1941-05-29 — Page 43

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 29, 1941.

Bringing Up Father

OH-DEAR-I WISH MY DAD HADN'T GONE HOME TODAY -OH-I FEEL LONESOME NOW - SOMETHING SEEMS TO BE MISSING AROUND THE HOUSE SINCE HE LEFT-

NO DOUBT – I THINK IT A GOOD IDEA TO COUNT THE SILVER -

WHAT A RELIEF – – THOUGHT THAT GUY WOULD NEVER GO HOME -

Page 11 *།

By George MacManus

PARDON, SIR-MRS, JIGGS' FATHER JUST PHONEP AND SAID TO SEND THE CAR DOWN TO TH'DEPOT TO PICK HIM UP-AS HE

MISSED HIS

TRAIN -

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MIRURGA...

A PAGE FOR WOMEN Isn't Miss Pomfret

Wonderful!

take up "Of course, I do think it's mar "A cat doesn't

I haven't found tha vellous our having the basement romnu

That's gun-lira ** having curls yet. རྩྭ་ ཟླས

flat and everybody despised it for years, and was the first floor wishing to goodness the had it, and the second-floor his dog aking if they may sume tumes come down and sleep in the bathroom, and the top flout having evacuated hes elt to Corn wall."

“Oh, I krnAW. biscuits"

Where are the

The

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To begin with. I didn't know

we had any beculs **

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"Oh but Pomona, we haret least, we had this morning I aw them myself, matin, on the doo artar the place where the wouldn't boit beca

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any 1900. That must have been.

things have changed quite a since then I know. darling. expect Abe has changed, too - que like it, I think it must be ence to a gul, as you'll find ot I forty years make a great differ-

so awfully disenutaging le thờn, one day

No darling, don't flying about up there and being be morbit. Of course the Shot at. Holl, mother. ha will come to an end. Your Uncle you? Mother, are you all right?" Edward thinks the

Greeks are "Perfectly all right, darling Why doing wonders. He says

he don't you try and come home for knew that country well, in the a week's rest, it would be so good late 'nmieties. Good-night, durl- For you. I feel. atici "The buscuits, darling"

there's ng though I'm afraid it's rather plenty of 2011- We've got biscuits. Now if you'd asked me evacures in the two large rooms, send you up some apples, if you an out-of-date expression. I could where the bottle of sherry was. I and the two teachers in the little liked could have told you at orice

Any amount of food blue room, and Aunt Bella and everywhere" I'm so glad, darling. on top of the books or the el°C -

Unele Etward are managing in I was looking at Lard Woolton's trie loreb-that's in the soap dish the library and old cousin Walter picture in the paper the other day for some reason, But the semi so good, he says he likes The and thinking what a sensible face summer house. We've had a tele- it was, and Aunt Bella said the KERM from the poor Hopkinsons same. She's found a recipe for a asking if we can take them in most excellent cake, and it doesn't red sugar or butter, or eggs, or anything. We're going to have it macaroni cheese to- Yus, perfectly all right, daring. The tennis-lawn potatoes are quite wonderful, and Father is planning brussels sprouts for the herbacious border under "Good gracious how extraordin- for the duration, because they've

Good-night, the wall.

darling. ary! Durling, what were These been bombed out of Chelsea and Do keep away from bombs," biscuits***

out of their East coast bungalow, "Oh they were supply marvel- too

Yes, it is rather bad "Fenella. I do think Mother's lous. Not big dog-biscuits, like luck in # way, but of course it

marvellous. And she wants to be you sound as if you thought they puts them in rather * strong

remembered to Miss Pomfret." were, but frightfully, frightfully position when their tiresome "pre-war biscuits, with sugar on friends whose name I never can

them."

remember but you'll know whom “Sugar !!! Fenella, we ab- I mean the woman has teeth, and solutely must find them,"

he plays those dreadful Scotch

throwing games.

things abonit. Well, they go on and [IF]

about these incendiary bombs,

which "It's only his tea-time rand. I after all only burnt out one wing doesn't count, He often turns up of the house and thẹ A.R.1. peu- just about now, and then pups of again before the Butzkrieg. shall rang up mother."

being no gas

kettp

of There

"The gas has more back"

"Well duling, the biscuits have

"Darling, I absolutely know w must. There, did you hear that" Goering's here."

comes

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ple put it out qui'e quickly

1 Yes, I know dear, but the Hop- kinsons have been bombed tience

atter the

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"Miss Pomfret's marvellous, 100. she only got in from her mobile canteen at nine o'clock this morn- ing. I've been up to her, and she isn't coming down unless it gets fearfully bad, because she doesn't like the idea of allowing Hitler to make any difference to her and Edgar."

