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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Class, 4 Elapse, & Endenr. 10 Astir, 12 Temper, 14 Prevede, 17 Tame, 19 Rattled, 20 Aspires, 22 Reed, 23 Seeves, 27 Sensed, 29 Obese, 30 Single. 31 Rinito, 32 Treat, Down; 1 Cheap, 2 Addle, 3 State, 5 Leap. B Petrol, 7 Earned, 9 Redress, 11 Settle, 13 Measles, 15 Rose, 16 Chides, 18 Mere, 20 Armour, 21 Pereta, 24 Ediet, 25 Vogue, 20 Scent, 28 Neal,
YOU WERE WALKING ALONG A LANE WHEN SUDDENLY A HERD OF WILD HORSES CAME DASHING AFTER YOU
THIS
DREAM
MEANS:
Wild horses chase you along the only direc tion you can take until you collapse. The horse is a common symbol of physical Instinct, expecially masculine Instinet.
You feel you are very popular with men; attraction is entirely physical you sense your
and the thought appals you.
To be physically attractive is, of course, no
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1953.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PARADE PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
MIDAS When
they've dined. SIESTA
TOUCH 00 well too late, AS PER
f
What Noel Coward authorities for not ensuring that RED
• Worried by the moun- accident
mid, that only mad their overhead cables stayed LIGHT ge
toll, a delegate to the
noon-day-gun, hao jit penetrated,it,) mémy, into the hinterland.of
torrid Mandalay,
:
Nationalist Congress in Bloem- Contains suggested" a novel volution:
bort: Russian GOLD A
Donkey owners should 134 STRIKE major scratched hia
initials on 18th ' compelled to put red lights on century, painting and Moscow the animals talls, got a planetont of gold.
Confusing? Well, here's how
It is no LLST
A Book To Talk About
FOUR MEN TO HELP M'LADY TAKE A BATH
By Milton Shulman
have
acemed to have muffod' them
alot maching owners
dogs and English over head. have nightmares about someone COWARD men, go out in the like Willy Kop:hoss tend' wake up screaming. For years, though, they've been able to slip back between the silk sheets, assured after A spot, of mental re Last week the station master focussing that he's bat the at A -rull;"""junction", near upshot of a protesting colon. Mandalay decided to take the
F we cannot have the crowns may porish, kingdoms enfant terrible of the thirties
Baronesa Ravensdale rise and wane.", Io considered But Willy Kopshoff does at his word. When the sun it happened.
NOBODY
it Inappropriale. preserved in wax, "her" exist--a fairly ordinary-looking got high he quit work, closed
While others When the Russians requis! WILL INSURE 20-year-old
may In 32-year-old, who runs a barber down the station and retired flosed the Grund.
Barbara Moul autobiography. Hot, DARBARA
Many thought Lord Curzon pom- shop in the fur's Castrop under his mosquito net,
nobody paid any at-
ton, now tour- Rhythms (Weldonfeld and pous and domineering, she has Vienne, Hauxel. And 'down, doessi't
For the rest of the day tention to eight gloomy, dingy, ing Midland theatres in a knife- Nicolson; 21s.) is the next unly the fondest and tenderest dispel the nightmares he's been chaca reigned on the root to all paintings on u lobby wall.
throwing act, trying to provide best thing.
intimonies of Hon. For Stanley "giving '`loml; nhợt, machino Mandalay:
they for that rainy day when she is
Baldwin, who was Officers noticed. that
choron fo operators.
lead the Tories instead of her For she scerned to be painted on lead much older than she is now by
represents a
father, she makes no effort to When the "short book and FURORE Maybe it was just instead of canvass, but they insturarice polley for more species of English woman- vell her contempt.
a 'coincidence, aldes orders aren't pouring in OVER
but weren't interested chough
and surance company will consider hood that has come Willy
"Stanley Baldwin," she writes, slips round to
the touchy Franco investigate, the FRANCO
her. She is at the receiving end gone so swiftly that only "who wore the shoes he so longod nearest bar-room with ...
administration war
to of the knife-throwing act of mummification or cold print to fill, had many charices and Then the major started machino 10 10plenish the taking no-chances,
will over convince posterity all in those tense years before coffers. On an ordinary day, Somehow on the front page of carve his initials, Under the lead Chief Eagle Eye. ho reckons, he can make $30 the Independent
he found rolld gold. The 10: conservative
Despite his great skili and it really existed. splash century owner had apparently unerring judgment as he nightly this way.
newspaper, ABC, tho headlines
the hit on the scheme. announcing
frames Barbara with knives, the It's strictly on the up and Spanish-American agreement to disguise his savings in fimo
Insurance assessors consider that up, and that's what is turning fourd themselves alongside an of war and forgotten to tell
Barbara is at the wrong end of the machine-owners grey. The ad, which walled: "What things his heirs about it.
tho act and a bad insurance machines are fairly
standard happen, oh Lord! except that the sucker has Q Probably with another news to Moscow. chance to test his skill by
prper the administration might arrceting the rolating disca
have been prepared to igree that it was just an unfortunate slip. But ABC, with monarchi tie Icanings, seldom seemed to ARM mirs the chance of a crack.
