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PAUL HOLT
Thinking Aloud
WHEN. You go to a party; or more, will fill Hades
what do you so often see? raging in the affairs of the nations;
At one end of the room all the senior police officers of the Aus-
men standing around in a small train, New Zealand, American and
British police forces have been
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1947.
THE PARKERS
1 SIMPLY CAN'T GETA
MOMENT'S PEACE WITH THIS GUILD.
I PROMISED TO SEND OVER
DIANA'S PLAY PUI-DO TANE IT ACROSS.
circle. At the other, their bending thele wits to tracking down STRANGER THAN FICTION is this moving, poignant wives, sitting primly.
The men are most likely taking aporl or telling schoolboy smutty alories. The women have cold eye for each other while they direttun queueing. cooking, baby welfare or,
triite of mild scandal.
mit is a phenomenon peculilar to the English and the Americans, this jubile segregation of the sexes. You do not bid it on the Continent, or in Russin,
I wonder, when husband takes his wife home from such n party--not having spoken to her the Whole
boxen of Impaled lepidoptera which have been missed from inuselam in Antipodes. And that the chase has come Surrey town of Farnham.
a pause in the peaceful
Though it is one of the truisms of life that the collector's instinct is art to be both rupacious and unscru palous, I shall sleep more
easily
in my bed for the knowledge that the palice are so very wide awake.
Down Mayfair way
evening-what they talk about while PORTRAIT of a Mayfair girl; She
they
are
preparing
for beel.
final report of the Committee on Procedure in Matrimonial Chuises nuggests thint the fundamental reaso11 for the break-up of marriages is to
On was pretty in a perky way. her head she wore, o tarlan tam o'
woolly ! shanter tied down with a Rear in what appeared to be RAF
colours,
Her fur coat was lied at the waist.
be found in "false ideas and my are Old Elonian scarf. She wore emotional attitudes developed before marriage and even in childhood."
That may well be true, but today there is this other reson are ur spent, I think.
A man smaster
enorringe through bis Indifferenes. He goes with the tide of fashion, making his daily office or factory worries and his spectator-sports hobbies the do- minating things in his life. He is too lazy and preoccupied to get to know the
he began loving.
woman
A wonnn sashes her
by
ski-ing trousers. Wellington boots and merchant seamen's oiled wool stockings to her knees. She wore mittens stung round her neck by white tape.
In her peam was a baby smother- et under a chinu hel-witer bottle,¦ two string baskets filed with tins and vegetables. Two empty quart beer battles stuck out a little shyly,
tu the
green-
But I won-
story of passion, cruelty and revenge, centred around
a lovely old house over which a cloud of evil hung
R
The Witch
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of Rose Hall
by HODGES
charities were not ostentatious but plantation. a Reverend Divine, Her father, her to interfere with her running ‘of. the
of a noble kind; she was warm Ini her altachments to her friends and
Her
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, "Educated by the anxious care of any rate he seed feath or unable
OSE HALL is abandoned and crumbling. Two hun- dred and fifty years ago it was the pride of Jamaica, the greatest mansion in the land.
At the end of the seventeenth century Portland stone was transported from England to build this massive structure.
6 The walls stand like strange pro- tecting legions in the soft moon- light.
9
gave the most signal proof or it in HE lived her life as she chose. But this act of viclous cruelty did
newly the last moments of her life.
Required family, not, bring young Palmer to her side. averseers, and slaves all bent in ter- Sick with horror and loathing he ror before her. She plucked and let the Island and never returned. chucked her favourites as the spirit
Ann Palmer
was shunned and moved her..
avoided by the friends who many She became entranced by the years before had frequented Rose youthfulness and good looks of her Hult. Passers by told stories of the stepson. And in turn her beauty screams that came from the yard where she would whip and torture
*This tribute of affection and respect is erected by her husband, the Honourable John Palmer, is a monument of her worth and ut hin gratitude."
Palmer, who was 73. - His
For long John Palmer sorrowed in solitude.
then the And
witch
stirred and fuseluated him. She was saying
She was Now it stands as a white and from Haiti made her
appearance.
slim and of medium the slaves. grocers
Well no. I do want decaying shell: but still domi- She was 28, and she married John height. Her hair was as black and
And then one day the heavy evil friends as shining as the bide of her darkest cloud which had hung over the nost maringey tangerines today. not because she has any natural aper if it would be much trouble nating the acres of sugar cane sold that he was digging his grave, slave; her skin milk white and unenviable plantation in Jamalea was
was scarred by the dry, simmering hest lifted. to tip them out and let me have the and wild hillside which are its but in reality another grave
a-digging.
of Jamaica winds. ller eyes frame.
