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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950.
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An Oxford Man Is King
Of This Island
21
NE of the world's last
private monarchs, handsome young Ox- ford graduate, is beginning his life's work as king of a glamorous tropical paradise.
On his coming-of-age last year, John Clunles-Ross in- herited a £2,500,000 for tune and became king of the Cocos Islands—fifth ruler of chis--remarkable-family
Utopia
By MARK PRIESTLEY
the governehip
ot
In 1088 Que Victoria granted the Ross family a 899 years' Royal charter "io have and to hold for ever."
Diseases which plague the within outer world, such as cancer and Singapore. tuberculosis, are unknown, and the expectation of long life is a
common heritage.
Though colonists
on islands have often paid
altained
other
NO!
-to this quiz
ITTODAY Edward Kaufmann-30 years a barrister, dealing with divorce cases gives you his Four-Fields Test. His experience is that happy husbands and wives each score an average of more than 50 in thec' or more of the four fields of Interest. Husbands and
questions separately.
means: You wives should answer the have a happy marriage
INTELLECTUAL Field under control with the re-
mark: Ten points for every "No"
"I'll tell your father"?
1. Do you think that a 9. WOULD you be in- wife cannot be expected to ellned to tell your parents understand her husband's if there were a quarrel in workaday affairs outside your home? the home?
10. SHOULD father. best wait to share
his
when
2. DO you generally pre- children's intereats fer to spend an evening they are older? with friends-or At the pictures-rather than 2111 PHYSICAL Field evening at home?
Ten points for avery "No"
wife alway
3. DO you resent 1. DOES your changes in the home-the wear curlers at night (or does occasional moving round of your husband never shave before furniture, wall - pictures, he goes to bedz? ornaments?
2. Do you feel discontentea) 4. SHOULD a wife ac- your married life? with the physical cept unquestioningly that 3. IS in long her husband's opinions are your the right ones?
5. SHOULD a husband
nspects of
time since
wile/husband compu- mented you on your appearance? 4. DO you think a wife
Inslat that his wife gives husband
should go shopping without her
up her friends if he dlanp- proves of their views?
ed since your wedding?
when she is buying new clothes?
you
like
5. DOES your wife/husband) 6. DO you think that often become lively at 1k manners and language in moment when Inlling asleep? your home have deteriorat-
G. COULD you say that the morning farewell, the evening 7. Do you think that a greeting, during the
week wife has quite enough to do always follows the same at home without bothering paltern?
7. DO
you think that the to take up outside in importance of the physical side terests ?
of marriage is much over-rated?
8 DO you think that a 5. DO you sometimes with husband is demeaning him that your wife/husband were
younger?
While spinnch and tomatoes self if he helps with the furish, lattuce grows with awashing-up? bitter taste and carrots split. Coconuts and bananas #trive 9. DO you think that but apples and pears cannot dinner in a restaurant must be grown. There are no bees always be more stimulat- to assist pollination.
ing than a dinner at home?
Today, the Clunies-Ross family claim that it costs £10 COO a year to run the island and its people, bringing shipments of food every months, buying clothes
the Boredom at bay her supplies on the
the same
em-
to imitate they never Success.
Cocos-Keeling T
"und.
in
four and
main-
of fats hus
dynasty. His 1,800 happy family the compliment of trying subjects have welcomed him
Palace" the Idyllic pattern, THEIR "Buckingham
On the other hand, exports home with five hectic weeks
Is the stene-built Oézania. of copra are running at 500 of feasting and fireworks.
House on the square-mile ex- tons a year and the present pense of Home Island, largest of world shoringe the group. With its 14 bedrooms, brought the price up to £60 a Billards-room ned 10,000-book four bathrooms, ballroom, ton, library, it forms a firm tribute to Ross toil and ingenuity.
group
As a tiny child he barked from the palm has a natural climate alvanlage thatched landing stage and and the Ross family deserve all came to England for an up- the bringing in
English home.
rest of the ordinary observer explalos IL
It was always intended that he should return, but
credit,"
an
a turnover of £30,000.
Bone money
Sone of the bathtubs were VERY few years a Birming- carried nearly 2,000 miles from ham factory receives
and
Passing seasons Australia.
10. DO you find it easier to talk with strangers than with your husband/wife?
FAMILY · Field
Ten points for ovary "No"
1. DO you get on badly with your in-laws?
2. Do you compare your marriage unfavourably
9. WERE
you disappointed with the first few months of your married life?
