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is well to take note of tendencies, In the meantime, however, we imagine there will be consider- able reluctance felt by the Gov- crnment to interfere with the Colony's free port status, ns, once we set our backs, on the present system, it would be diff- cult to retrace our steps should the need arise. On the other hand, no-one can view with

equanimity the disastrous effects

DON'T BE A DOORMAT The Very Idea!

By -HELEN ROSE

MOTHERS-IN-LAW

By Ed. ("Had Some") Kelly, Most men and ail children are people wipe their feet on doormats selfish, and it is the greatest mis- automatically.

A little spico of genint unselfish-SPEAKING of mothers- in-law," said he in a tako for a wife and mother to al- low, herself to be a doormat to herness is very good for husband nod

hushed voice, family. She takes the back seat, children.

This may sound cynical, but

They tell us that the mother-in- and they think she likes ft.

Many women are ready to sacri-every-day experience shows that law jokes have gone out of date We know that. There's no joke familles. But the time comes when nonality, self-regard and a little gay co themselves entirels to their it is the wife and mother with per-law jokes the sacrifice is accepted as a mat- selfishness that is more adored by about our mother-in-law. her husband and children.

If there ever was any joke Anyhow, a wife and mother has about mother-in-law, we novor

agony of mirth and drown his next words.

The comedian would never - persist in trying to make him-

self heard, in

Bonchody expired.

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of dumping on the Colony's big gest industry, in which so muchter of course.

A woman is apt to be deeply British capital has been invested.

wounded when her family is not to innke quite enough, compulsory found out what it was.

The chief comedian-thu particularly grateful or apprecia-sacrifice without looking round to

እግዚ reserved exclusively Scolding the Savants

tive. But she us put herself in find more. And If anyone is to the background and let her family be waited on, it should be the party

to fetch and carry it stage and say, "Now my mother- The character of a complete have the best of everything. In mother and not the children; if for him--would come on the

fact, she has always put herself anyone is

Immediately everyone in the savant, according to the pre-nat, and is deeply hurt when her should be the husband, and not the in-law

wife. sident of the French Academy family loaves her there.

Of courne, in the big things of house would shriek aloud in an But she shouldn't always be so of Sciences, should, but does not, conform to Dante's definition, ready to fetch her husband's shoes fe a good wife and mother will But it is in the little things of "He listens to good purpose who and pick up her children's toys. always be ready to make sacrifices. If abe insists upon making these life that too many women make takes note." Savants, said Prof. Facrifices, let her make it quite themselves doormats. They take are favours, not the uncomfortablo chair, and cat Charles Richet, are in general clear that they

the burnt toast, and lug parcels, negligent listeners. He appeal-rights.

Her family will think a great deal and get up to ring the bell, and

We gather, however, that the ed to the members, most

more of her if she occasionally re-take up family breakfaste, and stay Lady in question was supposed to whom were then presumably minds them what a good wife and at home to mind the house. And be a combination of a crocodile, a those aro the things that the sergeant-major with corns, and a listening, to reform this neg-mother she is.

Husbands don't really care about family will allow her to do, without Peak taipan, and her chief oocupa ligence. He admitted that the

do, but the devoted slave-wife la choosen to do it. And they don't daughter, so that she could make cellaneous gathering of other rarely the star of a man's exfst-love her a bit better for it.

In time he is apt, like most So, for her family's sake, no voll savants were sometimes not of ence.

too much for us her own, the wife and mother general and compelling interest; husbands, to take

be well granted, and he is quite likely to should think before she makes her nevertheless, it would

regard his wife's devotion in the salf the slave of the household. for all present to pay attention, same way as he regards an easy Later, on she will quite probably ko that. Most of them and for some to refrain from chair or a good dinner. They are upbraid her husband for being sel- conversation with their neigh simply there and he merely, benefish, and reproach her children for

being

and inattentive. fits by them, bours. He explained this neg- A husband is far more likely to They will resent this, and she will

of

papers read by cavants to a mis-unaclfish wives. They think they thinking, for just so long as she tion in fo was to stay with her

unkind

Longkong Telegraph.ligence by the opinion that a be impressed by a wife who points quite fail to see

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1933.

that she has brought it all on herself that it suvant is usually chiefly intereal-out to him what a treasure he has.

