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TUESDAY, FED 3, 1931,

not rendered themselves immuna

by vaccination. Another state- mont made Was that even the nursing sistors at the small-pox hospital were not permitted to mix

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DAY BY DAY

A WRITER GETS IN THE LONG BUN JUST THE READERS HE DESERVER- Jester Brayne.

The Bishop of Victoria is to pre-

MAURICE CHEVALIER on

ENGLISHMEN FRIENDS.

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NATE seems to have brought mofand French, and it was throught

with the community, so as to avoid sent the prizes at St. Paul's touch with English people going there that I learned English,

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the risk of their carrying Infec- College on Saturday at 7.30 p.m.

at almost every stage of my career, which has surely been of great use tion from their patients. Yet, In

I have found to me. One of the early English The Bolilios Old Girls' Associa-and among them

arrive at Alten- apitqgf these admissions, the Gov-tion in holding an "At Homo" In many good friends. You know, it prisoners to ernment has continued to allow the Belilies School Hall on Sunday was a kind fate that first brought Grabow was my good friend Ronald me to London to study the theatre, Kennedy, a Durham schoolmaster, at 4 p.m. Chinese patients to he treated in

It was lucky, too, that I was who fought in the Durham Light their own homes. A

wounded and captured early in the Infantry. His Excellency the

war, because that gave me the op- We goon became firm friends in tounding situation can hardly be

Governor portunity of beginning to learn distress, and to pass away the time will distributo the imagined. Even nursing sisters, Queen's College on Friday morn-

prizes

English while

I was still quite lit was agreed that Ronald Ken- with all the means of immuniza-ing at 11 o'clock.

young.

nedy should teach me English and Two Englishmen I met in Paris that I should teach him French in tion which they have at their dis-

theatrical circles in the early days freturn. So we formed a little posal, are not allowed to leave The total rainfall for the month of also helped when I was only be-class and in learning tried to for- January was 33 Inch. Thero were ginning to make my name on the get the unpleasant side of our the hospital, but Chinene from the only ale wet days during the month, atage. One of them, Mr. T. Elder lives. I may say also that we used Althiest hovels in the most over- the forest amount of precipitation Hearn. I have known since my bor- to organise concert parties-but crowded parts of the city, in which ting on the 26th with 16 inch rain-hood and he is with me in Paris they were not galte as gay as the

fall.

now. Perhaps we shall make a Folies Bergere! small-pox patients may be lying,

world tour together in the near

Learning English, ens come and go as they please.

A police report issued from future. What is equally surprising is headquarters this morning stated. When I got my first decent en-

Well, I was a comedian and my Was kancked Kagement at the Folies Bergere. friend a schoolmaster, so it is not that lenders of the Chinese com.that a small girl

Hearns have always terribly difficult to imagine what munity who in other respects are Aberdeen motor bus near Western

down and fatally injured by an"Tom"

known him-was also appearing happened in our "class." Ronald most progressive in their outlook Street yesterday. She had run "The Lazy Juggler," and wo soon well Indeed; but as for mu teach-

in his already well-known net, Kennedy

taught me English very should, as they often have done. serves the road in front of the ap-became pals. But he could not

proaching vehicle.

ing him French-I am sorry to plead not only for the retention

stay in Paris for ever. He had to say he got the worst of the bar- fulfil a long programme of engage gain. Nevertheless we are still of the existing practice, bat even

"Yes, I was hungry." plended aments elsewhere,

very good friends. request further concessions, such Chineng who was charged before All the same, that comradeship Neither of us will ever forget as the waiving of disinfection. Mr. Butters, at the Kowloon [did not end, at the Folics. No those language Ісввопа in that

Magistracy this

with matter where we found ourselves, strange school, or the friendship Plens of this nature are usually having stolen thirty cakes from awe would keep in touch. Even made on the ground that there is hawker's stail,

It appears

that during the war, when I was a prive formed in our exile. Eventual much ignorance amongst the while the lawker was away in an soner, we kept up our correspon- we both got back safely to our adjoining tea shop, the defendant dence as best we could. Present- poorer classes concerning the ef- took the cakes and bolted. Sen-1, Tom went back to England and many times since, and, I hope, will |fects of disinfection on clothing tence of three weeks' imprison-became a revue proprietor, and very often used to send me sket- and in regard to hospital treatment was imposed.

ches which he thought I could adapt and use.

The

morning,

A WELCOME DECISION. Rient of infections disense.

