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Dictionary of Marriage

THE marriage rate is in- creasing. In Britain it

it goes. Why, this success ? was 21.6 per 1,000 for the Far, in designing the Bedford third quarter of last year- range, Vauxhall experts studied the highest recorded except

overseas conditions at first hand.

They learnt what was wanted in for similar quarters in 1919 trucks from the very men who were going to use them.

and 1920. And there is world-wide organisation to mako Bedford service and genuine spares avail-other able everywhere.

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Tested at every stage in the figures exceed those of last famous Luton works in England, year, when 220,378 persons proved sound and reliable on the

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COURTSHIP: For Particulars and Terms apply The act of wooing with inten-

HONGKONG HOTEL

GARAGE Stubbs Road

The

tion to marrji.

The following are relative sta tistics:A man with £10 a week kuid: "I spent an average of 30%. a week on presents and entertain- ing my fiancee, for three months

Hongkong Telegraph. NOTES OF THE DAY

TUESDAY, APR. 14. 1936.

PUBLIC WORKS

and guide for 1936

last year we wont to Italy and spent $160. We are still recover ing from that,

"My husband has an endowment polley. We have not much left over after paying for clothes, fares, and Income tax,”

Now let Mrs. Y. speak. Her husband earns 35 a wook.

They pay 268, a week for seven- roomed house near his work, so ho. has no faros. "Ho gives me 12 a week," she said. "I pay for all food, the baby's woollies, my stock- Ings, newspapers, and 2a. 4d, for Insurance out of that,

"He pays the rent, 2s. 6d. weekly for coal. 2s. 6d. for gas (including hire-purchase of the stove), la. 3d. for electric light, and 4s for an

by F. G. H. SALUSBURY endowment policy. I have a perm

ring cost me sixteen guincas.

before we became engaged. The

"Thereafter the expenses, do- creased to 10s. a week, because my fiancee made me save towards our home. I found that I spent leas for myself on tobacco and drinks during our engagement than be-

foro."

A man with £5 a week said: "I

onco a year for 10s.

"We save enough for holidays and clothes-well, not smart ones. But we're happy."

BABY:

The infant or child of either sex. Mra. Y said: "I went to hospital.. We paid £2 12s. 6d. for everything. had saved £48 before I get engaged.

They charge according to your means. The pram was a bargain but I saved nothing afterwards

at £5. I made all the clothes, Its cost depends entirely on Some one gave us the cot." until marriago. My wife agreed personal circumstances. The man on that.

with £10 a week said: "We went man) said: "The nursing homa Mrs. Z. (wife of a 21,600-a-year "She was earning £2 a week, of to little place in Devonshire for was £20 a week and the doctor's which she gave her mother 10a. fortnight, pnd spent £27, in fees were £30. About £80 alto- cluding fures, but we were helped gether. The pram, I think, was by welcome wedding present £14, and the oct about the same. cheques."

Baby clothes were about £6, but Divide or multiply according t,I had a lot given to me. I pay the resources and friendly generosity. nurse I have now 25a, n wock.".

HOME:

BRASS TACKS: The residence of a family. The foundations of a problem; Flats, flatlets, hauges and mai- for example, would a girl marry A girl earning £ a week, and sonnettes. See advertisements any." man on---how muchỸ sharing a flatlet with a girl friend. where; similarly for furnishing. said: "We went fifty-fifty on all

Miss J., of Preston, Lancs, said: Do not forget such taken-for- "I would marry on £ a week if he outings. He was getting £6 108, granteds 18 n week. We saved £07

dcarmats, brooms, was a good lad, of course. Things over pots, pans, and kitchen cloths. On don't eighteen months."

cost as much here as in the £500-a-year standard allow London, and the neighbours are about 35 à room

for house, or kinder."

She knew what I hnd saved.

"Sho sald: Spend everything self and on us having a good time you can now on clothes for your-

before we marry. You'd rather you paid, and so would I; it nicer. And I'll save 1s. 6d. a week for us which she did.

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"I paid five guineas for the en- #agement ring."

Fourteen London girls, working in offices, were naked would they marry on a week. Nine said:

BUDGET: A miscellaneous collection of "No. It wouldn't be fair on either matters which aggregate into a of us.". periodical financial statement.

