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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1936.

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I married above me.

HE letter you publish- ed from a Hen-preked

Ted

@

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

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

a few days ago the “Telegraph” published

a letter from a Henpeeked Husband who beliered that putting his problem on paper revuld help to solve it. Here is a confessional letter from reader who has followed his lead,

Being a stolid, honest

David took this

1concentrated an improving information my education, picking up the

in ex com,

i know now that that self-imposed discipline was good for me. Nit only is my husband hap pire in consequence, but

I am happier myself.

SINGE

QUINCE those first few months I have been

1

the Bedford, is popular wherever sure he feels better having it goes. Why this success ? For, in designing the Bedford got that lot off his chest.

Mental voruiting is probaldy range, Vauxhall experts studied overseas conditions at first hand beneficial to a bilious mind They learnt what was wanted in s the other kind is to a sick trucks from the very men who stomach. That both are slight badly. He looked me up to tell background that mede conversa-

ly disgusting is another malter me he would fint me another tion between us not only possible happier than I ever believed it were going to use them.

But, after all most of the job and found me in bysteries, And there is ఎ world-wide

sanitary processes are inclined

Losing one's jeb and one's make Bedford organisation to

It has just struck me, for the character at eighteen is a serious service and genuine spares avail-to be a bit that way. able everywhere. Tested at every stage in the first time in. twelve years, that Proposition. The most astute my own marriage might have man alive is no match for a cry. famous Luton works in England. turned out much worse than ing girl, especially if he is ris. proved sound and reliable on the his. Certainly it began much ponsible for her tears,

I was not doing it on purpose, roughest work in the world, the less favourably, for my husband 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 work !

There's a Bedford Model for every business.

I

I shall eat him David, though did not offer to find me a job,

Twelve he asked me to marry him, that is not his name.

stopped crying.

years ago he was thirty-live and I was eighteen. He was wealthy.

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BRITISH DEFENCE

MEASURES

a waitress in a country hotel. 1 hul beeti brought orphaumgé aan! had hech work ing since was fourteen. little education. I was nothing, and bad nothing.

D'hote

I

I have never cried since.

KNOW he entered

int

that 'mar riage with a heavy heart and 1 many doubts, Mist of you may think Loupfit not to have taken advantage of the situation.

But when you love a man as I loved David you know that if you got a fair chance and thus rutht kind of opportunities you could get him to care for you, undess there is something wrong with you or him. That was the way baked on it,

were months The first few

I had to watch myself dillenit. all the Linie and the strain was

had not been compelled to

know he admires and respects observe and study him, and 1

but interesting, acquiring the possible for any one to be. necessary information on run- admire and respect my hushind as I could hardly have done if Fortunately I was interested. ning a house like this smoothly. I liked the things he liked, but sumptuous or futile over half- I log good care not to be pre- digested facts.

I drow 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.

I must assert myself, but only when i an sure I am right.

H

[k was not difficult to live with. He is naturally kind and courteous. 1 realise that with another 1999 of nian I might have failed completely. But though he is the last man in the world 16. look for faults; he perecíves de. ficiencies quicker than most.

Int

To-day he believes that he has He has no always loved me. idea that he married me against

his will.

I know the average girl does not require to make such an effort, but no matter how ruunl conditions and social standing. I think may be quite wrong but I do think that the innately average man is more well-bred than the average wo-t itante, in that he shrinks more from rows and messiness,

I wonten would be a little humbler without joing to the

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AVID came to the

extreme of that section

that frequently

insist on making doormats of for week-enda, At thirty-five he

themselves: If they would try certainly was not getting old

i know he has told me sine to appreciate intellectual he is not old now, or even be

that he considered me toa in level that is in many cases ginning to get old.

Those personal during

early higher than their own withmet with him: be 1 fell in love

months. The first time 1 de being foolishly aggressive about, Scarcely noticed my existene s other than as the pretty child

finitely opposed him on quite a q; if they would sometimes who brought in his meals, I was

small matter he was genuinely wonder if the pleasure of their pretty, very pretty,

Today 1 don't think I am be readful. I knew he marries pleased. I did not lose my company fully justitied the ex- temper. but I made no attempi pense of their upkeep; if they took a husband's admiration a It is clear from the latesting vain in saying that where u from pity.

