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Food Habits

There seems to be little foun- dation for the popular belief that an instinct, active animals, and in man overlaid by the practices of civilisation,

EXPLANATIONS OF TODAYS CARTOON

“UGUST 1941 in National Pil-

gzimage Day to the Shrine

Here There and Everywhere.

of Lourdes, where, in 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared, to a little peasant girl, aunouncing to her, "TCOUNT SUCCEEDS.COUNT am the Immaculate Conception.”

It is the Raxilica, consecrated in

secrated in 1901.

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ATTEMPT TO STEAL TAXICAB

Some excitement was caused in

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The Comte "de St.“Quentin,

One of the reasons for the re-

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LET'S TALK ABOUT BORES

PLAGUEY VARITIES TO BE AVOIDED

BLIND SELF-ABSORPTION LEADS TO ENNUI IN OTHERS

(By Annette Joelson).

Hundreds of thousands of "pil- grims come the miraculous France's new Ambassador to Italy, is one of the most blue-blooded grutto to pray. There is a rose- bush beside the statue of the Vir-members of the French diploma-{ gin which. I am assured, bloomstic service. His appointment was continuously the year around a triumph of ability over prejudice. Nearby is a great architectural

tirement of the Comte de Cham10 find myself in the inextri- of course, always halo-capped curiosity, three charches not up brain was that the Front Populaire

eahle position of having to cherubs trailing clouds of glory |erimposed, birt built beneath one

Government, did not approve of his|spend an hour vis-a-vis a bore is. another. On top is the oldest

At all costs avoid her. "She to me, one of life's minor trage is more than a bore. She's a Hong Kong. Menday, Nov. 9, 1935. church, called the Crypt: Beneath social position

Az Ambassador

adies. After a while I feel like cry-menace. 1876 in the presence of 35 arch-member of France's most exclusive ing out aloud, as Carlyle once did

The Operation Fiend does not the club, the Jockey Club, did not alat a dinner to which he had been hold a conversation. She recites. bishops and bishops. On lowest level is the Rosary, con- together inspire confidence on the invited to meet a great talker: With almost breathless enthusiasm part of Socialist members of the "For God's sake, take me away she works her way, uninterrupted. Blum Cabinet

and put me in a room by myself” from one wound to another, giving How bares do talk! How terri-details of pains and spasms, con- Now, however, they have had to: appoint an Ambassador who comes fired they are of not being noticed.sultations and verdicts, the shape of an even older family than the That is why they feel that unless of the doctor's nose and the effects Corte de Casebrun-and, the they are saying something all the of various anaesthetics. She detemuines preference in the Fracas In Pedder Street only other diplomat who is a mem-time they might be mistaken for analyses her emotions and her choice of food. Concerning

ber of the Jockey Club.

fools. What egoists they are! symptoms in minute detail. And animals a number of indepen

And so they go chattering on if one of her own genus wedges in and on, wrapt in blind self-2 word about her own operation (dent lines of evidence suggest Pedder Street at about 9 pm. last DIPLOMATS IN FANCY DRESS that training rather than any night when a European, who was

American After the war the-Comte de St. absorption which prevents them she will immediately c operation inherent pressure is the pre- later described as dominant factor in deciding sailor. attempted to get into, and Quentin was Charge d'Affaires in from realising that the things an even more detailed account f gastronomic likes and dislikes, drive off with, one of the taxis on Berlin. In 1921 there was little which interest them are nothing another adventure in a hospital intercourse between the diplomats but a source of unatterable ennuilunder the aegis of anaesthesia.... A critical experiment on

rats the rank.

She is a pest to other people.

Avoid her as you showed that when fed from in- The indignant driver rallied his and Berlin society. The members

Escape-Me-Never Way

would the plague-or rabies. fancy on a particular food, they brisk fight started Soon a con-fore to rely on their own

small

Almost every day of our lives Deadly. Phenomenon preferred it, though unwhole-

we are brought face to face with If you come into a room and find some, to a thoroughly wholesome tingent of five Indian policemen world for entertainment.

The great-hearted and a man sitting there not so much Bale masques were a favourite bares. though unfamiliar food. Dogs were on the scene, and the would-

"nice" people of the world suffer talking as lecturing in a dry, flat accustomed to eating cookede kidnapper of the taxi was in-diversion. These were given

them gladly. Those of us who are voice, suspect him at once. Nine the British Charge meat will often refuse, unless ally put into the vehicle he had turn

French again, find that to sit still and be phenomenon, the Psuedo-Intellec- nock, the American; the

bumped into is never an exhilarat- tual Bore. and the Belgian

One night Lord Kilmarnock en-ling process." Such suffering, we

You really can never make any tertained at the British Embassy feel, is not a necessary duty to mistake about him

He is such a in the Wilhelmstrasse. He was society.

jerasting egoist. He never lets the dressed as a troubadour; the Comte But bores have a way with them, ball of conversation out of his de St. Quentin arrived as a Red the escape-me-never way, and so hands, and never by any chance conversation. Mistak- Indian and the representative of often even the most wary of us are stimulates

ling noise for knowledge, he struts the United States as a gangster. caught like birds in a trap.

