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THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 4, 1937.
You've Got
Got To Live With The Man
She was a bit worried about her love affair. She said that she was desperately in love with the wan, but that she meant marriage to be her career and it must be a suc cessful one. If he weren't the type to make a good husband, she would give him up,
And she asked. “If you were a girl picking ont a husband, what particular characteristics would you look for in him?”
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A woman needs something she me would be by his telling me so can lean on, not something she has And being a repeater. to prop up.
None of your frozen, dumb, take Money won't make a happy marit-for-granted husbands for me riage, but the lack of enough of it who never give their wives a kind to get the decent comforts of life word until they put it on their can make a miserable one.
tombstones. Then I should look for a man who And, finally, I would be very, was a good sport for a husband, very certain that the man I married One who could take matrimony on could entertain me. the chin. One who would not welsh Being bored to death is such on his bargain. One who would con-long, drawnout torture. There are sider it just as dishonourable to so many evenings that a husband lie to his wife as he would to an- and wife must spend together, de other man.
pendent upon each other for so-
TURST of all, make a general sur- vey of his personality and background I would never marry a man, not even if he were Prince Charming himself, who was tem- peramental and who had to be handled with gloves.
Nor would I marry a high-tem-1 pered man nor a jealous man.
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Also on my taboo list of those with whom 1 would not march to the altar would be the rich play- boy who had never done a day's work in his life nor earned a shill- ing.
All these would be out.
I should demand of my husband no film star looks, no scintillating brilliance, до breath-taking achievements, but only that he be easy to live with..
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So I should begin by cocking a wary eye on his disposition. That is what counts most in a husband, because it is the thing that his wife has to live with day in and day out-
It is what makes or mars her "happiness, and it doesn't make a particle of difference to her how inoral and upright he is if he is about as pleasant to have around the house as a sore-headed bear She is miserable.
I should pick out a cheerful man. an easy-going chap, one who liked to joke and whose laugh was hung on a hair-trigger, one who would be a ray of sunshine around the house and at whose coming home of an evening everything would brighten up as if all the electric lights had been. flashed on.
Then I would pick out a sturdy oak instead of a broken reed to cling to.
DAILY DISH
Here's a light and tasty dish you can give the family for a change at supper-time:
SCALLOPED CORN
1 can of sweet corn, 3 tablespoon- fuls cream from the top of the milk, 1 teaspoonful salt, 1 table spoonful butter, pepper to taste. 1⁄2 cup corn liquid, 1 teaspoonfu sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls flour, cupful breadcrumbs.
flour
Mix the corn with the sugar, salt and pepper to taste. Stir in cream and cor liquid. Spread half of the butter over the botton of a piedish. Sprinkle thickly with half the crumbs.
Add the corn mixture mixed if liked with a pinch of crushed herbs, and a teaspoonful of minced pars- ley
Cover with remainder of the crumbs. Dab with the rest of the butter. Bake in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.
Serve with any cold or fried
Enough for four persons,
A good combination for a mixed salad is watercress, sliced red- radishes, greens, chicory and ro maine. After the larger leaves are torn into little pieces and every thing is mixed, add a few drops of lemon juice and toss the salad around with a fork. Serve with French or tarragon dressing.
For French dressing, use the three-to-one- amounts of vinegar and olive oil and season with salt pepper and mustard.
For tarragon dressing, use tar 1 would pick out an affectionate ciety, and the dullness is so appalt-ragon vind season with
ing if they have nothing interesting olive oil, to say to each other,
man for a husband.
I am no crystal gazer. Neither am a seventh daughter of a seventh daughter who was born in a cant, and so the only way I could pos sibly have of knowing whether my husband loved me and appreciated
and pepper and sprinkle with chopped paraley.
There are no perfect husbands. To have salad ingredients at their No woman wants one. But if a girl best, wrap the leaves in a damp picks out a man with the qualities towel after washing them in cold I have mentioned it is a good bet water, and leave them in the re- that she will live happily ever after. frigerator a couple of hours.
Many leading stars of the stage and screen-like countless thousands of people în every walk of life have proved from experience that "Ovaltine is the world's best nightcap. You, too, can enjoy deep, restful sleep every night, if you drink a cup of deli- cious "Ovaltine' at bedtime. "Ovaltine". not only soothes the nerves and makes sound sleep sure but it builds up energy and vitality while you sleep. Scientifically prepared from the finest of Nature's protective and restorative foods, "Ovaltine' is supremely rich in all the nutritive elements needed to main- tain radiant health and vitality. But remember it must be “Ovaltine”. Imitations may be made to same, but there are very differences. For quality, health-giving value and economy. Ovaltine stands in a class by itself Reject substit
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