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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, JANUARI

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for ST. GEORGE'S Ball

RESS SHIRTS:

Stiff fronts ~~~ plain or marcella

soft fronts in marcella with collar attached

or with 2 separate collars.

RESS TIES:

Black barathea or white marcella bows.

RESS VESTS:

In white marcella.

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ESOLUTIONS for 1951 made by N. Gubbins, Esq.

will stop talking about food, politics and health.

Refuse to listen to any dis- cussion on any one of these matters.

Try to take interest in work and be polite to those who ask, "Is that all you do?"

Fence....b

NATHANIEL GUBBING

*With

of the compliments

Cummings

London Express Service

the

Well, naturally, dear, what with the bad noos and Christ mas and everything. How's little Elmer?

WINDOW ON

THE WORLD

By JOHN ASHWIN

RELIGIOUS REVIVAL

SWEEPS AMERICA

NEW - STYLE

the

cluding Lapp hymns and panima, will follow the rites, ot Laestadian Church. The Lacsin- cult has no ordalaca

re- dinn

Aligious revival, born from among the community. It

out of the

Gone are

priests, but appoints preachers Korean has churches at Kautokeino and

crisis, is sweeping America. Karashet, two Lapp towns in central Finnmark, and it is in of the days

these churches that the tourist street corner preachers, may witness the peculiarities of mass meetings and banners, the Laestadian religion. Today, thousands of Ame- The services are marked by strong element of religious rican church-goers have de- a

it is not unusual cided to attract people to ecstasy and

for members of the congrega- religion the quiet way. The then to leap to their feet during heart of the revival is the the scrion, embrace the midwest state of, Iown, preacher, and publicly confess

their

sins-usually admissions where more than ton that they have been stealing thousand regular church- reindeer.

goers have just devoted The Norwegian Lapps have Beveral evenings a week to had their own newspaper, contacting friends across Nuoritanasto (The Polar Star), the state. Their interviews for over 50 years, but their dialects differ so much that were in private in the Scandinavian Lapps and Rus- people's homes and were clans Lapps of the Kola penin- rounded off by discussions sula can no longer understand

each other. on everyday problems.

CLEANING UP CAIRO

Bishop Charles W. Brashares, at Des Moines, announcing the results of the crusade, pointed. "CLEANER STREETS" - out that, in spite of bitter wea

campaign has been launched ther, the determined ten in Calro where the director in

A

Oh, ho's OK, dear, except thousand had interviewed near- charge of the city's welfare de- I'm worried about his cough.ly 33,000 people. Of these, 0.088 partment has threatened to re- How's little Sadie?

accepted the Christian faith for sign if all the streets in his area

non-

in six months' time. Oh, she's fine and dandy. And the first time. Another 5,022 are not "as clean as London's"

described themselves as

At the same time, the en- eats like a horse,

pro- thusiastle practising Christians but

director plans to I wish I could say the same mised to become regular church- change the present street names

just about little Elmer,

food. Koers in the future. with his plays around

cough, all night, cough, 60 And

cough. What's on cough,

Do you know what the doctor said?

It won't do you no good, dad. H.M. Inspector of Taxes, Christ- Not at your age. mas and New Year Grectinga”— probably the first ever sent by

Mu age? I never felt an inspector of taxes to one of young in me life.

the wireless? and his victims.

Try to be polite to people who ask, "How do you think of it?" "When do you start it?" "How long does it take?"

Avoid alcoholic refreshment ('This Try not to answer back; "I till the sun goes down,

"When do will be difficult on Midsummer's that all you do?"

It doesn't go down you start it?" and, "How long Day, when

to people who fill the taverns are shut). does it take?" think buying and selling some-

Avold people who have not thing is work.

made the same resolution,

Try to be patient with people who think you are a little queer if you don't play golf,

Try not to point out that it is the people who play golf who are Queer.

Try to be patient with people's dogs, particularly dogs who jolt the brain and shatter the nerves with sharp barks.

Try not to hit people who my, "Cheer up. It may never hap- pen."

Avoid making up at night for the what you haven't had in morning.

Avold people who are the same.

He

"Can зои

maintains arc

which he ridiculous, although the

tourist

As a result of the success of with a command of Arabic en- the door-to-door campaigns, the joys translating such names as new crusade hopes to sweep on the "Shak el Thoban" (The Ser- Hole) or the "Darb Abu

to Pennsylvania and Texas in p (The Lone of the Father

the New Year.

