1911-09-02 — Page 7

THE RIGHTS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF

SHAREBROKERS.

[Copyright]

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2 1911

the time being in forco." Thore-

fore, in Shanghai, and in other Treaty pets of Chin, ff shares

POKER.

Shul lor makes contracts fora prin- Some Notable dames of Poker.

Mississippi River Boats Saw joipal, from the torins of which it

be

Noon

trial,

Out With a Pistol, ·

joharacter of the children that it

women at

monts of wonion as liave been

direction.

A Healthier Race of Women.

Girls schools, for instance,

ly out-stripped them, and are for

The lawyor said, "I was just trary, it tends to producetosalong THE MODERN MOTHER. increased an inel and a quarter, thinking the same thing. The and pliable muscles which go to

and the chest-girth and weight in pot is big enough to satisfy me.' make a perfect human figure, and (Continued from last Saturday) proportion—upon factory opera. And he closed it

"But du Pont won. Each man

if persisted in, the art of swim- Not one of these charges will tives and upon school children. on las inferred that they are gom Somebody told me the other had fours, but his wore theming will produce the straight stand the light of inquiry and

The objection may, of course, (Continued from last Saturday)ing contreets, or which the broker

bighost.

shoulders, high bust, well-develop most of them shrivel up under be raised-as, in the nature of the This statute, however, was liedt gaming contracts, such con pluging on the Mississippi giver had tako hold of the party, tinged-thromarish in adolften investigation and comparison. To have been taken upon men---onu

himself well knows to bo nothingly that they have started poker-

The excitement of high played lunga, and that beautifully the first drop of the acid test of onso, most of these measuremonta to roler only to such stock n tracts cannot be enforced, either boats again," said the guy-hair- though, and even Carfiere and referred to by the beauty special- tako the gravest and most funda- we be sure that the same process could be considered to be public directly or indirectly; nor is theed, young-looking man in the Vardonian's brother who laud funds or securition, guaranteol broker outitled to any commission by tho. British Government, and respect thereof, nor to be in-club smoking room. "It's rather dropped out of the struggle, were ists and so much admired. The mental chargo first; Is the is taking place in women ? For As it "kick" in swimming is consider American mother of to-day physiuuatoly this doubt can be laid at did not affect shares in other himself sustain. But it must be seriously dont," he continued deal in fact the pace was set, correcting structural errors in the noble task-the bearing and rear-which, of course, include impar

demnifiod against any loss ho may interesting if it's true, which ready for the next one.

came immediately on the nexted the groateat exorvise known for cally unfitted for her vital and rest at ones; for in vital statistics, Companion not guaranteed by remembered it in order that for the conditions are totally and thereaffer there was

2010 lack Government, or foreign sticks timo bargain shall constitute aferout from what they were of interest..

hips and moulding them into the ing of children? Nothing could tially both men and. (Williams v. Tyre 29 To J. (*h gambling contract it is necessary

that it should be distinctly under when'l was a youngster."

"Du Pont, of course, was the proper proportions. As a beauti. to more disastrous than her almost every ago, with tho singlo 800, Howitt . Pries 4 M. andr 955, Wellen. Purter 2 Bing. N.Cino, hnt it is not to be carried to ist, was the excitement that was able that he continued to win pecially in the opon. The contact triumph or achievement of man, bidity-percentage of illness

stood, at the time it is entorel The great attraction, to me atirgost winner after the contest fier of the complexicur there is no failure in this regard; and, from exception of que decennium dur of the fours, and it was notice greater agent than swimming, cau biologic point of view, no ing the period of child-bearing in 722). Therefore, by no Acts in out, but that it shall be settjer

so often to be found in the main not on every hand, but more fro of the body with water of a lower however brillinut or spectacular.

wonen, the lowering of the-mor- force in this Colony in 1843, qor by the jayment of difference. If by any Act or Ordinco in force the question is left over as toons of the bouts late at night quoptly and more heavily than

temperature than the bodily heat whether it smll be so settled, or when there would be one or two, he lost..

can compare in dignity, in noble-ma been greater in womon than in here at the prosent time, is whether it shall be completed by porhaps half a dozen, poker games

attracts the blood to the surface, ness and in value to the race on, the increase of longevity has gobling in sharos, other than livory of the shares, it is not startesi,

"Suddenly noticed that some, and the bloo! forcing its way with the bearing of children.

