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THE CHINA MAIL = 'SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1955.-
Exploring a City of Mystery
Ruled by a Woman of Terror
W
HAT are the books
tokens?
TEMPESTUOUS
there
for
And this week "Tho Style," "There," he said, as he delivered "She" what I shall be remembered by ¦
nod
PARADE
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
a wall by
•
COLLECTOR'S What do people oplùm thrown over
collect? Then convict's relatives. PARADISE
WCT (ac- cording to the results of a Swiss
MIDDLE To Professor Gilbert inquiry) would
to appear
Murray, famed his- CLASS "almost
anything and
torian and scholar, Britain has enmething unique ta her middle class.
An
.
LA overy- lo
intel
Club in London, where ho Will have a uniform and fis com- pacions will be Servicemen,
"That," Bays Sum, "is some
But it's consolation.
still not the Army."
stema
CAMBRIDGE "Failed SAFEGUARD Contab". Охот
an
B.A.. (on no
a resi cer-
to be the thing. private the country. I don't think the cate to bear them out seem
cxlats in equivalent
elsewhere, Of the two. the This means a high standard of competenco and implies a cei- As he was speaking, the Co- ein moral standard." poration of Harlow, Essex, vins of Britain newest towns, puzzling over problem
set by Britain's middle class.
for
Was
certificate may be the most important to get if not to bold the job. For long, Oxford certificates of been inscribed education have on special paper with "security" ink that fades when exposed to
It needed light or damp
use of forger to make Cambridge had thought these measures unnecessary.
master
them
thing" especially collector Aves in Switzerland.
In an address at Oxford no Basically, Switzerland has a said: "We have not only a mid- JOUR really like.
normal quola of wealthy people die clues, but something very longer
adequate that they are buying NEY, by Frank Owen have found out
Sir Henry Rider Haggard was
who
highly collect valuable pictures, remarkable→a with their book (Hutchinson, 258.); Over: knighted for ht lo acrvices to
first editions, antique
snuftigent and competens middle qualification for future security. whelming blography of
const erosion, and agriculture.
His manor house boxes and the ille In fact, class doing the government of qualifications d
of the Anest afforestation, not literature. Ho KATHERINE, by Anya Lloyd George.
Astonishing D COMETIMES this SOM
of Chinese jade Seton (Hodder and Stough- And what have I been was born in 1856. sixth son of
his collectioner would regret man
the world La In Geneva 150.):
He claimed tan,
14th-century reading? Well, after all these Norfolk squire, went to Ipswich
(a) becauso erary success.
Collections of this kind, how- romance success story of years, I have been reading rammer School
wasn't enough Haggard ruined his career at the Bur
the and "No British solicitor," he would over, are only for the very rich Winchester Katherine Swynford, wife SHE {Macdonald. 88. 6d. money
the Swiss put whereas among
woop Itu John of Gaunt.
well collecting manin seems to Hodder and Stoughton, 28.) Haileybury, and (b) because in say, "can be induced to
In anyone as confidence Those days he was "heavy
Into all come brackets. LORD M. by Lord David by Henry Rider Haggard.
known us an author. and body" Jead in mind
But he How right he was, 218.): first published 48 years ago, "only fit for the Army and made It'reil (Constable,
£61.735 tron his bocich, 'Trac
of story
fulled Queen now in ita second million.
Office. the Foreign of the great
eventually ploughed as much tack into his Victoria's dear Lord Mel- "She" is one
went a junior scorelary on the 385-acre farm in Norfolk, where house Paurue,"
alories of the world.
hla manor staff of the Governor of Natal he
painted Here he did well, became Renustard yellow.
The boom of his voice dictat- gistrur of the High Court of the
would the library ing from Transvaal at 400 a year. of beautiful. golden- ing an ostrich farm with his of
When he was 24 he was run often quell the ftvolcus noises the house parly curled, Greek-god-like Leo? wife Louisa Margilson,
Be an drawing-room. Because Leo's dying father heiress.
whom he adored (Jock hopes that together they
the may discover the mysterious
uprising sent City of Kor. where She Haggards herne to England. | rules
best-selling so terribly? Who is where Rider decided to read for the Bar. But his head was stuffed She?
with marvellous African and he had had an mitele about . Zul war-dance published in a magazh
to write. So he decide first White Neighbours."
bock, "Cetewayo and H
ul him £50 when it was first published. 1 and, "Dawn," made him
A British Crossword Puzzle
2
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118
19
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122
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24
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ACHOSS
1 Free of charge (8)
27
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DOWN
2 Wanders (5)
Teacher (5).