Unaclash mothers also make is her unselfishness that has made ed in some special subject, and

a them so selfish, erlish children. And when

"Oh, Mother won't mind!" is the often seems happier in talking mother complains of lack of thought about that subject himself than and consideration in her children, cruellest epitaph that any family in listening to others. To the it is probably because she has can raise. But Mother has written layman these observations may never taught them to be considerate those words herself, because she present an unexpected picture of or attentive to herself. She has has chosen, all unknowing, to be savants in convention. Here, made herself their doormat. And the Family Doormat. if anywhere, he has very likely thought, knowledge would listened to with breathless in- terest, the least grain harvested. He could hardly have imagined most-favoured-nation treatment. two or more savants chatting This is a sequel to the dumping together while another savant

JAPANESE DUMPING

Solely on

economic grounds, the Government of India has de- nounced the Trade Convention with Japan, under which that country has hitherto enjoyed

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Roosevelt

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WOMAN'S ANNUAL ORGY

By L. C. MOORE.

Once, in the dim, dark ages when

drive into the garage until we've furniture off the bed. We can moved the dining-room suite out.

her daughter's husband's life as miserable as possible.

We have known many mothers- in-law, but none of them have boon

aro 25 and as

seductive, as bewitching mont, only more so. alluring as a stocking advertise- When she visits her daughter and the despised husband she brings the latest jazz records, dresece in transparent bench pyjamas, and drinks the husband under the table.,

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And, genorally, the poor decrepit old lady gets on so well with her son-in-law that the daughter is the one who becomes miserable.

is that.

Rameses

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Mr. J. H. Thomas irons his own hots."

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There are no railways in Lapland. ·

Mr. G. B. Show signs his autographs.

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Turnips in Manchuria are called. Mongol Wurzels,

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Hubby falls for the old lady in a big way, and they whisper In corners when the daughter is not Jooking, and tho party ends up in o row with the husband and mother- in-law arrayed against the dang- ter,

Mind you, we don't want you to And it's all so unnecessary-orget the idea that our mother-in-law of Japanese commodities, prin-read his paper, the savant now people lived in caves, a cave-wife should be. Mind you, I don't say

We would not, under any cir- cipally plece-goods, although all occupying a place in the public got a bright idea for filling in a it was never necessary. It probab ly was when the cavo-wife started

cumstances, cast any reflffections Sho turned out the skull-bone it.

on the old Tren's character. She classes of dumped goods will, thought somewhat akin to that slack afternoon.

Koddling may be an Interfering, occupied by the philosopher

Into old fool, silcking her nose of course, be affected by the de- when Plato was planning his re-ornaments, the wattle mats and her. But in these days of modern and gave the place a villas and labour-saving devices-

other people's business, and causing cialon. Japan's depreciated cur-public. But on second thought, husband,

misery wherever she goes, bat-ifs rency and other factors have en- such a concentrated attention thorough clean from top to bottom. why, do you think that if a man The lady in the cave next door had a house to run he would have

not for the likes of na to say so. abled her to flood the Indian would have been more likely at any her, and immediately realised to give it a thorough clean once

We may have our opinions. but markets with goods at prices convention of those early philo that unless she did the same thing a year?. Most definitely not. With which adversely affect India's sophers than at a gathering of her husband might begin to think his Inherent love of system and we trust we are a gentleman.

his work that every room would FACTS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN own industries, and it is purely modern savants. The audience she wasn't such a good cave-wife organisation, he would so arrange

would have been smaller and as the cat next door. to protect these industries that the interests represented not so So she turned out all her belong- automatically be given n complete

Dynamite has practically no Once turn-out once a week, The ings including the man. the Convention has now been multitudinously diverse.

No dust would be allowed to re-nutritivo value. abrogated. This question of savant in, after all, kith and kin started, the idea spread, and the

the Arst wouldn't even be allowed to settle. Japanese dumping has been with the layman, like the thorough turn-out became an an- main undisturbed for a year; it much to the fore of late. Lan-Colonel's lady and Judy O'Gray, nual orgy.

