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THE CHINA-MAIL, MAY
1938.
To Slap These Brides!
There are five of them-five types There ought to be a
Public son, and by the, time he comes of
You might think it a
sexless
of. bride whom I should like to put Nuisance Department to take care age he is the father of an unwant-business proposition. You'd be over my knee and slap.
of people like Phyllis!
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Unfortunately, they are fairly common. Much to common. They
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cold,
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ed family and the husband of wrong.. **
woman with whom he has nothing. It is by no means your
Bloof beauty who marries A Lad in common. The Bride Who Gets
She gets the And so to separation, divorce money. More often it is the hot- are the brides who in one way or "Into Trouble:"
If he marries her, or a life of frustration and bitter- head. another don't play the game. Here sympathy.
the most
But after a honeymoon which he can expect is mild ness. they are:
poet approbation for doing "the right When the man is "old enough to persuades her probably obese and "es- thing."
know better," and the girl is young elderly spouse that he is first cou- modern Yet he deserves the sympathy, and babyfaced, it looks a clear case sin to Adonis, she turns a roving And he is usually their poor devil! Both then and after of injured innocence. But don't eye elsewhere.
sap enough to finance her amorous wards.
adventures under his doting nose.
The Martyr Bride: The Milton invented the phrase,
Some poused saint.” brides include the tag in trousseaux.
They don't "take the veil." They take the halo.
A young man once invited to officiate at his wedding.
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Time and again young couples confront me, on my doorstep. They me have come to put up the banns. And,
as young men will, he told me all about his Phyllis.
But when he mentioned that she was an only child; that the occasion- that ally suffered from "nerves," her
about mother was concerned the raw climate of the rough in- dustrial North where they proposed to live-a still small voice warned me about Phyllis!
1. She lets the boy get her "into trouble," forces marriage
2. She turns a roving eye elsewhere-after the honey-
nioon
3. She goes into hysteries at the thought of having a baby
The wedding was a slap-up af- fair. Phyllis, clad in the sveltest of ivory satin creations, was led to the slaughter by mamma in
tears Their faces tell me how it is with
These things happen. and black lace.
Phyllis wept. Mamma wept some
more.
be too sure!
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In these days of sex equality the Victorian herione is a back num- ber.
Your baby vamp looks guileless, learnt all but the odds are she about
our sex appeal and what
life" parents called "the facts of long before she left the schoolroom.
no
As somebody aptly put it, girl who is determined and still conscious need suffer this parti- cular calamity.
PEIPING JAPS. CELEBRATE HSUCHOW FALL
PEIPING, TO-DAY. forty JAPANESE RESIDENTS IN Some time ago a man of
NUMBERING OVER "had" to marry a girl of eighteen. PEIPING, Through the scandal he lost his 10,000, CELEBRATED THE FALL
has OF HSUCHOW YESTERDAY. job in a solicitor's office and
All Chinese in primary and since been sweeping, the roads.
Then, But when the girl takes charge
after the birth of the secondary schools were required to like a showman with a performing child, his wife, in one of their attend mass meetings at which
miserable, frequent. quarrels, admitted that political speeches were made.
them.
four bear while the lad looks spent then I could slap her.
he was not the father!
A
Seven Chinese bands were hired for the occasion and paraded the streets playing martial music.
After the
the mass meeting students marched in procession through the streets.
The upshot of it was that days of the honeymoon were
"Jude at Torquay-the, remainder with Have you read Hardy's
And they say the woman always the Obscure"? Arabella
caught pays! Phyllis's mother.
Marries It's quite a "rac- The Bride Who For
has Jude that way. three
Phyllis years breakfasted in bed. She's spent ket."
Purse. He may have a face like a mother's week-end at her
It happens like this. "very
A young fruit salad, a figure like Epstein's home, except when mamma has lad gets a job away from home. "Genesis," and as much sex appeal paid her a visit.
In the first flight of independence as a jelly fish-but if all's right and he meets a girl old enough to be with his bank balance, she'll She's had maids and dogs
him. That's every his big sister. cars and alterations, and
the figure that thing else a wife could desire but Before he knows where he is, she counts! not deserve.
has inflamed him, and a "forced"
that It's the kind of marriage She hauls buys divorce Do marriage looms ahead.
lawyers their li- him off to the registrar .or the par- mousines..
And yet she can't settle! you wonder?
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Japanese shops are displaying lighted signs alleging that the Chiang Kai-shek Government has fallen-Reuter.
SCIENCE MUSEUM NEEDING EXPANSION
London, To-day.
The annual report on the Science Museum at South Kensington, by the Advisory Council,, emphasises the urgency of reconstruction and extension owing to increasing de- mands on space reflecting the growth and progress of science over the past quarter of a century.
For example the mechanisation of farming requites extensive ex- hibits of the new and the recently superseded implements. The popu- larity of the Museum is well main. tained. The number of visitors last year was 1,271,599. British Wire- less.
B.E.F. MEMORIAL AT BOULOGNE
London, To-day.
As the royal yacht on which the King and Queen will be crossing the Channel to France on their State Visit steams into. Boulogne on June 28, past Britannia Mem- orial which commemorates the landing of the British Expedition- ary. Force in August, 1914, it will be unveiled by Lord Cave on-be- half of the British Army --British Wireless..
It Wed this morn-
tlér road has been closed.
ing that Sheungshui fron
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 23, 1938.
CHINESE