THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1956.
I'm No Black & White
1
Woman
Last parent to reveal What I'd Tell My
Child About Monty, Marriage, Morals will
By
ANNE EDWARDS
you have discovered it's a good idea, so don't listen to the noisy minority who can't make it work.
And I'd dearly have liked to shout YES and have done with could I, when it. But how
who I've met several
were
If a man puts a quarter as generous and kind and as good, well nearly as good, us more much concentration and effort
into his marriage I know.
as he does virtuous women
So. I gave the usual dusty into his job, or a woman into
man-it п answer.
Usually Knowing that all the getting child lime a
work would so much OME friends of mine rather have rules,
were fooking doubt-
their little Rules are so cosy, so a
make
every
mothor
search hor conscience.
S
Tully ut
"dumb blonde" daughter,
nged four.
The teacher
ту
she
Ck
reassuring.
It's a
only grus a few simple ideas, pity there are so few
sald
thought
of them, ole
we
we'd start right away I can honestly pass
to teach her the difference be- tween rabbit and sink
And there in its simplest form on. was summed up the perples big job of bringing up children
Churchill
Just what should you plan t those empty and recepilve tittle heads?
once sahil nafte drew never
xtraight The
And without smudging therein for me is the accret of I want my chlidren to get What into their heads.
Let me explain.
This is a Ganate of conversa- overheard outside the on 1 gate where 1 live. A small boy of seven was talking to one of the porters~
ת
The Russian
wicked people, aren't they. ""
expect you're right," sana? Bert
"They want to make war and come and kill us all, don't they. Bert?"
"I expreet you're right," said Bert, who wasn't listening aby- way.
Now there, I thought, is the kind of child whose parents can give him a decisive Yes or No.
And not, as I do, always a
Yes or a heavily quali Jooss flex No.
this
(*,
"We-e). Tá have said about 1 dinil they arr behaving in a rum way if they want to be friends. But I don't suppose most of them wan! war any more than I do."
"Are promiluter bad wormate?” asked the other day.
I
Wis
rod that it is so much simpler to hand on a prejudice and call it a principle. And a maddening that one gets so little help from the people who should
most-the
the parsons, give Judges, the head masters.
These are the strongholds of the black is black and white is white philosophy. These are the people who never seem to have trouble telling a saint from a sinner
Yet if you believe them they let you down They keep telling you adultery is wicked, divorce is wrong, and drunkenness be a
RIL
And une day when you're grown up you look round ami
And it works best if a man puts it second to his work, and woman puls It first, but never the other way round.
MORALS.
• ABOUT
Get some, but keep them for your-
self. You have to like yourself
to be happy.
A few good scruples that you can live by are better than a host you can't live
up to.
if you
want to like other eople, don't apply your morals lo them
Personally, I find the people I like best havo a cool head
worm heart, and al and a what I'd like for my children. Girls on the whole can get by with less intelligence and more love in the make-up.
I'd like them to be able think fairly-and far.
10
find that the friends you dearly. And I'm furious that
love
respect are eliher living in sta or getting divorced
drinking too much
three.
Stili
to
Or all I get so little help in
drow
have 11 atraight lines somewhere, before rudging them. And about marriage, monry and mornis these are
views in thre words. I'm for 'em So this 19 what J will tell iny children
my
● ABOUT MONEY. Get some,
my aims from out-
siders.
I give you one example- not connected with money, morals, or marriage.
This question came up in an
paper.
Churchill gots who is likely to be the Lext Prime Minister?"
[But don't stop working on that Unless you have a tunt.) vocation in fe which fits you above countori- you're going to
The title boys who wrote med money.
down "Anthony Eden" got 10 Money buys Important things
comfort it buys
out of 10, and so they should for besides
the ou
But if I'd best exłucation for your they were right children; the 1st doctors. be the master I'd have given top marks loo to the chaps who Nobody but a fool imagines it buys freedom from worry, or showed what P. G. Wodehourb friends or happiness, but it makes them a lot easier to keep,
● ABOUT MARRIAGE.
People married
Get
w lover Ulri
called "a broader, more Bexible outlook."
YOU 900, my son wrote down "Bryan."
And he got nought,
A calendar watch you can afford
The superbly accurate Rolex Oysterdate
"HE calendar watch has become as essen-
T
tial and desirable as an ordinary watch, but hitherto it has not been too practical a proposition-owing to its expense. Now, however, there is the Rolex Oysterdato-a magnificent watch that tells the time and the dato, and which you can afford.
