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from anxiety on the perplexing score of the balance sheet?
I hold a strong view.
Marriage is mainly dependent on the spiritual emotion which one fosters for the other, and if |lovė is strong enough, then it
By
Ursula
Bloom
The Brilliant.
Novelist
can endure anything, suffer any-parently insuperable difficulty of thing, and still come out as an Elizabeth Moulton Barrett's die-
enormous success.
tressing health.
Unfortunately, however, love There is the deap affection can be divided into categories. which grows more abiding with There is the Robert Browning the years, and can conquer bank. emotion, which is so rare as to ruptcy and disaster. be negligible, but which can sur- vive any complications and over- emotions, and they are
But there are less enduring in the come, even as it did, the ap-
majority.
The Age
There is a tendency to assume that with the end of hostilities in the near vicinity of Shanghai commercial conditions will alter radically there. Such sumption is a trifle previous, course. Ships will presently be In the first place, the Chinese trading to the port normally.
Of Glamour by no
possible that the ""CARL FISCHER" resistance is means But it is
broken: there is no reason to blockade may he intensified else Much marriage to-day is based suppose that the troops still where, and there is a feeling in in the age of glamour. Glamour, on shallower feelings, for we live massed south, west and to some some quarters that Canton may like our youth, passes too soon. extent to the east of the metro feel the tightening of Japan's It has no stability, it has no polis will not reorganise defence fingers on its arteries of com- power of endurance behind it. positions and continue to fight.merce, might even experience radiant, needing the sunshine, It flourishes only while life is There is no reason, either, why their complete severance. Much and the sunshine only, to bring these troops should not strike a depends upon the developments out its brilliant qualities, and some of that quality of charm, hard and telling blow by way in the military sphere and the fading the instant that it is of counter-attack and bring the effect upon the Chinese armies threatened with a storm. tide of battle sweeping close to everywhere of the Shanghai re- the same category. Here love is Sex appeal can be placed into not strong enough to withstand it seems to be the policy of the
the buffets of misfortune, be Well informed Chinese leaders to draw the people in Shanghai and Hong the world to make a success of cause it-is-the-hardest thing.in. enemy inland, lengthen his com-kong are of the opinion that a marriage without money. munication lines and extend his settlement between Tokyo and In the engaged days every- front, so it is not likely that Nanking is near, in spite of the thing is rosy. A couple meet at Shanghai will see again during apparently uncompromising at- to appear at their best, to be-
It seems crude and unromun- this campaign the ghastliness of titudes of both sides. If Japan have in their most charming tie that this should be so, mora bombings or hear again the goes to the Brussels conference, manner. If marriage could con- especially as this is a romantic crash of shells and the screams it is felt, there is reason to sup the engaged days, then it could should count,
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URSULA BLOOM replies: "Marriage without money is asking for trouble."
The
engaged
couple who are, hard-ups are content so long as they may sit on a common
and look at the
moon.
Ask any woman who has been. married for five years to slt on a common and
look at the moon and she will im- mediately state quite firmly her preference for the pictures.
They cannot remain quite the same gay, spontaneous, happy- go-lucky people that they were. It is no fault of theirs that they do not retain this same attitude towards life, because now they are weighed down with a certain: sense of responsibility; it is the responsibility of having to stand for one another's lives, and pos- sibly, also, to provide for child-
ren.
Yet serious-minded folks have to shoulder this responsibility, even though it makes marriage. So much more difficult and augments its problems.
The Strain
Will Tell
There is an old tag about con-- stant dripping wearing away stones, and although marriage without money may start in that attitude of courageous endeav-- The girl who can afford to buy our which one cannot help frocks, a wave and set, has a it is too liable to fall short. The good powder and perfume, new but admire so much, I feel that better start on the road to restrain tells. taining happiness
her -poverty-stricken-sister.
than
Only Hearts Should
Count But
. No one who has not tolled with a housekeeping purse which refuses to go round, or who has, not faced the problem of making do on less than one can, realises the inferiority complex which it. brings about.
Fettered
Romance
I sound pessimistic. I hate pointing out that the exquisite boauty of the romance can be fettered so harshly by ways and means, but, looking at it from all angles, I cannot help but feel that it is so.
