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PROPHECIES FOR 1947
THE MAN WHO RUBS OUT MOUSTACHES
By C.W.SMITH
KENDARAAN NARARAMURESUMMAK
A
London
them out, Then there's pipes and spectacles. Men ad- vertising cigarettes will be given pipes, and good looking gris will have black glasses scrawled over them just to make them ugly, I don't understand It."
I nodded sympathetically. Just then we come to a real "snorier." It was a cigarettes advertisement showing 20 plain cigarettes sticking half-way out of a packet. But
they
were plain no longer, but cork-lipped, for some- one had touched up the ends with Alpstick, und very realistic too it looked,
now
Leo shook his head; "They use everything-pencils, chalk, ink, crayons, and nowa lays lipsticks. I can't do It will have to have a new anything with this one.
notebook-3 Top, bill." He scribbled some words in 1 Exit, Westbound. Opp Guinness.
bottom
EGGS
Each morning round about the hour of
eight
Three eggs are brought to me upon a
plate-
Poached fruit of some obliging hen- And there they wait
My surgeon's knife upon each yellow
abdomen.
More willing bird was never found Than China's hen. The whole year
round
She lays her trophy at the feet of men And then
With modest cluck does it again,
Both white and brown.
In England now, it is related,
Eggs are mostly dehydrated.
Not once a day, or even week; But one in four
The British fowl performs her task Then snaps her beak
And says: "No more."
Women in the lengthening queue, Whose belts are tight, whose lips are
blue,
Whisper sadly: "Is it true? How very strange in far Cathay That they can have three eggs a day We'd like it, too.”
Thus, when about the busy street Vendors tangle up the feet, And spit and publicly excrete, In silence, turn the face. When traffic jams and prices soar, And wages do not any more, And dollars, flouting Newton's law, Fly off into space,
Ponder and congratulate Yourselves that round about the hour
of eight
You can have three eggs on a plate.
P. J.
in the North-China Daily News.
DESIGNERLINSKE ANTANANMAZON ENERGIATALAN CARLINS
BY THE WAY
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by Beachcomber
Sergeant: Good moming. It's Ser-
geant
in to see if your husband thought of coming on parade.
OVERS of horse racing
inve to be given a truly scientific ex planation of the failure of so many English nags Intely. It is due to a "Dynamically and phy- siologically mechanical error." Apparently the horses ought to Idiot's Delight? "go fast downhill and slow up- hill."
A royal commission will shortly re- commend that all racecourses should be in mountainous country, and I, representing the Friends of Horses League, shall recommend that selen L Ists be substituted for Jockeys. Alter- natively, to correct the mechanical error of the whole thing, electric horses might be substituted for real ones, with real, live scientists to chuse down the course. of the poster
7OU know how it is when she was, as I say, a very nice look-
people start telling you ing girl, but by the time I had walk
cd atories.
right down the platform and One part of counted five girls with moustaches you is listening to what is drawn on them, I really began to get being said and another part interested in the
He went on, "A poster. that gave The subject, is pounding the old brain-
draw us a lot of trouble was "The Widow. "If there are people who moustaches on posters, are there The public didn't like her and did box trying to think out a better people who have to rub them out her in properly," I remember "The one. It was like that the other again?" I wondered. It was a twist Viklow, a pleture of a woman in day when my pal John was tell on an old idea of mine that there is binek mourning looking very pale
in- His was ing a story,
about an opposite to most things. For
with eyes that stared out ut you. stance, there are people who throw frogle and questioning. Underneath road-basher-uperers.
dog-ends away and there are people a slogan and "Keep Death off the "I was walking down Whitehall who pick them up; there are people Roads. Just before V-Day," he said, "when who whip
things
from other people's I spotted a little old man with houses
whip and policemen who battered, mildewed bowler hat set them in gaol; there are mannequins who paid for putting clothes on
Ket
"I saw one of slap on top of his hend standing at
on "Well. Leo, said, the kerb and turning his hend quiet and strip-teasers who get paid for
The Widow and when they had ly right and left like he was looking
un. them off, and so
Ali taking
A falshed with her sho looked a real Well, for something,
there was right, if there are people who put treat a picture of health. She hud nothing unusual in that but all of a moustaches on posters in Tabes, then
her cheeits, sudden he durted out into the middle there must be people who rub them powder and rouge on
and beautiful The rond, whipped out nout. I decided to find out and that's lipstick on her lips. ginormous hammer from his porket how I met Leonard. "Leo, after the long eye-lashes drawn in with pen-
Didn't Just long that poster," and started furiously bashing the Hon you know.” I won't tell you hix cil. road with it. It was all over in a surname, but he̟ is fifty years
We got on another train and went matter of seconds and he was back old and
"Doodlers Underground further down the line.
