EVERY SATURDAY
Why Do Marriages Break Up?
By CLAUD MULLINS (Former Metropolitan Magistrate)
AVING spent fifteen years amid failure, matrimonial and otherwise, I want to do what I can to prevent failure. In particular I want to try to help those whose marriages are drifting towards the rocks of separation and divorce.
It is not necessary to say much of Influences against Wartime
thu.
marriage stability, for they are ob- vious. The shortage of homes, the different sharing of hom:3
of husbands, the
by
generations, the prolonged absence reckless marriages that were encouraged by allowances for wives and children and other temporary causes are wellknown. want rather to write of the causes that are more lasting.
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When men and women marry they bring to marriage all the weaknesses that were, in them as Individuals. Some of these weaknesses are moral, some are psychological and of the Inter many are unconscious, known to the individuals at time of their marriage.
A
MARRIAGE
brings
un-
the
the and
qualities, bath conscious unconscious, possessed by the indi- viduals, do strength and weak- marriage will ness are revealed, so assuredly bring surprises to both parties. These should be expected.
I have seen many cases where the panties knew each other for many years before they married; none the less, their marriage has quickly re- vealed strain, and strain has de
When
this veloped into misery.
13 TC- happens, much persistence
and much quired, much patience courage, and often a good deal of help.
THERE in another kind of marriage that is extremely dangerous. Quite a lot of young people today Invent their own kind of marriage. Sometimes the parties agree that if things go wrong, each shali go his and her own way. Sometimes also the parties agree that there shall be
children.
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1947.
WOMANSENSE
Meleng/Rubinstein's
FULL-PAGE FEATURE
LONDON'S AUTUMN HAT SHOW
British women will be wearing feathers in their hata his autumn.
Plumes of all kinds were seen at the recent autumn Veiling was hat show at Dorland Hall, Regent Street. also important.
Above, two of the more attractive styles shown the British Millinery Exhibition. The model at left wears a dressy feathers-and-veil hit suitable for late afternoon. and evening; her companion a more casual style featuring feathers of another type.
At right; a striking combination of white silk velvet, white veiling, and white osprey pom-poms.
LITTLE SUGAR IS NEEDED
IN THESE CAKES FOR TEA
BY DIXIE TAYLOR
WITH
UTILITY CLOTHES
CAROLINE FOX has
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white have
good werd for Britain's uliiity clothes.
71TH most families tea time
"that time unless isn't tea there is calce.
for the It's not easy
Colony homemaker to fit the demand every ralion day, since the brown sugar
Miss Adam's recommends
but I sugar for the batter, found the rattoned brown makes a satisfactory product. Of course the the light, due to cake is not as sugar's coarseness.
0
is the icing suggested by is small and white sugar is expen- the Associated Press food expert:
Any recipe which calls for a sive. that comparatively small amount
welcome addition sugar always is
The
traditional marriage shall last for the lives of the parties is best because in that way there is the best chance of mutual develop- ment, of justice to the children and of beneft to the community.
✡
THOSE young people who experi- ment with their own form
marriage are usually
thinking
Here
of
2 tablespoons butter or mar-
garine
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
to the root's storchouse of informa-
tion.
by
of of
themselves as they are. They for
hos
2 tablespoons four
1 walnut meats
saucepan.
From America comes a recipe for
Melt butter In Cake, suggested Graham Cracker
into and egg, sugor Charlotte Adams, Associated the brown
beaten which the flour has been Press food editor. This cake
Mix well. Cook over low heat six
eight to
minutes, stirring constant- an unusual flavour because of the
and pour use of graham crackers, which ure ly. Remove from heat
walnut Hongkong and over top of cake. Arrange
cake
to They ignore the joys of parent avollable In most hood and of Inter life with children Kowloon shops. Other advantages ments on icing. Return
for five to seven launching out on their own.
firm. minutes or until topping is have no tion of humor of the satisfac-are that it requires a fairly small moderate oven
and wife developing amount of sugar, keeps well, and The walnut may be omitted if de-
average sired. cach finding ever increasing is large enough to fill the
get middle age and old age.
together,
interest
They
rest in the other and in the joys family's sweet tooth for at least two
ten times. and problems of the family.
Bellove the experimenters are foolish, because it has been proved throughout the centuries
that the
old rules work best and provide the maximum justice,
ANOTHER
cause of breakdown arises from the absence of pre- paration for marriage.
