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FRAY, JUNE 17, 1938.
FLOODS WON'T STOP WARFARE
will
are
ever-
So this
is your
WEDDING DAY?
Life for couples
marrying
day differn Ereatly train what it was in their parents' clay. Their hours will be Tereul, too,
and their ideas Families, Incil, clothes,,,
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10 you're going to get Miss married to-day. Brown?
Well, you probably know something about it. Like most modern girls, you are entering it with your eyes open.
But there are lots of things about marriage that you've probably never thought about. the And before you walk up aisle there are one or two things you ought to know.
For instance, do you realise how many children you are likely to have? One and a half. (No, that's not so gruesome as It may sound: It's just the size of the average family.)
On the other hand, when your
mother got married it was probable that she would have at least three children.
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The odds
that your bridegroom is 27) years old. In your father's day the average Pridegroom was 20).
Things were not quite so in- Becure in those days, and people were not so timid about marry- ing young.
Then, in your mother's day
to live til he is 87 compared with 62 in your father's day.
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And the 1938 bride actually expects to live till the years of her life have become three score and eleven, which is six years longer than your mother expected to live.
So married life is now four years longer
than it used to be-one year. shorter at one end, but five years longer at the other.
the average bride was 25. But you are probably 261;
Oddly
although enough, brides are getting older every year, the number of girls who get married at 18-the lowest legal age is booming.
In 1936 these were 40 per cent, more than in 1935.
You will notice that in your parents' day it was usual for the bridegroom to be a year and a half older than his bride. Now he is two years older.
So bridegrooms are growing older faster than brides.
But in spite of the fact that people walt longer nowadays before getting married, they at any rate get married in larger numbers.
There are 13 per cent. more marriages cach year now than there were ten years ago.
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Married life is longer nown- days. That is because people are living longer.
The years of a man's life never have been, of course, three score and ten.
But lately they have been A close to it. getting very bridegroom nowadays expects
Naturally, I don't want to say anything that might depress you on your wedding day. But, it it interests you, those figures of expectation of life suggest that you are more likely to be a widow than your mother was.
You will probably survive your husband by three and a
inlf years,
Think of the home that you and your husband 2. going to
111. It +1 have made your mother: mouth water.
Gadgets that she conid never have dreamed of on her wed- ding day will be dotted all over your house; a vacuum eleger: n refrigerator, perhaps; a bath- room; at any rate, electric light. n gas cooker--and, maybe. con- stant hot water.
Your ideas on food will be different from your mother's, too. You will give your family (you're going to have one. I tomatoes. bananas, hope?) canned fruit and vegetables- all of them recently introduced foods.
And the Sunday joint will be much smaller.
You will wait longer after your marriage before you have your first baby.
How long I can't say until the new Population Bill becomes law and starts giving us more information.
When your baby does come, modern maternity services will make the danger that he (or she) will die in the first year only half what it was a genera- tion ago.
The chance of his dying is only 1 in 17. And the chance of your dying is only 1 in 250,
Altogether your child is going to find it easier to keep healthy then you did when you were young.
You, for instance, were four times as likely as he is to dle of measles, four times as likely to dle of whooping cough, and six times as likely to die of scarlet fever.
In many ways your children
-To-day's Thought- THERE is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in
any other gown in the world.
JERROLD.
The London Times expresses the opinion that it is incredible to think that Japanese troops are responsible for the breach-! ing of the Yellow River dykes and causing a flood which has obviously interrupted their campaign against Hankow very effectively. It is true that de liberate destruction of the dykes by the Japanese is un- likely. But, according to Chinese claims, their bombs and shells had the effect of weaken- ing them, at least. Even if the Japanese did not actually cause this devastating flood, or if the hits of shells and bombs on the dykes were accidental, nevertheless the Chinese feel that the
invaders morally responsible for this ter- rible destruction which faces the country. They will say, with some justice, that had it not been for the intrusion of an enemy army, the Chinese would not have been preoccupied and would have been able to guard themselves against the present threat from the Yellow River in the rainy season. Whether or not the flood was preventable, is scarcely a basis for useful argument. It has
It will not be surprising | GRIN AND BEAR IT war. come, with all the death, quick |
if China uses any weapon com- und slow, which inevitably follows it. Japanese are lighting to her hand, for it is not the nature of an army of ing it to save their armies from
modern times to-be too particu- disaster and to keep a way, open |
lar about the suffering its tac- for their drive against Hankow.
