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When an England cricketer bowls for catches on the leg-sado, on an Australian wicket, au tho world hears of it; but a revolution can come to an attracting scarcely end; aftrovolution any attention at

with the names of its ownera.

PRAYER

So the tenants are to have the THEY ARE ALARMED. rough and of the stick.

Into

By One of Them

tho

MODEL HUSBANDS.

AFTER a long silence, we

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Still, one does occasionally come across a woman who is prepared to go bail for her husband in rather the sathe way as a circus trainer. might vouch for one of his son- Hons.

have decided to break That, in effect is what the deck- Rather, they are alarmed by a is in its last stage in Great Britain Bon of the landlords who have position permitting landlords as a our silence on the question of

dieconnect their body to trifle at will with an at the present moment, and but for threatened to

essentially vital aced to the commodel husbands. agencalogist and historian, bir.water motors, will amount to. £230

munity-a Landlords claim to be overtaxed health and happiness of the com

need on which J. Hurden Ward, no one would

Let us say at once that have noticed it. To be sure, the by an excessive water charge in munity depends. To speak of the world is simply teeming Usale of the house of Drakelow, near faddition to being obliged to pay piped water as a luxury is to be

Burton-on-Trent, Derbyshire scema capacity bouse assessment tax classed with that mentality which with Model Husbands-but Xto be merely an incident in an Recently, they petitioned the Gove views the present type of jerry they invariably belong to the

Auctioneer's office. But in this orament for reconsideration, but built houses as being alas ton H

auctioneer's office it completed the not having yet received a reply, good for those who are obliged to woman next door. last, chapter but one of a story that they seem to be annoyed; annoyed live in them.

For only those with a woeful Agan in a royal council chamber with having to wait so long; and

The number of individual at midwinter in the year 1986, they now make the threat.

Ignorance of living and housing | wives who alone of all thoir when, in the words of the historian

That was how the situation was conditions in this Colony will friends have failed to plek a Maitland, William the Conqueror wore his crown at Gloucester and Interpreted by the general mass seriously believe that the cost of

makea of any floor, paragon

one wonder there...had deep speech with his of the community, until, as ten- the water needs

generally with two or more where on earth all the friends Swise men." The outcome of that ants, they suddenly wake up to ger

deep speech was the Domesday the reallantion that it is proposed families, will end at three dollars Book, in which was catalogued all to make of them a direct and much or any other Axed amount. Nor are riding out. the land in the kingdom, together interested party. Willy-nilly, they will tenants be easily misled by

ard being dragged

then alleged benevolent intention quarrol, by depriving them of their now instilled into the proposed proceeding that of giving em- usual water supply.

ployment to distressed coolles. The move cannot be camouflaged There is a ring about this which

tenanta fa too virtuous to be trustworthy. assurance that Of all the land-owning families by the

If landlords as a body are per- Deferred Terms--Repurchase recorded in Domesday Book, only needs will be otherwise cared for. Licence & Insurance Arranged

Tenants were told that with-mitted to have their own way in It is all a question of what we in the entire length and Full particulars on application. breadth of Great Britain, to-day out being greatly inconvenienced, this, as in a much more prosperous who are behind the bars call the

holds the same property that if they could still have their water past, they have had in another Resistance-Capacity ratio. HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE did when it first caught the eye of

In another way from the mains, matter, the problem will hardly King

but by employing hired porters end there. Tenants visualise n William. They are Show Room

Shirleys of Ettington.

dreadful prospect directly ahead and of course, paying them. Until the Stubbs Road fall of an auctioneer's hammer.

If the threat la carried into execu- Magnanimously, it was proposed tlon. tney had companions in the owners

to make tenants an allowance of A big-scale return to street of Drakelow. The sale of Drake-

three dollars to each floor, to be queues, competing for supplies at low, therefore, though not an epoch-secured by a corresponding dedüc-street fountains; professional making event, is certainly epoch-tion from the ronta,

water carriers exploiting a pos- marking. It dramatically draws But rents insofar as they can alble racket; Government boing attention to the fact that the order to held down to one fixed level-forced to give additional facilities of society which is recorded in the economic level for tenants at water mains, with all the trouble Domesday Book is now in the last are as dependable as the mercury and inconvenience to everyone. taken (including intervals where atages of transformation. That in the thermometer: they go up In fears of the dark days to Capacity is purely verbal.) society was based upon the owner- and down, according to the tem-come, tenants can only offer up ship of land; to-day, society is perature of the times and cir- the prayer: From the Intentions balit upan «" "oundation of com- cumstances. Tenants are not a of the landlords, may we be de- morce and trado.

sabit Impressed by the offer!

livered..

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The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934.

