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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

SPARE MOMENT

1932 DY HER SERVICE, INC

NIE U.S. PAT. OFF,

wild shroff

and

Darling, you'll be careful of those Ravage conenhines when you arrive in Hongkong, won't you?

Advice

to

a

Telephone

Tiger

•

THIS article is written for telephone tigers the kind of people who burn up when they meet any kind of set-back on the telephone.

T

THURSDAY, JANUARY

13,

PAGE

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-

His mother

is a problem,

IS

she?

Y mother in law

66 M

makes me feel that her

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 yeurned 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 sacrifice; tended them through serious illnesses, eherished them as the ideal of all their dreams.

Too often they wrap up these sous in at enveloping cloak of adoration that stiftes any personality the child might develop.

He becomes an actun) spiritual parasite, No young wives could only

this understand relationship

cluse

tween mothers and soin

they would make alfow- ances for these mother-

in-law who so belittle them.

Perhaps it'll cure them, save them from wearing their nerves, If you And yourself

out with fuming.

married

The first thing to remember is that the telephone as an| boy," instrument is nearly perfect, True, you sometimes find a num- the ber is engaged and have to wait and ocensionally you get wrong to numbers.

tommunita'a

HHHHH

But remedies are open to you. You can complain to your is entirely sate. exchange about wrong numbers and if only people would instal enough telephones there wouldn't be so many engaged numbers. Don't argue with Her

"Are you married to

a mother's boy?"

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you must accept situation until you can prove rim has deepened through all those its bounds a deep affection and that mother of his, surely and years. You don't want to change gratitude for his mother. without rancour, that you are that love, you only want to try to

Give her the benefit of every grown woman in whose care her sun make room for your love for him to doubt you can. You'll never entire

grow beside 1,

There is room in Bob's heart for ly understand how she feels towards the two of you, you know. He has you, and why, until you have a son whom you must re- been accustomed in this mother of your own No, it's not the system that's at any one rang up about this or that

young chit hardly out of school, and attitude. years or more, before he knew you watch him go so eagerly to her, leav asked to speak fauli. It's the individuals.

letter, he naturally

This at all. Make allowances for that.

standing alone ing you They it is who cause the unneces- to an initial, not name-and the Treat her with every courtesy.

But will come hard, for her behaviour Never try to win him away from twilight of life. You can afford to sary deinys that can be so madden- telephone girl is expected to

is selish and unintelligent and you his mother. ing.

for him through to the right man every One morning just

know it.

That is the futal mistake (and be kind. of time. curiosity's sake, I made a note

But if, when you're templed 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 Bob's mother," you They are intensely jealous of all d will

find yourself beller able to con- fe which their husbands lived before other ways business men trol that quick little tongue.

they married. When this mother-in-law of yours turn to the sales director's secretary, and others could help in reducing insists that Bob can't stand this and love cannot take the place of other They refuse to see that their own When you are taking on a new that, has never been accustomed to and older ties; they refuse to admit ger clerk; and four people's time hind switchboard girl, make her read an such-and-such, must never be allowed that those ties are essential to the

of a book to do so-and-so, for heaven's sake, It wasn't the telephone system ufum:liar

I describe that was at fault here. It was the down a telephone; see if you miss keep silent. The fact that Bob doci completeness, of this life. They a

do and like many of these selfish as the mother

So never let your husband feel you things since he's married may be alt and as unknowingly so. to true--but if it is, why say so? f150 jealous of his mother. Never

how long it took to make average Tricks to know

local business calls. The average time was five minutes.

One of the calls was to query an and I was put through

order

in

HER

ERE さむ

one or

two

the accounts director, then to a led- telephone irritations:-

been wasted.

people using K

Smart exchange girls

Pay words.

passage oul

of your

These three suggestions mak?

It

Saves some one

indeed

Remember, always, that this

of Bob's considers you

say a single unkind word about her nother

think how you would hate his dis- child. To answer her back can only prove she is right. If you have not Foraging your own mother.

arned self-control before your mar- Two's Company rlage, you've got the chance of # lifetime to learn it now. Try with all your heart to be mistress of it.

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The normal adjustments between Guaranteed to and your trodden in 8 day ments. Learn to be subtle, not blunt, husband and wife in the arst fewer money back. Get Cyster at all clienisin

these compliments must not

dimcult be obvious. Study your mother- years

for

In-law

change.

113

you

Would

of marriage

study enough to

are

make without

the pre-

are are purines, 16 minutes

ACROSS

116

1 A position of the kind the

"down and out" is prone Lake (10).

10

8 A scene of counter activities

(4).

10 This goes with a bang (5).

Learn the Past Office "A for An- drew" alphabet, and other exchange girl tricks yourself.

record NOW there's

[or cure

Make a soum: this type of irritatio.. voice (you'll be surprised how dif- You and your business friends should ferent it is from your usual voice

you hear most of your instal

smart switchboard girls and normally

voice through the bones in

your pay them well,

Look how much time a smart head), telephone girl would have saved on

sure that you and your switchboard my euli.