Parents should bce to
before their daughters mary
Here is how you make it:
1⁄2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring
Or
jar If you can't spare the sugur
the cake the icing. try spreading with melted aweet chocolate. top it with tinned apple sauce, re- membering not to put the upples on "until just before serving:
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also require little sugar-only a half cup
Small Spice Cakes
2 eggi
cup graham
cracker crumbs 11⁄2 cups sifted flour
very
for two dozen
cakes. They
made as follows:
cup shortening
in
1⁄4 cup sugar
21⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
It
that
they are equipped with
knowledge to make
sufficient good, clean
1⁄2 cup milk
Cream shortening and
beat
2 eggs, beaten separate
cup treacle
1⁄2 cup sour milk
11⁄2 cups sifted four
arc
"It seems to me." she writes. the much maligned utility scheme tax datte 3. deal to raise the stan— great dard of Inexpensive clothes, as well as fulfilling its original function
of keeping prices moderate.
steret of good utility Is that mass produc- tion methods are applied to careful design, and the finish is excellent,
not Hemlines do
are show, seama
properly pressed, and inside seams are pinked."
Little Old Lady
of Margate
No Buttons On Expensive
U. S. Frocks
New York.
There aren't any buttons in Mary Black's one-room dress factory.
"They get in the way," she says. "Women who have beautiful jewels like
show them off."
Women who don't have beautiful jewels probably don't buy much of the black merchandise. Her un- adorned dresses all closed with zippers-sell for HK$320 to $1,000 in some 120 retail stores around the country.
But Miss Black is broad-minded customers. about her unendowed She thinks flowers are just as flat- tering as emeralds. They, too, look better without buttons.
And all women, says Mits Black, look better
belts. She's without turned out some tricky seaming to Batter
she and their walstlines won't acli a belt unless she's beg- ged.
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scason
The expensive simplicity Miss Black is turning out this favours siimness and drapery which floats when it walks. There is considerable V-scoming,
parti- it cularly at the walstline, where
she nerves two purposes,
SBY6 Battery and almost universal ft. Hin peplums follow the same wing 11.
An occasional artificial flower finds its way onto an evening or afternoon dress. Another evening its dress has bow tied through
flowers acckline. But both
and bow are
removable for replace- ment by the buyer's own glitter or gardeniasonably spectacular woman
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won't need even that. The beau- tiful materials and lovely lines of the black creations will do plenty for her.--United Press.
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TWO
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SEE BACK PAGE
homes, and to provide good, varying
meals; such knowledge can go a long agor gradually. Bent in vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time, beat- way to build a good home.
cracker And both young men and younging well. Stir in graham avemen should, before they marry, crumos. Sift flour twice with batt- know the fundamentals of sex life,
ing powder and salt, and add learned from a decent Source and
the egy not from either loose past experience alternately with milk to or from dirty talk. If parents will mixture. Pour batter into a well not tackle this aspect of marriage greased cake dish, 8 inches square. themselves, they should find a suit- Bake in a moderate oven about 40
minutes. able docter who will undertake it.
Reptons
51-5466
51 GAUGE $ 8.00
54 GAUGE $11.50
66 GAUGE $14.50
Cambridge
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1⁄2 teaspoon clove or nutmeg 1 teaspoon soda
11⁄2 cup chopped raisins (op-
tional)
-Crean shortening and add sugar gindually, stirring constantly until all the sugar is in and the mixture 1 smooth. Add egg yolks and beal well. Sift the flour with the spices and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Mix Bodu with the treacle and sour milk. Add milic and flour mixtures allernately to the batter, beating well after each addition. Stir in fold In the the ralsins. Lastly, stiffly beaten egg whites.
Put the batter into small cake tins which have been greased well, and
about bake in moderate oven minutes.
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If you want a richer product, add cup chopped nut meats with the raisins.
Fashion Sells Child Frocks
New York.
It's not necessity but fashion that gets American women's dollars into I department store tills.
Milliner Sally Violor and Fabric Designer Hope Skillman said that right out loud.
They were warning buyers of in- fants and children's clothes to shrug off the practical gentlemen who had just promised them future of fabrics that wouldn't wear out.
Tho pipe-smoking, white- haired widow from Radlett, 75-year-old Dirs E. M2 White, who at Margate recently be- came No. 1 Bocialist con- ference personally by scoring her "equal pay for women”,- victory over the party:
executive,
KITCHEN GADGET
ANNE EDWARDS, writing from Where does that leave you?" | London, describes a new and good irs Viciar asked the storekeepers,kitchen gadget id:a-an aluminium "Young mothers don't care how camerole with a separate "handle. long Susie's dress is going to wear The casserole is to designed that as long ou it looks well on Susle," Miss Skillman argued.
the handle fits either into the dish proper, or info the Id. The house- "This would be deplorable" of the wite keeps the handio outside the mothers, she admitted candidly, ex- oven and use it for lifting the lid cept it's so good for business. Ifor the casserole. the children's wear business doesn't catch hold of the idea, she warned, "people like me will be taking your business away."-United Press,
Gadgets like this brighten the life
of the ervandless cook-who all too. often gets a burned hand in oven cookery.
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