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MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1938.
HUMANISING WARFARE
What is The Lonely Wife
to do?
PAMELA FRANKAU
the brilliant young novelist, writes here of one of the most perploxing problems of early married life-the solitude experienced by young wives during their long days alone in their new homes,
Alone Again
THREE years ago I had a That way I have been lucky. Trend whom I would have. But Gordon has a business day had no hesitation in describing that takes him out of the house then as the luckiest girl in the from half-past eight until seven world. She had everything a o'clock; he has one Saturday former "boy friends" to visit young girl could wish for... morning free in every month, a me; that would not be fair to good looks
every ... good friends month's holiday
year. Gordon, (heaps of them!!'. a happy, And for the rest of the time I away of their own accord. carefree disposition, and she was am alone.
I am a married woman I have just about to be married to one
censed to be amusing.
quite early, 5000 after ten My day passes with solitary o'clock. And I guessed that she walks, with matinee visits to the was alone again; that in spite
of the most eligible bachelors Planned Parties
Imaginable.
That was three years ago. To-day she is bewildered, dis- consolate, dismayed. Yet she would be popularly described as "happily married."
me:
FURNISHING our house
Besides, they keep
Now
THE light in Mrs. Blank's bedroom would shine
of the holiday visit (to which just outside London latest book and the latest pat I expect she had been looking forward all the year) she was I planned for tern for knitting a jumper." was exciting.
to the I wasn't in the least have told Gordon, and he sug- unnecessary
She looks sad always. She
parties,
young
There will be general sym-
But let her take up the article daunted to think of starting life gests that I take up some sort people they did not want her. herself. It is best that she in a new place, a town full of of work; or join the tennis club.
I have no aptitude for any sort goes to the cinema, walks by pathy with the efforts that are should tell her own story. So strangers.
of work and I am shy about herself, and knits at the window. now being made in influential here it is as she related it to
And now, after three years, it learning to play games now, at Often I see her at the library, is still a new place, still a town 30.
changing her books. I have quarters to abolish the bombing My trouble is that I am lonely. full of strangers. I have not I began to be frightened a few been vaguely aware of her ever
That of civilian populations in mo-
sounds silly enough, made friends. The few women weeks ago, soon after Christmas, since I came to live here; just seeing that I am married to the whom I know here do not seem when I saw Mrs. Blank sitting as a woman whom I saw always.. dern warfare. A recent peti-man I love. Married people are to like me; they never ask me in the window that is the exact alone. tion, signed by an impressive not supposed to be lonely. But more than occasionally to their duplicate of my drawing-room Now she is on my mind, as
I just can't help It.
houses. And when they do, window across the way. Mrs. though I were looking at u list of leaders in British public Before I married I lived at their constant chatter about Blank is a woman of 50. portrait of myself in 20 years' life and presented to the Prime home. There was no need for housekeeping and babies tires I have not much in common time. It is a horrible thought;. Minister, is especially concerned me to work and I never bothered me.
with her. She has been here to that I shall go on being lonely to take up any sort of hobby. Į with the horrors of the war in was not sporting and games takes up no
I find that running the house tea and I have had tea with her, all my life, though I am married more than a few and I was bored. It never to the man I love. It is making Spain. It is an appeal to both bored me. I saw the other girls
hours of my day. Our little occurred to me until a few weeks me so unhappy that Gordon sides in that conflict to abandon in the district taking shortland maid is an efficient person who ago that she and I might be in worries about me.
He keeps lessons, going to town every day, the deliberate bombing
She has chil- asking me what is the matter. of learning jobs and getting them. does not welcome any attempts the same boat.
at interference.
dren, but they grew up and left And I have given up trying to civilians. But, in the hearts of I never did. For one reason, I and was having a good time,
Anyway, the public, it will awaken a
I can't talk about home. They came back to spend tell him that since our marriage housekeeping. Nor about babies. Christmas with her.
my life has been empty. that was all I wanted. sense of wider implications. In
Perhaps I could talk about my I saw them going out together What shall I do? own baby, if I had one, but that and coming home late; I saw What shall she do? Hers is is a dream that has not yet come them bringing back parties of a problem which perplexes more true.
young people; the radiogram young wives than many. hus- I can't
bands imagine. of my playing until after midnight..
recent years, the world has had I was Pretty
many foretastes of the kind of
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THIS sounds selfish.
