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THIS

YOU WERE WALKING

ALONG A VERY DARK LANE WHEN YOU HEARD RUNNING STEPS AND HEAVÝ BREATHING BEHIND

YOU. YOU LOOKED ROUND AND SAW WITH ASTONISHMENT AND

SOME FEAR A MAN WITH A

BEAR'S HEAD COMING

TOWARDS YOU

DREAM

MEANS:

You are frightened of something in men which seems to you cruel and bestial, perhaps also clumsy: but like the snake before Its charmer, your fear is mingled with a paralysing faselnation; your scanty clothing suggests not only your feeling of being exposed to danger but possibly also that this may be of your own making.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 29, 1953.

A PLAQUE MARKS THE SPOT

The day that changed Britain's jails

ONE day in 1818 a little

party of Quakers in

their distinctive

garb

Hought admittance to New- gate prison. Among them. wns Elizabeth Fry..

women

Conditions in Newgate wore Ecandalous. The prisoners were idle, riotous and drunken. No official inspection those of prisons was, made in days, and prisoners slept hud→ died together in parties, distinc- tion being made only between the tried and untried.

That visit to Newgate - by Elizabeth Fry brought a markable change in the ad- ministration. She applied to the Middlesex magistrates for permission to establish a school of Instruction and employment "She in the women's wards. Inaugurated the Latios Prison Visiting Association.

At first there was an outery against their activities, but by 1817 their labours officially be

gon.

tablished.

БОЛЬ

YOU STARTED TO RUN AND A HEAVY STORM BROKE WITH GREAT FLASHES OF LIGHTNING. THE TREES SCREECHED WITH LAUGHTER AT YOU

5'a

ப

Elizabeth's Fry's,hause

ELIZABETH FRY

LIVIO HELHE

1829-1844.

and the plaque on the door.

Elizabeth Fry gave evidence before committees of the Houses of Parliament on prison reform. One result was the aballilon of capital punishment for small offences.

Elizabeth's maiden namie was

Her father was Gurney. Quaker. She married Joseph Fry, another Quaker.

PARADE

to

COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL about

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

The plant will be close to his are hust- MEDICAL Doctors

The men and women-who MYSTERY ling

Coorg murt offer proof of their un home. (Southern India) to married status-will, hear, pro- find out how 18-year-old Dhana' test speeches about high taxes Lakshimi manages to live with- on bachelors and other forms of QUT OF Alice Boutel had a out eating.

"discrimination", against the "GAS unmarried.

More than a year ago, the Se- como sitijocs to severo volting attacks whenever she ate or drank anything, even water. Eo the stopped eating and driniting

But sta is grill healthy and goea about her, daży work un troubled.

her

The

growers are pected be cause: Imported French apricots ere sold in Switzerlandhalt the price of the local product.

•

4

with quarrel husband and decided. COLD War invalids sat down in * ring around WAR

Jerusalem's Minisky of She wrote a farewell note to her two daughters, aged seven Trade and Industry building and 11, loaded and cocked a re- and-announced they would stay volver, pressed it to her head put until their grievance was and pulled the trigger. Nothing

inet, happened.

Then the villagers will offer to end it all. a solution-get married,

A big party for those who have decided to enter wedlock will wind up the three-day "conference."

The beef? The ministry has

Some doctors think sho tary

She went through the process stopped distribution of refrigera

tore to woanded veterans of the have developed strange glandu' FOR FAROUK, American again. SHU it lummed. lar properties which enable her

Then she opened the gas- Arab-Jewish war. multi-million- LABELS.. to absorb energy and nourish

aire Joseob oven door, put her head in, and ment for sunlight and air. Katz is still surprised at how he turned the tops full on

But she had forgotten about Others think she is a victim of came to get into the advertis-

the great Paris strike. Only a in label business with ex-Krickle of gas came through, a strange disease..

The Indian Government ham Farouk. · set up a special fund to enable her to go to Bangalore General Hospital.

NAPOLEON Every schoolboy knows that IS RIGHT

Napoleon dubbed England "a nation of shop keepers" and, however puzzling that may be to economists, It's arot so far from the truth, Barclay's Bank has

beca doing some probing, and it ecems Britain has one shop for VTY 93 people. But even the bunkers can't figure out how most of them stay in business.

More than 66.000- turn over ters than £1.000 a year, and another 05,000 sell between

£1,000 and £2,500 worth of goods a year. Yot these tiny ventures sipport

250,000

workers.

That cartoonists" o- NEW

light, tho stolid, BREED man who wouldn't flicker an

easy-going English-

Says Kaiz: "I was falking to Next morning, & friend found cyalash if his teapot turned out

an American in Rome about setting up a factory there toʻ make labels that require no gum, no glue, and no water.

