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Broken Marriage

T'S six weeks ago to-day since I went home and found' the letter propped on the mantelshelf with just my Christian name on the envelope.

It told. me my wife had left,

Yes, it was just like you see on the films or read about in magazine stories. I never thought it would happen to me.

We had de- But it wasn't as surprising as all this sounds.

Hongkong Hotel cided to separate. There was nothing that we could say was the

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ANNOUNCEMENT

wedding between Reinaldo Marin Bernardo Gutierrez and Deolinda Faustina Gosano will take place on Easter Monday, April 10, at St. Theresa's Church, Prince Edward Road, Kowloon, at 9.30 a.m. Invitation cards are not being issued. Friends are welcome to the wedding and afterwards to the reception at Club de Recreio, King's Park, Kowloon.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1938.

CO-OPERATION

AND LAW

cause; "We just didn't get along," was the nearest description we could give to our difficulties.

So we decided to separate, holding in the modern fashion that was the best thing to do if people "didn't got along." Oh, yes, we were full of modern notions about this sort of thing.

There were no storms, or arguments, or tears. What emotions we had we kept to ourselves, because it was the proper thing to do,

There were no money difficulties involved in the separation; we had money. We had a pleasant home. We had friends,

You can say we had everything in a material sense, but we "just didn't get along" and we agreed to name the day she would leave.

The day before that I left for may think that odd, but that's my work in the morning as usual. just what I thought most about. Then came a brief note say- Automatically I patted the dog, kissed my wife as I left. Did I ing she had not gone away. She have any regrets? None, that I had not, she said, "planned her was conscious of.

future."

I forgot to mention that in THEN

evening this note she said that when she when I came home I had settled she would let me know her address.. I hung on to that.

found the letter.

that

It was short and simple. It said that she left that day, be- cause to-morrow we should both know that it was the last day, It might be difficult. By leaving as she did we should escape any last-minute embarrassments.

She thanked me for what I had done for her.

She was going to a town we both knew well, but gave no ad- dress. Yes, there was some-

And waited.

WHEN my mind had had time off from the things it had to do, it concentrat ed on my wife, where she was, what she was doing, and still, above all, was she happy.

I suppose you would call that an obsession. All I know is that it hurt.

LICHTY'S FAMOUS CARTOONS ARE "TELEGRAPH" FEATURE

A DAILY

GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty

(cəm. 1936 by United Postura Ryukienka, Eva

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AIR RAIDS

SIMPLE instructions in pre- local authorities are first to be paring a refuge-room in any given an opportunity of judging type of dwelling are given in the its usefulness. new Air Raid Precautions hand- book issued yesterday by the Home Office last month for dis- tribution among A.R.P. officials and volunteers.

If Bombers Come

In a foreword to the book Sir Samuel Hoare, the Home Secre tary, says:

The book also explains how to

"If this country were ever at protect the rest of the house. war, the target of the enemy's Half a million copies are being bombers would be the staunch- The outstanding features of

ness of the people at home. If the modern world are (1) the

printed.

When warning is given that the emergency comes, the coun- closeness into which its several

war threatens this is what all try will look for nor safety not only to her sailors, soldiers, and territories and those that live in them have been drawn to cach

householders should do:

Prepare and equip the refuge nirmen, but to the organised courage and foresight of every other and (2) the tremendous thing inevitably final about that So the weeks passed, Of room.

household." control which man has success-letter. I know it word for word course, I tried the usual reme- Have everything ready for

dics. I spent more time with darkening the house at night. both crew and fully asserted over the powers of now. nature. It is only necessary to It ended five years of mar- men friends doing the usual Windows, skylights, fanlights,

things, more time with one and glass doors must be ob instructed where to go and what woman friend whose company scured. I must be sincere; the first

had always charmed me, and still does. week was rather pleasant. I had a curious exhilarating sense of freedom.

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150 years ago with those of the present day. Single illustrative instances must suffice. Even in the early years of the nineteenth

I had to consult nobody about century the horse was the

what I did; if I was late for din quickest means of transport-ner the servant could not com-. just as it had been in the days plain: my wife felt that being of Julius Caesar. To-day steam, late for a well-cooked dinner was petrol, electricity, conquest of a minor tragedy. There were the air, have completely trans- lots of other small things I liked, formed the situation. A cen- and counting everything I enjoy tury or so ago the tools that men ed that first week, used were still of a comparative- ly primitive kind-and handiwork was very literally by

his

But they were not enough. You can't tell me anything about what must sound to you the somewhat pathetic "empty

chair."

In a ship, it is pointed out, passengers are

to do before danger threatens. ..."If the head of the house will Clear the loft, attic, or top consider himself as the 'captain floor of inflammable material to of the ship, and put these air- lessen risk of fire from incen- raid precautions into effect, the diary bombs.

principal object of this book. Assemble appliances to fight will have been achieved," it is fires, limewash the timbers in stated. the attic or roof space to delay Soon air raid wardens will be their catching fire.

knocking at houses to announce In large towns send children, they have come to offer advice invalids, and elderly people to on how to deal with air raid dan- friends in the country if possible. gers.

