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FRIDAY, OCTOBm 20, 1999,

SOCIAL EVILS

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1933.

NOTES OF THE DAY THE PHILOSOPHY OF A

FRANC DANGER

The recent uncertainty in, the

LOCAL BOOTBLACK

IT NEVER RAINS BUT IT SHINES FOR HIM

others see him? BUSINESS.

So-and-So, be en-

in our communni structure ins-

The Very Idea!

TEACHING US MANNERS

By Eddle Kelly, Bus Driver"

YOU'LL notice by Bus Company is commenc ing a School of Manners for its employees.

day's Telegraph the to

There has, we understand, been some talk of late about the deplorable manners of bus-conductors.“

:

Why complaints should be restricted to bus drivers is beyond our comprehension.

Doubts about the stability of the frane have now spread to Paris itself that more than fear of in- creased taxation is the probable explanation of the rush to soll French currency on Wednesday

By C. V.-L. for the Telegraph⠀⠀ afternoon. If the movement de velops into light of capital from Paris, as is distinctly pos-

The cold season, from that he, Mr. |sible, abandonment of the gold

atandard may be forced upon the which tolerable contin-abled to see in the shining expanse of leather a reflection of his own Frónch Government whether they contemplate the stop to-day or not. uance of the dry spell may not: in short, accing himself is Tno fluctuations on the exchange be expected, is on the verge market affected all other Continen tal gold countries alike, further of setting in, and local boot- EXIGENCIES. disturbing commercial Interests. blacks, with a period of Wherefore it is to be believed world's currencies must be emergency barely left be-the bootblack does occupy a nicho We know lots of other Hong- nightmare to the trading com- hind, are speculating if for tend of merely a nuisance and an kong people who need lessons.

We could mention heaps of munity. It le obviously impos- them business will improve. obstruction.

Truc, the fraternity may have names, but, Instead,, we'll con- sible to take more than a limited view ahead and hybile the for Like other businesses, neces-pushed business enterprise a bit tent ourself with giving a fow ward market still offers Insurance sary or unnecessary, the too far. A fow in this connexion hints on etiquette.

For instance, when a news- against risks, it has its limitations, ne the Hongkong Government dia business of making shoes nye been known to seize on the unwilling leg and draw it, willy- covered in 1932, much to the alarm shine has its ups and downs, nilly, to the footstool. But that Paper reporter calls on you the and just now it has fallen is only to be expected when the correct things to do is to grunt footwear and tell him tersely to get to community keeps its into the pit of the general meticulously clean and

the dry somewhere out of this. weather conspiring to preserve A gentleman should always slump.

If people will only follow the this mark of respectability. A remove his hat in a lift when advice of the economist and bootblack, in the last analysis, in indies are present. If the gentle- !compelled to live in order that he man is bald, he can walk up the festing dubious about the ultimate spend more and save less least may continue to serve a thankleas stairs. Makes no difference to us.

We're just telling you. success of the Roosevelt Recovery of all on the trifling cost that public.

Nowadays it is hardly necessary' programme. The expectations of will help to make their lives. When one comes to think of it, the American man-in-the-street brighter by a little shoe polish, there is just one moral danger to to ask permission of a lady to have been woefully disappointed, what a different story perhaps, the bootblacks themselves. Force smoke, unless it's oplum; but be of habit and an endless parade of careful, if you do ask, not to use although the experts in trade and there might be to,telli industrial affairs, oven those who All the virtues concontrated in dirty shoos may have tended to keep the phrase "May I smoke?" You're were optimistic, knew that the tiny tin of shao polish may not, their gaze rivetted to earth when it simply asking for the correct process of recovery would be pro-have been recognised and exploit- could have been lifted up to answer, which is "I don't care if tracted. President Roosevelt's ed by people in the trade, and we other things finer and for brichter you burn." main problem is still to persuade are only dimly conscious that in than the pollah they are so ready to the banks to land. The manner some mysterious way it is con- deal out to all and sundry with of their offer to accept cash from nected with Cherry Blossom or such an impartial hand. the Reconstruction Finance Cor-that feathered oddity they tell us porations is sufficiently indicative is the kit. Except that it serves

of the Auditor.

MR. ROOSEVELT'S PROBLEM

Mr. Tinkham is not

alone in

of their frame. of mind. They

A useful purpose, by making old

...

