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that respect, therefore, present- day living standards are neces- sarily more "luxurious" than in the earlier times of the Colony's history. We all have more of the comforts of life, which is as it should be. But if His Excellency means to infer that the general standard of living is needlessly The P. and O. s.s. Khyber, from

WISH that I weren't a woman.dred and one tasks entailed in high, or, In other words, that the Shanghai, is due here at 6 a.m. an

Friday.

The disadvantages very much keeping them clean and bright. If majority of the people are extra-

outweigh the advantages, and I do I were a man I could come home vagant in their tastes and are

A Chinese was yesterday reconsider that we start life handl- at night, having devoted the day to work, and I should be able to living beyond their means, we feel moved ashore to hospital from the rapped.

If I had been a man. I should sink into a comfortable chair for a inclined to differ from him. It 8.8. President Lincoln suffeting

from scalds resulting from an ac-have had a sound education. My rest. As a woman, the moment I may be that in A certain cident on board.

parents would not have passed me sink, a hundred little annoyances limited circle Hia Excellency's

over for the son's more vital pierce in upon me. The mald strictures accord with the A coolle foreman suffered a needs, and have shirked parental hasn't dusted the plano! Heavens, facts, but it is dangerous to fractured arm as the result of a duty by glossing over it with "Oh, how dead those flowers are! Some fall, yesterday, into the hold of you'll marry!" I should have star-body has torn the cretonne cover, make general deductions from par- the s.s. Wing Wo. He was taken ted life better for the very reason where is my work-basket?

that I should have had the solid I am essentially woman, and I ticular instances. The average to the Government Civil Hospital. foundation from which I could cannot escape the bondage of that European housewife to-day would

have built up a more satisfactory | womanhood. But what a 'far finer Ng Sau-kin, a married woman, citadel of self. My education has personality I could be as a man most assuredly refute the sugges-living at 442, Shanghai Street, was been dilatory and haphazard. It devoting my life to my job, and tion that Hongkong is living in the removed to hospital yesterday, is continually hampering me. making a splendid and superb lap of luxury. She will say that suffering from the effects of an

effort in the accomplishment of that job. at no other time within the recol.overdose of Adalin tablets taken

to induce'sleep. lection of present-day residents have considerations of economy

Pushed into. Marriage.

If I had been a man, when I

We women auffer too much. We came to the late teens I should are born to suffer. We suffer for A Hongkong vernacular paper have been permitted to adopt a our men folk, we suffer for our and frugality had to be taken so mentions that Mr. T: V. Seong, the career. Instead of which all my children. We suffer all the little Nanking Finance Minister, and family were scandalised at such a qualms and intricacies that never much into account in order to Mr. F. W. Maze the Inspector-suggestion and pushed me into trespass upon the male cutlook. balance the family budget. We General of the Maritime Customs, marriage as the only right and Oh, I wish I were a man.

boarded the Empress of Canada hear very few people nowadays yesterday morning at Shanghai. quality! And having been pushed proper career for a young lady of

The Hard, Cold Man, talking of retirement, as was their sailing for Hongkong, Mr. Maze's into marriage, if I had been a man

ago. That visit is believed to be in connexion I should have been allowed to Because I am a woman unkind If I achieve, what happens now? wont a few years

with the Nanking Government's continue my career without cri- people attribute my success to that happy time, except for the pen-desire to strengthen the preventive ticism, cajolery and scolding, fact. Na man is ever accused of sioned officers of the Government service in the Canton delta with a should not have roused scathing trading on a pleasant appearance, view to checking the alleged smug comments and have been consider or on his sex. That is a gibe that and a few other fortunates,

gling into Canton of foreign goods ed "So very difficult." When I has receded into nothing more which have not paid the new im managed to struggle

cannot be flung at him. It. is a од to my taunt that we women meet with CARR.—A} I p.m. on Tuesday, Oc-tangible than a dream. The difport duties.

own weak legs I should not have every day of the week. The world tober 21st, 1939, at St. Paul'sficulty nowadays, far

been handicapped by prejudice is suspicious of us, and its very from any Hospital, Jonathan, dearly be

and. shibboleth, and the stupid Saving sufficient loved husband of

suspicion hurts. Careline question of

little fetishes with which-even Carr and father of Jack, money to be able to return to the

to-day-people- hamper women. George, and Lillian, late of Old Country for good and all, is P.W.D. Cortege passes the

to make ends meet. Monument at 6 p.m. to-day.

DEATH.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

The engagement is announced 'of Tui, only daughter of the late Mr. A. D. O'Kane and Mrs. O'Kane of "Park Lane Man-

Berg, of Hongkong.

Miss E. N. Earl and Mr. F. S. W. Smith invite all friends to their Wedding at St. Andrews Church, Kowloon, on 1st No- verber, 1930, at 2.30 p.m. and afterwards at 2, Humphreys Building, Carnarvon Road, Kowloon.

After reading Official assertions, during the Budget debate in the Federal Council at Kuala Lumpur taxation in the recently, that F.M.S. is light, we must confess to a measure of surprise at Sir

if the

The Man's Escape.

