1933-09-06 — Page 22

HERE'S HEALTH !

All the world over WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE retains its It can bo brilliancy, delicate flavour and exhilarating tone.

It represents Iced or served at any desired temperature. British Palo Alo in its most delicate and attractive form.

WHITBREAD'S PALE ALE

A PIANO IS AN ACCEPTABLE GIFT TO EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY ...

WE WILL SUPPLY YOU WITH A FIRST CLASS INSTRUMENT AGAINST A SMALL DEPOSIT-BALANCE PAYABLE BY SMALL

MONTHLY INSTALMENTS:

Let us send you an illustrated catalogue and full particulars of our terms.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

York Bullding.

Tel. 20527.

UVENTA

#BORN

1986OM

THE FINEST IN EVERY WAY

AN

INEXPENSIVE

WATCH

WITH

ONE OF THE

MOST

ACCURATE OF

MOVEMENTS.

Chater Road.

in Platinum, White Gold & Chromium.

Beautifully precisioned movements, fully Jewelled possessing all modem Improvements.

There are numerous designs to be had, all plain,.

.A modern note.

noat

We cordially invite you to inspect them, there is bound to be one to suit you.

Every Watch it Guaranteed For 5. Years.

JUVENIA

Watch-and-Clock Dept:

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

HONG KONG

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

BEFORE.

YOU DECIDE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY

REAL COURAGE

Tho successful dictator needs the wisdom of a Solomon, the thoroughness of a Napoleon, and the rash daring of

Д

Caesar.

IS A HUSBAND'S PLACE The Very Idea!

AT HOME?

By LIONEL HALE

THE GLACIAL AGE

T

By Eddio Kelly, Up the (North) Pola THE other day we wrote something about George Frankly, some people may have A PROFESSOR of Philosophy his own socks, or rolling his own in Swansea has lately con- palliasse, or carrying slop-buckets: had doubts whether Herr Hitler feased a passion for house-work. That is one of the things that has Bernard Shaw. always struck me as unfair about | Lagukumosaik theso possessed all

qualities. He is perfectly content, I. read the Army. capecially the rash daring of n

on your NEW CAR now who can doubt (not without a certain amount of

you should try out the NEW VAUXHALL LIGHT SIX

HAVE ÁRRIVED!

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE

Stubbs Road (Showroom) PHONE 27778-0

oke

ill-natured laughter), to be left a grasa widower for long atretches at a time because it "amases him to deal with the household."

Which is as it should be. A man is expected to alternato Nearly always we are short at this time of the month. So to-day our article is going to be the same way."

between a hero and a housemaid.

were

All this time, women the rough and tumble of the civil- lan's life. They were wrangling Two days later, a defendant in with sub-contractors, or bickering now a London court was unmasked in with farm horses,, or bullying the

}

it? Through Frau Goebbels, wifo of his Minister of propaganda, Hitler now proposes to set up a government fashion bureau and become arbiter of dress to the Ger

Besides, we always get man woman. Nobody can

way in September. who proposes to tell 30,000,000 these homelovers. Oddly enough, ful four years! The women learn-What with all the anxiety, won- question the daring of Herr Hitler, his true colours as another of males, who remained in Govern-this

ment departments. What a dread- women what to wear, even through his wife was pleading for a separa-ed to fight, and the men learned to dering when the hot weather is n feminine minister-without-port- tion on the grounds of his cruelty. wash up.

going to end, whether we're go- follo. But it is distinctly possible Even, she, however, had to admit

Judging from the latest pro-ing to get one of the free tickets' that it will not work. You can tell that "ho was very house-proud."nouncements from Germany the to "Cavalcade," and whether the a man how to run his business. The professor had owned up only war has taught the world very It has apparently to spring-cleaning and redecora-little; but

fotels will stop our chit account You can make him salute overy

bofore the summer onds, we dictator's-underling that comes tion, alhough he announced the evolved

to "con- along. You can tell him to wear praiseworthy intention of going in the maxim on which the future of haven't much time a black shirt, or a brown shirt, or for cookery; the gentleman in England may be based: the hus- contrate on writing.

Give us the good old winter even a nightshirt. But when it court was a confirmed dressmaker band's place is in the home,

I, myself, if I may so far unveil comes to telling a lady that she as well. The magistrates decided must wear a straw hat, or a felt that he could not be as cruel as his my private life, am not a married any time. If there's one thing hat, or a large bat, or a small hat, wife thought, and she is still in man. Is it, I sometimes wonder, wo regrot, it's that we didn't live or no hat at all-well, we can think his home, listening to his blithe because I am not very good within the Glacial Age (between 45

Or when I have seized and 70 among the Latin people), whistling as he scrubs the floor, or my needle? of many things that are just his gentie domestic crooning as he some small, soft hand, and mur- It has been called an age of

mured passionately "I am not worthy to black your boots," has my subsequent failure been due to the fact that the owner of the hand has doubted not only my worthi Hitler is driving the women of ness, but my ability? Germany back to their homes. PRELIMINARY TO From office and factory, from busy MARRIAGE BELLS. typewriters and whirling machines, they are returning to what their For surely, if I am not able to Dictator calls "troir proper place." black her boots, then I am almost

innocent fun beside that!

