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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1952.

CheSNAPSHOT GUILD

Halloween is a fine time for making amusing shots euch, as this,

In Keeping With the Season PICTURE taking is subject to shivery, story-book land. And

A British Crossword Puzzle

15

12+

120

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22

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24.

26

27

29

ACROSS

our

3 Cuesses (0),

change but it s with li come ideas and oppor- one fleld in which this is highly tunities for pleture taking that desirable because these seasonal are equally different from changes add variety that is a usual approach. dash of spice in your snap- While it certainly Isn't a new shooting.

iden-in fact, almost everyone

camera.

A

7 Entertain (5):

8 Overbearing (8).

Naive girl (7).

18 Retallation (7).

Exclamation of grief (4). Annoys (7), Haunt (8) State of anxiety (8). Niggard (5). Lack of polish (8).

These months bring wonder- tes it at one time or another 10 Dominion (6). ful opportunities for scenies that I still have weakness for 13 Own (7). tell a story of autumn beauty, pictures of jeak-o'-lanterns. You 15 Female animal (4). If you do your shooting in can always liven the idea with 17 colour, the jewel-toned hues of your own novel interpretation. the foliage seem to have been

In the picture above, a photo-20 painted there Just for your food bulb in the pumpkin pro-21 vided strong, oven lighting for 26 This time of year also brings a the grimming features and a flash 27 revival of many Indoor activities exposure made certain that any 28 which had been abandoned-on movement the Inquisitive 20

of moved outside during the sum- kilten wouldn't result in a blur. mer months. And that means You can do equally well with the more pictures by artificial light traditional candle Illuminating so you'll fue thinking in terms of the lantern and a one- or two- flash bulbs and phofoflood lamps. second time, exposure—if you Halloween is one of the more limit yourself to subjects of unusual of the special days we dependable quietness. In other observe. With its legends of words, if you are going to use a witches

broomsticks and kitten or small child with the ghostly creatures that pass in jack-o'-lantern, the night, it takes us out of a stick to flash. world of reality into a picasantly

on

THIS DREAM MEANS:

There seems

to be Боще confilct bc. two on your private

and the de- mands of

your

800 tal

You

want

Lo

BO

your

way, to

fol

low your own

pursuits,

to cross

the

Bode

施

you'd belter

John Van Guilder.

YOU SENT US THIS DREAM...

road on your own business.

28

BH

DOWN

1 Precipitouя (5).

2 Retains (5).

3 Look fixedly (5).

4 African (4).

5 Sailor (0),

O Seat (6),

9 Give up office (4).

11 Pattern (5).

12 Shetlands, perhaps (5).

14 Insinuates contempt (G).

15 Encounters (4).

18

Governor (5).

19 Slave (G).

18 Elevated (6).

22 Abounds (5),

23 Sluck (5).

24 Tale (5). 25 Average (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Horrid, 5. Noble.

8 Cedar, 9 Mussel, 10 Tardy, 11 Debut, 12 Calf, 13 Roses. 10: Depart, 18 Teosel, 30 Evens, 22 Grip, 23 Storm, 25 India, 20 Easier, 27 Gross, 28 Amend, 29 Stages, Down: 1 Homicide, 2 Resolute, 3 Iced, 4 Deletes, 5 Natural, 6 Orator, 7 Ladie, 14 Starting. 15 Supports, 18 Dastard, 17 Peoress, 10 Ensign, 21 Venom, 24 Mast.

YOU WERE CROSSING A ROAD WHEN IT SUDDENLY CHANGED

INTO A BUSY RAILWAY,

TRACK

The busy railway track intervenes; a railway track is a public thoroughfare: trains come at you from all directions and prevent you crossing the public path. The hurting trains seem to represent the forces and demands of society which puli you here. pull you there and won't allow you to go your own way. Medical psychologists will tell you there are three important

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

_REDS SAY U.S.>

WILL GOBBLE THE" WORLD.

"Hall!

LOOK IT!

THE SHORTAGES GETTING IT. SKIDDED RIGHT

WORSE. NO GASOLINE

NEXT SUMMER-THE ER.P.

WILL COST AMERICAN TAX PAYERS 1.000 FOR EVERY

"OFF THE SAUCER I NEED

FAMILY FUEL OIL SUPPLY CHAINS

GETTING LOWER,

EVERY DAY--

PRICES WENT

UDALL ALONG

THE LINE

LAST WEEK

WHAT TO

DO-

THE LAD WHO FEELS IT HIS DUTY TO LISTEN TO ALL

THE NEWS, NEWS COMMENTATORS AND PROPAGANDISTS, TAXES NOTES ON ALL NATIONAL PROBLEMS — AND CAN DO

IT WITHOUT GETTING AS JITTERY AS A BUTTERFLY.

