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NIGHT in PARADISE"
IN TECHNICOLOR —— A UNIVERSAL PICTURE Starring Merlo OBERON Jurhan BEY
Sitting on the Fence
N_the_rain_gutter of Grand Hotel-by-the-Sen the Spar-
row and his wife were eating cake crumbs they had found in the palm lounge..
The Sparrow's wife, dressed in a little blue and yellow sports jumper and a pair of tiny, carefully creased slacks, was on the verge of tenrs.
"What's biting you now?" asked the Sparrow, spitting out burnt currant. "For three, solid months you've been nattering about spending a week at this hell-hole, and now you're here you do nothing but grumble."
"There's nothing wrong with the place," said his wife. "I think it's ever so lovely.**
by NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"Don't insult my friends," said the 11 wag 1 Sparrow. "Seagulls are pretty good types, and I'm going fishing with them one day."
sold his wife, brightening. "Can I "Oh, that ought to do you good,"
come too?"
weapon. Although we
clumsy, hit-or-miss had many casualties, we also had many laughs, the hollow kind of laugh that a fox hounds." may' cnjoy when he eludes the
But we thought it was sporting. We knew we were annoying people and we never blamed them for hit it ting back when we had a chaner to.
escape,
said the Sparrow,
"No women allowed on this trip,"
"Why?" asked his dangerous?"
wife. "Is
"The sea front is the ugliest in the country," said the Sparrow, he "No," said the Sparrow, Bying off hand is the noislest and the hos to the Seagulls' Club. "Not enough are probably the most vulgar in the Scotch to go round." world. In fact, It's a moron's para- dise. So what more do you want?"
ZOTIC-
"I'd like a. little company
times," said his wife. "It's not much
fun doing everything alone.”
"I've hopped down the front three limes," said the
Sparrow. "I've listened to the ladies' string band. I've been bored stiff in the aquarium and the so-called botanical gardens. I've had nearly enough."
"You haven't had enough of the Seagulls Club," said his wife.
row,
That's different," said the Spar-
at
"You might just as well be home at the Trea Topa Club,” bald his wire.
Letter from a fly
DEAR Sir.
*
Then came the dy paper, not quite so sporting, because it was a cruel death by starvation.
But we realised that your patience As one who crawis over your was becoming exhausted and, any column every Sunday and the bits he is able to read before tim was observed no intelligent fly enjoys way, when once the fate of a vie- being brushed off the puge, may crave the hospitality of your valu-
went near a flypaper. able space to air grievance which is of deres concern to countless mil- lions of dies all over the
civilised world?
I write "civilised" world because it is in the elvilised world that science has made the life of a By so precarious that few of us now live long enough to become fathers families.
of
of
are
to
It is only in the wilder parts "Except for the sea air." said the the earth, whom Insecticides Sparrow.
unknown..that we are allowed lead a full life, breeding and feed- ing where we will and biting people unprotected either by clothing
"I shouldn't think you'd get much sea air in a stufy "bar" sold his
wife.
"You'd be surprised,"
said the Sparrow. "We have oxygen and ozone pumped in every hour."
"You'll never get At that way." said his wife.
"We're not trying to get at," said oxygena"
pump in
the Sparrow. "Then why asked his wife,
"To keep us alive," said the Spar-
row
"I think it's terrible” said his wife.
"What is?" asked the Sparrow. "Wasting your holiday and ruin- ing your health with there awful Reagulls."
A
disinfectants.
or
After that you sprayed us with oil or shut us up in a room filled with oil fumes which choked us to death.
And now comes D.D.T.
Well, Mr Gubbins, I wonder if you are aware of the effect of D.D.T. on flies? It is about the same
effect as an atom bomb may have on you
one day. In other words, there is
A fugbottle of my acquaintance wishes, to be associated with these remarks.
Hoping your wife and family are well.
I remain, Sir,
Yours faithfully,
A. Fly.
Fan mail
THE persistent correspondent whose weekly letter always addresses as "Dear Pig" writes as fol
me
tows:- Dear Pig,
While looking for mistakes in your article, it occurred to me that, with the shortage of paper, they night cut it out altogether and print some. thing
Ronsible "I have written to the Editor about this, also to Mr Herbert Marrison. I remember you once
called Nanny Morrison, so I expect he's got him
It In for you.
