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So I hunt a haunted Moonbow
BERNARD WICKSTEED
in the jungle
....
TTAVE you ever seen
H
moonbow? It is a
Hort
of rainbow with a white and haunted look that only comes out at night and it is found mostly in the tropics. one. Not here
W
.but at the Victoria Falls in
Dasticst Africa,
I wasn't looking for phantom rainbows. I was merely minding any ơn buďmen, at an koled by the Falls, waiting for a Comet to. take me homma,
But a chop at dinner started teleg me what a wonderful sight thip borbow wow, and that one of its haunts was the Victoria Faily,
Even without the moonbʊw theas Falls are one of the sights of the world. They ore more than mile wide, and 75,000,000 gellons of water a minute plunge 300 feet into a daзcrow gorge, sending up a clonal of spray that you can see from 50 milles
Moon tricks
Days on the grey, there are
URING the day, when the sun
rainbows everywhere--big ones a quarter of a mile wide, and baby rainbowa no more then ten feet high. At night the tropical moon playa similar jacks with the riving spray
I callied a few tindred spirits who had also dined well and we set off along a narrow bush track
for the haunt of the phantom moumbory, and the first thing we came to was nolice BODR "BEWARE, ALL WILD ANIMALS ARE DANGEROUS.”
This hot a peculiar effect on the others. They all turned round and went back to the bar, and left me alone.
The most curious noises come from all shies squeaks, groans, grunts, chirrups, and shots. And from away in the distance came the mirthless Jugh
露 laughing hyents.
Then things started biting me ondemnants, focked up the head next shoulders—Wille
and tour the wee under which I was standing was loatled to the ground with baboons, Further
long the path the same thing happened again, only this time it was a tree full of small montese.
A
The hippo
T the wige of the Fails is a Aplace — called the Cataract. There is Lile clear-
Devil's
ing there, with a statue of Livingstone in the middle and a shee: drop into eternity in front
of him.
To see the moonbow you have to slam with your bakit to the moon and face the surging spray. I did this and sure enough there
i waz, stretching across the gorge - ralnbow in every respORT ER- copi, it was pure white. It was very lovely and I was most thrilled until I turned round and saw a hippopotamus coming clong the path
I don't know if you love ever.. been toki, but the one thing you must never to with a hippo- potamus le stand between it and the water.
The hippo gts, Burious. It thinks you are trying to cut off its retrat Yot that is position I was in
Dash past
the
WHAT do W, do? With a speed
WHA
approaching that of sound
he dashed payi Dr Livingstone and into the virgin bush.
Everything
would have been
fine if the wind had not changed; When the wind changes at the Victoria Falls and blows the spray over you it is like being
in a thunderstorm,
cotant wetter!
I couldn't have got
any
Bus
THE CHINA” MAIL," SATURDAY, AUGUST:: ·1959.
"WHO can't come out looking like WHAT?”
WHAT MAKES A MAN
A LADIES' MAN?
-and what makes a man's woman
W
HAT does it mean- now vanished luxuries-time heart and feels with his to feminine moods, is never
a ladies' man? To and money. Isabel Jeans, head-who is sensitive and a boor or a bore. what type does this who nightly in her part of label belong? Is it a term Mrs Allonby in "A Woman of approbation or deroga of No
Importance" BO tion?
DESIRABLE
courteous, notices how a Can it be that a ladies' woman looks but doesn't man is one who really en- elegantly manages, and is pay her empty, insincere Joys the company of women Tell a man that he is one, so skilfully managed by that compliments-that's a lady. and so-mever lacks it? and he looks sharply for the slightly caddish, fascinating killer.". hidden ancer-the sugges- Lord Illingworth, gives tion, perhaps, that he lacks sadly as her opinion that What sort of picture do masculinity. Ask him, and the ladies'
get of this elusive man doesn't we
gentleman? He is, it seems, his definition depends upon exist any longer. whether he is or is not a
a man who is attractive to woman because he is atten- ladies' man.
tive to her interests..
