-THIS

YOUR FRIEND AND YOU WERE FEEDING PIOS BUT ROUND YOU WERE- TEROUBLE ANIMALS FROM

WHICH YOU BOTH FLĘD

THEY PURGUED YOU FOR MILGS TILE YOU RAN INTO THE ARMS

OF YOUR BOY FRIENDS. THEN THE ANIMALS TURNED INTO PIECES

OP COAL

DREAM

Bernard Krables

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1953.

LIZARDS, LOVE AND MR DOUGLAS

Postscript To A Happy Pagan...

Lord fine manners; agreed-by sending youth.

the company of

FOOTNOTE ON CAPRI, By fellow-Scot, Sir Campton Like any other young man himself for this duly.

Norman Douglas. Sidgwick Mackenzie and the blind with more talent than industry. Salisbury

be entered the British Diplu- him on a secret mission to With all be tn'ent, it might Munthe-rad and Jackson. 10s, 6d. 46 Swede, Axel

matic Service in 1893. Soon Afghanistan.

be thought he could have made pages. 48 photographs. made the most famous there

opening for

That wna on

the wos

end of his more of his life. He would have island in the world, or at third secretory at the St. career

as a diplomat, although rejected the criticism, ་ Do long before his least the most notorious,

Petersburg Embassy, a notably for 30 years after, Douglas was longer TOT

complain of how book, excuse for

Dougins who dropped receiving £100 a year.

regret is that 4 have not more 5 for the purposer of writing-astounded his superiors by volun- terring for the job,

N'death Norinan Douglas The Hitle

MEANS: desirable men; bath you aml your girl friend fly broke a good resolution-as' sime handsome photographs merr post even in Tsarist still on the Foreign Office list, squandered my days; my

Pigs and coal are associated with dirt, and here symbolise

of mom contamination

some work. Feeding the pigs seems to represent your attempt to be kind to people who are not worthy of it. The terrible aulmals which pur- sue you are the unwanted attention of un-

from them.

Your boy friend arrives in the nick of time and so saves you; he seems to have won your trust.

Your dream seems to represent your realisa fans love; between the right sort and the wrong.

tion of the difference between sacred and pro-

A British Crossword Puzzle

16

12

24

126

htt

3 14

14

6

17

ACROSS

DOWN

3. Not concrete (8),

1. Cheat (5).

2. Checks (5).

3. Changed (7).

4. Defeat (4).

B. Shake (0),.

D. Interfereti (8).

11. Vies with "(B).

12. Kind. (4).

13. Exelude (5).

18. Sinal payments (51.

10. Peruse (4).

22. Revoked (8).

24. Took the chair (R).

25. Alliance (8).

20. Snakes (8).

5. Strikes Hightly (4).

Concurred (8).

3. Walk like an infant (8).

10. Decoration (5);

14. Dribed (5).

15. Withdraws (7).

16. Feels for (6).

Gallop nhout (0).

D. Traces (5).

21. Borders (5).

22. Fit for consumption (4). 23, Skin. (4),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. Across: 3 Proposed. 7 Homer, & Advising, 10 Relate. 13 Precept, 15 Mole, 17 Ordered, 18 Reverse, 20 Ques, 21 Earnest, 20 Tester, 27 Princess, 20 Trend, 29 Dressers, Down: 1 Sharp, 2 Ample, 3 Prate, 4 Pail, 5 Sailor, & Dogged, D Depose, 11 Erred, 12 Aches, 14 Treats, 15 Means, 16 Lease. 18 Rompei, 10 Venice, 22 Rests, 21 Ether, 24 Trade, 25 Act,

WAS

hls custom and, taking up his pen, wrote a last brief book on Capri, which he had loved so long and which he with his

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

This lovely scenic is not only an example of the basic points

of composition--it won a snapchat contest prize.

Here Composition Really Counts

eut 【OMPOSITION is important in buszną,

the picture in tun kurpesting that this line should be every type of picture taking, roughly a third of the way from the but in no case is it more mt, if you are emphasizing the portant than in landscape or friend. If the clouds are the nght of emphasis, it should be a scenle snapshots, It can make herd of the way from the bottom. for break such a picturę.

When the subject of "framing"

I come

Not long ago, I had occasion to the gene to add to its beauty esme list some rules for landscape, he the possibility, the by tree trunk and and the very next branelies. Mentioning composition

roads and I pointed out that, if across the above stresint,

bears pleture which

out in ble, they should come in near a corner and lead the eye into the practice almost perfectly every- pletive. thing bad to say in theory.

As far as uning people in scenics bad pointed out

out that, if there is concerned. I had written that 11 large foreground object, all depended on the picture-that in such as a tree, you should avoid cares it is essential to estab

scale or to add human centring it Thre move your warmth.

Was cinphalle about eumera until the tree is about having the people look at the scene. |one-thrid of the way from one xd nut at the camera.

side, and balance it with distant trees or other small objects.

is a

Then I caulinrud amgirur phulo- crophers to beware of having the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"THAT'S BLACKBERRY TIPPLE - I MADE IT

MYSELF - THERE

IS NOTHING

BETTER ON A COLD DAY

THE WARM-HEARTED HOUSEWIFE

TAKING THE CHILL OFF THE DELIVERY MAN

WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO -

ROAST US ? "

I SEEM TO REMEMBERĮ

YOU THOUGHT

A FIRE ROMANTIC

سم

In other words, the pleture above cua serve you well as a Rule 10 reente composten.

Jolin van Guilder

may be regented as a footnote to Dougins. If that is so, it is a

tempes gentle postscript to a tuous story, in which the three gulding alors were literature, love und lizards.

