1950-05-27 — Page 9

'IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF MAKING ANʼARRANGEMENT' TO FIT THE BAND*

SOCIA PLANNING

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1950.

SCHUMAN SYMPHONY

world Capricht... Bj cerangement van paity Herald,”;

who

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says

When

WICKED WOMEN

talk of

LOYALTY

"I WAS the co- you are the latest in a long line

respondent. We had of "lovers,"

WAN

Like most women of this three children. My

pathological type, she is learn- wife ran up bills, ing too late that "damaged lied to me, and derided me goods" quickly lose their bloom. for ten years. She Her age reminds her how soOT terrible with the children, she will be on the shelf, unless

the Bucceeds in settling down, I fell madly in love with a No wonder she wants 2011 woman whose husband She, to whom loyalty has had

30 no n.uning. neglected her, and who had you to be oral to her. Her plends for had a child by an American, iwlated mind is revested in her and many other affairs remark that you got her into before marriage. I suppose the Divorce Court,

behaver Your wife this overruled my con-

she is, however, your wife. Įscience, and I fell.

tween mistress and wite ૩ "Her husband divorced her, man's first duty is always to Ketting £200 damages against his wife. You have been n ine. My wife still loves me and rotter, why not be mno and wants me back. My mistress tell her so? Talk over frankly says, You got me into the what each of you used to dis Divorce Court, and must stay like in the other, and then let with me. What am 1 to do?" bygones be bygoner,

So writes Mr. A.

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badly:

Arvil We the plaqur, in future, the woman "where hus- VOUR course

clear. You band does not understand her." If you have learned your admit your children under the care of a mother who lesen, you will have, no dim- neglects them: they need you culty in understanding" what all the more. Your mistress is a self-conferred adventurers, and

the is after,

"MY PARENTS mar- ried me off to save their Food naine." BOND

"1 Mr B.

come from

a very respectable family. was only 10 when the parenta

of a girl friend of mine came

Inform my folk that

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would become a mother.

he

Our

marriage was arranged within matter of days."

B.

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7 What happens if you are taken

out of the picture?

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WE ARE ALL WRONG

Mr. Ackermann

decides you were mistaken

about-t

That apple at night : Nero's fiddle : Roast

of England:

Indian rope

trick: Cinderella's slipper

by SIDNEY RODIN

touch or unelt

Rigorous

than we coarser

tests by mod.rn The idea that expressing the seience to to show that rume of rest, the mind is ex- these belief: are far from the thit elever men usual bunty

You read it his book truth.

O always hear it said

N

ly marry silly women, t that athlete WHES PVT Take it from Mr Alfred genue, and no intell, atual person Ackerman, this is not true, can be much of an athlete,"

On the contrary, he says, they tend to marry women who are themselves exceps tional.

Me J.

W.

What Breuss all fatutue 19. at botten, of one mal am the mam on the total sdom of vin pity

BEDROOM

FLOWERS ARE HARMLESS

0 yon refits feven waling on wood at weset Famate it 15

Mr Ackerinann, who 82 years all, should know. for he has spent 58 years delunking most of our mis- taken got cherished beliefs.

So far he and an 87-year- "psule. old assistant.

Hostal alv 2009 -19 ske ny- Jarvis, have found that in vse ok at en tant be more than 2,000 of them are fou, e fruit before kid “need not be avoueri mone than my food wlack e rualy tingested."

Do you retur to sleep with flowers in your bedroom becaure theg vilate the

wrong.

WHEN WOMEN DO THE HUNTING

As youthful

A

viering: tu-

dent Mr. Ackermann Ant Bestd at anid that ran were al- way the hunters and wotnen the hanted. He decided to test this widely held opinion.

He divered that more often

nir

Me Ackermann shu wo that the treating of plants is so slight a diartvantage that it would take

THE ROPE WAS A BAMBOO FAKE

TERE are more examples of Il Mr Ackermann's debunk-

inst

The legendary Indian Rope Trick has never been performed. which many In this illusion, British roldiers in India clabi ne have witnessed, a

rope is throws into the air and a bug Climbs up it, vanishing at the top What the soldiers saw win a bataboo fake rope.

201 have one. A man does fewer ribs than a woman. Each has 12 pairs.

