THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1958.
FOR MEN ONLY
It's a question asked of man since he emerged from the Cave Age
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HOW DO YOU RATE AS A HUSBAND?
WHO invented marriage anyway?
Did he ever get married? Or was the inventor-as seems more likely- a WOMAN? Or possibly a couple perhaps a clear-thinking caveman and his lady, who hud only a tiny cave, the merest postage stamp plot cultivable ground, no goats, and nine daughters?
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Whoever it was, it's no goed harklug back to parcel out the blaine. Marriage was invented very early on. 11 is st with us. As on Institution it is us solid as n rement lobster trop very easy to slip into: very difficult to wriggle out of.
Chances are you are married. Chances are, you are happy. If so, you deserve a big chunk of the credit. If you are not happy, you probably deserve a big chunk of the blame.
If you have never given inuch thought' which you sře, it's high time you did,
Answer these questions, and
at least try to be honest,
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you come out with a halo the
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(e) A sharp reprimand friends, You want to from your, Immediate superlar Let her Invite them to dinner that very at work?
size of a hula hoop, ask your wife to act as a check.
take the quiz, answering as if evening. Do you— she were you as she knows you Average the two scores, and you should have a reasonably be curate picture of yourself...... warts and all.
Whom do you most enjoy
being withi
Car Your children?
(b) Your wife?
(c) Friends?
2 If you had it to do over
agalu, would you....
her
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(a) Ring your wife to give
vater warning?
(b) Surprise her by just iving with them?
(1) together? (c) girl friend?
Go to the musical
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(b) Pretend not to notice your extravagance, and thank Suggest she take a you with appropriate gurgles of
appreciation?
(c) Or haven't you ever An old aunt you barely done such a duft thing?
knew dies and leaves you
Would you come £3,000,
Jut () Blow the
on 10 You are redecorating the
enjoyed holidays, living room, Your wife mutually
heusehold equipment, a new car. ele?
wants red curtains, You want blue. Which do you choose:
(a) A third colour you both like?
(e) Squish the impulse?
Who gets up first in the morning tu start the household on its daily routine? 11
(1) You.
(b) Your wife.
(e) About evenly divided.
feel that since
(b) Red curtains? (e) Blue eurtains
As a child, which parent's anger did you frar
more:-
7 De you different a
nursery and school days 12 same your life has been mainly can-
trolled by-
the
(a) Murry wuraan?
(b) Marry
(e) Stay a bachelor?
woman?
3 If you I propose, again
would-
do you think your wife
(a) Say yes?
(by Say nu?
(e) Marry you because
sou, were the best-or only
hope in sight?
4 Did you sprud your last
holiday--
(a) Separately?
(#) Women?
Yourself?
(b) Men?
(e
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you help with the household chorrs?
(4) Never,
(b) Occasionally, if asked. (c) Automatically.
yth
(a) Your mother's! (b) Your father's?
(c) Nu difference?
Your firm offers you
chance
(b) Bank it?
(c) Give your wite 11,000 to spend on the house; put £1,000 away against an carergency; and keep £1,000 to spend as you like?
15 Your wife has heard of a
good school for your soN, But you want him to go to your old school. What do you do:-
Send him (a)
to the a sebool your wife knows about? for Bix to ga
(b) Insist that he go to month to an exotic foreign your old school? country to do a special, interest- ing Joh. It is impossible that your wife go too, Would you:- (a) Turn down the offer? (1) Go alone-and gindly? (c) Goalone-germinety
wife has to stay wife your
Sorry behind?
(e) Let him choose be- tween the two for himself?
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When shopping for Your
elables, do yuu-
other men's wives. 18 Do
homes, children, elc., often strike you as,
the whole, more attractive than your own?
on
(a) All look muchness.
(b) Yes. (c) No.
much of a 20 At a party, does Your wife 21 If you were
19 in repose, when no one is wife's face-
looking in Jour
(a) Calm and pretty? (b) Bitter und resentful? (e) Sad and thoughtful?
ever say-
very, very
angry at you wife, would
()" think you've had you hit her? enough to drink"
(b) "I'm
I'm tired su going home, but you're having such a good me, why not stay on2"
(a) Yes,
(b) No.
(e) Maybe.
(Any question you positively (c) "What
count as were you couldn't answer, talking to that girl about?" score.)