The architecture is Renais-
titude towards cheating a woman box, for Brewood?"
Is by instinct mopogatnois, given
We
a quarter of a change-but because the daily round of her man's nwłups increasingly away from her.
Matter of tasto
The Increasing burdens of house- "Tipperary" And keeping,
ng, travelling, slupping leave limp by evening time, for she is not suffed to play the double role
from. PAMELA CHURCHILL
Ann Palmer was the wickedles! and the most beautiful woman that ever came to Jamatca.
were
as changeable as the colour in opal, at one moment tender, appeal ing, helpless, and sad, and the next hard, calculating, cruel and scorn-
She tries to keep up with him. RED FLEET. the oficial news-sance, beautifully proportioned calling it "shartig." She goes to paper of the Russian Navy, Jus and elegant. It has an unusual the dogs, the pub. But the physical been scolding the comrade matelets! effort gradually catches up with her. for singing bourgeois songs Hke facade; wide, white, double-sided which, it is alleged, ruin the musical main hall on the second storey. "K-k-k-katic" stone steps lead direct to the taste of a Soviet audience.,
Of Irish origin, she was raised in ful They enhance the bold and The official song of the revolu-
Halti. She had had three husbands. tionary Red Fleet is called "When dramatic look of the gaunt All had died in strange ways--none the apple rolls down to the Almaz." house.
from natural causes, and tells the story of how White Guards are Juken down to the
Almaz. And when heatis roll in the scuppers "they
of wife and witly-worm-friend.
She
In a way, it is woman's
chose emanelp
she is getting loneliness.
Butterfly chase
Who stole the butterflies?
fault, And
It is in a curious way a com-
cruiser
never roll back."
their
K-k-k-katie's garden gate seems
fort to know that for the past year almost cultural by comparison.
SIDE GLANCES
COPE. 1947 BY HRA SERVICE, UNCUT, H, REG U. B. PAT, OFF,
old
Inside, the circular staircase, made of sandalwood and maho- gany, has been removed. The splendour of its workmanship belongs to # forgotten era. Only the framework of the
more powerful.
The mistress of Rose Hall Wns murdered in her bed, by the hinte- crazed stoves whom she had tured for so long. How they gain- ed an entrance was never discover ed.. Maybe they asked and received the assistance of Mr Palmer7.
SHORTAGE OF
FOOD HITS
RUSSIA
The Soviet Union, hit by a severe drought last year, finds. itself beset these days by many food shortages and facing food. supply difficulties for three months ahead until the new harvest begins.
The chief shortages are in grain and potatoes. There has beon additional cut in the bread ration,
however, and none is planned.
The same is true of potatoes. Prospects are bright for a
grain crop next summer.
no
bi
Snow protected plants in the ground through the cold winter.
The tation was encouraged by the government and Communkt party in the midst of an effort to increase the yield.
Melting snow enused foods In widespread parts of the Soviet Union, but there has been no reports of widespread damage.
An Informant with s personal knowledge of Russia's food situation told the Associated Press in Ports at the end of March that 1,000 Soviet peasants starved to death recently, largely because of crop losses doo to the drought in European Russia and destructive rains in western Siberia. -Associated Press.
PASTEUR EXHIBITION
OPENED
A Pasteur Exhibillon is being held at the Selenice Museum, South Kensington, London, from April 10 to May 28, The Exhibition has been tor-arranged and provided with the assistance of the Cultural Relations Department of the French Foreign Office by the Palais de
Ja De- couverte (Palace of Discovery) lo Paris, where it has recently been on show.
She was not buried; her bones, it is said, were flung under a tree.
SUPERSTITION unt
The Palace of Discovery is an in- stitution devoted to the exposition and explanation of modern selence, employing for the purpose advanced techniques of visual education.
The Pasteur Exhibition Includes a chronological account of the chemical and biological world of Louis Pasteur on fermentation, putrefaction, Lo the Rem of numerous diseases of spontaneous generation of life, and on
men, animals and plants.
memory reign tong in this country, and But unlike most of her conquests. It belleved that the second Mrs her hold over young Palmer was Palmer's ghost haunts Rose Hall not complete. She shared his affec- The natives claim that screams and Their deaths were attributed res- tlons with a beautiful young mulatto eries. are heard there at night. pectively to drink, madness, und girl, a slave on the Rose Hall pinnta- The last caretaker came to a bad apoplexy. But many are the stories tian."
end some 20 years ago. She fell of how they were murdered by Mrs
down the stone steps leading to the Palmer with the help of an Obeah- The chief overseer, who had lost cellar and broke her necks. But the man (witch-docte became richer and Palmer, was humiliated and seciting her death by the ghost of the bad And after the his position of favour with Mrs launis insist that she was pushed to
revenge on the young lord of the Mrs Palmer. While she was mistress of Rose, manor. He learned of young. Mr There was no succession. None The results of his work are illus By Galbraith house defies the ruthlessness of all the atmosphere of happiness Palmer's interest in the slave girl. could be induced to take
up resl-trated by puncis dealing with pas- which had surrounded it until then, tress of Rose
Triumphantly he rode to the mis dence at the Hall.
