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The magnificent President Liners are broad of heary sad exceptionally steady. All are oll burners, swift express liners,
The public rooms are luxuriously appointed and inviting.
All staterooms are outside, splendidly furnished and equipped with beds-noc berths Each room, has hot and cold running water, also fans, wardrobe, thermas "bottles and reading lamps. Private bath and showers in connection, with many"
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TO SAN FRANCISCO und
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The Sunshine Dale via Honolulu Fortnightly smilinga an Tuesdays
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The Short, Straight Boute to America "Fortnightly sailings on Wednesdays
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TO MANILA.
Prea. Hayes...Nov. 8th, 8. am. | Pres. Polk Fres. Grant Nov. 8th, 6. p.m. Prea. Claveland Pres. Lincoln or 14th, 6 pm Prex. Madison
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"SI-KLANG "
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HAVRE about the 25th November,
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Steamers.
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Sallings from Marseilles.
AFT. at Hong Kong & Bailings for Shanghai and Japan,
9th Nov.
Hong Kong for Bailings from
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...A
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...d
7th Ost 21st Oct..
ANDRE LEBON ...A
4th Nov.
CHENONCEAUX A 18th Nov,
23rd Nov. 7th Dec. $1st Dec.
17th Jan,
H
RATES OF PASSAGE MONEY TO MARSEILLES
(including Table Wine).
Od.
A Class) 1st Class..... 99. Od. Od. BOLLES (1st Class...£ 85, 0, od
STALMERS Ind € 70 ud. Od. Tickets to London and Leading Tonds 61. 01.
Europe
Steamers 2nd
Through
Accommodations reserved in.the Trašna si Marseilles, (Ballings subject to alteration without notice),
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WITH INDEX, PRICE $750, On Bale at the HOND KONG DAILY
·Presa Ofic.
THERAPION No. 3
Sto 1 for Madder Camera," So, a fer Blood à fa Dianinas X5. Bize. Chrowse Waskzemet, sola GRAMOFW OKRUSEL, PRIOR SI MORSAT), in Da. La Queso
London
Wast Rest, Káy Tainunod.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8th, 1927.
THE BAD GIRL OF THE
FAMILY,
„DANCING ALONG TO
REALITY.
SILK AND SIN;
to
Her mother refera her, ironically, as miss." Her father, when prophesying that quin and disgrace will claim her unless she
mends her waya, calla her "your ladyship."
Oh says her mother, looking nt the clock which has just struck „eleven, “so you've thought fit to come home at last, miss! Do you know what time it is?”
"Yes; I went to the pictures."
Pictures Perica her father as incredulously as
said "South Afgh she had You've
been to the pictures!, Do you think your mother went gadding about to the pictures night. after night when she was your age?"
"They weren't invented."
Don't you give me any lip! Let me tell you this, your tady- ship: Unless you behave as a respectable girl should there's go ing to be trouble. I won't have my daughter talked about. Look At the paint-on-you look-at-your legs! You ought to be ashamed! One might think..
H
川
I'm no different to other girla." That's no excuse!"
"How can you, Hilda," says her mother pathetically, shaking her head in sorrow over a in.com- prehensible child.
The Bad Girl of the Family moves philosophically about the kitchen preparing cocoz.
are going well: The "row" is not half so violent as she expected. She is, getting off lightly. She regards a violent clash with the old genera tion-as the inevitable price paid by the young generation for its plea
sures.
9.
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Sailings from Europe for Shanghai and Northern Ports:
M.B. "RAMSES”--- M&FEMLAND * * M.8. "VOGTLAND *. 8.S.ALBERT VOGLER"
S.S. "OLDENBURG”.
#
8.8. ADOLF VON BARYER
HOMEWARD.
"
1
dos here on or about the 17th Nor. que bare on or about the 30th Nor. dus here on or about the 14th Dec. due here' on orsbout the SIst Doc. due here on or about the 19th Jan,’98. "... due' here on or about the 38th Jan
Sailings for Europe via Manila, Singapore,
Colombo & Port Said:—
18.8. BACHBEN“ 8.6.FREUSSEN
* M.B.BAMSES":"
mailing from harmon or about the 15th Nov. miling from here on or about the 29th Nov, sailing from here on or about the 20th Dea. zailing from here on or about the 3rd Jan., '952. ...sailing from here on or about the 17th Jan. 18.8. "ALBERT VOGLER”....... «ailing from here on or about the 2nd Fab,.
1 M.S. "ERMLAND"
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will be loading for MARSEILLES, ST. NAZAIRE, HAVRE, BOTTERDAM, HAMBURG, COPENHAGEN
and other SCANDINAVIAN PORTS
Further Bailings
On of about 6th December.
