SATURDAY AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE
A husband
was SO
helpful...
By BILLY ROSE
LAST week, at a Martini
purly, I ran into a girl since 445,
I hadn't
Been
when she prettied up the chorus line of a big revue I
produced that season.
"How goes 117" I said,
"No
complaints," aald the
girl. "I'm married to that good- looking fella over by the can- apes-the one with the football shoulders,"
"Funny," I said,
"I thought
Yon were hilched to a nucli older man."
"I was," said the
chorine.
"This is my second husband."
"What was wrong with Num-
ber One?"
64 JOTHING," Laid
been Two,"
"except
In love
the girl.
I've
always with Number
"Why didn't you marry him
in the first place?"
"He never used me."
"Maybe you played hard to Bet."
"Not s's you could nottee it," said the girl. "I tried my durnedest for over a year, but ! Fle could never pin him down. hur.....what you'd coll_a, m complex, and when his old lady paid she didn't want arboru
in the family, That was
Kiri
that."
you married the elder
man In gel even."
"That's about it.
And the
first year of our marriage, J thought it was for heeps.
*
was kind to
tor.
tough he wasn't exactly Clark Gable, he mule up for it in al lot of other ways. You know- security, clothes and that sort of this."
"Why did you leave him?"
"Couldn't help myself," sakd the chorine. "One day I hop- pened to meet Football Should- ers on Fifth Aventie and we dropped into the St Regis for n cocktail. And the minute I looked into his baby bites again I realised there was no point in kicking myself.
"Bat when I startet toting
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.
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NOW WHERE WAS I?.
oh, yos, IN DARKEST AFRICA
Four Just
Men sorted
out the cows
KAJADO, KENYA.
HE case of Namile ole Sitelu v. Partanga ole Siteh was heard in
of the
about rening a divine, helthe court
went dance.
into h... old song and
Sure, he loved me, but Commissioner at
District Kajiado
he wasn't makinat tots ich this week. It concerned the salary, and he didn't know how ownership of 128 cattle. 12 hic mother would take it, and donkeys and 85 goats, and Jon behalf of the Press i at-
aware of the same trous.
"This time, however, in tend tended.
of walking out runt hit 1 played
it smart. 1 told hat h. might to The cap had already No amt
seen psychiatrist tan been hard by the elders of auce and for all he ought to find
the trim at a band court put what was really bothering held under a tres, and it was dismissed with costs (1908. or one cow),
hits.
In the old days the plain-
by
BERNARD WICKSTEED
Neither of them was legally represented, but the plaintif
THE NEW TRAPS TO WRECK
W
HEN
two, people
havo been married for ten years or more they are less likely to be aren in the consulting room of any marriage coun- sellor,
A MARRIAGE
By "A PSYCHOLOGIST"
the best
wrecking
There was certainly no other woman in Tom's life, nor in the lives of most of the husbands serving overseas. And that talk She looked up to him in 1040,
of Americana she almost despises him now. He and Joan? I brought the matter up when both of them were in has lost his glamour as in-
CASE ONE: Dorothy came to the consulting room. One Christ- At mas he had gone down to the nee me about her husband. one point in her story of domestic local pub for a drink with the
not
neighbours. An American wan trouble I interposed: "Why
In the bar. It was a gay evening that give up your own lob?"
and the American came home with Joan.
traps that have been marriage in the past ten years. that have turned out
Admittedly there are marriage
to barily. and are such n. danger to both Either they
parties, that
advice are making the best of their married fe or must be divorce.
But so many marriages they are eager to get straight to the divorce court without seem hopeless to the husbands waiting for a third party's and wives can be easily saved with an outsider's expert advice. subering advice.
Look ut one case, Lyrical of many since the end of the war. The husband has lost prestige in
were
who So the peuple happily married in 1940 and now feel unhappy are in danger of falling straight into the nower the eyes of his wife.
'Jim Crow' laws are challenged
ECAUSE
are
BE
By FREDERICK COOK
She said: "Nonsense, doctor. We could not afford a nanny to look after the baby without the
£800 a year I earn now.