Incorporated in this superb watch are many famous Rolex features; the intricate movement is perfectly guarded from dust, damp, and perspiration by the unique Oyster case and *Twinlock" Safety Crown, which keep it water- proof even when the stem is pulled out for hand- setting; the seconds are counted out by a graceful, awocp second-hand; the date is clearly shown, automatically,' in si neat window on the dial; and, of course, the movement itself is beautifully bullt by Rolex craften, edturing the accuracy for which every Rolex watch is justly famous.
The Rolex Oysterdato fulfills a poed for a highly legibio calendar watch of elegance and precision st a modersie cost.
ព
Ten points of supremacy
in the Rolex Oysterdate
1 Shows the dair clearly and automatically in a neat window on the diat
1 Completely waterproofed
by the Oyster cate
3. Further protected by the "Twinlock" Safety Crown
4 Hand-finished easy,
guaranteed to withstand Temperatures from 10"F to 180°F, and to restes
pressure at a depth of 139 ft, under water
5 Luminous Rolex dial
♦ Super shock-realsitng
́T Anti-magnette
$ Sweep second-hand
• Precision moTEMEKE RË
Mitolan accuracy"
19. World-wide Kalan parvien
ROLEX
A landmark in the history of Time measurement
JOME EAST
^
Balm Line THE EAST
OUR ANSWER TO KHRUSHCHEV
។
World Conerzpër ou carrongement with the stanchester sëmund
W
....
THAT will be the perience will make him
future of Father welcome on many a board of Christmas?
directors.
He has been debunked so Despite his years ("I completely on a TV Brains don't feel a day over 999***) Trust before an audience of Father Christmas has the millions of children that be- drive and energy of a man lief in his magical existence half his age-it you have can no longer be expected any drive and energy at even by two-year-olds. 500. He walke two miles to his office every morning,
hail-
Shrewd, Jovial, fellow well met, balding eats threa good meals a day,
still read and can
small (with his hood off), 1,000-
print (including company year-old Father Christmas is not worrying.
He
reports) without the aid of glasses.
believes that his Later on he hopes to fight future lies in the City. a safe constituency, become where his skill in simulating A member of Parliament, generosity, or giving away and be knighted in something for nothing, and future Honours List.
his
of special qualities
Inspiring confidence among
ng
some
But he has no desire for a
the simple minded will be peerage in case he is bundled just as effective with share off to the House of Lords. boldera
it Was with
I'm not quite old enough children.
Such remarkable gifts to for that yet," he said, with gether with his vast ex- a mischievous twinkle in
Sir Beverley Baxter, MP
NEXT WINTER MIGHT
NOT BE SO BAD!
the tuw
his eye.
How mischievous the smart boys in the City will find out some day.
Sky's no limit
IT may bo Father Christmas who lo the driving force behind Mr Robert Coles, former chairman of he New York Hay- den Planetarium, who has sold one-acre plots on the moon for one dollar cach to 4,500 Ameri- cans not certified as insane, At least, not yet,
The touch of the master salesman, who has
fool-
ed countless generations of London It has been said that die Eng- is intended to warm the whole not happened in peacetime for
children, is revealed in the race of posts, and house, including the halls. We 100 years. AM writing this article ish are a
Bul We also have some system of heat-
since this Is a personal brochure which entitles the pur-
to "on acre of chaser
good in the library of the there is no denying that
hate produced the gresiest ing the hot water taps, but I narrative for which I offer due
bottomland with fishing crater House of Commons. pects of the world. Nor can never really looked into that. apologies - I must now inform
sports rights near As usual the river anyone deny that the English There is, however,
that my wife and I have and winter
his plot." which,
of drawback to it all. So pou you
decided to sell the house and Thames is gurgling its way have Imagination
muterful of is the legend that Britain has a ove late a centrally heated to the sea and the omni- course, is
poetry.
temperate climate that the pipes flat. It is true that we have buses are waddling ветов. Unfortunately. onc of the are on the outside of the house, taken that decision before, but Westminster Bridge. In the allusions that beulles the Eng- thus adding interest to the this time it is irrevocable."
the lish is that we live in a tem- architecture as well chamber
us being debating
We shall, of course, not make the mistake of selling it while Socialists are attacking the perate climate. It is never hot angy to set at.
