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A British Crossword Puzzle

#12

18.

110.

122

26

27

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28

30

ACROSS

1 Twist out of shape (4).

4 Torn pleces (7).

8 Wander (4).

9 Set of three (4).

10 Baggage" (7),

Cemmen fund (4);

12 Bundle (4),

14 Snuggles (7).

17 Harden. (5),

10 Piece of zellef carving in

stone (5).

22 Kitchen furniture (7):

20 Outlet (4).

27 Frost (4).

28-Fainted (7).-

20 Harvest (4).

30 Clever (4).

31 Covers (7).

32 Slaughtered (4).

DOWN

2 Fller (0). ·

3 Scemly (6),

4 Claw (5).

5-Charm (6).

Taut (5).

7 Rascal (5)..

12 Lash (4),

13 Entice (4).

15 Fruit (4)

10 Discover (4).

18 Calm (G),

20 Wards off (a).

21 Hire (0),

23 Oiraman (5).

24 Plese et cullery (5)..

Travels (5)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 System, 5 Verge, 8. Rival, Carton, 10 Cured, 11 Salad, 12 Edna, 13 Testa 16 Behest, 18 Elated, 20 Siren, 22 Fres, 23 Alas, 25 Blade, 26 Gimlet, 27 Error, 28 Stirs, 29 Needed. Down: 1 Succeeds, 2 Strangar. 3 Eros, 4 Minaret, 5 Vacated, 6. Eluier 7 Guest, 14 Startled, 15' Selected. 10 Banters,, 17 Hexagon, 19 Leador, 21 Inlet, 24 Se

-THIS

DREAM

MEANS:

--A lot is com- pressed •Into this

dream:

more. than hould be inter- preted with

out

more

knowledge of the dreamer. The first part your

dream ច- geslo

a with

that your

boy-friend

THEY CALLED HIM

Lord Tattle

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

your

Tablo-Top Pictures

Of

Scandal

accepts

political ¡MONCKTON MILNES: THE married,

FLIGHT OF YOUTH. BY Ha sald. The worst part fallure, but is not reconciled to James Popo-Hennessy of failure is the envy of the suc Constable, 25%, 272 pages. cessful. It is impossible to be.

Just once to them and THE Me of Monckton

to our

Milnes ·. (born ··· 1809, wat ho must-have.

Mayfair; died 1885, Vichy) · some reward for his politien is the story of a dilletante services, Milnes sought a peer

The first age, the token of a half-success Your table-top scene should, and a fallure,

course, tell' a alory (and better) volume of in itte-for his father. It was

conter such a

benefit, could be virtually anything Pope-Hennessy's frank blo- not the first time he had tried to running to humour, fantasy, or graphy of this Victorian After an earlier effort, Peol even to sheer realism in minia- notable was entitled The had once written to him, "Que ture form. But remember

of respect for your father, The have

advise him to retain the distinc mean something. The Years of Promise. idea is really the important second is called The Fight tion of not being a baronet." jan.

For youth has thing in these table-tops. Your of Youth.

Ho sulked set doesn't have to be complice- ted. In fact, simplicity is de- flown, but promise has not finitely to be desired.

been realised.*

BAD weather is keeping

of outdoorsnopshooting activities

Imlied somewhat sometimes, how about having a go at some table-top pictures? All you need are a few props can find around the that you house-plus a bit

a bit of imaging- tion on your part. -

that might

Table-tops, as you know, are merely miniature scenes created from toys, or models or dolls- or anything else the lend itself to the purpose. Salt or baking soda, for example, makes very realistic looking Bnow, A bit of

carpet will look like grass, and coaraq sând căn be used for small pebbles. The figures in your set can be toys, or characters that you havo

from

cleaners, created

pipe modelling clay, or what-have- you.

When

assemble your assorted props, watch the scale b!! carefully. You'll want the figures to be proportionate in size LO each other and to the other urops in your set. They may appear incongruous other wise.

you

For backgrounds you can use Just plain cardboard to look like.

tapes- sky, or you could try a try a framed picture, or even an enlargement of one of your own pictures. By proper place- ment they can be made to look very convincing.

