By BUD FISHER
CAN YOU LOAN ME TEN MORE? I'D LIKE TO SHOW HER I'M WINNERS!
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
MY WORD, WHO COULD
BE CALLING AT THIS
TIME OF NIGHT?
RING
RING
YOU SEE, SIR SIDNEY, I TOLD THE SWEET WOMAN I WOULD ONLY PLAY CARDS FOR PENNIES BUT I LOST THE WHOLE TWENTY BUCKS,
AND I'M AFRAID TO GO HOME NOW!
LOAN You THE TWENTY MUTT!
3-19
5
THEY
RABBITS, ONCE PESTS, ADOPT
TO-DAY
ONLY QUEEN'S & ALHAMBRA
Daily At 2.80.
6.15, 7.20 & 9.30
HELP TO WIN WAR HUSBANDS'
WAR HUSBANDS' AS GREAT AS "ZOLA"... AND JUST AS DIFFERENT
(By A Special Correspondent)
THE HUMBLE RABBIT, “dratted pest” of the farmer, is assisting Britain to win the war. Not only is its flesh helping to eke out meat rations, but the fur, exported to the United States, is bringing back precious dollars to help pay for vital war materials.
"I'll buy every rabbit skin I can lay my hands on," said Mr. Arthur Budinger, proprietor of a Bri- tish fur exporting company, to the "Daily Mirror."
"Lak at this!" He showed me an order for a quarter of a mil- 10 skins just received from America.
Now the export trade In skins is more than thirty times аб great as it was before the war.
Skins that have been pulled off "I'll take any kind of skin "just anyhow" and hung without can get," he said,
stretching are worth from 3s. 6d. ta 5s, 6d. a dozen.
"I'll even place contracts for their pelts before the rabbits are born. But sking I must have. For there are plenty more orders com- ing from the States--and the price is going up."
Before the war U.S.A. dcpended largely on France and Belgium for rabbit skins.
Art In Skinning
England alone produces moro than sixty milion rabbit skins, worth over a million pounds, in a single year.
(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
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Officers' wives staying near training camp have adopted "husbands" -men in the ranks who can't darn and sew on a button.
There are a dozen wives and they have adopted a dozen "husbands."
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Most of the men have been spoilt by their own wives home and can't get used to "do- ing" for themselves.
Their "war wives" meet twice a
mending week to do their
for This scheme at a North them. Wales camp came about after the officers' wives had heard their the husbands grumbling about
A carefully-skinned pelt which untidiness of some married sol- has been stretched, fur on the in-diers. side, 01 a couple of wooden stretchers, will fetch from 5s. 6d. to 8s. 6d. a dozen,
But a really good skin should have the head and legs cut off and then be tacked, fur down- wards, on a board to dry. Such skins fetch as much as 116. 6d,
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dozen.
Rabbit farms are being started all over the country to produce fine- quality skins, specially for export.
OUR 10-MINUTE CROSS-WORD
They got together and volun- teered to start a sewing bee,
into trouble
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"Now WE get when a man looks untidy," young lieutenant's wife told me laughingly.
"We certainly started thing.
some.
Every Tuesday and Thursday there is a queue of men waiting outside the barracks medical room which has been lent for the sew- ing bee
It is furnished with easy chairs from the sergeants' mess.
Edw. G
ROBINSON
'THE STORY OF
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"A Bit Spoiled" Apart from this, they started an unofficial advice bureau.
Domestic wrinkles-on the best way to wash clothes or keep but- tons clean-are some of the tips they had out.
The wives press trousers darn and sew on buttons.
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Often their advice is asked on what to send the wife for her birthday. They buy the present, too, if they are asked to do so.
Sald a young gunner: "There is not much the officers can say when they see us on parade." Said the colonel: "We're pleased --even if the men are getting a bit spoilt."
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