First she would have found out girl don't mutter. from me what my query was about. And don't use the word "hello": When you --was it that I wanted to increase it doesn't mean a thing. my order (then putting the call pick up the recelver, say who you else usk- to the sales Uhrough

director was re right) or had the order not been de- ing

being pleasant you can save By livered

on time (a query for the despatch department), or were the other people a lot of irritation too. Roods not up to sample (a matter If some one gets you a wrong num-any other problem you have to solve sence of a third person as witness CONSIGNEES' NOTICE.

If your mother-in-low is entirely, for the complaints department). ber and you curse at him, he proba- (for you have to solve it, you know) and often uninvited adviser.

wie.e bly curses at some one else later in and remember that she is too old to or partly, dependent upon your hus- Here's another Instance

band, I strongly advise your cutting SERVICES CONTRACTUELS DEB telephone users are to blame for the day-and so on.

You are the one who must 02-

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES, And remember that smiling down

own expenses, down to the your telephone irritations.

I once worked in a firm employ the receiver doesn't mean thing,complish that adapting of the two bone, to provide a place for her to

that has to sound personalities, and it isn't impossible, live in, rather than have her live The Steamship Ing 1,500 people. Yet anly twenty It's your voice

I've seen it done, hundreds of times. with you two. or thirty of them signed letters in friendly.

Go out of your way to be thought-

It may sound cruel, but I have full-the rest used initials.

ful for her. Do those little things that mean so much to an older wo- seen so many hundreds of people

Bringing Cargo from Marseilles man who thinks she is being set (including many, many thoughtful,

fall utterly in via Saigon etc., arrived on Sunday, together in 9th January, 1938, at 1.00 nm. to drop in to see her, deliberately to their attempt

Consignees are hereby informed nsk her advice even though you know harmony. If the mother in ques

lion in wire, she will not consent that their goods with the exception the subject better than she does.

of Oplum, Treasure and Valuables Send your husband to visit her, to live in her son's new home. (Oil Burners}

But it is hard for a woman who are being landed and stored Into the isn't expecting it. Invite her has been head of her own establish- Godown of the Hongkong Kowloon 22 Any movement from this form to your home when your own mother ment for a generation to give over Wharf and Godown Co., Ltd., Kow- is coming: I've seen this whole miser- the reina to a younger one. It is loon, whence delivery may be ob- 24 I stand where this clerie ought

hereelt supplanted, an tained immediately after landing. able business nicely solved by the hard to see

All claims must be sent in lo me mothers getting together and she often feels she is, in the heart discussing their children frankly and of her adored boy by a young chid on or before 19th January, 1930, or honestly.

hardly out of school. It is heart-they will not be recognized, Treat your mother-in-law when breaking for her to look ahead to she comes as you would treat an lonely evenings without her son, honoured guest, and sooner or inter

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two

she'll begin to behave like one. The Be Kind experience will be new to her, poo: soul, and your star will begin to rise

smurely as you thought you had and

watched its wining.

Make room for Both

"ANDRE LEBON" No. 4 A/38

11 He might have played Hamlet

(0).

12 Not so elementary, my

Watson (8),

13 Sir?

dear

It may well be so (0), 15 Make belleve (7).

17 in which eye was

blind? (7),

Napoleon

19 It a certain famous man were seen in red bila prestige with his followers might certainly be this (7).

21 f net, sir" (anag.) (7),

of denin must be clavating (3).

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dimcult his mother is now then, think of all those happy Officer in attendance when any dutl- Consignees must have a Rveenue times with him that she missing

able goods aro examined by the Company's Surveyors.

now.

Do everything you can, with ni Dhowever.

ON'T expect a miracle, the tact you can manage, to show

No Fire Insurance will be effected

This mother her that your love for him is an in-by us in any case whatever. in-law of yours has lived twice as telligent love that can not only long-na you have. Her love for her watch_over_him_but_include within

MESSAGERIES MARITIMES. Hongkong, 9th January, 1930.

DOWN

1 With regard to vitamins this is of autelde importanco in cereals (4).

2 Of course, ho expected cavalier

treatment if captured (9).

3 He and his kind are seen band-

ed together in the wild state- (3).

4 if the parly cake wore this, of

course, it would naturally

spotted at once. (7).

bo

5 The cigar should

never bo

arnoked with this, get rid of the

Ideal (7),

7 Lift (0)

8 English castle (10).

D Start with the remainder but

limit the whole (8).

14 His job is to learn, and finally

Jure (10),

16 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 well-kept house

*(a).

23 Where the shadow of Nelson's

column never falls (6),

20 The poet sounds velõod (4).

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