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AUGUST TUESDAY,
3, 1937.
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WHY IS THAT CHIMNEY POT LIKE A DOG'S
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You can't fall
in
love to order
AM interested in the love story of the rich young man who shot himself recently because the beautiful girl he loved could not marry him because she did not love him. He proposed to her over and over again and she rejected him over and over again.
-by-
JAMES DOUGLAS
In spite of her refusals he fixed a date for their
three days after her to the processes of reason, we might marriage, December last year, twenty-first birthday. He had made elaborate plans for reflect that there are other wonder- ful and beautful objects in life be- their honeymoon.
Without telling her, he bought an eighteenth-century aldes love.
It, und lavishly furnished it. house, reconstructed was rich enough to buy almost anything he wanted.
He
This business of substitution and replacement and transference of TE did his utmost to transform her friendship interest is the health and vigour and existence. No Hades, in his silorts filed. Ife would interes
of
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of love not give up hope, and he worried because he thought his doubt human nature manages
from the tyranny Ill-health was the reason for her refusal. But it was escape not the reason.
as an overmastering, fixed idea with- out being conscious exerting its
"I just didn't love him, that's all," she sale!.
she said, "most people would have will-power. "I suppose." considered his proposal a tremendous piece of stood Good looks I did not look to it in that way.
or a Billy pastime, or it may be u fortune. and mones are not the beat foundations for murringe useful kind of pubile and social ser-
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work, and work is the chief stabiliser THERE is a theory that in love one of the lovers of life and the chief consolation and loves and the other is content to be loved, anodyne for all frustrations and re- But I am disposed to suspect that this is a cynical view bulls and disappointments, of love.
THE second great refuge from any mental obses-
There may be a difference of temperament in lovers. One may be all worship and adoration and the other may be all acceptance. One may give all and the other sion is play, and no life is at ease One may be ro- without a blend of work and play. may give little, or hardly anything.
is or what the play is, so long as mantic and the other may be practical, realistic, re- It does not matter what the work served, reticent, and common-sensical,
Yet
is their love
or the
fixedi And yet the two-diverse psychologies may be the the mind obtains reprieve and rellei complement of the other. There are men and women from the fixed iden who are incapable of self-expression. They may feel passion or the fixed affection.
That is why all men and all wo- deeply, but they are inarticulate.
men need some refuge of work and nevertheless strong and deep.
We may be astonished by the incongruity of lovers play to save themselves from the We may wonder what a man sees in the woman he loves peril or what a woman sees in the man she loves. But the introspection. ee to the puzzle is not easily discovered even by the Jovers themselves.
TO DATE
own of their
self-centred
But the obssessed over takes no Interest in either work or play or
up and others hanging down? What makes a dog's nose BRINGING TENNIS UP cold and wet? Mine's not. How do we know what sort! of plant comes from a seed? Why do onions make us cry? Where do tears come from and why are they salty? TENNIS. is changing very definite-on through a whole life without tir- ings appear to be alien and remote
There is no torment more terrible
I doubt whether any man ur any in the marvellous variety of the hu- woman can explain, even in their man scene. Everything in the world Life has the aspect of own secret thoughts, why they full seems flat. in love or why their love goes on and an implacable enemy. Human be ly. The outstanding character-ing or wearying or losing its power, and dull. younger its grace, and its mugic.
TT bafites all the investigators than this--the loss of love for life How shall I know when I'm going to be grown up? How istic in the style of the
and all the identorues te in all its multiplicity of beauty, in its faster that is the tendency. old is Westminster Abbey? Doesn't Jesus get tired if players to-day is speed. Faster and
The old be that lawn tennis is explain why one lover can And He never sleeps? Why does that swan fold one leg on!
much of life and to refuse to accept patball has long lost all its cure for love and another lover can power of satisfying, interesting and increly his back when he cleans himself?
point. One does not "pat" the ball tell us why love in some minds is amusing. It is a mistake to ask too drives it with an uncontrollable obsession and in the second best when the first is
others merely a passing and tem- denied to us. these days, but That is a list of questions asked by one small child over one in
fullest force.
one began by hitting porary phase of emotion or desire.
