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THIS DREAM MEANS:

A spot of naglibourly jealousy, 1.

Dreame keep

on trying to bring to your 00 11- solous mind some of tho things you've been trying to forget

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of

Top rows;

not only

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1952.

YOU BENT US THIS DREAM...

AS YOU

LOOKED FROM YOUR WINDOW

THE WOMAN FROM THE HOUSE]

OPPOSITE APPEARED ON A CLOTHES UNE

THAT SLOPED INTO

THE NEXT GARDEN

things like sex, but also the mean, pelty things, that, give you a bad conselence, liko envy and Jealousy, hatred and trickery,

Here jealousy seems to be rearing is uzly head. You feel that your neighbour can do most things, intrude into other

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A British Crossword Puzzle

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1 Subject (5).

ACROSS

1

Ordeals (6).

4 Primary (5).

2 Fire-raising (5),

3 Unusual (7).

7 Keep (8).

& Servants (5).

▸ Gun (6).

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Well-bred (7).

13 Protective bank (7).

15 Delighted (0). -

18 Sharp ().

19 Embrocation (0).

20 Finished (5).

21 Prayer (6).

4 Adversary (0).

5 Inmate (8).

0 Ornamental pendant (8).

10 Nourished (8).

12 Everlasting (7)

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Extol (6).

14 Skinned (0).

14 Acknowledge (5),

17 Feeble-minded (5),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Fees, 4 Romance, 8 Trip, 9 Spur, 10 Deßelt 11 Omen, 12 Fell, 14 Reverse, 17 Adult, 19 Smart, 22 Treated, 20 Alas, 27 Pull, 28 Echelon, 29 Ants, 30 Sced, 31 Settles, 32 Yorn. Down: 2 Espied, 3 Stroll, 4 Rider, 5. Opened, 0 Alike, 7 Cribs, 12 Fast, 13 Lure, 15 Real, 18 Eats, 18 Depose, 20 Malady, 21 Rafter, 23 Ruche, 24 Agent, 25 Dunes.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"I DONTCARE!

I THINK HE

HAS A LOVELY

VOICE AND

IA GOING

TO VOTE FOR HIM?

THERE'S NOTHING SO WASTEFUL OF

TIME AND ENERGY AS ARQUING-

POLITICE WITH SOME GALE ............

ESPICIALLY THE WIFE.

VOICE

455.

THE BED

RODAL

む

TRED. DO

You klow

IT'S 4.A.ME

THEN SHE PUT OUT HER

ARMS AND RAN EASILY DOWN INTO THE NEXT GARDEN

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

reviews the NEW BOOKS

THE SAGE OF BALTIMORE: the life and riotous times of H. L. Menckon. By William Mancestor. Melrose, 21s. 272 pages.

AMONG primitive tribes, a painful and humiliating

ordeal marks the boy's advance into manhood. In the protracted adolescence of America, H. L. Mencken served as a one-man rite of Initiation.

people's affairs, Le, gardens: even walk the tightrope AND get reason. away. with it.

How you wish YOU could. But does 8h07 ·

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

A filter which cut down fight from the sky helped to provide a dark background for this snowy goat,

Picturing Stock on the Farm

FEW weeks ago I visited a farm, which prides itself on its stock. Its cattle frequently win Arst prizes at fairs in our part of the country; its sheep and hogs are well regarded hy local livestock breeders. Lining the walls of the owner's office are pictures of his champloos.

Such plctures, made to show blue the characteristic points of ribbon winners, are fur different froin the amateur's simple

animal snaps. Yet I am sure most picture takers could learn much much from these shots, And could learn much from the skilled photographer who specialises in

in them

The. big thing in picturing

farid animals, the owner told me, "is patience. Animals can't be hurried. I've watched when most of thear pictures were made. The photographer always moved deliberately, careful not to frighten the animal lest it. bolt across the field."

Looking at the pictures,' I could detect other tricks of the

Speaking Of Waste

INYOU THINK I'M

GOING TO WASTE MY FIGURE ON ANY OLD MOUNTAIN YOU'RE CRAZY/ 1}^ GOING, TO THE CLORE.

WELL, WHAT DO

YOU THINK?

REMEMBER THE

TIME AND ENERGY WE VASTED TRY- ING TO PUT A JIG- SAV PIZZLE TO- GETHER P

Moder

BEAUTY PARLOR

ON THE

OTHER HAND

IF HE CAN

CAPRY

CALO-

JOME FOLKS HAVE A GREAT AVERSION TO

WASTE OF ANY KTAD,

COPR., 1998 BY GENERAL FEATURES

COAF YALWORLD NIGHTS RISERTED.

• BUT THE.

MACHINE CROWD IS IN CONTROL

AND

MORE ENERGY IS WASTED YELL-

ING AT THE

THE POLITICAL PROPILS, UMPIRE THAN;

ETS WASTE ENOUGH". ENERGY TO TAKE A JET PLARE UP 49030. -TEXT AND THEY LEAVE US JUST AS PAR OP. IN THE AIRS

„IT TAKES TO.

GET A ROMINATION

PRESIDENT

Ye

In the mid-twenties, this human 'gadfly made himself responsible for the rescue of American civilisation, as he saw It from puritans, politicians, progressives, reactionaries, taadies of England, bad writers, and others foes of light and

His attack had enormous high spirits and no play. It was about as dis- criminating as a Gre-hose in

fair

the hands of

a drunken

anilor.

He horrified

the old and

staid: gave

unholy delight

The riotous

times of

Mr. Mencken

to the young. He was a main Drafting a law to legalise the influence in creating the new assassination of public officials America of the thirties, the whom he referred to consistent- America of Roosevelt and the ly as Hohorary Pallbearers); New Deal.

