T
FIRST OF
1:1930
A TWO-DAY SERIES
US report is about
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1950.
Atom bombs apart, it's probably the biggest thing in our lives today . . . the tremendous change IN JUST A GENERATION towards the business of having a baby.
1956
The difference between Mother
too young to marry,
ramy day."
They until her hom34" Was
and Me
marriages
one! thing- the had to wait until they lund puid up and hers.
It. IN 24 sound astonishing dif saved up enough money for
But this ference that
home, furniture, and principle.
fo IN what શ man who years has made So the what grandja referred business of having a baby as: "A nice little sum for a deals in broken
huss to say, Joseph Bray- Mis Esther Trott, mation of a and being a mother. 11 14
County Counell day the difference between ms
NOW We have full em shaw, chairman of the Mar. Tonelen;
24/3 She has listened to all Council: Guidance
the gymnis against working parents' generation and my ployment. A woman kreps riage
anothe earns good "The very essence of mar-
She says I is own an atom bombs on her job and
has changed. The
to say wonten go that apart, it is just about The money, even though work rhage
work to jan For the televt o biggest thing that is hap ing women are more liable husband and wife are now
Most of the cart to work por their first
their baby run, and
partner the world today. to lose pening in
I am t going to jut down
int #
ni medija) statistics I never ander- stand statistics. Tum gong to show then way 25 years of changing thought has altered the mother of today from her meth14-2 back t the early Thirties.
And, of course, the big gest difference of all can be summed up in a phruse: Going out to work.
Going out for you have
Going out to
you've had it.
BY.
SHIRLEY LOWE
than there who stay home.
at hip requires continuous
agreement discussion and
**ka woman worka
NOW, overy girl is 11 is a far more adult rela- taught about family plan- tionship and far harder. KINK. A subject that was only whispered about
1930, it is now a necessary topic 1
mother- daughter chal.
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JO
has an interest, and sher Is much less kely to be IL dull wife and possessive mother in-law, Qualities
of one
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und a deposit for furniture, ut to pay for a council fet meteet
Tary +387 692 down and we p atrul
They conditions. something about it
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The REN PPA Niti pra wonderful generation, dosesive t
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BILLIAN
ROWSE aged 22.
Prettiest
!
things and
a party
for ber
PICTURE DY WARD HART
oll to a N:4 July more.
The modern wife does not alt
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The odd thing theories
..
and
he:
Insband
decide
It
th
should be.
the Inca, own to 1tge meting.
a
Mother felt
that when rive
the re 44
me damning socks.
She goes
You wait---
dying
is
Maybe we are were kigt.
was Iglat But
May-
MOTHER believ NOW we have hire pur. That make splendid mothers
ihat child.
1*2440 2 strendlet not heard, and that tathay The disciplinarlun
to work be.
15 down the
baby, chase. work after monthly instalments
ant
WORST M
14
dhung-room heups when
VOU
The very 12 make minke mothers-in-law. table. ।।
have 1101 capital but plenty of earn
A business
www
ing power.
three things.
not a hobby
1930 the business of having batics rely
Was bust. less athl 130 a part-time hobby. She knew that her Wits baby treding, chid-rearing, and teenage- gunding.
19 the mother of
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She knew that any gestion that she should 4 Job would be greeted With mocking laughter from her bustit a shocked disapprovat from her neigh- bours.
But By there are arolina ADU married women working in Eng- land. a mrge percentage have CHMAL VIA. Somehow they have managed to com- bine the boss i want you
Mother mistrusted
She
แ
"And what be going to happen.
--Par
WALA
wile
A Rela Only her fastly grown up”
couple of gesturaliteres vigo tr with childbirth te
until she whe 45. and she was wait- drod at 55 The mourn mosher bus- shed with her et.Oktawn t 40. and strace her life span is 70 she still how half her like to g
Adsume e eise who knows 10 abost the moderat mofter
ed around! for bari. She married. She Faci a baby. And she would best look at a wedding ring
Maybe
We k It is beau
vikiren so much, ་་ ་་་: but we believe that they hould 1x seen and heard as much
And You wait 11 prosvide
it home is father gets you!
yg ruse.
