THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE · 20, · 1953.
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HE CAN'T ESCAPE THAT RACE
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"It's like this, Mother. I thought I'd stop up the travel allowance by running a book on the Derby. Unfortunately they all soom to have backod. Pinza."
The woman who's arranged
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MARRIAGE
IS MY BUSINESS
By HEATHER JENNER
But I find hurdly anyone mentions ball that slowly room dancing, but well re- but surely member that when I first started glamour is the bureau almost every young now coming person would ask to meet samle back into one who was a good dancer demand,
41-7 In one way men will over though it is change, and I have never known maybe under a man who is an exception. All new guise men confers they are terrined which is of a woman who is hard- strictly' func-. boiled." tional. Like Contemporary decoration, It olms
A
nt A rombination of beauty and usefulness.
In the course of making at least one marriage every work- Ing day during the past 14 years I have Interviewed many thou sands of people, all of whom wanted to get married..
younger than himself and cer girl working in tainly no older.
**Brighton.
bank in
Mounties In The Royal Tournament
By PETER LOVEGROVÉ
PECIAL attraction of
Royal Tournament, which was opened by Her Majesty the Queen at Earl's Court, London, on June 10, was the musical ride of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who had already impressed everyone by their horseman ship in the Coronation pro- cession.
The musical ride is tradition- ally the contribution of the Household Cavalry, but the famous Mounties, in scarlet serge, blue trouser with yellow stripe and slouch hat, carrying lances with yellow and white pennons and riding black horses, rave a most colourful 'and ex- pert display.
It was the Mounties first appourançe at the Tournament. Other Commonwealth contribu tions were made by the Brigado of Gurkhas, and contingents from Pokiston, Ceylon and Southern Rhodesia, who joined with detachments of all per- formers to form an luminated Crown in the Anale. All received a tremendous welcome,
We could do with far more Commonwealth displays at the Tournament, though i must be admitted that the time-honoured events such as the Royal Navy's feld gun competition and the musical drive of the King's Troop, · Royal Horse Artillery, remain as firmly ever in popular favour after fifty or so years,
JUBILEE YEAR
First overseas contingent to appear in this great spectacle was a small detachment of the Victoria. Mounted Rifles in 1891. Two years inter the New South Wales Lancers and the Victoria Horso Andllery were, on view, the Lancers' display concerning bush-sangers, horse stealing and black traders, p
A man between. 30-and- 40 Despite all these long years of New South Wales Mounted
man
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PREFERENCES agcy
from
an
In 1607, Queen Victoria's Jubiice Year, London saw the
wants to marry a woman 10 to experience in getting people off, Rifles, the North Borneo Police, 15 years younger than himself, I do somethnes go wrong. A who danced Daynie war darice, but a man over. 50. w
Inshiany artist,nged his wife to be 20 years younger-seful
been working in Canada and the Cyprus Polite, who gave an exhibition of spear- than himself or ciso about his and has been travelling a great throwing Four regiments of the own AgC.
deal, so Anda that she has not Bengal Lancers were repre- Women between 25 and 35 many friends over here. She sented in 1902, and the West are in most demand and men comes to us and I think Good, African Regiment performed a from 30 upwards..
just the girl
dance in 1908. * men like" A girl in her 20's asks for a
Since then, displays That was months ago. She's only two or three years still on our books. We think overseas have been few and for older
Wa though there than herself;; in her now that perhaps it's because between, 30's she seeks a husband five she is almost frighteningly self-interesting Innovation in 1919, cuirasalers, to ten years her senior.
when French sufficient.
rarely get dragoons, chasseurs and hussara French cavalry But nowadays I discouraged. I know it's only a from the famous mailer of time. Even a beautiful school at Saumur gavo a never- to-be-forgotten performance. WOMEN do ask for a kind girl is not everybody's type.
To give lyde Park, and. husband, and will inquire
a lesson I used and somo Siamese officers and
there
I
in a physical NCO's appeared It he is oven tempered before-to sit in Hyde
who man or giri training demonstration.
in the 1953 mentioning his financial posi would see
unattractive tion.
A new feature looked to me quite
with adoring
Tournament is a We work mainly with the being gazed at with
cilent 15 sur-
So the next morning colonels, come from what used to bo go back to my office and tell
known as the six
working class. myself, "if you try hard enough out.
Only a few yenra, ago, a dozens of hospital nurses, But I wish we had more, they you can find someone who will component parts in little more
bus drivers den
police- dentists, stupid woman was at a premium
doctors, women,
ure nice to deal with, they do think Miss X quite ravishing." clergymen, Tastes change from year to and if she was not sufficiently headmasters and headmistresses not bother with frills, and are
qualities scatty she had to put on an
more direct. and owners of schools, several most in demand just before the act of being so, else she might well known ox-debs, and a fow war are hardly mentioned to find herself branded
by the
gentlemen of leisure able to live day,..
terrible stigma of "highbrow."
