THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 23, 1937.
Hand in hand through life. fearful of only one thing
A
Would Your Husband
Page
Write This About YOU?
Yet She Still Smiled!
presents to-day, but she wil
Shes "accept them.
the little things Eb the days when 103 repres savings of a month
LICE does not know I am writ- the one who said: "Why are we al countant of the Bank of England.
ing this. If she did know she ways bickering like this? Oh, would say: "Jim, you'll make me come on, don't be an old bear.” look such a silly." Of course, I Sometimes I went on being an old- cannot say whether you will throw bear and gave her, perhaps, im- I thank the good Lord was have all this in the waste-paper basket. patient answers which to-day. I been spared any serious sickness. Though if I put all my money in
would. give the world to take back.
But there was one winter when I a heap at her feet, it could not be But if you publish it in your But in times of trouble she was was down with pleurisy and she a millionth part of the reward she paper perhaps I will show it to always ready to listen to me, even was the nurse who pulled me through has earned from me. Alice and then it will be too late when I talked about office difficul- a crisis that frightened the doctor. Soon, I supposes the children will for her to do anything about it, of ties which she could not understand. “ Nobody would write the story of
marry or leave home to wo It is only now that I realise how how Alice sat up night after night where. Alice is fond of reading about bravely she kept a lot of her own unless I did it. When I recovered she fell ill, worn out with the strain love troubles to herself. other people's romances and
of looking after an invalid hus stories. She has often finished a story about some film star or duke When our first baby was on the band and two small children.
And that was a few months be- or earl and said: "What a won- way and I did not know whether I derful thing it must be to look would be long in my job, she never fore our third child was born.
The little illness that came back on a life like that, Jim ”
course.
That is why I am writing piece now.
Her Wonderful Story
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Then we will be alone again.
We Somehow I shall not mind. will be alone together, agam just as we started.
I expect they will be getting up a presentation for me in the office. Well, Alice hasn't had much to
me.
She seemed to. find money for the children all made her work do with the office. She has never this clothes and boots and food and all heavier. I could never do much visited the boss's home for chinner the little extras which mount up more than hang about the bedroom because the boss has never asked such a lot and which a growing offering to help. family needs.
-But through it all she kept a smile I don't know how you made the for me and a cheerful face at din Maybe I have never been able to money spread out in those lean ner and tea. take her to the places or give her times, Alice, but I do know it was the things mentioned in books and a feat that might puzzle the ac- articles, but I think her story as wonderful as any I have ever met.
We have been married nearly twenty-five years, and soon we will celebrate our silver wedding.
It was in the winter of 1912 that I married Alice in the church, not far from the street where we were both born.
It rained
all the way to the church, all through the service and all the way home. And it rained through the best part of our honey-
TROOM
----Like parties? Well, here are a few hints from a young man who can "make a party-go.”
Enterprising hostesses are-look- ing for people like him. Now he gives you YOUR chance to be a sociză-trinziph.
He outlines an entirely new code of surefire party manners.
Maybe he IS a bit cynical-so don't take his advice too seriously!
IRST, get an invitation.
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But she is the one who ought to have the presentations. Because I know now that without her twenty- five years of care and sacrifice
I could give her more expensive could never have carried on.
How To Be A SOCIAL SUCCESS!
I
to be distinguished from others by: which everyone comes to say how A good line to take, on hav- (a) affluence; (b) intellect; (c) they hate parties. But that rainy couple of weeks ing encountered a potential hostess, eccentricity.
And do not thank your hostess was start of twenty-five years that is to let fall, at some suitable op- As-I take it the first distine- for a delightful party. That is the Alice has filled with sunshine for portunity, a succinct, yet savage, tion is unlikely in your case, it is patent lickspittling of the social
little indictment of parties in gen- up to you to tackle the second and tyro, third eral.
me.
I am forty-nine to-day and Alice is forty-six, so it is a bit early for "But," you must exclaim, shrug- Right, we are getting along. me to talk about "My Old Dutch" ging, as the victim makes her de Yet with the writer of that song fence of society: "I do not like the I can say I wouldn't "swop" Alice human race, I do not like its silly for the greatest lady in England. face. Why should one be plagued into these intolerably boring affairs" Why should one go to parties if one doesn't want to?”
Twenty-five years is a long time
You are at your party, you have to Mrs. X, and been introduced something must be done.
You are a man~ Face up to it Say boldlyNow what on earth
Let it be this way- "My dear Mrs. So-and-So, how do you manage
to produce a
commletely
unlike a party
Where is Th
empirgent in
the range of social rhetoric.
Let this be understood. While the epigram, the bon-mot and the apho- rism may still hold a place in the
Nine times out often the bait will are you doing at a party like this?” world of social affairs, they are los-
to spend together, but sometimes, be sia Irated. I think it has flown like a
months.
In 1912 I was a young clerk ea
ing 35s. a week. That was
we started keeping house on.
They ing you failed
which many of you know but which tial ther of hundreds
the
ware that of
mom she is the one
and com-
Conversely, let as suppose that of Mrs X.
are You are a woman.
down well-with ner driver, resented to you. is identical. boldly but hesitatingly
it's funn but you en to belong
ren
Now I am head clerk in a firm to
the
I am not going to mention because
I do not want the others in
office to discuss this
If this frst party casts love
pavement at
probabl
the
ho is
We have all the money
two grownup daughters and al
who has just started work.
Sometimes I cannot believe
Lor fello
there.
behold the transports delight which will be
some
ing ground. What, then, has taken their place? It is purely question of attitude.
The following are, first-class at- titudes, indicative of fascinating states of mind.
The attitude of the sufferer (“Yo tell it from his eyes”)
The attitude of the boor ("My dear, the most insufferably rude per-
Where? Introduce me").
Son.
The attitude of the cynical amor- ist, if a male ("Of course he's had hundreds of
The attitude enigmatic silence, if a female (She looks terribly in- teresting
ist's going on
behind that mask
·Because Alice has not ch
It seems only
me.
made our first little home.
would not pretend we have never
had our quarrels, of
Tet oking back 1:; can see I was
to blame
rly mar And Alice was alwaysday,
The social
best parties
ane
Sit car hment, hostess,
sir or