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COST OF PUBLIC WORK SCHEMES

NOTES OF THE DAY

THOSE WOMEN IN TROUSERS

By ROBERT “LYND

There has never been a

The Very Idea!

HOW TO LOSE AT POKER

SINCE

The week-end typhoon hardly played the game. Having headed stendily for Hongkong for two days and taken a peep at Gap Rock, I suddenly sheered off

By Edward Kelly, Busted Flush south for no obvious reason, dis~!

timo Jare allowed to dress anyhow, And

we last wrote about. appointing the newcomers who were keyed up an anticipation of when human beings worried so the more attention they pay to their

poker, we have learnt. at their work. their first experience of... a

real much about other people's clothes as uniforms, the more expert they are "blow"

discomfiting and

thethey-do-at present. Scarcely a.

is a lot about this subject. Go-as-you-picasé in dress wisenere old-stagers who had month passes without a mild vol

They say you've got to pay been seeking to Impress the griffins canic eruption of public opinion over pleasant enough; but with 50 per cent. of human beings-1 do not with their predictions. All the reminiscencing presumably intend-some such question as whether put the figure higher than that it for your experience. Last. ed to convey a sense of superiority fawn-tounis players of the female becomes a symbol of gu-as-you- night we paid $45, which is

not wear please in other things. I do not be was so much waste of time. The sex should or should

love that a professional army could about all the experience we joke was on the amateur experts. stockings or Perhaps Mr. Jeffries will arrange should be allowed to wear shirts over attain a high level of efficiency intent to buy.

if soldiers were allowed to dress as things a lttle better next time

open at the throat in hot weather, they pleased on parade some of It all happened through Pete. to give the old hands chance to recover their self-esteem!

And now we have a hubbub over them wearing hikers' shorts, others Pete-approached us on Saturday.

in their shirt sleeves, others

"What about a game of poker" two nurses who went out for a top-hats, others in sandals, if a STREET-LIGHTING

Guardsman were seen doing sentry- to-morrow night?" he asked walk in trousers.

duty with a paper hat Instead of n It is true that novelty of costume, bearskin on his head even the most

of unless it is sanctioned by Fashion, unconventionally-minded has never been popular. We have would realise that the Guards were the same instinctive objection to not what they used to be, anyone who dresses in opposition HEARTS AND-SHIRT SLEEVES.

A rather serious accident in Prince Edward Road.. last night may serve to draw attention, once again, to the street-lighting ques tion in Kowloon. A Chinese youth was badly hurt and a motor-lorry damaged. While it is possible that several other factors tributed to the smash, It is fairly safe to say that but for the fact that Prince Edward Road is light- ed on one alde only and that each light on that side is fifty yards from the next, the mishap would not have occurred. Bearing in

con-

mind the fact that Prince Edward Road probably ranks 'only second-

volume to Nathan Road in

of traffic, the lighting system is quite inadequate. At the very least,

!

whether postmen

-

in

"Sorry," we said, "we're tak using the girl friend to Church."

to the fashion as sparrows are said

Another reason for believing that to have to an escaped canary.

clothes may exert a powerful in- The women who used to wear fluence on life is the important part

modern revolutionary bloomers were 'glowered as outcasts played by shirts of various colours who affronted the sense of decency.ments. It might truly be said in- It is not long since young men who deed, that what Europe is suffering wore no hata in the open air were from to-day is mainly shirt-trouble. regarded as half-insane to many The travelier in Europe-will learn

sane citizens.

move-

•

of

"Well, can you make it Monday- night?" he said.

"Too bad" we replied, we're visiting the dentist on Monday."

"Oh, well, surely you can cóme. along Tuesday, night?" he said.

"Oh, damitall, all right. We'll come to-morrow night," we cried.. They had some litla dicuity explaining to us just what poker- was. For instance, there

Are

would beat two pair, and a full Which was rather unfortunate, for hand would beat three of a kind. were just on one occasion we pipped by three douces when we had two pair of aces in our hand. This was tormed a Jack pot, because, they told us, it was won by Pete.

more about the foreigners ho meets three or four different kinds of to-day from looking at their shirts poker. There's, atud poker, as. It is very difficult indeed for any than from looking at their faces. played in America, Strip Poker, as one who is not a drees reformer To a greater and greater degree, played at Shatin, Draw Poker. on their Jack Pot Poker. and Whiskey

Poker. the Government should centre the

We were all in favour of existing lights or provide addi-to believe that a dress reformer is men wear their hearts

quite right in the head. A differ shirt-sleeves; in other words, to a greater and greater degree their

dash of tional lamps on the other side.

ence of dress from the normal hearts are in the wrong place. The whiskey poker, with a THE DAVIS CUP

usually suggests lunacy. That is restoration of the masculine heart sada.

to the old Three of a kind, they told us, The whole sporting world will why poets and artists in the last from the shirt-alcavo Join in congratulations to the Eng-century, with their long hair, their position in the breast is one of the

ture for good Europeans. lish tennis players who, during velvet jackets and their cloaks were great tasks of the immediate fu- the week-end, captured for the regarded as mad by the majority

It is quite possible that some Davis first time since 1912, the

day the State, realising that this Cup. There was nothing resemb of sensible citizens.

