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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, -- 1952.
SALOON
Despondency among the little onos overhearing Father Christmas discussing in very unseasonablo- terms tho suggestion that shopworkers should work longer hours.
66T
-(London Express Service)
An Innocent
explores
PATER
by GEORGE SCOTT and artist PETER KNEEBONE
the Grand Illusion
However much we may grow up, we all take part each year
in preserving an atmosphere in home and shop which we are careful to explain is "entirely for the children"
HE board," said said the small boy, with a
the man in the triumphant smile.
Ah, blessed youth.... Big Store, "has decided to pre-
"Gay," said" the young serve the illusion of Father-woman, "is kept under lock and key." Pagan Sin, on the other Christmas."
hand, was there on the counter for all to see,
Never (he said), if the board, or he, could avoid it, should a careless whisper or a printed word destroy the the myth for Innocent children.
an
See what I mean, mother? Hard luck....
"Things are cheaper this year," the mon in the Big Store had said.
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How much would 'Pugan Sin' be, please...?
ONLY TWO SURVIVED.
by Nathaniel Gubbins
pack them
8 stilettos are being Yum people who
Gold 40 Christmas under ident conditions in pace.
kety of ten or 20, or special da presents, and Christ-, tuxe boxes of 60. mas puddinge are being I wish I hadn't · bought --my- - X-rayed for nails and mother a bottle of British-type screws found in a consign- port for Christmas now.
She would have had a much ment of dried fruit, it looks merrier Christmas-on a packet like being the jolliest of ten Dreamlands and a car- Christmas we have had for ton of Cellophane-wrapped
Yum-Yum sandwich a long time,
That pic' would.·' MARA | 7 To add to the general galety, Remember, too, that all dopo an American device for pinning manufactured by Yum-Yum is up the sagging facts of aging British dope and therefore the women-fa expected, fowl Dest-best
| has, broken out
has been found in baby's food.
mouse say, I feel as if I could
Jump over the moon.
Have another Yum-Yum condwich and you will.
and the medient Press has dis- covered at Inst that wo are probably being poisoned by the addition of chemical preserya- tives to our dally diet.
Sp here, to cheer you up, is an impression of a Christmas party 1952. There are only two Survivors,
How many in hospital-now?
All of them but us,
don't feel very well.
Has Uncle Frod had
ricmach pump?,
You.
What did they and?
tho
A
"Perchance to Dream'
Bay
per-
GIRL wrilca In to "As youte. so clover about birthdays, and astrology, haps you can tell us the mean- ing, of dreams?" Certainly, Hero are some to go on with,
ALTAR: A dream about an
Van
altar indicates that a wedding will be announced, but not
vours:ESMAID: Remember the
A couple of nails from the old tong "Always a brides-
pudding
And Aunt Emily?
She was unlucky. A scrow in her mince pie.
She always bolted her food, the greedy pls...
Talking of bolts I feel full of them. And nuts,
too.
How many people did young Raymond stab with his stiletto? Three, including his grand
mother.
I thought he was so fond of | his grandmother.
He was unill the pins holding up her face gave way. Her cheeks collapsed when she was kissing him goodnight. I think he was only frightened,
Poor little chap. Who's that crying upstairs?
α
maid, but never
brido"
That's you all over, dear.
BELLS: Elther that horrid
girl next door is getting mar- ried,
or the mullin màn is go- ing to make a pass at you.
CAGE. Represents the "old bome you will never leave.
DRESS: It morning, after noon or evening it's the dress you can't afford; if a wedding dress, the one you will wear
EGGS: You're suffering from night
"
nover
starvation, FLIRTING: This dream will never become a reality, unless it's that old mufla man again.
GLOVES: Endiess houseworkc for you.
HONEY: If you think this an American.sweetheart,
It's the baby. He's swallowed moans mouse.
As hungry as all that? No. It tar in his bottle. Do you mind ringing for the am- bulance?
