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A CHILDLESS COUPLE ASK:
should we
adopt some
some children?
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- old i got married. spend more than we ought to gaul. We always managed 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
red to us that we should not, died of starvation. one day, have some of our
own.
When you lead a life such as that, in which the only per- manent things, besides your-
That was 17 years ago; and selves, are two suitcases and a we still have no children,
now,
after
to make those
great
ND
17 not as children but as human AN! typewriter that is always going
years of married beings with wront, you don't worry about
as much right to When we were first married not having children; and, life, we are, I suppose, what is their opinions as I or anyone we never thought about chit cause you don't really want called, with something of a else. Tommy Horsey's Orch. Iattenpting to describe how, dren: if we had ever stopped to them, you never stop to wonder touch of contemptuous pity, "
childless couple." And wo al- All the legney that they are the middle of Crisis Year No. 21 think I am sure that we should why you haven't any. Benny Goodman's Orch.
ways shall be.
likely to get from me would be „Paul Whiteman's Orch. f. Following the Death of Peace at the
have considered them a nuisance, But when circumstances
remembrance of But in recent years the sub- the ns indeed they would have been. teach you sense, and you go out Benny Goodman's Orch. hands of the Versailles Treaty) Nazi We lived a life somewhat dif- into the world and get a job ject has frequently been pain- toleration and a cottage in the ferent from the majority of the and take a house of your own, ful. I see other people enjoy country which isn't paid for people who will read these you begin to think about the ing the tremendous felicity of yet. But I can't help feeling children, and enjoying, too, that that, even, is a great deal ottgh! really 10 commence with words. We bad, likke most subject of children, and occas
than most children "Once upon a time."-it only people, very little money: but sionally you think it might be their efforts
rather fun to have one or two, children wise and happy; und; more thens was the hope that we could none the less we managed to
I want several of my own Perhaps efd with those fairylike words: live in a sunny climate. We
Maybe the fact that my own But that is a dream that and they lived happily ever after- nover stayed long in one place, about it as much as you ought
childhood was not happy has will nav never be fulfilled. The wards" By one of the
kept this wish for children long. five daughters that I would like most deft because we were unsettled by
If you are the kind of person dormant in my heart, but I will ever remain as insubstan- and flaring strokes of diplomacy in nature and didn't want to make
that we are you have a tremen- begin to believe that at last I til as rainbows; and it's no century, Germany has wrested any permanent home in
dous lot of people you call know enough about life and good worrying or being dis- fruta her posible antagonists the foreign country.
"friends," although, in fact, the about its fearful. difficulties to
appointed. Imst formidable weapon; she has
majority of them are little more say that I have a store of re- than acquaintances. In some cipes for wisdom and happiness Now, because of a confounded the "peace" bloc of
way all these "friends" whom which I could pass on to some- achieved by two friends, we are Britain France by making a
you acquire take the place of one else, so that they might be thinking of adopting children. breach that no material power eat We lived in hotels in children: they entertain and wiser and happier than I have
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Our friends, themselves child- lens also, have adopted three girls. They are now seven, five and three years old; and the
I DON'T want children experiment has been a complete
France, always hop- stimulate you: they tell you been.
con- their problems and ask your ing that my pen would the ideological clouds which masked her stantly earn more and more so advice; and if you are not care- that we might surround our full they fill your life to the ex- militaris und rietal obsession, to
clusion of much that is good, selves with ever more and more and upon them you waste and
in order to perpetu- success. They take the child- look clearly along; her course like a
I ren when they are but a few material comforts. We didn't dissipate all the affection and ate my family and its name. swimmer who, being rapidly drawn really bother about anything loving-kindness
would am so indifferent as to who months old; and from that, mo you into a vortex which will overwhelm else.
were my four grandparents that ment on their parents have no otherwise give to a child.
I care nothing for them or for possible clnim upon them. I him, grasps the land of his mortal
Naturally, at that age, my I guess we have committed the roots from which I sprang. doubt, indeed, if they even know chemy, It remains to be seen whe-
pen brought in less and less that folly we attached too I want children because it where they are. ther that hand is sufficiently strong money
instead of more and much, far too much, importance would give me tremendous plea-
My friends find their children 10 pull
our friends and acquain-, sure to see them growing up as the swimmer out of the more, for at the age of 20 your 10
tances, so that, as
the years human beings, to see them by advertising for them in out- 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 time to plunge into that you soon, come to the end missed the children that should selves, discovering happiness, and in their advertisementa 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 swimmer
of the children of unmarried grill feel that the hazard is too great
mothers to whom they may be an embarrassment.
have been ours.
to try again, and that some less evil when he was silent under the Com- GRIN AND BEAR IT
ford where the opposing currents demons' heckling, and there will be
not run so fast, must be essayed. sunic who will be, sorry that they Leaving the analogy it is safe to practically begged for an alliance assume that Cermany's latest move
with Hussin at any price. Defending means no peace for Europe, however Poland with a neutral Russia instead much it may gratify the pacifists. Aof a helpful, Russia still, hus fà ad- pence in which Europe and the vantages for Britain. The possible whole world could refolce need not
war area is cut down by n half, and be made under the very noses of
in the Far East, Japan is likely to the Anglo-French missions to Mos-be more restrained in her southerly eow and with such a disregard for expansion with a well-nourished the feelings of all loyal Nazis! Russia watching her in the north. There is some sinister portent in all The Scandinavian und Baitle States this for the Baltic States and per- are bound to be a little apprehensive haps for the Oslo Powers who are now that their giant neighbour has suddenly meeting in Belgium. In found temporary alleviation from the the Far East the Japanese must perpetual core which came from rub- realise that their Western ally's pro-bing against Nozi stings. testations of admirallon 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 dendilest foc. They meant changed. If she is to assist Ger- as much as Japan meant in grafting many in aggression, a war is bound the other hand if her "friendship" for China on that to happen. On unhappy country with a knife.
Germany, is content to relax for a year or two io assimilate some of For Britain the issue changes con- Russia's vast raw materials the ten- siderably. English people will realise son of Europe might yet pass, and now that Mr. Chamberlain knew may be countered by new formations more than a little of Axis moves of interests.
By Lichty
-furthermpfo, this paper has the best household
hinte page in town!"
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 better 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: wo might be as disappointed in them as we might be in one of our own children, and then a wholly ir- Irational 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 healtate. But if we hesitate much longer we shall be too old either to re- celve joy from them or to try and give it in return.
There we are, then: on the horns of a dilemma. [From: The "Nowa-Chronicle"]
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