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THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY WHAT'S WRONG WITH

GIRLS' SCHOOLS

By DR. CYRIL NORWOOD (Headmaster of Harrow)

The frequency with which police searching squads delay buses near the Police Training School suggests an enquiry, as to whether this is really necessary. If the men are engaged, on serious duty, little complaint can bo It is very bold on the part of a the view that it is scarcely wise to offered, but if, as it sometimes appears, the object is merely to give training-to new recruits, a which method might be found would cause less inconvenience,

Buses are legally expected to run ficiently carried out delays of

a

The Very Idea!

LETTERS TO A SELF MADE COLONIAL

Stolan ✯ Censored by Eddie 'Kally.

SOME time ago we were enough to

mere min to write about girls' have so many girls competing suc-fortunate

for though I count cessfully with boys for Jobs.

schools;

I submit that it is becoming a acquire a series of letters among my ancestors just as many women as any schoolmistress my very pressing matter for those who written by a new-chum sex debara me from speaking efthor are responsible for education in this Colonial to his Girl Friend country, and in particular for the with wisdom or with knowledge.

There are excellent women who Board of Education, to seek to at Home. regard the girla' school as the ladies arrive at a considered view of what of Rome regarded the mysteries of ought to be taught to, the ordinary Bona Dea, and hold it to be an boy and the ordinary girl whose and evils that lurk around the educational rite in which no male education is going to stop short at corner, over ready to pounce should take part on pain of death. 10, or at latest, 18. Without that upon and ensnare the unwary

Fully aware of the dangers

to a schedule and if the search la

minute and more occur. If the vehicles get away quickly, it mere ly means a duty too perfunctorily Still, I had a mother: I have daugh- view to guide us, our whole educa- newcomer, we printed several performed to be of any value.tors: I am more or less a governor tional development will be a muddle. of the letters as a warning to

of several girls' schools: I have Better practice, if it is practice, looked at the outside of them at What, then, is to be the education Our Colonial, who shall remain could be provided by making uae prizegivings innumerable. I will be of Everygirl? Before we answer nameless, has received a batch of

that, we ought surely to ask: of a bus not employed on passen-bold, and say what I think.

THE EMPIRE FAIR

while. The desire expressed that,

Hongkong Telegraph. enclosing the Exhibition in

THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1933.

SIR ARTHUR

: SALTER

EXAM. HANDICAP.

IGNORED REALITIES.

others.

London, Juno 22. Pote, darling" Your last letter terrified me. I fool

unmorai

didn't

Friend. ger services, putting recruit con- There are not lacking women of What is Everygirl going to be? replies from his Girl

and foresight in the There are only two things that I They were done up with blue stables on board with concealed courage weapons,

and setting another schools, and the retiring president know about her future. The first ribbon when we found them and, vote. past week, he won't miss the one. of the Headmistresses' Association is that sho la certainly going to be as he's been on a bender for the batch the task of finding them.

the other day was fearless in her citizen and to exorcise a castigation of the thoughts, and The other. is that she is probably we've borrowed; manners of the present day. I going to get married, to mako a want to see that courage and that home, and to bring up children. A foresight devoted to the adjustment visitor from another sphere, con- The replies to Mr. M. F. Key's of the girls' schools to the real templating our schools, might per-

noods of the pupils that thronghaps.form the impression that our sure, sweetheart, that you ate run- Empire Fair questionnaire are both them, for I am sure that a wider girls are so happily constituted by ning into danger in that terrible encouraging and helpful and show outlook is needed, and not in the nature that they can take all these Hongkong. Whatever you do, Pele,

away from those that the inquiry was well worth education of girls only. Much of activities unseen and unprepared. my pet, look after yourself, and stay them, and the results might be bet-Hongkong papers you sent me are full what i say will be true of boys. They do so take them, many of seen them in the talkles, and the

tor.

of the terrible doings and carrying In future fairs, steps should be only more 80,

Let us assume that the above is one. Darling, I don't want you to taken to regulate the attendance For one of the commonest things

I am so glad that the drought is will be generally endorsed. Apart which you hear said by thoughtful fair statement of the destiny of become one of those gigolos.