Every year, just when we feel Thero would be no accumulation of monarch to take an active intorcat cashire has been complaining and it detracts nothing from

of the cupboard; they just loudly of its effects, whilst even recognition of his profound in happy because the buds in the old shoes, old hate, obsolete lamp in postage stampe.

to burst, our wives descend upon would'nt be put there. here in Hongkong the issue has fluence to learn that he is at- garden are beginning to burst, and bulbs and so on to shift from the

tentive chiefly to matters of his the pipes in the loft have ceased top

As

whole a consequence, the been raised in the case of the own concern.

us with pails and mops.

place would be kept so tidy and How Men Suffer

mofleas that the weekly clean cement industry. The ground

We make a joke of it, but how would be a mere matter of routine, on which India has acted could

we suffer. We can't sit down any-Instead of the general and ghastly be held to provide justification for the taking of measures to No American president ir where because there is nowhere to upheaval that the annual do le.

The more I think about it, the protect the Hongkong cement history has occupied quite the sit down. Before we can retire to

rest we have to shift the bedroom more certain I am that it all goca industry, which has been keenly position that President Roosevel

it, and no wife since has had the feeling the effects of Japanese occupies to-day. By a uniqu

back to that cave-wife. She started combination of circumstances

courage to stop it.. competition at uneconomic

he stands in the spot where all of prices. The cases, however, are the hopes and fears of the nation not quite on all fours, inasmuch converge. The fears are greater as Hongkong is, for all intents than ever before and the hopes more passionato. Every and purposes, still a free port, are whereas India has her own tariff problem that the country faces system under which action is--and there are many of them, overwhelming in size and com- casily taken. The question thus plexity-has been dumped on arises whether, In view of Hong- his doorstep. The responsibility kong's peculiar position as a this puts on his shoulders is distributing centre rather than tremendous. Because the na- an actual producer, it would be ture and extent of that responsi- are widely realised, Mr. politic to interfere with its free bility

Roosevelt has begun his term port status, on which, admitted- of office with the whole-hearted ly, its prosperity has been built best wishes of all Americans, up. There is the further aspect regardless of party. This is at that discriminatory tariffs invite once his strength-and his weak- retaliation, and it is conceivable ness. If he succeeds he will that such retaliation might ad-succeed greatly; if he falls his versely affect the very Industries failure will be immeasurable. America has come to realize, sought to be assisted. Apart in the hard years of the depres from cement, there are other in-alon, that the country can drift dustries in this Colony which no longer because the drift is would doubtless like protection. toward a cataract. America has Indeed, indications are not want-also como to realise that the to remedy the ing that Hongkong is slowly, but programme surely, developing an industrial troubles must come from the Thite House-because experi- character. Particularly is this nce has shown that it cannot from anywhere the mainland. possibly come noticeablo on There are people who believe elso. To-day as never before, that Kowloon and its hinterland | Americans have placed their for- will eventually become a big in-tunes, hopes for the future, and dustrial centre, especially when confidence in the hands of the the railway link between Canton President. They have given him, so to speak, a blank cheque and and Hankow is forged. This is his use of it so far has been ad- admittedly looking ahead, but it mirable.

"I like these, ma'ant. They're so sheer nobody'd guess you

had any stockings on,"

A kipper with marmalade tastes quite different.

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Edward Kelly Sunday School.

never want to

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• FAMOUS TRIALS.

Miss Muffot deposed that every evening she sat on a tuffet in the gardon to eat curds and whey and listen to the broadcast from the house next door. On this particu- lar evening the defendent suddenly appeared and said, "Hullo, dearle," Witness had never before in har life been spoken to by a mORD, -

Here counsel for the defence in- tbrposed and said, "Me lud. Hy dient is not in man. She is a Indy." (Sensation).

The Judge: She doesn't look very ladylike. (Laughter). La abe married?

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Counsel: Sho has a husband, In a manner of speaking. The fact is, she was married only this morning, and she has since eaten him. It's. an old spider's custom. RA

"At this tho prosecution with- drew, but the publicity enabled Mias Muffet to go on the stage and she got money from at least two enterprises. One who a furnishing firm, who invented the slogan, "If Miss Muffet, had dat on one of our tuffects, nothing would Kove frightened her away:id

The nthor firm told: the "WOTIA: that "Miss Muffet's curds and whey. was made with our Essence of Hennet, Try some yourself," "Indi sen epidar kerise,"

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