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FOR A

LADY FAIR....

PERFUMES, the daintiest we have ever had in stock, put up in artistical- ly designed bottles that any maid will be proud to have on her dressing table.....all ready to be given away as Christmas presents.

Call in and see for yourself what marvellous values we are offering this Christmas.

A

DO YOUR XMAS SHOPPING

AT

WATSON'S

HERE YOU WILL FIND THE UNUSUAL AND PERSONAL "GIFT WHICH WILL PLEASE

HER.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

Est. 1841.

For the convenience of our customers

our store will remain open during the week ending December 22nd and on

Christmas Eve until 6.p.m.

We have all the favourite

Christmas Songs and Carols

on H.M.V. Records...

let

them help to make your

party a jolly orie.

S. MOUTRIE & CO.,

LTD.

York Building.

Chater Road.

"STANLEY".

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VACUUM BOTTLES

Constructed to last. Indefinitely INDISPENSABLE IN THE

HOME NURSERY SICK ROOM

ABSOLUTELY THE THING FOR

PICNICS YACHTING

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HIKING

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Vacuum Bottles are stocked in

two sizes

One Quart and Two Quarts

Priced at

$17.50 and

$18.50

STORE OPEN TILL 6 P.M. THIS WEEK

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

Phone 281514

"HARDWARE

DEPARTMENT

Six Lines.

THE

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DEATH.

EDGAR-At her residence, 39, Stublis Hond, on 18th December. 113-1, Mrs Flora Edgar, aged Funeral will pass the Monument ut 4 pm. to-night. No flowers by requesi.

Whe

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, DEC. 18, 1984,

TUESDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

FREEDOM OF THE SEA..

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DECEMBER

18, 1934.

BRITAIN'S TOLL OF YOUNG MOTHERS

Roporta from Washington intim- ate that the United States is about

·LL of, us, men and women to revina her traditional policies respecting the rights of her mer alike, are becoming softer as chant shipping in the event of a foreign war occurring. It would result of civilisation. Our reals tance to pain is probably less than Staten United that the appreciates the risk entailed in that of our ancestors, and there is asserting the rights of neutraln géneral demand that pain of all shipping to "freedom of the seas" kinds should be avoided so far as even in the event of its attempting is compatible with the safety of the to break a war-time blockade. I

seem

able to provide the individual with bed in a hospital or nursing homo where ahe will receive the best of attention, and to supervise, should this prove desirable, the actual con- finement.

The fallure to integrate the

Amerien adopts the principle that individual. Women In general are her. ship masters must accept the less able in this age to withstand activities which centre round these clinica is one of the outstanding risks of such an attempt, and re-prolonged and exhausting pain. defects in the present system. An- fuses to intervene if they are The highly strung temperament of arrested in blockaded waters, a long

is the appalling shortage in some step towards security will have the modern young woman is not other distressing fact to be faced been taken. Further, it would be that of her Elizabethan

parts of the country of maternity renaonable for Americans to expect part. This fact has an important

bede. It is almost unbelievable that Great Britain, and other

that

counter.

maternal

the

the

staff of many of these hospitals no

medical man who is specially skilled

acems but

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES by Juliet Lowvell

C. S. Hammond & Co., 360 Furman Street, Brookyn, NY. Gentlemen:

Among the concerns listed on the your circular as users of Hammond World Atlas there are some banks which closed, lo these many moons, but I suppose the presidents use the Atlas to select

Yours very truly a country to escape to.

Herbert Mapp. (signed).

He Pants For Paint

Detroit, Michigan.

Cleveland Ohio..

Gentlemens:

I want it paint for mine pungalo cray or creen I want Bofor it was plue. Can I put it cray or creen on top the plue what was

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A Bird Child

Berkeley, California,

June 14, 1982. San Diego California Club, San Diego, California. Dear Sirs:

major sen. powers, should take bearing on maternity. The dis-i that in quite a number of large Tropical Paint & Oil Company.

towns the principal hospital makes similar action to preclude the postressing toll of life among young

nant mothers to-day is providing a probno provision for obstetrical cases. sibility of AA offence neutrality in any future war. Inlem of prossing concern for the all probability a convention would public, statesmen, and the medical Moreover, there is attached to the be the outcome of a change of America's poller in this direction, profession. We have to face the and nations would agree that a unpleasant fact

must be remedied; every largo hos-sicks callons.

