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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1932.

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AND

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lege, and all these requirements are being duplicated in the long- kong Ordinance, There are, of course, social reformers who think that the English Inw is too strict and circumscribed: that it should.

SO FAR IS IT FROM BEING TRUE be a sufficient cause for the dissol- THAT MEN ARE NATURALLY EQUAL, THAT NO TWO PEOPLE CAN DE HALF ution of a marriage if both par-AN HOUR TOGETHER, BUT ONE BHALL tíos thereto mutually wish ite an- ACQUIRE AN EVIDENT SUPERIORITY nulment. This idea, however, OVER THE OTHER-Dr. Johnson. does not find wide favour, and it is well that this is SO. Such

way to abuse of

son was injured.

Make Life Comfortable

over-

By GERTIE DE WENTWORTH-JAMES ET'S be truthful about it-and explanations and by a useless..

and admit that as a rule, expenditure of emotion. this life is extremely uncomfort The next "Never" which has de.

ble.

finite bearing on the discomforts. satisfaction, exhilaration and rap-pared for anything-weather, ill- I may have patches of intense of life demands never being unpre- ture, but, on the whole, each morn-ness, unexpected guests, or even Captain R. G. Moir, of the Argylla most imperfect day.

ing'e up-rising is the beginning of the fusing of the electric lights! Always take a slim, smart um- and Sutherland Highlanders, was From the time we get up till the brella if there is only one small Intitude would not only open the driving his car in Nathan Rond when time we go to bed we scramble cloud in our insular sky; seo that it collided with a public car, which and search, and wonder, and got the privilege, came out of Kimberley Rond. Both Irritable, and cut or Scratched; shoes for train journeys in even-

your wardrobe includes but it would cause the marriage cars were slightly damaged. No por and rush and spoil and aplll, and ing dress, and everything else re- state to be so lightly entered into

find that good endeavours turn out quired to combat the moist pecu- In a report made to the police failures, and that nothing is really liarities of the English climate that the whole structure of the in-

yesterday, Mr. McFadyen, of G, Luna right.

and, consequently, save money on stitution and its sanctity would Buildings, third floor, stated that his A most unsatisfactory state of

doctors' bills.

Seo that you are never without bitten on the leg by his chow dog. a course of "Nevers," lish law, on which the local Ord-The girl was taken to the Kowloon The first "never**

bi-carbonate of inance in based, suffices to meet Hospital for treatment and the dog waste time, clothes, space, money, cotton wool, and a clinical ther- soda, menthol, disinfectants, bandages, aspirin, removed to Mataukok for observation. and energy, the social need. Good and ade-

mometer. We waste time not only by such quate grounds have to be given, A dinner attended by

a largo recognised methods as dawdling yourself uncomfortably placed And so that you need not find and no collusion in scoking to tives was given by Mrs. 8. C. H. Lin and mooning, but also by doing when unexpected guests arrive.

number of personal friends and rela beat the Hotel Cecil on Friday night things twice over when once would never be without tongue-in-glass, break the marriage tie will

and very tolerated. There are,

enjoyable

be enough. avening was

For instance, many tinned spaghetti, soup, milk, fruit morcover,

spent Among the guests were the maids cannot

get forward with and cream and eggs, butter and certain other requirements and lion. Dr. S. W. Tap and Mrs. Tso, their work because they continue bread. Don't "run out" by for- restrictions adapted to local con-and Mrs. Kwok Yau-ting, Mr. and brilliance has been achieved by a and Mrs. Wong Kwok-ahuen,

huen, Mr. polishing automatically

when getting to order! Mrs. Lam Tao-fung, Mr. and Mrs. few powerful rubs: they go on more psychological than material, The final group of "Nevers" are

be placed in jeopardy. The Eng-daughter Margaret, aged 13, was things, but one that be cured by iodine, oucalyptus, Epsom salts,

ditions.

is-never

To what extent the new facili-Eng-hooi, Chan Wal-chuen, and a clean,

Peter Sin, and Messrs. Tan washing when the clothes are and include advice never to lose ties will be utilised remains to be number of graduates of the Hongkong whites of eggs when, for some

and persist in beating your head, your opportunities, or

seen. It is clear, however, from the maintenance

which Caps

sen-

those who are unhappily married, created the original part on the stage, ting a curl or dabbing the lip-stick|is brought into immediate use.

University,

time: they have been absolutely

your temper. The British stage play, "The Out- firm and frothy.

