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NEW YEAR'S DAY.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

A British Crossword Puzzle

8 Bird (5).

ACROSS

DOWN

I Ploreing cry (6).

1 Panie fight (8).

5 Rustic (5).

2 Trains' (8) }

3 Parched (9).

9 Heach (0).

4 Controls (7),

D Withdraws (7).

8 Concord (8).

7 Spry (8):

10 Courteous. (5).

11 Challenges (5).

12 Colcur (4).

13 Drugs (3).

10 Unruflod (8).

18 Rubs cut (0)...

20 Picture stand (5).

22 Dross (4);

29 Minor actor (5).

25 Custom (5).

26 Give up work (0)

27 Altend upon (5).

28 Thogles (5).

29 Church dignitaries (6).

14 Sce (8)

15 Stutters (8).

16 Greets ceremoniously

17 Reticence (7).

19 Oppose (8).

21 Once more (5). 2 Lance (4).

WEDNESDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Pallor, & Proud, 8 Dear, 9 Abates, 11 Order, 12 Desist, 14. Paro, 18 Splë, 18 Inure, 19 Stay, 20 Modest, 24 Dito, 20 Averse, 26 Note, 27 Rends, 28 Envoys. Down: 1 Peak, 2 Load, 3 Odes, 4 Reside, 5 Protest, 6 Orderly, 7 Directs, 10 Tener, 13 Pleader, 14 Puritan, 15 Ser- mons, 17 Pause, 19 Sedate, 21 Even, 22 Tria, 23 Bets.

THIS

AS YOU

WALKED DOWN A L'ANE (YOU MET A HORSE WHICH SAID "GOOD MORNING, HOW ARE YOU ?--YOU REMOVED FTS. BRIDLE AND WALKED

TOGETHER AND

TALKED

DREAM

MEANS:

By now you've met the horse symbol severdi dreams-usually women's dreams,

4

in

Large animals usually symbolise strong and deep instincts and emotions, in this case the emotion is clearly linked with the handsome young man. Into which the horse changes.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

V-*WRAT GOOD' IS: A

› BUDGET.IFIVE CAN'T

·BUY ANYTHING MORE WITH ITS*

CHOICE

·STEAK

324

HEW PIPE.

NO MATTER HOW WELL THE NEW YEAR, KTARIS IT'LLTURA OUT - TO BE VERY MUCH LIKE. THE OLD ONE.

THE FIRST-OF-" JANUARY-TOG..... WANDERED INTO. WHILE HAVING A WONDERFIL TIME *** BUT THAT WAS LAST NIGHT,

KCOM ESSE BY GENERAL FEATURES.

CONF, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

LAND

1284

B

THEN YOU

1952.

Careful With The Lemonade!

VENUS IN THE KITCHEN; Mom Love's Cookery: Bask, Edited by Norman Douglas Holnomann, 12s. 6d. 192 pages..

-

IF YOU TAKE MR DOUGLAS'S ADVICE ABOUT.. LOVE POTIONS

and Appear In "sie lot' wins (counting from Charles, only alcohol built also art, cs- aceplerd

Crayfish Darwin the First, origin of the polnily music. the Douglas recipes. soup is perhaps, the most elo- species), recalls in this spright- gant of all dishes, incllning the ly book of remisplacences the heart to rafter thoughts: Those elders of her close-knit clan: who find it, too expensive may high-linking, well-to-do, hypo-, fall back on broad-bean" soup, chondriac and odd.

Mrs Raverat's..." Ave Darwin THIS posthumous work of the poos mun's love potion; to

Douglas awarde his uncles, clever, men, were, "quito Douglas's is not his which

"highly recommended."

unable to understand the minds lenit naughty: It consists of The reader may well think of the poor, the wicked or the recipes, likely to fortify that some of the concocted religious Religion, they, love in a cold climate, col- drinks ha describes will stupefy thought, was an old custom now lected before the war "for rather than infame. In this going out of fashion.

alcohol the private use and benefit matter, b of a small group of friends Lucherous ally. GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON- most of whom, I am sorry to say, are older than they wants to be."

After the war, Douglas, ex punged 60 dishes in whose vir tue ho had lost faith; 179 ro- main, came with the editor's personal recommendation.

Care, too,

by

now

Dinesses and vacan

caco and tobacco. An exces health, not their souls. should be exercised with tea, Darwin worried about their

Preserved in the' sive addiction to lemonade In

ancestral particularly frowned on by the home in Kent was a family best authorities,

consulted because all the Dimculty may be experienced

in it. in obtaining certain recommend-

recortied were Health who agave matter to ed ingredients: eg by the

who socks to Aunt Elty (sister to the five un-

when

thor window sustain marrow cooked. In goat's mills, was opened to air a room, would cover her husband, Un- to even desirable,

Uncle Lenny was allowed Douglas's advice, his book ro mains a monument of tipo Aunt Mildred) and lot of whis- scholarship and sardonic enthu ky every night "as medicine." As a companion to it, He had to drink it at one guly M. Tomlinson's Norman and

given a charcoal

From early times the connec timid poolf on leopard's cics), who;;'

heart. tion between the warm and the well-managed klichen Saffron has been a close one. was used as a love-spice by the

It flavoured

eaton

Hiciansi kes

But if it is not always plow cle: Richard, with a dust shed...

or

the

in

and ci

honour of the goddess Ashtoreth, But cinnamon, vanilla

peppermint, also champions

their hove

COM

"It is cad indecl she wroto -to" a niece," "to-be born with the artistic temperament I de hope your Ricbird wop'e sus- tunib lo it, but I feel anxious. chout the clarinet and plano.

Mrs Raverat, at an early age. succumbed to art. Now, looking back on her childhood, pa Cam- Bridge in the abieties” bry by-

peoples

sho gone" "mannors and records what she remembers la thedellelnum, humqur,

"her writing and her drawings.