Everygirl, and that a school course from this, little criticism is forth-headmistresses at the present time is a preparation for life, and not over, dear, and that you don't have coming. The consensus of opinion is that there are large numbers of for an examination; what ought to go thirsty any longer. I think among those obviously in the best girls to whom they cannot give the her education to bo? In the first the Hongkong government was

right education, the education place, it should aim at the produc-absolutely callous and position to judge is that a distinct best for them, because of the flow of health, strength, and activi- the way they made everybody put value attaches to the holding of an examination system, the demands ty to the highest degree possible, their names on chits before they

of matriculation, and the bonds of Girls' schools are already, I think, could get a-drink. You annual Fair; most exhibitors are in favour of confining it to Empire tradition in which education is tied in front of boys schools in this explain what a chit was, dear, so commodities; the desirability of up. Only they never seem to say. respect, but it is not in every school I-looked it up in the dictionary. either collectively or individually, course as fundamental as it ought which says a chit is a girl or a what the right education is.

to be.

woman who is regarded as little all for making Next, the curriculum should be more than a child. Now, I am single area is stressed; and most

Were they Chinese girls, Pete? firms agree that to expect the examinations our servants and not built on English subjects as its

foundation; the mother I felt just a teeny weeney bit out our masters: I am all for putting main organisation to be carried entirely by willing volunteers is matriculation into the university tongue, how to speak it, write it. jealous when you told me about compound, where it ought to be, use it; geography, dealt with in all the chits you had got. I hope. asking rather too much. In short, and locking the gate on it. But I the modern way, which gives rea- dear, that you are being good.

well as facts; and history I suppose now that the water. some very sound suggestions are do want to know more clearly whatsons

ar-we are going to put in its place, which moves on from the stories shortage is over you' don't have advanced regarding future

of the past to concentrate on the to go out to that terrible Peninsula- rangements. It says much for the and nobody talks about that.

TRUE OBJECTIVE.

world of the present, how and why to assuage your thirst. I had a If there is any man who can way in which the Fair has been

It is human to have proposses-It has grown to be what it is. On look at the man of Hongkong the are this foundation should be built other day, but there was no and headmistresses. rescue China from her financial run during the last two years that sions,

to "say a few human.

Peninsula marked on it. When the great movement lessons in simple citizenship. morass it should be Sir Arthur an opportunity

Third, science, so long as it is

I'm sure your friend, Mr. Kelly, Salter. Her people and friends words" found commentators con- of high school education began, the

boys' schools were dominated by a alive. Science entered the cur must be a nice man. It was pro-

narrow curriculum leading logically riculum about 1870, and by 1900 kind of him to look after you, will, therefore, welcome the tent. to make constructive

to the university and nowhere else. the pedants had made it the when you first arrived in Hong- news that he has accepted an in-posals.

The pioneer women in the teaching dendest subject of the lot. Let kong, and, when I come out to vitation to act as adviser to the

profession took over the system Everygirl try to learn something join you, dear, I want to meet Nanking Government. Sir Ar-

entire, for their primary concern of biology and byglone, was not to devise the best education merest elements of physics and him. He is a brave man to face. those shroffs. the way he does, thur's profound experience of

for women but to demonstrate their chemistry; It is not her business Does he have any chits, dear? I world economic and financial

men, to be potential B.Sc. France seems likely to draw a intellectual equality with problems,

Finally, let her do her best at the think, from the way you write, and his previous small hornet's nest about her ears They were probably right in so do

ing.

asthetic and practical subjects. It that he is much too nice to bother knowledge of China's complex by laying formal claim to those

But much water has flowed under will be her concern to give beauty about women, especially the chit finances, should prove of inesti-islands in the China Sea, although bridges since. that date, and what to the home; teach her to a right type.

Darling, I know how hard it is mable value to-day when the the most astonishing thing about the women then set out to show has Judgment-of-things-musical-and usual budgetary difficulties are the business is that there should be been abundantly proved, so far as it artistic. It will bo her concern to to get home comforts out in the accentuated by the loss of re-any islands with their onwership can be proved. There is no subject give order to the home: let her Far East, so, in case you feel cold, as good as the best men at the thing of the many mysterica of pairs of woollen socks, and a pair from Manchuria and unsettled. We thought that all in which some women will not be bave her chance of learning some I have knitted you a sweater, two of woollen gloves, which I want heavy military expenditure. Sir the land-grabbing that could pos- stage of school or university work. housceraft.

