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Dollar Down
With the dollar dropping by Ifractions" from day to day, we
PROPHECIES of disaster
disruption in. Indie
been part of the stock-i the opponents of the Const Reforms authorise
ment of India Bil
the Statute Book -
The occasion when he his former
and round hia
ed:
anoth
AGE OF HUSBANDS. AND WIVES
WHY THE MAN SHOULD BE THE OLDER
REVERSED THERE IS BIG RISK OF FAILURE
(By Margaret Lane)
FOST people believe that arthe elder is too obvious for Most Peone bf younger denying a tanker of fear Rethan her husband. It is a rea-creeps in and destroys the foun-
sonable enough belief, founded dations of happiness.
When you are afraid of las- on the unkind fact that men be left
keep their youth longer than ing something and conscious of disadvantage, that something en, in an ordinary slow "per-women dos
ng” which, stopped at prac-
A few the exceptional has an uncanny way of slipping Too much The public-must be wear
minority possessing a personalfout of your grasp.
kils a marriage these forebodings, and the all-tically every station.
At one station a crowd of pea-sweetness that cancels out the care tious observer will be inclined to wait upon events instead of #Sant
were waiting to greet him sourness of unequal age--insist thoroughly as it killed the cat tempting to estimate what India Some peered in at his carriage that, a few years here or there in the proverb.
(Continued on Page 117 **
window and asked: "Are you our do not make or mar a marriage. But Both sides are right. King
been corrected the fal- the first are more often proved len monarch
in dialect right than the second. |"have beeni
YESTERDAY'S CARTOON
The Hot House Of Lonoke
The
JAPANESE BEER
Most men maITY
23.
Mean Trick Of Nature Nature's to make youth less im-
was a mean trick at
risk
portant to a man's attractive- should all like to know whether EXPLANATION OF ave
Most Marriages Happy ness than to a woman's, but the it is going to go further, and if
women trick is done and past remedy, so, how far. Needless to say we do not profess to be able to
younger than themselves, and and life must be lived accord- cast its horoscope with any
most marriages are, in spite of ingly A presentable man of exactitude. Anyone who could
While Japanese statesmen are cynicism and divorce statistics, 50 can still find easy admirers; do. that would not waste time
usually holds for young men making declarations sympathetic more happy than happy the woman of 50 with a taste writing about it. But to Hong!
to Abyssinia, Japanese merchants Marriages in which the wife is Kong it is the question of the
anything more than a very few them with a more negotiable N old house, which had been are making money out of Italy. hour, and it is worth while to
A consider whether there are any
standing about 60 years, in
Already many of the Italian years okler than her husband commodity than personal attrac- A shrewd woman knows that general currents that may in Lonoke, Arkansas, first caught Expeditionary Force are wearing simply accept an additional risk tion. dicate what we may expect fire from defective wiring, and shirts bearing the label, in Eng of failure.
The risk comes are from she starts life anway with too The first point to start with after repairs were made and the fish, "Made in Japan.
Japanese brewers are sharing the woman's side than the many disadvantages to
their mumber is that our authorities, possibly walls repapered, a new fire would in opposition to advice from break out every few days.
in the harvest. Italian Somali- man's, for all women are pre-adding a younger husband to There are, of course, the ex- Whitehall, have evidently de-wallpaper was not the ordinary land has imported in the first two occupied with their age. If an cided to stick to silver, like kind, but a sort of paper sheath-quarters of 1935 six times the older wife could completely for-
get the fact that she was older ceptions and it is always re- Casabianca on the burning ing tacked onto the board walls. total imports in 1954:
There is no attempt, as there than her husband the difference assuring to find them; they go deck.. hence all but
After 47. of these fires detailed had fled." Should we escape investigation was made, and it often is the case of Japanese in age would have small chance some way towards proving that (It is because they more important than a conven-
tional relationship of ages. his fate, we shall no doubt was decided the fires were spor-whisky, to disguise the country of destroying a happy mar the marriage of true minds is share his fame. And there is taneous, a chemical action that of the beer's origin: The prin-riage.
