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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1958.
CONSULTING ROOM
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"Let them in, nurse. One genuine flu~one genuine pimplex-and the rest look like'medical certificates for today's big_match."
London Express Service
The top romantic novelist tells a remarkable personal story in analysing disparity of age in marriage
DON'T BE
SORRY
FOR GINGER ROGERS!
by Denise Robins*
T
sure the man I chose did not than I was. My husband want children and hadn't a. agreed. Our slogan has always spark of paternal feeling. been "Be Natural."
And I made certain too that' my three daughters would
So many older men are not embarrass him.
HE FILM STAR
Ginger Rogers has inclined to tell you it's time
It might have wrecked things just arrived in Lon-
had overwhelmed him don with a husband you "settled down." Why it "I
I let him should any vital person with the "family". 16 years younger than her- "settle down" while they get used to it gradually, and once I started to feel ashamed
gradually he accepted the three girls, and they became friends.
self.
a
Danger Hes ahead
of tho woman who struggles madly to preserve her youth and prays those around her won't notice she is older than her husband. On
a principle I admit straight away that I am. I believed that of my age I might even-in- fuence my husband into feeling ashamed of it too. So wo bath admit It to the world and we're proud of th
still have so much to give? Their wedding last
It would have been absurd to February raised a storm of A lot of nonsense, for ex try to turn such a young man comment, and their arrival ample, is talked about the
into n step-father. But they When I've had difficulties, here has prompted comment "mother-complex." I was welcomed him as brother. I've also had my age and ex- I have seven grand-perience to help me face them. too,
accused of needing a young Now
he finds them Whereas I know full well how That sort
Amusing.
We pull his leg when often youth in extreme
crisis of marriage er man in my life to take children and
the place of the son I never he toes the "grandpa" act and rushes blindly over the pro- does. And the comments
had. If that has any truth runs clockwork trains for one of cipice. are not always kind.
(Not for long, in it, it must be deep down my grandsons.
mark you, then back to the "My dear, she's years in the subconscious!
peace of his own homer' older than he is" "She'll
that it would I also know
regret it when she's older
ANOTHER CASE
my I may like to spoil and feels unable to keep husband, but I like to spoil be fatal ever to show jealousy.
anybody I love young Right from the start 1 invited MY own mother
or _up.*** “He'll_be_fed_up_when_ she starts to age and her old. I think a man-can-find-young and attractive girls to our
health goes... ." etc., etc.
it a bore to be "mothered" too consciously. I just give hear the acid mine an attractive, com
fortable home and good
Can't you
remarks?
Be.
But I back Ginger. cause I did it. I was her age 42 when I married a 30-year-old officer in the Regular Army.
prophesied
Everybody disaster with the exception of a few friends and one of my three daughters, Patri- cin, not then 18. She said:
food.
parties,
It's natural for youth to seek youth occasionally; for exchange of ideas; for a dance; for a game of tennis; but at the end
I back Ginger. Because I did it!
At just her age-42—1 married a 30-year-old British Army officer.
my
to me.
He has his own pursuits,
is' a brave example. Thirty-ave years ago she married a man 15 years her junior. She was 81 the other day and he still adores her.
We have the classic example of the great Disraeli with his And much-loved elderly wife.
others. I will today many menilon only one. Grade Fields with her young,
adored and adoring husband.
wc
when
I know I look older than my husband. My hair is grey. His isn't. Why pretend? It's the pretence the kills; the tragic allempt some women make to crenic a false illusion. Then comes disillusion, and failure. back and listen to his husband comes
I didn't always find it easy. troubles. I maintain that Young girls bore him, he says had my tough moments "You don't have to worry that is what a young man tind means it.
were in the Army." I too much about your looks, wants-and not all the
I daresay I looked ridiculous at times among the junior officers' Mum, and you've got such glamorous young girls are have mine. We have never
wives when I ought by virtue vitality and such a. young prepared to give it. They tried to alter each other's way of my age to be married to a they accepted outlook, you'll never really do the demanding. That's of life. And I believe that if a general! But
me because I be old. Why shouldn't it be why the young men turn woman is possessive and afraid me and liked
to the older women.
let a a success?"
young, attractive never tried to be anything other than I was. husband "off the leash" she is Admittedly the older man asking for trouble, has a penchant for youth and inexperience. But my about
Time was when people talked the difference in ages particular husband appre- being on the "right side only clates the fact that I pro- if the man was the older of the vide 4: suitable back- two in such a marriage. ground, am the right hostess
It was. It is. We cele- brated our 14th anniversary last month.
AN
NONSENSE
ND 'Put was right. Two most important factors in keeping my husband's love
for his business friends, and
to
That's out of date.
I am aware of my own assets and would be a fool not to use them and make myself as at-.
No "older tracilve as I can.
can afford to grow woman" slipshod about her appearance. But I was wise enough before I married my present husband to stand alongside my lovely The Victorians like to raise eldest daughter and lot ħlin chosen as much for their self. I didn't shirk it. capacity for motherhood as for their charms: Now it is rauch more common to find the age disparity the other way round.
am diplomatic with his re- huge families and girls were make the comparison for him-
lations.
and my happiness have beon those two things she I had no qualms on that mentioned: Vitality and a October morning in the young outlook.
Chelsea Register Office. But I know that my mother-in-
marries a
courage, and if you don't try
SUMMING-UP
You're all right if you have
consciously to compele with the glamour-girls, I never do. I Obviously it is because no huve something they haven't. What makes a woman fall in love with a younger man? law-like any other-must woman today is "Anished at 50, got that's what I tell my-
her to be mature. In fact, it is Then it works out. Not his good looks or youth have had a few, Because of and it's no longer a crime for self, and don't try too hard."
lingers ony of my knowledge and under- only that there alone. Ginger sald
"He standing we have since be- idea that it's a matter for Jacques Bergerac:
or tears-if a' boy -has wonderful character." come excellent friends. But laughter
woman older than all women hug & precon- himself.
O nobody need feel even ceived notion that their
Sally derivaar wor boys ought to marry a nice
Frenchmen, who are tradi ried whether it's Ginger
on life and und my husband young thing who walks up tonally experts
love, think nothing of making Roger or met Ginger, in agay, sympathetic com the aisle in bridal white and such a marriage, and so often fall one of her interviews said; panion. When you're 40 you can raise a family, `•. in love with the "older woman. need a good companion;
They are connoisseurs who sp. of course, any prociate that quality of under And, someone to have fun with. · ·
women over 40 ought to standing which is born only of Robins, now 56, kas think twice before marrying age and experience, ...
That is as good a reason 13
"When you are happy you don't count yours, in the same way you don't count calories whom you cat. How right the
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I also belleve in honesty Ask me the real secret of my A 104 novels published a younger man when sho
hamein being top favourite, knows she has only a few in not deceiving myself. From own success. I'll tell you! TX the time I was married I re- face up to the fact that I am Sales of her books have exceed-
65,000,000 copies in recent years left in which to give solved, that it would be fatal to older than my husband and him children, I mado quite pretend to be a day younger don't care and neither does hei
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