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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1986.

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CHINESE EYES

by R.

JUI

WANG

What a RICE

ICE is too dear for the poor, Nevertheless, at tho

strange

My family's inborn admiration for all that is European may be gathered from the fact that. I

before my own was taught English and French more difficult language. I was sent to Eu-

This amused rope at an early age to study, when I visited your country. with regular two-yearly visits to I was reecived by several well sory. China,

oldest in China,

me

known London families, In their

childhood when being presented to while in the other hand they hold a golf handicap. I had been taught to do from 'Off they will

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present

Way and they are more than graie- time countless European-educated of presenting ful to eat noodles alone twice a Chinese mothers refuse to submit one person to day, with a poor quality tem brow to this custom for their baby girls.

ed with hot water bought from a another

In Tiontain, Hongkong, Shang- you special water shop, since the hal, and, I repeat, wherever there have in Eng- pump-water in public streets in la European or American land I

in- "How dangerous to drink.

fluence, one sees fewer and fewer do you

do?" There is no running water, of bound feet, especially among the and the na-course, in the houses. Honest female workers in factories owned wer is another unskilled labourers and factory. their fee free often

working people, equivalent to your by Westerners, who must have "How do you workers, live in small bungalows their tasks in the mills.

execute | do?"

with beaten-earth floors.

* In their ignorance, our small N a quiet moment in Oxford I immensely Chinese children imagine they are asked пр intimate English the happiest in the world, since student friend: "Toll mo, how school education is not compul- would you yourself define a really I hope I am not lacking in drawing-rooms 1 met many inter- thin stick pushed through four or

nice English girl worth marry- Offer them concoction of a ing?" modesty when I explain that my esting people. family is certainly one of the

Like other average five little bright red special fruits young men I had met, he also con- English. There was 1, immediately upon dipped in boiled sugar and you, fessed that this girl must prefer- My noble father. I. Tong my knees bowing to the ground as will be their Hfe-long friend. Wang, always a powerful lighter

ably have a university degree, be ge enjoying it, able to dance divinely, and have for the "under-dog" (and who, important personages. Stubbs Road even now, pays his servants ex-

a stick to which a pretty real bird cellent wages and treats them as stood up, and the women moved little freedom for fluttering.

Her expacity as housewife wan But these Englishmen simply is attached by a string, with very unimportant, my friend continued social equals), was a one-time not at all, but simply smiled and

...because housework and cook- They adore their birds, but, like ing are ordinary and common, and Governor of Manchuria and said this famous "How

do you

nearly all Chinese, have little any paid servant can do that." played a very influential part do?“

sympathy for dogs and cats and harees, in the politics of North China.

You see your sports-mad Eng- To be able to write perfectly women would stand up and say, a race, în general myself except he will be decently compelled to

Now in Chinn, both men

an ashamed to confers that as years to come, of the time when lish youth evidently forgets the in Chinese is a rare and difficult under similar art, so you will appreciate my "What is your noble name?" in- we do not have time for domestic he too old and weak to continue clrcumstances, el, among thousands of others) remain married to a wife who will pride when I say that, my fa stead of "How do you do?" and animals, preferring to shower our to be sporty! ther's books of poems are full of the answer would be, "My humble affertion 011 our evergrowing sensitive beauty, and his book name is..."

population of babies.

Far better in the way of our In Chinese on the ex-Kaiser Wil-

Charming people all of them, tren to see the eare and attention a really fitting wife for their son Chinese parents who, older in ex- i would like our Chinese chil- perience than we, choose carefully HIGH COST OF

helm was highly praised in these English ladies, in their Chinese newspapers.

drawing-rooms, and such a lot of givea to animals in England. GOVERNMENT

Because of his talent and in- bright talk about nothing at all,

They would learn a lot. This a woman who is trying to be man's -a woman to bear children-not tellect, coupled with his old tige, utter

whereas Chinese women would not was a point that impressed mo Although not a great deal that he is reverently respected by the superior sex in their

word in the presence of ally in your hunting countries.

tremendously in England, espect

equal.

We Chinese drink little wine' is new emerged from the Legis-

country!), but they would merely tish fathers playfully boxing and unsociable in this respect

res It seemed odd to me to see Bri. and few cocktails, and my English listen politely.

friends, perhaps, thought lative Council debate on the

enjoying all kinds of games with whether any special care

their youngsters. This horrified Politely, instead, they gave me high cost of Government in

taken in selection of the HOW elent and well-fed your "How enn

In my Chinese mind, I asked, many cups of strong tea, not as

have sons and daaschters We

at home, Hongkong, the

sugarless Incts of the right type of men. This must compared with ours. Life is easy parents, who inspire no fear nt out milk or lemon, The cream or grow up to respect and obey such Jasmin-perfumed green tea with- Įsituation were very lucidly put be a vital factor is this matter in England, and even the poorest all?"

milk and sugar you put in your by Mr. M. K. Lo in a maiden of replacement of Europeans by weekly visit to the cinema.

families seem to be able to afford Never, never would a Chinese tea completely destroy all the speech which was full of cogent Asiatics. So far, as

father subordinate himself to such good taste of the actual tea. Mr. Lo

Money is far too difficult to earn procedure, for to play with his The matter. In particular, the pointed out, the results of pastin my country to allow the little ones would speedily cost him every figures which he quoted to show Government assurances on this the pictures.

average worker to enjoy a visit to his dignity and respect and control

over his offspring. the tremendous inroads made on replacement question have been British people should take a

The

Thongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, MAR. 21. 1936.

every Chinese in the North.

