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Tuesday,

HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH

June

11.

1940.

MAGAZINE PAGE

How Much Do You Give Your Wife?

SPOTLIGHT ON SOME

FAMILY

T

BUDGETS

HE question; "How much do you give your wife?" to go down on your budget under

depends on the question, "How many bills do you let her settle?"

Take housekeeping money. Wife buys the food, the cleaning materials. All right. But does she pay for the heat- ing? What about the odd chemists' bills 7 Flowers?

So before we tackle this question let us consider the whole question of who pays what and how you spend your money.

There are two ways of handling your income. Ninety- nine per cent, of the men seem to do it the wrong way.

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THE RIGHT WAY. You can add together your war tax, rent, rates, clubs, insurance and any other big bills-in fact. all the bills which come in quarterly or less frequently-divide the answer by twelve, and religiously put aside this money every month..

This way you may have to do without cigarettes or the cinema at the end of the month. But you do not lose a single night's sleep through worry, You don't have to trouble when those little but en- veloper arrive and hide them be- hind the clock.

of

THE WRONG WAY. Regulate your own expenditure at roughly the level of that

frlendis. your Aliory your wife as little as you can settle for (because she'll certainly overspend it), pay the household bills promptly when they come in. and put aside whatever is left Then when the bly bills come in you'll find you haven't enough, so you have to mebllise that $200 you were keeping to have

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over,

TERE TC five Homily systems.

where you fit in

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Sec

The man hands

Scheme 1. His entire in-

come over to his wife, who gives him back some pocket money.

Husband gives

Scheme 2. his wife a dress allowance and pays all other bills himself.

Husband gives

Scheme 3. wife

↑ dress

allowance and a house-keeping allowance, and pays all the big bills himself (if he can),

Husband

gives

Scheme 4. wife an allow ance and gives himself a definite allowance, instead of just putting his hand in his pocket whenever he wants something. Banks the rest of the income-a definite sum nt the beginning of the month. But no effort is made to reckon whether this sum will prove adequate on quarter day.

The honour sys-

Scheme 5. tem, or total

-muddie-Put-all-the money-in-the- bank, and husband and wife cuch draw cheques when they like, relying on one another not to over- do 11..

Now when it comes to

making your wife

an

allowance remember these four points:

sum of

Twenty to 25 per cent, of the housekeeping money may go on something you can't see-cleaning (including laundry).

It seciha

irritating spending money just to stay the same, but that's how it

Koes.

Clothes ment more to a woman than just coverings to keep out the cold. A good deal of the money she spends on them really ought

Entertainment,

busineske about immediate ex-

Women are usually reasonably

penditure. Few of them can look more than a week or two" alienë,

them Quarterly bills catch prepared. Half-yearly bills floor Diem.

Women

Jun-

Invariably embezzle,

Your wife will without a qualmi borrow money from the-house- keeping account to enable her to get that heavenly little hat that's so cheup,

Women are burn optimists. I your wife gives you an estimate of what she needs for clothes, remem~ ber that what she means is: "This is the lowest possible gum for which. the greatest luck, and if I get might be everything at a sale, I able to dress, myself."

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Take a look at your wife. Base character. your budget on her Then let her make her mistakes her own way.

If she has no head for Agures, she'll let you do the job and Batter you about your "reliability."

If she's the determined sort she'll probably settle how you spend your income, anyway,

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NAVIES OF THE GREAT POWERS-3.

THE FIRST CHESS-the

V.C.

The first V.C. of the war was awarded last week to Capt. War- burton Lee, R.N., for his exploit at Narvik.

One thousand one hundred and fifty-seven men have received the Victoria Cross, so far. Two of these were given a bar as well-Llouienant Arthur Mariin- And Captain N. G Chavasse, both of the FAMO,

Lieutenant Marin-Leaks won the V.C. in 1902, the bar in 1915. Captain Chavasse won the V.C. in 1918, the bar in 1917.

Leake

There have been two cases of father and son winning the medal -Lord Roberts in 1858. His son in 1000: Captain Waller _Congrove In 1900, his son in 1916.

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The scope of the award was Increased in 1911 to Include Indian troops.

In 1020

women

became

eilrible for the Victoria Cross.

Nurses of all kinds" "can" "DOW receive this award, and civilians

CHESS has been called "The King

of Games and the Game of Kings." Bolk to the East and in the West it has had Innumerable Royal devotees to whom it was un- safe to say "Checkmate," which means "the King is dead." From the Eleventh Century onwards, when it was introduced into Europe from the East, probably by return- ed Crusaders, it the favourite Game of the nobility. Indeed, as you find in the mediaeval romances, a knowledge of chess was taken asi suficient proof of noble birth. To- day. for the first time in its long and distinguished history. it has become a democratic diversion.

