THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1988.
Are You in Love?
Here is the fourth questionnaire, continuing discussion of the Affair in Running Order.
Commentary
To be read when you have studied the questionnaire
LET me earnestly hope
that you are able to put
a firm "No" after each of these very critical ques- tions, especially the first.
My advice to every wo- man, no matter how fas- cinating, how desirable, she may be, is: "Abstain from love affairs which must be kept going by your own initiative." A few litle ad- vances on your part may reasonably be called for by circumstances, but there is something very much amiss if you must habitually seek instead of being sought after.
The rest of this group is con- cerned with lesser Lactical errors, one or two of which may, however, be pretty serious,
It is hard, when the enchant- ment is at its height, to imagine that the lover could ever have a surfeit of you, but the wise woman knows that, if she can- not achieve the elusive happy medium, she will serve love bet-
ter by being too sparing of her gifts rather than too lavish, too: casual emotionally rather than tod anxious. She realises, too, that it is not invariably virtue to sacrifice oneself. think it was D. H. Lawrence who spoke of women with "a
ALLEY OOP
I
GUZ! I'M LOOKIN' FOR A WHAT TH' \ PLACE CALLED HECK ARE MOOTOOJ DO YOU KNOW WHERE IT IS?
YOU DOIN
HERET
BUT TH' PLACE, VER HIGHNESS, BE- LONGS TO YOU WHENEVER YOU COME TO OUR MODTDOR
BETCHA!
1.
By
Doris Langley Moore
Do you frequently weep?
4. For Women
N.B.-In order to avoid constantly having to make distinctions be- tween masculine and feminine gender, the person who is sharing your love affair is referred to as "the lover," irrespective of the de- gree of intimacy
GROUP G
GROUP F
more than half,
GROUP H
must Do you have to make 1. Do you enjoy providing 1. Do you find you
prove yourself right be fore a quarrel or an argu- ment can be disposed of?
half, or the first advances? 2. Do you jump at excuses for ringing up or writing to the lover?
Have you the habit of inquiring: "Do you love
man with creature comforts good food and drink, a warm and cosy at- mosphere, a pleasant place to lounge, and so forth?
Do you take care to keep 2. Do you want to show a
in touch with your friends (women friends as well as men), instead of devoting all your time to the lover?
me?"
2.
4.
Are you noticeably given
to self-abnegation?
5.
Do you often refer in
your former conquests?
6.
For women over 30-Do
you make remarks 3. Are you able to main-
are
which show that you conscious of losing your youth?
7.
Man up and humiliate him when you think he has
treated you badly?
tain a generous attitude 3. towards other women?
Conversely, do you try to 4.
give the impression of being years younger than
your real age?
Do you convey an im-
Have you 21 tendency
and
}
to feel worried
harassed?
be
pression that you would strong friend in an emergency?
4.
Do you frequently weep?
greed of giving." It is some possessing, and in these days the temptation to neglect your times far less greedy, and much quite unnecessary. more engaging, to have your own way!
arc
other friendships for the sake of becoming "all in all" in your lover. There is no more effi- cient way of ensuring ultimate
GROUP H
Few women, alas! will be
GROUP G "Yes" is, of course, the right As to Question 5, it needs discretion to be able to convey The women who retain a per-
answer to these four questions. loneliness. that other men have found you
manent attraction
those attractive without constantly retailing the history of your who know how to create an air earlier affairs, a practice which of comfort about them. When able to give a truthful “no” to soon becomes boring in the glamour and excitement have each question here. The desire ueadliest degree.
worn thin, a man will still seek to prove oneself right,.even at out the being who gives him the cost of one's charm, is a par- Will women over thirty please affection, understanding, and ticular failing of our sex. note-self-consciousness
The yet more dangerous de- about ease of body and mind. your age is depressing, unpre- But never, never succumb to sire make someone "feel
WELL,SIR, GUZ- YOU'VE STUCK YER FACE RIGHT IN TH’MIDDLE
OF "TH' BLOOMIN',
PLACE!