She observes her indignant parents with a sulky resentment as she goes into the scullery to find the kettle: her father, sitting in his shirt sleeves with the evening paper and a half empty pint bottle of stout before him on the worn, table cloth her mother, faded and looking much older than her age. because of years spent under the tyranny of kitchen and a wash- house. A depressing interior.
What do they know of life1 The | M.S. "Java"! literature she reads proves that life can be a thrilling, gay, brilliant, S.S. "Australien even romantic thing; the cinémi M.S.“ Asia” shows her this vivid life in pro gress...
་་
What a good thing she told a lie! She had not been to the pie tures." She had been to the " Pal- ley" de "Danac. That, in the opinion of her parents, is a degree mearer damnation. To admit it would have caused a real "row," with taunts about "followers "
and frank, "unpleasant prophecies
Oh well. .
I
She whistles a bar of "Then my heart stood still" and her long yel- low legs instinctively shuffe a Charleston as the bolds the kettle under. the tap.
.."A whistling woman and a crow. ing hen" she hears in condemna tory_tones from the kitchen.
Blast!" she whispers to the kettle.
M.S." Malaya" S.S. "Kina TM*
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on or aboin.
Expected on or about 28th November
17th December
15th January
2nd February 14th March
Bubject to change without notice. For further particulars, please apply to ....
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"Agents,
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when you slam the front door, you
In your vague life, which begins;
protection to a "girl friend" of cling from an instinct of mutual the game age with the same kind of home.--You-go everywhere to gether. You can be seen slowly parading the main street of your suburb, up and down, back and forwards, with that simulated air of an ultimate destination which people assume when they march round and round the deck of a liner. Roving bands of young It is surely difficult to have been, clearly without destination, loiter at corúérs and regard you bor practically the same shape as Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, and
with interest, spetimes whistling interrogatively Madame de Pompadour but plant- ed by Fale in a dull little house in a long dull street from which everything calculated to satisfy a sense of beauty has been brilliantly excluded.
Poor parents; poor Hilda!
It is perhaps, a trife easier when a generous world offers you lás. or £1 a week for packing in
In other strata of society, there
are organised questions on which young people can satisfy this natural desire to meet and make friends, but the street is your only menus of finding the companion- A ship which youth. demands. clumsy-operation called "clicking"
circles.
a warehouse from 8 ain, until serves the saine purpose as an in; pn., with overtime at Christmas.troduction in lesa haphazard social This means that you can beautify yourself. You can have daring
Were you anything but an empty- ambitiona You can pull long headed person you might, no doubt, crunchy, artificial silk stockings on take a course in something useful! your pretty legs in the evening at a London County Council night and it is marvellous how different school. Thousands of girls do; but you feel. You can buy a hat which that is not in your line. The mo you can keep for best." This also has a wonderful improving is as much in your blood ne in that dern craving for tawdry excitement effect on your inner self. You can of the neurotic night blub girl then save up gradually and buy a You must get out, more, laugh
tume and, after months of self- dance. denial, a shell pink taffeta evening gown with a big velvet flower on A husband crystallises from the the curve of your lovely bare band of your admirers. He is, shoulder. The day will even come shall wo say, a naive as yourself, when you may add a pair of pink
as unaware of life, the realities of ahors to the pink gown.
Then it is possible to steal glances life, the responsibilities of life, the
possibilities of serious endeavour, at yourself in the long mirrors of and he earns just enough for him- dance balls your own mirror self. In addition to his charm, he shows only one half of you at a offers you an escape from a critical time and you know, beyond any home" doubt, that you are a beautiful, He is the local Charleston cham even dazzling, young girl.
pion. His dancing skirts, of trou-,
You sers, are a tawny dream.
You do not analyse the tragedy visualise, married life as a long, that those nearest to you, instead anprohibited and uncriticised of praising you and broadening dance, with perhaps a cinema your awakening sympathies, should thrown in, and no one waiting up. regard you as the Bad Girl of the for your return!.. Family, taunting you as though in
Poor Hilda you soon crash into grasping your unassailable right to reality, but in doing so you find be beautiful you are doing some yourself, suddenly, surprisingly thing disreputable. Why should and a most respectably, the Good they regard silk as the preliminary Girl of the Family- V. MORTON to sin? It. hurts you at first when in Daily Express: 4 they gibe at you, saying that you evidently feel too good for your place, in society, because it never- cccurred to you to be a question of class you merely wanted to look pretty
It is good to get away from per- petuni criticism, into that outside world where people like you, and mire you, say kind things to you. (Continued on next Odlumn.)
