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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1950.
NEW BOOKS It always rains for Monsieur
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
P
1 reply crushra her: "It is abe who wants me to be good to you."
farianism,
A KISS FOR THE LEPER; title boy again; he is worry for Europe
Genctrix. By Francois his old mother." Mauriac. Eyre and Spot- tiswoode. 9. 207 pages.
Maurine, the TITI
weather is always the nuitable. While plot of his story is develop ing furtively, there is op
the pressive heat all over Bordeaux wine country, his unvarying scene: thunder muttere along the horizon.
Will the storm never come and M. until bring! rellet? Not Maurlac is ready. Not until the passion of his characters have exploded in violner. That the time to bring waterproof.
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your
the
In Genetrix, the Letter of these two brief powerful nov B
off until the
aiza holds Inament when Fergund deads that dearly blow to his mother. Felicite. Then, at inst. “A calar- net of water fell from the ky upon the heat-strewn path. In the darkness, à cap- a glowing per pan shone like human face."
Rarden
necks the maternal
fr
whu
rejeet
totali-
Oasis,
on thin project Uwpin fails with an enthusiasm that lasts until the colony is shaken by a real threat to its security-from a neighbouring family that picks Utopia's But, like the wife, the mother
wild own private has her revenge after leath strawberries) Fernand hus bren ton lasts: a on maher. Ite
Mary McCarthy enjoys hin- to live without
love
lunatle he rious hunting on the old parant frims of the Left. Her satire. craves from woman, an iterate serf who originally named The works in his kitchen in the should not have been re-titled.
i pitiful and pre- ent, he postermis.
There is a majestic single- Mourne's 4th mindedamas purit of this theme. There is lequence in the writing But hist of detect a do we not
3r that relentless PAUL GRECSON sells fre- hyjuris y
places and Is disgusted clarity of his
which with a society deteriorating ethically. wife, Grace Keeps a little cafe. 1.evity secretary
A SOURCE OF EMBAR- RASSMENT. By Mary McCarthy Heinemann. 78. 6d. 193 pages.
THE JUNGLE OF YOUR Frank HEART. By Tilley, Eyre and Spottis woode. 105, 6d. 320 pages, Į
is
not so disgusted, There a ire the head
office of Paul's firm, also a pious: hypocrite named targreaves,
Craft Lives On
Working at a craft sald to be handed down from the days of the coracle-making sucient Britans, Herbert Wilson, of Ulverston, Lancashire, weaves oak spale basket for the potato harvest. Mr Wilson is one of the few
workers in the dying English craft,
remaining
Time To Take Stock Of Our Measurements?
(By Our London Correspondent)
LONDON.
other
Д
the meltle system, already in problem as seen in a French or THE British system of operation over the greater part German text-book, "Find the
number of cuble metres In of the world, but without suc-
room measuring 11.42 metres weights and measures cess, France where it originat- causes endless amuse- uses the metric system, and by 6.42 metres by 4.0 metres."
so do Germany, Russia, Greece,
scores of Americans, and Turkry, and ment to
When applied to industry, the having in cash is startling. Ona great misery to visiting countries.
which nwitched to Continentals. No less con- But we continue to plead all factory,
for uot of excuses our manners fusing to them is
shedding our farthings und monetary system, which ad- forins, our yards, feel
seems that the mittedly seems designed to inches. Now it
small land of Cyprus may give the utmost trouble to take the initiative, and adopt make the system herself. The Govern- all concerned and to
ment there. recently proposed real mental arithmetic a
that
of the metric system hendache.
wrights and measures should be introduced into the colony, thus British experts have urzed bringing to the front the whole
of a to vexed question often enough a switch over
national make trading
Don't make the
UNEXPECTED CHILD
stranger
fine children whose parents have decided to give them every chance in life. The children will Bave a The parents good education.
Will maybewly be surprised to you any friends who hear that the secretary seduces HERE IS A FAMILY. There are HAVE
By all posate Pl
Hargreaves that and at etanka"
this book from envers him out of his Joh! means, keep them. I de eribes, with much What is really astonishing trony or too much wil, how a
that Frank Tilsley, with he at his reletion of anarchists, pucllets, knowledge of the scruffy edges Genetix is Mauriae
ex-fellow travellers, vegetarians et dern Britain, keeps this Lest, writing about mother-love
whos belleve that Trail Hittle theme on the bull for at its worst. Felicite Cnzeturve nad people
wasfare 1 imminent,
more than 200 pages. It is quite crushes her on with Love plomer
four fut agricultural colony 2 ta At 50 Fernand love. man but a middle-aged boy, fat, at named it Utopia.
pinele anul lazy.
Going into the garden to cat a mele, forbidden am by lus mother beratize
of its heating properties, he throws the rind ver the hedge. It hits, full in the face the little governess next duor.