When 100,000 people recently
Marle-la-Mer. holled
Franco at the ex-royal years ago.
ABC Fan palnec,
an editorial man wore "Flattery is at a
crisis."
When traced. Stalin died, a wide-eyed ABC
Then, last week, Oddetto paid solemnly commented
that him
n routine visit. The Russian kids would now be bleycie was Aitting in his HOW'S Nerves upset? Feel
with a brako. And it seTMA that Willy has on uncanny kunek of knowing Just when to pull the lever.
pictures of -issued 10
It's kat so that Willy have been renters of slot machines so tut the ono-armed bandits een conveniently
go "out of order" when he appears.
But this is only a stop-gap until the machine owning syndicate KOL
Willy- proof units installed,
now
WHEREVER YOU WENT THEY CHASED YOU UNTIL YOU SEEMED TO COLLAPSE AND AWAKE BUZZ Wave
rives you a big misfortune: biologieally -it
start: a better chance of attracting the right
physical
man.
When men respond only is the side of your personality, the odds are that you are-unconsciously flaunting that side: Try balancing your personality with a little more sincerity or dependability.
Physical charin will attract men; phyales! charm plus. that something else will' attract the
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"I'VE KNOWN THIS
BUM SINCE
SCHOOL DAYS AND WAS HE
A WOLF
OH, BROTHER
CODE, 1963 BK GEFIERAL FLATURES
COLE TULWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
THE OLD PAL WHO SOUNDS. OFF
TO THE LITTLE WOMAN.
GET
'EM!
ATTA BOY
IF YOU STOP THEM YOU ARE AN OLD |CRÁNK~ IF YOU DON'T, YOU GO NUTS/
WAM
BANG
as a ruRU
The gold was quickly flown risk.
LONG
bucked at the idea of not having kitchen.
the second World War,
India not
enabled her to only see the Taj Mahal and a tiger in the jungle--according to her father the two noblest things in
Sho was one of the few of her back- wealth, sex with the ground, and energy to take full Advantage of the victories of the suffragette movement.
the country but cultivated In her
passion for Berlous Unfettered by the demands of croquet "Many were the names Barbara casually admits to
social propriety. she travelled played
with a few special · having suffered an occasional where she liked, met whom she friends," she says, "even travel- seratch, but to her, as she leans ked, did what she liked. It is Ung with my own mallet."; Oddette Subile lost back in the board. knives and unlikely that wormen will be her bicycle in the choppers speeding towards her little town of St
oither rich enough or eager are the dullest part of the net.onouh to do such things again. France, three She is really tried when The village police partner Eagle Eye shoots an it had never been opple off her head with
ammunition.
to gaze at Stalin's face for six hours a day, (Franco's portrait
She called
She
Maid's dress
live experiences with the relentless WI or without her mallet.
ing un down, and YOUR
beat up? Ready to another police- AGENE? hit your wife with a
hammer?
is well displayed on the walls man who arrested him.
of every public building in Spatr.).
*
This time the administration WORN Doctors were called to reted. The editor was suspended,
tho National Wool AWAY
Board ofico in Cape- British TOUJOURS For
and town As employees finished
20 million child writing
dollary L'AMOUR American
televiewers-space worth of cheques to farmers, ships and fairytales, But in proceeds from the sale of war France, where school-age tele surplus wool. vision is just storting up, the
Employees came out will debut will be made with bandaged hands-the result of Moliere's version of the hot days of furious writing. blooded goings-on of Don Juen,
•
•
on
MAN BITES A trader at WRONG Two young English GOVERNMENT Nentes,
men from a London TRAIN French the
suburb went out on Atlantic seaboard, is suing the a binge to celebrate passing a French nationalised electrielty civil service exam, company because his dog bit hlm.
Next morning, broke and be The trader, Monsieur Roland wildered, they found them Garaud, was walking his dog in selves in France. the fields when a storm broke, After an evening's drinking snapping an overhead cable. in London, they got on what they thought Was Buburban electric train. It turned out to be the night specint to Paris.
They went to sleep and no- Garaud said it was negligence body bothered them until they
the part of the electrlelty got to Dimkirk.
The end of the cable swung to the ground and thwacked the dog across the back, sending it temporarily mad.
Quiet, Please
PUTTPUTT CLANK PUTTPUTT
BANG
SLAM
CLANK
THE ONES WHO WENT TO THE COUNTRY FOR PEACE AND QUIET
AWAKE AT SIX A. M. TO A BEDLAM OF ROOSTERS, TRUCKS" AND TRACTORS, NOT TO MENTION A NEIGHBOR SHINGLING HIS BARN.
SOME MUST, HAVE DIN FOR DINNER.
BREAKING THE SOUND BARRIER:
IT'S THE LATEST THE CUSTOMER
PUTS IN A DIME AND IT STOPS PLAYING FOR ONE MINUTE
No don't
and collected persona
..cho,nts been practically purposefulness. of someone who was afraid they were suddenly everywhere. In Hangchow sho Her books watched Dr Wellington Koo and going to run out. fairly bursts with the telling of Sir Victor Sassoon stroking and arguing over their, jade neck- it all.
laces.
