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lines in English poetry occur in a poem of which I know no other words, and which I have never been able to trace:-
They have cleared up the
straw in the passage
And Life can begin again,” · In other words, the removal was over. The old 'and the new furni ture had settled down together in
The perfect amily.
re-arranged pictures had made friends with one another.
My old emerald carpet kissed with velvet passion the hem of my new ing like Beverley Nichols? Jade-green curtains. Or am I writ-
And the champagne curtains of my new dining-room went, all right with
my
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stock of beer. In short, I was
A few days later it struck me that something was missing, and for a fong time I could not decide what It was. Then it flashed across me. I wanted an inkstand,
Spring,
give yourself
treat
OR
why I paid $100 for an
an inkstand
with the humdrum is to put the best possible face on it. "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou cat bread,"
says the Old Testament. But the New Testament says: "Man shall not live by bread alone." No- where are we told that by the sweat of his brow shall man keep his soul alive.
Further, the book of Ecclesiastes tells us that there is a time to get, and a me to lose, a time to keďp, and a Umo to 'cast away." Surely money is a thing to be got and lost, kept and cast away?
I hold no brief for extravagance, and to obey the second and fourth of Eccleniasica' Injunctions and dis- regard the firet and third would be the height of extravaglinée."" What I i am advocating, dear reader, is to observe thrift in senson, but to realise that, though a Rower of virtue, Its one of those flowers
can be drawn through the eye et a You cannot pronounce the word bodkin?
without wrinkling, the
nose. Yet Is It a pair of shoes so high in the it is an admirable quality, provided heel that they make your anities he who possesses it knows when to Precede your toes like a worn out tell it to get pat. eab horse? Lady, as Mox Miller would say, I do not sympathise with your feminine folly. But I under-
stand it.
IL
N TEARLY all the happiness of life is in escape. The fortunate few who are artista may enjoy their work. Büt to the great
❝ VIRIFT" is an ugly word majority work is not enjoyable, and in a plain man's mouth. It is rank humbug to pretend that It is uglier still in the mouth of a it is. pretty woman. It is a curmudgeon-
There is not much fan in getting ly word. It has about 11 the ex- coal, emptying dutbips, window- halations of old age.
cleaning, bus-driving, waiting on INKPOTS, of
to be used in connection with gouty and irritable club members, course, I pas-
old-age pensions sessed galore, but I sud-
and building so- massaging the faces of obcae, dow- clcties. It denly realised that what my soul annuitants. It is the passion of fighting tedious lawsults, showing a the last hope of agers, looking at bllious tongues, Jonged for was the kind of thing which you see
those who deny themselves in youth lot of sheep into cinemas, carrying photographs
on the desk in the to have the things which in old age figures from one column into an af celebrities. know the sort of thing-massive, they won't want. It is twin sister other, kneading the bread other
to avarice and first cousin to mcan- people are going to eat, antique, silver.
ness.
The best thing that can be done
You
So I allied forth and presently beheld what I Wha looking for, though it was vastly different from that for which I had been seeking. Neping in the middle of the jeweller's window was something of SL Paul's rather like a model Cathedral.
Italy's Claims
TALY tells France and Great Britala that her dispute with
Only, the dome was a clock, while France will be settled by diplomaile the inkwell one for black, and the means and not by the sword,
oner, eripes, O joy, for red- What does that mean? If the were concealed in the two turrets. The materials employed were glass; With "Koussevitsky" and the verbal promise, which will be con- ebonite, and chromium plate and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, (Album~No. 119)rmed later this week in official price demanded was eighty-eight
Notes, in what "United Press" will dollars and ninety-two cents. Sonata In C Minor--For Violin and Piano
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a
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who keeps his word.. If he says the sword will remain sheathed, there will be no war between France and Italy in settling territorial BOLZANO ERA VOTING, TEPUNG grudge that has lasted since the Italian kingdom came into existence In 1860 under the the House of Savoy.
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the basis of Italy's
She claims that in 1958 she
of
I refcet that $88.92 would refurbish my ward- robe for the imminent spring? Did I think of it sum In terms of o bit away for the rainy day?
Did I calculate how many kiddies for how many weeks could for that sum obtain milk from the S.P.C.?! Did I think of the refugees? No, I did not.
