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Est. 1841.

For the convenience of our customers

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week ending December 22nd and on

Christmas Eve until 6 p.m.

We have all the favourite

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on H.M.V. Records . . . let

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THURSDAY,

NOTES OF THE DAY

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

DECEMBER 20, 1934.

PARENTS MUST FIGHT

FOR CHILDREN

By

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The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Julist Lowell · KITCHEN CATTLE'

Auburn, Dec. 12.-

MARGARET LANE

INTEREST In the sensational [ childreri

Vanderbilt case, which, after daily in the courts, though meat Freind Sir

are fought out almost Swift & Co.

Hornos

Mother knows best about most things, but not necessarily about the books her children should read, This blunt statement is made in the current Issue of The Parents' Magazine. Its author, Josette Frank, makes as a result of long experience in the Child Study An- sociation; and this experience a hearing lasting seven wooks, has of them are between people too Wood you be kind enoufe to lends her to

趄 lay down very

been concluded, now centres on humble to attract attention. The send won of them. calender We simple common sense rule about the future of 10-year-old Gloria passionate determination of both allways got won of you They are books for children. No book, she Vanderbilt, the most moving figure parents to keep the child provokes coves &

(Hogs sheepe got up soe 'good ваув iB A

book

for in one good

Mulos chlid, if it fails to interest him.

of the most remarkable such bitterness and hostility that Chicons) I thinke they are fine Conversely, if it does interest him lawsuits of this century. A pecu- the situation often trembles on the calender. We have had won every it very likely is a good book—for | liar future has been prepared by edge of tragedy. Early this year a year in our store then I bring to him; although the child next door her relations for little Gloria Van-young chauffeur committed suicide home the top part and hange`in might not like It at all. One of derbilt. She has our little railings la our easy-yet-riding her pony over horson was given to his wife, who would like won:

no idea of it when the custody of his haby my kitechon.

If you have got 2 to spare i going habit of asuming that all children are pretty much alike in aunt's Long Island ostate, childish-had obtained a separation order In my kitchin the Cow & 800- their tastes. We do not make that ly unimpressed by the legal solem against him. Kidnapping la by no forth Look see nice I liko dumb mistake with adults; we are ready nities and bitter emotional storms means unheard of: several years beast dearly. enough to admit that one man may that have been going on around ago a divorced father kidnapped

Mr. Monroe“ A------- like the works of 3. S. Van Dine her; but as she grows older she his 8-years-old daughter and hid

(signed) while his neighbour prefera Dickens. But we take it for grant-

will find the name of Gloria Van- with her gftil he was run to earth ed that all children will like the derblit carrying a heavy load of by detectives in Antwerp and the same thing. Furthermore, we

associations. She will go through child returned to the custody of Jump to the conclusion that they life as the central figure of the hor mother. The objection the will like the books we ourselves Belal arrangements extended to the motorist liked as children. We were

world's most celebrated case for Home/Offics put forward to the olg on Нов Curlough for delivery in thralled, for instance, bv the the custody.of a child.

passing in 1925 of the long-delayed London and use at Hans and mbHenty books; therefore the young- She cannot remember her father. Bill driving a mother equal claims stor will eat them up, and if he He died a little more than nine with the father to the possession does not, there must be something wrong with him.

years ago, never dreaming he was of her children was that it might leaving his little million-dollar in/extrome cases be "conducive to daughter to be fought over by his murder." It la difleult to believe, wife, his mother-in-law, and his flow, that only nine years ago a own sister. If he were alive to mother was not legally the parent day Cloria might have had

of her child. Before 1925, even a distraction, while Ivanhoe chance of growing up as ordinary mother with a baby at her breast which the father himself never little rich girls--In privacy and could not. in law, call the child could endure—is swallowed whole the pleasant surroundings of her her own, or dispute Ite custody or WILR great avidity. As a matter

own unquestioned home. The control with the father. The Judge, perhaps out of compasston Guardianship of

Infants Act,

Style is everything for the 10-year-old child, whose which gave wives equal rights with

St. Louis, Mo. mother he had heard calumniated their husbands, ended an absurd

May 4, 1980. in court by her own servants, injustice and laid the foundations Mr. Walter Huston made the proceedings private. The of countless legal disputen. Arm. Culver City, California effect of that compassion was toed with the new

Dear Mr. Huston: power women whet the world's appetite for showed themselves far readier scandal in high places and set than men to go to law for posses- whispering a thousand rumours.

fon of a child.

re-delivery Landed prlow. Deferred Terma--Sagorehuse—Lloros' In PETER RYTangud. Full particulars em ap plication.

En Bengkons el abere

HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE SHOWROOM Phone 27778-9. Stubbs Rd.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, DEC. 20, 1934,

DISFIGURING THE

HILLSIDE

affected.

