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THE HONGKONG...... TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1987.

MAE

NOW ON

THE SHUI HING CO.

THE

187-195 DES VOEUX ROAD CENTRAL

CENTRE OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS

SHOP EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT TWO MORE DAYS ONLY

SHOPPING HOURS TO-DAY---8 A.M. TO 11. P.M.).

Don't Forget To Bring Your Kiddies To Our

TOYLAND

SOOCHOW, heavily bombed by Japanese warplanes, is a

City of Lovely Women

By Florenco Dean

To be happy on earth, one must be

born in Soochow. So runa an old Chinese proverb that la quoted- In China to-day as often as it was 2,000 years agɑ.

For Boochow, ancient before Shang- hal was born, has for centuries kept its reputation for acenie beauty, for wealth, for culture, and above all, for the loveliness of its women.

In days of the old regime, when a man could not choose his own wife but must submit to his parents' choice without seeing the girl before marri- age, a bridegroom felt safe it he know his bride would be a Soochow girl.

That was almost a guarantee that he would see a pretty face after the ceremony, when the bride's veil was lifted.

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NO-EDUCATION today has not

spolled the tradition, Young men and girls of Soochow meet in the schoolroom and walk together on the college campus, attend cinemas and dances together, and, if they fall in love, marry. Sometimes there are masa marriages, 20 or 30 couples at a time.

The gamble of the wedding-vell has gone, but Soochow keeps its re- putation for beautiful women.

I have met Soochow women mar-

ried to men in all parts of China, and. unquestionably they have a charm peculiarly their own a southern gentleness and langour of manner that is in keeping with the soft, sibilance of the Soochow dialect-so different from the rolling gutteral of the North, the curt harshness of Canton or the shrill staccato of Shanghal.

They are petite, these Soochow womenwith delicate features and the naturally small fect so important to beauty in Chinese eyes,

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THE wealth of Soochow hangs on a thread-the thread spun by the silkworm. And the life of the silk- worm depends on the groves of mul- berry trees whose rich, dark foliage enhances the beauty of Soochow's environs.

The city itself is built on Islands in a great lake encicled by hills. Be- cause of this it has often been called the Venice of the East.

The Chinese say, "Under Heaven, Tiangchow and Soochow," placing it second in their list of beautiful cities. Crisp and neat in a brocaded silk rown slit from ankle to knee the girl of Soochow to-day hurries about her business or pleasure on high-heeled suede shoes of the newest American pattern and with her hair curled in the latest London style. She keeps ́alive in our generation, the old trodl- tion that Soochow is the home of beautiful women.

Cable your

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TO THE Via Eastern

BRITISH EMPIRE TEN WORDS

$325

BUY YOUR LAST-MINUTE GIFTS

AT THE NEW

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******** FORGOTTEN MEN

THE TAIKOO DOCKYARD & ENGINEERING COMPANY

OF HONGKONG, LIMITED.

BUILDERS OF ALL CLASSES OF SHIPS.

BUILDERS OF reciprocating Steam ENGINES. BUILDERS OF MARINE AND LAND BOILERS. BUILDERS OF TURBINE MACHINERY

Under Licence From Mesars, Parsons.

BUILDERS OF DIESEL ENGINES

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Under Special Licence From Mosers. Sulzer Bros., Winterthur.

Miconsod To Manufacture Lanz Perlit Iron, Specially Buttebla

For Internal Combustion Engine Working Parts.

DOCK & SLIPWAYS

POR DOCKING. VERY LARGE, AS WELL AS SMALLER VESSELS,«

ON ANY TIDE.

ALL CLASSES OF SHIP, ENGINE AND BOILER

REPAIRS

AND EXTENSIVE welding, BOTH ELECTRICAL AND

OXY-ACETYLENE, SKILFULLY AND PROMPTLY CARRIED OUT.

Tol. Address "Talkoodock" Hongkong. Telephone No. 30211,

Cell Flag: "Numeral One” over “Pennant Ans."

SOLE AGENTS:

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Agents

HONGKONG, CHINA & JAPAN

C

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.

EST. 1841.

CENSUS AGENTS VISIT

THEIR RETREATS

33 MILLION CARDS DELIVERED

New York.

More than 100,000 postmen, throughout the United States, Hawall and Alaska, to-day delivered 1171- employment census cards at nearly 33,0000,000 dwellings. It was the world's record postal delivery and the United States' Brst systematic attempt. to collect complete details of the pre- sent unemployed population.

About 4,500,000 forms were de- livered in New York City alone. To make certain that forgotten men and. homeless women were included special agents were ordered to tour the underground railway tubes and the honeycomb of subterranean re- treats used by down-and-outs *ns sleeping places.

A further 25,000 cards were de- livered by these agents. The Gov- ernment seeks exact detalls of each

QUESTIONS ASKED

case.

Among the questions anked the head of each family are:

Whether partly or wholly unem- ployed and whether able to work: Number of hours worked last week and in the Inst 12 weeks;

Training, occupation, Industry and experience;

Ago and sex;

Number of persons in the house- hold and number partly or wholly unemployed;

Number dependent on head of households and

Income Inst week apart from re- lief paymente,

In a message accompanying each card Prealdent Itoosevelt states: "II you give me the facts I shall try to use them for the benefit of all who need and want work and do not now have it."

The census is entirely voluntary and the Government relies on a high- presstiro publicity campaign, re- miniscent of the wartime's Liberty Loan drives, to obtain public support.

OPEN

TILL

10 P.M.

WE WISH ALL OUR NEW CUSTOMERS

A HAPPY CHRISTMAS

NOTE OUR

and A BRIGHT NEW YEAR

ADDRESS

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RIGHT SIDE QUEEN'S THEATRE,

TEL. 22885.

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