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Telephone Tiger

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,

MOMENT PAGE

13, JANUARY

1938.

Fifth day of American best-seller. "How to win a husband-and keep him" by Anne Hirst. We've

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difficulties wives have to face. TO-DAY—

His mother

is a problem,

M

is

she?

Y mother in law makes me feel that her

.son is still her baby

and that I'm a little girl who doesn't know the first thing about looking after him!"

So wrote a bride who was just about to call it quits and send her young husband back to this mother who yearned over him so.

Is your mother-in-law like that? It is a popular attitude among mothers when their sons marry. They have horne and reared them; educated them at, possibly, great sacrifice; tended them through serious illnesses, cherished them as the ideal of all their I dreams.

Too often they wrap up these sons in an enveloping cloak of adoration that stitles any personality the child might develop.

Té Becomes an acfual spiritual periste.

No young wives comid Daly

Than understand civer

bo relationship tween mothers and s01.

HIS article is written for telephone tigers-the they would make allow- kind of people who burn up when they meet anyce for these mothers- kind of set-back on the telephone,

Perhaps it'll cure them, save them from wearing their nerves out with fuming.

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belittle

m-law velyra them.

If you find yourself maried tonmala must accen boy," you

tuation until you

ment of he

"Are you

married to

a mother's boy?"

altitude.

love

be kind.

The first thing to remember is that the telephone as an

can prove com has dergent through all those its bounds 1 deep affection and instrument is nearly perfect. True, you sometimes find a num- the

to that mother of his, surely and years. You don't want to change gratitude for his mother. ber is engaged and have to wait and occasionally you get wrong

willonit raneour, that you are that love, you only want to try to Give her the beneft of every numbers,

grows woman in whose care her on make room for your love for him to doubt you can. You'll never entire- You can complain to your is entirely safe.

grow beside it. But remedies are open to you.

ly understand how she feels towards There is room in Bob's heart for exchange about wrong numbers and if only people would instal

the two of you, you know. He has you, and why, until you have a son of your own whom you must re- -enough-telephones_there_wouldn')_ be so many engaged numbers. Don't argue with Her

FIRST, bury your event customed to this mother Unquish come day to some other dontinating him for twenty young chi: hardly out of school, and No, it's not the system that's at any one rang up almut this or that! letus. he maturally asked to speak! fault. It's the individuals.

all. Make allowances for that. ing you standing alone in the They it is who cause the unneces- to an initial, notamme and the Treat her with every courtesy. This 3 before he new you watch him go so eagerly to her, leav Never try to win him away from twilight of life. You can afford to sary delays that can be so madden- telephone girl is expected to put will come hard, for her behaviour

for him through to the right man every is selfish and amintelligent and you as wel Just morning.

Row it. ins.

fatal mistake Que

That is the

(and But if when you're tempted to at it is fatal more often than you think) curiosity's sake, I made a note

sharp retort, you'll say quickly to watch many young wives moke. yourself, "She's Bob's mother," you They are intensely jealous of all the two will find yourself better able to con- life which their husband's lived before

ful that quick little tongue.

they married, When this mother-in-law of your- ruld help in reducing insists that Bob can't stand this and love cannot false the place of other They refuse to see that their owa What are taking on a new that, has never been accustomed led older ties; they refuse to adnu! witchboard girl, make her read and hand-such, must never be allowed that those ties are

of a hook to do so-and-so, for heaven's sake, umpleteness of this life. They a.. anfamding passage out it was the own a telephone; see if you must keep silent, The (net that Bob does as selfish us the mother 1 descrive!

indeed! de and like many of these and as unknowingly so. any words.

Learn the Post Office "A for An- things since he's married may be all

So, never let your husband feel you of his mother. Never are jealous drew" alphabet, and other exchange to true--but if it is, why say so

Remember always, that ut tricks yourself.

say single unkind word about he.

think how you would hate his dis record of your mother of Bob's considers you Make #50471:3

prove she is right. If you have not

how long it took to make average Tricks to know tocal business calls. The average

time was five minutes.