I am not myself easily perturbed pestilence of coloured shirts is л ling a fluke about the achievement, which has set the scal, at least in matters of other people's dress. serious menace to the peaco for the time being, on Britain's I do not really care whether a wom-ordinary life, will set up a Minis

try of Dress which will prescribe] claim to be the leading country The main argument used by in international lawn tennis. Aus-an is or is not forbidden to enter the patterns of shirts to be worn the Chancellor of the Exchequer tin, Perry, Hughes and Lee have a church because her head is un- by men each season. Every kind in in Parliament and Mr. Runciman come through gruelling test with covered or her sleeves are too short. of shirt that made men feel "shirty" at the World Economic Cor-flying colours, The cream of Aus- Last summer. I was compelled to it is significant that even

tralian, American and French ten-walk through a church in Venice slang shirts should be associated my com-with temper-would be prohibited; ference in rejecting all appro- nis has been overcome within a in my shirt-sleeves, as aches for cooperation in the space of one month. There have panion's bare arms were objected and we should all be compelled to Roosevelt programme of exten-been individual triumphs through-to and the guardian of the church appear, say, in white or in temper-

out the contest, but it was left to suggested. she should wear my soothing blue.

Some people would object that the sive public works is that Bri- Fred Perry finally to win the Cup jacket as a means of qualifying for

shown for Britain. Good captaincy, respectability. I did not mind: State must not be allowed to inter- tain's experience has

also I rather like these old customs. fere any further with our private that "the average cost of put- especially against Franco,

Again I cannot feel Indignant lives. But these shirts

private. They are about the most ting a man on relief works for played its part and the English- men, can regard their performance a year is approximately £500." with complete satisfaction. France either because a man wears only

has lost the trophy for the first bathing-slip on the beach or be public thing in Europe, and con- Were the figure correct,

time in six years; but she fought cause the authorities order him to stitute a public nuisance. On that Government's attitude

brilliantly, forcing the issue to wear a university costume. I am great day on which liberty has been Ural Mountains to the Aran Is the final rubber after losing the no enthusiast for beach pyjamas, brought back to Europe, from the first two singles. There have nev- but I do not resent the innovation, if Britain can guard the cup as

lands, I do not think the, avent

same and with the jealously amount of national pride, there is no reason why Britain's tenure of custodianship should not be as long as that enjoyed by France. CLASSES WITHOUT CLASSES

the

would

receive a wide measure of sup- strongly questioned in a host of

port,

num.

but their accuracy

is

er been more worthy holders and feeling sure that it will one day

pass.

GUARDSMEN IN PAPER ́HATS:

At the same time, I sometimes

are not

could be more fittingly celebrated than by having a bonfire of shirts on every hilltop in every land. places. Mr. Maynard Keynes

If clothes are so important as all has worked out a scheme to the

not ho final details which he declares

clothes more seriously. After all, some reason on the side of thos0 would create new employment at

wonder whether I ought not to take this suggests may there the Army, the Navy, the Church who object to women's wearing a cost of £133 per man per-an-

and the Law would not have taken trousers? If a doctor went about decidedly While

lèss

so much trouble during all those in a skirt he would certainly lose the and optimistic, the final report of the It has been not altogether un-

justly remarked that the educa. centuries with costumes and uni- confidence of his patients, and it Com- Unemployment Grants

tional ladder in Britain bears a forma if costumes and uniforms did is important for both men

not somehow increase their effi-women in many professions to wear A greasy clancy.

clothes that inspire confidence. mittee also disproves the Go-strong resemblance to

As I have said, however, I do not vernment estimate. The report pole; it is easier to fall off than

