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ROYAL PALACE
By Holon Crawford
GHOSTS MUST HAVE WALK-IT THERE IS ONE THING In
ED in Kensington Palace
which the average-house- recently, when those august and wife in Britain is Interested to historic premises were the scene) an only slightly less degree than of a sale! For furniture-n house to live in, it is the both for bedroom and reception garden in which that house' This has been even room-carpets, rugs, cushions stands.
and tapestries which had be more the case since our gardens longed to the late Princess have become, not merely show Beatrice, last surviving daughter places or pleasant' places "to sit of Queen Victoria, were put up in, but important sources of for auction. And young married food! couples and suburban houso- wives thronged to the Palace to All the many gaps in their more humble homes-present or future.
neas.
If the ghost of Queen Victorin herself were present perhaps alie sighed a little when six mahogany chairs marked "V.R.. Frogmore House, 1871," were sold for 37 gul
al- Nevertheless, since she ways had the good of her subjects much at heart, I do not think she would have grudged any of it to the hard-pressed British house- years wives, who through recent hove shown a' good deal of courage and tenacity of purpose in the truly Victorian tradition. And no doubt she watched benevolently the royal pardon,
table tennis (I beg your Your Majesty, I should say ping pong) table co for 37s Od. AIR STEWARDESSES THERE IS A REMINDER of
how time flies in the an- nouncement by British Overseas Airways Corporation that there are jobs for sixteen girls as stewardesses on their Constella tion airliners flying on the Speed-
The newest lines in garden tools are, therefore, full of interest for us. Personally, I think look forward most to possessing one of the new weeders; which, used from an up- right position (no more aching backs) irst cuts round the weed and loosens it, then pulls it out (no Inore broken and dirty finger nails!) Other things that attract me aru cloches se constructed us to permit one main panel to be taken right out, so that you can thin or water your precious seedlings without the (no more whole cloche collapsing frayed tempers 2 crushed lings!) and a tubular steel ladder which, by adjusting the middle sec- tion, enn be transformed at will from a tall Indder to a good fren pair of steps.
HANGCHOW HOLIDAY
BY R. PRYCE JONES
THE MAN in the taxi asks how long, him.
Outside the afternoon Jut
whats from the Chinese oaks. The bamboos give a "And you 10 speak Chinese?" dry, whispering sound. On the way There is a note of reproot in his down my companion tells me what volce. I feel chasiened. The West; the preacher said: that the world is Lake les glittering in the sun, more than ever to-day in need of The air is gentle as a caress, On peace and charity, and that those the bont steps a little girl is playing who fail to find it often withdraw. with a cellulokt doll. It is as big within these walls to pray, for IL ag herself. Loudly she slaps its there. shiny bottom. As we Tony Francla,, well-known. Im
she park
The 'sampon woman is asleep, but pressionist and member of the glances up shyly;
Wo wake her and she guides us cast, seems to
"Good morning," she calls, her under a high arching bridgo into the That Man Again” have a bone to pick with the British black eyes are alight with mischief. main lake. The sun Broadcasting Corporation
is dropping micro-I call back and step in the sampun. swiftly behind, the mountains stain- phone.
The sampan gel has strong, blacking the sky with tangerine. It dis- hair that falls across her eyes, I appears and the water reflects the think she must know the foreign vivid afterglow. The paddles dip miss is tired and has a headache, quickly in and out and we skim her dipping baddies hardly make through the golden water. a sound as the sampan glides along.
IMPERIAL
WAR MUSEUM REOPENS
By R. C. Scott
th
Jake lles like a mirror falth- THE TRAIN overcrowded, I oli refecting mountains and sky. in the attendant's cubbyhole and The houses on the edge have tilted look out The countryaldo les roof,
One has yellow tiles tant smiling in the afternoon sun. It is catch the sun. We float under the a symphony of yellow, brown and willows. A little rest house is paint-green. Stocks of dry rice stalks stanc ed red with a fluted roof like a in the fooded fields. Famers are dancer's skirt. There are flower i busy turning forks ready for new
the earth
thoir beds
either side with roses salmon pink and red. Coloured sowing.
