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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1937.
and Five were Foolish
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Gordon Glover tells the story of ten different wives. Which do you think
were wise and which foolish?
OT virgins, this time, but wives. Five were wise rules, and, above all, without- and five were foolish. Ten wives with ten at- wiles, artifice and trickery. titudes to men and marriage. Here they are: She'd never try to make her hus- Each one is given a number but not in any order of precedence. band jealous by flirting with neother man, never pretend not to be a ent A to which are the wise and which are the foolish, that's for you to it ahe, were une, never observe any decide: Don't rush gleefully to identify yourself with this one or of the prescribed "feminine artifices" for keeping your man once you've that-for you never know.
SHIC takes ot him,
She'd ask him no questions on practical assumption that she only wanted to view of things, hear what he wanted to tell her. She's "ernnicy" neither one way nor Marriage the other and believes in leaving when all is marriage and mutual
openness to said and work each other out.
Juliana
Prepares Nursery For Royal Baby
OLLAND is thrilled with and HOL
cipation
prospective over the birth of a child to Princess Juliana
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.1.
done, is, and
mast cons
tinue to be a
contract.
The
4.
LIKE No. 1, #he's practical. "Be a good
working wife" is her motto. In short,
It is a business like
other any business, or, as some will have it. a game like any other game. There are rules for
business, rules for a game. They are made to be respected and must be IC- spected
what
she believes that being a wife is more important than being woman.
#
As a good wife she is a first-rate cook, exerilent household manager and a mother beyond reproach. Her husband has to worry about nothing
his home runs like clockwork. But if he's late for his excellent dimer the ineal is eaten to the tune of a one-sided masculine conversation, or in silence.
She has no time for books or in- tellectual pursuits. Men, when all
Ever the cast. Is said and done, declares his wife, Psychology. the Jaw and the Church of Eng- land have pre- scribed the for- mulae by which
are slaves to the creature comforts, the devoted companions of those who create them.
XI marriage is
TUN,
She
THERE are no flies on
5. her. Men, she certo,
Wife No. 6 plumps. for separate holi-
days and separato
inforests on all
occasions possible
W
Her while theory in a phrase is, about her, she argues, then
he'll
TOWARDS' wifeliness
may be children, but they are apt sharing a home," belleves, to become dangerous children if
this wife, In
mandelling her
il
given too much rope.
such, require handling.
9. Tomesticity the bass 7 ON the face of it her and, as
attitude to marringe a purely supplementary interest. from the very start is a cynical Supplementary, in fact, to the
business of being a woman: bluntly.
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marriage and her life upon The
Marriage, she believes, comes one. conventional oh-
naturally to a woman, hardly to a She wouldn't put it
Unlike number 4 she believes that which servances me man. Train a man to be a good and even to Serrelf, but subconsciously
is more important served her par willing husband and the rest is easy. she feels that marriage is one way, being a woman fents in such excellent stead. Her
husband's word is law, his slightest vetoes and demands, but
She does not believe in obvious and possibly an agreeable way of than being wife. The "ideal wife,
married she does earning one's living.
she declares, is simply wish inust be unticipated, his excuses believe that the whole conduct of u
She faces It without lusions, female who continues to be a thor- lken at Their face value.
As for marriage dependa upon emations-practical farts
the wile, expecting mighty little and getting oughly sound woman. are what that she should be the stronger of the calculates, inore than she expects, She's at continual pains to remain the two, and that, Hittle by little, She debunks the happy-ever-after the perzon her husband fell in love she should mould, handle and shape and perfect-man theories.
with and not to turn into the wife EMPRESS OF CANADA 2 SHE believes in mar- her husband to the domestic ident, She never consciously goes out for he married. She believes in keeping any one thing, be it romance or easy a man's Interest not through well- 6. IT'S her belief that the content. She just quietly lives, tak dusted rooms and well-cooked stenks. most wicked phrase in ing up in actual effect no attitude at but through the tireless uppent of an wideawake existence is "am the two shall all. She is never idle, she never lets charm, personality
count.
ringe 일본은주 the most
supremely romantic thing which can ever happen between two people.
become one."
chance of happiness go by, but at character. The same time she never strives for 11 "Someone who's charmingt, alive one way or another and never in any and up to date," she asserts, "couldn't circumstances expects it as her due. possibly live in a shoddy home."
