THEN HONGKONG TREYGRAPH.
IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.
America has made 10 distinct impressions on Mrs. Margol Asquith, drawing-room politician. diarist and lecturer. There arON--. SOCIETY.
* 1.--Your social life is terriño. You have 50 guests at dinner and call it a party. Your hospitality is slightly exaggerated."
WOMEN.
"2-1 find all women every- where who wish to succeed social- ly are much the same. They have hearts, brains-yes, it's safe to say bodies-out out after the same pattern. So America sure- ly is not distinctive for its women who have social ambitions. But among bussiness women you barə a very characteristic element, conservative ard charming- However, I don't see bow Ameri- can business men can employ certain short-skirted, bare-kneed, rouge-lipped females who talk too much. I find tha average young business man a more poised, more elegant person than the average ́business woman."
HOMES.
"3.-lo your cities, as I have seen them, I have found no wo men to whom I could apply the term "housewite' with any degrea of correctness. Then where are your housewives? In the coun- - try, of course. I have watched your fine country bomes from train windows and have said of this one or that one. Now, there must be a very happy home." Though, of course, the furies Lay be playing within."
PROHIBITION.
"4.-Prohibition, which I al ways favoured, is most harmfulin its effects. as I see them in America. Lord Lee first lord of the British admiralty), says my statement that thera is dranken-
American ness among
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people is 'cruel, ludicrous and antrue I wish it might be at least the latter. But I am over-
THE BOOKSHELF.
What Mrs. Asquith Thinks.
MRS. MARGOT ASQUITH,
-led with letters from all ov-Amories agreeing with me is opinion. American people. dynamic; they always will
do a protest."
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JAZZ. 3.-America has a remark- able sense of rhythm. I have heard little beyond your colour. ed melodies (meaning 'jazz") but
scheme
But as t or system. study of temperament and char acter on the borderlands of up-
wonders soen
and romance, written in prose that suggests in its beauty a magic interweaving of tapestry and music, this book fír a very notable achievement.
I like this sort of melody. It is splendid. It carries one After bearing it I should say. 'Not strange that America moves its feet so fast and so much!"
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LITERATURE.
"6.--Bookstores and news slands dot every city and town. At every crossroads station one, sees books, magazines and papers for sale. I wonder how you get: time to devour so much reading matter? And what good it does) you? -Can any people diges: 30| much? But the effort is to your} credit."
FLAPPERS.
“?—You mike.too much of your flappers. You take them too seriously. They'll outgrow it, before you can realize."
COURTESY.
"S.-You do rush about, every. where, but you're very polite. There is a surprising amount of courtesy in public conveyances. No. I haven't ridden in the sub- way, yet but I think I'll risk it once during the rush hour, just for an experience. I expect to survive it as well as the next one."
DRAMA.
PRESS.
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Effects of Chinese Unrest.
In their report dated to-dag, Messrs. Polishwella and Kotwell
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A New Use for Latex, As a direct result of the con- tinued depression in the crude rubber market and the efforts that would naturally be made to find new outlets for the plant- ation product, a new use for rub- ber latex in the manufacture of paper seems to have been dis- covered. Bccording to American consular report. Mr. Frederick Kaye is responsible for the discovery and has patented his process.
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"9-Your drama is vigorous; quite often improper but free from coarseness. You make a good job of handling indelicate sit-state- uations delicately. Your Ameri- Since our last report on the can actresses are more finished, 16th ult. per s.s. "Namsang,” our more beautifully gowned, more yarn market has remained very convincing than English ac-sensitive, with a rather heavy tresses. But Englishmen are decline in price, which is mainly much better on the stage than dua to the alarming reports of a the men of America."
probable political conflict between and Northern the Southern 10.-1_don't like your news-Repablics of China, which bas
It is claimed" for the now dis- papers. They are too hurried. created great uneasiness among covery that it will not only re- They even harry me. And then all Chinese dealers, and the un-duce the cost of paper manufac they don't print what I say as Icertainty of this embarrassing turing materially and simplify would bave it printed. They political situation has made bosi-paper-making methods, but that pay too little attention to what I ness almost impossible.
it will greatly improve the quality say, and too much to" who I am.”
Daring the interval, the Chinese of the product. For example, dealers were tempted to make | Mr. Kaye claims that by his pro- purchases on a large scale of 10 cess the effect of introducing and 12 yarn in few known chops, even very small quantities of but latterly the discouraging news rubber into the manufacture of has made them abstain from doing paper from some fibres is to pro- further business, while the sudden duce a rubber paper possessing rise in rupee exchange bas further considerably better physical lowered the rates and at the close qualities than that made from the tendency is dull and drooping.the same fibres by the usual pre- Bargain stocks in bands ATO cesses. heavy and deliveries very poor.
