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WOMAN'S CORNER.

WHAT COURAGE! BUT ARE WOMEN

MORE FEARLESS NOWADAYS?

We modern women do pride our- And the rest of us who like our gelres on our fearlessness, don't adventures at our own fireside read "wel

about it all with a gasp, and ex- One of us flies alone" to Timbue-claim "Women never used to do

toe: another enters for a motor- race against some of the fastest men-driven cars yet made, and a third goes off to the wilds to "big" a tiger or so. What courage!

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AT THE

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these things"!

But did't they 1

The pages of history are very enlightening, and full of the "west Amazing stories.of women's courage and endurance,

The main difference between then and now seems to be that our " Eare- rothers carried out their heroic undertakings in silence, as part of their duty, while the emancipated. woman of 1800 is free to make as much unise about her adventures as. men have always done, from Adam onwards.

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Somebody once said, "We have heard

A great deal about the Pilgrim Fathers--but whoever heard anything about the Pilgrim Mothers They not only suffered all the privations and hardships of the journey in the Mayflower, but they suffered the Pilgrim Fathers as well! And it is like- ly they bore a good deal more, for it is doubtful if any of the Pilgrim Fathers ever held their babes in their arms while their wives rest ed between attacks which must have been very similar to these caused by, a heaving ship in a strong sou'. weater in 1930. It is more likely that the Pilgrim Fathers groaned a good deal under the strain, while

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1930.

SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN WATCHING THE METER -

By GLUYAS WILLIAM

∙SETS OFF IN TAXI'

GLANCES PRESENTLY AT METER. ONLY 30 CENTS SO TAR

LOONS AT METER. AGAIN AFTER A BIT. GOOD GRIEF, HOW DID 'IT GET UP TO 60 CENTS SO QUICK

SINKS BACK WITH EYES - GLUED ON METER, WATCHING

IT JUMP

ONWARD AT LAST. STEALS LOOK AT METER, WHICH HAS ALREADY PASSED, HIS FINAL

ESTIMATE

GROAKS AS TAXI HALTS IN TRAFFIC JAM, WITH METER

TICKING ON

Copyright, 1930, by The Bali Syndicate, Inc.)

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'HOW'SA BABY!”

TRIALS OF A PARIS POLICEMAN.

their wives looked after themselves AMERICAN TOURISTS' SLANG.

and their children as best they could.

It is certain that the Pilgrim Mothers had a good deal to do with the success of the undertaking, and their self-effacement was a part of their creed.

Emancipation-and unknown then.

noise-were

Boadicea drove to battle in her chariot, and when she lost the day poisoned her two daughters, and then herself rather than fall into

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(UNITED PRESS.]

There is consternation among the thousand Paris polyglot policemen who spent weary months absorbing a thousand English words, only to learn that tourists do not speak the language of Shakespeare.

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TRAFFIC THRILLS IN PARIS.

NO LAW FOR THE PEDESTRIAN.

ONE WAY OF CROSSING A STREET.

DEODES HE OUGHT TO USE TAXIS MORE, IT IS NIT VERY EXPENSIVE

/ TRIES TO CALCULATE HOW

MUCH FINAL FARE WILL BE

SHUTS EYES TIGHT AND RE- SOLVES NOT TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN TILL HE GETS TO DESTINATION.

4-12

DIES OF BROKEN HEART.

¦ MORTIFICATION "AT WIFE'S

ARREST.

2

Herr Geheimrat Roether, late Prussian auditor general and one [UNITED PRESS.]

¡ of Potsdam's most respected citi After approximately one year of zens, died in hospital recently from the new and ostensibly modern a broken heart, caused by his mor traffic rulings laid down by the tification "at the arrest of his wife, energetic Corsican who bosses the who, on May 8, came up for trial police of Paris, some newspapers, on a charge of having obtained in taking note of the anniversary, money by false pretencea. The teacher of the policemen make so bold as t venture the Frau Roether, who loved luxury, the hands of the enemy. The daugh schoolboys" did not think its opinion that conditions have im had, it was alleged, been in the ters died game with the mother, and necessary to provide them with a no newspaper reporter was standing sideline of slang, with the result proved. It is doubtful whether the habit of obtaining on credit goods by to flash the news of her supreme that they cannot understand the tourist, returning after a winter's from firms in Berlin and Potsdam, act of self-sacrifice across the world. average British or American absence, will concur.

tourist, and the polyglot.policemen To understand the peculiar traffic which she impressed with her hus- Hundreds of other instances of & are so educated in the King's Eng-difficulties of Paris it is necessary band's title. like order Bash into our minds,ish that most of the tourists can to understand the French tempera- She thus acquired a lot of furni of women who bore the thumbscrew not understand them.

ment. In twenty years of close ture, pieces of which, it was al- and the rack-all of which make When they got their fictive sheep | application an American might do leged she sold, realising large sumi cur modern fearlessness look a little

skins, the policemen were patever that, but in the end he would of money on them. wan, and up-to-date courage not through another course of politenes be able to appreciate the whya and quite so remarkable we thought. and education. They were taught wherefores, without being able to Perhaps а little 1083 of the

to smile so that all their teeth show do anything much, about it.. clamorous liberty of 1930 and the best American style. They Take the change of lights--a sys- little more of the silent fortitude spent weary hours learning to bend tem imported direct from New af bygone aze would be a good without taking the eyes off the eyes York. The change from dark (there thing for the rising. generation!

of the person they seek to impress. is no green) to red, accompanied

They were

put through paces by the ringing of many gongs and which would give back to the the shrill blasts of fifteen police French race the famous tradition whistles, is not at all, as one might that all Frenchmen are "of the suppose, a signal to come to an "Alphonse and Gaston" school for abrupt and brake-screaching stop. ever praying the other to go first. On the contrary, it is like the drop. That school passed out with the ping of a handkerchief or the firing

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war, and Frenchmen were far from polite when the new High Com- missioner of Tourism, Gaston Gerard, took over.

