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A British Crossword Puzzle

£2

ACROSS

3 Unexpectedly (8).

7 Royal lady (5).

8 Container" (8).

23

25

26

10 Historical records (8),

10 Bishop's district (7).

16 Treat medicinally (4).

17 Press (7),

18 Attitude (7).

20 Formerly (4).

Reverberating (7),

20 Walk unsteadily (8).

27 Another royal lady (8).

28 Shy (5).

29 Bedding (8).

1 Gang (3).

DOWN

2 Jollication, (6),"

3 Relation (5).

4 Stay Behind (4),

5 Quota (8).

0 Look over (6).

9 LOOK

9 Give confidence (8).

1: Fabric (5),

12 Sharp (8).

14 Bufida,(8),

15 Headquarters (5).

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16 Gun (0)

cake of size for single portion (5).

19 Writing (0),

22 Multitudes (5),

23 Details (5),..

24 Slope (5).

25 Blenish (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD--Across: 1 Pistol, 5 Scabs, 8 12 Note, 13 Desks, 10 Viper, 9 Diadem, 10 Caper, 11 Rivet. Revere, 18 Evades, 20 Ceiled, 22 Stem, 23 Rinse, 25 Aroma, 24 Evince, 27 Ingle, 28 Meant, 29 Sneers. Down: 1 Podantie, 2 Startled, 3 Over, 4 Limited, 5 Sexedes, 6 Crater, 7 Break, 14 Sen- lence, 15 Stommers, 16 Radiant, 17 Vessels, 10. Vermin, 21 Eerie, 24 Ever.

THIS DREAM MEANS:

Many sym- bols in dreamTIS have il pri- vate mean-

only to

be understood by getting to know more about Cho dreamer AN all the as- clations that come to

min: the top

hat and the

YOU SENT US THIS DREAM

YOU FELL ASLEEP IN A BOAT. WHEN YOU AWOKE YOU AND YOUR COMPANION STARTED TO ROW-HE HAD A TOP HAT

BESIDE HIM AND IN IT

LAY A SEAGULL

HUGH WALPOLE

In Search Of The

Perfect Friendship

"By George Malcolm Thomson

AVON

annouticed in the now- papers He denied it.

Sate now'.

HUCH WALPOLE, By Ruport Hart-Davis. Macmillan, 251. 503 pages,

would send film in tears-or From women Walpole asked TILEVEN years after his death, their literary equivalent to only intelligence, wit and no

ho Virginia Woolf and Athena Séyler the navels of Hugh Walpole, Arnold Benoit for. sympathy demands. When he was 34

proposed to Q "ripping girl" were the womens no admired most.

When the former died,' he wrote · defying the normal slump in which he did not always gel,

He cherished his few entities concealed under the initial M. movingly of 'bge- in his diaryland books of the lately-dead, are

The like his many friendships,

It was hardly a still in vigorous

whirlwind added Odd how I feel. Deint booked.

slight fancied

(of trifling courtship: "I have always relief because a solo now. "No. for exam

one shall ever know - the' thingen *X Rogue Herries

"thought of you more as fold Virginia.". Be had accepted ple, cannot be printed in sum. nature) from St. John.

a mary than as a woman, him at his own valuation as a real cient numbers. Walpole

estrangement. self' now, becomes ahog. Ervino led to, years of · ·

He was teetotaller with a mania ***

At the end of each of a full-length blography.

pathetic and tactful year, he would tot up sympathecharacter subtle,

of his friends in order of

yet revealing the

Walpale was born in Now Zealand (1884) where his father was a clergyman, spent wretch-

as a schoolboy in Eng ed

years as a land, suffered half his life from diabetes and died, in-the-Lake District of coronary thrombosis at 57.

A

If in two years' timo abermal romantie

house, I'd 14

you want like to marry you." M. for buying pictures, a vice which, was able to resist this the writing premed, to grow with passionate onshught,

Your after, she askest

the years.

the plump, pink, myopic, best- warmth - "First

Fifteen," eto. selling bachelor.

He had an enthusiasm for large athletic men. When he saw the heavyweight boxer Carnero, he gu od "marvellous sight, Grandest human being With a I've ever seen" succum of men-and-

number of 32 working years he a smaller published 58 books; earned and women he sought the perfect clously. spent lavishly, paid large suns friendship. A Russion mitist was emcer in the in Income-tax and (unable to followed by an

Canadian army.

and be by him. He noted In his diary: spell or count correctly) owod more than ho gaid. After years Lauritz Melchior, Danish anger, "Never knew such persistency keable, he rape alive out of Start- of negotiation, his executors who (Walpole emotionally Bed in terror." The engagement Davis's canvas. paid £10,000 in final settlement noted) "is turning my life up-

107.

In

of tax ITEMS.

side down."

what he would have At 40. Walpole 'confided" a "self" dons had abe said yes. portrait to his diary: "Amultigla. "I should have

no shall

always be so, in, excellent save for tantache and arranged my life rc heal

neuralgia, always sleep well see Bare cordingly." Walpole an- kind-hearted, have to rouse myself swered "A great deal to take trouble... very sensual, of re-arrangement would plows and pure if sensuality gratified have been necessary" ... generous about large sums, says Hart-Davis judi- mean about small ones... sdore to be in love, and bored' ifˇsotneons; in much in love with me Interested In question of a futura lie, thought Once a woman proposed to of it influences my conduct but

Mile."

