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сп

MONDAY, 31st July, 1933 at 9

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JULY 26

THE WORLD

OF WOMEN

Abolish All Honeymoons!"

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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS:

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The honeymoon is anything but a heavenly prolude to long marital bliss as Mary Borden (centre) ex- amines it in her new book, "The Techniquo. of Marriage." Her verdict draws lusty huzzahs from Vicki Baum (left), Viennese author, and Howard Chandler Christy (right) famous illustrator and protrait painter.

"Wrong Start,” Says London Novelist; "Too Costly," Adds Author of "Grand Hotel"

This is the first of two articles on the question: "Should the Honeymoon be Abolished?" Here are the views of those who answer "Yes," The next article will carry the views of the honeymoon's de-

fenders.

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woman..

charming and interesting people they meet along the way.

"Right now, in the middle of the depression, don't forget the econo- mle side of it. A honeymoon is a luxury of the past. There aro many better ways young couples

money?" can spend their

If women feel this way about| By Julin Blarishard

and mutual interests, is painful honeymoons, how about the men? romantic? Are Abolish all honeymoons and and dificulta disappointing ex-Are they more

real perience both to the man and the they the sentimentalists behind young couples will have

this universal convention called chance at happy marriage!

the honeymoon? Mary Borden, distinguished "It is an utterly useless, abnar- London novelist,. makes that mal and unfair test of their love shocking statement, right in the for each other." middle of the year's best honey- moon period.

Not at all, answers Howard Chandler Christy. It's just good old custom that everybody makes too much, fuss over and Vicki Baum, Viennese author of nobody has the courage to buck! "Grand Hotel," supports Mias "Newlyweds who honeymoon Bordon's view with astonishing got a wrong start toward the vigour.

daily grind of house-keeping, go- ing to work, arranging their time'

entertainment, reading friends,

and going about together.

"Marriages that might have begun and continued happily get of to the wrong start because of the-honeymoon. "Miss Borden "I am against honeymoons so they can have leisure for asserts, along with a lot of other emphatically," Miss Baum states, startling and sensible bits of ad- "I have been happily married for vice in her new book, "The Techni-17 years and never had the "They establish too high a pitch que of Marriage."

slightest Ruspicion of a honey in their clothes, their spare time And I firmly think my together, the money they will to "Few women will admit. even marriage would probably not have they have a distinct let-down.

spend. When they come home to themselves that their honey-turned out so well if my husband moon was a strain, a bore, a

and I had spent the first fortnight nerve-racking period of adjustor month of it, in hotels, sleepers ment or a miserable failure that and sight-seeing buses. has estranged them temporarily

ядув.

moon.

the ia

and made their married life un- "To travel together necessarily dimeult," the novelist hardest test of any human rela

tionship. I am sure that many young people who have quarrels. arguments and misunderstandings The convention of bliss in in Havana, in Bermuda or Atlantic connection with the honeymoon is City would be perfectly happy and so strong that vanity forbida peaceful in their own new home. people to admit that it was any- thing less than the most heavenly experience of their lives, They often aucceed in aceing it that way In retrospecti

"But I believe that this holiday, whose only reason for axistence is pleasure, is very often not pleasant

develop the feeling that they are It is no wonder that many brides

being "alighted," that their hus- bands don't really love them. They started out wrong-when he devote his every thought and mo- was entirely carefree and could

ment to his bride.

The abnormal leisure life they have at first, on the honeymoon,

reminds me of athletes who deve lop too quickly. They key them. selves to such a pitch that they 'As I understand it, the Idea of can't hoop up their records. a honeymoon is to take a young Married people, like athletes, couple out of their usual environ-should start normally, in the ment into one of seclusion, but normal atmosphere, with their where can ayeung couple find work, their friends, their play. more privacy than within their By sixty they should be ready for OWN four walls2. It is no secret honeymoons for ridicule for everyone from the that honeymooners aro target

Next: Abolish honeymoons?”

at all, but. removed as it is from portor, fellow passengers, waiter, "Never," four famous folks re their home-setting, their friends hotel manager and even the nice, tort,

SALESMAN SAM

Sam Has Company!

1 Poter told (anog.).

6 Fully dressed in an old fashion.

9 Highest happiness.

10 Many an exterior of this sort

hides a kind heart.

11 Suggests

tho

country and fencing and shamrock, More

13 Oh yeah!

7 Untwist, twist, untwist (and

bear the composer no malico).

8 Putting off here is right.

14 Becomes entitled to.

16 Companions.

16 Is appended to grants (two

words).

17 This shows that the feminine

greater than the masculino.

18 South Coast cereal. :

16 Two words which Dick Whitting-21

ton of the legend might have

spoken when asked to what he ascribed his good fortune.

18 Go back.

10 Spoll a man.

A reaped cornfield is practically. A craftsman.

24 The difference between 4

cask and one riot full.

25 Gone away!

28 Take it up to get it loose.

20 Although it's a party, it's given. [29 A rise in prestige (rav.).

half In angor.

22 And now you see the result,

24 Employ with a sailor for vitu-

peration.

26 Pertaining to a leading citizen. 27 To make such a gift the poor

girl is in extremities.

30 Showing which.

11 To bo this would be the longed for resuit of much application. 32 Programme items.

33 Its feathers are so warming.

Down

1 An insect,in a reat máy tell you

when' to cress. 2 Aspect.

3 Prayers in which certain rela-

tions are made.

4 In this

colloquially.

5 Imagines.

6 Like a tiger.

manner, to speak

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