These marriages, though, are usually either lose or tyrannise
the few. It is difficult this to be said for our con-resulted from the paper sheaths cipal brands are "Sakoura" and never can foget that older wives
that the stancy,
variations being put on while wet.
over younger husbands).
The general belief that girls matter to make a success of mature at an earlier age than them. They are rare women boys is not a complete answer who can overcome that parti the puzzle. Most young cular kind of defensive jealousy, and rare men who are not un- women are quite as callow and are of their male authority immature as the young men they fall in love with; a five with an older woman and amcious, even with the cruelty years disparity in age is as of indifference, to assert it apparent at twenty-five as it is at fifty.
be
“FALSE TAIL” SUSAN
Asahi
Your Daily Smile!
"George doesn't seem to
manage to
of policy in the other Oriental
show any A huge red-tailed hawk was countries cannot such success as would serve to lacthally trained to falconry des- Susan. attract us to imitation. Look-pite the loss of its tail ing around we can only see a as the hawk is called, broke its
"No. You see one day he happene depressing row of failures. As own tail off hopelessly short in his wife as well as be used to." we are rather seeking for a per- trying to evade capture, but lost to tell her that he was doing it.” manent policy than studying the struggle. However, Captain
NO WONDER the conditions of the moment, W. R. Knight, well-known En- we can leave on one side the glish naturalist, took the tail
Agnes - "John speculative conditions such as from a museum specimen and beauty intoxicates him.” the overbought position at sewed the feathers onto Susan Mabel "Yes, I heard that he said Shanghai, the tremors of Bom with a needle and thread. The you were enough to drive's man to bay, and so on. The early new tail functions perfectly and drink.”. birds, perhaps they were bulls the hawk became a very efficient in this case, or at least bull-bird. This process is known as finches, made their han. But imping."
cisions that "my
Unequal Marriages
Vanity's Essential &
It is essential to the vanity for the female to be younger The real root of the failure of than her mate, to the vanity of unequal marriages is that the the male to be the authoritative woman begins her married life senior. (A few years' seniori- with a conscious disadvantage, ty does not, of course, neces- Women are sufficiently obsessarily mean real authority or as they were mostly American politicians, and made their Now they have to restock, and The one with the bright bine ed with their age to tell Bes anything like it, but it is money out of the American a higher and more reliable sweater, silk stockings with roses about it even when they are authority's
UNSEEING EYES “Did you notice that girl who just passed?”
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. Treasury, they may be dis- standard would suit them very best three inches apart, sport shoes, younger than their husbands
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amount of currency based on The internal currency of silver in the form of silver cer-China is of course bound to be! tificates has risen from nine per on a silver standard, and it cent to mineteen per cent, could not be tied up to gold. which is distinctly inflationary Stabilisation fon sterling would that is, it is a surplus of cash rouse the jealousy of Japan. that is not needed for business. (The attempt to keep silver in Moreover the gold shipped over the country by an export duty to America has recently has failed through wholesale amounted to so many millions exportation which can hardly lof dollars in vaine, as to make be called smuggling, as ship-
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ficates ever reaching the legal Tientsin and elsewhere with pretence of proportion of one-fourth quite practically no illusory. We may take it for secrecy. A standard that granted that Washington is not walks on crutches is useless.
There is also India, where the eager to continue to be the dumping place of all the silver Government still has a big stock that nobody else wants of silver lying useless, and tied We know that there were up by the agreement made at conversations between the the World Economic Confer Washington Treasury and the ence. That agreement was for British Exchequer a little time three years, and the time limit It would be ago, and that Sir Frederick will soon exp Leith-Ross left on his tour soon an afterwards. Applying a mild Ar form of Sherlock Holmes dis-the whole lectic to his movements, we its intr know that he went first to
absurd.
Tokyo, and that he stayed there that silver for some three weeks. That is tar rather a long time
passing the time of day- and.
fact that the
thoug
Chinese
cult
tion if the sury had to buy ck at three times lue The only
be that if} put on the ket would be
it Sir
and almost everybody arou them. When the fact of
symbol, and 80
the vanity of both
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