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“Gold Diggers of Broadway"
22027--Painting the Clouds with Sunshine
Tip-Toe thru the Tulip
32113-Tipe thru' the Tulips
I'm painting the clouds with sunshine 22242—Tip-toe-thru' the Tulips (Organ)
Chaht of the Jungle
B-3291—Pahiting the Clonds with Sunshine
"Say it With Songs"
1425 Little Pal
I Love to hear you singing 21951-Little Pat (Organ)
Why Can't You? "
21952-1ittle Pul
Why Can't You?
21953–Why, Can't You? -
Used to you
21954–Little Pal
I'm in Seventh Heaven
22056-Now I'm in Love
One Sweet Kirs
Golfkette's Orchestra
Jolauny Marria
Jense Crawford
Gracie Fields
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PUBLIC SERVICE
REFORMS.
servico increaso may be granted, provided the proposed recipient
has at least two-thirds of tho
available "High" or "Average to
High" increases to his or her
DAY BY DAY
crouit.
It is claimed for this THE GREATER THE WEALTH THE MY EXPERIENCE OF LIFE IS THAT system that it provides a well- WORSE THE DIGESTION.-Max Bar- defined scale, which should facting.
The
WE ALL POSE AS CYNICS NOWADAYS.
of this plan is admirable, but 13 days. whether it will work out accord-}
The Empress of Asia (from horrified. Ing to expectations has yet to be Monila) is due here at 7 a.m. on the 7th inst, and will berth at Pier No. 6, Kowloan Wharf.
By A. P. GARLAND.
tato the consideration of increases To-morrow, being Good Friday, and at the same time make sure there will be no issue of the liong-d
kong Telegraph. that respective differences of
TF some hoary Victorian who had] How often does a man say: " ability, etc., shall receive duo re-i
rainfall recorded at the been living in acclusion for the was caught young," suggesting that Botanic Gardens during March toin). cognition. The iden at the back fed 4.08 inches. This was spread over last fifty years were to drop into some unscrupulous woman dragged a London club and listen to a group him off a bus and headed him for of us men talking, he would be the register office boforo he could For his inevitable con-appeal for help! Hence we love to clusion would be: "What a gang of depict married men as over strain- polesnous cynics! They mock at ing at the leash to escape from the everything. They have no over-bonds in which they have innocently ence, no illusions, no idealism."
allowed themselves to be entangled.. The Naval authorities notify that
And If ho necused us openly of
Yet wo know from our Aring practice will be carried out this lapse from grace we should not that marriage as an institution does experience with star shells in Mirs Bay between leny it. We should glory in it, in work, that the
vast majority of and 10 p.m. on April 8. Bombard fact. For it is the fad of the day marriagea do turn out reasonably ment practice will also be carried out amongst us to show ourselves as happy, and that if we look around at Sharp Peak Range during tho
among our friends it is rarely the forenoon of April 9.
seen.
:
all-knowing, sceptical and hard.
How vivid is the contrast between bachelor whose lot we envy.
At all events, cyniciam, though it Capt. J. Davidson, master of the sour cynicism and the priggishness Clara Jebsen, at the Marino Court this chat marked the Victorian perlad!'s mostly a pose, is at the flooil morning before the Hon. Commdr. Thon, whether a man's standards tide of its popularity with us now, C. F. Hole, R.N., was fined $100 for morality were high or low, he and it may be truly said that the arriving in port with pigs in crates, and always to pretend outwardly only occasion on which the modern which were not atowed in accordance to be on the side of the angels. man blushes is when he is found with the Lifestock Import and Export Why, no publie man in those days guilty of a generous action. Ordinance.
Yet there aro would venture to lay an inoffensive
tires when we foundation stone without holding falter. Even the most brazen orth at great length on duty and amongst us dare not read aloud he merits of a virtuous life. And story of herole self-sacrifice, such, is audience expected this disserta- for instance, s
that of Captain ion and bore it with fortitude. Aates in the Antarctic. We'd
imply give the show away. anrdy race, those Victorians!
on
or vix
Chan Lan was fined $50 weeks' imprisonment and 576 or six weeks' consecutively charges of having kept
respective 4 gaming house in 45, Shanghai Street, and possession of 173 po-piu lottery flekets, by Mr. Hamilton, at the Kow- low Magistracy this morning.
To-day we laugh at all that. We Jo not pay even lip service to virtue or idealism. We know too
MAKING HUSBAND LOOK SMALL.
By L. C. MOORE.
