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Hongkong Daily Press.

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No. 22978, MATXAXO **A**** HONG KONG, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1931. €+)¶******* Price

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DIARY OF LOCAL THE MODERN SPINSTER.

EVENTS.

TO-DAY.

(November 21.)

Lawn Bowls, "Closing day at Tah

koo.

Cricket-First Division: Hong.

Kong U.C. ». Royal Artillery (L.).

LADY NOVELIST SAYS SHE GROWS

IN POWER

Indian R.O. Civil Service (L.) HIGH SELF OPINION OF SOME OF THE

Kowloon Cricket Club . Craigen-

gower (F.). Second Division. Civil Service. Indian R.C. (L.), Polica

Hong Kong C.C. (L.). Craigen-

gower » Kowloon' C.C. (F.).

p.m.

YOUNGER BACHELORS.

Hockey Police . R.A.S.C., + One of the mast striking phonolopment. The fading out of the Football: - Lai Wah Cupmenn at our time is, revealed by first glow of the Feminist Movement Civilians v. Navy (Kowloon F.the Census disclostro that we have has removed its glory. And where- 4 p.m. Second Division: R.A

University, Navy v. Kowloon, Club in England a record number of mas ten or twenty years ago it was

Argylls, R.A.0.0 S.W.B.

Third Division: Recreio 2 NA...arried women between the ages necessary perbany for a woman to R.E. R.S.C., S.W.B. St. of :0 and 30, writes Gladys Watts devote every ounce of energy she Joseph's

Queen's Theatre: Hold Every: thing"

World Theatre: "Emperer Chin Lung travelling Kiang Nom,” episode (Chinese film)."

Star Tholtre: "Lord Byron of; Broadway.

King's Thoatre: The Brat" Central Theatre: Ladies of Leisure."

in the London Newa Chronicle,

possessed to push her why in the

no

For although the Victorian Age | world, and to force au entrance into had its spinsters and the eighteenth century had its "pitinters" in face as well as name, it remains for this ern to produce an army of un

Peninsula Hotel, Rose Room Soupé Dansant, Nellie Farren's married women so large that if they Troupe, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m.

cured to combine."they would be

Tea Dance at Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances at Hong Kong come an important and considerable Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

European Mail:-Ontward: Europe ie Suez. (Kashgar) 10.30

a.in.

Tides:High at 8.30 and 7.30;

'Low at 19:40 and 12.32.

SUNDAY,

"(November 22.). Last Sunday After Trinity. Races at Macao. Golf Championship. Tennis Tournament, åt U.S.R.C. Queen's Theatre: "Hold Every- thing."

World Theatre: Blood and Tears" (Chinese picture).

Star Theatre; Children of Pleasure."

King's Theatre : A Warm Cornun.

Contral Theatre: "Greek Street,”*- Tea Dances at King's Restaurant,

force in polities or sncinle.

profession, that condition longer holds good. So that her spinsterhood. is a compulsory evil and not a voluntary sacrifice.

Whether there is any social stigma, nowadays. in difficult to judge. An unmarried woman cer tainly has to provide more of her own amusement than her married friends. Extra women are not c ceptable at parties and social funz tions. On the other hand, they dre mobile units, and have a freedom which is very dear to anyone with a taste for individual development

The influence of this body in fact in already permeating society.

Many of our social services, such as tenebing and nursing, would be sadly handicapped but for this exal

There is a freedom of mind and ces of women. And with the ex- No one can turn their day into body which leaves the soul in penec.

tension of education and its respon-night or their heaven into heil sibilities, it is they who are largely training and bringing up the youth of the next generation.

Instead of Uncles,

It is they, too, if it is safe to

They can develop a judgment in- dependent of persons, and a way of life. not hemmed in by other persons, prejudices and principles.

Would those women change their lot That is the question. Maxy

and Repulse Bay Hotel; Dinner generalise from one's own circle of might, because the problem of pro- Dances at Hong Kong and Penin-friends who are maintaining the viding for the future is almost in- Rula Hotel:

Tides:High at 7.30 and 2.05

Low at 1.96 and 2.01.

MONDAY. (November 23.) Reel Club Practice Dauce, Helena May Institute. 5.15 p.m.

Hockey Club H.K.S.RA... R.S.C. Borderers,

Hong Kong Feneing Club Meet,

widows of the last generation, who are looking after odd nephews and nieces, who are paying for the edu- cation of younger relatives, who ure in short-au integral part of so- cieży.

But although this group may daim justification, it is still an open ques- tion whether so great a preponder Meeting of Hong Kong Jockeyance of unmarried women, is not a Club Meeting, 5.15 p.m.

3.15 p..

P.W.D. Sale of Crown Lands, menige to society.

Queen's Theatre: "Hold Every-

thing."

World" Theatre: "Blood and Tears" (Chinose pieture),

Star Theatre: "Children ofį Pleasure,"

King's Theatre! "A Warm Corner."

ri

Central Theatre: "Gronk Street." Ten Dance at Hong Kong Hotel ;" Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel...

Tides:High at 8.25; Low at 2.10

and 9.30.

soluble. In most cases, it is frankly to do more impossible for women than carn their daily brend-and there is a vast distinction between Eving and nursing a earning a career.

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Which is the Happier And are they more happy thari their, married friends t

Judging once more from externals and from one's own small circle, I should say that their outlook on life

It has the direct effect of plac [in calmer and more balanced than

ing a scarcity valus on men. And that of the married women I know. some of the younger bachelors and their happiness therefore less. regard themselves, therefore, as susceptible to the chill winds of a'd having almost the value of pre-versity. Would they, I wonder, cious jewels.

'chase a husband or an annuity of Enforced spinsterhood, however, £500 a year, which, as Virginia with or without the social stigma Woilf points out, ageures a room that used to be attached to that of one's own and the leisure to des position, is hardly a healthy deve-velop one's own mental resources }-

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