-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
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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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