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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1932.

since it will be obviously in their! own interest that everything possible should be done to pre- serve the purity of their sup plies,

The

The Girl Guides

MAN'S HONOUR

-AND WOMAN'S

herself!

By LADY SCHWABE

His

The Very Idea!

FILLING IN THOSE FORMS,

By Edward Kelly, Statistic.

WHY all those complaints from

visitors to Government

ofices, just because they've got to fill in a form stating their name, they can see a talpan ometal? age, religion and business before

!

(1) Where have you been ill this

hour?

(2) Don't you ever think of any

eme but yourself?

(3) Don't you think I ever want

to Kent?

(4) What will the people in the

(5)

next fat say?

What's that on your coat? (4) You don't think you're going

to bring that mangy dog into- the place, do you?

Here, if a man's a man, and not

n mere prawn, he will speak up.

"Wasser marrer with the dogf S'a good dog. Follered me alla way home. Nishle doggie."

(7) Aren't you ashamed of your.

eclfz

(8) What have you been drinking

(Give Particulars)?

these questions may be answered It will be noticed that most of

quite simply by coughing slightly, or patting the dog.

The acquisition of Sandilands Hut as the home of the Girl Guides movement in Hongkong has prov-

WOMEN have always profess some time ago a man of my ac- ed to regard the masculine 'quaintance got involved in some ed a boon and an inspiration to codo.of honour as something be speculative business which unfor The battery on which Prest-Ofurther progressive effort and the tween a mystery and a joke. They tunately went wrong. It reyod Lite's reputation was originally enthusiastic annuni moating may point out its inconsistencies, and on his mind so much that he shot built-but given the benefit of now be regarded as a happy augury, they smile over Its convenient himself, leaving behind debts to

Any married man of experience clasticities, But the fact re- the tune of several thousand ought to be able to do it on his local Association is in a mains that the code in there, that pounds. From time to time in the car. Round financial position, 18 pon-it is a definito force in the lives past, when things were flourishing.

no he had settled large sums of money { questions we have to answer every A mere pifting three or four sosned of koon ofleera and an of most men, and there is abundance of plans for the future, feminino equivalent.

on his wife. Without in any way rivalling in efficiency and service certain thing because it sim- have discharged his debts and left

A man will refrain from doing impoverishing herself, she could time we go home: Ito mancurio counterpart, the ply is not done." A woman his name clear of any stigma, Boy Scout movement. With all its would considor nuch a course of Directly she knew she was varied interests and opportunities action as totally lacking in funda- legally itable she refused to any a for friendship, the Girl Guide montal

commonsense. She will penny, movement danu excellent work in tiens and taboos, and arrive with dignity," to my children and take a short cut through prohibi, “My fret duty,” she nald with

1ook in life and teaching her to vontent to helping to enlarge the girl's out-out delay at the point most con- myself. There is their education herself. Women are to pay for, and I must give them use both her brain and her fingers looked upon na slaves to fashion, n good start in life. That, I am to the best advantage. It also but even fashion goes to the wall mure, would have been the wish of

A woman's my poor husband." possesses the rest merit that when opposed to

wishes. And any way, how can She conveniently forgot that | Bitle or no exponzo is attached to one be a slave to a thing that al nome time prior to his suicide, her the movement and that even theters once a fortnight? Fashion husband had hinted at his de poorest of children. cath become is merely.n conveniently short aperate need for money. Guides or Brownies and enjoy the name for woman's desire to please hints had been ignored because benefits of the movement. That

she "dianpproved" of speculation. It is this determination to please Yet her woman friends saw noth- the work of the loen! officers is ap herself that in at the bottom of ing strange in her attitude, they Can.preciated is demonstrated at the most of the mysteries of feminine thought her a splendid wife, and various company gatherings when whims. Woman is a creature of said it must have been a great the numbers of Girl Guides proud-moods, and what pleases her at comfort to poor Charles to realise ly wearing on their left arms a taste at another. Therefore, one family would be provided for.

fono time will cause her acute dle that, in spite of everything. his number of the badges denoting day she will say she adores men

(9) Do you HEAR ME? Woman's One Loyalty, qualifications in various arts and with wavy hair and freckles; and

(10) Why don't you ANSWER ME? When a woman falls in love the

(11) Do you think yourself à man?“ crafts is remarkably encouraging. the next that all men bore her circumlocutions of her moral ende

stiff, and particularly those that become fearful and wonderful in- At this stage it is best to put look like half-baked film stars, and deed. She reserves to herself the in a good word for yourself. England on Top be equally truthful on botli oc right to have all the aces in the Something like. "You ought to go casions. Mere man tears his hair and pack, and a few more up her sleeve to bed, m'dear. You'll be cushing groans that there is no under A woman who had broken up a cold, shtandin' there." Or- First blood in the Test Matches standing the ways of women, but happy home, been the cause of "Broughsher shum lowerah. in. SAFEGUARDING OUR cricket could hardly be regarded consistent than a man who raves children of their father, was al-shivi won't get 'em."

