1952-02-16 — Page 11

PART FIVE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1952.

THE MAN WHO

PEOPLE THOUGHT

IND LOVE

RUBY M. AYRES

HE WAS

IRRESISTIBLE

of hotel and that the girl who gave such an unasked-for invitä- tion if it was) must have been crackers and utterly lacking Ip breeding and decency."

Even in theep FFR-and-casy times it is still up to the man to LIKE man most of make the fret avorture of friend those I know, anyway. ship.

probably

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pnd ship counts between husband undîtractive That no girl, no and wife-and hlthough some matter how hard up she might of you may think it amazing be for on admirer, would, it that the should have they happened to moot, Live ingtried three times,

than

a cursory agree with you, sapecially as glance, and most certainly she was op capable of Inouring would not even trouble to send her own happiness as well as him a posteprdi

that of her three husbands,

him more

I was relating this story re cently to my Spinster Felende whom I have more than once mentioned in these articles, and she gasped out in horror: 的 "Three husbands when

But there is one type But 'thaf igni rij. This Admi® I cannot tolerate, and you ram convirjeet!" he imagines that is the eqnecited man himself to be) fäformed me that who imagines he la irresis the girl still pursued him after tible to all women, and has their holiday ended, although he you may find it difficult to I believe in this story as I had wished her a polite and dog did when I first heard it-but only to glauce in their direc- farewell. She followed it up wit is a true story, and a tion for them immediately i twelve pace letter expressing

or him and her rare one. By tactful Inquiries ! I wisely refrained, to fall-ilat on their faces! har adoration

Frafound longing to meet him have desnitely proved is to be went en inquiringly

authentic. Quite recently it was my again.

character is misfortune to come across whose one such specimen,

eara

I could have soundly

many women can't get pret

I very nearly said: Thing

and she

very ing of yourself, of course," but

"The who was brought up in ordinary nikahramantle

woipan

I didn't believe him, of course! For what madern girl would rounding. Her father, who

losed after less than half an trouble to write a twelve-page as a railway guard, was kiICA (THAT Is she like

hour's conversation.

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Although he Was bachelor (fortunately for the opposite sex) he seemed to imagine that he under- glow more about women than any other man curth.

a man who pe letter even to served her affections-unless she was an expert typlet and could hornier the nonsense out in 'n couple of minutos!

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She focked after children for she gave one of her usual

spacts. only shows what influence to o years. She then met a man

"Rubbish," she said. with

"Men whom she fell in love und

they Iriaginė

öre In love hes what whether a woman you call, kindly understanding or not as long as he has good locks and dresses well-which wo man marriages fail"

MATISSE

MATISSS

And wife, pink altar.

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of an altar with candies which look as though they must electrically it. It all

an suggests architectural style somewhere between Osbert Lancaster's Stockbroker Tudor and Holly- wood Spanish Mission.

mutual friend, and after greatest dlMeulty that I could fife, but he was called up don't care tuppence when they signed and built by painter took him four years.

WAR

We met at the house of a

making the discovery that I a writer of "happy endings" and that I firmly believed in them, he pro- ceeded to give me hin opinion of what he called "love" though I quickly decided that "self-love" was the only kind he, had ever experienced,

H

I self-conceit en have on te

outlook-and It was with the restrain myself from quoting to this Adonis George Elipt'e well known words:

a cock who sin had risen ta

"H was like thought the hrar him crow."

Of course, I know there are soro girls who are a little in- clirjed to make unasked-for ad- vinces to a man who strongly attracts them, but the boot is much more often--or should be on the inan's foot, a fact of which this particular Adonis seemed to be utterly unaware.

service in the 1914 war. He received fatal injuries from which he died, leaving her is "Jonely

she widowhood," Де pathetically tells me, with two children to support..

*

"By one who knows! I very nearly remarked, but once again I restrained the impulse, and she then demanded:

"Would you get married thre: times?"

"Chance Is a fine thing," 1 Mr Right reminded her, "and

come into doesn't often -woman's -Jite more thara. 02106--.

went out to work realn and unexpectedly met another man who had been fend of her before he married her sokiler and she eventually became Als But the luck was against her though there are about cieven A mare, and after twelve pages in the telephone book of years of happiness he was sud- that name all enelt WRIGHT of course, I added, an attempt chee again a lonely woman, at humour op my pam til she was brave, and again completely

I always think, when I hear a E bogan by declaring that he

considered all women to be man condemning all woraca, that utterly relish, and that if they there must be some very prone here an added, leaving

married they begrudged ably unhappy-experience

Д

Into

11 He con-

says

Costs no more than

a

ordinary machines.

The white tiled walls are de- Nice.

corated with black line draw- TOURISTS on the ings of St. Dominic, the Virgin

Riviera are flocking to and Child, and, crowded look at a religious one panel, the Stations of the Crosal, a chapel de- curiosity

Matisse designed all. Henri Matisse for the Do- siders it his greatest single weric minican convent at Vence.

and the crowning glory of Matisse,

82 years old title lifetime,

Why did Matisse do it? Wail, Matisse himself now, is an unbeliever, freethinker, a passionate that vanity wanted to create anti-clerical. For such a a complete work of ont and

do my work-was Roman monument man to build a

the driving force which impati- Catholic place of worship is od him to undertake it. estonishing. The reasons

Nursed By Nun the are as puzzling as chapel itself.