DERHAPS life at its best is Formerly week-end. It gives you a good idea of what a child thinks, sees,
It may seem strange that a rich
for us all sort of second Control was the young man with every kind of in- best. Our dreams outpace and out- hears and worries about. It is interesting to be with children who the ball gently, and striving to keep
it was hoped feres and activity open and free run our power to fulfil them. One thing aimed at, and
We cannot fall in are eager, natural and intelligent. But the harassed mother, with it in the court. her own worries about meeting bills, the threatened rise in income that strength of stroke would come to him should not be able to sur- thing is certain.
afterwards.
Nowadays there is none of the fender and abandon his quest for the love by an act of will. The perfect Impossible and the unattainable. fusion of two minds is either a head tax, and deciding who wants new shoes the most. is not so en-luft
It were possible to subject love venly accident or the gift of God. thusiastic over her children's questions. "
playing for safety. Speed and force infinitely more important. I she is wise she'll never grouse about nor enthuse over whether you keep the ball in the them in the children's hearing. But she will remember that an court is of much less account than observant child with an inquiring mind is more likely to grow up whether you hit it hard. into a virile, active-minded, clever worker, resourcefully able to find pleasure in simple things, than the youngster who never asks questions and notices none of life's wonders and troubles.
You must learn to strike before
learn
en to aim: you must know you
how to hit before bothering about
where to hit.
Even if you have played for many years, these modern requirements:
well be worked into your can quite
It is diMcult for some
OME childish questions, we, know, can be answered by the own game.
SOME questions, to us. Mothers and nurses peop to hit hard-they play the
though
it were full of ex- a little concentration should always help the children to try to find an answer to their plosives. But own problems. They should be helped to explain what they see will soon develop the proper habit, Study the proper execution of your carefully with accuracy and colour.
strokes, for only when your techni-
If a child comes to you with a perfectly silly question, or forque is right can you hope to get the an explanation to something which he or she has not taken the best results. trouble to "see" and remember-well, just refuse to help. Make Keep Your “Style" the child take another look.
Don't however, be too concerned
You
can
.
get
£30 for finding
a torpedo
with standardising your play. Per- RECENTLY Dock Porter Mr. Turk, marker of the Vintners
1 few dead pays for swans' heads at 1s. a time. But they cost 6d, to post.
So much is done for children nowadays by schools and sonal peculiarities are of great value,
torpedo, organisations that mothers are often lazy. They forget that if properly exploited. For example, F. Prideaux, of Wey- Company,
players grip their racket home should be the prime training centre of the child; they are some
farther round than most, so that the mouth found a ready to pride themselves upon the work and career of a promis-back of the hand comes under the claimed reward of £5 from
the Admiralty. ing girl or boy, but want to take no active, consistent part in the handle. Shape of hand and length to do with at fingers have much home training.
this.
"Such a player often finds that this
But Admiralty
Tamest reward-sport is to sit down under one of those AA signs offering afterwards £2 for news of sign spoilers. Only grip enables her to play backhand said the torpedo hadn't been lost about three a year are damaged. strokes with the front of her racket, at all, bad just been moored
If you
Cab drivers get standard re-
MODES miss a lot who have not known the satisfaction have unis peculiar buckhun
and companionship of a country walk with a child have this peculiar backhand ability there until seas became calmer, ward when the property they return
to Scotland Yard is claimed. For
and
It turns out there is a regu- most things the role is 28. Od. In the it for abandon
the more usual
for jewellery, gold, lar scale of rewards that may £. But whose eyes, ears, nose and fingers are alive to everything. Don't it is both unnecessary and unwise to
finding the other easily convertible property forget that nature study is the finest means of training a child method.
