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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1953.
KOREA PEACE CONFERENCE
T
URHEE
"Sorry-can't come in—you're nut properly dressed
-Gmmings
London Express Service
· REFRESHERTM COURSE FOR WIVES (and husbands)
By PHYLLIS DIGBY MORTON
HE other day a man appeared in a magis- trates' court 0n
charge of throwing hot stew - whole plate- ful in his wife's face. She drove him to it. he explained, by her madden- ing habit of clicking her teeth,'
Though this would seem to be about 215 unreasonable as Bny
WHAT
upsets
IN TEHERAN THEY HOARD CARPETS
By J. L. HAYS
Teheran. "We don't mislead ourselves. THEN a crisie hits a We know that a combination of our chtop rial and replenish- nation it people re-
tow the war have ment after act in various and Intriguing ways which because of the crisis nover make the head- lines. When a crisis hits France I have seen French
peasants hurry out into the ields to bury their hoarded gold.
gether maintained carpets 34 cur chief export → apart from vil, of course (and he sighed again). "We know, also, that oriental rugs do not always go with modern furniture.
"More and more of our your people realise this and ard Leaving the hame loom for factories. All we can do to
iry and keep them is to offer prizes for new modern deslina and new dyes."
In Greece, in a crisis, I have watched them hoard olives.
In Italy, grain in the Arab coun- tries, they carefully count their goata and camels, .. Here in Teheran, I find that, with eruption all riai" export selling (20 percent about them, the Persians of are (suitably) hoarding last year)
carpets.
here be it.
Well, he should know. But the fact remalus that right now onesie honding and "cheap
currency
Persia's foreign
the most dificult
place in which to buy a Persian carpot is the Persian
There is hardly a home capital
I have seen better collections one of the' cave-slums on the outskirts hotal lobbies in Beirut.
in the bazaar in Damascus, in
or some mosaic-embroidered Only the real connoisseurs- mansion which does not local and foreign-know where
house some glowing trea- sure from the home looms of Kurdistan, Tabriz Ispahan.
Bul
or
envy not the Per. sians, For they no longer belleve their magic carpets will always
the m safely away from the rainy days ahead.
bear that such 11 scema strange petty pinpricks should affect strong, well-founded marriage between two adult people yet the evidence goes to show that they do.
The interesting thing about all these comments is that so few of them deal with really im- portant differences like religion, polkies, in-laws,
It may arguable while.
MARRIAGE?
husband can get, it illustrates a nounces in a waspish. volee that wives, with
are
You hear their sad story every-
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
In
to lay their herds on the master- pieces which rem to imprison their strands all the flowing colour of the Teheran scene....of the snow - draped peaks of the Elburz Mountains above the bright chennar trees.... the soaring whito archen
against a starlit sky....the golden surf of The encircling
wheatfields
the cool richness of the water gar- dons tucked away behind the high dappled walls of Georgian-style
thie-mansions the
lustre of women's slanted
where... in the "All right, shen-20 pictures
thabby, single-
decker buses
bumping along the wide boule-
2
of Mossades for one of the eyes above 2.
Shah!"
damask yashmaq. Not that all
vards (lined with open drains). about Teheran is beautiful.... ba in the fatted coffee-houtes around not by a long way....
that the ornate shell of an opera- people house (no muste over heard). rendy to in the neon-lit bars of the big
All the Persian carpets ever
discuss trivial-hotels (taps never seem to work) mode would not be enough to wooden clectric 1ies with com-
...among the lolterers in the hide the ugly parative
good shadows of the railway station light standards (for all the humour, They (bullt before the trains began to world like those of Deadwood will congeni|rum)...
Gulch in soma Western fin)..... fault-Anding in deeper-seated problems from an For most Persians seem to truism often neglected: That her husband has just gone to public running it a close second, outsider.
think that the future of their little things tend to casuite it sleep again
Or the emaciated dogs huddi- Nevertheless, It Isn't a bad carpets is just as much clouded as
Or the lag around the drains. As quilte
idea for those of the source e rule,
who think their thab of their oil and nation. disproportionate im- paper or is doing
In a cave-like shop just behind dank tunnels linking the cave portance under the powerful is that gets on her
by marriage might be smoother to nagging" is
take an inventory of the little the bulky, blue-tiled Majlis slums. | magnifying plass of daily in-," What BTC
masculino the wife, because her husband things they themselves do that (Parliament) building (cool and Limacy.
foibles
that tend 10 furiate wives? I talked to a few and here is what I learned.
