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THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
SPARE MOMENT
1932 DY HER SERVICE, INC
NIE U.S. PAT. OFF,
wild shroff
and
Darling, you'll be careful of those Ravage conenhines when you arrive in Hongkong, won't you?
Advice
to
a
Telephone
Tiger
•
THIS article is written for telephone tigers the kind of people who burn up when they meet any kind of set-back on the telephone.
T
THURSDAY, JANUARY
13,
PAGE
Fifth day of American best-seller "How to win a husband-and keep him" by Anne Hirst. We've reached the section dealing with the various difficulties wives have to face. TO-DAY-
His mother
is a problem,
IS
she?
Y mother in law
66 M
makes me feel that her
is still her baby
and that I'm a little girl who doesn't know the first thing about looking after him!"
So wrote a bride who was just about to call it quits and send her young husband back to this mother who yeurned over him so.
Is your mother-in-law like that? It is a popular attitude among mothers when their sons marry. They have borne and reared them; educated them at, possibly, great sacrifice; tended them through serious illnesses, eherished them as the ideal of all their dreams.
Too often they wrap up these sous in at enveloping cloak of adoration that stiftes any personality the child might develop.
He becomes an actun) spiritual parasite, No young wives could only
this understand relationship
cluse
tween mothers and soin
they would make alfow- ances for these mother-
in-law who so belittle them.
Perhaps it'll cure them, save them from wearing their nerves, If you And yourself
out with fuming.
married
The first thing to remember is that the telephone as an| boy," instrument is nearly perfect, True, you sometimes find a num- the ber is engaged and have to wait and ocensionally you get wrong to numbers.
tommunita'a
HHHHH
But remedies are open to you. You can complain to your is entirely sate. exchange about wrong numbers and if only people would instal enough telephones there wouldn't be so many engaged numbers. Don't argue with Her
"Are you married to
a mother's boy?"
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FIRST Buy your resent lose dominating him for twenty-linquish come day to some other
ment pf her
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you must accept situation until you can prove rim has deepened through all those its bounds a deep affection and that mother of his, surely and years. You don't want to change gratitude for his mother. without rancour, that you are that love, you only want to try to
Give her the benefit of every grown woman in whose care her sun make room for your love for him to doubt you can. You'll never entire
grow beside 1,
There is room in Bob's heart for ly understand how she feels towards the two of you, you know. He has you, and why, until you have a son whom you must re- been accustomed in this mother of your own No, it's not the system that's at any one rang up about this or that
young chit hardly out of school, and attitude. years or more, before he knew you watch him go so eagerly to her, leav asked to speak fauli. It's the individuals.
letter, he naturally
This at all. Make allowances for that.
standing alone ing you They it is who cause the unneces- to an initial, not name-and the Treat her with every courtesy.
But will come hard, for her behaviour Never try to win him away from twilight of life. You can afford to sary deinys that can be so madden- telephone girl is expected to
is selish and unintelligent and you his mother. ing.
for him through to the right man every One morning just
know it.
That is the futal mistake (and be kind. of time. curiosity's sake, I made a note
But if, when you're templed to a it is fatal more often than you think) sharp retort, you'll say quickly to which many young wives make. yourself, "She's Bob's mother," you They are intensely jealous of all d will
find yourself beller able to con- fe which their husbands lived before other ways business men trol that quick little tongue.
they married. When this mother-in-law of yours turn to the sales director's secretary, and others could help in reducing insists that Bob can't stand this and love cannot take the place of other They refuse to see that their own When you are taking on a new that, has never been accustomed to and older ties; they refuse to admit ger clerk; and four people's time hind switchboard girl, make her read an such-and-such, must never be allowed that those ties are essential to the
of a book to do so-and-so, for heaven's sake, It wasn't the telephone system ufum:liar
I describe that was at fault here. It was the down a telephone; see if you miss keep silent. The fact that Bob doci completeness, of this life. They a
do and like many of these selfish as the mother
So never let your husband feel you things since he's married may be alt and as unknowingly so. to true--but if it is, why say so? f150 jealous of his mother. Never
how long it took to make average Tricks to know
local business calls. The average time was five minutes.
One of the calls was to query an and I was put through
order
in
HER
ERE さむ
one or
two
the accounts director, then to a led- telephone irritations:-
been wasted.
people using K
Smart exchange girls
Pay words.
passage oul
of your
These three suggestions mak?
It
Saves some one
indeed
Remember, always, that this
of Bob's considers you
say a single unkind word about her nother
think how you would hate his dis- child. To answer her back can only prove she is right. If you have not Foraging your own mother.
arned self-control before your mar- Two's Company rlage, you've got the chance of # lifetime to learn it now. Try with all your heart to be mistress of it.
Study her Carefully
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The normal adjustments between Guaranteed to and your trodden in 8 day ments. Learn to be subtle, not blunt, husband and wife in the arst fewer money back. Get Cyster at all clienisin
these compliments must not
dimcult be obvious. Study your mother- years
for
In-law
change.
113
you
Would
of marriage
study enough to
are
make without
the pre-
are are purines, 16 minutes
ACROSS
116
1 A position of the kind the
"down and out" is prone Lake (10).
