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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933.

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A Problem The Modern Girl Must Face

In this frank article Mr. P. G. H. Salusbury puts before his rea- ders a summary of some of the difcuties which beset the path of the girl of 1933.

In particular the problem of The Boy-Friend!"

He asks if they have lost all ability to appreciate the steadfast things of Ke

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She may want to be a wife and a Mother, but she does not seem secure 1 husband. "In plain words-men like her as a friend but do not desire to marry her. She is the Bachelor Girl-the "young maid" of to-day.

The old maid of the past was a joke-if an extremely dreary one. The "young mald" is something very close to tragedy.

There are many thousands of girls who never can get married because women outnumber men in this country; but the girl of whom I am thinking has no shortage of admirers, or, as she calls them, boy-friends.

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It is an expression which hits them off to a nicety in one way" but which flatters them grossly another; for no real friend would behave as these dashing boys do.

"Good Time"

The great war, from which all our problems seem to, date, was responsible for a universal desire to cast off respectability. It was a natural revulsion from the bur- dens, we had all endured, but it Infected the next generation who never directly bore these. burdens And with this irresponsibility came a queer distortion of values.

Among them is the "good time. We have become so determined to enjoy ourselves in every way, and not to be bored for a moment, that we have practically lost our ability to appreciate the blessings of the steadfast things in life,

Worth Winning

Chief of these is marriage; and by marriage I mean not a series of fatuous lights to the alvorce court, but a partnership which will run nature's normal course from passionate to serene love..

When fiddles could be bought for eighteenpence, and there was no disillusionment over the hills and far away, young people shook hands where now they kiss. The word "chivalry" was understood by a great many more young men than appreciate it to-day. A man had definitely to court a girl's fa-

vour.

It may all have been very re- pressive and bad for our elders, but it did produce marriages. It did make the girl seem worth win- ning

The kisses which are so readily exchanged are about as meaning- less as the word "darling," which used once to be breathed in a sort of "ecstasy. They may suce to provide one moment with a thrill, but they have long since. ceased to express all but the shallower kinds of emotion.

Indeed, in the boy-friend's esti- mation, they have become a de- based currency in which the, giri- friend of however short an ac-- quaintance pays for an evening's entertainment.

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HOLIDAY ON HORSEBACK

They Do It In England Why Not Here?

Here is another aspect of thei problém. If the girl refuses to pay she runs the risk of being left How can we plan a short, holi alone, and it is only by continuous day so na to ensure complete exploration that she can hope to change of scene, diet, amusement find the right man. Let us suppose and life generally; a holiday that that, having jollied her way along will be peaceful, of interest; frea on these lines, she does and a man from trains, high-roads, rush, who move her profoundly.

noise, crawda, and dust; yet avoid- ing boredom and stagnation?

How can she hold him? The fashion for pointless Airta- tion is extremely infectious.

An inclination towards serious- ness is only too likely to head him off. In a desperate attempt to keep him she indulges his light- heartedness to the full, while hop- ing that he, too, will become ser- lous.

The odds against this happening' are incalculably greater than they Freedom used to be.

NOVELTIES

Striking colour contrasts are popular. A bright green and vivid blue crepe "dance frock worn by Lady Pamela Smilth. The other day at Covent Garden" and "Mauve orchids at the waist of Lady Lon- donderry's turquosle blue evening ROWN.

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A two-feet-long velvet pussycat bow at one side of the neck-line of Adrienne Ames' ight evening coat. Black velvet sleeves, very bunched-up to match the bow.

One short sleeve and one plain narrow shoulder strap on a satin evening dress is a new idea.

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A necklace of thick white" cord

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and silver metal, worn with severely cut black woollen day dress cooks smart and unusual

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When you order "salt' you buy some- thing of unknown quality but when you ask for 'Cerebos you obtain a per- fectly packed Salt prepared under idealTM conditions from pure natural brine. To insist on

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There are only two way by which we can achieve all this; we must adopt either the very newest or the

Great care should be taken when very oldest methods of travel-and.

and ironing Shantung, horseback. The washing og by air or on

hard and It becomes manner farmer, while excellent for a busin-sk, as if treated in the wrong ess or rush journey, is still too ex- pensive for the average family to papery and has a mottled äppear- It should be washed in spend a summer holiday in the air. ance.

warm water and in a lather of account But if you and other members soap fakes, and on no of your family are keen on riding, should soap be rubbed onto the comes too light with washing it consider well the joys of a riding material itself. If the colour be holiday.

You will combine the maximum can be restored by rinsing the of fresh air and gentle (not ex-in water coloured with a little tea. Teg-coverings of their

escape It should not be wrung out hausting) exercise with The Selfish Male Another is that the contempor- from the shackles of conventional should be hung out to dry in the ay male is less willing to make society, and the delicious sense of shade. When it is bone dry it ean sacrifices than the female, and, in freedom this entails. You will be ironed on the wrong side with the surrender of his bachelorhood, travel over downs and moors, by a moderately hot fron with its obvious material advan-narrow lanes and woodland paths,

One reason is that the young man is outrageously spoiled by girls who are as empty-headed as himself, and who have still to learn wisdom.

tages

over marriage which he which you coull have traversed in does not understand he can see no other way; and you will see the wild things of woods and fields little but sacrifice.

in their natural haunts in closer proximity than you could wise have encountered them,

A truth which seems to have been generally forgotten is that sincere emotion is bred not from licence but from restraint. This is most

other-

All the Difference." unpalatable to pseudo-

Perhaps, as you wend your way psychologists, gut it remains.

