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A British Crossword Puzzle

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ZA

SE 18.

ACROSS

1 Part of London (B).

20

1 Secis (4).

DOWN

5 Leisurely walk (5).

2 Petr (4),

3 Assert (4).

4.Outras (0),

& Meat (4).

9 Portions (0),

11 Feature (5).

12 Read (8).

14 Ecstalle (4).

10. Tales of horalen (5).

18 Harden (5).

19 Lazy,(4).

25 Helping (8).

20 Giggle (0).

24 Blue (5).

20 Nation (4).

28 Tellable (8).

27 Lock of hair (5).

5 Changed (7).

6 Golf Club (7).

7 Show kotenze interest (7).

10 Tree (5).

13 Far off (7)

14-Breach (7).

15 Antoya (7).

17 Worked steadily (3)

19 Complete (8)..

21 Rank (4).

22 Tears (4).

23 DI-favoured, (4),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Comic,

Propel. ulics, 20

d Mentor, 10 Idles, 12 Kernel, 11 Athlete, 17 Mirie, 19 Carmine, 22 Onen, 23 Unusual. 27 Tenets, 25 Trade. 30 Sundry, 31 Relate, 32 Peril. Down; 1 Comena, 2 Month, 3 Choke, 5 ftein, #Pallid, 7 Lashes, 9 Retinue, 11 Danuts, 13 Relent, 15 Team, IS Limned, 18 Neva, 20 Coster, 21 Retail. 24 Usury, 25 Unde

al 28 Next,

THIS

YOU

DIVED INTO THE

SEA AND SWAM UNDER - WATER. THEN YOU FELL INTO AN EMPTY SPACE BETWEEN THE

WATER AND THE

SEA BED

DREAM

MEANS: Dreams may urge you to fight or run, tó fare unpleasant facts or hide your head in the sand: this dream is pure escapism,

To dive into the sea is to plunge into wish- ful thinking: in this fantasy world you swim quite happily. But plonk! the livitable happens and you fall into the deepest depilis; further than ever from painful reality.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1958.

A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT

A child died-

and a novelist

was born

Iar in the Manchester TN the year 1840 employers of district complained bitterly About certain disclosures in a book called Mary. Barton.

They said they were unjuri- ly treated, and that the author some spoken rashly of had "burning questions of social economy.":

born: in

Nancy Spain

ON nctis

··BOOKS

2411421

WHAT MUSSOLINI

(and Chaplin)

SAID TO CECILE

Consider

She loves brothers Martin and

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

FORRISN EDITOR

HAT lives they lend, devote themselves entirely to and concerns Mrs Clare Wreste,

Patrick beautiful Englishwoman, theso

extravagantly hate.

Hamilton. flamboyant worden

Since 1929, when his two plays But the author was writing

The plaque (arrowed) abows who decorate the corners of "Gaslight" and "Rope" first Rickle. Years ago Rickle, was of the period of distress in

where Mes Gaskell was born,

history. Have you ever made their appearance, he has having a love affair with a giri Lancashire in the early forties, and there is no doubt that and was an immediate success. heard of CECIL SOREL written book after book, carving called Lise in a claustrophoble

Gaskell was Mrs

Ah, well!'' Back to cha' "Mary. Barton contributed

now a part of (Staples, 128. od.), whose up the hearts of the hangers on French village. He contracted

wiko

And their pleasure in the

typhur,

Pain arrived to nurse į different Lindsey 'Row, growth of a

crystal-bail t has just set bar of public hours. Her autobiography

murdered. His valuable slock feeling among employers for Cheyne Wolk, Chelsea.

father wna keeper of the been published 7

Hin books are very well done. their employees. :

of the Treasury of She was born in the '706. I often wonder why Mr Hamd- was stolen. Martin was accused, The author was 'Mrs Elizabeth records

tried, found guilty, and clapped ODD LOTS: She went to a convent school, ton writes them. Gaskell. It WAS Published London.

but determined to be nn. actress. It is. trogle that a noveilst into gool for life, anonymitously In October 1048, ̈ ̈

At 22 she married at Knuls-She was an actress, a trium should waste his gifts noting the Rickle. Immediately she began At this point Clare married ford. Cheshire, the Rev. William pant one, she glittered in the lawdry behaviour of a lot of to feel gulty. Everything went Gaskell, minister of Cross Comedie Francaise alongside creatures so repellant and un-

20

the words on the plaque.

YOU TRIED TO FIND A WAY OUT BUT COULDN'T AS THE WATER WAS JUST OUT OF REACH OF YOUR

OUTSTRETCHED HANDS

But the space is empty: there is nothing to it. You try to find your way out, but you cannot reach: It is impossible.

