1950-03-18 — Page 4

SATURDAY AT THE DIAMOND HORSESHOE

A husband

was SO

helpful...

By BILLY ROSE

LAST week, at a Martini

purly, I ran into a girl since 445,

I hadn't

Been

when she prettied up the chorus line of a big revue I

produced that season.

"How goes 117" I said,

"No

complaints," aald the

girl. "I'm married to that good- looking fella over by the can- apes-the one with the football shoulders,"

"Funny," I said,

"I thought

Yon were hilched to a nucli older man."

"I was," said the

chorine.

"This is my second husband."

"What was wrong with Num-

ber One?"

64 JOTHING," Laid

been Two,"

"except

In love

the girl.

I've

always with Number

"Why didn't you marry him

in the first place?"

"He never used me."

"Maybe you played hard to Bet."

"Not s's you could nottee it," said the girl. "I tried my durnedest for over a year, but ! Fle could never pin him down. hur.....what you'd coll_a, m complex, and when his old lady paid she didn't want arboru

in the family, That was

Kiri

that."

you married the elder

man In gel even."

"That's about it.

And the

first year of our marriage, J thought it was for heeps.

*

was kind to

tor.

tough he wasn't exactly Clark Gable, he mule up for it in al lot of other ways. You know- security, clothes and that sort of this."

"Why did you leave him?"

"Couldn't help myself," sakd the chorine. "One day I hop- pened to meet Football Should- ers on Fifth Aventie and we dropped into the St Regis for n cocktail. And the minute I looked into his baby bites again I realised there was no point in kicking myself.

"Bat when I startet toting

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1950.

• QUBUE-HERE FOR VICTORIA

EGALITE

"I should have thought we could pay tribute to President Auriol without you and Vera dressing like La Belle France."

London Express Service

NOW WHERE WAS I?.

oh, yos, IN DARKEST AFRICA

Four Just

Men sorted

out the cows

KAJADO, KENYA.

HE case of Namile ole Sitelu v. Partanga ole Siteh was heard in

of the

about rening a divine, helthe court

went dance.

into h... old song and

Sure, he loved me, but Commissioner at

District Kajiado

he wasn't makinat tots ich this week. It concerned the salary, and he didn't know how ownership of 128 cattle. 12 hic mother would take it, and donkeys and 85 goats, and Jon behalf of the Press i at-

aware of the same trous.

"This time, however, in tend tended.

of walking out runt hit 1 played

it smart. 1 told hat h. might to The cap had already No amt

seen psychiatrist tan been hard by the elders of auce and for all he ought to find

the trim at a band court put what was really bothering held under a tres, and it was dismissed with costs (1908. or one cow),

hits.

In the old days the plain-

by

BERNARD WICKSTEED

Neither of them was legally represented, but the plaintif

THE NEW TRAPS TO WRECK

W

HEN

two, people

havo been married for ten years or more they are less likely to be aren in the consulting room of any marriage coun- sellor,

A MARRIAGE

By "A PSYCHOLOGIST"

the best

wrecking

There was certainly no other woman in Tom's life, nor in the lives of most of the husbands serving overseas. And that talk She looked up to him in 1040,

of Americana she almost despises him now. He and Joan? I brought the matter up when both of them were in has lost his glamour as in-

CASE ONE: Dorothy came to the consulting room. One Christ- At mas he had gone down to the nee me about her husband. one point in her story of domestic local pub for a drink with the

not

neighbours. An American wan trouble I interposed: "Why

In the bar. It was a gay evening that give up your own lob?"

and the American came home with Joan.

traps that have been marriage in the past ten years. that have turned out

Admittedly there are marriage

to barily. and are such n. danger to both Either they

parties, that

advice are making the best of their married fe or must be divorce.

But so many marriages they are eager to get straight to the divorce court without seem hopeless to the husbands waiting for a third party's and wives can be easily saved with an outsider's expert advice. subering advice.

Look ut one case, Lyrical of many since the end of the war. The husband has lost prestige in

were

who So the peuple happily married in 1940 and now feel unhappy are in danger of falling straight into the nower the eyes of his wife.

