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THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT WILSON!") want to buy a pair of scissors like
that to make a little cuf.“
SHOPKEEPER: "Certainly sir. Will send it or
will you take it in your neck?"
Uy arrangement with Exentug Standard
Sitting on the
TELL," said The
Sweep, "I sup-
"WE Fence....by
pose you'll be
tukin your olidays soon?"
"Quita likely," I said.
"And very nice too."
"Very nice."
"I suppose you'll be go- ing abroad like the rest
of
the eads?"
"No," I said. "Well, I am surprised,"
The anid
Sweep. ་༔
France to give your old
treat. stomach a
thought you'd be orf to
That's
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
"Too true."
"So
you a-grum-
I've always wanted to meet a what are
kallor cat, especially navy types. bling at?"
They must be so interesting "I ain't a-grumbling."
and refreshing after all the dull "The skin or your nose." sald eats you meet who
never no The Sweep.
anywhere but on the came old tiles and up and down the came old alley,
"The skin orf journ."
Letter to a hero
"My husband
masters
arc
summoned
THE
CHAPMAN
Announcing an
important new
PINCHER TV development.
COLUMN
You Just Plug In An Extra Screen
Ningonious device which enables an extra screon to be plugged in to any television set, giving » fully portable extension, has been invented by a 41-year-old radio engineer experimenting in a garden workshop near London,
Both screens can be on at the same time without causing any loss in brightness or clarity of the pictures. Tests show that reception by the extension screen is usually better than by the parent set, because there Is less spotting of the
electrical inter- picture from ference by passing traffic.
An extra advantage is that
the extension Bercen can bo much bigger than the screen itted in the parent set, and su can give N correspondingly larger picture.
When the device is moss- produced the combined price of nine-inch screen set plus a 15-Inch
screen extension ahould to much less than the present price of a 15-inch screen set alone.
GILBERT,,
of
sas if school- The inventor-ex-radar scien-
JOIN fortist nanuit every time they hit a Corkran-road, Surbiton, Sur- horrid little boy we shall be aroy-worked at night, taking nation of yangsters in 20 years' only four hours sleep cach tine."
night for months, to perfect the system. In this way he has beaten the big research. Inborą- torics.
"If we eat the food at this hotel much longer we shan't live to see H."
fitted with
tanned
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Are You Allergic?
the appropriate steneli, Junior emerges with A leading firm of radio whatever his namo is going to "Margaret's father wrenched manufacturers is to market the be legibly
on to his the cattle horns from a wall in Invention in a form which can back.
make of s sister's house. He says they be attached to any have been frightening her for television set, I understand. It
cars, so he's
glad to find als planned to make it the kigh- light of Radiolymple next proper use for them."
THE MORE that In ★ month.
learned about the "I can never understand why people have holidays. If the
Meanwhile, Gilbert is work- so-called "allergy" complaints-- I think of you as young, gay, weather's cold you feel you've ing on device which will boy-fover, catarrh netite-rash, and, of course, gallant, and wasted your, money. If it's hot allow
be migraine and asthma-the more 10 one parent sel, lt scems certain they are all Lottie the cat to Simon, of you.
thoroughly ill."
so that TV can be relayed to caused by one mischief-moking hero cat of HM.S. Amethyst, When you get leave in Eng- wounded by shell splinters and land do pop in and see us. My "One look at
rooms in hotels, hospitals, and chemical called histamine. the pier, the blocks of flats.
Clic gardens,
rock
Small quantities of this liquid awarded the Dickin Medal for people are awfully reasonable, winter catching rais under fire:
about callers and the butcher's gardens, and the plain, whole-
are continually set free during the
body's Dear Simon.
working at the awfully generous about lights, some girl who is always Miss
nou- Don't forget now.
Something or other, and I want
tissues, normally being to go home,"
tralised before they reach harm- fut strength.
many screens
what all. them there brain OLLOWING is a letter, from would love to have a photograph you feel iritable, stupid, and operated from
workers are a-doing of." "Too true they are." "That is if you call politi- cians brain workers.”
"Why not?"
