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MANY an English tourist has vivid
memories of Malta, of its ancient walls reflected in a really blue Mediter- ranean, of its whitewashed houses with their flat roofs throwing off the glare of the hot sun, of its churches and castles recalling the colourful history of many centuries, and of the huge, grey-painted battleships at anchor in the harbour.
Even after the war began Malta had not thrown off its face of peacetime gaiety. There was no black-out in the island, the shops were open until midnight, and the theatres played to full houses.
Living was cheap, petrol was plentiful, and beer was only 4d. a pint. Now, however, Malta is blacked out, its sky is filled with roar- ing plancs, and war sets, the noto of all its activities.
It lies almost exactly In the centre of the Mediterranean, this little Island which is the head- quarters of the British Fleet and of the R.A.F. In the Mediterranean, and a stronghold of British Imperial power. In its history of more than 2,500 years it has been held in turn by Phoenicians, Greeks, Cartha gintans, Romans, Arabs, and the Knights of St. John, who ruled it from 1539 until they were dispossessed by Napoleon in 1798. Ln.er in that same year Nelson blockaded the island, and Malta was offeinily annexed to the British Crown by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. Following the Crimean War the military defences were greatly strengthened and the island was deve- loped, as one of the most important ports of call for the world's shipping and as the principal base for the repair and refitment of ships of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean.
At Valletta, which has been the island's capital since 1570-ita name commemorates La Vallette, Grand Master of the conquering Knights of St. John-are great dock and victualling yards spread over the shores of two arms of the harbour known as "Dockyard-and- "French" creeks, and there are also hospitals, maga- zinca and storehouses.
Malta itself is come 17 miles long, with an area of 95 square miles, Included with it are the island of Gozo (20 square miles) and the Islet of Comino, witch Hles between the two-making a total of 122 square men. The population is estimated at about 275,000, mainly of Phoenicians or Carthaginian descent and of the Roman Catholic faith,
Both English and Maltese are offcial languages, the fonner being the officiat language of the adminis- Iration, while since 1834 Maltese has taken the pince of Italian as the principal language of the courts of law. Many thousands of the Maltese are employed in the dockyarda and arsenais, and during the Great War they provided a garrison for the island as well as many scamen for men-of-war and minesweepers and labourers for the pioneer battalions that did such good service at Callipoli and Salonika.
Partly, at least, because of their excellent record in the war the Maltese were granted responsible government in 1921. Its working was not entirely satisfactory, however, and It was revolted in 1936, when the island reverted to the status of a Crown Colony.
Then, in 1939, a new constitution was promulgated by the Governor, General Sir Charles Bonharo-Carter, under which there is a Council of Government com- posed of eight official members and two unofficial members nominated by the Givernor, and ten elected members.
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ARE YOU SURE?
1. The chief constituent of marble is (1) quicksand (2)
limo (3) mercury.
2. What is the difference between match play and medal
play in golf?
3. What are siblings?.
4.
Which man actually kills the bull in a bull fight, the matador or the picador?
5. The Czar of a great industry is often termed a magnet.
(true, false)
6. In what year will Halley's Comet reappear?
7. Is an cel a fish?
8. Which type of dog listens tó his master's voice?
9. Which western state has a unicameral systom of
government?
10. What was the middle name of the author of Kid-
napped?
11.
Can you think of three different uses of the word battery?
12. What does a burnt child dread?
13. Of which verb is wrought the past participle? 14. If a bottle and a cork together cost a dollar and five cents and the bottle cost a dollar more than the cork, what did the cork cost?
15. With whom do the mermaids flirt?
16. In what country did a father succeed his own son to
the throno2-
17. What names may be logically coupled with (1) Barnum
(2) Frankie (3) Mutt?
18. What is the shape of a liquid?
19. What simile is customarily used to describe flatness? 20. Does the speedometer of a car add or subtract mileage
when the car moves backwards?
1. (2) Lime.
ANSWERS
2. Match play is a hole by hole test of opposing golfers' ability. Medal play is an alterapt to enver a given number of holes In the lowest possible number
kiroken.