Now a surprising number of on private income.
more than 5,000 weddings tells what she has learned
The mon who come to the
They have been of all ranging from 18 to 86. They come from all classes and al vorying from
bureau Professions,
..to..pters, from char-. today look
stars. for attractive ladies to film
My clients include four mem- Im- however
of Parliament, five grocers, bory two ploughmen, three shoe
but one has
ever women: answered the age- pressed a man may be by a girl's looks, he must also be assured
is a jeep assembly
race by men of the Royal
question of that she is capable and practi- makers, two opera singers, 36 die and upper classes, only - eyes by 4. loving com would Electrical and Mechanical En-
11 midwives
old exactly what
con cal stitutes the ideal wife or
even a perfect husband.
year. Some of the
Two hundred
The
lawyers, 11 dumb blonde, is right geons, scores of
yents ago men who come to the 'bureau COMPATIBILITY
Willam Cobbelt advised young ask for a girl with, if possible, men when going courting to a university degree, and if she look for chastity, sobriety, in- can do a difcuit crossword so I'VE had an ex-nun, a profes dustry, Dugallly, cleanliness, much the better. domesticity, good-temper
beauty, in that order.
and
our
who are direc-
15 percent of our
stro
It seems that the higher the social level, the more dimcult to find, a marriage partner. There Is so little home entertaining, and no longer the big families with brothers, sisters, and cousins to provide the nucleus of a wide social cicle..
Anyw alorial footballer, a lady few Sho must, J
a undertaker, one of seems, be
most an afford the.
used to give opportunities famous
Play Men companion before all else.
actresses, prominent for meeting and
hundred 10%
maiing The
several man diplomat, modern young
than farmors specific Just after the wor, an R.A.F. knows
deal about business women officer took a questionnaire of clothes. Today if a man says he
a great
of their own firms, ex- Women in stating what qualities what
they want in their marriage fellow officers likes a girl to dress well ha plarers, and kennel maids. chose a wife. The list ran: was when
have any special points he would murmur the essentials for compatible other than perhaps kindness. Loyalty, good health, attractive something about her belag in marriage is that
back- Women do ask for a kind domesticity,
sense of "well-turned-out" or "meat and from the same sort of
迎 at husband, and will inquire humour education, sense of quiet" or "smart but nothing Cround There values. So the Ideal has showy."
exceptions: for instance, I have is even tempered changed, and still changes.
we woman on my books highly thoning his financial position, cultured and Intelligent and A young man with a four- Until the war. glamour held ..."
from p wealthy family, who figure income besides a well- out great attractions. All the TE now knows the difference will not consider marrying any paid job knew what he wanted men asked for glamour, usually HBetween the sort of girl who man unless he is from the and probably felt he as personified by Hollywood. looks well in tailored clothes working class.
afford to be particular.
his
tors
would look for when they knows what he means. Time I firmly believe that one of partner. In for you in mind
neas,
KNOWS NOW -
are occasional
Al that period-women-toole and the one who chooses-soft, My Virst husband was Hittle Interest the man's job. feminine styles.
as retirement age or pensions He likes sheer nylons (hates ment."
or contracts never entered her service-weight), dislikes head. The majority of my ellents head,
scarves.
groomed
20
IT-
a specified that the girl he would working man, and I was marry should be Bft, Bins, tail, Her only demand was that any When he meets her in town to happy with him, I would 38in. bust, 20in. waist, 20in. In- future husband should be able he likes her to wear a dashing never have any other than a hips, and the should be to provide for her. Such detalls hat and high heels.
man from the same environ- terested in fashion. He is now
wall- an attractive, courting
girl of 28, who is a are well under forty and the ballet toachesnother young man He knows something about average age becomes lower And The men who come to us dis-, make-up, can tell if her hair is every year. Indeed, I seem to described his preference for "a liked any mention of a wife bleached, and has a shrewd be getting more younger people very working after marriage, and judgment about the cut of a In than ever before. wa. never heard slaglo soul coat. cak to meet anyono with "Cultural fastes,” the bano of our lives today.
GLAMOUR
Once in while a man will
send
much
sophisticated, travelled, elegantly dressedi, fcind Almost every day we have a of woman" I had to point out girl of 20.ox xo, usually bringing that she might not fit into his us Д picture from a a letter of authority from her life as an offler clerk in Worth-
introduce magazine to show us the sort parents asking us to of clothes he admires, and her to sulfable young men. how he would like the girl to dress.
Afor glamour, we had a period
FTER, this prewar demand Nor can she hoodwink him-
when,pfility spread even to the romance department.
In 1946 it was out with
gloss and glamour, and 00 per
about
AVERAGE AGE ›
being
domesticated. THE average age of the girls Often ho knows as much as
marrying through the she does of housekeeping, cook bureau, however, is 28, and the average age of the man is, 34, Twenty percent are over 40 and one percent over 10. M.
Ing, and furnishing.
Another new trend we notice
in our business is the great talk
cent of out, male clients under of culture. Cilents like music The largest age group for both (serious); art (creative), ballet men and women is between 25
lined the word practical when
woman of
of their and literature and they stipulate and 35, and into this category that their marriage partners to 43 percent of our women and aking to must share these joys, started
50 percent
ellente. of our men'. meet michi who had steady, Jobs A girl's stock gooy up. im- At the moment we have a third ...pensionable preferably in mediately if she mys she likes more women the men and are Government departments,
wood music Seventy percent of especially short of men be Nowadays most men grew our clients list thanwives tween 50 and 00, that it would be as well for among those who are
mibatc According to our records a thewife to continue working lovers. A taste for the ballet man between 20 and 30-likos for at any rate a year or æð, is also a most popular best... to meet a girl only a little
ing. He said, "Perhaps you are right," and married in "Very pleasant, if Icm spectacular,
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