It is not easy to estimate how many chess-players there are In the world. In the Introduction to one of his excellent treatises on its strategy and tactics, Dr. Lasker, n former world's champion, who has given exhibitions of his profound artistry, in every civilised country, estinated the number of players Queen from any requiring odds of

master at 1,000,000. Filly thousand would be content with a look.

of either sex regularly-or-tempor-----20,000-with-a-Knight, 6,000-with-

arily "under the orders, direction,

or supervision of naval, military

or Air Forces of the Empire."

The first V. O, was Midshipman C. D. Lucas, who picked up a shell on the deck of warnfilp and dank it overboard. That "was" on Juno 20. 1854.

The youngest V.O. was John Travers Cornwell, sixteen years old, at the battle of Jutland. The award was made posthum ously for "staying at his post on the Chester, in spite of being mortally wounded, until the end of the action."

The V.O. is worn. balore any · other decorations,

It' entilles & man below the ranks of commisioned offleer 1102£10,1 year, with 2KAYOT

extra for a bar, -

The intrinalo value of the cross If threepenoc.

Pawn and Move, and 1,000 could play on equal terms without, how- ever, having more than a forlorn hope of victory. He did not take into considerailun the vast multi- tude of

who mere "wood-shifters," know little more than the moves.

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The player without experience of club-play often has a grossly exaggerated iden of his strength. I remember one of these privalo prodigies telling ine that he had never been beaten-and I was able to place him at once, just an "W. G." know that the botaman who said he had never been bowled for a blob should be No. 11 on the order of going in, no lower place being available. A village lyro, who would bent his cronies, was persuaded to take part in one of Blackwood's exhibitions of simul-

KING

taneous play. He was toon_niopp- ed up, but when asked to describe his experiences proudly explained; "But 1 chocked (cheeked him, and he had to move his King". Never miss a check!-he had got ns for as that falluelous maxim.

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Since Lasker's estimate published the chess-playing popu- 1stion of the world has vastly-in-- urensed. During the War a very large number of young men found that chess was an antidole to every kind of anxiety. In a letter front the Western Front a friend, told me forget everything flint he could when engaged in a skitle game. "When I put the bits back in the box," he added, "It seems to me that we have a symbol of death and the life to follow. Like them, we'll be taken out and set up again on the board of Ike some day.'

When peace broke out, the love of chess sprend, new clubs were formed, and old ones increased their membership. More than a hundred matches are now played in Lon- don during a singlo wook, and the number of club members there and in the provincial cilies and towns

..............AMERICA

OF GAMES

must

far into Ave Agures. Fun perhaps into six.

For every club player there must be ten who are content to play at home, trying to selve problems and studying the published games of masters, if they know the notation. There may be three-quarters of a million

ir England. It is for the hyers

t of

the isolated students that I give u clever two-mover which seemed to me and other experienced disciples of Calssa without any solution- til the catch in the position was disclosed,

In Continental countries every oller person can play chess, which is often taught in the schools. A tournament was recently held in Russia, for which there were 700,- 20 entries, and a vigorous chess propaganda is being carried on in the United States, which has al- ready produced a number of bril; lant young artists capable of winning international tournamcats, I should say there are now between 20,000,000 and 30,000,000 players in the world, and each year will see an increase in quality as wellas quantity.

chess

The reasonS why ellesa. is be- coining one of the universal games are not far to seck. In the first place, it satisfies the innate artistic instinct which find no scope in mechanical or monotonous occu- patiens. Secondly, it is a cure for think of nothing worry you can else when involved in a position full of exciting possibilities.

The humblest novice gets as many

artless thrilis out of his

does effort as the "great morter" out of a farne which ends in a Blaze of sacrificial splendour Providence

scerns to collaborate with the former. I well remem her an old gentleman at a provin- clat club who had won several ab-y surd skittle games from an even weaker opponent saying with deep satisfaction: The plots have been droppin' very well, for me to

night." An example of the un- conscious humour which is often noticed in chess resorts, especially hose where what a British cham- pion calls "cufe chess," can be seen in full effervescence,

Thus, the less an onlooker knows about it all the more ready-he-is-to- tell you just where you missed a win. Hence, Blackburne's satirical saying, "It's not the filthy luere object to so much as the Althy locker-on." It is entertaining to hear regular opponents at skittles Indict one another for thinking over a move too long. "Wake me up when he moves," says one of therra to a spectator, and the other gets his own back by asking. "Is this Even bed-and-breakfast chesa?"

more amusing is the frequent ex- cuse of the loser of a bout of con- versational chess, "You talked me out of the game."

When you have learnt to com- prehend the characteristic style of m

of Guper-master-the profundity Lasker, the subtin simplicity of "Capa," the-mystle vision of Alek- hine,

ess of Euwe- the reasonableness

you see that chess is a personal art. And, sometimes by taking thought but more often by happy accident. you yourself may make a pleture on the board and collaborate in n Kame the record of which will be studled a thousand years hence.

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