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The

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1936.

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W often does one hear the question: How much does it cost to run a flat here?

Nothing is more appropriate than that the Society for the

And how often does one Protection of Children should be

hear the

A rejoinder: associated with the proposed establishment of a creche for single man cannot run a flat babies of Chinese women who

-after a couple of months are employed as factory workers or as coolies and who are faced, he is up to his ears in debt, with the daily problem of what is getting more involved

with his flat and has

to do with their infants when

they are at work. The need of

institutions of this type in the Colony is beyond question. Mothers are frequently to be:

seen

or

a

year's lease on his hands to prevent him getting out of it? After several years in this I have Colony.. during which

g.

FI

seen many of these bachelor and spinster failures, I con- clude that it is time some- body set out to draw up a Plan of Procedure which, if perfect or accurate, will at least serve as a guide to the unwary and may draw further

correction from those who know.

In the case

of young men round the $500-a-month mark and girls who arrive here with no family to put them right, the same sort of thing always hap. pens. The arrival puts up at the Y.M.C.A., the Helena May or a hotel while he or she settles down, looks around and deckles

the future domicile,

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"He" us he does the sillier things, has to pay out more to live and invariably pays out twice more than he needs even

NOTES OF THE DAY to do that.

troyed. Even if it is supposed that no government is aiming at war, a relatively unimportant event might.

After a month or so in the

Don't Make A Mess

of

I

I

Your Mess.

In which a local writer gives some hints to Bachelors on running a

flat

KNOW

a couple of young FROM my own experience and chaps who went on in this that of others, I estimate vein until they kidded each that for a mess of four people other into acting. They rushed the following expenditure would off to Prince Edward Road, took be incurred,, bearing in mind half a house, filled it with use that I am catering for 12 people, less junk at new furniture the maximum number of guests prices, engaged a marvellous at a time, bringing the house- cook at twice his proper salary, hold up to that number.

Furniture complete for house strewed the place. with coolies and wash amahs and capped can be bought cheaply at auc- their folly with a house warm- tions for $250 to $300. New ing party which cost them the furniture ranges from $350 for better part of $400, half their a dining room suite to less than furniture and cutlery and the $600 a whole houseful. Furni good esteem of the police and ture to order

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can be had for their neighbours.

even less and Chinese crafts- After three months of semi- manship is quite good in this respect. Carpets can be re- lonely meals, more entertaining, placed by handsome. and mounting expenditure, they squares, which are about $30. managed to crawl out of the Linen should be bought in the lease and dismiss the household. roll and made up for something For the next year and a half like $60 the whole job, though I am not very sure of this figure. they lived in economic recupera Cutlery-good Sheffield steel-

would be in the neighbourhood of $100 and glassware another $50.

tion.

On the other hand I know a

"The international situation has carefree precincts of the become serious in a degree that weY.M.C.A. or the Hotel he comes fellow who lived in the City for are obliged, in spite of an economic

month furnished. He These estimates are about crisis, to spend 235,000,000 francs to the conclusion that he has $150 a for national defence. The base of plenty of money to throw about, had a flat with two small rooms, right for people wishing to international order has been des- the reason for this entirely a bathroom and boys' quarters make it as cheap and efficient as possible, as I am not concerned wrong impression being that so and kitchen. He had his meals with those-to-whom--price-is. far he has not made many out at a monthly rate and could little object.

out for them as he and consequently has be in or

Life was occasionally as there is then someone

Four in a mess is about right, not been inside the bar much, wished.

but # modorate at hand willing to join in anything has not joined any clubs, has lonely not.contracted to take out nice tendance at the club and a few and, one is not such a slave to expensive young things and goes games of bridge and poker at mealtimes. Servants for the. to bed early in

flat kept him satisfied, household would comprise a though he never made enough cook at $30, possibly a House Y.M.C.A. tradition.

Boy at $20, a coolle at $12 and to help the rent.

two amahs at $12 each.

cause the catastrophe."

These words were uttered in the Swiss Federal Council Chamber, recently when the little mountain Republic decided that it must arm to protect its neutrality. It is

friends

the

true the

afraid of invasion from one side or another by some power anxions to avoid an antagonist's fortificationa while bent on striking at a vital and unprotected point. Switzer-

a couple of hundred Innd was one of the last to join the dollars already, saved and a rearmament parade. Like Britain,

With

Another young man got his

the mid-levels way.

friends together and ran a mess

It

and most of the smaller powers, plump wallet he begins to look Switzerland was all for disarma- on life with an anticipatory air. about ment until she saw that the goal He wants to play poker, he is used to cost them $180 each be was chimerical. Like Britain, too, glad to shout more than his cause they insisted on luxurious she requires armaments not for share of rounds, he joins up at appointments and a well-stocked Immediate use, but to rattle in future when they may help to turn the club. Later he joins con- cellar. the scale against aggression,

