Do
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JULY 14, 1958.
you ever hail
a friend across the street?
if you do you're an outsider —according to Lady Troubridge
THINK you're reasonably polite, do you? Not totally lacking in the old polish and know-how? You say "Yes, please," "Thank you for having me."-and on occasion-if the crunch of delicate instep bones is clearly audible--you murmur "Excuse me."
You may even agree that "it is unjust to fall upon a waiter for a badly cooked dish."
You would get by with me. But it is not enough for the World and Life, In fact, you're a double-barbed thorn in the ride of Society.
I've just been reading a copy of Lady Trourbridge. THE Book of Etiquette." THE Complete Standard Work of Reference on Social Usages Compiled From THE Most Authoritative Sources.
*
and how to cal asparagus..
Does anybody take etiquette reverend, or the younger son of You are on your way to call books seriously? Apparently, a French marquis, when to bow,-un thi: lutty (soon us you ditch people do. Many more than
Sister, who's just along for the you'd think.
wolk Doesn't get about much, Every move is so rigidly con old Six). Theo suddenly, across trolled, everything "done"
the street, you spot your best 1898년 3일 done"
verlous Army What
Daj Cholmondeley reader of Lady T. would be (pronounced Chum'ley). able to move in any situation outside the sluggish, safe world
Lady Troubridge, Arst pub lished in 1920, has been selling sleadily ever since. The new packet size. 5. edition publish
by World's Work-although Buterly unrevised and painfully out 21 date-is doing very nicely,
WHICH FORK
she writes about.
young man
OF
Would you like to test your self? People yearn for sociul statua What would you do it: You
They see being were a and weerplaner.
walking proper and doing the right thing decorously down a street with unmarried 29-year-old as the magic formula to attain your these. Thuy know there are sister, It's exactly 3,25 p.m.,
after and frightened a not precisely 20 days Jules knowing them, turn 10 any dinner party which you were
uthoritative" source,
unable to attend and which was Lady T. fits the bill. She tells given by a very popular lady which fork 10 use, how to with whom you are madly in Address 2 perr who
is
kve.
What has Fleming got up his
sleeve?
Cholmondeley is nearsighted, 10 years and three ranks your santur. You haven't seen him him and happens to know he's in years, are genuinely fond of leaving next day for Malaya,
OPEN SECRET
Walking with him is a Althy rich bachelor cad named Dalziel (pronounced Dec'el), who rut n only cheats at cards, but has also been heard to mention your steter in terms usually reserved
female cantnrs.
fo
-by-
DEE WELLS
Dalziel's efforts to spread the Rood word far and wide, but. having reached that anxiour age she has an eye. Like an eagle's for rich, unmarried men,
Spolting Dalziel one and a half seconds after you, she bubbles: "Darling boy, isn't that our old chum Cholmondeley with the dazzling Dalziel? You know, I'm dying to meet him.
Introduce us, please." There you are. All the facts. What would you do?
YOU'RE ANGLING Whatever you do, it will be wrong.
And if you know your Lady Trowbridge, you will know you can do nothing. But nothing...
Why not?
First, you have to call on the inner-party lady love because "all guests must call upon the kortera within three weeks after a formal dinner party....even
accepted."
the
invitation was
flot
Her house is two steps away,
Martin
Delicate situation on an afternoon stroll
never introduce
You are no idle card-dropper; what of Dalzlet? Can't speak to followed is
to one another unless you are angling for the drawing that blackguard, and you know people room and a few minutes along "one has only to keep one'z.ayer you are quite certain is will be with the lady. You must
get averted if one withes to avoid agreeable to both.
Even if you knew it would be there on the dol of 3,30 because greeting an acquaintance whom
agreeable, you could not do it one considers undesirable." this is her "at home" day.
Introductions in the Cholmondeley's eyesight may because 3.30 is striking. But there's have improved, Maybe he will street are bad forms,"
You can't explain to Sister good-guy Cholmondeley, There's spot you. No hope if he does.
And there's He has read Lady T. too. Can't why you can't introduce Dalziel bad-guy Dalziel.
"when
--courtcats your beastly slater.
call out a loud greeting any more because
nacrificed, there is no merit in You want to halt Cholmonde- than you can. Anyway by lcy but connot because:-
you have being frank," averted your eyes to your shoes
their interesting and because of Dalziel.
(n) "It is extremely bad form to call out a greeting to a friend across a croieded street," and
(b) When men meet in public. "the younger or junior in rank waits for a sign of recognition from the elder"
now,
laces
La
"Few letters are more eagerly awaited, more joyously received than love letters. They bandun Lonely hours, reassure lonely. hearts, keep the precious plow alive,
devotion and sustain when loved ones ore apart..
·WRITE AS THE HEART DIC- TATES. .. Just be careful not to write anything that can be misunderstood or misconstrued. There need be to sacrifier of good taste to achieve sincerity and an honest cxpression of your deepest feelings and emotion.”
