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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: Each one is given a number but not in any order of precedence.
As to which are the wise and which are the foolish, that's for you to decide. Don't rush gleefully to identify yourself with this one or that for you never know.
Juliana
Prepares Nursery For Royal Baby
1.
SHE takes A practical view of things, Marriage, when all is sai d and done, is and
"She'd never try to make her hus- band fealous by flirting with another man, never pretend not to be a cat it she were one, never observe any of the prescribed "feminine artifices" for keeping your man once you've got him.
She'd ask him no questions on the assumption that she only wanted to hear what he wanted to tell her. She's "eranky" neither one way nor the other and belleves in leaving marriage and mutuni
орспрева woric each other out.
must con- 4. LIKE No.
tinue to be a working contract.
It is a business like
any oller business, or, as
to
1, she's practical. "Be a good wife" is her motto. In short she believes that being a wife is more important than being a woman.
As u good wife she is a first-rate some will have cook, excellent household manager it. # Home like and a mother beyond reproach, Her any other game. husband has to worry about nothing There are rules his home runs like clockwork. But for business, if he's late for his excellent dinner rules for game. the meal is eaten to the tune of a They are made to one-sided musculine conversation, or be respected and in silence.
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must sperled
be
ro- She has no time for books or in- what tellectual pursuits. Men, when all ever the cost. Is said and done, declares this wife, Psychology, the
are slaves to the creature comforts, Ind the the devoted companions of those who Church of Eng create them..
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THERE are no flies on her. Men, she asserts, may be children, but they are apt She belleves, to become dangerous children if this wife, in given too much rope, and, as modelling her such, require handling, marriage and her life appen the conventional ob- which
servances
THURSDAY, OCTOBER
21, .1937.
Foolish
Wife No., 6 plumps for separate holi days and separato intoronts on all occasions possible
W
then
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Her whole theory in a phrase is, about her, the argues, "We're not a couple, but two people always be in love with her. sharing a bone."
TOWARDS wifeliness
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7. ON the face of it her and domesticity she has attitude to marriage a purely supplementary interest. from the very start is a cynical Supplementary, in fact, to the
business of being a woman.
nie.
She wouldn't put it so bluntly,
believes, Marriage, she
comes naturally to a woman, hardly to a
Unlike number 4 she belleves that 1. Train nian to be a good and even to herself. but subconsciously served her par willing husband and the rest is easy, she feels that marriage is one way, being a woman is more important Fents in such excellent stead. Her
The deal wife," She does not believe in obvious and possibly an agreeable way, of then being u wife. husband's word is law, his slightest vetoes and demands, but she does earning one's living.
she declares, is simply a married wish must be anticipated, his excuses believe that the whole conduct of n She faces it without illusions, female who continues to be a thor- Etaken at their face value.
Buchly sound woman. As for marriage depends upon the wife, expecting mighty little and getting, emotions-pruction facts ure what that she shouls
be the stronger of she calculates, more than she expects. crunt,
she should mould, handle and shape and perfect-man theories.
She's at continual pains to remain person her husband fell in love
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riage ፍ the most
any one thing, be it romance or easy man's interest not through well- IT'S her belief that the content. She just quietly lives, tak dusted rooms and well-cooked steaks, 6. supremely romantic thing which
most wicked phrase in ing up in actual effect no attitude at but through the tireless appeal of ean ever happen between two existence is "and the two shall all. She is never idle. she never lets charm, personality an wideawake people.
a chance of happiness go by, but at character.
become one."
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the same time she never strives for it "Someone who's charming, alive As I started, beautifully, trust- She fights all along the line for ne way or another and never in any and up to date," she asserts, "couldn't ingly, Isreally, so should be the preservation of her own identity circumstances expects It is her duc. possibly live in a shoddy home." encouraged to continue. The home, and that of her husband. To her the
SHE lives her married: 10. SHE feels that mar DIRECT TO VANCOUVER (from Yokohama), the garden. idea, of a marriage in is thrilled with anti-the grocer, the garage.
which two HOLLAND
Olfe on the "keep him
riage is an adventure, cipation over the prospective the suburb-these are but the com- people tend to think as one, act as
one that she hopes will have à birth of a child to Princess Julians mon soli in which this comely flower one and be s one is repellent. She guessing" theory.
shall bloum. She has n devotional believes in respecting her husband She will enter into flirtation, with happy ending. and Prince Bernhard. The child is attitude towards the tune, the scent, as a person and not in clinging to a young man in whom she has not
As the adventure has been expected In January."
