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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1952.

A British Crossword Puzzle..

2.

15

ACROSS

1 Mischievous creatures (4).

4 Plunder (7).

0 Fastaned (4).

9 German Woman (4).

10 Books (7).

11 Nobleman (4)

12 Extinct bird (4).

14. Admonish (7),

17, Lifeless (5).

19 Carries on (a):

22 Vest (7).

26 Clever (4).

27 Litter (4).

28 Position (7).

20 Staff (4).

30 Ballot (4).

31 Theatre attendant (7).

32 Rough (4),

32

DOWN

2 Colour (0)..

3 Coma (0),

4 Carousal (5),

5 Worshipped (8).

Dwarf (5).

7 Applaud (5).

12 Excavates (4).

Clerie

19

(4).

15 Press (4).

10 Formerly (3).

18 Take away' (0),

20 Reply (8).

21 Merited (0),

23 Bury (5).

24 Portain (5).

25 Vocalist (5),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Madcap; 5 Ralse, F Baker, 9 Russet, 10 Singe, 11 Trots, 12 Hard, 13 Feats, 10 Robust, 16 Brutal, 20 Trees, 22 News, 23 Stags, 25 Annul, 26 Lopped, 27 Meter, 28 Fever, 28 Sensed. Down: 1 Merchant, 2 Describe, 3 Abet, 4 Patriot, 5 Restful, 6 Arises, 7 Sight, 14 Attempts, 15 Sutsided, 18 Rustler, 17 Bangles, 10 Resume, 21 Range, 24 Sore

THIS DREAM.

MEANS:

Very much

an engage- meni dream.

You scale the heights

of

with

emotion

with your

מתן

flance but there is cond frustration

and

you bow fail from those heights.

The

trus- tration seems

YOU WERE CLIMBING

WITH GREAT, DIFFICULTY)

OVER SNOWYR

MOUNTAINS

WITH YOUR

FIANCE

to be greater for your Bance (he falls into the lake as well) and because you are well aware of this you are concerned about his welfare and want to help him.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WHEW!

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

If you divide this picture. inip thirds, vertically and horizontally, you'll find that the youngstera were caught In the view finder at a point where two of the lines cross.

It's A Matter of Thirds PICTORIAL composition is a proposed picture in the view

camera, and matter of artistry, rather inder of your

science, divide the picture area into than mathematicgi but strange as it may seem, one thirda, vertically and horizontal- These lines will cross at of the simplest and most useful ly.

and it has been of composition has its four points rules basis in plane geometry.

that any one of these four. This is commonly known as the "rule of thirds" and will help the placement of your primary subject. Secondary points of be located at or interest can near any of the other three in- tersections.

to

་

oints offers a natural spot for

cinine of

to determine where in your you picture to place the point, ur points, of emphasis for the best effect. Such a point is essential

To be This avoids the static quailty, that a good picture. meaningful, a shot must have often results from placing a sub-

jeet in the dead

the some one thing or group of picture area,

the things that

stand out of course, like all rules, must

rule of thirds is made to be broken show sufficiently to

that it or and varied in accordance with par-

situations. the reason for ticular

However in they provided

georial, it's good guide, and sou making the picture.

Wii and that it works párticularly To make use of the rule of well when you are. Uczling

With thirds requires a little imagina- action and movement. tive drawing of lines. Study your

WHEN AT LAST YOU CAME TO A PEAK, YOU

BOTH FELL YOUR FIANCE! FELL INTO A LAKE BUT

YOU WADED IN AND PULLED HIM OUT AND TOLD HIM TO [GET INTO DRY CLOTHES

John Van Gullßér,

Such dreams are a natural result of the emotional tensiona of the engagement period. Ordinarily the problem is one that time alone solves: but if they recur frequently your engagement may be lasting too long.

Those Fussy Feeders

A Queen's dress bill

£3000 A YEAR

by George Malcolm Thomson

A QUEEN AT HOME. By Vera Watson. W♪H, Allen, 18%.

264 PP.

TN all the ninetconth contury was "the Painto", ever faced with a graver crisis than the visit. (1873):bf the Shah of Persia?

Wan there ever a time when those remote, stately (but very human) officials who surrounded, the Queen- Widow had so

many problema · BUT DID SHE GET

to deal with,..

and 80 few VALUE FOR MONEY?

precedents to

help them?

True, there had been, six years before, the State visit of the Sultan of Turkey which coat the Palace, £8,922 14s. 10d., including twelvo quarts of cau de Cologne for the royal guest and his auito.

in the Royal Berlin had left "disastrous" effects. Worse, the "free and easy manners of the accustomed to Shah,, not yet

had given offence to tho

are

own status as a great Oriental the society of European pr***

her.

were patience She asked her

s'an royal family. Nobody had dared to tell the Shah that he should not grab a chair

The visit of the Shah was "encampment” likely to be infinitely. more Palace In complicated. But there was no escope. It was part of the price. the Queen must pay for

Yet there potentate.

her moments when wore thin. Comptroller irritably why the Shah was called "Imperial. the Queen waa seated, or take the elbow to "Because he is Shah-in-Shah," het

her Majesty by It Rave make her get up, or put his satisfaction. "That's no rea- fingers into the dishes, or take son," her Majesty retorted, food out of his mouth to-look the The Foreign Office finally re- at it, or fling it under ported that the Shah was not table if it did not suit his taste, *mperial."

was the answer.

no

untli

The Shah usually had his meals in private and on the

carpet.

ap-

If the German court wak The Persian monarch made shocked "by the manner his way to London by Moscow which the Shan consoled him- and Berlin. Inquiries sped half for the absence of his across Europe. Was it true the harem," Buckingham Palaco Shah was bringing three wives? was unlikely to be less Would he expect them to be w

be palled, especially when it be ledged in Buckingham Palace? cam

came known that the Shah had "Does he drink wine or, like

Constantinople tolographed to other Persians prefer spirits to send on two Georgion and those of the strongest kind? slaves. Does he sleep on the floor of In bed?

