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THIS DREAM MEANS:
You have been passing through A highly: ema- ilonal period 113 your life; water symbo iises the power- ful cinations of your sub-
conscious mind
which seem to
have flooded
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1951.
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT.
YOU WERE SAILING
THROUGH FLOODED
STREETS ON A LITTLE BLUE CUSHION WITH A FRIEND ON YOUR LAP,
fate your daily life,
In this crisis, a friendship has sustained you and helped you to float past a difficult period Into peace and
and a fertug of being at one with the world.
19
A British
quietness
Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
DOWN
1 Stratagems (5).
1 Be repeated (5).
4 Diminished (0).
8 Halo (0).
10 Stage show (5).
12 Scanty (0).
14 Kiddles Carmionts (7)
17 Neat (4),
10 Refuges (7),
20 Trelliswork (7).
22 Medicinal plant" (4).
23 Trials (7).
27 Puzzling (6).
20 Cogs (5).
30 Easy (U).
21 Tvrunt (6)
32 Welcome (5)
118
2 Play unskilfully_(5).
3 Nous (5)
Accent (4),
Inn (0).
7 Reveries (6).
9 Fruit (7).
11 Properly (6).
13 Avers (7).
15 Gem (4),
16 Obvious (0),
18 Object of worship (4).
21 Symbols (0)
20 Endured (6).
24 Expiring (5).
25 Sumcient (5).
20 Exhausted (5)
28 One of the USA (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. Across: 3 Ignoring, 3 Hoot, Elegance, 11 Chorlady, 13 Prod, 15 Patience, 18 Re- cent, 19 Adds, 21 Selected, 25 Bachelor, 20 Rill, 27 Returned. Down: Chic, 2 Coma, 4 Gala, 5 Orgy, 6 Inner, 7 Greed, 9 Elder. 10 Edict, 12 Hoard, 14 Ounce, 10 Newel. 17 Elder, 19 Amber, 20 Ducat, 21 Seer, 22 Lore, 23 Trip, 24 Dull,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL DAY, EVERYTHING WAS STILL «
AND QUIET AND NO ONE
WAS TO BE SEEN
型
and accep-
This seems to be a dream of tliankfulness Lance; but your problems are not yet completely solved.. the dream no one is to be soon: your friendship must help you to meet people, not to avoid them.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
ge!
MAKE COMPOSITION WORK FOR YOU
absorted Ilac I'VE no feed that whenever my beur's garags,
photographic friends to bushes, and pessing gulomebiles, scussing pictures. the converfeve in-cite to where you get Fallon Invariably gris Ardund to pleure of her. Avoid distracj the subject of compaslian. Just må elements. what is his camporttien. thing hot 13 so lateresting to camera
as? And how
Impartant fa
Sceendly, ya'll want to tep
It your snoth point of intercet away I:em the cxse! centre ct the That spa the mist
n our crdinary snapshooting?
Comporilian cin be defined picture. vay simply as the arrangement stale position possibic. Move il off a little to and side or the nts within a pletur. the clements When these elements are arrangin
!
examine any If you
picture
is
cd in a pleasant manner, we have a picture that is interesting closely, you will collee that
black at. Naturally,, then, it is complead of us, and manes mportant in ordinary snapsheal of light and dark times. By the ing. We all want chapshots that manner in which you arang: These inca or maries, you can are pleasing to the eye.
One of the first rules of com- again influence the effectiveness position is this: make each pls of your picture.
a ple'ure can be e tell Just one sory. If you cath curves. such as created are taking a pleture of prally
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
The Bes
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H
HOW to be.
a poet on 10/- a week
THE ESSENTIAL --W, H. DAVIES. Cape. :, 12a, 6d. 333 pägen. S TE might be known as Single-Poem Davies. He might be recalled as the man who gets one poem Into all the anthologies. The poem beginning: •
What to this the f, full of care;
We have no fime to stand- and
stare?
But there is more to Davies than that, as this selection of
by
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.
his writing proves, Ile wrate years and the rich assortment ong clactic
of the
English
plain style, "The Autobiography of riff-raff he encountered give Its special quality to the Auto- nt a Super-Tramp." He loft
(which occupley the imprint of an original and phy
nearly half of the present deflant personality.
volume).
4
Brought up by n Noncon-1 On a privale income of 10s. formirt grandmother to rend week, 25. of which he gave Runyan and little els Davies to the poor, Davies decided to eaught something of the man become a professional poet. To tere style, When, In his record collect money for the printing of a roving life he approaches of his first volume, he song
good does-house, it is with hymns in the strects with roma of the lightening of heart. Welsh enthusiasm WHICH his of Christian catching sight of
more experienced advisera de- the Delectable Mountains,
precated us unlikely, to induco in the publie the right armal- gam of pily and plety....
