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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 12th, 1928.*

TRAGIC CHILDREN.

A REAL SINGAPORE

PROBLEM.

"AMAH'S UNREVISED AND UNAIDED REGIME."

[BY MAYE WOOD.]

no one ever complaint.

WOMEN BROKERS FOR WOMEN.

THE NAVY'S „ MAN POWER.

WALL-ST. INVASION.

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ALREADY DOING A BIG BUSINESS.

'NEW YORK.'

A broker's office, operated by women for women has been opened in New York."

"PARED. TO THE BONE."

BUT 1,800 STILL TO GO.

On January 15th last, according to a recent statement of the First

Lord of the Admiralty, there were 8,515 officers and $3,709 ratings serving in the Royal Nayy. On Recently Singapore was startled

January 18th, 1913, the correspond-| The office owes its inception to ing figures were 9,499 officers and by a highly coloured article in a Home paper

on her Tragic the great bull market which has 129,607 ratings. Why these parti- Wives." You there is a seque, in attracted thousands of investors calar dates were chosen for the the Straits Times" by Joye

women who among Wood, less fambyant, but quite

previously purposes of comparison is not very interesting, about that perennial | never

concerned themselves with clear.. Probably it was intended to question, children and amaha, stocks and shares. Striking inaelect a date sufficiently antecedent will enable us to realise how much cidents of the new market have to the outbreak of war to give a better are our Hong Kong mam- mas, babies and amans about whom recently been told in the press-comparison under normal condi- how Some women have pawned tions. Having regard to the im All this talk of "tragic wives " their jewels as a means to speculate mense disproportion between the makes me think of something far and how insistently they have in numerical size za total tonnage more tragic; I mean the tragic vaded brokerage offices both in

of the Fleet in 1913 and in 1929. children in Singapore and else { Wall-street and in the roke

one is almost led to the conclusion where in Malaya. The ones who fashionable parts of the city.

that either we had too few officers are relegated to the boring care of Many houses which, it seems, will

and men then or that we have too amah or ayah, almost exclusively, soon be considered old-fashioned

many now. In point of fact, the while Mummie too often plays | dislike women clients, arguing that

figures given by Mr. Bridgeman bridge all the morning, golf or they take their losses badly and are tennis after ten, and dances, or

will have been reduced by about not too well acquainted with | plays bridge again up to bed-time. figures. But, appareatly, all firms 1.800, offers and ratings by Janu

ary next. The decision not to pro- This climate is ideal for children do not hold this view,

ceed with the construction of three up to five or six years of age and Ticker Tape And Comfort.

cruisers of the five years' replace- they can be so attractively dressed The new office controlled by a

meut programme is probably held that they look like little fairies, woman with fourteen years' ex- but how many of the bigger ones, perience in Wall-street is niready to justify, this reduction in man Yet in presenting the between four and seven years of reported to be doing a large busi-power. age, look bored and tired, are described as the arst in that line Bridgeman remarked that the per- ness. The board girl, who is Navy Estimates for 1027-28, Mr. peevish and unmanageable! This of business, is a graduate of sonael of the Navy had been par- is largely due to the fact that they Cornell University. The office based to the bone." It was this com are left for long weary hours under its ticker tape, many telephones, the control of a native, who, hor and full accommodation for its ment which led to the general ex- ever devoted, is addom able to as.peculating customers, with just pectation of an increase under the

that added touch of refinement current estimates. sume real control of white children; | which indicates that women are in and rarely, indeed, able to provide sufficient mental stimulùa to their active little brains.

The Case For The Amah.

control.

The truth of the matter is that the Admiralty are in a very dif cult, almost anomalous "position nowadays. The air is beavy with talk of reduction. of armament, aut-

The new head explained the en- terprise by saying: "It seems that we are about to be recognised in a more friendly manner. Both in the Government and the banking awing war, and the like. So far world we have official recognition. We have done the disarming, whilst Now Wall-atreet has surrendered" other Fowers have done the talk- Speaking of her customers, sheng, but there is always a feeling said, "Surely the head that bud- that, like Mr. Winkle, they may "begin. In face of this uncer- gets a household is capable of

policy of ca canny. It would be tainty, Parliament favours

undesirable to have a big surplus

learning the intricacies of stocks and bonds."

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women who would prophesy any thing but a successful career for these pioneers.

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of man power hand in the event pf. Geneva suddenly producing a convention under which we agreed to serap a certain number of ships. Therefore, we are rather living on the principle that "sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

1 am not one of those who believe that a mother should never leave her children in native hands. That is asking the impossible. There are is most cases, more calls, domestic and social, on a woman's time out

women Once again American here than at home which make it have entered a new field of endea out of the question, even if it werevour. He does not know American desirable. A mother needs rest from her children some part of each day, for their sakes quite as much us for her own. But she can regulate the amount of time she spends away from home, especially in the morning. For she should bear in mind that if the children tire her, they also tire amah, who needs free time past as much as her mistress. In the morning there are generally washing and other household duties for amah to do; it is unteasonable to expect her, after hard work, to be ready, to take the children out every

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300 TINY CHILDREN.

BODYGUARD FOR THE DUCHESS OF YORK.