Life would be easier as a man. I

If I were not a woman, I could travel more and search wider fields. I could seek the adven- ture which, as a woman, is barred

sident of the National Government is to be congratulated on the vigour of his exposure. In dealing with this problem, he has probably touched the root of the greatest I should never have been shack- from me My husband can go issue that the National Govern- led by love, because love is aforth and find adventure where ment hits to face. There secondary condition in a man's and as he will, He can do this.

may because he is a man. But what would be far less objection to the life. However modern you Nanking Government in the North be, however wise and individual, happens to me? As a man I could Kuomintang Party love manages to creep out of all chum up with half a dozen others, had not been in such a hurry perspective in a woman's attitude meet them in any bar or bus or and tube, but I cannot hope to attempt to establish their brainches in every of mind. It is her destiny

this splendid freedom, this joyous sions." Sydney, to Mr. Sverre william Peel's statement on Mon. flown and community. These bran-she cannot escape from it.

ches, in the main, have been entire- Business is Business for Men. "bon camaraderie," of the man. day that living costs are higher ly without discipline, and the Gov-!

The Lovely Lilies. there than here. If that is the ernment has had to shoulder the f

It's a lonely job, this sex busi- case, then Malaya must be about responsibility in the minds of the could talk business and it would rather than the pleasant little remain business," populace for

ness, and I wish that we had not the most expensive place in the games many of the officials have merge into this regrettable some- got to combat it. You, who think world in which to live. Whether played, out of the reach of. Nan- thing which is neither business we have such fun, who consider the F.M.S. or Hongkong hold the king. There are, of course, many nor friendship. Men get down to us women as lovely lilies on whom exceptions, but these exceptions facts, are permitted to get down are showered all the good things. palm in this respect is, however, bring home more forcibly the rea- to facts, and to drum the home. of this life, spare a moment to neither here nor there. What we

son for Marshal Chiang's extension I wish I weren't a woman, be-think seriously. of his warning to all members of cause, howeyer much I may It is the men who get the good do assert is that living costs, quite the Kuomintang Party, even these deavour to escape from it, there things. It is the men who pick apart from luxuries, are far too holding high executive posts. are certain bonds that tie the wo-the plums, who choose, who love high in this Colony. A great deal Party underlings follow their lead-man down, and from which man and fit away as they will, to fairer ers in every respect. They are pro-escapes. It is unfair, but they pastures. It is the men who have of this is due to the high rentals bably unable to do otherwise when cannot be avoided. My house is a the years ever in their favour, who 1930. Prevailing, and this, in turn, is the President of a Branch is a millstone about my neck. I may are not afraid of age and love efficient incorruptible, but often employ a most excellent house-slipping them by, who have time caused by excessive cost of build- he is anything. but and his subor-keeper, I may live in a hotel, but on their side, chance, opportunity, ing. That it should mean an out-dinates consider themselves free to it is stili a millatone. I am everything. They get career and

woman, with strong adventure and Lay of anything between $30,000 look after their share of the divi-womanly

glamour, they denda. Marshal.Chiang would feminine instincts, and I long to storm the dream castles of Quest, make more friends than perhaps do all those little things for which they are in reality the spoilt dar- he realises by the simple expe- I have really no time,

lings of fate. dient of closing down unwanted I am fond of housework, I love I wish I weren't ́ a woman!—— branches.

clean, bright rooms, and the bun- News Chronicle,

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY. OCT. 29

IS LIVING, TOO LUXURIOUS?

When His Excellency the Gov- ernor, at Monday's meeting of the Legislative Council, expressed his personal-belief that the present high cost of living in Hongkong is largely due to a luxurious style, of living, he was stating in more definite terms a query raised by Mr. B. D. F. Beith at the last annual general meeting of the Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce. Whilst not being dog- matic on the point, Mr. Beith sug- gested that serious consideration should be given to the point whe- ther the ordinary standard of living in Hongkong is not unne cessarily high whether, in fact, the individual's ideas of necessary comforts and his general mode of living have

not

exceeded the growth and rate of progress of the Colony.

At the time Mr. Beith made his remarks they were subjected to

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and $50,000 to build an ordinary European residence in Hongkong is little short of scandalous, the

more so when we consider that labour is relatively cheap and that much of the material needed is on the spot. This question is one which has never been investigated as we should like it to be. We have heard talk of contractors", "rings" and of other factors being responsible, but it has apparently never occurred to the Government to order an impartial study of this problem. With building costs so high, landlords have of necessity to demand big rentals in order to secure an adequate return on capital outlay, but a situation in which the average resident has to pay away about, twenty per cent. of his carnings in rental is one which ought not to be tolerated. A Commission of Inquiry into building costs in this Colony would, we feel sure, go a long way towards indicating how living. costs could be materially cut.

imagine that the views of His Excellency the Governor will not

Kuomintang Prestige.. find general endorsement. On a

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek is metter of this kind, it will be gravely concerned for the lost pres- realised that it is

tige of the Kuomintang, and we are extremely

not surprised. It is necessary, per- difficult to reach a definite conclu haps, to live for some little time slon. Our own view is that if we in a Chinese-governed city, per- take the community as a whole, real grasp of the intolerable de ferably in North China, to get a

the charge does not square with mands made upon human patience the facts. It is probably true by mere schoolboys, strutting about that, with few exceptions, the mintang connexions, arbitrary in under the protection of their Kuo- standard of living is better to-day their instructions to local Govern- than it ever has been. That, inment officials, and frequently em-

ploying hired bullies to obtain their. the case of working classes, is as ende. Marshal Chiang'e comments it should be: it is, moreover, the upon the unpopularity of the Party Inevitable result of the progress far from an under-statement. The in various parts of the country is of the Colony and of the improved issue is apparently to be faced amenities which that progress im-squarely for the first time, and if plies. The game factors have that naturally occur when Chiang we pass lightly over the thoughts also affected the rest of the com- denounces ambitious party mem munity in varying degrees. In bers for seeking power, the Pre-

This Is Love.

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wouldn't be surprised if we have rain."