You seem to be realising that you just dare not run away from life. You evidently need help, reassurance and possibly a push to com- pel you to tackle your problems realistically: alven that kilttal purb, you should soon be in a position to help yourself.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"COME ALONG,

BUSTER /

SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS A

CHALLENGE

WET PAINT

KIND OF

PUNY- AREN'T THEY ?

a peddler waa

Street Unitarian Church, Man- names like Bernhard! and lovable that they might just as wrong with ber. She felt un

It was he who induced herjatie, And thoreafter her lite well be poisonous insects,

chester.

sounds like one long coloraturn

happy.

Her baby died. And then Martin comes back. He has run

Horrible Hero away from gaol, claims he is io write novels. The couple passage from Grand Opera....

Mr Hamilton's new novel MF nhocent. Delighted, Clare be- She discovered Charles Boyer, were staying at Festinlog with their only boy, Wille,

with him STIMPSON AND ME GORSE leves him. when for instance, neted

realises that it Also she the child died of scarlet fever. with such fervour that her hus (Constable, 128, Gd.) continues

she. Ivors, So slie. Mirs

to the Gaskell, terribly dis

Gorse, in netermines to

go buck cased,

could not rouse her band, the Comte Guillaume de the adventures of his horrible Marlin that Segur made a jealous scene in hero. Emest Ralph

Reading.

village where the murder took self.

husband re-the wings, Then her membered that she had, be

Gonse has stilled there with place to expose the real mur Marechal Foch crushed her in

walking conscience, teze her marriage, written his arms at the 1918 armistice, the intention of preying on the derer. few stories, which had not upe was wearing all his decorn- inhabitants. to that time been published. tons and they hurt like -any-

Thus

"Mary Barten" was thing. And the things that men begun at once, and other novels actually said to her. followed.

Musso Chaplin

CLOSE FRIENDS

Mussolini murmured: Elizabeth Gaskell and Char. und I are great actors."

Charlie Chaplin cried; "We latte Bronte were close friends. want the heart of some virgin Their works had a similarity forest to put up your tent, far and on one occasion irs 1953 Miss Bronte agreed to defer for, from the world and its noise...

few weeks

publication

the

Where's the

"Villette," to avold comparisons, rest?"

ured

the truth of the statements.

to

A

HAUGHTY MARIA IN COOLER

B

MADRID.

DORED 41-year-old career woman Maria Fernan- 08. a she says, will drive the town to dez took up crime

worth thrilling sideline,, soon bullt He gets off with a Indy called confcasion, Conscience is Mrs Plum'elgh-Bruce. She lives "a thousand witnesses."

In

A quick flip along the shelves

ME

B

a house called Glen Alan, She succeeds of course in her up a substantial gang of full of Benares brass-ware. She miston, and it was Lise who women thieves. She thrived is a snob, greedy and vain. In murdered se peddit. How did on it, saw herself as "You middle age, Arhe already you guess? But what a breath-genius crook, rated her

desperately lonely.

less story Mr Beardmore has to victims as downright Idiots. Har only admirers are two tell: and how well he describes She liked to tell them how fearful bores called Mr Stompson French provinela's.

easy it all was, used to write saying almost smeli the the robbed Yoll con and Major Parry,

ones notes Mir Stimpson is an estate garlic...

how she fooled them and how

He

crossword does

stupid she thought they were. virgin agent. ncarcat

puzzles, rather

This week, Spanish badly. Major Armistice bad an

swooped, scooped up the whole Mrs Gaskell wrote the Life What was the secret of her Parry once

ga, along with haughty Maria. Poem accepted by the local personal magnetism? of Charlotte Bronte" at the

Her personal ially in the at the re- quest of Charlotte's

"Physical cul ure," says Mme. Faller, but he is not a very good rlotte's father. She

is provisionally gang's takings is Massage poet either. Their real hobby is Sorel, briskdy.

dollars verlain facts conveyed

ƒEET THE BRITISH, Emily assessed at 150,000 her by Charlalle, but persons with perfumed oll. Hot bath, criniting.

Mr Gorse enchants them all Hahn, Charles Roeller, Har- worth of jewellery and valu- who were implicated denied cold shower, sub-down with

perfume that mingled so well pathetically, easily. He neatly ford Thomas (Newman Neame, ables from 60 different victims.

Mrs Plumleigh - Bruce is, (d), First of a series design-

MIND THE LITTER retraction in with my owa, Seek you. When

out of £300 and then goes ed for a worthy cause, the im

NICOSIA. Times, and a withdrawal

passed

sed the air stayed vital

bouncing

loz off.

of the provement

Artic-

get of all unsold copies of the first girls.

Corusrating hate like There,

Mr American relationship. But I DREAMY Cyprus can't There 15 no

Excited about.atom bombs, compels attention. wonder if Miss flahn's caustic Gaskell

new Elizabethan much excuse for being a wallflower. Hamion's

ages. aboirt the British jet harassed by disclaimers and And Mme, Sarel (who admits to it is impossible not to read every comments

can't get exelled about "Soppiness" over four-footed cras; But if he were able to write friends are really helpful............ much at all The corrections. She sought to do being greedy) suggests drinking werd he writes,

sun is hot, Justice to

who cares the persons lemon juice to keep the lieten

the wine good, wh cerned

In later editions, but within" under control. But this with love what an audience he

command.

