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THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Wednesday, October 19, 1988.

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I think it's wrong

VAUXHALL when YOUTH

TWELVE-FOUR

NOW

HERE

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HONGKONG HOTEL

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Marries AGE..

Dr. HAROLD DEARDEN

takes a strong line in this article. Do you agree with him?

N the matter of love it self to her husband's limitations is commonly said that as to succeed, to all appearances, youth calls to youth the in making herself and him rea-

sonably happy. whole world over, and, how- But such young women would ever regrettable this may seem to be rare. And in the seem to some of us elderly case of the few who have come

folk, it is doubtless true. within the range of my experi-

But to be old is not necessarily ence, the labours which under- to have ceased to be vocal in this lay their success could only be respect. Men and women of the described as herculean. most advanced age are not infre- Stubbs Road...Phone: 27778-9.quently moved by a desire to

marry.

DEATH

Novor Loft Him

WELL remember one! I Moreover, when this happens,

marriage of this sort they are often prompted, by one between a most attractive girl. of those whimsical dispensations who had been a great popular for which Nature has such a favourite and an old man whose. LOUREIRO-On 19 October, 1938, genius, to choose 18 their income was enough to dazzle

Eduardo Jose Loureiro, son of

someone considerably anyone. She was an exceeding- the late Jose da Silva Loureiro partner and of Mary Loureiro of No. younger than themselves. The ly businesslike and experienced Peak Houd- No flowers and recent marriage between Gypsy silent sympathy by request. Smith, man

Funeral will puss Monument at woman of 28 of 10, and a young by Don Iddon

5 p.m.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

on.

GRIN AND BEAR

IT

By Lichty

| Cope, 1924 by Laited Travers

"TRY OUR

HUD FACIAL REMOVES

100 YEARS

FROM THE

FACE

Lichter

9-10

"Madam desires only five years removed to-day-she's in a fer- rible hurry."

AN ENGLISHMAN SIGHS FOR NEW YORK

AN Englishman in Lon-glish goods. Specially imported,"

don, am homesick for in the windows.

New York. Three months now. The salesman will say respect- since the skyline that Americans fully, almost with a touch of will never stop talking about awe, "This cloth was made in vanished in the haze of the At-England, sir." lantic.

Final.

I don't think there is a friend-

What is a psychologist to say about such unions as these? young person. It would be safe

Yes, they like us. Three months since a taxi-

The The case of an old woman who to say that the mind of the male

newspapers devote co- lumns of space to English marries a young man may he had been an open book to her driver called me "brother," since

Inte a hot dog or a hamburger, affairs, British football results dismissed in a few words. If from the age of 16.

since I walked into a movie

are printed in the Sunday papers. the man of her choice is a nor- But what I saw of her every- WEDNESDAY, Ocтonen 10, 1938.

The Test match is always mal male her chance of success day life never failed to move me (cinema) at 2 a.m. to find the

programme just re-starting. is practically negligible. She to sympathetic admiration.

good for half a column in the No ercaking overhead railway New York Times and Herald TERRORISM

has a dangerous rival în every She had literally no personal woman her husband sets eyes liberty whatever. Her husband to full me to sleep now, no ducky Tribune. ON TOP

In the cinemas when the news- clearly regarded her as a sort of Harlem here where I can watch terrific coffee-

reel shows a picture of King Initially handicapped as she is highly prized jewel which he ten tall, tan, The spirit that broods over by age, she must unceasingly was at pains to surround with coloured girls doing the Susy-George and Queen Elizabeth or I want to walk along the chew their children the audience claps. Palestine becomes daily more fight to retain her happiness, the most perfect setting and SYMPHONY bitter. The death roll in a re- with the odds relentlessly in- wished to have constantly at ing-gum-studded pavements of I once started a burst of ap-

