THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, JANUARY
13, 1938..
"It Requires An Audience To Keep On These Emotional Jags'
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MRS. ROOSEVELT'S AUTO-BIOGRAPHY
THIS WAS ONCE A CARRIAGE
JAPANESE BOMBERS scored à direct hit on this K.C.R. loco shed.
carriage are on the left.
The remains of a railway
DR. BARNES SAYS CHURCH IS WRONG ON DIVORCE
'Times When Marriage Tie is Intolerable'
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CANDID CONFESSIONS BY THE FIRST
LADY OF WASHINGTON
Washington, Jan. 1.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, in her autobiography, "This is My Story," recently released, discloses how she once used cold water to end an "emotional jag" that over- came her once during the trying days when the President was struggling against infantile paralysis.
"When I was trying to read to the two youngest boys,
I suddenly found myself sobbing as I read," Mrs. Roosevelt wrote. "I could not think why I was sobbing, nor could I stop finally I found an empty room in my mother-in- law's house.
"I locked the door and poured cold water on a towel and mopped my face. I eventually pulled myself together, for it requires an audience, as a rule, to keep on these emotional jags."
The book is a candid story of incidents and impressions in the first 40 years of Mrs. Roosevelt's life. With extreme frankness she tells how she once buried an army commissary sandwich in St. Quentin, France, to keep from embarrassing her hosts; how she learned that "women stood outside the door" at political con- ferences, and of her love for her father.
be-
At this time came the divorce of her brother, Hall, the Brst divorce in her family. She tells of the re- centraent of her "Uncle Tet" (the
late former President Theodore Roo- seveit) over the fact that his rela- tives in the administration made no attempt to get him sent to France World War and admits during the that she "never lifted a finger to rend him over.”
her mother-in-law's During the World War while sis; of the
President was serving as lier that "Franklin was going to be an invalid for the rest of his life," Secretary of the Navy, he was and of the "somewhat acrimonious" over whether political told by the late Henry Adams, discussions
friends should be allowed to visit author-diplomat-philosopher, him. that no action by an occupant During this period the New York of the White House would make City house was so crowded that Mrs. Roosevelt said she slept on a bed in lasting impression on history one of the rooms occupied by one of the book reveals. Mrs. Roose- her small sons, dressed in her hus- velt agreed that Adams' posi- band's bathroom and was contented was too busy to need a room." "A working man's wife runs awaytion might be sound but she felt use "In the daytime 1 with another man, leaving him with that this is not a very good
DIVORCES several small children. He must have some woman to look after them,doctrine to preach to a young to prepare his meals, to keep the man in political life." hese lean ami tidy. The house has: The book, which shows Mrs. Ronse Two bedrooms,
"Are you to say that he shall not velt combining ruthless self-analysis with tolerance and kindliness in her remarry after divorce?
"Or again, the husbami of a good judgment of others, is dedicated to #1 child's Christian woman nues
with her father, who "ired
the few other some girl,, lensving his wife with imagination and to several amall children. To eke people who have meant the sune
Inspiration throughout my life." out her scanty resourerg she must take a lodger. At-best there is the
ASHAMED OF FAILURE
One maux. Thomas Lynch, of possibility of scandal. Will you Christian steny here
Ashamed of her failure to inherit Poughkeepsie, New York, now New remarriage
beauty
bestowed
other York customs appraiser, was so sure after divorce?
Frankin D. Roosevelt would family, that advise that elergy refuse a feminine members of her seond marriage, the former partner Mrs. Roosevelt said, she was a "shy, some day be President of the Unite
never smlled. States, that he bought two bottles of being still alive, to any person be solema child who
when young Roosevelt was elected to the New York State rouse of whose apparent adultery the Although she "inordinately admired" champagne
her mother's beauty, she wrote that
Senate in 1910 and put them away- est marriage was dissolved.
*If freedom as been obtained her mother always abushed her. from a lunatic parter, that partner and the frst lady said she always
With her father was different to celebrate later.
Twenty-two years later when Mr. 22441 30 be remarried
was nominated for the church. We cannot DS Christians was "perfectly happy" in his pre- Roosevelt bless a union which would probably sence. He stimulated her interest in presidency at the Chicago Democra- the under-privileged, the book sald. the National Convention, the cham- of the most active women pagne was brought out and "every- "One whose net of dese, tion has fed to a divorce ought not to be re-ever to sit in the White House, Mrs. body at headquarters had a sip in a Roosevelt wrote that it is as "though paper cup to toast future successes." the clergy of a service which they en-iv-in-the-interests-of-the-Stateinarried in church..
that with divorce there should go "But, in my opinion, the genuinely you live two lives, one of your awa | Mra-Roosevelt-wrote:-United-Press not commonly use is inadmissible.
the right of remarriage. Refuse innocent partner to a divorce who is and the other which belonged to the The motion is, in short, full of sound,
sueli remarriage and you signifying nothing.
get free from mental taint might rightly circumstances that surround you." zoelatį have a second marriage blessed courubinage evils.
"I believe there are times when the Church may right- ly bless a second marriage contracted after divorce." de- clared the Bishop of Birmingham (Dr. E. W. Barnes) re- cently.
"In this connection,” he added. "I was shocked by the lack of social understanding shown in the debate ini the Church Assembly."
Dr. Barnes, who was addressing the Birmingham Diocesan Conference, pointed out that the new Matrimonia Causes Act gave a clergyman freedom to refuse to marry divorced person whose former partners were still living, but gave the Church and in particular, the hishops, no legal authority to dictate to the clergy-fought man what, action he should take in regard to such marriages.
"The Church Assembly, he said: When the behaviour of husband or produce lunatics.
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tiel "has passed a motion stating that in wife regard to divorced persons the use by intolerable.
We all deeply deplore the necess ity for divorce. But there are times
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