THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
NOTES & COMMENTS.
SEPTEMBER
DAY BY DAY.
MODERN MODES
Fresh Stock of
ALHAMBRA CIGARS
RLINA VICTORIA
ESPECIALES
BELLEZAS
EXCELENTES.
SUPER-SENSITIVE GERMANS AEON THE PAMILY ROC
That the Allies have the | THEON=TICAL
Germans well in hand is proved | HAVE SPLIT.
by the fact that, in response to
EVOLUTIONG
Entente demands, Germany heaYesterday's health return annalled the article in the new shows five cases of gastro
Cases were Chinese,
Constitution providing for union enteritis (two fatal) and two fatal with Austria. It will be recalledgecurrences of enteric. All the that the Allies, when they insisted on the cancellation of the article, threatened that if thair wishes were not met, they of St. Vincent de Paul begs to The Treasurer of the Society
would occupy more Rhineland. The Germans cha- acknowledge, most thankfully, racterised this as a regrettable the reciept of $30 toward the funds of the Society, from an act of violence, and then proceeded to shuffle on the anonymous donor.
of the
point by saying that the article merely provided for
A communication received to
possible union with Austria day from the Military. Head- However, the Entente remained quarters states: "Intimation has firm, and Germany has toed the been received from the War line like the craven coward that Office that the 2nd Battalion she is. The humour of the situs Wilts Regiment will be posted to tion is that the Germans complain Hongkong for daty, and will of the ironical tone of the Allied arrive shortly." The Telegraph to this Notes on the subject, and plain-published information
effect eight days ago. tively contand that the Allies are
wound
A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,elings! This super sensitiveness
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HONGKONG, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1919.
THE RENT QUESTION.
Be
Those who have not seen "The Woman," now being Tiger screened at the Coronet Theatre, should decide without further!
delay to witness it. It is a really magnificent film, quite in line with the high standard set by the Coronet management. Billy and Doris Harley are also very pleas ing in their songs and dances..
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VELVET TO HOLD ITS OWN:
Black Velvet makes this attractive fall model which
to be one of the leaders of the Season,
expected
the
for the cinema hus "America.“ Realis sands of former unwilling to rat occupation feature: different films, so that sailors an may decide what work suit them (says the Tribune.) The pict in detail the nature ments of the variou for which men are want
must be held now for
in the Imp Roz children. were outin and garde Taure leas
also were amou
and more of mottoes
and Toy were written in chal effect was not wholly disple
One of the problems of holid packing which many must have encountered, is how to dispose of u-sponge which has been recently used and is consequently water- logged. It was once solved (szys the Star) by the great brain of WE Gladstone. The question came up for discussion at bes fast in a country house: Bucklen ly the G.O M. looked up from his correspondence, and rem ed-The only proper met
to wrap the sponge in your bath- towel and stamp on it. it in your sponge baz. find it perfectly dry.
Then put
You will:
A delightful, if baffling, person ality is that of the Hay! W. Major Scott, who after ministry at the historic George Street Congregational Cho Croydon, is going Dundee, says writ Dasy Chronicle He hination of mystic, man of the times, and futurist philospher, s Shaw, soul with Saint Teress, G.
and HG Wel
the -com
equally at home in the street
and the cloister, with Plato or a bull-dog. Once, affer enlighten- the present writer on the aine
want to know how the workd
of society, he added, "If you waga, ask your minister. One of Dr. Short, got his D.U. by way his predecessors it Ward Chapel,
In the interview which we published yesterday, Mr. Henrys that the leading British oil ing at the same place on Saturday use is of finely striped woollen in the country, and in her own Hell, at a time when, and ins
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p.m.
of a Scottish jake. The two D's stood for Denying the Doctrine of land where that place was as real. as the Bank of Scotland
Ito use it at all is a sign of no COLOURS OF THE COMING SEASON.