PAL JOEY By John O'Hara. Crassot Pross. 71, 6d," 125

TOEY

pil-time crooner Chlongo night-spots, is one of O'Hara's more choicely feynical Inventions, tie is a liar, a crook, great. I. "awitt-Zuotada lover,

damas and fernale "luthor." and over hópětul that,' with ' some:number" stolen from a pal. he will make the big lights, and, be come the leader of a titla right- plece band of his own.

No: ulanda' #6}£» La-the meantime revealed in his astounding prora towing a debt to Damon Runyon

·but having own lacas

pelling. You will not get to like Jooy, but he is unconsciously amusing, Anally a pathetic. little animal": The world 19. odighing up

Calves' brains were a well. Dougian, a friendly,' perterävo biscuit to take away the taste, an Jogy: "Drop me a line buttba

attested love dish omong the ancient Greeks, the only one in their cuisine not revolting to modten tarte. Douglas gives two recipes in which they are the main Ingredient. Sparrow's

in

guldo now largely rewritten, But Aunt Mildred distrusted not may be mentioned. Hutchinson Iscues it, (75, Od.) PICTURE BOOK OF RUSSIA: By Lady Kelly. Country Life, 16%.

W pegandists for the anothe

HERE so many ardent pro-

Douglas-dish, the bird was in classical times the messenger of Venus.

Eggs have a traditional em eacy; celory is well-spoken of; as are artichokes and aspara Rys. Truffles are not to

NOTICED THAT IT, HAD CHANGED INTO

A YOUNG MAN WITH)

DARK WAVY HAIR

be

90

In removing the horse's bridle--which con- trold bhas--and in walking and talking with him, you reveal a desire to trust him, a readiness to

ba friendly and to go:the same way.

Who he is to be, you don't seem to be clear -atont, except that you prefer brunette. But

you are cipe for romance.

・・・ This is tople with dream; and everything

is well under control,

Happy New Year

VIPEEE!

Soviet Union have dismally failed, Lady Kelly succeeds; the makes Russia seem nitractive. Ske does so by 00 photographs, mostly of high quality taken by herself and her son during

1949-51 when her husband was Britkh Ambassador In Mos- cow.

Will the receive from the Kremlin the gratitude that is her due? Most unlikely, She has not troubled to portray tractor works, hydro-electple plants, collective farms and other arim triumpha of the regime. Her photographs are of churches with onion demes, baroque palaces, and Camiling children in the slums.

of

The strangeness · and beauty

vealed persisting Russia is ro

a book which might

drive

many inquirers to In- tourist offices if only the of dinary traveller had..

like

an ambasador's wife, the chance to visit, zay, the shrines of Suzdal,

PERIOD PIECE: a Cambridge

Childhood. By Gwon Raverat, Faben: 21. 282 pages.

MRS RAVERAT one of the

third generation of Dar-

careful whom you alve my address

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

The baby will look even cuter when the ploture ja -enlarged, Enlarge Your Favourite Snapshots

By KEMP STARRETT

IF YOU CAN GET RID OF THE OLD YEAR WITH ENOUGH NOISE YOU MAY BE ABLE, TO FORGET, FOR A TIME WHAT'S AHEAD. FOR THE BRIGHT NEW YEAR.

HAPPY NEW

YEAR

SOME PAYOUTRAGE- OUS PRICE'S TO GO WHERE THEY CAN BE SEEN BY OTHERS WHO ALSO PAY RIGU PRICES TO GET INTO PLACESWAERË THEY CAN BE SEEN...BY FOLKS WHO DON'T GIVE A HOOT.

Jo

SOME WILL CELEBRA

AND BE ALMOST AS BORED AS IF STLEYD GONE OUTAABBE ITLE

BE A LOT CHEAPER

WHAT'S HAPPY ABOUT IT? LOOK AT PRICES,LOOK: AT TAXES LOOK AT EVERYTHING

THERE'S AT “LEAST ONE: IN EVERY COMAURITY,

TAVERY picture taker host:

certain number of snap shots that are extra-spécial favourites, and usually an great pride in displaying them and explaining the conditions under which

You may for

example

or

some snaps of your family, hallday pictures, that you work- ed very hard to get. In any caso, if those krups have šted meaning to you, they deserv to be made into "triking - "0- lärgements basal songs d

There are a good, many ir- |xons why this should be done. One is that, if a picture looks | good. 234-, snapshot";itivwillie usually took even better in An larger size. Another is thet Lalis

19 faces

show up much mo

roco

are for --more

.

and the whole

re is easier to look at Furthermore, an occasional en-

as most people know,

reds variety and spice

a snapshot

to a

If you have a darkroom and enlarger

of your own, you niready know It's & simple matter to enlarge your pictures, But, if you

should

HO

or you. one of your photo- do the work for you.

sher

can usually make the en- largéinents to whatever size you wish, and can frequently, myke them from the shellon of the

ginal picture that you

#like?

In enlarging

usually improve it by cut- ting out unimportant or unde- sirable detalls that may spoil the effectiveness of the original prints If ont edge of.

the scene.. has a distracting feature, it is simple to take it out.

out, the com- too, can usually be

cropping

during

ment. In this way you?

con emphasise your central of interest and din really achieve

a nicely composed scoopna

matter how you got your enlargements, there are a many things that can be done with thema Not only cam photo albuns be made, much moca teresting, but you can frarne (the...) prints or mount them,"

mea the memor

display-around-

largements øyeri make rica gifts. Friends who were along when You took the snapEGGS; BIWRYE are pleased to receive enlarge- ments for their own collection. Thumb through your pletures today and pick out the priate

your prized possessions.

If you've enjoyed them of map shels) you'll really boithri fed