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THE

CHINA" MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH

1955.

"Just a beautiful misguided missile dwelling in a slum-that's me.

Rubber-Stamp Brides Sigh For The Church

I

T is any morning, almost anywhere in the USSR. In a dingy bye-

side street, jammed

By DENNIS BARDENS

in the architecture, the beauty of the music, the dignity of the service, the solemn symbolism of the ring..

tween buildings as prosaic bers nenally get married 'is, say, a boot repair shop. church, although they are sup and a

delicatessen is á posed to be non-believers. closed door starved of paint.

Oshanin said that at a meet-

ย

W3S

of the

A young couple stand outing of the Pedagogical Institute side it, studying the brass at Vladimir he read out a new

about plate The man is short, in song he had written his early twenties, looks. Komsomol marriage.. It

criticism 2 self-conscious in an ilj. taken as

Institute, because: fitting new suit. The girl, dressed in' white, clings ner-. vously to his arm.

"I hope they don't keep us waiting too long," she says, because I've got to be back at work this after- noon."

"This is the place all right," says the young man. "In we go.

it appeared that a fourth year 'woman, student, s Komsomol member, had re- rently married in church

A student. усат dispute arose as to who was to blame for this. Hero før the first time. Komsomol mem- bers spoke of the fact that such young men and girls, although they have formally accepted and memorised the Komsomol Chartor, have not really accepted it whole- heartedly."

WORRYING

of men fitting from wife to wife". The Baku Worker, eentral organ of the Communist describes Party of Azerbaijan, how the manager of a shop, Nasib Guseinov, had in the seven years course of six or married six different girls, aving behind him a trail of children.

an

Oshanin growls irritably about. It is all too easy to contract it all:

à marriage at a ZAGS

office. But, we, rejecting the Trud.

May 14. 1954. old and moribund and create described how, in the ZAGS at

the new and bright, Astrakhan, JIM

a small undersized have not thought of youth of 10 entered with a building beautiful mgister buxom woman of 40. They asked odices from

the plans of to be married, and when it came Our best architects. ZAGS! to giving

their addresses, it The very word is so cull! We transpired they had the same poets and

composers have

address. already, She was the written few stirring marriage manageress of a children's home songs. We could make the and he an inmate, wedding feast

ast Itself more and elegant.

special

gay. Comrades! Engage in wise and serious anti-religious work, with youth."

The

FORGOT

PPLICATIONS in

a ZAGS

It

to

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Ε

OR those who think me, I must drop everything,

the life

put on my boots, and slide down the street to buy rabbit, Also columnist

01 ish for invalids hunch. Also earthly paradise more oranges, more lemons, and and ask wonderingly is a hundredweight of ten if they that all you do?" here is a want it every Ave minutes of

the day. diary of what happens to a

·Rabbit. bought lucky scribbler when his

family is struck down by10a.m. and in the pot Filets of sola also bought and influenza, and domestic help has not arrived because of foolishly put on kitchen table Instead of in tridge or some maté icy roads.

place."

78.m. valids,

they

They

are

for

Rise to make tea the two in- who say

sre

While my back, is sturned Lottle the Devil Cat has paper

SO dry" off sole and is gnawing a fillet

that their tongues are rattling as if she had been starving for in their mouths like prins Devil Cat. Devil Cal Aghts a week. Snatch Allet from not exaggerating. either. Hoarse voices sound as back with straight lefts and if they have pebbles in

e right hooks. Seems evident she tonsils out never had her throats, too,

After ding-dong battle save filet "Downstairs meet Lottle the and put rest of sale in covered Devil Cat frightfully it and dish. Tell Devil Cat her rabbit howling for breakfast, Put won't be ready till lunch time. kettle on and look in Lottie's- If she can't wait iron rations are stew pot for rabbit,. She has on the floor.

eaten the los apa OC lllness nobody has renewed

On the way upstairs invalids supply. Offer Lottie cold moan for more tea orange bacon, breakfast cereals, bread juice, lemon juice. Back to

kitchen and milk. All Indignantly" re-

squeezing Oranges, fused. Open a tin of her fron lemons, and making large pot of rations. This also refused. She tea. is crazy for rabbit,

Explain to her that I him not a conjurer who can produce rabbits out of a top hat, even if I had a top hat, and even if I were eccentric enough to wear it in the kitchen at seven o'clock in the morning. Make note to brave ley roads, buy rabbit and cook it.

Also make tea and start perious journey, up dark stairs with tray. Why dark stairs? Be cause elecrie light bulb on land Ing has just expired.

This

קני

Take refreshments patients and return to desk, where I read that during the ve- goal-to-ene victory, ef Young Young England over Italy Italian spectators were weeping openly" which means I suppose, without shame or embarrassinent,

Although Italians have never been ashamed of weeping, what about those tonsils? Recapping

Innocente and on

Guido said that Italians were virile and Calderoni, remember they also

manly because most of them had

After this L must ask was this match a víctory of no ton- sils over tonsils, and why Italian spectators, virile and manly, with both tonsils intact, were ob served crying like babies?

is hungry Devil Cars been allowed to retain their opportunity for revenge. Weav- tonsils. They also sind that the ing round my feet, she tries to wholesale removal of English trip me up In the hall.As I tonsils was responsible for our climb invisible stairs with tray poor showing at. football and she is always a jump ahead of other sports. me, slting on the next stair hoping I will make a false step and crash to the bottom.

