MATRIMONIAL MIXTURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 690, 15 June 1929, Page 26

MATRIMONIAL MIXTURE

THOSE DOMESTIC “KICKS” JAZZ AND MATERIALISM butcher’s money with the air of be- “ When a man gives bis wife the stowing a valuable birthday gift she feels like ‘kicking,’ ” said Mrs. George Cadbury at the annual assembly of the National Council of Free Churches in England. She was dealing with some of the difficulties of married life which lead to bad tempers, and some of her maxims were as follow: Laugh a bit. Chaff a hit. Put a spice of humour into the matrimonial mixture. Don’t forget anniversaries. Never worry about what other people (this includes relations) say or think. We have not married them. Bury the hatchet, but do not mark its grave. Never bottle up grievances. The Rev. E. Benson Perkins, speaking on amusement, said: “It is a damning indictment of modern civilisation that the most popular person in the English-speaking world is Charlie Chaplin. “Promiscuous public dancing” he added, “has in it a dangerous sex appeal, and this is particularly the case with certain founts of modern dancing allied with the unholy noise called jazz!” Mr. Angus Watson, chairman of the well-known Newcastle firm of Angus Watson and Co., Ltd., which has a capital of £2,000,000, spoke on “The Gospel’s Relation to Money.” “The pursuit of material things is a perilous adventure,” he declared. “Recently, when Judge Gary, chairman of the American Steel Trust, died, he left behind him in his home a marble staircase which had cost about £300,000, and which the housebreaker who is now demolishing his home has valued at five dollars. “I don’t know what the judge’s religious professions were, but I am certain that this expenditure was pagan,” concluded Mr. Watson.