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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936.

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with nothing to fear and nothing to achieve, I would have dê- veloped into a domineering kind of woman.

If I found one approach use- ful for achieving my object I might have been too lazy to vary it and run it to death. I notice lots of the married wo- men I know do that. I could not afford to be lazy, and I did not dare to be domineering or little-girlish or anything to cx ress.

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Bedford trucks leave Eng- land for every part of the world' And the rising export figures and! many hundreds of enthusiastic letters from Bedford owners all over the world have shown that the Bedford is popular wherever sure it gues. Why this success'? For, in designing the Bedford But that lot off his chest. range. Vauxhall experts studied Overseas conditions at first hand, They learnt what was wanted in trucks from the very men who stomach. That both are slight- badly. He looked me up to tell background that nude conversa

ly disgusting is another matter. as he would find me another tion between us not only possible were going to use them.

But, after all, most of the job and found me in hysteries. And there is 3 world-wide organisation to

sanitary processes are inclined make Bedford

to be a bit that way. service and genuíno spares avait- ablo everywhore. Tested at every stage in the

a few days ago the "Telegraph” published à letter from a Henpecked Husband who believed that putting his problem on paper would help to solve it. Here is a confessional letter from a reader who has followed his lead. Being a stolid, honest man I concentrated on improving

this information my education, picking up the. David toole

Mental vomiting is probably as beneficial to a bilious mind as the other kind is to a sick

but interesting, nequiring the necessary information on run ning a house like his smoothly. Fortunately I was interested.

I know now that that self-imposed discipline was good for me. Not only is my husband hap- pier in consequence, but I am happier myself. -

UINCE (hose first fow months I have been happier than I ever believed it possible. for any one to be. 1 admire and respect my husband as I could hardly have done if I had not been compelled to observe and study him, and I

Losing one's job and one's It has just struck me, for the character at eighteen is a serious first time in twelve years, that proposition. The most astute turned out much worse than ing girl, especially if he is res. proved sound and reliable on the his. Certainly it began much ponsible for her tears. roughest work in the world, the less favoumbly, for my husband 1 was not doing it on purpose, Bedford is a first-class invest- did not even want to marry me. but I know it was unfair. David ment whatever the nature of

I shall call him David, though did not offer to find me a job. and work!

that is not his name. Twelve he asked me to marry him. J years ago he was thirty-five and stopped crying.

was eighteen. He was wealthy, well-educated, well-bred; 1 was

famous Luton works in England my own marriage might have man alive is no match for a cry- I liked the things he liked, but know he admires and respects

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I have never cried since.

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I tog good care not to be pre- sumptuous or futile over half- digested facts.

1 drew up a kind of code for, myself.

I must not get on his nerves, I must not appear to be try ing to please him,

me.

me.

To-day he believes that he has always loved

He has no ca that he married me against

his will.

I know the average girl does not require to make such an effort, bul, no matter how equni conditions and social standing, I think I may be quite wrong -but I do think that the average man is more innately

man, in that he shrinks more from rows and messiness.

I must assert myself, but only when I am sure I am right,

ITE was not difficult. naturally kind and courteous. 1 realise that with another type of man I might, have, failed completely. But though he is the last man in the world to look for faults, he perceives de

Hto live with. He is lured tun the average wo-

Hongkong Telegraph. certainly was not getting old: could get him to care for you, ficiencies quicker than most.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 19336,

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MEASURES

The first few

I de-

If women would be a little humbler without going to the

extreme of that section that insist on making doormats of themselves; if they would try I know he has told me since to appreciate an intellectual that he considered me too in level that is in many cases personal during those early higher than their own without months. The first time

being foolishly aggressive about finitely opposed him on quite a ; if they would sometimes small matter he was genuinely wonder if the pleasure of their 1 did, not lose my company fully justified the ex- pleased. temper, but I made no attempt pense of their upkeep; if they took a husband's admiration a to hide my annoyance,

I still remember the way he little less for granted, but rather

It was the first us something to be earned- looked at me. time he had looked at me with not during a brief engagement, interest quite apart from but throughout forty or fifty years of married life, they physical affection.

would find that being married was a pleasant and interesting job.

an

I said no more about the mat- ter, but he let me have my own

I had been brought up in n orphanage and had been work- riage with a heavy heart and ing since I was fourteen. I had many doubts. Most of you may little education, I was nothing, think I ought not to have taken al had nothing.

advantage of the situation.