beou nearly two years moro, and British Government seynritiès, ja gambling connnet. The surs

the decrease in the denth-rate has "One game I saw in which all body in the group of lookere on through the minute channels of illegal. Neither is such gambling rounding cireursting would

Thereal and supreme test of any been greater. In the matter of which had grown to the number the skin develops those chaunels probably sorve to remove any the dramatic climaxes scomed to of more than a dozen, was into a permanent course. In time civilization is the quality of the height, weight and chest-girth, illegal at common law. With to the point, og if the selenehod, all the elements of the shouldering his way nlioad of no, the strongthened heart, through men and women it produces, the such smaller numbers of measure- rference to this it may be usefuller sovor possosset, and was un-old-time Mississippi river story and I started to object, but to refer to the judgment of Lindoble, or muda, no ndianpt, to ac-

seoing that it was the captain of to exercise, pumps the blood to being present.

them as regularly and forcibly as breeds. The old German proverb mado point also in the same ley J. in the enso gitod of Thack|quire the shares he purpo ad te

the boat I held my peace, er v. Hardy, where ho says fair ovidence that it was a gumi- Contract to soll, this would be very

Many Sharpers Thère.. What happened was that the to the other arteries and veins in goes to the heart of the matter:

the body.. exclaimed "It was on the Belle of the lawyer

suddenly.

The best of everything is uone 688): "It required stituto (ing transaction. As Ford Halsbury Bayous, a famous bout in her day, Hold on! That card came from

The result is that the red glow too good for the child.' If the Gen. 2 81. to present. U. put it in the roof. Uni hut was a favourite among travel the bottom of the deck. And the tint comes of perfect circulation American, mother is indeed up- gambling in public funds rail Stock Exchange Stachanore for the luxury of her appoint next instant ho was looking into become permanent, impurities are Moranver even when that Act (1896) A. C. at p. 171. Then i ments and the superlative-ox-the muzzle of du Pont's dor carried away naturally, and blo-dermining bor physique and her have not only made a greater in- was in forcs, gambling in shares the real meaning of the pnities is collonce of the cookery

on ringer.

mishes disappear, for it is through coproductive vigour she is guilty eroase and improvement in height `and foreign stocks was hold not to payment of differences, what is iuftor

his, that there is to be only

ward, The time was

But Jerry Vardaman also the want of perfect circulation of high treason against her race and weight than boys but have be illegal, either under the Actor but a gaming, nud wagasing

New Your's, when spoke. That's right. I saw it that blemishes and other skin and against the community.actually at certain agen absolute- at common law. Lord Tenterden transaction hatween the two as to the factors in New Orleans and the table. Whether du Pont's therefore will bo admitted that Whut is the testimony in support

ne planters had settled up with myself,' and struck out across disfigurements are contracted. It indeed, was of opinion that such what shall to the payment on the obtained the money for their im was spoiled by thethe practice of swimming is of of this grave charge? For the time the physical superiors of gambling was illegal at common que side or en the other side."

crops. After a stay in the Cres-blow or leflected by Varda- the highest importanco, for it most part, vehement assevern-boys of their own aga-though, of law. Ho said so in Boyn v In this connection, and ale cent City they were returning man's interruption I could not flects the system more powerfully tione, full of sound and fery, course, usually inferior in museu- Lewis" (R. & M. 880); but this showing another right of ahnre tome, and a considerable party co. but there was a shot that than any form of gymnastics or opinion was declang) erroneous broker (although one which could of them was on this boat. Na-wont wild and then the sport, ovon in the very points signifying nothing...occasionally ar vigour. Incidentally it may be in "Ilibblewhite v. M'Morino" (5) never be exercised by on honest, turally enough there were

qoinbter was disarmed and strug wherein their excellence consists; the oitation of a few isolated marked that much of this in- ferior muscular vigour in girls ia M. & W. 462)."

man) it may be useful to rofer free professionals there, too. gling madly in the grasp of seve-besides which, it is applicable in instances and from them arguing due to our antiquated and senso The statute of 7 Goo. 11 6,8 was the very recent case of fieldeder. Perhaps more, but I only recog-

rl men.

thousand circumstances where that the condition is universal. loss training in dress, deportment Tho captain was ono of these, they are not. Some exercises of a more carefully they are and ladylike behaviour, and the repo lod in England by 23 Vict. St geek, (1911) | K.B. 296. In nizedl three. 6. 100, but it has never been re his case the plaintiff sughli

