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YOU MAY DISAGREE WITH THIS, BUT IT IS
An Article to Make
HA
Wives Think
LESLEY STORM
does not believe that a wife 'should always put duty before happiness...or even that every woman is capable of real love.
APPY is the woman whose only experience of a dilemma is whether she should order mutton or pork for dinner. Because nothing is more sure to destroy one's peace of Stubbs Rd. mind for ever than having to make a Great Decision.
The drama of the cross-roads is irresistible ́ and almost certain to impair your judgment. your reasoning faculties and your sense of proportion. And whichever you take you will spend a certain amount of time regretting it and letting your mind run on how you would have fared if you had chosen the
Hongkong Telegraph. other way.
THURRDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1937.
VIRTUE IN DISCRETION
A woman who has come up against a major dilemma has been in the news. She was faced with making the formidable decision of accompanying her husband to a leper colony, where he had taken up a ten years' appointment, or enduring indefinite separation from him. She chose separation. And in doing so she has set thousands of women agog with the question, "What would you have done?" And you? And you?
about the word
"I spent a
A scene from the film "Morocco" in which Marlene Dietrich in the
end decided to walk out into the desert after the man the loved.
Events are moving with such rapidity in China that observers may well be bewildered. Much
I dropped in to see a friend of inclination is what the average E++++++ is going on behind the scenes; mine, and I asked her. "She's wife finds most workable. and one of these days the world squeamish is going to awaken to the fact leper'," she said. that the prediction, made many day in a leper colony, and it was years ago, that Japan would a heavenly place. The most never be content until she con-beautiful island I have ever trolled the Yangtse Valley, has seen." Her young son sat up come true. It becomes more with a glow in his eyes. "She and more evident that the pre- should have gone." he said fer- sent campaign is more than the vently. "She should have gone punitive expedition which Japan with him." has labelled it. It is a per- manent army of occupation that
For myself, I am not so sure.
is fighting its way towards THAT "OBEY" Nanking, amashing through line after line of Chinese defences. The goal has become clearer
EN can
g
A woman doing anything from a sense of duty is a nuisance anyway, because she can't forget it. She is the martyr with the flames licking round her--- and she makes the most of the situation. A man is much better off in the long run without a wife who follows him from a sense of duty.
the greater spcial scope which. her new status gives her. LOVE WITHIN
BOUNDS
SHE wouldn't count her- self properly married cularly the town-bred, cinema- If she didn't step right into the fed miss of to-day, marriage is quality of life which the girl- not often the inevitable sequel friends expect of her.
to a profound emotion which The husband, of course, should could express itself as certainly be decorative and easy-manner- in a garret as in a flat that all ed; nice to be seen around with the relatives would approve of. and attached to a job that can at It is more likely to be arrang- least be made to sound fairly im- Ruling out duty, what is left? ed like this: "We'll become en- portant. rationalise. MEN
Where their own in- Love? There is little argument gaged on the 6th of December To uproot such a girl from her Japan wants a Government interests are concerned they are about this. What is very much and we'll give a party. It's a environment and expect her to China with which she can "co- astonishingly good at that, and overlooked in life is the fact that Wednesday, and that's a good be happy anywhere else is non- operate a Government which, some men might even persuade not every woman--by £ long night for most people. We'll be sensical: Her love has definite in other words, will do Tokyo's some women that the leper is way-is capable of love. Love married in June, because the boundaries. She loves A man bidding. If Japanese generals an innocuous member of society. the generous heart that weather is nice and I like June only in so far as he fits in with foresaw the collapse of China's
doesn't count the cost of any best-for-weddings,”-
her idea of how to live. Let him defences, it is no wonder that!
You might argue that a wo thing.
It becomes all tied up with a remove himself from the circle they so strongly objected to man when she marries makes a
house and furniture and a trous- she has prescribed and he be- outside mediation which might contract to "oboy him and serve, NOT SO RARE
seau that will give the girl. comes an alien. have saved for China something him, love, honour and keep him
All her friends will be on her with which to bargain. As it in sickness and in health and, WITHOUT her knowing friends something to talk about,
it, it brings out all and long discussions as to whe side, strengthening her against is, unless the Japanese march is forsaking all other, keep only checked, the terms will come unto him so long as ye both shall the best in a woman. It is in- ther red or silver nail-varnish him, persuading her how unrea- finite knidness. It is great goes best with a wedding gown right she is in keeping both feet from Tokyo; and there will be live." If that is taken as the
Of whether one should be real- no compromising. The "puni-standard of a woman's duty courage, because the heart is
ly daring and dispense with firinly planted tive expedition" will be there there is no argumentas, to
varnish altogether, "because, It is not so rare as one might after all, my dear, a bride is at with bomb and bayonet to see whether she should go or not; that any peace terms are carried but in common usage her own imagine, but the silly artificiali- her most devastating if she looks spect for roots that they can dig ties and the glamour and the a little like a nun. Remember themselves out and never notice The situation may alter, for stimulated to some sort of netheir best to crowd it out. And
nonsense of to-day are doing Loretta Young in that wimple?" it. there is always a chance of some
The trappings of marriage and ment which comes from an inner They must have the content- surpassingly clever piece of tion. Perhaps not. unit is easily ridiculed because it the environment she creates are strategy which will confound deniably those most interested isn't in the mood of the moment. of tremendous importance, and life of their own and they can the invader. But at the mo-have preoccupations elsewhere, It remains, nevertheless, and in her mother usually conspirea feel, if anything, well rid of it. drop social life if they wish, and ment the trend of events secms are none too securely placed times of stresa it comes into its with her to see that they are all The doctor's wife in a mining they should be. Her roots are village or in an East End slum,
out.