goes to England, and although the actually she is being no more in divorce, and robbed three bonny hip (hie) pocket. If you're not MILK

over ericket in the summer and most tearful over the economies as inspiring, the merit of the suc- swears in the winter that football she had to practise in order that cess in beyond question. Both in Is the only game worth playing. her husband should pay £4 n weak batting and bowling Jardine's |

The Basic Passions. alimony to the wife he had de- It is to be doubted whether men proved vastly superior to the It is when women begin to serted!

the big It is too frequently forgotten the public generally is aa con-opposition. The nolidity of Eng-please themselves over scious as it might be of the im-land's opening batsmen' may be money that trouble is apt to be obey the law of the jungle. In the basic passions of life-love and that sub-consciously we all still mense advantage which this contrasted with the failure of gin. Why is it, for instance, that wilds, the female chooses her mate Colony enjoys over many tropi-those who followed, but it seems shop-lifting is an almost exclusive- and allows no thought of ethics cal and sub-tropical centres in highly improbable that Leyland, ly feminine pursuit? Because to hamper her In her selection the excellence of its supplies of Ames. and Jardine will fall so women, in the nature of things, And when modern woman is away- fresh milk. For this, we have early

are chronically short of pocketed by a primitive passion like love, largely to thank the Dairy Farm McCabe gave a brilliant balting They see pretty things that they goes back to the methods of her mondy to spend on fripperies, she quite simply and naturally

THE LATEST FROM PARIS. Company, whose establishment exhibition in Australia's first in- ardently desire; and then it is arboreal ancestors. at. Pokfulum is a model of what nings, placing a brighter complex-only the very shortest step to per-

MUCH is happening in this If these were the only principles "M" such a place should be, and one ion upon the game from Austra-sunding themselves that, if justice on which the average

once-su-gay city," writes which has no parallel anywhere in's viewpoint than the play as a

Woman a Paris correspondent, "but of in the Far East. But milk, evenwhole appears to have warranted.

were done, these things should be modelled her life, we should by politics, my admired Ed-ward it is theirs.

now have a race of Amazonian not for me to speak. What know under the most meticulous care,

There are, of course,

women savages dominating the world and what I Kelly, care-of Rights can easily become the transmit Bradman will not return to the side criminals who systematically raid holding man in the bondage of and Lefts, of Centres and Coali ting medium of disease, for any too soon.

the big stores, but they are not re- ruthless matriarchy. Fortunate- tions? Rien du tout! To me, it which reason it is only right and

presentative of the true shop-lift- ly, however, women are dominated is a game men play-and oh, how proper that every conceivable

ing class. It is little Mrs. Brown by another instinct even effort should be made to offset

more tristement!-while of life the real of Balham, or that charming Miss powerful and over-riding any business is left to my more ear- such

Smith of Surbiton who creates a man-made codes and conventions. nest sex! Politics, they are as the a danger. This is the spirit animating the authorities

local scandal and brings disgrace That is the mother Instinct the prairies, where predatoire man. A correspondent to a London on her family by being incon- Instinct to protect, to sacrifice her- may kick his so-hairy heels; but in the steps now decided upon newspaper writes feelingly on the veniently detected stuffing silk un- self for the benefit of those she his 'cart is at 'ome in the Cavel for safeguarding supplies from subject of whistling. An errand dies beneath her coat. You will loves, to guard them with her life. the risk of infection. It is some-bay, it appears, pasues

note that I say she brings disgrace When one gets down to bedrock, thing to the good that a com-sidence six, times a day, whistling it may seem, not in one case in a that is half so important R

on her family. Incredible though there is nothing in a woman's life

FIRST HAND EVIDENCE. parison of dairy legislation in as he wends his care-free way, thousand will she herself feel any motherhood.

Talking of fish stories, there England with that in Hongkong Evidently, it is not the cheerful-real sense of shame. She will be urge may lead her Inte strange and interest in these stories from New This all-powerful seems to be a good deal of ectentine shows that very few additions are needed locally to the bye-ness of the youth that irks the annoyed, she will be indignant devious byways, it may blind her York of four-legged fish. laws and regulations already in writer, but the fact that he has that such an abaurd fuss is made to such petty restrictions as are force.

