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DAY BY DAY

I CAN'T ASK JANE TO DO IT!:

By HELEN ROSE.

Tho whole attitude between mie-

THE real bugbear of domestic And it Is this state of affairs that Tien vien of is to has brought domestic xarded as a symbol of servitude. auch disrepute.

That dainty morsal of lace and The P. and O. a.. Kashgar, from shanghai, is due here at a fun ribbon that makes every girl look tress and maid is wrong. The girl twice, as pretty, is the canse of takes it up feeling that it is a secret revolt in thousands of menial job, and her mistress tacitly encourages it by bribing morrow.

domestic servants' minds.

There is nothing monial in do-

"

I BELIEVE MACH INDIVIDUAL 18 modern police launches available for the transportation of the NATURALLY ENTITLED TO DO AS HE PLEASES WITH HIMSELF AND THE prisoners, thoro, need be no fear FRUIT OF HIS LABOUR, 80 PAR AD IT of a repetition of the mishap IN NO WISE INTERFERES WITH ANY OTHER MAN'S RIG!!TB-Abraham caused when many years ago, Lincoln. batch of pea was drowned by the upsting of a rowing- boat. It is admitted that one of the chief sources of the present trouble in the Impossibility of pro-

The abolition of the cap is one perly segregating the short-term,

The annual meeting of the Allco prizonera from the old hands. Memorial and Affiliated Hospitala is of the changes recommended in the mastic, work. The majority of wo Thin.could be done by allocating advertised to take place on Friday, Domestic Workers' Charter, which men work in their own homes with July 3, at 12 noon, in the Board Room it is proposed to introduce in the out fecking, terribly humiliated, House of Commons along with a and there la no reason why any the convict hulk to long-term men. of the Chamber of Commerce.

lot of other quite obsoleto grie-girl should feel it dograding to vances.

thelp her, spese when she is Such a craft could be moored at

it. The modern servant may have well paid for Six Chinese were charged before some convenient point, sumclently

Domestic servico is quite as far from the shore to make Mr. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis to put up with a cap, but that's

on typing or morning, with having about all that she does have to put honourable a job escape attempts t

extremely tracy this

RO with. The cap

more serving behind a counter. stowed away on the a.a. Tisarova

that a woman can not hazardous, if impossible, from dave. They were remanded for degrading than a policeman'a hol-

rict, or a soldier's busby. It's only take pride in. Very few domestic Moreover, it ought not to be dif-24 hours.

part of the uniform of their trade, servants take pride in their work

to nowadays. It And it is no more degrading to

that is a ficult to keep the occupants of the

a result of hulk well under control, much

The Bankruptcy Court, which was serve dinner to two people, in a some mysterious stigma attaching then the more so, at any rate, than is pos-to have been held this morning, was cap, than it is to serve two hun- to the title "servant,"

And the sible in the present prison. We journed until next Thursday by the dred, as the waitresses do, with-whole business is utterly foolish.

Chief Justica (Sir Joseph Kemp), an out revolt.

We are all servants, As a matter of fact, all this talk higher wo climb, the more people put forward the idcu merely as account of the indisposition of the

In the old days servants were lonely, badly fed and poorly housed, is ralelng vory ancient properly trained in their work. Consequently no servant despised time as the much-needed new gaol The can be brought into being.

In the Supreme Court this morning. dust.

To-day the servant No modern servant puts up with her job.

has wears a cap that is the symbol, not with the exception of those jurors who

of these things. She any proposal is onu which, we feel, has the Chief Justice announced that, much to commend itself to the ant during the trial of Wong Cheung more freedom about her occupa-of slavery, but of the unskilled Other women workers Lafis Wong Sik-cheung, for murdertion than any other paid worker worker. attention of the authorities.

have come to look down upon all Jurors on this month's panel would for no other reason, it deserves be required to attend Court at ten in the country.

If she doesn't like things, she domestle service, not because it la consideration

leaves, and that's all there is to it. servile, but because it is not skill- constructive o'clock next Monday morning. 2

She is entirely top dog. Oftened. Baggestion on a problem which

If the authorities concerned with entirely unskilled and quite in-

tho servant problem had only has so many baffling features.

woman Trades Union.

a

Job

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1931.

