But what about that lipstick?
by ELIZABETH PAKENHAM
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1954.
GA
RE teenagers
Instead of telling them to
You re-
Lou sophisticated?" walt, find them something Emphatically yes, enjoyable to do now appro- says a Woking reader who priate to their age. has just written to me de- member the White Queen's ploring those "hard-faced slogan in
"Jam Alice? schoolchlidren with their yesterday, jam tomorrow, lipstick and earrings." but never Jum today."
Teenagers want jam today.
Well, is he right? I have checked up a
good
meny teenagers, including my own children, and here are my results. Teenagers want to be sophisticated. (Whether they are is another matter.) The other day my 13-year- old Was taken for 16. "1 feit absolutely wonderful."* she said.
with
Help them choose good books. Go to the pubile library them. Suggest suitable Alms, Arrange outdoor activities. Give Ther subscriptions tex eluos. study their tastes. Above all, take trouble.
SECOND, Give more praise to the glories of youth. Why do we pay so few compliments to our children's comulexion, hair, energy, curiosity, galety?
Cummings
"Mm.... one Western barbarian-but who is the inscrutable Chinese gentleman behind 7"
THEY CALL IT BOKC*
It's a boxing match where
no one gets knocked out
Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Soviet Central Asia. T'S a lovely evening, so let's stroll round to the Rest and there
Sophistication may set in even before the teens My 10-year-old son came home recently all agog with social
Let a try new tactics, Instead gossip.
of saflying out with ostentatious "Marilyn's going
joy to have our precious "perm" about with the big girls, thereby inflaming
Uur vect- with her coat hung on her agers with desire to do the same "Park of shoulders. And she's only spare a word of protoc for
Culture," smooth heads. "Aren't you lucky to have that have a look at the boxing. To us adults, who
have thick,
shining hair? I only forgotten our teens, this wish I could stil
boxing in prematurity straight!"
nine!"*
craving for
seems fantastic.
Who would
זתחרות!!
ther
own
wear mine
THIRD.
Don't renove #11
discipline
the moment they
leave school.
and
old
From RENE MacCOLL
Each man on hearing his name takes a stiff half-pace forward, brings his heels to- gether and steps back again. No applause. No cheers. No nothing.
ERYPLE
TE CHINA
London Exprem Service
· FASTERM
LUKOPI
The chaps were hitting with everything they'd got and there was quite a bit of blood, mainly noses.
fine They all looked in training and, of course, wa It's that
the gamut of racial same strange ran silence that accompanied the types-for this part of the
すし
PERSIA
Parliament Guards Its Customs
T
By J. W
TAYLOR
HE British House of Commons is
extremely jealous of its rights and privileges, and fri certain respecte it observes ancient customs na zealously as former Parliamenta did in the days they were started centuries ago,
This was soon impressed upon ore MP recently as he moved to seek Informintion and was bewildered to be greeted' (with loud cries of "Order! `Order!" with the question still unnaked. He turned to find Members all around him pointing to his feet and then jumped backwards quickly na if away from the edge of a cliff top.
Technically, he had been deemed to have stood with one foot over a precipice
in offending Parliamentary good taate and custom by putting a foot over one of the red lines which runs along the
either side of the de green carpet on bating chamber.
TASHKENT
The lines were put down originally because in enveller days MP's on opposite sides of often drawn the House Wero into sword fights in the middle of the floor and it really did make such a mess of the carpet. The strict rule was established that Members in future should not cross the lines
during de bate, and it has been enforced ever since. The distance be- tween the two lines has always been two swords' lengths.
Privileges
privileges,
There are many rights and customs Parliament
cap to one of the camp followers has earned over the centuries, and they are not to be trifteci near by.
with, as the offender
against The fights were for the Central privilege would soon discover, Tashkent City champion-He
no
It takes place on the stage of an open air concert auditorium and we are sit- ting in the front row of the stalls with maybe a couple
ships, and I saw nobody over can be summoned before
special committee and, I of hundred fans behind us.
welter-weight, I guess heavies serious enough, to the Bar of are as rare as the House itself. The stage is pretty crowded.
