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Why Youth La Lovable,

of our young people's fashion in novels, though the two cases are If the world were not ninety per not parallel, because the novel, in cent, sheep: I do not see how it escaping from earlier inhibitions, could go on. If I had not a great has not accessarily lost its charac deal of the sheep in me I should ter as art to be sure, it claims not go to your next dance (as I very loudly that it is thus attain most certainly shall) in a iudicrous. ing the summite of art. But the white starched cuirnas, riveted to- point is, the aspirants" for know-gether with golden nails, and in ledge need no longer peep furtive- a neck-ring that is not a collar but ly into backs intended for medical a martyrdom. And you have this and scientific men, they can read advantage over such aging mutton the latest High Art novel in a rail as myself, and most who have read way carriage.

this essay, that you still retain the Well, well, some of them novela charm that is inalienable from may be the Highest Art, or they youth. may not, but I have a strong suspi tion that they are also legalised frailty.

Then there is this matter of the young girls' dreas. Here they have

none in wy admiration for the sex, but I confess Enver knew they

It has nothing to do with strong sense and firm character, as I have been at pains to show you it is

the, last bloom of that which is the most ravishing thing in the world,

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