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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL
1965.
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
"You wouldn't have the fabulous price of -a cup of tea, Sir!"
Dr Evans takes the words Parade
right out of their mouths
THE SPOOR OF SPOOKS. By Bergen Evans.
Michael Joseph. 15%. 288 pages.
QUIPPED with little beyond good- natured truculence and well-developed capacity for disbelief, Dr Bergen Evans set out on an expedition (his second) through the jungle of human credulity. He returns to civilisation with a richly assorted bag of slain delusions and stuffed fallacies.
After flourishing
by George Malcolm Thomson
A scornful pet-shot at the contemporary profession of
"dowsers" (water .. diviners), bread? Let them eat cake," can and their
legendary powers, be found in Rousseau's Confes- 16 distinguish Bourbon from sions, written. 11 years before Scotch the twilight of the queen
V
Adam was born. net Napoleon, said "The
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
1 Small pool (5).
4 Scorch (3.).
7 Kind of spaniel (8).
8 Suff (5).
10 Unit of Italian currency (43.
12 Swells (7).
15 Scent (5).
16 Experiment, (4).
17
of lily (4).
10 Hinder (5).
20
Dwelt (7).
21 Percussion instrument (4).
23 Song (5).
24 Threefold (6).
25 :Goes ahead (5),
26 Calm (6).
26
) Odd (8).
DOWN
2 Mudes: (8).
3 Vegetable (4),
5. Aped (8).
6 Directs (6),
Weary (5).
11 Owned (8)
12 American toys (5).
13 Dire (8).
14 Panic flight (8).
18 Withdraw (0).
22 Accurate (4).
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THURSDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Discreet, Doomed, 9 Forridge, 11 Repelle d. 12 Fret, 13 Steed, 18 Erred,
25 Lessed, 19 Even, 22 Aspiring, 24 Engin cer,
20 Descents. Down: 1 Adorn, 2 Corps, 3 De plete, 4 Idol, 5 Cord, 6 Endure, 7 Treaty, 10 Refer, 14 Erase, 15 Desires, 18 Defend, 17 Reigns, 20 First, 21 Agree, 22 Anne, 2.3 Felt.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"WELL,
THE MEN LISTEN.
"GRANDPA, IF THE
EASTER BUNNY BRINGS THE EASTER EGGS —
WHO BRINGS THE
EASTER. BUNNIES 7”
TWO CENTS
SAYS THAT
WHEN HE
GETS HOME
HIS FRAU SAYS:
WAY
DIDN'T
YOU GET HYACINTHS ?
confused liberalism is particu. Such are a nation of shop-
larly favourable to Super- stitions") te shocks
opinion by declaring:
public keepers and when Churchill
said, "blood, toll, tears and sweat"
Should anybody Imagine that a woman can have no more than three Caesarian babies, Dr. Evans mentions a Dublin woman who holds the world record with
With a brisk right and left, two delusions about. human growth
are despatched: bust measurement is not index to the capacity to nourish infants and smoking does not stunt growth. Otherwise Mickey Norman, of Paterson, New Jersey, who smoked his first cigar at-14 months, would scarcely have reached six feet tall at 19 years of age..
Of mice-
than
Childhood is not the best age he was echoing a line of to learn in; any age below 34 Is That the secret poisons of Byron's Elood
sweat and better than the years between 10 Renaissance likely were nasty tear-wrung millions").
and 14, Children born in Sum but weak, that the spine-chilling.
mer BTB not brighter poison rings would have been Of the small but famous hand others. It is a fallacy to thinki Ineffective when nobody shook of non-eaters,
is the doctor
That old hands, that Lucrezia Borgia was notably suspicious, from Jane noted for her bovine good Balan who after three years of sleep than their juniors.
non-nutrition. did not even
people need less
|
That cane sugar is sweeter
nature, that Cleopatra, dink have dandruff, and Eve. Fliegen. than beet sugir..
ing a pearl in wine to
vinegar.
n
Mark Antony's health, was who lived from 1597 to 1811 on "That mice. are most easily extravagant rather than prac- tical. It takes days to dissolve the smell of rose down to our tempted with cheese (given
OWE contemporary Therese choice, they prefer sweets). pearl even in the strongest Neumann of Konnersreuth. That butchers on account of
pavariti
who has not eaten a supposed professional callous- Ineligible for jury since 1927 and did not need a ness, are vation card during the war Dr service. Evans hopes that Therese may yet submit her extraordinary gift to scientific test.
Nero, fiddling er, otherwise, was.50 miles from Rome when the city burned. Lord Sandwich did not invent the sandwich on August 6, 1782; and Dr Joseph Guillotin neither in- Ignacs vented the guillotine nor was
الحمد
Personalities
That no Freemason has ever been hanged,
That powdered glass is a deadly poison.
During two wars Boldiers have been convinced that "chemicals were secretly mixed Turning to a less austere with their rations to dull
executed by it. True, be urged the use of this old Scottish device on sound democratic and humanitarian grounds, pointing theme: out to the sensitive French that a slight Revolutionaries freshness of the neck" was all that the victim would notice.
Food and love
Although many of his hearers were able to verify this for themselves in due course, the doctor died, unaided, in bed, 1814.
A
RAT Paris will forget its troubles and income HUNT tax next week and go rat-catching.
In the sewers, the Metro, about the animal slaughter- houses and vegetable markets where the
rats are thickest,
squads of rat-killers will strike.
Paris has declared a
anti-rat com five-work
calling
"Operas" Parisians are itto rid the city of millions of tals flushed out of their silmy
riverside haunts by the recent floods.