aren't the only offenders, though on the kerb again. Well, he kept on Inspector,
they doing this up and down the road
arc the worst" said Leo. darting from side to side until he
"There's the "Picker, for instance. against the wall, came to the end of Whitehall. Then he shoved his huge hammer into his%
course, rubbing out moustaclier He'll just lean
ick nt pocket, ndjusted his hat firmly onto
on posters-isn't my-real-Job, it's waiting, and he'll pick, pick, pick
Don't know his head and marched very digulfed Just partof it" he said. "My job is to the corner of a post. and businesslike into the House of see that posters are put up at the what he's doing half the time. Then He' Commons,"
right time and place, and to advise there's the "Heci-dabber." customers on advertising positions. Just the same, only he uses his fect, Still if you're interested in mouis- and by the time he's finished dab- inches you must come round with bing all the
So It was that Lev, has gone." me one day. and I went on a moustache hunt,
Was bit surprised when Leo turned up.
up. He wasn't like a mous tache hunter at all,—mind you wasn't quite sure what a moustache hunter looked like, but I was sur-
"Well, Chad, I suppose is one of prised nevertheless. He was dressed
place. white their's. He's all over the In a rim block 'elty' suit, collar, black tie and a black Antony Wot, no beer? and things like that. And in one place where there was Edon bombers hat. Very neat in- deed. looked around
I
only brown paper on the wall Chad was there within 'Wet No bli?' Then there's Piccadilly. That was a ta- weapons but they were all inside his pocket which scarcely showed bulge-hard rubbers, soft rubbers.
vourite of the Americans and Cana- dians
war.
Used to during the ink rubbers, pocket knife and razor
write on the posters, fixing up dates territory was the Central, with their girls. Sometimes, they'd Piccadilly, and Northern Lines. We say, 'Been waiting here half an hour.
out of the Tube at Leicester Am browned off. You can go to- Square Station, evidently a station Then they'd sign their names." with very good 'game'. As Leo stuiked along the platform and corri dora I trotted at his side. All the time his head was shifting from right to left like his neck was hurt- ing. His eyes were mild but they they employ a full-time man on the were keen all right. Suddenly he Job with a salary of twenty dollars d learned that before the war one,
a girl's face plus muus- week. Apotted tache advertising a make-up powder. doodling was quite scarce, but now Quickly he pulled out a rubber and it was everywhere.. got to work. He picked the right rubber
"Who do you think does it?" I first time and in a few seconds the moustache was off. We asked. Leo breathed a sigh and passed on and as he chatted to me saki, "It's dificult to say really, learnt quite a lot about poster de but I think its mostly young boys facers.
and girls between 10 and 19-high "Doodlers, I suppose you'd coli school kids and yobboes.
he said, "but I call them a trol over children, nowadays, blasted nuisance. Moustaches are the trouble," their biggest line of trade, of course, Leo had to go then, so I thanked but there are plenty of others. Teath, him and sald goodbye. I wandered for instance. If a face on a poster has, down the platform. Somehow my got no teeth then they'll give it, somme, neck kept twisting right and left. If it's got teeth then they'll scene. I've got moustache-phobia, I thought.
That was the end of John's story. Well, that was pretty good really. I mean it is nice to think that there are little blokes with bowler hats and huge hummers going pround bashing roads, it sort of makes life interesting. But by the time he was Anished had got my story ready. Mine was about moustache-rubber- out-erers.
A little while ago I was waiting for a train in Piccadilly Underground statlun. I began walking down the platform looking at the advertise- ment posters like people do, when i spotted a picture of a very nice blade. tocking girl advertising a bair shampoo. I felt very sad because
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I blushed, guilty, for I am a dab- ber myself, and changed the subject quickly. "What about servicemen doodlers?" I asked.
ND so it went on. I learned that
in the New York Underground
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Wife: Yes. What is it?
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