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Tkind of people who burn up whe
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY,
MOMENT
PAGE
JANUARY 13,
Fifth day of American best-seller "How to win a husband-and keep him" by Anne Hirst. We've reached the section dealing with the various difficulties wives have to face ̃ ̄TO-DAY—
66
His mother
is a problem,
56 Ma
1s
.
she?
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 borne and reared them; educated them at, possibly, great sacritice; tended them through serious illnesses, cherished them as the ideal of all their dreams.
Too often they wrap up these sons in an enveloping cloak of adoration that stifles any personality the child might develop.
fe becomes an actual spiritual perasile.
No young wives could only understand 17: char relationship be tween mothers nad som
they would make allow anses for these moikers, Lin-loss who 30 belittle
them.
If you find yourself maried to a "mama's
boy," you must accent
Perhaps it'll cure them, save them from wearing their nerves out with fuming.
the telephone as a The first thing to remember is that instrument is nearly perfect. True, you sometimes find a num- the
numbers.
1•1•1•1•!!
"Are you married to
a mother's boy?
silanting until you can prove son has deepened through all thout its
L
ber is engaged and have to wait and occasionally you get wrong! without rateur, tant you are a that love, you only want to try tu Give her the benefit of every
103
of dome.
how long it took to make average Tricks to know
local business calls. The average
time was five minutes.
ure
ment of her
TO-MORROW: The problem of the other woman
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bounds deep affection to tal other of his, surely and years. You don't want to change gratitude for his mother.
grown woman to whose care her son make roman for your love for him to doubt you can. You'll never entire But remedies are open to you. You can complain to your is entirely safe.
grow beside it.
There is room in Bob's heart for ly understand how she feels towards 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 ut your own whom you must re- enough telephones-there-wouldn't-be-so-many-engaged.numbers. Don't argue with Her
tren accustomed to this mother linquish some day to some other FIRST, bury your resent love dominating him for twenty No. it's not the system that's at any one rang up about this or that lettre, ne naturally asked to speak
atitud years or more, before he knew for young chit hardly out of school, and
watch him go so eagerly to her, leav It's the individuals. fault.
an mitial, not a same-and the Treat her with every courtesy. This it all. Make allowances for that.
ing you standing alone in They it is who cause the unneces
hard, for her behaviour expected to put will come
Never try to win him away from twilight of life. You can afford to sary delays that can be so madden- telephone girl is
be kind. One Fant.
morning. just for him through to the right man every selfish and unintelligent and you his mother.
know it.
That is the fatal inistake (anj curiosity's sake, i made a note
But if, when you're tempted to a it is fatal more often than you think) sharp retort. you'll say quickly to which many
young wives make. yourself, "She's Bub's mother." y They are intensely jealous of all the ERE
Or two will dad yourself belter able to con- life which their husbands lived before HER One of the calls was to query an
trol that quick little tongue. other ways business mea¦
they marriedi. order and I was put through 113
When this mother-in-law of yours could help in reducing
They refuse to see that their own turn to the sales director's secretary, and others
insists that Bob can't stand this and pro cannot take the place of other the accounts director, then to a led- telephone irritations:
When you are taking on a new that, has never been accustomed to an older ties; they refuse to admit ger clerk; and four people's time tail
Witebioned girl, make her read an e-and-such, must never be allowed at those ties are essential to, tha
of a bonis, to do so-and-so, for heaven's sake, been wasted.
passage out It wasn't the telephone
system fanillat
see if you miss keep silent. The fact that Bab dor completeness of this life. They a that was at fault here. It was the own a telephone:
indeed do and like many of these selfish as the mother I describe any words. people using it.
So never let your husband feel you Learn the Past Office "A for An- things since he's married may be all and as unknowingly so.
Jealous of his mother. alphabet, and other exchange true-but if it is, why say so drew Smart exchange girls
Remember. always, that
this are rl tricks yourself.
mother of Rob's considers you for Make
a sound record of Now there's
type of irritation, voice you'll be surprised how dif- child. To answer her back can only
Turned self-control before You and your business friends shouti terent it is from your usual voice-prove she is right. If you have not Furaging your own mother.
your mar Two's Company you hear most
of your riage, you've got the chance of a smart switchboard girls and normally
bones in voice through the phy them well.
lifetime to learn it now. Try with all your heart to be inistress of it. There three suggestions
instal
TOW
this
IL
euro
your
your
Look how much time smart bend). telephone girl would have saved on
sure that you and your switchboard my call.