As it started, beautifully, trust- She fights all along the the for ingly, lyrically, so should be the preservation of her own identity encouraged to continue. The home, and that of her husband. To her the the grocer, the garage, the garden, idea of a marriage in which two the suburb these are but the con- people tend to think as one, act as mon soil in which this comely lower one and be as one is repellent. She guessing" theory. shall bloom. She has a
and Prince Bernity. The child is attitude towards the tune, the scent, as a person and not in clinging to a young man in when she has not
devotional believes in respecting her husband She will enter into
expected in January
Julin is going about her every-
day life in a normal way.
the garden of remembrance.
Her every effort is directed to She accompanied her young hus wards maintaining the fame which band on the recent atay manocuVIES, and spent many days and night burned between her and her husband. cruising through canals in her wed- when first they fell in love. ding-gift yachi, often sleeping and living on board.
SHE believes in the.
8. SIE lives her married 10. SHE feels that mar-
life on the "keep him
riage is an adventure, -one that she hopes will have a flirtation with happy ending.
As the adventure has been ex- him as a husbond. She reserves the the slightest interest the principle perinced by millions of other right to keep her own interests and that if a man thinics his wife in couples, however, her attitude is friends irrespective of whether they danger of being attracted elsewhere quiet, unquestioning and unharassed. are her husband's or not.
ho will maintain those litle atten- She is not exactly complacent but -She-plumps-for--separate-rooms, Lions and courtesies which gave her realises that.numerous problems will separate holidays and separate in- such pleasure (and added to her present themselves and can be dealt terests on all occasions possible. prestige among non-engaged girls) with as they arise.
She insists on having men friends before they were married. When he
She makes no gestures, lays no morries a man. then walts to see on tenterhooks what it's like Iving with him.
3. Sationship of absolute and ne
and encourages her husband to keep suggests dinner and a theatre she says plans and takes no advice. She
has honesty, without frills, without friends.
Instead of the intensive domestic courses considered erential by most European princesses, she stricted her practical experiences of "feminine duties" this mer rachting.
Which Palace?
The plate where the newcomer
will be born has not yet been selecti ed. The Palace of Soestelyke is the
alive by having woman she'll phone him inter.
If he's always
HOW TO
THE protein artist of the present
bridal home of the myal couple but national Ministry isviausty many believe that the princess will prefer to occupy her old suite in the Mr. Hore-Delisha. That brisk and Royal Palaco at The Hague.
dupper little Minister, after serving the normal novleiate in under-recv- tariat posts with creliable niacrity. was chosen by Earl Baldwin to be, hla
There she will be near her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, and her personal physicians.
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Nevertheless, nusery suite being prepared at Soestdyke, Pin- ess Juliana has set. aside three sunny rooms where she spent many days in childhood with her grandmother, Queen Emma.
Furnishing of the nursery will be planned after the visit soon of Princess Alice Countess of Athlone. It was as the quest of Princess Aller in London that Juliana equired many of her tastes in dress and fur- nishing, and everything English has since made a strong appeal to her.
Juliana admires the way in which English children are brought up.
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Army training centres, where the sol- when Mr. Nevill Chamberlain
dler can be equipped with technical gathered round his shoulders the Minister, it must be recognured that serious military crime in
the full knowledge for his future civilian graceful folds of that new-made he had to grapple with
career. But this is necessarily re- urgent private of the ranks-consuming iron stricted to a comparatively few men, Peer's Parliamentary mantle, Mr.
emergency. Such is the slung in ntions, without adequate Justifica- and, even so, mere, technical training Hore-Belisha was promoted to be recruitment for the Regular Army tion Minister for War,
Mr. Hore-Bolsita may plead, of civilian opportunity.
cannot guarantee making up for lost It almost looked as though the re- that practically all units are of little tiring Premier had whispered to his more than skeleton strength, and we course, that the recruiting fusco and I believe, with the square and fair successor: "Put Hore-Belishu in the pending collapse of the vital Card- foreign draft system are emergency the Army, we could get all the men are actually faced with a possible Im- the threatened breakdown of the offer of a real professional career in forefront of the battle." Only well system, whereby we make our enough. Also, to be scrupulously we want. Not only would a long- this case, of course, apart from the home battalions supply the needs of fair, he may argue that, if the option service Army attract the necessary fact that the new War Minister hup our foreign stution ones.