Well, dear Pig, thanks for writing to the Editor and Mr Morrison. You must have quite a busy week with your correspondence.
All the same, while I can see some
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Do tell me, Lady Little hampton, just what is your Dersonal reaction to the
textile cut?**
BY THE
WAY
by Beachcomber
́3 10,000 campers snore con- A tentedly in their miniature pagodas while dawn breaks over Happy Valley Holiday Beach, suddenly through loud- speakers mussed bands crash out "Tiger Rag." It is reveille. Simultaneously, Camp Adjutant Flora Dudds Lord
prosges switch which automatically tips So far, Mr Morrison has no con- ley water. She then speaks into her everybody out of bed to a tub of trol over this newspaper or other, though I believe, amateurs, he has an Itch to get his fingers inky.
point in writing to the Editor, I cant see any point at all in writing to President of the Council. Mr Morrison, even if he is
any
like many
microphone:
the master-
"Attention, Happy Valley cam- pers! · Control Tower calling, Contrēj I understand he once tried to tell Tower calling. Have you taken your the sub-editors of the Government Happy Valley Maito? rushed your organ how to write headlines and teeth with Happy Valley Dento? And was properly snubbed by the ex- gargled your throat with Happy peris.
to know.
A
Amateurs don't understand that Valley Germo? If not, please do so writing headlines is a highly skilled now. We commence another heaven- no hope of survival.
occupation. I've tried it, so I ought ly day at Happy Valley with a seven If we settle
mile pick-a-back race before break- on anything Im-
fast. pregnated with D.D.T. we do not die
But this time the ladles will * ★ at once, as the people of Iiroshima.
carry the gentlemen. You lucky, did not die at ofce. We die about 20 minutes later of some icind or to Mr Morrison you may be antici- helping of creamy Happy Valley Nevertheless, dear Pig, in writing lucky girls! Remember, a second
convulsion.
pating, "the shape of things come."
to porridge for the first 200 couples Many people think that as back to camp. For the next three the petly restrictions recently im- minutes, that is all. campers, that is posed on the Press wil not save an a appreciable amount of dollars, the Government has imposed them other reasons.
Even our Although I am aware that flies are
nurseries aro sprayed universally unpopular, even
and powdered with D.D.T., causing among almost instant death to millions of those who believe our bodies may be of their dead grandfathers, may the carthly habitation of the sputs young fles. point out that many other creatures ate universally unpopular without being persecuted to the point of ex-
tinction?
*
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I
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for Tweet, tweet
Either they are not big enough to DEAR SIR,
who
I have a canary and a green' take criticism, and wish to stifle it, crested woodpecker
shane B or they are veering towards a Left- cage and are the best of friends, I A friend of mine, a lady fly, lost wing dictatorship and wish to think that the fact that I have her entire family of 1,381,400 in a musculate the Press before they trained the canary to whistle "Open 1ew minutes.
suppress it or take control of it. th: Door, Richard" while the wood-
In my opinion the Arst As an Englishman and a lover of would be a silly one.
reason pecker taps four times at the ap You can Let us put it this way.
bepropriate muments may be a band fairplay I feel sure you will publish as rude to a Government in a small between them,-Paula Pink (Mrs). Only tow years ago the chief this letter so that the world may paper as you can in a large one. In It's the gipsy in me protection people had against us know of the unsporting methods fact, as brevity is the soul of wit, was the fly swatter. You may re- now being used in the war against you can be, ruder. member the slogan "Swat that Fly"? flies.
Attack on
Ailment
Anxiety No. 1
The scientists who
worked
n!
MEDICAL advance of PROGRESS REPORT ON this out knew that if they could stop great importance has just been-announced the dis- MEDICINE.......
-by- the false-messages-reaching-the stomach they could stop the excess and so covery of a new
far CHAPMAN production of acid. And they knew highly successful treatment for
that they could do this simply by duodenal ulcer,
PINCHER cutting the vagus nerve. But then brain. control over the stomach muscles would be completely, lost.