Cold is popularly thought to be the most valuable muta!, but there are at least eight metals costly. Nor is lead the mare heaviest.

Do you

necept that Nero Addied while he watered Rune burnt? You are wrong.

The violin way not invented n full-size oud tree te the the until the sixteenth century, and sam-daunge an an ordinary gas even if he played theyre he was still 50 miks away from or lamp flame.

Home at the time.

Fleener Nightingale rightly

The revenge was frue. Among rod that the carbonic uead gas ofer proofs was the evidenco Raven off by a vase of cut flowers. Kiven by middle-class married min Chicago-16 admitted they had first been seduced by

WE

Again, everywhere he went he way into that character could be read from the face,

But Mr Ackermana established through the experts that there is no correlation between the size and shape of the head and abilty of any sort.

Nor does the complexion, forr- head, mee. chin or any other feature her ʼn kawn relation su

would not poron a fig.

Is it tru. that a frosty winter is more healthy than a mild one" Ta answer. according to Mr Ackernum, is no,

et

Statistics compiled over years show that a cold winter 19 unhontier, a mild winter healthy, a hot summer always unhealthy, and a cold summer healthy,

YOU ARE TALLER

IN THE MORNING

BEAU

BRUMMEL

WAS NOT A FOP

ND have you always pictured

us u fop Bean Bruinmel

extravagant 4:3

He was dress,

never

He thought it the very wors

taste to attract attention by is clothes

Beef

One cat hung around for days

In the hopes of Hetting a spoonful

of ulive oil.

Christopher Columbus did discover America-it was Cabuts of Bristol.

not

Ho

with HUSBANDS

Come hate,

and WIVES

until their by.

child was

16. Then he Canon Hugh

in et

Waaf, fell in WARNER

love for the

ibrat time.

slim thevurced, and now has to pay 125,

awek maintenance.

Nor did Captain Cook dlo- is it fair," he asks, "that 1 cover Australia--It was another should spoil at my life because Engilshman

named Dampler, my parents made me marry?"

150 years earlier.

Trevithick invented the steamTE fair to the girl you married engine, George Stephentan only D before etaming pity improved it.

yourself. It could not have been

for

The real tragedy is that there yours. should be parents life For more than the life of a baby

Far from chop sury being they for her to live with a man

who hated her. national Chineré di: b, it is ever eaten by the Chinese. And in that infcrutable" race always phlegmatic and philosophical?"

No. He is quarrelcome, fiable needed to justify norringe. Ton often it is the baby who to hysteria, and his reputed enin is either stupidity or deli- suffers through forced marriages by being the constant source of berately cultivated.

between. rerentment Frankenstein was not a monand wife who do not love each ster he was a medicol student 320 who created ane,

The rope trick.

Can it be done 7

You don't usually marry your opposite.

Is it true that a baker's trade Trast in human

is unhealthy?

The death rate among bakers Is almost the Saro BS AIROG

Harmony prevails over con

maing by five to one. We are really attracted by prople like ourselves.

lenger from

BAGPIPE AND KILT

ather.

huchand

It should be possible for a decree of multity in be given in enses where "free consent" was by the parties not really given to such a marriage.

law holds to this principle HE bagpipe in theory. but sedem

THE

imple

was not aments it in practice. Scottish inven- It need never be a matter for lion, for it was divorce where there has not, in probably in-fuct. been a marriage.

troduced

to

Britain by the

the kit is not

Scotland's 113- tionat

dress.

It is only part

man

"I am a mean, jealous. and resentful Writes Mr C., 'n dupli- cate of husbands de-

article. of the High-scribed in your

I was landers' dress. a love-starved child, and mar- ried to and love. I am now

Cleopatra was living with my

parenta ogaln

not an Egyp-and still hoping to find it. I have tian: she was a left a lovely young wife and Greek. Othello child, who has asked me

return.

was not શ black man; he

to

"I try to assert myself, but was a Venetian the roltenness appears to take

soldier.

charge, and I even take it out Nor did Dick Turpin ride to of iny father's dog. I am afraid York, and he never had a horse of being hurt, and of being

thought a 'sucker.'" named Black Bess.

