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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1937.

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by the girl who wrote "MISS INTO MRS." (this page three weeks ago). She had only been married two days then. she says:

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and have wonderful time all on your own," they said

Hongkong Hotel to us.

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The

"As yet I see no reason not why.one should accord the same under- standing and kindness to one's husband that one would to a friend...."

"Go away and get all this moonshine knocked out of you," they meant. "We don't want Phone 27778/9. you sitting alone in corners breaking up our partics...don't come back until you're ready to play bridge, talk cooking, hus-

stocks, ships that, Insting only the bands, servants, or shares, and racing...and take length of a train dinner or Chan- your place quietly. The funnel crossing, are fun. My hus-

Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1937.

NATIVE LABOUR

INQUIRY

There has never been a time when so many countries and continents have been enger to collaborate in the work of the International Labour Organisa-

will be over."

I

CAN only tell you my: side of the story: your honeymoon maybe was or will be quite different in detail, but there will be parallels....

Now

people? My husband doesn't really like me travelling alone. He says you never know. Her husband said a lot of things, and she kept nothing from us.

show off and be for a while the sort of people wo'd like to be all' the time, but haven't the onergy or natural high spirits required.

But it is difficult. in front of some one who knows pirotty the- roughly youréal temperament, your most dreary self, suddenly. to put over your show (which Isn't really affected, either, but inspired by other people and a romantic picture you have of yourself).

There are the stories you tell of incidente in which you were both concerned, and just as you are arriving at the distortion which makes the tale seem furi- nier (at any rate to you), you catch your spouse's eye.

I FIND, in fact, the In some people the reactions

general attitude of are different. The kind of part people quite changed. Women, ner who should never be allow.. the kind I would not normally ed a marriage. llcence will butt speak to for more than a passing in with the correction of fact. politeness, have become friendly. The well-meaning but thought. They have developed an em- less will shoot a knowing, ice- barrassing way of referring to cold look across at the teller. A my husband (who is as jealous sensible (we think) Mr. and Mrs. of his independence as I am of will do neither of these things, band tells me of the pleasant mine) as if he were a little boy nor will they laugh over-loud. "ense of chivalry he has enjoyed or a mininture dog....

As yet I see no reason why "While he is sitting next to her' one should not accord the same nelping lone young women with passport or Customs formalities. a woman will lean across the understanding and kindness to And I've had my share of table and ask me, "Does your one's husband that one would to

a friend. glamorising the object of my husband play golf?" or "I journey, of my life and hard wonder if your husband knows times, to young men who tell me a friend of mine-Colonel Sot-

S a sort of sum-up of experi- honeymoon First there was the business of exciting achievements, of the wot?"

My inclination is to reply, "I ence I think I'd say that for my of daily mood. My husband girl they didn't marry, or what- wakes early and gay. I wake ever they like to make a good don't know; why don't you ask self the best approach to mar grudgingly in a sort of gloom, story about.

him?" but that I think would be ringe is to admit the worst and which I enjoy so long as I am But-look obviously Mr.. and unnecessarily rude and outside make the best of it.

Mrs., read your respective news of the Airs. traditions. All I I may prove myself quite left to thaw gradually.

For the first three mornings papers, and order your meal can do is to exchange with my wrong, but I've an idea that a we were both strenuously con- cach-for-self, in the civilised husband the sort of look that in good few marriages go stale married way, and soon a bore dicates well-it's-no-fault-of-ours- through the couple practicing siderate. I talked over my

we-fell in-with-these-people. the prescribed sentiments a little morning tea, he stayed in bed will tag on.

too ir humanly, almost-encourag- Like, perhaps, the woman well later than he liked.

over sixty and continuously A PARTY is another ing each other to become first. Our insincero bores to themselves politenesses simply dropping things (which my hus meant that we started dressing band had to pick up), who said: party personality isn't much and, not so long after; to every- at the same time. Danger zone. "May I sit with you two young like our daily selves: we like to body else. A little question like, "Have you.