Proposing a dollar-a-day levy After one look at that Ameri- on bachelors (of whom he was ca, Mencken decided he disliked one) on the ground that it was it more than anything in the a-small price to pay for hopp!- world. But against it he fought 'ness;

The weapons that had Supporting votes for women, been effective against the sorry believing that it would bring and flagrant shama of the old democracy into final contempt. Anterien that, went down with

in vain

Calvin Coolidge to the grave were useless against an age

Planes and Politics

ground:

which accepted half Mencken He reviewed 2,000 books in six sold (and therefore did not wish years. He convinced himself by to read about it), and rejected mathematics that acroplanes the other half as beneath its in- could not get off the

when they did so, he was bamed. tellectual contempt.

An scropiane never flew over Mencken's mission and Baltimore but he rushed out vogue-was over.

hoping against hope that

J

T

it-

camera trade. Light coloured

He was the son of a German would fall out of the sky. animals, such

as sheep, were cigar-maker in Baltimore: grew His views on polities had the posed against dark backgrounds, up to like German musle (play- grand simplicity of one who has Darker animals generally had ed by himself), German philo- read Nietzsche in n hurry, been pictured against light bacis-sophy (Interpreted by himself), Socialism was "nothing more grounds. Mort of the

shots and

German beer (drunk by than the theory that the slave were stdelighted to bring out himself), He called Plener- is more virtuous than his the animals' contours.

Urquell's cellar in Bohemia

"the master. All cradle of the human race."

Mencken, He'sald Many of the shots had

been paid a visit to Germany before spiracy taken

animals fed. 48 the

the 1014-18 war; from that day man.” "They're easy to handle then,"

never ceased to regret the Kal-, I was

all were scr. told. Abd marked by one thing: In every case the animals* cars were paintedly erzet.

government,"

con-

against the superior

For such remarks he WIA called "a clever and bitter Jew." He was for years listed in the Immense Audience Jewish Who's Who, laughed every time that book of reference I asked the owner about this.

was published. He is not a Jew. "There's nothing," he said, "that

He became a journalist (on a

• makes an

When the 1814-18 war came animal look more Baltimore dally and a New York fired than dropping cats. They monthly) in order to become a be hoped Britain would be lick- don't look well in n'pleture. Bo minor prophet. Ho shocked; od; when the United States,

ready to scandalised and amused at joined the night-Mencken aw

every time we are Bhool, Dcused and set to click immense audience by the shutter,, I try to

make quick, shorp noise to attract the animal's

attention. Invariably he pricks up his ears And at that noment--Snap,"

Joku van Guilder.

Defending prostitution, Sun- day sports, alcohol and war;

Attacking democracy every elvil improvement Baltimore;

BỤ KEMP STARRETT

#YOU'RE BALMY." I GOT

THE BIGGEST DOG-GONE -TOMATOES - AND BEANS-IN

THE STATE...AN' I DIDN'T DO ANY Oʻ

THOSE

THINGS/

ADVICE, TO SOME -PEOPLE- WE KNOW IS AS WASTED AS

SPILLED MILK.

#SLON)

MUCH?

DONT

KHOV

WHERE

IT GOES

BUT ère

THINK OF ALL THE HERVOUS ENERGY THAT'S

WARTED TRYING

TO BEAT A BUDGET...OR.

A TAX BILL.

THERE'S A LOT

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OF POLITENESS AND GENIALITY BEING.

WASTED TRYING TO MAKE A TOUGH ·

THESE DAYS.

.

that his sophisticated magazine, The Smart Set, would lose money. He turned a quick dollar with a magazine called Soucy . Storica,

and

After the war he launched In the American Mercury 23 a kind of tank onslaught on his coun- try's way of life. One story. about the alleged aphrodisiac effects of revivalist sermons, got the magazine banned in Boston. Mencken sold a copy in a Boston street to the chief tocal censor. He was instantly arrested.

The judge decreed that, as the evidence was of an obscene, nature, all testimony must ke given in whispers. In spite of this 'unpromising start, and to his own astonishment. Mencken was acquitted.

Prohibition

The

Prohibition-known 03 Horror-was a bitter blow, and a magnificent target, to this beer- lover. Reduced to the last 700 battles in his cellar, he brewed. beer for himself. On the day his friends assembled to taste this marvel, it all blew up.

At a party, he and his partner, George Jean Nathan, the drama- tic critic, were accosted by a red-headed drunk who fald, "So you guys are critics, are you? Well, let me tell you some- thing. I am the bost goddam writer in this here goddam coun

Next day, Mencken found manuscript from this horror on his desk. From Baltimore he wrote to Nathan: "Grab hold of the bar-rail; steady yourself. By God, that tump has done the job. I begin to believe that, perhaps there isn't a God after

ry." No

The drunk was Sinclair. Lewis; the book, Main Street..

Rejected MSS for The Ameri can Mercury were returned with a note: "Mr Mencken has just entored a Trappist monastery at Gethsemane, Ky. No mall will be forwarded."

Marriage

In 1830, this rolstering bacho- lor married; when his wife ́dléd, five years later, he said: “It was a beautiful adventure while it With age he mellowed, would

not admit iti Ho

Lusted."

but

Gavo. Bibles to S

but when boméohë

Thiá

obituary should be brought up to date, he maids. "Just add ong wad one line: As ho

Grew older, he grew worse.

que had a But Into a bitter

pract{en) Joke to play on this stupendous

practitioner of the written and.. the printed word. In 1947, ho. had a stroke; after that he could neither read nor write, or lear to do aither. The curtain-has not fallen, the lights on the

re are darkened. stogo

Mencken stands out in this rough-shaped, partison and un- critical blography as a great Journalist, a fantastic person- nifty, a potent pick-me-up for a

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