BERNARD WICKSTEED CONTINUES HIS EXCURSION. TO THE LONG-AGO-AND-FAR-AWAY ́SEASIDE,
What's more, he had a
spare brain in
Y
his hip pocket
11
7OU wouldn't think We were standing on the shore there was much con of the lost continent of Atlantis, und the mud around'è us was nection between
pitted with footprints brick and prehistoric terrifying size. monster, would you? But apparently there is a close
one,..
B
of
"No need for alarm," said the doctor. "They are the tracks of
a harmless celosaurus. It lives on vegetables and weighs about
long. Wouldn't hurt 25
it probably took about a second for a nerve impulse to make the double journey.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1951..
"So If you tread on the tail of one of them by mistake," said Dr Pebblebed. "you'll have time
ove
INDIANS CHANGE THEIR
VIEW
1942→→→ Topeed,
Arrogant, con. cetted."
The chota peg sahib turns up as a great
fellow, after all
{EFFICIENCY
Now Efficiency,
#1899-2 Sapped
by welt
whisky.
Now Great·· and vigorou
people...
jump clear because there'll be 1a appreciable interval before the fact le reported to the brain and something done about it."
To help out this pathetic le brain the cellozaurus Cg8-sized (and the diplodocus) had boost- ing stations at the back. These
· Integrity.” were suated in what would have been the seat of their if they'd
CALCUTTA. pants. Althoug second "brain"* wasn'THE English are not a
of producing second
joke in India. Not any a standard "of in.egrity mean-
efficiency wo Indian's must try hard to emulate."
his
worn
a. in the general
Bricks are made of clay, and the kind of clay that is widely ammoth-unless it trod on one ing of this term, it was a great more. used for brickmaking in England by mistake." was once the mud of a long-apb work, in which dinosaurs and other vanished creatures lived their peculiar lives.
Think of that. A monster Boft, long, with a brain the siz of an apple, may ance have browsed on what is now your chimney.
This Intriguing line of thought was storied by that fellow, Dr Pebblebed, who took us last werk for an imaginary trip to the seaside as it was tons of years ago.
IN THE MUD
AND he called again with hall a brick In his hand, and raid it was an excursion Hcket for another Journey in time.
who
help in walking and wagging the "Some of the other monsters.
any tall.
a third
shoulders for
"But there aren't mummoths tread on at this period of time," said my son, Faid he doctor, had
has "brain" in their goes to school and
helping out with the front legs. lessons in these subjects.
The feel of the old 20 and 30-on fellows gave them a fol of trouble, as you'll appreciate if you're putting on weight To care them the I yourself.
of their spent most monsters time up to their 2011. necks in
THE MONSTERS SAID the doctor: "Que right,
They didn't come ll later, was just trying you out. Now what have they told you about the catiosaurus?
"Nothing? Well, they should have done, because next to the whale is probably the greatest ercature that has ever lived in England or English waters."
The cellosaurus is a cousin of that classic prehistoric menster every cartoonist draws. You know the thing. It is called a diplodocus, and has a body about the size of a London bus, with yards of neck and tall.
'water.
PENCIL TEETH
T was a meat convenient way of life. Their na ural buoy- weight cft their ency took the
poor feet, and they padded about happily on the betom, with their heads above water, like so many submarine snorkels.
and
As the doctor was talking, one of the creblures suddenly put
a head
up quite near wned at us, revealing tee has. yawned dipio- Being an American the
as pencils, Creus (60ft long) was bigger they looked fearful, bus ap- than the
cellecourus parently they weren't for bling (com. long). Even in those days tu gardening. The closaurus seaweed, sald Dr America went in for superlatives. ved on
Used Its leeth Pebblebed, and
Taking the seaweed off the for bottom.
"It will take us back to un even esrifer period than did he piece of Portland stone," he said. "But you'll have to take your Welling on brots, because the mud at that time was atrocious." And so it proved when we arrived. There was mad, mud,
you know what to look "Nowell follow these tracks mud everywhere. Most of what to
for. our green and was to become
old the
doctor. lovely England from Dorset to and And one," vald
he talked about As he went he Yorkshire ww at the bottom of this mighty British
When It was time to go the leave. monster children didn't want to a dirty sea, to which sluggish Pam of the fossilised skeleton They said I was such a lovely rivers poured their mud-kiden of one was dug out in a clay world for getting dry in, but, pit near Peterborough, and when other said she'd be glad when experts examined the bones they the mud was made into found he'd had arthrills in the bricks and she could fcel tip of his all.
civilized. The distance from his tail to his tiny brain was so
great that
waters.