tics cause non-combatants, it The Chinese peasantry are
appears. It would be too much fighting it, with even greater
to expect both sides to throw desperation, to save their lives and their homes. But it will down their arma to check the Yellow River's rampage. If surprise no-one if the Chinese
nids such the Chinese army troops, deeming any effort to
work it is merely helping to stem the rush of savage watera futile, make the most of this keep the road clear for a con- tinued march of invasion. It is unexpected assistance in the
also beyond all possibility that! campaign of defence, and attack
the Japanese, in return for the Japanese wherever they
temporary cessation of hostill- can reach them, whether they ties lasting until such time as are building dykes or dug-outs. they extricated themselves A moralist will hold that such from the flood area; should call actions on the part of the a halt to their adventure in Chineso soldiery are unpardon-China and withdraw. And so it able, for they may be hamper-seems likely that the Chinesa
will ing work which will actually
hamper their. enemies' save their own civilian popula-in every way they can, in spito struggle with the Yellow River
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will have a different upbringing from your own. They will
Go to the cinema once a fort-
night;
Talk a language that is becom-
Ing Americanised;
Stay at school till 15.
One of your main duties to your children-something that hardly worried your mother- will be to teach them to be care- ful in crossing the road.
One modern child in 17 is in- jured on the roads during his schooldays.
The probability is that you, As ✡ child, had few seaside holidays. Your children are much more likely to enjoy that pleasure. Five million workers will have holidays-with-pay this year.
As many as a quarter of a mil- lion people nowadays cross the Channel each summer.
You will not be afraid if your children go in for sun-bathing -Just as you will not be afraid If they sleep with their windows open.
And you will probably teach them how to swim.
Take your husband. He will certainly not look at all like the man your mother married.
He will hardly wear a stir collar or
high-buttoned jacket this morning. He cer- tainly has not a beard. And I feel practically certain that ke has not even a moustacho, •
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What is more, he probably wears shoes instead of boots- at any rate in his off time.
Lastly, what about yourself? Things are different for you, too. Your skirts are shorter. Your dresses are simpler and Hghter. But you make up for that by having more of them.
In your new home, you will find life less of a drudgery than.
When your your mother did. housework is done, there will be the newspaper, the radio and- if you want it-the cinema.
Make no mistake, Miss Brown. In their basic essen-
tlals, marriage and family life may be much the same from one decade to another.
But if you could look back, could see how different things were a generation ago, you'd be glad that you were get-
ting married-to-day. W. S.
RETIRED GOVERNOR PASSES ON
Sir George Smith Was Years In Nyasaland
London, June 16. The death la reported of Sir George Smith, Governor and Commander-in- Chief of Nyasaland from 1913, to 1923.Reuter.
The late Sir George Smith, who was knighted in 1914, was born on March 4, 1858. He entered the War Office at the age of 20, and was appointed to the Chief Secretary's Omce in Cyprus in the following year.
He became Assistant Chief Secre- tary of Cyprus in 1883, and was appointed Registrar General in 1895.
Colonial
at. Appointed
Secretary Mauritius In 1910, Sir George was transferred three years later to Nyasaland as Governor, remaining In that Colony for ten years unt his retirement from active service In 1923.
He died at his home at Ladythorpe, Addlestone, Surrey, and is survived by his wife and three daughters. Router.
AR.P, LECTURE JUNE 20 An air raid precautions lecture will be given to the Hongkong: Chinese Women's Soldiers Relief Association. members and their friends, on Mon- day, June 20, at 8.30 p.m. in the Association's headquarters, Wang Hing Building, Queen's 'Road, Con- trul.