Standing in the blackness, one foot on one stair, one foot on the tray becoming the other, heavier and ten pouring from the bot, I try flattery. I call her Also I must ask are Tyson pretty pussy. I try bribery, I and Statham with or without promise her unlimited rabbit, tonsils Has Hatton had his chicken, duck, turkey, turbot, tonsils out lately? Did the last salmon, and even a whale if she Australian Test team play with- will only get out of the way. out a single tonsil between

them?

Then I tread on her tall She curses me, and I curse her back. Croaking, pebbly voices from the bedrooms ask if I am killing the cat and why all this disgust- ing language.

When pebbles in both mouths have been dissolved by tea I ask them how they feel. They both feel worse. Do they want any breakfast? No, they don't

I can read I think splendid. the papers and get on with my work.

I migh have asked a lot more questions, but upstairs in the bedrooms there is a sound of groaning as if stomachs were in distress. Investigation shows that both patients have taken an over-dose of cough mixture con- taining Ipecacuanha,

Having

com

the groaners, I think: they won't want any refresh

well at lesst

ments for some time. So I can have another bash at the job....

11a.m.ed

Upstairs dest one of the 8 a.m. more frivolous But as I returning to the papers tells me that desk there is a crash of broken Englishmen make poor lovers crockery downstairs. I return because 60 percent of them to the kitchen to find that the have had their tonsils out.. Devil Cat has prised the lid of

the

covered dish with her powerful paws and is having

procedure in a ZACS A office must be completed five office is hardly different from days before the registration. One that of applying for an internal

man, on applying for registra- passport or the numerous other tien, did not even bother to bring They push open the door,

documents for which the Soviet go through a musty pas-

his bride with him. He produced It is citizen is forced to not surprising. pply......

is her passport, roving. "She's too sage and enter an office.

it this. There are a few chairs, à

casual routine

is sometimes busy to come personally."

transpired that only three days the people by table covered with baize, TN the Soviet Union, Oshanin treated casually walls covered with dark explained, "there is freedom to concerned. Certainly the cour previously he had applied

believe or not to belleve in tries of the free world are not marry somebody else at the same green paper, an electrolier God." The authorities, however, without their faithless husband's office, but had changed his mindi of atrocious taste, and a are displeased at the exercise of

and fickle wives; but the per-

The 1 ZAGS

same Trud. article said that on another occasion huge indifferent reproduc- the former freedom and de- functory formalities at a tion of a vase of flowers, lighted if you indulge the latter. office hardly suggest a lifelong telegram had arrived at the

urt to disbelieve

possible to Astrakhan ZAGS. It read s framed in

a heavy gilt It is only failure to

which worries them. Oshanin understand why more and more Bows frame. At the baize-covered concludes that the only way to Soviet brides are demanding a

"Please inform, me--was Rosi table sits a cheerful woman counter the Church's attraction proper wedding service.

want to get

Saidovna-Bukhmenova register- who might work in any office for people who

There are many signs that the od with me or with Gasanov in murried is to brighten up the anywhere.

ZAGS ("departments for the damage done to the institution 1948. Telegraph at my expemen of marriage by discouraging the to 130, Naberezhnavu, Makhach- of acts of civil registration

ceremony is worrying Kala-Said Molacy." church

To quote. Guido: "Lack" of status") as the register offices are called.

the Communist authorities. On

Looking in to see if the January 10, 1954, Kommunist It is a ridelight on the im-tonsils make Englishmen drinic

still alive, I find 100 much and make them in invalids described Tadzhikistana

the pressiveness of a Communist

The re- them as white as the snow cut- predicament of six women who register-office

different to women. marriage that had been intimate with married Comrade Melaey could not even moval of tonsils also takes away side but with

their masculinity-hing ·Over.. men and given birth to children. remember whom he married six spirit, courage, and stamina. Other newspapers mention cases years ago!

"I almost wish we'd had a church wedding," the girl whispers.

"Shshsh..

But there is something about a well-conducted church service "the young which, even to the uninstructed, man hisses back. "We don't" must touch the imagination and wart trouble here! You, feed the instincts of idealism know Komsomol members aren't allowed to get mar-{ ried in church!"

THE

LONGINGS ·

woman

Registrar

union,

and it is

.

DORYA IN TROUBLE AGAIN

Alexandria. EAUTIFUL, fighting

By Robert Green three and the 600,000 who made reads the forms in a Beminist Dorya Shafik..

matter-of-fact way. "Hus! band miner. Wife stores assistant... Do you want to take your husband's name ?"1

"Yes!"

"

At first I don't believe It, but it appears that Innocente, and, Guido Calderoni, Italian brothers another bash at raw sole.

have and throat specialists,

I rescue, two ullets and put arrived at this conclusion after them safely in the fridge. Áko 20 years' research.

peel potatoes and put them on to boil.