of long service proves an attraction to recruits, but it would be a much pens to bun bachelor, there is no
In face of this grave crisis. Mr. serving, soldiers as apart from old better Army. Some of our line suggestion of any lilicit domestic Hore-Belisha's first enre had to be soldiers on the Reserve, he can by battalions and batteries might, bo arriere-penser, Mr. Hore-Delishn how replenish his gaunt endres, extending that option to all new re- sinarleted and stiffened up so that had made a great show of energetle He propores le do so, if he can, by, cruits place the British Army of its they would cease to look like rather originality at the Transport Ministry, inviting & and B Reservists, which legs again.
untidy boys' brigades. Our Regular parturition had brought forth little netive service, to rejoin for the durn- re-Belisho' milliary beucons are at the moment a most Inadequate
CHINA NATIONAL AVIATION CORP. more than a Belisha beacon mouse, tion of their normal Reserve term, concerned, depenas mainly
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is not beyond the wit of man to abte mouse. But this military sore-Bellsha. hopes to save a dim-' Two Inclors,
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NO. 2, PENINSULA HOTEL ARCADE, KOWLOON TEL. SOSOS. and of rather a fiercer kind, than did the Bellsha beacon. There never get past experience of Army life and pay, doubt anachronistic, disciplinary no known as the Militia. It was a diş-
with notable deductions, will attract tions on the part of fossilised Brass astrous policy
that scrapped that was, and probably never will be, a
back to the ranks any large propor- Hats, who imagine we are still exist deep-rooted milliary organisation. new Army scheme that did not ametion of the eighty thousand Reservists ing under Frederick the Grent condi- Its roots were deep in the soll of this the most. Intensive criticism. Mr. Hore-Bellsha's will be no excepilon concerned. To whniever extent Mr. tions, tend to make the Army less virile island, and the Mililin, had i territorial tradition which ITore-Belisha's scheme in this 'respect attractive to post-war youths. So do sturdy to that rule,
inevitably and obviously the shocking social conditions in bar went back to Agincourt. The wis- If you sleep badly, don't take brutal
for example, will almost certainly means weakening our Army Reserves. racks which a grateful country has dom ever of the military ancients was
The newly baptised Army League, succeeds, drugs, don't waste money on unprover:
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But the two main, hindrances to 'Choice of Regiment
Mr. Ilore-Belisha's dits only recently adumbrated. I am Minister for War both to have his getting the right sort of Regular re- painfully aware that "adumbrate" is cake and eat it. If he gets his Recruits have been the dole and the To sum up,
short-service system. only fenalble hope is a combined n tired word, but derivatively if imp- servists back to the colours. lia will compulsory. pens to At the case exactly. The have so many less Reservists to call What ambitious young men is going optional long-and-short service re- Army League's scheme was pretty upon it war emergency arises. Ho to join the Army with the practical cruitment; comfortable conditions for -par with improved is, in fact, trying to utilise In peice certainty that in the middle twenties the soldier on shadowy in its details.
-time the emergency rezerve of train- he will be thrown out on the un- general social conditions; a Press Hat ed soldiers intended for use in case of employed scrap-henp? He feels that change of attitude which regards national crisis. This bears a remark- whilst he is devoting his best young "other ranka" as decent and intelll-
Haphazard. Plan-
In justice to the new young, War ablo parallel to action regarded as n manhood years to learning how to be gent' artisans rather than potential
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criminals in uniform; and a pay-day military asset-known as esprit de which is freed from those mysterious corps. Let the would-be, soldier deductions from the advertised Army serve with this regiment ond with the wages which tend to make the soldier men he desires. The first battle: I think he is being diddled-all ends up had in the Great War was to get flie by a wicked crook hierarchy of pay recruiting authorities to master blokes.
their passionate yearning to make me In Guardsman, loslend of sending me Also, and this is of first importance, to the finest fighting battalion on the too,the recruits' partiality for special Western Frust. When I won, thai corps or battalions must be loyally lively little action with military hon- regarded. In fow things have our ours, I felt that we were really win- War Ofco strategists displayed more ning the Great-War. There is n lot blundering stupidity than in falling of hunan, naivre under a khaki to make the utmost use of that superb (facket.
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