I was not very old, and the to hide.my annoyance.

I still remember the way he little less for granted, but rather statements made on the subject looks are concerned what I have

It was the first as something to be earned- by Sir Thomas Inskip, Minister lost in the inevitable passing of temptation to reveal my grati-

interest quite apart from but throughout forty

or lifty for Co-Ordination of Defence.extreme youth I have more than tude for the safety he had given looked at me, that Britain is rapidly making gained by learning how to take me was hard to fight. When we time he had looked at me with not during a brief engagement, stood disclosed, as we often did

years of married life, they up leeway in the strengthening the most of my appearance.

In country places the social at first,as belonging to different physical affection.

would find that being married was a pleasant and of the nation's fighting forces distinctions are taken for grant worlds, the inclination to weep

interesting job. Naturally, it would be impolitie rather than emphasised. The and play for his sympathy was

And bilious- at this stage to release actual distinctions are hidden by a great,

friendliness

But I knew that must in the

husbands figures of the rate of progress, superficial but, granted no interruption of familiarity that is often misin end get on his nerves and always keep before him our unfortunate the programme now in hand, it terpreted.

evident that before long

David used all the terms of beginning.

htt and flattery Britain will be in a practically endearment unassailable position. Never knew to describe my charms before in the history of the na- and his own enslavenient to tion has there been such concen-1 them, but we both knew just tration on defence measures. how little these terms meant.

When the average man makes The point which requires e-

a fool of himself he does not phasis, and which seems to be

is

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

way.

I took good care not to trade on that method. Sometimes I think that if I had been on sure ground from the beginning,

LIVING ON THE

sent at seven years of age nown.

housekeeper 1. ridiculous. At twenty-three, he

THE

話 WIL**

in-

at the call of King and Country,

minded would exist.

cease to

V.B.

SURFACE

A WHITER, has charged moderu daily. Before we were thirty we had coursing on the Franco-German War: youth with lack of depth. He experinced the enctions of the middle In that year cannon were rearing aped. Our hair went grey before its for days together on French battle- their tire. That is why we are at a less fields, and I would sit in my idle ( through children days

they to understand modern youth, and call it mine after the use of lovers) kupon the war, the pain erities, is that in making up-de-the-piness—

At Why we are incapabi→ of judging it and think David made a fool of himo puents. A tr

through education and dodge it.

right. We lost our youth-left it of men's wounds, and the weariness It was soine- ficiencies the Government har-

Fet their marching, ・・ bours no aggressive intentions because he was very drunk at eighteen they are through morality

and step over it. At twenty-one

thing so distressing, so instant, that ABLE TO FEEL whatever Our armed strength the time.

discover that the whole social system

Having said this much, however, is I lay in the heather, on top of the is- is purely defensive, but it must be of a character sufficient to

cautious says the autobiography is complete, it not true, despite all progress, that ami, with my face hid, kicking my This surely is the key to all his because the youth has run through we are cursed to-day by superficiality?gle for agony."

great work. He wrote greatly be maintain our security and at the

She Was taking the whole society to date, and does Have we the depth of our grand-

fathers? same time to enable us to dis.Woman.

into chances: she gave me a month's not know what to do next.

It is for youth itself to den with!

We charged the Victorians with cause he felt greatly. He lifted his ders to the heights because he had charge any obligations

notice and immediately which we may have to enter.

formet David that he was the this charge. We who twenty years possessing a smag, self-satisfied com- heen to the depth. He had no Some little time ago. | Londonderry created something means of depriving her of age went through a great war are not placency about themselves, the British patience to write about the surface tion was unique. We were made old plexing thing is that Victorian litera interest in the fundumental move- lof a political sensation when he Rood waitress and me of a good dified to deal with it. Our genéra Empire, the universe. Yel the per-things we glorify to-day. He was

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

Charles Dickens, Thackeray, Tenny- Inunch out into the deep-we were things than is the case to-day.

