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YOU MAY DISAGREE WITH THIS, BUT IT IS

An Article to Make

H

Wives Think

LESLEY STORM

does not believe that a wife should always put duty before happiness...or even that every woman is capable of real love..

"APPY is the woman whose only experience of a dilemma is whether she should order mutton or pork for dinner. Because nothing is more sure to destroy one's peace of Stubbs Rd. mind for ever than having to make a Great Decision.

The drama of the cross-roads is irresistible and almost certain to impair your judgment, your reasoning faculties and your sense of proportion. And whichever you take you will spend a certain amount of time regretting it and letting your mind run on how you would have fared if you had chosen the

Hongkong Telegraph, other way.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1837.

VIRTUE IN DISCRETION

A woman who has come up against a major dilemma has been in the news. She was faced with making the formidable decision of accompanying her husband to a leper colony, where he had taken up a

ten years' appointment, or enduring indefinite separation from him. She chose separation. And in doing so she has set thousands of women agog with the question, "What would you have done?" And you? And you?

A

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A scene from the film "Morocco"

in which Marlene Dietrich in the end decided to walk out into the desert after the man she loved.

Events are moving with such rapidity in China that observers may well be bewildered. Much is going on behind the scenes; mine, and I asked her. "She's wife finds most workable.

I dropped in to see a friend of inclination is what the average HHHHH and one of these days the world is going to awaken to the fact leper," she said.

squeamish about the word that the prediction, made many day in a leper colony, and it was

"I spent years ago, that Japan would a heavenly place. The most never be content until she con-beautiful island I have ever trolled the Yangtse Valley, has scen." Her young son sat up come true. It becomes more with a glow in his eyes. and more evident that the pre-should have gone," he said fer- "She sent campaign is more than the vently. She should have gone punitive expedition which Japan with him." has labelled it. It is

& per-

manent army of occupation that For myself, I am not so sure. is fighting its way towards THAT "OBEY" Nanking, smashing through line after line of Chinese defences. The goal has become clearer

out.

MEN can

to 23

A woman doing anything from a sense of duty is a nuisance anyway, because she can't forget it. She is the martyr with the flames licking round her and she makes the most of the situation. A man ls much better off in the long run without a wife whe follows him from a sense of duty.

they should be. Her roots are

the greater social scope which her new status gives her. LOVE WITHIN

BOUNDS

ground.

OWN

SHE wouldn't count her- self properly married cularly the town-bred, cinema- if she didn't step right into the fed miss of to-day, marriage is quality of life which the girl- not often the inevitable sequel friends expect of her. to a profound emotion which The husband, of course, should could express itself as certainly be decorative and easy-manner- in a garret as in a flat that all ed; nice to be seen around with the relatives would approve of, and attached to a job that can at It is more likely to be arrang. least be made to sound fairly im- Ruling out duty, what is left? ed like this: "We'll become en- portant. rationalise. Where their own in- Love? There is little argument gaged on the 6th of December Japan wants a Government interests are concerned they are about this. What is very much and we'll give a party. It's a environment and expect her to To uproot such a girl from her China with which she can "co-astonishingly good at that, and overlooked in life is the fact that Wednesday, and that's a good be happy anywhere else is non- operate a Government which, some men might even persuade not every woman--by in other words, will do Tokyo's some women that the leper is way is capable of love.

a long night for most people. We'll be sensical. Her love has definite bidding. If Japanese generals an innocuous member of society. is the

Love married in June, because the boundaries. She loves a man foresaw the collapse of China's

generous heart that weather is nice and I like June only in so far as he fits in with doesn't count the cost of any best for weddings." defences, it is no wonder that

You might argue that a wo thing.

her idea of how to live. Let him they so strongly objected to man when she marries makes a

It becomes all tied up with a remove himself from the circle outside mediation which might contract to "obey him and serve NOT SO RARE.

house and furniture and a trous, she has prescribed and he be have saved for China something him, love, honour and keep him

senu that will give the girl comes an alien. with which to bargain. As it in sickness and in health and, WITHOUT her knowing friends something to talk about, All her friends will be on her is, unless the Japanese march is forsaking all other, keep only

it, it brings out all arid long discussions as to whe side, strengthening her against checked, the terms will come unto him so long as ye both shall the best in a woman. It is in- ther red or allver nail-varnish him, persuading her how unrea- from Tokyo; and there will be live." If that is taken as the

finite knidness. It is great goes best with a wedding gown. Bonable he is and how utterly o compromising. The "puni-standard of a woman's duty courage, because the heart is Of whether one should be real right she is in keeping both feet tive expedition" will be there there is no

strong. argument

ly daring and dispense with firmly planted on her with bomb and bayonet to send whether she should go or not;

varnish altogether, "because, It is not so rare as one might after all, my dear, a bride is at that any peace terms are carried but in common usage her own imagine, but the silly artificiall her most devastating if she looks spect for roots that they can dig Few women have so little re- ties and the glamour and the a little like a nun. The situation may alter, for stimulated to some sort of ac- their best to crowd it out. And