"Finally,

her unconscious but alive.

She is recovering in hospital.

to be a time bomb, is becoming ar extinct as the dodo...

At least, that's tho cob- clusion the Ministry of Health has come to.

he said he wanted APRICOTS II you're in the to talk it over with an associate. OR ELSE! Swiss Army; you

One Englishman out of every lite apricots...or hundred has ulcers In London In a hotel bar at 11 at night, he

.else.

almost one in ten has tiem. introduced me to Farouk

Faced with rail-lines blocked And the reason -- worry. "We talked for three hours

with trucks and boxes of

It's tho Mostly

men whp while Farouk---I called him Mr apricots and by cut power worry, Only 20 perccat, of the Farouk because I couldn't think circuits, all part of a full-dress: 850,000 who

loc develop of anything else-enjoyed him revolt by Swiss apricot growers, symptoms

are every self sticking my labela all over the government has decided to wo the place. You should have buy up large quantities'

Almost all the sufferers · are scen him playing

those the 8,000,000 pounds of Swiss striving. driving meticulous things."

just fruit facing rot in the store- personalities." In short, Now Farouk will invest houses, They will "feed them the kind any businessman'would; ! $500,000 in the factory.

10 the army."

like on his payroll,

with

of

ear

The doctor had an eye

for the ladies

D

of

bird

Who made no mention of them until 1943, when Munthe, cut off by the war in Sweden, could not control the matter. Even then his. wife's name was not

Married Munthe was, In

fact, twice

Two members of the com- milice visited the prison dally. Women prisoner's soon began to 'read; they were neuter and cleaner. They did patchwork, knitting and

and spirining their camnings were put by to when accumulate for the time they left the prison.

Brusquely, the bankers point A matron

put over

cut the it would be a lot better every dozen women; a ward

for Her activities were not con-

T the age of 71, Axel everyone concerned woman cleaned the wards.

fined to her own country. She there were less shops and more!

Munthe, Swedish doc- kept another

order In the

tor, courtier, dilettante, yards, and a sick room was es travelled through most of the efficiency, Yet they survive be

European countries, visiting cause of "the housewives' read- comploted his third book. prizons and asylums, and offer-iness to accept lack of variety He had begun to write it as ing advice.

in return for personal attention,

BY GEORGE and because the shops are a cure for insomnia or to Towards the end of her life centre for local news.

teach himself the typewriter MALCOLM THOMSON she suffered from a Nervous Grocers predominate and they both explanations have disense. She had been nervous seem to be standing up best to been given..

birds. ("Today i have seen their from a child, but she showed competition. but the old-

ncets, In her no timidity

campaign|fashioned Ironmonger,

marvel .tobac- His earlier books had enjoyed

His second wife, ngainst the abuses in the conist and draper is losing moderate success. This book architecture,"

Englishwoman, is still alive in 3-A vein of mysticism. ground to the big department started as the others had done:

After a few One who

accompanieti Mrs and chain stores,

***two thousand copies sold in five

4-The charm of a cratie In Herefordshire.

years, the two amicably parted, Fry on one of her visits to

months. Then suddenly follow the air, the famous house on

property was divided. Newgate recalls that several TOO

The produce ing effusive praise by Amold Capri, San Michele, which the Munthe never seems to have women prisoners were "loud In EFFICIENT

built with his taken any interest in his cons market at Bennett in the Evening Standard Swedish doctor

those of en their complaints against one

upbringing; he -it began to sell. And sell. It own hands, and

WRS shocked particular woman, who

really Somerset closed after a hectic

when his wife, on a visit to looked a fend.

day's business, and the battery is still selling. Its name? "The army of Italian workmen,

San Michele is a glamorous. London, accidentally met his of cleaners arrived

Story of San Michele."! to hose It

macabre concoction of

fable, down. But they couldn't find Twenty-one years after fairy-tale and autobiography, It the hose.

first publication, 120,000 copies has the appeal of one

What

'was the motive of this one who in ex-of a new edition were sold in writing and in life, was artful in with certainty, is that it added secrecy? All that can be sold. The market auctioner plained-in his

enthusiasm three months.

moking a mystery about himself. 10 he had "knocked it down" three shillings,

It has sold nearly 800,000

Many people, glancing at the to the mystery of one who was. copies in English editions; has introduction to the new book," according to personal taste, a

magician or into translated boen

thirty will discover with surprise that

a charlatan, and. wha had a curious magnetic Axel Munthe was married, What { its extraordinary

There is not a word about wife power over animals, children and

adults. (With a few adults: it.. and children in any of his own took the form of fear.) the writings. His entry in Who's

The breaking storm is some recent emso- tionsi erbis in your life which has revealed to you in a lightning flash-your “ambivalence" (attraction mingled with fear) towarda men.