But "they come as no surprise to only one tune in his repertory. "Ier a trifle like a pair of cami- imposed by love, Justice, honour. me," Peto said to me this morning. For obvious reasons,

knicks, she will be furious with and convention, but the nett even greater care is needed in know every note of it," the cor- her husband, or her father, or her sult of these warring forces has bar at the One was

re- "I saw a couple last night in the the tropics than in the more respondent dirges. "I wait for it, employer, for keeping her so short been to create an adorable crea- Sweethearts and the other-the reciting temperate climes, and with the writhe under it." It is easy to of money that she couldn't afford ture perfectly fitted by Nature and pink one carried a small portable new bye-laws now proposed it sympathise with this unwilling to buy all the cami-knicks she Providence to be an iden! wife, mangle. would seem that most, if not all, auditor. Probably he is a writer,anted; but the idea of hating and For a man's honour is made up of ought to report these phenomena 7" Where do you think I avenues of possible danger will or even a poet. If the latter, one particularly mean form of theft only one-the man she loves, and of on the spur of the moment was

despising herself for giving way to many loyalties, but a woman's of The only place we could be closed up. The most import- mny picture his dismay when, will not even enter her head. ant addition made by the Sanit-struggling to find two words that

'overything appertaining unto him. ary Board at Tuesday's meeting rhyme, his thoughts are sent scat- was the bye-law against the em-toring by a possible dissonance in ployment in dairies of any per- the whistled melody, and the son- sons suffering from or a carrier

another

ocension.

The Whistler

his re-

of certain specified communi-net must wait upon another mood. cable diseases. One of the meme may well be pardoned if he bers of the Board did not see feels, in the words of Benjamin much value in this ban, since, he Franklin, that "ho has paid dear, contended, no dairy proprietor very dear, for his whistle." No would knowingly continue to one, however, but the most harden- employ a carrier, whilst, on the od misanthrope would wish other hand, difficulty would be abolish

to whistling. experienced in detecting the fact needs the gaiety it engenders; The world that an apparently healthy man whistling in the bathroom pre- might be a carrier. When the, matter is more closely analysed,ages good nature at the break- however, it becomes clear that fast table and, although women the new bye-law will have a dis-seldom become proficient in the tinct value. It is quite easy to art, they are not averso

to its conceive that when an epidemic practice by the malo. Perhaps, breaks out it may eventually be with innate feminine intuition and traced, by the incidence of its tact, they indulgently recogniza distribution, to a certain centre. the necessity of letting masculino In such circumstances, the medi-humanity proen itself on being 'cal authorities would naturally able to do at least one thing bet- visit the suspected place and sub-tor than they can. To contem- mit the employees to examina-plato a world without errand boya tion. Once the carrier was de- that whistle is too dark a picture, Lected, the bye-law would be May his raco long continue. Per- brought into operation and the hapa, in deference to persons like man prevented from continuing the London correspondent, singing at his post. This, in brief, societies will take up the question shows the practical utility of the and teach him a second tune. change. Hitherto, the authori- tles have had no power to act in such a contingency as that out- lined. They will have under the

A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY

new bye-law. Dairy proprio- WHEN BAYONETS ARE ONCE CROSS- torn. no less than the general ED, THE PROGRESS OF public, should welcome the step, ARRESTED-Beranger,

IDEAS

IB

Jame

Simplifying matters.

is recommended for visitors to A different procedure, however,

sometimes seem just as well to the Government Offices. It would drag along a clergyman, a business taipan, a Legislative Councillor, or a warder as an air to identifica tion.

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the Central Police Station,

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SOCIETY GOSSIP.

think

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We dropped in on the Boluses yesterday and found quite a happy gathering at Mrs. Dolus' conversa- zlone. They call it that instead of a Party because it's cheaper- more 'conversation and fewer sausage rolls. Everything went well except with Mra. Gubbins. She not quite used to being a Peak lady yet and gat quite starchy with Mrs. S. Mr. Gubbins is one of Nature's gentlemon although. ho's a keen flat-earthor. After all, the earth might as well be flat aa not. Some of these people who are doing their best" to put it right might fall over the edge

then.

TEST FOR ANNOUNCERS.

It will be agreed, we think, that successful aspirants to the micro- phono thoroughly earn their pay. Still sometimes they acem a little out of practice and wa vonture to ausgest that something on the Haos of the following should be repeated ten times before break- fast for warming up purposes:

"Grave news is reported from the Hawallan town of Kahaiwal- hawall, where the copper bot tomore empleyod by enamelled. aaucepan-makers have thrantsul to go on strike. They object to aluminiaming enamelled warb. "This is not, and their lender to- day, an aluminiumers millennium." "The Indehiscent. Fruitorors' Oecumenical Congress meets to night at Llandrindod Welln."