10. DO you think that enough guide for the "natural instincts" are a good intimate side of marriage?
ECONOMICAL Field
Ten points for avery "No"
1 DO money toples torm n major purt of your conversa- tion?
2. SHOULD a husband keep s full earnings a secret from his wife?
should not have money of her 3. Do you feel that a wife
own to spend as she pleases?
with the way your Own 4. DOES t worry you that parents got on at home?
3. ARE jchildren?
you
you te "not keeping up with without the Jones's"?
5. SHOULD a husband auto- matically hav
have sole control over
1. DO you think it is
6. Do you reproach your.
Bght-switches order in mint several thousand more important for a wif the finances in the home? and blinds were transported bone dises with the Ross family to give attention to her husband (or does your husband SLES of perpetual
1.300 miles from Colombo, suremer
crest. Value: at one rupee, children than to her hus- reproach you) over the 10-acre garden the this posses JA his
and for money, strung aeroas 55 miles of blue howe
King John
will be Cocos youngsters Oxford cafe, John shyly ocean. sea breezes keep the able 10 tend to es brought payroll at 14. confessed to me that he unbearable heat of the troples there by the first Clunies-Ross, British the only would scaredy remember at bay, maintain
steady Practically
roses in such elimes to retain
the war
intervened. In an
"
After two
O 011 the
band?
5. ARE
training, years'
muncy is
7. SHOULD Cach week?
a wite expect to ask her husband each week for the housekeeping
allowance? 8. IF a husband hands over
way the
you resentful of your mother-in-law's it come are given jobs as electerest in your affairs? tricians, house or boat builders, 6. DO you disagree with the housekeeping money withour Yet the gardens would wither fitters and so on, while others each other on the best way question should the wife then
not work on the copra plantations, to bring up children?
to or at gardening, island hygiene,
and other work.
the islands, with their flush temperature of 9 degrees, and their perfune cd sunsets and blue lagoons. rainfalį is evenly spread over Yet ever since his father, the year. king Sidney 1. died during a Japanese nir attack, the seacons, the
if tons of koll
were Imported and mid-handed To denote tlie passing the garden every year.
With some of the leaves shavel m
British dusky-skinned natives have the full, only to be succceled personnel from the cable" sta awaited their young "tuan by a twinkling of fresh, buds a tion in nearby Direction Island, John can enjoy 2 round of governor" with growing ex fe days later.
golf. Swimming, tennis citement.
When bluff John Clunier-en-fishing keep boredorn safe Rose decided settle in the ly at bay.
"It is his destiny," says Lands back in 1825 they were
his mother.
Virtual queen
uninhabited. To this day the vast bulk of foodstuff has to be imported.
One-time
FORMERLY a London busi- Greerland
ness girl, she married Sid- transferred
apprentice
whaler, old John to the sailing
ney Clunies-Ross-he was merchantmen of the East India
Co. much her sentor-and her.
and
keep her
the Personal
begrudge
on
household budget problems to herself? 7. Do you think it best 0. DO
you should
Le money spent Part of the wages is paid in that children the free Issue of such food-Į packed quickly uff to bed pleasures? stuffs as rice and four.
when father comes home in Nearly one-fourth of all
the evening? wagen, however, are banked with the State and are under 8. DO you think
WHERE
EE the island of a
thousand
gorgeous self spent 20 years on the This gave him the idea of girls. Semi-weekly sailings. for See the most typical part of islands as virtual queen and making the Cocus a depot
selling East Indio goods to ships Spain and judge beauty the only white woman homeward bound, from Aus- there.
tralia.
for yourself...."
careful supervision.
children should
be kept
TO
BUY
A
By Roger Boutell
D 10. SHOULD *husband insist that his wife sccounts for every penny that she ende?
(London Express Service)
BRIDE
Moderne, are $0 eminently respectable that parents seeking a marriage settlement for their tens read them week by week from cover to cover.
The
joune filles mention The ugler the girl, the Ing and definito pick-up rules. modestly that. they will In- grouter the glitter. She has Under tho, eucalyptus trees, hert, or have expectations or Starting in partnership with Who could resist such an had more time to collect, Sur- hawkers are selling tame birds an income. In their peaceful solitude,
"Moral qualities ancther sallorly adventurer, invitation? In ail Europe veying the glittering
"Har- 1,280 miles southeast of Alexander Hare, old John there is probably no
march in capes., Lone girl coon pity- essential," pay the ads. wider past, a prospective bridegroom Ingly over poor tile cagad monious marriage with officer Singapore, the Cocos Isunched the depot with a
desired."