First she would have found out girl don't mutter.
And don't use the word "hello": Trom me what my query was about -was it that I wanted to increase it doesn't mean a thing. When you
ments. order (then putting the call pick up the receiver, say who you
saves some 4
Study her Carefully
FEW older
a
Never
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The normal adjustments between Learn to be subtle, not blunt, for these compliments must not husband and wife in the first few dificult of marriage Study your mother years
make without the pre- as You would
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be obvious.
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I change.
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to blame for the day-and so on, users are
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to
1 A position of the kind the
"down and out" is prone 'lake (10),
6 A scene of
(4).
counter activities
10 This goes with a bung 15).
11 He might have played Hamlet
(D).
12 Not so elementary, my dear
Watson (8).
13 Sir? It may well be so (3), 15 Maite belleve (7).
17 In which eye was Napoleon
blind? (7).
10 If a certain famous man were seen in red his prestige with his followers might certainly be this (7).
21 "1 net, sir" (anag) (7).
22 Any movement from this form
of drain must be elevating (5).
to be (B).
Go out of your way to be thought-
It may sound cruel, but I have ful for her. Do those little thines
of people that mean so much to an older wo- seen so many hundreds
Bringing Cargo from Marsellies who thinks she is being set (including many, many thoughtful, uside: Take time out of a busy day considerate trios) fall utterly in via Saigon cic, arrived on Sunday, to drop in to see her, deliberately to their attempt to live together in 9th January, 1938, at 1.00 a.m.
if the mother in ques- Consignees are hereby informed ask her advice even though you know harmony,
tion is wise, she will not consent that their goods with the exception the subject better than the duca,
of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables Send your husband to visit her, to live in her son's new. tiome.
But it is hard for a woman who are being landed and stored into the urge him to telephone her when she Isn't expecting Il. Invite her has been head of her own establish- Godown of the Hongkong Kowloon to your home when your own mother menfor n generation to give over Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- is carning: I've seen this whole miser- the reins to a younger one. It is loon, whence delivery may be ob- 24 I stand where this cleric ought able business nicely solved by the hard to see herself supplanted, as tained immediately after landing,
All claims must be sent in to me 27 The "nuce" Includes the fat mothers getting together and the often feels she is, in the heart discussing their children frankly and of her adored boy by a young chidon or before 18th Juntinry, 1938, or on This is In everyone's mouth (B).
hardly out of school. It is heart- they will not be recognized. honestly.
20 Mountain of Sicily (4). Damaged Packages will be examine 30 Note helped" (añag.) (10). Treat your mother-in-law when breaking for her to look ahend to
cil by the Company's Surveyor treat an lonely evenings without her son. she comes as you would
Messrs Goddard and Douglas in honoured guest, and sooner or late:
the presence of the Consignees at The Be Kind she'll begin to behave like one. experience will be new to her, poo:
NO when you think of how 10.00 am. on Saturday, 16th January, So when his mother is now soul, and your star will begin to rise
Consignees must have a Rvcenue surely ns you thought you had and then, think of all those happy Omicer in attendance when any duti watched its wining.
times with him that she is missingable goods are examined by tho
Company's Surveyors.
two
Make room for Both
DON'T expect a
now.
1930.
No Fire Insurance will bo effcoted.
Do everything you can, with all miracle, the tact you can manage, to show however, This mother her that your love for him in an in- by us in any case whatever.
love that. can not only In-law..of yours has lived twice as lelligent long as you have. Her love for her watch over him but include withm
MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. -Hongkong, - 9th January, 1030.
(D).
.DOWN
1 With regard to vitamins this is of outside importance in cereala -(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).
26
The cigar should
never be
smoked with this, get rid of the Ideal (7).
7 Lift (8).
8 English castle (10),
9 Start with the remainder but
limit the whole (8).
14 Is job is to learn, and finally
lure (10),
10 Surround (8). "
10 A pantomime character (0), 20 A master of the Scottish school
(?).
21 Since soldiers are indicated, it
should be genuine (7).
23 No epithet for a well-kept house
(G).
25 Where the shadow of Nelson's
column never falls (8). 26 The poet sounds vetoed (4).
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