Appearing before Mr. Lindsell right way of dissipating this at the Central Police Court this

A Boxing Sketch. ignorance, however, is not by com- morning on a charge of being in

possession of two sticks of dyna Like so many other people at

own countries. We have met

meet many times in the future.

Ten years ago I made my frat professional visit to England. It was Sir Alfred Butt who was re- ponsible for introducing me to a London audience, when he brought me over to play in "Hullo! Ameri-

For all too long has Hongkong Promising and thus encouraging te, a boatman was fined $100. It that time, I was an admirer of the lea"" telerated the treatment of small- these views, but by education.was stuted by Sergeant Cunning great comedian Harry Weldon. Although I was used to coming Inconvenience is also sometimes ham, officer in charge of the Aber. Thousands of Englishmen must re-to London quite alone, I had fow pox cases in homes, provided there

deen Police Station, that the de-member his very droll boxing friends there then, so at first I was is notification to the Mrdeint Omited as a reason for giving wayfendant had thrown 22 sticks into sketch. Well, Tom Heurn obtain lonely. At the theatre I was quite

to the suspectibilities of the poor-the

en the approach of theed permission for me to use that happy. I liked the show and my er classes, but, as we have before police, while another man on board sketch in Paris and I need not way part in it, and everyone was so

cer of Health, that all the inmates

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escaped.

Women Can't Be Idle.

are vaccinated, and that a notice

and it was a great success.

kind to me that I could not be is posted on the door of the house had occasion to observe, no such and jumped into the water

During the time that I was otherwise. Yet London seems a red-nose comedian I did not have where a patient is being treated. argument is listened to when it

to dance at all, as you can under very big place to a stranger. Thin amazing concession to the cumes to refuse-removal or period-

Fortunately, as the time passed icial house-cleaning. There was more interesting to obtain the Govstand. But, after I had changed I began to meet some charming

my style of performance and taken

actors Ken English

and became Blessed City (Bairstow Westminster, Special Choir Chinese was made as long ago as

1918, and, in spite of facts show. a time when the Chinese resented ernment's justification of a scale to wearing my straw hat, things friends with a number of them. Blessed City Part 2.

which demands of the smaller were different. When I was call-All at once London changed; it was ing that it involves a Aerinus dan. these latter measures, but, bappi-

estates, those up to $25,000, a per-ed upon to take Increasingly large very much happier place for me ger to the whole community,

ity, experience has shown that

centage as high as that obtaining in parts in the Paris revues, I made and I was glad to be there. has remained in force ever since results of the utmost benefit to the Great Britain, demands of estabes ap my mind to learn dancing pro-

I was so happy in the company perly. It is cause for thankfulness, how-community have followed these between $25,000 and $50,000 a duty,

Once more I found a true Eng-of my new, friends that when the time rame' for me to return to ever, that at long last the Govern-very necessary regulations. One 33 per cent, in excess of that rulinglish friend. For years Parla au- ment intends repealing this pri-good sign in recent years is that in Great Britain, and then, and this diences have admired the wonder- Paris I felt lonely at the thought. vilege, a motion to this effect be the value of vaccination is becom-is the point of our comment, allows ful dancing of many different of leaving my new-found com- troupes of English girls. In fact, pantons, because, you see, making thean estate in excess of $1,000,000 to their unique skill has often form and keeping friends is a habit of ing due to come before the Sani-ing increasingly realised by

Chinese.. It is, indeed, along these escape with 11 per cent, as against ed one of the principal attractions mine. tary Board at this afteravon's

20, and in excess one of $2,000,000 in many of the big revues, Hun- meeting. A year

lines that the small-pox evil should with 12 per cent, as against 25. dreds of those girla owe their skill ago, when the question waS

be tackled, prevention being in- Our comparisons are based on a 2/-to the training of Mr. J. W. Jack- last before the

finitely belter than cure. Board, we expressed the view that

Free dollar as we have presumed the on, the Englishman who first taught me to dance. Now that I by Government to be legislating foram making films, it is interesting it was little short of scandalous inoculation is now provided

the Gavernment, that, with normin) as well as existing | condi-to think that once Charlie Chaplin that home-treatment should be

strict enforcement of the notifications. The anomalies become. even also was one of J. W. Jackson's permitted in overcrowded tene-

strongly more

emphasised If boya. ment houses, and at the same time tion regulations and the abolition of ealculated on a 1/- dollar. If the

As pupils, I hope we have not let him down at all! we urged the withdrawal of the home treatment, we may expect Government is in a position to ex- concession. Happily, we have not the Colony to master a scourge plain why small estates, which

