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DEWARE when you BE

reach the forties.

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when

The age he wants to slam the door...

"Maybe it was

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Never Returned · I GAVE him a shrewd glance. life in the city. I

Behind the dust of the had to do some- desort I could see a heavy face thing. I and a mouth with bad teeth, out here to do. He must have been forty-five at this."

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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936,

WHAT NOW?

wilderness known as the happens that some three years writer who Kalahari Desert was certain- ago I slammed the front door of Penned a best- y roaring commands lustily. my suburban house outside Lon- seller title to his don and never went back. I book: "Life Be later, I sat by his camp fire caught the usual 'D.10' to town, gins at Forty." and we began to talk.

but only to go on to the docks Actually, most men at forty lounges all over Europe, pigeons "Queer to hear you speak of for South Africa."

and step aboard a ship bound are shocked into the knowledge to be plucked by any confidence London, its streets, its theatres,

that life is beginning to end. trickster or gaudily dressed

and all the rest of it." he mused. silence that followed.

I did not break the short Forty is the half-way mark. The woman speaking broken English. "Sounds like a dream city of my ed no encouragement to go on with no sign except

He need- forties have crept upon them And how pathetically pleased all my life-until three years inmagination. Yet I lived there with his story.

The Powers in general, and League of Nations members inago." particular, are confronted with a knotty problem consequent on)

the indications that Italy intends NOTES OF THE DAY Confident that she would be

own

seven o'clock. And two grown-

He chuckled, reminiscently. "When I slammed that front

Give the poor devil his due.

L

# certain they are if you venture à con- bulge at the waist-line. And the versation with them or help "Yes, 1 slammed the front poor devils faced with duor," he continued, "even awful realisation decide that understand.

this them in a language they do not though a very patient and most

Their subsequent domasticated wife was behind it, they have not yet really lived. sad confidences over whiskies to claim Ethiopia as her

and sodas The man of forly makes a seeing me again that evening at desperate plunge into life.

would provide territory, by right of conquest. INTO CHARYBDIS

He realist writer with enough Militarily, as was to be expected,

up children-daughters, I had feels he has been hesitating on material to relegate Tchekov to Haly has triumphed, but the Homer in his eple, speaks of a good job in the West End. the brink, too long.

the ranks of gay humorists.. battle of diplomacy has still to Charybdis, who sucked the sea and world-famous store.)

and (He mentioned the name of a Seyila, six-headed monster, be fought. When the League of all upon it into a bottomless ma charge of the furniture section-

These are the failures at forty, I was in

He may try desperately to be Nations Council meets on Mon- and the perils which beset seafar third floor by the lift.""

He discovers that night- howover. Successful in busi- clubs were built specially for his ness, they make a miserable pre- day, it will find itself in a sorrying men who tried to navigate le- tween these close-set horrors. The

kind. predicament, brought down to asimile has been used a good many

tence at living. They cling to the cash and let the adventure sense of realities by the collapse hundreds of times by Imaginative,

go. of the Ethiopian armies, the but not original commentators, door, and walked out of my Lon. He wants to live, and live ex- flight of the Negus and the and even the poets have borrowed a comfortable sum. I daresay before hint is equivalent to the adventurers of forty

singe the days when Homer sang: don life, I was able to leave them citingly. And yet what is placed Italian occupation of the capital, the classic's words for metaphor. they're managing all right." In some quarters, there is still a That makes the comparison no less feeling that sanctions, particu-applicable in the case of French diplomacy during the past seven larly of a financial character, months, however. French diple AND he sucked noisily at should still be imposed on the mats have steered the dangerous declared aggressor. Those who course Homer's herces knew. So hold this view assert that it is They had on the one hand Scylla, far they have escaped disaster. one thing for Italy to occupy should they steer too close to the Ethiopia and quite another to Italian shore; and if they altered their direction to escape the com- set it up on its feet as a new plications proximity with Italy Colony, involving tremendous might bring, they were in danger of expenditure which the occupying being drawn into the vortex of "Not even a blazing row with nation would not be able to moot Charybdis, which, in this instance, the wife?

will represent the Lengue of

are

For the most part, the real

Ham and eggs breakfast offered Legion of the Lost. Yet, in

The Usual Kiss to a condemned man on the many cases, they are only just,

his know there are some criminals appear by the hundred from morning of his hanging. I finding themselves., Men dis- pipe.

who cat a hearty breakfast. In London every year, Scotlandd pointedly.