"He found a sent nt one of then he spoke up coolly enough. gymnastic character are no posted in Hongkong, and, as recover from the defendant, tables that night, but so far as I and the others let go, whoreupon formity, moie, particularly those do those allegations and alleged infrequently, nowadays, where stataf, the latter Act is not in broker, certain profits made it could judge he had no confederate du Pont ceased struggling,

Leave this to me, gentlemen, doubt productive of bodily de-examined, the more completely avoidance of tomboyism. Not share speculation ont of the Phin in the game. There were four

which do not require att parts of exhibits resolve themselves into olildren are allowed to grow up force here.

Therefore us the law now studs tiff's money, and a sum of money others playing, but they were all, fairly continued the captain, therefore, we are anxious to pro- delusion that the golden days spoiled," a girl will become the "You've caught this man the body to work equally. If, varying forms of the ancient spoiled and natural, or what is commonly. termed "thoroughly in Hongkong there is nu legal psi by him to the defunt for us. I learned afterward, men oft he will play no more on my serve regularity of formi wo must prolibition whatsoever upon con-ple Express jurpose of farther questionable character. Two tracts in the nature of the hare calation in shus, The con were brothers who owned a large bat. If you want to complain protide exercises in which all wore the good old times, when all head of the gung-or the bully of gains for the sale or parchuso_of tet between the Plaint and plantation in Arkansas, Goorger I will take him to the next in proportion to the strength of and all the women virtuous and

against him for attempted mur-parts of the body perform work tho men wore brave and honest, the school.

la short, there usver was a shares in ordinary. Companies, defendant was expressly statind Jerry Vardaman by naine.

As swimming devoted; and that there were a world when women wore as

time in the histroy of the civiliz even if it, is well known to all ct us be one whereby the monor One wasn Memphis lawyer, whose landing and have him held for the muscles. parties concerned at it intend-depositol by the Plaint should anno I forget and the other was

aceds regular action of the limbs, giants in those days, before whom woll abreast of men physically as. But the lawyer satd, "Not I no syllabus of exercise is needed ed that only the differences should be used by the defendant in a New Orleans merchant named Ho didn't hit me and I have no for counteracting, stooping post the creatures of those degenerate they are to-day. What they lack be paid or received.

speculating in certain shares, and Carriere or something like that, time to waste that way.' And tione, for during the exercises oue times The Ordinumee No. 5 of 1891, would be refunded on a certain

are little better than in more muscular vigour and going north on business,

none of the others cared to pro-must breathe, and do so with pyganies.

aggressive pugnacity, they fully however, practically readers itate, together with any profit (i

"Du Pont, the gambler, was secate him. So the captain made some force, and to swim properly

make up in resistance, Women, impossible to make valid contracts any at all) which might represent certainly adroit, for he was sin him surrender the money he had one uiust not stoop. Therefore, When wo come to actual data in spite of the outery that their for the sale of shures which the differences, less some percentage qularly quiet and roserved in his won in the game and set him as the most profitable way of and measurements, and get down sensitive nervos often make in vendor does not possess, or hasThe Plaintiff was to sustain no no means of procuring. But, ass, but if the market value of the inner and seemed loss enthuashore in the woods, sending the dilating the lunge, developing the to the hard-pan of actual fact, advance, bear real pain and pro- siastic about the gamo- than the maie out with him in a row boat chest and muscles, preserving rothero is a surprising agreement and bravely than mon do and langed suffering more patiently alrearly stated, perfectly valid shares spooulated in was less on contracts may be atle, and may the date fixed for repayment thinn

"It was not an unheard of puu- gular bodily form, and promoting be deemed to be implied, hetween on the date of the deposit, he was "George Vardanan started the ishment in those days, and it a healthy condition, it will be ad-pointing in exactly the opposite stand it better. They can main a bioker and his principal for the to get his money back without in ritement. It was his auto, and was said that men so marooned mitted that swimming is second direction. If the American tain some sort of physical equili indenmity of the former by the terest. It was ingeniously argn-after the others had all come in did not always appear, again, for to none as an exercise, especially woman of to-day be degon orate, brium upon anafler amount of food and with loss air and out- latter in respect of lossos which don the Plaintiff's behalf that with two bits each on his 10-cent the country was exceedingly wild for ladies.