These

tion of the League of Nations: Native labour problems are now arousing deep interest at Geneva, and the South African Government has gone out of its way to help the Ì.L.O. in its en- quiries. Through Mr. H. T. seen my blue pullover?" cun Andrews, the accredited Southseem, when you are crawling under the bed looking for your own shoes, the final exaspera- tion.

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So we learned that to give in to our particular morning moods "was "ä"far" better"plan""

Propped up in bed, I don't at making guesses

marriage test.

AS

I Wouldn't Be Twenty-one

often I hear men sigh for early

youth. "I wish I could go back

to twenty-one again," they say.

I would not go back to the days of my early youth again, not for all

high spirits; to

can

see the world through

Again

lost the zest.

sympathy with my questioninga. My most earnest inquiries were taken lightly.

"Oh, you don't want to worry your head about that Walt until you're a Bitte alder-you're too young to understand."

wrong.

A NIGHT IN THE BAY

Both of us, having lived alone for a long time, found that there It I dared an expression of

from

the pork chaps to-night" grins waves roil up with a sic-cr-shudder-

we arc

rocking are moments when you want to opinion which differed

the genial engineer, bustling ing smash, and be alone, not to talk, and happily accepted opinions of my, ciders, ", through the smoke-room.

jerlefly from side to side. Clothes what do you knew about it-a boy

and strew the floor: bottles: Good sort, the chief, but his ideas sway for the future we admitted it."

of twenty-one? You wait until you of humour are on the tactless side at crash; enbin-trunks break loose and

to and come the have more experience," inevitable reply..

times. No, I'm not unwell, but I slither uncontrollably think I would rather finish my book over the floor. Thunderous swoops

of the waves at the window on deck, If you don't mind.

craaash from the pantry, and again. Getting into a Groove

of crockery The chief's right, the wind is get-erooosh, is thinking, "My heavens, can't lacks the yeast of experience,

Perhaps some of my opinions did ung up, and I fancy these modern sweeps from end to end; backwards

but authors haven't quite,... No, I'm and forwards.

It is surely more truly polite to any "Leave me alone for a while kindly than to put on a brittle smile while your mind

as the store

an investigation will be of first-about the whereabouts of u put the gold in Christendom. It is all By A Man of Fifty

At every venture outside the class value to the I.L.O. at the over. And while he went off to rose-coloured glasses. But so far as

ordinary conventional line I was re- at any rate life learn something of my fellow-men, pulsed, sometimes even ridiculed. present time. Next year one of decide about the weather and was concerned

talk to the porter I could have proved, as it almost invariably does, I hadn't the money to allow of this. And 1 hurt.

I fell in love-of course she wasn't the big subjects to be dealt with the run of the narrow strip of that there is a compensating balance At Bity I have the money but have

the "right sort of girl" for mel at the International Labour Con- room that hotels allow between for most cléments.

Father and mother knew better than If I enjoyed one thing which only

I. My own heart promptings went ference will be that of "the bed and wardrobe (I think hotel

youth: give, I also suffered After the Storm. architects must lead strange mental disease such as only

youth

for naught. She just did not pass regulation of contracts of in- married lives, maybe they walk can know. Ambitious, I was often But I am happy, I have arrived the unwritten exam set by parents. I knew a great unhappiness digenous workers." Internation- about piggy-back in a final effort so Impatient with the handicaps of in smooth waters. No more do I So again

saw this romance slowly mur- the torture of mental and youth that I was wretchedly miser-suffer able.

spiritual exploration. One of the dered by "experience." al action is necessary, because at space economy).

was I wanted to be an architect, want- Because of my youth, and despite unhappiest times in my life the history of colonial develop-

WE found that in most the fact that I could have easily when I was in the carly twenties. ed to create things, do things, use

too was all ment has been marred by many

things our habits proved my ability, I was refused Life was a complete question mark vision. That

enough architects al- (Continued on Page 4) deliberate attempts to exploit agreed fairly well if we were advancement in my profession. My and from nowhere did I seem able There were

elders and employers simply would to get answers to my questions, nor. natural about them and that not take me seriously. And In native workers. Often condi- only if we pretended was there a private life socially, I found it tions

irksome that most people expected amounting almost to clash...

