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THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 4, 1937.

BESIDE THE SEASIDE

INDEED, –– I like nothing better to fish rivers or sitting in motor cars.

They ~ possess

the well-known a man in conical cap, horn rims We are a sea-loving nation just to hurtle like projectiles along the faculty of making our hearts oscil- sandals and bathing gown, girls in rmouths and our blue linen shirts, backs bare save as we are a humorous nation, and roads (my private view is that the late between our at this moment those of us who are last-named are a trifie daft), but for boots, and of

lucky are plunging into the sea, or me no holiday is a holiday unless it the opport, affording us males for two thin straps, fancy handker

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sailing on it, or catching fish from embraces the sea and the sea it, or nodding off to sleep beside it. braces me All sorts of dodges exist for per- suading sleep to take possession of us, but I know none superior to the lapping of water on shingle or again st the jetty wall.

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of showing how chiefs in front; fathers dressed as em- masculine we are and the females little boys shirt, shorts and canvas

how feminine they are, thus bring shoes.

ing a stage nearer that delectable Or would it be watching the fish- is moment whem both feel that exist ermen on the pier, with buils on ence, except in the society of one the ends of their rods, teaching the another, is no longer endurable. fish to be well brought up and ring

And those two things-to remain the bell when they arrive?

- Or

I will grant you that the sea

like (I have often colder than

did aften wondered if Providence this to make us tough), that sand is a nuisance in my toes, that I think young and to meet somebody you would it be observing the yacht 031 the take a great liking to those are racing, talking the while about mighty little of sleeping that billiards table or queueing up for the essence of the spirit of the sea- spinnakers and booms, and showing

a clean pair of heels?

Or would it be having one's for

Our English seaside gives us, as it were, a sea voyage without the Toll. And since I maintain most of us have a trifle of the the bathing cabin, but when I have side. Viking spirit in us (see those lads enumerated all the drawbacks my from the factories and pits and love for the seaside is only slightly workshops off to the Isle of Man, caps at a nautical angle, talking knowingly of knots and engines and

sending wireless messages to Maggie

i would not bar a certain reck- tune told and learning how wealthy we are going to be, what colour of eyes the best girl is to have, and how we are to go on a long voyage across the sea, and everything

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and Alice and Jane), we are as much diminished Mine is an old and lessness in spending, either. But be rosy at last?

Or would it be watching the fea at home on the promenade as Nelson hardy affection going back to the that may be because I come from was on the Victory.

days when a five days holiday, a part of England-to wit, Lanca- circus at Southsea, where the pro- Insight and knowledge of human carrying our own tin trunks, and shire--where you can hear women fessor assured us that the proceed- -nature went to the turning. of saving up for months to do it, was remarking, at Blackpool and else- ings were quite safe, as all fleas were Bournemouth and Brighton piers more exciting than a journey across-where: "We've no business to harnessed with wire and could not into resemblances to ships' decks the world would be to-day.

come, things bein' as they are, but escape?

Or would it just be listening to free shuffleboard and deck tennis It is an affection, too, based on the if we waited till we could afford,

the conversations? Then he said at the first and at the second an fact that in this life of rush and we should never get here at all."

did I love him, and I said how was open-air ballroom with a teak mast frenetic pleasure the seaside keeps The popular story has it that in the middle that towers into the something of a Dickensian char- thousands of my fellow Lancastrians a girl to know after three days, and night, with three black storm cones acter, with its landaus, its Punch leave half-a-crown under the clock then. Then match has gune and a signal light slung to it by a and Judy shows, its paddling, its on the mantelpiece to pay for the cab out agen. Here, you must put that score of ropes. The door is ribbed shrimps and whelks, its bobbing when they return home, knowing shoe on for me. Oo, that wind !” and polished, the sky navy blue and yachts, its donkeys. It has stayed well they won't have a penny in "Oh, Olive, do listen. He said he'd starred, and you need only a small magnificently young.

And there is some never been nuts on a girl before amount of imagination

Those mechanical purveyors of foundation for the tale.. Their and would I go round the island with dancing, not off the coast of Sussex, violent and exquisite emotions which holiday-making has a heroic note him."-"Ocgh, I would'nt. You'd be but down the Mediterranean or abound on the pleasure beaches un- about it, a taking no thought for sick, I bet. Hurry up, those chaps nearing Hawaii.

der new names may owe a good deal the morrow, a saving for 51 weeks won't wait all night.” to Coney Island, but, in essence, that they may enjoy themselves. they are the same as our old friend live like lords, as they sawin the the switchback.