MATTER OF TASTE:

en-

Many a father has, actually been horrined to discover that such a DOOR 8 Kim' bored his non to

of fact, the parent's responsibility in regard to the books his children read is a good deal less than we sometimes suppose. About all the latner or mother can do is soe to it that good books are avaliable to The youngsters. There are many

APPLE ANNIE

One of the least lovely traits we possess is our tundness or making a sentimental fuss over the collins of people who never got a decent break from us while they alive, writes Bruce Catton, colum- were ist. Ihat peculiar community symbolised by the word "Bread- way went in for a regular orgy of that sort of thing the other day. when an oid

woman known as

Whether Gloria will come hap-

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I bring to home the top part and hange in my kitechen.

•

I want you to lend me $500. The To come to the point quick.

reason I am writing this letter to you is that. I have seen so many of your pictures and you always have faith in human nature and

lead me the money. that is why I thought you would.

Your friend to be

David H. S..

Teacher's Helpmate

Centerville, Ind.

Dec. 1. 1931.

My teacher isn't married

mansions in the realm of litera ture; provide the children with the key, turn them longe and let them BULLIC where they choose. Children are great ones to recognise ahama and to The disfigurement of the hill-Ordinarily, a child will instinctive- detect the second-rate. side just below Wanchai Gap byly preter a good book to a poor pily out of the battle in the end, Ands itself the bone of contention Any child is unfortunate who

a conglomeration of matshedy one.

or whether her life is spotted between

Even If you are not inclined to parents or relations. and other structures was the

already, not even her mother or The child is doubly unhappy whose help me write me a letter. We.. subject of a series of questions

her nunt will know for perhaps wealth or position makes that con- could keep up a correspondence be- another twenty years. It is an un- tention a matter of world-wide cause I like your style. happy fact that children can be the curiosity, and the sins of whose at Tuesday's meeting of the

cause and centre of the bitterest parents are visited on it in gossip Sanitary Board. This is a sub-

legal struggles that over go and malice at least for its own jeel to which we have on several

through the courts. The child, of generation. The law, seen through occasions alluded during the past

any more than a piece of property its decisions, must seem a cruel course, has no say in the matter, the eyes of a child growing up by two or three years, in the hope

valuable enough to quarrel ahout, and forbidding institution, divid- Tony Surg, Marionette Maker that measures would be taken to

He may be valuable because he is ing families and friends, taking New York City. 54 West 9th St. clean up the arca

rich, or heir to a title, or because the

child sometimes from the Dear Tony: Instead of any improvement

both his parents love him. Some parent he loves and delivering him times he or she may be valuable over to the other, or through the Appie Annte was a poor old woman

As a weapon for embittered people unfamillar doors of some instite-but she wood like too be. I know has latterly been a big increase who for years supported herself byense, the child gets little out of it

to use against each other. In any tion.

you wood ko hor. She is most- nearly pretty. I hope you have a in the number of temporary pending appies and chewing gum but a whispered atory that will The whole legal business of fight-marry Xmas and your pupets to. buildings. In all, there are at on Times Square. It was not such stay faithful to it for ever. Moating for a child is unpleasant and I wish you goodby, present twelve structures within you can imagine; the thought of a child-excepting only this far only kind thing in a very unkind a good way of making a living, as famous of all litigations over a cruel, but actually the law is the this area, accommodating bewoman of 70 keeping on the pave-reaching Vanderbilt struggie-was tangle of human passions-human Hope They Come Through Clean "tween eighty and ninety workment in all kinds of weather to the Bussell case of twelve years love, Jealousy, ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄greed, malice, Dear Mrs. Stanley: make enough for her support is not ago, which lasted two years and whatever makes men, for whom the sanitary

two or moro

I hope the sunshino fa mak. But Apple Annie cost £10,000. Little Geoffrey Rus- people fight passionately for the ing you feel gooder. The kids am facilities are necessarily some-stuck to it, and she enjoyed a sell, the 9-months-old baby for possession of an unconcerned fine. I don't know anything about what crude; they are situated moment of fame, a year ago. whose sake his mother, the Hon. child. If those passions were free Mr. Stanley's whereabouts, but I

Someone wrote a story about her, Mrs. Christabel Russell, fought her to fight it out without the cool think they are in the wash.

husband's divorce action up to the intervention of the law, the flouse of Lords, was brought into potentially rich, titled, or loved court in a bundle of white woollen child of estranged parents or shawls and examined by judge and guardians would have about as jury. By the time the case was much chance of happy survival na over and his mother had won her n rabbit in a cage of pumas. appen against the decree nisl he was a handsome little boy running about and already able to talk.

& CO., LTD. being affected. however, there "Apple Annie" was laid to rest.

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

York Building.