In Germany. since been visited by a serious which has in days gone by taken should be protected, are to be mulct-

I know English expression outbreak of the disease, but that heavy toll of life in this Colony.ed on a high scale and the largest which says: "It is an ill wind that estates on a low, the public la entitl- blows nobody any good." For me fortune iy more by good

than

ed to have such an explanation. At that is very true. At first, while a single task romains un- otherwise. In any event, it is

Serious Death Duty Anomalies. present, it looks very much like a thought I was unlucky in being dona: though, paradoxically high time that the authorities took

Faced with

case of discriminatory legislation wounded and captured so early in the the line of action to which we are

problem of which has been overlooked in the the war, I was not really, though. enough, at the back of her mind is la vision of a great leisure await- finding new sources of revenue as

in the prison camp at Alten- ing her, when everything is finish- glad to see they are now commit.

Grabow were English, Russians, an alternative to risking a $5,000,- ted.

000 budget deficit, more or less, the Government has turned its at tention to Death Duties. It is an obvious choice. Little glee is likely to be evoked by any new taxation, it is true, but this is a form which we imagine will encounter the least opposition. The old rates were, In fact, remarkably low. The

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it conceded that, even with home schedule, representing fairly sub- treatment permitled, the conceal-stantial increases, remains, up to a ment of cases and the dumping of point, moderate. We certainly con- bodies continues amongst the pot admit, however, that the subject is one lacking importance. While poorer clanNCS. It was in the we agree that increases may be hope that the Chinese would justified, a comparison of the sche- promptly notify canes if they were dule with the duties enforced in allowed to have them treated at Great Britain reveals tent home that the 1918 concession amoties, and if the Unofficial Meni- was made, but it has been showners of the Council full their func- In practice that this hope has not interests, the Government. will be tion as representatives of public been realised. Apart. however, required to answer a charge of pro- from that aspect of the question, ceeding on wrong principles. The we cannot conceive how the people who can well afford to contri- Colony's medical authorities ever bute of their wealth to the Treasury agreed to bargain with the Chin-are allowed to escape comparatively ese community on such

a vitalghtly, while the Government still demands its $6 from the bene- matter as this. Some two years claries of a $501 estate. Even in ago, Dr. Koch put forward, a num-Britain, the most heavily taxed ber of searching questions on this country in the world, the Govern subject at a meeting of the Sani- ment does not expect revenue from tary Board, In reply to which it an estate which does not exceed was frankly admitted by the Gov-100 ($1,000 in normal times and ernment that "effelent and pro- value. Surely this disparity can

$2,000 at the present time) per isolation in tonoment houses be wiped out without aovere loss to is quito impossible." It was, the Treasury, though it is by no moreovor, added that any persona means the worst. It would bo

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1934

“Don't think I'm kiddin' myself. She wouldn't give me

a second thought if I couldn't giva her nutographed pictures'

of these movie sheiks.”

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By JOHN HEYGATE.

TEVER since they called them- selves suffragettes, have wo- men enjoyed a moment's true idle

No womanly woman can reat

neas.

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And so the pursuit of leisure continues endlessly, until occupa- tion becomes an end in itself, and the gift of an idle moment appears a domestic disaster of the first im- portance.

How many times have you seen i woman throw herself down in 1 chair, sigh, close her eyes.... and in five seconds jump up again, exclaiming, "I've forgotten to give the cat its milk," or " I wonder if I left the bathroom window open." While her eyes were shut she us hard at work wondering why she was not busy, and in five seconds she had discovered some excellent

reasona.

nry

Idleness in the sense of tempor

abstraction has become a mas- culine

prerogative. The old gen- tlemen-and they are not always so very old-who-alt in the club windows of St. James's, causing Imodest spinsters to lower their oyes as they hurry past, have no thoughts of spinsterdom in their heads. They have no thoughts at all. They have learnt the gift of: mental detachment.

They can sit idlo for hours, on end. A powapaper will rise and fall on their faces with the re- gularity of their breathing. The length and peacefulness of the members' lives are tributes to their genius for appited Idleness.

Why is it that the average 'wo- man is mentally and physically ex- hausted by nine o'clock in the Y evening, or if she goes out to dine or dance must stay in bed til lunch-time next day? Why is it that

sho,welcomes the annual holl day even more eagerly than her, labouring husband 7.04

The reason why you see more young men of sixty than young wo (Continues on Page 7.)