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16 GO BACK TO Ho. 6
THE CASH
M
ONEY: Like most people, I was born with none and had to acquire some before I could learn what life was like when it was gone.
Beis always more interest ed in what you can get for it than in the stuff itself, I have never bothered to check up su how much I've got unif amount becomes so small it in very casy to ste,
by Fer
AND I
But if in the past, through lack of interest, I have appear- ed somewhat slow at paying nut, it is to my credit that I am even more slow at gather- ing it in.
TE the
I had a useful indicates that it was time to be accumulating Roine wealth to provide necessities of life.
the
littlo
My foot connected with a hot cigarette-end through a hole in my sole, causing me to leap very high in the air.
• •
when
· ·
the love of money is not the root of all evil it in pretty hearly. For instance:
SAVE IT and collect a large bank account, and you're મ miser.
BLOW IT as fast as you get It, and they'll call you a waster.
IF YOU give it to charity, they'll say you're doing it to save tax. IF YOU don't, they'll say you're mean,
IF YOU die leaving a for tunc, all except those who cash fool not to have enjoyed while you were olive.
T CO all the way. wh Jack
Hylton's remark that he is working on a show there are so many problems seething through
the his mind that money element really does not enter into it.
It seldom enters mine, and when it does it is always some- one else who reminds me that It must sometimes De given consideration. Income tax men are particularly allergic to this weakness of mine,
CHAPMAN PINCHER'S COLUMN
What Makes
You Tired
UNMEN who want to be really quick on the draw should use the little finger for pressing the trig- ger. It reacts three times as fast as the forefinger when the brain orders it to move, Oxford University psychologists report.
The middle finger is the next speediest, followed by the ring-finger, and thumb, with the so-called trigger finger lying a bad fifth.
›
at
IF YOU did enjoy it while you were alive, what they'll Day when
you die leaving nothing couldn't be printed.
or otherwise the › more. you'll have to part will.
money
Up goes your salary and 'up goes the size of your car and up goes the size of your garage bills.
Get a bigger house and up the number of week-end visi- tors and up. For the house- keeping.
the
Get a better job and higher go the standards you are ex- pected to live up to, so up
tailor's bills-until get so rich that to go with the behind out of trousers is no longer a sign of poverty but of privilege,
•
you around your
LE
In comes HEN one day
Government which reducer the cost of living (just like it sold it would before it was clected), and you're right back where you started-wearing that inte red old cut from necessity. But you won't be ont.
S taking it all round, there doesn't seem to be any paint in worrying about money, because What's that you say, dear?
IF YOU spend your life buy....A message from the editor ing friends drinks in pubs, mentioning that after reading you're il "drunk." IF YOU all this he has decided to do don't you're a "knocker," me a favour by knocking my
Another thing: The more salary in half?
dishonestly money you collect
Oh, I say....Look here.
Sitting
nuditi club you simply forget you have no clothes on. Standards of conversation Bigher then outside."From An article by Dudley Barker.
I
N the club smoking- room, a male member
guest.
is entertaining a male
How do you like it here?
One has to get wand to it,
10000]
OPERATING
Rolom
London Express Service
ALY FINDS OUT WHAT IT'S LIKE
From IAN DUNBAR
Calcutta.
PRINCE ALY KHAN has discovered
what it is like to be treated as a god.' Sought by beautiful women the world over, Prince Aly found himself during his recent tour of India, adored by the Koin community-the Muslim sect headed by his father the Aga Khan,
In previous visits to India, Prince Aly has been kept in the background while gold-turbanned devotees prostrated themselves before his famous father.
The Aga Khan, reputed descendant of the prophet Mähommed, 15" more than his people's leader; he is considered sinless, incred and above the law,
The Koja community in India, numbering 120,000 is one of the wealthiest in the world. Its members are reputed to possess more jewels than anyone else in India,
Originally an excommunicated Hindu merchant caste in Surat, West India, they were converted to Isiam about six centuries ago by Aga Khan's evangelising forefather, who became their mullah or high priest.
The sect spread its business activities with the growth of British power, and today Koja merchant princes direct big trading business in East Alrien, Malaya; Burma, Indonesia ng well as throughout
india.
MOST
Read Koran
of the Indian Kojas, however, live around Bamboy, where Aly Khan began and hurriedly ended his tour.
by
State..
Aly visited community gatherings in the West Indian
and flew capital
private Dakota to con- duet weddings in Baroda and Bombay Wearing faultless tropical suitings and a Persian wool cap, he read excerpts from the. Koran and accepted fees on behalf of his father ranging from ten to thirty thousand pounds sterling a time.
He is extimated to have collecteď £100,000 during his eight-day tour. Part of this money he will give to charity.
