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sure it's un-English, the woman's point of view, Now un-sporting and unheard- perhaps it's a husband's turn.

Even this would not have minttered so very much if she had shared my sorrow that we didn't have any children. But she was glad. Her reasons were various. Sometimes she said

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were too poor. Sometimes she said we would quarrel too inuch in front of the children, and it would be bad for them. At other times she said she hated children and was afraid of having any.

It is now one of my only re- maining domestic pleasures to go to my brother's family and

My best friend's daughter came to look after me. She I am thirty-five. I'm going had a girl friend whom I had bald and there are younger men vaguely noticed about the house. play with my nephews and to his who work with me of whom I She worked in a smart dress- family know I am jealous.

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friendship. In two their to confide in. So why shouldn't cause they still retnin

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TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1936.

FUTURE OF ETHIOPIA

In one of Iris recent utterances on the Rain military victory,

Y

JOU probably won't

publish what

I

write and 1 shan't put my real name to it,

I'm not a journalist. And if

run out of our stock of note paper it won't be because I'm

a

born writer, but because I feel I must tell, out the truth.

HOPED that WE We struck up a tastes in common.

would have

some, When we years we were engaged we both liked going to the pictures. I used to lend her books,

My wife was my

exact

Even when I felt sure that she hadn't read them, I still opposite. tried to persuade myself that

If I knew that my wife really Her parents idolised her, as she haul. I must have been understood what f felt. if I she was their only child. They loving to her. But love is blind could confide in her. I should have never ceased to obtrudo all right. not mind so much. I hoped as themselves into our family life.

I desperately loyed loving her,

a young man that I would be My wife had plenty of self- and I think the thrill of my love happy when married because I confidence. Alen paid attention fired her with a flame of love for would be doubly strong. I felt to her.

me. In those days she was quite different.

that two could face the world Once I had married her I did better than one. Now I know not mind this, as I felt their voices. One is low and childisht.

For instance, she has two

Newspapers everywhere have that my wife is a drag and a attentions were a compliment to The other is high and complain- been printing a lot of com- responsibility.

me for having secured any one ing. I only once heard the plaints about 19 men, airing

second before we were married. so lovely.

Of recent years I leave rarely Now I wish to goodness some heard anything else. When my

Sigmar Mussolini declared that NOTES OF THE DAY

sern.

consideration, will be worse than

see,

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confess MUST

I straight away that one would pay attention to her. wife puts on her "sweet" voice

1 married her because her face She has lost her looks and her now (never to me) it turns me

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When I complained she said I realised that men aren't any that the boy had the whole

is andhouse to clean good when a man

as I was mingy to gel a coolie. afraid of losing his job,

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rally too tired even to read a book. Then followed an even- ing of assumed martyrdom.

Ethiopia was dead, and that the

and figure attracted me.

figure and instead of attracting sick to think what fools we both Be- country would for ever remain

The Powers have abandoned the sides that, I wanted some one to me I find she almost repulses have been.

me, and I have the greatest. First thing in the morning it part of the Italian Empire. victim of Italy's aggression to its love.

difficulty in bringing myself to is, "Will you do so-and-so? Don't At home I was the least im- kiss her. That, of course, remains to be fale, because, as Mr. Baldwin says,

do so-and-so....Don't...Don't. grave danger that

portant of a large and poor

Will you ring up So-and-So? For centuries, Ethiopia there wua a

further pressure upon Italy by

family

Looks and the physical side of Can I have the money for so- which was split up. has had a national life, but, ac-

have means of sanctions would

if there is and-so?" And at night it is, cording to the Duce, it has died precipitated war. It is no use to There was no love lost between life do not matter

stage that me and my brothers and sisters, companionship to take their "Why didn't you remember so overnight, as it were. History, point out at this

us there is and-so? Why on earth ask So- under Penalties

the League When my mother died my last places. But with

Rind so? Don't walk on the however, tends to show that Em-Covenant are useless unless they tie with the family was gone. none of that.

carpet... Don't talk nonsense pires which have endured have are enforced; that is self-evident. Before I married I hul many