PEKING NEWS.
Effect of Southern Disagreements.
A Peking message states that, in reply to the President, Wol Pui-foo has declared that he is loyal to the Republic and he will not be the first to endanger pesce by military action.
cannot
RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS, Experiments were mada to show that with an ordinary fibre made into a paper containing the product had a folding number one-tenth of 1 per cent. of rubber
(By Librarian ".)
"VARSITY AND PUBLIC SCHOOL IN FICTION.
Total sales, 6,000 bales; unsold Two recently published novels
stocks, 11,000 bales tirgains in dealing with Varsity, or Public Miss Rose Macaulay seems
Chinese hands, 17,000 bales. School lifeare marked by a certain likely to qualify as the champion
business and prices easier with Shanghai reports mcdarate contrast. In The Highbrows, Mr. priserwinner. She won the first C. E. Joad has strung together a Hodder and Stoughton £500 novel
It is reported, according to an- great uncertainty about the of 5,000 to 6,000 and a tensile somewhat ephemeral series of competition with "Under the Lee other Peking message, that as position of the pear future of the strength two or three times that sketches. The best ary the Shore, and following upon a Sun Yat-sen's
to market, owing unsettled of the same material made with- expeditionary first two. dealing with under-number of other successes she forces
sirdultaneously)
political situation.
out rubber. But with a rubber graduste attempts to run a boya' bas gained the club at Oxford, and a University Heurer ziza with Dangerous owing to internal disagreement large and continuous fluctuations folding number reached 11,500. Feming Fiestart with the Fengtien forces entire interval there have been bundredths of 1 per cent, the
Japanese Yarn:-During the centent of about seventy-five one!
settlement. After that, things tail Ages," (Only one vote behind in the on, till the last sketch is merely Miss Macaulay's novel came Mr leaders will now change their varying reports of rise and the usual manner bad a folding South, the Fengtien in this yarn on account of while the same paper made in incoherent. But there are amus. Brett Young's "Black Diamond)." tactics and agree to a compro- decline in prices in ing glimpses of the Fabians-It may be remembered that this mise..
Japan. number of 30. here thinly disguised as the Mid-prize, which is awarded annually.
The present low prices have Another fibre beaten for half wisians--with characters whose was founded in 1918 by the French
induced Chinese buyers, which the usual time made into a paper names do not disguise them at all. Feminu-Vie Heureuse Committee. WELL-KNOWN MISSIONARY DIES. has resulted in a good business containing 1 per cent of rubber Aad this phrase, of one of the That committee has for many We understand that a cablegram in 3,500 bates, but at the close had a folding number of 72,500 group: He had the bead of an
years awarded an annual prize has been received by the local rep-the tone is quiet. gr
and a tensile strength of 87 athlete on the body of a thinker," for the best French novel; and four resentatives of the Wesleyan Raw cotton-400 small loose pounds for a strip 1 inch wide, is (to use the slang of the day this years ago it was decided to insti- Methodist Missionary Society bales in Chinese cotton have equal to 6,600 lb. per square inch, book photographs) perfectly tute a prize for English writers, announcing the sudden death of changed hands at $37 to $40 per or about twice the strength of priceless."
For the English prize the Landon the Rev. William Goudie, one of picul.
weil-vulcanized rubber com- committee chooses three books the General Secretaries of that There is no stock of Bengal pound such as is used in tyres, (in prose or verse, by a man or a Society." The deceased, who cotton and prices have remained for example. The bursting woman). From these the Paris was ixty-five years of age, steady at 829 to $34 per picul. Istrength was about 40 lb. for a comittee selects one. In 1920 served
B missionary
thickness of one-tenth of a milli- L. Northcliffe, the president of in South India from 1881 to 1905.
matre. the British committee for that In 1909 he was put in charge of year, founded a British prize for the centenary celebrations of the the best French novel. The fol- Wesleyan Missionary Society lowing six novela recommended and by his magnetic enthusiast by the Paris committee are now carried that movement to re- being considered by the commit-markable success. Subsequently tee in London: Epithalame," he was appointed General Secre-
Of different order is "The Secret Glory" (Martin Secker, 75. 6.) by Arthur Machen, the gentleman whose name became prominent in connection with The Angels of Mons," a parra- tive which, by the way, the author is said to have written as a piece of imaginative work, but which many readers construed literally. In bis present work, Mr. Machen has achieved an artistic trumph.
in real literature. But even these have their pages in which the
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tion, brought in £350, but
MANILA CLUB WILL ENTERTAIN PRINCE,
Programme for Next Month.
and J. B. Reid.
