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By Helen Trevelyan

THE CHINA MAIL, DE

29, 1937.

ASAL

I COULD NOT MARRY YOU

There is a disposition among man car when it breaks down, suffers us A man who insists on keeping his order (one supposes) to to believed that most women leap to walk where once we drove in attitude towards men and women in them. It rarely does gratefully at the first proposal of vites as to carry his golf clubs al- strictly separate, watertight com A man who is incurably hearty marriage which comes their way. most!

partments: conversation for the one regardless of time, place and cir- Well, I didn't!

A man who cannot realise that and kissing for the other, with no cumstance. "And I haven't leapt at the second, the always overrated "He-Man" is allowance for one's wish for the A man totally without charm, who or third, or-but this sound like out of date; that to be strong and former at times! boasting. It's not it's merely be silent indicates nothing but an in- A man who fondly imagines he is ed the charming "

attempts the liberties only vouchsaf- cause I wouldn't marry:—

ability to talk intelligently and an the only real worker, and upon this A man who believes that for him A man who boasts of never hav- over-attention to physical prowess. false conception claims the most to say a thing is so, automatically ing taken a dancing lesson in his A man who, no longer young, comfortable chair and a primary call makes it just that who, in fact, life, claims you for every dance and suffers a sort of winter madness, on everyone's attention throughout cannot or will not be corrected, in- systematically dances against the rows to throw up home and family an entire evening time, upon your toes and heartily

formed or persuaded to admit applands every tune.

A man who for the want of a

little care in driving a high-powered

OR YOU!

A man (and alas! into this cate- mistake. gory fall nearly all!) Who: allows himself to become unduly swayed by the sickly adulation of sexstarved

-OR YOU!

roadster, ruthlessly slaughters small and marry the "girl of his dreams." spinsters, and other forward female adventurous rabbits bent on night (I feel sorry for the wives of such folk. maneuvres, and scoffs at your fierce men, I feel sorrier for the "girls"

A man who thinks only in terms reproaches, calling you maudlin and of their dreams"!)

A man who talks largely of "har- of horseflesh, hunting, ham sand- dening” his son, instancing himself wiches and Bass. feminine.

A man who tries to trade on the as a splendid example of the system, A man who is unmoved by any Any man who persists in address- misguided assumption that all men all unconscious of the fact that but appeal save to his stomach! ing you as little woman" thus seek are "babies" (as if one could in- for that same "hardening" he might A man whose sense of humour re- ing to convey a wealth of condescen- sult the genuine article so far!), have been a vastly improved, less veals itself on flag days in conceal sion, superiority and proprietorship, who begs to be "reformed," "scold- difficult and inhibited, in

fact. a ing his token beneath the lapel of A man who, poor fool! sees in ed" and "forgiven," never hesitat- much kinder creature!

his coat, and upon the anxious ap- himself a second Robert Taylor, ing to believe one will relish such A man who upholds one code of proach of every unfortunate, unsus William Powell or Jack Buchanan, a waste of time! **

honour for women and and fails most lamentably to sus-

a totally pecting seller reveals it with a fatu- A man who is so blindly convinced different and lightly assumed one for ously triumphant “Ah!” tain his self-appointed role!

he is irresistible that he shelves men, whereby licence takes the place. Lastly, a man who is totally A man who, having no need to chivalry, thoughtfulness and manners of liberty and infidelity is merely capable of accepting "No" as a rea- work, delights in doing nothing for a blustering arrogance and down- a joke (for them!).

sonable and final answer? worth-while whatever, rises at noon right rudeness, never realising that A man who immediately he comes All proposals (if any) from those and retires at dawn, leading a futile only by the former can any degree within sight and sound of an not falling into any of the above existence most exasperating to all of charm be achieved.

3 tractive member of the opposite sex categories will be carefully con- who must genuinely toil and spin? A man who maintains that to be begins to talk loudly and loosely in sidered!

A man who will assume a face risque is the sine qua non of po-1 tious view of our lately acquired em- pularity, and so becomes positively ancipation, insisting we tinker with childish, or merely repulsive in a the mysterions interior of the desire to be thought "a devil.”

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THE-

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

IG books and little books, bad cannot reduce their prices and are books, bed books and bores, fact, loath to raise them. But the poor fiction and whimsy the stampede dears, naturally, want to show a is "on," and from all the great pub-profit somehow. lishing houses pours the autumn spate of literature.

But the cost of Esparto paper is up 33 per cent. The cost of wood paper is up at least 40 per cent. Binding costs are increasing, and with them, on the rise, are the costs of printing

Where do we stand, Montgomery, with regard to our books? Will there be fewer books published in future, or will the consumer, the common bookworm, have to pay the differ- ence? It's a ticklish situation.

A publisher works normally on 2 rather marrow margin between costs and receipts, writes Geoffrey Faber, of Faber and Faber, in the Lon- don Mercury."

A publisher may be said on the average to net about two-thirds of the published price of a general book or novel: but out of this he

It's up to you, Montgomery. Read more books. Literature like stout, is good for you

Healthy Children Make Happy Homes

"Watching for Father'

has to pay manufacturing costs, overhead expenses, the author's-ad- vance and royalties, and find - if he

How cheery is father's home-coming is to continue in business seme-when the little ones are awaiting him thing over as profit for himself. with rosy chubby faces and joyous. If the present trend continues he greets him with the news that one or smiles. And how sad when mother will have to decide between selling other of the dear ones is sick. Nowa more books (somehow), raising the days in innumerable homes Baby's present price, reducing his out Tablets are kept always at hand

ready for such emergencies. goings, and going out of business. The majority of childhood's aches That's what it all beils down to and ills originate in the stomach and is unlikely that the present price bowels, and it is because of their out- of novels will rise. "Of books gen-these that Baby's Own Tablets enjoy standing efficacy as a corrective of erally it is true not that they are such wide esteem. To dispel Infantile expensive for the truth is that constipation, correct indigestion, colic, the public thinks they are expen- teething, check diarrhoea, relieve croup wind', cool feverishness, aid and ease sive

and colds, expel worms, there "Whatever help the Coronation nothing so good as gave to other trades, it did nothing but damage to the book trade," Faber complains.

Publishers

Fare worried. They

Baby's Own Tablets