12
4 Sturitualis meeting (6)
5 Wealth (8)
7 Front (44
9 Feature (5)
1 Grown-up t51.
It Hich and huev
(4)
13 Lamited (H
8 Dodge (5)
15 Close (4)
1
16 Pete (4).
Medles (10)
22 Unpleasantly damp 141.
24 Allude to (0)
25 Swift (5).
20 Bill of fare (4)
27 Walk unsteadily (5)
Rodents 141
Engaged (5)
13 SAT (5)
14 Get
(8)
17 Material (5).
18 Rue
HUG (G: 20 Discharged 151. 21 Drive back (9). 23 Extent (4).
YESTERDAY'S ARUNNWORLD.— Across; } Tackle, 4 Happy
Jupert, 10, 12 Magaals
↑ Luller.
15 Rival 16. Anon. 17 Amed, 1
de 21
Duwen 1
Sitter.
Monitor. 21 Ewer, 23 Beith, 24 Na
25 Mora, 25 Barles
Teltat 2 Childrea, 3 Luen, A. Allenate & Presto, Palet
12 Major. 13 Answered, 14 Entrente, Mode-1. 22 Bul
Do you remember how
whiskery, ugly,
ape-like Holly is given the guardian- ship
His best-seller THE Der
£10.
1sics.
H
In
onc hand
Tho
Now Cambridge li considering Suld a Cam- doing likewise. bridge spokesman: that our documents
"It is right
•
should be
Berne, engineer in
The Corporation, with dreams of democracy, started by mixing and
while example, owns hundreds of old padlocks
keys,
all classes in their new settle- town the came shopkeeper in
was given A ment; the doctor atvolves has cupboards and
house beside the dustman; the crammed with decorated candies
builder, beside the butcher. -4,000
Zurich them
A
But did not work. draughtsman colieels the gally printed tissue paper squares in middle classes objected to sonic safeguarded."
f-their neighbours. oranges are wrapped, and "I was no
sold Kood,"
The Rey, A. Harry Schraemli, proprietor n
spokesman. Corporation
"The SOOTHING Harry's Grui in Lucerne, cluns middle classes began to <triti
AND SWEET R. Castle wanti to have the finest collection of
pul a bee- So they changed their plans hive on overy one of Britain's cookery books in the work. He 2.000 works in 30
subtle to
the middle 80,745 square nulles-to owns snie
oldest being M languages, the
classes all altogether away from cain the nation's nerves. tablet wilh cunel-foria unwanted neighbours. lay
from our characters
Babylon and with dating back to 2400 B.C.
Perhaps the most original of all Swiss collectors, nowever, in
POM. who died at the age of 101, and three daughters
Once one of his family asked him how he thought of that
"She. Hile for well," he said "She was the
of a rag doll that nurse used to frighten us as children."
early
way.
RO DA
OLDEST Two REPTILE ty
to
hulp
Mr Castle, minister
Congregational Maidstone, s
Kent, student before
medical and was a hundre 1 million years he went into the ministry, und ago 4 tortoise-ilko he ranks it one of the con
top authorities reptile with grading plates in try's stead of teeth died in what is keeping now Israel's barren wuthland- Luthorities. Nerv.
all
of the reptile, one Now the det of its kind ever discovered
on bog. insuling medical Mr Castle disins. ree with him A year ago its petrified rump He says a tenapoonful пость
was found by Swedish geological ney in a glass of hot water is and
nerve tonics of the best experts.
dash of Optional An This week geologists found its gang.
sherry, he adds, can be added head,
the mixture.
of
เทพ:
TO Hans Schweizer, a retired In- surance salesman. Mr Schwetzor 12. lives in
three- An overheated TOUFTR house near Zurich, und whites away the
glass jars mounded by
Losely cases no
iched
ardly pats gether that one can between the rows.