" WONDERFUL

DINNER DEAR.

WONDERFUL.

HA

75

YOU COULD NOT GET ACROSS. YOU JUMPED

FROM LINE TO LINE AVOIDING TRAINS

WHICH CAME AT YOU FROM

ALL DIRECTIONS

drives in every man: Self, Sex and Society. The instinct of Bolt- preservation in first and strongest; then comes Sex, which is necessary to preserve the race; then the demands of Society, In your case the conflict is between Self and Soclety, and you feel your social demands are fencing you in.

They probably are: you are seeing too much of too many people; a week-end in the real country will adjust your balance.

More Unsung Heroes

By KEMP

"WHAT KIND OF A CLIP JOINT IS

THIS ANYWAY WHADDAYA - (MEAN SENDING ME A BILL?

I PAID

THAT

BILL

LONG

AGO!

SO MISS COOKE WINS THROUGH

THE BATTLE OF BALTIN- GLASS. By Lowronco Earl,

6d. Harrap. 12s.

191 pages.

TISS COOKE had lost the

MIS

The government drafted in 70 police and prepared to see the thing through with force if need bo. "Arc wo in Russia". noked the Cooke party. Soup Doyle, The publican, waved a rusty gun, relle of the Troubles of 98. post office, which had it was a tense moment. been in the family for 80 To the gravest chargo against her Miss Cooke had a triumph- years, and in all the 16 ant answer. Not only was she, public-houses of Baltingluss by the Grace of God, a horn but her maternal that night in 1950 they Catholic, talked of the adict of the grandfather had housed Parnell when he visited Greenock! The Minister, giving the position cause of Cooke and Liberty

might be overwhelmed by force in Baltinglass but thanks to the military genius of General Dennis, and Bornie Sheridan his chief of staff-the fight was now carried to the nation.

Dublin was told by loud-

hovering acro

to Michael Farrell:

"The only thing to do now is to get together and set polities aside." It was as bad as that. Polities! Baltinglass was ready to forget the Siege of Drogheda itself and asked Meade Dennis, Protestant landlord and ex- speaker from 'a major-general in the British plane that Baltinginss demanded, In the Army, to take the chair at the clean administration. protest meeting,

Dail a deputy alleged that De- Barrie Sheridan, the publicas, puty Flopagan had got the job went all the way to Dublin to for Farrell by threatening to instruct the Minister of Justice, expose two Labour General MacEoin,

democracy: BOOKS

in the

principles

of

oll

gov.

to

Cornments

prior

the

shilp was hand-.

To

this this

•

GEORGE

one, by postmaster-

MALCOLM THOMSON

ed

to on

the next of kin"--- therefore Miss Cooke had the manifest right to Jnherit it from her old aunt.

or

But the Minister of Posts and Telegraphs had decided that an Irish Republican post attico could only be inherited by husband,

wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, widower widow, of the outgoing officiant And he boldly defended this novel doctrine which Deputy Cogan told the Dall bore all the marks of the brutality of Soviet rule.

candais..

When

Wis

fant

Main plain

tional sentiment

Was with Mis

Cooke, Mick Farrell resigned. It was victory. Victory for democracy

the

and

hereditary

principle as applied to Irish post Sylvester Gaffney, the offices. Dublin bard, had the last word:

The job of sub-postmaster or

mistress, as might be,

Is not exactly one that leads

to wealth and luxury, But Korea was a plente and Tobruk was just a pup To the row the day the lines, man came to take the cable up.

Lawrence Earl tactfully allows events to furnish their ow

Baltinglass Was divided, comedy. family against family, pub against pub. Cooke-iles sat on the stone slab outside the post office 20 provent the linesmen from taking away Miss Cooke's telephone cable. The Farrell-

COLLECTOR'S PROGRESS, By

Con Wilmarth Lowis. stablo.. 30%. 245 pages. WILMARTH LEWIS, wealthy.

ites started a whispering cam- 57-year-old Californian pulgn: Miss Cooko was a heretle scholar, has brought together, --had she not been born in over 30 years, the world's finest Scotland and bostile to

the

cause of Irish freedom. Two assembly of books, papers and letters relating to Horace had statements which

they been Walpole, 18th-century dilettante true, would have unatted her to and letter-writer. to a Christ sell postage stamps

propied

jan

The

Cell-itne

tintos trensures pro-lost to England; are kept in Lewit'a General Dennis was a Crom-house at Farmington, Connec welllan rancher. They discover ticut; are destined for Yale. ed that a Cooke supporter was o second cousin of the Queen oi England

