1946
* CONGRATS, METE,ON - OUR JOINT VACIDAY,
"DA, BUT, HOW,DO 1 KHOW
YOU'RE NOT A WARMONGER ··
YOURSELF?"
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950.
1947 - "wo. ME
1948 "o-Bur
„DA:DA! & BLOODTHIRSTY
WARMONGER!"
"ITS NOT
1949
"A BLOODTHIRSTY IMPERIALIST FASCIST.
WARMONGER!"
KOREA:
“A BLOODTHIRSTY
IMPERIALIST
——— WARMONGER!"
1950 WHAT DID I SAY IN 1946 ?
LOOK AT YOU! A BLOODTHIRSTY IMPERIALIST FASCIST WARMONGER;"; OUT TO DESTROY PEACE-LOVING PEOPLES LIKE ME!"
HISTORY OF THE PAST FIVE YEARS
"WHOSE IDEA WAS THIS P"
World Copyright, Dy arrangement with papa serale.
THE LAND OF UPSIDE DOWN
AODO
Four hatted gentlemen of Korea-looking like a cartoonist's impression of an English cricket umple.
Where Yes
-From Mra. Mary Linley Taylor's sketchbook.
meamS
and eggs are sold by the yard
by MARY
HEN I arrived in Korea as a 19-year- old bride at the end of World War 1.. I felt like Alice Through the Looking Glass. For Korea, julged by Western standards, i topsy-turvy country where mist things are done in re-
verse.
LINLEY TAYLOR
nut
not The fees that it according
vary
the
In this oh country it in
to the It's fined of place
Mattheulties of the not the Women, match. The uglier the men,
bricio he tolo a prule and glory a
mere her will have to pay the emituet woman for takinst her of his hands.
huts.
חנן
To protect - Katra creas tions from the rain the dress
Korean carr wooscious unbrella-fiks waterproof shield and a hat-box which, in the Tepsy-turvy trudhion, opens at the button mstead of the top,
Amoor poorer folk the marke in settledl by the sans of a family contract, and the The Koy Reutioman is so ceremony consists
to bede eating from
White is The colour of mourning. Every man keeps his hat on in the house. And end of hat: that he wears fout merely of the etiquette demands that the at a time, adding two feet
his height, and "Inokion very the same bowl an man precedes the weman.
፡፡ beach nach lite cartoonisti.
the bridegroom. Korean boatmen
is an old cus their craft stern first, car- passion of an English cricket
tum for the huts- .nl to have AR penters cut wood by draw. Doplre. ing their saws towards the body.
An
sur umusing but prisingly useful shopping custom is the sale of eggs, not by the dozen, but by the yard. Breakages are mini- mised by an ingenious tech- nique of plaiting eggs securely into straw.
I
rope A
Misunderstanding
::-
These people make the finest mang concubines as he faper in the world. They afford. But, due to Western in- it for most purposes, including Huence. this custom is on the Poors, translucent
and decline. windows--but never for money.
Jour
Like a volcano
No
Mrs. Mary Linley taylor
them
combat.
0
WHATS
GOING0
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
NE who has seen the new
Princess anys that she is. very pretty, has blue eyes, and what hair she has is light and downy.
She is a happy baby,and rare- ly cries. Her was the ensicst birth n mother could desire. From first to Inst it took a few minutes under four hours.
Up to the last day Princess Elizabeth lived her normal life, taking care only to avoid making sudden efforts such as running upstairs,
Very little anæsthetic Was used. Princess Elizabeth Was merely made drowsy.
MR'S GEORGE
BUTULAY "Crowfie"
#aol in Singapure
Dutch freebooter whe
The baby lives in a nur While In sery near her mother. All thin visitora,
including The waged a private war against the Indonesians sent a message to Queen, had to wear masks. General MacArthur. He offered "30,000 jungle fighters" to fight in Korea.
Princess Elizabeth feeds the child herself at four- hourly Intervals, but some- times the baby has slept through the night.
Clarence House buzzes with suggestions for names, from Bundleen onward. The King; of course, has to ap- prove the names, but he will sanction whatever names hi daughter chooses, for, her friends may, "he worships her."
The governess
THE CHOICE of governess for her chil- dren is not likely to concern Princess Elizabeth yet.
She was seven before 3liss Marion Crawford (Mrs George Buthlay). widely known as "Crawlie." came to care for her and her sister.
But it is certain that when the appointment is made it will be in the democratic mond set by the King and Queen.
Custom of the past bad demanded that nobility should have the care of royalty. When the daughter Fi Hanoverian pastor, Louise Lehzen,
ap- pointed governess to
of
Was
Monty jun,
SHELL-MEX have recruited young engineering praduate: David Bernard Mont- somery, heir to the Viscountey of Alamein.
He was 22 on Friday, is on a And mountaineering holiday.
starts work in the autumn.
ile had no ambition to make the Army carcer and was salished with his national rervice.
He is a mixture of opposites. lis lair for organisation is obviously inherited, but he is no ascetic. Friends describe him as "completely human."
Singing star
THE BEAUTY of voice and feature 111 such operatic stars 15 Kirsten Flagstad, Ljuba Welitsch and Elizabelli Schwarzkopf has been challeng- ed at the Salzburg Festival.
An unknown, Lina della Casa,
Strauss's in Richard ringing
masterpiece, "Capriccio," brought the audience to a feet.
A woman of exceptional beauty and charm, she certainly took the minds of her audience off that nearby Iron Curtain.
Dressing-down
IN ANY
consideration of
the formation of a European
Princess Victoria, George the opinion of Claude Teller de IV. made her a baroness,
She wielded strong in- fluence; aroused strong opposition.
