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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956. *

What I'd tell about-

T

HE

radio prattled. "It is

Wednesday,

February,

15th the

of

Ash Wednesday,"

said the announcer. "And now

we have Mrs Dule's Diary.

of the dally happenings

of a doctor's family."

An account in the life

Bul

not for

The harps played. Ash Wednesday, when Lent began and penitents should cover themselves in ashes. The harp introduced Mrs Dale. The donkey work had got Dr Dale down and Mrs Dale was trying to cheer him up. And, I, on that day in this age, was trying to be honest about what I would tell my child about money, marriage, and morals.

Honesty first said to me: "You will tell him nothing. You are too lazy." Honesty then said to me;

Yon

"You

believe will tell him nothing. that people should determine their own Ilves. You believe that nivice la given to be ignored, You believe that example is carved by the wearing of experience on character, a the sen carves coastlines on rock and sand, and not arbi- trarily fashioned.”

Consulenze then chtros! 141 "In any

You can tell When pule

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nething. lche of the advice you receive DI money

ITALT lake

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MONEY

MARRIAGE

MORALS

my child Is Exercise

REVEALING FOUR FRANK

PHILOSOPHIES... THIS IS No. 1 by George

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If

you

don't

wanl

old.

advice. Marry young or Morry rich or poor. Morry for love, and Ir there's money thrown in so much the better.

You can learn the

facts of life before you get married, but you cannot learn the facts of living.

They are worth learning, son. And you may get peace of mind from marriage. But it means more noise about the house.

My wife has just asked me what I'l doing. "Writing advice to my son about money and marriage," said L "And morals," said 1.

So what of morals?

What can I say, despising the B.B.C. announcer's glib intro- duction of Mrs Dale on Ash Wednesday. am not a penitent for Lent. But I have to tell my children something to guide their

conduct, Gale

10 get married but you're sure whom,

to.

Beauty is only skin deep This means that if she's ugly, don't

Take ber at her face

is not very good about this. He

arn trust to finding beauty under

But this thing is you'll neest money So you E SA tave money, show it, smil.

real and ly called the State. I Spend your money, sons. Don't rub from me, son, and by the mortgage the present tur Inve lime you have any money it will Butikne Don't swell the profits be even bigger and even stronger of insurance Companies The and even gistrlier. Your luther companies are fat Their pen - are thin. The present Catta The past is dead. future is a longshot.

your mones. There's power in il Power over

Money can 1 Things

you comfort.

Money ran make you time. Money enn take you places Money can care

Latin.

enlarge The pleasure, banish boredom

morals? None at all You're clown then king; nere fool than philosopher, anel with a banks balance struck st approximately nothing you had better Say nothing and listen to Mrs Dale

sinner, not a saint You're motes

But Duty stles Duty "You cant get away with it an vasily as that. You brought him. into this world.

You better try to tell him how to get un with it.

Money matters, sun.

man

havet

but

You won't be a free

with it,

you'll be a freer man

with it than without

it.

*

Don't hanker after poverly in an attic; empty bellies don't make poets.

Money counts, stai. If you want to be necounted a success,

Kive

ought to have an account. Leurn

Bon. neath. The from your father's errom

Take his advice on this, if on value. Routing clse. Swot up your income tax.

CEL

I am sweating slightly. I have

advice , alat year mother

you 011

It

1

uct, to help them shape themselves,

It must be simple.

It is the old saw:

Bad For You?

THE other day I was no ill effects, but an older man asked to conduct a may suffer from dyspepsia by merely cranking "hli car too life assurance examination.

soon after lunch,

"Bull," T toid Mr Oxicy. Mr Oxley

was healthy

with heir enough, but his physique "sedentary workers

liability to suitor from con- was not particularly good. stipation and backache should He had the sallow face of a be encouraged to go for a daily city dweller and the flabby short, sharp walk or sat occa

sional round of golf,” muscles of a sedentary worker.

"I don't take exercise, that's the trouble," ho zald.

FATTER STILL

"It keeps people's weight

I sometimes think that the down, too," observed Mr Oxley. value of exercise is exaggerated,

In the popular Imagination

An athlete with bulging, muscles lack of exercise bulks large as is not a better

Insurance rik

than Mr Average, ALL IN

who "walks" to work In his motor-car and whose only sport is watching foot- ball.

by

A DOCTOR'S DAY

CEDRIC CARNE

Indeed, exercise carries with a cause certain dangers.

"You mean strains, sprains, and accidents," Mr Oxley said putting on his overcont

And here as you would be paring to leave."

A

Do unto done by, Immanuel Kanı taught that. Ho called it the Categori- cai Imperative: Bet in such way that your acts could become When in doubt, a general rule, son,

test

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"Things more serious also," I answered

There is experimental evi-

of obesity: but hard

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190

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your actions against dence to show that the fatigue ing exercise," think of bream-

remember,

that.

following exercise lowers the And

viruses, to also, at all resistance curtain times, these precepts:--

It's surprising how often adulta Never lle to yourself. Never as well as schoolboys indulge ito to thosc whom you love. in sport when they're sufering Never He to those who trust ❘ from a cold or

slight you.