The bare fees are as follows-

One said, "Yes, if I could keep In the Established Church, by

on working, but it would be cruel banns, usually £1 18. to the par- son, 59. to the clerk, 29. 7d. for the just over £1,000 a year, and I have One could not decide. Three said Mrs. X. said: "My husand has to have a baby. Oh, I don't know." "marriage lines." A licence to din £200 a year of my own. We have a "Yes." pense with banns varies from young daughter. I keep a cook- £1 15s, to £2 12s. 6d. according to general, and have a 'help' three subaltern in a cavalry regiment, Miss L, who was engaged to a the diocese.

days a week, who bas meals in the said: "Our engagement was broken Before a register, by certificate. house. We pay £180 in rent and off because his father would not the cost is 98, 7d., including rates. Wages, food, and laundry settle £300 a year on him. Ifis "marriage lines," if both parties are £7 10. a week: cigarettes, pay was a little over £200 a year. live in the same district; and drinks and amusement 25s., mare My father, could have given 11s. 74. if they live in different or less. districts; before a registrar by

£100 a year. I don't think his "My last cocktail party cost £5; father liked me." licence (which reduces the lapse I have one about

every threo twenty-one daya, otherwise months.

Mrs. R. said: "I'm sixty. We necessary, to one week-day from

brought up three children on the hotice of marriage) the fees, £60 a year.

"My daughter's day school is £3 10s. a week. The most money

Doctor and dentist we ever had was £5 a week. including "marriage lines," are about £20 a year.

But £2 148, 7d.

We spend girls to-day want to start where we about £70 on our holidays; but left off. I don't blame them." WEDDING DAY:

MARRIAGE: ftat. The ceremony by which a man in placing on the Agenda of its { and woman become husband and A WAITING GAME

|1927 Conference the question of wife. The reserved attitude of the Public Works in relation to un- Italian Government to the employment, the International Locarno dispute has not escaped Labour Organisation of the League notice. The Duce is playing a

of Nations is attempting a step waiting game. He wants to see

will commaal widespread which how the cat will jump before approval.

The 1.1.0. has long committing himself to either the reposed faith in the efficacy of German, the British, or the Public Works as 11 means

of French point of view.

unemployment. Prob- alleviating

The ably he has visions of Italy be-Washington

Conference of 1919 ing yet able to exercise a decisive adopted a Recommendation which influence on the controversy. udvised States he "co-ordinate the He is obviously less concerned exrention of all work undertaken with its rights and wrongs than under public authority with a view with the possibility of exploit to reserving such work as far as ing the situation to his own practicable for periods of unemploy advantage. The Italian Govern-

ment". The 1926 Conference ment would doubtless be willing. to lend its voice in support of

adopted a resolution in favour of the sanctity of treaties if the organising Public Works "so as to League would first remove the counteract the ductuation of pri-

In 1931 a most presents to three bridesmaids, £6; brought

vate business.** bear to

sanctions

of

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The day of marriage (above).

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A bridegroom's typical expenses, WHY NOT A QUIET QUARTER?

the Established if married in Church, are: The wedding ring. £3; the bride's bouquet, 17a, Gd.: THE noise nuisance is

cognised as a serious matter,

re-

against Italy for the aggression important Study was published dis-wedding garments, £12; parson's But what can be done about it: the wet-blanket.kill-joys.---could-

to the favourable

execution of

fee, verger, organist, and choir,

in Ethiopia The pressure of cussing the-efficacy-of-advance | £4-587 these sanctions, so far from be- planning, In particular its cost; its

The bride's father pays for, say, ment,

Why not try, as an experi- four cars at £1 cach-1; for

♫ quiet Quarter for ing negligible, apparently irks effect on industry, and the question flowers in the church, £5; for the each town? Artists' Quarters, Italy more and more. Until the whether Public Works divert money reception of 100 guests, say £75; Jewish, Native, and who knows Locarno trouble is disposed of, from industry and trade. The for the bride's troussena and wed- how many other Quarters are it is not likely that the League general conclusions were strongly ding dress?

accepted in other cities as harm. will be able to proceed to the Public Works during periods of