If a gentleman rises and gives his seat to a lady in a bus, she should first grunt at him, then take a step forward with the left foot, planting it firmly on his right foot, glare at him for having his foot on

feel quite honestly that they are and dilapidated shoes took less Women Are the the floor, flop into the sent, and

routine.

nierely adding to the amount of old and dilapidated, the other uses fule money at their disposal. for polish, as for instance its aid Patriotism in accepting the offer to character-reading, have not Arrests and convictions of is not likely to be followed by been fully considered in our daily local harridans for trafficking in "patriotic loans" to individuals or young girls have become suff- firms who cannot provide them security. Badly ciently frequent of late to 'pro-with- ample.

caught only six or seven months voke comment. There seems to ago, a polley of caution to-day be a feeling, not without justi- in psychologically certain. fication, that a serious growth in

''

the traffic has recently develop-

ed. In the revolting case, this NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

week brought to light, the prose-

Selfish Sex

By URSULA BLOOM. THE FINER

I regret writing this. It seems to be, on the face of it, disloyal. POINTS..

It has been left, we venture to Yet it is so well deserved that think, to a bootblack more than cannot help putting my pen to anybody

else, to assess the it. I say in the face of all op psychological points in footwear. position that mine ie the selfish sex To him it matters little if the mine is the selfish sox!

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DEMOCRACY'S ASSET

No

EVEN GREATER SINS. These are the smaller sins of selfishness, but some women do not stay at this. They allow their

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look out of the window.

It is the little details that count.. At table, for instance. It is not good form to push the jam-tin lid down into the tin after you have used it. Someone else may have to struggle with it later.

The careful hostess would never give her guests peas unlosa masked potatoes are provided on the same plate. Feas alone can never be re- tained on a knife.except by an

Give

We forgot to mention that where the guest of honour is a man he should take the hostess's arm when

•

STIFF

(With apalagles to all cancerned). If you are broke, with nothing in the

larder,

And ront and bills and paymonta

overdue,

-If day by day life's weary road scoms

harder

And debt-collectors shower write on

yout,

footwear is expensive, or merely Speaking in generalities, nine experienced diner-out. With mash- the cheaper products of standar-times out of ten mine is the sexed potatoes pens are easy. Democracy or dictatorship? The discd and muss manufacture more that expects everything to be done the peas a good coating of mashed cution was assisted by the fact

knife.. Take care, however, not to that the mother was an unwill. question for many countries has favoured by the plodding pro- for it, and to do precious little in potatoes and they will stick to the

ceased to be academic. Democracy letariat. But if they are dirty, or return.

Look round you. Women ex-run out of potatoes before the nean ing party to the transaction, is struggling for its existence. In if he thinks they requira his pro-

Women push When eating fruit, such as man- fact which gives rise to disquiet 1864, when the "Statesmen's Year- fessional services, he publicly calls pect mon to stand up for them in are finished.

and the buses and tubes." concerning the extent of vice book' was first issued, there were attention to the fact,

how he and booking office queues half-removed from the mouth with the. organiantion in these times of in Europe eighteen monarchies and owner's reputation for respec- themselves into theatre queues goes or linhees, the secula should be

one republic; to-day, according to tability, depending on

Women oc handbag. acute depression and unemploy Dr. M. Epatain, the Yearbook's meets the offer, is at once at stake, way up, ignoring the protest of the hand, and placed in a pocket or

On the other hand, the variety others about them.

At important functions it is bost time ago, it was decided that, and only eight monarchics. Recent fessional eye allghts in a day must keep others waiting, while they to swallow them, as it saves muck- Hongkong should return to the to conclude from theso significant have struck the full range of in- ask ridiculous questions which ing about.

dividual expressions, granted could with any forethought have principle of prohibition and sup- figures that the decline of monarchy that with the requisite degree of boon answered elsewhere and pre- pression of licensed premises, a necessarily means the advance of pollah, they fairly reflect the viously. plous trust was reposed in the democrecy. If democracy is a

system in which power resides in character of the owner. Inatant-Have you ever seen a man run efficacy of the Ordinance for the people, it is more likely to boly, the shape and style intrude a shop-assistant off his or her feet entering the dining room. If the here. What is clearer than high while he made up his mind about hostess is very far gone, another gentleman may hold the other arm, the Protection of Women and found in monarchical Britain than heels and pointed toes ns, an in-twopennyworth of ribbon?

