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Triend whom I would have But Gordon has a business day THREE years ago. I had a That way I have been lucky.

Hongkong Telegraph. carefree disposition, and she was am alone.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1938.

HUMANISING WARFARE

of the most eligible bachelors Planned Parties

imaginable.

me:

What is The Lonely Wife

to do?

PAMELA FRANKAU

the brilliant young novelist, writes hore of one of the most porplexing problems of early married life-the solitude experienced by young wives during their long days alone in their new homes.

Alone Again

to

the

young

She looks sad always. She

had no hesitation in describing that takes him out of the house ***, then as the lucklest girl in the from half-past eight until seven

world. She had everything a o'clock; he has one Saturday former "boy friends" to visit young girl could wish for. morning free in every month, a me; that would not be fair to good looks

good friends month's holiday every year. Gordon. Besides, they keep (heaps of them!). a happy, And-for the rest of the time I away of their own accord.. Now

THE light in Mrs. Blank'a I am a married woman I have just about to be married to one

ceased to be amusing,

quite early, 800n aftor ten My day passes with solitary o'clock. And I guessed that she walks, with matinee visits to the was alone again; that in spite That was three years ago

HAURNISHING our house theatre and cinema, with the of the holiday visit (to which To-day she is bewildered, dia-

just outside London latest book and the latest pat I expect she had been looking consolate, dismayed. Yet she

was exciting. would be popularly described na

I planned for tern for knitting a jumper. forward all the year) she was I wasn't in the least have told Gordon, and he sug- unnecessary "happily married.'

parties. There will be general sym-But let her take up the article daunted to think of starting life gests that I take up some sort people; they did not want her. herself. It is best that she in a new place, a town full of of work; or join the tennis club.

I have no aptitudo for any sort goes to the cinema, walks by pathy with the efforts that are should tell her own story. So strangers.

of work and I am shy about herself, and knits at the window. now being made in influential here it is as she related it to

And now, after three years, it learning to play games now, at Often 1. see her at the library, is still a new place, still a town 30.

changing her books. I have quarters to abolish the bombing My trouble is that I am lonely. full of strangers. I have not I began to be frightened a few been vaguely aware of her over of civilian populations in mo That sounds allly enough, made friends. The few women weeks ago, soon after Christmas, since I came to live here: just secing that I am married to the whom I know here do not seem when I saw Mrs. Blank sitting as a woman whom I saw always dern warfare. A recent peti-man I love. Married people are to like me; they never ask me in the window that is the exact alone. tion, signed by an impressive not supposed to be lonely. But more than occasionally to their duplicate of my drawing-room Now she is on my mind, as

I just can't.help it.

houses. And when they do, window across the way. list of leaders in British public

Mrs. though I were looking at a Before I married I lived at their constant chatter about Blank is a woman of 60. portrait of myself in 20 years" life and presented to the Prime home. There was no need for housekeeping and babies tires I have not much in common time. It is a horrible thought; Minister, is especially concerned me to work and I never bothered me,

with her. She has been here to that I shall go on being lonely to take up any sort of hobby. I with the horrors of the war in was not sporting and games takes up no more than a few and I was bored. It never to the man I love. It is making I find that running the house tea and I have had tea with her, all my life, though Lam married Spain. It is an appeal to, both bored me. I saw the other girls hours of my day. Our little occurred to me until a few weeks mo so unhappy that Gordon sides in that conflict to abandon in the district taking shortland maid is an efficient person who ago that she and I might be in worries about me. He keeps

lessons, going to town every day, does not welcome any attempts the same boat. the deliberate bombing

She has chil- asking me what is the matter. learning jobs and getting them.

at interference.

dren, but they grew up and left And I have given up trying to civilians. But, in the hearts of I never did. For one reason, the public, it will awaken that was all I wanted.

was having a good time, and

Anyway, I can't talk about home. They came back to spend tell him that since our marriage housekeeping. Nor about babies. Christmas with her.

my life has been empty. sense of wider implications. In

Perhaps I could talk about my I saw them going out together What shall I do? own baby, if I had one, but that and coming home late; I saw What shall she do? Hera is is a dream that has not yet come them bringing back parties of a problem which perplexes more true.

young people; the radiogram young wives than many hus-

bands imagine. I can't have any of my playing until after midnight.

of

recent years, the world has had I was Pretty

many foretastes of the kind of

I

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"BUDGIE" BOSSES THE HOUSE

I never lacked a partner for budgies, thought much about evidence of joyful life, such a care” |

any of the local dances. I had

THIS sounds selfish, Chater Road. destruction which is likely to be

don't think, all tho rained down from the skies in

same, that I can be blamed. I any great war of the future. was pretty; and I was something In the Abyssinian war, not even more than pretty, because there the Red Cross was sacrosanct. nothing like so good a time as were other pretty girls who had

The conduct of the Japanese in I did. "My brother used to tease China has evoked the strongest me by calling me "The toast of the town." I didn't mind that. condemnation of the Assembly I knew there was some truth in of the League of Nations. it. I knew that I was really

These events are arousing popular with men. world opinion. Even the strong- ly isolationist Hearst Press in half a dozen proposals the year America has mobilised the full after I left school.