And low Snukes alive these containers? and by the hundrels from over the world.
She-who-must-be- obeyed, otherwise known as Ayesha or (somewhat slangily to her slaves) "Hiya," is more than 2,000 years old, knows
RUNYON FROM FIRST LAST. Constable; the secret of eternal life.
6d.: 478 pages. Beautiful, Bac-eyed, destr.
MNIBUS holding (1) able. She has loved und
hy stories
the Broadway Then me day he read “Trea- 1P'M murdered
ancestor sure Island and said he thought folklorist before he perfected Kallikrates (a)Mo golden he could write a book like that his personal idiom; (2) middle which the group of stories in curled)
she because
For a bet he wrote "King Sold- mo's Mines." R. 1. Stevenson Runyon manner is found work spurned by him.
exceptional smooth said of its allegedly slipshos ing with
sad little manposition. "You de quile wellness; (3) finally, a
bravely take mure trouble.
group enough to
of sketches
Lant Runyon's written during second But although rejected by Tour
publishers it became a runaway less. A book to put alongside Kallikrates, seller of its year, and is st Runyon on Broadway. falis madly in love used at a school book, with ΙΑ'. She swears Leo is his spit'n' image. She
His knighthood
SHE awaits
the
coming of
was
His beard
now Rider Haggard was n
persuades leo to bathe with B barnstead, hose-Limbert,
her In the pillar of fire, which she says "is the very Fountain and Heart of Life as it beats in the bosom of the Great W wid."
tolo
art
So Shu gues first
The fame, shrivels and dies. Leo and Holly get out nilve, untuthed, though Leo's golden curls now white as snow. Commented poet Andrew Lang when he first
I'd have reud this: "By Jove, Kone Into the fire and chucked Perhaps it would in Shr too. have picked her up again."
sparkling eyel, kud voltd.
1k
R
grew weak-unned. piratical beard to hide his chin, did not
So he get any briefs. wide on w friend's job reporting Times, divome casi for the Thut year he also wrote
"Allan "Jess." Quatermain," "She" und
"She" tuok SIX
WETIN write, was produced in a lever of white-hot inspiration, faster than his "poor, nching hand He actually could set it down." imposed and wrote the scene where She dies in the fire in his
office waiting for
agent's
But the mixture is too expen-
The problem, he
figures,
could be solved easily
by
Du und
on one beehive putting evory square mile by his cal- In calls the ideal spacing
of the nation's pec- of assure use
lar production, "Laxik at all
NOT TOO After 43 years, Sam OLDI Harvey,
SUTVING
that
nectar go bc says. Bucliy
anywhere in the world, will be sive, with honey rukog of is pul back together again by the d israchi Geological Institute."
And they have a name for I Pri- SMUGGLING Singapore
Don' Commis IN GAOL
sioner E. L. Sochon has plenty of drus
Britain's longest- GAME. By smugglers in his gaola. THE ACENCY
Foldiers, IN reiring- Barnard Gutteridge. But he is not happy about it. Weidenfeld and Nichol- The trouble is they are
stili sulla corporal. And 60-your-old ing to waste,"
Sam is hopping mad. Not be noting that even in his sprawl- amuggling. And Sochon and his
Being county of Kent, where bees son. 12s. 6d. 247 pages.
cause he's still a corporal.
us numerous guards are having a tough time raised TIERE will be
eye-slopping i
cause they're throwing him out are probably
anywhere in the country, there of the Army... brows over this picture of
"Too
the War are only about 2,700 hives. the advertising industry
suya Says he: "People starting ken-
The 18,000 Inves would pro- A Odloe, "Nonsense," enaps Sum are carrying it in.
lot of honey: kink of robust, improper romp tences
awful #21 Four years ago they told him duce with, beautiful," well-developed woman was found with oplum
4,440,000 pounds the of her Angela Bingham as queen of the concealed in the bun
same thing. Sam wrote to approximately
a year. But Mr Castic thinks the King. revels. Yet there is no doubt hair."