Little quarrels can cause more harm than big ones-festering where big ones erupt and are forgotten.
under the news- whatever It nerves,
the
the gas
in
471-
dissatisfaction
does not measure up to some private standard of her own.
have proved a source of con- dim after the drenching white Or the shabby, clamorous
in
tention in the past, and to ask sunshine outside) on old man in
(bearded Mullahs themselves if it is really beyond a threadbare sult removed his crowds their power
turbans and frayed to shed or alter wire-rimmed glasses and labor stained them.
ously explained...and I make no "night-shirts"---mingling with. effort to reproduce his stumbling
Western-suited clerks cheaply English:
und merchants, as many women
ca
"You see, it is only beenuse in cheap Western cottons that we have our oil trouble, wearing the traditional flowing dreng) pouring through the the rat is worth so
that we can afford fantastic brown, blue and white all-oven jumble of the 20th century und
In forming this standard she has probably. consciously or One wife informed me of a otherwise, used as her model the husband who drives her nearly husband of some particularly
Let us try demented by creeping
admired female friend. Her dis- There is often subconscious observed into the kitchen and content because her husband REMEMBER that what most enjoyment beneath the stormy
under falls short of the Smith-Jones of us fall in love with in surface of really
a
violent turning down
another person is an ideal. cooking pots (an mark in his appearance is inten- quarrel, with its giving and all her
If that her sified by awareness
we really want our mar- because receiving of pain and its final cconomy drive directed to tho
own clothes are less fashionable riego to be happy, it be-lile now, delicious reconciliation. But laudable
to sell our carpets at end of conserving than the clothes worn by Mrs haves us to keep on trying to there is no such emotions! gua).
Smith-Jones and that, in fact, make the other partner's ideal to each other.
...and here he sighed the Middle Ages... the first- release to be derived from
the whole Smith-Jones menuge
come true.
And as for that partner's windily..."we ever get our all rate and the umpteenth-rate... money again, then our carpets the beautiful and the sordid... pitiful little human faults
will be too expensive to com- the shining and the Althy...the fallings, let's try to be more pete with those from American, scented ntid foul...which is tolerant. After all, the devil you European -- and Even your modern Teheran, Which know....!
has
miserable bickering. Nobody is The same misplaced economy is in SCIFIC mysterious exhilarated, nobody
u motivates the husband of an- superior to her own chance to be mognanimous and other wife, who insists forgive, for there is nothing turning off the electric light worth forgiving in the first everywhere in the house except place,
Nasty nibblers
IF major quarrels
are like thunderstorms, clearing the
In the room where they happen to be sitting (and it may, his wife declares gloomily, even come to
observes
way
(World Copyright Reserved)
Pride steps in
prover-
Money and Marriage
her
this!). He
COMPARISONS are with pompous frequency that blally odious, but in "Electricity costs money..." case they may well prove fatal. 'Why don't you press your Wilfred A third wife has decided that trousers every night?
air and cooling the atmosphere if her husband does not soon Smith-Jones, always does is the vary his homo from work kind of comment likely to force spirit into routine, she will be driven to any husband of
of marriage, minor anes
can
only be compared to nasty, something desperate. "He passive resistance.
marches
in, gives me a peek,
furtive little woodworms. nibbling their destructive way
of the saya vaguely, Well, what have into the very heart marriage structure.
Ho may, vaguely, have intend-
TOMORROW:
and
is
own factories.
Ho turned sadly to the Teheran at crisis time. Which blazing glory of the carpets (I suspect) always will be draped around his walls;
Tchern.
Nathaniel Gubbins
M
1/011 been doing today? and ed putting his trousers into a Day
..
our "This year, ORE than 20 years the Christmas pudding factories.
depleted have passed since I Hairy men are cursing as they numbers have been faced with a
stoke the boilers, while other new menace. wrote on a Boxing hairy men are stirring curses into "only 364 shopping the sawdust and the suct.
"At a period when there is more meat in the country - than As I have said (and hope I'm at any time since 1030, a year
then walks across the room and press one night soon. Now days to Christmas."
on the radio without pride tarbida . The only way After that, BBC right), only 165 shopping days to which will be remembered by
What of the little personal switches
Human beings waiting for the answer." mannerisms?
incurably Imperfect,
are
and
mos married couples couk! The acha type
a dozen
furnish half personal mannerisms
tiresome between them that grate on the nerves.
These will have been hidden
carefully away
by both sides
during the courtship and honey moon, but with marriage they will emerge with renewed vigour.