Unlike the Aga Khan, who has been known to deal sharply with his followers, Prince Aly carried out his duties quietly and without fuss. He did not bid up the bridegrooms' guarantees ns the Aga Khan was prone to do,
All Koja bridegrooms pledge big sums on marriage. Divorce is 30 casy among the Muslims -the husband has only to say "I divorce you" three times before witnesses that it is necessary
for the wife to be well ed for in advance.
on the Fence... by
NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
There was the case of a girl shillelaghs for St Patrick's Day
What happened to the naked who grew at the rate of an inch celebrations in America. old lady who spilled a plate a minute while her startled
of scalding sp down herself? family was at dinner.
I didn't notice she was naked.. By the time they reached the
I bet she did, And what sweet, her head had shot
abou!
the
jat
talio 700
Ideal husband
--
At a
provid-
a big Koja wedding the bridegroom usually donates about £50,000. But this Was not enough for the Aga Khan di a Calcutta wedding last year. He told the stupefied relatives and quests;
guarantees or case, the
leave
The endearing, can be just a teeny-perspiring mil
millionaire
father of weeny bit trying to a serious-the bridegroom hurriedly offer- ed £70,000; The Aga Khan minded girl of 25 who wants to
turned towards the door. A seltle down to a quiet home life. hundred thousand-he paused-
"At that age they are either one hundred and fifty thousand
-the Aga Khan restless, dragging you out to opened the Koran.
parties or dances night after night, or given to moping ni home because they feel they have been caught in the toils of matrimony too young.
reverently
Club Together
"On the other hand, marriage together
mass
Poorer members of the com→ munitymall merchants In the £1,000 a year class club
for
marriages. lo a man of 105 has few advan-Two such ceremonies awaited Prince Aly at Madras and Nag- many old men are marrying
Sums were contributed pur. young women that the time tages, except that you know ItPrin approaching
when women's can't lart very long.
jointly by all the familles ac- will be obliged to
cording to
could magazines
"Although, at that age, they afford. encourage
reader
Interest by publishing a new version of that will understand you, if they are
However, latal cost of a big old best-seller, "At,what age are still capable of understanding Koja wedding, after the distri- anything; and, although you buiten of jewel-studded pre- men most attractive?"
won't have much cooking to do, rents and a week
at feasting,
Firemen,
is
dropped an oyster on his naked through the ceiling. stomach and jabbed a fork working, feverishly, were able to cut a hole in the roof before her into 12 Was his stomach naked?
head want through that, too..
Didn't you hear him yeli- ing?
I say, is that, somebody on fire in the armchair?
And who was
Aspirins and hot milk will do no harm, though the best treat-
"Is 00 too young and 105 tou
what
they
I expect a member A pistol would have to be
has ment is to remove the patient as old?' is a question I am always except soft things like gruel, Is remetimes as high as £100,- dropped lighted spneictly designed to be red chest.
match on his quickly as possible to a large being asked by girls contemplat. think a husband who is usually 000. 1:
huppens irzquently with the little finger. But with here. Cigarette?
will make your ing matrimony," a heart-to-heart sound asleep buliding like the Albert Hall, a reaction time of only three
specialist will be writing before evenings rather serie. No thanks. tenths of second
n
long.
"To all of them I answer, 'Somewhere between the two is the ideal.'
compared with nine-tenths for the fore- Anger it might make all the dif- ference in 3 pistols-for-two and-coffee-for-one affair.
THE JITTERS Because the trembling of a frightened rifleman's hand may pol him off his target, War Office scientists are trying to find out exactly why we get the jitters.
They have now disclosed dis- ceveries they have made with an ingenious machine built to record the finest finger tremors. Though you may not notice it, your muscles begin to trem- ble slightly when asked an em- barrassing question, Major Joseph Redfearn reported. A soldier. sked sex question, recorded a line so. wobbly that It looked like a profile of the Himalayas.
But you may also begi tremble slightly when asked about something in which you are deeply interested,
Tremor disappears when you relax completely. But it comes on when you do any muscular WATH.
lunch
that fine, handsome, Junorsque Three a minute girl carving chicken at the eide Sible? Hend waitress? You mean the
with the....?
Yes, that's
....
Um?
ane
the one. With THE mest frightening statistics 'state that the population of
Well, you know what
mean. You mean the one with the
ra her large flat feet?
I have read for a long time
1 Japan is increasing at the rate
of 1,400,000 every year.
Unless my sums
are wrong,
I thought pou didn't notice this means that three nasty things like that in this club? little babies, who will grow We me permitterl to Rolice into nastier little men
feet.
Growing girl
My daughter has ruddenly shot up to Kft. 10īns. This has made her awkward in manner, az well as movement..........”—A mather complaining to a columnist.
and
women, are born in Japan every minute of the 24 hours.
What makes it worse, is a report that the custom of com- mitting hara-kiri is dying out.
not Japanese do
now silek
knives in their tummies, unless oro iroulled beyond
"they
Street quack, writes:- R GUBBINS, the Ficet repair,"
Vital details are missing here, which makes it difficult to arrive to at an accurate diagnosis.
makes
During Prints Aly's tour a slight hitch developed over the problem of drink. Kojas me "Therefore, I think 08 or 97tectotal but bcileve wins turns to water when it touches inc are the ideal ages.