THE French Roman Catholic newspapar La Croix says that Matisse, bedridden most

Matisse was carved 10 years of the time now, lives in a ago, after A major. operation, by big five-roomed flat in 1 a Dominican nyn,

Sister semi-derelict building on Jaqua, who is now in the sun- the outskirts of Nice: the vent at Vence. He decided building used to be a hotel. gratitude to her and her order..

He is separated from his

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build the

to

chapel as a maria of

"Matisse knew

their husbands any freedom, and the Bast which has driven him started work--this time with a so wont nished her, so away wife who is Communist a somewhat different version. ↑

expected them to stay put qt home (except, during working hours).

This, he said, was in spite of the fact that if they themselves become friendly happened to with some stray bachelor (like himself, I suppose) they at once took it for granted that they were entitled to have an "affair" with him.

I gathered from his continued ramblings that he imagined every girl he met was immediately af tracted by him, and expected, him to continue what was just a chance acquaintance with a life long and (if necessary) ceret devotion.

According to his own account 'he had apparently been chased from one end of the world to the other by flirtatious females.

He was not a bad-locking mun, Although I can't say he would ever have caused my heart-beats

to quicken,

Well, that is the end of the story-a fairy-story, some

woman

But Mme. Deloclorskaya has She told me: Sister Jaques before she became he was at the convent at Vence, 4. One day, hearing that he visited her. She told him of the convent's need for a chapel. and he immediately offered

ta design and decorate one for the Buns"

mayor of a South of France adopt such s bilter and 10.

village. His constant com- foolish outlook on life and sa, mental patient a post which che kept for seventeen years, unti

afpanion is his youthful blonde although Adonis is not swars of the fact, I was sufficiently ace more Fate stepped in and you may think; but don't forget Russian - born secretary,

brought interested in the nonsense he hugh yet a third man into that most fairy tartes have Mme. Lydia Delectorskaya

happy ending, which is certain=. talked to try in discover some-

tight-lipped a short friendship he ly what has happened to "Fl0,- Alle thing about his lip.

asked her to marry him, and

with a dedicated air. although as she admits the was

Matisse's friends say that rather apprehenslyp of taking

Draws From Bed

Slater Jogues, daughter of 1 yet a third husband, in the end

French regular amy she accepted him, and they have

MATISSE spends the greater satired

part of the day drawing on officer, was a close 'friend of now been married for fourteen

CAN give no further explena- the walls and celings of his Matisse before she took the veil. happines

My pathy for him when I heard years in complete

own verdiet on it all: Although through strain and

tion, of course, as to why studio bedroom from his bed with that he had once been engaged

overwork she says her health has she should have known three a piece of charcoal attached to a Matisse has used a religion In to a very charming girl who begun to break down, her third such happy marriages-except long cane. Mme Delectorskaya which he does pot believe as a had turned

determination i usband has been a kind and to quote a saying I once read stands by to erase anything with means of self-giprification. of his selfsh

dissatisfied be

It is as though George Ber- a book that "many a woman's which he may indulge indefinitely in his own has looked after her so well

popularity due to the fact and the completed drawing is nard Shaw, on the invitation of had the Church of England, company whenever he felt like she has no regrets whatever.

that the isn't aware of it then ed in colour. Il---leaving her to

and la humbly grateful, and Apart

his work Matisse written a Shavian version surprised, when extreme happi- goes for brief drives occasional- the Anglican prayerbople. ness comes her way.

ly and triei to

A ND I can say I felt any sym-

to

pass the

time away as best she could

i

Of course the 'realised-very witely that if he could chaye

IN her own words,

A

I know there is a well-known 91 least once às his chapel

kee that when they were only bad thrcę really marvellous our own happiness, but I think whitewashed building in a sub-

engaged continue to

"I have saying that we must all make

The chapel is a small, round been he would certainly

romances and there have never cometimes It comes when it is tan street which has and then any regreta.on either side, least expected, as a raward for renamed Avenue Henri Matisse,

When were married, and no doubt and when I look back on my has been shown to others.

you find Icindness

you get there and sympathy which

cars and tourists buses jammed if she knows them-she heart- te it is difficult to say which has

on the road, and a long quee It doesn't always happen waiting to go in. A full policed ly agrees with the lines- of my husbands meant the most

course some of the icindest and "He asks that most in life to me

and highly generous people I have wrought tran is worth his care-

She is G8 now--and when I most

known have, apparently

at cross studied with crescents and "Looks in the glass, and asked her what she considered least, received little thanks for rising from an open scroll base

had been the fundamental basis

ก bell. angleses

Slowly the Ands the awer there." even went 50 far

of so much happiness she an-

But when one meets those queue, chattering and giggling. 05 to tell

Self-conceit! That is the p- swered without hesitation.

have, don't allow any makes its way gazing holiday, on

good friends with them who

chapel's vivid blue tiled roof, feeling of bitterness or jealousy stopped in the lounge of the hotel Flanation, and the belief that

although they mero 10 gel the upper hand.

Let's own

past the narrow, small entrance, by a girl whom he had never set the world was made for him.

quite different. socmed

small night of steps, just say sincerely: "Good luck down a eyes on before who calmly'sus,

them all and But as a Angl word, let me ta unicrafond gested that they should go for a remind this Man in g

past the blue-patterned and into the chilling austerity Thou- er allowed any 1-feeling to and long may it continue," tand that the day will come

come between us."

of the chapel itself. Good friends! Yes, the was when he will grain look in the and is a very wise woman to class and see a fee which has reals kg tremendously friend

ITE

once,

stroll together!

me that he was

Well, all I could say was that it must have been a stranga sort

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