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June 11, 1940.
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How Much Do You Give Your Wife?
SPOTLIGHT FAMILY
T
ON SOME BUDGETS
to go down on your budget under
HE'question, "How much do you give your wife?" Entertainment.
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 she pay for the heat- 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 handling your income. Ninety- nine per cent. of the men seem to do it the wrong way..
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THE RIGHT WAY. You can add together your war tax, rent, rates, clubs, insurance and any other big bills-in fact, all the bills 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 cigarettes or the cinema at the end of the month. But you do' not lose a single night's sleep
through worry. You don't have la trouble when those little buft en- velopes arrive and hide them be- hind the clock.
THE WRONG WAY. Regulate your own expenditure at roughly the level of that of your friends, Allow your wife as little as you can settle for (because shell certainly overspend it), pay the household Bill promptly when they come in, al put aside whatever is left over. Then when the big bills come in you! And you haven't enough, so you hure mobilisc that $200 you wère keeping to have a holiday,
H
ERE urc five
typical
family systans. Sec
where you fit in.
The man hands
Schome 1. his entire in-
come over to his wife, who gives him back some pocket money.
Huskand gives
Scheme 2. his wife a dress allowance and pays all other bills himself,
Husband gives
Scheme 3. iulike A dress allowance and { house-keeping allowance, and pays all the big bills himself if he can).
A
Scheme 4. Flusband gives
wife at
an allow-
ance and gives himself a definite allowance, instead of just putting his hund in his pocket whenever he wants 'something. Banks the rest of the income-a drßulte surm at the beginning of the month. But no effort is made to reckon whether this sum with prove adequate on quarter day.
Scheme 5. The honour sys-
(em or total muddle. Put all the money in the bank and husband and wife each.. draw cheques when they like, relying on one another not to over-
lo it.
Twenty to 25 per cent. of the housekeeping money may go on something you can't sce-cleaning (including laundry), It seems Irritating spending money just to. stay the same, but that's how it
Roes.
Clothes mean more to a woman- than just coverings to keep out the cold. A good deal of the money she spends on "them really ought
Women are usually reasonably businesslike about Immediate ex- penditure. Few of them can look inore than a week Or two ahead. Quarterly bills catch them un-, prepared. Half-yearly bills foor
tion:
Women
invariably embezzle. Your wife will without a qualm borrow, money from the house- keeping account to enable her to gel that heavenly little hat that's so cheap.
optimists. If
Women are bom your wife gives you an estimate of what she needs for clothes, remem- ber that what she means is: This is the lowest possible sum for which, by the greatest fuck, and if I get everything at a I might be Able to dress
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Take z
a look at your wife. Base on her character. thir, budget Then let her inake her mistakes her
we 'way.
If she has no bend for-fitres, she'll let you do the job and Butter you about your ("veliability."
If she's the determined sort she'll bably settle how you spend your Income, anyway.
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THE FIRST CHESS-the
V. C.
The first V.C. of the war was awarded jast week to Capt. War- burton Lee, R.N., for his exploli al Narvik.
One thousand one hundred and fifty-seven men have received the Victoria Cross, so far. Two of these were given-n--bar -ak well-Lieutenani Aritur Martin- Leake and Captain N. G. Chavasse, both of the R‚A.M.C.
Lieutenant Martin-Leako won the V.0, in 1002, the bar in 1915. Captala Chavassa won the V.C. In 1916, the bar in 1917.
There have been two cases of father and son winning the medal -Lord Roberts in 1856, his son in 1000; Captain Walter Congreve In 1900, his son in 1818.
WES include
The scope of the sward Increased in 1911 to Indian troops.
In 1920 women became eligible for the Victoria Cross.
Nurses of all kinds can now receive this award, and civilians of either sex regularly or tempor- arily "under theforders, direction. or supervision of naval, military or Air Forces of the Empire."
The first V. C. was Midshipman C. D. Luoss, who picked up a shell on the deck of warship
and Dungt overboard. That _was_on_June_29, 1814.
The youngest V.C, was, John Travers Cornwell, sixteen years old, at the baitie of Jutland. The award was made portkum- ously for staying at hils post en the Chester, In aptio of being mortally wounded, until the end of the action."
The Y.C. Is worn before other decorations.