3. Siblings have one parents in common.
4. The matador.
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bolh
5. Mognate is the word, not
mugnet.
6. 1997, 7. Yes,
8. A fox terrier.
B. Nebraska has only one house
of representatives. ·
10. Robert Louis Stevenson.
11, Battery meaning the pitcher
and catcher of a baseball team.
Battery meaning a device to store electricity. Battery mean- Ing a company of artillery. 12. The Are.
13. The Work."
14. The cork cost two and one
half cents.
15. The big swells and the Hitle
cudies.
16. Rumania. Michael
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ceeded by his father Carol and
Is now the Crown Prince. 17. (1) Barnum and Bailey (2) Franky and Johnny (3) Mutt and Jeff.
18. The shape of a Hould is ab- viously determined by tho shape of the conlainer.
10. Fiat as a partcake. 20. It registers nothing,
MOST GIRLS LIKE TO BE KISSED
THE girl with the arched eyebrows and the green dress was getting away with it all down the line. She wasn't doing it at the expense of any body else all that very fetch- ing nonsense enme irresistibly out of herself. It has fetch- ing. She was attractive and sho knew it. She wanted to be mado a fuss of, and we-the men of the party, that is- knew that. But the woman— One who ought to have known better hissed: “I'vo never seen a girl make herself so cheap no man could possibly res- poet herl
eyed the lady. Nobody, I re- Accted, was making any fuss of her, "Madam," I said: "on the contrary, 1 respect her enor- mously."
"Rubbish, cried the lady. man could. Why should he?"
NO
"Because," I said, "she is the most honest woman in the room, and far away the most attractive, Most of you like being kissed in corners. When nobody obliges, you cry sour grapes. The girl in green cries no such thing-she cries "kiss me in corners," and we, because she cries It so prettily wittily, hasten to do so."
and
girls
I'm not suggesting that you should go round the world making-
Merc yourself stupidly cheap. half-baked cuddling with any one and every one reduces you from a charming girl to
something else. But I would like, once and for all, to debunk this woman-made bogy about men "not respecting" who are honest enough to like gately and all that galety niples
say so into the bargain. We're not the hypocrites and prigs we're often made out to be.. If a woman is clever enough to Birt well and wittily, why, we're ready to meet her on her own
and lo
ground and play her game too. But as for not respecting her-it's an Invention of the undesired who don't know how to flirt prettily..
It's not clever to make quick, catty remarks about other women to a man. Hundreds of you do it, thinking, I suppose that he can be educated by hearing hone truths about wornen by a woman. He's not educated. He's shocked and uncomfortable..
Don't laugh at, or make fun of, your, parents. We won't respect you for it. Don't, when we take you somewhere rather smart for dinner, eye it all phlegmatically and try to make us belleve that you do this sort of thing every you night of the week. You'll give yourself away, and man
no,
con mob. respect that. Don't be a It's even less pleasant in a woman ihan in a man. Don't be obvious, fearn your game which we all know is catching us-play it well,
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Anti-Anti League
I have been asked to join the Anti- Gambling League. This is about the last straw.
I have had lectures on the evils of domi- noes and how they give you spots before the eyes, and how one thing leads to another, and before you know where you are you find your- self in some loathsome cuchre den sunk to the ears in sin.
I don't know why there should be so many anli-this and anti-that leagues,
Goodness knows the opportunities for falling by the wayside and ending up gracefully in the gutter are becoming fewer and fewer these days and the world is weary enough without people telling you what not
to do.
For instance, I wouldn't mind joining some of these Anti organisations, but when I got a pamphlet saying that tobacco was an insidious drug which was sapping my health and morals and ruining the chances of the coming generation and a few other odds and ends I decided that the time had come to start an Anti-Anti League. I am drawing up my first pamphlet to be issued shortly.
Do you know of the horrible evils of chess? One becomes sour, morose and censorlous (I'm not too sure how censorious is spell, but it doesn't matter, R should never have been in the language, anyhow),
Do you realize that you are headed straight for the reception house if you don't relax? Be warned In time. Take stock of yourself!