But, it will be said, you have left you to wear whenever you venture Arthur is generally recognised sibly be done was efficiently per- But, this having been demonstrated as one of the finest financial formed many years ago. The sed- is it not time to turn to what ought out of the training of Everygirl out of your hut. Always

den interest taken by Japan, the to be the real objective, and not modern languages and mathematics, flannel next to the skin, dear, and send out quite so many girls who So I have, and I stand a heretic keep your throat muffled up against brains in the world and his poli- Philippines and China is amusing are fitted to do what boys ought to confessed. If she likes French, let those typhoons. I have wrapped tical wisdom is in no way infer- in a way. If the Japanese reports do, and do it very well, but who are her learn it; if she has no linguistic the woollen things around a bottle ior to his technical ability. In regarding the number of

times by no means particularly fitted to gift, let her leave it out. If she is of lime-juice, which is good for the good at algebra and geometry (and blood. Whenever you get some nowadays about juvenile unemploy- but so long as she can do a little government, put a little lime-juice.

more in it. ment; and perhaps without sharing arithmetic accurately, what Hitler's determination to confine does she want? women once again to the provinces Can anyone, forgetting tradition of children, cooking, and church, and looking at the needs of life, ono may be justified in hazarding give a satisfying answer?

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wear

the latter field, if technical since 1918 that the Tokyo Govern do what girls ought to do?

Moreover, we hear a good deal she probably isn't), let her try: water from that mean Hongkong

ability means a combination of rent have been asked to make a the creative mind with the exe- formal claim are accurate, some- cutive hand, there are not alone must be heartily kicking him- dozen men in Europe to equal self to-day. him.

His remarkable book on "Recovery" reveals the trend of

his thought on present-day HYDRONALIUM economic problems and if he is able to persuade. Nanking to

Germany, which did so much to give aluminum its place in the work out his programme, on a smaller scale, naturally, that the modern world, has now prepared conception of his book, it might has all the advantages and none of a new light-weight metal which serve the purpose not only of re- the defects of aluminum.. It is habilitating China's finances but called hydronalium and has been also of setting an example to prepared at the works of the I. G. countries in a similar plight. Farbenindustrie, Germany's fa- That he is well fitted to be en-

trusted with such an experiment mous dye trust. Though light in is beyond doubt. He was re- weight and strong, aluminum and sponsible for the bulk of the its alolys "corrode" under certain burdensome work which resulted weather conditions. They are par- in the financial reconstruction of ticularly affected by sea water, Austria and Hungary, under while rain and certain forms of| League auspices, after the war. dampness also cause damage. As He is an example of the British

civil servant at his best but with a result, they must be continually an outlook widened by a natural recoated with special points to largeness of vision as well as by provent serious damage to the the experience garnered in the whole construction. None of thems last fourteen years at Paris and disadvantages are present in, hy- Geneva, where he has done more dronalium, it la claimed. It is an perhaps than anyone else living alloy of aluminum, magnesium to set a standard of what the and a. very small part of manga "Ideal International man", should nese. It differs from other alloya be. His reputation is such that in that It does not, nood to be men trained by him at Geneva worked in heat. Under certain are always being plundered. conditions it may be welded, Quesney want to the Bank of though, up. to the present, the dif France and Jacobsen to the Na feront parts of any construc tional Economic Councilin Sweden. I he only succeeds in tion of hydronallum have been Low of China's finane riveted together.Manufactured Vidra with the UBaltare tra in various degrees of hardness, it Hirds will can be transported in plates of two

I hope the Pando doesn't pilfer the parcel when he's trekking across the desert with it. How often does he call at your village with mail?

Darling, this is all I can write now: Give Mr. Kelly my address so that he can write to me it anything ever happens you. Ever yours

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AN APOLOGY

We admit now that our action Was totally undignified. Wo should not have thrown that bot tlo at him. At least, not before it was empty,

But a man is inclined to lose his temper in this climate, and in moments of passion, does things that he's sorry for afterwards.. We hope Pete will accept this apology in the spirit with which it To given. It was our last bottle of beor, too. Ta đựng

But there you are. In Hong kong humidity and humility don't mix There's an "" of a differ enca between them. Besides, Foto noodn't have bean so, nasty about that ten bucks we've owed him. We owo lots of better men than he is, more than wo were over able to squeeze out of him. Still, we're sorry. Hongkong people have a lot to put up with. hab with summer, the cabaret" evil, shroffs, chite, people who: write blithering lotters to the papors, all this mystery about tha date of the opening of the Hong- Fong Browary, and a thousand and one other pin-pricks"Jilfe mothes tímica: Isn't worth living,MEN

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