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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1941.
Bringing Up · Father
OH-DEAR-I WISH MY DAD'HADN'T GONE HOME TODAY -OH-1' FEEL LONESOME NOW - SOMETHING. SEEMS TO BE MISSING AROUND THE HOUSE SINCE HE LEFT-
NO DOUBT THINK IT A GOOD IDEA TO COUNT THE SILVER-
WHAT A REUEF- I THOUGHT THAT GUY WOULD NEVER GO HOME-
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By George MacManus
PARDON SIR-MRS. JIGGS' FATHER JUST PHONED AND SAID TO SEND THE CAR DOWN TO TH’DEPOT TO PICK HIM UP- AS HE MISSED HIS
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A PAGE FOR WOMEN Isn't Miss Pomfret
Wonderful!
"Of course, I do think it's mar "A ca' doesn't take up vellous our having the basement room I haven't found there bis flat and everybody else having cuits yel That's gun-fre - despised it for years, and now the first floor wishing to goodness they had it. and the second-floor attch his dog aking if they may some tumes come down and sleep Shot a the ballroom, and the top for having, evacuated herself to Corn wall"
"Oh. Know Where are the biscuits"
The biscuits, darling? The biscuits. Now if you'd asked me where the bottle of sherry was, I could have told you at once
For the elec on top of the books trie torch-that's in the soap-dish
for some reason. But the biscuits To begin with, I didn't know we had any biscuits."
"Oh but Pomona, we have! A least, we had this morning. I saw them myself, in a tin, on the floor, near the place where the keith wouldn't hol beraue of There being to gas
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The gay has come back "
"Well darling, the bosent, have
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any 1900, that must have been, Yes. things have changed quite a lot since then I know. darling. F expect Alicia has changed, tom quite like
"Yes, ma't al I must say. I forty years make a great differ
|| I think it must be
ence to a girl, as you'll find out so awfully discouraging for thegs one day
No darling, don't flying about up there and being he morbid. Of course The war
Hallo, inother, IN you? Mother, are you all right" Fatward thinks the
will come to an end. Your Unele Greeks are "Perfectly all right, darling Why doing wonders. He says don't you try and come home for knew that country well, in the a week's rest, it would be so good late nineties. Good-night, darl- for
you.
feel. and
there's ing-though lin afraid it's rather We've got plenty of
the an out-of-date expression, I could evacuees in the two large roomis, send you up some apples, if you and the two teachers in the litle hiked. . Any amount of food Unele Edward are blue room, and Aunt Bella and everywhere” I'm so glad, darling. the library and old cousin Walte picture in the paper the other day managing 111 I was looking at Lord Woolton's
is so good, he says he likes the and thinking what a sensible face summer-house. We've had a tele
it was, and Aunt Bella said the gram from the poor
Hopkinsons same.
She's found a recipe for a asking if We can take them in most excellent cake, and it doesn't or butter, or eggs, or anything. We're going to have il cheese to- macaroni
Yes, perfectly all! right, darling. The tennis-lawn potatoes are quite wonderful, and Father is planning brussels sprouts the wall. "Good-night, for the herbacious border inder darling.
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Do keep away from bombs."
Mother's "Fenella, I do think marvellous. And she wants to be remembered to Miss Pomfret,"
ing
"Quite right, too." "And guess what. those biscuits."
"Gond gracious, how extraordin for the duration, because they've any! Darling, what Were these heen bombed out of Chelsea and out of their East com bungalow. "Oh, they were simply marvel- too
Yes, it is rather bad Not big louis.
dog-biscuits, like luck in a way, but of course i you sound if you thought they put them in rather a strong were, but rightfully, frightfully position when their tiresome "Miss Pomfret's marvellous, too, pre-war blocuits, with sugar friends whese name I never can she only got in from her mobile them."
remember but you'll know when. "Sugar !!! Fenella, we
I intan --the woman has teeth, and teen at nine o'clock this morn- sulutely must find them."
