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WOMEN.

TAKEN NOT TOO SERIOUSLY.

[BY TINDAL KING.)

Kipling once wrote that a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is n smoke, or words to that effect, and I think that fow men on the verge of afty with a taste for port, brandy, coffes and cigars and women(though not necessarily in this order!) will disagree that if many a true word is spokon in jest, then acvor in jest were truer words spoken of woman than those I have just quoted. For a woman is only a woman, and is it not oqually and undeniably true that a good cigar is a smoke↑ "And let I have hoard of women being or protand ing to be quite annoyed when re- minded of Kipling's somewhat ab rupt summarisation of their ex But I think the comparison perhaps ianobno odibus after all re good cigar as the limitation in plied by the word only, which is where the rule is, as I have no doubt Kipling intended it should be. For

"UP THE RIVER "

A COMEDY OF PRISON

LIFERA

AT THE KING'S.

i

REVENUE OFFICER

CHARGED

ALLEGED ASSAULT ON S.S. YUET ON

MEDICAL EVIDENCE.

The charge of assault against a. Chinees Revenue Officer by Szo To Kwan, a member of the compra- dare staff of the

Yust: On, was continued before Mr. F. H. Williams at the Central Magistracy yesterday...

Up The River" the Fox Movie. tono talkis featuring Spencer Tracy, Claire Luce Warren Hymer and Humphrey Bogart comes to the King's Theatre to-day. It is the story of life in a penitentiary and the producers were fortunato in being able to scoure so clever 1931 actor as Warren Hymer to play the Mr. M. K. Lo appeared for the role of "Dannemora Dan," complainant, while, the defendant burglar and baseball catcher of no was represented by "Mr. K. Holl mean repute. Together with Spon Brutton. car Tracy, Dan" furnishes a lot of amusement especially when the two play the part of match makers" in the romance which develops bahind the high prison walls between the two young people, Clairs Luce and Humphrey Bogart Working for a man in the stock market, Claire Lude finds that able had been used as a catepaid getting people to invest in worth

to be told you are only something les bonds. The result is that she

According to Lau Chak Tong, eye-witness of the incident, whò fendant, after washing his hands, gave evidence yesterday, the do

without provocation, flipped by war lands on complainant' who"

standing abat! The latter cried out "Don't play and began to descend the stairs leading from the second class saloon to the terage. The defendant; however followed, and after descending

or somebody in that tone of voice is sent to prison but fortunately theo or thred step ought hold of can be very devastating, and is her the well-fare workers take complainant' girdle and demand moreover often quite unanswerable

-cspecially when it happens also liking to the pretty girl and asd to search him. The complain to be true. However, this is by the point her, guverness to the dough and requested that the search Way At this late day it seems after of the head of the prison, might take place“ In a brighter most superduous to inquire bow woman came to exist, and those During her daily walks with her

place, but the defendant seized us who are not migogynists will be ward on the prison grounds, the him and dragged him down to the glad to avoid abstruse anthropolog-girl anatches opportunities of talk ical argument by accepting at ones

steerago and then up to the wharf

the fail accompli though not noting to her lover but she finds the akrily returning universal or up presence of her ward rather embar qualified thanks therefor, Misogyrassing on these occasions. nists, I may hero interpose, do not

Then.

over a gangway,

While on the wharf, defendant began to adult complainant with his electric torch. After striking, him two or three times, he took

comprise men only, for wasn't it a follows what is perhaps the funniest woman-Lady Mary Wortley Mon part of the film, the efforts of tagu.who said that she was glad "Dan" and his partner to get the that she was a woman because other: child out of the way so that the him to the Tung On whart to sco

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lovers may be alone.

wise she might have had to marry

a European Revenue Officer, but one? And some of us with memo- tion of seaside postcards-a scries,

Then comes the day when the the latter was not there. While by the way, which appear consis