imagination; but it is better to be The coming dress season in blamed for omission than com-
man-mission, and the possibilities of Paris promises, if the ufacturers of dress materials have neutral tones are wide. It is the be a coloured one. Many new colour; youth passed, it is wiser, the power to influence taste, to privilege of youth to play with colour combinations of daring as a rule, to refrain from is descriptions are being prepared. although sometimes women with One of them is to be known as grey hair and bine eyes can use carobure. It is a small check, blue with success, just as others with each check made up of with white hair and a perfect several colours in diagonal lines. skin can put on almost any colour The effect is bright, if a little and not regret it. Another point disturbing, and the material is about colour is when to wear if indicated as a trimming rather and when not, The French than as one to use for a costume, woman avoids it for public wear Another material for the same in town, as a rule, but pats it on tissue showing a variety of colours house or at private parties. She and shades cleverly and harm-prefers dark colours for the oniouly combined and with a fine winter daytime, and reserves gold thread running through them. brilliance for the evening. If she Iconoclasts have been lifting Plumella is a checked or striped uses oolour as a trimming, she uses
their hammers of late against the material imitating fur. It is it boldly, but does not use much
greater Victorian idols, but it is made in all colours, but the most of it. She knows the value of doubtful whether ever the young successful are black and white, Royal blue and black, of cherry est and most irreverent of the or white and fraise (strawberry colour and blue, of emerald green could polish a sentence in French is different from straw-and grey, and she will wear them ing as the one which end berry in English, when it concerns in woollens for her tailor-mades, paragraph, remarks the dress). Better still than but never in satin or silk for Post. In a narrow plumella are duvella and natella, walking, even in the Rue de is on the island-platform good imitations of fur such as Paix. She may get out of her Brockenhurst there beaver, and in chamois colour car to go into a shop, but would of portraits of great they have much style.
not dream of wearing such a presented in 1871 by a For afternoon frocks charmeuse dress to go shopping on foot. thank-offering for her is to be used, and also another The women who do this in Paris with a son in that same material named trotteuse, which are rarely French, or else do not room, after a long absenc has a dull surface, a fine grain, lead fashion.
years in Ceylon - Last Monday, afternoon: # WAITHE, who seemed to have passed his last four years smid scenes less bloat than Cep- lon's isle, was seen inspecting these faded photographs of Tennyson, Watts, Longfellow, Lord Ju James, Herschel and Sir Henry Taylor. Having stared the magnificently pict of, hair and at the beards of these de listlessly to bis who they all w the barber out of
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A Chinese woman and a man were charged to-day before Mr. R. E. Lindsell with unlawful OPENINGS FOR EX-SERVICE MEN.
possession of 397 taels of pre- We learn that it is has been pared opinm, valued at about decided to send to the East a $4,900 The woman said she travelling Advisory Board, under would take the responsibility. In- the scheme inaugurated by the spector Kent stated that Sergeant Ministry of Labour, for the pur-Cockle received pose of giving advice to officers and he and some detectives went and men who are due for de- to junk No. 516V. near the sea. mobilisation, as to the facilities wall of Connaught Road Central. for training and re-settlement on They found the opium concealed their return to civil life in the in the after part of the junk. They United Kingdom. It is proposed had to shift all the planks away that the Board shall make an to get it. Mr. Lindsell sentenced extensive tour in order to advise the woman to nine months' hard officers and other ranks on all labour. points regarding employment, training for civil occupations.
We are in receipt of a copy of pensions and grants made, with the syllabus of subjects for the ser the object of enabling officers and vices at the Wesleyan Methodist men of similar educational pro- Church, Wanchai. At the morn- mise to undergo approved courses ing service (10.15 am.) this com- of study. The proposed itinerary. of the Board is expected to being Sunday (28th inst.) the sub ject will be "Christianity and notified at an early date. At any Chinese Religions" and at the 6 rate, it is probable that the visits will be restricted to the largest P.m. service "Does it matter what ricted to the large a man believes The Wesleygen garrisons. result from this step.
Guild meets Wednesday evenings at 8 p.m., commencing October OIL RESEARCH.
