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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 26 1988.

Concluding the series of questions and counsels by DORIS LANGLEY MOORE the management of a love affair

on

Happy Ending

?

By William

THIS CURIOUS WORLD For CHOOS

KIRTLAND WARBLER

NESTS IN ONLY ONE STATE...MICHIGAN... AND THE NESTS ARE PLACED ONLY IN JACK PINE TREES IN A

CERTAIN FEW

COUNTIES.

The SUN

WEIGHS ABOUT 700 TIMES

THE TOTAL. WEIGHT OF THE EARTH AND ALL THE OTHER PLANETS

COMBINED/.

Drastic

parting

LOVE affair cannot linger for ever in the regions of excite- ment, wonder and romance. Sooner or later it will take one of three courses: it will either disintegrate completely, or drift into a placid friendship or stabi- lise itself in the form of marriage. Everyone hopes that, if love cannot lead to permanent union, it will at least not end in pain and bitterness.

To-day's questionnaire, given Column Five, is devoted to endings,

happy and unhappy-in the certainty that much misery could be avoided

if people would only learn the of falling out of love gracefully

nrt

OUR BRITISH

12

Placid friendship

COMMENTARY

READ WHEN TO BE THE QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN STUDIED

YES

Group L

10

reasons for regretting, and--this women especially--don't become ad- ject and forlorn. Difficult though it may be to believe when the one you wanted han just leapt from your net, there are and always will be other fish in the sea.

Group N

30

Pride and sentimentality play large a part in human relations that not two people out of twenty will be capable of putting a truthful "No" to all these questions, even though each one represents a way of prolonging unhappiness.

ta

one's

Very young people are, .quite naturally, those most able to error, As one grows older one learns-Or cught to learn-bow cut losses. The pride which is such t source of misery in love affairs does not in the least resemble real self- and respect. It is wounded vanity, here can be no peace of mind until it is eradicated,

Vunity is always on the defensive, self-respect

thut never;

Is the difference, Genuine pride is not to be served by manoeuvres

and pos- method turings. The most sensible

avold steps of maintaining it is to which may lead to a rebuff.

No. I should be read carefully so is understood. That its exact sense The necessity of confession before marriage seems to me to upply only obstacles" 1. major misdeeds and

which might really have un -those pleasant repercussions if discovered see anything afterwards. I do not praiseworthy in ruthless self-exposur an for its own sake. Marriage does not

or should not, destruy one's right to fact you possess one's own soul; a

when

As for feeling vindictive, that is a must remember in your turn

upon state of suffering which should you are tempted to encroach the privacy of your hansband or your be endured an instant longer than it cultivate Deliberately tu witc.

need be.

sheer such a condition is

childish folly.

YES the only rational answer to any question in his group, though few will be able to give unqualified assent to all of them.

CROSSWORDS

S

not

Question 3 demonds serious con- sideration. How comforting it is to pour out one's woes friends and It is very difficult to enter upon family! And how furious one feels terms of peaceful friendship after a with them for recalling the quarrel dramatic parting: It is also difficult ane would otherwise have long ago to resume the love affair should forgotten.

turn out that the separation was, after all, а mistake. There are

fundamental rules for married piness. Love will soon be on

hap

jt

The last two questions concern least four other good reasons for Rew the keeping endings in a low key.

gard the taste for dramma with sus- picion whenever it manifests itself in private life.

wing unless they are observed.

Group M

No altempt to win a lost lover

As you will readily gather, this is back will succeed unless love is stil another affirmative sequence. The

new clr- last stages of a love affair call for an active on both sides, or

arise which alter the absolute maximum of

self-control, cumstances

pur- and unhappily there are many tem- whole position. For general

poses, my advice is-fall out of love. ptations to be unguarded at such

And the best way of doing that is to throw some extra energy into the reason-

time.

ц

In your anxiety to strike the first rest of your lite, accept all blow when parting seems imminent, able chances of pleasure and distrac- change of scene if that you may bring about an unnecessarily tlon, scek drastic end, making future friendship 13 in your power, and adopt an at-

seldom

,titude neither any-w

cynical nor

senti- impossible. There is

Say ta yourself: **TL Is thing to be lost by letting a doubtful mentul.

Anished, but it was worth having. 1 situation fade quietly out.

enjoyed a great deal of it, I'm the Above all, don't give confidences better for it, and I've learned some- you muy afterwards have many thing from it for next time."

Wedding balls

QUESTIONNAIRE 6

For Men

jor Women

GROUP L PERMANENCY

1 Have you discreetly made a clean breast of major mis- deeds and obstacles so that you need not fear any reve- Intions in the future? Have

you

n respect for the privacy even of those you

know intimately?

3 Are you careful to keep your differences strictly between yourselves?

4 Are you able to hold back references to by-gone grley- ances?

5

Do you keep check on any tendency you may have to point out other people's faults and follies for their own Hood?