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*
"Personally meself," said
hope you won't think It too terrible of me to write to a perfcet stranger but I was so trilled by your exploit that 1 felt must,
of
course, we don't have rats
The Sweep, "I never thought in our house, so I have never politicians ad any brains."
"Go on," I said.
seen one and feel sure I would be terrified it did.
Your sincere admirer,
Lottle Gubbins
Palm Court conversation
Women Lucky
MOST WOMEN сан
comfortably weather the
much "They say a change will do winter
more lightly you good, but so far as most of clothed than men because the But in some unfortunate folk. of us are concerned holiday is insulating layer of fat under like me, over-production no more than Д change of the female skin is generally histamine or some delay in fis cocktail bars."
thicker.
destruction produces unpleasant effects in the membranes of the "Margaret's father wants to
It should naturally follow. nose. MARGARET'S father's spend-
English Viking ship, from this that men are better Ing his holidays following build an
Tow to Russia on a good will able to withstand high tem- Doctors claim Vikings
that certain the Danish
about
But leats, curried drugs known
oppose the 'Skaal' and drinking voyage, and drink vodka out of peratures.
Flot Climate netion of histamino will relieve out at Nigeria's out of the horns of
Laboratory, show that while Mr the distressing symptomna London Express Service}
begins to Average, unclothed,
allergy complaints in como feel uncomfortable when the people. temperature is held above 89 degrees, his wife rarely com- plains wall it touches D1.
The cats I know often boast "Cor strike a light," said about the rats they have The Sweep. "What's the caught Some of the older ones sense in being a politi- talk of practically nothing else, shouting
the rats getting bigger every Scotch cinn?"
time they tell the story.
caltic."
"Search me,” I said.
"It don't matter what they do they're always wrong" "They certainly are."
"In foreign paris they git theirselves strung up or shot up,"
"That's right."
"And as for chewin the fat all night when sensible people are asleep in their beds, that ain't my idea of a "Türk,"
"Nor ming."
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**
"So I don't see
brains come in."
"Nor me."
"All the
Sweep, "I
where the
same," said The support you've got to ave somebody.in Parliament.”
"I suppose you ave," "Otherwise there would't be
nobody to tell you what to do and what forms to fill up."
· "That't right"
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camovars."
But although we live by the C. V. R. Thompson Reports:
sea. I don't know one who has ever been inside a boat, so you can imagine I was pop-eyed when I heard about you in that warship, wounded and carrying on as if nothing had happened.
Are you wearing a bandage round your head? I would like to think of you wearing a band- age, as I think they're so be- coming.
Before going 071y further perhaps I ought to tell you something about myself.
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The American Scene
Reason for this anatomical paradox: the body's thermo- static control over its own heat production is more effefent in the-female, and co-reacts more rapidly to outside changes.
'Alert' Warning
NEW YORK. CITY: With the appointment spid Governor COCIALISM,
of ex-Secretary of State Tom Dewey, top-ranking George Marshall to its board, Airways bas Republican, is something to be Pan-American
Its rule under resisted by, free men, acting deelded to drop
directors are fined £2 gloriously in their freedom to which work together in their mutual 103 for being five minutes Inte gadget for the
Directors
at
meetings. 225 a session.
Ect
interest,"
ΥΠΟΥ BUSINESS: James
Stewart has been put on a HOME: The words of prayers vitamins diet to fatten him up before meals are printed I am a tabby 21⁄2 years old,
for his part in
"Adam and the latest dinner table mats vay, for the benefit of embarrassed with white chest
A new give-away and paws, Evc. large eyes, and have
heard radio programme to cad all give guests asked by the hostess to
a £1,000 ermine coat among prizes..
"And nobody to tell you to myself described by passing away programmes will include Bay grace.
work order and spend less."
"No."
cats as a smasher.
My American "To say nothink of avin no-
boy friend, body to tell
Mouser you to save the Manhattan
has des- money you ain't got."
"That's right.".
*
cribed my gure as a "swell chassis," and calls me his "Sugar Puss.”