Nuts and bolts worrying you? A bit.
I think I'll come along, too,
you're crazy. More likely,
hot-water
you're going to be stung by a beard
ICE: You need a bottle in your bed.
JEWELS
May indicato a gift", of almost any piece of jewellery but an engagement ring. Or
Either the turkey had fowl perhaps there's a burglar
post or the custard was poison-
ed by preservatives.
Oh, well, Happy Christmas. Same to you.
British and best
NOW that Indian hemp plan-
your room.
KISS:
The man who kisses you in your dreams will never be your husband. Not even if It's the muffin man.
MARRIAGE: It's that giri next door again,
NAVY: Don't get excited about this dream. You're not a tations have been found sailor's type.-- near Birmingham, and more of
Now
ORANGE BLOSSOM; That
the stuff that Alla reefer girl next door is getting in your
cigarettes has been discovered hair.
growing-in-back
London and
T
gardens...in PADLOCK: Wake up. Per Liverpool, we haps there is
is a burglar in your *This is a really charming
might have
even Jollier room after all. little gift," said the young
Christmas but for the narrow- QUEUE: Men are not lining -woman in the Exclusive Store,
minded official attitude towards up for your favours. Could be We had reached the exotic with its chandellers, its thick-
of war-time viope.
happy memories
· អ៊sh and exciting world of perfumes pile carpets, and its
If the regulations were
queues, world so many women painless velvet touch.
faxed, this kind of advertise after the muffin man.
RIVAL: Some other giri'a commonplace. "This" was a model of Father "space suits," assumed an air rent would be. visit in the hope of preserving important llusions than
SOLDIER: If more
you includo Under a drawing of an elegant British, American, NATO, and that of Father Christmas..
Christmas in a sleigh drawn by as aloof as Everest.
hostess smoking a reefer aud one reindeer with nothing so
But look what she had to offering refreshment to hand- Russian troops, there are more We lingered over the delicate vulgar as a red nose. hand of the assistant, inhaling
counting the the heady aromas. And I dis-
It was more than 3ft. long, modelled children, in immacu- some, laughing guest in even than 10,000,000 soldiers in the Chineso And not one of them would appear: brooks, At the entrance we covered how she rids her hand The sleigh was lit by elim glers late riding habits, mounted on/ing dress, the following Hialogue world, without
of all those clinging and candle-shaped lamps containing pontes, following the hounds to
Have a cocaine sandwich?
If you can smell it, ficting scents. She scrubs and coloured liquids. The heads of a well-bred fox's lair. washes In the ordinary way,
the reindeer and the man with Price: $50 each.
say, this is jolly good. and then perfumes again-with the sackful of dreams nodded
See "Soldier," You said it. Yum-Yum 10 And that goes for the navies lavender water, which, it seems, rhythmically.
a sandwich
filling
made
worldt hygienic factories of the finest and air forces of the is proof against Bny exotic
100: perfume.
cocaine available and guaran-
VALENTINE: Normally, this teed pure. Try a Dreamland?
A reefer cigaretio?
He led 19 to admission-free fairyland of and babbling butterflies
watched a man in Micaw berish garb chuck the in- nocents under their chubby chins before passing them
On.
This gentleman, We gathered, was a sort of Ride-de-camp to Father Christmas.
2
Oh, so useful
сол-
offer instead: meticulously
Oh, the noise
And
"Charming." I agreed. then I was told the price: "Only $1,000."
T
.
went on our way
inferno of a popular store's toy basement.
Wmally descended into the
It was already sold. Here was everything a mil- Ilonalro or a dollar-exile, could In
partitioned-off TN Hardware, confirmed desire. An exquisite Christmas Womanhood clucked over the dressing-room right in the what I had suspected: that cracker, for instance, fashioned darlingest dolls; manhood pros-
Itselt we when it comes to a Christmas like an orchid and containing a trated iniddle
before of fairyland,
electric Crains and football games: foot, blew found his double. He sat in present for mother, the choice necklace, Cost: $50.
childhood his shirt-sleeves, sweating is often dreary and unimagina-
It is true, as artist Peier, whistles, tooted trumpets. Kneebone observes, in make-up, eating his lunch
that one. of joint, mashed, and peas,
Oh, so exciting
WE had hoped for a word
tive.
