„THE CHINA MAILI SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1901:
A HIGHLY-CONTROVERSIAL INVESTIGATION
THE EXPLOSIVE
QUESTION...
Does
your husband
sense
the
subtle change in marriage?
THIS is the tender, lov-
ing season and in the next few weeks
28,000 couples, filled with faith, will marry, believ ing ill they have heard about love and marri- dige.
Together they will belleve they are meant only for carh other, that marrlage is for top- piness and for ever.
by many authorities momentously changing.
BY
MERRICK
WINN
And all agree that, while some
Couples are marrying younger
the war.
than ten years, sometimes after about twice what it was before more than 20.
What about the rest? Most of the couples will, naturally, go through a time of being disappointed in marriage. This will happen when they dis-
cover the wedded truth:
And another: "You have to distinguish between people un happily married and unhappy people who would be unhappy whoever they married.
"In my view the second group vastly outnumbers the first but together they add up to 70 per cent of all marriages,"
If these doctors are right t is not hard to find reLLONS, Λ psychologist who has specialised in marriage problems for many yeurs told me--
"Our Western culture has got itself fixed on the adolescent level of love. You everywhere----in fikna, novels, TV, in the whole commercial cashing in on sex.
Lunacy
"Romantle love is natural-fur adolescenta. But it's strictly happy lunacy. You belleve un- believable things, You stop be- lieving them when you grow up.
"We haven't grown up.
"We falsify marriage as the adolescent boy falsifies his first girl. Wo damorko It, instead of taking it just as a good and natural thing.
"We're suffering
from mar-
riage worship, and set alandards for it that are in fact unattain- able, build up expectations that can never be met.
"You can be married and be very happy. But happiness isn't the first purpose of marriage." "I think this basic increase
Here 1 found no controverse means not that there are more
Arst that among the expert The but marriages unhappy
Is the the unhappily married can now purpose of, marriage
and and creation that got divorced more easily.
protection of with less sigma.
hate comes in as well as love and can't be met by "share and share alike" and "have a sense of humour."
They will then divide into
two groups.
Some will outgrow their disappointment, and find it enough that they can live together, on the
Hiking it. These are "happy" marriages, loving friendships.
children.
TATENTH
·OFFICE
fick B
the
"Mind you, you said it'd be a difficult one!"
"This in turn must sure- You can't sentimentalise ly mean the majority of Nature. The truth, couples who stay married biologista say, In pretty must be happy."
much as Dr Johnson de- scribed it:- But London. University an- thropologist, not so hopeful, "Marriages would in general weldin
be happy, and often more sv. they were all made by the Lord whole "I wouldn't like to judge the Chancellor, upan a due consi- the nation's health by the death deration of the characters end circumstances, without the part- He added: "I'd say we have nera having any choice in the many hidden bed marriages, matter," And if we follow the Americans in their marriage trends as we every- seem to follow them in thing else, then I'd think we are due for real Instability."
of the changes in the marriage (with four Erides in 10, marry- These tender, loving couples paltem de known already, ing for the first time, under 211 mos! of them young, will ce there may be
perhaps because they have the money nothing unreal unlikely important, still to come but only and the freedon, or they think this. And they will probably
It romantic, or the bride is preg not know that the pattern of Buessed ut now.
Let's look at some of the nant, marriage in Britain-inderd in
the rate!" In The necessary marriages, -and at
in six, need voiving one bride not all be shot-gen marriages, nor must they always turn out badly. When a baby is started there is usually love of a kind.
Besides, muiny young people-and older ones too have shuffled off the old morality. This need not muke them less loving, though it may make them lost for a while.
Fear
the whole world is considered known changes
to be what could be wrong with marriage as it is, or with our attitude to it.
Marriage is more than ever popular, despite its apparently increased risks. More of the population are married, more are marrying
De David Mace, a pluneer of the Marring Guidance Council, has recently written-
"The break-up of the old type of turnily life is now a evitable. It cannot be preserved Intact m East or West, or any
usk, in fear
where else.
We, may well
and trembling, what we are to
put in its place."
What grounds are there for
Dr Mace's pessimistic views?
Half the couples now marry- ing meet without formal intro- auction. They pick one another out mostly in dance halis, often in the street.
Freedom
four
I have discussed them with They know each other. an sociologists, anthropologists and average,
years before people like that and although marrying. They are engaged. tew go all the way with them, on average, for. nine months. even fewer dismiss them all. Nearly 75 per cent practise birth gether.
control after marriage.
Others will stay together but Willystill be disappointed, never having understood that heaven is rarely found on earth in or out of marriage.
In the United States, says Dr
It can be argued that these Mace, about half of all married are marriages which, except for couples rate themselves unhappy. the children, might perhaps be better broken.
How many are there in each group? This is where I came upan deep controversy Among the experts.