But when you love a man as I D'hotel

DAVID came to the loved David you know that if frequently yn got a fair chance and the for week-ends. At thirty-five he right kind of opportunities you

The is not ok now, or even be unless there is something wron [ginning to get old,

with you or him. That was the I fell in love with him; he way I looked on it. scarcely noticed my existener.

months were other than as the pretty child

I had to watch myself who brought in his meals, I was difficult,

all the time and the strain was pretty, very pretty.

To-day I don't think I am he dreadful. I knew he married It is clear from the Intest

ing vain in saying that where, me from pity, {statements made on the subject looks are concerned what I have I was not very old, and the by Sir Thomas Inskip. Minister lost in the inevitable passing of temptation to reveal my grati- for Co-Ordination of Defence.extreme youth I have more than tude for the safety he had given that Britain is rapidly making gained by learning how to make me was hard to fight. When we stood disclosed, as we often did up leeway in the strengthening the most of my appearance.

In country places the social at first, as belonging to different of the nation's fighting forces.distinctions are taken for grant- worlds, the inclination to weep Naturally, it would be impolitic rather than emphasised. The and play for his sympathy was at this stage to release actual distinctions are hidden by a great. figures of the rate of progress, superficial friendlingss and But I knew that must in the -

on that method. Sometimes I minded husbands V. B. the programme now in hand, it terpreted.

keep before him our unfortunate think that if I had been on sure would ground from the beginning, exist. is evident that before long

David used all the terms of beginning. Britain will be in a practically endearment and flattery Jay unassailable position. Never knew to describe my charms hefore in the history of the na- and his own enslavement to Ition has there been such concen-them. but we both know just Hration on defence incasures. how little these terms meant.

The point which requires en- When the avevige man makes

youth with lack of depth. He experienced the emotions of the midille-In that year canon were roaring Co., Ltd. overlooked by the Government's scom to consider the safety of installs of one how set. Our hair west grey before its for days together on French battles phasis, and which seems to be a fool of himself he does not A WRITER has charged modern daily. Before we were thirts we had coursing on the Franco-German War: duys children BUC through their time. That is why we are at a flora fields-and-1-would-it-in-my-ile_(I

they

to understand modern youth, and call it mine after the use of lovers) ficiencies the Government har- David made a fool of himself parents. AL bours no aggressive intentions because he was very drunk at through education and dodge it. At why we are incapable of judging it and think upon the war, the pain eighteen they see through morality right. We lust our youth left it of meu's wounds, and the weariness of their murching It was soine- whatever. Our armed strength the time,

and step over it. At twenty-one they at the call of King and Country.

ABLE TO FEEL

thing so distresslug, so instant, that discover that the whole social systent is purely defensive, but it must

housekeeper is ridiculous. At twenty-the, he Having said this much, however, is

with my face it, licking my ibe of a character Sufficient to maintain our security and at the

because the youth han run through we are cursed to-day by superficiality? hels for agony."

This surely is the, key to all his was taking the whole society to date, and does Have we the depth of our grand-

great work. He wrote greatly be same time to enable us to dis-woman. She

int chances; she gave me a month's not know what to do next.

futhers? charge any obligations

notice and immediately in- It is for youth itself to deal with We charged the Victorians with cause he felt greatly. Ho lifted bis which we may have to enter.

been to the depths. He had no Some little time ago, Lord formed David that he was the this charge. We who twenty years possessing a smug, self-satisfied comraders to the heights because he find went through a great war are not placency about themselves, the British patience to write about the surface Londonderry created something means of depriving her of a qualified to deal with it. Our genera. Empire, the universe. Yet the per- things we glorify to-day. He was of a political sensation when he good waitress and me of a goodtion was unique. We were made old plexing thing is that Victorian litera- interested in the fundamental move-

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ON THE SURFACE

cautious says, the autobiography is complete, it not true, despite all progress, that lunes the honther on top of the is.

