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Autumn

-and its necessities.

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-- $4.0

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$12.00 $40 (3)

(3)

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$ 9.40 (3)

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$15.00

(2)

$1370 (2)

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1931

RIP VAN WINKLE | SCIENCE TAKES A

WAKES.

VIEW OF EDUCATION AFTER 100 YEARS..

If Rip Van Winkle woke after 100 years' sleep, what would he say about our education?

Sir Charles Grant Robertson supplied the answer to this ques- tion in his survey of educational development which formed his pre- cidential address to the Eduration Science section of the British A-,

Rociation.

20, he tells me," and Sir Charles, a vast and complicated administrative machine spread like the electric grid over the whole country. In 1931, an in 1831, cdu- cntion can only be kept out of politics by the determination juvery party in turn not to allow an educational issue to jeopardise Its general political fortunes. One, issue, the so-called religious issue, alono threatens this.

DAY OFF.

BUT MEETS SOME NEW POSERS.

London, Sept. 28. More than a thousand of the relentials who are attending the London took a holiday yesterday. British Association meetings in

They assembled like a huge Sun- ton, tumbled into motor-conches day school treat at South Kensing- and rulled off on a dozen different joy rides.

One party numbering nearly 600 visited the London Alr Park at Hanworth. Greg-bearded profes. sars gaped in astonishment as Fly. ing Officer Leech looped his ma- chine "Insideout" in a display of

crazy flying which defled all lee- ture-room principles.

Another party donned hobnalled boots and went hiking over the Chiltern Hills and over the chalk and sandstone downa

of Surrey, forming wonderful geological theo rics as to how England happened. "In 1981, an in 1831, I observe that no Government will tackle enade Zou,

Yet another party went to Whip- But the elephants re- fairly and squarely, because a solutely refused to show their back courageous solution of it would be teeth to allow the 280 zoologists in unlike succeastal operations

in the party

chance to test Profes- surgery; the operation would suc-or Fairfield Osborn's theory that cend, the nation would recover, and they show man to be nine million the operating surgeon, the Minis-years older than he was thought ter, would die.

to be. Again, there are no mon "One feature in this hundred keys at Whipsnade, so the scien years, Rip Van Winkie proceeds, get no farther with the mis- Janmaz.ngly significant-the re

aing link business. form of the old and the develop ment of the new Universities, al- most wholly endowed by private l and voluntary benetact.os. They are all literally co-educational.

Hair-Kaising.

Sir Oliver Lodge made amusing experimanes when deliver- ing his address on wireless com- IMCALOTIS on Saturday.

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USUAL PRICE SALE PRICE

Crepe de Chine All colours (double width)

1.00 70 p. yd.

2.00 1.30

"

2.50 1.60

#

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"

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2.50 1.30 13

3:00 1.90

$

Fuji Silk

2.25

1.50 99

-Printed Georgette Beautiful Designs

3.50

2.25

"

some

Striped Fuji Silk..

1.25

85

Taffetta Best quality ..

2.25

1.30

Gentlemen's Plain Pyjama Suits All Colours 9.50

Striped Silk Shirts

5.50

6.00

3.00

Striped Crepe de Chine Shirts

7.50

4.50

Gentlemen's Plain Pyjama Suits All Colours 9.50

5.50

"

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He took a roil and rabb.d it briskly with a fannel.

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"Mrs. Hip Van Winkle is even more astonished than I am, for she was with Miss Becky Sharp at Mes Pinkertou's Academy, what puzzies and grieves her is not inst girs should have the ions and agact his snow-WBILE Winchesters or go to a university at 12 aed on end stiffly. and become a Moiress of Arg ár, a Bachelor of Comineret, but tatt in a century which ba, laboured [ incegantty to secure rigats for onere apparatus. married women, and which rightly regards math.heod as one of the fundamental bases of what you call

ne nad mutand citizensalp, for. you have, aleo, Jaugured so hard to secure that girls and young wonten should almost universally taught and controlled by spinsters.

transierring electrons from the flannel to the rod," he ca inen, phaerig

rost 30 thir, he

From Sie Uliver made shenes Php ng suddenly asking ĐIỀU 411- seatsuring sparks come from

be

Murrlage.

Alra triped to madern scien- fists, he sand that the glow-worm know how to do things thus we did

The Dole and Birth Control, Professor dulina Huxley, who epened a neškita on the problems of Popknician, sand are as a result my bien control even

Countries

"You seem to regard marriage Ware overpopulation was tareacen- in man as enriching, but in a cu, the nexs numuruu years would woman 219 Impoverishing, the Jubany bring the danger of d experience of hire and capacity for popainsson. service. You put married men at the head of your Universites, colleges, and schools, because you like the best of thenr, in the in- terests of the race, to marry; uul you to not put married wonten in the same position, because ~ parently you wish to encourage the iools and the ribbles to marry, while the ablest women are subs) used to remain single-of course, in the interests of the race.

Cheers greeted his remark that tren was conscuritiz coming on the State for rettes t MON we be made a condition of relief that he should have no

chudren, providing Menu of preventing them were

vastute.

