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Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:
Sitting on the Fence
Being what happened to Hour Uncle Nat when his life partner, the Phickn Little Woman, went herba- for-health crazy.
T
Je
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by NATHANIEL
GUBBINS
THE herb seeds
were planted in July, and now they're all over the tiny garden behind The Sca Nest sage and thyme and rosemary, fennel, sweet bagil cle is going to be fed on tomatoes and dill, chicory, parsley and till he screams at the sight of one. purslane; sorel, angelica, mint.
Herbal 'Salmon, in his English
reads the P.L.W.. "do5- (1710)," The booklets have arrived, cribes tomatoes under the then too: "Wild Vegetables and popular name of
Apple Salade and Their Vitamin ("Too sweet, murmurs the P.LW. Values," "Herbs and Vegetables under her breath). in The Orchard and The Wild." "Fungi as Food and in Medi- cine," "Our Native Fruits. Edible Berries and Nuts"
Yes, and nuts.
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'Love
"What things?"
"Things out of the garden" "Do you mean sluga?"-
"No. Herbs Fennel, sorel, sweet hasil, rosemary, yellow goat's beard, tanry, scurvy grass, sneezewort, and old man's cars."
"The medical yirtues of the plant which he describes are many. The Sulce cures Inflammations and is
Headache, good against
Megrim, Gout, Sclauen and all pains what soever proceeding from a hot, dry
"Three have come cause. Also
cool good to quench the Heat and Thirst of hot morning." Stomachs."
"Old man's care?”
"Yes, and tona and tons of to matoes, skins and all Would you like another pink gint”
As this sounds at
or
Your. Uncle has had some of this before.. The Plucky Little Woman's
bit personat, enthusiasms are like tropical storms. your Uncle takes his stomach into They don't last long. but while the diningroom to comfort it with they last everything bows before another pink gi them.
Before the day's out your Uncle will be stuffed with sage and onions like a Christmas goose. He will be drinking nettle beer and mugwort ale and hawthorn tea.
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10
downs
this
"Well, here comes another. will give you courage.”
Thanks."
"Listen, Tum. I have a plan." "Yes."
DESPITE THE SHADOW
PARIS IS AS GAY AS EVER
By Sam White
PARIS.
HE politicat barometer in France is slaking fast. Alrendy the first few omifous drops have fallen, but outwardly Paris is as gay as, and more prod perous than, at any time since the liberation.
A record number of American tourists crowd the elty, scattering dollars on the dollar-parched soll. Cabarets
ets and theatres are packel nightly.
Food has nover been more abundant, and the shops have ́n pre- war glitter,
But
An
Politically there seems to be a refreshing abscffco of fanaticism. Paris and the whole country have taken the recent series of Cabinet clashes with bored in- differentmondy a new menacing atmosphero
спост Ing over the country. As financial panle grows, street clashes between police and strikers increase in bitter- ness and the rival Communist and De Gaullist propa- #onda grows daily in volume and stridence. dificult to bo an alarmist about to pleasant and rich a land as France, yet it is even more dimeult to see. how ruinous inflation, with all its disastrous social and political consequences, can now be avoided.
THE
VINEVITABLE "STEP
It is
HE new Government-how many, there have been since the liberation is now a subject for debate among statisticians have begun in the usual fashion. After, declaring their firm intention of reducing pripes their Arst act has been to increase them,
them.
The next step is equally inevitable-they will Increase wages, though pledged to a polley of "freezing" do not Succeeding Governments solve the problem of an indationary with spiral, on which prices rise gathering momentum, while wages continually lag behind.
"And after this herb and tomato lunch I'll send down a plateful of egg. bacon, and fried potatoes."
"Oli, good."
'To. TUM
To help Tum through the ordeal of the herb soup and salads, his Uncle crooned him a lililo song→ Here come rue and rosemary, Here come dill-and dam Here comes sage without the goose,
int without the lamb.
Itere's a quart of nettle, beer
(You're not on the rail), Mugwart ale and hawthom tea,
A cocktail made of„basti. Here's a draught of butercress,
Anything you fansy, Sandwiches of sparrow graze,
Tarragon and tansy.
Here comes parsley minus sauce,
Onions minus mutton, Tomatoes served without the chops,
Hiya, Mttle glutton.
Second lunch ·
The villains in the piece are easily the discernible the 10 percent of population who, demoralised by war, have drifted away from productive employment into sply and near-oply occupations.