This is the around here bowler hats. On each flank of the roped-
over which dividing line The men were all poker-faced "Stranger" may pass. It is also off square there is a large
what was coming to marked on the carpet, but LA On, but yes, bank of stragglers and sup horse racing back there in world has been invaded and took here they spell it
thymm with dogged
Bar courago telescopie
is pulled out porters and hangers-on, Moscow. Some day I may pretty regularly down the whatever their ince or colour. from a case on the floor and maybe 30 or so.
perhaps find out just what centuries and the faces of The only people who displayed used on special occasions,
Members who address their does excite a crowd in the the inhabitants mirror what any emotion were the referees,
fellows by their names commit Then at the back behind Soviet Union, but the day is
"The a breach. It must be a long table sit eight or nine officials, all taking notes,
Honourable and Gallant Gentle including four young men.
man" for an officer MP: "The
and
What - Tashkent ? only b-p-k-c. It amounts to the same thing, or almost. Be at home when
Rest of
und
They are. And don't turn them
The Purk of out on a summer evening, even carrying a furled
the sake of having rose-bud for
some Culture is a leafy spot with into a hot room to make it peace,
open-air orchestra platforms, full-blown? Yet thin is When my eldest daughter was women selling ice-cream, what teenagers try to do to approaching what he considered someone singing through an themselves.
dangerous age," her great-
amplifier, # profusion of uncle, a poet, sent her a poem which began ilke this: ---
statuary, and some satirical foreign events which political cartoons concerning evidently to the liking of the passers-by.
All very listressing. But whose fault is it? I believe parents partly have them- selves to blame.
At any rate, i can see three ways of helping our children tu keep young.
FIRST. Don't overwork such phrases an, "You can't do that yet, you're only chikt.
older...
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Take for thy guide the daffodil,
That does not sinoke,
never will.
Among
place
and
thy cluic advisers
aru
We plank down our 108,
The rose, that does not paint apiece and so to the front
row at the b-o-k-c.
her face."
We all want our children to esemble the lies of the field. For Besides not toiling or
Wait #1 you're spanning, they neither powder
nor paint.
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not yet.
Those counts
The referees rotate--there is a young and most intent chap who wears a Ukrainian THE fights start and after type blouse with embroidery
a few seconds of tear- down the front, a stout, away action there comes a bustling, middle-aged man
halt. with gold-rimmed glasses Someone has hit someone who takes no nonsense from else a bash on the jaw. that you expect him to col- anyone, and a youth so slim
lapse from the wind of the, oh so missed, right swings.
AT
Those silences
T the start of each fight the two contestants and the referee stand to atten-
The receiver doesn't go down, he doesn't even seem much hurt, but the who has landed walks away, turng
back and the his referee proceeds to a quick count-with the struck man on his feet and visibly not dazed.
I
has gone before in the way
of Persian or Arab or Tartar invaders. Blond young
Those stares
Russians, dark, dark Uzbeks, AT the end of each night the
Was
Honourable
the
Д
Learned
Chinese faces, and some un-
for two scrappers and the referee Gentleman"
Queen's classifiable. Everyone
all would again, line up shoulder to Counsel, and "The Right: Hon- shoulder and stare woodenly out burable Gentleman" for a Privy aggression from the opening over our heads, with the referce Counsellor. bell, and the favourite blow grasping each man by the wrist. Mention of another MP of "My a roundhouse swing.
the same party calls for After a whispered chit-chat at Honourable Friend, the Member Very clean fighting and
the long bench the referee would for... and for one of another almost no holding.
get the nod end up would go party the word "friend" is the winner's hand to no applause dropped for the "The Honour-" whatever. A brief handshakeablo Gentleman." and out to the dressing-rooms Members may
only be named <loati
All
very by the Speaker, elther when ho selects the next speaker in
Those talks
silence,
VERY ight started with the cultural and restful. E
referee calling "B-o-k-c"
P.S. and plunging his arm down as the signal to start. At each in- fringement he would ory "Stop" AS WE LEFT In English, and then lecture the lads with severity.
17-1
to I salil guide: "In England we do not start counting until one of the men ta knocked down."
the Soviet He repiled: "In
Union we are more humane, It is not necessary to brutally felled,"
be
Just one of all those fighters displayed what we would call a tion shoulder to shoulder During the entire evening, classic straight left-and he won facing the audience, the and perhaps 80 fights, by a mile. referee in the middle. Then saw not a single knock-out
Once a referee strode across
See, MacColl? And the Afghan the man in charge at the and only one semi-knock- the ring and tore a strip off long table intones the names down-more of a slip than at his work. Looking sheepish, Tamburlane the Great
second who was wearing a cap border only over a loudspeaker.
the luckless fellow passed bls passed this way.
HE
A
anything.
MADE
DREAM saved count-
less thousands of Eng- lish lives. It came to Adolf Hitler in 1948. No. V.2 would ever reach England.