Broadway, to take a peek at the [cent outrage is the highest crensing against her. Her only hand for his enjoyment. since the outbreak of strife. hope is to select a partner of The extent to which this flat-dime-a-dance halls, to sip a cock-plause for Preston North End Since August there have been the "tame cat" variety. But tering possessiveness dictated tail in the Rainbow Room atop I was born in Preston) when Magic Flute (Mozart) Variations on air from Beothoven | thousands of casualties in the the prospect is undeniably a dis- his treatment of her was almost Rockefeller Centre, 60 odd floors the newsreel recorded the Cup

|up, and watch the parade. mal one in any event.

unbelievable. From morning Holy Land,

I want to slip into the Stork lier people to the English in the Where the husband is the until night she never left his

G-man J. The Technical Commission folder, on the other hand, it would side. Wherever he wished to go Club and see head

Cer- which broods over the problem almost seem, on the face of it, she must accompany him, and Edgar Hoover, sitting at his world than the Americans.

tainly I know of no friendlier success if he had a headache she must quiet table in the corner.

city than New York. of partition is silent. There is that his chance of

lie down too.

I want to cat might thereby be increased.

a "Sunday no indication what action is to

Can you wonder that I want He had the normal man's dis-breakfast"-a five-course meal, be taken to bring peace to the brought him a vider knowledge taste for the delights at shop heavier than a lunch, at midday. to go back, spend a few years land where the Son of Pence was

of people and things, a good ping; so that whatever she (Everyone in New York sleeps born and died.

working philosophy, and an in- bought, whether dresses or in on Sunday mornings.) And Even if I. feel blue now and Every new bomb outrage creased measure of tact. jewellery, must be sent round to want to drink a mint julep in then, thinking I am 8,000 miles.

from home and mother, I can makes the chance of an ultimate

Moreover, a man as compared the house for her selection and its carefully frosted glass. peaceful settlement less likely. with a woman, is singularly for- his approval so that he might be You get the idea? I want to remedy it in New York..

There is a Piccadilly Circus And there is a further urgent tunate in his capacity to wear spared what he regarded as go back.

|restaurant just off Times Square Now it doesn't sound patriotic. consideration. In the present well. In all the essential attri- boredom. critical state throughout the butes of his make-up it may be Her life, in fact, seemed to me But if you knew me you would with everything, including the fumed oak, more English than world, which is galloping madly said that age is but the guinen to be little better than that of an know that I am. Very. towards the chasm which spells stamp; a man's a man for a' excessively highly paid nurse.

First thing any Englishman we trouble to be. She was a healthy and indomit should learn in America is to be called London Terrace, with the There is a great block of flats. doom to civilisation Britain's that. attention must not be distracted

able young creature, however, English,

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STOP THESE

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have

there?

by disturbances far afield. Order Youth Wants Variety and for four or five years her I found that out on my first policemen.

BUT the psychological husband undoubtedly got more trip there, digested it thoroughly whistles, but, alas! outrageous.

differences between than full value for his money. during the year and a half I Brooklyn accents. an old man and a young woman But their union could scarcely lived in New York.

So I am packing my bags and are none the less inescapable, be described as ideal.

Always use the brond Even under the most advan-when saying can't or aunt. Slip Inbels.

""sticking on the Transatlantic Youth longs for excitement and variety.

tageous conditions, however, in an occasional "Jolly good!" I shall find the cost of living: That is the time to try every- where the husband is in every or "Cheerio." "The practice of stealing cars

a little higher than in London. Americans like it, and smashing them up has bething once, "to tire the sun with way understanding and gener-

Rents are dearer, garaging a car But being English has pover is absurdly expensive, servants come much too prevalent and talking and send him down the ous, there are many subtle pit-

falls in such marriages as these. prevented me, as it does some demand, and get, bigger wages. sky," to live carelessly on a fines appear to be an insufficient forced draught, and to be cease- I remember another couple English people, from enjoying, deterrent."

But, then, my income tax will of existence. lessly thrilled by the mere fact who will admirably servo to even revelling, in America. illustrate one auch source

be only 10 per cent., and I am They treat us better, you allowed 2,500 dollars (£500) tax difficulty.

know, than we treat them. free as I am married-before

So said a Magistrate in the Kowloon Court last week.

