WHY DO MARRIAGES GO ON

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T. W. STANDWELL

World Famous Physical

Culture Consultant

With eleven years' experience at balancing the Marcille Duo can draw on a rich source for any show. Hubert and Marjorie Bell hold the record for P.C. shows, including Britain and Universe appearances.

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more or less local ones because so many of the team have families and commitments to think of. Diane Bennett's girls will be very popular after the Britain, but they too would not travel far outside London.

Judo is always of interest if it is in the form of a demonstration and entertainment rather than a lesson in judo with demonstrations of each hold and every counter.

Wrestling is popular if it can be arranged.

This about covers the sum total of availability of items for P.C. shows. If you get bored with seeing them half a dozen times a year, think of me who has to see them over forty times a year.

I may have missed out possible items and some show organisers have some very bright ideas and a happy knack of unearthing fresh talent.

If any of you know any really good talent then let it be seen, I have seen one or two attempts at putting over an act and frankly it has been almost an embarrassment. So make sure you know what you are doing before presenting an act to the public.

IN 38 years of practice as a Physical Culture and Health Consultant it is to be expected that I am often concerned with the mental health of men and women and I frequently find that those seeking to overcome their anxieties and depression complain of "domestic problems".

The Consulting Physician of one of our largest mental hospitals recently ascribed a large percentage of mental illnesses to marital maladjustment. In reverse, I would also ascribe "unsuitable" or unhappy marriages as the cause of much mental illness.

The doctor, despite his knowledge and wide experience is cautious in tabulating causes and the types of men and women whose marriages founder. He claims that the first reason is immaturity, the second "meanness" of character and policy-as in money matters, and thirdly, jealousy.

Each of these comes into the psycho-pathetic group, i.e., the type of person whom the Royal Commission on Mental Illness describes as "irresponsible", showing a lack of consideration for others and an anti-social mode of conduct which includes violence, drug addiction, sexual offences and an entire absence of self-restraint.

The "immature" is usually a person with an inferiority complex and this gives rise to a situation when neither party can look to the other for reassurance and a sense of disillusionment develops.

"Meanness" is an integral part of the man's nature and in such circumstances life becomes a hell on earth and the marriage is, at best, only precariously sustained.

The third factor, "jealousy", is the parent of hatred and suspicion and it is at middle age, when the marriage is no longer held together by the bond of children that it then founders.

The doctor's final conclusion suggests that economic factors influence genetics, and with this I agree. In a world depression, as in 1929, for example, when unemployment was widespread and living standards fell, the birthrate of industrialised countries fell alarmingly. Not so today, when prosperity, National Health schemes, milk and meals at school, plus the advancement of medical science in reducing infant mortality all ensure an over-populated world in which marriage is no longer an economic problem but the basic means of satisfying the biological urge.