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My old emerald carpet kissed with velvet paaslon the hem of my new jade-green curla.ns. Or am I writ- ing like Beverley Nichols7
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Italy's Claims
TALY tells France and Great Britain that her dispute with France will be settled by diplomatic means and not by the word.
What does that mean? If the Symphony No. 6 in D Minor. With "Kousevitsky" and the verbal premise, which will be con- Boston Symphony Orchestra (Album-No. 114) (firmed later this week in official Notes, is what "United Press" will Sonata in U Minor-For Violin and Piano
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MEETING
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The "Post"
of Europe's greatest dangers has been removed,
my stock of beer. In short, I was
A few days later it struck me that something was missing, and for a long time I could not decide what it was. Then it flashed across me. I wanted on inkstand.
INKPOTS, of course, I pos- aessed galore, but I sud- denly realled that what my soul kind of thing longed for was the photographs which you ace on the desk in the You of celebrities. know the sort of thing-massive, antique, sliver,
So I allied forth and presently beheld what I was looking for, though it was vasily different from that for which I had been seeking. Reparing in the middle of the Jeweller's window was something model of St. Paul's rather like Cathedral,
inkwells-one for black, and the Buer, eripes, O joy, for red- were concealed in the two turrets. The materials employed were glass, ebanite, and chromium plate and the price demanded was eighty-eight dollars and ninety-two cents.
the le dome was a clock, while
that $88.02
I reflect
robe for the imminent spring? Did think of that sum in terms of a bit away for the rainy day?
D' would refurbish my word-
give
Spring,
yourself
treat
OR
why I paid $100 for an inkstand
bodkin?
can be drawn through the eye at s You cannot pronounce the word 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 ankles he who possesses it knows when to
worn out tell it to get out. precede your toes like cab horse? Lady, as Max Miller
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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: "Mas 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 time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away." Surely money is a thing to be got and last, kept and cast away
I hold no brief for extravagance, -and
to obry the accond-and-fourth of Ecclesiastes injunctions and-dis- regard the first and third would be Uis height of extravagance. What I am advocating, dear reader, is to observe thrift · In season, but to a flower of realise that, though
of those flowers virtue, it is one which are entitled to be out of sea-
Gon
IN other words, I am telling
you that when you feel
would say, I do not sympathise with NEARLY all the happiness necessity to let it rip, it is wise to
your feminine folly. But I under- stond it.
of life is in cscape. The let it rip. A stitch in time saves fortunate few who are artists may nne. enjoy their work. But to the great But you don't want a garment so THRIFT" is an ugly word majority work is not enjoyable, and covered with precautionary siltches In a plain mon's mouth, it is ranke humbug to pretend that that it becomes unsightly. When it It is uglier still in the mouth of n it is. pretly woman. It is a curmudgeon- There is not much fun in getting ly word. It has about it the ex- coal, emptying duthins, window-
cleaning, bus-driving, waiting halations of old age.
la the passion
on
a case of rip or burst I sny rip. But do not rip too often.
That grost man, Francis Bacon, ald much the same things when ho wrote: "A man ought warly to be gin charges which once begun will continue; but in matters that return not he may be more magnificent."
It is to be used in conncetton with gouty and Irritable club members, old-age pensions and buliding so massaging the faces of obese daw cletles. It is the last hope of agers, looking at billous tongues,
IL annultants.
of fighting tedious Inwsults, showing a those who deny themselves in youth lot of sheep into cinemas, carrying to have the things which in old age figures from one column Into an- other they won't want. It is twin sister other, kneading the bread to avarice and first cousin to mean people are going to ent.
The best thing that can be done handsomely! news,
What Bacon meant was that it isn't every day we kill a pig (or buy an inicstand). But that when we do so we ought to kill him, and buy it.
Britain Prepares Her
For The Next Crisis
III
Mussola is a dictator who keeps his word. If he anys the
Did I calculate how many kiddies sword will remain sheathed, there for how many weeks could for that CHATER ROAD will be no war between France and sum obtain milk from the S.P.C.7
Did I think of the refugees? No, I LOWLY BUT surely Sir
SLO territorialald not Italy in settling a
John Anderson, Britain's grudga that has lasted since the Italian kingdom came into existence in 1860 under the the House of Savoy,
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What is the basis of Italy's claims?
She claims that in 1858 sho
I decided that if $98.92 represented
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revealed to me that that
my last cent, it must be spent upon unofficial Minister for Civil the purchase of that inkstand. A Defence, is putting his plans hurried telephont communication
for the defence of Britain was sum standing to my credit in my bank, in the next war into effect. with the less pleasing Information
His Intest, and so far biggest, was very nearly my lost cent. Presently
the miracle was borne porne
that it
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
The danger intact. now is from the air. To meet this modern peril, Britain is organising her civil population, Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do. 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,
Defences
by
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 additional child. They must live in houKCS with no basements, and of not moro, than two storeys,
Anybody else who wants one, must pay for it, but the vernment can- not yet gay how
they will cost.
made a deal with Napoleon III, of off in triumph, together with a cut is free air-raid shelters for poor made of galvanised corrugated sheets, 1, A.RP. will be controlled by the
the
France, whereby, in exchange for French help in driving Austrians out of the northern Italian provinces of Lombardy and Venice, she should concede to France the Commune of Nice and the Duchy of Savoy..