.
Luxury
She was shown around Mos- cow-by Ivy Litvinoff; she lunch- ed with General Smuts at Cape she gave a speech at a
DARONESS RAVENSDALE, reach for that the eldest of three daughters line banquet in New
Curson of York.
box of pills. And don't head for your paychintrist.
of the 1st Marquis Kedleston and his beautiful
She was surprised to receive a American wife, was immersed black-edged invitation to the in the plush funeral of Rudolph Valentino. luxury and But she went wearing her mald's
black dress and Elinor Glyn's
Talk, it over with your baker, instead.
from the cradle That's the advice Dr Hugh | environment, of Paul, Smethwick's Health Om- | power." car, has voer banding cut at the Blackpool.conference of munt- cipal corporations.
#
Dr Paul thinks there may be close relationship between agene-a substance you pre ably never guessed was part of your daily bread and the vast increase in nervous debility."
Tests Could be he's right. show agene makes cattle as jitty as a freecker.
But even if it
turns out that agene is innocent, Dr. Paul still thinks you
thout have a few S'ern words wit your baker. "The best part of the flour is extracted and red 10 pigs...the rest makes bread for you," he told the local gove ernment men.
of
teeth
The family heme, Kedleston pink
black toque. Hall, bullt by the Adam brothers,
Dlaillusioning were the anties needed 23 servants to look after of the Cliveden set where Lady It. It took five minutes to walk Astor entertained famous states-
hall to the men from the servants'
with her imitations dining-room.
When
her father bicme Cabinet Ministers and speeches
with sham false Viceroy of India in 1808 there made
which she nipped out of her For. was even more comfort.
handbag ond put into her mouth. her mother's bath there was one When the League of Nations man to bring the water. another met in London to discuss Hiller's to heat it, a third to pour It, end a fourth to empty it.
only, She
dimly
Germany,
march Into the demilitarised Barones remembers zone of the famous Delhi Durbar of 1903 Ravensdale could not believe her which her father organised to a when the, Ambasadors of
Rumani, Russia, and Belgium celebrate the accession of King started to play a furious gamo Edward VII to the throne.
But slic
reports that Lord of musical chairs at Cilveden.
Her sister's marriage to Sir would not have "Onword Curzon
an
embarrassing conflict
The doctor wound up with a Christian Soldiers sung at the Oswald Mosley rated for her call for a government investiga-service, because tion and a general clean-up,
there was a
verse in it that ten: "Thrones and
BY HARRY WEINERT
THE SUDDEN SILENCE YOU COULD CUT WITH A KNIFE HOPING THE' BOY FRIEND'S NEW CONVERTIBLE IS
HEADED FOR THE
ALTAR.
SLURP
SOME FOLKS COULD USE A SOUP SILENCER.
HERE GOES YOU ASKED
FOR IT
THE SPROUTS ARE IMMUNE TO: SO
SINCE SCHOOL STARTED.
of While she admired loyalties. Mosley's ability, she detested his philosophy.
Her own political views are Vague but well-meaning. Some- times it is difficult to know she intends to be taken seriously, Thus, she pays a tribute to the generoally of the Americans during the war, "though their President sternly told them in a Fireside Chai that no one should have more than £6,000 a year free of lax!”
Bine
Zealous
BUT there is no doubt about conscientiousness and zeal with which she has devoted herself to an almost incredible number of roligious and charit- able organisations and com- mittem.**
At one dinner to raise support for the British Women's Symphony Orchestrn Sir Thomas Beecham, as guest of honour, launched a trade on Q17 unsuitability of women's
certain shapes fcr
musical instruments. Infuriated, Dame Ethel Sms the shouted through "The man's car trumpet:
her
acad."
Baroness
has
Ravensdale packed so much to her life that she has not found it easy lo chip it into a rent auto-
blographical pattern.
But through the hophazard the Impossible ramblings,
generalisations,
stand the
the unsub.
utantiated gossip, can be de- and tected a warm-hearted sincere woman trying to under- the no-man's-land between the Victorian
and the emancipated future into which Destiny has somewhat harshly dumped her.
If she has mot
succeeded,
there can be no doubt about how hard the has tried.
·A'QUICK FLIP ALONG THE SHELVES
THE GINGERBREAD MAN, Richard Parker (Collins, 108, Ed.)Nico Journalist with strong-willed wife takes kids to Scotland on eve of publica- tion of his exposure of black marketeers. Binck marketeers follow. Battle is on. Charac- terisation excellent. Scenery brilliant. Mr Parker is tops: THE SALAMANDER'S SWORD, Laurence Wilkinson (Colling 10%, 66)Another Journalist, this time on murder; asılgn= ment, in love with boss's nloce, traces disappearing Judge to mad French chaleath Characters excellent," --PIOEN highly plausible. Mr. Wilkin- sonte also on the up and up,
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