Yours, blockade by any belligerent should mortality is showing an increased in obstetrics. This state of affairs pefor? Your pest prise plen on be respected. There is no question ratio in Britain-In fact,

pital should be equipped with a

(Signed) Paavo Gaavetto. that unicas an agreement of this Agures recently provided by

proper obstetric unit, conducted description is reached a risk of

Ministry of Health reveal that the and laid out to meet modern re misunderstanding between great naval powers must remain. Brit-rate to-day is higher than at any quirements. Until this service is ain and America have clashed over period in the last twenty years, made available there this very matter in the past, and Five mothers, it is stated. perish little hope of reducing the exces- it is not inconceivable that they might find themselves embroiled in for every thousand babies bern. nively high death rates in what the future unless the obvious re- The position is all the more extra-have been termed "the black apots medy is introduced. But it is not ordinary in view of the fact that

of England." enough that America should alter

recent years have seen a stendy her views in connection with thin "freedom of the sens;" it is neces-expansion in the science of ob

Much discussion is being devoted sary that every nation follow set stetrics and the provisions for its rules of neutrality.

application. Yet this appears to to the question of painless child- have been af no avail. The dia- birth. Mothers to-day are grOW- appointment contrasts vividly with ing increasingly Impatient of the the striking progress made in trials of childbirth; that it should That there should be no con- other fielda: for example, infant be curtailed and made as rapid and aa free from pain as possible is a fusion in the matter. let us con-mortality has been reduced to an

growingly insistent demand. There alter a situation such as this: enormous extent. Great Britain is involved in war

is grave doubt among the minds of with a Continental power. She is

those best competent to express fighting a desperate war in the air

opinion whether this movement. Is, and, because of the superiority of her navy, has thrown a blockade was recently emphasised by Mr. ns practiser to-day, wholly desir An Baldwin, who, as spokesman for the able. There is little doubt that in around her enemy's seaports. American vessel attempts to enter Government, stated that money many cases anaesthesia is not the one of these parts and is seized, would be found to attack this prob- best thing for the mother, for it and her master immediately com-lem. The Ministry of Health has weakens natural powers, The plains to his Govermaent that Great

A SUPPOSITION

The seriousness of the position

Britain has failed to respect the shown alertness by authorising an general public must realise the Im- neutrality of his ding. Or suppose exhaustive inquiry into conditions portance of the fact that the more the American vessel attempted to of maternity welfare in those dis-naturally, within reasonable limits, sys-run from patrols and was sunk. tricts which revealed in the Intest

if the United States Government

THE EDUCATION INQUIRY Hongkong's educational tem is shortly to be overhauled

will motherhood

become. The by an expert who is being sent insistent upon the rights of report an excessively high mortality mother has her baby, the safer vessels to immunity from search or ratio. For all this, there is a feel-question of under-nutrition has out from Home for the express seizure, the act of the blockading ing among the medical profession been blamed outspokenly for the maternal mortality. purpose. The official communi- vessels might be considered an act that the roots of the problem are increase in

of war: or the British Government not being sought with sufficient There is; however, no strong scien- que on the subject states that might take the view that the Amori.viguur; that the attack has been tific substantiation for this view: the examination is to be made can Government condoned a breach and is being too faint-hearted; in fact, a recent survey from this regards the "with a view to determining the of neutrality. Complications might that there is need for a ruthlessly angle revealed, as

lead to severely strained relations, clear presentation of facta. In London area, that the mortality

1,800 was Great Britain there are

definitely organisation best calculated to

higher municipal ante-natal clinics. What mothers from well-to-do districte. secure, with due regard to local

benefit, it will be asked, are these The importance of a proper dietary conditions, the advantage...of.

clinics to the health of mother- for the expectant mother is, of maintaining a forward policy in

hood? The answer is: of inestim-course, undeniable; but it is doubt- By the Declaration of London able value, One of the clearest ful whether the question of severe the schools, embodying the latest (1909) most of the Great Powers advances in obstetric thought has malnutrition has any material bear- improvements in school organisa- ratified an agreement dealing with been the indisputable realisation of ing on the problem as it exists in questions of contraband, blockade, the signißcance of ante-natal prae- this country. Can the athletic type tion, methods of teaching, etc." the sinking of neutral prizes and tice; the health of the prospective of womanhood bo blamed as a con- It is not indicated whether the the transfer of enemy ships to a mother must be periodically assess-tributory factor? This point is idea of undertaking such an in neutral tag. British ratificationed. In this way abnormality is often put to doctors. I can say was violently opposed, critics argu, detected, and arrangemats for its that there is absolutely no founda- vestigation originated with the ing that the measure was framed skilful treatment are made. It is tion for the view that a healthily Hongkong Government,

with an eye to British in- well recognised that there are in-developed muscular body is any orterests as neutrals, and that Brit-wall in this type avull- other than a must definite asset

-05 a

OLD AGREEMENT

that the

CHRISTMAS

CARDS

among

I've heard that you were going to kill off the mimah birds that live in your fair city. I want to adopt one, give it a gorgeous life, treat it like a child-Just you ace.

Stanton Copper. (signed).