Leurisation in the brewing and other The house is indeed a ruin. The Industries, and the raising of disease- roof is gone.. The walls stand: Uko
free silk-worms, strange pruferling Jeglons in the soft #moonlight, legions that bear testl-
mony to the philosopher's refrain:
"They don't plant tatera. they
don't plant cotton: "And them that plant 'em is soon
forgotten."
"Keep your cont on, son, and we'll all go out and eat to- night you know how worn-out your mother is after an afternoon in the beauty shop!"
Skeleton
CLUES ACROSS
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spice to an
Apple pie.
the four
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his turn to
disappeari
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friend to in
front...
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tribute
the
perfect.
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trict to the
web.
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43. Hang more than half the deboz
before the dish,
Jo. Buakes in this condition. you
- MARY BROTAIM.
17. Pinys for time in the theatra.
20. No, not RIA.P. armDAMODE.
29. Bright suraing animal
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1. Many accompaniment.
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deport.
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ornamentat obina
discovery.
unprotected age.
Hell and fold of his faded. Tales of cruelty replaced tales, of Joy. Gone
the magnificent
Ann Palmer feared no man, least In those days there was no law to folding doors of solid mahogany of all her failing husband. Perhaps prevent an owner from killing with hand-chiselled carvings, he did not know her as others did. slave if he so wished. So the young
never native girl was behended. which stood at the corners of heard the rumours of her past. She Palmer had the head preserved und him the kept in a case so that she could show
He may have disbelieved or
the lengthy hall. Imagination may never have shown
inscription on the ring she wore, visitors "the head of the
alone can picture the gilded “If I survive I shall have five.” At creature," cornices, the polished floors, the rich, extravagant brocades, the p triumphantly opulent and much- Carved furniture which decorat-t ed this startlingly lovely but severe white landmark.
was the home of the richest of to- the sugar lords of Jamaica wards the end of the 18th century.
Mr John Palmer lived there with his wife. Theirs was a home of joy and
happiness-with
r servants slaves as part of the family
and
of the Palmer family.
OWE
Mrs
pretty
TO BE IN
ENGLAND
It was a lovely voyage and there was a warm spring sunshine in the skies over Southampton us We docked.
The suitcase started sliding down the chute, while we began our sad Then we sent a select committee shipboard farewells in the full know-
ardent
"IT'S good to be going home." to interview the Midland Bank ledge that those and cat friends on
set fool on shore. The customs | structure. For more than 40 years as we struggled through a com- Good Queen Bess. The bank was
the sugar fields and the slaves bined blizzard
courtesy itself but could not cash a oficers were waiting at their alpha- of snow and cheque for sterling even though it betical posts, and a smart Southern thrived under the good
treatment American farewells to board the were backed by Majur Everard Gates Railway train was waiting just be-
Queen Elizabeth..
or Mr Ivor Novello who were both yond the barriers. Efficient devila,
these British. Brendan Bracken said it first, on board.. Then came the death of Mrs Palmer. She was buried In the but his proposition was seconded
was off early and located half my What about letters of credit? No, church of the neighbouring town, by Sir Stanley Holmes on behalf sir, unless they were for
luggage which a pleasant faced dollars docker prepared to carry to Section Montego Bay.
On her tombstone In of the National Liberals, while and if a British subject had any B. And just then two of his mater simple words is a
sa description of her
character: "Near this place are doit had the' full support of Lord duilars left he was supposed to bring set upon him and bellowed that he i posited the remains of Mrs Rosa Kemsley, who speaks for Fleet- them home intacta. Palmer, who died on the first day street, and of Miss Phylits. Cal-
self.
of May. 1700. Her manners were vert whose beauty speaks for it- open, cheerful and agrecable, and being blessed with a plentiful for tune, hospitality dwelt with her as long as health permitted her to enjoy society.
Crossword
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braxo.
11. Clive the doctor one-be does
no work
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of the purate with
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Iteasoning in the way, you can build up the pattern as you solve the clues. No wards of fewer. than türen letters, appear in the Buzzle
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bo an officer one day.
19. Bow for Btewart Granger.
10. Indiaman,
10. The Foreign Secretary.to sta
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change
20. The sound- or money ?
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22. A set changu.
