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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1952.

A British Crossword Puzzle.

20

ACROSS

Gain (0).

4

Damp (5).

7 Mishap (0).

12

16

DOWN

1 Quietude (5).

2 Cooked in fat (5).

3 Treachery (7).

4 Extreme dislike (6).

5 Muse (8)."

Sundry (0)..

Elevnte (5),

$

Eludes (6).

11 Severe friuls (7).

13 Amalgamate (7).

10

Owned (B);

15 Hicklen (6).

12

Fall back (7).

13 Annul (8).

14 Compose (6).

18 Observed (5),

19 Cheeky (B).

20. Large spoon (5).

21 Anger (0).

16 Royal line (5).

17 Tax of one-tenth_(5),

YESTERDAY'S "CROSSWORD--Acress: 1 Aria, 4 Ripened, 8 Loan, 9 Oval, 10 Cursory. 11 Ever, 12 Brag, 14 Deleted, 17 Revel, 19 Camel, 32 Deduces, 20 Veal, 27 Sile, 28 Groused, 29 Runk, 30 Rent, 31 Despots, 32 Suds. Down; 2 Reyers, 3 Allege, 4 Raced, 5 Inured, Ensue, 7 Eyrle, 12 Bröd, 13 Avid, 15 Tome, 10. Dull, 18 Desert, 20 Averts, 21 Earned. 23 Earle, 24 Usurp, 25 Sides,

THIS DREAM MEANS:

Obviously a dream of fallure. You Are trying Lchieve Homething climb-

to

(1.C

1)

ferent

(y ou

BOveral

dif

Ways

try

Ind-

ders), with

はな hope

of beginning

and - if you

YOU SENT US THIS DREAM

THERE WERE SEVERAL LADDERS ROUND YOUR HOUSE, BUT EACH TIME YOU TRIED TO CLIMB THEM YOU FOUND THE LOWER PART

ROTTED AND

BROKEN AWAY

abds

did begin-no prospect of finishing the 'Job,

It was Freud--perhaps the greatest psychologist of all time -who said that "the dream is the royal road to the unconscious mind." That is why the medical psychologist-by studying a series of your dreams over a period-can learn a lot about your

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

# THE CHILDREN ÅRE GETTING TO BE A GREAT PROBLEA

AND I

THE VAGUE BEGINNING ·

OF A LONG-WINDED HINT THAT HER MA WOULD BE

A GREAT HELD

AROUND THE HOUSE IF SHE CAME TO LIVE WITH THEM. (MA HATES “DIRTYOLD PIPESH) "LISTEN JONESY I CAN LET

YOU IK ON TH ́SWEETEST LIZ DEAL YOU EVER DREAMED OF IT'S" A NEW COPPER MINE...THERE'S

A TORTUNE IN IT FOR... (DA, YOU KNOW THE

STUFFY

WHEN WE HEATR THIS SPEIL WE OFISH WONDER WAY THEY DON'T KEEP THEST

·BONANZAS TÖR

· THEMSELVES.

THE WILDNESS of Mr. LONDON

THE CONFIDENT YEARS. (Not to mention his wild, wild women)

By Van Wyck Brooks. Dont, 21%. 374 pages.

OST confident,

M colourful, mont

most

BUC-

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

methodical as a capitalist (three- hours work every day: output, 1,000 words). He had the finen- cial principles of a nationalised Industry: m:de 75,000 dollars a year and spent 100,000. He was In a class by himself as 'n drinker, and, after two turnblèrn of Scotch, would hold the saloon

cessful-and most disastrous..

He grew up a wild, handsonia clamour within him for a return fallure of all the American

youth who (aged 16)

went to the soil""), hints that trouble writers who appear In pirating oysters in San Francisco may come from "the Slav." entranced an he held forth on Brooks's picturesque survey Bay and in the Great Slump of Frons replies: "May not we, production for use and got for of the 30 "confident" yeara. 1801 joined the march of the who are possessing curselves of profit.

unemployed on Washington, 1885-1915, is the man who own as Coxey's Army. He was the world and its resources, nlp was Lenin's favourite death- arrested

and gaoled bed reading, Jack London. vagrant.

a the Slav ere he grows a thatch,

to hit lip."

Frona has her

own way of London can be looked on as a Deciding that he was an in-

figure in

he American tellectual, central

went to the putting things; she also has her writing, one, who was both poot University

California; cwn idens about cooking, She the e-biscuit into a of the old frontier romanllelsin deciding that he was a man of pours and prophet of the socially con- action, he went to the Klondyke frying-pan on top of grease and scious years that lay ahead. gold-fields He returned to neon; adds two cups of water; Threshing about in

A

the frenzy of mental confusion, he

was Socialist, when that was unusual, and a Fusrist before that word had bean Invented,

of

He was the product unpromising

an

his

heredity. His mother, Flora Wellman, was the ay daughter of a family; father, Professni

travelling Chaney, Irish astrologer. The The stars advised the pro- fessor against marrying Flora. They even sug gested it would be a mistake for blood. Flora to have the child.