I've been up to her, and sh he plays those dreadful Scotch
it coming down unless it gets “Darling, I absolutely know we
game: Throwing Things about mast. There, did you hear that" Well, they go on and
fearfully bad, because she doesn't aboo' Goering's here"
like the idea of allowing Hitler these incendiary bombs, which It's only his tea-time raid. It after all only burnt out one wing
to make any difference to her and doesn't count. He often turns up of the house and the A.R.P. peu-
Edgar." just about now, and then pops off ple put it out quite quickly again before the
I Yes, I know dear, but the Hop- shall ring up mother."
kinsons have been bombed twice "Then I'd better get out a Cou- and have practically lost overy- ple of pillows in case anyone ex- thing, so it's no use talking
comes in and wants to sleep them about a couple of miserable on the floor, and I daresay I shall incendiary bombs..
Where come across those biscuits."
am I going to put them. Pomona? Well, darling. the fact Is we've really got two absolutely empty rooms. Yes, it does sound extra "Is that Trunks? Well, It's
ordinary, doesn't it? Actually, rather a difficult name, because though in delighted on the pour it's a place in South Wales, but Hopkinson's necount it's perhaps I'll spell it. LLANTHWILLY, Y.
not quite as good as it sounds be- MARIS Yes, quite right. Yes, cause it's the two rooms that the I'll hold on
maids used to have, and they've both left, and of course we can't Oh, dear no, not a get uthers.
One's in khaki hope.
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"Pomona!"
"Yes, darling?"
"If it's frightfully
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"Fenella how divine! were they?" to
night, do you think Miss Pomfret other one's making munitions, and would come down from the third there are no girls left anywhere floor? We could let her have whole mattress to herself."
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got there Lourd we ask everyone down and have a party, as soon as we've blacked-out?"
"That's a marvellous idea. Such popping away with his bombs and a frightful sell for Goering, lov.
things."
MAKING UP THE MANNEQUINS
Your Aunt Bella is marvellous at Eight famous beauty salons of cooking macaroni-cheese, and Mayfair have chosen new shades father and old cousin Waller are-in make-up for the mannequins n't in the least fussy
Ah, who are showing the London yes, dear, I know, but then Aunt Fashion Collection to South Bella manages Uncle Edward. Yes, America. Dawn Rose, of course we could fit you in
lovely soft pink shade for the what do you mean? There's room | fair-skinned, Honey Bloom, for for any number of mattresses in the mid-brunette complexion; and the dining-room, and Father had Cyclamen for the dark Spanish this brilliant idea of buying an type. oil-stove, which keeps it as warm
The most popular shades of
as possible. Besides, any room powder seem to be Rose Rachelle, with six people sleeping in it Peach and Suntan, Suntan pów- gets warm after a time... Very well, darling, if the Foreign Office der and Tan lipstick have been
particularly chosen for tweeds, can't get on without you, I sup-
"Yardley's Have a new colour pose It can't. And can't the Ad- called Hollyred. Cyclax haye miralty get on without Fenella?
Brilliant, which is a deep red; No, very well, I'm sure I don't Velvet, Grape a
déen rose; and want to suggest anything that Pink Clover a Cyclamen shade. would prevent your winning the Cyclamen is considered, the most war, or Fenella either, but Father attractive colour: for evening and I don't Ike the thought of wear. ma
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your being bombed, quite frank- A number of the "mannequing What did you say? Well, have chosen Miss Seymour's I'm glad it was the All Clear. Gleam Perfume, Other, Lavourites suppose the real Blitzkrieg starts are Bond Street and Orchis. Inter? Yes, I thought so. Re- In spite of the war, Britain has member me to Alicia Pomfret, large reserves of all cosmetics and she's still in the "flat, above yours her beauty specialists continue I remember, her so well in the to send them to most parts of the |most lovely Presentation -gown-world, as in 'peace time.
"Well, they're both nandtome-financially speaking!!!!
"Here's Luck!
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