YOU WERE AT A CONCERT. WITH YOUR BOY FRIEND BUT YOUR

DREAM CHANGED AND YOU WERE SWINGING FROM A TREE IN THE JUNGLE WITH A TALL HANDSOME 'NAVAL

OFFICER

-and would be

be more remantic like the tall handsome sailor more zzzIcesively masculine, a little more of the Tarzan; ca 405- zested by this swinging from the Jungle tree-tops.

In the second part of the dream you are made to feet riði- culous and people are laughing at you. You are pulling at some

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

ONE OF THE THINGS WE ARE MOST ALLERGIC TO IS UNSOLICTED ADVICE

ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS POKED

INTO OUR RIBS WITH A TOUGH FINGERS.

*

YOU SHOULD

SEE WHAT IT

SAYS HERE ...

ABOUT BUSBANDS

r

reasons,

Ha

He was anked and stormed. His Cather

This time, through Palmer- ston-and after immense lobby....

letter was What, asks the puzzled reader, ing by Milnes-a Ordinarily, if your camera

to the elder Milnes in doesn't focus down to the closer did Monckton Milnes really do?

Pent distances, you should have a As much (the answer may be) Yorkshire. He was an upright, level-headed Unitarian, who, close-up allachment over your us ony, son of a rich manufac

7,500 acres of turing family with

without

his family; ! lens. Your figures will be small

most land and a rent-roll of '£11,000 sent the Prime Minister a nota.”“ and,

to capture them effectively, your camera should a year can be expected to do. be

In that case, why should he, courteously declining the peer- us close as possible. Your

Disraeli noted the can be a simple time have. impressed himself on his agere exposure con

and you age to the extent that he did? "despair" and (wrongly) attri exposure, of course,

buted the refusal to old Mlines's light your set with regular There are sever can

zullor of

O desire to mortify his heir. Minos household lamps. If you use was the

fairly Florence Nightingale. severni 60-watt lamps close to your ast, your exposure kind to struggling genius, like made matters worse by deriding one or two Swinburne. He collected famous the notion that the peerage was cbout run minutes at a

a medium lens aperinen, like Carlyle, He was a offered in recognition

social entrepreneur, who gather son's merits. ture, around 1/8.

at his famous breakfast The wound festered for seven" Why don't you have a try at

ties distinguished person years when Mifties, his father, come table-tops zoon? You run parties

You knew.alities who would not otherwise being dead, received a barony, whole, show,

His friends, who had called him He had some manager, electrician,

has reached the now to call him Lond Houghton, and, last but not least, the his poems

a ters- camera man in this big produc- Oxford Book of English Verso. tion. You can really have a lot He spoke pompously In Ferlin- known side of Milnes apart from Queen ment for liberal causes, hoped in the public work which of fun.

vain for office. Each speech, said Victoria recognised with a peers

Was -John van Guilder Disráell,

WOTED

the

of

bla

You're the set designer, stage have met one another one of "Lord Tattle of Scandal," had

YOUR DREAM CHANGES AGAIN. YOU ARE HANGING ON TO THE END OF THE BATH CHAIN WHILE POLISH SOLDIERS LAUGH

AT YOU

,',

director

thing which won't budge: it remains a fixture, a piece of furniture, This scents to be your today boy-friend whom you are trying to stimulate: especially stoday in comparison with the Foles who are so good at playing the gallant. Looks as if you crave & more active masculine approach: which seems only reasonable,

Allergies

I JUST CAN'T SEEA

TO DO ANYTHING

~ WITH "THEA !.

AND OF COURSE THERES THAT ALLERGY TO

·PARENTS WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO...........

ABOUT THEIR SPROUTS... HOT TO MENTION THE KIDS.

OTHERS ARE ALLERGIC TO MAGAZING ARTICLES GIVING”.

·SPECIFICATIONS: FOR THE PER- FECT HUSBAND.

VE ARE VERY

ALLERGIC

TO ANY LETTERS

LIKE "MIS...