Guesses
Change
They have been doing roughly this in the East for 2,000 years with their systems of arranged morriages, with results far from perfect but as good as ours.
But we would not be wise to turn to the East, even if wa wanted to, or could. They have Is Britain like th? Nobody troubles too. For Dr. Mare ja All the same, I recent trends
can know and only a few have right at least in the all over go on one bride in four who Mr Joseph Brayshaw, acere even the right to guess. Among the world the old Ideas and
will even- narries aged 10-19
iary of the National Marriage these few are the family doctors. Idicals gt maringe sceen United Guidance Council, stands for the tually divorce. In the
One doctor, in a partnership threatened with change. States teenage brides account hopeful side and told me:-
which has 0,000 patients, told The threat comes from an ex- for half of the divorces.
"I believe we are entering a me: "I'd reckon 40 per cent of pected quarter. It comes frore Nearly 2,000 (7 per cent) of more stable period in marriage. my patients' marriages are com- where men have feared for thou- this month's 28,000 marriages The divorce rate has declined, pletely unsuccessful, 40 per cent sands of years I would come. will, sooner or later, also end in after the post-war bosin, and are tolerable, and only 20 per It comes from. woriest, divorce, in most cases after more Tow seems to have settled at cent are what I'd call happy."
London Express Servica),
IN A STATELY FRENCH CHATEAU A SON FINALLY FOLLOWS HIS FAMOUS FATHER
After 29
years comes
Edgar Wallace thriller
by ROBERT PITMAN
But the man who had invited British publishing.
told
new
want me injured. But eventually with him and specially placed I put it to him in a way which the trist, there. The last owner I knew would interest him as before us still made, his grand- a betting man. I cald: 'Let daughters curtsy to Louis when-
put us among the first four
.me;
ONE FOR
YEAR
Ty
"For years I worked on this book on political philosophy, But it is hardly a commercial publishing proposition. Then last year, when Wylodine was taking a holiday, In the States, I felt bored and deelded to try: my hand at a thriller, I found that I was able to finish. It in just a few weeks.
"Mind you, could never manage my father's fantastic output sometimes he would dietate 27,000 words in a day. with thriller after thriller." But now I intend to keep on
Excellent
hoped there would be one of the next guest expected there- those?.
Wylodine Wallece lifted up of the Belgians.
the mother of Fabiola,
Queen
But i was
dreaming,
part of the
"MASHING," said 10-year-old Jonathan Pitman, as he looked from the practice. If the bootemakers ever they went downstairs.
I believe that is excellent Below. stood a suit,uf armour: news for the bookshops. As we window of the guest bedroom. "It's better than Buckingham Pa- favourites then let me go ahead "Golly," said Jonathan,
left the chateau we talked of lace." Jonathan's judgment was not so naive. The 60-room chateau in end compete.
"He agreed. We were placed which we were staying was one of the most beautiful and historic in third in the betting. But then France.
he cabled me to return at ones, one of the steel fect. Under it thinking of someone. very I wrote explaining that I pro- were some keys. She said: "We different of the Centuries before Buckingham Palace was a palace at all, Bourbon posed going on according to our don't keep the keys under the threadbare boy in the Green- princes had also looked with satisfaction from that window and whisper- agreement. On the morning of door-mat. We keep them under wich fish porice'a family,
the race I was handed a huge the kilght's right foot," ed "Smashing" in medieval French.
telegram. I can remember the
There are many things about Later we went to the wonder his son's life today that would ful chapel which is known for please Edgar Wallace. Not the At the age Soon, mulded by Wyiodine, his words now. It said.
I WISH TO HAVE NO- the nest stalded-glass in France. feast is the stud-form for race- us there is no Bourbon. Hits line of 57, the son of Edger Wallace eager, scuffling feet were echa- THING FURTHER TO DO Mrs, Wallace said: "It is our horses which is age stems not from the royal he recently published als ing from vaulted holls and stone WITH YOU STOP AM CON- private chapel. The priest came chateau's estate. ("He lost half- banks of the Loire but from the first book. Its tiile: DEATH stairs.
TINUING YOUR ALLOWANCE to me to ask permission to hold milion on horses in the two or bank of the Thames at Green- PACKS A SUITCASE (Hodier wich, where
Bryon Wallace
AFTER the annual service for St Louis his father was and Stoughton, 158.). It is a Wylodine bought the place for WHICH YOU MUST SHIFT which takes place, every August. Preo years before he died," big } brought up in a Ash-porter's thriller, naturally. family.
its beauty. But it could mean FOR YOURSELF STOP AM And I am a Protestant! I told son told me.)
