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THE HONGKONG DAILY. PRESS. SATURDAY. MARCH 3RD 1929.

SOME UNIMPORTANT. HUSBANDS.

| INSIGNIFICANT AND OTHERWISE.

There is something cruelly humorous and not a little pathetic in the spectacle of a man of small stature dominated by an immense and fearless woman, says Mr. J. B. Sterndale Bennett in a London weekly. In all the dramaturgies he baa) been a stock puppet-and to this day no writer of forces could exist without him. Why is this kindly age has no novelist or dramatist drawn a sympathetic picture: of the henpecked husband! Perhaps Mr. Polly, should count as an exception.

Great men are said to have had great mothers, but they usually chose very stupid wives Great women either chose.. rotentities ne husbands or so overiha- dowed them that they appear as such. They took their names at the altar but left them to an obscurity more profound! than if they had remained unhonoured bachelors.

Who, for instance, who, has delighted since childhood in the gaily, illustrated; pagea of Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book has ever. given a thought to Mr. Beaton When that masterly woman was sitting. at her desk blending the spices of the East with the meats of the West, throwing) barelessly into the stewpan the breasts of dozen partridges, adding to wate. but with no thought of a modest income." the condiments of five continents, how wa Mr. Becton spending his time? He was, in point of fact, a respected and successful man of business, engaged in the City during the day and spending his evening quietly in his suburban home. It may be assumed that bis invitations to dinner were seldom refused-and. as the Landladies say, in the home of Beeton everything was "of the best."

Perhaps because the eighteenth century was particularly rich in talented women it afford the greatest crop of inconspicuous husbands. I have always thought affectionately of Mr. Siddons and Mr. Inchbald and Captain Hemans, Mr. Barbauld and General D'Arblas. Theirs must have been trying rôle to stand by inhonoured and unsung while that courteous age showered its flatteries on their wives. Fiemans frankly gaves it up after five years and ran away. Siddons was forced into retirement at Bath Incbald never really settled to the taste and died in painful circumstances.. D'Arblay obtained a small pension after a career that had been far from smooth.. One can imagine bin glancing through the morning letters (all for Evelina) and saying testily. "Another from that

old Doctor."

Of them all we know most of William Sidden He was a marked quarry even before he played with the young Sarah in the Assembly Room at the King's Head, Worcester, in "Love in a Village' (a performance to which admission wa obtained by purchasing a packet of toothpowder). Siddons was in those daya the une premier of the Kemble company, a handsome, dashing young Fellow czicalated to excite the admiration of any impressionable young woman. He was lovable.impetuous, indiscreet; and versatile. It was said of him that he would play any part from Hamlet to Harlequin. He performances, however, were only what the critics, to-day call adequate. So at least thought old Mrs. Kemble, Sarah's mother, who put her foot down firmly on the affair, reeing no doubt the disadvantage of an alliance with a rather second-rate young actor. Thwarted in his anit, Siddons took the occasion of his own benefit to receive some doggeral verses asking the sympathy of the audience for a discarded lover. For this unwarrantable breach of taste and etiquette he had his cars very properly boxed by Mrs. Kemble (another instance of the great mother), and Sarah was packed off to be a lady's maid in the country.

FRENCH BIRTH RATE, "LETY” ON THE CHILDLESS..

France is extremely perturbed.

The alarming decline in the birth-rate baa given rise to many extraordinary measures for penalising the childless and rewarding those blessed with large fami

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