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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1938.

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RAGEDY is a conflict

of wills. This pro- found truth is illus- trated by the Bryant case.

The President of the Divorce Court dismissed the petition of

have?

By

JAMES DOUGLAS

If the wife uses her will wise- ly and warily she may make a good weak husband happy in the knowledge that she is his help- mate in the intricacies of mar- riage.

The whole business is an in- terplay of values. The outsider cannot analyse and define and weigh these values.

They are the arcans of mar- ringe. They are the imponder- ables of affection and loyalty and devotion.

The same philosophy is equal- ly applicable to the case of the wife who gives way to her hus- band because she recognises that his will is wiser than her own and that their harmony may be HONGKONG HOTEL the wife for a decree of judicial admit that her husband's will is only by yielding in every way to attained by her subordination the mastery of the feminine will. and her self-surrender in the séparation on the ground of the stronger than her own.

That is the supreme vanity of They purchase equilibrium by minutine of life. alleged cruelty of her husband.

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Hongkong Telegraph. the right, and was quite deter-

THURSDAY, January 27, 1938.

lock.

wife.

mon sense.

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find security and

"There have been grave faults human wills. If pressed and giving way.

It may be that the defects of incompatible with her human on both sides," he said, "but in pushed to extremes the cult of my opinion the wife has been at the strong will produces the the husband's character are cor- pride and dignity. Outsiders ienst as much to blame as her misery of stalemate and dead- rected by the will-power of the cannot judge in these matters. They are hidden and invisible I am inclined to doubt the He may realise that it is secrets. "I am satisfied," said Sir Boyd whole dogma and doctrine that salutary for him to be governed But strength of will may be Merriman, that the husband

glorifies the strong will as a and discpilined. Ho may find munifested in what seems to be was devoted to his wife, but 1 thing good in itself. In marri, happiness in leaning on sincere gratitude to all those think he was very domineering age there ought to be no conflict wife's superior wisdom and com- who gives in that is the real vie- his weakness. It is often the one late Mr. John Gardner, those who and not very tactful."

tor in the conflict of wills. With regard to the wife he of strong wills.

The ideal marriage is not He may messages of condolence in her said: "She was not prepared to based upon the obedience of the safety and shelter from his own to be weak and the supremest It is often the highest valour take criticism from anybody, weak will to the strong will. It foibles and his own follies in a cowardice to be strong. especially from her husband.

is based upon mutual love, which complete acceptance of his wife She acted as if she was con- overcomes the whims and cap- as the keeper of his conscience. vinced that she was always in rices of the strong will by a pro-

WHERE there is real If may seem an incredible

love there is no last- mined to have her own way." cess of give and take..

thing that a happy marriage ing glory in the triumph of will- should be built upon this sur power. The winner may lose THE President also de-

A GOOD husband may render of will-power. But these everything in a barren victory.

possess a will of iron, things happen every day in the clared:-

The real laurels may adorn SEAMEN LIVE

"I am bound to say that I but he does not use it as an in- mysterious blending of wills the brow of the vanquished. detected no evidence in the wife strument of tyranny.

wrought by the alchemy of love. Often these battles of will end LIKE HUMANS of that old-fashioned virtue in self-control and self-sacrifice. He wields it for the purpose of

in a rivalry of self-sacrifice. The the marriage service-obedien- fe realises that will-power is a

A HUSBAND may be so contestants disdain the spoils of Sweeping reforms, the most ce."

fond of his wife that conquest. They proclaim each important for many years, con-

destructive force unless it is he can make his will bend to her other the victor and rejoice in cerning the health and safety of which lasted six days the two generously and mercifully con- will in order to erect an edifice competitive reconciliation. British seamen, are embodied antagonists are where they were, trolled.

of happiness for her, for himself,

Fortunately these battles of lin the regulations recently will opposed to will.