Perhaps now I have my fingers on the pulse of the entire pro- blem. The inferiority complex, the feeling of being financially less than one's fellows; his feel- But divest love of its trim- ing that he does not earn as much will be inclined to take a sober of armistice—and peace,
mings, and it is found to suffer as he might do, her shaky bellet Once
a little. Deprive marriage of that another woman could per- view of the position from
this, and you lose some charm, haps make the money more clns- Japan reaches a position in the Shanghai. There is even the China campaign which satiales
something which, in an alliance tic and spend it better. That Is Lost suggestion that rebuilding of her military leaders, there will
depending largely on the attrac- The engaged couple who are tion of the senses, you cannot factories and godowns to a great be nothing to prevent discussion hard-ups are content as long as afford to throw aside. There [extent will wait upon some de- of the altered situation with they may sit on a common and are no difficulties so hard to com-
finite understanding between interested powers,
ones, because There will be look at the moon. Such simple bat as financial Nanking and Tokyo, and the no further fear of mediation which cannot glory in the joy of ald; it merely complicates them happinesses gall in marriage, here time does not come to one's approval of the western Powers and loss of prestige, for Japan a few stolen moments together,
more. The constant strain of with large interests at stake. will then be in a position to be but has every day and all day worrying about how to meet bills That, too, seems sensible. Many generous at small cost.
before it.
keeps men and women on edge. It frays nerves. firms which have suffered ex-
Married couples seek more ex- tensive damage twice within As for the effect upon Hong- pensive amusements, for which
More five years do not feel inclined kong's trade which peace will an entrance ticket is required. Ask any woman who has been to risk further money in enter-bring, it is generally agreed that married for five years to sit on prises on such dangerous ground. It will be agreeable. But the a common and look at the moon, Frankly, Business interests immediate result of the freeing and she will immediately state would be well advised to await of Shanghai from the tentacles quite firmly her preference for Japan's decision with respect to of war will make no great This alone shows how obvious the territory about Shanghai difference, except that it will it is that marriage demands a now controls with her allow at least partial transfer certain amount of money to back of Shanghai cargo unloaded it up.. armed forces. It is just pos sible that she will not wish to here and free the Hongkong. The girl who before her wed
ding has spent much of her week-. surrender it, and the position of godowns for fresh goods.
ly pay envelope on making her- foreign firms in such areas Summing up, so far as new self attractive for her young might be distinctly uncomfort-investment in the north is con- her horns when it comes to do
man, has necessarily to pull in cerned it will be advisable to ing the same thing for her hus able.
go cautiously until such time as band. With Japanese bayonets sur-the whole position has been Usually the first difficulty which presenta itself is the fact rounding Shanghai there seems clarified
agreemont that the pay envelope has gone. no valid reason why the finally completed by which not The house also takes up much blockade of that port should only Chlum, but other Interested more money than she had pre- continue, but in any event there powers will be satisfied and by viously anticipated.
She loses a little of her at- will be nothing to prevent the terms of which Japan will traction with her inability to re- ordinary international inter-'be obliged to abide,
tain, her glamour. She loses
she
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the pictures.
I would, however, point out. that at the beginning a struggle Irritable
does a young couple good, pro- vide that struggle is towards Gradually it must wear them a definite goal.
If there is a prospect ahead, down, so that they become more easily angered, more irritable, something for which they can more nervy (and through no fight with the knowledge that. fault of their own), but this does they will not be for ever in this. not make them easier to live same old deadly rut, then that with. And it is the day after immediately changes the entire day common round which counts situation. in wedded bliss.
The cost of living is high. Usually they find it to be higher than they had anticipated or drain on one's resources budgeted for. It is a constant material and spiritual, trying to assess one's salary when every penny counts.
both
There is not the same feeling of responsibility, there is not the same inner knowledge that. you are up against something which is too big for you.
There is always the chance· that something may turn up; but you and I know quite well that nine times out of ten, the rich uncle in America does not plum of a job does not pop down die leaving a fortune, that the into your lap, and that to-mor- row is too often very much liko to-day.
One gets to eye with suspicion possible leakages, and to cross those bridges before one comes to them, which cannot make life any caster,
For that very reason I say that: Under this strain mon and marriago without money is ask- women change.
ing for trouble..