1929-12-19 — Page 4

NEW ATTACK

WOMEN.

ON

PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1929.

THE HONG KONG DAILY

COUNTESS CAVE'S LIFE AMBITION.

Mr. Brookes, in his chapter en written by women who pander to Sex Fallacies" displays in his this weakness among their own writing many of those characteris-sex." ties of discursiveness and subjec tiveness which he claims are purely feminine defects. He flits from one "EMOTIONS BLIND THEIR point to another, interpolates per

REASON."

UNTRUTHFUL.

Mr. Joshua Brookes does not admire women. They are то enigma to him, and in his new tro. S. ed.), he analyses them mer

book, "Fads and Fallacies" (Bren-

vilessly.

Though women are frank, they are much more untruthful than men, he claims, and deceit and prevarication are their favourite weapons.

"Bad temper will wreck a home quite as surely as infidelity, and many a deserted wife draw, a separation allowance which she has earned by her shrewish tongue.'

sonal anecdotes, and generalises rushly from particular instances which are by no means typical.

Blaming the Films.

He

He sees in the present-day fashion of short skirts, the common 1750 of rouge, and the present forces method of dancing. which tend to militate against modesty and chastity, and he at- tributes these changes to the econo- mie repercussions of the war.

A CHILDHOOD DREAM FULFILLED.

When Countess Cave was a listle

"Women are shrewder than men is matters of the heart," he thinke, girl and her name was Ann Estella but their emotions blind their ret Mathew, she made up her mind that son. They do not see what they do not wish to see, and so are fre-she would marry a barrister, and

HEALTHIEST VILLAGE IN ENGLAND.

TUBERCULAR EX-SOLDIERS'

SETTLEMENT.

In the last five years the British Legion has added a new village to the map of Kent. It is a village

INQUEST ON EARL'S

GRANDSON.

SEVEN-WEEK-OLD CHILD SUFFOCATED.

It is a sad and unusual case.

Oce would have thought it impos- sible for a child of only seven weeks to have died from suffocation in

Nursa's Evidence.

Elizabeth Jones, the nurse, said she was thirty-seven Festá of age. She gave the child water at 5 o'clock that morning, because he woke crying, and she thought he was thirsty.

She slept in a bed alongside the child's cot. She put the baby on his side. An hour later, the found him lying on his face snuggled in

the pillows. She did not think the clothes were over his face.

She called for assistance, and a doctor who was summoned said

"It is very doubtful now," he writes, if they are really any

enger much purer than men."" fails to detect feminine passion in Victorian novels, women then being quently victimised by scoundrels that he should become Lord Chan-to which all the men come as in these circumstances. However, from that death had taken place.

men

actuated in their affairs with more by mercenary motives than by the urge of romance,

like Landru and Mahon.

He blames the increasing freedom of women for the decline of virtue, "The novel, the stage, and the film

It will not be surprising if the have all degenerated in purity since women possessed sufficient money to success of "Fads and Fallacies" affect the supply. Moreover, the depends on the amount of femine greater number of sex novels are patronage it receives."

cellor.

valida, and yet it has a health re- Mr. Brookes will not agree that women are mean. "In reality," be After some years she married cord which will compare favourably a good with any normal town or village in "women are more generous George Care, and after says, and more extravagant than men it is they who spend the money that any more years he did become the country. So well are the vil- Lord Chancellor. Lord Cave died lagers looked after that no child is so good for trade."

last year, before an intended earl has died for two and a half years, dom could be conferred on him, so Viscountess Cave was made a coun- and there has never been a case of tess in her own right.

maternal mortality. Lady Cave tells the story in a It was just after the war that delightful little volume, "Odde and Preston Hall was turned into a Ends of My Life," which was pub-place where ex-soldiers suffering lished last month.

from tuberculosis could be treated How Ann Estella Mathew Was and at the same time taught a sult led to decide on marrying a future nble trade. As first, however, the Lord Chancellor is told thus - sanatorium was none too successful, This same beloved Aunt Eliza-and it was not till the British beth, by a remark to her husband, Legion took it over in 1924 and ran settled once and for all my ultimate it on the lines made familiar by destiny. Amaid of hers was leay- Papworth that it became the trium- ing after many years of service to phant success that it is to-day. be married, and my aunt was feel- ing very sore, and I heard her say: To think that after all theee years in our service Emma should leave

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Life at Preston Hall revolves round two poles, the sanatorium and the village, between the hos- pital ward and the full freedom of.

the post-mortem the cause of death was undoubtedly suffocation."

These remarks were made by Mr. Ingleby Oddie, the Westminster Coroner, in recording a verdict of

She bad never known the child' to roll over when sleeping, but he had done so when playing. The pillow was not an unusually soft

one,

Dr. H. B. Weir, pathologist, who Death by misadventure" at the made a post-mortem examination, the seven-week-old son of the Hon. Jenough strength to roll over and inquest on Robin Francis Erskine, said he thought the child had just F. W. Erskine and Mrs. Erskine, press his face into the pillow. "The of Victoria Square, S.W., and a cause of death was asphyxia, grandson of the Earl of Mar and Kellie, who was found dead in his cot.

Mr. Erskine, who gave evidence fret, said that his son was in good health. He was being fed arti- ficially.

Afr. Oddie: There was no kind

It is very young for child to move in that way-It is, but he was a good-sized child, and may have just begun to kick.

of convulsion -No.