nonsense naught but inane

and irresponsible chatter

Her from a "mere slavery have been forced upon them by ruthless methods of re- cruiting. It has proved ridicul- ously easy for unscrupulous | white employers to get the illiterate natives to accept mis- leading contracts, which might just as well have been written in Greek for all that the victims knew about the unending servi-I

ever just be contentedly now I am fifty 1 can see all about right enough, but perhaps I'll look If ever I leave home again...

nearly Getting comatose now the end must tude to which they were binding grouchy ? We find it so anyway. me ten thousand evidences of the down below; it must be

fact that "experience is more often dinner-bugle anyway. Others evi- be near. themselves. In recent years, of

and they than not another way of saying a dently have the same idea,

groove. BUT more difficult than man is in

are not all as unconcerned as they course, something like an inter-!

Sea pouring In? Well let it! We Or 1s any of the adjust- In my office I have a man who would like you to believe,

can only sink at the worst.

Rwabbing the That's a nasty lurch. Nothing that the stewards national conscience has been

ments of intimacy is the sudden has been with me twenty years. He developing on the subject. The transformation of personality, who are under the mis- to dinner after all. No, I'm sure daylight. Make an effort and drag

rather

looked up to by the rest of wrong, but perhaps I won't turn out corridor? If so it should be getting International Labour Organisa- which is expected by other poo- takes impression that because of his won'ti Don't bother about

my tion itself has done much to give ple,

long service he is specially cherished clothes to-night, Sturgess.

Cold gray dawn; gaunt hungry The to turn in early for a rest. No waves darkening the port one and favoured by "the boss." direction to the spontaneous Travel abroad alone and a reverse is the fact. I consider him thanks--nothing: just a few hard

veal leaden sky-sea-sky-in dizzy movement in favour of assuring young man or woman who has a completo failure, but I do not get biscuits perhaps, and a bottle of soda. moment and dropping nitly to re

of him, because know that if I

alternation. Ught Turn away quickly native workers a square deal.no striking physical disabilities

pltching he, could never get another job.

without disgulac, or pay the penalty. Nevertheless, in certain colonial finds spontaneous acquaintance-Twenty years at one routine job Woodwork creaks and groans; Im- Dozing again. Will anyone trouble-

has Incked prisoned domons in every panel add to send a wreath, I wonder? generally means a man territories, the old bad habits die

But their lamentations; unpleasant water- Faithful Sturgess taps at the door, Initiative, ambition, "guts." hard, and the LLO. has by no hand. They suggest that the both he and the staff spcate of his pipes and valves suck and gurgle, pushes aside the debris, and sur- and the sea throws up vicious spurts, veys the wreckage with a rueful air. means completed its work. The Government, employers'. und "experience." He has had none.

Now that

I have reached the "age slapping against the window with Well, sir, feeling better? It's a proposed visit to South Africa workers' groups.at Geneva of discretion of experience, I am malicious promise of going one bat- rough morning, and the wind's get-

ting up!" should enable the International should each choose a representa- aware that young men do not get a ter next time.

"Lie still in the dark and think of "Getting up? That's more, than square deal. They have little voice Labour Office at Geneva to add tive, and that experts from the in Affairs either in their

say the experienced. But can, anyway! Thank goodness, we own nothing," nationally. They are you can't call sea-sickness nothing, must be through the Day by now, materially to its store of first- International Labour Office community or

suspect at once to every old stager especially if it is your own.

and with a chance of life yet!" hand-information-regarding na-should-be-added to the party to whom they are strangers..... Helpful noises from surrounding "Through it, sir? We're just

the I recall labour conditons. The | The delegation will select Its own

many hours

of cabins add to one's comfort, and rounding Ushant and turbing into

gradually South African authorities have time for the visit, and will re- bitterness I spent in the solitude of rising all over the din, the mocking the Boy, Just beginning to feel it,

my room at twenty-one. How I rhythm of the engines made it clear that they are ready main in the Union as long as it used to think that life was all topsy frames itself into maddening chants. Just a simple monument please

turvy With hundred interests in Two o'clock What an eternal no flowers and orde to give the dològation a free wishes to complete its enquiries. life, active, keen to travel about and night! Swish (pause), crash. Tho

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