A CONVICT HULK SUGGESTED.

at

ILA

British Films.

The correspondence published

one

nonth's imprisonment on charges of competent, she is a kind of one-icd themselves with getting the

Chan Sal was sentenced to having stolen two bleyclen from shops in Woosung Street and Yaumat, by Bir. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magis- tracy, this morning. The accused them to friends, who with them.

disappeared

Value of Training,

of their servants.

of

Kiris properly trained, and giving them a feeling of self-confidence,

mum wages for minimum work, it

by any other

sun.

One has only to read the coaxing instead of babbling about maxi- in the last day or two on the said he hired the machines and gave and pathetic. udvertisements ford have been for better both

servants, with their baits

tress and maid. for mistress for subject of British films revives an

"high-wages, no children, liberal Training for domestic service outinga, two in fumily, easy post, would never be wasted. The com- old controversy. The chief com-

no turning out,' every conaldera-patent servant makes a capable plaint is that one of the local

Arrested in Jordan Road on Tues-tion" to reallee what a powerful wife. Mere marriages are made citienas, with two reasonably good day in possession of six having been hold the domestic servant has over unhappy by slovenly housekeeping British pictures available, omitted reasonably suspected of having

er cause under the all sorts of templing allure- offer to give them a chance, by allotting stolen, Chan Kwai appeared before her mistress. What other posts

Br. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magiste

Domestic service must certainly only two days for each.

Aa contracy this morning, charged with un-menta possession. The Įsistent advocates of a film quota lawful

defendant! The revival of trouble

system for Hongkong, we are to said he got the fish Irum a cook on terra mistresses are positively be put upon a more honourabla Victoria Gaof' again thrown into

a large extent in sympathy with board a German ship as a curshaw, simply daron't ask Jane to do that, bedrooms and evenings out will Mr. Hamilton convicted and sentenced or she'd give notice" is the terror accomplish it. A domestic ser- prominence one of the Colony's the viewpoint of those who have accused to two months' imprisonment. in every household. It is the mis-vant can easily supply her own moal difficult problems. Apart ventured the protest. We must!

tress who will put up with prac-laurels. tically.

everythi

ything, not the maid. She must learn, however, to give altogether from the motives of the draw the line, however, at rating,

The charter is merely recom- value for money, which at present, mending advantages that avery in most cases, she does not. Sho prisoners in defying authority them above American films of a

servant has already got. If she must make her profession one to and Indulging in organised wail-similar type, and at thrusting the

doesn't get them she goes.

be proud of, not one to sneer at. Domestic servants have A

far

It's not the nature of the work, but han either shop as how it is done, that counts. The better time than Hou of the prison and its utter ngements. It should be obvious

sistants; waitresses or factory

is

only hateful unsuitability.as a penal institu- that if the palling power of either

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No Stigma in Service.

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good, sound training, and

the recognition that she can take

her place in an honest trade as á skilled worker, the country will

Thanks to the enterprise of the girls. They have not got to buy and tuntion has hoen misjudged by the theatre, South China Morning Post Ltd., a special uniforms, or pay for their her they will be brought back later long-felt want locally has been own laundry, or for their break- be no difficulty in handling the on." Box office receipts are the filled by the publication of an ages. problem if there were prospcets of sole criteria of the interest value excellent typhoon map, which

no amount of should prove of much value as He early erection of a new gnol, of a film, and

Their places are not filed arbi- very soon be able to take off its get beyond the guide to typhoons when waraing built on modern lines, somewhore argument can

is givan of their likely approach tracfly if they are ill. They can cap to the domestic servant instead- The point. The picture that appeal to the Colony.

change their days out when they of making her want to take-off.

HELEN ROSE. far removed from the city.

The map is drawn to scale and ask, they are housed and fod for hers. trouble is, however, that at the to the lowest common multitude is

the one which will have the longest covers a wide area, from Malaya nothing, and their wages are pure|___ moment the Colony has not the

run. be it the utterest drivel ever to Japan, and it is made additional-pocket money.

