THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1988.
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Dr. HAROLD DEARDEN
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sonably happy.
N the matter of love it self to her husband's limitations is commonly said that as to succeed, to all appearances, youth calls to youth the in making herself and him rea whole world over, and, how- But such young women would i ever regrettable this may seem to be rare. And in the seem to some of us elderly case of the few who have come folk, it is doubtless true. within the range of my experi- But to be old is not necessarily ence, the labours which under- to have cenued to be vocal in this lay their success could only be respect. Men and women of the described as herculean. most advanced age are not infre-
Never Loft Him
WELL remember one Moreover, when this happens,
marriage of this' sort they are often prompted, by one between a most attractive girl of those whimsical dispensations who had been a great popular for which Nature has such a favourite and an old man whose.
choose genius, to
their income was enough to dazzle partner somcono considerably anyone. She was an exceeding- younger than themselves. The ly businesslike and experienced
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TRY OUR MUD FACIAL REMOVES
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By Lichty
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"Madam desires only five years removed to-day-she's in a ter- rible hurry."
AN ENGLISHMAN SIGHS FOR NEW YORK
I
AN Englishman in Lon-glish goods. Specially.imported,"
don, am homesick for in the windows.
New York. Three months now The salesman will say respect- since the skyline that Americans fully, almost with a touch of will never stop talking about awe, "This cloth was made in
I once started a burst of ap-
(I was born in Preston) when
Final.
I don't think there is a friend-
Her people to the English in the tainly I know of no friendlier world than the Americans. Cer- city than New York,
Can you wonder that I want
there?
There is a Piccadilly Circus restaurant just off Times Square with everything, including the fumed oak, more English then we trouble to be.
vanished in the haze of the At- England, sir." What is a psychologist to say
lantic. about such unions as these? young person. It would be safe)
Yes, they like us. Three months since a taxi-
The
newspapers devote co- The case of an old woman who to say that the mind of the male
to English Conceito in E Minor (Mendelssohn) DB-2460-2461-2462 - The spirit that broods over marries a young man may be had been an open book to her driver called me "brother" since lumns of space
I ate a hot dog or a hamburger, affairs. British football results since I walked into Palestine becomes daily more dismissed in a few words. If from the age of 16.
A movie are printed in the Sunday papers. But what I saw of her every-j the man of her choice is a not- The death roll in a re- mal male her chance of success day life never failed to move me (cinema) at 2 a.m. to find the
The Test match is always cent outrage is the highest is practically negligible. She to sympathetic admiration.
programme just re-starting.
good for half a column in the TOSCANINI AND.PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA:—since the outbreak of strife. has a dangerous rival in every She had literally no personal No creaking overhead railway New York Times und Herald
Semiramido-Overturo (Rossini) DB-3079-3080
Since August there have been woman her husband sets eyes liberty whatever. Her husband to lull me to sleep now, no ducky Tribune. thousands of casualties in the on.
In the cinemas when the news- clearly regarded her as a sort of Harlem here where I can watch ten tall, tan, terrific coffee- Holy Land.
Initially handicapped as she is highly prized jewel which ho
George and Queen Elizabeth or by age, she must unceasingly was at pains to surround with coloured girls doing the Susy-Q. reel shows a picture of King Commission fight to retain her happiness, the most perfect setting and] which broods over the problem with the odds relentlessly in wished to have constantly
I want to walk along the chew their children the audience claps. at ing-gum-studded pavements of Broadway, to take a peek at the of partition is silent. There is creasing against her. Her only hand for his enjoyment. no indication what action is to hope is to select 'n partner of The extent to which this flat-dime-a-dance halls, to sip a cock-plause for Preston North End
tail in the Rainbow Room atop dictated) be taken to bring peace to the the "tame cat" variety. But tering possessivencas Magic Fluto (Mozart) Variations on air from Beethoven and where the Son of Peace was the prospect is undeniably a dis- his treatment of her was almost i Rockefeller Centre, 60 odd floor the newsreel recorded the Cup
mal one in any event.
unbelievable. From morning up, and watch the parade. Where the husband is the untli night she never left his I want to slip into the Stork older, on the other hand, it would side. Wherever he wished to go Club and see head G-man J. almost seem, on the face of it, she must accompany him, and Edgar Hoover, sitting at his might thereby be increased.
success if he had a headache she must quiet table in the corner.
lie down too.
I want to eat B "Sunday years have doubtless He had the normal man's dis-breakfast"-a five-course meal, consideration. In the presont brought him a wider knowledge taste for the delights of shop-heavier than a lunch, at midday: to go back, spend a few years critical state throughout the of people and things, a good ping; so that whatever she (Everyone in New York sleeps
in on Sunday mornings.) And Even if I feel bluo now and Chater Road, World, which is galloping madly working philosophy, and an in- bought, whether dressES or
towards the chasm which spells creased measure of tact, jewellery, must be sent round to want to drink a mint julep in then, thinking I am 3,000 miles from home and mother, I can doom to civilisation Britain's Moreover, a man as compared the house for her selection and its carefully frosted glass.
with a woman, is singularly for his approval so that he might be| You get the idea? I want to remedy it in New York. tunate in his capacity to wear spared what he regarded as 80 back well. In all the essential attri- boredom.
Now it doesn't sound patriotic, butes of his make-up it may be
Her life, in fact, seemed to me But if you knew me you would said that age is but the guinea to be little better than that of an know that I am. Very. stamp; a man's a man for a' excessively highly pat nurse. First thing any Englishman that.