No life can be comfortable if Also, one can watch girls stand.self to be flustered by seemingly the person who lives it allows her- occasionally come into Court, and sider.", which enjoyed such a

sational success in London, loses in front of mirrors who, when awkward probably more so from the fre-nothing in its transference to

the they have put their hair and faces which need not be awkward if a situations situations quent resort to lawyers' offices by serven, and with Harold Huth, who perfectly in order, continue

pat-certain amount of mental tidiness appearing in company with a strong without the slightest. that there is a dístinel need for cast, the picture provides

pleasant effect. If we would only do what are talking to one person, while further Because the phone rings when you uch a law in this Colony. Many drama and sufficient relief to keen diately leave off doing it, hours door, and the kettle

interlude. The story contains strong requires doing and then imme-another person is mocking at the www of these cases and these consulta- it well balanced, and if the direction of unnecessary

js At times guilty of making the

would be over, there is no reason to logr is boiling tions result in futile attempts to

scenes drag.

The high

standard

saved. of patch up the differences, or in acting comes to the rescue. It will

And how we waste time on ourask 'phone caller to wait a second, your head. Calmly take off kettle, enntinue to financial arrangements which are Theatre for the next two days.

show

ut the King's clothes! We whimper about gar-request the person to whom you ments getting "dashed" and "done are talking to excuse you while seldom kept. The existing local

for," when we haven't tried to you see what are the demands of facilities are, in the more serious

prevent it. If we'd only change the other person, and all will be or adequate policy, will in the long run hylp or come in, and not do home joba in

into a house-gown directly weweill for their kind expressions cases, no proper

floral substitute for divorec privileges, hinder China in the attainment of outdoor kit! If only we'd brush a matter of concentrating upon tributes sent and attendance at The absence of such privileges has f orderly government can be safely and sponge and press and repair not doing so.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT.

and

LAM WOO-Mr. Lam Woo

family tender their heartfelt thanks to all relatives and friends

sympathy as well as for the funeral.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1932.

the

of

been

China's Problems.

effort

for much waste. When we want

money.

exact

waste of

Never losing your head is only

And your temper-oh! Never

and

But

By Edward Kelly, Entomologist. If it's not one thing, it's an- other.

Now there's a shortage of fleas in Western Europe, and Professor

taken as the practical touchstone directly the need arises, all that no doubt in many instances per- of all questions which call for de-wastage would be ended.

Your opportunities-just don't petuated untold unhappiness and cision in the Far East. I submit

And Money-well, big

lose those by being apt to think money that small events and unimportant mental cruelty. The only relief frankly as the only criterion." was in we've heard all about, people aren't worth while. Every hitherto possible has been to seek Mr. Curtis pleads for England and has such a lot to do with the un-portunities are lost by overlooking. but small money-wasting, which thing may be worth while, and op dissolution of the marriage in the America to inaugurate such a po- comfortable hard-up-ness of life.tunitie

the is disregarded. For instance, the United Kingdom--a protracted and icy through what he terms costly process, of which few have "process of political induction," habit of not being provided with in any circumstances, no matter But not everyone will agree with mall change is one that makes how exasperating. lose your tem- able do avail themselves.

Mr. Curtis in his indictment of to be generous, let's do it properly unbecoming, so dangerous in fill- per. It's so vulgar, so cheap, 50 A DIVORCE LAW FOR Once the Hongkong law is adopt- British diplomacy in China.

He But don't let's say munificentlying the blood with toxins, HONGKONG

ed, this disability will be removed, declares that since the days of "Oh, keep the change, just be- with the result that aggrieved ¦ Lord Elgin, Britain has not cause we haven't been thoughtful so very futile. A lost temper

never adjusted any parties will have their rightful thought of sending to China enough to provide the

situation, never brought off any deal, never A long overdue piece of legisla-remedy at law within the Colony, minister with the qualifications

In domestic transactions, the "cleared the air," and never did tion is foreshadowed in the draft

which are deemed necessary for money-wasting achieved by order anything except to lessen the of the Ordinance which is to in-.

the Victory of India." The accre-ing pounds and pints when half-power of the loser. Perhaps of ditting of a minister to China pounds and half-pints would do help to make Life uncomfortable, all the important factors which vest the Supreme Court of Hong-

rather than an ambassador, het as well, is tremendous. The bad temper is the most no. kong with divorce jurisdiction. Decrees have sought to reform believes "in itself betrays our fail-rest of the milk turns sour, and Life could be made quite a com-

bits of cheese go hard, and the In saying so much, we do not sug-China "with a stroke of the vermi-ure to see the problem in its real there's threepence

Fortable and pleasant journey if rest that Hongkong has a greater lion pencil." They have failed. | proportions". Mr. Curtis exerts wasted right away.

or fourpence only consideration were given to proportion of unhappy marriages Dynasties have been established to an Englishman's prerogative of Now Space-how far more com.the small things which we should

fortable would be our

never do. than any other place, whether in rule the Middle Kingdom forever. criticising his own nation. He

small They rule no more, Strange doc-tills at inefficiencies in the British eare not to put tables cornerwise "Inunge" or livingroom if we took the Far East or elsewhere. In this respect, the Colony is probably trines have been embraced to consular service with a vigour he and big chairs "standing out." STARTING OFF SCRATCH awaken a multitudinous people. might resent in foreign hands. At and if all unnecessary articles no beller nor ao worse than other But vast millions in China still the same time Mr. Curtis refrains were climinated so that people centres. When we come to boil follow the ways of their ancestors, from laying an accusing finger wouldn't either fall over things matters down to essentials, hum-Even Sun Yat-sen, dipping his fin- upon the policies of other nations or get wedged inf