He has. too, some of the DC- businesalike simplicity of fos. Here are sentences thet might have come straight from Robinson Crusoe:
"I was born 35 years jo in a public-house called te Churchi
House in the town of Nin the county of A1 It was kept by
my grandfather, "rative
of Cornwall, a retired
યુવાન પ
le cousin Mary, den's include by a hillside fence or a winding
and there :caulis aca-captain, whore half the front yard, the neigh- ricam,
will form the old rellablz "S" pride it was, drunk or
cisse sober, to
all that is such a
Inform Or they strangers that he had mag paelegraphers. can be raight lines such as you been mater
of his might find in architecture. But awn ship, the said ship being a straight or
Thele function curved,
sion | small schooner." should be to subtly lead he сус toward your centre of interes..
With the masses or tones, the principal consideration is to keep them reasonably equalised
Noise
"Anything he can do I can do better,"
and
Davies grew up in Newport, Mon, where he was distin- stuished for *nghting and thicving, was hirched by the
and smacked by
Bernard Shaw was the first to recognise that this eccentric Welsh tramp was touched with the hand of gonlus. Meeting Davies in a South London public-house, Show, suggested that he wrlie The Alitɑbilogra- phy. Mrs Show put up £00 for It. Davies wrote the book.
in six weeks.
his
WITH
his originality, disarming simplicity, his
Davies- fine, bold appearance, now became a figure in literary London. Ho was drawn by John, modelled by Epstela and pursued by, hostesses,
He lived in one room in Great Russell Street, next to a Belgian street walker who
tinctly distributed througther. who was haunt- maliciously kept him awake by
the recnet If this is done, the eye sentes a nice balones and the plature is pleasant to lack
This brief summary, I belleve, dos bear but our original con- Ichtion that campistilor Is merely a matter of strangement. And I s arranging that you can da in a matter of a few seconds 53 you survey a stenz or sub- jeet in your view Ander. If you break composition down Info a few workable rules, you're cer- tain to Improve the pictures you
läke.
John van Guiller,
By KEMP
ed by the fear that the lad was going to follow into disgrace "that young Brodribb cousin of yours." This cousin was known to wider fame by his slago name of Henry Irving.
were
was
The old lady's 'fears not ill-founded. Davies going to do even worse. Bored by
trado The picture-framing- to which he was apprenticed, he ran off to the USA, where he led the life of a hobo until he last his tost during an un-
oMeinl railroad
the trip to Klondyke. There vagabond
STARRETT
anthem
singing her national after midnight. Davics retort- ed by singing. Men of Harlech at lunchtime, when the Bgl- gian would be sleeping.
He had three antipathles: cats, Negroes and the telephone. The telephone frightened him. Cats killed birds, which he loved. As
his for Negroes, aversion for them dated from. the day he witnessed, a razor night In New York between rival Negro gangs.
He had also the tramp's rud picion of the police, and would arrive late at London parties with a hunted look and the apology, "I'm sorry, but there were a lot of police about.!!%
He will be remembered, like Borrow, as one who wrota beautiful prose about a wan- dering life, and as a lyrku-, poet who Wrote 'better versa thon:
A poor Rfe this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and
Blåre.
SPEAKING OF NOISE: THERE
ARE THOSE VERY VOCAL POLITICIANS.
CRASH
WANG
THE MAN NEXT DOOR WHO THINKS SUNDAY A 15 THE IDEAL TIME TO STRAEITIA OUT A WINK OF THE ROOFING".
BANG
THIGH TALDE ARE TROSE IRON TRUCKS THAT 25. KASOORD AS IM THEY HAD ÉTBARE VIKBUS, ALSO OF IRON.
GENERATIONFA
"TRYING TO
LIFE, NOT BEING TOUGH ENOUGH,
•WE HAVE TO BE TORTURED BY
• THE ONES WHO NEVER CÂN. JUST LAY ANYTHING "DOWN: THEY HAVE TO IEAVE IT... S
SOME LADS CAN MAKE A HORRIBLE RACKET IF THE KISSUS FAILS TO BRING HOME AS MUCH CHANGE AS HE EXPECTED FROM THREE BUCKS.
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THE NEW OTHER.
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SELF PORTRAIT OF MUR
DER. By Francis "Bonnamy. Gryphon, 84. tð, 212 pages.
THE death of Jose O'Donnell, artist, satyr, blackmailer and Fascist agent, looks to the unpracticed eyo like a case of suicide. But why. had the artist troubled to paint à ple- ture of himself hanging from the beam before he actually put his head in the noose? --«
The question might have baffled keener .minds than Peter Shane and his fellow de- tectives in Washington, But after untold, brain-beating they find the. answer. You might have suspected
that German refugee know al- together too much about arti. The solution of the problem Involves Shane and Co. on a tour of Washington's enoppleria income-brackets, where they meet among others, a State Do- partment official suffering from' occupational Briticism
D
This is a 'disenso peculiar lo Americanis; its symptom: end- 250 tional paralysis, enabling diplomat to learn of his wife's misbehaviour with unruffled
brow.
Why does the author of an above-average detective story.. use the verb "carcen" to in- dicate movement at high speed when, the dictionary. says “it'?: means to lay a ship on her. side to that she can bo ogulk.... ed?
Can he be thinking of thoj verb "euroof?? Or, is it occu- pational Briticism to ́nak?
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