Doca he st on chairs?

a

It turned out that "the ladies" had been sent back from Moscow. The Shah would sleep in a bed and sit on chur. A good firework display would be very acceptable.

After the Shah's Berlin visit, the most unpleasant news ar rived in London. Ills Majesty's followers did not pay for what they ordered in shops. Their

BO KEMP STARRETT

HUH!

After these alorins the visit went off splendidly, the only trouble being to get rid of the Royal visiter, or enterta'n him while he slayed.

Although the Persian visit is the vellest chapter in this account, drawn largely from the Lord Chamberlain's, papers, of social life at Victoria's Court, it is by no means the only sidelight it throwa on 4 vanished era.

While Europe quivered un- dar the impact of the Franco- Prussian war, the Lord Cham- berlain was worried because

Stanley of Alderley pro- osed to

"present" his wife, with whom ho WOS said to have lived before marriage.

Lord Stanley replied that Tu- mours had been spread by "he unnatural malevolence" of

of hia family. He had been married at Algiers before Musulman wilnesses, Lady Stanley vas. admitted to the Palace, E

'TIS SAID SOME NOT ONLY DONT WANT KIPPERED HERRING FOR BREAKFAST BUT DONT WANT IT AT ANY TIME —OR CLOSER. THAN POUR MILES AWAY.

MAYBE ITS

YOUR

GLAIDS/*

EELER-10 THANKS! FIVE SEEN

THE SHAKES IN THE ZOO!

I CAN'T EAT BREAD POTATOES, PEDDINGS CHOCOLATE, ICE CREAM OR, ÁNY FATT......... AT LEAST THAT'S WHAT THE DOCTOR SAYS.

OTHERS VONT

EAT OYSTERS: THEY SAY THEY CAN FEEL THEAL VIGGLING ALL THE WAY DOWN.

R

"AND

I HAVE TO BE

UP RATHER EARLY

BI THE MORN-

ING

THEY SAY THAT GARLIC HAS RUINED AS MANY, ROMANCES AS HAYE IN-LAWS, ANOTHER GAL· OR PERPETUALLY VAG- GING TONGUES.

JUST CAN'T EAT ANYTHING. (WHEN ANYCHES

LOOKING)

IT SAVES A MAN FROM

WORKING.

HOW CAN YOU EAT THAT SLOP?

UGH!

I WOULDN'T EVEN STEP IN IT LET ALONE TASTE IT!

"THE CRACKER-AND-MILK LADS OR THE VEGETARIANS ARE AS POPULAR WITH THE AEAT EATERS ÁS A STOMACH ULCER. (OR A BUSTED

LEGO

"ODY!

"NO"THANKS!

SEE ENOUGH

OF THAT SORT

OF THUNG IN

THE RAV

CUTE, 1993 DE GENERAR FEATURES GOLF, TIA WORLD RIGHTË RESGEVER,

THEN THERE ARE TROSE KOSPITAL MEALS .... THAT:

·TASTE TOO MUCH"

LIKE MOHDAY MORNINGS WASA.

5.4.2

NURSES, THEY SAY, HAVE NO MORE USE S FOR LIVER. BRAVIS OR. GIZZARDS

THAN A PIG HAS FOR

ARLS

Less happy was the outcome

of the affair of Dr Horsley Dakins, Chaplain-In-Ordinary, who took to drink and ran in- to debt, at Buxion. When the pleaded treedom from- arrest as n' Quecu's chaplain, Prince Albert insisted that, the Queen should dismiss the errant priest. Qucen Victoria upent more than £3,000 a year on clothes. Whether she got value for the money may be doubted in vlow of the account of an opening ce Parliament given by Mr Anson, gentiemas usher: "After one smile her countenance re- lapsed into that peculiar Axed look of melancholy. I thinke the wore a purple dress,

Royal mourning. A pleasant chringe" The drainage: it Buckingham Puloce. (which led into, this kain palace dusters piper), the

(always

Windsor

piring the

chimney sweep An undesirabla woman)out of a thousand trifics Vera. Watson, builds up a pichire of a court and its queen. A book, casy to read, and :) to lay down.

(who lived with an

HENRY VIIN A DIFFICULT PATIENT. By Sir Arthur S. MacNally, Christophëk, Johnson. 181. 202 page.

WHAT

Was wrong with

Henry VIII What caused the ulcer in his leg: which brought him so much suffering and bad temper? Why did so many of his children (eight) miscarry or die at birth? Soma authorities have (bein) ready with an explanation: the King had venirzeted a shamofil in- fection.

Sir Arthur MacNally

formerly Chlet

Liedical Offer

at the Ministry Hee (In- dering all the evidence cluding the hereditary tuber cular tendency of the Tudors) finds the case not proven. In a Judicious study of one of the most fascinating medical

i

lems in blatory, he coriclaces the "ho King a "sarro, ligj was probably avarleone ulcer. No- Gody will doubt that Henry Vill:' was a difficult cose. 'mera"ways"" than “one”