THE OVERCROWDING

EVIL

ONE LEFT!

0/10.

NEW CONCEPTIONS

E

the

more

Resistance may be of two kinds:

Good (e.g., Resistance to idea of lodge, Week-end or Club) and Bad

(e.g., Resistance to idea of Bridge with Robinsons or Rolling the Lawn). Capacity (x) is measured by the equation x-” where y-Resulta (e.g., repair of scullery tap or dis- tempering nursery)

and z-time

There are many husbands in cap-

with an tivity

irreproachable Resistance-Capacity ratio, but they are seldom admitted to Model status by their wives owing to the fnet that bridge with Robinsons, seem to sap the more romantic faculties of manhood.

GIVE ME A LIGHTH OUSE--NO, DON'T tap-repairing, and allied industries

By MAURICE LANE-NORCOTT

- Conversely, many a cave-man who can hit his wife with, unfall- HAVE you noticed how frequent. "Dearest Aunt Maud," we coulding accuracy unaccountably losos ly lighthouses have been in write, "By all means come and stay form when required to turn his at- the news lately?

with me for a month, as suggested.tention to a picture hanger. "My goodness!" I expect you] Just give me a hail when you ar- have unid to yourselves, opening rive and I will throw you the life your newspapers at breakfast and line. Bon voyage and we'll have turning to the latest lighthouse biscuits for dinner." story. "Here's another fighthouse "Tatkins, my man, wo could kacper marooned on his lighthouse observe sternly, "permit me to say

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Taking It all round, it seems that husband only becomes. Model when he is dead--particularly if his widow marries again."

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LIBEL

once stating that the place and rea- Dear Kelly, Remembering 7ON son of your birth was unknowa, I have succeeded in tracing the press

reason for

яoems

Despite the serious overcrowd-

Of the social order based on pro- ing which persists both on the perty there is much good to ba island and in Kowloon, it

said. It lacked, perhaps, that sense 15 of equality, of the potential worth seldom that action is taken by of every individual apart from ques- the authorities with a view to tions of birth and status, which combating the evil. The Sani- is now happily becoming tary Department has been con- widespread. But it had a con- tent to act on the principle of ception of social obligation, and a prosecuting only in really seri-tradition of disinterested service not apparent in sorne recent dia- ous cases, two of which, from closures of government corruption Kowloon, were dealt with in and financial dishonesty in the Court yesterday. How serious we

western were the breaches of the law in balance,

en world. Nevertheless, on

ce, the

social order modern

and these cases

may be gathered has immense advantages over that him onbody seems able to reach that you are making yourself con

or eveu send him a letter." spicuously ridiculous," from the fact that in one in- in existence when the owners of And then, I dare say, you have True, we couldn't post any of

A fair reader (we hope she in stance there were no fewer than Drakelow first look over their pro- eighed enviously and added as an these letters, unless we cared to fair) has discovered our long the equivalent of 37 adults ac-

party. In the first place, it nos the afterthought: "These Hghthouse put them in a bottle and confide cherished secret. This is what she commodated on a floor where

benefit of nearly 900 years' addi-keepers have all the luck?

them to the deep. Still, just to writes:. tional experience.

Personally, I believe a man write then would pass the time LTD. the legal limit was 13, whilst

could be completely happy, lolling away very pleasantly. It would be in the other, instead of 13 there

on the verandal of his lighthouse, of little interest to us whether they were 30. High though the MUTUAL TRUST

Inzily staring out over the storm-reached their destination or not. figures are, these two instances

swent sea. Think of it! All As for the repeated throats to notices to Inkypoo, Texas. The are merely typical of the condiIt has much greater command those-gigantic-waves-and-cross cut-off our light, so-common-tonciosed clipping, together with the tions which prevail in glum over the forces of nature, as well currents between him and his relaua flat-dwellers, we could studious- fact that they are from Texas. areas all over the Colony. If, general education and accomplish- and treacherous shonls safely our light, indeed! Well, let them of your birth, etc.

as an enormously higher level of tions! All those dangerous rocka ly ignore such silliness. Cut off adequately prove the actual town therefore, the latest prosecutions ment. And while it has not over- shielding him from the fury of try it, that's all. A nice fuss it which, however, will remain per- imply a determination the part of the authorities to under-worked the Golden Rule, it has at Messrs. Tatkins, Tatkins, Talkins, would cause at Lloyd's

least increased men's faith in its Son and Tatkins, Solicitors

manently mysterious. Here goes: and Of course, I can't deny that in take a thorough clean-up of practicability. And this is well. Commissioners for Cathal

certain ways life on a lighthouse Inkypoo Gazette 1902.-John J. these areas, so much the better. For the more high powered the car. How pleasant it would be to at- would have its drawbacks.