AN
趄
London Express Service
By Phyllis DIGBY MORTON
The male vis-a-vis of our 20- year-old girl said: "A woman who is a good sport. A pal."
Turning to the more mature Judgment of: TV's Eamonn Andrews we were told that she is: "A calm woman. Not neces- sarily beautiful although it's
nice
to have that too, just aE nice to have a shiny, new car but once the paint has worn eff It's better to have a sinooth, sweet-running engine. And my sort of woman would nover attract attention to either of us by a loud volce, loud frock-or a low ena!"
SUCCINCTLY
One might suppose that the opposite to Indies man would describe a man's "Of course, he wasn't to
woman, but it doesn't work be trusted round the
so neatly. but If he is, he puts forward corner
It didn't unconscious defence, matter, he was auch an en-
The label "man's woman" quoting support from chanting
attentive
feminine- guy,
conjures up a vision 100 percent French writers. If he isn't companion. Such a pity
and disliked by her own gox word picture comes
woman disliking
Perhaps the most succinct he infers that a ladies he's gone!!
cat that walks alone. Again this good-looking Member
from man is a civilian with a bed-
is an old-fashioned generalisa- Coventry and author of the llon. Most women are only too best-seller "Who Goes Home side manner.
well aware of the dangers and Mr Maurice Edelman, who said: too "She is a woman whom every other woman regards us all when they're in love, want their man-as all things to himself Most men, it seems, especially. things to all men; and every
alone."! to have all the gentle
RUTHLESS
Put the question to a | waman, and she is sur- You see that word If attentive again? But this prisingly inarticulate. young she gives a confused obviously appealing quality, picture of the type of looks mustn't be taken to imply or an actor she admires. that he is a weak creature This is an example from a of dog-like devotion; plenty "Well, not of the world's most success- 20-year-old:
His approval is not based entirely on her conduct to wards him. Nor must, he be confused with that old fashioned, conceited charac ter, the lady-killer who sets out to impress, rather than to please, and has a collec tion of meaningless compli- ments which are his stock in-trade.
COMPANION
the
ostracism of being blatantly successful with men.
women
man's
woman
has
the
for
virtues, and ascribe to the ideal mentality being more possessive, In other words, the female one who
of gentleness, sweetness, tender more chameleon then that Errol Flynn he's always ful ladies' men, who have
ness and all other idealised the male, concentrates on study- fighting. Not Clark Gable been loved in the grand understands how to make a live up to, and which is, in a
The ideal ladies' man femininity we find so difficult to ing and pleasing the man of the moment, 80 that she becomes had more than a he's always fishing. I'd manner,
woman feel witty and sense, their admission of in that man's woman-and he her Bay James Mason und -touch-of-ruthlessness-and.
even if she Lan't. feriority in pretty
these desirable, ladies' man! Douglas Fairbanks I'm power; and for some women He notices
iraits. what she sure they're both very at these. qualities have
wears, finds something upon women there is just as
They disregard that among tentive."
irresistible appeal.
which to compliment her dishonesty, cruelty, hatred and so puts her in a happy double-crossing as among men. frame of mind.
Questing further for a defini- on of a man's woman elucidat- He makes a good social ca that, In Britain at any companion, and has to a role the deem't have to rely marked degree the ability on looks or obvious sex-appeal. to give companionship, handicap, or an enthusiasm for With plenty of men a good golf Knows how to talk, how to cricket appears be sympathetic, is sensitive more effect.
HEYDAY
Not, however, for Valerie Hobson, soon to play in "The King and I" the part A summary to be proved of a governess who has to more accurate than she deal with a man -- no less realised.
than a King-with a full true quota of both. She proffers The heyday of the ladies man was 50 years her idea of a ladies' man as ago, when a man had those one "who thinks with his
How
to act
wants to
when
FROM
!
much and
to have much
This ingeniour Chinese Candia Clock probably belongs" to` tha latter half of the Chow Dynasty. As the flame burnt through each
· string, a wilght dropped on to a metalplate thus sounding the hours.
a guest Twenty-five
fight Newell Rogers
3
DRIED-OUT lemon peel is worse than one. Have a
few lemon and a small, sharp kitchen knite оп the table. Shave your peel there.. Slice oranges beforehand and hold
elastic bands.
