POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT. LANCASTER
BOOKS
"Judging by these Martinis, I'd say that darling Lulu's doing her level best to bring
down the price of gin!
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1955.
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Giovanni wrote a book
The Decameron." By Glovanni Boccaccio, Everyman's Library. 2 vol. 61. each.
680 pagos.
N July 1954
Swindon
magistrates ordered a
сору
.of
Boccaccio's
for
women
and the quarrels are still going on
Boc
irritating reply. In fact caccio. kept himself. a mistress (whom he did not get round to marrying) ank ́five children by Literary back-work-e.g.) as war correspondent.
Five months later he rentemplated destroying all streets; Fiammetta tiled: Bocar Wiltshire Quarter the BBC decided to offer his books.
reversed the de- this Italian classic to ita
Decameron to be burned as cision. obscene. Sessions
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Horrified 18}
8 Support (4).
26
DOWN
Goad (4).
Fuel (4).
One who looks on the bright Seeds (4).
ride (8).
11 Se. free (81
5 Greedy (4).
7 Appointments (collog) (5).
13 Serpents (41.
15 Breaks up (8).
18 Errors (8).
19 Profound (4)
21 Envelop (8).
Dens (5).
Loose hemp from old
15.
10 Trials (5),
12 Banish (5).
25 Member of a Jewish sect (8). 14 Arrange, as feathers (5).
20 Grows old (4).
27 Bandage (8).
10 Devout (5),
17 Hoard (3).
20 Riab OUL (5).
rope
Third Programme audience. Thus, after 000 years, the De- enmeron became one more subject of controversy.
Two Grievances
then.
Latterly,
Boccacelo would certainly have shuddered at the prospect of the broadcasting the Decameron.
BBC
Then, when he was 35, the Black Death swept over Europe; three out of five people died in Fiorace; grots grew in the of the De- elo got the iden cameron,
Seven beautiful womew and fice from three young men Florence during the plague to a villa with a beautiful garden, To keep away boredom, it is agreed that cash in turn will 013 tell a story every day, Friday and Saturday there will be stories Friday, because of He was born in Paris, son of religious duties; Saturday, be
cause of the unsance of ladies Hallan banker and Joan de la Roche, a French widow. to wash their heads and to do Borcacelo weni through life away all dust and uncleanliness.”
De of the against This is the plan grievances with two
make hi father. He tried to Bnccacelo a business man like himself and he never got round to marrying Boccaccio's mother. "If only my father had given education," he of complained, "I might have be
come a great poet."
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hove always been Thera doubts about the book, which is a serku of stories of the most varied character, presenting
of Italian life in panorama Boccaccio's day, complete with nuighly wives, foolish hus- bands, rascally monks and dis- honest friars.
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On The Index
Wor
One A favourite book prelates and statesmen, 1 put on the Index by the Rompin Catholic Church 200 years after Boccaccio wrote it. The Church objected to the anti-clericallym
rather than of the storica their licentious nature.
As a young man, would
Swudon
10
Boccaccio
nave msg fun of the
maganda.us. Romebony suys in the eron that
narm,
WHIL Decam-
de great "Who
on
me i
proper
comeren.
Nothing New
Exactly 100 stories
are told. Not one of them is original. Boc- caceto, like Shakespeare, did not The main trouble to invent. theme is love tragic or comic.
When his father sent him to work in a counting house of a business friend in Naples, young
There is to austere moral pur- Boccaccio spent most of his
pose; blame is reserved for those time dangling about the KDY
was who are trainecre in love or for Neapolitan court. He
and woman who refuse to yield to talkative, good-looking
muy amitted by their beauty. Birtatious.
The Decameron Was book written women readère.
Inspiration
In church one Holy Saturday he fell in love with a beautiful young married women, illegiti mate drughter of the Neapolitan king. She
named Maria d'Aquido; Boccaccio made her famous as Flummetta.
was
ius sumteg Dis answer :
know dies IKOL
baant Wild, nough excelent for people m hert, 19 hamtu Anto Qu who has the fever? Snall we any; then, because harms the lever that it is evil? As seemly
He became her lover by hiding words do not profit a depraved in her bed curtame and threaten mind, 4o those that are not ing suicide when she affected seemly do not avail to corrupt the role of virtuous wife, But be found that Flem- the well-disposed."
very LOGI metta had no more intention of being faithful to him than to her husband.
Boccaccio, in later life, was thoroughly ashamed of his stories and afraid they might
Gulled (5)
2: Reals on a chair (4).
22 Curb (4).
tion.
23 Press (4).
24 Twilight (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Onward, a Tarkt,
7 Obiurate, 8 Cavil, 9 Repeat, 11 Imports, 13 Preface, 15 Decent,
18 Tiara, 18 Talented, 20 Deska, 21 Skewer.
Down: 1 Odour, 2
Azure, 3 Drastic. 4 Toe-cap. 5 Converse, 0 Tables, 10 Propares,
12 Meddles. 13 Pelted, 14 Abutes. 18 Canoe, 17 Tudor.
PARADE:
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT·· PEOPLE AND PLACES. AND THINGS.