Britain Prepares
For The Next Crisis
III
SLOWLY BUT surely Sir I decided that if $89.02 represented John Anderson, Britain's my luat cent, it must be spent upon unofficial Minister for Civil the purchase of that inkstand. hurried telephone
on Defence, is putting his plans communication revealed to me that that sum was for the defence of Britain standing to my credit in my bank, in the next war into effect. with Die less pleasing information.
Wax. Also &
which are entitled to be out of sea-
Son
IN other words, I am telling.
you that when you feel necessity to let it rip, it is wise to let it rip.. A stlich in time saves
nine
But you don't want a garmént so covered with precautionary stitches that it becomes unsightly. When it a case of rip or burst. I say rip. But do not rip too often.
That great, man, Francis Bacon, mid much the same things when he wrote: "A man ought warly to be- gin charges which once begun will not he may be more magnificent." continue; but in matters that return
What Bacon meant was that it isn't
every day we kill a pig (or buy an inkstand). But that when we do so we ought to kill him, and buy R. handsomely!
Her Defences
by
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next
war Britain, for the first time in 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed invasion. In the past the navy kept her shores intact. The danger now is from the air. To meet this modern peril, Britain is organising her.civil population. Every able-bodied man woman will have a job to da
and
This series of articles tells the story of Britain's army of "passive defence", and of the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing
for war at home.
Anderson described the kind
of
H. L. Percy
United Press Staff Correspondent.
($1,250) or under, unless they have more than two children, in that case the Income limit goes up 50 for cach additonal child. They
must live in houses with no basements, and of rot mere than two storeys.
Anybody else who wants one, must pay for it, but the government can- not yot say how much they will cost.
Later on work will begin on turn- ing bigger houses, blocks of data and tenements and other bulidings into fortresses by means of stel sheets,
and structural support for basements
of
Three other schemes, in which the government is directly interested, evacuation, food, and a national re- gister.
that it was very nearly my last cent. His latest, and so far biggest, shelter which is being built. It is made a deal with Napoleon III, or in triumph, together with borne is free air-raid shelters for poor made of galvanised in but sheets, announcements was that from cert
tray for pen-holders, Klass
about eight hundredweight, 1, ARP, will be controlled by the welghs another people. France, whereby, in exchange for or cigarette ends, and
and is 6ft.Gins by 4ft.0.ns by ft. had the handling of it. Under the.
police. Hitherto, local governments a wonderful French help in driving the contraption for manipulating scaling-Soon-after-he-took-office-last high. It will take tho weight of any police, however, it is expreted that virgin blotter, with November, Anderson announced debris that may fall on it, and shel- the work will be better organised Austrians out of the northern edges. The miserable penny that the government would buyter four to six people. Sections can Italian provinces of Lembardy and inkpot which has served me for £20,000,000 worth of steel and other
glass
be added to sheker more, It is
and co-ordinated,
Venice,
shaped something like the Nissen she should concede
toyours was
removed, and the work of material to build these shelters. huts used in the world war. France the Commune of Nice and jart installed,
Now 10,000,000 people in Bri- My pen poised, i prepared to write tain with incomes of not more than According to the plan local the Duchy of Savoy.
an article worthy of the occasion. £6 ($25) week are able to authorities will visit householders to This Italy did, but Napoleon They say that a bad workman com- have one just for the asking. ask if they want a shelter. If the
have never signed the treaty of Villafranca plains of his tools.
In his announcement Anderson answer is yes, it will be delivered in section. The householder can elther with the Austrian when only thought that a reason why a good
artificer should have unworthy im indicated that the government be- Lombardy
store, build it up against a wall, or hud been captured.plements,
lieves that most danger in un aerial Venice that prize to be matched As I say, I sat waiting for inspira- attack will come from explosive sink it in his back yard, But he only with the Nice that the Italians ton to emerge from that noble piece bombs. It is understood that the must not sell it or give it away. It
will remain government property. furniture in the way it has so government does not now had ceded-was left in Austrian often gushed from that other humbie, that gas-bombs will be used, at least,
FREE SHELTERS at first, and that the danger will supplanted vessel. hands.
But nothing happened. For a therefore be from flying splinters, period, ideas came but not the words falling debris, and incendiary bombs. ' people
in which to express them. This was succeeded by another period
in
That is the basis of the Italian claim to these two parts of France. Of Tunisia, she says this was her first effort in African colonisa- which the words came, but without tlon when she began to feel her any backing of ideas.
fect as a Mediterranean Power.