No, dear. It's gone wrong, dad,

Why he said: Then your usband should ave guess what's really wrong with LEGIONNAIRE TEACHES

And I said: ENGLISH put it right, instead of loafin' little Elmer?" about all the evenin',

"No. doctor." And he said:

George don't loaf, dad. works hard all day. For all of

us.

is that so, dear?

He "Why, he's too intelligent, that's TWO years ago a 40-year-old Englishman left his home in what's wrong with him."

Ersex to join the French Foreign Legion. Today that Englishman, In his Foreign Legion unit is conducting one of the strangest classes in Haiphong, the threatened port which serves

Work? He calls that work? Why, when I was a boy of 15 I worked 10 hours a day for five bob a week. I gave 35. Gd. to mother, kept Is. Cd. for my-

doing

New

dad.

Avoid people who say Year resolutions are rubbish.

Avoid people who say you won't last a week.

Avoid people who will bet you any money you like you won't last a day.

who or

Avold people

to hit people Try not repeat radio catch phrases

of radio give poor imitations characters.

Stop thinking that 90 percent of the people you meet are liars and cheats. It is probably only 89 percent,

Stop blaming Mr Bloodsucker, the Income-tax inspector, for all your troubles when the real culprit is Stafford Cripps.

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Good morning

"After she had said 'Good

to the momlag

DOW, at rushed

her and tooped her." From the news. 66100D morning, good morn-

ino," I said to the corn, But the cone went on chewing

the cud,

self, and

We've card all

He said: "His mind's de- veloping at the expense of his You'll have to take body.

all that before, great care of him," he said, "as

a genlus is hard to rear,"

and ad two slices of bread and dripping for me dinner.

he a-been in the Army 1914

no

Ts

Ittle Sadic still struggling with

homework? her

Struggling, dear?

Why, dear, everybody knows

Sadie's

kelps

her

the French beachhead in north Indo-China.

of a Blanket).

A more important and difficult stop for the director will be his attempt to ban all hawkers. In future, they will be told to

Leir take

wares

to

Public

bazaars which will be set up- for them on vacant sites. In their turn, however, the haw- kers maintain that there is far got from more business to be stopping in a gigantic plan to

tourists in the street. Finally, straighten cortain thoroughfares, the director has decided to fol- low Hitler's principle which was

the areas to requisition

con-

Meeting him there, correspon

dis- dent William Stephenson covered that Legionnaire John- nle Condon volunteered for five cerned, carry out the alterations, and then put the streets up for Although the service. years ser

cost of the sale to offset the free choles Legion offered him a fre of names he decided to

d to stick

£10) and

work! to

his own. Pay Is thousand plaas RECORDED BOOKS tres a month (some

the

(TALKING" books, formerly a sweet little girl and nearly all Condon's spare time FOR INVALIDS

is taken up with his classes.

made only for the blind, coloured room near In Don't tolk about dripping, everybody knows her daddy

a gaily her with dad. It makes George sick.

les-the port's Chinese quarter, he are now being manufactured for natives invalids who feel that they can- Of

isn't teaches English to the It Course, Ho? It makes tm sick, does sons.

the it,

Hly-lvered, molly quite fair to the others, as her and, after the day's lessons are not support the weight of the This latest development-in- Legion's traditional raw, red coddled good-for-nothing. If daddy's a professor, but we all over drinks a glass of plaard, books they are reading.

in understanti you don't want her Algerian wine, while he corrects evitably an American one-has been made possible by extra- of the clasz al-the children's homework. at the bottom

long playing records turning at a minute ways, do you, dear? But then,

only 10 revolutions SPECIAL BROADCASTS as I've always said, you can't

which makes them almost twice have brawn nnd brains FOR. LAPPS

as slow as any other long play-

at and you must admit

present on the together,

ing records

The first books to

to be Sadie's much too big for her age;

market. though I daresay gland injec

recorded in the new series are the classics. Then will come the and maybe if her body wasn't

novels with a two-sided 12-inch record playing for two hours an hour on each side. Say the growing at the expense of her

Some twenty thousand of manufacturers: "There isn't mini she might catch up some time. Do you know what Uttle Elmer sald only this morning? Europe's thirty-five thousand book written which could not

Nor It was so cute, it was quito Lapps live in Norway-most of be condensed into two hours."

arc the

books these planned only for invalids. They frightening. Are you listening them in Finnmark, the province.

adjoining Rusala. Now dear? Hello .... Hello, dear..

hear Lapps will

their own will be just as readily available hello. Hello

hold a choirs over the radio for the to anyone too lazy to -(London Express Servloe.) first time. Church services, In- book in their hands.

We don't want to 'ear more about the Army, dad.

we'd a-made im sick all "Are right.

