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TO-DAY.

(December 19);

Criokat.Div. I.: Navy v; Indian R.C. (F.), University ». Civil_Ser- vice (), Hong Kong C.C. w Kow loos C.C (F.). Div. II. Craigen- gower . R.E. A S.' (L), Civil Ser vice v. University (F), Kowloon C.C. Hong Kong C.C. (F.), In- dian R.C. Recroio (F).

ENGLISH SCHOOLING

A SYSTEM GOOD FÖR CHILDREN.

AN AMERICAN THINKS: “ONLY BAD FOR PARENTS.”

(BY MARY BORDEN, THE WELL-KNOWN NOVELIST]

Footbal-Lai Wah Cap: Army It is not easy for an American"Nothing," and the answer is not "Civilians (Sookunpoo), 4 p.m. Div. IL Club . University, Navy

woman to adapt herself to English true; their lives give it the lie. Borderers, Twelfth Battery life, however adaptable she may be. | And yet I can think of no other un- Argylla, R.A.0.0. Kowloon,for England is a queer, rabble, less it be that they learned how to Div. IT St. Joseph's RAF.

Lawn Bowls.-Kowloon BGC..

be happy and to think, things out Closing Day and Unveiling of

for themselves. "Record Board, a p.m.

Racing-Fourteenth Extra Rage Meeting (Happy Valloy).

Rugby Club Valley), 4 p.m.

Hong Kong Philharmonic Society presents Miss Hook of Holland, Theatre Royal, 9p.m.

Navy (Happy

Queen's Theatre: "Show Girl in Hollywood,"

World Theatre 'Love's Identity" Part II (Chinese film).

Central Theatro: "The Sca 'God:" King's Theatre: "The Smiling Lieutenant."

Star Theatre" "Remote Control," Tea Danees at Hong Kong Hotel and King's Restaurant.

Dinner Dances at Peninsula Hotel and

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SUNDAY. (December 13.)

Third Sunday in Advent. Golf Royal Hong Kong Golf Club .Championship third round and semi-finale. S

aristocratic country, governed by illogical ideas, quite content to be inconsistent and very averse to any forin of explanation or apology.

One must take it or leave it, accept its assumptions and bow to its unwritten laws or go away. Re bellion is useless. Even asking questions is useless. One is given no answer.

I am talking of girls who have been brought up in the country.. It is the landed gentry of England that has imposed its aristocratio notions upon the nation's eduer- tional institutions. The boys must be fitted to manage ostatas, com mand man, and defend the right of Take the question of education, property. The girls must ho,fitted. I arrived in England #lled, as most for marriago. Book learning was Americans for education, filled, too, as again money on itt

are, with enthusiastn't attractive in a girl. Why wasto

American women

are filled, with The first thing was health. Tine my own importance as a woman.young animals was what the old I believed that schooling was a country-equire wanted his children good thing, and that this good to be, all of them,, boys and girls. thing was desirable for girls ne well He included them in the survey as boys. But I also believed that 16 of his property with the limbs,, the was the rightful prerogative and calves, the pigs, and the ponies. privilege of parents to look after He gave them these for their own, their children while they were and expected them to be happy and grateful." He was right, the old country squire. English children, {1, born and bred in the country, are and ach a boy's life, up to the age of nine, the happiest I know

small.

I put thirteen or fourteen as the

Kowloon Golf Club Champion proper age for a boy or a girl to the luckiest youngsters in the world,

ship, semi-finala,

Hunting: Fanling Hounds (Hun fers Arms) 3.15 p.m.

Queen's Theatro: Lover."

The Creat

World Theatre: "Love's Identity". Part II. (Chinese film).

ter

go away to school. I found out that in all these assumptions I was

LUCKY ENGLISH GİRLS.

I found first that it was not con Star Theatre: "Golden Calf." King's Theatre: "East Lynne Bidered the parents' duty or pri Central Theatre: Manslaughvilege to bring up children; second-

Tea Dances at King's Restaurant and Ropulse Bay Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel and

Peninsula Hotel

MONDAY,

(December 14.) Hockey Hong Kong Hockey Club 2nd XI. . Y.M.C.A. (King's Park) Radio Sports Club St. Andrew's Club (Caroline Hill).

Fencing: Hong Kong Fencing Club Meet, S.16 p.m.-

Queen's Theatre: "The Great Lover."

World Theatre: "Love's Identity" Part 1. (Chinese film).

Star Theatre: "Goldon Calf." King's Theatro: "East Lynne." Central Theatre: "Manslaugh-

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Ten Dances at King's Restaurant And Hong Kong Hotel: Dinner Dances as Hong Kong Hotel and Peninsula Hotel.

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ly, that it was the habit to send boys away to school when they were babies; and, thirdly, that it wasn't deemed worth while to send girls to

school at all

I was very surprised by all this, and very rebellious. Now I am sur prised, after ten years of English life, to find, how much I myself have changed. I have almoat been brought, round to agree that educa- tion is quite unnecessary for girls, and that it is, on the contrary, a good thing for small boys to leave home at the age of nine,

Many of the most interesting women in England to-day will tell you that they had no education; and were brought up in the school

room..

But what did they learn in it That is the puzzling question For they will answer, if you, ask them,

apyware.

-NEW YORK'S CONTRAST;

Contrast with it the life of a child brought up on the 10th, 15th; or

20th floor of a New York apart-

ment house. There's not a green thing to be seen from those dizzy nursery windows. He has a sense of suffocation, of being cramped, imprisoned and breathless, but he does not know why. He does not "understand what is the matter with

him, or what he is missing.

And yet, when I came to gripe in England with the tyrannical eduen.. careless old country squires of an- tional system for boys that our

other century had brought into existence. I rebelled. "

A public school? Yes. I agreed that my boy should go to one; so he was put down for it the week odd, but not frightening, pines. he was born. That seemed a little after all, he wouldn't be going for thirteen years. They wounded de liciously long. Suddenly seven of them had passed, and my friends, one and all," began to ask me what preparatory school he was going to.

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