OVER THE TEACUPS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 October 1913, Page 2

OVER THE TEACUPS.

QUEER MARRIAGE SUPERSTITION. A curious idea among the Burmese is that people bom on the same day of the week must not many, and that if they defy the fates their union will be marked by much ill-luck. To prevent these disastrous marriages every girl carries a record <of her birthday in her name, each di]iy of the week having a letter'.belonging to it, and all children are called by a name which begins with that letter. It is rather hard if the' Marys and Marks of Burma fall in love with each other. Unliko, other Oriental lands, the young peofple are allowed to many as taste dictates, subject only to the birthday resti'ictions. WOMEN AT MEN'S SPORTS. Demands ,that women should be allowed to compete in open competij tion with men at sports, especially at [ contests conducted under the auspices of the American Amateur Athletic Union, have evoked a defence of the tuaion's prohibition from Mr James E. Sullivan, its secretary and treasurer. 0 Writing in the Press, Mr Sullivan says the union prohibits women from taking part in athletic contests with men because it desires to preserve the natural dignity of the sex. While the union desires to encourage women to pursue pastimes suitable to the sex, it does not want to see grow up a race of Amazons, lacking home ties and qualities compelling men's respect.

KEEPING A WIFE HAPPY.

The following rules for keeping a t wife happy have, the Erpress says, been issued by Mr L. O. Dill*nan, millionaire railway director of Seattle, Washington, who says they are the outcome of eighteen years' experience :—■ I Keep all pi-e-nuptial promises. I Divide the newspaper and every- I thing ' ,? Keep a joint banking account. Oo to 1 the club not oftener than ( once a week. Have no dogs or pets of any kind. Oall her on telephone three times , a day. When away from home write or telegraph daily. ■ -■'■. Take her with you on business and > pleasure trips. Be more, polite to her than to any other woman. Remember that she likes fjowers, sweets, and books. Don't criticise her hats and dresses. Be a gentleman to all women, a husband to only one. If you have only a shilling ycni don't waste it when you spend it on > her. . ' If you have been faithful in all ■ things, generous, considerate audi loving, and still she is dissatisfied — I get a divorce BUSINESS MEN BAD LOVERS. ''The American business man is a hopeless failure as a lover," was a statement made recently during the hearing of a divorce action in Chicago. The defendant is. Mrs Eleanor White Trenholm, the wife of a wealthy ■member of the Chicago Board of Trade '(the great grain market). Her answer to hi? suit is a counter suit for diyorce- on the ground that her husband is. nofc sufficiently affectionate. Mr Trenholm declared that lie had shown his wife all the lovo of which/

he was capable, and gave an account of how she proposed to test his love. "A year after she deserted me, Mr Trenholm told the Court, "I asked, her to return to my home. Her reply was that she would give me three days' trial, if I thought I was then more affectionate than I had been. This suggestion; struck me as being too cold-blooded. I refused it." According to Dr Overton Brooks, a medical expert, who explained to the Court the psychological factors of the case, the "inefficiency of the business man in matters of affection is in direct proportion to the- size of his business." He added that idle men are ideal lovers, but that a husband might love his wife and at the same time detest her. The Court was engaged most of the day in listening to a, recital of a number of love poems which Mr Trenholm stated had been addressed to his wife by a prominent business man, who signed himself "Lover,"