WELL, NOW, THAT'S MIGHTY FINE OF YOU
BOYS
THAT'S FUNNY-WHERË IS EVERYBODY
By Vincent Hamlin
(YEZZIR, GUZ, JUST
WE'RE
ALL RIGHT, DOWN THERE! HUNT CAVES FOR YOUR- BELVES AN' GIT SETTLED/
WE'RE HOME!
IT!
OOP AN' ME
ARE ALL TH'
MOUTOO FOLKS, THERE BEL
HOME3
to
small" when one's feelings have been hurt is almost equal- ly prevalent. Such inclinations should be strenuously suppress- ed. To gratify them is a folly hard to retrieve.
A tendency to be worried and harassed is likewise detrimen- tears tal to attraction, and should be reserved for very special occasions. At first they; are touching, then they pro- duce embarrassment, eventual- ly they become a mere exaspera- tion.
1 do not recommend entire abstinence from weeping, which may, under certain conditions, be a good dramatic device: but my counsel for general pur poses is to keep gaiety and good nature in evidence as often as you possibly can. It's nearly always worth the effort.
BARBS
WHEN a robber points a gun at your bead, J. Edgar Hoover advises, keep cool. It's better than growing cold.
The judge of a Philadelphia court was asked to reduce a photographer's alimony pay- ments. The reply was in the negative.
A combination coat and shirt hna just been invented. It gets the agony over with quicker in strip poker.
A couple in England have just celebrated their 75th wed- ding anniversary. They attribute their success to having got used to it.
Thieves broke into a military school the other day. Police be- lieve they were trying to steal a march.
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This Curious WORLD By Willam HANNIBAL
USED ELEPHANTS
AS
ARMY TANKS
IN HIS CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE
ROMANS, ABOUT 218 B.C.
FORTY
OF THE EIGHTY KNOWN
SPECIES OF
PINES.
GROW IN NORTH AMERICA.
CARPENTER
BEE
WHEN BORING THROUGH WOOD, DETOURS AROUND
NAILS
BEFORE IT ACTUALLY REACHES THEM/.
COPR. 1913 BY NÈA SERVICE, INC, 6-22, HANNIBAL, Carthaginian general, attempted to accomplish with elephants the tasks performed in modern warfare by armored tanks. Men, armed with spears and shiloids, bows and arrows, The animals, rode troops of elephants into the enemy ranks. panicky with fright, were hard to control and the experiment was decidedly unsuccessful,
OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
ACROSS
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1 I curtalled this saint would have a fast time in vain (D). A disciple of Zeno (5).
9 The time of youthful green-
ness (two words--
4).
10 No peaceful place reverses
perlod (5).
11 Rest with final row (7).
12 Memorable but disappotting statement by restaurant waiter (7). Sounds like want, or Eastern
(3).
14 Thin to say the least (7). 17 Feminine at heart, but
lower (7).
19 She never can be fair (7).
not
22 There are a number of mixed
deer in this island (7).
24 The bear shows only one (3).
26 A rousing cheer would be an
eye-opener to him (7).
26
5 The spirit of Continental pro-
gress (7).
6 American town with restful
start (7).
7 In the sc, apparently (9).
3
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20 Wherein may be let fall things that give rise to harmful reports (two words-3, 4),
20 Or the end of 25 across is
tender (D).
30 Purents con hardly place their
children in
In this (9).
131 This may be extracted from
certain gums (5);
22 Charles II. appologised for nol coming to It, more or less (two words--4, 3).
DOWN
1 Did warriors of old get it by taking it from a visitor? (5). 2 Flower (5).
8 On the way to becoming a 20
across (7).
4 Myself, a post, and a former island combine In no placid manner (7).
century without rest appar-
ently is unending (8).
14 The desert traveller who sur-
vives this must indeed be full
of grit (9).
15
Sorry (9).
10
A possible danger.in 20 across (3).
18 With an outside it is stranger
(3).
20 When purple he lles (7). 21 No flipparit description (7). 22 Caught, and mostly struck (7). 23 Recount (7).
27 Knowing of more than a con-
Bict (5).
28 Result of stirring up an adder
(5).
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