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lar work and living in similar ❤ circumstances, have tio such right. Moreover, if education, as; such, is to be a title to additions! political power, then it would be far better to proceed on the ilnos advocated by John Stuart Mill-APPLAUSE, WHILE THEY PURSUE IT. HOW LITTLE DO THEY TASTE IT WHEN the establishment of what ho THEY HAVE IT.-South

or

the

THOSE NHAT ARE SO FOND OF

A non-Chinese case of diphtherla was notified yesterday,

The bridge party or at the Helens A. Taylor, to be held at the Helens May Institute on Wednesday, March 38th, in aid of the Victoria Branch of the M.C.L, has been cancelled.

If London and Paris Changed Places.

By BEVERLEY NICHOLS.

remain se.

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chat

chat

mean

but

na l'eralan carpets and classical ing. amiable people would be professors. One can walk on the thrown out of employment. Bar carpet, and walk away from the men, chambermaids, cabaret girls,

tormed a "graduated sufrago," in; which one

more additional votes would be given to citizens possessing specified qualifientions. Mr. 11. Gray Swinburne, who until was on the sinf of the Among these classes would have recently

¬VERY"night, at some banquet the sunshine to play on their at the borgers of the been not only graduates of Unl-Son Chind Morning Post, has been

appointed editor of the Sleaford or other, some venerable per- bodies voraitles, but also "all persona Standard.

bunge totters to his feet and pro- Thames, and, as a result, there of in- claims the benefits of internation- would be far fewer casos who had passed creditably

Quenza in the following winter. Injured by a blasting charge dur-jal co-operation. through the higher schools" anding quarrying operations at Taikok Beneath linked Union Jacks and Nor would that deadly sin, the members of the "liberal profes- sui, a coolle was admitted to the Star Spangled Banners he calls purchasing of cigarettes at five Kowloon Hospital yesterday with inter a greater number of American minutes past eight, be any longer sions." Disraeli, indeed, embodied juries to his left leg.

Which would professors for Oxford and Cam London streets would not Arat

Through a similar proposal in

bridgo, and vice versa. The annual general meeting of the a haze of cigar smoke he dilato acho with that fearful clanking draft of his Reform Bill of 1807. Society of St. George will be held in upon the benefits of an

of an exhibitio

10180, as scared smokers deposited. To illustrate how great the pri- the Bourd Room of Messrs. Jardine, of

xpences into inhuman machines, nd skulked Into the darknosa art in Tokyo. Exchang vilege is, it may be pointed out Matheson and Co. Ltd., on Munday, Japanese art in Picadilly, and and Da March 30, at 530 p.m.

th their unholy packages. is fashionable nowadays,

Whereas

in Paris that not only is each graduate

hopes, for the enlightenment o

would be too sad a story to will granted an additional vote to that

the world, that, it which he ordinarily exercises, but

fall to see, however, why ex-relato. There would be a revolu- change should be limited to such tion, of course, at first. that vote is allowed a weight In

uninspiring comparatively

Tens of thousands of hard-work- things the elections equal to six ordinary votes. About 50,000 electora make

A

Chinese beatman of a lighter belonging to Holt's Wharf accidental y up an average constituency.

University electors were the

fb overboard porterday, and wan that, sor, and when one has done wirere, musicians all the host of drowned. The lighter at the time

ono's national obligations are delightful, human people whose basis, the same

was moored alongside the Wharf. fulfilled. Why should there not livelihood is based on the two represented on

be a gonoral post of a far wider very admirable philosophies that they would be entitled to two

An accident occurred at the Cosmo-nature? And why should we not a man is only young once, and Members of Parliament; in point pofitan Dock, yesterday, when a chole begin by exchanging, for the space that, when he is old, it behoves

London County him

to make up for lost time-all of fact, they have twolve. "One while at work on the propellor of the of a year; our

. Corntoa, fell from the staging Council with the Koverning the gay, charming, dancing crowd that their vote, one value" is a sound doc-and suffered injuries which resulted authority of Paris?

services were no trine, yet in the case of these in his removal to hospital.

The

lights in Mont blaze of The exchange would imply the

flicker and be University voters this idea is com-

A passenger travelling from Macao fullest possible powers,

which martre would case for to Hongkong by the ss. Sui An yes would mean, of course, that the

under the cold douche quenched the French would arrive in London

of British respectability. The franchiseerday Jumped overboard

Journey, and was drowned, a report to that effect being made to the pledged to allow Londoners to do cafes, which have been the

home of many great artists, would Police on the steamer's arrival in anything they

within be desolate. Where once there port,

reason, and that the English would arrive in Paris with a fixed de- echoed a resonant battle of wits, The Naval Pact.

