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SOAPY WATER
IS GOOD FOR PLANTS:
USE BATH SURPLUS IN THE
GARDEN.
WATER IS PRECIOUS
POCKET CARTOON
by OSDERT LANCASTER
"Sure an' I think Dev should
be after askin' Mr. Bulganin
to visit Eire so he could be makin' some helpful remarks
about Partition !"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER
POLLY GOT A STIFF SHOT OF CULTURE
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Into
THE PASSIONATE YEARS. spent her summers 08 A
By Caresso Crosby. Red- child. man, 21s. 370 pages.
fn the journey that has trans- HERE
Arst were miles of formed her white pebble patha on Fenixxiy and then (after a stiff shot of culture) Into Caresso the island and they Crosby, ittle Mary has not kept were raked every day. For to the well-raked white pebble this island on Long Island paths of life. Sound Was the feudal domain of little Mary Phelps Jacob's rich New England grandparents. There sho
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
3 Dans (8).
8 Value highly (4).
9 Said again (8).
11 Kept (8).
12 Escape (4).
13 Exclude (5).
18 Retard
(5).
19 Accustomed (4).
22 Lively (8).
24 Protective gunnet (8).
25 Consecrate with oil (8).
26 Forbearing (8).
YESTERDAY'S
13
25
lace for Cares!).
PARADE
of
OUTSTRETCHED Stald, fer- After they have posted, tipe
dential of men with HAND
daihlights at Bourne vantage points, they swoop on mooth, South Coast resort, has the forests, clear an ares sel holiday makers whooping for young growth, peddle the trees Joy. Bournemouth has dreided: at prices ranging fronte Ave to no more tipping in any of the twenty chillings to unsuspecting Unaware that he was damned, in with heroes of the time like, bly hotels, Just 10 percent ser- housewives in nearby towns. the plain reader ignored most of Lüidbergh, James Joyce, Ezra vice charge.
To outmanoeuvre them the the outpourings of Caresse and Pound. "There was a phesC of But Bournemouth's hotel men patrols keep in touch with her set. A few lem plain readers economy: Harry flow over to have not been concerned with roving polles cars and polleo
Street, thus the argument that it is degrading headquarters. Poily bought the books which the two Cartiers in Bond
So far the patrols have beaten Crosby's published at the Black saving £200 on a ditainend neck to tip-or serceive tips, Sun Press.
Their worry was simply that the tree rustlera. Peace and Taking time off from publish- Junn 1929,
Harry's birthday waiters and chambermaids were good will still reign over the Ing, they fell in love with a mill resolutions minously Included: always running off to the fae- foncsts in the frosty nights. owned by Come Armand de in Fito
Jean, not fat; to never cries for higher wages. Rochefoucauld. Harry bought it take more than four drinks a
GIFT Jewelled
mousetraps, Britons on holiday, they ex- She married (twice) into the with a chéque made out on day; to be bright and deller te
radio Acts, bluest blood of Boston; was able Caresse's white pique cuff, An and gentle and chaste" Decem-plained, are not what they used ITEMS pocket
automatic poker chip to be. P. Morgan to wall J
"Uncle other time, he wrote a cheque ber 1929 he committed suicide in Jack": on her second venture on restaurant plate. Morgans New York,
Now that hotel workers have dispensers and miniature are extinguishers are among pre- became the wife of Harry Crosby, cashed bath without raising
wager and hours fixed by law, sents that American business Wild parties who worked in a bank in Paris well-brod eyebrow.
holidaymakers are not pressing mon can expect to and on their and wanted to be a poet.
When Caresse and her hus-
Why?
That does not emerge much into any outstretched am
office desks this Christmas. Before Hurry's
was band
their felt hospitable, they from Carcsie's pages. Excerpts hand ns they hustle dangled one of the glomiest received their guests in bed. from his own prose are ecstatic luggage into the nearest taxi. prizes in America's
Those who (el rather than informative, Maybe So it was the porters, walters 50 inclined were it was n stik letter from and chambermaid's who were invited to take baths Morgans; maybe just sheer ex- directly, allested by the subtle in a sunken marble houstion through trying to change in hotel guèrts over re- tub that held four keep up with his loving wife.
cent years. In the general state By that time the Twenties
Nowadays a cal of plumbing in the were
Caresse: cent of the bill, say Latin quarter, it was reminiscences some of the des. workers, means a better deat kindly thought, perate galety, the macabre than given by a lot of guests as "some evenings absurdity of that legendary they hurry away down the front were rather Pom-
are distilled. Here ord
steps. sport stories, extravagant pelan," Caresso re- toe-pails of his black whippet marka obscurely.
personalities who could only Narelose lacquered gold.
There are tales of fashionable belong to the age of batik When
decision parties, literary partica, opium wid
Unfortunately, came Harry It temptation purlies, hashish parties; meet- good writing is absent. aside. 11e telegraphed home: "Sell 10,000; we have decided tʊ
gif: he could be 庭
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"Morgan Partner
But Harry had other деля, CG, staying
in bed and rading French
CK-
poets. pecially the time,
have let my nails
grow"; having his Krow
evening gardenia
the
dyd black and
the hour of
tyos
1
«xtravagantly.