Are you getting the best out of life? Take the.. family out this week-end and leave your pawns and bishops at home.
Join the School of Arts or a Sewing Dec. It there is a nearby vacant allotment, form a llar-dice school in your district.
I had an uncle who was the family model. He had a bleak face with a dropping moustache on it, and he didn't like anybody much. The family used to use him as a sort of standard measure.
"Why don't you be more like Uncle William?" was the ery
Uncle William never appeared, he just loomed. I'd-breeze-In-after-an-afternoon-with the boya.. with a bunch of flowers and a bottle of lemonade, and slam the door and throw my hat across the room and say:
"Well, Mrs. Lower's little boy has returned to the fold! Hoist all dagsl"
"Shh! Uncle William's here!"
"Oh, hello, Nunky boy!" How's tricks?"
"I am keeping in reasonably good health, due, my boy, to the exercise of a restraint which you don't seem to possess. To get the best out of life I have found and I am a much older man than you that moderation is the key to good living-and all that."
And out in the kitchen I'd whisper to my wife: "Why did you let him in?"
"Do you think I can tell him by the way he rings the door bell? He's been out here criticising the way I run my kitchent What does he think I am!"
"Not so loud! He'll hear you."
I often think that if there were fewer people snoop- ing around giving good advlee there would be less erline the community.
Definitely there should be an Anti-Advice Society. When I first got married, and more or less settled down, our relations and in-laws flocked around and told us how all the pictures were hung in the wrong places and the furniture needed rearranging and the carpets didn't match the wallpaper.
I think I would prefer a good, clean typhoon to these twiddling, folly-pop, slobbering, fat-fooled, anti- ginger-boer ruzaling, gloomy, crepe-hanging everythingers.
You may have gathered that I do not approve of these people. Well, I don't.
I'm all for tolerance. It's more gentlemanly.
moat giris like being kisted
in corners. | stand by, your loyalties, take your Hittings without squealing. about them at parties, have fun and be yourself. You'll have earned ali the male respect you want--if you want it!
I wouldn't say, that it was more womanly, because the moment a wonan becomes tolerant that's the time to send for the private detec- tives. Or at least to erect a lot of mental sandbags around yourself. I've noticed how a wave of toler- anco seems to sweep through the home just before my wife's birth- my day anniversary, and how nephews knock each other down to light my pipe round about Christmas Ume.
SU, when it comes to a close study of tolerance and intolerance, It's hard to any which is which, If you could bear a Russian and a situation Japanese discussing the
in Germany and the possible re- percussions in Italy, as I did the other night-Crikeyi:
I took them both to my club and made them play a couple of games of snooker.,
The face of Europe should be dolted all over with snooker tables, This is my recipe for peace.
And anyone who cares to foln my Anti-Anti Club may do no for the monilyum of two shillings.
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"The ring "Oh. Wait a minute. Ring. Here it is. No. Confound it. Where is it? Could have ⚫stoorn it was in this pocket.”' ··**
"You will find k nestling coyly in the bottom right-hand waistcoat pocket!!
"Oh yes. Of courts. So it is. Ha! Hal Funny if I lost it. Yes. I say-let's go over this business' once more, Now what do I do
"My dear Peter, look at your tie, "Pull yourself together. Remember, I'm the man who's going to be married, not your compan “Oh. Are you ? "I mean yes course. Fact is, old boy, I'm in a rathir weak state:That celebra
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tion of yours last night. Oh my poor head. I'm iura Luon't be able it into that wretched to topper!! Ma
"If you'd only taken my advice last night and stuck to gin and Rose's...
"Roses? Oh yet. For the brider- maids. I thought you said they were to be carnations,” "Rose's Lime Juice, blockhead! Prevents, hangovers. Therapeutle
I'd rammed action. I wish
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of it down your silly throat, Next time get married, Peter, remember you stick to gin and Rose's the night before.”
"Oh yes." Thanks for the sip. I will. I say Charles where did I put that ring I could have sworn
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