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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1932.

DIVORCE PROBLEMS

The fact that Hongkong is to have its own divorce law invests with an interest, locally, which it would not otherwise

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1932.

would be wholly objectionable in the view of most civilised coun- tries. On the other hand, a juris- letion which rested on a mini- mum period of,'say, three years' residence, might be generally ac- ceptable.

It is further contended by the Committee that if a decreva- swered to a standard acceptable to many civilised States, it WIN more in the Interests of society in general that the decree should [be recognised universally than that it should be valid. in one State and not. In another with all the social difficulties to which that state of affairs gave rise They therefore recommend that; all States should be invited to us-

DAY BY DAY

IT 19 AN INEXORABLE LAW OF

| HUMAN · SOULS THAT WE PREPARE OURSELVES FOR SUDDEN DEEDS BY

CAVES OF FANTASY- 1932 STYLE

By ALAN BELL

THE HEITERATED CHOICE OF GOOD OR 66ARLY NEXT MORNING 20,000 feet of timber and eighteen EVIL-George Eliot.

"E says the chronicle, when tons of concrete whic and eighteen the Sultan went to contemplateing in a rapid thaw. It seemed a and admiro Aladdin's palace, his pity. amazement was unbounded to find it could nowhere, be seen."

"Surely," I urged, constrained by early next morning when I went of this stuff again?"

And

a sense of waste, "you will use some to contemplate und admire the railway terminus, my consterna- tlon was unlimited to find that it Though

Quarantine, restrictions have been imposed by Hongkong against arrivals from Poochow and Klungehow (foi how) on account of cholera.

Another of the popular Services had vanished likewise. whist drives will be held in the West] some fragments remained, Lounge of the Y. M. C, A., Kowloon, to-night, all Servicemen being heartily

"welcomed.

The Art Department smiled and answered in the form of a parable.

"Do you

sometimes Bad your deak gets littered up at home? "The trouble is," said the Art You keep this and you keep that, Director, surveying the earthquake and you are sure the other will be with approbation, you should wanted; and one day you take a have been here yesterday. Mind look and make a clearanco of the

whole darn lot." Caught by a blasting charge, Lo that pillar.. sent to an International Conven- | Ching, employed at quarrying work A marble column, bearing a

fatally WAS

So presumably the human mind embossed mono- works in the same way with timber injured yesterday. He died within a wreath and the few minutes of receiving the injuries, gram "P.L.M.," swayed in the emas with paper.

tion by which each contracting. Lat North State would undertake to ensure that any decree pronounced by the competent Court of any one of the contracting States shall,

at the request of either party to the suit and if the decree com- plica with certain conditions, be recorded by the competent Court of any other contracting Slute. and shall be as valid and effectual in those States as if the decree had been pronounced by their own

Courts.

Modern Ari.

The cacophonies and dissonances of modern art may benefit the times in which we live. Cubism,

the "concerts of factory sirens"

Point,

of a wall

brace of a crane. "You see," said the Art Director, "we want this studio to-morrow for a modern Only the thickness In connexion with a previous report) flat." There was, in fact; some separated the hall of devastation concerning the disappearance of Misa of that finnicky futurist steel furl from the chamber of fabrication; Bascombe's cur from the Chater Road packing stand, it now transpires that ture, that looks like a hairpin in we left the Visigoths and Hung to it was not a case of theft as was at convulsions, waiting at the en- go on smashing and went into the first thought, but that the car was trance. While the Gare de Lyon studio next door, where the artisans taken away, in error, for repairs to flew out of the window, a plain of a new illusion laboured. The the Duro Garage.

van was coming in at the door. scene was a typists' bureau at Geneva, and adjoining, through # large glass partition, was visible Such transformations are the the room of a bureaucrat, or Lea- When a roof ever a yard in the rear everyday routine of the einem gue of Nations' chief. The tap-tap of 134, Queen's Road Central collapsed

the

and anti-

at 2 o'clock this morning, we tokis studios, those caves of fantasy and of hammers and the satisfying alap emplayed in the shop, who were sleep-illusion where Twentieth Century of whitewash brushes kept up a

manufactuerd.businessliku strophe ing in the cockluft, became panicky entertainment is and jumped an to

ground Life passes at prodigious speed, and strophe, varied by the rumbling floor. They revived injuries to their nothing endures. "We live a thou-noise of more timber being dragged legs and were admitted to the Govern- sand years in one," was how one along. went Civil Hospill.

of the staff expressed it, "and we travel the world in a week."