And now: The truth about yourself
First check your marks;---
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mouse over. You're not just In-moderation, middle-of-the- kind of husband going. You're dream-a reason- hapecked you're qpre-cooked road man. And you. hog along every girl's mash at for a vulture.
contentedly right down
with man, the able
grown up, middle with nary a glance in opinions genuinely your own, You're not likely ever to win the rear view intrror at the but you are not narcissistic and an argument or even a coln fuming frustration at those who can back down and admit when tuss. Worse, you're not allow have to follow you.
you're wrong without suffering ed to open your mouth without The same goes for your from a painful attack of face- gelling slapped down. But what family life. You're the Boss fusing: does it matter - you haven't and you're the Baby too, On any strong opinions or feelings
tree the human
you bloor You take your responsibilities. of your own anyway. In fact, equidistant from Monster and but not yourself, seriously. At you're hopelessly cross-eyed Mouse. Your bark is no worse a noisy party you're probably and paralysed from considering than a miniature Chihuahun' the quietest man in the room. both sides of every question. but your bite is as vicious and When a kitten tells in an icy river you're probably the first your tasty By a cornered squirrel's,
You
however, the to see it happen and jump in. ure, She's
The most numerous, You probably won't ever be a of being not only your wife but most careful, most self-seeking big shot, because you're not
or No power-obsessed exhibition- your mum, pl. adviser, girl kind of hustiand there is. friend, and big slater, And long-suffering woman will ever istic. she's probably more than a bit actually die from being married 21. 2, b3
With you a wife knows where fed up with having to lead you to you-but she may well dis
Jaw severely from shu is, because you're not about by your pudgy, moist locale her
yawning at the boredom of it howling he-man Tarzan paw. What your markes mean
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minute and howling, hurt 53-63: Hooray for the high 35-52: The happy mean: BELOW 35: You're the nice little boy complete with tremb
Euy. The perfect ling lower lip the next Your The scorer!
highest
Happiest when, mean- scoring, most wriggly-nosed est.
the everything- gent, and not perfect but best wife is lucky, and she knows it.
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If you're terrified of wife, it's no wonder, probably a blt edgy after years mustest.
20. 1, b=2
(a) -Always luke your
along?
(b) Go alone?
13 Your wife has been given
two dimeult-to-zel tickets 17 dread for a matinee of a musical you
afford, tho both want to see buf
Football Match that afternoon exacily (a) A quarrelsome scene is the one match you really would like for her birthday,
want to see. Would you:-
Would she...m (a) Go to the
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have—but keep it anyway?
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Your wife
(e) Where you both want-
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THE SAINTS GO MARCHING AWAY-DOWNTOWN TO GREENWICH VILLAGE
Oh! Those Harlem blues
UNDETERRED by all iran dark 'doorways and keep
the
movin' fasi, Mac," he said grimly. warnings I Midnight on Seventh Avenue.
nifty Very
fashions observable buck-skin shoes
whipped up to 135th Seme
Street and
for the
Seventh and beaverskin sombreros Avenue, Harlem's heart, seemed to be "nfusis" intent some jazz.
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My white taxi-driver had a final word for me: "Keep away
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Every window soane frame the top half of a human Ogure exchanging raucous con versation with tricods halt a block away.
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Headquarters
of
When RENE MacCOLL told his American friends that be planned to make a night of it in Harlem, they told him "It's terribly dangerous there those days; white people stay away it they know what's good for them; Quemoy is much safer." But MacColl went and here is ble report, datellaed
HARLEM, Tuesday
From near at hand came the reassuring sound of bumpetty- bump musle and I turned in at "Small's Paradise" ("Always I live crowd-always live enter.. tainment") alleged to bc Harlem's current juzz HQ.
"Occupancy by more than C00 persons la unlawful and dunger- notice Inside the door.
eye-catching that I had my first big shock. sudly. "No, no this is progress
QUB, sold
down together, at a table and like a trip hammer operating in gave ourselves to the music, a cauldron of molasses.
It was then-full of nostalgin "No Dixieland?" 1 queried
I can recall the Harlem of the sive
Jazz" sald Mr Rowe. The majority of the 000 Savoy ballroom days, back in "Dixieland has gone to "cats" were huddled around e big circular bar listening to the bands such as Ellington, Callo- Greenwich Village.
the twenties and thirties when the other end of town, down to In Harlem music, the advantage of this way, Busse, and Chick Webb it's all progressive now." being that they thus avoided the were cutting, loose, with some of "AL the Savoy in the old "cover" charge of one dollar the tunes which have become dayo-"I began. "They've started to tear down the Savoy," -cut in Mr Rowe,
Around two o'clock we left Howe's and clinibed into Mr
and moved along to
and 50 cents (11%) payable if "standards."
one sat at a table in the rear.
The hat-check girl was look-
Ing glum, as well she might.
