SATURDAY, APRIL 8, · 1939.
The Right Age to Marry
MR. A. M. Fleet, chairman of the [ed then, und made unlve man very
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magistrates, is bachelor and elderly, but for all that he thinks he knows the right age at which couples should marry.
Recently he refused a nineteen-year- old couple permission to marry when they stood before. fm saying how much they loved each other.
"It is not wise to ung" he told them. young," he told
unhappy. We were totally unsulted. I was suffering from the adolescent's complaint. I was in love with love. More than ten years later I married again. This time a man my own nge who had been my best friend for years
The marriage is a success. We are
o murry when very both happy and I am in danger of developing into one of those tiresome Well, maybe bachelor Mr. Fleetwomen who pity every woman who knows what he is talking about,
hasn't married. All I can say is that I have been Once when I was married twice. nineteen and again when I was over thirty, and I know what I know about that.
I was nineteen my mother When refused to give her consent to the wedding,
"It's ridiculous." she said, looking ps though she would like to spank me, Hyou don't know your own mind." My father said: "It's no use coming to me, you heard what your mother sold."
Of course I did know my own mind. I wanted to get married to a man much older than myself, and six months later I married him in the vestry of
Presbyterian Church with my father to give me away. while my mother remained at home to have a good ery.
my
For all that I wouldn't be like Mr. Fleet, and lay down the law about
he right age to marry.
Parents shouldn't lay down the law either for they don't know any more than Mr. Fleet knows, or I know, or you know.
What
Maybe life wasn't so rosy for Mum and Dad all those years ago when Mum sat up half the night sewing week and the only baby clothes and Dad made an ounce of tobacco last a fun they had was a threepenny con-
eert or a game of whist
the
·with people next door.
Maybe Mum and Dakl want their girl to have
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By Mary Ferguson
easier time than they ever had.
doing, they are trying to recapture some of their own lost youth by A fuded mother of six once proudly told me. "Strangers always take sharing in the youth of thele children. Jessie to be my sister. They say
You must have heard youngish we
to their don't look a bit like mother and.
parents saying proudly daughter."
Jessie, first child of an early mar-friends, "We are glad we had the lage, was twenty years younger than children while we were both young, But let Jesale attempt for now they are growing up we are her mother. to marry so early and she would be young enough ourselves to share fared with her
bitter their fun."
mother's
puzzling; the nineteen-year-oppos be disliked for saying this. olds to-day who are being refused permission to marry, is the fact that but I think it is true that mothers Deir own parents who are saying who married carly hate to think their They know the fun they've missed. "NO," were themselves married when daughters will do the same. they were nineteen.
The hard times they've had; they regret never having tried making friends with other young men and the world. learning more about They malce dificult parents, too, and some of them know it. They think of the sacrifices they made for their children when they themselves were in their curly twenties.
Maybe they have heard them boast of their early days, when Dad was arning thirty shillings a week and Mum made the money work won
Why can't they be married at nine- teen and work the same miracles?
The reason is that life nowadays is and Mum und Dad too different, not know my own mind. I had made would only get cross if they were a mess of my own life, or so it agen- I asked to explain why.
Six months later I knew mother had been right, after all I did
Without realising what they are
But do the children think so?
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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Well, what is the right age? Maybe the right time is when you meet a man or woman who means That can are nineteen or all the world to you. happen when you
When that when you are ninety. happens Mother can cry, Father can rave, you can be faced with loss of job, loss of family friendship, but you will get married just the same.
If you make a mess of things you can then sit back in your early middle-age and tell others something
Are You Sure?
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about the right age at which they should marry.
You see, nobody knows.
Just look at Hollywood. They are always getting married there, yet they seem to keep on making the same mistakes and getting the wrong man or wife,
To-day's Thought.................. KEEP thy eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards.
---FRANKLIN,
Girls and Boys' Corner
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Dear Kiddies,
you,
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Last week's competition was, on the whole, very well done. Some of however, used too much Imagination and named all kinds of objects which were not in the ple- turc.
The prize-winners this week are:-
Bhona Melntyre, (aged 8), 20, Atmat Villas.
Coupons are being sent to Derek, Shella and Shona which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Tele- graph" offices in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
Specially commended for excellent work are the following:
'Seniors: Theresa da Roza, Willie Pamela Ribeiro, Peter Bradshaw, Seats, Ian Maffan, Tommy Rodrigues, Sylvia Sliva, Freddy James, Charles E. Clark, Mary Grace Asche, Joan Gordon, Nicolas Spoor, Winnie Lo, O. Julebin, Susan Gehring, Edith Ton, Yeung Kit-wa, Reginaldo A. Rocha, Betty Becker, J. 13. Hassan, Paul Vessoona, G. Jhamat, Mo Chu- ting.
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Intermediates: Wendy Barton, Joan Daniel, Lore Korner, Fernando Mar- cal, Joan Thomson, Vera Rumlanzeff. Leslie Dove, Teresa Souza, Donald Marshall. Nena Ozorio, John King, Shirley Toull, Marion Abwee, Fran-
Rozario, Edward els
Pan,
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Juniors: Gerald Marshall, Anthony Cul- cher, Geraldine Silva, Paulino Neubron- ner. S. 8. Bux, David Asche, F. Wong, David Laurel,
David Acche: Thank you very much for your letter. Ink your idea for a competition is splendid and the samples turned out beautifully. Some day soon we shall try that type of competition.
This week, kindles, we are having a colouring competition. You will see that the above picture is of pansies. Now I know you can make excellent paintings or crayonings of the picture af pansies have many varied colours. Please re- member that you do not get red, blue or green pansies,
afe and address Fill in the name, coupon and send your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o Hongkong Telegraph." Wynd- ham Street. The competition closes at 2 pn. on Wednesday,
Happy Easter, kiddien,
Derek Stakoe (aged 12), 4, W Uncle Exidia
Quarters, Kennedy Road.
Shella Helson (aged 9), 17, Gap Road,
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