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THIS DREAM MEANS:
Your soar. Ing here re- presents. A велас of You power.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY," SÉPTEMBER 6, 1952.
YOU BENT UB THIS DREAM.
YOU WERE ABLE BY A PEDALLING MOTION OF THE FEET TO TAKE OFFd 'AND SOAR INTO
THE AIR. IT WAS MOSTLY AT NIGHT
YOU DID THIS)
YOU TOOK GREAT PLEASURE ~ IN POUNCING DOWN.ON
UNSUSPECTING PEOPLE
pinches and rune away or squats behind another boy so that he
can you.
element of Implahi mischievousness which makes you want to assert your sense of power by teasing and annoying people when they are unprepared and cannot refalfhie.
You are in your dreams at any rate-like the lüe boy who
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1 Tittle-tattle (6)
1 Coarse (5)
4 Student at military college 2 Bent down (5)
(5)
7 Out of date (8)
8 Cuts short (5)
9 Lithe (4)
11 Unaffected (7)
13 Licences (7)
15 Chase (0)
18 Outer covering (0)
19 Repeal (8).
20 Upright (5)
21 In being (6)
YESTERDAY'S
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4 Belleve (0)
5 Throws away (8)
tree decoration
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10 Influence successfully (8)
12 Caluminte (7)
13 Awkward situation (0)
14 Unbroken (8)
10 Correct (5)
17 Occurrence (5)
CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Abet, 4 Cricket,
8 Rare, 8 Blue, 10 Appears, 11 Muse, 12 Dado, 14 Sailors, 17 Adorn, 19 Caste, 22 Elected, 28 Stop, 27 Fits, 28 Barrier, 29 Idly, 30 Agog, 31 Isolate, 32 Nude. Down: 2 Ballad, Tremor, 4 Crass, 5 Repeat, 6 Creel, 7 Error, 12 Dale, 13 Donc, Oast, 18 Step, 18 Defeat, 20 Assign, 21 Tolled, 23 Leans, 24 Carol, 25 Dirge.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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The Man No Culture Snob Can Miss
RUMOUR AND REFLEC- TION, by Barnard Baren- con, Constable, 400 pages. 30%.
HEN In 1944 shortly
be pushed over can conflue your mischievousness to dreams, Wafter the liberation of
well and good. But teasers are never popolar; sil·less teasers who run AWAY.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
The mother who made this picture says, "I was so glad I had my camera handy when I saw my son having fun with the Jamb."
"If Your Daddy Could See You Now
So
THE words in the title of to- holiday or there isn't a parilcu. day's column are spoken by lar occasion which leads Dad to a mother... and it is to the take it out. That isn't the right mothers who frequently say way to do it, if you want to ec- that, that I am writing.
cumulate a worth-while picture of your youngsters, These words are spoken dally recorti by thousands of mothers in In- Dozens of interesting things, well worth picturing, happen dulgent tones of approval, re-
If all of the things proval, or disapproval, as they worth remembering were
every day. watch their youngsters' nellons
served for special occasions, te while father is away.
I'm afraid the moral of my wouldn't be much fun. atory is obvious. Of course, don't wait until Junior's cowlick все Cynthia splash is slicked into unfamiliar sub- Daddy can ing in the tub or baby busily mission and Cynthia dressed in engaged an important study a rare state of unwrinkled per- of his toes it Mother keeps the fection. Pictures are more fun camera handy.
and inore appealing if your sub- A mother's
picture-taking Ject is as is. opportunities are such as to Many mothers are getting make professional photographers excellent story-telling pictures Within her of their children-indoors and green with envy. home and family she is sur- outdoors. The formula? Keep rounded, 24 hours a day, with your camera loaded with film the props, subjects, and situa and ready for action, and your tions
that "I-Your- they must scheme and eye alert when
Daddy Could See You - spend to create.
In some homes, the camera is Now moment presents itself. kept tucked away in the deal It may never happen again. drawer when the family isn't on
John van Guilder
Notes On Keeping Cool
THEN THERE ARE : THE ONES WHO BELIEVE IN DRESSING ()LIGHTLY ... AND WIO DONT GIVE A HOOT WHAT THEIR NEIGHBORS THINK.
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Florence, a party of Ameri can journalists visited the author of these diaries in his neighbouring villa, I Tatti, Berenson asked one of them why he had come. "I felt." who the reply, "you were a right one had to sco" I is of such visit:es, that ho writes: "It is so hard to find polite way
of rating rid of bores. Even cut-boring them won't do, as they coma for the prestige of being received."
by DAVID FARRER
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
three fogbound days in
London
Mellon
broke
off the hego- tiations, and, shortly after, Duveen broke off his business arrangements with. Berenson,
Such a career would anyway have pastureMĚ Berenson Jume of a sort. These diaries, which cover the war years 1941-1944, go far to explain why it is famo et the better sort.
Benson (BB. to his count lecs admirers, Il Bibt to Italians of every class) shares with an- other great expatriate, Sir Max Beerbohm, who has also chosen B.B. chose to remain in Italy' Italy as his second home, the his home for 84 years. He distinction of boing the most faced, at the age of 78, complete. famous Hulng monument in disruption of his lite and, Inter, Western Europe. To be recely- when the villa where he had od for the first time at.I Tatti been hidden after the German. has been and still is, for the occupation was in the front line artistic, Ilterary and snob at the battle for Florence, con- culture world, the equivalent of stant physical danger. He day the debutante's prosentation at to day record shows civilised court.
values triumphant over all that This 88-year-old American war could do. Ho kept his head citizen-by birth a Lithuanian and used it very wisely. Ho has Jew-has for long been acknow- given us, a fascinating picture ledged the greatest living art of Italy reluctantly at war. expert and critic. His verdicts He is no saint. His claws are
always have brought joy of sorrow to not
#heathari, many a collector, and cash to portrait of Carlo Pincel, an many an art dealer-in parti- Italian to whom he coys he was cular to the greatest of them, devoted, is instinct with malice, the inte Lord Duveen.
Carlo's abiding passion was to
consort' with an bassadors
and
For thirty
years these two
ed
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as Duveon's as "The Minister of Affairs that basis, artistic adviser. To the Ameri- do not count." can millionäres who
Lady Oxford appears in theso Woro Duveen's
special market, pages as "Malaprops Uko Mar- Berenson verdict was conclusive, got Asquith"; there is referenco The association splintered to "auch honry Victorian jokers finally co the rock of Berenson's as Bernard Shaw." And B.B.'s "well-known artistic integrity. Duveen war comment on the about to sell to Andrew Mellon triad of Sitwelle" is Ukely to for 750.000 dollars what he cause rage at Renishaw, maintained
a Cilorgidney Someone had referred to tho Mellon asked for B.B.'s certi- beautiful pictures stored at the cate. But B.B.. when he heard Sitwell Castle Monterufoni, ""To of the sale, refused to authenti- my knowledge," commenta cate. It was, he said, an early Berepson, "they had no old Titian. There are only about a masters that I would have given dozen authenticated Glorglones 100 dollars for.", in the world, and
the But the final impression is of Titians
Fun into hundreds. a mellow late autumn day, even if there is a nip in the aff, "No resolutions," he says, at the beginning of these diaries, at my age unless to be as Uttle of a nuisance as possible to others first, and then to myself, for the rest of my days." In Rumour and Reflection he gives grat pleasure.
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THEN THERE'S ANICE, COOL RIDE IN THE CAR.... ATS
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THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE.
by Margery Allingham.-- Chatto and Windus, 272 pages. 12s. 6d.
JACK HAVOC SECapes from
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