Any
It entities a man below the ranks of commlsaloned officer to. £10 a year, wlih £5 a your ‚ozira: for a barka
The intrinsic value of the cross „¡la: threepence.”; -
THESS has been called "The King
of Games and the Game of Kings." Both in the East and in the West it has had ingunnerable Royal devotees to whom it was un- safe lo say "Checkmate," which means "the King is dend." From
the Eleventh Century onwards, 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 inedineval romances, a knowledge of chess, was taken as #ufficient proof of noble birth. To- day, for the first time in its long und distinguished history, it has become a democratie diversion:
It is not easy to estimate how niany chess-players thero are in the world. In the Introduction to
one of his excellent treatises on its strategy and tactics, Dr. Lasker, n former world's champion, who hus given exhibitions of his profound artistry in every civilised country. estimated the number of players requiring odds of a Queen from any inster at 1,000,000, Fifty thousand would be content with a Rook 20,000 with a Knight, 0,000 with Pawn and Move, and 1,000 could play on equat terms without, how ever, having more than a forlorn hope of victory. He did not take into consideration the vast multi- tude of more "wood-shifters." know little more than the moves.
who
The player without experience of club-play often has a
KroBaly exaggerated Idea of his strength. I remember one of these private that he had prodigles telling me never been beaten-andil was able to place him at once, just as "W. G." knew that the batsman who said he had never been bowled for n blob should be No, 11 on the order of going in, no lower · place being available. A village lyro, who would beat his cronies, wna persuaded to take part in one of Binekwood's exhibitions of simul
KING OF
taneous play. He was soon mopp- ed up, but when asked to describe his experiences proudly explained: "But I chocked (checked) him, and he had to move his King!" Never miss a check he had got as lift n. that fallacious maxim.
Since Lasker's estimate was published the chess-playing popu- lation of the world has vastly in- creased, During the Wor a very large number of young men found that chess was an antidote to every kind of anxiety. In a letter from the Western Front a friend told me int he could forget everything when engaged in a salttle game. When put the bits back in the box," he added, "It seems to me that we have a symbol of death and the life to follow. Like them, we'll be løken out and set up again on the board of life some day.”
When peace broke out, the love of chess spread, new clubs were formed and old ones increased their membership. More than a hundred matches are now played in Lon- don during a single week, and the number of club members there and In the provincial cities and towns
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must run far into live figures, perhaps into six. For every club player there must be len 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 million players in England. It is for the benefit of- the isolated students that I give a clever two-mover which seemed to ne and other experienced disciples of Caissa without any solution- till the entch in the position was disclosed.
GAMES
night" An example of the un- conscious humour which is often notfeed in chess resorts, especially those where what a British cham- pion calls "cafe chess," can 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 ณ win. Hence Blackburne's satirical saying, "It's not the filthy lucre 1 object to so much as the thy fooker-on." It is entertaining to hear regular opponents at skittles Indict one another for thinking over a move too long. "Wake me up when ho moves," says one of them to n spectator, and the other gets his own back by asking, "Is this bed-and-breakfast chess?" Even more amusing is the frequent ex- cuse
the loser of a bout of con- versational chess, "You talked me out of the game."
every In Continental - countries other person can play.chess, which is often taught in the schools. A held in tournament was reccully Russlo, for which there were 700,- seo entries, and a vigorous chess propaganda is being carried on in the United States, which has al- teady produced a number of bril- Hinnt young artists capable of winning international tournaments. 1.should say there are now between 20,000,000 and 30,000,000 chiess players in the world, and each year will see an increase in quality shine, the reasonableness of Euwe- well as quantity.
The reasons why chess is be- coming one of the universal games are not far to acet. In the first pince, it satisfies the innate artistic instinct which· find ro -scope mechanical or 'mensionous occu- pations. Secondly, is a cure for worry you can think of nothing else when involved in n position full of exciting powlkäities.
Tile humbies! novice frets as artless many thrills, out of his effort as the "great master", does out of a game which encis in a blaze
abcrificial of
splendour, Providence seems to collaborate with the former. I well remem- ber an old gentleman at a provin- cial club who had won several ab- aurd skittle games from. mam even. weaker opponent mying with deep "Ratisfaction; "The pieces have been
droppin' very well; for
me to
of
When you have learnt to com- prehend the characteristic style of a super-master-the profundity Lasker, the subtle simplicity of "Capa," the mystic vision of Alck-
you see that chess is a personal
ni 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 game the record of which will be studied a thousand years hence.
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