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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1988.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938.

FLOODS WON'T STOP WARFARE

The London Timen expresses the opinion that it is incredible to think that Japanese troops are responsible for the breach- ing of the Yellow River dykes and causing a flood which has obviously interrupted their campaign against Hankow very effectively. It is true that de- liberate

destruction of the

dykes by the Japanese is un- likely. But, according to Chinese claims, their bombs and shells had the effect of weaken- ing them, at least. Even if the Japanese did not actually cause this devastating flood, or if the hits of shells and bombs on the dykes were accidental, nevertheless the Chinese will feel

that the invaders are morally responsible for this ter- rible destruction which faces the country. They will Bay, with some justice, that had it not been for the intrusion of an enemy army, the Chinese would not have been preoccupied and would have been able to guard themselves against the present threat from the Yellow

ever-

So this is your WEDDING DAY?

Life for couples

marrying

Lo-

lay differn greatly from what it was in their parents" Their *ny. homes will be different, ton, and their ideas familles. On

food, clothes...

O you're going to get married to-day, Miss Brown?

Well, you probably know something about it. Like most modern girls, you are entering it with your eyes орел.

But there are lots of things about marriage that you've probably never thought about. And before you walk up the aisle there are one or two things you ought to know.

For instance, do you realise how many children you are Ukely to have? One and a half, (No, that's not so gruesome as it may sound: it's just the size of the average family.)

On the other hand, when your mother got married it was probable that she would have at least three children.

your

The odds are that bridegroom is 27 years old. In your father's day the average pridegroom was 201.

Things were not quite so in- secure in those days, and people were not so timid about marry- ing young.

Then, in your mother's day

River in the rainy scason. Whether or not the flood was preventable, is scarcely a basis for useful argument. It HAY come, with all the death, quick slow, which inevitably follows it. Japanese are fighting to her hand, for it is not ing it to save their armies from

and

war.

to live till he is 67 compared with 621 in your father's day,

a

And the 1938 bride actually expects to live till the years of her life have become three score and eleven, which is alx years longer than your mother expected to live.

So married life is now four years longer than it used to bo-one year shorter at one end, but five years longer at the other.

the average bride was 25. But you are probably 251.

Oddly enough, although brides are getting older every year, the number of girls who get married at 16-the lowest legal age is booming."

In 1930 these were 40 per cent. more than in 1935.

You will notice that in your parents' day it was usual for the bridegroom to be a year and a half older than his bride. Now he is two years older.

So bridegrooms are growing older faster than brides.

But in spite of the fact that people wait longer nowadays before getting married, they at any rate get married in larger numbers.

There are 13 per cent. more marriages each year now than there were ten years ago.

Married life is longer nowa- days. That is because people are living longer.

The years of a man's life never have been, of course, three score and ten.

But lately they have been A getting very close to it. bridegroom nowadays expects

Naturally, I don't want to say anything that might depress you on your wedding day. But, if it interests you, those figures of expectation of life suggest that you are more likely to be a widow than your mother was.

You

will probably survive

your husband by three and a half years.

Think of the home that you and your husband are going to live in. It would have made your mother's mouth water.

Gadgets that she could never have dreamed of on her wed- ding day will be dotted all over your house; a vacuum cleaner; a refrigerator, perhaps; a bath- room; at any rate, electric light, a gas cooker--and, maybe, con- stant hot water.

Your ideas on food will be different from your mother's, too. You will give your family (you're going to have one, I hope?) bananas, canned fruit and vegetables- all of them recently introduced foods.

will have a differont upbringing. from your own. They will

Go to the cinema once a foṛt--

night;

Talk a language that is becom-

ing Americanised;

Stay at school till 15,

One of your main duties to your children-something that hardly worried your mother- will be to teach them to be care- ful in crossing the road.

One modern child in 17 is in- Jured on the roads during his schooldays,

The probability is that you,. as a child, had few seaside holidays. Your children are much more likely to enjoy that pleasure. Five million workers will have holidays-with-pay

this year.

As many as a quarter of a mil- lion people nowadays cross the Channel each summer.

