POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
"Well dear, as far as } can see all this means is potnu to be that we're graciously perimitted to keep Peregrine in a style to which he's no businen to become accustomed for alx months tonger bajure the Army's ready for him "
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1955.
PARADE
CLUB FOR The "Klub Langer (Tall Menschen" THE TALL
Persons Club) has been formed in Munich, Ger-
many, for the purpose of help Ing people of giant dimensions with their particular problems,
folk are banding to The tall
tonke their gether in order lives
ves easier and also happler, Woinen are eligible to Join They mesure up to a height of six feet or more, Men sust bo six-feet-three inches or over to qualify as "langer menschen.'
All the members of this en- terpris., whether social workers, have joined the "Klub Langer Menschen" with view to having a good fre
socialites or
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and to pressing vigorously for A better existence.
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which the Klub would like to is a recommenda- see passed tion for a reduction in taxes for full people.
It is argued that tall people need more food than people of further normal
It p pointed out that in many cases
ginnin have their clothing. nertssities.
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rocket "cuddling" the bottle; that mus patients might get motors cut out the passenger conscious would lose all weight and have burnt. Also, that there is
pensation of risk the unpleasant
of scalding if the a boltomiers pit. water bottle leaks. failing to Instinctive efforts to save then
To And out selves from failing would re-
1: ร้ their being violently children. a panel thrown
about, for hunian is to tour Hampshire town and muscles would be incredibly country schools to decide just)
of weight what sundards The children powerful in a state lessness. Spare travellers cou'l reach in each. be trained by hypnosis how to react to these conditions.
A trip round the moon might take only 10 days, but a triv in Mars was likely to take two σT three years. Hypnosis was an "obvious" way of making th abnormal conditions endurable,
PAGAN Because of complaints CARDS
by church leaders at Christus cards last yea were too pugan, shapes New Zealand are this your
"Christian BIES- TOP
Britons stocking WE
be the mny sage carts that ever before
world's Na dog lovers, bul they change ther The campaign to "Put Christ DOC Hock
began loves periodically. Jat Christmas"
Last year the most popular dog was th For north of mininture poodle. This your
is the cocker spaniel.
last November in one small town (Kaitaia) in
New Zaland Christmas W LI
repercussions
the initini
wonten
tv the over however, from Kalini {two bought up all the "pagun" earls in the town and burned them in pubiley had spread throughout the country.
This
Sponsoring
about
of teachers
be arosc
THE MASTER THROWS CUSTARD PIES
1
And so we take leave of Felix Ho arrives in Paris-but not CONFESSIONS OF FELIX
KRULL CONFIDENCE before an interesting incident at on the brink of new adventures; the French Customs. A hand-footlocse, plausible, voluble; hii his Impregnable; MAN. By Thomas Mann, soine morocco jewel case "un- self-conceit
nicely balanced Secker and Warburg. 186. expectedly slips into his little self-approval
renders nausen and bag from the belongings of the between 408 pages.
laughter. person standing next to him
T
to u
in
relations
The comedy has been rich if Felix describes the misadven- HE Master Was
ture genially as "an occurrence a lttle ponderous, Mann, after frolicsome mood. the Inquiry is
rather than an action; the case undertaking many tasks in his the Faust (dusting off The hero of Dr Hornce King, Socialist M.P.
his imply muggied itself in, so to time
the Legend; re-touching the Genesis He thinks the belief that town
latest novel belongs speak, as a by-product of children are smarter may
well-defined type of good humour that my friendly story of Jacob), ends by throw- with the (Custains) ing custard pics. But they are Just a myth. Possibly it because country children think adventurer: those to whom authorities had produced in me. ples us big as blankets. more deeply and weigh their success
account comes on
ΤΟ dispose of the jewels words more carefully, or be-of a willingness and ability proves a harder task. The fence Towns generally have to please others, especially offers him 600 franca; Fellx de-
schools thun
looks, mands 9,000. by good women, effusive mantiers and ready eloquence. There was urgent which need for these talents in the the Emperer case of Felix Kruli.
still
better primary the country.
MIKADO'S NEWSPAPERS
The
papers
ITWR-
Di Japan rends disinfected, 19 In prewar days, It takes an easy lead at the
Now Ladies' Kennel Association dig before they reach him.
261 however, he reads them, as the with at Olympta how
miniatu. Japanese say, "without holes 235 entries against
in them." poodles.
His father, manufacturer of a now discontinued brand of champagne, Loreley extra
suvce.
