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NOTES OF THE DAY
RUSSIA AND FRANCE-
TT
1934
WOMAN IN THE HOME
By MARGERY LAWRENCE. wife. And it is a mournful fact
Russian tela font lay of, Franco. is an old story, that of Mary that a child's toy, a heap of lobst
relations have made it.
and Martha Poor, well-meaning a atray a abundantly clear that no considera- but mistaken Martha, fussing papera or sewing looke wrong, is a Children as a rule dread the tions of political, social, and even about the house, anxious and house that is cold and unfriendly religious creed are allowed to stand troubled about many things, busy ultra-house-proud mother. Her in the way of what may be con- on a thousand matters to make ceived as diplomatic necessitics, her Guest happy and forgetting, shamp-voiced "don't" has scared and it may be remarked that this in her anxiety that the house and away so many childish impulses is not the first time that France servants, her food and drink do that they walk warily, always on and Russia have sought a union her credit, that the Guest had the alert for trouble-thon, too, Martha woman's houso, since the which appeared impossible due to much to say that it was important animals are rarely seen in the their totally different mentalities. for her to hear. The house-proud
The Very Idea!
"SAFETY FIRST"
By Eddie Kelly, Bumper Export
Nothing seemed more unlikely be-woman-she works herself to the best-trained pet is apt to leave.That?
A suggestion for motorists.
can't keep safe, keep carefull fore the war than a Franco-Russian bone, she frots and worries, and all hairs, even occasional footmarks. As for Martha's servante, she is
Since the police have issu alliance. In the 1880's Russin the time Life, her guest, waits to upon carpots and cushions, stood for absolutism and Franco teach her if she will only listen.
always changing them, lamenting for ropublicanism. The French
with "Safety looked upon the Rusalan Govern-
I am sorry for Martha, for about the poor quality and lack of ed a number of pamphlets in ment as reactionary. The Rus Martha generally meane so very staying power in the servant connexion
Sho does 50 sians looked upon the French well. She means to listen to the world today. No wonder she can. First" week, they have asked. Government as revolutionary voice of the Teacher-all in good not keep a mald! They had no sympathy for each time! But before that there is much spying, worried lest her bo- us to lend our aid in making other. To-day, the tablo turned. fish to fry and clean linen to put loved possessions are not getting their purpose clear to the
attention that she considera The French are looked on as con-out; the fresh oil for the lamp has the due, that no self-respecting
mald will enduro it for long.
servative and the Russlans as sub- versive. They still entertain sus picions of each other.
SAME CAUSES ?
public.
not arrived, and burely that corner
Kelly readers are specially is dusty and by the time the lamp is Alled, the cornera dusted,
WOMAN'S BLIND WORSHIP.
catered for in this great the bed freshly plenished and the
It is tragic how many women, drive to eradicate the road hog supper steaming on the table, the
all unknowing, sacrifice them from our midst and to make the Teacher has finished his lesson
is selves, their husbands and happi- roadways safe for motorista as- and it is too late. Martha
but still, theness, their whole Ilves, to this well as, in addition to, or, and vaguely annoyed
blind worship of inanimate things! house was perfect, the meal per House, furniture, possessions, they the pedestrian..
what would you?
Since the advent of the feet also, and After all, those were the things can, and do, become a weight
under which-no matter how will- pedestrian the motorist has that mattered.
ingly borno-a woman's youth may found a new joy in life and a ma- wilt and fade, her galety become
.
Nevertheless the same causes that operated in the 1890's are opera ting to-day. A common four of Germany then forced France and Russin to stand sido by side. Arrangements were entered into
WARPED SENSE OF VALUES. which eventually were consolidated
Women's sense of values as re-shrowishness, her natural feminine chine which was formerly intended in an alllance, the most decisivo factor in pre-war diplomacy. Is gards the importance of household desire to have all about her as it by Henry Ford as a commercial: there now a common distrust of matters is too often warned! It should be, degenerate into a per-asset has become a pleasurable
may be the fault of tradition, that petual state of worry and anxiety pastime.
However, "Safety First" week is. Germany which is producing simi-
has for such untold ages insisted over details that really do not mat lar consequences? In some quar- ters it is denied. But the general that a woman should look first to ter one quarter as much as she designed to keep the game within
that thinks....
certain well-defined rules and to her household-it may be view is that, faced with Hitlerism,
Better an easefully-untidy home meet the objections of these mem- curlous restlessness, no common
a contented family, than abers of the walking public who | REMEDIOS.-At his residence at No. Russia tends again to turn toward
11 Pesce Avenue, Homuntin, France, and incidentally to make among women, that cannot leave and Alexandring Francisco dos Reme- peace with Poland and with the well alone, but must for ever be house with not a pin out of place, object to being run over without a
siding over a restlessly sullen dios (Alex). Funeral will pass Little Entente which are ranged trying to make it just a little bit and a nervous cranky woman pre-sporting chance of escape.