HONEYMOON: less-even necessary. Where application of additional sanc depression, as leading to increased An interval between singleness would be the difficulty about a tions. The Duce has to thank employment both directly and in the serious business of life. Quict Quarter? the new situation in Europe for directly, and exercising a beneficial a further breathing space, in psychological effect. The 1.1.0's which he has been able to accu- Unemployment Committee which mulate reserves of oil. While met in January 1931 during the sanctions are in being it is not depths of the World Depression, likely that Italy will do anything urgently invited Governments to to help the League Council in its undertake extensive Public Works present difficulties. She makes of national or International utility. Plans were drawn up for a series

of this

no effort to take a large, states-f International Public Works, in- manlike view of the case. Even cluding in particular the improve- the holding of the Council meet-ment of international communiza ing in London recently made her tions. Not much came more critical of the League than (echome, and the World Economic ever. Meanwhile, there is, un-Conference of 1933, which was happily, evidence of a sharp under the influence of very restric- [divergence of viewpoint between tive theories, rather poured `cold Britain and France on the ques-water on the L.L.O.'s ideas. Since tion of exercising fresh pressure then, however, Government after on Italy to secure a termination

Government, hint of the U.S.A.

of hostilities. Britain wants to lending, has been converted to a bring the interminable wrang-it is likely that the 1937 discus

more expansionist policy, so that ling to an end, sceing the need of sions will be both Interesting and Italy being brought to respect of fruitful. the League, as

representing

many States, which has definite-

ly declared the Italians to be warfare, Italy attempts by waging a war of unjustified clumsy methods to involve Bri aggression. France, on the tain by suggesting that poison- other hand, wants less pressure gus has been supplied from brought on Italy, even to the British sources suggestion extent of lifting sanction, coupl-which is well labelled as being ing with this idea an investiga, utterly ridiculous. It seems tion into alleged Ethioplan atro-clear that the Italians are at the cities. The fact that Italy has moment still in a mood of de obviously been guilty of using fiance, and, until there is a poison-gas is completely over-change in this attitude, there looked. In answer to the allega-seems small prospect of a ro tions of inhumane methods of (storation of peace,

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark.

"Oh, we can't possibly, Tom. We just roturned from our Easter holiday, and we'll need at least a wook to rest up."

What a blessed escape for those. who want peace; what a comfort for the cheerios to be left free of surely be tried in one of the places where a town-planning scheme is being carried out? Let une corner of a property, or some cul-de-sac, be reserved for the Quiet Quarter. No special buildlugs of any kind would be wanted-just ordinary houses, perhaps a square of them, roughly on the lines of a college court. An entrance gateway with a porter's lodge might be useful; his wages would be paid from the rents.

Residence in the Quarter would, 'of course, be a restrictions (only concernd with pre- privilege The necessary serving quiet) could be no grievance. The stricter they were, the better would patrons be pleased; they would concern no one else.

Management would be in the hands, of a committee, meeting it regular times; all questions of rule-breaking, &c., and suggestions for improve ments, would be dealt with by the elected committee.

The scheme would be rather on the lines of a glorified elus silence room- a haven much patronised by members wanting to read or wrile in peace.

Heguitaks and nursing homes would probably be among the first applicants for sites, but recreation grounds for Weir staffs inust naturally be ar ranged for claowhere.

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Only abults would be eligible for residenco the Quarter. This should be no grievance

Small fats, rentable for short

to anyone. periods by people with special work requiring concentration, might be a feature. All tenancios should be short, renewable where no complaint against the tenant had come before

Committee.

the

quit is the privilege of the rich and the old lucky enough to get into poncoful almshouses and similar. Institutions. But those for. whom

nuict is

the really vital belong to neither

groups. It is our brain-workers' who need autot if they are to give of their best in the service of the com munity. The long will be oure if we refuse. It them.

If some experiment on

Quiet

Quarter linca were tried and proved failure, no harm would have been

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dens, no exrense incurred. But an effort would-hova Leen made to solve

Acrious

problem.

Life may be enaler for our great- great-grandchildren, but in our own. generation it secus inlikely we shall learn to grow varifds.

A. Mayo.

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