The inquiring reporter wander- ed the boulevards, bent on putting to a practical test the boasts of M. Gerard that with a thousand police men speaking the language of the tourists, Paris wae a haven for Anglo-Saxons.

of a starter's gun, and gleeful taxi drivers step heavily on the gas for as far back as three blocks. Others swing gaily in from the side streets (no intersection is worthy of the name which does not converge at least eight streets) and still others.. upset by the din, change their minds suddenly and dart off in all directions, with the result that by the time the mess has been unseram- bled the lights have gone" off, the gongs have clanged again and the whistles are at the alert,

A few months ago the creditor Grms realised the true state of affairs, and Geheimrat Roether; completely dominated by his wife, agreed to flee from Germany with ber

Lack of means soon compelled. the couple to beg the price of 2 retura fare to Germany from their consul in Zurich, and on crossing the frontier into the fatherland

they were arrested.

Only Frau Roether, however, was decained in custody, while her hus band was sent to a Potsdam nurs ing home, where he speedily de- clined and 'died."

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WORLD WAGES.

AMERICAN WORKERS' PAY

HIGHEST.

Professor J. R. Richardson, re. cently appointed to the Chair of Industrial Relations at Leeds University, gave details of the rela tive value of wages paid to workers in differcat countries in a paper read at a meeting of the Royal Statistical Society in London re- cently.

Language of God's Country. "How'sa baby," the bright re porter asked of the first polyglot

A Parisian Crosses a“Street, policemen, whose sleeve bore em- broidered American and British

No law protects the pedestrian, Rags to prove that he spoke the but the native species does a fair lingo of Chicago and Birmingham. job of protecting himself. This he Eckskoose me but weel you does by sticking his nose in a news converse "slowlee," "came back the

paper and proceeding in the gen polyglot without batting an eye ineral-direction in which he thinks sign of intelligent understanding, he is going at a pace which sug. Comparisons,” he said, "should

"What's the big idea of the bunt ing. I thought you parley-vooed ests country lanes rather than city be by means of real wages-the streets. Taxi drivers swear and purchasing power of the workers" the language of God's Country," fume, brakes grind, horses rear. money 'wages in relation to the com- my reporter friend countered.

but nobody ever gets run over. All modities they ordinarily consume. Parley-voo" seemed to bring of which is fine for the falling birth On this basis he gave the follow- rise from the polyglot, who may rate but no help to M. Chiappe ending table of comparisons, calculated have heard the national song of his traffic cops,

on the average bourly wages of the AE.F. but the rest was a And the rules plainly favour the adult workers in typical occupa dead loss.

home team. No matter how many tians :- "Eef you are searching, the de-times a foreigner is shown the pot it is five city squares by your spectacle, with a reassuring "Now left arm and four additional by-see-there-how they do it," there-is your right," be recled off, for always the feeling that something that was one of the easy questions might go wrong with the rercon- and answers the had learned in tage. Similarly with strangers policeman's school

piloting cars about the City of Light. Timidity will keep a motor waiting at the curb until the owner is arrested for parking, simply be- cause of ignorance of the rules.

"Baby, you're all wet. I ain't looking for no depot, I'm hunting some of that polished mahogany where you can lean on a brass rail and guzzle some boer," the repor. ter said just like many a tourist.

Beer Bounded familiar, for there was something on page five in the Icsson book about that.

Said he polyglot, with 1" light of happiness in his sveste, hier of ze great, ze grand, zë mar- vellilllous Nap-ola-ce-on? Ect ess at za Invalides, a Louvois stru tur einstigated-by-ze great Louise Quaterze for ze lodgement, zo sub- sistance and ze entretein of invalid ed combattants. Just take a taxi. (Continued at fout of next column),

But then, as one editor remarks, France is sufficiently Americanized, as it is, and people don't ges ran över.

"Fine, mid my wole journalistic friend. "You speak English just like my brother.

Merci, merci beaucoup, smilled Policeman Jean, showing all his teeth as M. Gerard had ordered. But my friend forgot to say that his brother is just four years old.

United States 197

Australia

Sweden .. Denmark

Great Britain. Irish Free State Netherlands Germany

Switzerland Czecho-Slovakia Poland

148

108

- 107

-100 07

He pointed out that in the United States nad Canada the figures would be several points lower if allowance wire unde for high tents.

Land in the United

ted States a figure. of 100 would be more representative for the general level of wages, be cause workers in the particular. occupations covered were strongly organised and their wages were considerably higher than those paid to workers in any other occupa tions, in America.

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