Jokes unite
there
is
1
So
he can ever have well-pressed trousers again is for his wife to comedians and script writers Christmas
you'd better older bluebottles
(A very old 'Those
were pro hurry back from your holidays bluebottle: This she used it so often that
tho press them for him.
hoods are now will probably do, not without an] ducers would cry like and start right away.
daya'), plastic largely used to cover the cold increase In
the volume, of the children at the sight or Meanwhile, a Merry Christmas joints which may be found now futile, ineffectual nagging that sound of a gag which has to you all, 155 days (approx.) In in almost any British larder on made it necessary in the arst lasted the English nearly as advance. says, "I'm place. NE day," sho "Ed
shout, I spent
long as "Who was that lady
any Monday morning.,
hoods aro "As these plastic sometimes used to cover all food,
the day with the dustman!' and How trivial it all is and how I seen you with last night?" Bluebottle Crisis including even bread and cold see if that makes him stop and little by little, it all adds up to I was reminded of it when 1 an uneasy, unrewarding marri-read, on August 27, that Irish age!
take notice."
"Repeating
yet
hings,"
* WID another wife's Late of woe. Asked to elucidate, she declared that she could never
make the smallest request to
Cats and kisses
plaints
vegetables, I think it is fair to say that, but for the dustbins,
Well, of bluebottles would starve to death. gentlemen; those are the stark realitios of today. What of the future?
am sorry to tell you, gentle- men, that the future scoms even darker than the present.
"I can foresco
esco the time wijen
romantic feeling, they will perfect) without having it play who leaps about the
od back to her. Thus, tie moment the meal is over, I am also reminded that trade here today to consider once more our cynical persecutors will jure
bad breath and tooth decay at the same
bo
time use Colgate regularly.
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me another
"Now for
be a shilling a turkeys will pound cheaper "for the festive 66HY have we been so free
bluebottles this year?" # season in 1953," which is only an- other way of saying: "Only, 155 reader asks an editor. shopping days to Christmas."
At a meeting of bluebattics the (Do write in and tell me if my her husband (whose hearing, TUIERE were masculine com
chairman said!-- Incidentally, happens To
tho wife calculation le wrong. I love your WHILE
table lollare.)
"Gentlemen; we are gathered
either pass unnoticed, or
brothers to their cup exclaiming.
the must make early preparations for our precarious. existence in the our hungry regarded with an umus. Bring
Therefore, while modern world.
death by hanging up pieces of ("Fancy, Tom and saucer, will you?" Answer: washing-up!" A score of bus Chriilmas.
"What did you" say? Bring bands were ready to testify, to thousands suck leo cream and
"Last year we noted that our impregnated cardboard painted to a toothpick!!!) And another cup and saucer?"
alive on the numbers had diminished by many represent joints of roast beef, the scule discomfort of trying cook themselves a good
tenderness marriage,
to digest a meal while bending beaches, there are men, or maybe millions because of the insecticide when dustbins will have plastie slowly repinces the carlier Ridiculously inadequate as a
women, in dingy back parlours guns used against us by so-called covers, and when these so-called romance until, as middle-age cause of married disharmony over the kitchen sink.
painting, robins and writing bad sportsmen. (Cries of Shamo), sportsmen will fire at us liny draws on (and the mannerisms Perhaps yet the sense of grley-
about Yulo There were complaints about verso
jogk on we also discussed the unfair guided missiles with our name become even deeper entrenched) ance in her' volca as she the over-promate and practical Christmas cards which are In- method of hanging up pleces of and address on them. (Loud gentlo, long-catablished Jokes recounted it was unmistakable. wife who forgets to leave tended to cheer
Q
up people cardboard
with Impregnated on the subject may serve to
insecticide and painted to re
you for that brave husbands the Art uite a family further.
enly niche for romance in her, marw huddled round gas fires,
There are also Benis in human present a basket of flowers.
gentlemen, because it. offenders? Are wives all per ringe.
shape bually inventing now "As we all know, many thou encourages me to wam all con In a home where love is, there feet? Not if the husbanda ; I
"There aro moments when re- Christmas toys, which will make sands of young, Inexperienced cerned that we are not defeated. Ls no wounding sting in the have recently been talking to marks like, . "Did you put the as much noise as possible when bluebottles. alighted on. this "We shall fight them in the laughter that greets: "Thero's on the subject are to bo cat out?" or "That reminds me, you are trying to sleep after gorg- basket of Bowers' after an ex- kitchens, in the Larders, at the father telling that old joke believed.
we must order poke," can set ing on cheaper turkeys.
hausting night round the food dining tables and in the dustbina. again." But there can be a
Nagging heads the list as the a positive douebo of cold to the
And, oh, yes. They are already shops, and were never seen allye We shall never surrender."" (Loui very fine edge, indeed
making Christmas puddings in again," (More cries of Shame). chauru). laugh with which a wife an- 'personal habit most detested in water,
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