Ludly Godiva lidn't ride

naked through Coventry, and You

a man to burn cakes.

of VOU made the mistake

marrying not to find a wife,

The Albert Hall is not round. King Alfred was too practical but to find a mother. Only your- solicitors. domestle servants. It is oval, much watchmakers, shoemakers, sod- north to south.

The bride

KING JOHN does not walk up up the FANY mothers like to see their ders, bricklayers, and black- Mchildren grow

COULD NOT WRITE into "big smith-all slightly above the the aisle the walks

mave, and doves are not parl- fight The student's appetite for the boys" in the subconscious belief average.

cularly peaceful--they truth

whetted, He had that chubby children must be Was

Mr Ackermann says always been taught by his father, healthy.

psychological traits,

a civil engineer in Kensington. this is not necessarily so.

to be meticulous in thought, and

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Fat children are often back- to dispose of hobby stupitities and old wives tales. word in walking on account of became an overriding passion.

poorly developed muscles. They are less resistant to disease and less likely to grow into muscular men and women.

DON'T HAVE TOO MANY HOT BATHS

Most people would poch-pooh the suggestion that you are taller in the morning than at night

FING JOHN did not sign the tell The highest mortality rale with their neighbours and are

thete Kan Cart: ne couldn't trouble.

occurs among Innkeepers their stuffs.

ה

It is not more

gentle und not always

wives.

If your feet are wet and you

on, boots dangerous to have to keep, your

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even write.

Nor did

the

original

Cin! You

Jike

and

an

wife knows what that meant in practice, and she has had a very rough time of it. That she wants you back proves her to be an unusually brave woman, Meet her with equal courage

her wint has been the You are still mentally a child, whose one idea is for protection, terrified, are prick yourself with a pin than many say it is a good thing to derelin wear a glass slipper. I adolescent bay, of what people needle. Neither metal pour whisky into the boots. The was made of fur and the error are thinking of you. Have a talk

occurred answer is: No, don't waste It.

in translating from with a sound psychologist, and poisonous and each can con-

he will help you to unravel the jaminate just as easily.

Whisky causes a sensation of French folk lore.

roots of your infantile fixatlon. warmth, but does not raise the

your It now only remains for come- Link yourself on to temperature

church, and so begin the one to discover that Mr Acker-local

of growing up and of of that sense ann has sometimes been led process

riding yourself "up the garden."

FOOTNOTE: Mr Ackermann, of guilt which is dragging you who lives at Rotherwick-road, down.

You have, Indeed, signs of a Hampstead, Lontion, is a retired

of courago civil engineer who has travelled very high form the world. He has specialiard already, for you can admit you in clay research and the utliisa-are in the wrong. Stop your tion of solar energy.

introspection. Launch out with child in the As a University of London your wife and dignitary he assisted in the rob- lories of married-partnership. ол Putting butter

You will win your that plenty of hot baths men aro more sensitive than origin. We defeated the SD countrywomen are good for us. He concludes men. But do they really have a Armada on bacon, and Crom- paws stops the animal from ing of the Duke of Windsor when

Ironsides well'o that they impair rather than more delicate ear for music,

their straying. Buttering a cat' feet as Prince of Wales he received respect by forgetting yourself in

the adventure of family life. improve health, and that two a finer appreciation of colour, a victorious

on minces has no creater force than cup- the degrees of the univerally. week are usually sufflejont. more discriminating sense of and stewa

-(London Express Service}

IN all things he searched for the

truth.

"Murder will out." Statistics prove this proverb wrong.

During some periods In Bri- The alcohol in it evaporates nare rapidly than water, so the to be loss of heat is likely seven

greater with whisky in the

tnin only one murderer was to be true: apprehended for every

murders committed.

. But this happens The full fruits of this search "The discs of cartilage between will be given to the world when the 24 vertebrae of the back-

word

Mr Ackermann publishes a half bone yield considerably to the book-"Popular pressure due to the weight of the body when it is erect, and Westminster expand when

the body is re-

million Fallucir" Press, 30s.).

(Old

Mr Ackermann quotes medlent cumbent." sources to discredit the commen

view

It is commonly held that wo-

BACON. NOT BEEF DEFEATED ARMADA

THE "roast beef of Old Eng-

land" is not of such ancient

made

charges

ioots.

BUTTERING A CAT'S FEET

board love

say that a cat's

belf-

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