10
8 A scene of counter activities
(4).
10 This goes with a bang (5).
Learn the Past Office "A for An- drew" alphabet, and other exchange girl tricks yourself.
record NOW there's
[or cure
Make a soum: this type of irritatio.. voice (you'll be surprised how dif- You and your business friends should ferent it is from your usual voice
you hear most of your instal
smart switchboard girls and normally
voice through the bones in
your pay them well,
Look how much time a smart head), telephone girl would have saved on
sure that you and your switchboard my euli.
First she would have found out girl don't mutter. from me what my query was about. And don't use the word "hello": When you --was it that I wanted to increase it doesn't mean a thing. my order (then putting the call pick up the recelver, say who you else usk- to the sales Uhrough
director was re right) or had the order not been de- ing
being pleasant you can save By livered
on time (a query for the despatch department), or were the other people a lot of irritation too. Roods not up to sample (a matter If some one gets you a wrong num-any other problem you have to solve sence of a third person as witness CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.
If your mother-in-low is entirely, for the complaints department). ber and you curse at him, he proba- (for you have to solve it, you know) and often uninvited adviser.
wie.e bly curses at some one else later in and remember that she is too old to or partly, dependent upon your hus- Here's another Instance
band, I strongly advise your cutting SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DEB telephone users are to blame for the day-and so on.
You are the one who must 02-
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, And remember that smiling down
own expenses, down to the your telephone irritations.
I once worked in a firm employ the receiver doesn't mean thing,complish that adapting of the two bone, to provide a place for her to
that has to sound personalities, and it isn't impossible, live in, rather than have her live The Steamship Ing 1,500 people. Yet anly twenty It's your voice
I've seen it done, hundreds of times. with you two. or thirty of them signed letters in friendly.
Go out of your way to be thought-
It may sound cruel, but I have full-the rest used initials.
ful for her. Do those little things that mean so much to an older wo- seen so many hundreds of people
Bringing Cargo from Marseilles man who thinks she is being set (including many, many thoughtful,
fall utterly in via Saigon etc., arrived on Sunday, together in 9th January, 1938, at 1.00 nm. to drop in to see her, deliberately to their attempt
Consignees are hereby informed nsk her advice even though you know harmony. If the mother in ques
lion in wire, she will not consent that their goods with the exception the subject better than she does.
of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables Send your husband to visit her, to live in her son's new home. (Oil Burners}
But it is hard for a woman who are being landed and stored Into the isn't expecting it. Invite her has been head of her own establish- Godown of the Hongkong Kowloon 22 Any movement from this form to your home when your own mother ment for a generation to give over Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- is coming: I've seen this whole miser- the reina to a younger one. It is loon, whence delivery may be ob- 24 I stand where this clerie ought
hereelt supplanted, an tained immediately after landing. able business nicely solved by the hard to see
All claims must be sent in lo me mothers getting together and she often feels she is, in the heart discussing their children frankly and of her adored boy by a young chid on or before 19th January, 1930, or honestly.
hardly out of school. It is heart-they will not be recognized, Treat your mother-in-law when breaking for her to look ahead to she comes as you would treat an lonely evenings without her son, honoured guest, and sooner or inter
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urge him to telephone her when
she
two
she'll begin to behave like one. The Be Kind experience will be new to her, poo: soul, and your star will begin to rise
smurely as you thought you had and
watched its wining.
Make room for Both
"ANDRE LEBON" No. 4 A/38
11 He might have played Hamlet
(0).
12 Not so elementary, my
Watson (8),
13 Sir?
dear
It may well be so (0), 15 Make belleve (7).
17 in which eye was
blind? (7),
Napoleon
19 It a certain famous man were seen in red bila prestige with his followers might certainly be this (7).
21 f net, sir" (anag.) (7),
of denin must be clavating (3).
to be (0). 27 The "sauce" Includes the fsh
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So when you think of how 1930.
dimcult his mother is now then, think of all those happy Officer in attendance when any dutl- Consignees must have a Rveenue times with him that she missing
able goods aro examined by the Company's Surveyors.
now.
Do everything you can, with ni Dhowever.
ON'T expect a miracle, the tact you can manage, to show
No Fire Insurance will be effected
This mother her that your love for him is an in-by us in any case whatever. in-law of yours has lived twice as telligent love that can not only long-na you have. Her love for her watch_over_him_but_include within
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. Hongkong, 9th January, 1930.
DOWN
1 With regard to vitamins this is of autelde importanco in cereals (4).
2 Of course, ho expected cavalier
treatment if captured (9).
3 He and his kind are seen band-
ed together in the wild state- (3).
4 if the parly cake wore this, of
course, it would naturally
spotted at once. (7).
bo
5 The cigar should
never bo
arnoked with this, get rid of the
Ideal (7),
7 Lift (0)
8 English castle (10).
D Start with the remainder but
limit the whole (8).
14 His job is to learn, and finally
Jure (10),
16 Surround (8).
18 A pantomime character (0). 20 A master of the Scottish school
(7).
21 Since soldiers are indicated, it
should be genuine (7).
23 No epithet for well-kept house
*(a).
23 Where the shadow of Nelson's
column never falls (6),
20 The poet sounds velõod (4).
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