WHAT IS Can a condemned get you to give them o ring, THE LAW?
by post, and now his would-be ox- Advise the paper: "Fileting
-
neulloner en the tried for murder?
Con
woman adultery with, the fective hiret by the to watch lich be misconduct?
who aloys they have you in their power scaffold bo in Britain is safe only if you plam it as carefully as you In would the thort of taken
socnet papėrs. You must private de- milliary
husband work quickly, and be sure you
fol- of cannot be identified or accused
lowed."
These are two questions to be debated soon by 12 French law students before the Parla questions three On the two Faculty of Law. conference. eudénia will be appointed for before an audience prosecution of 200 students.
defenders of the hypo- Tile thetical man who says his own executioner, will risim that the condemned man know that the executioner was about to kill ។រពារ,
that he therofore
The defenders of the womuti acted in legitimate self-defence.
claim adultery will taken in that the detective was acting in conjunction with the husband and that his report to the court cannot therefore be considered da evidence,
the defence and three for the
PEA
Twelve professors of low D
will the University of Paris form a Jury to judge botir cases and to decide whether the new raw young French law students have won their honours to the Paris Dur.
A produced Ans | FCONOMY A Entish Inventor
TEAPOT
teapot which be claims will cut tea consumption. by 40 percent.
Bill woood her and won, ber -that- 'vlaa restrictions are lifted betwee
Cartruda Britain and Austria, has finally joined him.
Meanwhile, shy Bill refuses to say anything.
has just celebrate: In Salisbury (Southern RIOTS IN Oxford University TIES
Rhodesia) PLEASE
bare these OXFORD the sexcentenary days, the
usual order of the Town and Gown, rjoisma Is a "cotch and the please''. ⚫ medieval flare-up betweel which Barkeepers, conscious of the scholars and townsfolk fine old British colonial tradi- ended with 40 scholars dead lu
which tions
uro dying out the structu. under the influence of Central
It was rough-and-ready
quite Africa's
loneers, have isqued orders February that "trousers, tles and Jackets Senotas.ca's Day-the day
riots started.
a
10,
day, that 1355,
BI the
Tho trouble started at the
must be worn after 8 p.m.
Actually, things arent so bad as the cdict makes them sound,
Few men forgeb put on Swyndleslock Tavern at Carfax do (an Oxford suburb). Two un- thetr trouzers. But many in shorts and, show up course, without tics,
Now the bars are issuing ties and with the drinks. The ties are arguing with the tavern keeper, froe so far. But bormen say John de Croydon, about the
quality of his wine.
losses are heavy.
of versity clerks, Roger de Chester- field, Walter do Springheuse friends Maried
a tyrant of Egypt's
The argument got heated. The boys threw a tankard at
on the head,
UNIFORM A 70-ton statue of John de Croydon, hitting him OR NOT? ancient history has raised ogain the question Wereupon, according to the whether British troops from the history books, the bruised Jolm Canal Zone can enter Cairo in do Croydon "eeded with great uniform.
passion,
went The
Actually he
straigni- Egyptian Goverrunen! wanted to move the statue of away to the mayor, Temper Rameses II from its 5,000-year got caslly trayed in those days
on the alte reating place
of and the mayor called the town one-time capital of to battle. The citizens ranged.
the countryside calling on their friends to hunt the scholars, and on the univer- they advanced ally, crying "Havoc, havoc, slay, slay!"
The pot, designed by 4-year- EgypTM. to Calro for placing in
A
The battle raged 'for three days and three nights.
Shocked by the killings, the not nation deprived both the town
university
of rights and the was until June 1355 when
charter gave the chancellor of the university such power that he
controlled the virtually
small old Alex Smail, has a
the spout Central Station Square. chamber behind
The British Army was asked chamber Into the
gous "cartridge" loaded with tea to provide a tank transporter for the job. The Army agreed but leaves the Arst
When water nears the boting insisted that the accompanying primarily for
uniform as ther point, steam enters the cartridge troops be in and the essence from the in- would be on duty.
would The Egyptians fused leaves mingles with the water
ten is poured hudge from the stand taken up to the
Suez Treaty lever when la
control There marked "weak" and "strong" to signed, that each cup be poured exactly to the strength required.
Worcester, town. The idea enables the same SHE'S TOO in
extra 'police BEAUTIFUL leaves to be used several times
were called out have not been because they
of women "stewed" and so do not require to control hundreds
around crowding
41-year-old a siale taste.