It is also unpalatable that res-by some quiet secluded woodland, always harmful you may catch sight of a fox or traint is not

or-if you are riding moors - you rather the reverse. With absence badger, of restraint go the reserves of feel- across West-country ing which can transform firtation may even se the wild red deer, and thrill at your first glimpse of the into love. «

However, any discussion of this Monarch of the Moor in all the In these days, when so many peo- problem must move at present in splendour of his pride and grace.. a circle. Girls can be advised to behave seriously, but they will re-ple are taking up riding, it is an matter to hire horses and ply-and with reason that if they easy

do so they are in danger of head-ponies suitable to your require- ing of the boy-friends among ments, and, if you arrange that their possible husbands your daily journey ends at some small country town ar comfortable farmstead there should be no diffi-

whom

exist.

She Pays

In the same breath they will in-culty in securing suitable accomoda for yourselves and your form you that their boy-friends tion B.

all seem so silly. "I would like, mounts. is their great cry, "to marry a man of about thirty."

The girl now is just as well worth winning as her aunt was.

her called That is why I tragedy. She becomes even more tragic when you reflect that she has herself largely encouraged the 'casual treatment almost the lack of respect which she receives at the hands of her boy-friends.

What She Fears

And where are these men? Most of them are already married.

Where, then, is the solution? Perhaps almost certainly-in time. We are experiencing now the most chaotic backwash from

greatest eplosion in history. True to tradition, women are the

But, what can she do? If she atands on her dignity-she is in danger of standing alone. Lone-the liness is her bogey. How can she make young men take her serious-chief sufferers. 17?

ATHLETICS AND MOTHER. HOOD

Mr. D. Ward Cutler, Deputy Director of the Rothamsted Ex- at perimental Station, speaking the British Social Hygiene Council's Summer School at Oxford yester- day, said that the fertility rate of the professiorial man and the mid dle classes-really the best classes was just over two children per known family, and it was well that, to ensure the continuance of a particular stock, there ought to be at least four.

Dr. Lilian Jeffries, discussing the effects of athletics on motherhood, said it was a known fact that acrobats and ballet dancers, es- pecially when they started their strenuous training at an early age, very seldom had children when they married.'.

WISE KNOWLEDGE FOR CHILDREN

F. G. H. Salusbury.

SHORTS AND A SHIRT

The New One-plece Tennis-suit Exit shirts where Sports is con- cerned!

But the wise woman will leave the planning of itinerary and com. 'missariat to the male members of the party, knowing that the later always pride themselves on being masters, of organisation!

She will content herself with see- ing that each member of the party takes a change of underclothing. and an extra jersey or sweater for cold, wet days, and that these are packed in waterproof holstera to hang on the saddle.

"She will also provide herself un- ostentatiously with certain import ant medicaments which the" mere male mind is apt to overlook triffes that take up little room, but may make all the difference to comfort and health; small phials of aspirin and jodine, a tube of one of those aseptic oils that ward, off; or alleviate, the stings of in sects, strong needle and tread, and a good knife with corkscrew' 'and' hoof-pick.

But if we are to enjoy a riding -Mrs. Fernley-Whittingstall the famous English tennis-player holiday we must be prepared to some Well The suggestion that a wise teach-caused a sensation when she ap-face adversity in ing of the details of sex and the peared in this costume at a big measure; and to take the rough tennis party thie Summer with the smooth. However, care- sex function might with advantage Already the style has been fol- fuly you have planned something be included in the general teaching lowed by many well-known Eng-may go wrong. Perhaps the food of hygiene was made at the World fish women, and we product that will be unappetising, the beds Federation of Education Associa-soon this sensible and discreet fa- hard, or the baths cold! One of tion Conference in Dublin yester-anion will be followed by every othe party may tall ill, s horse go. day by Dr. John F. Davidson, man-of taste then we shall have no lame, for the weather decide to do County Medical Oncer of Health, more of the ugly and unpleasing its worst, and the heavens open in Buffolk when dealing with the photos taken of our tennis stars incessant downpour.

Never mind Accept discomfort | secondary school child and the daring strennous tournament senior elementary school child. play at Wimbledon, or anywhere in the true holiday spirt, and re-

Knowledge and understanding Eise.

would obviate many of the mental....

and physical defects of adoles

cence, and prove of inestimable

value to the future ordering of educational and medical service

lives and conduct.

he said Knowledge without un- The confusion of ignorance with Gerstanding is one other grave virtue is a sad reded son our sequel to the lack of this instruce (Continued at: foot

Column Hon.

fuse to have your enthusiasm quenched, no matter what diffient ties arise, remembering that ca Robert Lous Sevenson has told us: It is better thing to travel hopefully than to arrive

Burely of nothing can, this be said more truthfully them of a rid- iny holiday.

STRANGE STOCKINGS

ancestors.

but Althugh the show covered only the

last 200 years many strange survi- vals were to be seen. The chier curiosity was comparatively recent, being dated 1856, and bearing its | original card-"Suitable for Deli- cate Young Persons." " This' pair had feet of double thickness. Other examples were white with black stripes (1800), yellow with blue rings (1815), and anally a curious- In the West-End last month an ly crude manufacture reputed to exhibition of "Hose Through the | dated back t 1759. Cheaply pro- Ages" attracted many visitors who duced, this exhibit was fashioned spent an interesting and somewhat in the forru of narrow woollen bags. hilarious afternoon viewing the which the wearer's limbs were to

(Continued on next column) shape in due course

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