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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 195)
Anne Sharpley
sends from Stockholm an article about family life that will ring strangely in many ears.
THE FACTS
OF (Swedish) LIFE...
C
HILDREN
be
Stockholm.
seem
to in
everywhere
Swden.
They do not start #chool until the age of seven and 90 the streets and parks
are ascuttle with brown skinned, golden - haired youngsters piping with health and most, at the moment, sparting socks coloured with the myateri- ous stuff we used to make posters glow in the day- time.
Materially and physical- ly, there 1s not a child better off than the young Swede. In other ways he is not so fortunate.
While it is fairly certain be will have good looks, good health and usually good extention and manners, he also stands a very hia parents' good chance marriage being broken up. One in four marriages Stockholm ends in divorce
the children
In
ut these divoreca
may have to accustom themselves not only once bul twice, end perhaps three times.
father or mother.
lo n
new
At seven the
young Swedo chuud of will know all that a such en age can grasp about sex
It is one because
of the first lessons he is given when he goes to school. But he will have reen less of his other than does the British child.
On their own
Mos! Swedish mothers work and Swedish children #TL to being Left in accustomed nurseries, plus grounds and even on their own. I his mother is
ot ono
Sweden's 27,000 un- married mothers his home may be in one of the data specially built for such girls, where they will be able to stay until he is Geven
27,000 UNMARRIED
MOTHERS
but they build flats specially for them
*
SEX IS TAUGHT IN SCHOOL AT THE AGE OF SEVEN
but some people think it should begin at
the age of three
*
THE CHILDREN MUST FEND FOR THEMSELVES
in Stockholm ... but alone they have built 76 supervised play parks
*
PARENTS CAN SEPARATE BY SIMPLY SIGNING
K
A PAPER
even
but
Swedes think divorce is too easy
5
There is tiso gardo and Junk to make houses with and beak up afterwards.
Mrs Berling's own 10-year-oli zxn
after school. RucshoEEE makes his own tea and does a Ile hourwork before mother returns pwn work. It is all
the shaking to the foreigner but to the Swede it is all ub- solutely natural.
divorce is wanted more quickly then that evidenc of adully will disolve the marriage du few weeks. The cost? A few guincas.
Not everybody is the casy speed of Sweden.
happy rout
divorce in with the
mr.
1 egne principle that prople shoal : not be kept forcibly together." a white-haired
lawyer told "but I have seen 20 many marriages thrown
unid children left fatherless for the most trivial cause)."
على الليلة عليها الى
The Rev. Eric Arbin, vicar of me ci Stockholm's leading churches.
vver is known il Sweden for his articles AZVOL martige in a woman's magazine.
"Two or three people come to every day to ask me to save their marriage. In more titan half the caves i am successful." I help them to take a more serious view and And
euch fle particularly
enjoys remarrying couples.
other."
So
nervous
"At the
Arst marriage people are so nervous they don't hear or feel the words but the second time they see how wonderful the vows of nitriage are," said Mr Arbin.
It is the parents I blamS the present great danger that the youth of Sweden
Know
your Hongkong?
The street shown above is on the island, and is better, known by its nickname tha by its proper name. Can you Identity? Next, cast/ your eye to the right, and see if you can tell where the temple is situated. Jt. is right on a main road. (Answers on Page 201
Cyprus Jitters Plague Tories
By HAROLD JAMES
"London"
A Court & nothing, they are genuinely hurt by Tlenat a section of the Tory party is "jittery" over
world reaction to the policy of "firmness" — the Govern- ment's determination to give priority to the restoration of law and order. They feel that at least the United States whose interest in a Cyprus base is second only to our own should show some sympathy,
American opinion, however, fa anything but 'sym-, pathetic Sir John Harding has told the Conservative Party that it will take time before terrorism is rooted out. That was only to be expected, but it means that, in the interim, public opinion in Britain will become increas- ingly critical and impatient.
Then there are a number of young Torles who feel bitterly that a major error was committed when two Cypriots were hanged recently. This, they argue, was impolitie - and actually provoca- tive. They forget that the decision whether a murderer should hung is decided on the merits of the cape, and -not on political considerations. But they are moyed, most of them, by à dislike of capital punishment, for the abolition of which they have recently voted,
It is not only some of the Conservative back-beachers, how- gver, who are anxious over Cyprus, Ministers -- and, indeed, the Prime Minister himself --- are worried. In their case, though, It is for different reasons. The Cyprus affair, it seems, is a major cause of the Government's unpopularity. Even its friends criticise the Government on its Cypris policy.