Juliana is going about her every-the garden of remembrance. him as a husband. She reserves the the slightest interest on the principle pertenced by millions day life in a normal way.
right to keep her own interests and that if a man thinks his wife in couples, however, She accompanied her young "hus- Her every effort-directed 10 friends irrespective of whether they danger of being attracted elsewhere quiet, unquestioning und unharassed..
wards maintaining the flame which band on the recent army manoeuvres, burned between her and her husband are her husband's or not.
he will maintain those le atten- She is not exactly complacent but and spent many days und nights
She plumps for separate moms, tlons and tourtesies which gave her realises that numerous problems will cruising through canals in her wed. When first they fell in love.
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 makes no gestures, lays no She insists on having men friends before they were married. When he
himself
marries a man, then waits to sec live by having woman she'll phone him later.
If he's always ол tenterhooks what it's like living with hlm.
ding-gift; yacht, often sleeping and living on board.
SIE believes in the
of other
her attitude ly
Instead of the Intensive domestici 3. relationship of absolute and encourages her husband to keep suggests dinner and a theatre she says plana and lakes no advies,
courses considered essential by most i
·European `princesses, she has stricted her practical experiences of "Zeminife duties" to this summer rachting.
Which Palace?
The place where the Newcomer will be born has not yet been select- ed. The Palace of Soestdyke is the bridal home of the royal couple, but many believe that the princess wi prefer to occupy her old suite in the Royal Palace at The Hague.
There she will be near her mother, Queen Wilhelmina, and her personal physicians.
honesty, without frills, without friends.
HOW TO THE
THE protean artist of the present
National Ministry is obviously Mr. Hore-Belisha. That brisk and dapper little Minister, after serving the normal novelate in under-seere- tarial posts with creditable laerly, was chosen by Earl Baldwin to be his Minister of Transport, Then,
Mr. Neville
Nevertheless, a mrsery suite being prepared at Soestdyke. Pri when cess Juliann has set aalde three sunny
Chamberlain
POPULARISE ARMY
By "AN OLD STAGER"
She
a soldier, his compeers la vivilian Me are securing all the best and even all the available jobs. He is hand- capping himself out of the Industrial
face.
An effort has been made to meet this disastrous situation by organising Army training centres, where the sol- dier can be equipped with technical knowledge for his future civilinn gathered round his shoulders the Minister, it must be recognised that serious military crime in the full
career. But this is necessarily re- rooms where she spent many days la graceful folds of that new-Binde
An urgent private of the ranks-consuming iron stricted to a comparatively few men, chilldhood with her grandmother, Peer's Parliamentary mantle, Mr. he had to grapple with Queen Emma,
flore-Belisha was promoted to be emergency, Such is the slump in rations without adequate justifica and, even so, mere technical training
recruitment for the Regular Army tion.
cannot guarantee making up for lost Furnishing of the nursery will be Minister for War.
Mr. Hore-Belisha may plead, of evilian opportunity. Janned after the visit ΣΘΟΠ <if It almost looked as though the re- that practically all units are of little
more the skeleton strength, and we course, that the recruiting fasco and
I Belleve, with the square and fair Princess Allee Countess of Athlone. tiring Premier had whispered to his are actually faced with a possible im- the threatened breakdown of the offer of a real professional career in It was as the guest of Princess Alice successor Put Hore-Belisha in the pending collapse of the vital Card- foreign draft system are emergency the Army, we could get all the men
that Julion acquired, forefront of the battle."
be scrupulously we want. Not only would a long- many of her, tastes in dress and fur- this case, of course, apart from the well system, whereby we make our enough. Also, to nishing, und everything English has fact that the new War Minister hop-home battalions supply, the needs of fair, he may argue that, if the option service Army attract the necessary or long service proves an attraction to recruits, but it would be д much since made a strong appeal to her,
pens to be a bachelor, there is no our foreign station ones."
In face of this grave erisis, Mr. serving soldiers as part from old better Ariny. Some of our lino Juliana ndmires the way in which suggestion of any illicit domestic Hore-Belisha's first care had to be soldiers on the Reserve, he can by battalions and batteries might be English children are brought up.
arriere-pensee. Mr. Hore-Belisha
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untidy, boys' brigades. Our Regular mountainous means the men most recently out of Success or disaster, so far, as Mr. Army has a magnificent tradition, but parturition had brought forth little active service, to rejoin for the durn- Hore-Belisha's military boutons are at the moment a most Inadequate more than a Delisha beacon mouse, tion of their normal Reserve term, concerned, depends mainly on the Igokers as being 'trier.
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