Peculiar,

WEST-SELLER Hugh Walpole

For years Melchior was top of He wrote fluently and never the First Fifteen. When they revised. Struck with remorse on vislied Edinburgh, Walpole's "Mol- secing a manuscript of John mother was instructed: Galsworthy's blackened with chior drinks Boss's light beer has (the dog) corrections, he re-wrote a dow and Mopa sentences

novel. The result Melox biscuits.” discouraging, was

The new no better than sentences were the old. He abandoned the wasteful practice.

Turkish baths were stimulus to his work "besides providing informal opportunities for meet- ing interesting strangers." He was intensely sensitive about his writing. An unkind

When Melchior, "on one of the most critical days of my life." proposed to marry for the Record time, Walpole composed himself with dimoulty and found unexpected qualities in the second Mrs Melchior, but recognised that another perfect review friendship had falled.

YOU CRADLED IT IN YOUR ARMS ASKING WHAT AILED IT- IT SAID

IT FELT ILL AND WOULD

PROBABLY HAVE TO GO ·· INTO HOSPITAL YOU BOTH SYMPATHISED

WITH IT

seagull are of this type of private symbol: never the same in any together than by desire or passion. The gull here is an object' two dreamers.

You seem to have awakened to some sort of co-operative enterprise with this man: you row together; you feel sympathy for the same object. You seem to be drifting Into a friendship cemented more by shared sympathies and the ablilty to work

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

A

OH WE COULDN'T EAT A

THING YET. WE JUST.

FINISHED A HIGE IBREAKFAST.

STARR #77

HAVE DINNER READY ON THE DOT AND THE GUESTS COME 40 MINUTES LATE AND STUFFED VII SAUSAGES, WHEAT CAKES AND ANYTHING ELSE THEY COULD FIND.

THE QUEST WO INCISIS ON-KELDING -- AND

IS HELPFUL AS A SPRAINED ANKLE.

OLI LIKE THEA ALL

RIGHT-BUT

THEY DON'T LIKE ME

OH, I LOVE POTATOES.*

of a maternal affection and may represent your emotional need of a family.

Insofar as this dream reveals a desire to work together and to give affection it means that your Ufe is developing, in polag forward, is acquiring a deeper meaning. It means that you are gladly saying Yes to life and its responsibilities,

Guests For Dinner

"WE HATE TO EAT AND RUN BUT WE GOT HOOLED FOR A PARTY AND

THEY'LL BE

FURIOUS

IF WE'RE LATE

Elc.

TUOSE DINNER PARTIES WHEN HALF THE COMPANY FALLS ASLEEP AFTER EATING AND THE OMERS HAVE TO HURRY AWAY TO GET IN ONl. AHOMER FREE. FILLING STATION.

VALY - YOU NEVER

TOUCA POTATOES

AT

HOME

ONE OF THEM WILL BE SIDE TO

THE ONE WHO CAN'T EAT ^ ANTUNG VOINE COOKED VILL / WAYS GIVE BE SAME CID REASON!

THIC ALWAYS LEADS TO SOME SHAPPY TABLE TALK | VANT FRESH AIR. WITH THE

ON DIETS AND SYMPIORS.

BU

neurotic,

sentimental.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Light through the windows is wonderful for Interfor: pictures.. Pictures Indoors By Daylight

KEMP STARRETT

WHENEVER ANYONE STARIS TO CADVE "I ALWAYS THINK OF

ALY OPERATION..DID IEVER TELL YOU ABOUT MY OPERATION?

IT WAS FRIGHTFUL

WAS SO SICK.

THERE'S NOTHING LIKE JOLLY CONVERSATION). TO MAKE A DHINER A GREAT STOCESS,

UNLESS ITS FOOD.

WILLIE NILLY

WIND DOWN THE WINDOW...

I WANT TO CLEAN THE INCIDE OF

·GLASS A

THE PAIDS WHO HAD A SCRAP BETORE ARRIVING AT YOUR. PLACE AND WONT SPEAK TO BACK OTHER

RE YOU neglecting your

A picture-inking activities, now

that cold weather is here again? If so, it is time to remind you how easy it is to take daylight h pictures right in the house, Wherever window

fairly unobstructed view of the....

you'll find beautiful light flooding into the room. Add coff little light to the shudays, sof your camera for the proper ex-10 posure, and you'll be all set taj keep that family album-right, up date regardless of tho weather. Here's how to do it.

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moat

First, place your subject about three feet or so from the win dow that you have chosen. Have the person turn his head slight ly from one side to the other until you determine the position where the light is the pleasing.

Next

study shadows. If they look awfully dark when you squint at your subject, you'll have to brighten them, too. You can use a place of white cardboard or a sheet draped over a chair to catch some of the light from, thei window and direct "it-Back Into the deep shadows of the face.

Sometimes, however, light from other windows or reflected from other walls will be all you nood for a all-in light. You can also use a hundred-watt bulb of a photoflood bulb in a simpla redoctor. This light should not joverpower the light" from

side, but should be strong enough in reveal considemble detail hy the shadow area.

Next, focus your contra and adjust the lens and diaphragm for correct exposure, This ex- posure will depend, of courto, upon the strength of the light renching the subject. If the sunt: jbet is sitting in the direct mys of the sun, a snapshot exposure

be made. Normally, how EVOT, A

somewhat POSUTO

will

bo nece

necessary.

the simpler types OL cāmērās, u short line exposure of from eno to four seconds will usually

suffec.

With the adjustable typos, try about 1/5 or 1/10 of a second at f/3.3. With the

pon you can, of dufter

out them

half

exposures

the inke

And, finally, take your ture. The results, I feel certa!

will really surprise and you. Furthermore, you'll that,; regordless of the We, fun to rankeɖpis in the familiar: Arch own home o