In the middle of the dance aAh heaven, how difficult it is to and swaggers mentally.

colleagues to his support, and

a

of the Diplomatic Corps had there-

by

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driven by hunger, to eat raw/attempted to drive off with, and d'Affaires, the late Lord Kilmar less noble don't. We like Carlyle times out of ten he is that deadly

Your Daily Smile!

Darble Pay

His mind is loaded with other

He had got a job as collector for a

company. "Take this master key and go round high official of the German For-forgive those who weary us and and empty all the coin-boxes: get all eign Office arrived with an urgent how easy to forgive those who people's ideas, and he never says the pennies and shilings,” said the request to see the Allied repre-amuse and entertain?

There are, of course, a great reviews and loves to talk books. manager.

ocean original thing. He studies book

taken to the Central Police Station. meat which, it might be sup-

It is understood that the mat- posed, is their natural food; and many a dog prefers dog-biscuits, ter was amicably settled and no

harge was made. for which he cannot possibly be equipped with an instinct, to meat raw or cooked. The truth is that extreme hunger will drive animals to eat anything that might afford them susten- ance, and moderate hunger in duces them to prefer the food that they know to that which they do not know. It would be

Three weeks later be walked into difficult to relate to any such

So they withdrew to a private variety of bores. The most deadly Particularly to talk about the instinct as that often postu-I've lost t'other one."

the office. "Can I have another key? room, where, a German official in are the Domestic and Operation books you have not read makes lated. the immense variety, in "Certainly, replied the manager.tails solemnly sat down to discuss species-invariably women and him feel superior. His greatest Benevolent and Pauedo-delight is to oust you in a battle of geographical distribution and in "But where have you been all this a crisis in Silesia with a trouba-the

specimens, gally book titles In a sense chronological disposition. of time? The cashier has stopped late dour, a Bed Indian and a gangster. Intellectual

he is a human food habits. A few every Friday night, expecting you to

{male."

jmegalomaniac. generations back, the inhabi-comte for your wages."

Domestic Vanely

Benevolent Boré "Great guns!" exclaimed_the' col- tants of England and other lector, beaming broadly. "De I get

The Domestic Bore is a blousey-1 The Benevolent Bore does every- countries of northern Europe wages as well?" drank beer for breakfast.

We occasionally see something like

Diplomat

sentatives.

HIS FRIEND IN NEED

I don't need a speedometer on minded female who knits incesthing with the best of intentions. If I were to do more sently and talks for hours on two He is all the more dangerous be- than 30 the engine would blow up, topics only, babies and servants. cause he destroys your peace of

an instinct for beer, but it rare- There has never been a greater loss and therefore act as a warning--— Her babies and her servants. Only mind by making you have a con-

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ly manifests itself at breakfast to diplomacy than Sir Squire Ban Motorist at Wood Green Police these, her own, does she find-in-science about him. time. And yet it was once the of the theatrical profession rather Court.

croft, who chose to become a prince)

than represent the Court of St James's as he could have done had he,

common beverage at that. meal for men, women and children, and down to a late date in the wished at any of Britain's great nineteenth century some of the Embassies.

Does not this fallowing' little abec- older public schools regaled dote prove the assertion beyond, IL [their pupils on beer. Even as doubt? late as 1870 beer for breakfast "g" (2x he was affectionately known to his million friends) had been to see a well-known actor give

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Modern nutritionists tell us very mediocre performance of that there is nothing like a "Macbeth" varied diet for maintaining As he was leaving the theatre, Sir health and strength, for the de- Squire was accosted by a critic anti- ficiencies of one type of food (ons to obtain' an expression of opin- are supplied by the constitu-Well, Sir Squire, what do you ents of another. But there are think of Mr. Smith's performance?” peoples who subsist on severely There was a long pause, and then restricted diets, such as-that of from a brain, which was as quick as the polar Eskimo, who lives lightning, but loved to be thought złow Came x sentence which for almost entirely on meat and fat.. justice tempered with Bancroftian The explorer Stefansson shared mercy had never been and never will the life of a group of Eskimos, be equalled.

whose sole diet was raw and "You ask me what I think of this boiled fish, there being no games that parts of it were good, parta Istest Macbeth? Well, all I estysay whatever in the district, and of it not so good. What I'm wonder vegetation "being absent. They ing is are the parts that were good, were very healthy, and Stefans-good enough?”

son specially noticed that there Non-committal to a degree, and so, was no dental caries amongst diplomacy itself them and that rickets was

absent. This observation would all that is apparent is fashion accord entirely with the know-(often based on knowledge. It ledge we have about the fat-is true that there are certain soluble vitamin D. It en-foods wholesome to some people courages the proper calcifica-(that are poison to others. “Onel tion of bones and ^. teeth. man's meat is another man's Animal fats usually supply it, poison,” is almost literally true. and the absence of cereals in the A wide group of curious" facts diet further promotes its-for-pertaining to these curious mation in the body.

idiosyncrasies has been collect Many vegetarians claim thated and studied as, what are mar has an instinct for vege-called, food allergies. It is table food, but it is usually long worthy of note that the person before men are sufficiently who is allergic to a particular secustomed to new Chants or food, say cucumbers, is not vegetables to take to them warned against cucumbers by freely In the childhood days any instinct, but has to discover of men now middle aged the their danger by smelling or tomato was a rarity and bitter tasting the thing that is ly opposed by many as the cause noxious to him and suffering:

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