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FAREWELL AND ADIEU

Those gipsy dancars may soon be the only people to keep up tha

traditions of Andalusian costuma.

"N

0, thanks," såld Rosita. I daren't,

you know. If my novio ever found

out, he would kill me."

In England, to offer a cigarette to a Indy is mark of common politeness. In Spain, it is a gen- ture fraught with danger, an in- citement to commit an upardon- uble social crime,

Rasila dare not smoke. She cunist play tenuis. 'The idea that she might ride a hopele or drive a car strikes her as so fantuarie 1but she does not even bother to

Every evenly she goes for a walk with her flance. He is a miki and piyasant young man, this rame Hople who holds such decided views on the propriety of tobared #inking. With his dark hair smoothly brushed, and his packets full of out-of-date lottery tickets. the wrecks of ships that never get came home, he represents, for the present, Romance,

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Sfor the future. .” No,” says Remita. "I am in no hurry to get married. Marriage is worse than death. I is the end of everything."

So she is putting off the day when the evening walk will have to be cancelled because she will be While too by cooking supper, engaged,

sometimes they dance or go to the cinema, as long as her mother or sister is free to

act as chaperone.

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But when they are married she will stay at home to look after the children, while Junn goes to the cate. The centé is all right for a man, but it is no place for a respectable woman, married