"No-the trouble in that my husband is not the man I mar ried. Since he was demobbed ho seems lifeless, just back at his "old job and earning less than I am. He seems too scared to seek anything better."
Her true self
Then she posed the query that exposed her true self,
She mald: "He got a little fresh In the porch and I told him off. ffe apologined and went away." The neighbours didn't know that
and Joan, with a woman's love for a secret, did not enlighten them.
The war coused other mar-
ringo problems which lead to the divorce lists. There are the who married young widows
again. Many of their second have gone narringes neem to wrong. But look deeper into the domestic the She asked me: "Do you think background of I ought to leave him for his own friction as in- anke? Perhaps a domesticated CASE THREE: Here is Bea- little thing might be better for trice who, at 10, married a young him."
Air Force pilot in the summer "CASEBOOK NOTE: Dorothy's of 1930, 1e was killed a year Now York. restaurants, clubs and houses.
decision will affect the wartime job that ified her into Inter. their skins The
whole way of life of all Ameri-a career as a highly paid secre black, ten Ameri-
white or
black, ittary had blinded her to the truth overtum the
"domestl- legal that she was still a cans in every hundred may-should
cated little thing" herself. not go into most of their doctrines of the past.
At
is the doctrine stake
In trying to be hard and country's restaurants, how- which
rince
has efficient she is pushing against ever
the judicial ever hungry they may be formed
basis of her nature, custom of per- I persunded her to leave her In trains travelling through the American
enly strond-job. As soon as she began to run certain States they must sit milting negroes
the clusa citizenship.
house herreif she was happier in separate cars, a race
even without the nanny. Her husband way happier, too, be apart.
his self-confidence came
every
themselves.
curious
cang,
1096
tury ago held that coloured Her
ה
suspicions
She thought she would never Ket over his loss--but near the end of the war she married man 20 years older dinn herself. common *x- That was perience for young widows. The shock drew them to new partners who could give them stablilty, a
sense
have
of security.
Beatrice told me: "I think I made a big mistake." CASEBOOK NOTE: Aware- ness of the real trouble is the biggest step in making the second marriage a success. Beatrice's
and bas got over the ntage
Examine another type of of boy-meets-girl romantielam- wrecked marriage arising as an but Beatrice is still living in the aftermath of war years. It is past with the idealised vision of tragic, because it might so easily her young first husband.
Twelve words
have been saved.
thinking of Tom and ain
Joan, who had been married six...
The rule said— The doctrine laid down by [cause They are barred from some
cen-back. universities altogether, adinttrell the Supreme Court half a to others only if they sit at a
citizens were entitled to equal lesk out in the passage by an
but had
parate open tour through which they rights,
status. Acting on this, can hear the professor.
Landlords will not let then, Southern States even eats in Hats or houses. In the south, parks and along the streets are thought they must be careful to marked White Only or Coloured Which F negro citizen wife, man Mister, Only. call thay may not be co-addressed-en he cannot be buried in a
""white"" cemetery.
months when he was rent abroad
With the best will in the world The Attomey-General, who month a
-for nearly four years. They, it is possible for this marriage to But next
In has stepped inte the test care are:- attempt is being launched
CASE TWO: Joan told me in drift apart unless both partners the American court to put an now leading a parade of such end to "Jim Crow"-curious cases, maintains that a Southem the cansalting room: "When he realise the cause of their difflcut-
ties. railway company had no right first came back he did not seem because it reveals within the
Knowing only the experiener I 10 so terribly pleased with ine as that made their Government an
to force a negro passenger
"Immaturo" of living with an exact parallel
part of the expected. earrings away the elders agreed for the deep,
her new. wide split sit in a certain
partner she mistakes "One evening I suggested that diner. that this might so. The running through American life. woman tad borne the dead
He has intervened Separate but equal'
also in Derlings he had met some other husband's more mature character man a son, and under the law
ng "incompatibility of tempera- the case of u negro sceking Kirl abroad. In return, be taunted
Ment" of the tribe she was thereforement are trying for a Supreme Oklahoma on a non-segregated cans you've been entertaining?" One half of the U.S. Go admittance to the University of me with What about the Anterl- entitled to Inherit the property court ruling that "separate but
It was a nasty thing to say. equal" treatment for negroes is
CASEBOOK NOTE: The only In a third case, a negro in not the same thing as full and
their lives was Texas is seeking enrolment in trouble with equal rights.
the University law school in-suspicion in their own minds.
