1937-01-07 — Page 18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1937.

Safeguard your EYES

EYE LOTION

OPTREX

OPTREX is recommended for weak or tired eyes, and for all who wear glasses; its action

rapidly tones up the sight and refreshes the eye.

OPTREX. is indispensable to

motorists, sports enthusiasts, travellers, colonials, etc., for preventing or checking inflam mation of the eyes.

use Optrex eye lotion useOptrexeye

OBTAINABLE AT ALL DISPENSARIES,

A. S. WATSON & Co., Ltd,, Agents

New Year

Begin the New

In

the Right Way

Instal a "Moutrie" Piano

in your Home, and give

perpetual pleasure to every member of your family,

S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD.

(Makers of fine pianos for over half a century).

York Building

Chater Road

TO ERADICATE SUPERFLUOUS HAIR

Elizabeth Arden

HAS PERFECTED HER

Sand

VENETIAN DERMATEX DEPILATORY.

HOME DELIVERY

HOYONS.

of the

now

1937

Vauxhalls

If you are going home on leave, this will interest you.

You can arrange now to stop) ashore at home and drive away in a new Vauxhall.

We assist you in this connection without any trouble or complica- tion to yourself

. delivered

to you at home and subsequently in Hongkong.

Catalogue & Full Particulars from

Europe's Most

ELIGIBLE WOMAN

T

will be married this morning

O be born into a so democratic and never there-

fore so secure. Royal family before

the war meant in A Dutch friend told me some

Hongkong Hotel most cases that you were time ago that the "popular ap

Garage

Stubbs Rd.

The

Phono 27778/9.

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1037.

THE U.S. MARITIME STRIKE

peal" side of Princess Juliann sentenced to a lifetime of was beat illustrated by her

bows and brocade.

career at the University of Leyden. With several common- Not for you a casual long ers who were studying there week-end in a country inn nahing village, and her life sceris she lived in a neighbouring or a solitary crawl round to have been as typical as that old bookshops or a visit to a except perhaps that she did more of the average college girl, public eating-house with an 'needlework! She smokes, of intimate friend or any of Queen still forbids her daughter course, but-not-at-home. The

the other things that make to smoke as part of Court

etiquette. up the enjoyable stuff Actually, the Princess of life. Royalty implied is a doctor of jurisprudence, a good cook, an enthusias- constant surveillance by tic dancer, a bad tennis Court officials whose know- player, a publicity hater, a lover of camp life, and of etiquette was one of the most eligible Prin- cesses in Europe. Her annual

Although there are other ledge

issues involved, such as wages generally greater than their income is about £27,000, and it

and overtime pay, it is clear that

acquaintance with the or

dinary problems of living a jolly reasonable existence.

will be increased on her wedding

day..

Her marriage to-day will, of course, delight the Dutch people who find her fairly characteristic The war- truism this of their own outlook. Contrary changed all that. The King of to the ridiculous rumours about Sweden began to play lawn ten- her future that used to fill the is on the Riviera with players European Press they have al whose stardom was more at one ways known that one day she with physical fitness than with would marry someone just like social status.

-FACTS

Princess Juliana, good cook, bad tennis player;

has £27,000 a year,

The kingdom of the Nether lands was established in 1874 Huring the Napoleonic wars. First king was William, son of William V., Prince of Orange and hereditary Stadt-holder of the Netherlands, of the same family as William II. of Eng- land.

I do not think the marriage

than with the international in- portance of her marriage,

One thing is certain. Holland will have an exceptionally well- informed Queen when Juliana ascends the throne. Already in the absence of her mother from the Hague she has acted as Directress of the Queen's affairs. She speaks several languages fluently, and has studied inter- national law and the whole struc- ture of Dutch national and local government at careful first-hand,

The knowledge will be needed, for one day she will rule some 57,000,000 people, of which about 50,000,000 live in Holland's colonial possessions. will have the advantage of com