NOTES OF THE DAY

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Spain has apparently waded an-. years ago are not worth quarrel-other river of blood towards the ling about at the present june goal of the Leftist administration. ture. It is, however, apparent The revolt of the Fascist element from the latest figures given, and Royalist sympathisers seems that Germany is re-arming on an to have been crushed. But extensive scale, and now that what cost! The lives of hundreds been sacrificed, amongat that fact is appreciated in official have

thent Innocent women quarters we have no option but children. It is another horror in to concentrate the nation's

re- the pages of Spain's history. sources on making good our own There can be no fault found withi deficiencies of defence as rapidly the Government for meeting force | as possible. It is not la be with force and using every bit of furgued, of course, that German strength at its command to sup

re-armament is specifically di- press insurrection; and yet the rected againat Britain, bul

Pascists and Royalists have suffer- ed under the Leftists' rule, and nation situated as Britain is can the last straw that snapped their afford to ignore large-scale Con-patience, or their scarcely-control- tinental re- armament, from led haired, was the brutal murder whatever source it emanates, of one of their leaders,. Senor

e plain fact is that Britain has Sotelo.

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lost much ground, by persisting In this crisis the Government) in the ideal of world disarma- took a dangerous step in allowing ment, in the hope that other the free arming of that element of nations would follow suit. That Spain's population most violently. policy dominated Britain for opposed to the old order of things,

(Continued.on Page 2.) several years and was approved

by the present Government as by ***** former Administrations. But the support of the great bulk of hard facts have at long last public opinion both at Home and convinced the authorities that in the Empire overseas. Criti continuation of this polley would ism at this' stage serves no help-} be disastrous to national andful purpose. Happily, the Gov- Imperial security. Onco con-ernment is not being deflected vinced of the folly of its past from its purpose thereby, and, polley, the Government is now given sufficient breathing-space, putting heart and soul into the there is every reason for bellev- building up of the nation's de-ing that before long Britain will fences, with a determination regain her old position as a ha- nover again to be left behind. tion adequately armed, to meet In that task we believe it has all contingencies.

ARD

men before our time. We did not ture seems to take us more deeply into

ments of life. launch out into the deep-we were things than is the case to-day

Charles Dickens, Thackeruz. Tenny- We were thrust out. At twenty

Take at random a few great pass-son are ridiculed in some quarters standing where normally the aged ages.

nowadays as hopeless sentimentalists. stand-on the brink, facing death "Here is Robert Louis Stevenson dis-It is a mark of the fossil stage even

SIDE GLANCES

By George Clark

"Oh, I've knitted the buby cap and a pair of boolees jusi '

while waiting for red lights to change."

to mention them.

But take this from Dickens;- There

are degrees in murder. Life must be held sero anong us in more ways than one-sacred, not merely from the murderous weapon, or the subtle poison, or the cruel blow, but sacred from preventible dis- cases, distortions and pains. Physical life respected, moral life comes next. Let us give all we can; let us give more than ever. Let us do all we can; let us do more than

Bal ever. let us give, and do, with a high_pur- pau; not to endow the scum of the earth, to its own renter

corruption, with the offuis of our duty."

Here in a call to social service from

a popular best-selling novelist.

BELOW THE SURFACE It in curious. Those popular writers of the eighties had not to rely on bedroom episodes, divorce triangu- far drama, hectic night-club parties run by Bright. Young Things to entch the popular car. Their books sold by thousands. They were bot obsessed by sex. Even that popular success "Vanity Fair," managed to leave out. the bawdy and the unclean.

They moralised, they sermonised, those old-fashioned authors and poets. They would

not ba

be tolerated to-day by blic, pallehors, OF reviewers. went below the surface and dealt with humanity's deepest emotions, yet their work was always it for family reading! To-day..we say they are too solid, too deep, too smug, too heavy.

It is that they had their finger on the pulse of life and that we in our day are too superficial? Or Is it tint we are in an ago of transition, travel- ling at present from ene depth to another Aro we following star or a mirago?

One thing la certain. Time. will prove. For everything that has no root withers away. Only the deeply- rooted abide. Superficiality bus within it the seers of its own destrue- tlon,

Arthur T. Rich.