themselves out and never notice nonsense of to-day are

Remember there is always a chance of some

doing Loretta Young in that wimple?" it. surpassingly clever piece of tion. Perhaps not. For un-it is easily ridiculed because it the environment she crentes are life of their own and they can They must have the content- The trappings of marriage and strategy which will confound deniably those most interested isn't in the mood of the moment. of tremendous importanco, and drop social life if they wish, and ment which comes from an inner the invader. But at the mo-have preoccupations elsewhere. It remains, nevertheless, and in her mother usually conspires ment the trend of events seems are none too securely placed times of stress it comes into its with her to see that they are all feel, if anything, well rid of it. fairly obvious, as does the fact even in their home, positions. [own. that China's valinnt army, hay- For this and other reasons, ing endured a terrible hammer-China would be well advised to ing from an enemy equipped take stock of her position as with superior armaments, has rapidly as possible, and make a lost cohesion and the power to quick decision. Will she gainf "stick." China, and friends of anything by bowing to the China, need offer no excuses for Japanese demands and putting HE history of the epitaph, real or through ye spolled veil of ye small- 80. But then not every woman Shanghal. a stop to the terrible strain legendary, abounds in witty and pox rendered a pure and unspotted can do her duty and be happy The troops have fought splen- upon her resources which war eccentric examples. A tablet in a soul to God." didly. They are still fighting involves? Will she lose more village church in Gloucestershire has bravely in retreat. But they or less by suing for peace at this his inscription:- are facing daily greater odds. time? If she decides on pence-- The hope that the extended line and there would be no point in and lengthened communications mentioning it if there had not might hamper Japan's attack been a suggestion that Marshal

Christian. His death was very much with courage, and I can think of. appears to be doomed. China Chiang himself. is disposed to on their names and virtues, or were stupidity of Laurence Tullock, who

Was the writer too luzy to embark regretted, which was caused by the nothing more desirable either in may fight on for years to come; treat with Japan--it would give their vices too many and too awful sold him nitre instead of Epsom salts man or woman. I should be the but it will be a guerilla struggle, her an opportunity to reorganise to disclose?

by which he was killed in the space last to urge a woman to remem- men against machines. may not be conquered; but is still unbeaten. There 18 Westminster Abbey: "Jane Japan will set up a puppet no doubt of China's spirit Deare Child." The government in Nanking unless of the moment, of her willing-houghts of hundreds of pilgrims ga the unexpected happens.

It is time to consider future But what would it avail her?cussed epitaph-O Rare Ben Jon

ness to die the martyr's death. out to this little unknown.

The Abbey, too, has the much-die developments, then. The of what value is glorious defeat son." If, as is often suggested, the cupation of Nanking, Shanghai. if the back-bone of a nation he words are a corruption of the Latin, Hankow, and all the rest of the broken? China was not suf-rate pro Ben Jonson," then it is northern ports, will not alter ficiently prepared

very happy mistake. resist

A Inconle the fact of invasion or make itJapan on this occasion with any graveyard Inscription from u

*on Löchfyneside any more lawful. Powers signa- hope of lasting success. An-calloquially curt: Poor White!" and tory to the pacts which were other day she may be. For from a Perthshire church wall comes fondly considered shock-proof that day it would appear to be and designed to protect China.the duty of her patriots to pre- will still face the responsibilitypare themselves rather than

the situation. ancrifice the hopes of the nation reads: "She was-words are want- Perhaps when they feel the in foredoomed guerilla warfare ing to say what-soy all that a good pinch of Japanese influence on against the Power which, for the wife should be and he was thint." their commerce, they will be moment, ridea in a safe saddle.

An epitaph in Chichester Cathedral is to the memory of a lady "who

the

retreat from

Hongkong Benevolent Society of remedylig

11, Ice House Street,

The doctor's wife in a mining To the average woman, parti- dug deep into her new house and village or in an East End slum,

STRANGE EPITAPHS

In a vault underneath Lie several of the Saunderses, Particulars the last day will close.

the soldier's wife in an arid de- sert station, the engineer's wife in a fever swamp on the Congo -are they all enting their hearts out because they are not jewels. in a velvet casket? I don't think

This example from Shetland seems too.

to have been composed by one more

for his tact:---

famous for his downrightness than TWO CAREERS

"He was a peaceable, quiet man,i dis and to all appearance

n sincere

GAIETY of heart, one often notices, goes

Chin and recuperate, and while she epitaphs is in the Little Cloister In It."

One of the most famous short of five hours after taking a dose of, ber her marriage vows or to do Lister, A specimen from ueross the Atinger duty, because the picture wondering the has an ultra modern hole:-

efther of them makes in my mind "Here lies the body of Eliza is quite ridiculous; but I would

Wight,

urge her to be flexible and have a shot at a new life if she pos-. circumstances where she cannot. sibly can. But there may be The creed that put a man's carcer Arst is dead-a woman's happiness counts for just as much.

to

the following:

Here lys James Stewart He shall rys. An Inartlcuinte tribute to 4 wila

She put out her left hand And turned to the right." of a Leicester hosier, by his wife, This epitaph was on the tombstone Hannal:-

Hannah

"I leave my hose and

whom I love To sing Hosannah in the realms

above." Legend has the following as the epitaph of an anatomist:

"Here lies the 'body of William

Jonca

Who all his life collected bones, Till Death, that grim and busy

spectre,

That universal bone collector, Burled old Jones so neat and tidy, And here he lles ali bonn Bde."

Arnen 8. Ingle,

What is the use of a few more hundreds a year if the wife is ringe is a woman's career-and eating her heart out? Mar- its setting and Its possibilities- need just, as much consideration as that given in the past to the

man.