winter stilt with us, On nol | tian Tories as being unfit to England! Where else would
We shall wait until June when velopment Company but also of govern the country, and the
a subsidiary concern to bo pear tree is in blossom. How soothing Conservatives are retorting
ing will the known
as The Moon Sports cannot afford
be then, that we
with Outilting Corporation.
have
time.
and it is never cold. O Blessed
anc
M
021
room
Although ex-Father, now Financier, Christmas refused to confim or deny that ho la the sleeping partner in the venture, he was interested in the porsi- bilities, not only of the forma- tion of The Moon Land De
rods."
place wearing a sword to develous character. Lesser breeds. Creeze everywhere, all over the wall show our victim the pipes were fish or
see that none of the mem- bers come to any harm.
But if you looked out from Palace Yard. where
you are
plied:
cons-
thero the moon ho re-
you find such mederation?
I am sorry to report
that the That is why we have never
this one restful and a winter like to that to succumbed
monstrous when known as thing
central healing, comes along the pipes freeze. It drawing cool glades and beds Socialist who would exchange the flabby w Another
true that they look better glimpse of
"I you can but of flowers. And then there is the
sell people land with snow, government for a long, long warnth of 1 settled temperature when covered
live entirely
when you can hear the on the moon," he said, "you can connot for the
of a tomantic glow
them specially a Brate
umphant shout of the crowds also sell can beauty. But do not imagine that
moon sicks and fishing Fortunately the Ser- are? With
you can a grate fre
land scores a run. geant-at-Arms sits in his roast your front while you chill the Buxier household is the only at Lords cricket ground as Eng-tructed
that suffers. The pipes bock. This, I am informed, one your
With
complete enndour we Asked how he know without the law, say that it als country. Thus we have a com
radiate the pervading induces colds in the head, chil- mon interest which binds us to that
warmth of the gas central heat- blains and rheumatism.
gether as a people.
Perhaps
wondering ing! No need for the open grates ronily, but they do add charm, what the gas heating system is doing
all this time. I can under. don't you think? I can almost we park our cars, and gazed Holy dare they say such
the sucker reaching greedily your curiousity because I sce
Father Christmas thinks the or Green things? Not long ago I was in at the Abbey
have often
wondered about it for his pen to clinch the deal
possibilities of exploiting the Park, you might well be a huge Scottish country house
Then we shall
shali hie
ourselves moon and the planets are end- inclined to wonder whether and was reading a letter in the myself. Apparently the cooking before we change our mind.
hall, when suddenly a gust of in the kitchen is done by gas, na dati How neat and con-less, in London or wind blew the letter up whale and that must be taken into ac-, to a
my wie But as far as the rest of densed it all is....I count.
"After Mr Moscow. The rootfops are fight of stairs. But
Coles's uchieve- was able
the house 15 concerned, it must has a bridge four of males, I covered with snow and the recover it after a chase.
The living room was about 110 be admitted that it does nothing can write in my bedroom. And ment," he said, "It should be could easy to sell the fishing rights in parks are as white as cry feet wide to
more than just take the chill off my 'secretary? Oh, she 00 feet
deep, but
the pipes. Under no circum work somewhere in the hall or the commis on Mars. If the pur- the kitchen or another bedroom. chasers doubted they would are enjoy of that tiny grate fire
live long enough to make the many years we
Journey extra business might be ing or rather we are en- ing like a candle during a Siberian winter.
you were
你
to
stal. For the first time in how pleasant was the powder. stances does it exude heat"
*
"Nobody knew there were any fish, in the sea until somebody raught the first fish."
ality.
Some
men," he added with another
My wife tells me and she is in Its last
truthful woman that our moments. If you put your hands a
As for my library of a thou-done by selling them insurance on top of it you could quite annual gas bill amounts to an
average of £300.
It seems sand odd books, well they should policies covering that eventu clearly feel its modest warmth rather a lot just for cooking, but not take up much room.