Lever.

Don munty a girl who Itas And remember Don't despise got a second-class honours de- money if you can help it. But

Rive at Oxford or Cambridge or

One other general rule: Find winever huppens, don't Jet

Brst degree from anywhere out what you want to do, and if money despise you.

else. She Will Try argue it isn't going to harm anybody,

do it. inarriage. sensibly and fall miscrubly

will be you can see no other way out of reading this. I am also supposed it, I wouldn't say "o" to a First to be absolutely honest.

from Oxford or Cambridge, be- she'd probably For When

have enough sense not to argue and gauplo

would get on with the cooking.

vo spend your money, son, will affect your life as mukti as th. way you earn it, se

more. It is better to spend wisely than to earn wisely.

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money 100. money 19 two Money is power over you, own money is a power over you,

Your

changing your life. Other men's money is a greater power,

thher ment a money will make you do things you don't to do. Lat it.

want

Other mens money may

nake

sion't

want to be. Never let it. Here

you into something you

is where you must fight, son. You

are at stake here, and you are worth

than

money.

more

And guard your money, son. There is a thief at large, huge. amorphous, headless thief, like the Thing that Quatermass came

DOCTOR SEES PRINCESS AND TELLS:—

THE TRUTH ABOUT

A KING'S HAREM

By SEFTON DELMER

Damascus.

"But please don't

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you are cause

you

married, son, will realise why I am

sweating slightly.

Don't marry companionship. between men.

for intellectual I only exlats

Don't marry because il's Don't marry cheaper. it isn't. let me get it over with a rush.

for lark. It won't be. Don't Here goes.

torry because you haye 10.

Marry married You haven't. If you want to get

beçausu want

Marry 10.

against but you're not sure whom, don't you

D

can,

Do what you want with your life: its yours, no one else's. Live, love, and, if you be happy, for tomorrow, sons, and daughters, you die.

And it's your funeral.

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Other writers

in this series--

EVE PERAICK

FREDERICK ELLIS

ANNE EDWARDS

Second Artlele on Monday

HAVE YOU EVER LONGED FOR A RETURN TO THE LUXURY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY?

So the age of elegance

was

not so gracious!

by AMANDA MARSHALL

pint of port was recommended for invalid Indies, and a certain kind of beer, covily named Brunwick mum, was so polent that "men who drank it weTC rendered speechless.” some

OES the thought of spare beds were built into shem

your housekeeping, bookcases, since at least

of your dinner guests were sure your bills and your to stay the night either because Income tax wake you up in they were too drunk to stif, or the small hours in a cold because floods had obliterated sweat that owes nothing to the roads.

Everyday ailments were treated with a horrifying faith in mumbo-jumbo and good luck. A dead man's hand was coni- dently belleved to cure warts:

night starvation? Do you What emerges from M toothache needed nothing more frequently dream of a more Bayne-Powell's fascinating

and

than a pair of self-administered an disturbing book is the advisabll- pliers; a cough demanded small-

of gracious you, living in think

age of leisure, luxury and BACK home to Paris hus has royal snah

gone the only European happy downtrodden chain gang. faithful retainers, endlessly

"They are very well treated, MAN who has over got into with

ten to an drinking green many rights and

of the

accompaniment

witty harem of King Saud privileges as a trade unlorust.

EXPENSIVE without having his hend

conversation and a perpetua! "And they are most chopped off.

expen-background minuet? sive. They cost tens of thousands Read Mrs Bayne-Powell's of pounds, sometimes hundreds "Housekeeping in the Eighteenth

THE CONCUBINES. "One Century" and thank God day one of the concubines, with the inelegant refrigerator, the

how ungraceful plumbing. me

vacuum-cleaner and many wives had. She must aesthetic have been put up to oak that the strictly Non-U Launderette,

of thousands."

And before he left he gave me the answer to the question Western women 50 often ask: "What 15 life like in a harem?"

It's PANDEMONIUM, And many giggles, asked

hurly burly.

"That" sald the man from the haren, was my first and question, because when she did most overwhelming impression. BO all the other

women were "Children of all hucs, colours, silent.

"They and ages were dancing, crawling,

were genuinely falling, striking, laughing, and astounded and very

sorry for howling. Their mothers sat me when I announced 1 had around on low couches and only one." cushions chatting together and Inughing."

THE REBELS-"I don't think that even la deepest Arabia the

for

the un-

The eighteenth century

was

ба

and

me

a fantastic, ill-proportioned of extremes, with taste elegance, reason and statecraft, ar! and literature extremely present, and hygiene, medicine and a reasonable overall ston- dard of living extremely absent.

how harem 'prison' for women will Six gallons each

are

**

Splendours

an old

of

Wis 1

that one of these #Was you over electrided?

to

Before you start asking did this man get in and out, survive many more generations.

ity of being rich-a situation to tes, a broth made of especially out, of the royal Already the women

Drunkenness was rather moro be recommended at any time, but stewed owl and two puppies, or harem, let me explain he was bellious even in the Cadillac than prevalent

throughout in the eighteenth century abso a ghastly brow of crabs' eyes, there by King Saud's invitation, harem of the royal palace.