For
strong.
sonable he is and how utterly
on her own ground.
Few women have a little re-
To the average woman, parti- dug deep into her new house and the soldier's wife in an arid de-
fairly obvious, as dogs the fact evon' in their home positions. own. that China's valiant army, hav-For this and other reasons, ing endured a terrible hammer-China would be well advised to! ing from an enemy equipped take stock of her position us with superior armaments, has rapidly as possible, and make a
lost cohesion and the power to quick decision. Will she gain STRANGE EPITAPHS
unbeaten.
sert station, the engineer's wife in a fever swamp on the Congo are they all eating their hearts out because they are not jewels in a velvet casket? I don't think
This example from Shetland seems too.
to have been composed by one tnore
for his tact:~~~
famous for his downrightness than TWO CAREERS
"He was a peaceable, quiet' man,.
dis-und to all appearance a sincere
often
GAIETY of heart, one notices, goca Christian. His death was very much with courage, and I can think of regretted, which was caused by the nothing more desirable either in stupidity of Laurence Tullock, who
I should be the
"atick." China, and friends_of anything by bowing to the China, need offer no excuses for Japanese demands and putting HE history of the epitaph, real or through ye spotted veil of ye small-so. But then not every woman the retreat from Shanghai. a stop to the terrible strain legendary, abounds in witty and pox rendered a pure and unspotted can do her duty and be happy The troops have fought splen-upon her resources which war eccentric examples. A tablet in a soul to God." didly. They are, still fighting involves? Will she lose more village church in Gloucestershire has bravely in retreat. But they or less by suing for peace at this this inscription:—
In a vault underneath are facing daily greater odds. time? If she decides on peace-
Lie several of the Saunderses. The hope that the extended line and there would be no point in
Particulars the last day will and lengthened communications mentioning it if there had not
clase. might hamper Japan's attack been a suggestion that Marshal
Was the writer too lazy to embark appears to be doomed. China Chiang himself is disposed to on their names and virlues, or were may fight on for years to come; treat with Japan-it would give their vices too many and too awful sold him nitre instead of Epsom salts man or womLD.
by which he was killed in the space last to urge a woman to remem- but it will be a guerilla struggle, her an opportunity to reorganise to disclose?
One of the most fumous short of five hours after taking a dose of ber her marriage vows or to do men against machines. China and recuperate, and while she epitaplis is in the Little Cloister in t.. may not be conquered: but is still
her duty, because the picture "A speelmen from across the Atlan-either of them makes in my mind There is Westminster Abbey Jane Lister, Japan will set up a puppetno doubt of China's spirit Deare
Child." The wondering tic has an ultra modern note;~
"Here lies the body of Ellan is quito ridiculous; but I would ****government in Nanking unless of the moment, of her willing-thoughts of hundreds of pilgrims' go
Wight,
urge her to be flexible and have the unexpected happens.
ness to die the martyr's death.out to this little unknown,
The Abbey, too, has the much dis-
She put out her left hand
a shot at a new life if she pos- It is time to consider future But what would it avail her? cussed epllaph" Rare Ben Jon And turned to the right,"
OcOf what value is glorious defeat son," If, us is often auggested, the This epitaph was on the tombstone sibly can,' But developments, then. The
there may be cupation of Nanking, Shanghai. if the back-bone of a nation be words are a corruption of the Latin, of a Leicester Hosler, by his wife, circumstances where she cannot.
"Orare pro Ben Jonson," then it is aanriah:- Hankow, and all the rest of the broken? China was not auf very happy mistake.
The creed that put a'man's "I leave my hose und Hannah northern ports, will not alter ficiently
renist prepared. to
career first is dend-a woman's A Inconle inscription from 22
whom I love the fact of invasion or make it Japan on this occasion with any graveyard оп Lochfyneside
To sing Hosannale in the realms happiness counts for just
Above." An- colloquially curt:-"Poor White!" and
mucli. any more lawful. Powers signu- hope of Insting success. from a Perthshire church wall comes Legend has the following na the
What is the use of a few more tory to the pacts which were other day she may be.
For the following:-
epitaph of an anatomist: fondly considered shock-proof that day it would appear to be
"Here lies the body of William hundreds a year if the wife is
Jones and designed to protect China. the duty of her patriots to pre-
enting hor heart out? Mar- Who all his life collected bones, rlage in a woman's career-and will still face the responsibility pare themselves rather than
Till Death, that grim and busy its setting, and its possibilities Perhaps when they feel the in foredoomed guerilla warfare in to say what-ay all that a good
Inoed just as much consideration as that given in the past to the pinch of Japanese influence on against the Power which, for the wife should be and she was thint."
An epitaph in Chichester Cathedrali their commerce, they will be moment; rides in a safe saddle. is to the memory of indy "who
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