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June 11, 1940.
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How Much Do You Give Your Wife?
SPOTLIGHT ON SOME
FAMILY
T
BUDGETS
HE question, "How much do you give your wife?" depends on the question, "How many bills do you let her settle?"
Take housekeeping money. Wife buys the food, the cleaning materials, All right. But does slie pay for the heal- ing? What about the odd chemists' bills? Flowers?
So before we tackle this question let us consider the whole question of who pays what and how you spend your money.
There are
two ways of handing your income. nine per cent. of the men seem to do it the wrong way.
Ninety-
THE RIGHT WAY. You can add together your war tax, rent, rates, clubs, insurance and any other big bills-in fact, all the bill which come in quarterly or less frequently-divide the answer by twelve, and religiously put aside this sum of money every month,
This way you may have to do without cigarelles or the cinema ot the end of the month. But you do sicep not luse a single night's through worry. You don't have to trouble when those little buff on velopes arrive and hide them be- hind the clucit.
THE WRONG WAY. Regulate your own expenditure at roughly the level of that of your friends.
your wife Allow your as little as you can settle for (because she'll certainly overspend i), pay the household bitt promptly when they come in, and put aside whatever Is left Then when the big billy -come-in-your-fm-you-haven't enough, so you have to mobilise that $200 you were keeping to have a holiday,
HERE are five
typical
family systems. See
where you fit in.
The man hands
Scheme 1. his entire -
came over to his wife, who gives
him back some pocket money.
Husband gives
Scheme 2. his wife a dress allowance and pays, all other bilia
himself.
Husband Rives Scheme 3. wife
allowance und
a dress house-keeping
allowance, and pays all the big bills himself if he can);
Husband gives
Scheme 4. wife an allow ance and gives himself a definite allowance, instead of just putting his hand in his pocket whenever wants something. Banks the rest of the income-2 deßulte sum at the beginning of the month. But no effort is made to reckon whether this sum will prove adequate on quarter day.
The-honour sys-
Scheme 5. • -~· Lent; ~~~~~ (7 ptola?-
muddle. Put all the money in the bank, and husband and wife, each draw cheques when they relying on one another unt to over- do it.
Now
when it
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like.
making year wife 121
allowbuce remember. these fou
points:
Twenty to 25 per cent. u Ute housekeeping money may go on omething; you can't see-cleaning It seems (including laundry). Irritating spending money just to stay the same, but that's how it K.
Clothe mean more to a woman than Just coverings to keep out the cukl. A good deal of the money she spends on them really ought
to go down on your budget inder Entertainment.
Women are usually reasonably Immediate ex- businesslike about penditure. Few of them can look more than a week or two ahead. Quarterly tils catch them un- prepared. Half-yearly bills floor them.
Women Invariably embezzle. Your wife will without a qualm horrow money from the house- keeping: tccount to enable her to Aet that heavenly little hat that's so cheap.
Women are born optimists. If your wife gives you an estimate of what she needs for clothes, remem-. ber that what she means la: "This is the lowest possible 'sum for which, by the greatest luck, and if i get everything at a sale, I might be able to dress myself."
Take look at your wife, Base her character. your budget on Then let her malce her mistakes her own way.
If she has no head for figures, she'll let you do the job au flatter you about your "reliability."
If he's the determined sort she'll probably settle how you spend your income, anyway.
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The first V.C, of the war was awarded last week to Capt. War- burton Lee, R.N., for his exploit at Norvik.
Ons thousand one hundred and fifty-seven men have received the Victoria Cross, so far. Two of these were given bar as well-Lieutenan! Arthur Martin- Lenke and Captain N. G. Chavisse, both of the R.AC.
Lieutenant Martin-Leake won the V.C. In 1902, the bar in 1915. Captain Chavasse won the V.C. In 1816, the bar in 1917.
There have been two cases of father and son winning the medal -Lord Roberts In 1858, his son in 1900: Captain Walter Congreve In 1900, his son in 1916.
The scope of the award was Include increased in 1911 to
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In.......1920 women became ellable for the Victoria Cross. “Nartés' of all kinds can now
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HESS has been called "The King CHEE
of Games and the Game of Kings.
Both In the East and in
the West has had innumerable Royal devoters to whom it was no- safe to say "Checkmule," which ments the King is dead-From the Eleventh Century onwgods, when it was introduced into Europe from the East, probably by return- ed Crusaders, it was the favourite game of the nobility. Indeed, as you find in the medineval romances. a knowledge of chess was taken as sufßeient proof of noble birth. To- duy, for the first time in Its lone and distinguished history, it has become a democratic diversion,
It is not easy to estimate how many chess-players there are in the world. in the introduction to one of his excellent treatises on its strategy and tactles, Dr. Lasker, a former world's champion, who has given exhibitions of his profound artistry in every elvillsed country, estimated the number of pinyers requiring
Queen from any odds nf master at 1,000,000. Fifty thousand
content would be:
with a Rock, 20,000 with 4 a Knight, 6,000
with and Move, and 1,000 could Pawn
on equal terms without, how- ever, having more than a forlorn hope of victory. He did not take into consideration the vast multi-
shell on the deck of a walletude of nerowood shifters," who
overboard. Thut It
:-)
and flung was on June 20, 1854.
