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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1937.

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Orls love strong enough to en- dure without it?

Can marriage ever be entirely happy without the budget that

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I hold a strong view.

Marriage is mainly dependent on the spiritual emotion which one fosters for the other, and if love is strong enough, then it

Ursula

Bloom

The Brilliant Novelist

can endure anything, suffer any-parently insuperable difficulty of thing, and still come out as an Elizabeth Moulton Barrett's dis-

enormous success,

tressing health.

The Age

Of Glamour

some of that quality of charm, which she cannot recapture.

The girl who can afford to buy good, powder and perfume, now frocks, a wave and set, has a better start on the road to re- poverty-stricken sister. talning happiness than

her

Unfortunately, however, love There is the deep affection can be divided into categories, which grows more abiding with There is a tendency to assume There is the Robert Browning the years, and can conquer bank- that with the end of hostilities be negligible, but which can sur

emotion, which is so rare as to ruptcy and disaster. in the near vicinity of Shanghai vive any complications and over emotions, and they are in the But there are less enduring commercial conditions will alter come, even as it did, the ap

majority. radically there. Such an as. sumption is a trifle previous. course. Ships will presently be In the first place, the Chinese trading to the port normally. no means But it is possible that the broken; there is no reason to blockade may be intensified clac- Much marriage to-day is based on shallower feelings, for we live suppose that the troops still where, and there is a feeling in in the age of glamour. Glamour, massed south, west and to some some quarters that Canton may like our youth, passes too soon. extent to the cast of the metro feel the tightening, of Japan's It has no stability, it has no polis will not reorganise defence fingers on its arteries of com, power of endurance behind it.. It flourishes only while life is positions and continue to night. merce, might even experience

radiant, needing the sunshine, There is no reason, either, why their complete severance. Much and the sunshine only, to bring these troops should not strike a depends upon the developments out its brilliant qualities, and hard and telling blow by way in the military sphere and the fading the instant that it is

threatened with a storm. of counter-attack and bring the effect upon the Chinese armies

Sex appeal can be placed into tide of battle sweeping close to everywhere of the Shanghai re- the same category. Here love is the Settlement again. However, | treat.

not strong enough to withstand it seems to be the policy of the Well-informed.commercial cause it is the hardest thing in the buffets of misfortune, be- Chinese leaders to draw the people in Shanghai and Hong the world to make a success of enemy inland, lengthen his com-kong are of the opinion that a marriage without money. munication lines and extend his settlement between: Tokyo and In the engaged days every- front, so it is not likely that Nanking is near, in spite of the thing is rosy. A couple meet at Shanghai will see again during apparently uncompromising at to appear at their best, to be- their best and take the trouble this campaign the ghastliness of titudes of both sides. If Japan have in their most charming tic that this should be so, more bombings

or hear again the goes to the Brussels conference, manner. If marriage could con- especially as this is a romantic

where only crash of shells and the screams it is felt, there is reason to sup the engaged days, then it could should count.

tinue along the same road as emotion, of wounded. That is so much pose that the Tokyo Govern- survive any of the difficulties ly- IDEAL GIFTS FROM ORIENT to the good. But business men ment is ready to discuss terms ing ahead.

But divest love of its trim- mings, and it is found to suffer will be inclined to take a sober of armistice and peace. Once

a little. Deprive marriage of view of the position from Japan reaches a position in the

this, and you lose some charm, Shanghai, There is even the China campaign which satisfies

something which, in an alliance That Is Lost

depending largely on the attrac- suggestion that rebuilding of her military leaders, there will

tion of the senses, you cannot The engaged couple who are

There factories and godowns to a great be nothing to prevent discussion hard-ups are content as long as afford to throw aside. extent will wait upon some dc- of the altered situation with they may sit on a common and are no difficulties so hard to com- bat as financial ones, because finite understanding between interested powers. There will be

look at the moon. Such simple happinesses gall in marriage, here time does not come to one's Nanking and Tokyo, and the no further fear of mediation which cannot glory in the joy of aid; it merely complicates them approval of the western Powers and loss of prestige, for Japan a few stolen moments together, more. The constant strain of with large interests at stake. will then be in a position to be but has every day and all day worrying about how to meet bills keeps men and women on edge. That, too, seems sensible. Many generous at small cost.