Aguin, you may be left-handed. be claimed for
there is a special rate of 3s. in the to be observant, appreciative of simple pleasures, and to seek
Don't make the mistake of trying to
£. be right-handed. By keeping to Admiralty's property. explanations.
more A floating mine recovered
If you find something in the street A child will remember a walk through historic streets, an your natural habits you have a great
than two miles off shore and de-
to the local authority, is you cannot claim a reward from the For instance, most players weak vered exploration along the rocks and over a sandy shore, with his advantage over your opponent. mother explaining things and talking in that friendly, equal way point is backhand play: but the per-worth £5, but if found within two loser unless he has already adver which children like. These talks keep a mother's brain alert, they son who has schooled herself to con miles of shore you get £2. Washed tlaed that a reward will be given.
up on beach its recovery value is it is
A woman in Blackburn once found your brighten up her general knowledge, and polish up her conversa centrate on that weak side finds, to
jher discomature, that
only 10s. tional ability,
strong side.
for a wallet containing £1,000, "She You can get £5 though
with a present of I, too, you can get some "kick"
(the thing that clears was rewarded into your service, you are likely to poravane
twelve bananas, had to be content UESTIONS put by children should cause no embarrass-be useful at the beginning of your mines out of the paths of ships).
game, for an opponent, expecting the
Biggest advertised Admiralty re- with them.
is for serviceable torpedoes ment to their mothers. Such embarrassment is usually ball to break one way, will be om- felt when the mother has neglected her duties to her children, barrassed when it breaks in the ep-found more than two miles off shore Unclaimed £1,000
Rewards last century seem when her own life is not free from inhibitions, when she has posite direction.
If you are right-handed and are and delivered to the local authority.
The figure is £30. a left-handed player, you
have been more sensational. There allowed her mind to become cluttered with affectations or morbid
opposing .༥
need not expect anything was £1,000 offered in 1810 for news You will be alert to such possibities as fears.
It will pay you, if there la from the Ministry of Agriculture, of Benjamin Bathurst, English envoy There is no more cause for embarrassment or reserve when an opportunity, to do a bit of hard but the Ministry of Fisheries does a child asks a question about his or her body than with questions thinking before the game and, if its bit for the reward hunter. about the body of an ant, a lamp-post or a motor-car. The only possible, to study your rival's play. difference is in the way that question should be answered. for it may never be asked again,
Q
A grave responsibility lies tegrity and knowledge has been upon the parent who falls to betrayed.
these.
ward
answer such a question loyally plain, expressive English words as your partner. You will naturally how old the nah is Scale for crabs seen again.
decently, clearly and with
to
to the Court of Vienna, who was supposed to have been killed for his Any one returning one of the papers. It was never claimed. The pecullar effects of left-handed play can be anticipated and coun-Ministry's marked fish with details
Bathurst was starting from an inn nough
if they are of where it was captured gota 2s. tered readily considered beforehand-It is when Return the mark alone and the fee In Perleberg on the way from Ham-
Is down to is.
burg to Berlin, and stepped round to the front of the horses before considere they are so disconcerting.
In doubles it may be a distinct nd-
He was never The Ministry like to know just entering the coach. There are plenty of good, vantage to have a left-handed player
ia lower. One shilling for crabs have the sort of individual benefits with mark. with which to reply to all our which have already been suggested: in have gains
at Kaw sand you may
Meteorologists much of the truth as can be children's questions when they but
more than 50 balloons a combination too.
year grasped. Many parents com- come to us for enlightenment.
Generally, It is best to have your measuring temperature, Children never forget such plain about the loss of their
Each is worth left-handed partner on your left, conditions, and so on. children's trust and friendship things. Snub, laugh at, belittle, for thus both your backhands will a to its finder.
to or ignore their serious questions, come to the centre of the court, and givoa way childhood adolescence, and adolescence to fall to give them the help they you will cover your area maturity. In every case the need when young, and you have effectively. Similarly,
of the court on either tide. cause is the same: the child's only yourself to blame if they arm strokes will be able to reach out
ENTHUSIAST. trust in his parenta!-wisdom; in- grow up to distrust you.
39
your
more
His pantaloons, riddled with bul- lets, were eventually found, and, up about 100 years later, a skeleton was for turned up near the inn. But no one electrical knows what happened:
On January 27, 1800, the Times You
may possibly get a reward appeared with an advertisement of fore-for returning post office mail-bag. a reward of £1,000,000 for a copy of certificate of the baptism of Ro- Scale, 20. Gd. to 10s.
the bert Jennings, born about 1704, But Thames with a boat. Every year no one took it too seriously,
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