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Broken Marriage
T'S six weeks ago to-day since I went home and found the letter propped on the mantelshelf with just my Christian name on the envelope..
It told me my wife had left.
Yes, it was just like you sco on the films or read about in magazine stories, I never thought it would happen to me.
But it wasn't as surprising as all this sounds. We had de
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MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1938.
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cause; "We just didn't get along," was the nearest description we could give to our difficulties."
So we decided to separate, holding in the modern fashion that was the best thing to do if people "didn't get along." Oh, yes, we were full of modern notions about this sort of thing.
There were no storms, or arguments, or tears. What emotions we had we kept to ourselves, because it was the proper thing to do.
There were no money difficulties involved in the separation; we had money. We had a pleasant home. We had friends.
You can say we had everything in a material sense, but we "just didn't get along" and we agreed to name the day she would leave.
The day before that I left for may think that odd, but that's my work in the morning as usual, just what I thought most about. Then came a brief note say- Automatically 1 patted the dog. kissed my wife as I left. Did I ing she had not gone away, She have any regrets? None, that I had not, she said, "planned her was conscious of.
future."
I forgot to mention that in THEN that evening this note she said that when she when I came home I had settled she would let me know her address.. I hung on to that.
found the letter.
It was short and simple. It said that she left that day, be cause to-morrow we should both know that it was the last day. It might be difficult. By leaving as she did we should escape any last-minute embarrassments.
She thanked me for what I had done for her.
The outstanding features of the modern world are (1) the closeness into which its several territories and those that live in She was going to a town we them have been drawn to each both knew well, but gave no ad- other and (2) the tremendous thing inevitably final about that dress. Yes, there W43 some- control which man has success: letter. I know it word for word fully asserted over the powers of now. nature. It is only necessary to It ended five years of mar- MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. compare the conditions of, say, ringe.
I must be sincere; the first week was rather pleasant. I had a curious exhilarating sense of freedom.
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And waited.
WHEN my mind bad
had time off from-the things it had to do, it concentrat ed on my wife, where she was, what she was doing, and still, above all, was she happy.
I suppose you would call that an obsession. All I know is that it hurt.
LICHTY'S FAMous cartoonS ARE
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FEATURE
GRIN AND BEAR IT
By Lichty
**Cope, 1938 by Dminé Pratave Byndicale, You
"You brag about your rare stamp collection—well, take a look at some
of these rare coins people put in the Sunday plate!"
What To Do In
AIR RAIDS
pre- local authorities are first to be.. SIMPLE instructions in type of dwelling are given in the its usefulness.
paring a refuge-room in any given an opportunity of judging
new Air Raid Precautions hand- book issued yesterday by the Home Office last month for dis- tribution among A.R.P. officials and volunteers.
The book also explains how to protect the rest of the house. Half a million copies are being printed.
If Bombers Come
In a foreword to the book Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secre- tary, says:
In a ship, it is pointed out,
"If this country wera ever at war, the target of the enemy's bombers would be the staunch- ness of the people at home. If When warning is given that the emergency comes, the coun- war threatens this is what all try will look for her safety not only to her sailors, soldiers, and householders should do:
Prepare and equip the refuge airmen, but to the organised So the weeks passed. Of room.
courage and foresight of every course, I tried the usual reme-,
household." dies. I spent more time with darkening the house at night, both crew and passengers are
Have everything ready for men friends doing the usual Windows, skylights, fanlights, things, more time with one and glass doors must be ob instructed where to go and what woman friend whose company scured. had always charmed me, and
to do before danger threatens.
"If the head of the house will still dogs...
Clear the loft, attic, or top consider himself as the captain. floor of inflammable material to of the ship, and put these air- lessen risk of fire from incen- raid precautions into effect, the diary bombs.
principal object of this book Assemble appliances to fight will have been achieved," it is fires, limewash the timbers in stated. the attic or roof space to delay their catching fire.
But they were not enough. You can't tell me anything about what must sound to you the somewhat pathetic "empty
instances must suffice. Even in the early years of the nineteenth
I had to consult nobody about century the horse was the
what I did; if I was late for din- quickest means of transport-ner the servant could not com- just as it had been in the days plain: my wife felt that being chair."
of Julius Caesar. To-day steam, | late for a well-cooked dinner was We always sat opposite each petrol, electricity, conquest of a minor tragedy. There were other, and it was a recurring shock not to see her in her place. You can't live with some body five years without missing her, I thought, nor without hav- THE second week, too, ing some affection for her.
was all right. Then I Affection? I began to doubt the sweat of his brow. To-day began to wonder where my wife the strength of that word. Was vast and intricato machinery, was, what she was doing, and this merely affection? And if like some genio of Alladin's what she was thinking.
