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Trenchant Reply to Male Critic

What do woman think of the

be most successfully approached? These monumepis have cost public money to erect no doub and they are a sacred charge пров successive generation to maintain in order. If their maintenance is Dot & proper Government charge upon the Durse, the sooner the colonists(views of Professor Jespersen, the know it the better for their own famous Danish authority on lang- the honour of age? He has been comparing reputation and the dead, whose names have been men and women as talkers, and banded down from generation to finds that woman excels in: generation as a sacred memory.

Yours, etc., "Observer." GREEN ISLAND CEMENT CO We are informed on excellent authority that at the private meeting of shareholders in the Green Island Cement Co. beld yesterday afternoon, several im- portant movements were agreed to. It is proposed to issue new A Press representative sub shares, to proceed with the build-mitter this matter to Miss ing of works in Hongkong. and Florence Underwood, of the Wo SPOILING KOWLOON. to raise new capital to the extent men's Freedom League, who has Many of the beauties of Row. of $600,000. These proposals are studied most of the leading wo

men of the day. loon are fast disappearing before to be submitted to an extra the onward march of the P.W.Dordinary general meeting for nisgnates and busybodies with confirmation at an early date. their so-called improvements Kimberley and Observatory

THE JUBILEE FUND. We received late this afternoon long list of banks and firms that have subscribed tiberally to the Fund for the celebration bere of the Diamond Jubilee of Victoria, the Good. The H. & S. Bank heads the list with $2,50), severa! rms, including Germanı and American houses, have donated $1,000 each, the European staff of the H. & S. Bank have subscribed $80 and other residents and firms have gisen sums varying from $500 to $50. The total to date is $31,270

BIRTH-CONTROL.

Roads have both suffered from FAMILY SYSTEM HINDERS the advance of civilization and what were formerly coun- tried and moderately shady

National University.

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lanes are now bleak bare and Mrs. Sanger's Lecture Before dusty expanses with gutters and kertstone-in place of their former

A Peking report says:- bushes and trees. In Kimberley

Mrs. Sanger lectured before the Road the devastation has been particularly severe and has been majority of the s udents of the carried back a good deal further Government University about the than necessary, resulting in the benefits of birth control in this total destruction of some of the country and it was listened to finest albes in the Colons with grea: interest. But owing, Everyone likes a good road, but to the difficulty of translating her real meanings into the Chinese when every bit

A certain ruthlessly destroyed along the language, there was sides of it and dreary, dusty banks amount of criticism about the alone are left the questions wisdom of adopting the birth our civilization a failure?"-is apt control theory in China. to intrude itselt very forcibly.

of

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DREDGERS BUSY.

Quickness of comprehension. Readiness of spe ch. Swiftness of repartee. She is also plain in her phras ing and uses simple words, On the other hand, she is Always voluble. Leaves her sentences unfinish-

ed and in the air.

WHERE THEY BEAT MEN. She replied:

"Women speak when they have something to say. And they are not long in saying it

"Women are more articulate than men, not more voluble.

"A woman on,& public platform does not talk just for the sake of talking. Many men do.

"A man does not always know when he is boring his audience. woman does. She is more sensitive.

"A woman always knows when

On a platform of! to sit down. men and women speakers, the women will always keep to their

a'lotted time.

"The influence of public life will pot make women more talkative. They are candid in speech. They are not steeped in the traditions of dolitics.

"Do women chatter small-talk? Well, it is plain that if a woman

We notice that the Wharf and real question is not birth control has never been outside her homet

the different berths.

It is

get nothing but small-talk in

In commenting проп the lecture of Mre. Sanger, the Chinese editors suggest that the Ciedown Company have a dredger but the effective control of early in her life her subje is of talk are busily at work alongside their marriage, because in the North limited. But would men go on wbarres deepening the water in Chica provinces, girls and boys talking to women if they could rumoured that the Naval author. are married below fourteen years return? Men are not so polite of age, while occasionally the age. ities intend dredging the whole of of the wife is generally from five as all that. And they haven't the sea front facing the Naval to ten years older than her topped talking to women yet. Yard in order that the mod

husband, simply because the "THEY WON'T TALK TOO MUCH.” and silt may all be cleared

"Women will not be made ver- family needs the domestic ser away and the foundations of their vices of the wires. In view of bose by entering public life. Do reclamation works, shortly to be the family d social system of not fear that women barrister commenced, may be laid upon the Chinese weople, it is exceed-will talk too much. Mise Royden the bed-rock and thus obviate

ingly doobtru! whether the does not preach too long. Our danger of the works settling lectures of the American birth two women M.P.s surely do not while in course of construction-control advocate will tend to in- talk at too great length." Doubtless had such a course been

troduce reforms or improvements taken with the Praya Reclama-

into this country. tion works much needless delay and costly labour on account of the subsidence of the founda- tions would have been saved.

FIT-U PINCE-NEZ

Miss Underwood thinks that Lady Astor and Mrs. Wintring- ham typify the talkers of whom their sex are proud. They never. speak unless they have something to say are brief and to the point; and have their subjects at heart.

A man-in-the-street's répis was: "The typical women talker was Mrs. Caudle. All women can talk, but there are no women oratora."

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By the way, was the bottom is the latest of the finger operated surveved at all adequately before ege-glass mounting and has been the Praya Reclamation com-designed to avoid all the objection- menced? If so the authorities fable features of this type of should have known where a mud mounting. The long coil spring bottom existed and acted ac of the Fit-U prevent spring cordingly.

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