"Quite right, too." "And guess what. I've found those biscuits."

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"Fenella how divine! were they?" medicine cupboard. I simply can'

"Under your gas-mask, in

how imagine

there they got Couldn't we ask everyone down and have a party, as soon as we've blacked-out?"

"Then I'd better get out a coll- and have practically lost every- ple of pillows in case anyone ex- thing, so it's no use talking LO tra

in and wants to sleep them about a couple of miserable on the floor, and I daresay I shall incendiary bombs.

Where come across these biscuits."

am going to put them, Pomona? Well, darling, the fact is we've really got two absolutely empty 1000s. Yes, it does sound extra- "Is that Trunks? Well,

it's ordinary,

"That's a marvellous iden. Such doesn't it? Actually,

too. rather a difcult name, because though I'm delighted on the pour

a frightful sell for Goering, it's a place in South Wales, but

Hopkinson's account it's perhaps popping away with his bombs and I'll spell it. LLANTH WILLY, Y.

things." not quite as good as it sounds be- MARIS. Yes, quite right. Yes, cause it's the two rooms that the I'll hold on

muids used to have, and they've both left, and of course we can't Oh, dear no, not a get others.

and the hope. One's in khaki other one's making munitions, and

"Pomona!"

"Yes, darling?"

"If it's frightfully noisy night, do you think Miss Pomf

to-

would come down from the third there are no girls left anywhere

floor? We could let her have 4 whole mattress to herself."

"And Edgar."

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Oh

MAKING UP THE MANNEQUINS

yes, we're managing all right. Your Aunt Bella is marvellous at Eight famous beauty salons of cooking macaroni-cheese, and Mayfair have chosen new shades father and old cousin Walter arc-in make-up for the mannequins n't in the least fussy

Ah, who are showing the London yes, dear, I know, but then Aunt Fashion Collection to South Bella manages Uncle Edward. Yes, America. Dawn Rose, d of course we could fit you in.. lovely soft pink shade for the what do you mean? There's room fair-skinned; Honey Bloom, for for any number of mattresses in the mid-brunette, complexion; and the dining-room, and Father had. Cyclamen for the dark Spanish. this brilliant idea of buying, an-type.

oil-stove, which keeps it as warm The most popular shades of ав possible. Besides, any room powder seem to be Rose Rachelle, with six people sleeping, in Peach and Suntan. Suntan pow- gets warm after a time... Veryder and Tan lipstick have been well, darling, if the Foreign Office particularly chosen for tweeds: can't get son. without you,. I sup- Yardley's have a new colour pose. it can't. And can't the Ad-called Hollyrod. Cyclax havé miralty get on without, Fenella? Brilliant, which is a deep red; No, very well, I'm sure I don'i Velvet Grape a deep rose; and want to suggest anything tha Pink Clover a Cyclamen ́shade. would prevent your winning the Cyclamen is considered the most war, or Fenella either, but Father attractive colour for evening and I don't like the thought of wear. your being bombed, quite frank- A number of the mannequins. What did you say? Well have chosen Miss Seymour's I'm glad it was the All Clear. Gleam Perfume, Other favourites suppose the real Blitzkrieg starts are Bond Street and Orchis later? Yes, I thought so. Re- In spite of the War, Britain has member me to Alicia Pomfret, if large reserves of all columétics and she's still in the flat above, yours. her beauty specialists continuo, I remember her so well in the to send them to most parts, of the most lovely Presentation gown-world, as in peace time.”

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"Well, they're both handsome—finanqlaliy

Here's Luck

EWO BEER

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