NE of the first signs that a
10 girl is interested in a man is
when she goes out of her way to We are all aware, of course, of make him look small. countless cases where people do Endearments. mean little or no- ke astounding sacrifices for the thing in these enlightendd days. when the most casual acquaintance wake of others,
There are many other points in! regard to the conditions, of service of Shanghai's municipal employees contained in the final decisions of the Council, such as the abolition of exemption from payment of Municipal rates and licence fees and of free medicines and mater- nity benefits, but we must pass these over in order to deal with | larger Isaue, namely, the plans devised to avoid needless routine in administration. It has been discovered as a result of the in vestigations that the rigid system of control exercised from the Secretariat did not lend itself to the rapidly expanding needs of the community or take into considera-
Music-lovers in Hongkong will have much about everything. We read, tion the increasing responsibilities their poslilvely last opportunity of of example, of some wealthy man hearing music from the ether to-night, attaching to the positions of heads when at the Star Theatre Professor who has donated a large sum of to some charitable cause. of senior departments. Much un-
Martenot will give his final demonstra money tion of this wondorful invention. The,
Promptly
another: we ask one necessary routine procedure, dupli-performance, which starts at 9.15 p.m., or a title, en? Or trying to get What's the fallow after? Looking! should on no account be missed. cation of records and segregation
himself In the limelight?" We'll of office work, resulting in an
A case in which a Chinese .redit him, in fact, with any motive unduly large staff and serious charged with snatching a hat from other than altruism.
tourist from the Franconia, named delay in the conduct of public busi-Hunter, who was ashore in the early hours of this morning, was later in A1 a moment when the Public was found to prevail. Decen- the day withdrawn at the Central Service of this Colony is under tralisation schemes have now been Police Court, the police informing the
Magistrate (Mr. Schofield) that the At the back of our minds, I may be addressed as "darling" Joly McCormack consideration by a Retrenchment agreed to giving wider range of complainant had probably left on the think, is a horror of the old-fashion- within the first few minutes. But
ship which had sailed. The defended sentimentality. So Committee, more than usual in-nutbority to heads of departmentsant, who was arrested at Wanchai, ve, indeed, to avoid displaying son-helpless!" you can bet your sweet cager are when a girl says, "But John la s0 Jesse Crawford
timent that we strive to suggestife that in her heart of hearts she terest attaches to the recommenda and securing greater coordination was discharged.
between departments. This has
hat sentiment has no part in our thinks John is the greatest over. Grær Austin | tions of the Shanghai Municipality
composition.
The extraordinary part of the Salaries Commission. ax finally
Therefore, when some dolefui business is that John gets quite approved by the Municipal Council, establishment of a series of inter- should have been the Colony a vocallat shuffles along the street decided kick out of this treatment. "Olsen's Music These have recently been issued in Departmental Committees, which leaders appeared to have been nasally Intoning a hymn, wo eye during the early days.
alm scornfully and talk of the large At that time he is passing the form of a discursive edition removes a mass of routine. A re-i smitten with an inferiority com- comes that these impostors carn through what might be classified as
duction of twenty per cent. has plex. The pedantry of the old by their lugubrious appeals. so that the full implication of the been made in the staff, and already school of thought seemed to be
the humble, phase. He regards Yet, imposter or not, the fellow himself as less than the dust be decisions may be understood and marked improvement has occurred working for negation, until there is tolerably sum of a few coppers neath her dainty heels, and simply appreciated by the general public. in administration work and, in the Was excuse for a conviction that from most of us, if only we canfeannot make himself believe that give them furtively. We don't une so wonderful noticen bía exist- despatch of public business. Much the shaking up of our financial sant the world to think us credul-ence.
Yet
the mero fact that she system which would follow the fixus, and flabby. This outward condescends to be rude to him. and reference has thereby been ment of a gold standard currency wards woman, which in Kipling's rather likes treading on his particu- inter-departmental correspondence ing of the dollar or the establish-ynicism of ours attains its highest induces what someone called a sweet point, however, in our attitude to- pain, because it suggests that she avoided and a considerable amount would carry advantages to the phrase is "curious and interesting lar kind of dust. of duplication has been removed. Colony's commercial and financial and vile."
Marriage Gets A Bad Name. We hard-boiled he-men have no It la conceivable that some such organisation other than those Joubt about superiority over the
observable in a stable ther sex.
Now this is all very fine while reform as this, if put into effect in directly
Women are trivial and the man enjoys it. I see no reason Hongkong, would be to the obvious medium of exchange for monetary animportant. They are vain, sel-why the lady shouldn't Indulge his benefit of the Colony as a whol leve that if the sense of the whole deal of conduct. When we say, is that there comes a time when he purposes, For our part, we be ish and incapable of "playing the merhid tastes to the full. Unfor part of Municipal employees by fadeed, the whole report is well Colony could be interpreted, it Just like a woman," we make it censes to enjoy it when, in fact, game" our vague but suggestive tunately what she seldom realises basing salary increases on merit instead of making them automat, worthy of -study in connexion with would be found that the boltaf lat clear that the whole sex is simply he would like to be able to wriggle"
strongly held that if we wait for mpossible.
