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The health return for the week- end shows one Chinese case typhold.

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A whist drive is being held St. John's Cathedral Hall at 8.45 p.m. to-day.

The Female Bounder.

The

The other evening we had start~ : We discovered that men were ed an idle discussion on the much more inclined to be intoler- subject of bounders; the in- ant than women were over what of fallible signs by which one could American advertisements describe recognise them after only Ave delightfully as "social errors." A minutes' conversation; why other woman forgives another woman for men instinctively mistrusted them, attending a smart lunch in a golfing hostess, n and whether it was true as our suit; men will immediately call

well-known novelist, man a bounder because he wears had contended-that women gen-loud ties and walks down Bond

rally liked them, no matter how street in plus-fours.

If another "But naturally! exuberantly they bounded.

The discussion had begun Idly, woman comes to the Ritz to lunch but it ended with everyone getting in a golfing suit you won't con- excited and waving arms about, deman her you'll love her. She writes Mollie Panter-Downes in the will become your dearest friend. Daily Mail.

How attractive she makes you look! The men seemed extremely What a piquant contrast? You vague as to how one could exactly will tell her that nothing anita ber define a masculine bounder. They so well as thick tweeds and doeskin appealed helplessly to each other: gloves-"

just bounds-isn't that so? "What cats men are!"

"But isn't that true, all the Directly you talk to him you think,

same-?" This fellow's a bounder.

The s.s. Empress of Asia, which left Hongkong on August 20th, ar- rived at Vancouver on September 6th.

The P. and O. 8.8. Malwa, with the English maila, is due here from Singapore at noon on Thura

be Mr. W. W. Hornel, Vice-Chan- to cellor of the Hongkong University. is to open the new school building of the Ying Wa Girls' School to- morrow afternoon at 3.30 p.m.

be

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Define Her!

"Not at all! It's merely that women are so much more tolerant

any other approved club, whether within the Colony or elsewhere, but only on the basis of providing lists for signature by members. It will thus be seen that clubs which do not organise the actual races will not be allowed to issue any tickets whatever, this right being solely confined to the organising clubs and, even then, the tickets must be sold nowhere but on the racecourse during the actual meeting. In the past, numerous social clubs have issued sweeptake tickets on the races, and, whilst these have been nominally intended for members, the outside public has experienced no difficulty in securing chances. Under the proposed new law, not only will the issuing of døy. tickets by - such clubs prohibited, but the right participate in the sweeps will confined to members. This is how we read the provisions of the

It did not seem quite good than men about those things, so A Chinese charged to-day be-fenough; we were not absolutely much less tradition-bound. They aepding Ordinance, inasmuch as

did he bound? stop and think before they condemn it is laid down that "the chances fore Mr. Whyte Smith with the un-satisfied. How

lottery What was the acid test that hela man or woman as a bounder be- lawful possession of 137 shall be allocated only to members tickets on the first floor of 394, failed so instantly and unmistak cause his trousers are baggy at the knees or the ribbons of her and subscribers," and it is further Shanghai Street, was fined $50 or ably to pass?

I had to admit that there was chemise are showing." provided that "no hawking of one month's imprisonment.

something about a genuine, flam- "Then what is it that makes you shall be permitted." chances ....

Charged with the larceny of a boyant and unashamed bounder say a certain woman is a bounder?" We argued for some time with- Incidentally, we are left to wonder clock valued at $2 from a house in that fasineated and amused me;

Wai Ching Street, Kowloon, a perhaps because he was such a re- aut coming to any very definite con--

What by what method the authorities are

precisely Chinese was sentenced to four freshing contrast to the usual type clusion.

Mr. of young public school Englishman stitutes the feminine equivalent of to prevent such "hawking."

by months imprisonment That the Government has had Whyte Smith to-day. The defer-ho does the usual things and talks the masculine cad?

the usual talk. Like, all women, I have not called a woman a cad the courage to swailow any scruples dant admitted two convictions form growing tired of the type since I was at school, and then this If I want to be interested and in-strong expression was only re- which it may have possessed, by larceny before.

crease my knowledge human served for the poor little devils who The death by drowning of a feature I would rather spend an departed from our primitive and PASS-On September 6, 1930, at legalising this particular form of

the Matilda Hospital, to Mr.gambling, is satisfactory, especially young unknown Chinese girl was evening with a sleek young Argen- somewhat puzzling code of honour. and Mrs. R. C- Pass, a daugh- since the position becomes much reported from the Un Long distine whose taste in diamond cuff You could be rude to a mistress, triet over the week-end. The girl Enks and blackmail would place him and you were a Joan of Arc. You more regularised than it is at pre- had fallen into a fish pond near definitely in the category of those sneaked someone's history notes, sent. But, having taken this step, the cracker factory at Un Long who bound. But how preferable to and you were a cad.

drearily, She was rescued by a remaining

hopelessly Incomprehensible system of it is difficult to see why it should Market.

to the dis- static all one's life simply because ethics! No wonder that we some- and taken. Chinese place so many obstacles in the way pensary, but died fifteen minutes one's father did the same kind of times slipped up on them, But

things before one!

the Idea of some barbarie kind of of public participation in what will

honour was hazily present at the become a perfectly legal practice,

Someone asked unexptecdly: back of it all; you could brag, you On the one hand, it recognises the there during recent years which "What about the female of the could be a colossal nuisance to your existence of what may be termed have brought them up to a Batis species? I suppose that there are fellows, you could even lie under women cads as well as masculine stress, but the moment you were the sweepstake habit by putting it factory standard. so far

barracks are concerned. But, in cads. How exactly would you de-dishonest you were a cad. on a legal basis; on the other, it view of modern developments of fine a feminine bounder?"