MISS FINNIGAN'S FAULT, what happens anywhere. Indeed. we

But

week, the

this experience brought a tem- lemon-lamed oness has written could porary distaste for writing.

glorious and preposterous would be able to salute a major Constantine Fitzgibbon (Carrell,

IGs.). Garrulous and conscien soaking Cypriots are almost

their tiously charming exploration of falling over

winesicina She recovered, however, and book, apparently from the depths novelisi. continued to produce the oiler of Franciscan convent, which Who did the murder? Afr Fitzgibbon's family tree and getting

to see the age well-known works

she associated (I understand) entered in THEN thero is Mr George Irish inheritance, This includes Nicosia four-year-old mongrel with her name.

1050, Which make her story Beardmore, who has written Byron's Inst letter from Misso Bitch - which has produced a tremendous story about mur- longhi lo one of his forebears a litter of 10 pups, 13 male, Mrs Gaskell, who was born even more remarkable, on September 20, 1810. died

der and guilt and the universal and all sorts of difficult opinions, six female. law that surrounds them both. e... the Irish don't hate Com The mother, lolling immod commemorated by a plaque at WHAT lives they must lead. It is called A THOUSAND WIT munism. half as much as they cally under a struggling heap

these clever novellets who NESSES (Macdonald, Gr. 6.) hate the English............

of her offspring, is currently the town's prize attraction;

There was b

the

edition.

Mra

was

con-

on November 12, 1885. She is

193, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea.

Audience awaits

Resist That Impulse!

CERTAINLY I DID; -DON'T--YOU-

THINK I HAVE

ANY SENSE ?

Mr.

BY HARRY WEINERT

CALLING "THE

ONE OF THE IMPULSES WE HAVE MANAGED TO RESIST

ATTENTION OF THE SNOOTY WAITER.

STOP ME IF

YOU'VE

HEARD

THE IMPULSE TO

THIS ONE-

STOP HIM: AT THE NECK.

| IT'S QUITE AN IMPULSE TO HOSE

DOWN THE GARDEN "EXPERT“ AFTER SHE PICKS YOUR FLOWERS-TO PIECES.

"THE IMPULSE TO GIVE THE RIGHT ANSWER

"COIL INFITSMETAL FEATURES)

CORP IMWOLLD RIGHTË RISERVED.

KEEP YOUR

HANDS OFF

IS IT GETTING

THIN

CON -TOP ?".

"SO I SAID BLAH- BLAH

"DID.!!. TELL YOU-

THE IMPULSE TO DO SOMETHING

ABOUT THE NEW HAIR-DO

THE IMPULSE TO TELL THE TRUTH — BUT OF COURSE YOU SAY

NO

THE URGE TO COOL OFF A HEATED

DISCUSSION:

is

-summer-

Problem yet to be thought out: What to do with the nuzzling nineteen,

Ohi The litter is a record for Cyprus.

A

PERSISTENT FELLOW

HOME:

-CATHOLIC novice, Fran- cesco Molteni, 23, has beca errested in Varese, Northera

toy

Italy. He had confessed top

Writing anonymous letter polsoning the watch dogs of the monastery; setting fre the monastery;"trying to polson his Superiors; murderlog A follow", novice by bashing head in with a stone.

ساط

Only the last crime. Kava him away when police spotted tiny blood-stains on his frock,

The police doctor says he has. reason to bellove Molteni raving mad. Besides the evid➡ ence of the confession, the doo- tor bases his reasoning on the novice's repeated comments: "Blood, blood" and "You will all die like the dogs"

HOMECOMING

..

VIENNA

A Vienna mother has been

given Hack, her daughter", who was kidnapped 32 years: ago.

Agnes Polak, then aged, ten, was on holiday in Italy:'with: her

parentu when a tramp kidnapped her and took her to Yugoslavia.

Even after her marriage, 20 years ago, she was so frightened of her father' the tramp, that she did not dare to enquire after her family In Vienna until ha died early this year.

It took the Austrian consulate several months to find her mother, the only survivor of the. family.

SCARFACES

BERLIN. DUELLING scars, honour mark of the German pificor caste, are reappearing among the new. generation of Germans. Ignor ing the postwar ban imposed on formation of duelling gulids, students of West Borlin secretly each other for months

week, hundreds students were caught in n. rald Jed by the University'd. Vice=

hucky have bee

past.

This

Chancellor, Professor Rohde, They were cheering -

ya duch when hd walked in withị fessors and the lawycz

The students, tumed" on them

them out of the room and locked the door / They resumed. their sport, posting, guarda pound the Univerity restauranESANAN