Oh boy! Ono big leap and
NOT A SOUND You're
Rooled paralysed. Your mouth works, but no sound You can't cross the street to comes. It's 3.35. Drawing room you're in a purple pool of speak to Cholmondeley because will be full up. Chum C, has all deepest, tasteful emotion.
Jeave your sister but disappeared from sight. you
"My darling: Thanks for your You can't toke ner Sister's mouth narrows. Her beautiful, BEAUTIFUL letter! I neross the street fury-glazed eyes watch dapper too shall always be in love with Dalziel in such a dog Dalziel's Imposing country-seat you-if we live
can'l
stranded,
you
You know "cards can be left any time after 3 o'clock....but
Break these foolish rulen? with no call which has the possibility of the caller belap shown into Well hardly, old boy. They are because the drawing room should be there in black and white in (that's how he knows what Sister and bankroll vanish from her hundredi..."
Lady T. after all, And, besides, is) and "a polden rule to he grasp. She wheels on you. She's
Sister isn't in on this open scerel about herself, despite made before: 3.30."
AUTHC. PLEMING,
in and distasto
aoctor NO
CHAPTER EIGHT Now: Enter the man with the mechanical
masculine dressing-room,
that fod another
inbo
bathroom.
and
hand
going to cosh you.
fa be
a
JUST LET IT GO
I'm no book burner, For A
I'm twisty near-illiterate
nimoet a bibliophile.
to
But if a bonáre geta going for the
ΠΟΥΓΟΣΕ, ILow-To-Behave
And you deserve to be coshed, You are the true wizened fruit of Lady Trubridge's
angly vine. So rule-conscious that you are utterly unable renet like a human being.
Lady Troubridge LET' the count me in as chipt faggot Teeth he could hardly do it. Now only doll whose bark paralyzes heaper.
Then let us round-up. some he recognised the signs. He had and whose bite kills. There's an been drugged.
American how-to-do-it lady who sensible man to write a slim
churned out a
revised, leaflet that ways: "Be kind to Anyway, the girl had Anished has her breakfast She was in bed, enlarged edition of something people"... "have as much fun to her, hold-called Lillian Eichler Watson's as you can" and "don't ing on to the furniture. The STANDARD BOOK OF write letters that will look
WRITING AND funny is court." kimono was lying in a pile on LETTER
SOCIAL FORMS. And just let it all go at that the floor, She was fast asleep, CORRECT naked under a single sheet. It weighs 5lb., costs 6.95 dollare, Now he had to crawl Cross has 713.pages and is published the floor and into his room. by Prentice Hall Inc., New York. He got to his bed and pulled himself on to it and let the waves sweep over his head.
Ho
stagger Ni
Pincers
Where Lady Troubridge was
a dimident, non-action giri, Mrs Watson is a wild-swinger. She ploughs relentlessly through every conceivable letter writing situation.
WHEN IN LOVE Letters Expressing Sympathy on Illness. Injury, and Material Loss, for instance:
"El jut told me about Chipper.. I know how precibus little golden-throated
·
veed
this
The door of the double room opened softly. A very tall thin figure was althouetted 11 against the lighted, corridor. was a man. lie must have been Scrambled eggs on toast, four six feet six well.
stood on the threshold with that on rashers of bacon, a grilled extremely Juxurious modern ledney, and what looked like his arms folded, listening. Satis canary was to you....so cheer an English pork sausage. There fled, he moved slowly into the up, and think of the NEW It was like being shown into were also two kinds of hot toast, rooin and up to the bed. He bent canary. Let's both try to think the very latest Florida hotel rolls inside a napkin, marma- down and listened to the quiet of a cute name for it.
strawberry breathing of the girl.
"I was dismayed to suite except for two details ade, honey an
The intruder examined the about the robbery which Bond notleed. There Jam. The coffee was, bolling hot were no windows and no inside in a large vacuum decanter. girl's race for several minutes. morning's paper, I know what "handles to the doors,
The cream anelled fresh.
One of his hands came up and your collection of jade meant to took the sheet at her chin and you, quite apart from Ten minutes later, Bond softly drew the sheet down to material value," heard the bathroom door open, the, end of the bed, The hand
There is also LOVE, Ito put down his toast and that drew down the sheet was marmalade and covered his eyes not a hand It was a pair of Singer Lily stopped on the with his hands. She laughed. articulated steel pincers at the threshold. "And now we'll
dis- leave you two dear people in She said, "He's a coward. He's end of a metal stalk that
frightened of a simple girl." appeared into a black silk peace. You'll
and plenty of Bord heard her rummaging in peeve. It was a tncclinical fresh clothes in the cupboards, the cupboards. Chinese style, I'm ofcold," sho twinkled apologetically,
Dinner
She
"The doctor has given statet orders that you're not to be dis-
terbed. He'd be delighted f Stud
It's
driver and handed a key across
Bond turned towards Honey-
The blue eyes oearched his
Manners
hand.
