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UNITED NATIONS STAMPS

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There are two of the first postage stamps to be inqued by the United Nations Organisation, and are being printed In London. Top is "Peoples of the World." symbolising the bondage and principal races of mankind released from looking towards the United Nations, Bottom is the design depicting world unity. The stamps are expected to be on

sale this month.

(Reuterphoto)

CANNIBALS INTO THE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1951.

SECOND PART OF A SATURDAY CHINA MAIL FEATURE

MAKING A SUCCESS OF YOUR MARRIAGE

T

ices permanent

By the well-known divorce lawyer Edward Kaufmann

marriage.

these.

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THERE aro, women who, every

Such women' would do bet- ter to forget that morning kiss. now and then, to refrain from warning him-just once about crossing the street or driving his cor over 30 mph. than Ing him their routine tender- to continue automatically giv

COME Let us cell motive factotal fi scially wanted to his butas one should demand things from worly, on who rever of def

COME MONEY

HERE is no general The wife cleans and cooks tionship is impaired or In "The evening has just begun"

rule which, if for her husband. She is a kind hibited, and the lack of phy-, is their slogani

and conscientious landlady. alcal satisfaction in turn There are women who must applied to a patient, She keeps his clothes, linen, heightens the irritability, Even- have their meals and their guarantees per and other belongings the tually the couple continue their walks at exactly the same hour

order. From struggle in the presence health. most meticulous manent physical

of every day, and who must have) time to time she also comes to others.

their Bridgo party every Likewise, there is no his bod

To and peace the husband Thursday

Such afternoon. general remedy that guaran- She always spends teri per flees from his home and, ac- marriages became · gradually marital cent less than she can afford cording to his character, Ands dietary rationed, regimented happiness. Marriage is like to spend. She never opens her refuge in his work, club, pub, marriages.

husband's mall, his brief caso, or with another woman. the waves of the sea-l or his desk drawers-nor does A constant motion. If several she ever open the door to his A bored marriage le

undernourished marriage. The hundred husbands are ques- world.

common flelds of interest are

morning, year after year, im- tioned about what is satis

too small. Anaemia sots in, plant a kiss on their husbands' factory in each one'a

even becomes pernicious. Com foreheads as they leave for marriage or what is un- HUSBAND and wife live 10 pany every night, cinemas, work-a kiss that is no longer the aame home but in week-and excursions are no noticed; who,overy morning satisfactory; if several hun- different worlds. They know longer of any, use, Such noisy for years, say: "Take good dred divorced men

are very little about each other. In indulgence in external activi- care of yourself," and "Don't cause the course of time the husband ties may often cover up the de- work too hardwords he no questioned about the of auch one's divorce; if the shuts himself up completely in fielency for a time, but cannot lenger hears.

eliminate 4. The deficiency former wives of these mene world of us profession us hobby: All His love,

ve. becomes only more glaringly ro vilible the moment a Jull oc- are asked the same ques. curiosity, and the passions are tions then the answers expended upon.

Toy curs. are the safely valves for

ths may seem confusing at a boredom and frustration of his glance. But if we sort and marr

TT is the unimaginative woman tabulate those answers

"Such tenant" husbands often I' who is usually respon- devolop a special interest or sible for marriage boredom. A Res

ness and wifely admonition. certain regularity emerges.

They may wife can be become eccentrics.

her boring in

There are women who tell The variety of causes, seck compensation

for their cooking, her, clothes, her

de. their husbands daily how the positive and negative, which marital sterility in sport, in sires and interests, har con- butcher or gracer tried to cheat determine the success or collecting stamps, butterflies, or versation, her coiffure, her them out of a penny, and how failure of a marriage in paintings safety valve, lack- choice of perfume, her

of him. love they got the better ing which the marriage is like making-so boring as to

bo Thare are women who retell startlingly small,

Jy to break down.

como unbearabla.

every night their troubles with A third variation of marital A woman should not merely the "char" or who, over and boredom is the "business mar- be doing things for her hus- over again, tear to pieces in which the husband band; it is indispensable that every member of their own (or their husband's) still, those promoting marital is health, and "negative factors",ness or profession.

him.

lating the weaknesses of their these impairing rparital health. never had much Interest in, or

The cry of the woman in upou understanding of, women; he the unhappy marriage Marital success is bullt

Koes, women friends, or their recognition of the influence of marries only because he thinks

much us follows: "Why bands' men friends.