The chief danger is not so much the chaos that gathering inflation will create as the prospect that when the crash comes Parliament will be too paralysed even to walk to the guillotine-that it will have to be pushed.
exists Already a likely majority for the overthrow of the Queuille Government. The Socialists, who are partners in the coalition, are in- creasingly restless at being members of a Government who brouse such bitter hostility in the trade unfor
What will happen, then, if and Government. when the Queuille falls? Will Parliament dissolve and order new elections, thereby piling confusion on confusion?
An election fought out in such
would bring circumstances
the country to the brink of civil war.
DE GAULLE WAITS FURTHERMORE, dissolution must constitutionally be followed by the creation of a caretaker govern- ment for the period of the elections in which all the principal parties are represented, including the Com- munists.
and future recovery.
the-
Meanwhile General do Gaulle awalts the swift collapse of Parila- mentary rule and undoubtedly if it comes to a showdown between right and left the right will win, but at a terrifle cost to French posterity
Though the advantages in It YOUR Unclo stole the egg from coming struggle lie with the general the larder and took his Turn the danger is that in the process of first to the local for another couple achieving power and consolidating it. of gins to cheer him up, and then he may bring France to the brink to the cafe, where they cooked the of ruin.
De Gaulle is hated by the workers egg with bacon.
and and many middle-class Republicans "Better thar
public purslane," sald Uncle, as he gulped as a militacist and enemy of the Re- it down
He is also feared by many of the "Better than poslane or puratcy, rich in France, who talk of him as
"If you can be brave and take it all without a fuss, I'll pinch'an egg from-the-larder.-
"Yes,"
the PLW. In the kitchen, still reading about tomatoes. Sho stcom He will be chewing mournfully shouts through the herbal
"And I'll take it round to a cafe at sniada
made
bittercress, that they are good against Sand, where they have some bacon.” sneczowort. oxeye daisy, yellow Gravel and Stone.
of
goat's beard and old man's cars.
Your Uncle shouts back that as
He will be sent to bed with a ho hasn't swallowed the beach yet Scurvy grass savoury or a tansy and he won't need tomatoes for things turnip surprise.
like that
His health will improve, his gout will go for ever, he will live 100 years, though he will not want
to live through another meal.
Still
through the squeaking
that if team, the P.L.W. saya wa both consumed
but nothing tomatoes, herbal soups, tens bees we would live almost over and become a beautiful
hair and pink, couple with allver
ana
for
old
Herb soup
"Yes."
DEWEY
NEW YORK OVERNOR Tom Dewey, Re- publican challenger for the Presidency, is to fight a myck
parsley
tansy,
and
-pasfoot-or-old man's car," said_Tum, a "cretin-surrounded by maniacs."
Better than tinsy or
But the lasue Is being firmly drawn between Communists bottlewort or battercress."
"Better than rattleweed, rotten- anti-Communists, and if events forço berry or even rosemary," sald Tum that fasue, as they seem likely buying. "Oop, sorry that's for do, the victor will inevitably
General de Gaulle, remembrance."
WILL BE FORMAL
-by- Frederick Cook
to
THE U.S. Government are planning UEC 40,000,000 bushels of to this your's potato crop for potato
tho
TT 13 the hour before lunch. The placid faces and wise, gentle eyes,more formal campaign than Mr.
P.L.W. is stlering a devil's brow and respected by everybody. Truman. of fennel and rosemary, purslana and horned ramplon, parsley and
is using Tho President Your. Uncle says he would rather
approach-talking pepperwort, chickweed and sparivo on steaks and Stilton cheese “grassroots" rowgrass, and little sweet ball and and die at his appointed hour batea small communities and groups, on four to send for foreign relief.
their
level. OWII
Dewey plans Lall.
by everybody.
fower speeches, perhaps a dozen in It stinks of stale cabbage and
issue washing day, and Lottic, the
cat.
But the P.LW. has found a herball, each taking some major
her and annlysing one of goulweed''in is looking wildly round for
an called
sure he will win. escape route through D' kitchen little books and is too excited to window. Maybe she thinks
the listen.
better lunch in
AT 2.30, 5.20,
covla
find a sweeter smelling dustbin.
Your Uncle
has
Jowned
Dialling TUM
7.20 & 9.20 p.mdouble pink gin in the dining-room, HULLO, is that my stomach?"
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As sho stirs, the
P.L.W. is reading from one of he booklets.
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for
that tomatoes are good gout. Although it is nito to is good for know that something
it, this means that your poor Un-
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un-
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