ате

pulses ticking On my dest there is

a Lancashire

MIDDAY letter from

I am just going to tisk how we, managed in the last war without tonsils and If by, reader åsking “Does a dog know fighting spirit Guido means on it's a dog Amplifying the the battlefield or in: the question he asks further, boudoir, when tonslis remind "If you were to say to a dog me of my patients.

'What are you?" and a dog could I have forgotten to take their talk would it answer, "I am a temperatures and give them dog or think it was something

else?” Their temperatures Wall dear Lancashing reader,

down their I must confess aro

I don't know. 9.a.m. medicines swa - thought it must depend on lowed They have whather a dog knows what e also swallowed orange juice, do y lemon juice, and more ea. But Lottie

their medicinë:

do with two.

But Dorya was quick to add is in trouble with

since the days of the that those husbands who had the ever

Pharaohs,

already collected two or more Egyptian police again. Later

wives should notat the It started when she was a this month she appears in court on a misdemeanour girl, when she left home and tacment, anyway-have to give went to the Sorbonne univer- ali of them up except one. charge: organising a rowdy sity In Paris against her That, she reasoned. wisely

the Devil Cat has notAs it is now time to co political meeting without parents wishes. They thought enough, would be asking for swallowed any rabbit and the what the Devil Cat has left of

ap she should stay home and be- much,

house rings with her yells of our lunch. I can do nothing to The Registrar hands her getting government

come one of the wives of some.

rnge: N

solve this problem at the In Noveraber body important.

1951, Dorya

/moment except to appeal to all: formed the famous Women's". Let her yen! If I don't get dog readers to write to The stamps the documents-and But Dorya has beto in But Dorya

returned from Battalion which went into on with the job I won't be able Animal's Newspaper (endited by trouble so often before each France with a millionaire hus-action against the British to buy her fish-heads, let alone N. Gubbins, Esq.), giving their time for basically the same band who also believed that, a stationed in the Canal Zone rabbits. Sometimes, at these register reason--that she will not worry man should have only one wife. during the Suez fare-up, cffice weddings, there may be a much about the latest charge. And she came back with a VASO of dowers; a few offices

doctorate, too. have a radiogram and a few old

fact she will probably

Thirty-seven-year-old Dorya really started her campaigning

a rubber stamp. The bride Proval,

she is a wife.

In records, and occasionally friends enjoy it. will play a record in a hopeless

attempt to capture, a little of For Dorya's name is legion for women when Calro's Found

HUNGER STRIKE

views.

disappointment

When she stood for parlia- cash boys or Teddy boys if they 1 p.m. bolled over. It has the colour and dignity of a among Egypt's under-privileged al Awal University turned down ment, her £150 deposit was

all carried in their pocket, books.

church service. Yet the roman-women. But she is opposed by her application for a lecturer's returned with the note: "Only Photographs of their tunge and a riyer of yellow gravý s

tic longings of couples in love

love | most of the meni..

can scarcely be satisfied by a

tive. It is not sur

so commonplace and

MORE FREEDOM

therefore that, despite

job. The Dean refused to let an men have the right to stand for attractive woman lecture male parliament." students.

this to their mure. In fact, overywhere..

avold I am back at my deskTo

copy in advarke reading a letter written to a order your newspaper by a woman who through N. Gubbins Esq. thinks there would be nó morë.

Lottle the Devil Cat's rabbit - kas -

put the stove ̈out y

This looks like a chance to running across the kitchen floor... wwwrite a touching little bit about The potatoes have also boiled

the devotion of?

of nice boys and over. There is a smell of gas So in 1943 she founded her o In March last year she went

The Devil Cat, full of pole 7,000-strong Women of the for women, was carried off to trying to remember in ex-

written by a daughter about atasicep in an armchair. Or is the Kamsomol youth brganisa-All along she has been get Nile movement, known locally hospital, weak, and lil, and only tonally touching verso tion, church weddings thing into trouble with authority,

as the Bint el NIL-

agreed."" to eat after General mum who had gone to beaver, she gassed? The loyalids/up- main a great a attraction. In because she thinks women

Nagulb, gave an oral promise I think it went something like stairs, full of emptiness, are Dorya wanted Vote for

Orard for that women would get votes this also asleep.

they article

Oshanin in should have more say about women, polycamy abolished, and under the new

new republicari con-

The silver trumpets sounded, and deta The Angela aliouted “Come," the Soviet Literary Gazette on what Coes on in the country, divorce, made legal with alimony stitutioning

At the moment. I don't care March 18, 1954 referred to the

But there is still no vote, and The Golden Gates were opened who's goed Im off to the indifference which young people and should have a little more, provided.

And in walked Mum low tavern for a large Sectcb- in freedom from being bossed Storms of niale protest came: Dorya, la sill fighting. - And Icel towards Komsomol's in

(r. But the howls or Bottle and water and a sandwich s cessant propaganda, and to the around by the men The men from the 200-odd men who had people who know her mow

the-Devil Cat are too much for

World Copyright.3 fact that some Komarmol, men have been doing the talking tour wives, the 111,000 who had that the will keep on fighting.

all the atheistic propaganda of