IN CANADA BABY'S OWN TABLETS ARE THE SAFE- GUARD OF INNUMER- ABLE HOMES.
by Chadourne: "Le Grand Silencetary of the Society and has rep- The Manila Club, an organiza-
A British Columbia Mother's How any novels are there of Blanc." by Roquette; La Der-resented it at various inter- tion of English members of the
Thanks. which you want to read carefully miere Auberge," by Piecbsud: denominational and international Manila community, will entertain A Canadian remedy. Baby's every word for the sheer charm of Quand la Terre Trembla," by missionary gatherings. He was the Prince of Wales with a garden Owa Tablets have to immense re- the writing? There are novels Anet: "Celle quis en va," by one of the best-known preachers party and dance during his three putation in their home-land, Mr.
Un Amour," in his denomination and had been day visit to that port that have pages filled with beauty,Marion Gilbert:
elected President of the Wesleyan
FE Long, of Peachland, British and novels that have their place by Pernette Cille.
Methodist Conference for the to be the guest of the Philippines, of grateful mothers who give The Prince will arrive May 13, Columbia, is but one of thousands present year. Passing away in
The Manila Club appointed the grateful praise to them. It is to be hoped that Mr. the falness of hie activities, be following committee at a speciales:
Sbe writer has seemed to say. "Well, Austin Dobson's library, recently will be much missed not only in meeting to plan for the party: this is all vary fine, but af er all, I've got to get on with the story."lue than the libraries of the 18th. missionary workers of
eurourced for sale, had better bis own church but by many Consul Harrington and Messrs. W.months old and my experience "My baby is now thirteen
In The Secret Glory." the author
try giants which formed the denominations.
other Stevenson, J. Jolly, J. Macleod has been that the use of Baby's has given us a novel in which the
suc act of some of bis "Vignettes."
Own Tablets allays the fever colour and the music never fade. Fie ding's books, a fairly good
The Prince will boid a recaption caused by teething and give baby From first page to last there is that
og board the Renown, the second healthy sleep. My baby bas feeling for beauty of word and D. chnson's, although they made by Messrs. Longmans Green. It night of his stay in Manila for always been healthy except for phrase, for rhythm and balance, that sets is among the limited more than 600 lots, were na is entitled "British History is Americans, British and "Filipino the fever and restlessness accom
impressive and worth no more the Nineteenth Century," and citizens. May 13 he will play paying teething and an occasion- category of books that are a real than £250. Neither Fielding's while being primarily a history polo and in the evening will be the al cold, but the Tablets have joy to the mind sensitive to such nor Goldsmith's library contained of Great Britain, shows Britain guest of honour at a dinner and proved so beneficial in these cases In such a book, plot and sut-any of its owners' principal as the centre of group of reception given by Governor-Gen. that I would not be without
works, and many of "poor Noll's" kindred communities and of an eral Wood. fect hardly wasiter. But Mr.volumes were quits worthless as Empire in constant growth. The Sunday May 14 a dinner on. The action of Baby's Own Machen makes interesting and a result of his fazy-man habit of period covered is from 1782 to the Renown will be given to even convincing his story of the removing pages when be felt dis. 1901, roughly from the French Governor Wood, United States modern boy who, steeped in the inclined for the trouble of copying Revolution to the death of Queen army and nary officers, and to legend and mysticism of the out a quotation. Even the one Victoria. The chief theme of the Americans, Britishers and Fili garly Celtic Church, bas actual book. of his own, "Animated book is social evolution as caused pinos. bight of the Holy Grail
Nature, that was included was by economic change, Mr. Trevel- The May 15 programme includes Public school life could hardly damaged.
yan is carrying on a family a launcheon at the Cavite navy be happy for such a boy, and if
tradition, as be is a great-nephew yard, The Prince will, leave the noveliadicts the public school
of Macaulay. whose famous Manila Monday evening. History was published by the it must be conceded that Ambroga
Because of the short period of Meyrick would hardly fit into any
firm issuing the present volume, his stay in Manila, the trip to
Baguio has been called off..
things.
A new book by Mr. George acaulay Trevelyan is promised
them.".
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