Of course, it is a fallacy to and for the children. Do not love are not always fought out issued by the Board of Trade to children, with the consent of imagine that the will of a wife is sneer at this as uxoriousness!

before the eyes of impartial and Is such a husband necessarily dispassionate spectators. The their surveyors at shipbuilding both parties, have been made weaker than the will of a hus- centres and ports throughoutwards of the court.

band. Will-power is not a a weak creature without a will wise husband and wife conceal Great Britain. The first clause

of his own? It is surely possi- the fray from all save them- "I am afraid." Sir Boyd Merri- monopoly of either sex. stipulates that all living accom-man confessed, in the circum-

A frail and fragile woman ble to exert a strong will for a selves.

They have their reward in the modation on British ships is to stanees, this judgment of mine is may be endowed with unbreak- higher aim and end than victory? be either amidships or aft, thus not going to do anybody any capable of winning every conflict that marriage is made perfect other. Like

able will-power. She may be If the husband, is convinced renewal of their love for each abolishing the centuries-old cus- good."

the lovers in tom of housing the crew in the The real fight was over the.

of will by sheer staying-power. by the surrender of his will Tennyson's lyric, they can say, fo'e'sle-(forecastle)-or-fore-part custody of the children, and it

She may wear her husband_power of his wife, he can go to--we fell-out-my-wife-and-1,-O- of the vessel, which is un-seems that the fight will go on to into abject surrender; for the almost any length in the exer- we fell out, I know not why," confortable in bad weather and the bitter end.

anke of a quiet life.

cise of self-surrender and self- and they can kiss again with We all know marriages of this subordination. The two wills are equally

Does he become contemptible collision. Other clauses provide matched. It is a case of an ir- sort, wherein the wife establishes for washrooms with hot water resistible force meeting an ira- a lifelong despotism and tyranny in his own eyes by willing his and shower baths for all memmovable obstacle.

over the husband.

own pliability and abandoning bers of the crew, a specially

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After a conflict in the court

The four

tears.

THIS miracle is a com- monplace in marriage.

&

It reduces to absurdity the

you EVERY husband and marriage that stable happiness fying harmony of wills? Should stupid riddic, "Have hus-

every wife may, with can be evolved out of the com- he be despised for his resolute stronger will than your heating and ventilation, more profit, ponder over this tragedy plete subordination of a strong determination to practise the band?" The strong will to love headroom in cabins, the reserva- of two conflicting wills.

man to an apparently, weak virtue of selflessness?

is the winner of the fight over tion of space on deck for the

Every husband will ask him woman.

and over again. crew's recreation, and a long self this crucial question, "Have

THE answer to this con-

And who shall say which will list of other improvements.

(OME husbands are tem- I a stronger will than my wife?" SOME

undrum is very com- is the stronger when both wills Every wife will ask herself the dominate their wives and are moral strength of both will maker in every conflict of will-

perumentally unable to plicated. It depends upon the act as a solvent and n sulted in these reforms was same question, "Have I a strong able to find peace and harmony powers.

power? [started by the Board of Trade er will than my husband?"

No husband likes to admit that | which suggested several years ago to the Shipping Federation his wife's will is stronger than that every effort should be his own, and no wife likes to made to improve the accommoda-

The movement which has re-

tion of crews. The Shipping Britain has set up standards. Federation, which acts for the shipowners in matters relating which have been copied by the rest of the world, have usually

labours of

ODDITIES

N these competitive times it is the

of anybody who molled?

The breadwinner does not

OF ENGLISH

not known by itself. come

peace-

to seamen, prepared a report been the result of the devoted and moil. But who has ever heard containing certain proposed

far-sighted in- standards for all British mer- chant ships, but, before their dividuals. Perhaps the most home and tell his wife that he has notable of these reformers was had a long day of moil. This is a recommendations could be ap plied, the depression set in and Samuel Plimsoll, who introduced word which is never seen apart from he can walk to and fro; but he can- and now it does not exist apart from there was little money available legislation to prevent the over-its constant companion, toll. for refitting the crew's quarters loading of vessels, and whose

