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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1951;

Roadside briefing for The LES Family Holiday

BUDE NEWQUAY

турада арнау

"We're now going into Cornwall. So far, I believe Cornwall is in pretty good shape. Let's see if we can keep it that way.

"HEARING THE NAMES, ONE FELT THAT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN LITTLE CRESTED PRINTED CARDS IN FRONT OF EACH PLACE .

Paris.

BOUT 15 miles south

of Paris there is graveyard in which the 2,000 crosses are shaped like Croix de Lor- raine except that each has a further addition-a sort of oblique hyphen at the base representing the piece of wood upon which Christ's feet were nailed.

•

Here are the Fortunes of the future

By DON TAYLOR

London'.

MILLIONS of natives in the Sudan and the Congo wear only a Garden-of- Eden lenf girdle.

When they take to clothes-what sort will they wear? ...

Fifteen hundred million', 'paira" of bare feet-black, yellow, brown--pad the ground, right across the world.

Who will put boots and shoes on them?

Twenty million African children have never had a toy.

Who will make them toy-minded- and supply the toys?

The fortunes of the future lie in the answers to those questions.

Two out of every three human beings-around 1,600 million people-- are economically backward, even by the lowest Western standards.

But an economic revolution is in. progress.

A wage-packet is being taken by an Increasing number of brown, yellow, and, black men into homes where it was never known before.

WHITE RUSSIA IN

SEINE ET OISE

It was a quick success, and one of the first pupils was Miss Dorothy Paget, who became so attached to the Princess

that

on leaving she offered her a place in the country and pald

:

By HUGO CHARTERIS

Prinerss Gallizine, Countess Gregoire Kirpitcheff; who cooked Baranoff, Countess Hieroth, Mine for royalty and made a success of Toistol

and the widows of Princess Mes'chersky's finishing Admiral Kolchak and General school?:

Koutlepoff, the vigorous man who "disappeared" in Paris in the late.

Some of the crosses are. the cheapest wood, some the most expensive marble, and by one of them a life-size retirement. statue of a woman in black,

The Princess, fond of work, ceramic looks down with refused for herself but accepted ceramic eyes while holding for the old and destitute. high a plastic electric light

An empty shooting box Was shaped like a classical torch. bought, and for 18 years, up till tiles and was never heard of

1930 Miss Dorothy Paget gain. Often this light shines all housed

and supported a hun-

Plates are served round briskly night. The woman who had it dred and fifty White Russians pul there, DVCT her soldier at Ste. Genevieve des Bols, in- by Colonel. Boulis, inte of the He conceals watches beside it rave, dawn comes up behind cluding two priests who estab- Imperial Infantry.

lished the cemetery and the his age with a brisk moustache the green onion-shaped domo chapel, a resident doctor and and a black mess-jacket buttoned of the graveyard chapel, when eight-nurats.

Bon's

untli

Ene goes to pray among

and incense.

ikong

"C'est exagerer un peu," say

Still growing

rearby_householders. But they AROUND the chapel, the ceme-

on one side, and he gives out the plates 19 though they were orden. :

The old people cat with relish..

aro French, whereas thetery, the old people's Home is not the chef none other than watcher and the graves are all and round Princess Mestcher- White Russian.

sky, living nearby, and organis-

For this is the place where in the Home, the Colony grew

a White Russian, since he can-

picce

up.

point

of

in the

not be buried in Russia, would It is still growing-from the Like to be buried. It has be- Rusalan racial-political point of come for hlin

of view a mere tuber, but from Russia,

Russia. his

humanitarian Hero the Cossack general, faithful boot- view, a minute oasis boy, "bourgeois ideallst," clerk ever-growing desert of exiled An oasis in the sense and liberal Intellectual, Ho in a people, crowd, side by aldo. The that the people there regard Vonguard of 20th century themselves as lucky. DPË,"

Quite a colony

Today the Home is run by the daughter-in-law ot the late Princess Mestchersky, Antoinette Mestehersky, a vigorous French White Russian who tells

woman who receives 400 francs- you all this may smile, as a day from the Assistance though at the futility of feeling publique...par vieillard." patriotic and "Russian" about

THE

a hayfield in Seine el Olse, or Her waiting list of applicants at the fuillity of minding what is "never less than 200." She has happens

the body after her work cut out. death, or at the general futility

to

A

The dining room is half empty because of the bedridden. My guide takes the fo the top ficor, where nursts come and go with medicines and scold the senile as though they were' in high-chairs. Harmlessly mad

sunk checks, a hooked nose and a towel tied round his head give him the look of an Arab beggar.