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be

There are those who have a pas sion for putting on nailed boots to climb mountains, or donning waders

THE

WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"

Sabotaged Sausage

HERE seems no reason why the jaway."

invention of Spoonerisms should ever come to an end. Dr. Spooner himself died as long ago as 1980, but new examples of his ver bal eccentricity are constantly being “discovered."

classes.

their pockets.

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But I don't pretend, all the same, fifty-second.

that our seaside is perfect. Towns During that week, "Wakes" exist which are too grandmotherly restrictions against week, they capture a sense of free altogether dom and release that is rarely theirs bathing unless you hire a machin during the remainder of the year, and an atmosphere that suggests So that you find in them a sort of you are ill-behaved if you are not incarnation of the seaside spirit indoors by eleven o'clock. For my- a gaiety, a superb contentment, a self, I should welcome an extension touch of wildness and determina- of the care-free spirit of the Isle of tion that found expression in the Man, which captures something of song: "You can do a lot of things a Continental air. in Kelly-land that you can't do at home, sweet home.”

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Defy Malaria!

Because malaria is the result of

When you have to cram your holi- day into a week or a fortnight you Sabotage is 2 wonderful word Now, Marie Lloyd might have are entitled to let yourself go. which nowadays covers an enormous sung that song, and your true sea- variety of activities, but the recent side holiday-maker has a touch Russian report of sabotage by means Marie Lloyd in him or her-a The latest number of the "Perio-of poisoned liver sausage adds a robustiousness, a raciness, a warm

By Keeping Your Blood Bach dical" publishes a fresh batch new example to an over-worked in-affection for his fellow men, and, healthy

and Pure With labelled, however, as "unauthenticat-dustry.

on occasion, a note of

ed:"

As three people have been senten

vulgarity that no one need be asham- Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.

"First class?" echoed the Perhaps one might adopt the tech-led to death (and may by this time ed of nique of the Oxford examination have been actually shot) for that woman from Bolton who was being system and arrange them in three form of sausage pollution one should told by the guard she must get out parasites in the blood introduced there- to by the bite of an infected mosquito, "first travel third, properly regard the incident as grave and

class? and because such parasites thrive in First-class honours should be in the extreme.

There's no such thing on a Black-weak, thin, impure blood, the risk of awarded to the request for a bath! Yet, such is the incorrigible at pool train." Equality that was contracting malaria is greatly reduced by maintaining a plentiful supply of of milk and a glass bun.

mosphere of levity which is apt to what she claimed on holiday, and rich, red blood. Here we have the substitution of surround the sausage, there still she was right.

A world renowned tonic specifically designed to make rich, red blood is Dr. one word for another in such a way seems something slightly comic and as to result in an intelligible mean- unbelievable about sabotage as appli- If I were to set down the seaside Williams' Pink Pills, and it is for this reason that these pills have proved ed to that particular pig product. delights that I have enjoyed most, remarkably successful in combating ing.

In the second class one might One finds it easier to believe în I shouldn't know where to begin malaria, as well as in building up place instances where the initial let-plans for wrecking vast engineer- Would it be seaside cricket, with a health and strength after malazial at-

tacks. ters of two worls are transposed with ing undertakings, for sinking ships deck chair for wickets and sea for

Originated by an M.D. of Edinburgh or derailing locomotives, than in a long stop, with the danger of being University, Scotland, Dr. Williams Pink a similar effect.

Thus, we have the description of concerted conspiracy to sabotage the run out through a bit of smart field-Pills have a long record of women in ing by some zealous boy who pops many parts of the globe suffering from Cambridge, after a visit in the win-sausage. :

one or other of the many It sounds too much like a variety up-from nowhere and doesn't really which have their origin in a weak, de ter as a bloody, meek place, and

pleted condition of the blood, who have the remark to a pupil that several of the harlequinade. And, anyway, belong to your game at all?

had cause to thank the prowlers have been detected in his supposing the sausages really were Or would it be dance-football

merits of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. For of the lethal variety, how do the saw at Margate, with goalposts and digestive disorders, nerve troubles, hut him off with a killing" and sabotage sleuths know that the cause nets on the dance-floor and four rheumatism and its kindred aume attleships and bruisers" are fur-was not botulism which owed no-couples a side kicking a light foot-pallor, premature ageing, exha after slight exercise, palpitation, ball as they one-stepped or foxtrott-lessness, for the aches and pains mples.

thing to human malice? hen one of the resultant words However, when it is a matter of led to the band? is not a real word, not more than a finding work for a firing party no Or would it be noting the amusing third class seems to be deserved, for doubt a sausage will do as well as a dresses one sees a woman in red

"And the wigtree frittered hipwreck.

shirt, khaki shorts and bath cloak;,

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to women, as well as to build up and strength after debilitating there is nothing better than Dr..

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