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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1947.
DAB
AND FLOUNDER
by Walter
DAB & CO
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Jests And
Jeers
Nanking has okayed resumption of horas racing in Shanghai, To keep. them from going to the dogs?
Girls are attracted to some men
like magnates.
i.
The main Iden in public speaking Is to drive home the point, not the audience.
If you long for a life
of adventure..
BERNARD WICKSTEED shows
you the way
ANY of the people who re- But bomb stories are a bore, gret the lack of advon- When I survived no one was
details be ture do so because they interested in the haven't discovered the Mif- cause they'd all been through ference between the kind of the same kind of thing adventure that interests an au- selves. dience and the kind no wants to hear about.
one
If you meet a man in a pab who has been adrift for three
them-
All the same, each escape was
just as bloodcurdling to me per- sonally as the time I found my
mosquitoes into our hair, and we hardly dared move for fear the park keepers would find us and turn us
out.
"Well, there's one thing about all this," gaid Fal. "We'll have ກ grand story to tell them when we get home."
turned
The whole episode was from hardship to adventure by this
one remark. We went about our
day with rebuffs we met mich improved the story.
hearts. The
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Looking back, I can see that t live
days in a rudderless yacht or self swimming in the same job-hunting next Just stopped a runaway horse, piece of the Pacific as a shark, or the terrifying moment when you buy him a drink and urge
a drunken Dane came at mc him to tell his story. But you'd edge away to the end of the bar if someone up to you and snid: "By I'm having an exciting time. I'm a human being alive."
And
other came golly,
I'm
off
with an axe in the Queensland
I fought him bush, and with a two-handed saw.
Bn
was an adventure in itself to secretly in a bamboo thicket in the middle of Sydney, but we were in- experienced and needed the pros pect of
audience to mako us You appreciate that it's an ad- realise it.
The real experts In venture to be chased by a shark
miventure have long passed this stage. To or attacked by a man with an axe, because people will listen the events of life are exciting at the time they happen, regardless to you when you talk about it. of whether anyone will want But just open your mouth about hear about them later. your narrow escapes in the Blitz and your best friends look at Their watches and get up to
Yet when you come to think about it, what could be a greater adventure than belong ing to the human race? The earth we live on a no more than a particle of dust in the universe. If the sun was much nearer we would shrivel up, and if it was much further away He couldn't tell we'd be frozen to death in A layer of perpetual ice.
Every day we are bombarded by 20,000,000 meteors that burn themselves up in the at- mosphere protecting us. Every second the ground under our foot cracks and shakes as the crust on which we scratch our living shapes itself round shrinking core.
In these precarious surround ings the human race is preyed on by microbes and pestilence, harassed by tempests and tor tured by doubts of the mind. Yet somehow, we survive.
Ko.
SIDNEY SMITH, who is now
was
an
On the glacier
to
SEFTON DELMER'S
NEWSMAP
Today from Zurich....where I find the Swiss 'Bottle Party Holiday' idea will be squashed
found
·Said the debtor as he handed over the money: "Well, I'm square-now, but I'll be round again."
Aslped by his hostess to tell her about relativity "In a fow simple words," Einstein sald: "Madam, I was once walking in the country on a hot day with a blind friend and saki I could do with a drink of milk. "Milk?' said my friend. 'Drink I know; but what is enille?”
meeting of British and Swiss Treasury experts they will be told that British currency regu-man, but what is white?' lations forbid compensatory ar- rangements of this kind.
there.'
An exception may be made in favour of school children-awan?' educational reasons-but
for
"A white liquid,' -I replied. "Liquid I know,' said the blind
Oh, the colour of a swan's fea-
What is a "Feathers I know.
"Swan? A bird with a crooked neck."
Neck I know-but what is this crooked?'
"Thereupon I lost patience.