On the whole, I imagine, the

care what clothes people states that over the whole field to climb. And it is often forgotten of public works of the character that education, though it is relied woaring of uniforma makes for the much

on to unite nations, may some prevention of untidiness and gener-wear-apart from their shirts. And wai-I do not even care very much what? approved by the Committee "it times be so turned as to set up al "slummockiness." The may safely be accepted that a barriers between classes Doubt- trcases who wear uniforms are, so kind of shirts people wear so long capital expenditure of £1,000,000 less Mr. H.S.M. Brangham had this far as my experience goes, always as they are not red or black or provides fully 2,500 man years thought in mind when, at the re-better waitresses than those, who brown. of direct employment." The cent annual conference of the Ná- declared Committee had no information tional Association of Head Tea

chera at Hastings, he on which to base an estimate of that Britain's educational pro- the volume of indirect employ-blems would never be solved until ment provided but the report the children of members of Par states the "such employment islament county councillors, cap, clearly substantial and due allow- taing of industry and manual ance should be made for this workers were educated aido by factor in considering the employ-side in the name properly equipped ment value of public works. It schools. Mr. Brangham's sugges- tion is radical; and it goes down is almost generally admitted to the roots of the matter not so that for every man directly em- much to water them as to puli ployed another is indirectly em- them up. It is hardly desirable ployed by public works ex- at this advanced stage of develop- penditure." This brings us to ment to abandon the whole regime an average cost per man-year, and traditions of the ancient Brit- based on official figures, of £200. lsh system of public schools mere- ly because only a comparatively Again, the Building Industries small number of children can enjoy Council has taken figures given the privileges of that system. by Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Nevertheless, there is a fundamen- which the Ministry of Labour, tal of social justice in Mr. Brank- when approached agreed to be ham's proposal that ought not to be correct, showing that an expendi- ignored. ture on special works in 7

SHADES OF MOLJERE

years of £250,000,000 has em ployed an average of 180,000 Tho elnema, which recently its first appearance In men, directly or indirectly, overy made year. This means that, on the French politics with the construc average an expenditure of $185 ton of a projection room in the on public works has employed Chamber of Deputies, is now rapidly making its way into year. This Parisian diplomacy, art and music. one man for 1 estimate too is based upon offi- In at least ono important embassy, cial figures and it is mysterious motion pleturo shows are a fro- been an- how the Chancellor arrives at quant feature of social gatherings, his estimate of £500. The facts Finally, plana havo

for the presenta- tion of motion picture programmes scom to suggest that nationally nduncod planned public works are really once a week in the Opera Comique, an economical way of reducing And now there is even talk- unemployment to more normal although so far it is no more than proportions and that the Go- that and is not likely to become vernment would do well to un-so-of giving occasional film por dertake a further examination of formances in that sacred procinet Comedle the question.

the stage, the Francaise!

of

"She wants you to change this salmon salad into a chicken

sandwich.

If we had won it would havo been a Queen pot. At the time we considered this rather un insult, but they calmed as down. In the next deal three pat hands high straight, Wally sat with three Kings and a pair of deuces and we were dealt. Pete held a King

held a King George IV and soda.. We These are called Royalties. had half a bottle of royalties.

This is also known as straddling the blind. But first of all you must be blind. This is easy, pro- viding you drink enough Royalties.

The winner of the pot takes the

Kitty. Unfortunately there wore no women in our school last night.

So we finished off with Ace Pots.

Which recalls a former occasion: when, using every possible strate- gy, we dealt ourself-four-aces. The bidding went up to $25 when we called our opponent.

He laid four aces down on the

table. We quietly slipped ours. into the pack.

This was the origin of the famous phrase "More Ace, less pleased".

Besides, poker is a vile game. Why, it's gambling.

Sooner or later, a man who- bets at poker finds out It's bets not to.

What would your poor, dear old mother say it ahe know. (She's afloat for a dollar).

Think of your children at home, crying piteously for bread, while, night after night, you fritter away your earnings in a poker gambling den. (Gimme three carda), Your family should have first considera- tion (I'll raise you fiftv.)

Face the facts. This gambling spirit is the curse of our manhood (Up another Ally). Fellow citizens, while we're gambling here, night after night, our women and children are without a stitch of clothes to thair back (ru look).

We want a Reform leader, "Give Our women a chance. To whom can. wo turn in this, our hour of need (Threo Queens).

HOW COULD RED RIDING HOOD? Hongkong government officials mako nice pets. They are cheor ful, friendly, easily amused, and companionable little follows about the fat. They do not make good watchdogs, and must bo muzzled when allowed out on the streets, but, after all, ono can't have everything.

Yet how few people have tried keeping ono? "They take up so much room in a flat." "They ex- Wo pect such extravagant food." hear similar objections every day.

Such excuses are totally un- warranted. What could be botter, for instance, than a little. P.W.D. PEAKeneno. A lot of our girl friends simply doto on them. And we know for a positive fact that all the dancing girls in the cabirots are just too, too thrilled, with their fuffy little wolves. aga