He does not remember any- thing, being nearer a hundred tiran ninety, and harmlessly mad. But he enjoys his food. His jaws champ with the extra activity of the iccthless, and his selection of and manner of sitting in the sun and his bright eyes nothing but joie de vivre.

Here is a new potential con sumer market.

And the most valuable peizo of all ta that represented by the 470 million "under-developed" people of The British Common- wealth and Empire

Our standard of living" will depend on Britain getting the biggest share of that market.

Recently, Alan Good, mand=" ging director of the Brush ABOE group, did a 25,000-mile tour and brought back around £1, 000,000 worth of orders, Includ- ing Indian and Paklatan orders worth £3,000,000 for dienst engines and agricultural plant, plus more worth £500,000 from the For Exal.

Mr. Daniel Broad, U.K. Trade' Commissioner. In. Southern Central Rhodesia, says the African native will spend · his wages in this order:

(1) Clothing for himself and his womenfolk.

(2) │A bicycle.

Instruments, Musical gramophones, cutlery cheap rugges: JewelCEAN WAL

watches, etc. is no end to research in the new markets, Threa deors down dies the

The Bata Shoe Organisation widow of the "Marcel Bourse of found that though shoes were a St Petersburg," p3-year-old Mme much-desired luxury for Afri-.. Yercaunchekoff, a millionairess cans, they would take the faces. of fabrics before the revolution.out and hang them round their Dr Cubassuk, the resident neck and cut out pieces o doctor, tells his patients that leather to make room for their

toca!

introduced So Bota

the N the edge of one bedstead, in they had gone eating "like they used to" they would all have a pool of sun, sits Professor been dead long ago.

"loafer shoe-without lacés "--¡ (of medicine) Popoff, who

especially for Africana, "

ON

brought the heir of the last Czar To some of them this thought Into the world. Sliver stubble, is a comfort: to others noi.

But you can introduce new lastes, new lines.

Sitting

on the Fence....by

PART from the fact

that there is a Cow elephant for sale at Epsom, the news in Eng- land last week was pretty dreary compared with news from foreign parts.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

could be another problem, you but in with imbecile re- "Which husband am I buying marks which have nothing to it for?

do with the current conversa- tion?

Shirts, dustbins, frying pans, amt cigarettes went up in price.

Three matches are to be taken out of every twopenny box of 50, maybe on the assumption From Cannes, came the news

1. Are you willing to take "Until I knew Russians," she that if you can't afford the usual that Queen Narriman "is the says, "I always thought Dostoev-number of cigarettes you won't life and soul of parties, and responsibility for the stupid jokes with everyone most of the things you do? - For instance, sky had exaggeraled for artistic need so many matches.

timey which shows that a girl if you slip on a banana skin and ho sets great store by burial in purposes,' that his characters were

A whimsical councillor sug cf spirit can be married to King crack your silly hrad, do you this place. Rich White Rus- more symbolic than photographic. gested that

State-owned sinns, he points out, for no But not a bit. He didn't cxag-pubs in Harlow, Essex, shall be Farouk and laugh it off. blate the person who left it there, the Minister of Food for And poor ones, gerate a bit."

butterflies and And from

in Cyprus, importing bananas, or yoursel report of all for not looking

of the White Russian plight.

Nevertheless he admits

other purpose.

use their last energies to get s

named

afler

the

How did she choose from the moths, forgetting that if insects came the 72 0.

place in the "Maison Ruse 200 applicants? "One rule only are painted in bright colours on "A grocer of Nicosia was zo im going? for the old and destitute down That of my mother-in-law. The inn aigns many regular customers the road-the certain and com- most destilute, the most ill dirst," will be frightened to go inside. paratively pleasant walling roam for the converted 'hay-

field.

In

The scene

fest, quite a Russian TO be the most III and most de- alitute of Whlie Russians is to colony has sprung up at Ste

*

CRC

*

where you're

pressed by the beauty of Mrs Hazet Mooney, wife of an RAF. sergeant, that he rushed round: the counter and kissed her twice when she came in to pay."