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SOLUTIIN
"It's good to be on British territory again," said: someone, probably me. Then with a slight twinge of con- science we all agreed that America and Americans were wonderful but that there was something about England.....
by BEVERLEY BAXTER, MP
With every desire to understand
to think it out.
AND so to bed on British territory this new Treasury caprice we tried.
even though it be a detachable ocean-going portion."
that did
no more
was a dirty swine and of doubtfit! legitimacy. Apparently a lightning strike had been proclaimed.
Bravely he told them to mind their own business and that he was going to do his job. In reply they brought back reinforcements who rodied insults and threats at him- reassured, no doubt, by the repeal of the Trade Disputes Act which restored the sacred right of the many to bully the few.
At lust the little docker put downl my luggage and threw in his hand. "I wont to do my job," he said, If the Chancellor is afraid that "that's all. When will you people When we awoke, or awaked, the great ship was well out to sea with we shall all purchase huge supplies in Parliament pass a law that a
on man can do his work and not bej waves
than of clothes from the tiny shop coquette with the giant ship and board, then why not close, the shop 'whose attentions were casily re or insist upon payment in dollars?,
I told him I did not know, but If he thought we would do binck we shook hands on it. pulsed.
All was well in a world whose with our pounds, what in the name market deals for procuring dollars troubles seemed
far away. Before of sanity would we do with the
interfered with?"
A section of the Exhibition deale with the Pasteur Institutes established throughout the world: for the pre- paration of serums and vaccines for
the combating of disease epidemics.
The Exhibition at the Science Mus- cum, besides providing an instructive account of this world-renowned selentist, will give the British public na opportunity of seeing on example of the methods of visual education I now used in France.
ROOMY GLOOM
It's not much I ask
My feelings I masic But, give me a room
To hide my gloom.
It's not much I beg
It's ring to leg In search of a room
To hide my gloom.
Oh for a room
To hide my gloom,
A gloomy rooms.
For roomy gloom.
Where despondency can bloom
And I can croon
Of days gone by
When I could lie
Comfy and high!
When a dollar was a dollar.
And no need to holler
At high cost of living
Or anything so snivelling.
Today I crawl
Key-money withal, In search of a room
To hide my gloom.
*REDINCAM."
LONG-RANGE RADAR STATIONS
The Canadian Government dis- closed recently that it was co-oper ating with the United States: In establishing a series of long-range radar stations in the north,” thus.......
lunch we gathered in the lounge to dollars when we got buck to Britain trickle of baggage came to a furthering their joint defence plan.
to receive us in her Arctic
muddled stop at the bottom of drink a toast to the, Mother Country except exchange them back into the chute. The stewards, would Location of the stations was not
pounds.
trunks willingly have carried tha
announced, but it has been reported or three American millionaires--at any rate they were
and suitcases to the Customs sheds that Canada and the United States al And by whose decree is it that but, being seamen, they must not Americans-Joined us..
ready had been testing jointly oper responsible British citizens should operate on shore.
ation of three experimental trans». "Charge that to me," said someone, be officially regarded as potential or got away, minus half my probably Sir Arthur Evans. The "actual crooks?” We had set fool on luggage, in a motorcar going toning stations ut Hamlin, (Saskn
chewan), Gimliko, (Maniloba) and steward sadly shook his head. British territory with the assumption Landon. It was nearly midnight: Dawson Creek, (British Columbia,) "Can't do that, sir," he said. "There that any dollar credits must be ten hours after docking, that the which will be discontinued
WITH are new orders for this voyage." brought home and that we could Elizabeth's passengers finally sorted the establishment of regular stations.
Slr Arthur expressed polite ensh sterling cheques for our reason out their luggage at Waterloo, astonishment and asked the able commitments on board ship. I
that some of the am told steward would cash a cheque.
including the tips on which the Americans were. muttering strange "No,
sold sir,"
the
steward. stewards rely for a living.
words, but I prefer to think that "You will find that cheques can't be
they were saying how good it was enshed neither," Up to that time So what did we do? In the end, to be away from America and in the hla grammar had been perfect. and in our own way, we got enough Island Kingdom that gave liberty to
We were at once offered An pounds to meet our commitments. the world,
Sluce 1942, more than 2,000,000 American loan on the basis no re- Once more it was proved that. de- Or perhaps they were reminding tons of klichen waste salvage, have payment-but I discovered a pound crees can only be carried out when each other that as American"aliens, been collected in England and Wales · in my passport and British solvency" they nŕo backed by logic and com- they must report to the police in for · conversion :) into: "was momentarily maintained.
mon sense.
Britain.
1
--Associated Press,
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Waste For Food
animal feeding sluit,
disease-freO