Paris knew it had plenty of but nos as many as it save
rats, after the floods. They invaded the Mero, scuttling in broad
daylight across the platicP
So Paris's aptly named -the organisation which rans the Metro-declared a special: "guerre aux rats". parallel. with
drive..
the five week
ARABIC The Arabic Language Academy in Cairo OKAY
nods approval: the words "whisky, cognacj and beer" may be henceforth in
in the Arabic corporated vocabulary,
The first two, orders the their Academy," will maintain
Beer original pronunciation.
will be pronounced "beera" as in.. Italian.
But the holy Korin, never-
theless, enjoins the faithful not
to touch any of them.
the damp CHILLING Tato
Br!- cold of the FIGURES ..tish winter in February went 33,000 tourists over 5,000 of them Americans.
to be snowed on, rained chilled by biting winds, while Britons were longing to get away to some warmer place.
on,
But that is how it was. Surprised tourist offibiais ported that more people visited Britain this winter than in any
...
amorous inclinations. Americans ions frankly thought them
some
If they had money to
other place the Carib-
Love is not inimical to long blamed saltpetre; British, cop- life, see records of Catherine the per sulphate; Germans thought crazy Great (died at 67) and Casanova that the coffee was drugged; spend why couldn't they go to (73). True, the latter's interest tampered with. Morale in the. that the wine was French, In his subject waned notably in
French army in particular was the middle thirties.
undermined by this unnerving legend.
Absence does not make the heart grow tonder (see Divorce rates during the war).
bachelor," sa The Holly called, is twice as likely to take seriously ill, three times 15
-and man
**
Striking out. manfully at
likely to commit suicide as the human. misconceptions,
1
travel
bean, for instance.
And couldn't way
see!
authorities
either. understand should tourists want to the country at its wet,
Loggy. worst?
They
details:
could only give the
A total of 5,162 Americans visited Britain, topping last DrFebruary's 4,365 total by 18
thousand more people. percent.
in January arrived February than in these two months last year.
in
Dr Evans spends a busy page or two in assigning well-known
yings to their proper parents, married man. "Though marriage Evans may cherish no excessive has hope of ultimate victory over has many pains, celibacy Thus, "L'Est-C'est mai," was
the forces of nonsense, for "the said, not, by Louis XIV, but by no pleasures." - Dr
Samuel dispelling of one illusion creates Voltaire.
Johnson. In compensation,
which draws vacuum Voltaire did not say "I dis-
It is erroneous approve of what you say but that women
to suppose another." in later life lose But In the meantime, the will defend to the death your their interest in the other sex reader, peering at his pages in right "to say it." This appears and in the calmness of reason the twilight of # confused first in Miss S. C. Tallentyre's book on Voltaire (1919).
Maric remark,
'Ancinette's alleged "The people have no
lock forward human existence.' trary, woman's outlasts man's.
Easter Hats And Flowers
COPR. ITES BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP, THE WORLD, RIGHTS RESERVED.
EVERYTHING
NEW --- FROM THE
SKIN OUT.
BETTER GO TO CHURCH --**** “IF YOU'RE
NOT THERE THE OTHER. FELLOW WILL BE
WUNG
THOSE WERE.
THE DAY'S WHEN THERE WERE EASTER HATS AS WAS EASTER HATS,
to the end of liberalism, salutes with enjoy. On the con- ment many a witty and weighty emotional life blow at the lesser lunacies of
"mankind.
BY HARRY WEINERT
IF YOU'RE VISITING THE GIRL FRIEND — DON'T WASTE ALL DAY
RHAPSODIZING
ABOUT THE FLOWERS
THE GIRL EXPECTS SOME ATTENTION.
THE MAKINGS
OF A JOYOUS EASTER MORN.
and
Over half of February's 33,- visitors were from the Continent
600
CHANGE The day of
"BEM."
the
over,
OF DIET “BEM” is trade slang in the science Action business for "bug-eyed "mons- ter," once the staple diet of science fiction addicts.
a
But this week Patrick Moore, British astronomer who has recently turned to science Action, told a meeting of pub- lishers and addiets that those days will soon be gone for ever. With the "B.E.M., goes the "tentacled Martian" and fact, the whole array. of
space орега,"
Instead, says Mr. Moore, selence fiction is going back to the respectable tradition of its ancient origins the Greek mythologists and
like
תפרת
Jules Verne and HL. G. Wells,
There, will be more
technical knowledge, more documentation, fewer space guns and flying saucers--and fewer blondes.
MIXED If anybody has lost 2 packet of curry CARCO
powder wrapped in
a bath towel, he can claim it from BOAC's eargo and bag- gage query section at London Airport.
This is only one of the strange items left from time to time on aircraft arriving from
Two women's wigs
the other brunetta" left recently by "a" passerger in one
overseas.
one blonde,
woman
craft. Later she claimed them. Hats, spectacles and scarves are the most frequently for gotten items. During the school holidays caps predominate."
Weapons left on BOAC air. craft at the airport have ranged from spears, boomerangs and an aboriginal club to toy pistols. Other items include false teeth -two sets, still unclaimed, were
found five months ago—– cricket balls, bird cages and
glass eyes.
MULE Astride
sleepy-
looking mule, 24-year- TOUR
old ex - debutanta Cherry Creswell-Turner Jozzed happily out of Listson one day last week for a three-menth tour of Portugalin pal
Just Cherry, the mule, an army map, 25 dollars and the belief that she can make ends meet
by staging Judy
shows.
Funch
and
"The blonde, stocky girl, daughter of a British Air Com modore, first startled friends by saying she was going to make the trip. Then shocked them by saying she was going to wear shorts, She - coin- promised on riding breeches after friends told her that Portuguess men
men didn't Women wearing shorts.
stark
to her adventure-berking-Ab- the end of the tour she joina an exploring to expedition" in Algiers, then takes part in an underwater search of the burled city at Salamison Сурга
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