"*rouket" He got
from his all could be used to make life that Mrs Gutteridgevites from
Sometimes drugs are brought commanding officer. But he did sweeter as well as calmer, and Knowledge of the business and
the the extra bees ought to increase the pitfalls it holds for young in in cigarettes.
fruit yields to.
men.
US U
Worried
all. Sochon by il If, here and there, some copy-uried to think up some way of blushes crushing the drug ring in his writer or "executive"
as he reads, the rest of us can own prisons, te diverted by the cynical, But last week came the final
without Rider
story naughty who
Indignity: a patrolling guard was wrote this marvellous stuff, was
qualm of conscience.
hit on the head by a packet of
I have always wondered what Henry
Haggard,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
BUT I'M TELLING YOU –
IT WAS CRACKED BEFORE
! LOOKED INTO IT/ ""
PRACTICING THAT BIG EXECUTIVE "DO IT NOW”— "BE BRIEF“ EXPRESSION.
CIGAN
NIE
THE FLEETING GLIMPSE, ACCOMPAN
BY A LEPTJAB — JUST IN CASE SOMEONE FORGOT SOMETHING.
ลม
wa
appointment.
Haggard believed "The S ory
more importan! thon
any
Public Mirrors And Private Reflections
"WOULDN'T IT MAKE YOU SICK
TO WATCH THESE MEN
IN FRONT OF A MIRROR ?
*
www
COLIN BY BENDEAL PATHO
COUP, THWORLD DRITE
A
Ket
Army.
old"
inore years in
four
Now he has offered to stay on
In the Army without pay-Just for his keep. But the War Ofee
li says no.
LOCKED-UP You can't lock up BRIDE
a young bride on her wedding found sight and get away with it, Nol Union Jack in lualy anyway,
Sul, his friends have
a job in the
him
BY HARRY
WEINERT
LOST, SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SOUP AND
THE PEERDISH APPLE PIE
ONE PERFECTLY GOOD FILLING .
WHOM DO YOU' THINK YOU'RE GAWKING
WHY ARE YOU PLASTERING
THE MIRROR WITH THAT — STUFF ? SO WE
CAN'T SEE OURSELVES PUTTING ON: POUNDS ?
EVERY MAN
| SHOULD HAVE
SOME HOBBY- EVEN IF
IT'S ONLY A
[MOUSTACHE.
Somebody tried it in Milan the other day-and the relatives got really mad.
Zeno Busacchi was just 19 and his bride, Yvonne, 21, And they were honeymooning at a Milan hotel, 60 miles from their home town.
But when it came to paying
hotel the
proprietor, Amalia Conforti, Zeno teund he didn't have the necessary £0.
So the proprietor locked the bride in her room as a hostage. Zeno get off for her home town
to get the money and came back with 16 relatives, who told the proprietor what they thought of her. And told the police as well.
Later the hotel-keeper and her 20-year-old son were charged with "sequestration of person, ' Which oficially means that bride Yvonne WES definitely Zeno'a
property.
Waltham
GUY FAWKES The powder 10 POWDER MILL mi!! Cross which produced the ox- plosives with which Guy Fawkes is belleved to have tried to blow up Parliament may be tom down.
It needs a new roof and the cost may be too much. The last major changes to the factory were made 100 years ago, and since then development of the Explosives Research Establish ment on the site has left the old building virtually deserted
Chief Superintendent LT.D. Williams wants to preserve factory for history. But the budget prosents a big problem.
History ought to be interested in it and not only because Guy Fawkes got his powder there.
Originally, the building was an Abbey. In 1850 tho local decided it would be more useful for making powder
authorities
und it increased i intriguing
Powder
Walth
11
to the
Abboy
MU"-apparently quite acceptable in an age when "Praise the Lord and Pass"the Ammunition" was the prevailing phliceophy.
Afterwards it passed inte private hands.
In 1780. It acquired the dis- tinellon of becoming) · Britain's Arst nationalised industry. bù- cause the Navy, complained that tha powder; being › produc00 wasn't up to the French standard.
LOW Worried over a lovers' JUMP quarrel, a Caporówn youth dung himself out
of a second-storey, window,”
He fell only two "foot i -painter's scafford which
hadiry's molioedt blocked hi fan. Relieved, he climbed back; i and made up-MG-GUMIEM