This is an anxiety dream of the girl reach- Ing maturity who is alarmed at first at some of the things about man she understands in- completely. The antidote to this is knowledge And advice about the EMOTIONAL Cacts of Hfė,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

سے

SHE'LL MISS THE LITTLE ANGELS WHEN

SCHOOL STARTS.

YOU KNOW I'M

ALLERGIC

то

· KA-CHOO

prizons,

"She

with that reasoned woman, soothed her, lald

her hand on her shoulder, and the hard. slubborn, cruel nature re- lented, and tears coursed each other down her checks

Elizabeth Fry died on Octo- ber 12, 1845. The home of the

COST OF

for

A big brass languages. Fry family was at the Cedars, Portway, West Ham. now used BACHELORHOOD band from

Germany appeal7. os drill hall. A pioque to

(Hol.

The fascination the memory of Mrs Fry is sull and 2,200 Grevenbleht

theland) villagers will turn out on doctor's there. It was put up by City Corporation, who

ta own the September

welcome operate at once?") premises, at the suggestion of bachelors and

from spinsters the London County Council. the corners of the earth.

19.

Mid-Summer Madness

I'M TIRED OF CUTTING THE GRASS-

SO I THOUGHT I'D

BUY A GOAT AND LET HIM EAT IT."

CERTAIN SPECIMENS ARE · ENOUGH TO DRIVE SOME FOLKS CRAZY.

CDA, 1962 SINIRAL PEASANTE CORP, INAWORLD BURNTS RESERVED

THIS FOOL

AND

HIS GOAT WILL: SOON

BE PARTED.

"HE'S ALL RIGHT-

HIS WIFE IS ON 'VACATION.“

WONEY

THE CREATIVE MINDS

NOTHING LIKE AN "AMUSEMENT PARK TO KEEP THE WHOLE FAMILY-- GORL"

VAND CONTENTED.

of

its

caso book. ("Must I

2-Appeal to animal lovers- especially devotees of dogs and

The Story of Aksi Muntha, by Gusto Munthe and Gudrun Vexkuli (Murray 18#).

BY HARRY WEINERT

THE WEEK-END "PLEASURE TRIP”. WHEN

EVERYBODY GOES BERSERK, IN THE HOME STRETCH.

I'VE WRITTEN

YOU S

A POEM:

PRESTO

CRAZY WITH THE HEAT

BUT IT COULD BE VERSE

SUCH

MAGIC

AWEEDSA

an

And a wizard does not have awile.

Munthe, born of a well-to-do Swedish family in 1857, died at 91. After studying medicine in Paris, he became a fashionable, unconventional doctor in Home, For years he was the medical attendant of the invalid Queen Victoria of Sweden. Gossip, said he was her lover. Over the queen and her husband, „King Gustav V. he exercised a strange spell.

"Come Soon"

When the queen died, the king sat on one side of the bed, hold- ing one hand, Munthe of the other side held the other. With her last breath,, the

queen

soon." She

whispered "Come o whispered it to Munthe.

The last

What

from

thecare

of his life,

war prevented him

going to the Capri he

loved-or bad loved were spent

In a

a suite in the Royal Palace, Stockholm. Every week be and tho king lunched together. Each said the

wier was.

a."bare.

Munthe sneered at the old king's

tennis trophies. Yet neither, it seemed, could do without the other's company.

In the palace it was Areely said that Munthe was the king's half-brother. There is no oyl- dence for it. But it was one of legenda that Munthe attracted-if he did not netunily

the

encourage. "went to London...

Every year he went to

The

nowspaper paragraph nouncing his arrival 'would pro- duce hundreds of letters, in three main categories: (1) cures for Munthe's asthma; (2) cures for his incorrala; .(3) requests

for advice on acuto personal or One letter medical problems. from an American lady asked for a meeting so that she could add Munthe to her collection of the smells of famous men...

Attracted Notice › Muntha's Impressively shabby black coat, hat and spectacles. attracted notice. His long nails arcused repulsion. Many belleved him to be blind. But the pathetic old man led through Landon streets by the arm would pause, turn round and say, "O, those English

hiksuch lovely

Icest

being

He loved Biltak, detested forced to join the "'ptions" quoue at the port of entry: almost became British in the 1914-18 war with ex-American Henry James as sponsor, Ho bitedk

mte Germany and left, the most valuable of his possessions, the Michelo copyrights, to his friend the German-Baronces Ubxkull

She is one of the two writers of a confused, repetitive book on Munthe. It fills in some of the gaps in the man's life "not it leaves him still a puzzle-** although`u dideront pürzia: from the one that soemad to- emerge from the pages of, San Michela.

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