Big Bill Thompson's fish moj, hoping to catch
s
con
It is a wonderful, upedifying mirror of Bocaccio's time and temperament (before version). There will always be agreement that I is a master- plect and disagreement about its
moral influence; probably there will always be parts of it which, English versions, remain de- Boccaccio's cently wrapped
falten.
comes
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The Everyman edition
English ADVICE TO Advice to Katlan bachelors भर Dearest to a complete
Britain with wo translation for general circula- | FLIRTS tion. It was first published, 1930 leye for pretty girls has been (60,000 copies soid); in a larger offered by a Milan newspoler. form, 1953.
The paper, the Corriere the city's He consoled himself by com- Boccaccio in later life became d'Informazioni, with
evening circulation, stand between him and salva-, posing three boutes, all inspired fat, melancholy, plous and senal- largest,
to hi Live
moral reputation.warns: by this astrous love affair.
"If you are handsome and About the same time his father The lover at Flammetta turned
the
discuss into a misogynist,
to BrytaIK went bankrup! thanks to failure cf
English King. He left his books to a monk,
matrimony with local girls. It Edward II, to pay his Italian his vast collection of holy relics da very dangerous.
"British Kirla are highly asked creditors; he
Boccacelo to a convent, and the Decameron
to mankind and the Third Pro- skilled in bringing actions of how he proposed to support him-
of promise. if they 'breach the self, "Like Virgil." came
gramme.
monk
had
him told solemnly that he had not long to live and had better give up
attachment his mofone literature. Boccaccio, a man of h century, was so scared that
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
IT COMES NATURAL TO SOME OF THEM TO CHOOSE THE WRONG. TYPE OF HAT —
HE LOVES CORNED BEEF
"ME, I WOULDN'T CARE.JJFT
NEVER SAW THE STUFF..
ETC.
WITH SOME, PUBLIC SPEAKING COMES NATURALLY — LIKE UNBALANCING
tu
CHE
VISIT GENERAL PLÁTORIS " CORN DAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
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To
never
the
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a glimpse of the bride who was too beautiful to get a job,
From tien years-the
в ден
until 1825-470
mayor
citizens of Oxford
to
40 and were forced
do penance by paying pennies each year.
university remitted" tho
the That year "graciously penance-which
meani
tho
The bride is Gertrude Broda, mayor and citizens could atop from Vienna. A storm hus paying.
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raged around her since she was refused a job in Britain four years ago because she was "too HOT Canadian beautiful." That was the Icason given by
British to find refused agency which her employment after looking water.
feured at her photos, They British girls couldn't stand up to the competition.
and . Brilish RIVER engineers are working on a plane to pump the S1 Lawrence River full of hot
WEINERT
Just Natural Talent
SOME GIRLS
ARE JUST NATURAL BORN HYPNOTISTS.
BY HARRY
"GUESS WHO I RAN INTO.
TONIGHT?
"KNOWING YOU—
fD.SAY IT WAS
RIP VAN WINKLE!
SOME HUSBANDS ARE BOREN WITH
SOCIAL GIPTS AND MAKE
REALLY TALENTED
PASSERS
IT'S A GIFT TO BE ABLE TO DIG UPA GOOD ALIBI WHEN THE OCCASION REQUIRES IT.
IT ISN'T EASY TO MAKE A CAREER OF LOAFIN **** ONE HAS TO BE A GENIUS
»OR SOMETHING.
YOUR HAIR LOOKS: WONDERFUL; / WHERE DID YOU
GET IT DYEDİ? |
The idea is not to make a cew Riviera paradise. It is simply a plan to keep Canada's bustling port of Montreal open to ship- ping all the year round.
And it is not going to be neorly as difficult as you would think.
Lake Ontario is warm at the bottom. So warm that the vast inland waters never freeze over compelety, no matter how cold the winter.
The engineers plan to pump water from the lake bottom in- to canals at the entrance to the Jake. The canals connect with St Lawrence
And it will not take a great deal of the warm water to raiso the canal and river temperatures enough to keep heavy loe frem forming
If the plan comes off, it will mean that much of the great Inland waterway which will be opened when the St Lawrencer, Seaway project comes to fruition will be opp all the year round. It will also save shippers and
millions of dollars passengers year--the money is lost by the need to divert ships from Mon treat to the East Coast port of Halifax during the winter
marthy.
BETRAYED A scar on his left
BY SCAR
has
betrayed
cheek made by
an angry husband
a
bogus French priest
wha
20-year-old
collected hundreds. of pounda "for the poor."
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Such a gash looked most unpriestly, thought a woon who opened her door to him, So she told the police,
They found · that
Father's Glibeet Localissade had collected lorryloods of clothes, and indred delivered them to the Noisy-le- Grand Poor People's.
of Mercy near Paris,
But delvind further they found he had neither, given up money
him, nor
given
been ordained
Faced
nor had he
the
Krets,
with the
Lacnussade broke down. had spent the money on 23-year-old wife of one of the poor people at NolyTRO husband saw me with her, once and that's how. I got the scar on my cheek," he contewed.
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much of Bechuanaland January 1, it has had more than 26-Inches of rai more thadthe?