More

Professor F. A. E. Crew, of Edinburgo, said the Chinese were swarming and were conquering in What Panel M-Krauon väst re

Pesiple to-day are such a per- Hexing command of the primitiven in the head. They seemed

for pha teve a dried and even nog tell lies and get

drunk and run in the

where and everywhere. if that away wan caca ather's wives, just world "inherit the carta."

ense then indeed they as we die--uuxed up with the para y artificial which is the result of vour inventions--which are Rе a very big corset m over a savage's body--that I do not know now you can equate for me to day, because by the time that you have educated the buy and lion years had been necusaury for girl,. the he will be, absolutely at the evolution of the human 100, cered,

in an apparently short period, have undergone however, the human brain must great increase of

Our Relations, the Apes. Sir Arthur Keith, the famous anthropologist, in his accress gave the ga a man as 20 milion years, and declared that

is mal-

"And so I end with a concrete question, adds Rip Van Winkle,size and complexity. ror want kind of me as y2u "We are agreed," he said, "that educate a girl-just to be a voler the anthropoid and man have a which she certainly will be if common ancestry; it is merely the she lives till 21, whether she degree of relationship which is in wants a vote or net-er to dispute." film actress or a cook or a mother or an old muid, none of which may ever bez"

tu

of

con-

Science and Religion. "Religion which ignores all pro- "Girls, no longer feel it their gress made by sciene will have duty," said Sir Caurles, "to choose littlo influence on social life or cut- a particular career

In order to com

:4 THE Bishop emphasise a claim to equality of Southwark in a sermon in rigats or to extirpate traditionnion wich meetings of the social taboos. It must be the British Association in St. Paul's privilege of education to stimulate Cathedral yesterday. this marked tendency and thereby "Science without religion is n to reduce a stupid competition of Woupon of race-suicide. Together the sexes and cut down a costly they may lift man to heights un- zocini waste.

dreamed of. "Large

of convinced Christians now attempt to under- "It la bucoming clearer every stand the methods of science in the day," he said, "that

search of truth, and we no longer for certain have dogmatic scientists asserting activities the average trained wo that religion is the last refuge of man is better than the average trained man, and vice-verant, and

ligent.

Our Great Nerd..

groups

"Probably, however, it will never

the difference in each case rests be possible to say that science and on a functional sex differentiation, religion are in entire agreement." of the criteria of which we are as

yet amazingly ignorant.

"One of our greatest neuda to- "If it be the supreme function of dny, therefore, is another Misseducation," he added, "to see fe Buss or another Miss Beale, as freo as a whole and to train every buy nu were these great women from and girl according to their powers the inherited superstitions of their and aptitudes to a maximum of sex and from the crampling com-vision and of a willing reason, su plexes that obsess the male mind, that they can ultimately achieve with I new mission to start a their trucat happiness and their second and even more revolution highest efficiency in the new social ary chapter in the emancipation of order based on the correct alloca werren and the reorganisation of tlon of differentiated function, it Society.

is my unahakablo conviction that;

"The end and purpose of educn- the fundamental place of religion tion has not yet been pottled and, in life must be regarded as an ca in the nature of things, can never sential preminary to any furtha the settled once and for all.

education advance.”

Heavy Silk Striped Pyjama Suits 12.50

Tajmahal Silk Stockings with clock

17.00 10.00

4.50 2.25

"

Great Reduction on Shawls Houri Coats, Kimonos, Bridge Coats and

many other attractive articles.

Have you seen such prices before? Now proceeding at the

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KING'S THEATRE BUILDING. D'Aguilar Street.

SHARE PRICES.

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following is the list of local

shure quotations issued to-day:

Banka.

Hongkong Bank, $1650 a. Chartered Bank $131⁄2 n. Mercantile A. and B., £18. East Asia, $134 n.

Insurances.

Canton Ing., $1,500 n. Union Ins., $410 b. China Underwriters, $5 b. China Fires, $650 n.

H. K. Fire Ins., $1,460 n.

Shipping.

Douglas, $2214 8. H.K. Steamboats, $25% n. Indo-Chinnas, (Def.) 386 n. Union Waterboats, $28 n.

Mining, Bonquet, $10 n. Kallans, 30/- B.

S'hai Explorations, Tls. 2 n Raubs, $38 n.

Docks, etc.

Kowloon Wharves, $152% n. Whampoa Ducks, $31 h. South China Motors $10 b. China Providents, $5.10 b. Hongkews, Tls, 240 n. New Engineers, Tis, 6.20 n. Shanghai Docks, Tis. 97 n.

Cottons,

Ewo Cottons Tls. 18.20 S'hai Cottons Tis. 01 a. Zoon Sings Tls. 12 b.

Lands. Hotels, etc,

H.K. & S. Hotels (old) $15.20 6. HK. & S. Hotels (new) $144 n.

II. K. Lands, $821⁄2 8.

S'hai Land, Tis. 344 n. Humpliray, $18% 6. Realties, $13.40 .

Public Utitles. Tramways, $21 b.

Peak Trams (old) $14.50 m,

Star Ferries $921⁄2 8. China Lights, $28

8.

H. K. Electrica, $76 b. Macao Electrics, $23 m. Telephones, $43 n. China Buses, Tle, 17.90 n. Singapore Tractions, 4/- a.

Industrials,

China Bugars 50 cts. n. Malabons $39 ni Canton Ice., $6.80 n. Cement (com.) $20 8. Ropes, $174 b.

Stores, etc.

:

Dairy Farms, $29% 8. Watson, $10. Der A. Wings. $1. Lane Chawfords, $7.10 n. Mackintosh, $19 n.

Sinceres, $16 b. Powella, $3.60 m.

Miscellaneous,

Amusements, $221⁄2 1. Constructions, $6.15 b. old. B' que In, G. Bonda, 67% n..

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