*
to
of
One nightly tablet of phener- gan, the nowest of these drugs, which must be taken under medical supervision has certainly freed me of all symptoms of inst the weeks. longstanding catarrh during the
I doubt whether it will give me a cure. On the one experi mental day when I risked not taking a tablet, the symptoms quickly returned and doctors
US SCIENTISTS have advise against taking it per- cooked up yet another. manently.”
already over- to bomber-pilot
But I am grateful to phoner- mechanized adjust. This one makes a run gan's French discoverers for a ning record of the pilot's brain- drug that can be relied on to
mo flies at high free
from èmbarrassing waves when he altitudes. Object is to warn symptoms on days when I have him when his brain is getting specially insufficient oxygen to keep him ments. thoroughly alert.
Important appoint-
Open Question
UD
CAN THE FOX cross- *
breed
with the dog? on the Naturalist W. KAY ROBINSON
qucation—to which
attested cases where it has happened the question is still ерсть
an emply stomach. When you're rather old for me, though full If they sold it again at once. tiffelto." started
A metal strip fastened round
forchend picks
the Paul Douglas. Holly- COMPETITION mon his
con- electric charges elgarette companies is such minule wood's new middle-aged star, that one la giving away free tinually
generated Is so much in demand that he samples worth 10d, a packet.... brain's surface. Wires transmit falses this can ask £40,000 a picture, Say U.S. dentists of Stato medi- them to a needle, which traces scores of countrymen answer which in Hollywood these days cine "It would tend to shift them out as waves when the Yes-in his interesting Britain's is a rare salary.
Shake emphasis from preventive proce- brain runs short of oxygen the Beasts of Prey (Latimer House He says I am the only she-
speare societies aro begging dures to a mas repair pro-shape of these waves immediato- 78. 6.). I agree with him that, eat he knows who sways, her Hollywood to give up its Idea gramme." Warren Austin,
is off a warning buzzer. "So don't you simt grudgin hips when she walks, and that of doing "Macbeth" as a modem chief U.S. delegate to UNO, or changes, and the needle sets though there are no scientifically
I could knock all the cats on them a oliday abroad in a full Broadway for a row of sardine
gangster film.
out of favour in Washington for
enthusiasm showing too much
The scientists-who work in bolly,"
fins
the TAINANCE: 'À New York firm for Israel, ogojnst Instructions,
U.S. "I ain't prudging them."
aviation medicine Although we are friends, ho in doing well-selling 100-oz. "You can't make speeches on
laboratory-claim that without Some scientists say the cross not my steady, as he is tins of gold-dust at £988 a tin. TIME-SAVING ban 011 the thele gadget pilots may stump is impossible because the fox's
into unconsciousness, by
through gentation periods. Limo t of life and always ready to "go the buyers would lose money, the New York Telephone Com- the insidious onset of oxygen carries its young---is 12 days places."
the But they are buying it in largo pany six months ago, hos not lack, at the super-altitudes for shorter than
dog's,
The "And as you and me
But
If on
which 'cat has an older
quantities because they do not been a complete success, but the which bomber planes are now wolf,
readily
Crosses nrdly be called brain workers 1 Polse
knows his. way trust the paper dollar, and gold company sold it will campaign being designed.
with the dog, carries its young for the sama time-an average ave to rub around, and is inclined to spoil in dust form is the only gold for the next six months to per.
a girl, I always think of him
the Government will permit sunde phone users to announco
of 03 days-they point out sugar daddy mther than
But what about the horse them to hold.
TO MAKE" sure that and the donkey, which are re- A MOTORING:TM
mothers go home with cularly crossed
provide turer, is working on a por." Denis thinks it is simifcant the right babies, U.S. maternity mules? Average gestatioru period table refrigerator to keep food that in American bulchers' shops hospitals are "branding" each for the horse is 340 days: for cold and tasty in the car... It today tongua costs more than new-born Intant. After a quick the donkey it is 370. works on the car's "battery, brains.
workin as ard as that you need a
bit of grub to keep you goin."
"You certainly do."
suppose we shall
alang as we are."
"I suppose 40,"
could
as a
even and
aa boy friend, and one always a has to consider the future when they get quite old and you are - still attractive,
"You can always ave nice kipper for your tea and pint in the ovenin. "You can' an all." "Or a day trip to Margit with whelks on the pler"
NANCY
I expect you'll think I'm awkul telling you all this, but
Smashic Mashio
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