I think I have done my best. Don't this, don't that." been of slow growth, and that the Det let us romind ourselves that men friends and two or three to be friends with my wife, but I dare not ask my friends to time comes when even these may reform of the Covenant, now under intimates. They provided me she does not want to be friends the house. My wife resents feel sure that I them. First she was jealous dissolve and give place to some-sciens if the principle of collec-with some of the good company with me. I thing new. If we take the case tive security, and all that it ira- for which I longed. They saved now repulse her as much as she of them. Now she resents them as a matter of habit. So I have a morose repulses me.

few friends left. of Poland, whose nationality plies, is forgotten. What is meant me from becoming

When we were first married was declared to have been utterly by collective security? Obviously, hermit.

it is the banding together of na- "Then, just when I was in the my wife dreaded the idea of

the early days "destroyed-more-than-a-century tiōna to resist aggression against detestable job which I still hold doing any housekeeping. Her

of our marriage and half ago, we find that to-day one or other of them with all the down, I got ill. I was in a fur- mother had always let her do

she used to propose that we it is in vigorous independent be-strength at their command, and nished room and the doctor said what she liked. Se she just should go to the cinema in the

tions, soldiers, submarines, and

let the boy stock our kitchen evening to make up for some ing

I couldn't be moved. again. Then there! once

the rest of their fighting

cupboards with tinned food and quarrel she had picked with comes to mind the subjugation by machinery. That system is already My friends came to see me in make the beds and do the house me in the morning. But I had the Turks of the Balkan peoples; contained in the League Covenant, the evening, after their work, work when and how he liked. to disappoint her. I was gen- and their revival after four con-and just how the Powers hope to Then they gradually dropped off.

improve upon it we, fail to turies of pitiless tyranny. Por-

excopt that those nations which tugal, too, was for more than are willing to fight for their rights two generations'aubject to Spain. and the rights of others might And what, for that matter, was form a soparale alliance, and those who would not care or dare to go the story of Italy herself for a beyond economic sanctions can thousand years? Her return to organise à suparate bloc, and look full national life was effected out for themselves. That sounds only within living memory. Itsensible. But it is our fear that when the test comes again, as is not twenty years since the full many believe it inevitably must. of Germany as a great Power, there will be the same selfish never to rise again, was forecast. jockeying to avoid responsibility But to-day we see a new and more as in the tragic and shameful case

of Ethiopia, vital Gortmany arising on the ushes of the old' Empire. It has well been said, that wars of con- quest have been more ephemeral in their effects than wars of liberation that the soul of people is the least destructible of its assots, and resurrection rather than death its ultimate consum- mation. So, when Mussolini talks so glibly about Ethiopia | remaining for ever a part of the Italian Empire, it would be well the Ethiopians are a backward people or that the country is not badly in need of reform. Its leaders have admitted so much, and they were prepared to place their future in the hands of the

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expected to remain quiescent, and Italy may yet find that her victory at arms will provide end- less trouble in the days to come. It is a sorry circumstance that this little country should be sacrificed in a war of unjustified eggression, for the purpose of expanding the Italian Empire. It would be foolish to deny that

to contamplate the future twenty,: fifty or a hundred years hence, and consider whether it is likely to stand as the Duce pictures it: to-day, That Italy at present] has the military power to keep League; instead, they have lost Ethiopia under subjection, and their birthright. Italy has ignored her obligations for the that the Ethiopians of themselves may be long unable to free them-feguarding of a nation's in- dependence, while the Ethiopians selves therefrom, scoms beyond are left to bemoan the cruelifate question. But a people con- by which they have been over- quered by the sword cannot be taken.

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"I've told you tie and again not to hang our hotel towels out where all the neighbours can sea them."

Later she took to having women friends in. By their studied indifference to me I know that she had been com- plaining about me to them. Every room, every corner of my own home seems hostile.

I must not get carried away. What are my wife's good points? Well, I honestly believe she is faithful to me, except in what she says to her friends about.

me.

She has a talent for dress- making, and her clothes, which she makes herself, suit her. Shé has a kind nature, and if I am ill she is a transformed charac- ter so long as I am bad enough to be helpless.

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.against this that wave not single interest, in common. That she is happier away from me than with me. She is with n hard-faced friend of hers at the moment, I have no doubt, having a good old grouse, She is an extravagant housekeeper..

I cannot afford to separate from her. Divorce is abhorrent to me and would imperil my. position with the firm. In my turn I am bad-tempered (not that I was before I married), selfish, and moody.

The picture I have painted may be gloomy even if it is truthful. I ballove if we had had children to think of, all would have been well.

L. C