*

He did not, how- ever, dovele all his time to making treaties

the Tear ith⋅

or natural udying history. delirious delir tove

with An

Mc had

affair aristocratic Russian woman whom he calls "Heten." This bigh-toned amour he was able to combine with parallel activities on a lower plane, on a

friend

The literature-like the love Was wayward. As for the -Jizards; it was the search for a rare blue lizard that first tựok Douglas to Capri, Curiosity. about another lizard made him, us a boy, learn Rustinn, an accomplishment that become of critical importance.

George Norman Douglase (2

In Austria B's)

was born 1008; mother,

was in the habit of Austries aristocrat: father, Douglass of purchasing young Tilquhillle

The girls from their

an

(Deeside).

rhyme runs!

121

A Russion

NORMAN

DOUGLAS

..the bad example

of them to squander."

It

I

onc

Ho married his cousin, Elsa Fitzgib

is said to be hard for bon: had two sons: modern pagan to

be happy. was divorced; lost his Dougles found it possible. A money and thereafter Caledonian Silenus, the presided had to support himself luck and untroubled, over by writing. He wrote many strange frolles in Copel,

on, where he seliled. enough to live

He was would have thought It generous with money (when he unintelligent to write ad (t); ready with bad advice; was never tou old to set a bąd

more.

He wrote one fine example. He died at Capri, nged novel, South Wind, 82, Impenilent.

some charming travel

books, especially Siren THE BEST OF DOROTHY Land. He And 1 PARKER Methuen. 10. weakness for byways 6d. 192 page1.

ot

scholarship; Was

learned about Lon-

don children's

parents: later NEW BOOKS

Tilquhile stands on the old, marrying

off old lands

And the name of Douglass is there,

No longer there. There

is a farmhouse. The Douglasice

are gone. Their Ruburn

traits are dispersed,

to

Young Nurman was sent school ut Uppingham:

at 15 went to Karlsruhe, where 1* stayed until be

and was 20 he set up en ogrecable where liitle harem der four He also began to write: Oral work, an article for The Zoologist un the colour of crows' feathers.

with

"them

#1

generous portion by ... GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

implicity

The of the system made peal to the

וזה

irresistible

street

games; composed

a volume of im

131~

HE best of Dorothy Parker are the witty

things she saya-and other

proper Lime people repeat."

ricks, this work WES

prosecuted

by the ment

of

Here

are, things she has short stories, shorter govern- written!

that poems, hymning deserted lovers eminent puritan and departed loves, weeping of sulphuric acid over ap- Mussolini-and was widely reat tears young Scot, But when the Allied troops reached. Negroes and oppressed servants it was the affair with "Helen" Paris in 1944.

of the very rich, detesting that threatened to blow up into

society as much for its

.empty head as for its hard heart, scandal,

Her wit is cruel because it is and sharp cy od it is hurt. because

Here is

He had an imposing array of At this point, Douglas wrote erobbed prejudices

vut that

to

the Foreign Office, pointing Engl life this against sharp-eyed

Joe

in Hvlug

£1 sparkle without exhilaration.

("like Chamberlain's scape advocacy of Imperiul Preference lettuce"); the Christian religion She was born Dorothy Roth- necessitated an un-the-spot in- in any of its forms; cruelty; schild in New Jersey 59 years vestigation of the tariff systems conventional morally, He liked ago; educated at the Convent of of the Dominions; he suggested the writings of Ouida; wine; the Blessed Sacrament, New York. Claims she learned there you had to spit on an eraser.to make it rub out Ink.

TAKE A WORD

How To Keep Warm

"CAN'T YOU GET IT

BRIGHTER ?

A

She is stout, 5ft. n. tall, wears glasses, Married flmes, once to Edwin

three Parker

(1817), twice to Alan Campbell

(1933, 1950). Went to

work.

QUIDNUNC

GIRL whispers in another's ear. Did

did.

the Greeks have a word for that ? Not so-bui the Romans QUIDNUNC from the Latin for "bat now?” -has been used by classically trained

English writers to mean

a gossip or an inqulal

live person.

So It can be applied with truth to anybody who uses the modern Americanism: "What's cooking ?"

BY HARRY WEINERT

THE OLD PARLOR HEATER. KEPT YOU WARM JUST POLISHING

THE

NICKEL PLATE =

́STEAL HOME.

THIS WILL MAKE HIM HOT UNDER

TO AN EMPTY.

HOUSE?“

THE COLLAR.

THE ROASTED

CHESTNUT

VENDOR

DOES ALL RIGHT.

1910, writing captions Lor Vogue nt 10 dollars

week; since then has writien Alm scripts

Somewhat larger bums.

for

-

Has evinced "liberal" sym pathies, temporarily less modish

circles of in terary

U.S.A. Was arrested in Doston 1927 for picketing in protest against of Sacco and Van- execution

zetti, Italian anarchists. Visited Spain

Franco's war: afterwards wrote: "The only

during

group I have ever been affiliated with Is that not especially brave little band that his lis nakedness

of heart and mind under the out-of-date garment

of a sense of humour."

Glittering, on the out-of-dato garment are urnaments like; "Brevily 13 the, soul lingerie."

yo1

hers

houvens,

mean those clothes of are intentionat? My

I always thought sho was on her way out of a burn- ing building!"

Wos

To a lady who sald something preying on her mind; "Don't worry, It's probably starved to death by now."

Present selection includes her shortest best-known poem:

Men seldom make pazers' At girls who wear glasses.

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