But she

parative-security-As-someone- once said: "You don't have re-

the real stumbling-block pre- venting a settlement of the disastrous American shipping strike is the hiring hall. The shipowners, however, claim that neither union recognition nor the hiring hall itself is an issue;

Queen Wilhelmina (born 1980). succeeded her father in 1890, her It is a matter of selection of

mother acting as regent for Prince Bernard von Lippe- eight years. She married Prince men, they say they do not

Biesterfeld, for under Dutch Henry of Mecklenburg in 1901, wish to be forced to accept any Our own Princes were seen law she is forbidden to marry

He died 1934. Their daughter is Princess Juliana, born 1909. union men who, in their opinion, more and more in public res. the heir presumptive to another

and sometimes taurants,

in throne. are not acceptable to the com- East End pubs talking things

Low Countries-so long the They also knew that as she is linch-pin of British diplomacy? panies. On the other hand, the over with working men and lads. Queen Wilhelmina's only child unions maintain that if they In Holland the Princess Juliana, there was no question of her not surrender control of the hiring mina and heir to

only daughter of Queen Wilhel- marrying.

the historic A modern Court, despite the will have much, effect on the volutions in a country where any- halls, employers will be able to throne of the Netherlands, be- post-war democratisation, still European situation, certainly body can see the Queen sitting discharge a man at any time gan to appear in the suburbs of has its compulsory obligations. not at present. The Dutch sewing at her window."

the Hague on a push bike. I have often pondered on both people are sturdy and indepen- they wish without assigning A new conception of royalty, the thraldom and thrilldom of dent, and while they fear the A word about her famous any reason--that men favoured stimulated no doubt by the fate monarchy. All over the world growing Imperialist aims of Nazi house of Orange and her re-. by the shippers will get regular tic European Royal Families at and girls will be just a little of people either to buy off a Juliana from Juliana von Stol- that overtook so many autocra- to-day countless men, women Germany, they are not the kind Iations. She gets the name work and that others just as the end of the war, had entered thrilled by the fact that an heir potential aggressor or to appease berg (1506-1680), mother of Wil- deserving will be left out. In the mind not only of common to a throne is getting married, one by artificial arrangement. Ham the Silent, founder of the defence of the hiring hall, the people but of royalty itself. Any dynastic change wakes both What they desire most is com- United Netherlands and ancestor The Dutch Court is an in- memories of old unhappy kings mercial success, national inde- of the House of Orange which unions point to the admitted teresting example of democra- and queens and speculations of pendence and domestic happiness, we know so well in this country fact that there is an overcrowd-tised royalty. "It is one of the new royal destinies that may be From my own knowledge of from the King William she sent.

wealthiest in Europe. Queen carved out in coming ages. ing of the labour market, and Wilhelmina has a civil list of The sleepiest Foreign Office imagine therefore that to-day to our own Royal Family.

the delightful Dutch people I us. Juliana is, of course, related that the hiring halls are de-about £160,000. As Sovereign wakes up and re-estimates the the bulk of them are more con- Princess Alice, Countess signed to equalise and rotate she also receives large sums in future in view of the fresh de- cerned with the personal hap Athlone, is Queen Wilhelmina's employment among the sea and rent from her family domains velopment. Will it mean a loss piness of their Princess than cousin, and both the Queen of and a State allowance to main- of friendship, a new ally, a with the diplomatic speculations Holland and her daughter have dock men.

If control of hiring, tain the royal palaces. In addi- different diplomatic orientation? that must accompany every been frequent visitors to this is lost, the anilors and longshore-tion she controls a large private In the present case European royal marriage between members country. Last September they men assert, it will mean a return King Willem I, who abdicated the marriage of a royal Dutch-

fortune raised commercially by diplomats will be wondering if of different States,

spent several weeks visiting In the same way the average beauty spots in the Highlands of to dock hiring and what they in 1840. Under the Dutch con- woman and a German princeling typist who cooks her own meal Scotland, and the Princess acted term "slave market". days, stitution she has considerable will some time or other cement at night will, I feel sure, be more as bridesmaid at the wedding of Employers

executive powers. state that the

a new friendship between ex- interested in the fact that this Princess Marina and the Duke- fundamental question is whether every