And DEATH PACKS A SUIT- Wallace met us nt He is Bryan Edgar Wallace, station. A tall man,
Tours security too if ever the roof fell HAVING ALL YOUR THINGS him that he had my permission CASE? Having read it, and with n
MOVED TO PARK LANE for ever. The chapel in the economic roof, I mean. HOTEL I DO NOT WANT YOU shockingly the eldest son of Edgar Wallace. donnish stoop and
a donnish we
neglected
unchuny Inside having have our own farm here, Perhaps that surprises yet, manner. Not quite the Edgar our own vines, our own rivers TO COME TO
THE HOUSE when we cume. I want to resemblance to his own books- Perhaps you were hardly aware Wallace manner, In other words for 'ish.
AND
and cracking YOU
beautiful as it once with their verve ARE make it that Edgar. Wallace even had a But there was no mistaking the shut our doors on the world and AND ALL THEATRES UNDER Her hand rested on a kneeling most of all.
If necessary we could AGAIN
pace feet that Edgar BARRED FROM THE STUDIO was."
Wallace would approve/of that hawk-like Wallace profile.
live without outside funds." From Tours ше drove of I looked
at the pictures on MY CONTROL STOP PLEASE rull-necked statue.
London Express Service. been in the headlines very often. another 40 miles. Past the vast the walls, a Fragonard, a glow DO NOT WRITE I WILL NOT That is Henri di Bourbon. It appeared briefly after his chateau of Chton where Joan ing Spanlah marter. On a tablo READ YOUR LETTERS STOP There is a quaint tradition here, father's sudden death in 1932, of Are first met the Dauphin, was a silver Inkwell. It was a 3 YOU HAVE ANY COM- that any girl who when Bryan denounced the past the street where Richard gift, from a Fleet-atreet office MUNICATION TO MAKE THE shoulder will be married before mediums who claimed to be lonheart died.
OF MY SOLICITORS the year,in dut. No one knows Inscribed: "To Edgar Wallace." NAME relaying dictation from the great Finally we saw a wall running it conuemorated his years in 15 ANDREW WOOD FURVES hów It started, but I keep hav thriller-man's spirit.
across the Belds and through South Africa - the vital years AND SUTTON."
ing to rub off the lipstick It appeared later in 1839, the woods. "That's the wall which Bryan's father, begon aà "Sure enough, when I got traces." when Bryan divorced his first round our estate," sald Bryan a private in the Regular Army back, I found that all my things
semi-starvation
But then he house no 0
zon.
Bryan Wallace's, name hna noi
Was
klases his
wife Margaret Lace, the Wallace. "It goes on for four the had joined up to escape had been moved to the hotel. At Work
novelist, who then married the mliek. Earl of Huntingdon.
asked me to see
"When Wylodlne first wanted painter) and which turned him hin und when i did he simply The next morning when to buy the chatoau everyong Into à miccessful war-reporter." asked me about. Caux as it Jonathan and I woke someonÓ nothing else had happened. was already at work in a room The quarrel was over”
advised her against it.. They ould
Heiress
it would be quite impossible to
In 1040 Bryan Wallace himself
run. But I could see she had
married again. His bride. was set her heart on it."
Agreed
Wylodine van Dyko Jones, an I was somewhat. daunted by Bryan Wollace smiled and American heiress. For the next the thought of Wylodine. Then said: "My father was a strange
above the , extrljard Hrym Edgar Wallace, was, busy finish- ing his ext thriller..
Why had he waited till his Wyloding Wallace took me files to write, novela? In his
Hiding place
12 years he worked gulolly na we arrived inside the great arch- man, a disloud man, Once I over the chateau, Carved every- withroom; surrounded by charte a British diplomat in Spain. His way of the Chateau and 1 was wan anked to captain the where were the crests of the showing the movementa and name has cropped-up from lime daunted no longer.
British bobsleigh team in the Bourbons and the royal fleur Interplay of his characters, he
a hugo wylodith has always wanted
.noted
1tg
CHESS
BY LEONARD BARDEN
to time in connection with Instantly Jonathan was teften world championship. at Caux. de-lys, Albùn or. Louis XIV, the' foill me? his father's books. But he has over by a genial; bright-eyed At the lime I was working in Sun King, dominated ́nover published a book of his American woman.
Delilah, Lion · studios, of which staircase."
mp to write a thriller, But I own. Never, that is, until now. He was told about the straw- my father was chairman.
Mrs. Wallace KAJ: "One wknid to write · Murliething. far For 1 had come to the rich befries which were waiting for He wasn't keen fur me to owner of the chatentt was the more secinin tikt nölign.” - steži li a post tiờn thom actuat Los valley to, oxamine ja hip le plớn, about the hidden fälle, leave, to, kở thị Chux - Grande Mademoizcila, the cousin Ite picked up à Hoavý "nianus | play: Willte so mord and win. fascinating development in' mysteries of the mosted thatdau, secretly I suppose he didn't of· Lasile, She was in love script.
And now Professor
Qutb on How I Escaped The Head-Glizinhare,
TROPODIST
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