1937-12-08 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL, DECEMBER 8, 1937.

WHEN 64 WEDS

But who are we to decide without It is the privilege and responsibil- loving my aunt I am wrong, unclean, ity of the psychologist to be told wicked. I know that the thought knowing more than the ages of two lovers whether their marriage will things of fascinating interestis torturing her too. that few, even doctors and priests. Are we both disgusting creatures bring happiness to those who seek

for just the tragic victims of cir-it? ever hear.

Here are two unusually fascinat- ing letters from my postbag. Both touch on the same topic from an in- terestingly different angle.

The first from a girl of twenty- threes

"When Bob first took me home I was immediately fascinated by his widowed father. Now that I am

Well

nces

From time to time, you read of a much older man marrying a young girl or vice versa.

Only the foolish judge without facts Jadequate knowledge of the

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CLEVER IDEAS

Removing Varnish: To remove varnish rub with methylated spirit. and circumstances.

If this fails, rub with turpentine -And only those who are cruel as well as foolish will persecute those and, while still damp, remove var- they have not taken the trouble to nish with a safety razor blade understand:

To Re Thread Beads: You

can

At the same time. There is a normal and passing quite easily re-thread beads at home. Few things infuriate me more engaged to Bob, this fascination than the barrage of persecution to phase with boys and girls when Take a piece of thread, not too short, has grown until it has become un-which these unhappy people are sub- they fall in love with someone much stiffen with ordinary toilet soap so

controllable.

"Bob and his dad are alike, many ways but there are differ ences, big differences.

¡mitted.

from all

older.

that the re-threading is made easier, and the thread itself lasts longer. Now rub the end

Most of us have undergone that I on phase and passed through it.

know that certainly have.

in Sex-repressed sadists

over the country swoop down them, like vultures after carrion.

Letters! Threats Obscene abuse!

"Bob is impetuous, adventurous, but his madcap schemes make

love him savagely.

me

Boos and brickbats to greet the newly-wedded lovers!

tween your finge the thread be-

the

Breaking in New Shoes: If you want to avoid having new shoes blis- ter your feet, put a strip, of stick- ing plaster on the skin of each heel just where the shoe hurts. Use a fresh piece each day until your shoes are quite easy.

to make a point- led end, and thread will pass The normal, adolescent girl be- tween fifteen and eighteen develops easily through the beads. a strong intrest in her father-if "There is something serenely dign- Who are we to judge whether he is a good father about that age Then, when she first falls in love, fied and wise about Bob's father.

these two people are in love? Whe "My love for Bab is like a flame, ther they can give each other hap-it is often with an older man a remnant of her love and affection for leaping up fiercely one moment and

piness? then sinking almost into nothingness.

And so far as I can see, the only her father.

Later she gradually finds her own- My love for his father glows warm criterion of love is the ability to

to lage level. and steady, like a hot coal.

give each other happiness, and "I think my love for Bob is grea- keep on doing it, without prejudic- Some find it much later than ter at the moment than my love ing the happiness of others chilothers. Some never find it at all. for his father. But, somehow Idren, for instance. feel it could never be so lasting or so beautiful.

These are the only two men in my life. Neither has the faintest idea that it is a matter of choice. But choose I must!

"How shall I choose?"

Here's a letter from a

man

twenty-fire:-

I can quite well remember

young man in his home.

au

He was

Tip For Cakes: When making a cake, line the bottom of the tin They get emotionally stuck there.

with bran underneath the paper lin- It is probably a fault in develop ing. This prevents the cake from ment, a failure to grow up.

burning, and adds to the flavour of None the less, it has led to happy the cake marriages.

And it is possible indeed it ac Your Old Navy Suit: Renovate evening that made me reconsider a tually happens for people to find and freshen up your last year's navy Hot of my views.

love for the first time as they grow suit this way Dissolve a little am- It was when I visited a brilliant lolder.

monia in a basinful of hot water. Lucky for them. Some never find and squeeze a blue bag into the. a handsome broad-shouldered 6ft. lit at all.

water until it is almost the colour of Adonis, not more than thirty..

They are not unappreciative of the suit. Now dip a small nail- His wife was the shock. A fat, and they can give a lot. A deep brush into the water and brush the

"I have fallen in love with my flabby, short, slovenly matron

aunt . my father's

sounds terrible, I know.

sister. It!

But it

just is so. And I know she feels

the same way about me.

"She is twenty years older, but BY HENRY HARRIS

looks far younger than her age and

is a very attractive woman.

"I have an awful feeling that, in

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Nevertheless.

In answer to both my correspon- ¡dents I would say this:

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Give Time a chance. Probably this love is a remuant of the love of the adolescent girl for the father she adores-of the adoles-drive out worms, and a marked im- provement in appetite and general health speedily follows. cent boy for his mother.

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least fifty I began to think of the curious "complexes" that make peo ple marry someone much older.

-Only after a long and happy and memorable evening did I realise that here was something rare and un- usual-a-perfect marriage..

Underneath her flat, slovenly flab- biness was a flammig intelligence, a mellow wisdom, great kindness, in-wholesome and lasting respect and natural way, are guaranteed free from

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When she married him, five years ago, he was one of life's drifters- not knowing what to do, what to make of himself. She herself› was as poor as he..

She had used her gifts to map out his career and us his talents. He owed his success and his career as well as his happiness to her. It was not merely gratitude he felt it was love.

They were ridiculously happy. It seemed ludicrous, but it was true.

Now that is an actual case. Perhaps, in a sense, they were both neurotic. But who of, us normal in all things?

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