8. Can you listen to the opinions of others? Or do YOU Where is the grocer in Festive interrupt before you know what London milkmen threatened to Britain who could be so, gallant their opinions are? If somebody. Genevieva dei Bois. A hundred 'be ill and destitute indeed. It was girike...The Ministry of Agt!" and gay? Where is the British, then tells you to. shut your trap and thirty old and infirm, with the foreboding of the com- culture. bought another experi- About a hundred and fly who fortable about to be confronted mental farm (306 acres) with grocer who could say "Sorry, do you blame him for being

no eggs this week, ducks, pub muide, or yourself for being. because the live and work. And all the with the suncomfortable that your money,"

here's a kiss inscad"?

pompous bore? time visitors from far and entered a chateau standing among they bought at Titchfield (also her

villas, allotments, electric installs with your money) is slap bang you inten

You might also ask. where is In the middle offa zlínį restrved tions and weeds

Linen was bring aired from every window. Old people about in the shade.

Under a portrait of Alessandra

It all depends, my dear prow woman, complaining to a Becretary-General

newspaper, wrote: "I mid to the tror, on the age of the woman, Ivanovna, Apleologue, whose ancestors ruled bus conductor, Can you tell me the age of the grocer, and the Byzantium, said "By all means the stop for Curion-street? His 180 of the egg. take a look round. It's not pretty, reply was, I am not an informa some of 11

tion bureau.”

near,

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4 Can you aválí, repeating

lider: for the United States after seeing all I want of the Festival of Britain.

Also to thank you, Honey Cat, for your hospitality and for doing so much to improve. Auglo American relations, which need some improvement considering some of the all-in

-holds-barred battles I had." with Lendeu mags.

The best lime. I had, waS with you in your garden at home, and not on the South Bank or in the Dome of Dis- covery, as I am not interested in discovering anything im less it is a leg of thicken on a cat, and I am more Interested in

donies.

dames than

So far as the ash cans of Britain are concemed, there is nothing of the spirit of festival abor them.

In fact, I'll any they are dead loss, as every chicken bone has been picked ; clean and loft-overs oro things -

young British_cals doly hear fabuit from their

who have

dame the fuoriage of All the chow is erriainly keeping the sheets of Britain streamlined, "anth in this respect ihe; spirit

afestival was

Why here? - you ask. Why

-percent. particularly In Ste Genevieve

das Bols?

Didn't you know, they reply. about Miss Dorothy Paget, the racehorse owner, and the late Princess Mertchorský.

No.

Quick success

at

for a £20,000,000 ol refinery, the woman in Britain, festival or ad nauseam: Thank heaven 1 probably to be bulli with your not who would exchange a. have a tense of humour"? And

zeccar's kiss for an erst

do you know that most people money loo

Who say to over havar

A

5) If somebody la” pranáteli

(50

Among the memories shall take back "with">" me "ara "the

rer your head are you pigght you stole some cold roas chuck out of your own larder, and you and me eating it on the old garden wall;

enough to say: "Ho's a belter tha Cha, am,”meven iita you think he h ̄a: wily two-faced, by double-crossing sycophanthi

YOUN & Do you know you're a fool?

RE you a well-balanced

"sonality?

A 70-year-old man in slippare this the Festival spirit?" All about was my gulde. "X was a student she asked bilerly; WHEN Princes Mastchersky in St Petersburg," he said, Wescaped from Rusain after In the dining room the mill the revolution waho settled in of garlic, mingled with the smell Paris with four things standing of incense. One burner hung between herself and starvation- before a religious picture, Eight

in other parts of the Low: jewels her cher comp took portraits of Ctars, and world where there is no feruat,

** Czarinas looked down on paupers Imagination: and her 4ilie.

No penny, braketa for the eating the water chin soup of the Prople seem to be more carefree,

Assitane Publiquelon, planu Pidt want report Princess, she decided to capit Falise all four. In

If you can univer 100; pirognt of the question" you are well

'you' are obiljed

550 percent) of the

"If you can Biswer" "Yos” to this

question, you are, prcbably {wlier; per- than most 40 sBUT NON

The walk en

the moonlight with me che you in and out of tha: and your, hig_eyea”, shi

·reen and lovely

Paws across the seama ca that rot allan

Howers