It will be seen, therefore, that panding Germany and neutral- eligible Princess' favourite meal of Kent.

excuse exists in the minded. Holland. Will it affect is pea soup, sausages served with Great Britain will wish her. or not union agents shall dictate Dutch Court for a tendency to Britain's jealous regard for the apple sauce, and fruit pudding well.

warda monarchical totalitar-

to employers what individualaniem and consequent instabili- men they can or cannot hire, or ty. Instead, the throne which whether employers shall have the new engaged Princess will free selection of workers from one day occupy has never been. the union men available. It is further claimed that: ship. owners are responsible to the

"

Can Dreams Solve Crimes?

of

A RECENT reference to Multre suburb, and made a mental note of a vision, in which she saw the girl's Maurice Garcon, the well-known the street it was in and the number. body tying half in and half out of in this strike include marine barrister,

and criminal cases A day or two later she read in the a pool at the side of a very lonely wooks, stewards, firemen, oilers, involving witchcraft and sorcery, is papers of the discovery of the dia- and little frequented country lane.

a reminder that the occult has fre- membered remains of a man in water-tenders and wipers, who Government and to the general also want hiring halls; whilequently played a part in the solution | sack, and at once informed the police lane, and found the chil

a A search party at once set off to the

body in: and prevention of crime. Here is a of her dream. Though they were the exact spot indicated. ARDENA HAIR-OFF ELECTRA ERADICATOR|public for the safe operation of engineers, masters, mates, pilots, modern instance of one of the occult inclined to treat it rather lightly they Before accepting the ald of clair-

methods.

nevertheless trumped up”. somo voynnis, however, the: German and American vessels, and that they and radio operators, whose A woman living in a suburb of prelext to visit the house which the Austrian police always make sure cannot discharge that responsi-umbers may not be sufficient to a dreamed the act or strangling and in one of the rooms they found what they claim to do.

dreamed one night she saw dream girl had been seen to enter they are bona fide and able to do †bility unless they are free to warrant the expense of hiring a feeble old man. Every detall dream girl was subsequently arrested Indeed, there is so much' fraud and: They rarely ample evidence of a

crime. The if ever consult professional mediums, halls, also seek union preference the hideous drama stood out select crows which, in their in employment. It will be seen cloth and carpet in the room where was Francesca Klein,

most vividly, even the colour of the table and ultimately convicted. Her name charlatanism among professional me-

diums that it judgment, are competent and from these points that im- the murder was taking place. She

wisest to have good proof of a a mardium's honesty and anfe. The unions answer to portant and difficult issues are sleep again and have the same

woke in a state of terror, to go to Helping the Police

capabilities before a any very serious matter this point is that, in any event, involved, going to the very root dream. The following afternoon, Both in Austria and Germany clair- One of the most remarkable every sailor who goes to sea of conditions of employment. man of her dream. There was no faculties, not infrequently materially in the detection of crime occurred in when out shopping, she saw the wo-voyants have, through their psychic authcutic cases of the occult aiding must possess a Government

At the moment, the parties seem mistaking her, every feature in her assisted in the detection and preven- the early part of last century licerice, and that, therefore, no

far from reaching an agreement. face was the same, as was the shape tion of crime. A clergyman, when turning over

of her dainty and. singularly lovely question of competency actually and shipping

Meanwhile, American

Only a year or two ago the Vienna | the pages of a Bible, in a Lancashire trade hands.

police consulled a natural elbirvoy-church, before morning service, Arison.

Impelled by curiosity, and a same- ant regarding the disappearance of found what he, at first, supposed to Others piso concerned severely.

thing she could not realat, she follow- a seven-years-old girl. The clair be the banns of marriage. Ho opened ed her to a house in a neighbouring voyant went into a trance, and had p(Conitnayd-on Page 5)

Obtainable From

LANE, CRAWFord, Ltd.

PERFUMERY DEPT.

suffering

A

ich on