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4t's Fun Finding Dut' says Wicksteed, when you discover that there are piddocks.in Trafalgar Square, that fresh-water fäh` nevar drink water or that an elephant can drink fourteen gallons at one time,
'It'e Fun Finding Out', how much a llon costs, the use of the maon, who invented, lipstick and, why rabbits swim.
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In this collection of his famous Baturday articlon In the Daily Express, Bernard Wickstead "topics at the commonplace and finde the uncommon.
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, HONGKONG and KOWLOON,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1952.
Te INDONES PART EIGHT?
The Moonlight, And
A Shipboard Romance
KNOW there are many sceptics and soche. wiseucres in the world
who refuse to admit that first love can last,
By RUBY M. AYRES
especially if it comes along background of her believed uffer- having a romance is that it leaves moet him the following day at
when one is very young and inexperienced and is follow ed by an early and Impul- sive marriage.
we
unable
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was, sobbing Her heart out. It aeemed that Mr So-and-So, for the first time admitting that he' loved her, had also broken the news that he was married. He was, in fact, expecting his wife Southampton and, finally, he tion by yet another man.
you 30 unromantic." This could on no account consider A heurtices flirt, you may doesn't, of course, apply to asking his wife, who was cont- think. But at some time or any everyone; but I know one cane pletely devoted to him, for a other in life we are all the vic where it most certainly dkl, and divorce.
Well, the voyage ended tind Of course, it is true that ins of circumstances over which in a very pathetle way.
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came across it whim I was Mr Su-and-So's wife duly arrived to exercise as one grows older one's control-and the result was that returning by from South to meet him as the ship docked. outlook on life and on she wrote yet another letter of Africa. The girl in question was Quite a nice woman who, I am
changes consider regretful farewell to her fiance quite young and very pretty. On sure, did net deserve such an un people ably, and therefore it is attraction cgaged to the latest, the Arat night out we got into worthy husband! My poor little conversation and she told me girl friend kept out of the way only natural that a man of However, there it was and to with amusing frankness that she unth they had gone and then friend or at the enme to me and asked if we whom we probably thought qua her own words, the girl had never had a boy
was firmly convinced that this love affair of any
any sort.
could travel to London together, the world in our late teens
was
vat time lucky"-until,
will come both of
You'll get over it, my dear, early twenties should us happens to most of hy al some "They will
And in 1 tried to nusure her. "And try I assured her. in cur very time or another after a time appear
lives, less than a couple of days my to remember that if he had dull and unattractive, mak- Frie stepped in.
really been in love with you, he She became very friendly with wouldn't have behaved as he ing us wonder what on
a man passenger: lie seemed to did." earth we ever saw in him!
WOR driving an Am be a nice type-sonic years older bulance BL the time than the girl-and Especially, also, it someone
they were had been posted to almost instantly such constant more suited to our incitased ex- perience ecomes along and puts a port at which wounded soi- companions that most of the other were quite mure it voyagers
or
became
SHE
and
Prophecy cen
came true,
the first love firmly into the diers fequently arrived, and cut would end in wodding belig s
backgrotmi
Nevertheless, I know of
day when she was doing he one job with amazing courage and soon as we docked at Southamp-
CAN sill remember the dis- Illusionment on her face when we said good-bye.
case which proves haw true it cheerfulness-it was a tremen totes spent most of the time quite pleased to see me and not
yourth a
a stratsler.
Yeurs inter at a party I sud- denly found myself face to face with Mr So-and-So. He seemed in the least embarrassed-but I knew then he didn't know about his shipboard love-aftale, I felt bound to ask with apparent indifference if he had ever seen my little girl friend since we arrived back from South Africa.
He repeated It certainly looked like it, and vague disinterest and then said: her name with as the days went by she seemed "Oh, I know who you mean, of to grow even prettier and was course. No, I haven't seen her
is that "One always returns to dous shock to her to see her fist
love being carried ashore on a together, playing games, dancing. one's fist love."
walking the desis in the moon- This particula: girl made friendship when he was only He was a very badly wounded light, and It was no surprise to ttle man, but she told me that when me when one day the girl told Eltern with a clder than Hereaf friendship their eyes met and he smiled at me shyly but frankly, that at last which ripenta into deep affection her just as he used to in the old she knew what "alling in love" and which lasted for some years, days it was us if the years be meant, and that she was although as he had very little tween were suddenly wipes out her feelings were reciprocated. oney and no prospects there and her second and third laves became just shadowy figures of was no talk of marriage.
sure
They lived in the same town complete und man the happlest person on the ship. again. Funny, sentimental bit of
She visited the
she
so saw a great deal of one an- other until suddenly her parents in hospital, and although derlied to move to Scotland and knew that his life was in great the girl had to go, with them. danger and he was often quite She was broken hearted at unconscious of her presence, she being forsed to part with her used to hold his hand and whis- bayfriend, but they Eworg-per wor
.words of encouragement, eternal constancy and for many guring him that he would scon
wrote to cne another be well again.