To start with, "Safety First" the Monument nt 6.30 p.m. to-day, with France. Happily European re- better.
It may be that self-consciousness group! (Shanghai and Macao paperslations are more complicated. This please copy).
Italy has come to terms with Russia, plays a part-many women only feel If anything has to suffor, let the means that the motorist should al- Doubtless it has mixed motives. "safe" when playing Martha-and, household suffer, not you! Keep ways see that the road is clear be-. Partly it hopes to counterbalance feeling shy and inadequate outside a gay alert heart, keep time and fore knocking a pedestrian down, French influence. But Italy, if it their homes, gradually develop in- attention for all sorts of outside and he should then jump on the accepts cooperation with Russia; to creatures unfit for anything but interests, don't waste your soul gas so that the unfortunate victim, kitchen and stillroom. It may be upon inanimate things-for waste if alive, shall have no chance of does not intend to put itself in an- tagonism to Germany. It is still a thousand things-but, despite a it can very well be, tradition not reading his number.
Our generation is very lucky: to be presumed that Germany and cortain superficial emancipation, withstanding. Italy will maintain a particular far too many women to-day are We have hundreds of gadgets that still Marthas, and spend their en- friendship.
tire lives fussing and flapping save us time cleaning and wash- about household matters while ing machines, metals that need no furniture and, letting the more precious things of polishing, built-in
labour-saving contivances in every life slip by.
The principal tragedy of the direction, and these should leave To deny that there is some peril The energies of most nations in these precarious methods of Martha-woman is that she la con- us time to develop ourselves in Sadly often wo do not, and the ideal mother and mistress of a to-day are devoted to the im- balancing nation against nationvinced that she is the perfect wife, every way. But do we?
would be foolish. Yet it is proper mediate problem of recovery. to point to certain encouraging home. And the truth is that Martha is still "troubled about To start the, wheels turning signs. Everywhere the political generally she is far less beloved many things," even though her systems in Europe interlock. The and successful than the woman dinner comes in cooked from a again, to put idle men to work, acts of Russia, with the Baltic who allows both herself, human shop, her glass-topped table needs of her modern decoration leaves to set money flowing through its States, with France, with: Poland, nature and her house a certain no linen, and the smart austerity practically nowhere for a venture- old channels-these make up a with the Little Entente, and with
COMFORT BEFORE TIDINESS.
some speck of dust to settle. Still If passing a police car at 10. Italy postulate peace. The rela
straight, colossal job. Until it is accom- tions of Italy with the Little En- Men would rather be comfort-1 she fusses and fumes, absorbed in m.hp. or slower on
wide, long road with nobody In plished, no one has time to think tente and with France are impro-able than tidy any day; a com- her house and its concerns
ving. Italy is still a potential
panionable woman who will not and outside the door everything sight the thumb may be applied to of much else. But it is wormediator between Germany and fuss over-much about ashes on the else in the world is waiting for the nose with the fingera out- remembering that at the France. And France itself is still carpet, or shaving brushes in the her.
Come outside, Martha! back of it there lies desirous of finding the means of wrong place, is more appreciated another-problemy-one--which rapprochement with Germany. On than a meticulously-tidy house-Teacher is waiting....
the futuro interpretation of the took shape before the de- diplomatic events of recent days pression began, and may persist after the depression It is therefore of extreme im-
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1934.
THE WORLD'S BIG TASK
is over.
•
POTENTIAL GOOD
amount of lassitude!
In addition it is always advis- able to have the car cleaned by your wife or somebody in the family after each "kill".
Some enthusiasts make a point. of recording their successes by dented radiator, but personally, we retaining a crumpled mudguard or think this is a little heartless and.
Never overtake a police car on a certainly a very untidy habit. corner as the magistrato will seldom believe your assertion that the inside of the road. the police car was passing you on
stretched but this should only bo The done if the car contains one police- man (below an Inspector) and your own-car-is-packed with friends.
which the peace of Euroro may depend. WOMEN CAN'T WRITE LETTERS with the signal against you, it is
It is simply the fact that this efficient and mechanized age continually is finding ways of using fewer men to make and do more things. Technological unemployment" is the lengthy name that has been given this. development. Ten men can do s job to-day that would have taken 30
decade ago. To- morrow the job probably will be done by five men.