Take at random a few great pass son are ridiculed in some quarters twenty thrust out. At standing where normally the aged

nowadays is hopeless sentimentalists. Here is Robert Louis Stevenson disIt is a mark of the fosall stage oven stand the brink, facing death

to mention them.

But taite this from Dickens:-

Life There

are degeten in murder. must be held sacred among us in more ways than one-sacred, not Fierely from the murderous weapon, or the subtle poison, or the eruel blow, but sacred from preventible dis- enses, distortions and pains. Physical lift respected, moral life comes next, Let

us give all we can let us give

the job,

Mr. Baldwin on attacked question of German re-arma- ment, but these petty quarrels do not bear any real relevance to the present situation. What- ever mistakes were made two

NOTES OF THE DAY

at

and

Spain has apparently waded an-i years ago are not worth quarrel-other river of blood towards the ling about at the present junc-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

to have been crushed. But that Germany is re-arming on an

that what cost! The lives of hundreds extensive scale, and now

have been Ancrificed, amongst that fact is appreciated in official

them innocent women quarters we have no option but

children, It is another herrar la to concentrate the nation's

re-the

of Spain's history. paxes sources on making good our own There can be no fault found with deficiencies of defence as rapidly the Government for meeting force as possible. It is not to be with force and using every bit of argued, of course, that German strength at its command to sup re-armament is specifically di- press insurrection; and yet the Fascista and Royalists have suffer rected against Britain, but

ed under the Leftista' rule, and nation situated as Britain is can the last straw that snapped their afford to ignore large-scale Coli- patience, or their scarcely-control- tinental rearmament, from led hatred, was the brutal murder whatever source it emanates. of one of their leaders, Senor The plain fact is that Britain has Sotelo, lost much ground by persisting

DO

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 urning of that element of Spain's population most violently nations would follow suit. That opposed to the old order of things, policy dominated Britain for

(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 a in the Empire overseas. Criti continuation of this policy would Jism at this stage serves no help- be disastrous to national and ful purpose. Happily, the Gov. Imperial security. Once con-ernment is not being deflected vinced of the folly of its past from its purpose thereby, and, policy, the Government is now given sufficient breathing-space, putting heart and soul into the there is every reason for believ building up of the nation's deing that before long Britain will fences, with a determination regain her old position as a na- never again to be left behind, tion adequately armed to meet. In that task we believe it has all contingencies,

We

were

SIDE GLANCES

محضرات

nges.

By George Clark

Kik

"Oh, I've knitted the baby cap and a pair of bootees just while waiting for red lights to change,”

more than ever. Let us do all we can; let us do more than ever. But It us give, and do, with a high pur- Jose; nut to endow the scum of the earth, to its own greater

corruption,

with the offuls of our duty."

Here is a call to social service from

a popular best-selling novelist,

'It

BELOW THE SURFACE

is curlous. Those

popular

writers of the sighties had not to rely on bedroom episodes, divorce triangu lar dran hectic night-club parties run by Bright Young Things to catch

fte popular car. Their books sold by not obsessed thousands. They were by sex. Even

ven that.

popular success "Vanity Fair," managed to leave out the bawdy and the unclean.

They moralised, they sermonised, those ult-fashioned authors and poets. They would not be tolerated to-day by pubite...

publishers, or reviewers. They went below the surface and dealt with humanity's deepest emotions, yet their work was always fit for family reading! To-day we say they are too solid, too deep, too smuk, heavy.

too

It is that they had their finger on the pulse of life and that we in our day are too superficial? Or is it that we are in an age of transition, travel- ling at prosent from one depth to another? Are we following a star or a mirago?

One thing is certain.. Time will prove. For everything that has no root withers, away. Only the deeply- rooted' abile, Superficiality hin within it the seers of its own destruc- tion.

Arthur T. Rich.