Dances, parties, river-picnics, forces of its chain of new and motor-rides: life was always papers to demand "a new and exciting. And when I came I came home to humane code of warfare." And home it is carnestly to be hoped that a cheery family who made B fuss of me. The only the Governments will not re-thing I lacked was a girl friend, main deaf to the insistent voice and that did not worry me much. I never made friends easily with of their peoples,

my own BOX. I think I was At the same time, such an rather proud of thất.

Then I fell in love. With agreement if it could be secured

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Gordon. We were married six

He had a good tive to the international situa-job-a solicitor-so there was tion.

Unless effective safe-no need for us to wait. As soon guards could be instituted, it is as I saw him I knew that I was tired of flirting, that he was "the by no means certain that paper one, the only one for me." promisos would stand the test And now.... I am still in of an outbreak of hostilities. love; still convinced that of all the boys and men I met and Agreements not to bomb danced with Gordon alone could civilians might go the way of (have filled the bill as a husband. pledges not to use poison gas.

Complete safety from the bombed is to negotiate the horrors of

cannot War

be abolition of military aylation. guaranteed unt! war itself is That would imply some inter- renounced as an instrument of national supervision for ensur- national policy in fact as wellĝing that civil aircraft should not as in theory. As the late Lord be used for military purposes. Bryco said, "If we do not end Plans were put before the Dis- war, war will end us." But if armament Conference of the in the meantime it is, hoped to League of Nations a few years ago, and received considerablo lessen the horrors of war, the

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beautiful shade of blue, and he once. TIS name Is Lucky. He is a therd are children tries everything, a fixture in the home and is rarely noticed. A goldfish, if noticed at all, My difficulty about caged birds dis- merely exasperatea. A budgley is young enough to have only this month acquired his cleon while cap. appeared when I saw friend's sooner or later, dominates a home. He is a budgerigar.

budgie at home. There was such an I had never

time to time a corres- free flying about the room, ladder- Lucky stepped into our house, into wrote me about the words climbing, cage-tumbling, that, despite his cage, and at once took command. tr budgie could say, but I thought the children's shrieks, i would have I knew that budgies have freedom, little of it.

so, after windows and doors were Caged birds are caged become a budgle victim anyway. birds, 7 probably argued to myself. A dog is a submissive, slavish made tight, Lucky stepped out.

USCA One had thoughts of the charming. really parrots friend of man. A cat simply Besides, budgies are

sounds a horrible mankind for its own ends. A canary litle fellow

on perched

OBC's and sittacosia, lowever, in which aings for its supper but soon becomes shoulder as one sat back and listened

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

CASTING

TODAY

CHILODER UNDER, C

FOOT KA!

9-0

"I'm at my wit's end with Jun for he's four years old already and hasn't earned a cent!"

to the wireless. A touch of colour in the home, toning, as my wife put. -- it, with the general colour scheme. Alus almost at once Lucky swopt up on to the wooden pleture moulding and started to tear the paper from the Iricze.

What does one do with disorderly budgies? A dog can be smocked and a cat punished. The conary and the goldfish need chastisement very rare--- ly if ever; but a budglo - We shouted at him to stop and he #creamed happily back at us and tore plaster from the walls.

Now we throw things at him, a rolled-up handkerchief, or a half- darned rock, anything soft that will frighten him. A charming domestic pleture,. Is it not, with the paper hanging in tatters from the wall and. the heads of the house throwing. things doesn't

about?

does

care. He Lucky drape himself on our shoulders, but not becomingly. He loves to nibble the lobe of an car: One reprovCE! him, and he flies to another shoulder for another nibble. Another reproof comes, and back he lles to the first shoulder. With four shoulders and four cars, Lucky can keep this up indefinitely. He loves it,

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In his quieter moments he porches on our hair. He takes cach strand and runs it through his bill, and with each movement of one's head ho grips a tight foothold with his long cinw

I dread the entrance of a briđ» headed friend some evening. This hair-drill of Lucky's homila... dia.... advantages because in a few moments he can disarrange the most carefully set coiffure, and when be hea donn "Continued on Page 5.).