"
Hi argument is
NEW BOOKS
reviewed by
George Malcolm
Thomson
had committed suicide after bankruptcy. In prewar and wartime days,
opened His mother What did the poodle do to be
the only newspapers which he
Frank- ingenious: "Pay attention to the New Zealand's banished as the favourite?
hud reud
been carefullyboarding house in 411
new talent. Don't printers have witnessed wha!
a breeder: Suld
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checked for "offensive" articles | fort, his sister found outlet advent of a has been described as a "volu-
ilers, which werd for
the reject it through stupid miserli- her talents temperamenter and news highly-strung.
setiles fur 4,400 tion" in the type of message
(1 costs
ffteca clipped out before the Rítxut
Felix, franca operetta stage; for The majority
of the appearing on
Kulneas, and 1 has to be clipped were presented to him.
Jaged 19, matters wore less Christmas carda.
30- miche
By every month or
Urry, satisfactory.
11
receiver Christine
the highly In many Cases trung nature stems from over- breeding
Gone are thy "pagan" Joghng expens007, **
wisting Verses everybung bat Christinas
Gone too are the Christinas vard sernes that have "thing is do with the spirit- Un mute of Christmas
"Whit
comments Is more. Katinta's vicar, "people are buy- All ing the now-style cards. we have to do is to keep up the see that every good work * Vanch WŁ send packs #truly Christian massage."
Fashionable women like their poniles to be small, frisky little Lo At* PRI- creultures, rely
But in pre- pered and overted.
thter
broeckers ducing often developed talle animal,
type,
i nervy. '%
Now breeders are seeking to get buck to the steady, pinch-1 ired. more in keeping
hotnes the
the British
+
It
IN
igidly
that Arst an
people.
HYNOTISED SPACE MAN probable
the
in the moon will be hypnotiseni, says Dr S. J. Van Pelt, Pre- sident of the British Society of Medlent Hypnotists, writing in the current issue of the Society's Journal.
-
because Thus, he kids.
the of take-off violent acceleration would make trouthing possible for the first 20 secondis, and then 40 seconds broathing obstruction was likely to cause panke in even the bravest man, and pante would further Inter fere with breathing. Hypnosis would be invaluable in enabling men to face the ordeal without fear.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
COULD
YOU
LEND ME....
- ER EXCUSE
ME / I HAVE
то CATCH
THE PAL WHO HAS TO CATCH A TRAIN OR SOMETHING THE INSTANT YOU START
YOUR SPIEL.
DO I HAVE FIVE BUCKS ? ARE YOU KIPPING 7
THE ONE WHO LAUGHS IT OFF AND
THANKS YOU FOR THE COMPLIMENT.
SORRY-
THAT'S ALL
I HAVE!
THE CHARACTER WHO ALWAYS HAS SOME. SMALL CHANGE AND SYMPATHY TO EXHIBIT-
CANT VERY WELL CALL HIM A LIAR.
SHE
witla.
TRUE OR Systematically, Bri- Lish experts are FALSE?
testing the truth of that bellets two homely old their grandparents would have They want to find wworn by. out: Does a hot water bottle person? sick really benefit a Are town-bred children cleverer than only children?
the first, the" discover Te Royal College of Nursing Bet up a working party of 3,000 ward sisters to investigate the effects of hot water bottles on their patients. They will take Into account that some patienta
derive comfort my
from
of
W.
seems
papers
de plore
ol
ony
Condemnation
im-
my own
ness."
He
THE CALL TO HONOUR, 1940-1942. By Coneral de Collins. 181. 320 Gaullo, pages.
THE rolu
dignity
THE exile and dependent has a
to play hard
with and
humour. good especially when he feels himself the heir of a great destiny, Caesar stripped of his legions, the lot of de Gaulle This wus
15
during the years covered by his narrative.
for
"The fact of embodying
comrades," my
he says, "the fate of our cause; for the French multitude the symbol of its bizarre turn, the owner
ond for foreigners the of the jewels tuns up in Felix's hope,
of # hotel. She is the wife
Image of a France indomitable in the midst of her trials, was Her manufacturer of lavatories
to diclate my bearing and affections are inflammable; her language high-sounding. She is se upon my personality an never again delighted when attitude i could particularly Feliz confesses that he stole her change." Jewels, and insists that he steal
some more.
"Poverty, it is wait is no sin. but that is just talk. Tu Is possessor it is highly sinister. defect, helf undefitted half reproach Thanks to this affair admiring
Suspicion
He cane to distrust
To and
Britain
view Churchill with believing suspicion,
His judgment was often dis
of But the experience torta. the Dutch over the East Indies that France was for- suggests
this louchy tunute in having guardian of her rights.