Lask

was

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British

working-man

Jooks

me,

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Average

me

Briton, with facility for intellectual culture at his yery door, a often indifferent to educational advance- ment, but we Chinese, when we leave childhood behind, are not revenue in payment of salaries disappointingly small. So far trip to my country if they want YOUR girls are bright, gay, so'au lazy.

to nee the ren! bitterness of were startlingly impressive. as the employment of subordin- poverty, and the bravery with but much too independent, and knowledge, for learning is above- unafraid and healthy-looking, We like to drain dry the cup of Whilst it is to be conceded that ate officers under conditions which my poorer Chinese brethren appear outwardly not to be at all the price of rubies, and is wor

fight this difficult thing called da need of male protection. salaries reflect essential expendi- which leave the renewal of Life, in a country that possesses

shipped in my country. I would not say their feet are ture on services rendered, that their service at the option of the no law prohibiting child-labour, big, because some of my

and where millions of underfed countrywomen's fact does not detract from the Government, all that needs be children of eight or nine years of natural looking stumps, having in Britain that i looked English, own BEING fairly tall and broadly- argument that the huge said is that the practice is one age are pushed out into the world been tightly bound since the age and so they forgave me for being

to gain their daily food.

of five or six years, and not since only a Chinese, of a civilisation I do not write "daily bread," birth, as some Europeans are apt centuries older than theirs. because this is virtually · nan- to believe,

Nevertheless,-1-candidly confess

figure of fourteen million dollars which is universally adopted by is more than the Colony can be business firms. Much was made

feet ure

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un-built for a Chinese, I was told

reasonably expected to bear.by the Colonial Secretary of the existent, except in the big cities. When these small-footed girls that, in general, the Englishman

can influence.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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BULLS AND INNERS

From the Office Butts

It costs approximately one mil- lion pounds per annum in salarles to run. Hongkong. Looks as if Civil Servants are worth their weight in gold,

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The suggestion is made that Hongkong needs a business doctor

to pull it round. There are plenty

of quacks at the market.

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where only the rich can afford to become of marriage nge, boys at home is infinitely more sym- Sight is not lost of the recent point that administrative costs

pay its high price.)

parents will consult together and pathetic and in Hongkong do not compare

modest than he is substantial salary cuts, but unfavourably with those

A Chinese works seven full days Bay, "Here is a girl with small out in China. of each week, with no happy English aristocratic feet fit to be a good

In conclusion, and in all sin- these are avowedly temporary in other Colonies. The answer to Sunday rest.

wife for our son."

This age-old custom is hard to heart, I may say that I am but one cerity, right from my Oriental character, and, as Mr. Lo this argument is that whatever

He is lucky if he can afford two die among ancient familles of of the millions of thinking Chin pointed out, such a makeshift the cost may be dsewhere, our meals a day, but these certainly dignified Peiping and other places ese who are

own is too high for a Colony of do not consist of rice, as all Euro- unaffected by European or Ameri- great invisible

eager to cross the arrangement does not afford any

penns are apt to imagine.

bridge

that Other the size of Hongkong.

separates the Enst from the West. final solution of the problem. Colonies may be able to afford Relief can only be obtained by big and expensive staffs; we some measure of retrenchment cannot. Sir Thomas Southorn which will result in a reduction is to be congratulated for the in the number of Government forceful manner in which he servants, in particular of those presented his arguments, but his receiving high salaries. The

attitude was in somewhat strik- ing contrast to that of His Ex- matter, unfortunately,, is not celleney

the Governor, who quite so simple as it looks, for frankly conceded that Mr. Lo account has to be taken of the was on the right scent and gave covenanted obligations which very defnite assurances of his

Government has entered

intention to comply with the two main points advanced on into with the existing staff, and behalf of the Unofficials. The also of Colonial regulations. latters'

case could have been Thus it is to the future, rather strengthened further still, by than to the present, that we some reference to the frequency must look for necessary reform. of Home leave for sterling-paid officers and the extreme liberali- The most pointed of Mr. Lo's

ty of the conditions under which, proposals were that there should such leave is given. It would be greater employment of local be illuminating to learn how men in future, and the engage- much this costs the Government ment of subordinate officers annually; the sum must run into ahould be on the basis of a huge figure every year. specified terms of years, renow-

the general issue raised by Mr. |able at the option of the Govern-suggested by

Lo, we cannot agree, as was tho Colonial ment. On the first of these two Secretary, that there is any im- points, we are convinced that no plication in the Upofficial stand adequate test of the possibilities of a dosire, that the Colony has yet been made. According should remain static. The

the.. Colonial

whole point is that the Colony Secretary, the experiment of appointing heavy a burden.. And the com- is being called upon, to bear too Chinese Sub-Inspectors to the unity will not be satisfiled until Police Force has not been suc-that burden is very materially cessful, but it is pertinent to lightened.

to

On

"Now, whatever happens on this trip, Just remember that didn't want to come, in the first place."

it is said that there are some

exceedingly pretty girls On the Wenches

Empress of Britain,

among the winches,

What with tigers, wolves, civet. cats and mongeese roaming about the Colony, It's about time we had of those bring-cm-back-alive explorers here.

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The fare by acroplane between, Hongkong and London is 2176.

Ether way, we understand.

"Man Mountain

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Crestfallen",

Baya 2 newspaper heading on

Carnora's defeat. Must have been

In volcano.

D.

0.

Perhaps one way of bringing. prosperity back to.

Hongkong

would be to pasa an Ordinance

compelling Clull Servants to spend

their pensions in the Colony,

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Many of the habitues of Hong- kong's popular rendezvous will be getting to "Gripps" with Imaginary enemy to-night.