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THE QUEEN CHOOSES A NEW
A
FLAG
- NEW blue and gold Hag, chosen by the Queen as a gesture to Com- will monwoolth countries, fly wherever she stays on har India-Pakistan tour noxt month and on her aircraft and cars.
It has an initial E ensigned with the Royal Crown Inalde a chaplet of gold roses on a blue feld," It will be flown after the tour as a new personal flag.
But I will not replace the Royal Standard, which han special associations with thic United Kingdom.
PERSONAL
A Palaco
official cald: "The leg wil GE entirely personal to her Majesty and not specifically associated with any one of the nations of the Commonwealth of which the is the head."
The Queen har thought for Dome time that the Royal Standard 50 symbolises the United Kingdom that another flag should be designed for the Commonwealth,
It was designed. at the Col- lage of Arms under the direc fion of the Garter King Arms, Sir George Bellew.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1960.
BY
JACKY Mendelsohn
JACKYS DIARYS
This week we LEARNED A Story About
John ALIEN & PRISSIA.
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TACY BOTH WERE PILGRIMS WHO WENT & came to AmeriCA a CUPPLE of YEARS 480,
So ONE DAY MILD Standish figured he WOULD SET MARRIED an Other Time. Only he was Bash- full, so he askt Juhn ALDEN to go ask Prissila FOR HER HAnd iN MACARONI
PRISSIA'S
70 WAIT
Here,
•THE ONLY Thing is, Pussilla This HEPT Mild Standish
WASNT JOHN ALDEN'S Boy- once used to be MARRied, Friend. instead it was a
guy CallED MILD Standish,
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"Why Don't YOU SPEAK
FOR YOUR-
SELF, John?
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ONLY HIS Wife had Died of
Romantic FEVER
So he Did They got MARRIED
THE VERY NECKS DAY!
M
Stand-
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THE MORAL of This STORY IS.
• YouR a Man Whose fisguring on getting Married, You Better
do YOUR TALKing
даску.
Now!
Tustac man:.. dream-world messenger
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ONLY WHEN HE asKT HER TO SET MARRIED With MILD Standish, She Said:
ECSTASY FOR AN ADDICT
THIS IS THE MAGIC-AND WHEN IT'S OVER
HE NEEDS A WIFE AT HOME WHO UNDERSTANDS
The addict; the man com- pelled, the man for whom there is no longer any free- dom of choice. George Miller is one; he must gamble as drug-takers must have their shot. He doesn't try to resist any more. And where ordinary people find just a mild thrill, he finds, at the dog track, once in a while, the key to an odd, frightening dreamland.
by SALLY VINCENT
WAY from the bright activity of the greyhound track, "George Miller takes a brooding bus-ride back to normality. He lights a cigarette and watches its progress towards the filter- tip, oblivious of the passengers around him and the Christmas gaiety of the shops that pass in the street.
Wryly, he contemplates his last handful of loose change. He has lost all his gambling money-£26 on "the five dog" that came thin. Now he is going home.
bern
Enchantment for a compulsive gambler: the place which makes ordinary life seem dead,
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Home for George Miller, lo ing matter scattered around la
She makes no comment. one of those savagely suburban racing papers,
Unlike some of the frey- terraced houses in a pre-var And by a coke fire is Mrs heunds her husband has met. streek, with a tree outside every George Miller, A wife who Mrs Miller has never other arden gate.
understands with a sort of comic liability to him. recignation the frustrations that go with being married a com- pulsive gambler.
Comforts
The rooms have their adezusie, 1937 Anture, their not outains, their fruit, flowers, and peered comforts. The read-
No value
man.
"If I didn't gumble I could set myself up as a bookie with that,'
George is silent for two minutes while he works out exactly how much he would get, Then the dream is over. But not because
dream.
1 Lantastic a
"The Government would take- lot in tax," in the Thought which brings George, down out of the clouds.
}
Winning
"I suppone I'm the biggest mug punter of the lot,” ha mys. "I wouldn't like it to happen to anyone else. It's the first tasta of easy money that starts it,
"Afterwards, when it really gels you, it's not the money, it's the winning,"
He can't find the eight words. But he trieu,
"When you're winning," he saya, closing his eyes, "you'ro sort of out of it el. There's nothing like it. It's not quite real, but it is, too, if yời BCO what I mean.
