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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1952.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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4 Fleet (5).
7 Tale (8).
B Mistake (5).
Walk heavily (0).
11 Slim (7).
13 Tu aside (7),
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18 Cunning (5).
19 Plunders (8).
20 Dandies (6),,
21 Discourage (6).
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3 Objection (7).
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Trespasses (8).
6 Extreme fright (6).
Laid bare (1).
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THIS DREAM MEANS: Look Ilke sliter trouble. Each plece wood
and
Field
Notc
Book
of
by
G. A. C. HERKLOTS
Revised and enlarged edition
$7.50
ON SALE AT
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.
HONGKONG AND KOWLOON
turns Into alster: it re- fures to burn
with others: being
the
down well: you тападо to save it
with dimeul-
ty.
YOU WERE TRYING TO LIGHT A FIRE BUT THE WOOD SLIPPED THROUGH YOUR FINGERS AND DOWN.A WELL IN THE BOTTOM OF THE GRATE. AS EACH PIECE FELL IT TURNED INTO ONE OF YOUR
SISTERS
LOVE IN HONGKONG
Dr. Elizabeth Tang (Now Comber) Tells A Great Love Story
REVIEWED BY SUE DAWSON
China, are sent abroad to study and then return from Ufe academic abstractions of West to the stari warts of the East." So it is that in facing different questions, we exhibi different characters. One of the real, unsettling problems, to which eloquently discussed, Conditioned by it is difficult to do Juice in her peculiar cir- out-of-the context snatches like
theac.
"A MANY SPLENDOURED. It is with all things under. Important thing in, tha book, too. THING" by Han Suyin. Heaven, to whom all things are Everything olse is inextricable,
equal."
int background, (Jonathon Capo 157-)'
Dr Ilan for the author is "Hongkong is a funny place;
Doctor of like a ship, and you never know a London-trained TT is in the words of what, is going to happen to Medicine has a heritage from Francis Thompson that people on a ship" sald someone both East and West, and intel- Mark Ellott and Han Suyin to Han Suyin bot long after she lectually, all the assets of both
hod arrived, with her mall worlds. describe their love as a daughter, from many-splendoured thing. England But
Suy
thought "The angels keep their
che know exactly cient places: ---
what
in to Turn but a stone and start a
One wingi
an-
"Ta ye, us your estranged
Inces
That
mito tho many- splendourod thing."
But it is in Shelley's words that one could describo this book which in its wholeness, "Life, like a dome of coloured
with Blass" Anamuting the stuff of every
many
love
day into something significant, tremulously alive.
are turned and
Many stones every chapter starts more than one iridescent wing.,
"Life, like a dome of many-
coloured gingsTM Staine the white radiance of
eternity..."
So many colours, but through It all there is this feeling of elemily's white radiance, Han Suyin's great faith in continuity, that levelling and timelessness which Third Uncle in his beau- tiful brush-written letter cap tures thus: "As in the wheel, the empty spaces as the spokes fashion its virtue as a wheel, so
happen.
taying she thought was that, love,
of which sho
had some experi--
ence, could not possibly happen to her againy and certainly
never upset _ail But her plans,
then Mark Ellott, the foreign cok- resden of d well-known
tish
Br..
newspaper,
'HAN SUYIN'
cumstances, first
ir
Asia, then
The same balanced view, stem- in Europe, and ming from a deep awareness of then balanced on the motion, colours, 1bvs. (ho "get-wet loyalties and hates of living con- -wetcentrated in a little space, fanned
between
Pock"
mwareness shar***
both, her malumot by China's hot flame on one side and licked by the West's cold pened by the draught of reasoned bewilder multitude
and ment on the other, oqmes to bear оп all the variousness which varlely of her experience, there makes up life in Hongkong On the missionaries forced, from Le probably no their China-numbed, hurt of person more philosophical the New Chin suited to present whose seeds they helped to sow what is the with their campaigns for social first story to service, health, honesty be written about more hospitals; on the Chinese Hongkong and refugees, the wealthier ones its environs since doing their own
kind of Somerset Maug-
and
unsung relief opera au har..
had not yet ar rived. "At their first meeting
ham dipped his
bouring of hordes of relatives (to quote the
searing pen inte friends and friends of friends dust-cover) the
the controversini On, doctors, government offices miracle occurred. It was nots, ink of "A Painted Veil". Both individual Americans, the Enge it could not be love. They did not
have been students of surgery ish, the little close-knit cliques. believe in love, an emotion and both have the surgeon's of social life, on inevitable trivial and insignificant com- instinct to expose and if neces- evils, on people and more people, pered to the mighty upheavals sary to use the knife on what is and on all the beautiful things of the Asiatic Revolution Bretton and corrupted. "I try to which they were, plunged. But tell the
Truth, truth.
liko Sur
so that the words relled like,
mirror but in sharper, more vivid for them this personal, human gery, may hurt, but it cures outlines the colours and conflicts emotion which changed their are Dr Han's own words about of contemporary China and lives was more important than this book. She uses her knife Hongkong. anything else." It is the most with a superb sureness which
in no way kills her under- -standing of the patient,
IT WAS ONLY BY CLUTCHING THEIR HANDS THAT YOU SAVED THEM FROM. SUPPING OUT
OF SIGHT
Which suggests you feel apart in relation' to 'your sisters, their help but despite Ik. Youlare trying to bulid a warm famlly They are wooden, they, do not feel as you do. You cannot start 'splationship but without co-operation. afre with the wood, La., you cannot create a Warin and friendly. Your sister relationship wants watching or you may develop atmosphere with their help. You save the situation not with a Cinderella complex.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"YOU SAID YOU'D BE READY IN FIVE. MINUTES: I'VE BEEN WAITING TWENTY
WITH THE MOTOR.