his head about a bit under her "On the other hand, it would be pretty little foot, if not to get it China to do something, we shall rather awkward for most of us to away altogether. be waiting for further losses. To- inawer the question, "Are your day we are in a position where we wn women folk like that?" For of saying that he is helpless,
But she has so got into the habit pay for commodities in gold, and ve know that these generalisations clumsy, or inartistic, that by the receive in silver, which is leading they pass current in our
are cheap and preposterous. But time he would appreciate a word of comic praise for a change she has come
Shilkret-Victur Orchestra
22001-When you come to the end of the day
Men'ries of One Sweet Kiss
"What a Widow"
23531--Love Is like a song
Say "Oui," Cherie
Aruksim's Orchestra
Paud Oliver
Already we have given a brief summary of the approved pro- Reisman's Orchestra posals, full details of which now
rench us.
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This matter of salary increases |
| is worthy of extended notice. For same years past, objections have heen raised to the method by which the remuneration of employees was automatically increased on the renewal of agreements, even Though they might
remain
been
brought about by
the
local efforts to secure economy the publle service.
in
moving the belief. The men who
We also profess to hold a very low opinion of the institute of mar riage.
The Question of the Hour. Stabilisation, to be or not to be? That is the question, argued almost to the point of exhaustion in the At the same time, we do not envy them.
us downhill and is clearly unsound.philosophy of life and we cling to past eighteen months, revived by
the task of Mr. Clegg and his the appearance of the Currency colleagues. .without promotion from the Mission appointed by the Colonial position they originally held. Offleo. It is not an exaggeration Dealing with this point, the to say that the answer will bo na Salaries Commission hus graded important to the Colony a will; the entire service, Indicating the be the answer to the tariff con- minima and maxima for any parti.troversy raging in England to- cular position and laying down the vital to economic prosperity. The day; in both cases, the issues are rule that increases should be de- paralled stands good pendent upon the nature of the point of the differing vlows annual report upon the employee.] of the widespread intereste Under its proposals, reports are involved. Those opposed to to be made each year in regardlieve that reform would be dẹ- stabilsation in the Colony be- to the ability, eliciency and energy trimental to the trade of the of every employee, and when in Colony. They contond that Hong- erenses are due the amount is to kong is linked to China, financially be assessed in accordance with as well as geographicaly, and these reports. For this purpose, cannot employ a medium for cur- conduct, ability and keenness are
rency which differs from that of to be graded under five headings, fact that silver has dropped in China. The other side point to the namely, "High", which will carry
value to point undreamed of
also in
Tho
a six per cent, increase; Average even by the experts, that trade to High", five per cont.; "Average", hins been demoralised, and that in four per cent.; "Low to Averago", | stability lies our only hope for the nothing; and "Low", which will future. The arguments employed call for notice of termination of characterised as the worn-out dic- by the anti-stabilisationists aro service. In the event of a vacancy tums of past generations, not en- occurring in higher grade, pro-tirely without justification. motion will be made by selection Currency Committes which eat on from amongst thone having the the question last year began its greatest number of maximum in- sessions with an official statement “eronses to their credit. Should no | which led to the accusation that
opportunity for promotion
the main issue had been prejudged, after six years in the maximum pay of explanation was capable of ra- "WITHOUT" EXAMination.. No "amount. of the grade, a final maximum long
occur
"I'm expecting a good year. I mentioned to the dealer than the boss might want some new carm it. I bring up the Eden.
.
or
believe all she says. And that's how marriage gets a bad name. temptation to make their husbands Few wives are able to resist the look small in the
presence of other males. And when I am one of the other males I cannot but feel sorry for the husband. I know always that wore I in the husband's shoes Lahould have resented her remarka; never enjoy the experience as it. is. Fellow feeling, I suppose.
You will find this going on, in one way or another, between most couplea.
Sometimes. I admit, the wife's attitude may be justified, but that does not excuse bar for continually adopting it when other people are present.
Indood, when her dis- paraging comments are daarved they make the may shrivel more
than ever.
ha has a voice that is not richly beautiful he is probably sore about it anyway, and isn't choored if his wife says: "Oh, for goodriess sake, stop It when he starts to join In a madrigal or talkio theme- Bong
In acute cases the wife will pro- fesa complete contempt for her hus- band's business abilities, even though she isn't at all sure what he dors to get the money she spends for him.
So widespread is
is this weakness among wives that we are driven to the conclusion that to belittle the men they love la part of their na- - tures. That must be the explana tion, for were it not so they would aurely draw the line at commenting.
personal appearance That they do not, any husband will tell you, Agony of PersonATUA
on
Is there a married zmanidliving who baan't suffered the agony being told that he really il
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