zorlund may cut down on im- Thni's straight,' I said. Then I bent ports from Britain, the Swiss and it at the elbow. And that's crook- British exports I discussed this with nel, did not think it likely. Switzer-
When he heard of this that is all. FLEW to find out what was happening about British Florian yodelled for joy. holidays in Switzerland. "We will
the Anglo- to know (n) Swiss Travel Fellowship," he I wanted whether it was true (as had whooped at his admiring asso- been said) that a new scheme clates. was being worked out under
invite Swiss to Britain. There
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which British tourists would "The fellowship will arrange land, they said, would do its best to once again be able to visit Swit- for Swiss to invite Britons to zerland; (b) whether it was a Switzerland and for Britong to fact that the Swiss intended to I stop importing British motor- cars and other goods if we did not let our tourists visit their to her hotels
was
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ONE of the greatest experts
know is an old woman who lives
is no need for the Briton to see SIDE GLANCES at Golders Green, N.W.. 11. She's
his Swiss guest if he does not crippled by arthritis, but
want to. He does not even everything is an adventure
have to be in the country at the When walking became painta? |
time. All he must do is to pay she fool tip skating, which covering the news in India, smooth and painless. Then she said FOUND that 'dynamic en-
the hotel bill of his Swiss guest has a good story on these lines. to herself "If I can skate. why
other expenses ns ho
shouldn't I aki" So at the age of thusiast Florian Niederer and such
And the During the war
getting-on-for-70 she went to Swit-and his fellow experts from the have been agreed. R.A.F. pilot and crash-landed a ret
Swiss Tourist Federation in Swiss does exactly the same for Blenheim in one of the main zerland to ski.
One day she made a trip by train Zurich had prepared a
his British guest in Switzer- scheme up to the Jungfraujoch, which is the
land. streets of a Dutch town.
The Anglo-Swiss Travel all right. on
Fellowship will undertake the It was probably the greatest highest station in Europe, and #1
There was o the edge of a glacier. adventure of his life, but for blizzard when she got there, and the
Bat the experts of the arrangement of the details and the next three years he hardly other tourists spent the afternoon Swiss Federal Government in see that all is above-board. No mentioned it because anyone in round a stove grumbling because Berne thought Mr Dalton un- transfer of money will be in- the Oflag who started by say-
likely to accept it. And when I volved. Mr Dalton should be ing: "When I was shot down
got back to London A few.delighted." was immediately sat
to words with the Treasury showed upon as a bore. For they'd all
me they were right.
Isn't that an adventure? If you told this story in some celestial pub where they didn't know about such things you'd be the hero of the evening.
Bomb Stones
to
be
I was an adventure
bombed by the Germans. Not
a pleasant one at the time, per- haps, but nor are many adventures.
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they came to be there.
the snow hid the
the view,
Not so the old Woman. Sho stumped round on her stick tim he found at guide. She asked him take her out in the glacier.
"But madam," gold the
outside."
man,
Florian Niederer's scheme is
been shot down. That's how there's a "That's why ingenious. It amounts to what travel is. "a luxury"; one
"1 know,
But, alas, Mr Dalton is not 'delighted. Nothing will budge! him from the iden that foreign we So they waited around, year I want to go. I've never been on
We cannot I might call a Bottle Party Sys- cannot afford. after year, hundreds and hun- a glacier in a blizzard."
Marvelling that anyone could be tem of holiday travel. Just as afford, it seems, even to travel dreds of them, each nursing the
mad, but excusing her because the bottle party gets around to countries, like France, which story of a great adventure, and she was English, he fled one end of the licensing laws with an invi- owe us millions of pounds on
round hier middle anch
a rone
no one to tell it to.
When I was a youth working my another round his
sallied
out.
to
way round the world I fell in with an Irish boy, and together we walk- ed the sweltering streets of Sydney, Australia, looking for a job, But other nobody had time for a couple
Tummies
that day. Nobody had
He got the idea from a state- before, had time for its the day Every time I threw myself her, or for many days before the'd been out in a blizzard, roped ment by the British Treasury down in the gutter and listen that.
to an Alpine guide, and to her that that there would be no objection
great an adventure as We'd built ourselves a little hide- seemed na ed to the whine of the falling
Admiral to Britons going abroad at the bomb I thought to myself: out inside a bamboo thicket in the going to the Pole docs to
invitation of their foreign Ave Byrd. "This may be my last minute Botanical Gardens, and when
crawled into it that night we were I wouldn't have heard the story friends provided that no money on earth. Pity I shan't live to hot and depressed, and tired. The myself but the woman happens to
left the country as a result. describe it."
ants got into our clothes and the be my mother.
to drink, so Niederer our trade with them, and do not Together tation own. they the way back in the train the difficulties
going how they are proposes to overcome currency know
and the ban on to pay all of it if we don't let tourists were too busy other
totourist travel with an invitation them have any tourists. rumbling about the weather
to visit. notice the tired little woman.
And we equally cannot afford But she didn't mind the absence
under travel
Florian minutes of an audience. For ten
Niederer's Bottle Party Plan, even though this avoids our Swiss having to pay out any
that understand francs. when the Swiss put forward Niederer's scheme at the next
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