"buy" is, let out on parale. The on the return journey, "complain- tently to have escaped the vigilame parting of the lovers is most touch-ant blew his police whistle, and of the Censor, and where misograying and despite the efforts of the the defendant again struck him. girl's former employer to part

bita full play-will recall the draw ing of a large and roseate apple them all turns out well, thanks. He was later taken to the Importy and a small but very definite pin, to the help of the two match and Exports Office where it was with the inscription Woman tret makers" who take “ Frenen leave t gave Adam the apple now she gives from the prison to help them. alleged, the defendant took him the pip! This, like the mother Warren Hymer is very good in truncheon from a wall and hit the in-law joke, always raises a laugh Up The River and Spencer defendant bord on the chest especially in boarding-houses at the Tracy also plays his murt well, but Seaside where, if anywhere, one without the very good support. offer touch of nature makes the whooed by the rest of the east, I doubt world grin

But we must go back to the tsar, den of Eden if we are to under stand to its full extent the handicap. under which woman originally evol- ved, and once having grasped that fact and the further fact that in spite of having been suppressed and oppressed, repressed, caressed and even undressed "pretty consistently since that time, she has survived; these inets, I say, being well com prehended, is not the mystery of man raising his hat when he meets woman at once explained, a grace. ful tribute to her persistence apart from the actual acknowledgment of her more immediate presence 1 It would, of course, have been a dread- ful business if through the ages the boot had been on the other foot, for reflect to-day the lot of woman if

Taken to the Doctor, Half an hour later, the bom plainant was released, and witness, who had waited outside the office all the time, saw that he was stag- gering, apparently from the effects Uncertain, cny, and bard to the assault, and with the as

please,

very much whether the aim would have scored such a success as it did when it was ärst released.-F. M...

And variable as the shade

By the light quivering aspen

made;

.

When pain and anguish wring

the brow

ministering angel thou! And I riposte at once with the and care of Anne Boleyn, who curiously enough lived about the same time na Lucrezia B. Poor, sweet Anne, whose only kin was loving too much and being found out I Was there ever such a car nation-crusher as Henry Five plus

eistance of a man named "Chan, he took him to the Yet On whence he was later taken to Dr. Chau Wai Cheung,

Medical evidence na to the n ture of the injuries was given by Dr. Chau Wai Cheung, who stated that he found a red mark about the size of a cent on the right side of the chest. There was also on the base of the first finger of the right hand. In reply to Mr. Lo, witness said that the mark

cut

might have posibly be caused by injuries were consistent with hav

it was her hat that had to come off Three If only Sophie Tucker had the end of an electric torch. The

no others--but whint a different Eng.ing been struck by a truncheon land to-day! Oh, girls, as Sophie would say I

at these plensant if chance encoun-heen his first wife-there'd have been tera between men and women? But that position is simply unthinkable, and as we have high political autho rity for passing on when the un- Then thoro is Queen Elizabeth, an thinkable stage has been reached, by allegedly masterful woman, whose your leave we will do so. And yet amours are so lightly and delight soma people may feel that I bave fully sketched by Lytton Strachey grossly overstated the case against in his Elizabeth and Esser. At man when speaking of him as hav-heart the tenderest creature imagin. ing suppressed and oppressed, able--who cannot but sympathise alcateru and etcetera, woman with her that she lived (though throughout the ages, and they may some are unkind enough to suggest even point out in support of their that she liked the life) in such case that we uced go no further brutal age? And now I think we back than about B.C. 1180 to find can safely leave concrete examples a woman yciept Helen setting the of women, and come down briefly whole world by the ears for nearly to what has been alloged to be the a deeptle and even then being quite outstanding characteristic of the unrepentant. And much against sex, their love for fantasy and my will-Istill be obliged to agree illusion. And yet if it is general that there is perhaps something to truth that women prefer fantasy 10 be said for their point of view after fact, why, it may ba seked, do the All However, they must allow the uap mirrors, that sidde mecum which great personal charm of the lady though Fashion may change, our in question, and I for one feel very to cannot stale nor age wither? The strongly that she was more sinned answer is civilisation, or rather, against than sinning. For a what passes therefor. A woman's pretty woman can do a lot of things pessible agony-or joy-át knowing not permitted to other women what she really does look like is perhaps, indeed, not possible, tor other women-but when a

and the end of an electric torch about 10 or 12 times.