Photographs, Inlands enshrine an almost pioneer
marriage market than the san choose between the latest bird; boy gallantly buys bird most band of Maloy and
hire In good-lookers от the for the girl to release. The bird however, have been left at Utopian social system.
Javanese workers. but the Sunday parade of bridal dames with a dowry. He takes flutters away....boy has met editorial' headquarters "to be scheme never worked out.
bargains in the luscious a blend of both if he can.
Girli
communicated with the greatest Mediterranean isle of Ibiza.
discretion."
There is RO unemploy-
ment, food supplies and free Hare's harem
medical services
are
guaranteed, widows and HR
TIARE treated his employees
Vties.
1
times!
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wedding gazoites in Britain, and a strange world they open of spinsters, refined
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Yet, just across the Mediter- ranean, in Morocco, a prospec- tive husband buys blind and rever sees the face of his fatherless
Blaves,
A inaugurated children receive harem, and was soon disputing.
beide until he has made a cash How are the Zags bureaux and considered attractive, State care, and at 65 those sovereignty.
settlement and consummated, in Moscow All the unmarried males the wedding. The safeguard is they have
faring, now
that preciative of home life, wish-
gentlemen" who wish may cease. work.
tightened up Gradually his slaves began line the gay white cobbled that, to get
the in to meet a divorce, deserting to Clunies Ross to
you marriage laws? Queues used to between 33 and 45, height 5 and draw half-pay for the escape their master's eccentricl-street, and at the stroke of merely say, "Talak!" three line nt. the Zags (registration ft. 4 inches to 5 ft. 10"," rest of their lives.
noon all the eligible women
of elvli acts) offices, and cou- Bachelors, who generally be- Vara On marriage, very
sweep into the Pasco
And if Gao, on the fly-rid- ples walked out as man and Though Ross promptly re-
found advertising for "thor- young couple is presented, turned the deseriers, when they de Rey in their hundreds, den Niger, though: wife-buying wife after filling to a form. in to advertise at 26, are still
is Torbidden by law, graceful Divorce-fees two roubles a second time he There are senoritas short adler with the minimum
domestle helpmeets with a free house and farni- allowed them
'Bled to him
oughly
·was just ns' casy.. of to remain, and and
af 03. The spinsters (are ever- tall, brunette turc.
and covering parade once a ytor.
thirties. whelmingly in their appealed to the British Govern-blond; there are a few alim for an understanding."...
Since it was illegal to sub- Mentet che's assigned living quar- widows" strike an average age The "affectionate, and folly Through the Clunies-Ross
ones, but mostly the girls
.9% from térd, lodgers, sometimes-mar- bank and importing agency rawer to his appeal, Alexander in the beam, weiring four?''
When a warship arrived in are brown-eyed and broad-
ried their landladres girl at 35. they can
with a room to herself, could ha also buy such Hare fed the islands for ever.
always count on offers of mar... luxuries as sewing machines,
or five flouncy petticoats gramophones, watches and and, the remnants of the habit
The 175 imported Asiatics peasant pin-ups,
riage. Too city?"; The Boyjets
adlydron jewellery with Clunies-Ross became the great-grandparents currency.
of the third-generation dives live cashed the family for rum he has paid for his mate now, in the islands.
tune into "gold and hung it and glis hang?their headstat Perfected by theBoss Takigu: stock of his dynarty through
the years, sources,
old John launched By, Ibizan custom the gold five pound in ca ranky is a high standard of out there
anew, with
copra and ornaments indicate social pal blue-plate special. * Being kels of all Pacianie utilypo living.
cocokutulland, struck the tion as well, ipgprospective bought by Instalments, Crime le at vanishing point **fatlipot.**
- dowry: "Chalos and-- peridants, esboning-diegrade Delinquents fear the classic In 1857 the Cocoa were lockets and crosses, cupids, There is the Easter monkey stands for leune fille, brunette. tary hopeful, filles up, form. liland punishment of "banish formerly declared a British celns everything they have li crawl on the Ramblas in Bar- Some
sing....shosts, Thanks, I wouldḥ sathari, tako ment to chvilkention,"
possession is stili nominally on show.
celona, with Its flower-throw- notably Hymen and Marriage the Ibiza weekly carnivall
ment for support.
What is a brides worth? Ten thought to
Loaded with Jewellery, they husband likes to boast, of the Vale RUE FAYETTER! social
Cents, is a poor man's price. A costs:110: 7 Layoubles as theyall-Just a little up-
renkling. around their necks. being sold tod ́chenply. Twentye kutom
They live, in a world of mimente," the Path ere "good-tempered "and"very | trimonial) mer sea shafes bi isply cosple
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