THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 17, 1941.
MUTT AND JEFF
MA, THAT MRS. NOSEY SAID SHE WOULD GIVE
ME A NICKEL IF I TOLD HER WHAT
YOU SAID ABOUT
HER!
OH! I NEVER HEARD OF SUCH
A THING! --- DID YOU TELL HER?
NO!
GOOD! I DON'T WANT HER TO KNOW THAT I EVEN MENTIONED HER! HERE-YOU'RE A SMART
BOY!
YOU SAID IT, MA! I TOLD HER WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT HER IS WORTH AT LEAST A QUARTER!
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By BUD FISHER ·
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GIRLS ARE TAKING SNUFF
HE DROPS "SIR", IS LIFE
NOW AC/2
A stocky, pink-cheeked Eng- bishman climbed into a plane with lus instructor at a Canadian ajr training school and whisked away into the moon sky for lus lesson,
WAS
SAVED BY
He was Sir Reith Fraser, who LOVE
dropped the "St." went to Can- ada from New York, and et.list-
Women are taking told in Royal Canadian Air.
the Force as un Areraftman, Class 2
snuff.
In munition fac- tories, aeroplane works and cotton mills, where' smoking is
lowest rank of all.
The story is told by a Canadian enrrespondent who has been tour
in East- ing the training schools. forbidden,; en Caunda. girls can be seen taking! snuff and trying not
sheeze.
A battle pilot just down from a
fight reported that he had man
toate a number of North American "Harvards and Yale." from one of the tramning schools
They say it is pleasanter and less expensive than smoking the "Daily Mirror W.EN del by a Manchester tobaccobed
"If I'm out of cigarettes." he said, "I recommend customers to try snuff as
alternative. It's surprising how many girls and young men take to it."
an
Most tobacco firms have a stuff department one of them 15 PRU- during 2,000lb. a month
PIE
"They were dog-fighting, so dived in and broke it up" sad "I thought they might burt themselves."
CHURCHILL'S RETORT
Cheers, atui Jaughter greeted a retour by Mr Churchill, Prime House of Com- Munster, in the Mons when he was asked by Mr. Gallacher (Communist MP for West Fife) if he would set up a committee to inquire itto "the
"I think the varied scents are beginning to attract the women-, composition of the personner of
Usborne, Mr. Leslie
folk." said
snuff expert,
the members of the House,"
see no reason to set up such a committee," Mr. Churchill re- "Wallflower, attur of roses,plied. "If it were set up it would menthol, geranium: - you can have to inquire into, among other nake about twenty flavours by, things, the evils of the selection sprinkling the perfume on pow- of candidates who might be mere ctered tobacco stalks if you know pawns or utensils in the hands of how."
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HORIZONTAL
1 To fasten
securely
5 Animal's foot
8 Repast
12 Speedily
10 By way of
16 Onward
17 Title of respect
18 Exists
10 Preposition
20 Note of scale
22 Symbol for
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23 To fost
24 Roman
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20 Tendency
23 Scoundrel
20 Ethiopian title
32 'Plentiful.
33 'Plaything
34 Hard-drawn
35 European fish
38 Bashfol
37 Song
38 Sarcasm, plat 40 Insectivorous
bird
41 Symbol fores (actinium!^e
42 Note of scale 43 Smooth
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46 To deposit
48 Brightness
50 Eagle
31 To close noisily
33 Indo-Chinese
tree
34 Shoo!
55 Strange
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2 Spindie
3 Mineral spring
4 Pronoun
5 To steer
6 Small particle
7 To carn
8 Greek letter
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19 Pecuniary penalty
21 Land measure
23 To submit
24 Negative vote
25 To harangue
26 Prefix: three
27 To make fun of 28 Coquettish 30 Supreme ruler 31 Plg-pen
33 Archale: your
34 To fatigue
36 Impediment
37 To cat!!
39 Preposition
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samarium
As another of Greece's heroes, Ioanis Casakos, lay dying of pneumonia and wounds in an Alban- ian front line hospital, he had one last request to his doctor.
Feebly pushing aside his oxygen mask. be confessed: "Doctor, I've lived three years with
a girl whom I've never married. We've a baby. For me I know there's no hope and I want you to bring them here to that we can be married.”
be Everything possible would
Forty- done, promised the doctor. eight hours later a little peasant i woman, Maria Ioanidou, tenderly
stepped into f Carrying her child, the dim ward.
Briskly a bouquet was fashion- ed by touched volunteers, and in the presence of the doctor staff and fellow-patients Ioanis was married to Maria.
As dawn came, Joanis's fever passed. Repose of his conscience and the new contentment he had found had wrought a miracle.
HE MADE A BANG
A former Rugby lea- gue footballer now in the Pioneer Corps was report- ed killed in France.
When he returned to Castleford, Yorks, on the last day of his leave, he made a round of visits to public houses and had about fifteen pints of beer.
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Joseph Malkin, the footballer, told this story at Leeds Assizes when he was found not guilty of shoot- ing at two policemen.
that
The prosecution alleged when challenged by railway em- ployees for trespassing on rallway property, Malkin struck one of them on the jaw, threw a ham- mer at another, beseiged others who hud locked themselves in
signal-box and fired shots from his rifle at two police-
men.
a
Malkin said he thought one of going to the railwaymen was strike him with the hammer so
and he took it away
laid it the ground. He did not throw
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it.
He admitted that after three railway employees had locked themselves in a signal-box, he
Не rifle. went home for his
to thought he would be able "make a bang and frighten the bobby away."
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