Hongkong Telegraph. THE TARIFF TRUCE

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1933.

THE FRANC

Again there are rumours

of

a

strong.

·

plies the needle.

THE HITLER PURGE.

HALE-

HITLER.

frigidity among the sexes, but we

sure that this

in- feel

is an

accuracy.

The Inhabitants of the Glacial Age were

the Glaciolithic man. Around him there was nothing but; ico, which was obviously worthless without whiskey-soda and gimlets. -

Hotel.

"Who was that lady I thawed you

with?"

(Message from the Editor, following submission of above; You're wanting a holiday, Eddie, aren't you?

Holland has yivon start to de- nunciation of the Tariff Truce and its disintegration may be expected to follow rapidly. It has really censed to have any value although it was probably necessary whon drawn up at the instance of the If Mr. Ramsay MacDonald took a certainly untrustworthy with the So they invented the Hongkong United States in order to give the high hand to-morrow, and the wo-china and inartistic in the arrange- World Economic Conference s mon of England returned to their ment of the flowers,

Even to-day we havo evidences of chance. It was designed merely homes under the compulsion of a an impending abandonment of to prevent its signatories from severe Order in Council, there! I do not like the idea at all, if, the Glacial Age during the winter the gold standard by France, snatching at now tariff expedients, would be fearful struggles over the when I have been brought up to in different parts of Europe, where whether for bargaining purposes gas-cooker, and the most embit expect women to look after the water, which has stayed out in the the suggestion being that the or otherwise, before the Confer-tered rivalry between husband and house, they turn the tables and cold and gone to sleep, has been budget deficit will compel such a ence met or while it was sitting. wife about making the beds. expect to find the graceful, domes-

tic virtues in me. In the bo-known to turn into Ice. step. Pressure from outside is Without it, the temptation to such

tactics would have been

The Victorian ideal of the hus- nighted old times, when a husband ⚫ Which reminds us of an Eskimo increasingly strong, although If any one Power succumbed band in the matter of the house was a bread-winner and not a woman, who, on entering her igloo, it is claimed by French financial to it conspicuously there might was negative rather than positive. potato-peoler, young men intend found her mate frozen in the arms landslide. Tariff All that was then required of aing to marry were advised to ride of another woman. After beating circles that it can largely behave been ignored in view of the fact that extremists resented the Truce man was that he should not be over and surprise their loved ones them back into consciousness she

But no country could not have actively inintent to cleanliness, unexpectedly observing whether said, to her husband: the greater part of France's ex-stood outside without courting should not walk on the new, sky- they were bright and cheerful and port trade is conducted with her acute trouble. It was, however, blue, drawing-room carpet in mud-tidy about the house before break- Colonies. It is still, however, agreed that the Truco could body boots, and should not allow his fast, for instance, believed in some circles that the ended at any time on a month's cigar smoke to hang about the

notice being given after July 31 boudoir curtaine, franc cannot long resist and the only surprising thing is the tendency of the rest that its termination should have.

been delayed so long. of the. world towards 籍 gigantic experiment in controll- ed money, although they place greater stress on the internal Anti-British feeling is still run

ning strongly. In certain circles in conditions rather than to ex-

Japan. In any other country it ternal pressure, and they see a would scem rather remarkable fundamental weakness in the since the whole agitation arises position of the franc. At the directly from the fact that Japan is flooding the markets of the moment the French Treasury British Empire with ultra-cheap encounters no particular dif- goods, being enabled to do so part- ficulty. But even on paper the ly by low money wages paid in budget, despite many promises, her highly-efficient factories, and has not been balanced, and in the partly because her currency is much more depreciated on the in- Autumn it is certain that grave ternational exchange than it is in respect of its internal purchasing- problems will present themselves power. Not only, for instance, can to the French authorities. For excellent Japanese all-wool socks more than a year the need of be bought in drastic retrenchment, has been pair (some were recently shown proclaimed. It was to have been cheaper), but in regions like the first task of the new Radical tropical Africa some of the best markets are being filched from Government. Yet three govern-of Lancashire's remaining textile Japan's 'complaints arise ments followed, and although her. they each made an attempt to from the measures taken by Brl- wipe out the deficit, they found tain to protect her industrica. themselves handicapped, first by

JAPAN AND BRITAIN

London for G.