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ference with the old grousers

breaking stones at the roadside, or carrying loads of building material, with children strapped to their backs. Others solve the problem by paying a small daily sum for someone else to look after their babies. The average earnings of women f this class are about twenty thirty cents per day, and when it is stated that from this meagre wage they usually have to pay ten cents a day when en- gaging outside help, it will be seen that they lose big per- centage of their income in this way. What is of even greater importance is that the kind of care and attention which the children

secure urder such conditions cannot be altogether satisfactory. Under the scheme which, aided by the generosity of an anonymous donor, the S.P.C. is sponsoring, there will be skilled attention by qualified Canadian Sisters, whilst the food to be supplied to the in- fants will be infinitely better and more adapted to their needs than is possible even in their the homes. Moreover, surroundings will be cleaner and healthier. Creches, or public nurseries for children whose parents are engaged in daily work and are unable to provide such facilities them- selves, are common in most parts of the world. They were first started in France as far back as 1844, and in Great Britain they are largely left to private initiative. Of their utility and value there is no doubt, and it is worthy of note that they have been large- ly instrumental in checking infant mortality. Hongkong has lagged behind the times in the provision of such institutions, but a beginning is now happily to be made. The proposed creche is an experimental venture, but if it is a success there are prospects of the idea being ex- tended, in which connection it ́is understood that the benefac- |tor who is making this first ven- ture possible may be prepared to facilitate the opening of one or two other institutions-of a Ilke character. The example set is one which might well be followed by other public of social service locally which has been harmless, but when he spirited residents who are able has hitherto remained largely comes to putting it into effect in this way to bring a littlel untouched..

he begins to go down the drain.

DRESSES

FOR LITTLE GIRLS

From 4 to 10 years

CHILDREN'S DEPT.

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

Own

a new-

It is probably with an eye to the of the Y.M.C.A-diehards who dangers ambitious imperialists may stay there year in and year out create for lesser powers, as much but like the P.B.I. of the Great as for the protection, of her own

War retain their ancient privi- possessions, that Great Britain has given notice that she Intends to lege of grousing. To Increase her. naval strength beyond comer they put up a tale of woe. the limits of the expiring London He doesn't like the food! Good Treaty. For Britain 1s still com- God, what does he think of my mitted to the theory of collective constitution after blank years of security. The time may come when this Hell. (I. hasten to say here her championing of this cause may that this is entirely fictitious involve her in grave complications, and conditions at the Y.M.C.A. Her demand for action to prevent

are in fact excellent). the violation of someone's sovereign rights may be answered with a challenge. If someone is going to "call the bluff it is well that His Majesty's Government is seeing to it that there will be aces to lay on the table.

comfort and happiness to the children of the poorest of the poor. What is more, employers

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THE ideal thing to do, in my opinion, would be for four young fellows to rent a house at Kowloon Tong, the model Garden City of the future, they tell me, or at Happy Valley or even a fint at Pokfulam.

on

A system of giving the cook boy $50 for each member of the mess, and leaving him to do everything with the compradore as regards provisions, has been tried by some people but I should not care to recommend the idea mysef. It is better that some member of the mess make

himself responsible for the bills and hold a committee meeting. at the end of the month over them.

Such a mess would cost round about $120 at most, after the initial expenditure and would in- clude some drinks and enter- taining.

The rent ranges from $65 a month unfurnished to $150. I have seen quite capaoious flats. As to girls' messes, I cannot in Kowloon at $80 a month speak so well. Generally they furnished and although some of are content to stick to boarding them are old-fashioned as re- houses, though I know of gards sanitary arrangements, several who share flats and, I Continuing our imaginary others can be found in good con- have no doubt, manage to run dialogue, it eventually dawns on dition. the newcomer that he is a sap.

them very cheaply. Being a woman gives one the preroga- With the location settled it tive of being inquisitive about Of course, the other poor old remains to furnish. Modern timer has got to stay at the "X" tendency is to have as little as not seem to possess in their prices, a grace which men do he is going Home in a year possible and that is where young domestic affairs, so I'll not ten- and it isn't worth while chang fellows often go wrong. After der any advice to them.

Ing-bat there is no carthly rea- all, they need only beds, ward- son why he should not enjoy the

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One last word to the young of labour may, if it is shown benefits of a flat where for the robes, chairs, cutlery, a couple

few men who are thinking of run- of carpets, curtains, that such institutions can be run at a reasonable cost, them-same sum of money he can live tables, sideboard and cupboard. ning a flat. If you find that

in privacy, get just what he These selves provide such facilities in wants to eat, have his washing ordinary cheap if one goes to the hand and you have a long lease can be obtained extra- your budget is getting out of or near their factories or work done cheaply, get drinks in and trouble of looking round the to finish, try marrying. You'll shops. Thus, in course of time, generally make an Englishman's City and studying newspaper probably find that a woman can

castle for himself. ·

ads. of people leaving" the run it more cheaply for two tham

A Up to this point his reasoning Colony." refrigerator. is you did for one.

usually supplied; an electric fan, a wireless, and car are use- ful accessories,

the generous action of an anony mous benefactor may have far-reaching effects in a sphere

-An Old Hand