'Jim Crow' laws are challenged

ECAUSE

are

BE

By FREDERICK COOK

She said: "Nonsense, doctor. We could not afford a nanny to look after the baby without the

£800 a year I earn now.

"No-the trouble in that my husband is not the man I mar ried. Since he was demobbed ho seems lifeless, just back at his "old job and earning less than I am. He seems too scared to seek anything better."

Her true self

Then she posed the query that exposed her true self,

She mald: "He got a little fresh In the porch and I told him off. ffe apologined and went away." The neighbours didn't know that

and Joan, with a woman's love for a secret, did not enlighten them.

The war coused other mar-

ringo problems which lead to the divorce lists. There are the who married young widows

again. Many of their second have gone narringes neem to wrong. But look deeper into the domestic the She asked me: "Do you think background of I ought to leave him for his own friction as in- anke? Perhaps a domesticated CASE THREE: Here is Bea- little thing might be better for trice who, at 10, married a young him."

Air Force pilot in the summer "CASEBOOK NOTE: Dorothy's of 1930, 1e was killed a year Now York. restaurants, clubs and houses.

decision will affect the wartime job that ified her into Inter. their skins The

whole way of life of all Ameri-a career as a highly paid secre black, ten Ameri-

white or

black, ittary had blinded her to the truth overtum the

"domestl- legal that she was still a cans in every hundred may-should

cated little thing" herself. not go into most of their doctrines of the past.

At

is the doctrine stake

In trying to be hard and country's restaurants, how- which

rince

has efficient she is pushing against ever

the judicial ever hungry they may be formed

basis of her nature, custom of per- I persunded her to leave her In trains travelling through the American

enly strond-job. As soon as she began to run certain States they must sit milting negroes

the clusa citizenship.

house herreif she was happier in separate cars, a race

even without the nanny. Her husband way happier, too, be apart.

his self-confidence came

every

themselves.

curious

cang,

1096

tury ago held that coloured Her

ה

suspicions

She thought she would never Ket over his loss--but near the end of the war she married man 20 years older dinn herself. common *x- That was perience for young widows. The shock drew them to new partners who could give them stablilty, a

sense

have

of security.

Beatrice told me: "I think I made a big mistake." CASEBOOK NOTE: Aware- ness of the real trouble is the biggest step in making the second marriage a success. Beatrice's

and bas got over the ntage

Examine another type of of boy-meets-girl romantielam- wrecked marriage arising as an but Beatrice is still living in the aftermath of war years. It is past with the idealised vision of tragic, because it might so easily her young first husband.

Twelve words

have been saved.

thinking of Tom and ain

Joan, who had been married six...

The rule said— The doctrine laid down by [cause They are barred from some

cen-back. universities altogether, adinttrell the Supreme Court half a to others only if they sit at a

citizens were entitled to equal lesk out in the passage by an

but had

parate open tour through which they rights,

status. Acting on this, can hear the professor.

Landlords will not let then, Southern States even eats in Hats or houses. In the south, parks and along the streets are thought they must be careful to marked White Only or Coloured Which F negro citizen wife, man Mister, Only. call thay may not be co-addressed-en he cannot be buried in a

""white"" cemetery.

months when he was rent abroad

With the best will in the world The Attomey-General, who month a

-for nearly four years. They, it is possible for this marriage to But next

In has stepped inte the test care are:- attempt is being launched

CASE TWO: Joan told me in drift apart unless both partners the American court to put an now leading a parade of such end to "Jim Crow"-curious cases, maintains that a Southem the cansalting room: "When he realise the cause of their difflcut-

ties. railway company had no right first came back he did not seem because it reveals within the

Knowing only the experiener I 10 so terribly pleased with ine as that made their Government an

to force a negro passenger

"Immaturo" of living with an exact parallel

part of the expected. earrings away the elders agreed for the deep,

her new. wide split sit in a certain

partner she mistakes "One evening I suggested that diner. that this might so. The running through American life. woman tad borne the dead

He has intervened Separate but equal'

also in Derlings he had met some other husband's more mature character man a son, and under the law

ng "incompatibility of tempera- the case of u negro sceking Kirl abroad. In return, be taunted

Ment" of the tribe she was thereforement are trying for a Supreme Oklahoma on a non-segregated cans you've been entertaining?" One half of the U.S. Go admittance to the University of me with What about the Anterl- entitled to Inherit the property court ruling that "separate but

It was a nasty thing to say. equal" treatment for negroes is

CASEBOOK NOTE: The only In a third case, a negro in not the same thing as full and

their lives was Texas is seeking enrolment in trouble with equal rights.

the University law school in-suspicion in their own minds.