was loving a baby she strid rst and relire le a dark an
sputted muck. 131 0
We feel the best thing is to extrvise put on the prettiest Whing we ran Aad and go out to a party'. ise Gillian in that photograph again please)
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and
Mother cherthed protected
เ agains one and everything. We discuss take tangs with the children, them out with us and tend to make them adult earlier,
Bar! threatened
row WB:
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If mother
She to hame mother. These days u girl goes to the Citizens Advice fure, the Marriage Guidance Council or a friend,
Mother m
O reconciled when herself to sitting hole father went out with the boys, where shta
Men knew that a woftiati's place In the int. We tak a woman's place is
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unc the fascinating fact (Just
al- 1:11 Inte statistle?) 18
of mor- though the meaning
hus Singe and motherhood changed completely it has had no part in breaking up homes. have The marriage breakers
At the same the many a
year.
They are the three l's.
In- S.-wo prrvent fetty. Forty-seven percent is Inle renee by friends and m.
Thirty-tw. percent Thermpetence in trimey matters (COPYRIGHT)
MORE ON MONDAY
TRAGEDY ENDS DYLAN'S
HOUR OF TRIUMPH
And For His Epitaph:
D
YLAN THOMAS was unpredictable, an intensely buman being of the strangest contrasts, the
Lovable He Was, Man, And Humble'
JOHN MARSHALL concludes the story of Dylan Thomas, the most fantastic character of our time.
not want him to go. He spoke her that he was unconscious in brave words about his future hospital, plans.
Arrangementa were matte for her to be down to New York. To Ralph the books" (irm) whom he borrowed the fare to Mr Drinin has described the London) he said he was going "scene" when she reached the to be in early tomorrow serious poet and the guy,
to write more, broadcast more, hospital. She dyes not deny t was off my head," she says, morning to type that re reckless Bacchanalian, the
carn real money when he caine promi ing the rest. Alas! Dylan, it is clear, was
before Christmas, TU and her friends, knowing her port, Miss Smith," with the caustic, cynical talker
and first half,
that
understand. to tumbling down content
Over- The Princess
terrible back
Phillip Burton (Richard Burton anguish, child's "Mummy, I've
tender son,
she was in another husband, publish Instead three letters one-way hill of excess which is
is his adopted son), with whom whelmed, } feel sick spots.
frum Dy loft,
of so cary, especially for a cele-
evening talking hospital when he died. apologies
lamentations, brly in Amerten, to get on to "wonderfully" and there's a funny feeling
for four hours I must "Gng the trade:men.
o difficult to leave-like one of about his
opera projected my Lummy."
write.
ierrifying Alms, for the love of those
"turnpike"
libretto for Stravinsky and writing. Perhaps I should be motor roads.
new play, he said:
"I've got better off pulling teeth."
another 20 or perhaps 25 years to live. I am goign to try new
and
EEL
go the
father.
Such
contradictory character was bound to be the subject of myths.
It depends on the woman which one wins, but 90 percent of working mothers
22
How bitterly
It was untruly said that will tell you that the boss | he quarrelled with his poverty just hasn't a chance,
Wis
one
31
Ironical that should have stalked him to his death and that He had a parents.
deep
financial success should huve affection for them both and followed so swiftly after.
the most poignant.
NOW: take a look at the one of girl on the
right of this of all
was his poems She is a 22-year-old | written for his father, not page. modal, married to a pub-in memoriam, as has
lisher, and living in a base stated, but
been
Too late
80 TRULY he year or
ho
ment at in Knightsbridge. before his death when Her name is Gillian Rowse, was frail and going blind. works did sell well in his life
but what is more important That fart gives the
is that although she having a
poem
baby in two months' time she is
is sharp meaning:
still
Do not go gentle into that good
night
on the model agency's list, and was able to pose for this picture for us.
G
Today's brides
are younger
"ILLIAN ROWSE typi-'
She
fles the modern attitude
mother. 2
to being
says: "I should like to go on And working.
I should five like to have
more children."
tu
back himself 1 blame in
part, for his "Collected Poems" mothe 10,000 copies, a high figure for modern poetry.
In the past two years sale have
that, 700med
with recordings too, and the help of the trust fund
Old age should burn and rape royalties from
his
леоп
he spent
With party fifter party in
honour, with the lightn of a thousand bars things."
