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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, JANUARY

-1938.

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So you've been married 3 years, Mrs. S.

S..

· you've had good times and bad times, but you've loved being your husband's partner, says ANTHONY WEYMOUTH in the last of the series "The Smiths Get Married."

OU have found out, Mrs. Smith, that married life is very different from what's called a "state of single blessedness"? And it has taken you a little time to adjust yourself to it?

Well, that's not surprising. Come to think of it, no one can do more beforehand than tell you, in general terms, what mar- riage means. And we all know that generalities don't convince any one.

They can't do more than point out in what direction the tramlince run, so speak. Every man and every woman has to And out for themselves where the particular set of rails they've em- barked on run to.

Let me see, it's about Duree years since you were married, isn't it" By the way, do you agree with me, now that you've been through it, that It's the first year of married when most of the dificulties arise-

Tbo

te

"You told him that you weren't his slave

that

you hadn't married him to become a domestic servnat."

ber

what? Oh, a boy. Congratulations. And did you both behave well? You did. And John-the older John, I macan?

He wasn't so good, I suppose. The doctor told you that he walked up

and have to be met and dealt with? began to hang heavily

I'd be interested to hear your own hands?.

on your with more people than I can remem- and down the garden sucking at an experiences, Mrs, Smith,

Tell me, Mrs. Smith, how

all the little crises which are empty pipe. Poor John! worst thing at the begin dealt with that situation. You did likely to turn up.

you

They're generally ning was loneliness? You only saw your husband in the evenings and some needlework? Good. But I sup- trifles but they sometimes lead to him

you soon got through that, unholy rows.

at the week-ends. Well, that's whal nearly every married woman has to face, isn't it?

THE fact

up their job when they marry. So

After

And that's such

It was really as bad a time for

as for you-in its way.

I'm & sure he all, when you'd made that plty.

was certain he was going second pair of curtains for the sit

to lose you-men at these times al- Ung-room, and had finished it those You had to pull yourself together, ways remember the wives who've tablecloths, there can't have been did you? What happened? much left to do. However quickly

You'd died In giving their husbands John wore holes in his socks, they got to the habit of spending the children. don't take long to mend.

afternoons with Mrs. Green, and

that before your If I'm any judge of newly-weds, ence or twice you went on gossiping have too bad a time yourself? That's And you didn't-and you didn't marringe you were cut all day made it a little harder for you used to look round your home later than you should, and were out

which you when your husband returned? you, of course. But, nowadays, most and try to find ways

good. Modern methods have made a giris are workers, and have to give could make it smarter.

difference to childbirth, haven't they?. I expect you spent a long time I see. And he didn't like it? Tell (You've got to thank two discoveries they all have to go through a shell tidying up on the days when you'd me what you did. You were very anaesthetics and antiseptics-for asked the Robinsons in. After all, angry yourself at Brst; told him Oh, yes! I can picture what it way as you were, wasn't he? And was a free country; John was just as house-proud in his that you weren't his was like when you first came back he'd have hated it if his new nelgh- hadn't married him from your honeymoon, You

saw bours

had found the house-well, domestic servant. husband off soon after eight not exactly clean. Your o'clock every morning, and you were alone unul cight o'clock at night. It's

of loneliness, don't they?

a long time, but I expect you found

plenty to do in your new home.

You found it harder after the first

and that you ordeal into something which isn't slave; that this changing what used to be a dreadful

to become a too bad.)

$

And was it worth it when

you held small John in your arms? (All right, I won't ask silly questions.) ow did I know that you

How are they both, by the way? used exactly those words?-I mean the two Johns? That's good their nourishment

HOW surprised that I

My dens, very young, wife hus pro-ngib taking

Y understand so much about

six months?Why? Because" you'd' then got the house in order and time marriage? You see, I've talked over babiy said the same thing or some well. And they're great friends al-

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thing very like it, since well, since ready, you say. That I can well be- marriage was drst designed. And, lieve, Mrs. Smith. I've got a small ir they haven't said it-they've son myself. thought it.

Shall I tell you how this quarrel' ended? You went away and cried, partly beenuse you thought John was unjust, partly because

you knew

"THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA"

Fictionisation of the War- ner Bros. Picture Star- ring Paul Muni — which will be screened in Hong

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THE STORY SO FAR: Zola la cfected from a Bohemilan cafe be cause he can't pay. He goes to the attle which he shares with Cezanne, an artist. Zola's mother and in- tended wife come with news, of a job for him with La Ruc publisher. At a cafe Zola meets, during a police raid on the demi-mondaines, the outcast."Nana"-Years pass mak- ing Zold rich and famous, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, is falsely convicted as a traitor-and his wife comes to Zola to entiat his aid in freeing Drey- jua.

Chapter IV

HE BEARDS THE LIONS "Madame Drefus..

Zola, entering the room, bowed perfunctorily, meaning to dismiss his visitor-but something in her lovely trogle fece prevented. She stood near the fire, under the portrait of Cezanne, the melting frost glittering on the frost of her fur coat.

She carried a porifolio of documents. Az he gazed into the haunted, imploring eyes, he thought of another woman, not even remotely like her-Nana. Both wore the badge of suffering.