The workmen kept one eye on a sketch of these future twin apart- It might be thought that the short ments and the other eye on a scale- The health bulletin for Eastern ports for the week ended August 27 lease of his work, the doom that model sent up by the Art Direc shows the following cases of infee- gather's round it even as it is per-tor

The drawing was merely an in Russia, and other emanations

tious diseases and deaths therefrom- fected, would trouble the good impression of the completed in- of the worship of violence, charac- Plague, Alexandrin 1 ease 1 death, craftsman. Yet like the makers of teriors, but the model (it seemed terise states of mind and feeling Beirut 1 case, Bassein 1

1 death.

grows hardened, to me) was newspapers, he case 1

almost superfluously which are, perhaps, constructive Calcutta 22 cases

Rangoon 3 cases 3 deaths. Cholera, resting content that his labour is exact. There stood the tables for only for the day. Always there is the typists-such tables as might deaths, Macao but re certainly iconoclastic. fenses 4 deaths, Amoy 36 cusca 14 the morrow, which will bring a new be found in a doll's house-with Some of our modern poets are deaths, Canton 13 cases deaths, thing.

tiny typewriters on cach, and better Korca 8 cases 8 Still, in the members of the Artalze of a postage stamp. Over each still, blotting pads one-fourth the Small-pox, Alexandrin

Baghend ease, Bom-

9

unaware that the metric forms, or Nanking 33 cases 7 deaths, Shanghai

258 cases deaths,

formlessness, which they affect are deaths. Bolshevist in origin and inspira-case tion. In such

death,

Department Stall as they contem-

a framework the bay 12 cases 8 deaths, Calcutta plated the destruction of their rail-Lilliputian desk hung a lamp, an

muses can hardly feel at home, nor deaths, Moulmein 1 ense, Pondicherry pangs, for the achievement had been

cases 1 death, Madras 19 enses 2 way station, I detected momentaly imitation pear) pendent on a piece

is there much place for the still. 7 enses 7 deaths, Muntok 7 cases, outstanding. The set, from the

Alexandrin I death.

sess, the report of a special com- mitter of the International Law whole problem of modern art re-trade, the profits from which were Association, which has been meet-solves itself into a search for the not covered by Schedule B. ing in conference in Oxford, den "absolutes" of our present life, ing with the possibility of achier-into a quest of its supreme values

of cotton.

Some Old Masters were being small voice that tells a poet or Saigon cases deaths. Typhus, arch of its girdered roof to the con-painted for the adornment of the crete of the platform (special stuff chief's room, and a sumptuous fire- [artial how to conquer beauty with-

to give the right footfall), had grate-af plaster-was about to be oul constraint. At bottom, the

counter, the notice boards, the lofty still the next studio, up rose the been a perfect copy. The baggage lot into place; then leaving here for clock (though its hands were imposing portals of the Geneva altered with the afd of a fish hook), Assembly Hall, sweeping back in The Attorney General said that the posters, the kinaks, had all been wonderful fake perspective. If Mr. grounds for assessing him under And crowning glory, the Rome Ex forth to announce that the Confer- commissioners had ample right and identical-yesterday. Henderson had instantly stepped Schedule D.

press, lumps alight and wheezing ence had explored every avenue and If Lord Glanely's contention Steam, harf waited at the platform left no stone unturned, the last

ing uniformity in divorer law and transcending ideats. Without throughout the world. It is also a passion for an absolute of some hoped that an international con-Violence is not and can never be be so great art.

sort there cen

the

vention will be evolved so that a an end in itself. It is always re-hunters or a fishing rod mater sleeping-car behind.

was right, a farmer who bred with crowded carriages and a natural tnuch would have been

secured.

derrge pronounced in one country ative, and is usually compounded who hired a stretch of river might should be valid in all others. The of hatred. Mr. Clutton-Brock put be able to set off their losses or gineering that locomotive had been,nishes and equips this procession A miracle of lath-and-plaster en- The Property-Shop which fur- Committee points out that under the matter in a nutshell when he expenses against any profits they as one acknowledged from in me-of mirages-the day-by-day ephe-

+

peculiar

made.