The "Dont's" Besides showing by digrams

Gas masks are also to be brought round, so that the different sizes required can

We always sat opposito each a recurring other, and it was shock not to see her in her place. You can't live with some body five years without missing her, I thought, nor without hay- PHE second week, too, ing some affection for her. THE

Affection? I began to doubt was all right. Then I the sweat of his brow. To-day began to wonder where my wife the strength of that word. Was how to select and prepare a re- vast and intricate machinery, was, what she was doing, and this merely affection? And if fuge, the book lays down certain to behave while it was where do you draw the rules how

The masks will be issued to like some genie of Aliadin's what she was thinking. lamp, satisfies in incalculably What worried me most was line between affection and love? sheltering in it.

happy. You Now I have to be careful to Among the "don'ts" emphasi- the public as soon as a threat of occurs. This does greater quantity and at incal-] whether she was

avoid the charge of sentimen- sed are: Don't smoke, don't light emergency culably smaller cost of labour

tality, but you can't write about fires, and don't eat food that has not mean after the actual out-

talking about love.

be ascertained and to famili- nrise the public in handling them.

the necessities of existence for World Opinion, backed by World this business of mine without come into contact with gas. A break of war.

all and indeed with almost equal lavishness provides luxuries hardly dreamed of by our great- grandparents.

Strength.

The Covenant of the League

food chest or airtight jars and

Three Adult Sizos tins for the storage of food are described as "absolutely essen. There will be three sizes for tial."

adults, as well as a "baby's bag," "Pass the time reading, writ- and an intermediate size for ing, sewing, playing cards or toddlers and small children be- quiet games, listening to the tween the ages of two and five. wireless or gramophone," is one Fitting children will be left to piece of advice.

the discretion of the parents, and will not be done in, the schools.

Another rule is "Avold oxertion. Don't let children romp about, as they will only tire themselves and get exhausted."

of Nations is by no means a

So last week I deliberate perfcct instrument, but the

ly sat down to analyse In this new world of proxi- principles inspiring it are the my own

feelings. Do I still mity and power the outstanding only ones capable of forming a love her? Do I want her back? need is co-operation. To the

foundation of Security and Would wo be happy if we progressive mind a tremendous growing prosperity for the started all over again, or would opportunity presents itself for Modern World.

it be just like it was? realizing, as there was never so

As far as pure co-operation in

I regret to report that my full an opportunity before, non-political activities is con- analysis was a failure. I don't world-wide brotherhood of men cerned, wonders have been

know the answers. and nations. To the hard achieved, as in tackling such It was like holding a post- headed rationalist no less comes the logical necessity of rising out of the drug traffic and the white mortem on something still alive; of the old isolations into some slave traffic and in combating that was about as far as I could form of world constitution,

get.

The only satisfaction I did get The outstanding difficulty is In the political sphere, too, the survival of war. This was the League has

out of that analysis was that if won many the traditional instrument by victories but at the present I could see her again I should which states obtained or de moment it would be foolish to know. If I could see her again, fended their rights. In the deny its palpable failure to I thought, something will tell me Then, Iast Saturday, came a let- modern world it is an unspeak-function efficiently. It would all I want to know. ablo folly and tragedy-because | be impossible to trace the causes But where was she?

world-wide problems as those

discuse.

Wardens will have the duty of ensuring that everyone gets a gas mask that fits, and to see The handbook has been pre- that the person for whom it is pared with a view to general dis- intended does not outgrow the tribution to householders, but size set aside for him,

These

were my thoughts.

ter from her.

ed I confided in a

WHEN this affair start- "'couldn't friend, told him we It was posted from the other get along," and, in the modern

of proximity, far more likely to of that failure without raising I became a nuisance to my occur and covering far. wider many passionately controversial servant asking about the post, side of the world. Two thou- way, were going to end our mar- populations; because of power, issues. It is of course necessary What a lot of unnecessary lotterysand miles in search of a wifo riage.

Bounds romantic but not prac Young, modern, and sophisti- for more devastating and to face these, but here the one come through the post.

tical.

cated, I was surprised when he suicidal.

object that it is sought to attain

There was no address. It was sald he thought our attitudo of In 1919 the peacemakers had is a sense of conviction that the I BEGAN to think of therefore to draft a World Plan, | pnly road to permanent peace is

all the things I might brief. She was well, hoped I mind a bad one; it resulted from was going to the people doing too little and ex- making co-oporation between that to which the League's have done and never did; small was. She

pecting too much. :- and providing elaborately for and a world order and law to real sacrifice on my part. Some She did not say the rendering war unlikely by sub which all nations give glad husbands might do worse than happy; so I am still unaware of notion....”

check-up on this paragraph. stituting for it the Law of consent.

Sovereign States its key note principles, point co-operation things that would have meant no East. That was all.miled, them, at this quaint

what I am most anxious to know. Now I know batter.