neurasthenic, lacking in stamina door exercise than inen. They will the broker may incur in carrying the contract was not one of gam- blind he raised it $2. The law in places. I never know whether

Since I undertook to advocats al constitution, one would stand for, hulf a lifetime a mono, out his principal's instructions to ing and wagering as defined by yer looked a little doubtful, but du Pont found his way out of the long-distance swimming among certainly expect her to show it in a tonous drudgery of unending enter into gambling continets, cr Cotton L.J. in Thackor v. Hardy, ruiled, and Jorry Vardaman and wilderness

or not, but he judies I have been favoured withi took-his medicine like a man." contraris which are void under for there could be no actual loss Carriero both dropped.

a greater number of letters, in all diminishing stature, a lessoned work in a treadmill called home that would drive most men to the Ordinance of 1801,

to the plaintiff whether the stocks "Then du Pont covered the

of which I have been told that chest expansion, a lower weight, a drink, or the iusame asylum, The position of a broker who, rose or fell in price. It was how-raise. if he had been playing

they have benefited greatly, by higher deathurate, and in greater within five years. Contrary to acting on his principal's instruc ever held by Channel J. that, as crooked, as I now believe he was,

the exercise, and it is a great | tions, enters into gambling con- the plaintiff was, by the terms of he would have known (he being

pleasure to me to know that the liability to disenso. Upon all of popular impression, they resist tracts for the sale or purchase of the contract, to lose the interost the dealer) that-ho was safe

advice tendered in those notes those points, nine-tenths of the most diseases better than men do, shares on time, or shares without upon his deposit in a certain ovent, enough in raising, but perhaps to

not merely in proportion to their: has produced such splendid re statistics available -point in exsize and muscular strength but numbers, is shortly and clearly this was, to his mind," sufficient-lisarmsuspicion he simply trailed.

ults, Whon it was first suggest- atated in the judgment of the lyn loss to bring the contract "Vardaman called for two During recent years the medi-ed that ladies should undertake a actly the opposite direction. absolutely; and, oddly enough, Judicial Cominit'ce of the Privy within the spirit thongh prhaps cards, the lawyer for one and thecal authorities have begun to real swim of fifteen miles there were Nover in the history of the this discropuney is the Connel in the cose cited of notwithin the actual wording of flealer took two. The lawyer bet

many who hell up their hands in human race lus there been such striking in the acato infections, "Forgot v. Ostigny," in which it the definition. He therefore 96, and again du Punt trailed, ise the fact that swimming and horror, but it has been proved a marked improvement in height, and typhoid in all of which the such as tuberculosis, pneumonia was said "Even where a person decided that the contract was one though he did so this time with diving properly taken form the beyond all question that those weight, chest girth, longevity male deathrate is slight but is employed to enter into gam- of gaming and wagering, and out looking at his draw, plainly finest health care and also pro- who practised regularly are equal bling contracts upon commission, was ronderel nut and ind eating that ho was waiting for vide an exercise which cannot fail to the task. On July 22 the race and morbidity as in the last distinctly higher than the female: it has been held by the Courts of void by Section 18 of the Vardamun's play.

Between five and ten por cant. for-men was decided over the fifty to seventy-five years; this country that, if he make Act of 1845, Consequently judg **The futter looked at his draw

course from Richmond to London, and this improvement has more men than women dis of

tuberculosis, for instance. payments in Ja-suance of ment was given for the defendant. a little too eagerly, for it looked the nequirement of beauty, a well- and the time occupied was thras been most rapick and strik- such employment, he can re- The contract of indemnity be as if he had either been bluffing formed figure and a fine complex hours thirty-six minutes. Since

Almost the only class 'in "the" payments from treen a principal and a broker or that his three of a kind were ion. But, notwithstanding these then one competitor in the racng in the last twenty-five community in which the mortality his principal, that the im has been held to entitle the mall. When he

saw his advantages, swimming as an ex-to-day has swam the reverse way yoard-just the very period in and morbidity of women exceed plied contract of indemnity is broker, who, in cok ince with whole lund, however, his face excise and a health-restorer has minutes, which is an exceptionally has been most rampant,

in three hours and sixty-two which this alleged degeneracy that of men is among farmer not in such a case, in itself the rules of the Stock Exchange, lighted up and he raised it $10,

wives-and-for reasons that are gaming or wagering contract, has made a time contract in his

