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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1938.

FLOODS WON'T STOP WARFARE

The London Times 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 their obviously interrupted campaign against Hankow very cffectively. It is true that de- of the liberate destruction

season.

So this is your WEDDING DAY?

Life for couples

to.

marrying Hy difters Etratly trom what it was in

hrir parents' day. Their homes will be different, too, ant their teas fandles, +1

ford, clothes,,.

10 you're going to get married to-day. Miss Brown?

But there are lots of things about marriage that you've probably never thought about. the up And before you walk

or two aisle there are one things you ought to know.

For instance, do you realise how many children you are likely 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 probable that she would have at least three children.

Was

your

The odds are that bridegroom 1: 271 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 ilmid about marry- ing young.

Then, in your mother's day

Well, you probably dykes by the Japanese is un- know something about it. to Like most modern girls, you likely. But, according Chinese claims, their bombs and are entering it with your eyes shells had the effect of weaken-open. 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, the Chinese will nevertheless

are feel that the invaders morally responsible for this ter- faces rible destruction which the country. They will say, 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 ever- present threat from the Yellow

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

modern times to be too particu- disaster and to keep a way open

lar about the suffering its tac- for their drive against Hankow.

tica cause non-combatants, it The Chinese fighting it, with even greater appears. It would be too much desperation, to save their lives to expect both sides to throw and their homes. But it will down their arms to check the Yellow River's rampage. If surprise no-one if the Chinese

the Chinose army nids such troops, deeming any effort to stem the rush of savage waters work it is merely helping to koop the road clear for a con- futile, make the most of this

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 the Japanese wherever they

temporary cessation of hostili- can reach them, whether they

ties lasting until such time as! are building dykes er dug-outs.

they extricated themselves

peasantry

are

war.

to live till he is 07 compared with 021 in your father's day,

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

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

the average bride was 25. But you are probably 23j.

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 1030 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 its bride. Now he is two years older..

So bridegrooms are growing older faster than brides.

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

There are 13 per cent. moro 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.

course, never have been, of .. 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 figure 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.

that

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

Gadgels 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 7 be different from your mothers, too. You will give your family (you're going to have one. i hope?)

tomatess, bananas. canned fruit and vegetables all of them recently introduced foods.

And the Sunday Joint will be much smaller.

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

How long I can't say unto the new Population Eill beromes law and starts giving us more Information.

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- tlon 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 IL easier to keep healthy than you did when you were young.

You, for instance, were four times as ilkely as he is to die of measles, four times as likely to die 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

wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

JERROLD.

It will not be surprising GRIN AND BEAR IT

if China uses any weapon com-

A moralist will hold that such from the food aren, should call actions on tho 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 hamper their enomics' ing work which will actually

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

Go to the cinema once a fort--

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 senside 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- Hon 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 Ilke the man your mother married.

He will hardly wear a яtif cellar

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

or

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,

Your skirts are shorter. Your dresses are simpler and lighter. But you make up for That by having more of them.

In your new home, you will: and life 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 no mistake. Miss- Brown. In their basic essen-. tials, marriage and family fo 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 bo glad that you were get-

ting married-to-day. W. S.

RETIRED GOVERNOR

PASSES ON

Sir George Smith Was Years In Nyasaland

London, June 16.

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

1013 Chief of Nyasaland from 1023-Reuter.

to

The late Sir George Smith, who was knighted in 1914, was born on March A, 1658. He entered the War WNE Once at the age of 20, and appointed to the Chief Secretary's Office in Cyprus in the following.

year.

He became Assistant Chlef Secre- tary of Cyprus in 1883, and was appointed Registrar General in 1895- Socretary at. Appointed Colonial Mauritius in 1910, Sir George was later to three years transferred Nyasaland as Governor, remaining in that Colony for ten years until his retirement from active service in 1023.

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

A.RT, LECTURE JUNE 20 An air raid precautions lecture will be given to the Hongkong Chinese Women's Soldiers Rellet Association members and their friends, on Mon- day, June 20, at 5.30 p.m. in the Association's headquarters,' 'Wang Hing Building, Queen's Road, Cen tral.

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