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MISS
INTO MRS..
HIRTY-SIX hours of married
T
life have
taught me quite a
Also, we agree that, havit got married, our dual obligatio to Mr. and Mrs. Jones is onde
WE may listen but we'l
work out our own answers to the problems which, we are told, are inevitable. It may take longer to get things straightened out, but it is much more interesting to make mis- takes in one's own way,
I think the only obligation there is between us la the pro- mise to tell the truth. Wo know, of course, that strict truth would be unbearable, but WO can avoid pretending to emotions, sentiments, likings that we do not feel.
The only marriage I would' like to copy is based on that understanding, und it has
Honest record of the worked for fifteen years, so why
lot. About myself mainly, thoughts of a
about my husband a little,
about other people just a
bit.
at
two-
days bride. Containing
Hongkong Hotel First lesson was when, some good resolutions
Stubbs Rd.
Garage
The
the register office service, the ring seemed. for a second, not to be big enough. With in- Phone 27778/9.stinctive impatience I tried to
pull my hand away to fix it my self.
Hongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1937.
for the not married
not?
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arc
MY vows, apart from
that, personal rather than marital, because, after all, the only strictly "Mrs." emotion I've experienced so far is acute self-consciousness about. saying Mrs, and wearing a ring.
I shall probably go on saying "Miss" to the end of my life, but I hope to get used to the ring. At the moment, it might as well be through my nosc. I either try to hide or flaunt it both actions are uncomfortable.
and the longer married by vows, then, are based on
the actions of other people to "the bride." I will never tell my single friends that they are
to
Fortunately I caught the
By luck, I have been travel- job and all that my ex-life was lucky to be unmarried. soulful eye of a relative, and ling next to a very young, new made up of. I would take my At best it is as silly as saying | realised that even if I did feel looking honeymoon couple. They hair down and put my feet up.
never speak to strangers. I I could do it better myself, here were embarrassed, wrote notes be possessed and possessive,
shall always believe that to one. another, held hands. We My husband knew and dread- was one time when I had better
watched them with amused ed that picture, didn't realise take strictly sensible advice is sink back and be the little wo- tolerance, and my husband that it was merely the outcome death on wheels.
kindly said, "Thank goodness of being too lonely for too long. you're not like that."
The moment I knew I was going
newly married to have to be married, my viewpoint a baby at once, some time, or
So did never. changed completely.
Having babies is his.
yet a matter of ordering a
MORE ROAD SAFETY PLANS
man.
The creation of wide, new
reason
ed and amazed at the
J
a man
and
dom.
I
SHALL not advise the
not
а vacuum
I shall
The ceremony topk two minutes. It impressed me main-
ONE thing I'm certain about. Any girl who thoroughfares at Home, and they by its efficiency, and I won- is really in love with
KNOW that this (and solitaire diamond, I
I believe at applies to cleaner, a veneered radio. improving of those already indered that, even in this bare- who fears marriage had better
I shall not, with wifely com- existence, is causing the Minis. floored schoolroomy place, there give up good manners
marry the fellow by any means many other couples even though
good fling and try of Transport to devote in could still be an atmosphere of and at once. The man who they may not have admitted it placency, tell young men who
doesn't want to get married will in time to live a full life) can be are having la
a success only if we unjealously ruining their digestions that creasing attention to the tech-emotion and romance.
make (by worldly standards And there must have been, anyway) a good husband.
guard our little illusions of free they ought to get married, nique of accident prevention.
. knowing as I do that such nd- It is his sense of responsibili- An experience extending over because we all kissed each other
Two people would be so alike vice does more to breed a fear he'll as to bore each other if they did of women, (banding together, ten years has shown that reln-spontaneously, and quite regard- ty that frightens him off. But
when, he does surrender, less of transferring lipsticks. I tively few accidents occur 011
do it more completely than the not sometimes have friendships catching, guarding their rights), and not to the other. I think, I shall not try to mate my narrow, winding roads, which even kissed the registrar, who instinctive person who is swept which were sympathetic to one than the most rampant widow.
hurriedly told me he had a along by emotion. jare, in fact, the safest. The
daughter of thirty-six.
Until the other day I was like and I hope I stick by it, that the friends either, although, of broad, straight speedways are
thousands of other girls who meanest thing a womar an do course, I'll cackle like any old Still, I made a note to advise have a vague, occasionally viru- is to try to break up friendships hen if they do get together on the greatest potential or actual
my friends to marry in cere lent, resentment at not being which she doesn't understand their own efforts.
And the woman who gives up If I find that, like so many death-traps. The
for moniel trappings if they had married. When I was tired or
of course, married women, I build myself this, which would also probably the chance. To be "modern" lonely, or with people who bored friends (I mean, be borne out in Hongkong, is and sneer at a religious service me, I would imagine a state of genuine sympathetic relation a sort of spiritual compound please her husband is settling anything going-on-in. the world that the average motorist usual-seems a little silly. If you're matrimony which I now think is ships, not acquaintanceships) to and try to deny that there is
a complete illusion.
I would, I thought, sit back down to a pretty mean form of beyond my family life.
know I'm a fool. ly takes extra care when nego-going to do the thing at all... tiating tortuous roads, but is in- THEN, I am still touch- and get away from it all my life. clined to "let himself go" on the straight, open highways. One of the latest proposals of the Ministry of Transport, which might well be adapted in this Colony, if it has not already been I thought, am thinking, what done, is that all road accidents a warming but frightening thing should be carefully "mapped" so is the social instinct at mar-
This explains a great deal, but it that danger-spots should be dis-riages, births, and deaths. If
among the sciences, is already day life and common things. They does not explain why some people the forecast for it a wider field than find peculiar pride in not having an closed. On the knowledge thus you want people to love you, PSYCHOLOGY, though the infant misty heights of philosophy to every-
ear for music and in being unable, possibly any other applied science. gained, measures are to be taken conform to the human pattern, contributing substantially
to say
so they say, to tell even the National" It has something register and celebrate and ad- betterment of human life. which, it is hoped, will conduce
vertise your personal history.
