A British
Crossword Puzzle
DOWN;
ACROSS:
1 Board guns,
A
B Preserved.
1 Reviewer.
4 Printing machine,
7 Testimony.
@Departure from live.
11 Temporary operation.
13 Special gifts.
15 difference.
10 Nosegaye,
18 Public meeting-place.
20 Follow.
21 Flait.
·
# Royal line.
Change,
4 Summary,
5 Put into practice.
Sef. mu.
10 Widens.
12 Wed.
11-Sweetmeat.
11 Spry.
16 Awkward fellows.
17 Builder.
YESTERDAY's chosswODI.—Across: 1 Aria, 1 Farage, 14' Secrete, 17 8 Room, Erie, 10 Nucleus, 11 Haul, 12 Wile Inure, 10 Wager, 22 Prensler. 25 Veal, 27 Cite, 28 Avoided. 23 Hank, 30, Dens, 31 Settler, 32 Eddy, Dawnt 2 Strain, 3 Archer 4 Banus, 5 Amulet, & Ruler, 7 Grunt, 12 Wisp 13 Latre, 15 Edge 16 Earl, 18 cede, 20 Averse, 21 Earned, 23 Revue, 24 Moist, 25 Ridder.
THIS
DREAM
YOU SAW
THE MOON FALL
INTO A POND MAKING A BIG
SPLASH
MEANS:
A subtle and profound dream this.
Each one of us is emotionally to some ex- lent hi-sexual, every mature man has something of the feminine in the core of him, women Ilke- wise. It is this that enables man and woman to understand and co-operate, and live with each
Bernard Enable
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
1953.
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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD CHAMPAGNE For The BAILIFFS
A picture such as this recalls memories the year around,
Shots for Sportsmen
LONG time ago someone re- ferred to photography s "the hobbyist's hobby," Mean- ing, of course, that whether o man's hobby was gelf or model building, pletures were part of
it.
Certainly this holds true for the aporisinan, be he fly fisher-
BOY RAN PAST YOU CARRYING THE WORLD UNDER HIS ARM
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other. The development of thin cora should oc- cur in early adult life,
The small boy with the world under his arm is this understanding of the masculine which is new growing in you and helping you' to master your world. Both moon and pond are feminine symbols: water also symbolises the subconscious mind. For the moment your femininity is re- Irrating into your subconscious mind to allow the small boy in you to come to the surface.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
GEE, THOSE CATERPILLARS
WILL BE BUTTERFLIES
SOON!"
JUST A
THE YOUNG NATURALIST
I THINK I'D BETTER OPEN A CAN OF BEANS IN THE
MEANTIME
PINCH OF GARLIC!
THE MAN WHISTLER. By one who was Ave-foot tour. As Franklin, English, with pro- madiate effect was that he w
Hesketh ' Pearson, an epigrammatist, he reigned minent teeth, and a blistering ruined. Mathuen. 18s. 198, pagos. arrival of Wilde.
supreme in London until the tongue, Maud insisted bolag called Mrs Whistler. Both women had beautiful red hair.
London, house
Writs' come pouring lip Hô entertained the bailiffe to FTER Edgar Allan Poe He had a strong, pungont
champagne. Later, in liverles and Robert E. Lee, the vivid. personality strong Whistler had a house built in he had hired for them, they mont famous product of the enough, to give coherence and The Street,, Chelies, by an walted on his other guests,
Healcoth unity to
Pearson's architect named E. "W. God- United States Military somewhat casual account
win. No sooner was the house Academy at West Point, him. Indeed, it may be
A rich Liverpool 'shipowner, Bald and its only wit, is James that Pearson does pot so much finished than Whistler went Leyland, spent vast. tums,co-
was forced to decorating his McNeill Whistler, who be write Whistler's life as rest on bankrupt and
sell it. One of his last acts In Princes Gate, An architect came a popular but unsatis-
was to write on the front its named Jeckyll was factory student of the art
indelible ink, "Except the Lord charge and, for the dining- of war in 1851.
built the house, they labour it room walls, spent £1,000 vain that build it: E. W. painted Spanish leather brought Godwin, FSA, built this one to England by Catherine, or Aragon. Over the mantelpiece hung a pleture, by Whistler.
it.
Whistler was born in Lowell, More. (1834), and told a Bri- tish court of law that his birth- place was St. Petersburg. To be born in Lowell would have a "Yankee" and a made him is
Whistler was the South in
a champion
the Civil War as he was
Asked in the chemistry examination to discuss silicon, Whistler began: "Silicon gns." He was forthwith discharg ed from the Academy.. "It silicon had been ag," he declared later, "I should have been a Reneral," Instead he departed for Paris and London and @ British Chilo
strenuous, melcoric painting.
carcer
The dispute over silicon left
also a champion
of Boers against
milltary caste
Art
against Spain,
and the French
against Dreytus.
by
West
It wa
real brought up by
of a
dot-fearing
nu rancour behind it. To the last, Whistler regarded Point д
only Jy satisfactory feature
the
DI
when
of
Whistler had not read the Bible in vain.
GEORGE
pul in
un
He formed a Leyland showed the room to bitter dislike the artist, who said imply that for the ew the leather might be lightened owner of the with patches of yelidiv. "Ley house and innd greed.
to and departed rented an ad- Liverpool. Whistler, with two jacent studio, accomplices, set to work and complaining, "I covered the entire wall surface,
living in with blue and gold peacocks. this absurd
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fashion, next
MALCOLM THOMSON door to myself.
lived
ho dled.