But if the Government is think- ing of taking control of the Press,
as they do in Russia and did in Germany, the
then it might happen that
Mr Morrison would appoint himself
TELL your fortune pretty gentle
man?"
"How much?”- "Halfrown" "Correct."
(Exit discomfited horsewoman,)
editor-in-chief of everything Food of love
published.
The Morrison publications would Food Office colleagues formed an be rather dull, because there would arch of forms when Miss Toombs, be too much about Marrison in of Hoddesdon married last work.
them; and I doubt if the Morrison headlines would ft.
Nobody would buy the
Sunday Paper. And pelted in: luppy couple with Morrison B.U.c?
productions unless compelled to do Sudden thought on
would Lic
so, and I daresay they printed at a great loss, which would be met by the taxpayer.
Platform 8 Tthe national Interest I suggest
1
that, family holidays, too, should bo- thoroughly-staggered, --husbande fcking July, August and the first Morrison "having it in for me" for ci: ldren being
As you may be right, about Mr half of September; wires
and calling him "Nanny" Morrison (he week in October. If handled with aliotted the second Is very much like somebody's nanny), firmness, this would ease, the trans- it could also happen that I would be port situation enormously, as well as sent off in 'chalts to the English equivalent of Siberia and Mr Morr-everal others. son would write this column himself. Live and let liver
From my exile I would wish him We N order to find out whether this luck, hoping he would retain his uicers by surgery or healed them as
mattered they experimented with sanity, especially after reading your and animals. They found diet. But statistics show that 65
that when weekly letters for a couple of years.. the vagus nerve was cut the sight; percent of the patients redeveloped Some people, however, develop reduction in stomach them within two years. More than the habit of producing acid in the men
wall meve- 250 patients have been treated
which resulted was an ad- ment by stomach whether there is any-food vantage. For duodenal
currence.
It is the first method devised to strike at the cause of this common with the food before It leaves the complaint and so to prevent its re- stomach.
There is no chance of raw acid passing into the duodenum because it is produced by the stomach only when food is there to absorb it.
the
Previous treatments
removed
the
Experiments
patients
new method with excellent there or not. When they are asteep have too much stomach movement results.
acid, unneutralised by action with und this intensifies the food, is continually seeping into the
Pain, Satisfied that duodenum. These are the people doctors tried the operation of cut-
they wer
were right, the
who develop ulcers. And the root ting the vagus nerve-they call it cause of it all is worry,
vagotomy on human patients wlio were otherwise incurable. More than 200 successful operations have. been reported from America, where
This discovery, halled by medicul press of Britain and America, is a triumph of selentine deduction.
It explains many puzzling facts-- why, duodenal ulcers are caused by worry, why they recur. and
why- dieting touches only the fringe of
the cause.
False messages
stomach is connected by a nerve called the vagus with the brain. Through this nerve 1 receives brain messages which con- trol its muscle movements,
the method was first devised by Dr
L. R. Drogstedt.
Now surgeons 1. M. Orr and HK. D. Johnson, of the British Postgraduate Medical School, have reported on 50 cases in the Lancet,
Thirty-four are described as com- pletely free of symptoms and doing,
The lining of the stomach con tning thousands of tiny glands, When these are stimulated by the arrival of food for digestion, they 1. through worry, the part of the set free large quantities- of neid, brain doing this work is upset, the needed to
to make the digestive fer- control mechanism goes wrong. It full work an a full diet, Elevan ments work efficiently.
begins to send out continuous "good" pallents find they still have stomach wall is specially messages through the vagus nerve to avold certain foods but are other- protected against corrosive ac- which make the stomach lining wise normal. Only in five cases did tion of the reld. But the lining of secrete aeld additional to the acid the treatment fall. the duodenum-that part of the produced by the arrival of food.
canal after the stomach-ls not,
The
The operation is much safer than previous surgical treatment for the duodenal ulcers, And, as far as more can be, Judged from patients wha had the operation four years ago, the cure is permanent.
food
Stomach acid would gradually. The excess.. acld scolds burn a hole in the duodenum, but duodenum. The pain causes this does not happen normally be worry and so a vicious circle is set cause the acid is weakened by action up which results in a serious ulcer.
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