I wish that I were still so de- We said evasively: "It's not quite finite about black being black and very materially curtails the oppor-war and the training that is so es-

sential, the location fa unsatisfac- the same, of course."

white being white. I wish that I tunities for indulgence in it. Sure tory. Nor can we see any really "Yes, it is, exactly the only knew with such absolute calm con- Whilst there will be generally the Government must know that sound reason for quartering

difference being that we say, The viction that a woman was a cad satisfaction felt at the fact that there are hundreds of people who battery of artillery at Trowbridge fellow's a bounder, and you say, the moment that she started being

and Christchurch or a Field Brigade I can't hear that woman-she's a dishonest.. the Government is at length giving are not members of sporting or at Brighton. These instances could

But that sort of thing is so uni- "Yees. I can't quite explain versal now; one moment you are conditional legal sariction to club social clubs who like to stake a few be multiplied. It is suggested in

sneaking someone else's history taining barracks for each regiment "There you

are! You can't notes, and the next moment some-

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SWEEPSTAKES.

1930.

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March Past of the Highland Regiments ..Pipers of the sweepstakes on pony races, we can dollars now and then on pony-rac-some quarters that instead of main- Scottish Command Tattoo Selections Cameron Highlanders foresee the possibility of consider-lug, even though they may not be recruits for the Army' might be quite explain: And yet you feel one else's husband. No, I am Reginald Foortable criticism of some of the provi-interested in the sport itself to asent to one or two central places, instinctively the moment you speak afraid that it does not necessarily sions of the Ordinance which has sufficient extent to attend meet-where, after their six months' to a woman that she is a cat-a fellow that a woman is a bounder training, they could be allocated to bounder-whatever you like. The because she is trying to sneak new law, such the various regiments. One of the tatal sum will be the same. She something that belongs to someone been drafted to effect. this change.ings. Under the

else. Leslie Sarony Hitherto, it has been glaringly people will be unable to participate objections to this scheme would be bounds! What is it?"

the serious interference- with We started getting excited and anomalous that, for example, the in sweepstakes, unless the organis-mobilisation arrangements, It waving arms again. All the men police should continue carrying ers thereof take advantage of loop would also have a tendency to dos- agreed,

What is it then, exactly? What A wo is the indefinable something that out raids on the poorer classes in holes in the Ordinance. This may troy the territorial spirit, as it must line complacency, that

not be forgotten that the profes- man who js condemned

28 makes invisible bristles stand on sweepsional army, as well as the civilian a dulging in a mild "flutter" whilst conceivably result in the

bounder by her own sex end when some women comes into at the same time wholesale gam- prizes being far less valuable than army, has a distinctly Territorial is sure to be attractive

and a room? popular with men. bling in the form of sweepstakes, heretofore, but surely that cannot basis. which is just as illegal, should be be the aim of the Government. In- winked at by the authorities. Indeed, if anything ever comes of the idea of a fax on sweep tickets, the future, however, if the amending

Government itself would suffer Ordinance becomes law, the con-

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ducting of sweepstakes will no long-To our way of thinking, the Gov- er be illegal, provided certain con- ernment need not have interfered dition are observed. It is truc

with the sale of tickets at all. All that, as a consequence, one form of that is necessary is to legalise the gambling will enjoy the protection

sweeps, confine them to reputable of the law whilst others continue

clubs, and exercise a reasonable to be unlawful, but there will at

measure of control. In other least be an end to the authorities

words, except for the legal sanc- condoning breaches of the Gam.

tion, allow present conditions to bling Ordinance by ignoring the

continue. existence of a practice which has had no legal sanction.

It is when we come to consider the conditions laid down that we find cause for criticism. The securing of written permission from the police and the laying down of the percentages of commission which Clubs may take cannot be ob- jected to; in reality, these condi- tions have already been unofficially in force. What the public will most likely resent, however, is the proposed abolition of the sale of tickets, excepting on the actual racecourse. Under the terms of the amending Ordinance, the only

Coming Army Changes,

Many of the isolated military quarters throughout England are threatened with extinction when the recommendations of the Committee set up by Mr. Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, to consider the disposal of Government properties which may not be required, have been tabled. In this day of cep- tralisation the scattered barracks lated districts, industrial and other, occupying sites in thickly popu

have to be used in the absence of alternative accommodation. In few. (if any) districts are there ade- quate training facilities for the squadron, battery, or company, and the absence of any opportunity for combined training is Д serious actual tickets to be sold will be

defect in # modern Bizzy. "by the club organising the race Another argument in favour of on the premises of the racecourse the disposal of some of these build- during the meeting at which the maintain in tolerably good condi- ings is that they, are expensive to

race takes place to persons attend-tion, while others are dilapidated. ing auch meeting.". Otherwise, the The sale of some of these sites, however, provided the money thus only participation allowed in

raised was used to build modern sweepstakes will be by members barracks in more suitable surround or subscribers of clubs running ings, would be a great benefit to the Army, and mean greater and sweepstakes signing their names to deserved comfort for the troops. numbers on lists in the premises of The barracks at Hounslow have been the clubs to which they belong. surveyed on behalf of the Treasury Committee. These quarters cannot Ordinary social or sporting clube be classified as modern, but im- effected

may run sweepstakes for the bene-provements have been

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