Biggest row in Whistler's life
had
Jeekyll saw the result, and died in an nxylum. Leyland was furious, ant not at all ap peased when Whistler told him; "In dim ages to come, you may be remembered DS the pro-
prietor of the Peacock Room. He asked 2,000 guineas for the work; Leyland palą £1,000,
Bible reading Meanwhile he had fallen in love the United States. Through
zh mother; he was very fond of her; with Mrs Godwin, whom
when Godwin mar:fed out life, he dressed with the called her Mummy. Every Sunday There was trouble with Maud,
an morning precision and elegance of
who persisted in calling herself officer in mufti, complete with in Chelsen, he saw her to the Mrs Whistler, monocle, gracefully managed church door, bowing her in. He etne, and a proper regard for promised her he would never the nicer points
sometimes etiquette paint on Sundays,
remembered his promise. He was with Ruskin, the art pun- and honour.
did not keep up his boyhood dit, who said of one of his atully of the Bible, declaring pletures that a coxcomb that it was "a book which, flung a pot of paint in the face
It was an intolerable light; once put down, could never bo of the public and asked £200 One paid tradesmen in poundst taken up again."
for it. Whistler sued; was The West Point man painted. Too often, however, he may He was elaborately courteous
awarded
a farthing damages in a new peacock; a cruel cari- he content with just a straight to women; he, was conspicuous- He had, in Paris and Lon-
The ship- record shot. Everyone knows ly not ingratiating to men. He dan, a succession of mistresses, and insisted he had won a vic- cature of Leyland,
opposite it with pic- owner dined
iha this type of snap: the somewha; had a thin skin, a sharp tongue two above all: Jo Heffernan, a tory. Later he sold the
or equanimity. wrealest girl, and Maud ture for 500 guineas; the Im The Peacock Room is now in in chocked and the quarrelsome nature of kind Irish embarrassed figure shirt holding a pheasant aloft
Detroit. Leyland is remember- and staring into the camera.
ed as its proprietor.
man or hunter. Pictures can capture his big match or full bag, keeping the memory of it fresh.
The sad part of this is that the same story of a Succtisful
#s
day in the eld can be told more interestingly. As in today's illustration. For a such
a snap this not only offers visible proud of the bird, but also imparts a sense of the pleasure of gunning behind a good bird dog crisp autumn day when leaves are turning and the smel! of autumn is in the air,
the
There's no trick about such a shot as is, either. It's simply a inserate close-up in which all the elements of the
story-gun, dog.
bird. and coindanlon—are shown in a natural grouping against the plain. background of sky. Anyone with a good eye for plotures' "could make such a shot, with, any ¿camoral; es
So. If you're hunting these days, why not get away from the vid record shola? Try snaps such as this. On a shot of two hunters walking a wooded road. Or a close- up of someone cleaning a hird
hånds, bird, and knife against
checked shirt.
And, if you haven't tried it-al- ready, try making some shots in colour. For almost any camera can be used to make colour pictures by merely inserting, colour film,
John van Gulider
TAKE A WORD
TO INCREASE YOUR
There Is One In Every Family
REALLY LIFE AROUND HERE IS TOO, TOO. DULL
OWN VOCABULARY
LAMBITIVE
WELL, who would have believed there could be a pompous word describing an ice-cream cornes ? Bet žære 14 Jan LAMBITIVEi'a word now little mænd, buzl! one that used to, be applied, by, dociera sa, medicines prescribed. is bo- taken by leking with the sangue,
Cattle Ucking lamps of mht in the fields and girl licking loen op the pier are brought together by this ancient word.
BY HARRY WEINERT
"
́—BEST BUY I
EVER MADE — REAL FEATHERS !
BUDDING ACTRESS UNAPPRECIATED BY THAT LONG
SUFFERING AUDIENCE, THE FAMILY
AUCTION SALE ADDICT
'NO AIR IN HERE!
.:
Whistler's most famous" "pic=" tures not his best are the Idealicou portraits of his Mother and Carlyle. When Edinburgh offered 500 guinea for the Carlyle, Whistler raised the price to a thousand. Glasgow then entered the field, offering 800 and pointing out that the portrait is not even life-size. "Few men are life-size," sald Whistler. Glasgow capitulated in the end,
everybody capitu lated to the genius from West Point, who fought and won civil war in the sphere of art.
He was ft. 4 in, in height
spirit and achievement, more than life-size.
THE RULING FEW. By Sit David - Kelly, Hollis and Carter. 251. 449 pages.!!
WHEN Sir David Kelly went
as Britain's ¦ ambassador to Stalin's Moscow he took with him recollections of vicits aa on, undergraduate to Tsarist Russia... He was able to see modern Russia in historical perspective and to analyse it as a world problem, obscure and menacing.
He recalls, as useful for toda Palmerston's remark (1880); " "It« has always been the practice of the Russian government, to ex- pand its frontiers as rapidly as: the apathy or timidity of neigh– i bouring states would gérmili, but usually to halt and frequently to recoil when confronted by dcter- mined opposition."
The Ruling Few`is d'welly written' book of diplomatic memories throwing light on current affairs. -.
THREE GREAT IRISHMEN
SHAW, YEATS," JOYCE, 'By' “Arland¦ Ussher. (Gol- Jancx. 12s. 6d. 160 pages.
WIT
VITTY commentaries on the
last three glints of "the"Irjah" golden age: Shaw the old en- chanter and cavaller, or e Yeats saw him, the "smilinge sewing machine," Yeats, in whom we must deplore the en- barrassing element of the chore latan" and
Joyce "Shaw without opinioni.""Tim" ordays". abound in fun, insight "drovoca- tion,
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