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HIS year I renewed my acquaintance at a seaside hotel with an old woman who is one of the regular visitors. Hor memory is rich, strange and vocal. Опо afternoon she talked to mo for two hours, and I heard most of the stories she had told me two years beforo.

Then sho, struck a shatter- ingly novel note by asking mo what I would do now if I could afford to retiro,

Instinctively

"Nothing."

I sald,

And she said, "Oh, but you would be so unhappy."

I

And I said, "Not at all. should be able to do the things —or some of them-that I have always wanted to do."

Well, of course, that is what doing nothing means to anyone who is not a complete slug. The things I have always wanted to do are unimportant and irrele- vnat....

By the way, I would like to have a jab at building a motor- launch, not too large, in which It I could explore canals. would have a centre-board sall- ing dinghy for carrying me over the dancing, sunlit waves of

perfectly safe harbours,

I would also like to satisfy myself that Mr. J. Thomas Looney is right or wrong in attributing Shakespeare's works to Edward de Vere, seventeenth Earl of Oxford. And so

On....

Now, this old woman had ap- parently been doing nothing for years and years. Yet she is happy. Why? The answer is that she is blissfully employed all day. She talks.

She is a survivor of an age when the embroidery of time with elegant chatter was an art. In this age of stark and func- tional conversation she stands as an antique. I have often thought that someone should collect her. What a "conversa- tion piece" !

She has no need of money. but, in the hands of a good manager, she might well turn her art-her darling hobby of talking-to proâtable account. Students of past manners could only benefit from listening to her. Personally, I would always pay for occasional "refresher " courses.--

And here I think I may intro- duce the book which put me on this train of thought, it is called "Now Be Your Own Boss" (Long- mans, 78. 6d.), and presents 34. ways of cultivating time to pro- duce money when you have retired. The author, Mr. T. A. Lowe, does this by interviewing

HONGKONG

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Something

to Do?

by

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23,

F. G. H. Salusbury

It is irritating to have nothing to do in retiremont (it we ovar

have any retirement),

34 successful exponents of the various methods.

Perhaps my old woman-II I may so call her without familiarity -will suggest a thirty-fifth chap- ter to him: but he is already fairly comprehensive. These are his sign-posta for travellers who seek new roads: we will take them in at one glance:

Money for Mink-fur-farming, for Mushrooms, for Milk-bars, for Pets: a Shop and a Garden: a Twopenny Library on Wheels: Window Cleaning: Growing Flowers: Silver Fox-tur farming: Keeping an Inn.

That sounds attractive, doesn't It? But walt-

Money for Tomatoes and Chry santhemums. for Dogs. for Stamps, for Radio Sets and Servic- ing, for Apples, for Photo Prints: the Cameo Farm, the Petrol Sta-

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· Portrait Composing Music, Photography. Film Directing. Drawing, Retiring into General Practice from Army Doctoring, Writing Plays, Being & Golf Secre- tary, and Being a Bursar

Those eight, Labould.cmphasise are suggested to retired profes- sional men, mostly of the Naval Now fol- and Miltary varloties.

low six for women---

Keeping a Tea-shop; Rug-mak- ing for profit; a Knitting, Novelty, and Needle-work shop-

Here we arc. This is what you have been expecting:

Money for.JAM; and Money for Guest Honey: and Keeping House.

There you have his thirty-four

The P. & O. Banking

ways of achieving a profitable ro- tirement; indeed, a new career of which you alone will be the boss. Do not expect me to rehearse them

in detail. That would take the

space of the book itself. But I can

you his give you

generat advice, which

is to start the hobby white you are. still employed and nurse it care- fully. Thus it will be alive and kicking when you turn your whole attention towards it.

Also choose right locality to avold existing competition; get to know people in the same line of business; and, in activities which have official organisations. ap- proach the fountain head. A vary- ing amount of capital or a pension is indispensable.

We can disregard those eight methods which are designed for retired professional men. They boll down to interviews with cight ́successful examples, and provide about as much encouragement to you and me as a film star'a screen smile to a love-slek occupant of the cheap seats.

We can also disregard Hope's coy whisper, that there is any- where money for jam-except literally; and Jam-making struck mo as involving very hard work, if not quite so hard as window- cleaning. The two retired Army sergeants. who

infor window-cleaning, work like the diekens: nevertheless, they are happy, averaging £6 a week each in the summer and 505, caclr in the winter.

went

There is a lot of sound sense in having Something to Do in retire- mout.. Even dreamers and philoso- phers will continue to dream and philosophise. I doubt that Omer Khayyam was serious when he said:-

Here with a loaf of bread be- ---neath-the-bough,

A flask of wine, a book of teres é blend thot

Bestde me singing in the wilder-

ncas---

And wilderness is paradise enow.

Sooner or later this man dropped his book of verse on the ground, a distant expression came into his eyes, and he hushed the singer. He wished he had brought his pen and lak with him, for he was thinking, and he wanted to tran- rcribe his thoughts. Then he said te the singer. Go on stoging. Ecstasy of Tinkling Noises but

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But that nort of retirement- and my retiring ways do not seem remunerative, -preлupposes a modent competence. Supposing I lack that? Perhaps I should strive to make a sustained effort in one direction like my colleague, the Showman.

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