society, cach member of the lutely essential.

burned sponge, cuttle-fish bones, "They listen to the radio, read [population annually knocking

viper's Desh and tincture PALACE GUEST

magazines, and in a thousand back some six gallons of Kin

The rich could afford brocade wood-lice and tar, 3 upholstery, hand-painted Chin- le is French surgeon Mark and one ways learn of the freer (otherwise cheerily known

Alsters gripe water, the ladies' delight, ese wallpapers, ilbruries and 1sciin. He flow out to the royal and wider life of their

or the last shift). outside."

gunrooms, and even very palace at Riyad perform ค

THE 'REFUGE'

It was an age when superb rarely-a bathroom. They could skin graft operation on 15-year-

was embroidery

painfully afford the tax on windows; they

Electrical treatment tor And what about life old Princess Favullah, favourite

stitched by the light of one could even afford candles fashionable hit-or-miss cure for daughter of Saudi Arabla's 55- man with a harem?

the stench Says Dr Iselin:

"The king candle when

of though even a duchess held the practically anything, and a con- year-old ruler,

spends many hours there every into the country; on a carrying luxuries was quite enough

London penetrated three miles opinion

temporary letter rends binndly, 11c

We stayed several weeks, at day. the palace.

have an itinerant it is the only place where he wind; when bedsteads, however light a drawing-room. He talked to the

philosophor were all

here who knocks people down king's counties wives and con- is safe from his advisers and the lordly the upholstery. cubines (they are reputed to hundreds of people selling him too likely to "awarm."

But, the poor,

the inelegant, for, the moderate consideration of And these achomea

of the glories of In aplic run into hundreds).

aixpence, spending for

and men, women and miserable.

unwitty poor, went children are electrified out. Chippendale, Adam and Van- witlust milk, were some of the harem secrets

bedrooms, BOEP he told about;-

The operation on the princess brugh, our ancestors lives were and candles; and bought the their venica."

extraordinarily used tea-indves from the back- THE MIDWIFE—"The moet was to give her a "now left in some ways

Mrs Dayne-Powell's hypnotic important figures around whom hand. She was badly burned in primitive. Great houses needed doors of great house. Even the account of domestic splendours everything seems to revolve are a childhood accident and her Lable-cloths by the score, since middling-rich found the cost of and miseries two centuries back the dressmaker and midwife, han had shrivelled.

wash-day might

round doing up a house prohibitive, convinces me that no amount 'n successful only once a quarter, soul-stools and the "Do it yourself" move of satin and brocado, good con- midwife is physician and The

Dr Iselin mado nurse combined. There is also adn graft. When he left for were thoughtfully doited about mont had already set in.

versation, Hitle Negro pages to a German womia doctor who Paris the princess said goodbye, the beautiful Interiors for their

carry round the chocolate, and altends. the king's harem."

She took my hand," he said, alcohol-pleklett

People who were eccentric or even the off-chance, of meeting THE SLAVE GIRLS,-"There "and poured into il a Bitle heap

foolhardy enough

drink Doctor Johnson, ozuld repily are many of them. Some are of gold for me and a necklace

Housekeeping in the Eighteenth water were thought likely to compenzate for cough medicine young, some old, some beautiful, of pearls for my wife"

Century by Rosamond Bayne Powell into a decline from lack of based on old stewed owle and some urt' tipkkal,

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John Hurrey): 180,

proper sustenançè. At least (6)

money.

hin

come

owners; and

to

of

even u

A DANGER

Should they do 93 there is 12m ways the danger that head "cold" might be complicated by a virus pneumonia, and a “Dit of a fever" or "influenzai attack" develop into something as serious the fatigued as paralysis of

muscles,"

People should remember, too. that as they get older there is

Against

skin disease and Itching

Mitigal

A man of Mr_Oxley's | Bole Azenta:: DDDWELL ♣ CO., LTD. size would use up only 120 extra calories

if he walked two miles. And as a result of his walk bis appetite would increase, chaing to ent a meal containing several hundred

more calories, Eating loss is a better method of reducing than wereldingimore,

"What do

Mr Oxley asked. "My wife benefted as a result of them t

"They're of

undoubted value for chesty people, for thore chronie bronchities" and asth matics whore

a considerable pro- portion of the air contained in the lower lobes of the lungs is stagnant. For those, in fact, who breathe with the chest muscles rather than the diaphragm. Any- way, special exercises of this sort should be supervised by experts. And for healthy people they are of no valus." *From all you Oxley laughed,

"it would better to languish in bed not move a muscle."

Bay,"

Mr

be

Aud

14 im.

"No," I said, "but there's

medium between

a gradual fall in the metabolismbly and fanatical physical

I'm afrold 'n not a cold more exercise,

fresh air, bath fiend.""

in adult lives and the body us less resilient and rebels against exercise, strenuous exercise or exposure to cold; so that the middle-aged man who jumps out of bed, races round the room and then takes a cold bath does himself more harm than good.

A boy can run to school no- mediately after a meal and Icel

with

In fact, I rather agreed the man who said that one took rough exercise by opening and closing a window. And that the fresh air which came in would last for years.

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