The most sensible recommenda funds for a new prison, and, even allowed to escape from Hollywood by useful by the 100, 200 and 300- if it had, anch a building would

without automatic burner.mile areas from Hongkong being tion In the proposed chatter is IF WE HAD take some years to crecet. The Four-fifths of regular film-goers clearly delineated in red circles.that of training centres for maids. Besides, the map which is nicely respect, and that is what the kind of training gives self- question of what could be done in would fail to

appreciate the tinted, the day and night local domostic servant locka.

Many the interim would thus remain. Bubtleties of "Rookery Nook" and typhoon signals are piven, in servants are discontented and

com-

WTH

Im-

OUR YOUTH

OVER AGAIN.

By A. P. GARLAND,

correct colours, with, exi anations of all the symbols and lights. pertinent merely because, uncon are used in the clously, they feel that they don't know their job, and that their mis- all five colours

tress knows it a great deal better. production.

Thin typhoon gulde sells at $2,

The girl comes to her "place" CELF-PITY is one of the most and should 'command a very ready with no confidence and no assuri lamentable of human, weak- r a sale.

Sho la an unskilled worker. nesses, and no form of it is more fatuous and more futile than the tendency of midlo age and on-- wards to bemoan the vanished years.

It is interesting, in looking back if one misses the value of the over the Colony's history, to note Traversties there is very little left. that at one time there was a gnol The Alm. In fact, failed to draw the Chinese in any numbers, and It was on Stonecutters Island.. completed in 1864, and decupa-no theatre in Hongkong Is in to cater solely for position tion for the prisoners was found European audience. The in quarrying-work. Some years plaint should not be against the later, however, it fell into disuse, allotment of but two days to these by reason of frequent escapes particular Alms, but against the having occurred. Incidentally. It failure of local theatres to get, or -to seek to gei, up-to-date may be mentioned that the build-even ing was destroyed in 1875 by a British Alms. Everything shown typhoon. Pending the erection of in Hongkong hitherto was made a new gaol, prisoners were for in the days when Elstree

Rearrely thought of, before British some tima accommodated, on a

producers really began to got into hulk moored between Stonecutters the swing of the new art. A quota and the mufaland. This hulk was system would remove Hongkong's named the "Royal Saxon," and on backwardness. The old pictures, being put into commission, some most of which are a drag on the three hundred long-term.convicta British film industry, rather than were transferred to it There an encouragement, would soon be were, however, several escapes exhausted, and we should get from this craft, while on one ocea British Alms which would chal- sion an accident occurred by the lange Comparison with Holly- upabiting of a boat bound for the wood's best, oven from a box-office atandpoint. The American block; hulk with the result that nearly booking system has. firat to be forty prisoners wore drowned. A overcome. A quota system" "Is year later, a hundred prisoners, essential before an effective, start working in collusion, with the can be made. But can'a sufficiency Chineas guards, made their of British Alms be secured Co cecapo. Eventually, the use of make a quota, law possible? the hulk was discontinued, and 'It

was later sold and taken to Can Developing anattalk of Lerump

ton.

Silk whilet!"

Brachy The Royal Saxon, as we have app diere Offices Hos stated, was brought into use as

into edition

temporary moast pendi

some such be

Gunder älsom

ance.

Poots wallow in sentiment on this subject. The Omar Khay- yama are always shedding tears at the thought that Golden Youth will not recur. In other words, they are whining that they eat their cake and have it.

They, and lugubrious essayists out of the same stable, have in- fected

most of us with a craven Gandhi-like gent, with

Now

fear of

the

the

scythe and

adaya we laugh at

Agure of

and all, but we

hoofs.

Father Time. He is the permet nent skelton (it the coast, the

stant menace to a a plaeld

on the universe.

соп- outlook.

women

That is why so many

an immense number of men Habitually con age/s. Most

look younger

they

Jife that

their

bellave they their years and notion that Laga they are

la as though

duffer