.....
Ten of the eighteen men taken into custody by the police on the Paul Bean on Saturday, are to be charged today at the Magistracy and Marine Court. The charges preferred against them have not yet been made known, The other eight men were released.
MORE NEW SHIPS FOR
THE NAVY.
10,000-TON CRUISER, G —DESTROYERS_AND_ 8 SUBMARINES.
The naval armaments conference
having achieved gothing, the Ad- miralty is to proceed with the new construction programme which Mr. Bridgeman announced six months ago, and was held up pending the result of the conference, writes the political correspondent of the Even- ing Standard.
be
At an early date contracts are to invited for the construction of: One cruiser (A Class)," 19,000 tons displacement, mounting pro- bably inch guns, and with a speed o approximately 3o knots,
Six destroyers-in view of the large number of destroyers of older types which have been Scrapped. Twenty-seven new des troyers in 'all, are to be built be. ford 1930.
Eight submarines, which, it is understood, will displace 1,350 tons (surface) and 1,750 tons (sub- merged). These are part of a TE- placement prograzame, which will These will bring mach additional inulude 24 units. work to the shipbuilding yards and armaments centres.
SUNRISE AND SUNSET IN
HONG KONG
FOR NOVEMBER, 1997. STANDARD TIME OF THE 120th MERIDIAN, EAST OF GREENWICH,
Date.
Sunrise Sunset. November 8th...8.31 a.m.
5.43 p.m. Bth...6.32 19
5,42 10th...6.33.i 5.42 11th 6.33. 12th...4.33
- 13th...6.34 14th. 6.35 -13th...6,35 16th: 0.38 17th...6.37 ...
18th...0.37
19th...6.39
20th...6,38,
22nd..0,40
5:42 ..11 5.41 .5.41 1.
5.41·0
*5.40 .5:40
5.40
5.39
5.30
+1
5.30
6.30
21st,...0.30;.
4.28
23rd...6.40 6.38
"
24th....41 5.38 25th...6.42 5.38 20th 0.43. 25,38 27th...6.43 15,38
29th 6.44 20th...0.45
20th....40
5.38
5.38
6.29
NEW YORK BERTH.
FOR NEW YORK & BOSTON via SUEZ.
S.S. KENDAL CASTLE"
Sails hence on or about 12th Nov.
LLOYD TRIESTINO.
REGULAR
MONTHLY PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE for BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE (PIUME). TAKING CARGO ON THROUGH BILLS OF LADING TO GENOA, ALL ITALIAN, ADRIATIO, LEVANT, BLACK SEA AND DANUBE PORTS.
***REDUCED PASSAGE RATES, BRINDISI, VENICE & TRIESTE LONDON
NEXT SAILINGS."
£72,10.0. £80. 0.0;
OUTWARDS FOR SHANGHAI YOKOHAMA, KOBE AND MOJI.
VENEZIA
·BEMO"
*VIMINALE"
From Hong Kong. Salis heuce on or about 10th Nov. Sails hence on or about 8th Dea- Baile banca on or about - 5th Jan, 1998
HOMEWARDS FOR BRINDISI, VENICE AND TRIESTE.
"ROMOLO" -VENEZIA "REMO"
From Hong Kong.
Saile bance on or about 13th Nov. Sails hence on or about 13th Dec." Saila herce on or about 10th Jan, 1949
NATAL LINE OF STEAMERY
FROM CALOUTTA & COLOMBO TO SOUTH AFRICAN PORTS
UMSINGA"
" UMVOLOSI"
Baile from Calcutta 2nd Dec. Sails from Calcutta End Feb., 1928
Regular Fassinger and Cargo Service to South African Ports, Through Bills of Lading issued from Hong Kong.
For Freight or Prange on any of the above Linos, apply to :-
DODWELL & CO., LIMITED
Telephone: Central: 1090
Agenta.
JAVA THE WONDERLAND
SPEND YOUR SUMMER HOLIDAYS
IN JAVA.
BEAUTIFUL HILL RESORTS GLORIOUS SCENERY.
Next Sailings from Hong Kong:-
·S.8.TJISALAK:"
8.8.TJIKARANG”
8.8. * TJIMANOEK"
10th Nov. to. Batavia direct.
17th Nay, to BATAVIA direct.
24th Nov, to BATAVIA direct.
Special Return Tickets Issued.
For full particulare regarding fares, hotels,
motor trips, etc. Apply to
JAVA-CHINA-JAPAN LIJN,
Telephono U. 1574
YORE BUILDING.
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