"Please forgive me, Monsieur Zola, for intruding Bike this, but

.she

in this portfolio

spoke hurriedly, desperately. I have absolute proof hero that another man was guilty of the crime for living death! Caged! which my husband is suffering a Racked with fever! Tormented with insects! Hope- less

Under the hateful, star- ing eyes of armed guards who never leave him. day or night!"

"But Madame," Interposed Zola, gently but firmly, "he was lawfully' convicted. Naturally, as bis wife, you believe him Innocent—

She stood before him trembling, He indlested a chair and seated him- selí pounding a fist softly into his palm, opposite, deeply disturbed,

consideringi What is this new evidence you ray you've dis- covered?" he asked abruptly.

"A certain Colonel Picquart ..."

"Oh, that!" he interrupted, was all in the papers! Piquart came back from Africa and accused Ester- hazy of writing the bordereau, and Esterhazy was courtmartialed. But he was becquitted, Madame!”.

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"Of course he was!" Her words were on overwhelming torrent. “Ac- quitted by the same Army group that convicted my husband!...Even though Esterhazy's own banker tes- tifled that the writing on the bor- derau was Esterhazy's and not my husband's!"

himself. Her passionate eagerness Zola was spellbound in spite of

Monsieur Zola? They had to acquit was irresistible. "Oh, don't you see

Esterhazy, to save the face of the General Staff! They'll stop at noth ing-nothing-I tell you, to protect themselves! They've even got Pic- quart in a military prison now on a trumped-up charge! Look, Monsieur

AND now that you've been Zola!"

married three years, tell

on marriage as

that you'd not spoken the truth when me your views you said you weren't his slave. Be whole. Cause, Mrs. Smith, you were (and still are,

hope) his slave--his You think that any couple ought willing slave and how you'd hate it to be able to make a job of it, if they if you weren't!

only get together and look on it as a partnership?

me.

Now, please don't mistake When I say you're his slave, I mean Yes, I suppose that is somit that you get an enormous amount of theory, at any rate. But you mustn't pleasure out of doing things for him forget, Mrs. Smith, that both you -now, don't you? So wasn't true and your husband began your joint to say that you weren't his slave, lives determined to meet each And you were sorry you'd said it. other.

Next, you made

excuses for John. You told yourself that he was tired after his day's work, that he'd been look- ing forward all day to the mo- ment when he'd his Intch- key in the front door and found you waiting for him by the fire. And you quilo realised that he'd got every right to be irritable when

put

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empty, dark house?

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She thrust the portfollo into his hands.

"Here is all the evidence--the de- position of Esterhazy's banker!"

"Comparison of Esterhazy's writ- ing with my husband's and the bor- dereau! Even coples of letters writ- ten to Colonel Picquart by the Assistant Chief of Staff ["

Zola nervously opened the brief case and began to examine the docu- ments.

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"They prove beyond a doubt that selishness

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won't you?" Zolo, terrifically agitated, got up Dreyfus watched him in allence. He and began to pace the floor. Madame stopped, tapped the portfolio angrily and began his march again, running his fingers through the unruly shock of hair, put his glasses on and took them off.

happy? And you've that true, proved You had to sacrl

something.

I

fice

when - suppose,

small John was on the way. And did - big Jobn sacrifice anything? (Please keep

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So he gave up smoking and

I'm glad to hear that you did what economised in other ways when you

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Of course, he replied that he had

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"It would be useless, Madame Dreyfus .... 1" he said at last, with unconvincing fernelly, Your bus- band's case is officially closed! The 'only possibis way to reopen it would be for some fool to publicly accuse the General Staff and get hitnself dragged into court on a charge of criminal libel!"

Madame Dreyfus made no reply. "Well?" he roared, angrily. Th

"I was thinking... of my hus-

band

Zoln again began his restless march. Finally he whiefed and faced her.

a brute--that was all hi fault, and that he didn't deserve to You know, I'm beginning to have a wife like you. (I expect he

think that you're a young explained that old man Johnson up Woman, First, because you've got at the office had had a liver on him John-sorry, two Johns. {Dó “you all day and had bitten John's head know that there are three quarters of off for nothing.)

a million women in Great Britain alone who'll never have husbands? Do you realize, Madame Dreyfus, And that there are more than a mil-what will happen to me if I publicly Ilon married couples in England to- take up your husband's cause?"

who've got only one child? Secondly, you're You've found out a profound truth. | Ingly...

philosopher. She looked at him silently, Implor- how you got over it. You must have It's this: that to give is a greater found some way in which you could blessing than to receive. profitably occupy yourself while your You've given big John a little husband was away.

edition of him home he tooka for- It only lasted a few months. Why? ward to coming back to all trough Oh! I seo. Then you had plenty of his working day, sewing to do, of course. And you

BUT to get back to lone

iiness. I'm keen to know

You're very lucky woman to: had to be careful what you did in have learned a truth which some the way of exertion,

people never learn until it's too late, You and Mr. Smith have got some- You'll have to tell me about-thing which money simply can't buy was it another John, or a Jane, or -happiness.

"All France belloves him guilty hates him as a traitor! And JE I champion him at the peak of my career, almont, a Member of the Acadiemy—I'll' to ruined!" Hurled down; and destroyed by A-nation's wrnih! Everything I've worked for money, position, fame, swept away -over-night?".

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