But the final blow fell when prastically every day.
she was told that his left arm had been amputated and that he would probably be a semi-invalid for some time
weeks
THAT was until she, qulie
naturally for one so young. Brew a little weary of a love which could only be expressed by pen and ink.
come.
THE voyage was almost at an
wasn't she?" and 00
don't know how I refrained
end when she came to my cable from boxing his ears, because it
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time to Did the walk out and leave on.
him? On the contrary-for she What she wanted to know was: had profoundly realised by then did I think Mr So-and-So was how true it is that "Absence is really in love with her. Although So perhaps quite unconsciously to love what wind is to fire: it he had made love to her he had she began to look round for a puts out the little and kindies never said a word about the more Interesting distraction, the great and that in spite of future or spoken of marriage. which being an attractive girl; the tragic misfortune which had tried to cheer her up by saying she very quickly found.
befallen hir while doing his that perhaps he was waiting She could, never really have duty to his country he was the until they knew one another bet- Joved her first boy friend, you one and only man she had ever ter. may think. Perhaps not, for it is really loved.
true that "Abicnee is
is to love what wind is to fire; it puts out the little and doindles the great."
I
ATER stili—it must have been almost ten years after our met
voyage home, together-1 his victim again.
She still looked pretty, but
there was a certain hardness in
her face which told its own story, and something so different in
married.
At any rate she wrote to her THEY married as soon as he couldn't imagine fe without cort of nonsense, for ever.
although for a long time she had was up and about again, and
to do everything for him she did
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her personality that I asked her SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST LTD., If she were engaged or "Are you sure you are really She laughed but her eyes in love with him?" I asked her, didn't, "No, thank you," she and her answer was that she just said. "I've finished with all that
first love and told him she had
learnt my lesson, as you know him.
I promised to keep my Angera tried to convince hot that met another man who meant for
crossed for her. But, alas, on there were hundreds of decent sore to her than he had ever it with the utmost willing happi- did not put in an appearance at foolishly allow one disappoint- the last night of the voyage she men in the world, so why done, and although she was ex-ness, with
never A sign of re- 4remely sorry and hoped he
and as a mere onlooker dinner and I noticed that Mr So- ment to spoil her whole life, would forgive her, their friend gret, and
am convinced that their hap-and-go hardly touched his food. Qulto useless! And I am ship must end.
For the first time since I had afraid I found myself pines will be unending.
hoping "What did he say?" 1 asked-Which is far more than the known him he looked gim and most devoutly that one day Mr her when, some time afterwards,
unsmiling.
So-and-So would receive the punishment he so richly merited.
she told me the story.
Nothing," the answered. "He never answered my letter, and I don't know what has became of him,"
deserves, you may think. And of course many of her so-called friends prophesied that such marriage could not succeed, and that one day yet another man
would come along and
again take her Bekle fancy
She became engaged, to her second love, and for a time all went well until World War II who has travelled the
I don't agree. For like broke out and life was suddenly
one
anything but one glad, sweet to be the only
over, believing foreign countries
song, for the second love was
world
happiness and on returning home,
called up. Once again she was who yet,
realises ""England with all thy faced with loneliness and dis- faults,
I love thee still," this girl 1201 appointment.
This flme, however, she took that her first love was really her was fortunate enough to discover a much wiser outlook on life and only love, and although her life volunteered for one of the may not turn out to be the care- women's Services, looking very froe existence we all hope for, smart and attractive in her I am confident that all wil be uniform.
She turned out to be very capable. And before long her recond love--who was far away on the other side of the world was in his turn relegated to the
well.
THINK it was, Oscar Wilde who wrote "The worst off
Well, I want to the girl's cabin later that evening and there sho
(More Next Saturday)
ACHESON GETS BY AS CUPID
From R. M. MacCOLL
MERICAN Secretary of dent of the New York Times,
home, what Congress thinks it
Germans and
French to kiss
normally the bad boy of Congress, suddenly emerges wants, namely a promise by the from the Lisbon talks as their prince of good fellows, and make up..
Why? James Reston, the "Second, he played Cupid on brilliant diplomalle correspon- this venture, and played it with
great skill.
IKES BUROPEAN
ESTIMATES FOR 1953
EWING THE PAPER TROOPS
Third, he handled 'things Extremely weh, adopting the technique of 'talking poor just before the big text, and then producing 'victory' at the last minute...For. once, Acheson's homecoming to" Washington promises to be tranquil
,:
ENVY, revenge, and patrio- tism in that order are off- elally given as the motives that lead to informing" by private citizena on tax dodgers
Last year informers collected half a million dollars in re- wards for their tips and the Treasury picked up nearly ten million.
*SILVER - ITAIRED Elmer Davis, boss of America's Office ot War Information last time, and now back on his regular job as u top radio commentator, wisecracks about the bán or Canadian meat imports Into the United Stater to
bocquse of foot, and my
mouth disease In
sense In Saskat chowan: "We might be gra
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not responding with a bar for not
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