And never commit anity is pretty much same gers deep into revolution, knew in China. Yet, without disparng-Energy by talking too much or too everywhere, and it therefore fol- that it was "not by sudden tran-ing the contribution made in recent loudly, by genticulating, by going Hows that there must be marriages sition" that China's problems were years by many serious diplomat-backwards and forwards when a in Hongkong which have lost the to be solved. History, thus, has ists, the advice he gives to Britain small effort of memory would make Enderlein, of the Berlin Museum. be heeded in other one journey upstairs suffice; and Dr. Roubaud, of the Pastour true relationships on which the in-led many to believe that China could well

by continually getting up and sit- Inatitute in Paris, are very worried must water the oak of stability foreign officers. stitution stands and which, in the with the tears of many failures.

ting down, by vehement denials about it. One German sclontiat has spent £3,000 en flea research interests of one or other of the Others believe that the nations

work. parties, ought to be dissolved. The should evolve a plan to save China fact may be regrettable, but it re-from herself. Mr. Lionel Curtis in flects the facts in numbers of in- his new book, "The Capital Ques- stances. The facility which is tion of China," published in London, now to be accorded is one the subscribes to neither extreme. He But his absence of which has undoubtedly has a solution to offer. led to numerous hardships to plex is not for elaborate and in- innocent parties.

genious devices. He asks merely Shanghai has long since, by an Order-in-Council, for appointment to China of am- had its divorce facilities, while bassadors of a calibro equal to the magnitude of the problem of Singapore has, by Ordinance, had the Far East. For it is not China a like privilege extended. There is alone, in Mr. Curtis's opinion, that every reason, therefore, apart has failed. It is western diplo- from the moral and other issues macy that has not lived up to its involved, why this Colony should opportunities. No one, ho in- come into line.

Limates, can map the path in ad- Divorce has been recognised vance that China should follow. amongst practically all peoples Enlightened diplomacy, Mr. Curtis from the laws of Moses, 'down, to declares, must recognize that the early Roman law and onwarda. policy "which seeks, in a country In England, of course, it has long like China, trade and that only, must end by destroying the thing found a place on the Statute

(which it seeks. The time has suro- ; Book-long operated more in favour of the husband than they come when no real statesmen need shrink from asserting that a wife, but the facilities now so am- foreign government in dealing ended as to invest either injured with a unit so vast aa China, will party with similar rights. The be wisor to ask itself first what is proposed Hongkong law follows, the true Interest of that country, In principle, the English practice, and then only to consider, in the Which is in itself an assurance Hight of the answer it finds to that against any abuso of the facility. question, what is the particular in- There have boon built up withinterest of its own. The first inter- eat of China is admittedly tho the English lawn carefully-establishment of orderly govern- designed Aerios of safeguardement. The question whether a against the misuse of the privi-policy, or stop taken to implement

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"Henry, I'm tired of just going around looking at tall. buildings. I wish wo knew somebody here we could have a gomo of bridge with."

But the world wide depression in the flea industry has not yet struck Hongkong. If there is any shortage we haven't noticed it.

A Tolpan. Toby, our pup, is a millionaire in his own right.

There has been the time when Ben research work has kept us up all night. We have put our finger on more places where the flen isn't than any other investigator in the world. and 100 started from acratch. The flen has always won. We once knew a ticklish contor. tionist who had a flen. It wasn't his own flea: somebody gave it to him. It took two coofles three- quarters of an hour to undo him. He became hysterical towards the finish.

If we had a flen and someone 'anid to us, “What kind?" we'd say |"No, zuvage." There are no kind

fleas.

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The health bulletin for Eastern [ports for the week ended August 20, shows the following cases of Infec- tious diseases and deaths thero- from-Plague, Alexandria 5 deaths, Baghdad 2 cases, Beirut I C280, Bassein 1 case 1 death, Bombay A case 1 death, Rangoon 2 cases danthe, Colombo 1 caso 1 death. Cholera, Calcutta 30 CRBOs 13 deaths, Macao 20 cases 20 deaths, Amoy 97 casos 21 deaths, Canton cases deaths, Nanking 100 cases 14 deaths, Shanghai 347

CASCS 28 deaths, Small« por, Alexandria 2 casca 1 death, Bassein 1 death, Bombay 10 casos.2 deaths, Calcutta & easca" 4' deaths, Karachi 1

case,

Madras 10 cases 2 deaths, Rangoon 4 cases, Pondicherry 4 casos 4 deaths, "Saigon "2′′eisor”2: donths, Canton 1 case.

Alexandria 1 case.

Typhus,

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