The Cabinet is convinced of the rightness of their polley
in their determination that the restoration of law and order is the top
put over to the country. Here, they feel, teleri-
caso by being / Objective. But they are not convinced that their
Bion is the answer. So the next party political broadcast may well centre on Cyprus with Mr Lennox-Boyd in the principal part,
It is possible that, after Sir John Harding's return, MOTO poalivo steps may be lakon towards the drawing up of a constitu- fion, for if some pronouncement could be made over the propor tions of Greek and Turkish members in a Legislative Assembly one, et kast, of the points on which there was a deadlock In the negotiations would be disposed of.
But on one thing the Cabinet will stand firm — there will be no re-opening of negotiation with Archbishop Makarios, despite the belief of some of their back-bench supporters that an approach to him is Inevitable in the long run,
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Felix Barker tells one of the World's Strangest Stories
THE MAD DUKE WHO SLEPT IN A CAGE
THEN the carriage
bearing the arms of the Duchy of Brunswick drew
for up outside the Corent: Gar- den Theatre in Drury Lane the foyer was packed suffocation.
are in.
They should sut a better example and teach the children more self-discipline," he ended.
to
to
But to the fall man with black beard and fierce moustachios And it is the parents, too, that who stopped out of it the Lon- Dr Vera Stark of the National don crowd seemed hardly League of Sex Education blames exist. Only for a moment did he for not beginning sex instruc-pause, the great yellow diamonds tion in the home from the age of on the epaulets of his uniform shining in the lights, and them three.
demanded imperiously VI his "Make a passage for equarry: mel Use your sword?"
Charles Frederick With this About
Augustus William, the Duke of Brunswick d'Este,
"We are taking a big risk in waving it as late as seven before they leam the true facts
x." this gentle-voiced mother of four boys told me
strode into the theatro to take his place in Dr Stark is ako against early the stage box. This was a per- marriages ml would preferformance he ind no intention of young people should make love missing,
be sccretive rboul it, or rush in- Jovaryone knew there would be in early marriage,
fict
was
in the heme with the parents' Even before the footlamps knowledge than that they should were 1 and the curtain IT ST
trouble. For on that February sons have learned about night in 1843 the part of Hamlet 1x from Dr Stark herself, al-was to be played by Mr Barnard
Gregory, and Mr Gregory Meanwhile, et 12 it is abso- though she admits, “I am a Whether he is from a happy.
lutely compulsory that the young little worried about my eldest, na ordinary actor.
For an amateur to presume to who is 10. He learned from me unhappy, or frankly fatherless Swede that be able to swim.
was bad enough; home it is certain he will be
for the callor of the self-suffleleut
In mixel classes he will have when, perhaps, I sild not know play Hamlet than his fearned considerably more about
Es much about how it should be but
waspish Sunday newspaper, The British counterpart.
laught es 1 do now."
Satirist, it was the wildest folly, sex than is gleaned, (accurately, "Where your youngest child
with few of the that is) by the English child of Brought up
His enemies Iarked Ingrid Garde 18 ar 17.
ceonele, religious, racial and BOW?* Widemar, who has four children
political pressures that so often
won ONDON and is one of Sweden's 29 women
acquainted affict the youth of other coun- members of Parliament.
mono
Mrs Widemar was formerly a judge and is still a practising lawyer. A lively, well-dressed woman with the brillant blonde, pink-and-blue colouring one sees so atten In Sweden, her youngest child is elx.
At 14 ho is well
full of
F
his
with the problems of abortion, Iries, the Swedish child is per-14 enemies and no ons hated him more bitterly than the Duke
colour.
But he will also have had mixed classes In
cook- ing,
ag, housework, toate In choice of good de- Sho is oftco busy in the sign,
furniture, Parliament House from 10 in the making
metal the next moming until two
work and morning.
"He is at home ur playing in the street," she said Cually
cara-
If his mother is II
city.
of 21 that the Dulce became in volved in a romance which would provide a plot for musical comedy,
One night at a London theatre his eyes strayed from the stage to a box opposite in which was sitting a lovely young girl, She was heavily chaperoned by her eunt, but the Duke was deter- mined to meet her. He waited of the entrance until her car- was called, ran after it rlage
to the back. and sprang on When it slowed down in Eaton Square he quickly noted the address before slipping away unobserved into the might.