Then you would have thought he The nurse, Elizabeth Jones, had į would have rolled back if he got been with them just over two his face buried in the pillow- yenre. She was an excellent nurse cannot see any other way it could

have occurred. and careful.

me to marry a bannan, and to he securer job and a good house in DAILY SHARE QUOTATIONS.

constantly demenring herself by drawing beer for drunkards.' Why this remark remained in my mem- “ary

I cannot say, but it did. "A year or so afterwards, when perhaps nine or ten years of age, I heard my father any, to my mother, I shall always regret I did not go to the Bar, I wish with all my heart I had done so,'

To his astonishment, before my mother could answer, I remarked: And to be constantly demeaning pourself by drawing beer for drunk- arda.'

My father coud not extract from me the source of my informa- tion, but it evidently so impressed him that be at onec explained to me, at-full length, what being call. ed to the Bar really meant, and so rosy secined to me the outlook of the barmar that I at once decided to marry such a one.

"De

The firet evening she went to Queensberry House, Richmond, to visit George Cave's people, her future father-in-law, said: you know you are going to marry a possible future Lord Chancellor ?" "Yes, I know," she replied.

Years pazeed. George Care took eilk. He became Attorney-General in 1916. then Home Secretary, and then a Lord of Appeal. The am hition of my life," says Lady Cave, "seemed to fade away,"

Then the Coalition went to pieces. Bonar Law became Prime Minister, and Lord Birkenhead went into the, wilderness, leaving the Lord Chancellorship vacant.

"It was on Sunday, October 2 1999, "says Indy-Cave, that a message came from Mr. Bonar Law that he wished to see Lord Cave at twelve o'clock in Downing Street.

"We had friends junching with us n.1.30. At two o'clock I heard the ear; I did not dare look up for A moment as he entered the room. My heart was beating wildly. When I looked at him, he gave me atle reassuring nod, and quietly apologising to our guests for being late, began to eat his lunch as if the greatest ambition of my life (cot his, for he always did the next thing, whatever it might be) had not come to pass."

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FIGHT WITH WHALE.

MONSTER SMASHES BOAT...

the village. Each patient passes through a number of intermediate phases. The men come from every part of England, and some of them even from abroad. At present, for instance, there are four patients from Paris whose treatment is paid for by the chairman's Fund, while the ordinary patients are provided for by the local authorities of the places in which they reside.

Buyers

Medical Treatment and Work. When the sanatorium has its full complement of 183 patients it is self-supporting, and is even able to 895" subsidise the village by a little help in labour. That is the great point of the work at Preston Hali; as soon as a mar. is able to take a little physical exercise he begins to do an hour's work in one of the village in- Tiso dustries. Cradually this is increas ed as his strength, improves antil at the end of the treatment he is

able to become a settler and earn bis living in the village.

As far as medical treatment goes, there is no better equipped sann- Besides the tolium in Britain. ordinary open-air treatment" there. is full provision for artificial san- light and for artificial pneumo- thorax, which is often successful in obstinate cases. After a period in the Hall itself, during which a elaborate examination is made, the patient passes out to a life in an open-air shelter during which he follows a period in the hostel-a begins to learn a trade. Then there sort of final undergraduate year. family life again. and then a house in the village and.

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The settler at Papworth has a con- siderable choice of employment. He may become a printer or a carpen- ter, a fibre worker or gardener, The fact that he may have been a acceding to his individual capacity.

miner will not prevent his making chicken houses, a very flourishing printer's shop, only three men had industry at Preston Park. In the any experience of printing before they came to the village. Up to the age of 35 there is no difficulty in a man's learning another trade, and T14.40 learning it well, too, although the workers are or have been sick men Preston Hall to-day is a self-supporting business" con-

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Prosperous and Healthy. In 1926 the wages bill was £13,000, and the sales were £45,000; last year they had increased to Recently large humpback cow £22,500 and £71,000 respectively. whale cruising along the coast of The village has a population of 751, New South Wales with her calf was and it is the envy of the neighbour intercepted and brought into the villages, for it is never troubled inner bay by a killer, the last sur-by unemployment, while its bill of vivor of the once numerous pack of killers associated from early days with Twofold Bay. The whale was sces near Eden wharf.

A hastily selected crew manned a whaleboat and attempted to har- poon the whale, which shepherded by the killer, made no attempt to move from near where it was first

seen.

Immediately the whalers came on the scene the killer attacked the mother whale, completely disregard. ing the calf which swam near.

The whale, harassed by incessant attacks, fought its way round the bay, and when near the pilot station a harpoon was made fast. This im- peded her progress and a prolonged struggle took place in the harbour

entrance.

Eventually the whale moved sen- ward and round South Head. Ste was repeatedly lanced, but sounded deeply in her efforts to get rid of the harpoon and evade the killer. On rising the lashed the water with terrific force, and at length one mighty sweep of the flukes reached the boat, smashing several planks in on one side and missing the or cupants by inches only.

Jim Davidson, following in a launch, rescued the whalers from their precarious plight.

The whale, though thus succeed ing in getting loose, appeared to be in death throes, and continued to

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But of course not every patient can go on to become a battler. Space and economics forbid that, and force the great majority back to the outside world For them a very effective after-care work is T.164 done. The cured patient must be found suitable employment in pro per conditions. If he goes to bad conditions of inefficient ventilation or dusty work all the good of his treatment is undone. The very day he enters Preston Half the work of finding him a suitable job begins. The after-care officer can count on six months in which to find it.

It is hard, exacting, detailed work, but Preston Hall never fails to achieve its object. Most after care committees only start to fune- tion when the patient is discharged; At Preston Hall they say that the day of admission is the obvious date. Experience proves them right.

Later the calf was wen swimming alone..

It is thought that the mother suc- cumbed and was taken to the bottom by the killer in accordance with the usual habit. The whalers have gone on à further search for the "whale,"

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