Friction is martfel ata early stages. Between the purista who believe that they are form- ing the microcosm of a new and better world, and the realists who are simply evening from the wrath to come. They have
intention at all ef dinged or improved.
illustraten heldent The Maurine's delight in making his admi people ridiculous tropie.
being
The purists do not wish to to the Joe Lockradzi well as colony on the round that he is
"Don't yo lavishes com- business man. passionate words-on-them--but bebeve in anything?" they ans undignified the realists. In the end, Joe gets involves them
turn out pity is edged in. It cituations. lis with cruelty. He cannot praise blunder.
it
a young woman's healthy p-
without pearance
her skin blemishes, teeth.
mentioning
b.. 1
One day he creeps up behind her bad will Taub
a shot-gun. with
reporting."
the Fernand marries governes next door, and
mother follows between wife. The latter, defeated, after
miscarriage. Felicite's triumph is brief.
J
For the first
now bate: her.
lic:
State Police ays in a loud voice. The Joke Tittle miscarries, for it brings before wat Wil's Immagination all the in- and dignities he might have suffered dies from the Cosneks for 151 adical beliefs. Will is at first
startled and then Indignant.
on
his
The confusion into which this time, her
plangen opia only To begin with, incident ervolly:
when then, panses
Leo Raphel kindness. The mother evolves his plan to tranport to rays fondly: "I have found my the United States a thore in
he treats her with
a frat.
LIBRARY LIST
NICOLAS AND ANTOINETTE. By Freda Lingston Wingate 5 00:2710 Pleasant, sentiments accriest of the life of n frech pesant woman, almost audal dwelling ameen the i High Algi
THE LONG ESCAPE. by Dandi Dodge Michael Brann, 1 G13) 151 page Parker has been, mission: for five years wisert All invigator, Fets the stang for him in Sou Feneric. The work on a cold!
I+A1.
SHADY CLOISTEN. By Wil fen Eran Macmillan, us 212 pages A temilie. ocail varily reusing tangle of Evet and jealousies on the gris school.
WHEN GREIN MEITS CHEEK. By Si Reginald Leeper, Chalte and Wimdus, 121, 60; 244 ges Allmuan menoties af Ty when the Iron Curtam ran throu tive while of the Partnerun,
are prepared to pay for it. NOW Child No. 3 is on the way. The prospect of the best of for the first two everything children la endangered. WHAT are the parents to do? is the child to be kept when it is bort? Or shaft it be adopted?
by
CANON WARNER
to pay.
is to
The sacrifice ensure that the older brother and sister inay enjoy not only t planned home life and their own relatives, but also those nebulous extras that money is supposed in buy.
Let us set our face against this
That radio,
system that
more
eficient
gether,
simpler busincas ulto-
CHANGE NEEDED
melric, estimated that in one year it anved ten times the cost A of new measuring devices.
metrie stiranted that railway would save it £15,000 a year in paper work. No. less beneficial would be the time-saving factor for
smaller concerns, and private traders,
The present antique measure- mats the UK. began when Edward II decided that three Inter- would barleycorns malic an inch, and 01 I spreified the gard And Henry
the distance from the royal nose to the tip of the blue-blooded right thumbi The ancient Chinese had an "uphi" mile. and a "downhill" mille, working on the quite logical assumption dificult to that it was more walk up a hill than down one.
Cyprus, by her exemple, may cause other colonies to think Feriously about abandoning their present
ot herself chance.
methods measurement. She
of u badly
In need
BASIC UNITS
Revolu-
During the French tion, the National Assembly ap- painted a commission af scien- tists to settle on o minimum number of units, and to place decimal all these units on the 31.3 112
decided that System. They the basle unit of measurement 1 Was should be the metre.
partz divided into 100 equal centimetres. I was multiplied
"Bow," ask her tradesmen, "are we to explain to customers overseas the fact that a cantar of olive oil weighs more than cantar of carobs, which, turn, weighs more than a cantar of onluns? Can't we have an equal measurement of weight?" mean that TC- The change-over would Mat car, that that tres would take the place frizerater,
there of pints, quarts, Cyprus tres expensive holiday is
that middle-class gollons, kiles, kauzan, loads and YOU may have read of
family who does such things can the quid oke. between personality and selular. notlying that real-life problem ship, personality wins every
Hive upt Lin the paper recently. mies.
It must have been argued
Y
over
Marriage Adviser to the Church of Englund
not
vit.
very
by
there--which is about arths of our mile. The of onc cubie centimetre water became the basic measure
the 1000 to make
kilo-
three-
weight
of
One
made up
thou
What are a few facts about at weight-one gram.
In brief, it thousand gins the metric system? is the decimal system applied to kilogram-22 lbs. One weights and measures. Every sarul cubic centimetres became thing is in units of tem: there is the litre-comewhat less no niceessity, therefore, to have our quart. fructions.
TIME SAVED
than
It is said that the averago person should be able to adjust Himself to the new system in a matter of low days, since there are only three basic units
A elever brain in a malact- scores of breakfast hated child is no catch for an
How con a chela PERSONAL control of the size ey.lover. tables. What did you decide? help Brewing maladjusted if he
our families is That there should be a pieb nows that his parents got rid of largely possible today. So give lem at all is an indication of a brother so that he might have children their right and plan the
family. how far we have travelled from all the best? Cid
The adopted child might well when a number of
But whatever happens, if the the days brothers and
was re- sisters
find a good home. That is not unexpected child comes along. He will The cognised as the nest environ- the point.
family is a give him every chance, To break de- bringt his own contribution to ment that a growing child couki natural unit.