Within a few days he was to paying his formal respects thegirl. Lady Charlotte Chl- ville, daughter of Admiral Lord Colville. Under the nose of her and rigidly disapproving aunt
His scandalous behaviour shocked Victorian London......and when things got too hot for
As
Diamonds were his chief pas-
brought daily to his home from and he slept nightly in an iron
hotels under metal cage. different
Visitors told of being search- dishes secured by triple locks.
further precaution the ed for weapons before being
a placed im chairs and carried. Duke employed an equerry, clerk whom he created Baron three floors up stairs by ser- d'Andiou
because he vanta. Here they found the Duke, simply
painted and bowigged, attended. could pay as he double,
With few intellectual re- by Nubians" and living in in- sources, the Duke, immensely credible but fearful luxury. All permanent exile, around him were padlocked rich and a
his pleasures un chests in which were, fis jewels relied for theatre-going, litigation, balloon and bars of gold disguised to
look like, slabs of chocolato, ing and excessive philandering.
A Boy Street detectivo got to watch him by William IV re- sion and the two which he wore ported back-stage dalliance at in his epaulets were each valued Covent Garden, and it became at £40.000. Wearing them, and the laugh of London when one looking grotesque In a flaxen evening a spiteful manager rang wig and thick enamel make-up. up a theatre curtain unexpected he was one of the sights of ly and a delighted audience saw Paris in his carriage of butter- the Duke paying court to en cup-yellow,
the Franco- pursued The dangers of actress whom he had from her dressing room right en Prussian war and the fall of Paris drove the Dyke, to get to the stage.
Hkg notion in the Queen's another capital- Géņeva, ..... And Bench some years later against here in a city which he grew to the editor of The Satirist (which love he spent his last years en- resulted in Barnard Gregory Ilvened, K we may believe and George Moore, by soirees of a
him he escaped to_France—by balloon! going to prison for a year
his paper censing publication) most peculiar kind. în his draw-
Europe.
Lifelong battle
On his death in 1873 the Dulce Geneva almost his entire Still believing in his
bequeathed to the
nt
was only one of his fonumor- ing room was assembled a choir incidents which made the Duke guardian he persuaded her to able court appearances,
of beautiful young girls amonit of Brunswick the talk of run away with him and took her
whom the prematurely-aged Brunswick, back in triumph
rue walked dressed in peacock Born in 1004 and early enough A daughter was born to them
feathers. in the century to be a ward of the following year, but ha
DISPUTE, with a washer- the Prince Regent, he had a promise of marriage was never career of such eccentricity and tulalled
wemnh over a few pence was left and the arrangement
fortune. make him go to law, accumuloing scandal that
by does not seem to have been enough
rights, ho the timo ho died in 1873 it was happy, fer Charlotte left him, and unce not content with set- like a scarlet stain on the sub- after two years and returned to ting i dogs on two sheriffa city his castica in Brunewick,
Already, dued grey patchwork of Vic England.
perhaps, who came to collect a debt at forests, lands, mines, quit works, torian Englarich.
there were signs of the mental Brunswick House he sued them hotels, parics, libraries, gardena, carriages, china, furniture, and We meet him first, however, instability which was to grow for "violation of domicile."
money banked zero. In bh lifelong battle to get in the most proper circum- until, just before his thirtieth
No peaco illegitimacy and venereal disease, haps better balanc, Stockholm muswick, who, week after Duke is taking part in hus frat sane.
stances. It is 1013 and the young birthday, he was declared in- possession of his property in Brunswick (where he had been replaced by his younger brother) PUT there were more tangible There is an open-week for nearly two years, had public function. A good-looking Before long came strange, he fought innumerable actions. D essete-diamondo, gold, and nir funfair ond been lampooned in the paper boy nine who has beca edu-
for and one of these would seem to investments in American railway dance floor which in verse and scandalous para cated largely in England under stories of him appearing,
in the wireets of. have led him to make a falso stock, the total value of which Rev. Mr instance, has been given to graphs.
the tutorship of. Whe
oyer the youth of the Gregory's first line was hardly Prince, he is laying the founda- Brunswick in the costume of a statement, for he was convicted was estimated
circus rider and such eccentri of perjury in 1891.
£1,000,000. Out of this Genova Youth or out before, from the gallery and ten slone of Vauxhall Bridge.
But the Duke, who had often was able to build an opera anisations
came take all parts of the house,
Bus the little German Duchy cities combined with his auto- and shouts, of Brunswick is his real home gratic rule geaded his subjects been to Vauxhall Gardens to house on which was inviated groans, turns in running hisses,
hls to revolt, In 1830 they drove sample the delights of balloon- £800,000.. there, after the
pork
Gregory struggled on-unheard and it is
Duchy and he ing for pleasure, saw this as en This opera house, and a vast busness Lines and in the clamour until they began father is killed at Waterloo. two him from the
admimble way of escaping the end ornate mausoleum, with a they are allowed to throw things. the second years later, that he is recalled barely escaped with his life.