RUNNING...
"WELL I CANT GO LOOKING, LIKE A TRAMP,
CAN
"NO, THANKS!
NO, AO NO, NO, NO, HO
NO/
HAVE YOU A LITTLE BOTTLE- NECK IN YOUR HOME → WE'LL BET YOU HAVE AND WE ONLY BET ON SIRE THINGS.
SINGER
THAVES
MASSAGES HOT TOWEL MUD PICK
IP. YOU WART FIVE DOLLARS YOU CAN GET. OIT AN HISTLE FOR IT
LIKE!!
· HAD TO
ANOTHER FINANCIAL BOTTLENECK IS THE
LAD WITH THE HIGH- PRESSURE RESISTER..
"MERE SEEMS ALWAYS TO BE: A BOTTLENECK ON TREA ROAD TO THE POT OF GOLD
YEM!
COPIL INI TY CENTRAL FEATURES
• CORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
More Bottlenecks
PRACTICALLY
EVERY PARTY, LINE HAS ITS: OWN BOTTLE-
HECK.
THE BOTTLENECK ON THE ROAD TO ROMANCE:/
THE OLD-FASHIONED FATHER, WHO WON'T LET HER GO OUT ANY- WIERE...AND STICKE AROUND LIKE AN UNDERSHIRT ON A HOT AIGAT
"THE CRITICS TIE ASPIRING "YOUNG AUTHORS' BOTTLENECKE
NOTHIN DONY NO MORE O!!
HE CUFF
*
*
Here is the essential' Chinese: dilemma; their passionate fustine tive desire to be associated with their own people, right or wrong, an essentially nationalistic urge, with its deep sympathy for tho
It is this strength that enables impulses which set the whocks her to dissent, with penetrating tur
turning. On the other hand insight; such 'anomalies'
as their horror at the virulent way Eurasianism. The mid-way rock in which the New Order in all raw humbug is with the land wind howling on its murderous,
side and the sea's roar on being forced on the people, the 'her. "Racial Eurasianism, ing them anew with chains. Here is not worth talking or
cand
bind-
about. It is a small, ho chineze, Chinese, gifting on, the
are the Red Chinese, the White"-"
prejudice....
If some racial fence Han Suyin affirms the
hunger: of... Eurasians carry chips on their old eternal truths; the
beings after moro shoulders, resent the Whites, human
it is be than the bread of life. For Man' cause they apa
of would always strive to co living and White injustices.... the
grumble at incq440390 world, to establish the
There is no problem for Eura of men in the name of his God, sians who accept their Asiatic Will banners and shouting side. But intellectual Eurasianism legions and crosses, eagles and afiets many young Asians and suns, with slogans and blood. Feet in the dust, best among has nothing to do with race."".
tha stars
And in a different Thus, Dr Han comes to constrain, written with the sparkle. sider the "spilt, two-layered of a summer den in sun-le kwe souls" of those, who grow up in watched the acylics at dusk
By KEMP STARRETT
DO YOU. KROW HOW MUCH I HAVE TO PAY OUT IN TAXES THIS YEAR
:
30%
SOME GALS EVEN GO TO THE TROUBLE OF MARRYING. ONE OF THOSE PERPETUAL FINANCIAL
BOTTLENECKS.
THEY SAY THERE ARE BOTTLENECKS EVEN IN THE: BOTTLE GOODS BUSINESS.
✔ AND WHAT DO YOU PROPOSE TO FALD, TAIS
BEHEMOTA.. OLD NEWS-
·PAPERSS
ARD OF COURSE COME OF THE BERT MARRY BOTTLENECK
rake gold and emerald and tar- quoise out of the earth, and wille stars,-anonymous heads at a thientire filcony, peer. numerous and cold from vacuous sky.
All the famillar things wo know and half know become, enchantingly alive, from. king fishers.. and swallowtaliq beauhinias and "lady slipper orchida with their pple speckled lips to the p the old "Grippa
that
Bealing restaurants of Aberdeen and the harcourt
pur? "Largo ships, d-sprawl like cockroaches on their backs,
and funneld
their focting like
CruncJ
from their bellies. cling to their flanks uke ante swarming, Funky the dead Iriseot Skifte like small spring butterflies skim the top of the water. A whitestroyer. Aldes
lazily past
Squat farries ply their shallow furrow balween the land and Kowlcon. The cream-colourat Macao baat cuts tiraight, through the pliant water no scissors through silk..
Han Suyin is able to give ench word a soul as well no a meaning, and this is perhaps the greatest
It a writer can have Frem; : theso two hundred thousand, words transpires an immenso
de for human life and ex
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But for all its value a document on life here today, the book is above,
01
kely
fovo, and such that i to bo Tanlood with
semo of
the
greatest lova
stories writion Yet.min.
and
may not love too much, Suyin and Mark Elloth, know- ing this, attempted to plecato the jealous goda for an uneeth ly happiness so great that ""everylling was alive, even the under out, fect"
slopes
Pres
we invoked those
piteri esorced that t
about by the senhore, among
the graves, in the woods; spirits of water, half-dry
ed by akimpy camurtinair, spirits of earth, leaf, kren," flower, rast, Reverence we exhibited toward their invisible manifestati and a touching, bem!-carnest cult came to us spontaneousl But Mark
woleed and thoʻqu
wth belovedl £2. by the gods en well, and there is a saying "Thooo whom the gods love die young". Thus it was Ham Buyin was loft alive, with a Fort of Incandescent: Blue hai death-dodying, "Death to only an decident, what matters, lệ ife”, the caya,
Told with complete honest transpareully incore, 40 bei ful story unfolding wilki Inevitability of dawn, "MU Splendoured Thu thoma Dories, that sit privilego
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