One of the calls was to query an HERE

erder

in and I was put through

are one 01 other waya business mea

turn to the sales director's secretary, pral others the accounts director, then to a led- telephone arritations:

ger clerk; and four people's time had

been wasted.

It

wasn't the telephone system that was at fault here.

people using it.

Smart exchange girls

Now there's

this type

cure

for

was it that I wanted to increase it doesn't mean a thing.

call pick up the receiver, director was are.

It

By

make

this

essential to the

TO-MORROW:

The problem of the other woman

Kill Kidney

Trouble Quick

ALL of these difficulties that Nevruzione LS, AN

or marriage

urc

Thousands of gufferers from Chinoy of irritation, voice (you'll be surprised how dif child. To answer her back can only areging your own mother.

troubie nd Bindder weakness have You and your business friends should terent it is from your usual voit med self-control before your mar- Two's Company

of yourage, you've

stopped fietting Up Nighis, Leg Palus, got the chance of a instal smart switchboard girls and normally you hear most

volce through the bones in your lifeklame to learn it now. Try with

theumatism, pay. them well,

sin, Lunge: Burnleg, Etching, Smart- Look how much time

all your heart to be mistress of it. # smart head).

face u young wife These three suggestions telephone girt would have saved on

much easier, of course, if you are. Acidity and Tons of Vignor by a Doc ter's new dinonvary called Cyntax (Hisne sure that you, and your switchboard Study her Carefully

not living in the same house with tex), ently soothen, topes, cleans, and my call.

fervently hope youals, raw sore kidneys in IG minutes Cystos torte purifying your blood, strings First she would have found out girl don't mutter.

And don't use the word "hello": Trom me what my query was about

women cannot his mother.

new health, youth and vitality in 48 hours. When you f

FEW older say who you ments.

be won over by compli- aren't.

The normal adjustments between Guaranteed to end your troubles in & day's order (then pulling the my

Learn to be subtle, not blunt, husband and wife in the first few money back. tiel Cystos at all chemists else nsk-for

must these compliments Saves some one

no! to the sales

дре dificult through

be obvious. Study your mother- years right) or had the order not been de- ing.

being pleasant you can save in-law as livered on time (a query for the

would study enough to despatch department), or were the other people a lut of irritation too. goods

(for you have to solve it, you know) and not up to sample (a mutter it some one gets you a wrong nun-hy other problem you have to solve sence of a third person as witness CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

If your mother-in-law is entirely, for the complaints department). ber and you curse at him, he proband remember that she is too old to or partly, dependent upon your hus-

Here's another instance. whe.e bly curses at some one else Inter in change.

band, 1 strongly advise your cutting must as your own expenses down to And remember that smiling down complish that adapting of the two bone, to provide a place for her to I once worked in a firm employ. the receiver doesn't mean and personalities, and it isn't impossible, vein, rather than have her live The Steamship

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I've seen it done, hundreds of times, with you two. Ing 1,500 people. Yet only twenty 11's your voice or thirty of them signed letters in friendly.

Go out of your way to be thought-

31 may sound cruel, but I have full- the rest used initiuis. When

ful for her. Do those little thinks

of people that mean so much to an older wo-seen so many hundreds

who thinks

telephone telephone irritations.

users are

to blame for the day--and so on.

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.

I With regard to vitamins this is of outside importance in cereais (4).

2 Of course, he expected cavaller

treatment if captured (9),

3 He and his kind are seen band-

ed together in the wild slate (5).

4 If the party cake were this, of course, it would naturally be spotted at once (7).

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5 The cigar should never be

smoked with this, get rid of the ideal (7).

7 Lift (5).

English castle (10).

9 Start with the remainder but

Ilmit the whole (B),

14 His job is to learn, and finally

Jure (10).

10 Surround (8).

18 A pantomime character (0). 20 A master of the Scottish school

(7).

21 Since soldiers are indicated, it

should be genuine (7)..

23 No epithet for a well-kept house

(5).

25 Where the shadow of Nelson's

column never falls (6). 20 The poet sounds vetoed (4).

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