For nearly all the male cata
Connoisseurs
But here at Smalls's there was Cadillac
were still wearing their hata, n. three-piece combo" consist- Count Basle's Lounge ("He's masily white or orcem-coloured. Ing of electric guiter, har got a perfectly lovely home on
While macintoshes or trench monitam, and drums — and It coats were also much in favour rounded as though they -but mine was the only white majcing face.
Gentle push
Wero
earnestness and with not a frace of the yesteryeur,
Long Island"),
Count Basie's Lounge was
They clear around 10,000 in. Just the electric guitars, the dollars (£3,570) a week here," electrle harmoniums, the electric
organs. vouchsafed Mr
Rowe. "But
the electricity bill must be quite
On Lenox Avenue we drove un om for the band alone," I
past the darkkened Javoy. said.
Near by was the ghostly Cotton "It's the trend," said Mr Club, shuttered and deark Rowe. "Power-played instru- ments."
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Mr Rowe put things in per- spective
we parted. "O
when We went
he murmured, along sampling course,"
my wife and I feel like a night various other bistros but never a slide trombone did we hear, out we go to some place like the Waldorf's the ripple of a plano's Copacabana or the keys, never the triumphal pound Starlight Roof," of those saints going marching Goodnight.
never
ROUND-UP
MORE TECHNICIANS
report, just published, the growing requirement for tech- THE Council for Technical Co-operation emphasises in its annusl nicians for the Colombo Plan technical co-operation scheme. The United Kingdom hus provided almost one-third of the training £he places and about one-third of the experts employed during eight years operation of the scheme, the reperi states. Until the end of June 1958, vacancies had been found for 6,800 trainees, The United Kingdom's shares was 2,077, Australia's 2,225 and Canuda's 9040. India took 710 trainees and New Zealand 532.
BARBERS-IN-THE-MAKING
GUINEA PIGS
the
PANBERS 4re being brought up-to-date in Luton, Bedfordshire. DA school started there for barbers' apprentices includes lessons up the tunes as they very plush, Moorish-style grill in chemistry, plystes, electricity, and art. Pupils are being taught went along.
They played with immense work, aquamarine-tinted quilt-not only how to trim "thort back and sides" but how to make a ing on the low celling, soft toupee. The schwol le being organised by the Luton and District nink National Hairdressers' Federation. The secretary says, "There is Ughts, women in marzy gorgeous abandon of
tremendous shortage of gentlemen's hairdressers in Luton, Wo capes and huge carrings. A large man, whose shoulders
hope to train youngsters to step into the breach and freep The drummer looked like A whispered of the prize ring, told
salooms ope" The trend me to "close up." I hadn't at junior dean and wore huge
But the
dear! that point sold anything, and I horn-rimmed spectacles.
music-oh, "Steve Pulliam's Jazzra must have looked blanic, for he Mr pushed mo
Rowe frowned as he motics," though a larger combo gently into the
Listened. "Imbalance," he than the one at Small's, was throng at the bar, indienting
"His opined. blocking the bearing down too hard and is
right and that I had been
16 even more highly mechanised.
Everything, including the way to the rear tables.
What is the favourite drink beating out his left hand. Poor "organetle," played by pretty
technique." these nights!" I diked one of
Negress, comed to be run off the awealing team of barmen,
Us at the mains, except perhape the connoisseurs, saxophone. "Oin and tonle gees big-that's the a European-type drink," he said, verious, silent, contemplative. Count Basie himcolt was nowhere to be seen, He was Ordering a European type The applause was thin. drink for myself i was joined. Vainly I waited for some probably out on Long Island by William Rowe, a slender and rousing classic such ar "Musk Istening to Bach on his "-4"
Intellectual-looking "Honeysuckle elegant Negro who used to bo rat Hamble," Dn. Resistent
of Rose," or "Sweet Georgia In crew-cuts sat around talking the Now York police. We sat Brown." All I got was a noise in low tones,
commissioner
At the tables behind
dark-faced
THE Navy thinks that It is "putting it over the Army at Gosport,
Hampshire, by trying to make 78 soldiers seasick, but the Army is retaliating by not being sick at all. The selentifie ques- tlon: "Do soldiers make good sailors?" is being answered at the Admiralty experimental works by two weeks of research to find out how sea sickness can be overcome. For the last ten days 78 tho soldiers from Southern and Easter Commands have been "guinea pigs" and every other day have endured 60 minutes of being tossed about in six canopied rubber life rafts moored in research tank which can produce two-foot high waves. Profemor R. A. McCance, Professor of Experimental Medicine at Cambridge Negroes University, said that the tests are being made to and out the most efficient drug to prevent seasickness for those who have operational Journeys to make in small craft during a war.