· DEAR TRIEND:

I'VE WRACKED

·AAY BRAINS ABOIT HOW TO BEGIN -- MATHIS DANGED. LETTERS AND FOR. THE LIFE OF AL

I CAN'T THINK OF

•ANYTHING VERY

PERKY TO SAY,

CÓFR, HI II GENERAL TEATURES

CORP, TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVEJA,

*A TOLD YOU) THAT TACK WOULDN'T. HOLDS POSE YOU”

·GET A NAIL AND: HANG IT PROPERLY.

MOST TOLKE ARE ALLERGIC TO REAUNDERS OF THEIR MISTAKES. PARTICOLIDLY WHEN TILY'VE JUST CONTI CONTORTASIA CETITLED

́IS LA MUASS

DARLIN'

ITTLE

RIM-BOYS

14.03 Ho

the

one before.

was 411 intriguer

and a gossip. He kept.

his friends, but their conficesfasd

to

There was however,

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

reviews the NEW BOOKS

A faint air of absurdity clings age. The Dledonary of National

him

The liking of his Biography demurely glances at

| açqualqum stopped short of it: "He had many fine tastes and Carlyle found him come course ones * ·His first Ha most bland, smiling, semi blographer sald that geneal quizzical, affectionate, high-bred, . histories,

Gérman TATS Italianised little man who has treatises, à wonderful collection long olive-blond hair, a dimple, of criminal trials were but next to no chin.” Blackwooda few of the subjects illustrajó Magazine dismissed him

as in: ht

unique thrary" "qlib, fuent, pushing, confident, Milnes gathered together

It was an 'understatement; unabashed."

Fryston, his Yorkshire, sent, one of the most completo pom Hardly a monarch in Europe Before leaying for church on 4 graphie libraries in Europe. could review his troops-hut Sunday morning, he would Moncitton Milnes would be there

Failure

BU, KEMP STARRETT

·AND DO

THEY ANSWER

OUR CHARGES

WITO

LOGIC

"PHOOTE!"

the choicer items in an astoundi

in his Yorkshire militia uniform, genially Indicate to his guals. The chiet crisis in this second, ing collection which, ameng half of his life is semi-comic other "treasures Included: the Time is the closing stages of the works of the Marquis de Sade Crimean War, Milnes is happily

Millmere chief, adviser in ob? taining such

કન books, was psychopathic Englishman in Paris named Fred Hankey son of a general. This macabre individual (thought to have died in an asylum) had the head of "some emaciated and ja ecstatic young priest and manners exquisite tweeties. He had taste for cruelty, but thought wicked to kill animals for food One of the volumes in his library In Paris was bound human skin,

„NO! THE ONLY

THING THE DIRTY CROOKS CAN DO IS CALL US

NAMES.

"ARE YOU, TOO, ALLERGIC TO SOME OF THOSE POLITICAL: SPEECHES 2

THEN THERE ARE. THE ONES WHO ADE ALLERGIC TO BABY TALK AUD CERTAIN KUDS OF PUP-'. PAMPERING.

() WOULDN'T EVEN "STEP IN IT, LET'

"ALONE TASTE IT/

COME VIVER GET ALLERGIC TO THEIRE

HEYER VILE TRY THE

Hankey became known French authors, who read the ballet that cadlem was. The Eng

·lish vice.

Corrupted?

How did Hankey pass the bolo to Milnes through tho watchful British Customs? Som were sent in the Britle Em- bessy bag addressed to a friend of Hankey's in the Foreign Office. Most were brought in by Mr Harris, manager Covent Garden Open House, who would return from Busines [stripe to Paris with quarto volumes biddion in the small of his back.

Thus emerged the strange, erotie

collection on which young Swinburne descended with shril cries of delight, Milnes has been blamed for corrupting the poet. But Swinburne, it clear

he was half-corrupted, before reached the shelves at Fryston

In the company of a busy, amiable man, whose character had a curious streak, James Pope-Hennessy conducts an in teresting four of the Victorian world, with glimpses of una pi it's darker cornera,

MIRACLE AT CARVILLE. By Betty Martin. - Lah- 12s. 6d. 256 pages. mann, 1

TN the New Testament t I called leprosy.

Now It has gained quasi respectability. Hanten's Discont. More Impore tant, it is curable Batty Marth was celebrating Christons with her family in New Orleans in 1927 when the learned the hadi contracted the scourged Houst

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