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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1939.

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A CHILDLESS COUPLE ASK:

should we

adopt

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?

W

HEN I was 20 years We were naturally extrava- old I got married. ant. We always managed to 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 Telegraph. red to us that we should not, died of starvation.

own.

Wyndham St., Hongkong one day, have some of our

'Phone 26615 August 23, 1939

Just Like A Fairy Story

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.

ND AN

years

now, after 17 not as children but as human of married beings with as much right to

typewriter that is always going wrong, you don't worry about 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 else. IN attempting to describe how. In [dren; if we had ever stopped to them, you never stop to wonder touch of contemptuous pity, "a

childless couple.' And we al- All the legacy that they are the middle of Crisis Year No. 21think I am sure that we should why you haven't any.

ways shall be. (Fellowing: the Death of Peace at the have considered them a nuisance,

likely to get from me would be But when circumstances

But in recent years the sub- the remembrance of great tweds of the "Versailles Treaty) Nazis indeed they would have been, teach you sense, and you go out

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. and occu- We had, like most subject of children,

too, that that, even, is a great deal sionally you think it might be

to make those "Once uputs a time.. If only people, very little money; but rather fun to have one or two. children wise and happy; and: more. than most children

Germany and Bolshevik Russia came to sign a non-aggression part, WA ought really to

with words.

commence

રી

to.

their efforts

I want several of my own.

inherit.

there was the hope that we could none the less we mannged to Belote with those fairylike weds: live in a sunny climate. We Perhaps you don't think

But all that is a dream that Maybe the fact that my own "and they Hved happily ever after-never stayed long in one place, about it as much as you ought childhood was not happy has will now never be fulfilled. The wards. By one of the must deft because we were unsettled by

kept this wish for children long five daughters that I would like and daring: strokes of diplomacy in nature and didn't want to make If you are the kind of person dormant in my heart, but I will ever remain as insubstan.

in permanent home

that we are you have a tremen- begin to believe that at last I a century. Germany has wrested any

tiał as rainbows; and it's no dous lot of people you call know enough about life and Tom her possible antagonists their foreign country.

"friends," although, in fact, the about its fearful difficulties to

good worrying or being dis- majority of them are little more say that I have a store of re-

appointed. than acquaintances. In some cipes for wisdom and happiness Now, because of a 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. JE 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 stantly carn more and more so advice; and if you are not care- ful they fill your life to the ex- selves with ever more and more and upon them you waste and that we might surround our

clusion of much that is good,

most formidable weapon; she has confounded the "pence" bloc of Britain and France by making a breach that no material power con 1111. With the same action Germany

has lifted her hond above the

WE

Our friends, themselves child- less 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

in order to perpetu---success. They take the child-

ideologicnt clouds which masked her militariani and racial obsession, to look clearly along her course like a material comforts. We didn't dissipate all the affection and ate my family and its name. I ren when they are but a few swimmer who, being rapidly drawn really bother about anything loving-kindness into a vortex which will overwhelm | else. him, grasps the hand of his mortal enemy. It romains to be seen whe- ther that hand is sufficiently strong

to pull the swimmer out of the vortex, set him on his feet again and enable hân this time to plunge into the stream at the same point and conquer it; or whether the swimmer will feel that the hazard is too great

more

you otherwise give to a child.

would am so indifferent as to who months old; and from that mo- 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,

and much, far too much, importance would give me tremendous plea- money instead of

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

that, as the years human beings, to see them by advertising for them in out- experience of life is go limited tances, 80

went by, WO never consciously finding things out for them- of-the-way rural newspapers, that you soon come to the end missed the children that should selves, discovering happiness, and in their advertisements of its sales possibilities.

have been ours.

and, even more, to treat them they say that they are willing to consider the legal adoption of the children of unmarried mothers to whom they may be an embarrassment.

alliance

to try again, and that some less evil when he was silent under the Com- ford where the opposing currents do mons' heckling, und there will be not in so fast, must be essayed. some who will be sorry that they

Leaving the analogy it is safe to practically begged for an assume that Germany's intest move with Russia" at any price. Defending means no peace for Europe, however Poland with a neutral Russia Instead much it may gratify the pacifists. A of a helpful Russia still has its ad- pence in which Europe and the vantages for Britain. The possible Hong Kong Depot, Tel. 21279. Gloucester Bldg., 2nd Fir, Tel. 20938. whole world could rejoice need not war area is cut down by a half, and

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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 cow and with such a disregard for expansion with well-nourished the feelings of all loyal Nazis Russla watching her in the north. There is some sinister portent in all The Scandinavian and Baltke Stales this for the Boltle 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 sore which came from rub-

realise that their Western ally's probing against 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 13 not greatly Japan's deadliest foe. They meant changed. If she is to assist Ger- as much as Japan meant in grofting many in aggression, a war is bound other hand it her "friendship" for China on that to happen. On the

Germany is content to relax for a unhappy country with a knife.

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 know may be countered by new formations more than a little of Axis moves of intéresis.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

By Lichty

A DEMAN VIHis veverand

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Naturally they inquire into the health of the parents and, far as possible, into their family histories. And all that I can say is that the experi- ment has made my friends hop- pier and better people than they were before.

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- Irational and improper clement I 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 ro- ceive joy from them or to try. and give it in return.

There we are, then; on the horns of a dilemma [From The Nowe Chronicle"]