Cheung Kai-ming, a merchant living termination to forbid Parisians to snatch of song, the slow throb of a mandoline, there would do anything whatever. The publication of the figures at the Man Fong Boarding House at

142, Connaught Road Central, was For the first few weeks, in all be heard nothing but the nibbling of tonnage allotted to France and admitted to hospital yesterday suffer-probability, Londoners would fail of mice at boards which still held Italy under the new naval agreeing from injuries received when he to realise that they were no longer few crumba from banquets of

the pust ment will set many minds at rest. attempted suicide by throwing himself school children to be herded like. at the commands of thoir No prluciple has been sacrificed house.

at to political expediency, although the political achievement repre-

Hongkong Telegraph. pletely ignored. The

FRIDAY MARCH 13, 1931.

REPRESENTATION OF UNIVERSITIES.

of the One of the provisions Electoral Reform Bill now before Parliament la the abolition of the

tion of the Universities. How it will fare remains to be seen, but there has been some, opposition raised in quarters which contend that the value of education in the conduct of national affairs is be- ing overlooked by supporters

abolition of the special seems overwhelming.

Lance. The main fact

If

on

he had gone to see a friend, but had been kept in conversation longer than he had intended,

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earthly hour of

wanted,

Ол

would be told. or required.

iny

from the first floor of the boarding and betters. Stray want before this city of the dead, and Americans would pauca aghast

Major P. Roche-Kelly was fined derers in Pic midnight, when omnibus, and wagon, to the Gare the then they would rush by taxicab. special franchise and representa. sented by the staying of Franco by Mr. Schofield, nt, the Cenital Police that thoroughfare is normally cold au Nord, and crowd the boats to Court this morning, for and silent, would be astonished by England, bringing with them a Italian competition must be re his private motor ear to cause " an garded as of paramount impor obstruction nutside Messrs. Jardine, the sight of lights blazing down hoard of gold with which to re-

which Matheson & fin., Ltd., on February Regent-street.

fresh English industry. 25 last. The defendunt remarked that They would naturally rush to- They would, of course, be re- emerges is that except in the capi-

wards these lights on the assump-garded with disfavour, by Mr. tal-ship category, naval strengths

tion that there was a fire. arrival, they would discover that economics on the popular principle Philip Snowdon, who bases hie are to be stabilised at the position

there was no fire, but only music that the first duty of The unrual general meeting of the and laughter. They would

An English feel which will be reached on the com- pletion of the 1980 bus Pro Sind Hindu Merchants

in order that other The least sacsfactory was held on the 7th instant al Sindhi

own country, the surgested reform. There is part of the settlement, it is agreed Merchants' Clubs and the election all Englishmen have been trained countries may be rich enough to

resulted as follows:-President, Mr for gener

to regard fe however, a good deal of misunder- on all hands, concerns submarines. Shewarant, of the Peincer

purchase the goods which he is Sitk after

as, ipso facto, then too poor to produce., standing on the question of Uni- France is, temporarily at least, Store; Hon. Secretary, Mr. F. T. immoral.

But that need not greatly worry But a few would take part in representation. As Sir permitted to maintain her position Melwant, of Messrs. Pohoomull Bro- versity Herbert Samuel has pointed out, as the strongest submarine Power the and Hon. Treasurers, Messrs. the festivities, and the few would us.

. K. Gidumal and Watumal.

be joined by others, till gradually, Even so, the fixing

after two or three months, the "the Universities," as we ordinari in the world.

of the tonnage at 81,000 tons Members and others interested are dead, drab streets of our city ly use the word. do not

arranged by the Kowloon Branch of these members

clergymen or schoolmasters,

02

return

the

grammes.

in torribly shocked, of contained statesman in to Impoverish his

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THOSE TOO CHARMING. PEOPLE.

By NINA VANE.

charm.

“charming"

Mra., So-and-so is beautiful, and rather a dear. She is in- deed a charming woman," but has she got personal charm? No, actually she

she has not We know exactly why we like her.

Now though no quality absolute and no person has charm for everyone this that we call personal charm is a very recognis- able thing. It a rather un- dis accountable: it wears many gulsen, though possibly vitality. may be a common denominator but it is a quite undeniable fact.

Perhaps it is found in perfection most often in men. The charm of woman is so often. Just a plain- aniling compound of looka, agree- ablenega,

It

of Parliament means that France has sacrificed reminded that the Scottish Concert would spring to life, and England 30,000 tons of her original sub-the Helena May Institute is being held once more would deserve the title The residents at Oxford or Cam marine demands in order to make at D-P., to-night. The feature will be of "merry" title which nobody bridge, or wherever it may be, do the agreement possible. While songs of Lady Nairne with a short but a raving optimist could apply

Johnston. Songs will be rendered by not meet in conelave and select giving France this much credit, It reading on her life by the Rev. J. to her at present. some scholarly man from among is still fairly obvious that the Miss Frances McGill and the "Four London would blossom like a of en- figure is far too high for easiness Bees" Quartet. Admission will be garden into which the sunshine them to carry the torch

of mind at the British Admiralty non-members.