JACK LONDOR

efrength.

joy through

of

became a writer.

ideas.

bad

slire brickly: slices corned beef His stories belong to end mixes it in; salt and black, the literature of wild pepper to taste. men and half-baked The Master Race, no matter Powerful, blond males low blond, will be troubled with stalk through..their dyspepsia.. pages, spouting

Aa Frona Indicates, London's and taking Scelalism was of an individual sociology their "nates" by red troll; not an ideal devised for blooded force.

the happiness of all men, it la match "mates" are their

dovised so as to give more kindred when it comes to talk. -strength to certain

Frona, heroine of A

A favoured races." An idea taken Daughter of the Snows up later by other thinkers,

can box, fence, swing

on. For 20 years Jack London was clubs, dive, walk her hands, and is proud ʼn suceceful writer. He was a

her Anglo-Saxon She quotes Browning:

Once he put aboard at Balti- more with 1,000 books and 40 gallons of whisky, saying he would either read all of one or drink all of the other, To every- one's ostonishment ho read.

But as he nearest forty, cer- tain fears grew; tear of losing his public; of going insane; that he would never have ́s Bon. All his life he was haunted-by his Illegitimate birth. In 1918-he left the Socialist Party, drank monumentally, finally took a fatal dose of polson,

He was inarried twice; his second wife called him "Mate."

The Call of the Wild is, thinks Brooks, his best novel.

He is one of a score of vivid personalities in a book which flows wide rather than deep over

of American. vital period thought.

rees nowhere in Alaska without SO CLEVER

SO CLEVER... SO UNPLEASANT

her copy of Wordsworth. She attempled suicide ar

She believes in natural selec- morning in San Francisco, an tion; the strong will inherit the action which the Professor earth. And

"the who arc 4 bitter strong"? Nature has selected always regarded as wrang done to himself. The the Anglo-Saxons. future Jack London was born

Vance Corliss, who "Cannot seven months later a) remain cold to the charm of her taking his name from a kindly philosophising'. (but is also ot man who married his mother. tached to her "because of the

WHEN YOU LOOKED UP YOU SAW THEY WERE SUSPENDED IN THE AIR-NOT LEANING AGAINST THE HOUSE

AT ALL

deepest problems and how you are trying to solve them.

This dream is one of a neries, obviously it doesn't state the problem but suggests it may be about your home. It does sug- rest, however, that you must change your approach radically-- or get advice.

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A PIKER...

'WELL SHE TOLD ARC.SPOUTER THAT

TRISE SUBTLE CAMPAIGHT TO ACOBRE LIFE'S LITTLE LUXURIES. ARE AT LOGICAL AS A PAI-" HANDLER'S HARD-LUCK.TALE.

LIVE IN THAT CORNER. ROUSE

"YOU NEVER CAN TELL BY THE OPENING WHAT THE TEXT?" VILL BELLATUS ONE IS GETTING AROUND TO A CARPAIGH SPEECA PLANING FOR ANOTHER HOUSE OR NEW APARTMENT.

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There is, however, a world more sinister. than Bernard's, over which presides Mrs Carry," a boing" of simpering horror, who has a special interest in

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To draw this monstrous pic- in middle ilfe bus given him-ture of incarnate wickedness selt

up with Do marked Wilson summons up all his re- evidence

of struggle to sources of macabro invention.

Mrs Curry is appalling; she

sexual "unorthodoxy." The con- scquences are neither beautiful nor happy.

not quite convincing. Her set-

#

ting is wrong. Such a lower of evil would not waste her Bernard tells his daughter, "I perfume on stockbrokers'” did consider the effect my life dormitory village outside Lon- might have and I chose to ac- don; cept its possible harm to you?" But Mrs Curry plays her Which shows that a man discard certain inhibitions and. still be a pompous hypocrite,

Bernard haunts

con part

→world,

in the plot. Sho gives Bernard the opportunity for à final good deed before he dies.

Suhllest portrait in the novel! febrile, "amusing" and fun- that of Ello, Bernard's neurolfe 3

whose crea- wife. Sample taken fathomably silly,

froiti

tures have the emotional range many) of Wilson's hard wit: of the nursery and the marat sixty, she usually said that cutlook of the streets. Each iterature now came second to golden or gilded curly life with her." head hides a hard little cal- culating brain. Bernard la p

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It's Really No Mystery

HAD Intended to devote this column to the subject of exposure, but when I started to write I began to think tbout low many people seem to be so need- lessly confused about f/numbers,

A woman I know told me the olher day that she has nover taken an interest in photography because every time she starts to read scenething on. the subject, the very fast thing she encountera- Is an 1/number. Since she hasn't the vaguest nation what un f/number is, she figures that there is no use in going further.----

I explained to her that the f/number (or value) is almply. a measurement of the speed of the lens in her camera at a given lens opening. Since she was still. obviously dubious about it all; 1. advised her, as I would anyone whose photographle Interest extends only, to cozual snap- shooting, to just not worry about It-Just to keep two things, in mind: that, when the mover the lover on her camera front one f/number to, bnother, she is controlling the amount of light which reaches the film, and that the larger. the I/number, the smaller the pencunt of light there is reaching the fim.",

Aler ermera is one of the simpler adjustable models, with settings of 1/8, f/11, and /10. and a fixed shutter speed. So, I suggested she use each as follows, all' in accordance with the weather-or, more properly," the amount of light on the subject

If the sky is slightly, overcast, you want extra light to reneli your flim in order to make up for 24 its weakness, so open your lens to d/8. of the light situation is Average a normal sunny day--- use the f/11 opening. However, if the sun is very bright.br you are on the beach whero' the normal intensity of the "run" <in heightened, use the 1/10 opening, to you won't let too mush of this strong light reach the film, Fr

I think these simple sur gestions should, put an end to the ad doubts of anyone worried-about-wa.. f/numbers of pourse, your i camera is, equipped with a wider is range of f/numbers; and ahulter socods, use them-by all menna të They'll enable you to take good pistürer under a far:3_wider. variety of conditions.

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