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Can to book after me,
Even this would not have mattered 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
We
were too poor. Sometimes she said we would quarrel too
much 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- Shemaining domestic pleasures to go to my brother's family and
un-sporting and unheard. Perhaps it's a husband's turn,
I am thirty-five. I'm going had a girl friend whom I had to talk to a man
bald and there are younger men vaguely notleed about the house. play with my nephews anci strangers, or even to his who work with me of whom I She worked in a smart dress pieces. friends, about his family know I am jealous, troubles.
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FUTURE OF
ETHIOPIA
In one of Iris recent utterances on the Raban military victory.
sera.
maker's.
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I
HOPED that we
would have some
tastes in common.
We
going to the pictures.
I envy them for several rea- One evening when my friend's Mostly, I think, because daughter was out she came to But here I am sitting at home sons.
We struck up, u alone this evening with no one they are not married and be look after me.
their friendship. In two years to confitle in.
they still retain So why shouldn't cause 1 confide in the Editor of a news. looks. I also feel that they are keoner than I and will eventual- paper.
Youlish what
"OU probably won't
men, airing
I
ly oust me from my none. too secure position.
were married.
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Ga
my
When we
were engaged we both liked I used
to lend her books.
wife was
Even when I felt sure that she hadn't resul them, I still exact
opposite. tried to persuade myself that I must have been
If I knew that my wife really Her parents idolised her, as she rart. could confide in her, I should have understood what I felt. if I she was their only child. They loving to her. But love is blind
never consed 16 obtrude all ṛight:
I
E:
MUST
confess
me,
me.
For instance, she has two voices. One is low and childish.
write and I shan't put my real name to it,-
not mind so much. I hoped as themselves into our family life. I desperately loved loving her, I'm not a journalist, And if a young man that I would be My wife had plenty of self- and I think the thrill of my love run out of our stock of note- happy when married because I confidence. Men paid attention fired her with a flame of love for paper it won't be because I'm a would be doubly strong.
In those days, she was I felt to her. born writer, bit because I feel that two could face the world
quite different, Once I had married her I did I must tell out the truth.
better than one, Now I know not mind this, as I felt their Newspapers everywhere have that my wife is a drag and a attentions wore 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
so lovely.
second before we were married. Now I wish to goodness some heard anything else. When my Of recent years I have rarely straight away that one would pay attention to her. wife puts on her "sweet" voice Signor Mussolini declared that NOTES OF THE DAY married her because her face She has lost her looks and her now (never to me) it turns me Ethiopia was dead. and that thei
and figure attracted me,
Be figure and instead of attracting sick to think what fools we both 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. part of the Italian Empire. vistim of Italy's aggression to its love.
and 1 have the greatest First thing in the morning it difficulty in bringing myself to is, "Will you do so-and-so? Don't That, of course, remains to be fate, because, as Mr. Baldwin says,
At home I was the least im- kiss her.
do'so-and-so... Don't ...Don't. grave danger that For centuries, Ethiopia there was a
portant of a large and por
Will you ring up So-and-So? further pressure upun italy by"}
Looks and the physical side of Can I have the money for so- has had a national life, but, aç-
family which was split means of sanctions would have
There was no love lost between life do not matter if there is and-so?" And at night it is, cording to the Duce, it has died | precipitated war. It is no use jo
me and my brothers and sisters, companionship to this
that overnight, as it were. History. point out at
stage under penalties
When my mother died my last places. But with us there Lengue however, tends to show that Em-
Covenant are useless unless they tie with the family was gone, none of that. pires which have, endured have are enforced; that is self-evident. Before I married I had many I think I have done my best...Don't this, don't that.” been of slow growth, and that the But let us remind 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 consideration, will be worse than dissolvo and give place to some-useless if the principle of collee with some of the good company with me. I feel sure that I them. First she
was jealous thing new. If we take the case tive security, and all that it im 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 of Poland, whose nationality plies, is forgollen. What is meant me from
few friends left. When we were first married was declared to have been utterly by collective security? Obviously, hermit.
It is the banding together of na- destroyed more than a century tions to resist aggression against detestable job which I still hold doing any housekeeping. Her Then, just when I was in the my wife dreaded the idea of and half ago, we find that to-day one or other of them with all the down, I got ill. I was in a far-mother had always let her do she used to propose that we it is in vigorous independent be-strength at their command, sane nished room and the doctor said what she liked.
tions, soldiers, subniarines, and ing once again. Then there
let the boy stock our kitchen evening to make up for some the
I couldn't be moved. rest
fighting comes to mind the subjugation by machinery. That system is already
cupboards with tinned food and quarrol she had picked with 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-
the
of their
becoming
up.
amorose repulses me.
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I of our
So she just should go to the cinema in the
improve upon it we fail to see I realised that men aren't any that the boy had the whole excupt that those nations which i
too
can
When I complained she said rally too tired even to read a
book Then followed an even-' and house to clean as I was
ing of assumed martyrdom. mingy to get a coolie...
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, overy corner of my own home seems hostile.
SIDE GLANCES
turies of pitiless tyranny, Por- tugal, too, was for more than are willing to fight for their rights good when a man is two generations subject to Spain. and the rights of others might afraid of losing his job. And what, for that matter, was form a separate alliance, and those
who would not care or dare to go! the story of Italy herself for a beyond economic sanctions thousand years? Her return to organise a supurate bloe and look full national life was effected out for themselves. That sounds only 'within living memory. It sensible. But It is our fear that when the test comes again, as is net twenty years since the fall many belleve 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 Gormany arising on the ashes of the old Empire. It has well been said that wars of con-
expected to remain quiescent, and Italy may yet nd that her quest have been more ephemeral victory at arms will provide end- leas trouble in the days, to come. It is a sorry circumstance that this little country should be sacrificed in a war of unjustified.
in their effects. than
wars of liberation; that the soul of a people is the least destructible of its assots, and resurrection,rather than death its ultimate consum-
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mation. So, when Mussolini aggression, for the purpose of talks so glibly about Ethiopia expanding the Italian Empire. It would be foolish to deny that remaining for ever a 'part of the
Italian Empire, it would be well the Ethiopians are a backward to contemplate the future twenty,
people or that the country is not badly in need of reform. Its fifty or a hundred years hence,
lenders have admitted so much, and consider whether it is likely
and they were prepared to place to stand as the Duce pictures it
their future in the hands of the to-day. That Italy at present has the military power to keep League; instead, they have lost
birthright. Italy Ethiopia under subjection, and that the Ethiopians of themselves ignored her!obligations for the may be long unable to free them-feguarding of a nation's in- dependence, while the Ethiopians. selves therefrom, seems 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..
their
has
By George Clark
“I've told you time and again not to hung our hotel towels out where .
all the neighbours can sco them."
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
mo.
She has a talent for dress- making, and her clothes, which she makes herself, suit her. She 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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CET against this. that we have not single interest in common. That she is happier away from me than, with me. She is with a 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 Fan 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 believe if we had had children to think of, alt would have been well.
L. C.
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