Toses three-pronged
011
clod
Each newly-urned like a scal's back. The
butterflies hover over them. A flock dicams millet stands neatly in rows.
of startled magples y out from a tree, wheel and return to roost. Farmers bend over the coltos fields, Twice damaged by rockets and From the willows a few leaves fall their wide, flat hats hide their inces. water. A solitary fish | Yellowing leaves shine bronze in the "buzz" bomby, the Imperial War jumps leaving little ripples. There sun. Bushes and frult treca Fare Museum; housed on the site of is a delicious stillness.
smudges of ripe red on a golden
on to the
These.
like the other exciting things being turned out by the Ine- teries nowadays, are to be seen at London's old Bethlehem Hospi-WE LEAVE the sampin and climb the "Britain Can Make It Exhibital for mental patients. W
re- tion; which is rapidly taking on, for the housewife, the semblance of a opened in October. preview of Paradise on earth!
A 30,000,000-year-old prehistoric fossil animal with the skeletal re-
storage.
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moving.
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We pass canals lying placid re- a mountain path. It runs past old, shabby farmhouses. A farmer is flocuing the sky. An orange weed threshing his rice. He picks up a growing on stagnant pools glows th
Square Many
sun.
sailed were bunch ring ready cut and bangs
Junka appear exhibits Valuable damaged or destroyed during the the ripened heads against the sides to sail through fields of corn unut I see a thin thread of palest blue, war, and for a time only parts of the ut a wouden trough.
"Is it a good crop?" my com- which is the canal. Under a hug to the Thirty Million Years building will be accessible
arched bridge three boats are slowly public. The authorities have receiv-panion calls.
Round their sides parch હતું.
so many important exhibits of "No, not very good." Old Fossil Found
We climb still highen
Large, World War II that quite a lot of the
black birds with long necks, What are they and why are they 1914-18 material, particularly the vaks up from the mountainsides, there? I wish I knew. "I think. of bigger items, have been moved into slim and straight as grey pencils the old priest's words, Here, too. is We meet a man in a wide, brown peace and fulfilment in these ha- hat with an undulating brim.
vested delds, "How is Ids land?" On show is the famous "scrap of bird Transatlantic service. When mains of a large mt it ate for lunch i paper" waved by Mr Neville Cham- pig is pregnant, his wife is preg- the carriage windows selling per
"Hui ya, it is well with him. His The train topa. Children: rush to has been unearthed by University of berlain after Munich, the engine of I was first a sub-editor on a California paleontologists in South the plane which brought Hess to nunt, His. hens are lying. He is simmons and long sticks
Bugar... woman's magazine, not so long America, says United Press,
Britain, miniature German sub-
happy."
сале The police drive them away" before the war, we used to be
We come to the gates of a monas but they unter back. boys strou up Dr R. A. Siirton, associate pro-murines, and engines from Natt und
tery
An old monk comes out to and down bearing trays of little inundated with letters from our fessor of paleontology, who brought British bombers together with the
greet us and bows us in. His face bamboo baskets.
What bombs they carried. girl readers who longed to be the specimen back from South
is wrinkled and kind. Silently he them? They call their wares In a America, said the animal probably air hostesses or air stewardesses. was a borhyena, a carnivorous mat- the picture painted by Dame Laura yard where a priest is reading the train carrying a string of Live cratis Visitors will see for the first time leads the way into an inner court-singsong voice, A man gots in to the We had to say in those days supial similar to a modern wolf or Knight of the Nuremberg trials.
in imunks bit cu benches that there weren't many open-
hyena,
Whole collections of photography discourse in
brown and black robes; following the strung like a coral necklace, Air travel especially
book. ઈં ings.
I scribble shorthand on the backs The beast apparently died shortly from the Central Unice of Informa-cross-legged, their shoes on the floor of old envelopes and bills: From British air travel-has come a after dining on histricomorph tion have arrived at the Museum, beneath them. We sit on a bench, the sudden withdrawn allence I know long way since those days. rodent; belonging to the prehistoric and officials in the Photographie A monk brings us steaming green tea the Chinese are asking questions porcupine and guinea pig family, Department are getting a headache In China pots. It is too hot to drink in their minds. I long to be These sixteen alt stewardessés Dr Surton sald.
over the number of enquiries for, and I am chimsy handling it. able to tell them what 1 write: that are to be chosen from the Corpora-
The scientist described the fossil Prints.
keep my eyes fixed on the book in love their beautiful countryside." I tion's own staff-which seems fair, beds of northern South America s They must be between 23 and 30. virtually unexplored.
