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MISS INTO MRS..
NHIRTY-SIX hours of married life have
taught me quite a
About myself mainly,
about my husband a little,
about other people just a bit.
Hongkong Hotel First lesson was when, at
Garage
Stubbs Rd...
The
Phone 27778/9,
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, March 10, 1937.
MORE ROAD SAFETY PLANS - The creation of wide, new
the register office service, the ring seemed, for a second, not to be big enough. With
in- stinctive impatience I tried to pull my hand away to fix it my- self.
man.
The ceremony
took two minutes. It impressed me main-
Honest record of the thoughts of a
two
days bride. Containing
some good resolutions for the not married
and the longer married
a man
and
+
Also, we agree that, having got married, our dual obligation, to Mr. and Mrs. Jones is ender.
own
WE may laten but we'll
work out our answers to the problems which, we are told, are inevitable. It may take longer to get things straightened out, but it is much more interesting to make mla- takes in one's own way,
I think the only obligation there is between us is the pro- mise to tell the truth. We know, of course, that strict truth would be unbearable, but
wo
can avoid pretending to emotions, sentiments, likings that we do not feel.
-The only marriage I would. like to copy is based on that understanding, Land worked for fifteen years, so why has
not?
It
MY vows, apart from
that, are personal rather than marital, because, after all, the only strictly "Mrs." emotion I've experienced so far is acute self-consciousness about saying Mrs. and wearing a ring.
I shall probably go on saying "Miss" to the end of my life, but I hope to get used to the ring. At the moment, it might as well be through my nose. I either try to hide or flaunt it both actions are uncomfortable.
I KNOW that this (and solitaire diamond,
yet a
+
not
vacuum
My vows, then, are based on Fortunately I caught the
the actions of other people to soulful eye of a relative, and ling next to a very young, new. made up of. I would take my
By luck, I have been travel job and all that my ex-ilfe was my ai te friends that they are "the bride." I will never tell realised that even if I did feel looking honeymoon couple. They hair down and put my feet up,
luckybe unmarried. 1 could do it better myself, here were embarrassed, wrote notes be possessed and possessive,
At best it is as Billy as saying was one time when I had better watched them with amused ed that picture, didn't realise take strictly sensible advice is
to one another, held hands. We
never speak to strangers. I sink back and be the little wo- tolerance,
My husband knew and dread. shall always believe that to and
my kindly said,.
husband that it was merely the outcome death on wheels. "Thank goodness of being too lonely for too long. you're not like that."
The moment I knew I was going I
SHALL not advise the to be married, ONE thing I'm certain thoroughfares at Home, and the ly by its efficiency, and I won is really, in love with
newly married to have my viewpoint a baby at once, some time, or about. Any girl who his.
changed completely. So did never. Having babies is improving of those already in
dered that, even in this bare- who fears marriage had better existence, is causing the Minis-floored schoolroomy place, there give
matter of ordering a up good manners
I believe at applica to cleaner, a veneered radio. try of Transport to devote in could still be an atmosphere of and at once. The man who they may not have admitted it placency, tell young men who marry the fellow by any means many other couples even though I shall not, with wifely com- [creasing attention to the tech- emotion and romance.
doesn't want to get married will in time to live a full life) can be are having a good fling and nique of accident prevention.
And there must have been, anyway) a good husband,
make by worldly standards a success only if we unjealously ruining their digestions that An experience extending over because we all kissed cach other
guard our little illusions of free they ought to get married, It is his sense of responsibili- dom. ten years has shown that rela-[spontaneously, and quite regard. ty that frightens him off. But Two people would be so alike vice does more to breed a fear knowing as I do that such ad- tively few accidents occur
less of transferring lipsticks. I
when he does surrender, he'll as to bore cach other if they did, of women (banding together, narrow, winding roads, which even. kissed the registrar, who instinctive person who is swept which were sympathetic to one than the most rampant widow. do it more completely than the not sometimes have friendships catching, guarding their rights) are. in fact, the safest.
hurriedly told The
me he had a along by emotion, broad. straight speedways are
daughter of thirty-six.
and not to the other. I think, Until the other day I was like and I hope I stick by it, that the friends
I shall not try to mate my the greatest potential or actual
Still, I made a note to advise have a vague, occasionally viru- is to try to break up friendships hen if they do get together on thousands of other girls who meanest thing a womar an do course, I'll cackle like any old either, although, of reason for monial trappings if they had married. When I was tired or
to marry in cere lent, resentment at not being which she doesn't understand. their own efforts. this, which would also probably the chance. To be "modern" lonely, or with people who bored friends (I mean, of course, married women, I build myself And the woman who gives up If I find that, like so many be borne out in Hongkong, is and sneer at a religious service me, I would imagine a state of genuine sympathetic relation- a sort of spiritual compound that the average motorist usual-seems a little silly. If you're matrimony which I now think is ships, not acquaintanceships) to and try to deny that there is ly takes extra care when nego-going to do the thing at all...
please her husband is settling anything going on in the world. tiating tortuous roads, but is in-
I would, I thought, sit back down to a pretty mean-form of beyond my family life. I shall THEN, I am still touch- and get away from it all my life. clined to let himself go" on the
ed and amazed at the,
know I'm a fool. straight. open highways. One
tremendous response of frienda. of the latest proposals of the
I had been going around with Ministry of Transport, which we married, yet their excite- my husband for six years before! might well be adapted in this ment was child-like. Colony, if it has not already been
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my friends
a complete illusion.