To troubled couples, those last Jonn did not realise that the 12 words are stead of being obliged to re-
worth As much arden! lover of 1940 had come thought now as they once gave back a more settled,
matured
With nods
The mother
WELL, why hadn't sho got it, then? Because she'd been chased away, and no longer lived with her mother-in-law.
The mother-in-law was brought into court. She was bald, und carried a sack of something over her shoulder.
As p wilues; she was a fallure because she wouldn't speak a word, but as material evidence she was more impressive. The Press made a note that if living with her
n condition of owning the
cattle,
the widow night well have left home of her own accord.
WIB
"Now then," said the D.C. to the plaintif. "This woman was the
mother of
your dend brother. Is she also Jour mother?"
The Press thought it seemed a silly question, but it wasn't
"No, she is not my mother," said the plaintiff. "She's my
had spent the price of a sheep half silly as the answer.
90
getling 1/1 Indinn pro-
fessional letter writer to put sister."
down his case in English,
The Indian hd typed it out
are
ti Namile (ote simply on a sheet of foulsenp, and made WELL. It worked. Inside of means “son of") would have the plainder sign it in purple "W
thumb print. It NIX months the brain either accepted the decision in with his doctor I sent him to had un of the elders
a begant or stuck
"Statement-We tangled
It was that whatever Was
three brothers and two of us do
mother, divorce married."
keeping him lied to his spear in the defendant and and the day after my pinched the cattle himself. came through we got
"That psychiatrist must he
The appeal
D.C.
"Say that again," said the
To make it more simple the man put it another way round. He said: "My brother's mother was my father's daughter."
The D.C. appealed
to the
elders. It was quite simple, they answered. The wornan elder
not dispute over our property us the plaintiff's sister. One but our third brother ly.
"I am
day when sho was alone a stranger came by. Afterwards the eldest and my the had a goll, atree together, Under their
quile a guy," I said. "Where's UNDER the Pax Britan. Second bruther
office, in case I ever get
skull trouble?"
wife
ฤษ
tribal lows a
he may as the stranger was never secu
nica he now has a third but our third brother has chased child must have a father, and "I'll write it down for you," (or two more cows) he can inherit the cattle. According to again the boy was accepted as
said
"choice." For a fee of 2008. away his
the chorine, and if you appeal to the
see him, be sure to mention my District
Manic"
"WI do," I said.
BUG,"
custum possible...."
court of the our Commissioner
who is known for short as the D.C.
I
this Is Im- the son of the girl's father.
made him the brother of his
und own uncles,
his mother his sister, but whal "Well," said the D.C., a blond became young Solomon in shorts and was wrong with that?
The case was now working up an open-necked shirt, "the first this court
the plaintiff thing to do in a case like this to a climax, and to the plaintiff is to get out a family tree and the D.C. said: "Supposing you appealed. and the case
before Mir Leslie find out whose brother is who,"
former medical student. who chucked up his studies to join the Army, and
Τυ "You
she went on, "he's the fellow I was married | Dow
first, and I want him to opened know have his Interests at Pritchard, heart."
to
-London Express Servies.
vice.
ORISCH
CONCERT
CELLO
RECITAL
Thanks for carrying me
out, pat Your Addtés in cell
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London Express Service. –
1
The witness
will.
What will you do with
the
The man glanced uneasily at the elders, quared his shoul-
site. the donkeys, and the
De
The other half WRI thrown into the sente In on attempt to prove that it in.
Involved in the outcome are traius and theatres, hotels,
bazis.
gister at a separate law school set up for negro students.
-London Express Service.