"We are getting thousands of front of me.. The paper is thin and wish I know how. Because the enquiries weekly," an official told & Chinese characters which are being sun is resting on the horizon like u auow. The monk points to the The train starts with a jerk. The and will be paid £8.10s a week. continent was isolated for so many reporter, "and They will be much envled!
possibly read. What is it all about? I wish fiery ball millions of years during the time cope with them for the present. In I know. I turn o page and find a canals seem to run with blood. The
For a moment lived, the prehistoric animals That Britain's young women are Silrton said they developed strange owing to the shortage of labour and lesson. I listen to the unaccustomed opalescent glass. Children sil side-
Dr normal times we issue prints, but eager for adventure is demonstrated characteristles not found in any materials it will be some time be accents of the preacher behind the ways on the backs of water bullocks picture, no doubt illustraling the fire uses and they fle, like vits of by their eagerness to volunteer for other fossil beds in the world. the Services. All
All three-Women's
fore we can satisfy everybody."
bor. It is dark side and I cannot as they wander home. The heavy Royal Naval
Dr Stirlon brought 28 spucles of Service, Women's Au xlllary Air Force, and
11is Auxiliary prehistoric animals back from Most of the enquiries come from see him, but his voice is grave and beasts switch their tails, and put out Territorial
wish I understood. ServiceBoy
of demobbed soldiers who were photo discourse ends. The monks disperse recruits South American expedition,
The o grey, leathery tongue. are coming in well: this, uspe catalogued before.
which only three have been graphed near Field Marshal Mont- intoning a chant. There is a smell the noise of traffic strikes the car- Back to Shanghai.. It is dark and of the fact that terras of
gomery, the King or Mr Churchill of incense. The old monk shows us drums Trams stuffed with people for women have not yet been an
Some of the animals-resembled during service overseas. They want round. I try not to stare too hard as clang on their way. Motor horns.. nounced, Recruits
fact: horses, in arc,
sheep and camels, but Dr a print as a souvenir for their wives it is not pollte. Ho ushers us out blure, the Stirton suld they were not related to and children or to remind them of and bows, hands pressed together, coelles shout. Why come pack? Hai
screech, coming in moro quickly
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those animals as the world knows trips Lo Amsterdam, Hongkong, We bow in return and turn slowlyyn, I wish I knew.North
In spite of the plans for tremen dous improvements in their
con. ditions of service recently 20- nounced. No doubt the men feel that adventure will catch up with them soon enough.
For the young women It is stil novel enough for them to rush at. it with open arms,
Besides, the easy cameraderie of Service Îlfe Is tremendous attraction. And such cameraderio la still apt to be raret for women than for men. Until the new County Colleges for young people come into being in a year or two's time. It is found mostly at the Universities.
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Meanwhile, civilian residents in London's northern borough of Flis- bury are cheered to see work begun on three blocks of workers' flats- part of the borough's new housing scheme. There are to be 58 four room, 40 three-room, 17 two-room and eight one-room flats,
The flats are to be nitted through- out with the most modern-type sink through which all retuse ta disposed of by a water flush under the sink, and pneumatically drawn into an in- cinerator. All water will be heated centrally, and there will be built-in gas and electric fires to give any ditional heat that is needed in winter. There will be specially designed shelters on the roof for drying clothes and perambulator shelters in the spacious entrance hall.
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fence. South won with the ace. eashed the heart king, discarding dummy's diamond, then took the trump finesse. East' spades easily ruffed away and the contract became a laydown.
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West's shift to the spade was in- excusable! True, East had doubled five spades--but since when has double guaranteed possession of the ace in the doubled suit! East had completely sound double of five sondes, and he would have been silly to take any other action after had
he
purposely and successfully push- ed the opponents to that level The very fact that East was void clubs Indicated that. West probably could take card of'a runout to olx clubs.
It is also true that the spade. shift, if it found the ace with East, would have defeated the contract more tricks than any other defence. Nevertheless, West should have ahuted to diamonds.
If East had the rpade, ace and South had one
pade, there was no need to lead the sult; but if East had, the diamond ace, failure to lead spades would let South discard dummy's diamond if (as was quite possible), he held the heart ding. East certainly had one of the missing aces; the crux was to. ly shifted to his singleton spade. lend the suit that might otherwize F'That was the death knell of the de- | ""get away."、
West hesitated a long time er his opening lead, but hially decld- ed to lay down the heart,3;* played the deurp--and West prompt
By Ernie Bushmiller
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