SUPERTAX Mr NOT NEW Canterbury
thinks archivist. overtaxed Britons ought to be thankful they wern't living 000 years ago, After sifting tho
His way of life laid him open en 's records of rates and to pity and even to condemna
the ages and flop. luxes through
To speak planly, as Felix ho has himself does ("I in resolved to to 1320. elving back decided that heavy taxation is employ the utmost frankness in nothing new.
my writing without fear of being At one time, if you were one reproached for venity or
fussy people who pudenee")-he lived with-and
a real, on
~ Ruzsa, 80 ex-etreus thinks a room require place and window, you were the artist
of the Jewels Feils feels that the they were ready to trade French prey
of two tax collectors-one
Those who are readiest Lo sinister reproach is being lifted interests for military advantage and to sacrifice him to make a demanding the hearth tax and
be from b He is promotedt from may, nevertheless, for the the other dunnlag yoursed
abashed by the boldness with lift-boy to walter and meets the deal with Vichy. window, which wa
Felix
defends himself: young Murquis de Venosin. Its size. This
to have which
"One might well be tempted to
to Venosta wishes stay izz been a rough equivalent of ou
word to short, ugly apply a
with Paris
an attractive little eapertax, for it was in addition
For
my house tax, which to house
was de- way of e
muste-hall actress named Zaza: am in agreement with part. I manded from everybody lucky
fotk wisdom which holds that his parents wish him to travel over a roof
From this dilemma there is a nough to have
when two persons do the same their heads.
De Gaulle writes with lucidity thing it is no longer the same," escape-route-Felix, impersonal-
rhetoric: sometimes the will friend, his of Ing Soon he has the chance
Travel; and
mystique boons in his prose ("I a Venosta will stay with Zazit. employment as a lift-boy in smart Paris hotel If only he For Felix, Lisbon is the list can hear France now, answer- In the depths of the can get exemption from military stop on his world-tour; there he ing me.
In spite of Felix's meets service.
girl named Zunzon, abyss she is rising up again. Ah, we are here to sorve Mather, defect whose formictable mother Inter-
He has a talent for protest that any alight there may be in his health will rupis the pair at an inconveni- you," etc.).
summarising a situation ("When Fоon be cured by the healthy ent moment. "Is this your way
France the cape of life of a soldier, he is rejected: of repaying Portuguese hospi- all is sald und done, Britain is
un island. adits. But from tality?" she person
America another continent; world") and epitomising a man: epileptold attacks: a hereditary speech which opens thus closes
on an unexpected note. talni from his alcoholic father."
Petain: "Too
in- proud for trigue, Loo forceful for medio crity, too ambitious le be time-server. he nourished in solitude a passion for domina- tion. Military glory had already lavished on him her bitter epresses. But it had not satisfied him, since it had not loved him alone,"
male ser- tax female servant
on four-wheeled
Then there was VIUI tax. Viuxt and carriages,
tnx
Ds the
Every düzen had to con- tribute towards the upkeep of the city wall and the wages of the standing watch. police were called in those days. A plague sufferer was levied with a special tax to provi nly family with food while his house was isolated.
The Light Touch
"DON'T
LOOK AT
ME/
THERE'S NO USE JINGLING THE KIDS' BANK — THAT'S PROBABLY BEEN
TOUCHED ALREADY.
KOND M
COPR. 1939 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP, IM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT THE
MONEY FOR ?
NOSE
Thin
Guffers
BY
HARRY
WEINERT
COULD YOU LET ME HAVE SOME CHANGE? I'M IN A HURRY
AND MY MONEY
IS UPSTAIRS !“
THE FEMININE FINANCIER WHO THINKS
A POCKETBOOK IS A RECEPTACLE
FOR EVERYTHING EXCEPT MONEY——
GOSH CHUM / I WAS ABOUT TO ASK YOU FOR A FIVE-SPOT M'SELF!“
MUTUAL FRIENDS HAVE AND HAVE NOT
CERTAIN THINGS IN COMMON.
"THANKS, POP!
SEE YOU
LATER!!
POPS STANDING, WITH THE FAMILY SEEMS TO BE JUST
TOUCH AND GO.
the
a
Eden: "Openness of mind and sensitiveness that were Euro- pean rather than insular, human rather than administrative."
M still see Attlee: "I can Altice coming softly into my office asking for the assurances needed to relieve his conscience as a democrat, and then with- drawing with a smile face."
Indignation
on hia
Churchill (in 1940); "At Chequers one August day raising bis fista towards the sky as he cried: *So they (the German bombers) won't come.' 'Are you in such a hurry?' I said to him, to see your towns smashed tu bits? You see,' he repiled, the bombing of Oxford, Coventry, Canterbury will cause such In- dignation in the United States that they'll come into the wax. (in
*The 1942): Churchill
printed, Parliament papers heard, the committees muttered and the clubs spread judgments about him that were sometimes hostile. The result of all this was that Mr Churchill was not in the mood to soften or be at case, especially towards me."
De Gaulle has a clear concep- tion of his own part in
in the great drama: ho Was the Voice of France ("I spoke. It was neces- Action employs men's fervour. But words arouse it.") It was in the nature of things that sometimes, the Volco, og France was querulous,
sary.
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