and

cm-

twin words. There is, for instance. Addic-faddle. We do

not

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"faddle" apart from "Addle." We may tell a trifler not to Addle-faddle, but wo do not tell him not to faddie. Another instance is huriy-burly. Yet "burly" once had a separate life. It is derived from Old French→→ hurler," a verb meaning to make a

ployed by itself. A man does not lot of most of us to have to toil one's nose is kept close to the grind- talk about going to see his kith,

stone; and one has not so much The word has nothing to do with chance of going to and fro. Here relations; it means frlends and again is an instance of twin words. acquaintances, from the Anglo-Saxon Nobody can go fro-such a word is "euth," which is derived from "cun- nan": to know. As time marched A person can pace to and fro, er on, the origin of the word was lost,

not pace or walk fro. The word is. "kith and kin." Yet, if we look back into history,of course, shortened form of In this rich and varied tongue of

once had a "from"; but it is never used by it-ours we have many hyphenated on the older ships. For new name is perpetuated in the we find that "moll"

separate existence. 21 was not al- | self, nor has it ever been. "Plimsoll Mark" painted on the ways dependent upon its twin. It however, ships,

particularly those built under the Govern sides of all British ships-and comes from the Old French, and What are "Kith"?

of nearly all, foreign ships as meant to make dirty. The appro- ment's "scrap and build" pro-

Well known twins are kith gramme of 1935, the Board of well-beyond which they may printeness of this is at once apparent.

When one is tolling and moilingkin. But the first word is not Trade demanded very high stannot be loaded down. His longi dards, with the result that many struggle for the betterment of British cargo liners now have conditions at sea resulted in the excellent accommodation amid famous Merchant Shipping Act experimenting with every known of following their example, de- loud noise. The thyming addition ships; whereas in the past the of 1876, which gave stringent remedy and paying the greatest rided them and christened them was for euphony, although it means crew were all crowded into the powers of inspection to the attention to the provision of limeys'-a name by which something quite different by itself. fo'c'sle, they will now be ac-Board of Trade.

fresh food and water he suc- British sailors are still known Dilly and Dally commodated in separate cabins, Exactly a. hundred

ceeded to such an extent that in many parts of the world- cuch with only two berths. On cariler another great benefactor scurvy was practically unknown and many years elapsed before lazy man may cially, but he cannot the return of prosperity the of the human race, submitted to on his ship, although his voy- the diet was universally adopted, dilly. Then there in hugger-mugger. To-day the nations are more The first word may be found in the original report was re-examined the Royal Society of London anges frequently lasted for two **** and a series of discussions took treatise on the prevention of the years or more, while on other progressive, and ships. under dietlonery, and means to muffle fr place between the Board of loathsome discaso known as ships men died by the score. many flags are provided with conceal, from the word "hur." But there is no such word as "mugger" Trade, the Shipping Federation, | "scurvy." This was Captain In 1795 some of his ideas. were good quarters for their men by itself. That to, unless we fall the National Union of Seamen, James Cook, the great explorer adopted by the Royal Navy, and The importance of the new re-back on the slang of the strolling as a gulations for the British Mer-actor, and recognise a mugger As n and the representatives of other and navigator. While serving lime juice was issued Important shipping interests, as a junior naval officer in regular part of the men's diet cantile Marine cannot be over-performer who makes funny mugs, for the highest Riff-raff is another pair which is resulting in the co-operation and General Wolfe's expedition to in the tropica, though it was estimated,

You many mix with riff- completo agreement of all con- Quebec he was so appalled by not mado compulsory for the standards of living over known indivisible. cerned and the issue of the now the ravages of scurvy on board merchant servico until much at sen will be established at one raff, but you cannot mix with rift, regulations.

ships that he determined, na Inter. British crows censed to stroke in more than a quarter nor yet with raff. In the past, the most import-soon as he got a command, to suffer from scurvy, but the sea of the total shipping of the

reforms whereby Great find a means to prevent it. By men of other countries, instead world..

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Similar twins are dilly-dally. A

or faces.

There are some words which take

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on quite different meanings in the