The activities of some psychologists wherever the human factor is in Anthem from the latest jazz im- may come rather near to quackery, volved in either the workaday or the portation. From some other part of
of the his well-stacked armoury to greater rond safety. One of
leisure-time occupations Well, now I am on the safe but this need not blind us to the the facts which is becoming side, I vow
value of what is being done by many people. This, indiced, is proved by chologist can doubtless produce a never to become reputable practitioners to wring from the great variety of toples touched theory accounting for this as for many other vagaries of the human more and more evident is that smug about It.
mind! Marriage has it solutions of various problems of upon by the writers.
Besides large questions such as roads are "improved," the shown me one of the triggers
A very good book that outlines the vocational guidance and the measure-THE authors admit that in some dangers tend to increase: It is that release mass tenderness very good book science, not only ment of intelligence, such interesting directions phychology has as yet thus the task of the traffic ne-and I am grateful, but
to education but also to industry and matters are discussed as, for example,
capacity to appreciate music, the ment of emotion, for example, "still thorities to see that the safety I have tried, too, during this social life, is that which has been the powers of the memory, the made little progress. The measure- written in collaboration by two well-
child, the value of being able to tics, and as regards temperament, factor does not lag unduly behind long honeymoon train journey, known Edinburgh authorities, Pro- part of unreality in the life of the presents the most formidable dimeul fessor James Drever and Dr. Mary forget as well as to remember, and psychologists are still at variance is
to what it is." to work out whether extended Collins. the speed factor. There is an
* semi-engagements like mine are increasing disposition at Home
have wished for as they find thein- is the There good ing.
selves bewildered by the conflictingAKING first the possession or lack
for music, we of an car to tighten up precautions for
"You know the claims made by the various schools of argument
that: psychologists. The publishers are the eliminating the speedster, the worst."
University of London Press, and the price is 5s. motorist who is a danger both to
himself and others,' It is this
tremendous response of friends. 1 had been going around with my husband for six years before we married, yet their excite- ment was child-like.
point which lies behind the syg or of carelessness. The motor gestion recently made that a de-ist who is disposed to take undue tailed record should be kept of risks is the real menace of the those who are frequently guilty roads. Precautionary measures of traffic offences, with a view to on the part of the authorities ascertaining whether they have, can help in the reduction of by their physiological make-up, dangers, but, when they have
which
existence.
Practical Psychology
How It is Oiling the Wheels of Life
to
so on.
It is
such
It
book as many must
**
**
they IN the United States, where
'never do things by halves, up- plied psychology has become a craze, and the outpun of books on the sub- ject has become so prodiglous that few can keep pace with them.
Here we have been more conser- valive, as is our wont, but that has a drawback. not necessarily been To-day we see applled psychology its usefulness in many
proving but it may be confidently
the scope
predicted that what has been done n special proneness to accident. done their best, the problem of thus far is but a sketchy outline of
what will yet be attempted. The tragedy of all, the deaths the reckless driver still remains. Even so, there are many citizens are occurring annually The only effective way of deal-who have but the vaguest riotion of of the science. To such from motor mishaps is that aling with the incorrigible is by Phychology and Practical Life, which is the title of the book under review, Igreat majority of them are way of flcence cancellation, should be doubly useful.
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* *emphasise that authors psychology is now to be defined as the science that studies behaviour, and that it has descended from the
LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. nasily, preventible. When all is coupled, in flagrant cases, with s
said and done, most accidents are the imposition of prison sen the result either of recklessness 'tonces.
TH
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Pitch discrimination varies from individual to Individual. It is a well-known fact that some people are musical and some not. The difference between the musical and
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the psy
The fact is, that in dealing with emation, temperament, and will. we are dealing with the very core of human personality, and this is 50 extraordinarily complex that progress must necessarily be slow. We can only say that in this fleld a beginning has been made, Much
Information has
been
the unmusical may be due to gathered from intelligence tests, the difference in aculty of pitch dis purpose of which is to measure crimination,
native ability, and the net result though what spoken of as "inck of an ear for affords little support for the opinion that there is a marked difference in music" is sometimes attributable to a defect of musical memory, rather general mental ability between the than, and without, any defect in sexes. pitch
scrimination, The
In pitch 'dis- crimination, however, from one in dividual to another are very great. musical ear can fine discriminate a pitch difference of
Specially less than half a vibration through fairly wide range of the musical scale, while at the other extreme we find persons who cannot dis- criminato between tones differing by ten or fifteen vibrations.
Nor is there evidence of serious in- 'nate racial differences in the basal mental functions.
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That is say, one person may have an ear twenty or thirty times more acute than another for differ- ences of pitch. It would be extra ordinary if such a difference had no practical algnificance.
It may well, be therefore, that, except as between the highly civilised peoples and the most backward races, the differences which have impressed the popular mind are due almost wholly to en- vironmental factors and social traditions.
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THE word "complex" is much used in these days, often wrongly used, Some of us may be rather tired of seeing it, but it is useful to have an authoritative definition of the word. (Continued on Page 5.)
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