Cross-examined by Mr. Hall- Brutton as to why there was only one mark on complainant's chest after he had alleged that the de- fendant struck him more than 10 or 12 severe blows, Dr. Chau said that a blow might or might not cause a mark In other words, when a man received more than and blow he would not, possibly, have more than one mark

After evidence had been given by two other witness, the case was adjourned until Saturday morn ing.

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When the question of building

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dream would not come quickly, but they knew too, what was more im portant, that the slow building up of the fund by those who were genuinely interested, would be the Burest foundation on which, both to build and to carry on the Hostel, That this faith has been justified can be seen from the figures wo pridt to day. Thirty-five of the needed hundred and twenty thou- and dollars have been raised, quite

paintings and writings, was held on hostel for women students of Hong literally by piling dollar on dollar Kong University 28 Arst raised When the hostel is opened it will over two years ago, it was by to be because the women students of happens also to be the prettiest if a mirror is not handy, and the Malaysia United Artists, a society menus difficult to get a dumber of Hong Kong University believed in the need for it, not just for in woman in the world, well, well, tragedy is not lessened by being which aims at rekindling in the doubt if there's a man to-day who fold she looks all right-especially hearts of the overseas Chinese love persons to say publicly that the hour after a stirring speech but would not have thrown himself--had by another woman! And why have for the arts and culture of their provision of the Hostel would meet through many many months when ho lived at the time, of course women nover produced a great con- ancestors...

build it, heart and soul into the Trojan War, juror, considering the world ef. The exhibition included the work & very red need. When, however, they have worked and saved to either as pursuer or pursued, but illusion in which for the most part of members from all over Malaya, the figure that would be necessary: The Joint Hon. Treasurers of the always with the mental reservation they spend their really happy China, Siam, Borneo, and even to make the ideal of a hostel into Organising Committee of the that come what might be would hours! Chivalry, is the answer to Europe. Among the exhibits were solid fact, was mentioned, many of University Women's Hostal beg to stand pat for the fair if orring that question, or in other words, two gems from Canton-n grain of the most ardest supporters of the acknowledge the following, further Holon And I think I am right, belief in them by men, and I think rice on which was inscribed a poom, idea shook their heads." A hub donations But let us now leap & few centuries may here very suitably conclude this and a pices of pean shell on which dred and twenty thousand, you Alodynions Gift," por

Mins, Grimin and give woman'a antagonists as article by quoting Pope in support could be seen Indicatie paintings never get it

sop to Cerberus, so to speak of another characteristic of women and poems and Various schemes were suggested Lucrezia Borgia as an example of without which in the oych of most Mr. Au Yeong Su Fung, the pros. for raritg the money, but those a woman who could look after her man, they may be said to be utterly dent of the society, is a well-known most concerned felt strongly that self who, in fact, in the vulgar and irretrievably lost. They noel Chinese business man in the Malay they did. dt wish to promote any words of a gramaphone song which not show it; indeed, it's better not States, Last year, he invited the get rich quick" plans. What some of us may recall, knew her to do so, but definitely it must lie famous Canton painter, Mr. Ko they wished was that the idea of omens; whom Booft even may have there:

Kim Foo, to give an exhibition of a hostal should justify itself in the had in mind when he wrote (with

his paintings, which he has done. my light addition in italica)

The Malaysia United Artists Society is the first of its kind ever formed in Malaya,

O woman in our hours of esso, (“unjo]], kaɔu uo pin gauố5)

Men, ande so business, some to

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