1st at the Soldiers and Sailors Sometime ago Reuter informed Home. There is a 'prayer meet- Humphreys put forward the landlords' view in regard to the high companies had raised a fund for evenings at 8 pm. and a Men's rentals at present prevailing in the Colony. His opinions, boiled the purpose of endowing a School Social Hour on Sunday evenings
at 8 down, are that whatever increases are now being made, by his of Chemistry at the Cambridge Company at any rate, are only such as will bring the standard up to that the endowment of this school University. There is no doubt pre-war times; that it does not pay at presént to build new houses; that land companies are not making nearly the profits that the dock by the oil industry will lead to and shipping companies are; and that there is therefore-no-case of the scientific problems con-
the investigation by that centre ____ IN HONGKONG made out for Government control of rentals. The unfortunate thing is that be confines himself, generally speaking, to the Company of nected with this industry, which which he has charge, whereas the trouble is that there has in recent day. Enormous sums are being.
are growing in importance every AND DIDN'T KNOW IT! years been a steady rise în rents all round, in some instances even two and three-fold. In any case, the suggestion that rates are now spent in America upon research work into chemical problems, and
A Chinese coolie was before only being put up to the pre-war standard implies that property- owners have been doing badly during the war, which is hardly the these are being largely contributed Mr. N. L. Smith this morning.
acting în impression that the public has of the situation. Judging by the by great industrial enterprises. charged with increases which are now being made, some of these property-owners chemical problems on which the morning at Des Voeux Road The study of the intricate suspicious manner, at 3.30 this must have been losing instead of making money, and we wonder how they have managed to keep out of the Bankruptcy Court. But Progress of the British oil industry Central. we emphatically assert that rents now are constantly being raised with at least equal efficiency in that he was on duty at Des Voeux depends should be pursued A European Sergeant stated
Great Britain and the Colonies, Road Central, when he saw and a richness of tone hardly to INFLUENCE OF PARIS ON TASTE The worst of it is, of course, that most of the house-property as it is only natural that the defendant walking about from Companies here do not merely confine themselves to the building benefit of the results obtained place to place, looking up at all
be found even in the best of The responsibilities of the charmeuses. It is more than buyers of Paris fashions are which is secured. Administration expenses" have to cover very our foreign competitors. of touses. That is a very big factor on the extent of the retur abroad would first be derived by the buildinga. He and a Chinese probable that, however warmly great, particularly those who buy many items, the meeting of which puts a burden on shareholders shareholders of Scottish oil com- asked
The detective went up to him and bright in colour the tailor-mades to sell again. The woman who
him .what WES
and woollens may be, silks and gets her clothes direct from Paris and tenants alike. There is another point. Mr. Humphreys yesterday panies have been complaining the matter. Defendant said satins will remain sober-toned pays for her own mistakes, but admitted that his Company has been in the habit of purchasing land that the endowment should have "I want to steal." The man There will be exquiste dresses in the man or woman who buys for with borrowed capital and, instead of developing it, has held it, been presumably with the object of waiting until it appreciates in value. University rather than to the station.
granted to Glasgow was arrested and brought to the black, brown, grey, blue, but commercial purposes can corrupt What is the effect of such a policy? It means that interest University in Cambridge, thus
anything brighter will not suc or educate taste by the choice of Mr. Smith-What were you
ceed. Women have learned howto New Paris models. If they on the borrowed capital has to 'be met, with one of two results either the dividends of sherebolders have to suffer and other Scottish Universities.
furthering the work of Glasgow walking about so early for? wear these sober tones and know represent a large house they Defendant (with a surprised how to give them style; the eye hold the taste of the masses or householders Have to pay that interest by additions to their rents. The educational system of lookI don't know.
is accustomed to them, and they in their hands, but In any event, it is safe to assume that eventually, when this land
the is built upon, the rental of the houses erected upon it will be based, recognises Oxford and Cam- you doing this morning at Des colours.
the Empire undoubtedly The Interpreter-What were are more attractive than brighter women, who buy only a few
models for a smaller business A man of science, who has had amongst other things, on the sum that has been spent in interest whilst the land has lain unoccupied. Another point is that such fountain heads serving the whole Defendant-I didn't" do, any-
bridge 'as the central Voeux Road Central?
EVENING DRESSES. ·· affect a wide circle of women. much to do with its Companies by buying up land and sitting tight, with no intention of Empire, but we agree that if a
For the evening, colours again There are Frenchwomen working for the purposes of 1 come to the fore. Magnificent for Londoners in London who.the other day a immediate building, keep others out; in other words, they narrow
thing.