The man gazed for a long thne at the naked body. Then the claw came out again and delicately lifted a corner of the?
Deross the room to the open Bond, was door through which sleeping.
Scrutiny
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Band reached out his maxacles thrillers has never been better demonstrated picked up a tooled leather box.
raised hor voice. sheet from the bottom of the From the word "GO" than in this, his latest......following his of dismay, "Oh, but really, sister you'd join him for dinner this "Darling James, would you like bed and drew it back over the evenhig. Shall I say you............?” me : white with pale blue birds girl. He moved quietly away other serials "Diamonds Are Forever" and Rose, the key, quickly. I've said
"yes, please," sald Bond. dying all over me?". patients "Tell the doctor again and again that
we shall be British Secret ere never to be brought in like delighted to
"Yes, damn you," said Bond "From Russia With Love."
join him for through his hands. "Now top yourself and chattering to Service man James Bond, seeking the killers tha" There was inrundlence
her voice, dator
"Oh, I larow
he'll be so come and have breakfast. I'm of his Caribbean counterpart, is now "Really, that outside staff.
pleased." With a laut twitter getting sleepy." time they had a talieing to." the two women softly withdrew,
There was a flixxry of feet and prisoner on a Jamaican island with focal® Sigter Rose scrabbled in n
The man spent longer beside Bond heard her sit Jown Dend's
bod. He scrutinised girl Honey. As the not tightens it brings to Sister Llly, who with much chile.
opposito. Ho took Is hands
every line, every shadow on down She looked ravishing the dark, rather cruel, face that him nearer to the Big Brain behind his cooing and tut-lutting, unlocked face for reassurance. "You're
Her hair WUB the two pairs of handcuffs and
crespot and lay drowned, almost exlinet, on. anemies.....Doctor No. But how will walked behind the desic and not worried about what's going combed and brushed to kill, with the pillow. He watched the pulse to happen to us?" She noted one side falling down the side in the neck and counted it and, dropped them as if they were Fleming spring the climax?
dirty bandages into the waste the room. "Don't you think of the check and the other who I had pulled down the
this is all a trap?"
clicked back behind her ear. She cheet, he did the same with the rather matronly woman paper basket. was the sort of recep- older,
ant demurely, with her hands in area round the heart. "Thank you" Bond
He rauged the curve of the tion room the largest of about 45.
She also had Chinese blood. urable to think of any way to American corporations have Her
handle the situation except to
you're having your bath I'll have breast
things and looked thoughtfully on the president's floor in gleamul with the hostess's desire fall in with what was happen my breakfast. I'll keep yours
Ho reached win."
Bond said severely: "Now at the hidden strength in the York
Не their New
oven bent sky to make them feel at home; ng on the stage.
a cigarette and
ilen, Honey. You look wonder- fint stomach. "You poor dears. We simply out and look
ful, but that isn't the way to down close over the outdung Call is at any limo didnt know when to expect you. tt. Honeychilo Rider sa and nervously
a kimono. It just isn't open right hand and
its lito and fate lines. The floor was close-carpeted We kept on being told you were looking dazed
good manners at breaking" and the walls and ceiling were on your way. You must be tired clutching the arms of her chair.
Finally, with "Oh, you aro A stuffy old painted a soft dove grey. Two out" tail antique chairs waited for visiters. Behind the desk sat an
Me.cnt-looking
T
scrapers.
Chinese girl
with hort-rimmed spectacles..
squaro cut place - nez
Freed.
Was
in it. "If it's a trap we're
There's nothing we can do now her lap below the end of a but cal the cheese. We cleavage which showed half her muscles on Bend's arms and
Breakfast
wear
examined
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[From the fantastio reception it was no good arguloy. The shut tight on them. Toom, Bond and Honey, treated trop had
am inch or two clower. "Why back up to Bond's neck. a married couple, are taken Now the only thing for the mice beast. She pulled her kimono the steel claw drew the sheet to a sulte.10
to do was to make the most of don't you like playing? I want aques It who a charming double the cheese.
to play, at being married." modem Miniat Cluciding soy, she closed the bedroom in
Band sat down of the break- "Not at breakfast time," said Jonathan Cage.
was a largo Bood firmly," "Como on; - Her oyes and mouth wore the door and ushered them forward style with dark green walls, fast table. The standards receptionist's smile of to the desk. Bho got them seated dark polished mahogany floor tumbler of pineapple juice in a cat up. Ita delicious, Anti Bax,
thick white silver-plated bowl of crushed ice, way, I'm going to save
and walceme bright, helpful, in- In the chairs and rattled on, with occutonal quisitive.
"Now I'm. Sirtor Lily, and this rugs, and well-designed bamboo He swallowed it down and ilfled tava a bethe?".
Bond rost desperately sleepy. door. through la Sister Rose. She just wants. fumiture. There, was a corn- the cover oft his individua) hot- Holding the
When he owenia to Breisha which they had come stood in to ask you a few questions. Now, municating door into a more plate
and
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