But if the problem is stated easily, it can be extraordinarily puzzling. Every modern business operates under the necessity of being as efficient as possible. It has to do
men
A
portance that in everything that is done the notion of friendship shall prevail over the notion of hostility. That Russia will play an increasing part fa. European diplomacy is now obvious.
ANIMALS IN REVOLT
CAT THAT YAWNED
Close observers of public affairs cannot have failed to notice that animals and insects have been very uppish recently. They have adopt ed a distinctly critical attitude to ward various forms of human activity. Several species are con- cerned in this latest movement in the animal world, but the leaders appear to be cats, dogs, spiders, and gorillas. The gorillas started it. Some months ago two of these animals whose general behaviour had indicated that they wero cap- what it does in the quickest posable of appreciating men's more sible manner at the least pos- notable achievements in the realm sible expense. If it can find a of art were taken as a special treat machine to do the work that to the talkies, or rather, the talkles ware brought to them. The ox- formerly was done by a dozen periment was a total failure. Tho men, it has to install it. If it gorillas did not like the pictures and nothing would persuade them can arrange its operations 30
to disguise the fact. that one man can do what two used to do, it must do so. Tem- porarily, as a means of reducing unemployment, certain arbitrary More recently it has been the moves have been made to halt turn of the theatro to run
gauntlet of animal criticism. In a this process. For the time being, scane in a play presented in London it may be possible to continue to eat sits on the hearthrug while swim against the tide in this the heroine pleads with the Liou- tenant-Governor of Barataria or manner. But this is dodging some such place to spare her hus the problem. Eventually, when band who is to be shot for taking full prosperity has returned, a part in a rebellion. As might solution will have to be found. naturally be expected, this is a scene of tremendous tension, cal- The task will not be easy. On culated to inspire the keencat in- the one hand, is the aim to make terest in any intelligent audience. What, therefore, can be thought of it possible for every man who the incredible levity of
the cat, wants a job to find one. On the who, on the second night, deliber other, the very nature of producatoly yawned at the most dramatic. tive machinery tends to whittle moment in the scone? In sport, also, then are not free from anl down the total number of jobs.mal and Insect criticism. At a re The biggest single puzzle of the modern age is apt to be the taak of harmonizing, those opposing trends:
the
cent cricket match a spider was so contemptuous of the bowling skill of one of the teams that it chose. tht stumps as the safest place on which to leave its web,
fatal to healtate. To avoid chang- ing your mind'It is best to shut the eyes and clamp both feet on the accelerator, trusting to the ability of the doctor to put you together suficient, well to enable
you to cut a good figure in court.
By RICHARD BONFIELD THIS is the season when more, it may as well be told-is that Tletters come cascading through women make a sorry mess of letter our letter boxes than in any other, writing. Although they are com- Friendships that have languished monly regarded as the voluble sax, cold and uneherished through the when it comes to crystallising year once more are resuscitated at their thoughts in the form of adren innocently spinning tops in the letter their pens are rarely if ever this time of universal good will:
But you should not resort to inspired.
Our grandparents sadly tell us hard words if the feminine part;
I shall of your Christmas mall is not more that the art of fine writing died
than a Stock Ex-with the crinoline. But entertaining
(Continued on Page 5.) change bulletin. The truth-and
"By golly, this wine list certainly takes you back to the
good old days"
When passing schools or chil- roadway, take great care not to A youngster injure or scare them. is a poor kill and remember it may grow up to be a fine victim.
Old ladies appeal to one's chival- rous instinct and a slight jolt in the back or a dead stop right in front of them accompanied by a. terrific blast of the horn is about. all that can be done.
When encountering a ricksha with passenger it is always a de- Ilcate problem whether to take off the puller or the passenger,
If the passenger happens to be a traffic cop or a magistrate however, it is easy to make up your mind..
Never blow the horn unless. signalling a policeman after an accident or scaring aforesaid old girl, as the public dislike the noise.
When a kill has been registered, and the evidence on the rond pointa. to foul play on the part of the driver, it is best to take the body a little further along and drive over it again in a way that will leave no doubt, but that the victim was fair spoil.
Never drive on the pavement unless the road is dirty or obstruct- od with pedestrians, and never run into walls, houses, lamp posts or Inspectors, as you will always come off the worst,
If an Inspector has to be hit, do it properly. Reinomber, dead
men toll no tales!".
It is amusing sometimes to show an-extended arm at both sides of the car when taking a corner, Sometimes, when the following driver makes a mistake, it is not
G
amusing
That will be all: for today.
Romember
SAFETY FIRST!