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The writer of this article, who natur- ally wishes to remain anonymous, is in a dilemma in which thousands of other married people must find them- selves. What is the answer?
HEN I was 20 years We were naturally extrava- We always managed to old I got married. Kant.
spend more than we ought to We did not envy have done.. This extravagance other people who had child- was partly due to the fact that if we hadn't overspent our in- ren because it never occur- come we would probably have
Hongkong Telegraphed to us that we should not, died of starvation.
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Just Like A Fairy Story
in
IN attempting to describe how,
(Following the Death of Pence at the
the middle of Crisis Year No. 21
one day, have some of our
own.
When you lead a life such as that, in which the only por manent things, besides your-
That was 17 years ago; and selves, are two suitcases and a we still have no children.
have considered them a nuisance, But. when circumstances as indeed they would have been. teach you sense, and you go ont
with words. We commence
AND typewriter that is always going
now, after 17 not as children but as human wrong, you don't worry about
years of married beings with as much right to When we were first married not having children; and, be life, we are, I suppose, what is their opinions as I or anyone we never thought about chil cause you don't really want called, with something of a else. dren: if we had ever stopped to them, you never stop to wonder touch of contemptuous pity, "a think I am sure that we should why you haven't any.
childless couple." And we al All the legacy that they are ways shall be.
likely to get from me would be
of remembrance But in recent years the sub- the
great
ing the tremendous felicity of yet. But ful. I see other people enjoy, country which isn't paid for I can't help feeling children, and enjoying. too, that that, even, is a great deal
make those
more than most children their efforts to children wise and happy; and;
inherit. I want several of my own.
But all that is a dream that Maybe the fact that my own childhood was not happy has will now never be fulfilled. The kept this wish for children long five daughters that I would like If you are the kind of person dormant in my heart, but I will ever remain as insubstan- that we are you have a tremen- begin to believe that at last I
tinl as rainbows; and it's no dous lot of people you call know enough about life and "friends," although, in fact, the about ita fearful difficulties to good worrying or being dis- majority of them are little more say that I have a store of re- appointed.
had,
like
Benny Goodman's Orch. hunda of the Versailles Treaty) Nazi | We lived a life somewhat dif- into the world and get a job jeet has frequently been pain- toleration and a cottage in the
Germany and Bolshevik Russia came ferent from the majority of the and take a house of your own to
sign a nun-aggression pact. We people who will read these you begin to think about the aught really 10
most subject of children, and occa- "Once upon a time.
„..."--if only | people, very little money: but sionally you think it might be rather fun to have one or two. there was the hope that we could none the less we managed to close with those fairy like words: live in a sunny climate. We
Perhaps you don't think about it as much as you ought "mud they lived happily ever after-nover stayed long in one place,
to, wards." By one of the most deft because we were unsettled by and daring strokes of diplomacy in nature and didn't want to make
home permanent century, Germany has wrested any
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than acquaintances. In some cipes for wisdom and happiness Now, because of à success way all these "friends" whom which I could pass on to some achieved by two friends, we are you acquire take the place of one else, so that they might be thinking of adopting children. WE lived in hotels in children; they entertain and wiser and happier than I have
France, always hop- stimulate you: they tell you been. ing that my pen would con- their problems and ask your ideolonial clouds which masked her stantly carn more and more so advice; and if you are not care- ful they fill your life to the ex- that we might surround our-
clusion of much that is good. selves with ever more and more and upon them you waste and look clearly along her course like material comforts. We didn't dissipate all the affection and ate my family and its name, I ren when they are but a few awiminer who, being rapidly drawn really bother about anything loving-kindness you would am so indifferent as to who months old; and from that mo-
militarism and racial obsession, to
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Our friends, themselves child- less also, have adopted three girls. They are now seven, five and three years old; and the DON'T want children experiment has been a complete in order to perpetu- success. They take the child-
into a vortex which will overwhelm | else. him, grasps the hand of his mortal enemy. It remains to be seen whe- ther that hand is sumelently stront: to pull the swimmer out of the vortex, set him on his feet again and experience of life is so limited went by, we never consciously finding things out for them- of-the-way rural newspapers, enable him this Ume to plunge into that you soon come to the end missed the children that should selves, discovering happiness, and in their advertisements the stream at the same point and of its sales possibilities.
and, even more, to treat them they say that they are willing to consider the legal adoption conquer it; or whether the swimuner
of the children of unmarried will feel that the hazard is too great
mothers to whom they may be an embarrassment.
otherwise give to a child.
were my four grandparents that ment on their parents have no I care nothing for them or for possible claim upon them. I Naturally, at that age, my I guess we have committed the roots from which I sprang, doubt, indeed, if they even know pen brought in less and less that folly: we attached too I want children because it where they are. money instead of
more and much, far too much, importance would give me tremendous plea-
-My friends find their children
more, for at the age of 20 your to our friends and acquain- sure to see them growing up as
tances, Ro that, as the years human beings, to BCC them by advertising for them in out-
to try again, and that some less evil when he was slient under the Com- ford where the opposing currents do not run so fast, inust be essayed.
Leaving the analogy it is safe to assume that Germany's latest inove means no pence for Europe, however much it may gratify the paclists. A pence in which Europe and
mons' heckling, and there will be sotne who will be sorry that they practically begged for. an alllance with Nussia at any price. Defending Poland with a neutral Russia Instead of a helpful Russia still has its ad-
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well-nourished
Russin watching her in the north. The Scandinavian and Baltic States are bound to be a Hittle apprehensive
the Anglo-French missions to Mos- be more restrained in her southerly cow and with such a disregard for expansion with
feelings of all loyal Nazis There is some sinister portent in all this for the Balile States and per- haps for the Oslo Powers who are suddenly meeting in, Belgium.
now that their giant neighbour hos In found temporary alleviation from the
the Far East the Japanese must perpetual sore which came from rub- realise that thele Western ally's pro-bing againat Nazi stings. testations of admiration and assist-
ance mean woefully little when they A great deal depends on Russia; are accompanied by the sale of arms if she is to be neutral in Europe, the
to China and a pledge of peace with balance of power is not greatly Japan's deadliest foc. They meant changed. If she is to assist Ger- as much as Japan meant In grafting her friendship" for China on that unhappy country with a knife.
many in aggression, a war is bound to happen. On the other hand if Germany is content to relax for a year or two to assimilate some of For Britain the issue changes con-Russia's vast raw materials the ten- siderably. English people will realisesion of Europe might yet pass, and now that Mr. Chamberlain knew may be countered by new formations more than a little of Axis mover of interests.
have been ours.
GRIN AND BEAR IT
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Naturally they inquire into the health of the parents and, far as possible, into their family histories. And all that can say is that the experi- ment has made my friends hap- pier and botter people than they were before.
I
BUT
we still hesitate. One day we should have to tell the children that they were not our own: We might get impatient with them and display our impatience, the more harmful and bitter. be- cause the children were not born from ourselves: we might be as disappointed in them as we might be in one of our own children, and then a wholly ir- rational and improper element |might enter into our relations with them. We might, of course, get bored with them and regret what we had done.
So we can't make up our minds and we still hesitate. But if we hesitate much longer we shall be too old either to re- ceive joy from them or to try and give it in return.
There we are, then: on the horns of a dilemma. [From The "News-Chronicle"]
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