London,, do which he managed consequences of the law. Piloted statue of the Duke overlookiir lo pocket the pro- not, and then the curtain. was and where he starts to rule in
to escape with a huge fortune, by the Intrepid hviatrix,
Mis the lake, remain his moniz fit for their orgung down,
his home: Brunswick Graham ho escaped across the ments there to this day. At 10 he plunged into extra- became A durried stage-manager came genisation funds.
to and tried
rule House in Regent's Park his Channel, out to say that a farce would be vagance,
But the great wealth had Outlawed by Queen Victoria clearly brought, this unhappy Here in Long-played instead. But the Duke Brunswick like a medieval mon- palace of exile. But England
were could provids no canoluary from and now nearing 60, he then man no peace of mind, im hài faxes had seen all he wanted. With a arch. Crippling
new. He in Paris. He will he left orders that five doc holmsparken, 03
smile of triumph he left to kovicd; there
was imprison- 'hle mounting. fears of robbery started celebrate his victory in his ment without trial; he had post and of being poisoned, fears translonnect a house off the tors and two analytions cherni
the which so gripped him that he Champs Elysees into un Extern were to carry out a post-mortuan gloomy mansiun in offices raided and ordered. women mother has only le is better for children to take sults of more than 1 great,
Regent's Park,
opening of private correspon had his house barred like a fort- palace. But while the exotic de before he was embalmed, Thairy in the richest announced his death due to .ress and guarded by mastiffs. corations were Though it was never proved dence. plato welfare that he was responsible for the In England, where his cousin He went about armed either gold the floors, ceilings and cerebral congestion,
covered with found me fance of the pol disturbance, this act of revenge, William IV, was on the throne with pistols or a heavy cudgel doors were all
of being sheet metal His fear of 33 that he had so much feared. They *KTO good-looking, this frenziet evening at Drury he was still welcome, and it was and, in his fear
dood nation had reacted: (to peale Lone, was just one of the many while on a mate Visit at the age poisoned, Ind. Newspapers publish menus for graceful and unrellecnt brunch of dach school area so that the youngsters. Many of them wear. mother is able to avoid serving an air as tough as the leather that are the fashion the same in the evening. Mother, Jackets incidentally,
But has no trouble in among the gang element, povisioning. after working this clement, through very care- become ful handling, has not You can buy everything from criminel, and they do nothing petalets, rerdy-packed and worse than make
lot of noise. Aerubbed golden cloze, to in with their motornyelag. maki emergency of friger
boys" ' DIP
little blondo, chown
"Is there no one to take care
of him?" I asked,
unable to provide holidays the state will do bo both
"Wo have n maid but the for
leaves him alone. I think it is
mother and child. Each day
better for children to take care he will have the of themselves."
exo:lle free
She then went back Lanto lunch provided by Parliament to send through the school. motion that married
His
news-
should be taxed Independently, to read a not jointly, with their husbands. paper to see what She was so crisp and sure that it her child has had was the right thing for the child for lanci, that one could have little doubt
about it. It is right for the Swedish child. They can look And perhaps it is as well that they should stop in one Blocleholm's parkā,
after themselves.
Remarkable
of
hours.
INCRID CARDE. WIDEMAR
care of themicfres,
***kin
It is called, ond
can judge the no
20 year of comm-
plate.
I found Mrs Ingrid Berling in mirno special role of drops judge harnless to veryone,
one
chage (with two assistants) of at the terminu of Stockholm'a het retia" who trides in
of the remarkably super new underground-ihe equiva ving playgrounds that abound fent in partion of Oxford Circus, their midst, wearing ther In Sweden · (there are 70 In Those chops are open until 10 Jacket ndid, black lights-ong, Stockholm which has less than
avery night.
a million population).
The Rally of the Swedish
spoita to a gang of 10 or so.
Sho tisually thede wilströst
Numeroun toys and activities, home is hardly stronger than as well as their root. The
the piece of paper arch agature little.apolla," "I probablyi that is all that is nooded to get worst result so farká
'separation,
wer of le.
are provided, including sculp Lure which exadily, fuini my great wish to clamber through a Henry Moden sculpture-too late,; unfortunately
In in your a time the separation may we have nothin' becomes a divores.
1833.
JOHNNY HAZARD
BEIS SUSPICIONS, AROUSED, BY JESS'S. PECULIAR BEHAVIOR, JOHNNY STAYS ON BASE AS CUSTY TAKSE OFF...
TO ARRIVE, A SHORT TIME LATER, AT A DESERT PALACE OF AMUSEMENT THE OHSA CLUB
all its
By Frank Robbina
1. HERE'S YOUR BOY BUSTY, CHA-CHASSON TIME AS USUALZ KEEP HUL HAPPY. HES OUR MOST VALIAN WIDE CUSTOMERI,
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an
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