"Is that all?" I asked, disap- the same way there are men in Yard can tell you about them, the forties who enter upon the for they have a list supplied "That's all," he nodded. gay life and log themselves into even to the smallest detail by a "No other woman?"

a conviction that they are enjoy. host of deserted wives, And for "Not a chit."

ing it.

the most part you will observe that the Legion of the Lost are in the forties,

if financial credits from other Nations. Up to now they have "She gave me the usual kiss as

nations were not forthcoming, There is this much to be said for

this viewpoint that it would be

preferred the passage nearer I loft the house." Scylla's lair; but the developments

Poor Lonely Souls THE American man of forly

Wise is the wife who can

also gives way to his sense recognise the symptoms of forty of adventure. He decides upon in her husband. Too often it is hanic, the long-delayed grand tour of the other and younger woman

al government may change all that, why?" I protested, in international politics and inter- "Then, in heaven's the height of irony were nations It is generally conceded that the which have unanimously con-Leftist majority in the next Cham evitable phrase which so many mines to make the journey alone. and makes plans for her Good "Oh, I dunno," came that in Europe, and, maybe, he deter- who recognises the symptoms demned Italian aggression now lber will put a hard word to Home men use as an explanation of How many of them have I seen, Time.

with respect to the Ethiopia under-

But I have known wives

to kick aside the ashes of the domestic hearth, and gone forth

As for the statesmen who have SIDE GLANCES By George Clark with them and never

even

shuddered when the front door. was slammed. Such women are rare. Wives are realists, and adventure for husbands of forty seems nonsensical to them,

to facilitate consolidation of taking. And that will menn veer-the inexplicable in themselves, poor lonely souls, sitting in who have helped their husbands. the scized territory into aning towards Charybdis; and there Italian possession. There is a is danger there. suggestion that the United States, and possibly other na-anxious days of crisis, frightened guided France through her recent tions as well, will adhere to the of losing the support of the Right Stimson doctrine of non-recogni-land of antagonising the Left, or vice veran, we like Le Journals tion of territorial conquests, but descriptive passage, that "they have the point has to be faced that run through a wood of thorns and, although the Powers have not brambles, with their hands tied be- recognised the virtual seizure ofhind them." But it took an agile Imind to think up that one; or else Manchuria by Japan, the fact it had never heard of Scylla and remains that that territory has Charybdis, been torn from China; and the

world is now confronted with aits application is now more somewhat similar position in strongly reinforced than ever as Ethiopia. Non - recognition, result of the latest develop therefore, would not of itselfments. Mr. Anthony Eden a affect the fait accompli. The the League is now so shaken that few weeks ago declared that "if outstanding fact, of course, is its future utility is placed in that the League of Nations has doubt, we should have to con- been, in the case of Ethiopin, as sider the policy which it would in that of Manchukuo, utterly be our duty to pursue." At the time, this was interpreted us unable to stop the aggressor. There emerges from this cir- foreshadowing the possibility of British action outside the cumstance the question of the League. Now, the reconsidera- future foreign policy of Britain tion of policy necessitated takes and all the rest of the League on a new aspect. We shall, members. So far as Britain is however, have to await the concerned, a Labour member Government's declaration aris- suggested in the House of Coming from the new situation.. But if nothing, more can be done mons recently, that unless im- to secure justice for the Ethio- mediate and effective sanctions pians, there will be a large body wore imposed to check Italian of opinion inclining to the view aggression, Great Britain should that the League of Nations has leave the League and claim com- come to the end of its tether. plete liberty of action in foreign her own policies according to and that Britain should frame policy. That is a view which what she.considers to be re- found fairly wide support, and quisite to the situation.

"Oh, the boss's wife has been made secretary of another club because it's no trouble for me to handle all the corre

spondence."

Yet, in the wilds of Zululand, I have met more than one couple who kicked security sky-high and adventured forth in middle- age to sell cheap blankets to natives. Even in the heart of Essex you will find a middle- nged couple who left their suburban villa for a fortnight's holiday by car and never return- ed. Twenty-four hours after leaving London they ended with a burst tyre in an Essex, field, They camped there. They stay- ed there. They erected a bunga- low there. And London, and the suburb saw them no more, They are happy at beginning all over again. To them, life has really begun at forty.

Enough. There is a danger that many doors will be slam- ming within the next few days. Then, maybe I shall have to adventure forth myself, to escape the wrath of deserted wives,

For I, too, aráin my forties.

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