Ilberately is only wrong, the family, a new object of love, ever have.
It is estimated by educational disastrous of fun and of personality. If you have a fixed income, but psychologically
Who has better right today to authorities that the metele sy will
dispensing with children
naturally for both the adopted child and mean cutting down expenditure the family from which he came, be proud than
the parents of tem, by four, Ave, or six children? What need for fractions, would save comewhere. Private school fees
can be more rewarding for at least a year of time spent by
children learning DOPTED parents can never concerned, even though the
.It can be argued for it that Two typical
examples
under- n child a sewe * give
of price that has to be paid may be w
children's
there would be greater arithmetic Having no high?
"Find these:
the standing and sympathy between are
anations, business transactions
up feet, would be speeded
CUB- room measuring yards, number of cubic yards in
paper work 3 sklerably, much 8 inches by 14 yards 1 foot
furlongs eliminated. and our inches by 6 yards, 5
is the would vanish for ever. How much simpler
ACE WITHOUT PITY. By jutun Prebula, Secker and Waitkus, 10 od; 242 pages, The evil of the taxis lives stier mem in 13. year-old Chard!, who comes to Lunds from the shattered streels of Germany to minty the menace of his stepfather, i Heol Streeter Dick Graham The Friendstops that Groham socks becomes a feud, then a battles
A ho tes
Topical Heme skilfully saved from sentimentality
andested with a sympa[29 |
more
1
will take a ble slice out of the money. Examine that first, Does fee-paying school provide that "something extra" in the way of smaller classes which is suficient to outweigh the influence-for- cord that members of a large family have upon one another? Surely not.
If the choice has to be made
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
A
really belonging uncles, nunts, brothers or sisters that he can call his own mean that he grows up in spiritual isolation.
Yet it is the price such parents are asking their youngest child
? WE'LL HAVE TO GET SOME MORE IODINE AND BANDAGES...AND SOME SPH-. BURN LOTION
BI-CARB, ZINC
OINTMENT AND
WE NEED
NEW HOT
WATER BOTTLES
AND ETC
Don't ever be made to believe that a larger share of someone else's family is a fair exchange for a smaller share in his own family.
-(London Express Service),
ion
arithmetic from book
inches."
in it, the tre for capacity, the Kram for weight and the metro for length.
More Vacation Notes
BU
KEMP STARRETT,
"IT'S JUST LIKE THAT PLACE IN
THE MOUNTAINS LAST YEAR, REMEMBER HOW LET'S
GET DRESSED AND GO OUT FOR A DECENT
MEAL
.
IF TOURING IS YOUR DISK FILL THE CAR, WITH EVERYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF, PARK IT IN YOUR DRME, SIT IN IT ALL DAY AND ARGUE ABOUT THE BEST ROUTE, ETC. YOU'LL SAVE MONEY AND HEVER KNOW YOU HAVEN'T BEEN AWAY.
COLD WAR
CONGRESS
7. for
WAR
STRIKES
WRECK
CHINA
PRICES
UP
IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY YOUR VICATION LEAVE THAT RADIO AT HOME -
"YOU'RE COMING WITH AL
SO I CAN KEEP
AN EYE ON
YOU."
NO TIME OFF
FOR GOOD
BEHAVIOR?
BY THE TIME YOU FINISH PACKING- YOU'LL NEED A
VACATION.
COPR. 1150 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. TILWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
Notice
SPRAY AM
In our
KUP B
Be Ch
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MOTÁVAL.
LEDS.
Auch a
POXICAT
ONICE
WHEN THE IDEA OF
SEPARATE VACATIONS
тичка.
IS FIRST BROACRED..
WATCH OUT?
IF YOU'D RATHER STAY HOME THIS SUMMER SERVE
A REGULAR SUMMER-BOARDING-HOUSE MEAL: LET -
IN PLENTY OF FLIES, SET OUT SOME CANNED CORU,
A SCRAMBLED EGG AND HOT WATER SLIGHTLY TINGED WITH COFFEE: IT'LL SEEM JUST LIKE A VACATION FOR A FEW MINUTES WHICH SHOULD BE LONG ENOUGH,
LOCK THE BATH- ROOM DOOR AND AIDE THE KEY- YOU'LL GET THE SAME EFFECT AS IF YOU VERE PAYING $40.A VEEK FOR
A ROOK -- WITH USE OF BATH.
SOME WIVES
LEAVE A
LIST AS LONG
AS YOUR LEG OF THINGS YOU'D BETTER HOT FOR- GET TO DO
VILE SIE'S AWAY GNING YOU A
REST.
THE HORRIBLE MOMENT WIEN YOU DISCOVER THE FOOD AND SERVICE "AUIT AS ADVERTISED (AND
·YOU'VE PAID TWO WEEKS IN ADVANICE ->