The generally pacific outlook en- aples this course to be followed without must risk. But the draft- ing officers find the times difficult. If they were. called upon to com- plete to full strength the ships with special" complements it is more When the Duchees of York visit than doubtful whether they could ed the West Ham Mission in Bark-manage it. As to the little Reserve ing-road, E., on her way to open brought up to full strength it Fleet-well, if that had to be children's bospital at Hutton, Essex, she was delighted to find on

would mean a mobilization. When unusual bodyguard to welcome her there is not much scope left even

resources are "pared to the bone afternoon, give them their meals,300 tiny children in white frocks, for plotting and planning.-Naval and put them to bed every day (as each waving at Hag as large ai a great many women expect), with themselves.

and Military Record. out any relaxation from duty until nightfall.

If a mother scarcely ever plays with her children, or reads to them, and practically never super vises their meal-times, not only do they suffer terribly when they go home for good, but she is in danger the result of this almost complete of losing their affection, too. "And

Inside the nursery school at the Children's Church, Winnie Hill,, aged 3, a self-possessed young per son in pink, trotted up to the Duchcas and thrust a bowl of forget-me-nots into her hand.

It's for the baby princess," she whispered.

did

native control is too often to be observed in the spoilt, selfish, un- disciplined little people we see outed

here.

Helplessness.

you say, darling

The Duchess bent closer. "What

MALARIA SCOURGE.

January to 350. since the epidemic originated in

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350 DEATHS THIS YEAR IN THE TRANSVAAL,

JOHANNESBUBO, S. Africa. The worst malaria epidemic in For the baby princess," repeat-any years is sweeping an exten- sive area beyond Rustenburg, in Winnie, perfectly at her ease.

the Transvaal. The natives are in "Thank

rau, dear. My baby loves flowers," replied the Duchess. desperate plight, for every "town The Duchess was introduced to and village is infected. In the past Mary women acknowledge that more than 3,000 mothers. Later six weeks 200 deaths have been re- amah knows more about "Baby"

she drove through the cheering Ported, raising the total death-roll than they do, apparently thinking crowds, which twice brake the bar- this ideal! Several times going riers, to Hutton.

Wagon" loads" of The haven for native victims are being removed home. I have been called upon to sick children which she opened

to a central treatment depot. administer castor oil to a sickly

to take the place of the mission's child, whose mother

not old home at Tiptree, which was too ashamed to say that she had always small. left this job to amah, and didn't know how to begin. In some cases the children were upset and needed the odious

because their amahs feeding little children-stuf mothers were ignorant of the corfing the food in, spoonful after rect food to give them, "Amah al- spoonful, as fast as they could ways saw to baby's makan,' is scrape it up off the plate. No time allowed for mastication, hardly enough for swallowing; and as for manners and digestion I

their excuse.

dose

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A Great Handicap. Yet another evil is the way these amabs and ayahs have of making children self-ocatred, by constantly

Another reason (if one is neces- sary) for a mother's careful super vision of her little children's lives, is that the control by amalı or ayah is nearly always out of date. It is all donte, where there is any correction at all, followed aften by & smart slap, to which the child drawing attention to their childish responds by unseemly wailing and exploits, and extravagantly prais kicking, accompanied by amah's ing every little achievement Baby raucous protests I have seen an banyak pandai," is much too fre amah shake a child so roughly that quently on, their lips.

it was rendered breathless behind But perhaps the most tragic part the mother's back of course. But of it all is to be seer in the gradual then, she had been with that child lessening of the child's instinctive

The authorities and doctors have difficulty in obtaining sufficient quinine for their needs, and the cold weather is aggravating rather than checking the epidemic.

It is probable that the disease may be complicated by influenza.

£200,000 FOR 107 PICTURES.

BERLIN, May 10th."

A sale of art treasures which

has attracted art dealers from all

began tins morning in Berlin and

over Europe has already realised £200,000 for the firet 107 numbers of the catalogue.

Holbein's Picture of a Young Woman," which has a diameter of only four and a half inches, was bought for £7,760 by Mr. Colnaghi,

of London, A small picture of

for many hours on end, and it was reliance on its mother, as it is Botticelli's The Annunciation"-

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that kind of thing is all wrong, and service, willingly rendered. by J. 8. De Troy (died 1752) made was discounted in England twenty- When these children go home, they the enormous price of £15,000.

Are bereft of a slave-like devotion five years ago, and more...

BERLIN, I urge the case of these tragic which has spoilt them, and made The sensation of the first hour children. On the one hand, they them dependent and autocratic. was the male of Rembrandt's por are pampared and spoilt with too The process of breaking in to the trait of Hendrickje Stoffels, for many compliments and presents, new state of things-ot bome is ex-which £98,300 was paid. and fuss, when they are being ceedingly painful, anyone will A portrait by Franz Hale ot shows off to Friends; on the other, testify who has ever seen one of Frank Post fetched £15,250, nadu they are left to the care of the poor tragic children going picture by Rubens representing the uneducated women who, though through with it.

Consul Decius questioning the often devoted, are old-fashioned There never was a greater handi- Augurs." £3,800. A picture by Van. and mistaken in their ideas of cap to start school-life with than Ruy dael entitled "Haarlem View. rearing the young. I have even six or seven years of amah's' un- ed from the Dunes," sold for

(Continued on next Column). revised and unaided regime.

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