D

Lewis's diverting and exciting and declared by book contains the why and how placard: "Feople of Baltinglass of a life's enthusiasm; the thrill по relations with the of the collector's chase, the flair of the detective; and a gallery of Queen of England.

rich and rare personalities.

want

STARRETT

COMPLAINTS

A

Seymour de Ricct, for ex- ample, tall and alarming, French-English-ItalJan-Jewish inhabiting a ground-floor fit in Paris along with 30,000 auction sale catalogues. "Books!.sald his wife with loathing. Would you like to see where.I bang my-dressca?

Throwing open the closet door, she revealed row upon row of auctidri-kale catalogues, and no space for a single dress. "Books everywheret she sold with haired und despair.

De Riccwith his catalogues, his filing system, his amazing memory-performed miracles of discovery.

THE LAD WHO GETS HOTHING

BUT CAN-OPENER MEALS AND

THE SAKE OLD STUFF WEEK AFTER

WEEK...WHO CAN STILL REFRAIN /

FROM TELLING HER SHE'S A LOUSY Cook.

WHADDAYA

WANT FER

SIX BUCKS,

A SEAT ?*

THE FOLKS WHO TAKE THE INSULTS THAT ARE HANDED OUT AT THE BOX OFFICE

WITHOUT COMPLAINT HEROES OR SAPS?

9-14

THE HUSBAND OF THE GAL WHO THINKS EVERYTHING 15 VERY FUNNY AND

· LAUGHS HER TEETU: LOOSE - AT EVERYTHING"

NO MATTER HOW SAD: LIS PATIENCE IS SO COLOSSAL THAT HE NEVER EVEN THINKS

OP BREAKING HER ARM.

THE MAN WHO AGREED TO MEET HISTO WIFE ON THE TURD FLOOR OF A STORE, DISCOVERED IT WAS IN THE LINGERIE: DEPARTMENT AND WASTED THERE A HALF HOUR UNTIL SHE ARRIVED.

ANOTHER UNSUNG HERO IS THE MAN WHO CAN TAKE THIS KIND OF GUFF EIGHT HOURS A DAY SIX DAYS A WEEK,YEAR IN AND YEAR OUT AND STILL KEEP IS FAITH IN HUMANITY.

NO SMOKING |

QUIET

"HE'LL BE

BUSY FOR

OH, WELL, TOO BAD!

BETTER

BACK IT UP, DEAR

WE'VE NEVER SEEN ONE OF THESE HEROES THOUGH WE'VE HEARD OF THEM: SCARCE AS SNAKES'

TOES, WE SUPPOSE.

ANOTHER HOUR- OR MORE.

PRIVAT

THE GUY WHO WAITS TWO HOURI, ON A HARD BENCH TO SEE A TYCOON... AND CAN THEN TAKE SOMETHING LIKE "DIS" MTU A SKILE".

Using do Ricel's methoda, Lewis was led from que Eag→ lish home to another. To a lady who said: "All Walpole's let ters to Lady Mary Churchill be longed to my Uncle George who went mad one day and scream- ing with laughter, threw all the letters, one by one, into

Ure."

the

Not all Lewis's trails ended in

Uncle the mad laughter of George, One ended in a meet- ing with Mr Richard Bentley, octogenarian grantison of an eighteenth century publisher and himself the author of "Up» wards of Sixty Yenra Rainfall at Upton, Slough, Buckingham shire including hall, sleet, hoar frost or mist."

Mr.Bentley wrote the more important parts of his letters in red ink. In his hall stood a grandfather clock with a notice: *True Time--False Time Is hour in advance.co Lowis wished to talk about Walpole letters. It was, not cany” A stream of messages came from: the

gardener reporting

temperature (and True Timio) outside. When the thermometer crossed 80 congratulations went round.

Other Inds were made, in a collection of a plasterer th Chiengo: the billiard-room gup. board in Warwickshire mRE» sion. Mr Vernon, ' of Trunton, answered an "Agony advertise- ment by telephone: Look here I don't know anything about- you, but you are staying at Brown's, So you must be all right. Til send them up."

Lowls insisted on sailing; axiom; a house with one ano thing in it will have others, e It had.

When Lewis began collecting, was known that 7,000 Walpolp letters had 'beep' written.” '2,000 were located. "Thanks" to his efforia 4,000, have been brought to light for which ho owns 2000" originala), De Aleel has been proved right.

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