Yet we third gentleman going in front

with the legs. Girls, the only legal instruments in the republican Soviets. The dication to effemialty and a min- of course you haven't,

Have you evor ecen an old We think that ought to be enough devised in the Colony which trend from royalty to republic lacing nirety of department in the men do it time and time again.

no indication whether or not the male, or bronder shoe patterns to could hope to deal with the world is steadily becoming more de-emphasise a firmness of step and gentleman demanding that his for the first lesson. Practice nephew should play patience with diligently, and let's know how you aftermath. It was generally mocratic. Figures like those of solidity of outlook?

any Or again, clean shoes denote him and wait upon him hand and get on, and we'll come and ball.you felt, however, that the decisions Dr. Epstein do not furnish

mand such service of nieces? Of Adicul (French). taken left many local require answer to the question whether a person of careful habits, and foot in the way that old nunts de-out.

ig the development of ovonts

dirty shoes a 'proof of well, a course not. ments unsatisfied, particularly favourable to democracy or the darkened outlook. In the Intter as problems existing at the time reverse.

case what more fitting and natural than that 'n shocblack should hore were likely to be intensified by

intervene for a saving duty to the the disintegration of the licensed

community by Imparting the necen- houses and the driving of their

Bary degree of polish. In order occupants into subterranean, Hitherto, even in democratically channels. It is clalmed by, sup-governed countries, the control of porters of Government policy foreign policy has been left in the that where licensed vice has hands of the executive; but the mutual interdependence of the na- been abolished, traffic in victims tlona to-day makes foreign affairs becomes more difficult when the so fundamental an'aspect of govern. system, after a preliminary ment that to separate them from period of disorganisation, has the direction of the people's repre- dwindled. That may be appll-sentatives would reden democracy cable to conditions elsewhere, but from a reality to a mere naine. here, in a port contiguous with Further, Increasing complexity of questions of internal politics-the Chinn, the results hardly justify intricacy of such matters, for exam- this optimistic view. The pro-ple, as the gold standard and blem remains rather more dif- tariffs-makes the taak of a demo- ficult than before. A wide-cratic government harder than spread camaign was carried out ever. Yet these difficulties are not against sly-brothels during the so much a discouragement as a spur "period of disorganisation," but and a challenge for democracy to it appears to have, slackened overcome them. For many hum- pace and the traffickers have dreds of years it was considered could resumed their activity, aggrava- axiomatic that democracy ting the situation by new re-function only in a small-city state, cruitments. The arguments of the application of democratic sys social reformers are still Ineffec-tom of government to an. aren as largo an England would for :moro tual in Hongkong where the than a thousand years have ap- ancient problem still remains of peared fantastic and absurd. As what can be achieved in the face democracy has conquered the limita of old customs and extremo potion of size, so will It triumph verty, the lack of means where-over its other difficulties. The by the masses can be introduced reason for its ultimate success, in to a higher economical standard fundamental. In Britain and elsc- and to better chances in life. where at the moment it may not Always discussions on matters seem to have the qualities of such as this must lead to the speed and decision to be observed same end. Attacks on the slum in more autocratic systems; but problem, upon social evils of among a people with whom it has overy kind, opium smoking and grown up and developed naturally, democracy has a flexibility, a capa- the like, will always fall of their city to adapt itself to changing objective while no effort is mado needs, hot found in any other to raise the living standards of method of government so far die the submerged nine-tenthe. covered.

"What an awful place to run out of gas,

for an hour.

We'll be stuck

If you've no hope of finding a bonanza (The sort that yields twelve ounces

to the ton),

Then, with our Eddie and him who'e

ponned this stanza,

You are a modern Hongkongtis, my

ROIL.

".. 'EAR 'EAR J Nature is wonderfull A million. years ago she didn't know were going to wear spectacles, yet look at the way she placed our

CATA,

BY THE SAD SEA

we

Those who go down to the sea in sampans must have noticed several figures on yachts with rods and Unos attached to them. These are Ahermen. A

These fishermen are not dead. They are merely ossified, and overy. few months the government send a man 'to brush the cobwebs off them. They never catch any fish,

By the side of each deherman is parked a can full of worms having no end of fun, wriggling about and inventing new dance stops for gigolos, playing tog, and making faces at the passers-by. We know one worm that crawled out of Its tin and started for home, but wan arrested at the end of the pier by a sparrow for passing a green traffic light when it was rod.

It is a mistake to think, that a flaherman can't come to life, You. tap one on the shoulder and ask him if ho has caught anything yot. but first be sure that you've gotia. clear run to the pollos station