JUST WHAT

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FONS

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etc.

Chater Road.

I WANTED! unpleasantly close to European

Will your boy or girl say that when they see what they have got for Christmas?

You can't be far wrong if you choose from the big assortment of 'real children's gilts we have. They are assembled carefully and we will be glad to help you choose wisely.

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AERO PLANES

TEA SETS BOOKS

FARM ANIMALS

AND MANY OTHER DELIGHTFUL PRESENTS

Store opon till 6p.m. this week

--

a pleasant one,

the story was transtormed into a

residences either built or in movie-and a press agent came process of construction. These niong and used Apple Annie to "ballyhoo" the picture. She was buildings are said, by

the turned into a lady for a day; they President of the Sanitary put her up at a ne hotel, trotted Board, to serve

ner around Broadway in a big car, dressed her up in fine clothing, ful purpose, although he would gave her a real meal and then, not go so far as to say that they aiter it was all over, let her go are absolutely necessary. They matter of fact, people completely back to apple-peddling. As a

A

11.30-

The struggles of

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Elie

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Sincerely yours,

Ella' Ġ———

(signed)

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One Penny

I was once travelling-this is a Gloria Vanderbilt may never lose a true story-in an express to Aber- feeling of fear at the mention of deen. I dined in the restaurant the law, but oventually she may tar. Seated opposite ma was A discover that in the whole unhappy passenger, obviously well-to-do, in business the intervening judga | a fur-lined overcoat. This lad was estranged was her best and most disinterest; } particularly fussy about his dinner

are used, in the main, in connec-forgot about her. Like other busi-parents for possession of theired friend. Lion with roud - widening | nesses, the selling of appies suffer- scheme and the construction of Besides, Apple Annie was pretty cd a diminishing profit margin. private residences. For this reason, it is stated, their replace ment by more permanent sneus would be uneconomical. This argument, however, does no

well on in years. Presently she vanished, and nobody knew what had happened. Thor, a few days ago, Apple Annie turned up-in the morgue. She had died during the night, she and the enfeebled-

apply to a group of five struc-old husband whom her earnings as

tures comprising

matsned, two kitchens, a wood store and a laurine. These, presumably, are Public Works Department buatd- ings, and, unless we are con- fusing them with another block, have been in existence for some years. At any rate, for longer than we care to remember, this area has been sadly disfigured by buildings of this type, and it is

a peddler had helped keep alive. She lay in the morgue a week before anyone recognised her. But once she was identified, Broad- way turned out to give her a finc funeral. Stars from the stage and the night clubs gathered by her wreaths were soni. Broadway, as coffin. Expensive bouquets and

they say, showed that it "had a heurt." So Apple Annie had two used her to ballyhoo a movie, and big days; one when a press agent

one when she was buried. If people hnd n decent amount of genuine human sympathy, wouldn't they to be hoped that, once the work have spread all that fuss out a which has called the greater little bit more, so that the poor number of them into being is old lady could have got a little concluded, some effort will be good out of it?,

made to restore the locality to

its original appearance. Road' of new residences, it is to be gang matsheds, according to the presumed that they serve a President of the Sanitary Board, necessary service. If so, they are being gradually replaced should certainly be replaced by by more permanent structures. a better type of structure. Now There has, however, been no sign that the matter has been brought of auch a development in the to the notice of the authorities, region referred to. From the we should like to see the issue fact that a number of sheds have followed up further, with a view been accommodated at this to obtaining an assurance that

connected with the nearby road less unsightly than it is at pro- widening project or the erection | sent.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. spot for some years, in no way the area will soon be rendered

Phone 28151

TOYLAND—----

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what did you think of that dress the hostess had on?"

went into committee with the waiter on olmost every course; sent several dishes back for amendment; ordered specially-made toast, and ao on. Ho gave more trouble to the staff than the rest of the diners put together.

At the end of the repast, having paid his bill, he presented the walter with a penny.

I have often thought of this episodo, and laughed. I thought of it again, this week, when i read of the Government's grant of £2 million for the devastated areas. At a moment when I suppose) there is more wealth in the country, seeking profitable investment, than at any time since the war.

It must be one of the minglest, most ludicrous gestures that the Government of a prosperous coun-, try has ever made.

Admirals Al

(Five "retired Admirals are gl- tending classes in carpentry under the ausplecs of the Portsmouth municipality.)

Admiral Smith, go get your

plane

Admiral Jones, your file- Admiral Brown, let's hope the

town

Will think your work, worth

while...

Pipe to, my lads; the night is

short:

We can't afford to play- Then home we'll jog for a glass

of grogg

At the end of a well-spent day! Admirals all, for England's sake

Show us that you can do:

If you being renown to Porta-

mouth town

Our town will be proud of, you!