When you're whning, you're somebody else. You're sül your- self in a way, but it'a Nikko o different part of yourself. Any- way, you're a big person then.
*"Winning is a big thing. 48 the biggest thing I know, and while you're winning there isn't farything else. It's like a pOWET.
"But this other part of you is wondering just how far it can go.”
George opens his eyes rid stares silently at his waistcoat buttons. The mantelpiece clock is very loud,
A taste
Margery has little hope of he makes a point she knows to eat two dinners a day. So the "I'll put maybe, £1 on the one of these days. But it doesn't be true, oven though cho. has rest is for the dogs.
first dog. If that obliges I'll matter all that much now, heard most of it before.
pick up may £3. So I'll stake "I'll go to the dogs and I'll 09. on the next race. ,} When George talles it comes gamble with my pocket. Whut- fluently, Insistently, like a con- ever it is. If ifs thirty bób fi "If he obliges too. I'll pick up Only he's not trying to use that. If it's thirty pounds, around seven or eight, and even fool anybody, not even himself,
Gambling money, have ten bob left. same thing.
If he's a labidly to me, TH UN Margery can look after her about his careful fairyland. self and her neat childless home.
you understand, is notice. She works in a shop all day.
He starts explaining himself real money,
"In the next race 111 chance She takes something of a wardly. "I don't gamble with and there is something in her
maybe the lot of it. If I can't
"You win five or six times on” Maybe it is when you start, make up my mind T1 wait a the trot and you begin to sort small brighiness that suggests pride in George's mastery of the all I've got. oska the Inevitable she works extremely hard.
dog track business and coftly
But when you've done a bit of race, perhaps two, before I let of panie in case it doesn't stop. question, unemotionally. And
accepts what she regards as "I work for my living and my winning and a bit of losing and the let go,
You think you'll briale in half Gays childishness in him.
gambling. I've got to pay the you know a bit more about it
if you don't climb down gunt rent and buy the dinner,
all therow no value to the "A night at the dogs means a lose.. "But you can only live in one money, 14 Just part of the lot to me. Put it this way. If place at a time and you can't mechanics,
I didn't go. I'd........well, I don't know what would happen, have to go, that's all..
She
George tells her, unemotionally. George, "she's getting a bit too
"Poor old Mary's,"
"Not bad. Quite en Interest- old for work. Still, one of ing evening, in fact," he says.
these daye...."
LE GALION Parfumeur & Paris
SORTILEGE" parium det
nulis élégantes, si tapiteux et sensual
She listens while he talks and her eyes are triumphant when
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"You never do break in half though. You lose."
George looks up and shyly "Sul, I try not to put my when you start losing though, it's inspects bias audience. “Even shirt on anything. Because if you lose your thiet, chances are keeps the balance. You knda all right in a way. sort of you can't go again tomorrow" *** unless it's pay day, of enurse," you'll win another day. As long as you can have a bež, that is,"
Margery Is emiling. Che understands,
A dream
I asked
what was the most
Her hands tidy a 'stack, at
he had ever won, He remem- racing magazines," She sorts out bered at once,
the one that came today 'und puts it on top. When he wakes *£600 it was,” Georzo`grin- up in the morning, George will nai around, happy to impress want it. He alważe will.. the uninitiated for a moment.
This evening her husband has
"That was five years ago, at made another attempt to prove the White City, I went in with to himself that he's no ordinary
£10,
out with £600. man. And that is good enough Couldn't go wrong that night." for hor.
came
What did he do with the ·Georga. Miller har made for money?
himself an annox to an
"
"Well, I didn't try mycolt imperfeet life. anything, if that's what "you He hás nooded something mean. Not so much as a pair, special so tadly that he's worked of socks,
at it. And hơa worked m'bord ; that sometimes tho mechanics "That's what I've been telling of chance have you, It wasn't money to spend for him.
gono) to work
I sent on gambling with, f. And gradusity is all went."
It will never completely satisfy him, this child world when he Now he begins to dream. is thrown a thale of mogle, this "Do you know you could clean promising land where he con seo out White Cry if it went Himself beyond the bend
| right?"-bo÷muld," "You could "AS
come away with £20,000, Moro It can never sállaty...hina, and than that, even. You could it might tasily smashi“ him/ probably get £40,000, he says, But ho malt always bava it by far, far away by now,
Trim for tomOKTÓW.
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