To troubled couples, those last Jonn did not realise that the 12 words are stead of being obliged to re-

worth As much arden! lover of 1940 had come thought now as they once gave back a more settled,

matured

With nods

The mother

WELL, why hadn't sho got it, then? Because she'd been chased away, and no longer lived with her mother-in-law.

The mother-in-law was brought into court. She was bald, und carried a sack of something over her shoulder.

As p wilues; she was a fallure because she wouldn't speak a word, but as material evidence she was more impressive. The Press made a note that if living with her

n condition of owning the

cattle,

the widow night well have left home of her own accord.

WIB

"Now then," said the D.C. to the plaintif. "This woman was the

mother of

your dend brother. Is she also Jour mother?"

The Press thought it seemed a silly question, but it wasn't

"No, she is not my mother," said the plaintiff. "She's my

had spent the price of a sheep half silly as the answer.

90

getling 1/1 Indinn pro-

fessional letter writer to put sister."

down his case in English,

The Indian hd typed it out

are

ti Namile (ote simply on a sheet of foulsenp, and made WELL. It worked. Inside of means “son of") would have the plainder sign it in purple "W

thumb print. It NIX months the brain either accepted the decision in with his doctor I sent him to had un of the elders

a begant or stuck

"Statement-We tangled

It was that whatever Was

three brothers and two of us do

mother, divorce married."

keeping him lied to his spear in the defendant and and the day after my pinched the cattle himself. came through we got

"That psychiatrist must he

The appeal

D.C.

"Say that again," said the

To make it more simple the man put it another way round. He said: "My brother's mother was my father's daughter."

The D.C. appealed

to the

elders. It was quite simple, they answered. The wornan elder

not dispute over our property us the plaintiff's sister. One but our third brother ly.

"I am

day when sho was alone a stranger came by. Afterwards the eldest and my the had a goll, atree together, Under their

quile a guy," I said. "Where's UNDER the Pax Britan. Second bruther

office, in case I ever get

skull trouble?"

wife

ฤษ

tribal lows a

he may as the stranger was never secu

nica he now has a third but our third brother has chased child must have a father, and "I'll write it down for you," (or two more cows) he can inherit the cattle. According to again the boy was accepted as

said

"choice." For a fee of 2008. away his

the chorine, and if you appeal to the

see him, be sure to mention my District

Manic"

"WI do," I said.

BUG,"

custum possible...."

court of the our Commissioner

who is known for short as the D.C.

I

this Is Im- the son of the girl's father.

made him the brother of his

und own uncles,

his mother his sister, but whal "Well," said the D.C., a blond became young Solomon in shorts and was wrong with that?

The case was now working up an open-necked shirt, "the first this court

the plaintiff thing to do in a case like this to a climax, and to the plaintiff is to get out a family tree and the D.C. said: "Supposing you appealed. and the case

before Mir Leslie find out whose brother is who,"

former medical student. who chucked up his studies to join the Army, and

Τυ "You

she went on, "he's the fellow I was married | Dow

first, and I want him to opened know have his Interests at Pritchard, heart."

to

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vice.

ORISCH

CONCERT

CELLO

RECITAL

Thanks for carrying me

out, pat Your Addtés in cell

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London Express Service. –

1

The witness

will.

What will you do with

the

The man glanced uneasily at the elders, quared his shoul-

site. the donkeys, and the

De

The other half WRI thrown into the sente In on attempt to prove that it in.

Involved in the outcome are traius and theatres, hotels,

bazis.

gister at a separate law school set up for negro students.

-London Express Service.