Or
By
THE
Milton
an hour off. And
Invader
V-WEAPONS
Shulman
Ten years ago this month the first V.1 dropped out of the sky and astonished Britain.
And a little later came the V.2's. Not till today has the No. 1 brain behind the V.2 told his story..
a debate or reproves on MP for unruly
or unseemly conduct. The offender is then subject to and a motion to suspent him, its
approval calls for the Sergeant-at-Arms to escort him from the premises. There can be no return until the Commons approve and duo apology offered.
Royal Messages
Since the days in 1642 when the House was fighting for its independence against King Charles I, who once supervised the arrest of seven MP's during a debate, no reigning monarch has been allowed to enter the House of Commons, This is why Parliament is always- opened by the House of
of Verolen from the
the delay in production at no Lords is sent by Gentleman
more than four to six weeks.
from whence a Royal Command to attend the
| Usher of the Black Blod, in whose face the Commons door The first V.2 fell in Chiswick is alammed, in the days on September 8, 1044. Almost when
;, were Royal messages 1,200 were successfully launch-always suspect by the Commons, ed against England, and they thus
their inde killed 2,274 and seriously in pendence.
jured 0,476.
It
signifying
usa
Obediently the word trickled
Most respected personage. In is tho down through the Nazi chain-
Is General Dornberger right the Commons today of-command. Feenemunde, the
when he says that" the V2 Speaker. There was a time in experimental rocket station, was told his incredible story in V.2 with their dangerous and ex- might have had a decisive the days before the Civil War to be given no priority in labour '(Hurst and Blackott, 168.), knew hausting studies with nothing influence on the course of the when his office was not readily
sought
lost one materials. An ambitious that It was already too late, but abuse of indifference from war had Hitler's co-operation fell a victim of the then cur
by Members, production programme of 300
officialdom,
enabled them to fire rockets rockets a month ground down Even Hitter sensed that his
against England some two years rent suspicion that the holder almost to a halt.
intuition had sadly let him Hitler pald only one visit to earlier?;
was the King's spy, days when it was often necessary down, "I have had to apologise · Fechemunde-in 1030-and then
to use only in my le?” he was obviously bored by the General Elsenhower would force to make Jk Member Then four months later the to two men
take Fuehrer was shown a film of the he said to Dornbergor, after entire business.
When war appear to share this view. For the Chair..
Tradition now re- written:. of a seeing the V.2. film. The first began rockets were given low he has first successful launching
seemed quires present-day Commons "to Fiold- Marshal
the man likely that if the German had tako
chosen to be Inggo-acala rocket. The
coin Brauchitsch. I did on est production priority. hod actually taken place in
Buccooded in perfecting and Speaker by the arms and for October 1942.
him when he told me again and Fortunately, Churchill book using these new wespons six the candidate to struggle as he again how important your re- thờ V.2 far more seriously than mouths earlier than be did our fa bodily propelled to the Chair. The imposing sight of this search was. The second man is did Hitler. A stray experimen invasion of Europe would have ox.coodingdy difficult, 40ft, missile travelling at over yourself, I never believed that tal rocket landing in Sweden proved 3,000 miles an hour stirred in your work would be successful," "warned us of the deadly poten- perhaps 'impossible," Hitler grundlose hopes of
Linlities of such a weapah,
quick German victory,
The
rocket was designed to carry one ton of high explosive, have
was
to
On August 17, 1943, Peene- mundo was struck by 571 heavy Allied bombers. Forty of thein
Spy Scare
one time The spy, weara caused the Commons 'to, discusa finance after forming itself into a special committes and request Although V.2 is a story of the Speaker to wait outside. failure and frustration, Ifts Modern Budgets are always dimcuit, to shod many tears for incumed in' committed th is author. The sight of these
in keeping old etatem, Some makes him simbet
members still maintain the old customs on special days of sitting on the benchow w
a range of 100 miles, and hit This waste of a critical year falice to come back, the earth with an impact in the development of The corresponding to 50, express rocket is only part of a staggers porno resulta," writes Church engines of 100 tons och all ing tale of ineptitude, short- 1, "were of capital importance. monstrous, racing along together at 60 sightedness and bureaucratic. But for this raid Hitler' misales miles an hour?
bumbling. The Gorman reputa botabardment of London by lyrical tion for technical adficiency rockats might well have started "What I want. is annihilation will have a hand time living marly in 1941, în fact it was anillating effect" shouted downs the fleece of the V2 mpak delered" grill" Beptember)| the Tushem," trantically making For research on h planski zõr more and – bigger palion, for military purpowi
death-dealing icularl
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