moriam shiny photographs-fit for meral sets are scarcely more--may

the Rolls said that in his opinion wonden rivet was missing from its of London condensed into oke. The Giving judgment, the Master of anything except locomotion. Not be imagined as all the "junk shops" the enterprise in question was in- boiler, not a lenf had been forgot boast of "Props" is that they pur dependent of the occupation of ten from its stucco springs. Then rey all things beneath the sun and decision ought to be upheld. Lord renters had contrived it with one stock they improvise, and what can land, and Mr. Justice Rowlatt's the sleeping-car behind-the car-

are never beaten. What is not in Justice Slesser agreed,

hundred and eighty-two removable not be improvised they buy, pro- sections, so that the camera might eure, beg, peep in on the occupants at every know how the phrase ends. "Con

borrow, or-well you angle, and surprise them at any vey the wise it call. possible stage of undress. hour of the day or night in every

the English doctrine of domicile wrote, in his "Essays on Litera- a wife whose husband has desert-the absolute dnes not mean art for ture and Life": "The passion for ed her and settled permanently art's sake, nor does it mean wor in a foreign State must in order ship of the artist; the greatest to divorce him, follow him to that art is always about something not State. If he settles in a State itself, and the greatest artist does where there is no divorce she will not desire to be worhipped, but wor-

Lord Justice Romer, dissenting, have no remedy at all, whilst even ships. Nor is he

remarked that Lord Glanely sus person with a trick of his own... if she were to go and reside in He is representative of all men, a year in these operations, and the tained a loss approaching $18,000 another State whether the Courts priest without sacerdotal tricks, qucation was what he should pay pronounced a decree in her favour because

of his passion for the to the Crown in respect of income! the decree would not be recognisabsolute ... Shakespeare's 'Hum-that annual sum.

tax for the privilege of closing ed by the English Courts.

let' owes its beauty, its superlor The opinion is expressed by the truth and profundity to the fact Committee that there is no ren-

that Hamlet himself, while tied sonable prospect of establishing

even by his sense of duty to the uniform principles upon

narrow and ugly business of re- which venge, is still haunted by the pas- each State shall exercise jurisdic-sion for the absolute." The tion, but it considers that the only trouble with "modern" artists and possible solution lies in a mutual their art is that they usually seem recognition by ench State of to have no absolutes except them- various bases of jurisdiction ex- golden rule of all true living and selves; and that they ignore the ereined by other States, a decree artistic creation, which is to seek pronounced on the basis of any our absolutes among the thinga one of them being universally re-that lift us above ourselves. cognised. This solution does not involve any change, in the sub- stantive law of divorce of any country; it involves only a legis

STUD FARM PROFITS

lative enactment in each State as LORD GLANELY'S TAX

APPEAL FAILS

to the recognition of decrees pro- nounced in other States. Refer- ence is also made in the report to The appeal by Lord Glanely the problem arising from the with regard to his claim that stud question of residence, such as the establishment at Newmarket wore feus earned at his horse breeding difficulty provided by-Reno, divor- not assessable for income tax un- ces, where a decree can be obtain-der Schedule D. was dismissed by a majority of the Court of Appeal,

ed after six weeks' residence. consisting of the Master of the "Residence in itself no the basis Rolls and Lords Justices Slesser,

and Romer.

of jurisdiction, irrespective of the

The stallions at the farm in- period of residence, would open cludo Grand Parade, which won the door to abuses by any State the Derby in 1919. The disputed which chooses to make the dis-year ended April 6, 1922, and £2,- sacsaments were $15,000 for the solution of marriage a business," 000 and £13,000 for the year end- states the report. “Such a Stato ed April 6, 1927... might impose a residential qual! Mr. Justice Rowlatt had held that The income tax authorities and Acation of a fortnight, which the stud farm was, a soparate

Now a "band" was carrying the engine fuunel on his arm like a bracelet, and picking his way among

friends whom we wouldn't loan any money “But if wó buy a yacht right now, how will it look to all our

Impossible to catalogue Props. door I noticed a life-buoy, a dirk, But in a corner on the left of the

box, a pair of boxing gloves, and J. a cardboard cantaloup, an ormolu

H. Newman's "Parochial and Plain Sermons" symbolically check by jowl with a shepherd's crook.

I am happy to say that before leaving the world, of Gaumont Bri- tish for the colourless world of the outer street, I had another glimpse of the Rome Express. It wa thundering along with the authentic scenery of mid-France wheeling past, the driver staring ahead from the swaying cab and the fireman shovelling coals down the hungry throat of the furnace. "Not bad," said a critical voice out of the darkness at my side.

Bad? In my opinion, for wood and planter it was simply nuar- vellous,

THIS FLOWER BUSINESS

By Edward Kelly, Botanist. We have learnt all there is to know about flowers.

Most people like flowers. We all blossom soon or late--- somo late. Some so late that they aro referred to as "the late So- and-So." Some cultivate blooms, ilke peach blooms, and others blog- soms liko grog' blossoms. But all of us say it with flowers some time. and some do not want flowers by request.

Then there is the list of girls. we know who are reminiscent of

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