REST OF
THE
20
21
Cartasse, who hod, about then, assumed that name to improve the title-page of her first volume of poems. The
themselves poems
were not
LESS
DOWN
1 Uneaemy (5).
2 Express (5).
3 Deserved (7).
4 Sign (4),
5 Hastened (4).
Praises (0).
7 Unexpected (0),
10 Part of a flower (5).
17
Jollification (5).
15 Clothing (7).
16 Doll (8).
17 Core (0).
20 Denude (5).
21 Revises (0),
22 At a distance (4).
23 Persia (4).
CHOSSWORD,--ACTOSE!
Intrvides. 7 L
a
Ameribile, 10 Assent, 13 Dessert, 18 Tear, 17 Eagerly, 18 Pleader, 20 Espy, 21 Tralled. 20 Endure. 27 Accolado, 20 Neets, 2 District Down; 1 Blad, Amen. 3 Inone, Reet, Duber, 0 Sherry. Street, 11 Sells. 12 Earay. Tarred. 15 Tepal 16 Alter, 18 Petard, 10 Epocha, 22 Anent. 23 Lured, 24 Domine. 25 Mlur.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THIS IS A GOOD
TIME TO DO RESEARCH AND
FIND OUT IF THERE
IS ANYTHING
THAT WILL
GROW
HAIR.
BY STARTING NOW
ONE SHOULD HAVE THE PUP EDUCATED A
ENOUGH TO STAND ON HIS HIND LEGS
BY THE
FOURTH OF JULY.
affected one way or another be
this change.
Homeless rich
over.
Into
and
indies, partics.
NEW BOOKS
of
A survey of the • mit-swapping custom among business men hus been completed by the Wati Street Journal, which it will be the biggest on record
The business people probably will spend £50 million on the of 10 per presents, which are given
hotel appreciation for the work that and contacts have
Ilquer
are
Year
oi
shoys SUPER Food
571
and
that
done during the
Conos While baskets of fruit still will be the What's more, there would be most popular items, the trend is no prospect of perhaps months towards nonventional gifts.
Some
of the large industries long attendance on wealthy old
in arrears where football is pd with just a smile In
for instance, have bought ncturn.
The more they on
for themselves, the bigger the stata supplies of foco, have be
their clients to take to games. cut.
Other items becoming popular However, the tall coated
are ice-crushers, tomato slicers, walters THAN ANGELS. By curt ombroidery on a favourite
and uniformed porters co-cream churners and fuggage, Host, mistress
in some
of Britain's plushier Barbara Pym. Cope. 13. subject:
Alexis, becomta (1) mistress, hotels have different views.
In the 6d. 256 pagos.
(2) wife of Sir George, uncle to
Many of their visitors THEY are less than angels, old child of Rose and Sir George,
Alexis. Later, Jenny 14-year-ovemight or week-end guests. SUPER United Biates are be
coming so largo they On departure,
hand out football teams could practise they are anthropologists. Out falls in love with Alexis.
about 25 percent of the bill. So inside. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, of their lives and loves, intrigues
What was he ki
Alexis jet things stay as they are, the a football tearn did play in child with Parts was thronged to those
Anci absurdities, sharp-eyed
wondered, with a
staff urge.
store recently before the con-
bon- days
with tanele
Barbara Pym mokes a delicious the emotions of righ
woman? A
crete floors were laid. Britons, as a nation, would be Americans,
from exy with many a sly side child whom he loved as though glad to see the refugees
This store, general intro-
when completed. dit at the jargon anthropologuis she were a Prohibition, anti-Pilgrim Fathers, talk.
woman?" There
duction of the fat service will sell not only food but rejeelers of the Puritan back- There is enough plot to being no completely satisfactory charge. But even then there is tropical fish, shrubs, flowers and ground who
answer to that, "Aspects of Love" shu elung, however, to
the feeling that some, wanting hardware. the Purtion bankroll. Carey,
ends in pleasurable irresolution. extra attention, would still press lving derately with a cordon
MEMORABLE BALLS. Edited a coin into a waiting band. blen cook, became
ccaine one of them, At the Qualie Arts Ball she
by arrived,
stripped to the waist (ubligatory costume) on a baby fteld." Tom Jills Catherine for elephant,
preceded on foot by Detrie, a young student. Going the Eur of Pirtsmouth, She
back to the field" he is con- won first prize against the conveniently killed in a riot, thus petition of the compellest profes- causing only the smallest ripple stonal physiques of Party.
pools of love and anthro- Caresse was, in fact, beautiful. pokegy. A new demonstration of On this, photographie documen unerring wit.
lation
extensive. However,
མ
keep the story moving
Catherine,
a lady Journalist, lives sinfully with Tom Mallow when he is not "In the field," 1,e.
customs (ribal studying
Returning trom Africa.
in
the
she becaus an Intellectual: ASPECTS OF LOVE.
signed
manifesto ;1
which affirme.!
letters): (in capital "The
Herary creator. hort thru right to disintegrate the primal Time is a Lyranny To be abolished. "The
matter
ut words.
wlter expTERSET, He does not communicave, The plain reader be damned."