Aga Khan's lips. The sama applies
on. The Bombay to his son, "Unless abnormal, a man of prohibitionist government did "For, in these days, a man of 97 has had his fling, can still be not share this view and Prince a drinkless 90, although too, too attractive attractive, if not too hairy, and Aly officially had with his strong, bristly whiskers, is still young enough to keep stay, Sacks had been laid in and vigorous cough, has all the awake till supper time."
for him at Nagpur, the only
his four where impetuosity, and
place on impatience of
still possible to buy liquor. youth. Such qualities, however
→London Express Service)
It is
Mr Five Percent Is Well Again
By CHARLES FOLEY
eluded
the
Lisbon, Mar. 20, whlic-coated doctor AR Five Percent is on pleted the circuit, paused, and security net, scecsted Mr. Gul-
his feet again. After
walked alowly round
a secret assassination scare
more.
AL
Frenchman He com- n
once tanklan and warned. Him that an attempt was to be maile upon his life,
for
the
This bit of bad news, added) and a three-weeks' battle 3. p.m. he culled
He said a group of French of walters Juncheon; A flight tho alleged benefits of with pneumonin, the mys- carried little tables, spirit lamps Communists were to be dis
burder in a advanced medical science and terious. British oil king, and liver dishes to his multe. Mr patched over the
#Calouste Gulbenkian, has Gulbenkian likes to see his week's time to liquidate "The
Oil King." Police took For instance, we do not know modern sanitation,
the majority will resumed his way of life once food cooked under his how tall the girl was before she certain that shot up to Bft. 101ns, or if it survive
God: conced under his now he Frenchman away, for questions unless millions of more.
told the chefs who cook special fng-he has not been agen happened over a period of a year, voluntoers go out to Japan at
ly to please him, "and I am in- thee. And the hotel has been six months, or overnight.
Once and Insult all native adults | At noon today there was a torested in very little beside put under minute and constant
cheek. #inting** chen on washday is de humid The word "suddenly suggesta for hours on end without offer- uerect, stir on the first floor patio of Avix Hotel, where 25 and as exhausting on a steam- overnight. If this is co, and the Ing any kind of apology of of the world's ellia are waited Ing West African swamp, Dr'girl was only 5ft. tell the day redress except a carving knife.
upon by 127 servants. A door Guy Crowden claimed.
before, it is probably a cage, of
opened. Mr Gulbenkian, One
Most trembling time: after
WASHDAY BLUES The average housewife's kit-
Dr Crowden recorded wash-"Giraffe'a Disease," which,
•
In a dining room a detective sat at the table next to Mr Gulben- Gulbenkian's comer, Mr Gulbenkian, however, is Otherwise, the rate of three of the world's richest men, op- still extremely concerned with klan said he could order, what- ever he led, then had the day temperatures and blood although unusual, is not un- bables a minute will increase peared,
has multi-million oil holdings. mortification of watching his pressures. He found that pulse known to medical history.
until there are countless hordes rale slumps rapidly as heat and
For a moment he peered over Just before his illness an Iraq bodyguard roleeting the most moisture accumulate in the kit- Sometimes the patient grows either jumping into uniform to the gallery which overlooks the oil deal netted him his usual fabulous dishes and wines for
five percent-a tpiąt of £750; every meal. st a Billy easy pace of about murder those who are re-arming | richly-carpeted vestibule Few of
the women realised two inches a day, which gives them, or staying at home tot inpestries and coats of arms, 000 a year. SOUTH CHINA Morning Post LTD., that by ventilating the kitchen relatives time to stations to breed like rabbits and imitate Hartweed sult hung in his his secretary to dietate stack ungenerous. He han "just pre-
NOW ON SALE at
Hong Kong & Kowloon.
These amended forms are now in force.
chen.
they could avoid giving them in for structural alterations to zelves a. turkish bath while do- the house.
brown
of
And this evening he called. Not that Mr Gulbenkian Is
cables to money centres or anted & £250.000 collection of the world and to examine every paintings to Lisbon, This Is Then, stop by painful stop, detall of his accounts, a tiny part of his vast hit collec- Secret police keep loss tions in London, Paris and According to a New York 83-year-old Me Gulbenkian not doors washday
message, they have already been to work to walk around the watch on Mr. Gulbenkian's America thoreauires he
Just before, his illness owns, but never, BOTA, cunning enough to supply gallory, closely followed by a enfety,
overy saleable commodity, from whisky to Easter eggs,
shrunken frame.
ing the weah,
When Dr. Crowden
opened
windows and
Weariness was cut down
(London, Express Service)
When, the patient grows at a Ereater pace, the situation be- comes as fantastic as a page out of "Alice in Wonderland."