Later on work will begin on turn- ing bigger houses, blocks of flats and lenements and other buildings into fortresses by means of steri sheets, and structural support for basements. Anderson described the kind of shelter which is being bullt. It is announcements was that from April Another of Anderson's more recent
police, Hitherto, local governments. glass tray for pen-holders, another people. 10 cigarette ends, and a wonderful
Soon after he took office last high. It will take the weight of any had the handling of it. Under the contraption for manipulating sealing-
debris that may fall on it, and shel-colice, however, it is expected that ass edges. The miserable penny that the government
the work will be better organised virgin blotter, with November, Anderson announced
would buy ter four to six people. Sections can and co-ordinated. inkpot which
be added to shelter more. It is shaped something like the Nissen yours was removed, and the work of material to build these shelters. huts used in the world war.
Installed. jari
wox.
Also a
has served me for £20,000,000 worth of steel and other
Now 10,000,000 people in Bri-
weighs about eight hundredweight, o and-is-Gft.Gins-by-4fLens-by-6ft
.
Three other schemes, in which the government is directly interested. evacuation, food, and a national re-
My pen polsed, I prepared to write tain with incomes of not more than According to the plan Jocal gister. an ardele worthy of the occasion. £s ($25) a 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. asl: if they want a shelter. If the EVACUATING DANGER ZONES signed the treaty of Villafranca plains of his tools. I have never
On February 9, the Ministry of In his announcement Anderson answer is yes, it will be delivered In thought that a reason why a gond
announced 0 pion for with the Austrians vien only artificer should have unworthy in indicated that the government be scellons. The householder can either Health Lombardy had been captured. piements,
lleves that most danger in an aerial store, build it up against a wall, or attack will come from explosive sink it in his back yard. But he vacuating danger areas with a total Venico-that prize to be matched
As I say, I sat waiting for inspiri bombs. It is understood that the must not sell it or give it away. It Population of 17,500,000. The plan. spilt England, Scotland and Wales Into three now bellove will remain government property. only with the Nice that the Italians tion to emerge from that noble piece
of furniture in the way it has so government does not
three groups: (1) Evacuation FREE SHELTERS
areas, (2) Neutral areas, and (3) had coded-was left in Austrian often gushed from that other humble, that gas-bombs will be used, at lenst. at first, and that the danger will
Reception areas. hands.
supplanted vessel.
therefore be from flying splinters, The free shelters will be loaned to
with incomes of
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- tlon when she began to feel her feat as a Mediterranean Power.
But nothing happened. For 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 which the words came, but without any backing of ideas,
THEN A discovered what was the matter, The ink- stand was not ilent. Its clock ticked damnably.
I took my inksland back to the Jewellers, and would they change it? They would.
All went well until 1881, when France, who was colonising the neighbouring territory of Algeria, sent a punitive expedition to quell native rebels. The rebels retreated to the hinterland of Tunts, where.
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 inks! It had dollars tory, and declared it to be a French no clock. It cost twenty protectorale.
more.
This I bore off, and all the fore- That constitutes Italy's claim to Tunisia. To-day, she says, the song has been at the instigation of, I think, the third cupola. The rigorous French laws still dis- mauve one. Yes, I am certainty criminate against the predominant-writing like Beverley. In spite of
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extremely happy. ly Italian population of Tunis. which French naturalisation Inwa in Idlotically happy. Life, which pre Tunisia are, perhaps, even more viously was empty, is now full,
feel that if somebody were, to annoying to the Italians. These offer me the real Taj Mahal I should laws turn overy Italian there Into refuse it. I regard with Inflake con- fa Frenchman.
tempt anybody who does not poESISE Corsica is make weight in these an Inkpot modelled after the Tai claims.
Mahal and costing, one hundred ing There is one big flaw in Italy's eight dollars and ninety-two cents.
What, reader, Is your inkstand? claim, Tho acts she complains Let me put it another way. What about took part at a time when piece of wild extravagance are you every 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. If Italy can claim land to reonomy, or oven your wife?
Is it a new set of matched Irons. which she feels she had some right though you are in arrears with your eighty years ago, why not add a few claims for the seventeenth chits at the club? Lit a four-fold caso of atra'ghtgrained hriars? Jn it century. Why not go back to the that radiogram?man, is it that carly days of European history, If you are
In which case, of course, Italy shagreen handbag which will cause has solid foundation for claiming your dearest friends to much char rin? Is it a hundredweight of bath practically the whole of Europe, in-salfs nt $7.50 an ounce? Is it a pair cluding the British Ision, ilk stockings in One that they
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Evacuation areas, namely those from which the population would be moved-compulsory
unless good reasons were advanced for staying- are: All London boroughs, Southamp ton, Portsmouth, Gosport, Chatuam, Gillingham, Rochester, Birmingham, Smethwick,
Liverpool, Manchester,
Salford, Bootle, Birkenhead, part of Wallassey,
assey, Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Sal- ford, Newcastic, Gateshead, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee.
Neutral zones, namely these which.. neither would be evacuated or used as reception areas, oro: Parts of the counties of Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devenshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Kent, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Nottinghamshire, Somerset, Stafford shire, Surrey, Warwickshire, Wor- cestershire, Glamorgan at Mon- mouthshire.
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Other areas, which are not listed an evacuation or neutral zones, and are, therefore, assumed to be recep- tan areas, are: Bedfordshire, Buck- Inghamshire, Berkshire, Cambridge- shire, Cumberland, Derset, Hereford, Huntingdon, Lincolnshire, Northamp
Rutland, Oxfordshire, tonshire, Shropshire, Suffolk, Sussex, West- moreland, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, and all Wales, except Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.
Plans for actual evacuation are not yet formulated, Jocal authorities In the reception areas, however, ares making enquiries regarding billeting.. and avaliable accommodation..
SCHOOL EVACUATIONS
It and when the time comes, it is assumed that children will be evacuated by schools, as was planned during the September crisis. For the adulte, an elaborato transport plan is being drawn up, using trak, motor-coach and lorry. All schools. (Continued on Page 4)
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