It is a misunderstanding that can be cleared up in a psychia- trist's consulting room. Tho real answer does not lie in the divorce court at all.
man. Their adjustment to each to their marringe vows, other had altered. That was all.
-London Express Service.
What's the Good News About Pneumonia?
inter entered the Colonial Ser- THE D. C. doesn't speak this ders, and said boldly: "I would Masal language which parties to the case understood, give them to the
widow," There were 27 members of and the court Interpreter doesn't the general public in court. speak English. But they both Some of them had walked 100 know Swahili. So the witness elders at this, and one of them Q. What's now in pneumonia treatment?
milen rough country infested replied in Masal, the interpre with leopard and Hon. Speats ter put it into Swahili and the were left outside, but several D.C, then wrote it down in Eng- of the spectators carried y sh. swatters and back scratchers.
house
in
The court
is 2de south of the Equator, but spite of the heat the public sat or ariny huddled in blanketa greatcoats.
The dispute
a wooden bench in front
His first question was: "This
rd brother
who hng chased nway his wife, is he the defen- dant, Partunga?"
"You"
dead man's
There was a titter from the
said: "But she has been chased away.""
New drugs administered by your docter can save 9 out of 10 pneumonia suffererst
A. Many thousands of pneumonia sufferers today give thanks for the new drugs that saved their lives. With the help of these new drugs, most pneumonia cases can be cured. But treatment must be started early
The judgment VERY well, then, he'd take
them to her father's boma enough, for pneumonia is a crafty killer. 180 miles away. (More laugh-. ter in court.) No, he did not Even today, if a patient is run-down, has Interd
to marry the girl him little resistance, pneumonia can kill before selt. Ho had spent J00s.
(or the new drugs can get a chance to act. How three cows) on the case to aco
can you outwit picuinonia? Know when The D.C. tapped the table. the danger threatens [ "Since you say this on oath wo
"Whose wife has he chased Justice done, away?"
"The
of them were four old men, brother wife of my second have to belleve you," he said.
as ragged as, and a good deal whom I agree." more wrinkled than, the rest. These
the were
stipendiary elders, who are paid to attend court and advise the D. C. In tribal law.
to the disn
"Is Tomanga in court?" "No, he couldn't come. dead."
He's
"Ah," said the D.C., turning The two parties pute stood one each side of the to the stipendiary elders. "Well, D.C.'s table, and look an call surely the cattle now belong to who has which sounded like: "Go and the widow, the one
been chased away." get your hair cut."
(Renewed laughter in court,) However, as you say the cattlo will go to the Indy if you win, 1 think it would be better if sho comes here and claims them herself. Appeal dismissed."
"I don't know about you?” ¦ said Solomon to the Pross as the court cleared, "but I could do with a beer.**
-London Express Service,
Rust-color spulum
Fever
Pain inside of chest
Coughing
Rapid,
labored
breathing
Sevare
chills
Warning Signals
Be alert. Mizumonia may lurk behind these warnings. Fever, especially, means: Call your doctor; go to bed!
Q. What are the warnings of proumonia? A. Pneumonia is a serious inflammation of the lungs and very infectious. It strikes you at these vulnerable times:
1. when you're chilled or overheated.
2. when you're overtired, run-down.
3. when you have a cold, influena,
or bronchitis.
4. when you've been weakened by an
operation, accident, or injury,
If you're under par, and a fever appears— calling a doctor promptly may save you!
This is one of a series of articles on basic health problems. In them you will discover how faithful co-operation with your doctor can not only safeguard, but improve your daily well-being, your chances for a long and healthy life
When is it foolish not to see your doctor? When you feel a bad cold coming on!
Q. What 3 stops often fall pneumonia? A. If you begin to sneeze, repeatedly, feel you're getting a cold, do these three things: (1) go to bed, if possible; (2) drink plenty of water, fruit juices, milk; (3) check with your doctor. Pneumonia is expensive, can keep you in bed many weeks. And you're risking your life! Don't give pneumonia germs a chance. Remember, a cold can be the fore- runner of pneumonia. Attack it intelligently by going to bed and calling a doctor immediately!
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