30 cents for members and 50 cents for had crept after generations of lightenment to Westminster. Let

frost. Gay parasols would spring and no attempt has been made to us look at the working of the

hide this fact. On the contrary. The S.P.C.A. Carnival Ball takes up in Hyde Park, and the casualt

N° system.

the French Government has been place to-night when bath the Iocf. stranger would no longer be do TOT all the people whom we Garden and the Rose-Room at the pressed by the sight of ten per-

N describe The University constituencies informed that the question of sub- Peninsula Hotel will be in use. Sup-sona sipping lukewarm mineral

that mysterious'>thing are composed of some 120,000 men marine strengths will be proper is to be in the Rose-Room at water under the trees on a Satur-A and women, scattered all over the minently featured at the World 11.30 p.m. and the dance will continue day night. Instead he would aco until 2 a.m. The Hotel are making a brilliant crowd sipping some- resident abroad. A Disarmament Conference and that arrangements to serve a special dinner thing lean gaseous, and talking less well-dressed, sympathetic, amusing country or very large proportion are country unless some solution is found that for guests who wish to attend the gaseously, in consequence.

will bring the French figures Ball. Tickets will be obtainable at the

It would no longer be regarded door and it la expected that many down to a point more in relation will avail themselves of this facility.

as criminal for youths to allows rest being engaged in other pro with Britain's 150,000 tons of fessions, in commerce, in land- destroyers, Article 21 of the Lon owning, or in whatever occupation don Treaty will have to be invoked their fa may be spent. Few of for protective purposes. Japan is them are in close touch with the also making a strong point out of Universities in which, years be-the submurine allotment, but Mr. Hamaguchi's Government may be had completed their assured that no effort will be fore, they

into education. Absorbed

spared to remove the cause of of the general life

community, dissatisfaction. Taken

the these electora are not a class whole, the pact is a credit to those apart from other citizens, entitled who strove so hard for its conclu- to separate representation. The lon. A dangerous situation was forestniled. Tension between fact that some ten thousand, of

France and Italy has so much re- wore, of the University electors inxed that a settlement of other are permanently resident overseas outstanding problems should fol has been given as a reason for low without difficulty. Above all, continuing. this franchise, it be with naval competition through- ing urged that it keeps that num-fout the world oliminated, the may discuss bor, at any rate, In touch with principala Powers the affairs of the Old Country. their problems at the forthcoming World Disarmament Conference In Sir Herbert Samuel and others an atmosphere free from the feare who think with him fail to set and auspiciona which provented, a nny ground on which a merchant, five-power treaty in London, last

administrator, 1 year?e. a planter, or an permanently living in some

the

dia-

ст

tant part of the Empire or in a

years with a foreign country should be entitled Banished at Ofteen

record of two whippinge in 1927 and to vote, and by proxy, in the elec-1928, the latter for burglary and tions to the Parliament of the larceny, a Chinese boy, Cheng, Shing United Kingdom. Merely because at the Kowloon Magistracy this morn- (18), appeared before Mr. Hamilton, such a man is of British birthing, to answer a charge of having and has passed through one of returned before the expiry of his term of ten years which he recalved. In the Universities, he is granted this 1930. He pleaded guilty and wald remarkable privilege, while his that he had come to get $10. Mr. Hamilton ordered 16 strokes of thu neighbours, possibly doing sim-birch and three months' imprisonmantį.

always clap for the acrobats-I feel so sorry for them."

and

The advantages

charm are obvious. It is a that many of us would be tempted...

to choose from a fairy godmother. But is it not curious that we hear.. more malicious things spoken of those

who conspicuously possess

it than of any other class of

people? And the reason to not to be found in Jealousy or in envy, We who

Who are troubled by no more than an ́ Average share of lil-dature are by no means especially catty about the beautiful, the intellectual, the smart, the witty, the

popular, the rich, the superlatively, dressed. We

may envy them, but we do not resent them. And oh how we do you, that is the word-resent this ridiculous force called per sonal charm. Say that a man cuta my dance at a ball, sently comes up anxious to be forgiven." I want to be on my

But 1 Fannot blame my

and pra

self if I surrender because he is. really rather brilliant, or bacate he has an

oustandingly, handsome.

But is Tangible, axplicable:

it not ignem Continued on Page 7.) "1905

presence. reasona