She will get Something Use- assistant, when asked about Oh oh, Christmas!" ful, of course, Clever manu-
facturers may try to kid her
and her donors that she is getting Something Different
this year.
with Father Christmas
Bul a Biscuit tin, Or tea himself. But he was too endly, or spice jar does not busy for private conversu- change ita utilitarian nature has pretty tion. So we stood near him just because It
flowers or okle-worldo todies
and listened in to his public painted on it. chit-chat.
"Sales of these thiore multi-
for
Be
the house is.ou are.
! Thanks awfully. Yum, yum. too.
what
fun.
say,
UNIFORM:
Baby spiv
means news of an old admirer: But as you haven't any, bar is right, One Dreamland tho muffin man, it doesn't mean drives away all care and makes a thing, you think you are the Sultan of Zanzibar.
Really? Then, although they are ten shillings" each, suppose
cigarettes in the long run,
Much cheaper. What's more they are also made by the Yum-
they are cheaper than ordinary
Chapman Pincher's `Column
SUDS FOR THAT SO-GAY LOOK
MOST
HOT SOUP
minutes.
ONG, after
Glies and
noticed it, the Bov. Guy Stanbridge, vicar of St. Peter's, Spring Hill,Birmingham, complaining that baby spivs start singing carols, as soon as the Guy Fawkes lark is over,
"They howl one
Jing of While
shepherds watch
their flocks by fight, he writes in his parich magazine, and then knock on the front door. money. This is relic of the bad old days when poor chil- dren had to beg or starve, But Urink..you
the page them to ba splys make them sing the whole carol throughout
effective and stay on even when you dismantle becomes piping hot in four nobody need starve now unless cleanest artificial snow the tree. He was smiling benignly -as he and his No. 2 have ply about eight times at Christ I have yet seen on a Christ- mas," sald the head of this mas tree is, home-made... to do up to 5,000 times a department. This year it's from soap-powder.
Just the rame.”
day.
Before him stood a winsome little boy of perhaps five tender years. "I want," said the Bulls chap.
Father
"I want." sold the boy ugain,, "a sonic beam gun and.a space sult, and
And?", Father Christ',' mas prompted him with Shaggy, white eyebrows
and 'd practised stroke of the beard.
***And an 'atom bomb to blow up all the people,
I have tries two of the soup oxtall and kidney., Verd delicious..
"STARVINGI
Like this, perhaps ng Hark, the Herald Angela sing (Ring, ring, ring, ring, vind,
ring, singer watch Let
his
THE self-treating soups which enable' ¡British troops in! Korea, to have thot meals on RECIPE: Empty a small patrol without lighting a fire will box of soap-flakes or soup be on sale next year stu powder. into a bowl, add, a Large quantities are already, little water and whip until being exported from Britain... the auda have the congia.
They should be highly accopt able to Trikes,- plenickers,;. und tency of whipped cream..
The hard drinker demages his night seople who have to take a sand- live by knowingly starving While my dad le
LCOHOL Judit does not cause the cirrhosis of the liver from which to many chironie drinkers, suffer.
Knock, “Knock, “knock, knock, knock, knock Knock, MLM him watch his, dock. by
himself of a "food" ingredient 2 (Bang),
kick and kick,
Put now papers under the tree with lunch to work, ok... and spread, the suis on the. The tint of rous familiar to called methionine without whichwa know every dirty telek branches with a tablespoon many soldiers in World War I working from the top down have a chemical headng elernent fat cannot be transported about Cuyo,ngive, give, give, give,
sealed in a central tube, the body, no che ho vime Christmas spie,
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