A most, destructive factor in and much positive

should have negative that a mon

be the one to make oil factors.

wife.

the effort? Why should

marriage is a lack of mutual I DI- His wite does

interest in not disturb The re

of marriage

the intellectual, and arch-enemy

ways have to make life emotional life of its partners, is boredom. The forms of this is marriage, but she disturbs teresting

and

pleasant for him?

who tend to live, at best, "sickucss" arc varied and him in his business or profes- When I want to go out

at neighbours. each in his or her mild, s, metines

becomes sometimes slon. He

irritable,night, he says: Con you never separate way; if the

Common malignant, but usually fatal. and his wife finds that "she spend a peaceful evening

of does not have anything of him home? When I buy myself a different, then too often

Interests are shallow and 321~ Most prevalent is form

1

the boredom that we might

new dress, he reproaches me: fabric of the marriage call at all,

Such a man shows no resent- It begins

always "marital sclerosis."

you

waste bles and disintegrates. in marriage and follows ment when his wife creates her

When I suggest that certain typical lines:.

own sphere of interest and be we listen to

talk on the At 8.30 in the morning the comes absorbed in it provided radio, he says,

should 'Why At 6.30 that the household runs we? I have enough on my the evening eyes representing his sole in

and punctual, and that In few parts of the Bri- attire complained mildly that home, discusses the events of

he had been waiting two days | the,

day,

cats dinner and, the children cause no trouble book, he mys he's lucky to get,

through his newspaper. When tish Commonwealth has the for the aircraft.

shortly after, relires to bed. Improvement of such a man. I want to discuss á.

problem transition from cannibalism Then, looking at the machine, On Sundays he sleeps longer, adjusting him to marriage, can with him, he says:

through

no real worries? I have given to civilisation been so swift he added: "More better I buy reads the newspaper, perhaps offen be achieved goes to the cinema. From time protracted period

of engage up as in this progressive coun- balus (aircraft), then you hy me

quick time and no sit down along to time he and his wife enter- ment. Trained inconspicuously bundying to change my hus- have long since be- th, the tain friends

isiting. or go

for some months, try. The distribution

bride

come accustomed to living for Brow

enters married life myself." large sums in government pilot-owner, thinking the Three years of this, Ave years,

eight years....

somewhat "weaned" from war damage payments, and native was joking, replied: "This

from Such an attitude is basically Cut of true love, or solici- business. It a long engagement wrong. In such cases there is of money, high postwar wages, have balus costs plenty

spare her is not possible the wife should. tude, or desire to £2,000. Reflectively. maybe Western .brought

husband, or sheer, selfish de- try to achieve the same result type the

old chieftain - searched

sire to be merely comfortable during the first nine months of wealth Into the hands of through his possessions, and pro- herself, the wife lets him plod marriage. many natives,-

duced a roll of notes. Not quite along in this-fashion-year-after-

year

he becomes The smart boys of the cough. I've only got £1,500

ruminant draught animal. village communities have

NATIVE CUSTOMS This is "marital sclerosis." cornered the easy money. But as yet sophistication and

Thon floating through the coun, chyllisation have not changed the try, and these "financiers" age-old native custom of buy now pay spot cash for brides, which is a fundamental trucks, refrigerators, radios, feature of tribal life. In prewar drugs or another woman. This may indulge together. boats, or whatever else they day's, the belle at the village was other woman is usually inferlor

N

By. Kathleen Vellacott-Jones

chailed

PORT MORESBY, But the climax fur one airline was reached when he EW Guinea natives owner

with a scantily-clad grandsons of cannibals tribal leader who was waiting at and headhunters, who used an airstrip when the plane or- to count their wealth by the rived on its weekly Government number of a man's wives freight call.