The low-lying swampy land that edged this unattractive sea was thick with strange vege a- tion, and the lies were simply awful.
-(London Express Service)
They reared a chimpanzee as a child
Doctor finds 'missing link'
D
R
and
in brain of the ape
by... JOHN POMFRET
Mrs Keith J. Hayes, of Orange Park, Florida, were determined to
find out just how far young
a
The days when sweating sahibs, whisky pegs, and Poona were the butt of every Indian have gone..
Now the feeling is growing that the peculiar red-faced men in shorts and togers were not so bed after all. Nor was the re- gime they ran.
Speeches of India's leaders show the clrange.
.
Listen to Nehru · Listen to Pandit Nehru, When, in 1942. the Japanese were to your in from hreatening Burma, he sald in the "Quit india" campaign—
"No. ace can match the arregance, cenedla and thinly disguised incompetence of our English masters,"
Now listen to Prime Minister Nehru after India's four years of freedom:---
"We must pay tribute to the qualities of the English who re:
and
Remember Sardor Patel?: He was the Iron Man of the Con- css Parly. His view of the English ured to be::
They are people you cannot te neutral about. You either hate them or love them, Frankly, I hate them
But even this tough old Brahman came round. Just before he died he said:~~
Then 'The Briiish? A TACO of Snobs."
Now- Sausage
be
meri can
aristocrata,*·
Now listen to Dr Azad. India's Minister of Education, after a recent visit to Britain:-
"The English are setting us an example of how to work and rebuild in the face of tremendous dimculties. They are a great and vigorous people."
Indians used 10 label oll
Brf en as snobs,
But take a peep at an Judian newspaper the Assam Tribune. "The English are not enous, writer says, "otherwise they would never be able to make aristocrats out of third genera- tion sailsage manufacturers."
ti
Still Believes
"My memories have mellowed, Our former enemies proved Indians are agreed on one really saying something." honest friends. And that is. thing the English have tho
And what about this change- round? Dr Maulana Azad, Presi
dent of Congress, told students when the war broke out:-
"You will now witness the moral and physical collapse of a sick society. The English back bone has been sapped by easy wealth and Scotch whisky."
SMART SET" TURN ON
THE GOVERNOR
THE
(BY SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
NAIROBI. editor, said: "Kenya's night life "smart set" in is based on the sun-downer, the evening drink. People who in Kenya are angry. Erkain would never dream". of Their Governor, Sir Philip employing servants have two Ga Mitchell, has criticised three because they are cheap, them; has attacked the "In the avage, boute there luxurious standard of living of many Europeans.
painte The Hayes belleve that Viki ture,
and weedwerk, could barn to speak more words cases photographs in books," though only with great difcutty, he added.
✡
She is like a human who has Sometimes they takes Viki for lost the power of speech because & swim in the sea, but they have female chimpanzee of a brain jury, but who com And on lasted part of the
understand more than the eays.
Leach to avoid atracting could be humanised."
A live months, hir formal crowd. speech training began when the was taught to make a noise for her battle, much as a dog. 19 taught to buck during trotalong.
So they started to rear a new bo speelmen as if were their own child, it was fed, fondled played with add die, ciplined just like a human baby. Today, thice yea alter the experiment beats, Vekis he ment hunza-te ape in th: world.
་
SAYS 'MAMA'
When she was 14 months old, Dr Hayes begon moving her lips to form the word "Mama." She wears draws, plays like
In a fortnight she learned to a normal baby, and actually say it, bu; cniy when Angers laugh when Ackled.
were laid on her lips. She still Members of the American brings her hand to her mouth to Philosophical Seality were assay the word. tonished recently when they Next she learned to call De
herzd
LIKES THE FILMS
In fact, life in Kenya to- day Is high, wide, and happy-if you have plenty of money..
The "smart set" say that too many have been blamed for, what applies only to few.
a
IL: Is true that merchant princes, high-salaried civil ser-.
y and happily.
are co many servants do you And them work. You give a, party. If fa a genteel party it breaks up as about U and about 8.30 p.m.