2
y with German contingents
Bolslambert will be heard with respect.
Is He
44, Norman of Governor of the French zone, short, quick, with an explosive temper behind a nut-brown face. Once when his hunting-lodge flew the Tricolour upside down, he called out the Germans
Today the posts of private secretary and governess are the most powerful appoint-sponsible (who topped him by ments the King can make a foot), and reduced them to without political guidance shivering submission by blister
ing invective. from his Ministers.
"Crawfie" did much to monki the characters of the
ong Princesses.
Would such a man be in favour of a German Army? I understand he would.
Trumpets
FROM LE TOUQUET
has not yet reopened.
The
1
Homage,
can skilful in war. Their training
hunters of wild animals is Living today in one of Grace and Favour Ruerilia the admirably for
houses round Kensington hear that British visitors Te Korean wives, having sccept-
Palace, she is often visited increasing, but the best of the ed other Western democratic By nature they are hos- by members of the Royal prewar hotels, the lias, recently handed together pitable, huniorous, and indusFamily, and marched on
Royal Plcardy, badly The Govern-
The latest royal name in shell-and fire-scarred, has only mant offices demanding that all trious, but are extremely vio- A tent if roused. They seem in- THE only source of vitamins members of the National
the visitors' book she keeps 60 of its 150 rooms in use, and
18 "suites de luxe." In the Korean diet is a no- cunbly who kept roncubines (ensitive to pain.
is that of Princess tient dish known as kunchi should be dismissed.
They are at their best when Margaret. cornered, and adversity sharpens the wits. In defence they are capable of flashes
f
This consists of cabbage, fur-
lp, ontons, dry tish, ginger.
and the hottest pepper in world.
Li
Isolation
This powerful concoction Is WY are Koreans so beland inventive genius.
QUICKLY discovered that Lattened down with rough salt communicate la a man-dize earthen-ware Jar trying to with the inhabitants is and left in the sun to ferment. nen for six months it is buried exasperating nightmare of
underground. misunderstanding,
in
the times?
Forcerers,
of
First iron-clad
omni-
of
The mimic
THERE ARE emply chairs at our Embassy in Buenos Aires. Br John Balfour, Am- bassador, and Mr Edgar Julni,
are both
For two years they have been playing Mother Hubbard to Britain's cupboard.
But rumours that Sir John is relinquishing the post are as yet unconfirmed).
1 xlue to 300 years complete isolation when death wen the penalty for anyone at- tempting to leave the country. IN the 10th century invasion Commercial Minister, For Koreans write Is it surprising, when the des
by the Japs, the Koreans on leave. Bracy is ultimately disinterred,
Trade treatley eventually re invented the world's first Iron- Oriental script from right to
In encenter IL phenomenon opened Korea to the world in eind battleship. On Troy Horse left. Their language is something ilke
Tho a volcano in the 19th century.
Arst nea they bullt a ship with different from Chinese Or eruption?
emissaries to the Hermit King- turtle-like armoured canopy. French and
dom found a comic opera Court, Japanese as
Although rough and some with the king reigning
The floating turtle, belching German are from English. finns cruel with animals the patent surrounded by 600 cour- the rat smoke screen in his
the And when the student Korean has a businesslike respect ters, eunuchs, concubines, tory, rammed and routed
Get his pony. At night- witches, and
ali Japanese fleet, previously thinks he has mastered the for
ablaze by flaming arrows. language he is still faced on returning home' from a dressed in fantastic costumes. day's plecking in the country. with the Korean's peculiar the pony is given
When the Japs annexed the That Korea invention, born a meal of
His new Embassy on the of In
defeated habit of saying "Yes" when bean soup-never hay.
country in 1910 thousands
adversity.
the Avenida Alvear has furnishings to Koreans fled over the. moun- Japanese plan
conquer from-the old German Einbassy he really means "No."
Then the beast in hoisted by tains to Manchuria and Siberia. the world in the 18th century in London. belly-bands to the stable rafters
It is quite on the cards that
On a carpet once the pride of leaving its tired legs to dungle
Skilful in war.
the inventive, hard-pressed
Ribbentrop, Sir John has been restfully in mid-air throughout the night.
Koreans may produce another known to give an Imitation of
for unpleasant surprise
the Hitler in thetorical food. MIERE is little doubt that present-day
who aggressors these exiled Koreans and Plso seek to dominate the world their sons, indoctrinated with via Korea,
one
White became the na tional costume because the periods of mourning were so long. (They were seven yeurs for an emperor, three for a father-but no mourns for a woman),
The Koreans, being
but poor
philosophical people, decided it was more economical Lo remain mourning for ever.:
A
Contact women
Soviet ideas, form the nucleus Mary Linley Taylor is the the marringe market con- or the well-trained: anules_in-
.
British-born widow of an tact women or go-betweens veding from the north today. American gold-mine
operator make a handsome --living out
nt arranging weddings between Traditionally the Koreans are it has fult returned to
who have a peace-loving people, but they tain after 30 years in Korea,
in
mea and never even met.
women
At 50 he has a high reputation in the Argentine.
"
Warlike peace
THE PLAN "to'save world peace" which is being brought to London by Captain .*"Euroo" Westerling is a warlike
The casino has been rebuilt. 11 houses a night club, where recently the cabaret consisted of a fur fashion show and a per-
30 formance by
trumpet- blowing Moroccan Spahis, They stood the heat better than the modela in mink. -
London Esprits Tervice}
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
It wished were huraya beggars could ride, but the
·tačí ··· remains, -darling; -- that vore not a polo her and,
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