MIR
New York.
What DO Americane do? cigarette butts, warm drinks, the severed silces together with who in Says Mrs Colton: vented the cocktail, ara
AMERICANS,
"Americans take such hours it had fallen in. Back at the learning from a book with to mean that it's still permissible
shrill volces.",
"Grim, lan't it?".
hotel bar the chaps thought it covers as brightly grenadin to arrive at seven or eight." violently, hate awfully funny. They asked if I as a Pink Lady that the had been over the Falls in di
barrel. Even the laughing hyena managed to get some mirth into
its dismal ery.
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In fact, Mrs. Collon reveals rules for the- guest "who that most Americans now staggers all over your party; cocktail parties going through the 'Wanna' fight?" routine with the men, and, blind to the ashtray, puts out his cigarette .on your treasured Aubusson rug or on the lovingly polished top of your Queen Anne table.".
Would you like to attend an as a barbarous social custom and British have their own cock American cocktail party? Then continue 1
to go to them con- tail party rules and not come with me to Mrs Colton's stantly.
Ideal Cocktail Party (the invented by Mr T. S. Eliot, phrase and the ospital letters "Honestly, they think if they * either.
are hera):
curtains let you in and throw any
old, drawn, the flowers, mirroring tepid drink al you they've done table. their fresh grace on the polished enough-that you're being en-
tertained."
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The book is titled "What To Do When." Tall, green oyed, black-haired author Jennifer Colton speaks with a certain authority, for she has lived in England.
Today she is a New York hostess who writes magazine articles and gives bright dinner parties in a fat overlooking the East River.
into clusters of three or four,
"Now and again a duct or trio of laughter breaks Buddenly over the murmur of voices.
Her Rulos
Manhattans and Martinis were drunk, inconvenience your other
"The group has broken up "Such disgusting drinks, The Her rules; 1; if he drives talking amusingly, intently. so sweet they tasted like baricy guests (who will undersland) sugar drowned in cologne and by cutting off the liquor supply. you could only tell them apart. He will soon leave for merrier by the colous
Or and molster houses. 2.)
The salted nuts look hot and
was tired when I got water his drinks. 3. Give him 1. Embroll buttery, the silver cigarette there, but exhausted when I very slow service.
left
him in a game, or in emptying The chlef difference between boxes, the crystal ashtrays are
"It was an obvious clean-up, ashtrays. 6. Enlist him in a British and
bright shimmering pols, and She asked everybody die owed conspiracy: American cocktail
parties in arrival timing.
There's a bloam of: frost on the
Brilons are moro punctual.
ul. glasses.
And expect their guesta-to-bo more punctual' than Americans. In a passage which might be headed "What To Do When Jis Engihd," Mrs Colton weiler
if you arp naked for cocit
First To Admit..
or
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world to owe, and it didn'turisten, Harry, I've got to get
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So Mrs. Colton, in a section up at the squeak of dawit, Be called "What To Do When You angel and help me to get Give a Cocktail Party, offers these people started home. Got Too good to be truet Alas, hostceres these rules --
your hat and make a big to-dó Mrs Colton is the frot to
about exying modbye.. to admit
KEEP it all--two or three
Mrs Colton Italy
It often more than your sogling works "Ad
unmily, a very But he final rule, about, him la : The mort, permanent way to get rid of a drunk is never to invite him: signin
india bélyegri, ex; and eight or "In fact, a painfully honest
sive and sover, it means exactly description of the average, ono capacity, a that. You're expected to arrive' would conjure up uss kind of image D and leave within those hours," Eighth Circle that Mr Danto BREAK up your living-room Azale,” I can assure you; is either forgot or was: spared. Into two or three convers quite a shock toy-many- New-J'A -claustrepliable spaco i filled, national groups by shoving the Yorkers
with, osista, Emolle, | hosped" furniture around.
gallant.
centuries
in Time
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