Twenty miles a day on bully beef and dog biscuits...

Please, dad.

"Good morning," I said,

your poor lille hoorcz "Feeling cold in the wet and

the mud?"

We'd a-put some outs into im. "Good morning, dear cows, is the We'd a-made im look like a man

Grass tasting nice?

instead of a pasty-faced stick of macaroni.

"Are you comfy and warm in

your bed? "Do you give better milk when

your mind is at rest?

"Are you happy and properly

fed?"

"Good morning, dear cow,

your hubby quite well?

is

"Are your children allowed to

play games?

"They are alt little people; with

minds of their own;

Dad, remember you're livin in George's ouse,

George's one? Why, he ain't even paid for it yet. And never will with is football pools and dog racin' and is cad aches and belly aches. Didn't I warn you not to marry an idle, scroungin', clock-watchin' tramp like im?

Good night, dad. We're go- ing to bed row,

IO-

And good riddance. And mind) you get is empty ead of the

for work "Are they modern; and what pillow in time

are their names?"

morrow. We can't afford to ave| ie money docked because he's "Good morning, good morning.”

late. Istid to the cow,

"At least you might give me a

smile."

But the cow said, "I'u teach you

to call me a cow."

And tossed me right over the

stile.

Sharing a home

"My husband

and I never get a chance to talk to each other in the evenings because our we are obliged to share home

won't

who with my father.

bed."Letter go to

an editor.

FEE

+

Hello, dear

tions would take care of

that;

APLAND is in the news in a story from Moray Williams, who reports that, in future, Norway is to broadcast religious services in Samisk, the language of the Lapps.

AMERICAN COLUMN:

new

STRONG MAN FOR BIG JOB

oath.

NEW YORK.

From Nowell Rogers.

at

Wilson, one America's Clay, former US. commander Berlin, and Mr Sidney of Washing- richest industrialists, was, born in

one of Now York's poorest boys Weinberg, a New York banker. ton's three wise men in the Hell's Kitchen district. SIX ex-Londoners who were-

When he was three his father

to leave

AR

THE third raised a big-fisted hand be- neath a picture of George died. Nine years later he had A.R.P. wardens in the blitz. school. He got a have applied for the full-time Washington and swore

guinea-a-week job as an office paid job of civil defence warden boy with the General Electric at New York's Flower Hospital. The hospital specified that the A freak radio belonging to

As he swears to do his duty Corporation.

When he resigned the other warden must have had London Mrs D. A. Waynick. of Centra

loyally in the office of Defence

to Washington-51 blitz experience. ville, Tennessee. picks up ali

Production chief, take a look at day to go calls. Day and

was General The favoured candidate is a local telephone

this six-foot, 14-stope man of years later-he night she can listen

Electric's £61,000 a year retired naval commander whoso conversation kind of

English-Irish extraction.

In Washington he tour of duty was around Buck-

ingham Palace,

PLANES BRITISH

women.

HELLO, dear.

11 Oh, hello, dear

Is that you, dear?

to this between

Yes, it's me, dear.

to

Are you all right, dear? Yes, I'm fine, dear. And you? Fine, dear. Atle tired, of course,

REELING tired, dad?

Me? Tired? I could sit up all night.

POP

WHAT DO

YOU' MEAN

HE'S SWALLOWED

HE'S IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE

A SIXPENCE

for

for

For in this job Charles Edward president, Wilson becomes one of President will get £3,000.

He will turn out arms Truman's three most powerful advisers,

ers. The others are De America and America's allies. tence Secretary Marshall and The Important thing about him the U.S. Air Force? Two have is that he has the confidence of been tested or demonstrated be- Secretary of State Acheson.

at military Truman's decisions, based on all the other biz-fisted U.S. in- hind locked gates

airfields. They are Boulton their advice, can change the dustrialista.

trainer and de As his assistants, Mr WUson Paul's Ballol destinies of millions of us around the world.

has appointed General Lucius Havilland's Dove trainer.

Coining a phrase

MOSCOW. Idaho (popula- tion 60,144), is not going to change its name because New York, USSR. (so named in the York thirties because a New woman gave a factory to the Russian own), is going to be rechristened.

STRAKKASIEB: will", como. back with ration books, WOEDE a Washington writer. Stogkcasios are the back rooms of restaurants where steaks die Illegally served to customers willing to pay tour to ten times

the Oxed price:

· · 'THE\' CHRISTMAS. edition- of tho Hackensack (New Jerscy> Sidr Telegram was' printed in green, red, and black. And the Ink had pino oll mixed initia give the paper a KIOMA.

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