Practical Psychology
How It is Oiling the Wheels of Life
done, is that all road accidents a warming but frightening thing I thought, am thinking, what should be carefully "mapped" so
is the social instinct at mar- that danger-spots should be dis-ringes, births, and deaths. If closed. On the knowledge thus you want people to love you, PSYCHOLOGY, though the infant misty heights of philosophy to every- gained, measures are to be taken conform to the human pattern, contributing
This explains a great deal, but it among the sciences, s already day life and common things. They does not explain why some people substantially to the forecast for it a wider field than find peculiar pride in not having an which, it is hoped, will candiceregister and colebrate and ad- betterment of human life.
possibly any other applied science. car for music and in being unable, to greater road safety. One of
vertise your personal history,
It has something to say The activities of some psychologists
to us so they say, to tell even the National the facts which is becoming side, I vow
Inny come rather near to colors wherever the human factor is in- Anthem from the latest Jazz ira- Well, now I am on the safe but this need not blind us to the valved in either the workaday or the portation. From some other part of more and more evident is that smug about it.
value of what is being done by many
leisure time occupations
the his well-stocked armoury the pay- never to become reputable practitioners to wring from the great variety of topics touched theory accounting for this as for
people. This, indeed, is proved by chologist can doubtless produce as roads are "improved," the shown me one of the triggers existence.
Marriage has it solutions of various problems of upon by the writers.
many other vagaries of the human dangers tend to increase. It is that release mass tenderness
Besides large questions such as
mind! thus the task of the traffic au- and I am grateful, but
A very good book that outlines the vocational guidance and the measure-
* | applications of the science, not only ment of intessed as, för example,
such interesting H HE authors admit that in some thorities to see that the safety
to education but also to industry and matters are
directions phychology, has as yet. I have tried, too, during this written in collaboration by two well. capacity to apprcelate music, the ment of emotion, for example, "atill social life, Is that which has been the powers of the memory, the made little progress. The measure- factor does not lag unduly behind long honeymoon train journey, known Edinburgh authorities, Pro- part of unreality in the life of the presents the most formidable dimeul- the speed factor. There is an to work out whether extended fessor James Drever and Dr. Mary child, the value of being able to ties, and as regards temperament, increasing disposition at Home
semi-engagements like mine are
forget as well as to remember, and psychologists are still at variance as It is such a book as many must 80 on.
to what it is." Ito tighten up precautions for
a good thing. There is the selves bewildered by the conflicting]'[AKING Arst the possession or lack. have wished for as they find them- climinating the speedster, the worst."
argument "You know the claims made by the various schools of psychologists. The publishers are the motorist who is a danger both to
University of London Press, and the price is 5s.
himself and others. It is this
Collins.
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point which lies behind the sugor of carelessness. The motor-
IN the United States, where they never do things by halves, ap- gestion recently made that a de- ist who is disposed to take undue and the output of books on the sub- plied psychology has become a craze, tailed record should be kept of risks is the real menace of the few can keep pace with them.
Ject has become so prodigious that those who are frequently guilty roads. Precautionary measures
Here we have been more conser- vative, as is our ascertaining whether they have, can help in the reduction of we see applied
Д drawback. psychology by their physiological make-up, dangers, but, when they have spected that what has been dona proving Its usefulness in mony but it may be confidently Ja special proneness to accident. done their best, the problem of thus far is but a The tragedy of all the deaths the reckless driver still remains, what will yet be attempted.
outline of a sketchy which are occurring annuallyThe only effective way of deal the scope. of the science. To such Even so, there are many citizens who
have but the vaguest notion of from motor mishaps is that, aing with the incorrigible is by Phychology and Practical Life, which great majority of them are way of ticence cancellation, should be doubly useful.
Is the title of the book under review,
of traffic offences, with a view to on the part of the authorities not necessarily been, but that has
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. easily preventible. When all is coupled, in flagrant cases, with
fauid and done, most accidents are the imposition of prison san- the result either of recklessness 'tences.
THE
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authors emphasise that psychology is now to be defined as the science that studies behaviour, and that it has descended from the
that:-
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The fact is, that in dealing with emotion, temperament, and will, we are dealing with the very core of human personality, and this is. extraordinarily complex that .progress must necessarily be slow, We can only say that in this field a -beginning has been madh.
Much Information has
been
of an car for music, we read Pitch discrimination varies from individual to Individual. It is a well-known fact that some people. are musical and some not. The difference between the musical and the unmusical may be due to gathered from intelligence tests, the difference in aculty of pitch dis- purpose of which is to measure crimination, though what is native ability, and the net result spoken of as "lack of an car for affords little support for the opinion music" is sometimes attributable to that there is a marked difference in a defect of musical memory, rather general mental ability between the than, and without, any defect in sexes. pitch discrimination,
N' is there evidence of serious in-
The differences in pitch dis-nate racial differences in the basal crimination,
It may well, be therefore, that, except as between the highly civilised peoples and the most backward races, the differences which have impressed the popular mind
are due almost wholly to en- vironmental factors and socin! traditions.
dividual to another are very great.
however, from one In-mental functions. A specially fine musical car can discriminate
pitch difference of less than half a vibration through a fairly wide range of the musical scale, while at the other extreme we find persons who cannot dis- criminate between tones differing by ten or fifteen vibrations,
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That is to say, one person may THE word "complex" is much used have an ear twenty or thirty times more acute then another for differ- Some of us may be rather tired of in these days, often wrongly used, ences of pitch. It would be extra- seeing it, but it is useful to have an ordinary if such a difference had authoritative definition of the word. no practical significance.
(Continued on Page 5.).
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