It is a misunderstanding that can be cleared up in a psychia- trist's consulting room. Tho real answer does not lie in the divorce court at all.

man. Their adjustment to each to their marringe vows, other had altered. That was all.

-London Express Service.

What's the Good News About Pneumonia?

inter entered the Colonial Ser- THE D. C. doesn't speak this ders, and said boldly: "I would Masal language which parties to the case understood, give them to the

widow," There were 27 members of and the court Interpreter doesn't the general public in court. speak English. But they both Some of them had walked 100 know Swahili. So the witness elders at this, and one of them Q. What's now in pneumonia treatment?

milen rough country infested replied in Masal, the interpre with leopard and Hon. Speats ter put it into Swahili and the were left outside, but several D.C, then wrote it down in Eng- of the spectators carried y sh. swatters and back scratchers.

house

in

The court

is 2de south of the Equator, but spite of the heat the public sat or ariny huddled in blanketa greatcoats.

The dispute

a wooden bench in front

His first question was: "This

rd brother

who hng chased nway his wife, is he the defen- dant, Partunga?"

"You"

dead man's

There was a titter from the

said: "But she has been chased away.""

New drugs administered by your docter can save 9 out of 10 pneumonia suffererst

A. Many thousands of pneumonia sufferers today give thanks for the new drugs that saved their lives. With the help of these new drugs, most pneumonia cases can be cured. But treatment must be started early

The judgment VERY well, then, he'd take

them to her father's boma enough, for pneumonia is a crafty killer. 180 miles away. (More laugh-. ter in court.) No, he did not Even today, if a patient is run-down, has Interd

to marry the girl him little resistance, pneumonia can kill before selt. Ho had spent J00s.

(or the new drugs can get a chance to act. How three cows) on the case to aco

can you outwit picuinonia? Know when The D.C. tapped the table. the danger threatens [ "Since you say this on oath wo

"Whose wife has he chased Justice done, away?"

"The

of them were four old men, brother wife of my second have to belleve you," he said.

as ragged as, and a good deal whom I agree." more wrinkled than, the rest. These

the were

stipendiary elders, who are paid to attend court and advise the D. C. In tribal law.

to the disn

"Is Tomanga in court?" "No, he couldn't come. dead."

He's

"Ah," said the D.C., turning The two parties pute stood one each side of the to the stipendiary elders. "Well, D.C.'s table, and look an call surely the cattle now belong to who has which sounded like: "Go and the widow, the one

been chased away." get your hair cut."

(Renewed laughter in court,) However, as you say the cattlo will go to the Indy if you win, 1 think it would be better if sho comes here and claims them herself. Appeal dismissed."

"I don't know about you?” ¦ said Solomon to the Pross as the court cleared, "but I could do with a beer.**

-London Express Service,

Rust-color spulum

Fever

Pain inside of chest

Coughing

Rapid,

labored

breathing

Sevare

chills

Warning Signals

Be alert. Mizumonia may lurk behind these warnings. Fever, especially, means: Call your doctor; go to bed!

Q. What are the warnings of proumonia? A. Pneumonia is a serious inflammation of the lungs and very infectious. It strikes you at these vulnerable times:

1. when you're chilled or overheated.

2. when you're overtired, run-down.

3. when you have a cold, influena,

or bronchitis.

4. when you've been weakened by an

operation, accident, or injury,

If you're under par, and a fever appears— calling a doctor promptly may save you!

This is one of a series of articles on basic health problems. In them you will discover how faithful co-operation with your doctor can not only safeguard, but improve your daily well-being, your chances for a long and healthy life

When is it foolish not to see your doctor? When you feel a bad cold coming on!

Q. What 3 stops often fall pneumonia? A. If you begin to sneeze, repeatedly, feel you're getting a cold, do these three things: (1) go to bed, if possible; (2) drink plenty of water, fruit juices, milk; (3) check with your doctor. Pneumonia is expensive, can keep you in bed many weeks. And you're risking your life! Don't give pneumonia germs a chance. Remember, a cold can be the fore- runner of pneumonia. Attack it intelligently by going to bed and calling a doctor immediately!

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