The youngent" V.C, was "Jatin Travers Cornwell, sixteen years old, at the battle of Juliand. The award was made posthum ously for "staying at his post on the Chester. In xpile of being mortally wounded, until the end of the action,":
The V.D. is worn before any other decorations,
It entities a man: below the ranks of commissioned officer. ∙to £10 a year, with £5 a year
exita for a bar,
The Intrinsio value of the cross- in-threepësoÓ, A
know ittle more than the moves,
•
The player without experience of club-play often has a grossly exaggerated idea of his strength. I remember of these private
ono
that bo had prodigies telling me never-beer beaten-and
was able
1
to place him at once, just as "V. G. knew that the batsman who said he had never been howled for. a blob should be No. 11 on the order of going in, no. lower place. being available. A villige tyro, who would beat his cronies, wan persuaded to take part in one of Blackwood's exhibitions of. sumul-
KING OF
taneous play. He was soon mopp ed up, but when asked to describe his experiences proudly explained: "But I chooked (checked) him, and he had move his King!" Never miss a check! he had got as far
as that fallacious maxin,
Since
was
Lasker'a estimate published the chess playing popu- Intion of the world has vastly In- creused. During the War a very
· large number, of young men found -that chess was an antiinfe to every kind of anxiety. In a-letter; from the Western Front a friend told me
that he could forgel everything- when engaged in a skiltle game. "When I put the bits back in the box," he added, "It seerns", to` me that we have a symbol of death and the life to follow. Like them, we'll be taken out and set up again on the board of life someday.*
When peace broke all, the love of chess spread, new clubs were formed and old ones increased their membership. More than a hundred
must run far into five figures,
For every club perhaps into six. player there must be ten who are content to play at home, trying to solve problems and studying the published games of masters, if they _know_the_ notation. There may be three-quarters of a inition players in England. It is
is for the benefit of the Isolated students that I give a clever two-mover which seemed to me and other experienced disciples ut Coisso without any solution-l till the entch in the position was disclosed.
In Continental" countries "every other person can play chess, which is often taught in the schools. A -tournament was recently held in Russia, for which there were 700,- UCO entries, and a vigorous chess propaganda is being carried on in the United States, which has al- ready produced a number of bril-
lant
artists
of young winning International tournaments. I should say there are now between 20,000,000 and 50,000,000 chess players in the World, and each year will see an Increase, in quality as well as quantity.
capable
The reasons why chess is be- coming one of the universal games In the firal are not far to seek. place, it satisfles the innate artistic instinct which find no ∙scape. In' mechanical or monotonous occu pations, Suceridly, it is a cure for worry you can think of nothing else when involved in a position full of exciting possibilties.
The humblest novice gets an many thrills out of his artless. effort as the "great moster" does out of a game- which ends in a binze of sacrificial ⠀ splendour. Provideucescens to collaborate with the former. I well remoņi- ber nn old gentleman at a provin- tial club who had won several ab-:
matelies are now played In Londrck- skills games from an even:
tton during a single week, and the number of club members there and
In the provincial cities and towns
weaker opponent saying with desp satisfaction: "The pieces have been droppin' Every well for me to-
GAMES
example of the un- night." An consciotis humour which is often noticed in chess resorts, especially those where what a British cham- plon calls "cafe chess," eun be seen in full effervescence.
Thus, the less an onlooker knows about it all the more ready he is.to tell you just where you missed a win. Hence Blackburne's satirical saying, "It's not the filthy lucre i object to so much as the filthy locker-on. It is entertaining to hear regular opponents at skittles indlet one another for thinking over a move loo long. "Wake ̈me ́up when he moves," says one of then to a spectator, and the other gets his own back by asking, "Is this bed-and-breakfast chess?" more amusing is the frequent ex- cuse of the loser of a bout of con- versational chess, "You talked me out of the game."
Even
When you have learnt to com- prehend the characteristic style of a of profundity super-master-the
Dimplicity of Lasker, the subtle "Capa," the mystic vision of Aick- hine, the reasonableness of Euwe- you see that chess is a personal art. And, sometimes by taking thought but more often by happy accident, you yourself may make a picture on the board and collaborate in a gune the record of which will be
ified a thousand years hence.
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