Kelly Jr. by Margaret do Val There have been times, in the the greater the danger if it be not tend to our neglected correspond- For example, it seems to me that Kelly. In this, their baby, weigh- past, when the shortage of properly controlled. The faster the ence in such favourable circum-it would be extremely difficult to ing only six and a half pounds, housing accommodation made speed, the less satisfactory the stances, No longer need we rack back a greyhound. Only by the Mrs. Kelly has managed to include overcrowding inevitable. Con-

result, unless it is in the right our brains for suitable excuses. mast intricate signalling could all the objectionable features of direction. No matter how ad- "My dear Mrs. Marplethorpe," one intimate to ditions to-day are, in this res-

passing ship: her own and her husband's family. vanced the state of material know we could say with perfect frank "I want ten shillings each way on The inheritance of his father's pect, not what they were, howledge, nor how admirable may be ness, "I would love to come to your Flying Cloud at the White City voice was noticeable with the firel uver. Even if they were, the the organisation of society, in a At Home on Friday, bul, un to-night."

cry. One can only hope that if obligation resting on the authori- world that depends for its har fortunately, for the past month I And even if the dog came home the authors of Edward Kelly in- tles, to see that overcrowding | móntous existence upon mutant have been confined to my lighthouse Arst—a fact one would never sist upon another they will make does not persist, would remain, trust, there is increasing need of with a severe storm."

(Continued on Next Column.) It 11 girl. The Infant In England at the moment, a loyal adherence to the rule of do-

normal... tremendous scheme of slum

ing unto others as you would have them do unto you.. The revolution clearance ig in operation. which started with this rule must. Nelther vested interests nor any other considerations are being permitted to stand in the way of the campaign. Local authori- ties are being compelled to take action and, where hesitancy Is revealed, the full weight of central government is being brought to bear on obstruction-strike a chord of sympathetic regret ists. The need of some definite, among those whose good fortune progressive plan along the same

has over led them to the lovely Isle lines in this Colony is obvious.

of Man. For centuries after this It is something to the good that brought in remote pre-Christian

variant of Celtic

speech in recent years there has sprung

times to the picturesquely situated up a newer and better type of Island of the Irish Sen, the hardy tenement house and that much Muuxmen were in constant conflict of the older property is gradual. with Viking pirates. and Scottish ly falling into disuse. Even so, and English marauders, all of whom there are whole blocks of tene. In tam ruled, or misruled, the tiny ments on both sides of the har-

province. But through it all the bour which ought to be condemn-native's language survived. ed out of hand as being totally unit for human habitation. Even in the newly-developed arcas there is a tendency to But what alien rulership, and perpetuate the evils of over-subsequent friendly British suze- crowding.. Economic considera-rainty, falled to effect, the peaceful tions are, of course, partly res

Invasion in theso Inttor days by holiday acchers from neighbouring ponsible, whilst in some in-

Yorkshire and Lancashire has ac- stances the sub-letting system complished. Fortunately there stili is a factor. It is, however, up remain mementos of the day when to the authorities to see, at least the Manxman proudly disclaimed all in respect of now property, that connexion with other races of the there is reasonable compliance British Isles. The famous talless with the laws against overcrowd-

cata still purr on cottage hearths, ing. These laws are quite delega in armour pointing in different and the Manx cont of arms-threo finite and specifle, but, like so many others, they are rarely flance of England, Scotland, and directions-alli kick sturdy do- enforced,

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TRIPPERS SUCCEED

wna

"I'd rather stay home with you, dear, but busineka is

bualness

Inkypoo Voicn.-Although Mr. Margaret do Val Kelly has em barked bravely on the actual labour of hor undertaking, she has brought it to a somewhat

hamilla disappointing, indeed, ting, conclusion. There is nothing out of the ordinary about this child.

Inkypoo Trader.~Another first baby. Edward J. Kelloy la a some what unexciting infant, and cries without treatment. He had to be slapped into breathing and coaxed. into nursing. Has well developed adenoids and tonsils that should be removed at three years of age, and unless his diet is carefully watched, rickets and anoxmla may be anticipated.

know-It is most unlikely that one would receive the money. Gallors are no uncertain in their move- ments. Here to-day. they goodness-knows-where to-morrow.

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Further, I think the circular staircases in Bghthouses are quite unsuitable for bachelors. After all, who wants to crawl round and round on his hands and knees each morning, brushing yards and yards of circular stair-carpet? Particularly as no one is evor, likely to call.

No, all things considered, I can see now that it isn't a lighthouse I want. What I really require is a small, warm, fortile, uncharted Island, he

Ono' without a letter-box on it anywhere, and no telephones, no tolophonon at all!