She was a healthy and indomit should learn in America is to be called London Terrace, with the There is a great block of flats able young creatúre, however, English. Youth Wants Variety and for four or five years her
porters dressed up as London' I found that out on my first policemen. Helmets, buttons, BUT the psychological husband undoubtedly got more trip there, digested it thoroughly whistles, but, alast outrageous
differences between than full value for his money, during the year and a half I Brooklyn accents. an old man and a young woman But their union could scarcely lived in New York.
So I am packing my bags and are none the less inescapable. be described as ideal,
Always use the broad "B" aticking Youth longs for excitement and
Even under the most advan- when saying can't or aunt. Slip labels.
on the Transatlantic
variety.
tageous conditions, however, in an occasional "Jolly good!" I shall find the cost of living where the husband is in every or "Cheerio." way understanding and gener-
a little higher than in London. Americans like it.
Rents are dearer, garaging a car ous, there are many subtle pit-
But being English has never is absurdly expensive, servants. folla in such marriages as these, prevented me, as it does some demand, and get, bigger wages. I remember another couple English people, from enjoying. But, then, my income tax will who will admirably serve to even revelling, in America. illustrate one
be only 10 per cent, and I am auch source
They treat us better, you allowed 2,500 dollars (£500) tax
· A similar romark in the Cen-
Age, on the other hand, inevit difficulty.
know, than we treat them. free-as I am married-before ably brings
The man was a hearty and distaste for A tral Magistracy yesterday. novelty. The first line thrill has highly intelligent fellow of about Go into any hotel or store and that is levied.
It is up to the Magistrates to gone out of most things.
I can get my favourite cigar- 65 with a great sense of humour speak with your English accent, stop talking and commence To expect an old man, how and a magnificent zest for life, which, of course, you can't help ottes for 7d. a packet of 20, doing, and you will find how an-whereas they cost me is. Gd. action in these cases.
ever hearty and virile, to be a His bride was 22.
They were unmistakably fond Kious and delighted everyone is hero. Fines have proved no deter-
wholly satisfactory companion rent. A car is na much its for a young and ardent woman of one another; they had a host to do everything possible for
is to demand that which of friends; there was no short-you. owner's property as are his other psychologically impossible. The age of money and they enter- personal belongings. If a coolle will may be there, and even the tained a good deal.
They Like Us steals or borrows a trivial article energy, but the task is super- For a year or so all seemed
Spare A Dime ? WALK down Fifth he is sent to prison for six human.
well with both of them. Then
Avenue or Fifty-] ~ THERE are lots of months and, in many
So long na human nature re- gradually, but insistently, the Seventh Street, casca,
I want to changes banished from the Colony.
mains what it is, the gulf, which fly in the ointment began to re- great shopping thoroughfares, sec. When I sailed on a bitter- separates 'youth' and nge veal itself in the shape of the and you will see bold announce-sweet day last June, Wall Street will always be one which it la characteristics of their respec- ments on printed cards, "En- was diving, night clubs along the impossible to bridge.
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STOP THESE
JOY-RIDERS
"The practice of stealing cars und amashing them up has be como much too prevalent and fines appear to be an insufficient deterrent."
So, said a Magistrate in the
Kowloon Court last week.
"Cases like this are getting very common. There have been a number of cases of Europeans taking cars away like this."
That is the time to try every thing once, to tire the aun with talking and send him down the sky," to live carelessly forced draught, and to be cease- lessly thrilled by the mere fact
of existence.
on "
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.of
New York's
Shoes, shirts, hats are cheap. Taxis, alcohol, good food cost. about the same as hero.
Let our Magistrates impose similar deterrents on people who
Great White Way-no longer borrow cars without the permis- It is true that to the super- With the best will in the world
white, but blue and green and red sion of the owner, and not wait ficial observer a certain measure to be hospitable her friends much greater justification, found with neon blaze-were closing. until one of these maniacal pil of success may sometimes op- struck him wearisomely his friends wearisomely prosy down.
The number of tramps in the ferers force sterner measures by pear to be obtained in such childish and empty headed. It and dull.
la one thing, if you are an elder- Such martyrdom as this, how streets ("Brother, can you spare, killing some innocent pedestrian. The mere fact that a car thief woman is essentially a home ly gentleman, to enjoy the bver cheerfully it may be en-a dime for a cup of cawfce")
maker. Her instincts prompt childish prattle of the young dured by each for the sake of was increasing. her to prefer security to adven- lady you are in love with and the other, must inevitably prove The rich were firing their big ture, and she is endowed also quite another to be forced to almost intolerable in the end guns at Roosevelt. with the inestimable gift of an listen to the same kind of out- And it is inescapably inherent in extreme degree of adaptability. pouring from someone who is in such unions as these.
drives along Hongkong's busy thoroughfares without a driving licence is sufficient reason why ho should be sent to prison.
The present ridiculous fines make it cheaper to "borrow" car for an afternoon than to pay
for its hire.
сався.
Mayor (I am the Law) Hague
was dictating to Jersey City. For this reason; if an old man no way thus privileged as an Marriago is undeniably an ad- Since then Wall Street haa is rich enough-to-make it worth entertainer.
venturo in any circumstances been on the upswing. Billy Roso," her whillo, a lovel-headed and But if he found her friends But for youth to ally itself with the showman, has brought to capable young woman may con- somewhat trying on this account, age is to do little less than de- New York a now sort of entar- trive so far to accommodate her- she, in turn, and doubtless with liberately court, disaster.
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