“If it's" wild—anything “may Thry · drink, fentariis happen,
quantities. Many velati tandard the is artificial and unnecessary.”
They visit tha ezems, tou.vacie,, and farmers Hve generous. Broceries,
Viki kes old Westerns with lola of loud shooting and almost any thing in Technicolou.
round burden.
+
But thousands do not corn big One evening not sq ago, the meaey, and find the top peak used to 10 their coat of living in Kenya a heavy books, but Viki the house collealing swialers, a pile of fresh nappies, and It és mere then twice pre-war, pusse. She worked to be taken while salaries have increased by
enly half. the pictures. Dissipline as presented its difficulties. D. Hayes was driven is dio restica by the ape's habit "papa" and "Mama."
a record of the young Hayes "Papa" but only in of bring when the romped with apc's petch." For Viki can whiper. A few months later she say three words "Papa" was ought to say "cup" when now "Mams," and "eup."
site_wasted « drink. The same words, in fact, the a child learns when it begins to speak.
Oher the inippedˇtéorofien, and Is for Dr Hijos retallaled by biling Viki starply on the back of her
Vik!'s play, of course, mose athlete than a child's. She rack. spends a large part of the day running, climbing, and jumping The experiment was a dismal! of the furniture,
fullure. Viki was delighted. DATE CIGARETTES Not only ary apts less sensälve to pain than hums, but the young ones cft ble each other playfuly. She thought i was dil part of the game, and area
There is no dimeudy in g7- ting credit. The Indian chops, particular, encourage women to run large bills for clothes and
Prodts for the few ce, de- lightfully high. Facmers enjoy onerous tax exemptions. They make such swollen profits that eva party developed farms can
e sold for
fortunes to new- comers.
ce
Nairob! professional men ei- cape, Income Tax by buying "farms which they claim to be CLveloping
The col driving force which krops
the "high old time” on with demand The
Hausing has never caught up the crest of, a wave is Kenya's
habit. hospitalry minimum rent is £30 a month.
Most young brides continue to puting work after marriage joint warnings around £100 month.
average,
BRAIN AT FAULT
But "hings" are expensive. Imported frocks coab from £40 According to Dr Hayes, the She leads us by the hand,
Ko £70. Cinema stats are 45... reason why ordinary nimpa coaxes us to Hekle her and begs zees coma talk is not because for pickaback rides." says Dr
There is no pubke transpert of Dything ceferlive in the Hays,
ear is a necessity: 'No' white woman scrubs ́t velce box
of other veral organs When new acquaintances are
bo em- Nor is due to lack of intel available the perfers them to
floor servants must ployed. It is a social "must";" Ugrace. Vit has the mind of a members of the famay.. good three-year-old, -vi
Just as a child copits its par Viki's realth, has been excri- What one seiker does the res; The fault is something licking th 50 Viki dosis, washes Cent She has been on two feel compelled to do.
About in the centre of the brain where distes, thepens, pencia, raws, -ezcasions from eating cigarettes,
parties?. Mr. hammers, and sandpapers turn but very con cecovited,
McDowall Wilson, man controls his. epcech.
NANCY
I WISH I OWNED.A RANCH
Itching for His Wish
WISH HAD A YACHT
IWISH I “WIWISH (I
HADY
HAD A
RACING. FAUTO
'MILLION'
DOLLARS
WHAT DO YOU WISH.
SLUGGO
D.
a Nairobi
By Ernie Bushmiller
I WISH SOMEBODY WOULD
SCRATCH MY NOSE
Drinks are always at hand to welcome guess
One of the largest, Kemy of a-expanditure In Kenya, on all
vels, salechot..
DRINK
devil's own luck. "Drop an ano and an Englishman will find goes an old saying,
Gandhi, the wise old leader, once remarked; "The English are not shrewd, They are not smart. They are just successful."
India still belleves it. And a Bihar peasant plaintively told me the other day: "I wish they come back and would
bring their luck with thera
Yes, "Hosmany people starting with could have
to little
views are changing.
ska Bengali
much?" asks
made so
author Khumar Ghosh, They came here with barrels of cloth. They left an
Empire."
The Daily Searchlight offers this answer: "They have a genius for self-discipline, and concentrations which reserves the status of the huividual."
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