The native, bone prnaments his nose and ears, a through

and pigs--are now thumb

ม

ing through sturdy, bank ziging, breech elout and a-bunch 1 husband goes: smoothly, that the meals are mind!" When I offer him 'a' new

accounts.

-

of strip."

with me."

priced

until

ing us

glkloring cuts across

hich

er

-and

It

it grips path; pulls him out of his rut. It may be alcohol or gambling or

is

of

anly one intelligent course action for the wife. She should inster that the husband go out with her at night; she should buy her

-herself-the-new-dress- she

T

listen to her prob- HE husband may slowly de. wars, bring him the new book, velop a taste for private life, lens, and keep calm and and begin to realise that what smiling. From the day of the he called:

"wasting time" wedding the wife should en- actually paying dividends In deavour

to bring into the the pleasures and cultural In

marriage

change and stimula- terests that he and his

tion; she will thus wife

her

marriage against edom Momentary satiation, But, if the husband's

field of

ocen- interest remains

temporary lulls as one-sided sional voids,

one are natural, Indeed, the inovit- do: she able phenomena of marriage.

fancy in high-priced Euro- couple of pigs. Ordinary-orides she is "different" takes him by as before, there is only pean goods.

There are some natives who can count their cash in thousands of pounds.

QUITE COMMON

highly

at £10 and a

brought no more than a humble Over to her parents.

to his wife, but the fact that"

storm.

can thing his wife

a

gives up her personal life, belge,"

und wife fall into a state of

Now the bride money.

must share her husband's terests, soared to as much is £300 in

Bhe must become HE. sune pathological the coastal areas, were money.

kind of business partner if she WHAT is decisive in marital circulates freely among the.na- phenomenon can also infect wants to preserve her husband Wife is the capacity for

the wife. tive population,

She may identify as a marriage

renewal, physical and mental Marital bore Partner

aften leads, .Native

Habit can become as, dan- schools herself so completely with her gambling

husband that sho forgets all also, to the so-called "guerilla gerous to marital health as To appreciate the significance flourish, and hundreds of pounds

dreams and her own

wishes,

in which husband boredom. Habit. can, to a con- of this tremendous economic change hands in aird card

ciderable extent, function as a change it is only necessary to re- game called "Lucky." Aven on

comes colourtese, and in the constant irritability.

cementing element also, but an call that half a century ago New untrained houseboy nonchalantly end la nothing but one

one of her There is not a word, a ges overdose of it.

attacks £8 or 1 in a single husband's possessions. Guinea natives were a Stone Age loses

the very ture, or an

notion of one part fabric of marriage, people to whom steel was a night's gambling.

The husband then forgets nor that is not criticised, dis There are women who insist treasure beyond price. The There is big money, 100, in that ho has a

■ wife, with de paraged, or argued by tho upon rising evt

every morning at possession of a single steel axe legitimate native trading circles, mands and rights of her own, other. The wife interrupts her 8.30, winter or summer, week- but a tribesman in the millionaire and

the more ac

advanced co- until rebellion on her part or husband's every activity, every

OF holidays, whether they class.

operative groups can readily put more often, the appearance, of conversation.

She naga him have gone to bed late pr car- Now, in some areas where air up £8,000 for a new ditsel- the other woman" suddenly and discourages him.

ily. The whole family must be travel is well established, it is powered trading vessel..

minkes him aware of the foot Unnerved and disheartened stir at the same time."The common for village natives All this casy money has work that he is a married man. he becomes incficient in his day has begun is their battle to buy an airline ticket for a ed havoc with the labour supply Or boredom can take the work, There is no truce, ex-cryl woek-end visit to distant rela- in the country, and is continually form of what I' ́ might term the

in bed. When the There are others whose habit Lives, usually those working in forcing up the rate of native "tenant marriage" an illness "guerilla" marriage enters an is not going to bed 'balero inid- copatal towns,

no less serious.

advanced' stage even this rela- night, in any "circumstances.

quito

wages..

Thirst needs

just one thing-

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