--To-day's Thought- THE kardest victory is victory-

over self.

~~~-- ARISTOTLE-

or,

single. Rosita does not, as you might suppose, spend half the day dreaming behind an iron-barred window in some cobbled Andalu- sian street.

She is no languorous Southern beauty with n carnation gleaming in her hair beneath the clie mantilla. She does not, in fact, wear a mantilla. As far as I know. she has never touched à gullar or

Castanet..

That type has died cut. In Spah you will find it only on ple Lure-postcards and in has whos... settling is Mexico.

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OBITA, on the contrary. works. In an dtire, în a Town which will postem, Trulleg-insta Aho b. pita effelent typist, with somnte Lueue aerity. ledge ist

CAR K typical of thousands of young women all over Spalli

They are in a strange portion. These Spanish girls. They have we freedom in work, but nu to play. They may earn their icing like, men, but in their, am- ments they must never venture bi- yond the fabally circle, Howtoped- eally they

Independent, orally the re bond by the conventions of ʼn byrone nie,

Are

His

Convention,dan formidable thing. It keeps alive the Spanlard's crue

towards tury-old attitude womenfolk, that semi-oriental tradition which is the last legacy of the Arabs,

• Accordin 10 this tradition. women were cloistered before mar- Flage and neglected afterwards. Translated into terms of Europe, It means that the Spaniard puts his flancée on a pedesiat but leaves his wife in the kitchen.

Translated yet again, it signifies that real comradeship between the sexes is very hard to achieve.

Rusia, according to her social eode, has two legitimate interests. The first is sex, the second domes- ticity.

When she marries she will, of

all

It will in the wash

· know if you how to do it

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YOU,

You Spanish Ladies

by Geoffrey Brereton

(Just returned from a visit to the New Spain)

course, have Bulshed for ever with the office. She will became a good housewife und EL de- voted mother. Sha 18 are to spoil her chill- dren

She will eat 100 much And hot bother greatly about her appearnce.

Visits to Che hairdresser, beauty treatment, mming will be neglected he- cause they no longer have any point. Amin, the Oriental, the Tiblical attitude, crops up.

To be a mother of many chlidren the sole purpose of women. When they are this, they should desire nothing more. In return, no man should expect of them any- thing else.

Such is the tradition. It is so strong that in the provincial towns Only few have yet questioned it.

Barcelona and Madrid is it slowly being worn away. One day. perhaps very soon, it will inevit- ably break. Witat algas are there of the Foming change?

Consider thear three isolated corta..

The Republle har given Spanish Mutta the right to vate. Although the enterton has, so far, made

tle difference either to them or to the Republie, it is equivalent to wunderbar ou tlfem equal citizen-

lp with me.

To

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panah

Monien's hockey team has Just returned from a tour in

In a commercial clams in Balers there were oner eight giris KOYUR-iwo men, That was ATS RO To-tay the same elisa momains prly girls and lorty 11. The proportion of women adenta has in from ten to Hity per rent,

14 is from this quarter that the change is coming. Women students are everywhere on the Increase. They are to be found in the facultion of medicine, pharmacy, law, commerce, and literature.

Some are studying with delinite career in view. Others have no thought of eventually earning their living. They merely wish to continue their eduen- tton.

Whatever their ultimate alm, they will be very different women from-Rosita--- You cannot share- for two years the same lecture-

come

out

soda together with a pitch of washing soda in a half eup of boiling water. Then place the stained part of The table cloth in this solution for a few minutes. In nine cases out of ten, the stain will disappear quickly, and it is then only necessary to rinse the cloth thorough- ly with warm water.

Hydrosulphite of soda is much used in the printing of all kituls of fabric and has no harmful action whatever on cotton and linen cloths,

IT is the rubbing and not the soaking which causes woollen garments to shrink during washing. But garments are sometimes so dirty that rubbing in neersssary,

It has been discovered recently that the extent to I the ten cur table linen during the winter skalinity of the

the summer the ten, coffee, and fruit stains which woollens shrink is influenced be the degree of alkalinity of the washing water. The more alkali pre- is the shrinkage. Rubbing is lust seem to be more conspicuous. There is a sub- harmful when cold plain water is used.

When washing dirty woollen garments it is thus stance which will remove most of these stains advisable to do the necessary rubbing in cold water quite easily. You can get it cheaply from the containing only a small amount of soap, and then remove chemists by asking for hydrosulphite of soda, all the loosened dirt, by lightly working them in a warm (about one ounce is sufficient); be sure that this substance is not confused with the hyposulphite of soda, which is used by the photographer.

A stuin is best removed in this miner. First dissolve about quechaif ounce of the hydrosulphite of

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ap liquor containing a small amount of ammonia. waters This is because shrinkage is due to a closer Woollens shrink much more in hard than in soft

matting together of the individual wool fibres, and this asshed by the soap scum which is formed in bord water and which makes each fibre sticky.

SALESMAN SAM

room with men, or work at the same bench in the laboratory, and remain distantly cold or bewitch- ingly coy.

There is one woman member of Parliament, She is Margarita Nelken, Communist member for Bilbao, whose fervent oratory has carned her the name of The Pas- sion Flower. Thus the women of Spain are gradu-

ally making their way into public fc. They have had no suffragette mov c- ment.

The war, which knocked down the barriers of sex in so many countries, never reaches theirs.

Slowly and timidly, fighting against prejudices which

they half- shared, they have struggled into the strongholds of mon. Intellectually 'they accepted

arc

equal terms,

On the question of feminine sport. Opinion ta divided. The majority vi Spanish

men-eych young men-disap-~ prove of 1. it is. they will tell you. mnatural, ungrace- ful-in a word, in- womanly for women to run and

* swim and develop misseļes, Never-

theless, it is happening.

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ning with tennis, the University women' have gone on to hockey.

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FOR THE SKIN

A prompt application of She-ko allnys the pain, while the antisep- Lie healing properties of this ideal ointment prevent inféction,

and ensure quick skin recovery.

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Thoy hold cross-country · races. They go up into the mountains and ski

The less enterprising walk a few miles Into the country on Sunday, They do not yet call it hiking. It is not a sport, but at least it is exercise.

Many look at them askance, They themselves are a little self- conscious. They feel that they are doing something not precisely for- bidden, but unusual. In time the Jeeling will wear of.

The games-playing Spanish girl ts a reality. The next step is the games-playing woman. In a few years will come the incredible, the undreamt-of day, when the first Spanish boy plays tennis with his

mother,

Then Rosita will be definitely out of date. Poor Rorital

The young wife of a Barcelona fisherman wears a bolted jumper

and bobbed hair.

INSECT BITES and STINGS; also for SUNBURN, CHAPPED HANDS and LIPS, and CHILBLAINS.

She-ko has a delightful fragrance, and is excellent as a skin preservative, keeping it soft, fresh and cool.

Obtainable at chemists, or from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 151, Kiangse Rond, Sharighni; 70 cents per package, post free. `

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The End Of The Line

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1986.

EVERYBODY'S FAVOURITES ON REX RECORDS.

8773-Gloomy Sunday. Maurice Elwin,

Solitude.

8704-Salut D'Amour.

Barcarolle "Tales of Hoffman.".

Musical Dawson's Famous CHOIR OF CANARIES.

8711-Sunset Trail.

Maid of Brazil.

'8719-Music Gocs Round & Around,

There's a Song they Sing in Sing Song.

Primo Scala's Accordeon Band,.

8715--Animal Crackers in My Soup,

When I Grow Up.

8636-Trees.

Baby Durelle Alexander.

Smiling Through.

Gracie Fields.

8604Confessions of a Cheeky Chappy.`` Max Miller.

8041-Sandy the Film Star.

8362-What the Stars Foretell,

8578-Sandy The Dentist. 8387-Sandy Joins The Nudists. 8024 Sandy The Burglar.

8114 Sandy on a South Sea Isle.

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OUR BRITISH

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7-Started

ACROSS

8 Form of punishment in which the same ten are always kept in.

10 Beginning with Act IV, it

becomes busy,

11 Taken away.

12- There is no necessity for the letter-box in which it is put to

14 Tenderness.

15 Advance.

18 The American city that gave accommtxiation to a king of France.

20 Bird having an almost historie

origin.

22 The English town that is to be

found in a Scottish county, 24 Omuin vincit

26 Love it and I follow on. This may, he regarded as a prayer, Little by Little," for example (Hyphen, 3, 5).

30 May describe certain decorations,

partly by word of mouth.

31 Though it may serve to divert Sue, the modern working girl has little use for it.

22 What a snail contains but never

shows.

1 Blustrated,

DOWN

2. The celebrated Carthagining general who lost his head in a

car.

Greenery.

4 Spot non-changers.

5 You will find this severe in your

OH, NEVER MIND THỨ THANKS WELL, THANKS ABOUT SHOVIN' YER CAR WHEN JAGIN, BUDLI DON'T). YA WERE OUTA GAS ALWAYS/KNOW WHAT I

GLAD TA HELP A PAL! WOULDA DONE WITH-

OUT VER HELP!

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district. 6.The.G.P.0, ____find_a

for

Thousands of these foreigners.

Provides nourishment for man,

by way of a change.

13 No seal to use for wax (11idden).

16 Hidden in Clue 13.

17 Collar shy. (anag.), - 19 Put out.

21 Sane.

24 Stretches--banquets will do.

25 Put it up and move, down for

a good reason.

27 Small collection of grass. 28 What they call the Docks ut

Kew.

Saturday's Solution

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By Small

WISH I COULD DRIVE YA FARTHER - BUT I LIVE RIGHT ACROSS' TH' STREET!

¡GAS