The Interpreter-Were you brocades are being prepared as get their models from Paris, and of its prowess, if down the number of convenient building sites, the while waiting great central school is to be until such time as the value of the land goes up. And it should be created on which the oil industy going to steal or marder some dinner dresses and hall dresses. in their hands too lie many word to use, says remembered in this connection that the purchasers of the land do Dominions can depend to carry
of Great Britain and the body?
Gold and silver allied to colour responsibilities at the beginning in the Nation. He Defendant-No! I didn't are to be used, with wonderful of each season. They have the not create its enhanced value, though they do profit by it. This forward its research and render murder anybody. When did I do draperies. Indeed, the magnific power to guide public taste, or most important of the the advance of scien kind of thing must have an effect on rentals, and to legislate against it of the utmost passible service, it?
ence of the evening dresses is a they may weakly pander to bad it, the Government should, without further ado, levy a special tax on it should be located at a spot Mr. Smith-How many years little overpowering, and it is taste, or the lack of any taste at produced a great cro
results of the war. all undeveloped land held for building purposes. That would be one which as an academic centre have you been in Hongkong? step to the good. Much was said by Mr. Humphreys regarding the serves the whole of the Empire
almost certain that before the all, through want of aesthetis This time it was science high cost of building materials here. That is a factor, admittedly.
Delendant Where is Hong-season is over there will be development Paris dressmakers flowed forth in andresu But what brings about this high cost? It was found in the Straits and draws from it the best kong? I have never been in that return to simpler and more subtle share these responsibilities ders. In the discover Settlements that there were rings of profiteering, contractors keep sities spread throughout the
material from each of the Univer. place.
creations. A Paris dressmaker largely, for they are expected to ducts aloneit had do "ing up prices. May not the same conditions- prevail here ?
can work wonders with a length give to the world the keynote of revolutionise indust The Interpreter-Can't you understand what we are talking of white satin and a bit of fur, or good dressing. If they give the pecially, be it noted, Empire.
about. The place you are in is
black satin and a string of pearls, best of their designs to the buyers conditions of coal-mit Hongkong.
or silk muslin and a flower, or and do not encourage eccentricity, the dependentproces Defendant: I never knew that velvet and lace. Just when she they fulfil their mission, and it dus especially to before.
has apparently settled on a style, lies with the saleswomen in Paris investigations like, she has an inspiration and choice of their customers. little laborator one which is not quite what you to guide to a great extent the cesses of science does something so beautiful and The coming autumn and winter perimentakelses unexpected that if outruns all models should in spite of ma previous fashions of the season drawbacks, sbow France at her many
and becomes the rage
best Fashion has The question of colour in dress of adness
far above the pre-war level.
That
HOUSES FOR £180 EACH. At a sale of over 300 Govern-
is another matter that the Government might investigate.
Whatever the reasons are and we confess that they are many it is a fact that rentals for household property, are intolerably high in this Colony, compared with other places in the East, to say nothing of Home. It is this reason which has brought us the flat
bom nind which compels people to share housed. It ought to be pesment huts at Gretna recently, zible for wvkarbody here to live in a self-contained, modern house at what approximated to spacious. ruuials at any rate one-half of what they now are. There is nothing dwelling-houses, though boilt of here to prevent a. landlard putting the rates to whatever figure he wood, were sold at the remark for there are too few houses for the people, which means ably low price of £180 to £200 lord is in the position of a monopolist. Human nature These dwellings contain six bed that the being wha two fear the temptation to put on the screw on the rooms, with sitting room, kitchen, too great for the average property-owner to with scullery, bathroom and out tands
ter reading all that Mr. Humphreys has said houses, and are fitted with ranges,
sinks and stoves.
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have you been, in Hongkong? Mr. Smith-How many years Five years?
Defendant No, Oh yes; I have been in Hongkong five years, Inspector Bouiger-I think he is out of his sausas. P
Mr. Smith Idon't know what to do with him; send him to geol for 14 days, under a special guard, and be is to be examined.
is always one of disputes employ it successfully, a needs to study dress aso To use it carelessly is fatal.,
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