I must admit, however, that then you must remember that it of the books are quite small, "The sky's no longer the we who live in London is large house with big rooms, really. And the golf clubs? Oh, limit for enterprising young
My
At any rate we have a merchant 1 rend in the newspapers that quite spartan.
them under the piano. put
You no less than 49 days of hurdle situated
cricket ground, was built 150 who delivers regular relays of racing have been cancelled so
logs cuí to a convenient size, and tromy that the noise of the twinkle in his honest blue eyes,
is disturbing? You think far this winter. This, you will years ago
the I need not repeat my ode to the that it will disturb my writing? the trainers spaciousness of those great days grate fire. agree, is hard on
I could write in a My darling. I is more, I have a garden and jockeys, and particularly What
How then have we fared
boller factory. hard on the bookmakers who with
What's that? The gramophone this Siberian winter? We live on the faise optimism of Juxuriously in the spring that what are known "punters." the whole scene would belt the pl
But do not imagine that marriage of Jullet. winter of
Dur
the
discontent affects only the sporting fraternity. It applies to all of us who live in
this sceptered Isle which, as you low, is tot ce a jewel in a
silver 503.
hous
not for fren
it had
pear trees that blossom so duted the problem by my in the fat above us? They stem
'None like us'
Scottish
arithmetic going to the Bahames and viet- rather fond of jozz, don't they? 66 N
Beaverbrook, after
schoolboys are far ahead Lord
Yes, of course, the traffic is There are coat grate fires in which I joined my son in Mon- rather noisy but it talls off at of English schoolboys."--Report
the lying
fat that is so night. You don't like hearing by the British Journal, Of the drawing room,
rocm, the
dining room, the real, who has
mid- the door of a taxicab slammed Educational. Psychology. library and the cook's room. But warm that it might be
That is nothing, that is not eli. We have a com~ summer. My wife and daughter when you're trying to get to posite gas heating system which went akling in Austria
KNOWN TO SAILORS
OVER THE WORLD
By HENRY HURST
violent but when we
11
sleepy nothing.
of solutely
still pretty..
ab- When they arrive in London
years later they're way
Three miler all
nway our garden good at it.. Our
St John's Wood is in full London in the end towards
of bloom.
The new owners are alb-
ΟΙ
we agreed that the ting in the swing, chatting and winter was almost over. And let perhope drinking, while they
keeping worn, forgathered in home
January
mo
remind. you of those lovely watch lines: "It winter spring be far behind?"
comes
the slow descending can mantle of dusk bring witchery
to the scene.
It is so allent, so peaceful, so old, so grocious, Do you remem- ber how I loved to play the
Then came the snow. In real piano and watch the moonlight
TR Hans Maschek walks only a dozen yards to get to carnest. The joy of
Living In-P
sliver, the leaves? Do you re- member how quiet It D It At least we were in the heart of the that
is the legend. I have had
*90 country? It was
was a happy house But his exactly one round six weeks.
club even in the war, when we would The unfortunate golf
sit in the garden until the warn managements look out each day ng sirens bold us that it would and
przy
for sunshine and be better to go inside.. warmth-but the only answer is
Perhaps next winter might not
Road, Sudbury, Middlesex, to the small shed in the holt the year round. garden where he has his wood carver's bench. work in, well known to sailors from the Antarctic to Australia:
For more than 30 years, Mr Maschek has specialised in making the soft hiss of falling snow be so bad as this one. What is ships badges. Ho has carved more than 500,
Most of them were commissioned by the Admiralty for war- ships, but he has also inado badges for vessels belonging to Canada, India, Pakistan, Australia and China.
His latest work was for the Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne, built and commissioned in England, which is due to leave Portsmouth for home this month.
The Melbourne's bouge, 4ft. high and 3ft 4in. at its widest, is carved in teak. It took three months to complete. Like most under the bridge.
flakes.
the cook saying? Something has Trains run late, Motor cars gone wrong with the gas heat. skid on the fey surfaco. And still Ingi Tell her to give us some-
It is in thing cold the winter goes on.
Yes, I know fl's ridiculous... vigorating, and it gives a special pleasure to the hissing of the yes, we pay and pay and gol Indeed soda wophon as it tempers the nothing for It....yes,
modera- the house is for too large for our whisky to the proper
It was no cold
of the ships' badges Mr Maschek has made,, it will be placed on. Incidental, that all ship. But I know, and my
Viennese-born Mr Maschok came to England in 1904 and is a naturalised British subject. Now in the late sixties, he dous
not plan to retire. For wood-carving is his hobby, 100
and misty one day
wife
ping to the Continent was can knows, that we have, not the called. A chap who has a passion slightest intention of soiling the zon statistics tells me that 19' had house" poy yet. Not just yet,
POCKET CARTOON
by OSDERT LANCASTER
"You mark my words, "If:
Beypilan
spropaganda doesn't fix the Bagdad Fact, cricket III.