"The lawyer also seemed pleaspecially among the majority of that the race among the ladies is not been properly understood, es- fine performance and Indicates

perfectly obvious to anybody who Accurate and reasonably re-as ever lived on a farm. Even "and is therefore not null and own name for the purchase of "void. The intervention of the ahares for his principal, to imed and he made it $10 more. "Legislature Was considered mediately sell such shares in the looked to me as if he had wanted the fair sex. The consequence is, going to be particularly keen, es- liable statistics in regard to men's here the greater death and disease "necessary in order to invalidate event of the death or insolvendy to raise from the first, but had it is often regarded as an exercise pecially as most of them have health and vital conditions have ratos, and insanity rate as well, show only in those two ten-year done some very long swime, and beenavailable for only about forty periods when many farmers' wives rofrained for fear of driving away not quite suitable for them. It is tell me that they have greatly im "such contradis the Gam- of the principal. This was so "ing Act 1802,"

hell in the enso of "Lacey v. castomers.

well known that water is the finest proved in speed. I am not going years; but in that time the gene are engaged in working them- Although neither the Gaming Hill". L. 8 Ch. 021, in which "Then du Pont loked at his medium in the world through to tip the winner of the ovent, ral death-rate has decreased neary solves to death and, at the same Act, 1892, nor the Act of 8 and 9 case Sir J. Mellish L. J. said that cards with ostentatious care.

because that is not my practice. ly, forty. per cont, the average time, bearing too many children. Vidt. a-100-is-in-force-in-Hong the xule of the Stock Exchange What be found must have pleased which one may cure the many I simply wish to point out the length of life has increased thirty. It used to be a common saying in kong, those Acts are nevertheless was very reasonable which pro- him, for he made it $20 more. ailments the human flesh is heir advantages of the art of swim-

the Midylo West, thirty years, in force in Shanghai, so far as vided that where the principal It was the largest single bet up to, therefore swimming must be ming, and how much good the per cent, the average height of ago, that most successful farmers regards persons there who are sub- dies or locomes bunkrupt, or falls to that point, but it was only arogarded as the king of health practice for such on event as the adults has incrensail nearly an of a cortain type were living with ject to the jurisdiction of His Bri-into such a state of insolvency beginning,

one under notice has done for inch and the average weight their second or third wives. Now

hose who take part in it.

between ten and twelve pounds the woman has learned to assort of China, for, by the Chinn and cannot depend on him to protect for several rounds then $50 and

her rights to sure in the pro- These statements are based upon aperity that she has built, or to Cores Order in Council 1904, it them against any loss that may then $100, and each man raising both arms and legs equally and is provided, by Article 89, that occur, then the brokers may at as it came to him till there must every muscle is strouhed to its

board of health statistics and up- get a divorce and then we lift- ubject to the provisions of this oneo terminate the transnotion, so have been $2,000 or $3,000 on utmost limit. This, of course, Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Cho oa measurements running up into up our hands in holy horror at "Order, the civil jurisdiction of as to make the profit or loss, the table. And they looked ut one gives grace to the earringe and nation which insists on sitting in the thousands and, in some cases, the increasing lack of reverenos,

every Court acting under this whichever it is, depend upon the another in youder.

for the holy ssorament of ind monvl-Woods Hutchinson, "Order shall, as far as oircum-state of things on that day, and Finally Varden said with suppleness to the form, for it does judgment in its own cause when stances admit, be exercised on not to run the risk of any further a laugh, I reckon. I win, but I not knot, the muscles and build vital interests concerned,, 'denies the principles of, and in con- foll in the market. o don't want to rob you and he them up on the limb in huge un the Gratiniple of antural average height, for instance, of Post, Mformity with, English law for (To be Contlaged sext Saturday;} { trailed,

Harverd studente nince 1891 1 (sightly bunches. Qu the oop" | justice

cover such

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others.

It

LADIES' COLUMN

Swimming for Ladies...

to prove an invaluable asset w

cures,

tannic Majesty's Supreme Court that it is manifest the brokers “They raised it $20 at a time In the first place it exercises

WILLIAM HENRY.

hundreds of thousands, made up- it chooses to declare its honour or on soldiers, college studente.D. in the Saturday

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(To be continued ned

most