Yet to others he gave the im-
that he would not live to be 40,
a
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'Had no pain'
FROM America the one person with him, by chance, when
he died, the poet John Berry- man, wrote: "He had been working too hard at rehearsals,
n....
shining (in New York, at least) untii 4azu., with Third Avenue and "the
beckoning. pression that he expected the Vinage of high fulfilment of an carly prophecy depres:ed and, of course, drink- with a merciless balls and "old-fashioneds" and knock-out drop, Martinis des- and to one friend he said: "I cending upon the unrobust, am in an awful state of debt normally beer-drinking poet, and near despair, I am drowned
in undone work an writs," the effect was catastrophic,
He read the play unfini hed, and triumphed. It was still in- complete when it was due to be given for the first time.
On tour again
CCORDING to Mr Brinnin,
curtain went up fragments were being handed to the actors and some reached them on the stage.
af close of day;
launched by his friends, the ACC minutes before the Rage rage, against the dying much Icas stark,
outlook
for his family looks
MUK Wood," **Under
that for uproarious play glowing volees which is better known to
It was an improvized ending,
On Monday afternoon hold someone he had never beso drunk as he was on Sunday, when he went to three parties. He was in continual crisis for four and half days until he died....He was never conscious and had no pain,
Mr Burton says he sensed that evening that Dylan felt be was coming to the end of hi
"He was one of the greatest first lyricn! impulse. He talked poets who ever lived." affectionately int A new porn about his father as if it was Today his mortal remain lle likely to be the last of its kind. beneath a plain wooden cross
ty" has been and a laurel wreath. The poem, Elepy"
dévaled
completed by his friends Vernon, Watkins from
Mrs Thomas is making plans his notes, and will be published to remove him for reburial in shortly.
the garden of the Boat House,
The last days
for the second part, seemed to
The
had bout, Inst
performance in volce, from torment Dylan through the last which Dylan took part was at Auden. year of his life.
the Poetry Centre, New York,
of the light,
I think that the epitaph for Dylan Thomas is to be found Hugh Grimth
nskre once
not in his own poeme or the Dylan to play the Fool in
many written in his honour but Lear." "Buy" sald Dy the publle than any other of but the applause was fortissimo. WH
worda of the ordinary "that's casting close to nature."
a brutal, sordid, in- in the
in that ordinary pub, his works, bayught Dylan little Back in Britain the DBC per finitely sad story it is, the neople but ecstatic applause before his
suaded him to finish it and tory of Dylan's last days after Brown's, where the same pin- A fatal move
...death. It was first broadcast
There was uns decorate the same brown-
walled one further poetry reading, at tilties stand still where he used bar; where the tablo three months after he died, and they actually received the final that last triumph.
version just before his death. since then the book has sold It wink Drst broadcast the a private party, when Dylan 10
where Mra Ivy NEW, people have ever parted 50,000 copies. It is and fod, following January,
Play; rallied from drinking
iL
Williams remembers that ho He rend, in his glorious would come in with his chop- with their money so readily. Lunate that it ever was finished,
Yeats and W. H. WOU Once he was given a £50 ad
basket and ping
a couple vance to write a book on Walez
pounds of sweets, one for her; He could not write about Woles
her husband, on October, 25 n fortnight From America we have Mr where
Williams, products of six islin Wales sald he, so he went
to London, a fatal move, his When he went to Amerlen in before his death and was zald Brinnin's round-by-round new postcard
from Arizona DD- gradually becoming less, of friends being so glad to see the spring of 1933, the last visit to be its greatest performance count of the last tragic days, a local sideshow. We are him, and the price of vodka but one, the main purpose was in Ameries.
culminating in his collopta in nouncing that Dylan had at last But it was woll In the end to present it.
his hotel and the come from met some real cowboys: marrying younger, and we being what it was.
n short of completion when he the pubuchers settled for
Gloomy were the auspices which he never emerged. are having bigger familles.book of stories.
love-able, wal road it to a delighted audienco
for that last tour. Dylan did Three out of ten modern
and it will not a lot further
not want to go. His wife, did He sold "Under Milk Wood advanced shortly before the brides are under 21. Which
to Princome Caetani for the first production with n full east, 18 probably why our Homo-primed literary review, Including Dyian himself, wi mothers always, consider us’Botteghe Oscure, mending the due in May.
A
family
Author of "Dylan. Thomas Americs."
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hum-blo."
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