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[tensive damage twice within As for the effect upon Hong- pensive amusements, for which five years do not feel inclined kong's trade which peace will an entrance ticket is required. Ask any woman who has been to risk further money in enter- bring, it is generally agreed that married for five years to sit on prises on such dangerous ground. it will be agreeable. But the a common and look at the moon, Frankly, business

immediate result. of the freeing and she will immediately state would be well advised to await of Shanghai from the tentacles quite firmly her proference for

the pictures. Japan's decision with respect to of war will make no great This alone shows 'how obvious difference, except that it will it is that marriage demands a the territory about Shanghai slie now controls with her allow at least partial transfer certain amount of money to back

of Shanghai cargó unloaded it up. armed forces. It is just pos- sible that she will not wish to here and free the Hongkong The girl who before her wed- ding has spent much of herweok- surrender it, and the position of godowns for fresh foods.

ly pay envelope on making her foreign firms in such

Summing up, so far as new self attractive for her young. might be distinctly uncomfort-investment in the north is con- her horns when it comes to do man, has necessarily to pull in cerned it will be advisable to ing the same thing for her hus- go cautiously until such time as band. With Japanese bayonets sur-the whole position has been Usually the first difficulty which presents itself is the fact rounding Shanghai there seems clarified. and an agreement that the pay envelope has gone. no valid Tenson why the Anally completed by which not The house also takes up much blackade of that port should only China, but other interested more money than she had pre- continue, but in any event there powers will be satisfied and by viously anticipated.

She loses a little of her at- will be nothing to prevent the terms of which Japan will traction with her inability to re- ordinary international inter- be obliged to abide.

tain her glamour. She loses

able.

breng

Only Hearts Should Count But

It seems crude and unroman-

Irritable

hearts

Gradually it must wear them down, so that they become more easily angered, more irritable, more nervy (and through no fault of their own), but this does not make then easier to live with. And it is the day after day common round which counts in wedded bliss.

Lt.-Col. SANDEMAN. ALLEN, M.P., at the Conservative Con- ference at Scarborough, said: It is little short of criminal for municipalities to provent women, teachers. from getting married and continuing in their jobs. The same thing applies to large firms which say that a man cannot get married till he is earning a certain salary.*

URSULA BLOOM replies: "Marriage without money is asking for trouble."

The

engaged couple who are, hard-ups are content so long as they may sit

on Д common

and look at the

moon.

Ask any woman who has been married for five years to sit on a

common and look at the moon and she will im- mediately state quite firmly her preference for the pictures.

They cannot remain quite the same gay, spontaneous, happy- go-lucky people that they were. It is no fault of theirs that they do not retain this same attitude towards life, because now they are weighed down with a certain. sense of responsibility; It in the responsibility of having to stand for one another's lives, and pos- sibly, also, to provide for child-

ren.

Yet serious-minded folks have to shoulder this responsibility, even though it makes marriage so much more difficult and augments its problems.

The Strain

Will Tell

There is an old tag about con-- stant dripping wearing away stones, and although marriage without money may start in that attitude of courageous endeav- our which оле cannot help but admire so much, I feel that it is too liable to fall short. The strain tella.

No one who has not toiled with a housekeeping purse which refuses to go round, or who has not faced the problem of making do on less than one can, realises the inferiority complex which it brings about.

Perhaps now I have my fingers.

blem. The inferiority complex, on the pulse of the entire pro- the feeling of being financially less than one's fellows; his feel- ing that he does not earn as much as he might do, her shaky belief that another woman could per- haps make the money more elas- tic and spend it better. Fettered

Romance

I sound pessimistic. I hate pointing out that the exquisite beauty of the romance can be- fettered so harshly by ways and means, but, looking at it from all angles, I cannot, help but feel that it is so.

I would, however, point out that at the beginning a struggle does a young couple good, pro- vide that struggle is towards a definite goal.

If there is a prospect ahead, something for which they can fight with the knowledge. that they will not be for over in this same old deadly rut, then that immediately changes the entire situation.

There is not the same feeling of responsibility, there is not the same inner knowledge that you are up against something which is too big for you.

The cost of living is high. Usually they find it to be higher than they had anticipated or drain on one's resources, both that something may turn up; budgeted for. It is a constant

There is always the chance material and spiritual, trying to but you and I know quite wali assess one's salary when every that nine times out of ton, the rich uncle in America does not penny counts.

One gets to eye with suspicion plum of a job does not pop down die leaving a fortune, that the. possible leakages, and to cross those bridges before one comes into your lap, and that to-mor to them, which cannot make tow is too often very much like

to-day. Ufo any easier.

For that very reason I say that Under this strain men and marriage without money is ask- women change,

ing for trouble.