THEN I
discovered what All went well until. 1881, when
was the matter. The ink- France, who was colonising the stand was not silent. Its clock 1 neighbouring territory of Algeria, tlcked damnably.
more.
the
happy.
sent a punitive expedition to quell I took my inkstand back to native rebels The rebels retreated jewellers, and would they change it? to the hinterland of Tunis, where- They would,
They produced something like the upon the French marched into Taj Mahal with cupolas for black, Tunisia, occupied the whole terri-red, mauve, and green inka! It had tory, and declared it to be a French no clock. It cost twenty dollars protectorate,
This I bore off, and all the fore- That constitutes Italy's claim to Tunisia. To-day, she says, the going has been at the instigation of, rigorous French laws still dig think, the third cupola. The mauve one. Yes, I am certainly criminate against the predominant-writing Uke Beverley. In spite of ly Italian population of Tunis. which. I
п extremely Fronch naturalisation laws in Idlalleally happy. Life, which pre- Tunisia are, perhaps, even more viously was crapty, is now full,
I feel that if somebody were to Jannoying to the Italians. Thesa laws turn every Itallan there into offer me the real Tol Malial I should
refuse it. I
regard with infinite con- a Frenchman.
tempt anybody who does not possess Coralca is male weight in these an inkpot modelled after the Taj claims,
Mahal and costing one hundred and There is ons big finw in Italy's eight dollars and ninety-two cents.
What, reader, is your inkstand? claim. The acta she complains Let me put it another way. What about took part at a time when plece of wild extravagance are you
Power that had the
contemplating, but from committing money and guns to back its claims which you are restrained by your was grabbing pieces of the good prudence, some ingrained habit of earth. Italy can claim land to teonomy, or even your wife?.
is it a new, act of matched irons, which she feels she had some right though you are in arrears with your eighty years ago, why not add a chits at the club? Is it a four-fokt few claims for the seventeenth cabe of straightgrained briars? century. Why not go back to the that radiograml early days of European history... If you are a woman, in it that In which case, of course, Italy shagreen handbag which will cause has solid foundation. for, claiming your dourest friends so much chag- rin? Is it a hundredweight of bath mactically the whole of Europe, ing suits at $7.50 an ouncer Is it a pair cluding the British Isle of silk stockings, so one that they
-overv
Is it
belleve
The free shelters will be loaned to with Incomes of £250
GRIN AND BEAR IT
TRY #VR HEAT PEDUCING TREATMENT
By Lichty
STEAM ROOM
There's been a terrible mistake Mra; Snodgrass has taken this
bor for the season."
EVACUATING DANGER ZONES.
On February 9, the Ministry of Health announced plan for vacuating danger areas with a total England, Scotland and Wales spiit population of 17,500,000. The plan into three groups: (1) Evacuation. areas, (2) Neutral areas, and (3) Recep Lon areas.
con are
Evacuation arcas, namely those from which the population would bo moved-compulsorily unless
Food reasons were advanced for staying are: All London boroughs, Southamp ton, Portsmouth, Gosport, Chatham, Gillinghum, Rochester, Birmingham,
Smethwick, Liverpool, Manchester,
Salford, 'Bootle, Birkenhead, part of Wallssey, Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Sal- ford, Newcastle, Gateshead, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee.
Neutral zones, namely those which neither would be evacuated or used as reception arcas, are: Paris of the countles of Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devenshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Leicestershire,
Middlesex, Lincolnshire,
Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Stafford- shiro, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wor- cestershire, Glamorgan and Mon..
mouthshire.
Olier areas, which are not listad as evacuation or neutral zones, and are, therefore, assumed to be recep tion areas, are: Bedfordshire, Buck-
Berkshire, Cumbridge shire,
inghamshirard, Berset; Hereford,."
Northamp
Huntingden, Lincolnshire, Rutland, Oxfordshire,
tonshire,
Shropshire, Suffolk, Sussex, West- moreland, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, and all Wales, except Glamorgan, and. Monmouthshire...
Plans for actuni evacuation are not yet rotulated, local authorities in the reception areas, however, are making enquiries regarding billeting: and available accommodation,
SCHOOL EVACUATIONS
If and when the time comes, it is! be: atsumed that children wil evacuated by schools, ha was planned during the September crisis. For the adults, an olaborate transport pian, lsing drawn up, using train, motor-coach, and lorry. All school
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