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HAPPY NEW YEAR! Jack Berger, Station WOR, Newark, New Jersey, Dear Jack Berger:

Do you remember me. I was at the Hotel Astor on New Year's Eve. Of course, I acted like a fool. After I drank those high- balls I tried to play the tuba in violin and didn't want to give it your orchestra and I look your back. Next New Year's Eve, I'm coming to the Astor again and just

Lucille Mutt. you see if I don't behave batter.

(signed).

9.25

I tried to play the tuba in your orchestra.

Mayor's Remarks

The remark of the Mayor of

Blinded by her beauty and slightly stunned by the impact, we could say nothing for a moment. But a white-hot passion mastered us, and there and then, haltingly but sincerely, we blurted out those three little words, which have thrilled women since the world began,

"We love you," we said simply.

Sho grasped her belt in both hands, drew her shoulders back, and bent her knees slightly,

whether the initiative in the alu's real interest as the chief seable; further, that those that doto.the young mother. The problem Walsall: "i am afraid the public matter came from Home. Be power was as a belligerent, and exist are not co-ordinated as they is not hopeless. There are statin, i will be competing for arrest by

her,"

on the appointment of a that as it may, all who have the ritish, belligerent rights. The tance each clinic must have contact pitals and localities where mater

Declaration weakened should be. To be of proper assistics available to show that in hes-pretty twenty-four-year-old polles- Colony's educational interests at Government postponed the whole through local health visitors with nity service has been organised and woman, reminds us that many heart will welcome Mr. Burney's question at that date but in 1914 the

homes of the prospective practised along the best lines, People believe that policewomen are sirens who lead men to des visit, in the hope that the re-

an Order-in-Council put into opera- mothers, and where home conditions maternal mortality has been re-

truction. tions the provisions of the Declara Bre commendations which he even tion, with certain modifications. medical officer in charge must be this country,

not suitable the principal duced almost to vanishing point in

We shall never forget a strange encounter in Piccadilly-circus with tually makes will indicate the However, the problem remained un-

one of these dazzling girls in blue. best and most fruitful directions settled. There were very obvious

It was a foggy November night, dangers and a common internation- along which reform should be nl policy was apparently beyond

and the lumbered out of the mist like a great ship feeling her way undertaken. There is fairly reach. After the War, when the

to port. We met in a head-on general agreement that the drawn up, America demanded sea new naval treaties were being

collision. Colony's educational system, strength equal to that of England such as it is, is largely of the in order that she could, at nil patchwork type. As the num-freedom of the seas."

times, defend her principle of Until to- ber of schools and the variety day this has been the major differ- of type have increased, so has ence in policy between these two the educational outlook under- Powers, and an agreement is most gone change from time to time, necessary. When it is achieved it may simplify, to some extent, the and.

consequence, the naval armament difficulties, and it system has not been operated in

most certainly will bring about a pursuance of very definite and happier relationship between all well-planned objectives. There nations. has, however, been some evid ence in latter years of a heigh- tening of ideals and of a desire respects on local considerations to evolve a co-ordinated plan, to which regard will have to be In the large, there can be no paid. Education has been well questioning the point that con- described by Herbert Spencer as siderable advance has been re- "a preparation for complete gistered within the past decade, living." That is, or should be, but there still remains a marked the aim of all educationists. It diversity of viewpoint in regard is when we come to consider to future trends. We have seen the form which that preparation this latter point illustrated in should take that we encounter the utterances by head masters varying schools of thought. The at the annual prize-giving cere- problem, so far as Hongkong is monies in connection with local concerned, is not unduly com schools, at which varied views plex, although it has ita peculiar have been apparent concerning angles. If, as the terms of the the curricula both of elementary official announcement implies, and secondary institutions. The the whole field is thoroughly advantage of bringing in an ex- explored, we may reasonably port from outside is that he will hope to seo the lines of progress be able to approach the whole laid down for many years to problem from a disinterested come. Once the goal is clearly and unblassed standpoint, al- defined, the ways and means of though he will naturally have reaching it should present no to rely for guidance in some insuperable obstacles.

"Now that takes care of all our forty-cente-a-dozen friends,"

"Don't say "This is so sudden,'." we cried, "Love is like that; sud- den, impulsive, unreasoning., Let us hope that our love will be re- turned one day. Give us the right to hold your hand, to count your

buttone

"I shall arrest you if you are not careful," she said.

"We ask for nothing better. Arrest me, handcuff me to holy matrimony, keep us in, custody for life."

"Move along, please," she said. "Ah, cruel, cruel temptress! Hearticas Circe of the Circus! Must we move along life's way alone when we have glimpsed paradise and dreamed of unfon with a goddess in goloshea?"

Before a friend dragged us away we snatched at her whistle and blow it madly. Of course, we were unstrung, but was it the echo of those shrill blasts (or the mocking laughter of a siren that filled our ears as we staggered, protesting, through the gloom? *

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