What worried me most was lamp, satisfies in tricalculably greater quantity and at incal- whether she was happy. You culably smaller cost of labour
the air, have completely trans- lots of other small things I liked, formed the situation. A cen- and counting everything I enjoy tury or so ago the tools that men ed that first week. used were still of a comparative- Jy primitive kind-and his handiwork was very literally by
the necessities of existence for World Opinion, backed by World
all and indeed with almost equal Juvishness provides luxuries hardly dreamed of by our great- grandparents.
the logical necessity of rising out
Strength.
it was where do you draw the line between affection and love? Now I have to be careful to avoid the charge of acntimen- this business of mine without tality, but you can't write about
talking about love,
The Covenant of the League of Nations is by no means a So last week I deliberate principles inspiring it are perfect Instrument, but the
ly sat down to analyse only ones capable of forming a love her? Do I want her back?
the my own feelings. Do I still foundation of Security
Would we be happy if we growing prosperity for
the started all over again, or would Modern World.
it be just like it was?
and
Soor air ruid wardens will be knocking at houses to announce In large towns send children, they have come to offer advice invalids, and elderly people to on how to deal with air raid dan- friends in the country if possible. gers.
The "Dont's"
Besides showing by digrams how to select and prepare a re- fuge, the book lays down certain rules to behave while
how sheltering in it.
Gas masks are also to be brought round, so that the different sizes required can be ascertained and to famili- arise the public in handling them.
The masks will be issued to Among the "don'ts" emphasi- the public as soon as a threat of sed are: Don't smoke, don't light emergency occurs. This does. come into contact with gas. A break of war. fires, and don't eat food that has not mean after the actual out-
food chest or airtight jars and tins for the storage of food are described as "absolutely essen- tial."
Three Adult Sizes
There will be three sizes for adults, as well as a "baby's bag," "Pass the time reading, writ- and an intermediate size for ing, sewing, playing cards or toddlers and small children be- quiet games, listening to the tween the ages of two and five. wireless or gramophone," is one piece of advice.
Fitting children will be left to the discretion of the parents, and will not be done in the schools.
Wardens will have the duty
Another rule is "Avold exertion. Don't let children romp about, as they will only tire themselves and of ensuring that everyone gets. get exhausted."
a gas mask that fits, and to see The handbook has been pre- that the person for whom it is pared with a view to general dis- intended does not outgrow the tribution to householders, but size set aside for him.
In this now world of proxi- mity and power the outstanding need is co-operation. To the progressive mind a tremendous opportunity presents itself for | realizing, as there was never so full an opportunity before, a non-political activities is con- analysis was a failure. I don't As far as pure co-operation in I regret to report that my world-wide brotherhood of men cerned,
wonders have been and nations. To the hard-achieved, as in tackling such, know the answers. headed rationalist no less comes world-wide problema as those It was like holding a post- of the drug traffic and the white mortem on something still alive; of the old isolations into some slave traffic and in combating that was about as far as I could form of world constitution.
discusc.
get. The outstanding difficulty is In the political sphere, too,
The only satisfaction I did get the survival of war. This was the League has won many
out of that analysis was that.if the traditional Instrument by victories but at the present could see her again I should which states obtained or de-moment it would be foolish to know. If I could see her again, fended their rights. In the deny its palpable failure to I thought, something will tell me
ed I confided in a modern world it is an unspeak function efficiently. It would all I want to know.
friend, told him wo "couldn't able folly and tragedy--because be impossible to trace the causca But where was she? of proximity, far more likely to of that failure without raising
It was posted from the other get along," and, in the modern I became a nuisance to my occur and covering far wider many passionately controversial servant asking about the post. side of the world. Two thou- way, were going to end our mar- populations; because of1 power, ! issues. It is of course necessary What a lot of unnecessary lettera sand miles in search of a wife rings, far more devastating and to face these, but here the one come through the post.
Bounds romantic but not prac- Young, modern, and sophisti--· suicidal.
tical.
cated, I was surprised when he object, that it is sought to attain
There was no address. It was said he thought our attitude of brief, She was well, hoped I mind a bad one; it resulted from was, She was going to the people doing too little and ex- East. That was all..
pecting too much sug She did not say she was I smiled, then, at this quaint: happy; so I am still unaware of notion: bre what I am most anxious to know. Now I know better..
In 1919 the peacemakers had is a senso of conviction that the I BEGAN to think of therefore to draft a World Plan,only road to permanent peado is
all the things might making, co-operation between that to which the League's have done and never did; small Sovereign States its key note principles point. --- co-operation things that would have meant no and providing elaborately for and a world order and law to real sacrifice on my part. Some rendering war unlikely by sub which all nations give glad husbands might do worse than stituting for it the Law of consent.
check-up on this paragraph.
These were Then, last Saturday, came a let- my thoughts.
ter-from her.
WHEN this affair start-