"Cases like this are getting very common. There have been a number of cases of Europeans

NAVY, ARMY AND AIR FORCE UNIFORMS taking cars away like this."

THE

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COUNT THE

TELEGRAPHS”

EVERYWHERE

Age, on the other hand, inevit ably brings novelty. The first line thrill has gone out of most things.

distaste for a

The man was a

01

hearty and

highly intelligent fellow of about Go into any hotel or store and that is levied.

They Like Us WALK down

Fifth Avenuo or Fifty-

Shoes, shirts, hats are cheap, Taxis, alcohol, good food cost about the same na here.

Sparo A Dimo ?......

THERE aro lots of changes I want to

65 with a great sense of humour speak with your English accent, I can get my favourite elgar- To expect an old man, how and a magnificent zest for life. which, of course, you can't help ettes for 714d. a packet of 20, A similar remark in the Con- ever hearty and virile, to be a His bride was 22.

doing, and you will find how an- whereas they cost me 18, Od. tral Magistracy yesterday, wholly satisfactory companion They were unmistakably fond xious and delighted everyone is here.

It is up to the Magistrates to for a young and ardent woman of one another; they had a host to do everything possible for stop talking and commence in to demand that which is of friends; there was no short- you. action in these enses.

psychologically impossible. The age of money and they enter- Fincs have proved no detor-will may be there, and even the tained a good deal. rent. A car is as much its energy, but the task is super- For a year or so all seemed owner's property as are his other human.

well with both of them. Then personal belongings. If a coolie So long as human nature re- gradually, but insistently, the Seventh Street, New York's steals or borrows a trivial article mains what it is, the gulf which fly in the ointment Began to re-great shopping thoroughfares, see. When I sailed on a bitter- he is sent to prison for six separates

youth and ngo veal itself in the shape of the and you will see bold announce sweet day last June, Wall Street months and, in many cases, will always be one which it is characteristics of their respec-ments on printed carda, "En- was diving, night clubs along the banished from the Colony. impossible to bridge.

tive friends.

Great White Way-no longer Let our Magistrates impose. It is true that to the super- With the best will in the world

white, but blue and green and red similar deterrents on people who ficial observer a certain measure to be hospitable her friends much greater justification, found with neon blaze were closing borrow cars without the permis- of success may sometimes ap- struck him as wearisomely his friends wearisomely prosy down. sion of the owner, and not walt pear to be obtained in such childish and empty headed. It and dull.

The number of tramps in the until one of these maniacal pil-cases.

is one thing, if you are an elder- Such martyrdom na title, how-streeta ("Brother, can you spare ferers force sterner mensures by A woman is essentially a home ly gentleman, to enjoy the ever cheerfully it may be on a dime for a cup of cawico") killing some innocent pedestrian, maker. Her instincts prompt childish prattle of the young dured by each for the sako of was increasing. The mere fact that a car thief her to prefer security to adven- lady you are in love with and the other, must inevitably prove drives along Hongkong's busy ture, and she is endowed also quite another to be forced to almost intolerable in the end. thoroughfares without a driving with the Inestimable gift of an listen to the same kind of out- And it is inescapably inherent in licence is sufficient reason why extreme degree of adaptability. pouring from someone who is in such untons as these. ho should be sent to prison, · For this reason, if an old man no way thus privileged as an Marriage is undeniably an ad-

The present ridiculous Duca is rich enough to make it worth entertainer.

venture in any circumstances. make it cheaper to “borrow a her while, a level-headed. - and But if he found her friends But for youth to ally itself with car for an afternoon than to pay capable young woman may con- somewhat trying on this account, age is to do little less than do for its hire.

trive so far to accommodate her she, in, turn, and doubtless with liberately court disaster.h

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The rich were firing their big guns at Roosevelt.

. Mayor (I am the Law) Hague was dictating to Jurney City.

Since then. Wall" "Street hàs been on the upswing. Billy Rose, the showman, has brought to New York a now sort of enter-

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