In "the
By David Garnett. Chatto and Windus.
8. Gd. 176 pages.
CASANOVÁ” to his friends in old-time Bloomsbury, Gprilett byreales 20 years abstinence from fiction with this
Those Long Winter Evenings
NOW THAT THE HOLIDAYS ARE OVER
IT MIGHT PAY TO WRITE HOME THE FAMILY MAY BE OUT OF HOCK BY THIS TIME.
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COPR. 1995 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, TM.WORLD WIGHTS RESERVED.
TWO JIG SAW PUZZLES
MIXED TOGETHER.
· WILL KEEPÉM BUSY -ALL WINTER,
“WE MUST GET A NEW MAIL ORDER CATALOGUE~. IVE READ THIS ONE / “
IT GETS DARK EARLY IN THE COUNTRY
THESE DAYS.
Ver- James Lover. schoyla. 30s. 116 pages, TVIDENTLY it has been hard work making much out of the bygone gaieties which are the raw material of this
this confec-
tion.
Not all of the 11 contribu- ors are so fortunate as Alan Pryce-Jones, who could rely on account of her Lady de Ros's mother the Duchess of Rich- mond's ball before Waterloo.
NIGHT. Under chilly skies the move PATROL night patrols
silently through Britain's forests and plantations. The season of peace and good- will approaches.
with The patrols are ormed shot-guna and carry walkie talkie radio sets. Dogs pad at their heels,
not so lage as a vast New Orleans, which will have park- ing space for 1,000 cars.
Largo
food surve-yourself shops have been common in the United States for years and are called Now syndicates are looking for
"uper-markets."
another name to describe the For the Stimu using the term
place being bullt
new moustors. being they are Super-super-markets.
Their Increasing popularity has been brought about by the growing desire of the American. housewife to do as much as possible of her shopping under one roof and to push the trolley her purchases
This year the forest guards are launching a full-scale cam- paign against the Christmas tree raiders. One of their concentra- tion areas is Hampshire' New containing Forest, which supplies much of straight from the store to her
parked car.
Truth is, most of these revels (latest, Polrot's costume ball in Paris, 1011) were quite devold of importance when they hap- pened and are almost devold of | Londen with Yuletide green. interest now, Nonsense, but The raiders are equipped with hardly memorable,
trucles, axes and sawi,
BY HARRY
· LONG WINTER. EVENINGS ENABLE
WEINERT
THE HOME-GROWN TOOTER TO GET IN A FEW LICKS-
WITH THE BEST BANDS IN THE LAND.
"DARN IT?
I CAN'T THINK
OF A THING
TO DO? *:
"IF I COULD DARN
I'D HAVE
PLENTY
TO DO.
FOR THE MAN THAT. ́ ́LIVES FOR GOLF THERE ISN'T [MUCH TO DO BUT CUSS THE WEATHER CAND WINTER GENERALLY
Some grocETS.
Now
provide Store-
the mar
Somo
playrooms. nursery houses which supply kets are usually so large that foremen use motorised scooters. The chain-store groups are expected to build more than 2,000 super-super-markets, this year. Last year they construci- ed 1,400,
COMPLEXION David Welch, the singer, AID
who recently completed theatrical tour of the Pacific, left the girls of Sydney, enthusiastic about eating seaweed after he had ex- plained to them the value. The iron content of certain types of seaweed is good for the blood. and improves the complexion," claims 38-year-old Mr Welch.
"I've been eating it since was a boy in Wales, There
they
call it laver bread. My. grandmother used to take me to the Welsh
Yesh coast to collect it Mr. Welch said he found the
same type of seaweed on the
beaches at Sydney. He was pinying the juvenile lead in the Australian production of "South trients
Soon
Pacific" and told · bús about the seawood. Sydney's show giris and models were trying it, and asking for
moro,
Bolf the seawood for threa
hours and it tastes like spiriach," he added. It's very infos" with,
ham or bacon,"
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UNDERSEA The stomić sub- TOWBOAT marine may find itself in comTMTM
petition BOON with undersea tugboats, The tugboat may be used to tow. a viring of muba mersible hulls, cach carrying several hundred troops or
of cargo for invasion opera tions or for shipping, important supplies through enemy men- aced seas
Rear Admiral H. G. Rickover, nuclear, propulsion expert, dis- closed that the US, Navy has: been
experimenting for some time in underact towing' opéra- tions. They are now part standard
work.
of
Convent powered sub
marines have been used for towing so far, but specially do signed underwater craft have been planned.
One of the first will be underwatership which wilt have , 4,000, fons displacement, and be propelled by atamis on- gineer The present alamia, Rib- marines, Nautilus said Seawolf have only 300 tons - displace- mont.
The US Navy interested in developing underwalec tugs. (If- la reported, becaues in a modi WARD BUTLADO, -ahipsiswould operating under the cont thread of,aforio, o bo while craft belong
·would movi