I
have
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"BUDGIE BOSSES
THE HOUSE
Ton't think, all the rained down from the skies In.
same, that I can be blamed. I any great war of the future. was pretty; and I was something In the Abyssinian war, not even more than pretty, because there were other pretty girls who had the Red Cross was sacrosanct. nothing like so good a time as The conduct of the Japanese in I did. My brother used to tease
is there are children tries everything, a fixture in the home and is rarely China has evoked the strongest me by calling me "The toast of
noticed. A goldfish, I noticed at all, the town." I didn't mind that. young enough to have only this My difculty about caged birds dis- merely exasperates, A budgie, condemnation of the Assembly I knew there was some truth in month acquired his clean white cap. appeared when I saw a friend's sooner or inter, dominates a home.
name
Lucky.
H beautiful shinde or blue, and he once.
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of the League of Nations. it. I knew that I was really He is a budgerigar,
budgie at home. There was such an I had never thought much about evidence of joyful fe, such a care- These events are arousing popular with men.
Lucky stepped into our house, into I never lacked a partner for budgies. From time to time a corres- free flying about the room, Ladder- world opinion.. Even the strong- any of the local dances. I had pondent wrote me about the words climbing, expe-tumbling, that, despite his cage, and at once took command. her budgle could say, but I thought the children's shrieks, I would have I knew that budgies have freedom, ly isolationist Hearst Press in half a dozen proposals the year little of it. Caged birds are caged become a budgle
To, after windows and doors were victim anyway. birds, I probably argued to myself. A dog la
a submissive, slavish made tight, Lucky stepped out. America has mobilised the full after I left school.
parrots friend of man. A cat simply usen One had thoughts of the charming Dances, parties, river-picnics, Besides, budgies are really
fellow a horrible mankind for its own ends. A canary little sounds forces of its chain of news and motor-rides: life was always and patteosime, however, in which sings for its supper but soon becomes shoulder as one rat back and listened papers to demand "a new and exciting. And when I came
home came humane code of warfare." And home
I
to
it is earnestly to be hoped that cheery family who made GRIN AND BEAR IT
2 fuss of me, The only
the Governments will not re-thing I lacked was a girl friend,
main deaf to the insistent voice and that did not worry me much.
of their peoples.
I never made friends easily with my own sex. I think I was rather proud of that.
At the same time, such an
I fell in love. With Then agreement if it could be secured
Gordon. We were married six would be no more than a pallia-
months later. He had a good tive to the international situa-job-n solicitor-so there was Lion. Unless effective safe-no need for us to wait. As soon guards could be instituted, it is as I saw him I knew that I was
tired of flirting, that he was "the- by no means certain that paper one, the only one for me." promises would stand the text And now.
. I am still in of an outbreak of hostilities.love; atili convinced that of all the boys and men mot and Agreements not to bomb danced with Gordon alone could civilians might go the way of have filled the bill as a husband. pledges not to use polson gas.
Complete safety from
the bombed IN to negotiate the horrors of war cannot be abolition of military aviation. guaranteed until war itself is That would imply some inter- renounced as an instrument of national supervision for ensur- national policy in fact as well ing that civil aircraft should not as in theory. As the late Lord be used for military purposes. Bryce said, "If we do not end Plans were put before the Dis- war, war will end us." But if armament Conference of the in the meantime it is hoped to League of Nations a few years ago, and received considerable lessen the horrors of war, the support. Has the time arrived only way to make certain that to make a fresh effort to denl civilian populations will not be with the problem?
Depe, Sp United Busiara Brostata, ima“
CARING
TRON
CHILODCA UNDER
RUST, FAKE
By Lichty
"I'm at my wit's end with Junior-he's four years old already and hasn't earned a cont!"
perched
оп one'
to the wireless. A touch of colour the home, toning, as my wife put it, with the general colour scheme. Alas! almost at once Lucky swept up on to the wooden pleture moulding and started to tear the paper from the fricze.
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What does one do with disorderly. budgies? A dog can be smacked and a cat punished. The cannary and the koldfish need chastisement very rare- ly if ever: but a budgle
We shouted at him, to stop and he screamed liappily, back at us and tore plaster from the walla.
Now we throw things at him, a rolled-up handkerchief or a half- darned bock, anything soft that will frighten him. A charming domestic picture, it not, with the paper hunging in tatters from the wall and the
heads of
of the house throwing things about?
Lucky doesn't care, He, does drape himself on our shoulders, but not becomingly. He loves to nibble the lobe of an ear. One reproves him,
and he files to another shoulder for another nibble. Another reproof comes, and back he flies to the first shoulder: With four shoulders and up four ears, Lucky can keep this Indefinitely. He loves it.
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In his quieter moments he perches on our hair. He takes each strand and runs it through his bill, and with cach "movement of one's head he grips a tight foothold with his long claw.
a bald-
I dread the entrance of headed friend_some_evening.
This hafr-drill of Lucky's has its dia- advantages because in a few moments: ho can disarrange the most carefully set colffure, and when he has done (Continued on Page 5.)