You will not be afraid if your children go in for sun-bathing just as you will not be afraid if they sleep with their windows open.

And you will probably teach them how to swim.

Take your husband. He will certainly not look at all like the man your mother married.

He will hardly wear a stiff high-buttoned jacket this morning. He cer- tainly has not a beard. And I feel practically certain that he has not even a moustache.

or 躇

collar tomatoes.

And the Sunday joint will be much smaller.

You will wait longer after your marriage before you have your first baby.

How long I can't say until the now Population Bill becomes law and starts giving us more information.

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When your baby does come, modern maternity services will make the danger that he (or she) will die in the first year only half what it was a genera- tion ago.

The chance of his dying is only 1 in 17. And the chance of your dying is only 1 in 250,

Altogether your child is going to find it easter to keep healthy than you did when you were young.

You, for instance, were four times as likely as he is to die of measles, four times as likely to dle of whooping cough, and six times as likely to die of scarlet fever.

In many ways your children

-To-day's Thought- THERE is something about a tocdding-goton prettier than in any other down in the world,

~JERROLD,

It will not be surprising| GRIN AND BEAR IT

if China uses any weapon com-

the nature of an

of army modern times, to be too particu- disaster and to keep a way openhar about the suffering its tac- for their drive against Hankow.

tics cause non-combatants, it The Chinese peasantry are fighting it, with even greater appears. It would be too much desperation, to save their lives to expect both sides to throw down their arms to check the and their homes. But it will

Yellow River's rampage. If surprise no-one if the Chinese

the Chinese army aids such troops, deeming any effort to

work it is merely helping to stem the rush of savage waters! futile, make the most of this keep the road clear for a con- tinued march of invasion. It is unexpected assistance in the

also beyond all possibility that! campaign of defence, and attack

the Japanese, in return for a the Japanese wherever they

temporary cessation of hostill- can reach them, whether they ties lasting until such time as are building dykes or dug-outs.

they extricated themselves A moralist will hold that such from the flood area, should call actions on the part of the a halt to their adventure in Chinese soldiery are unpardon-China and withdraw. And so it able, for they may be hamper seems likely that the Chinese

will

enemies' hamper their ing work which will actually struggle with the Yellow River save their own civilian poppla in every way they can, in spite THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. tion from a catastrophe. But of the cost to the peasant, popu

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What is more, he probably wears shoes instead of boots at any rate in his off time.

Lastly, what about yourself? Things are different for you, too. Your skirts are shorter. Your dresses aro simpler and lighter. But you make up for that by having more of them.

In your new home, you will And ife less of a drudgery than your mother did.. When your housework is done, there will be the newspaper, the radio and— if you want it-the cinema.

Make Пo mistake, Miss Brown. In their basic essen- tials, marriage and family le may be much the same from one decade to another.

But if you could look back, could see how different things were a generation ago, you'd be glad that you were get- ting married-to-day.

W. S.

RETIRED GOVERNOR. PASSES ON

Sir George Smith Was Years In Nyasaland

London, June 10.

The death is reported of Sir George Smith, Governor and Commander-in-

1913 Chief of Nyasaland from 1923-Reuter.

to

The late Sir George Smith, who wag knighted in 1814, was born on March 8, 1858. Ho entered the War Omes at the age of 20, and was appointed to the Chief Secretary's Offee in Cyprus In the following. year.

He became Assistant Chief Secrc- tary of Cyprus in 1803, and was. appointed Registrar General in 1895.. Appointed Colonial Secretary at.. Mauritius In 1910, Sir George was transferred three years later to Nyasaland as Governor, remaining in that Colony for ten years until his Totirement from active service in 1923,

He died at his home at Ladythorpe, Addlestone, Surrey, and is survived by his wife and three daughtona--- Reuler.

ARP. LECTURE JUNE 20 An air raid precautions lecture will be given to the Horigkeng Chinese Women's Soldiers Relief Association, members and their, friends, on Mon- day, June 20, at '830 p.m. in - the ; Association's headquarters, Wang Hing Building, Queen's Road, Cen- tra).