at the House of Commong oven

the peculiar composition of the SIMLA PARLEY

India has responded to the French Parliament, and second

manace by stiff anti-Japanese by the general disability under duties, and in West Africa Britain which popular parliaments suf- has denounced a trade agreement fer when it is necessary to re- so as to obtain (though not for trench. Apart from the special twelve months) future liberty to do likewith. Unless some com- situation of the French Govern-promise agreement can be reached ment; it is frequently asked with Japan, there really seems no alternative to the multiplifica- whether parliamennts, which are tion of such measures, far and willing enough to increase statewide. But direct negotiations are liabilities in days of prosperity, now arranged to take place in are capable of decreasing them Simia and we hope that some friendlier solution nay emergo in days of adversity. They from them. The interview given think of the electorate., Never- by Mr. Sawada in Hongkong con- voyed little concerning Japan's theless, that electorato is com intentions, but he spoke of good posed not only of beneficiaries will and friendship, which alone of state expenditure, but also of are likely to provide an amicable taxpayers; and the taxpayers in arrangement.

France are clamouring for somo

reilof. It is calculated that tion of a government which there will be a deficit on next would have a broader basis- year's budget and on the rail- which would be supported by ways of something like 11,000,- most of the parties, including 000,000 francs unless there is the Moderates. Such a govern- decreased expenditure or increas-ment would act more boldly, since no particular party would ed taxation; and M. Daladier has be blamed for unpopular re- announced that ho will forms. Unless a solution of this endeavour to effect Draconian kind is found possible, the post- reductions In those circum- tion of the frane will certainly atanças, a governmental crisis is bo endangered before the end of to be anticipated. The true the year. So that the problem solution, in the opinion of many of the future of the franc is not primarily financial it is politi- deputies, conalete in the forma

All house commandments, as I any,

were negative. Nowadays

Must I expect, when the time standards of active virtue nro luld comes that some dear lady has down for the husband. He must begun to think seriously of me not only apare the carpet, but tack (aver-looking my shameful weak- It down; not only respect the cur-ness in the matter of blacking her tains, but sew them and hang them boots), that I shall be liable to

up.

HERO

AND HOUSEMAID.

Eddie: Yes, an ice long one.)

early morning visita just as I am

WHAT'S IN A NAME coming down to breakfast, and that I shall be surprised-by-a When wo first-mot-our-wife-wo charming but Inquisitorial appari-used to call her Miss Whalestooth. This change in husbands I put tion, who will give me marks for Then we fell in love with her and down, dogmatically and recklessly, being rosy and shaven, and take called hor Arabella. Within a to the late war, I am aware that them off again because I have left wook we were calling her "darling." Mr. John Buchan has remarked last night's shirt in the middle of We were married and she became somewhere that a

good

many the bedroom floor? This is a very "denr." Then just "Bell" But wo overdid it last night. While we things are now put down to the bloak prospect for me. original sin; but I persist in add- For if my wedding bells depend were asleep we called her "Jessie 1" ing to the scapegoat's burdens. on such domesticity ns keeping During the war, women stepped my own bedroom tidy, they will be, very gallantly out of their kitchens I fear, for ever mute. into Government offices: instead of

war that used to be attributed to

tea-parties and scandal, they had Men, on the other hand, joined the Army in France; and, as every- not fighting is scrubbing the floor body knows, a soldier when he is of the sergeants' mess, or darning

committees and-more-scandal.

"Ask him if he won't read

my last employér, reki

On these lines, I would not hear

my wedding bells ring for all the wives in the world, broad-winning

as they might be.

In this matter, although I never thought to write the words, I am as one with Hitler.

ted foalng my Mrvices.

PRIVATE

much

.'.

GLOSSARY OF TERMS HUNTING: Pursuit of young female of the species. Favourite champions of the game are usually found in the lounge of the Hong- Sabbath sport in Hongkong. The

kong Hotel or at Repulse Bay, but church choirs have provided more than one record beater.

SWIMMING: See SUN-BATH-

ING.

SUN-BATHING: Seasonal re- creation engaged in extensively by. those who wish to show off their figures. Generally coloured a bright red in order to, identify them.

BOWLING: Seo DRINKING or D. RINKING.

DRINKING: Moat popular sport in Hongkong. Played with bottle, glass and chit book. Only skill required fa ability to wield a stick, from centre of which protrudes small piece of Icad. Also called LEAD SWINGING, LEAD SWILLING, LEAD PENCILLING, and LED TO BED.....

HIKING: Hiking is what hap pens to all your joints and muscles when you go. Hiklug. See also POODLE-FAKING.

DANCING: Winter pastime. Similar to hiking, only difference baing that females hike backwards, and males stand on their (fomalos) tocs.

MOTORING: · A form of Hunt Ing. Pedestrians aro substituted for foxes. Bec, RUNNING, WALK- ING HOME, SKATING, and the Undertaker.

HORSE-RIDING: As practlood by the Ellie Strenuous pretimo, which consists of bumping the lower ond of the long wobbly bone. with your bend set on one end and your set on the other. The difer- once between HORSE-RIDING and HIKING is that you get blfatera on your feet when HIKING