GROUP M PARTING

1 Are you content to let things drift instead of taking decl- feel sive steps when you your love affairs is in an un- satisfactory state?

2 Do you avoid risks of humi- liation in the closing stages?

3 Do you realise that at such a time it is necessary to keep all your attractions at their best, and most foolish to sink into a depressed and depress- ing condition?

4 Do you abstain from pouring the full details of failure into every sympathetle car?

GROUP N PARTING

Но

HOM

ON JUNE 29, 1937, JÍMMY COLLINS, FIRST BASEMAN OF THE

CHICAGO CUBS, WENT THROUGH A NINE- INNING BASEBALL GAME. WITHOUT A PUT-OUT

AN ASSST" OR

AN ERROR.

COPR. 1938 BY MEA SERVICE, INC.

IF the planets, all nine of them.

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Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. . were melted

Neptune, Mars, Venus, Earth, Mercury, and Pluto. into one single planet, it would take 700 of these new superplanets to weigh as much as the sun. The sun weighs about the same as n solid iron ball having a diameter equal to the diameter of the moon's orbit.

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Tons From H'Kong about

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(17,000| 20th Aug.

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• Cargo only Calls Casablanca

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when

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8,000| 13th Aug.

8,000) 27th Aug.

10,000 10th Sept.

SANTHIA

5,000 241 Sept.

1 Do you feel a great concern

for your pride and dignity? 2 Are you vindictive

slighted?

Do you try to make a dramu. tle occasion of parting?

4 Are you constantly planning ways of winning the lover back?

Do

5 you resolve, secretly or otherwise, to be inyal for

ever to the love that has falled you?

Destination

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DO,

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TANDA

NANKIN

7,0001 5th Aug.

7,000 2nd Sept.

7,000

1st Oct.

Manila, Rabaul, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne & Hobart

Regular monthly salings from H'kong to Shanghal & Japan & Irkong to Australia.

Hong Kong to Sydney-ID days, a

SAILINGS TO SHANGHAI & JAPAN.

ACROSS like the

partner who I Looks

grub-stakes an expedition, but on terms (13).

10 A miner perhaps whose work

gives him a pull (7).

11 Musical term (7).

12 A genuine 14 across (4)

13 A

palindrome

numerals (6).

14 Plece of moboy (4).'

Roman

17 Blame to rouse a golfer (7).

18 One would have expected this

football team to have played where arms were some game needed (7).

10 English novelist (7).

22 Title of a Millet picture (7).

24 23 down poems perhaps (4).

25 Dress and nothing more makes

a dlm star (5).

20 Bird that was useful in the War

20 Two words combined badly

(3, 4).

30 "Ten cars" (onag.) (7).

31 In bold fashion (13),

DOWN

2 Vegetable food with a source, of

drink in it.(7) · ·

3 a the help of man"

(Psalina) (4),

4 Close packed (7).

5 Musical Instrument (7).

He la in I across (4).

7 No, this fowl is not named from

Its spur (7)

0 Uncompromising though bad

surface if divided (13),

Not usually Д fault in blunt speech (13).

15 You could behead these pay- ments with the rest of them (5).

18 Ingredient in sausage-meat (5).

20 change of weather (7).

21 They have one tool anyhow in..

this vessel (7).

22 An evergreen (7).

23 "I cry all" (anag.) (7).

27 No straight inclination (4).

28 "Not all the water in the rough

rude sea can wash the-off from an anointed king" ("Richard I1"} (4).

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THAT'S RIGHT-` ONLY MAKE IT JUST "MOO", FORGET THAT

"TOO" STUFF

ROYAL PALACE OF

OKAY SIR-

DID YOU HEAR WHAT THAT BRASS HAT SAID? HE CALLED US TRAMPS!!

WHY, I SEE RED!!

IT TELL YUH, ( ME A TRAMP, ME, THE ONLY GUY!

"OR NOW

By Vincent Hamlin

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0,000

3rd Aug.

Japan.

14,500

4th Aug.

Shanghal & Japan,

7,000 5.000

CHITRAL

CARTHAGE

4th Aug. 5th Aug. 6.000 14th Aug. 17,000 18th Aug. 14,500 1st Sept.

Shanghai & Japan.

Shanghal & Japan.

Shanghai & Japan.

Shanghai & Japan.

Shanghai & Japan.

SOUDAN

8,000 1st Sept.

Shanghai & Japan.

Cargo only.

́AND AFTER ALL WE'VE DONE - GIVIN' HIM OUR PRIVATE

THAT EVER TAMED A DINOSAUR---SAY! BY GUM,

I FEEL THAT

YOU'N ME'S GOT

A DIRTY DEAL!

WG LINGUAT. MY LOLUTE PAT, OFF.

WHERE IS MY DINOSAUR ANYWAY?

MOOTOD!!*?#!

WHY, OOP-THAT'S RIGHT? OF DINNY

WE'VE SEEN NARY A SIGHT!

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