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A British Crossword Puzzle

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1 Blessing (4).

Perceive with the car (4).

a Plunder (4).

4 Venturesome (0).

Intrinsie nature (7).

1 Let down (7).

In the middle (7))

10 Purport (5).

13 Sharp answer (7).

14 Above all (7),

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15 Surpass (5),

8 Grun (4).

Speaker (6).

11 Teuton (5).

12 Fall back (99).

14 Vocal music (4)

16 Leng for (5)

18 Harden (5).

10 Ring (4).

20 Offer (8).

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linte (3).

25 Boredom (6).

24 Unitorm (4).

15 Annoyed (9).

17 Scolded (5).

11 Gambler (8).

21 Valley (4).

* Vex (4).

3 Back spot (4).

YESTERDAYS CROSSWORD.—Acrom: 1 Paris, 4 Carved,

8. Comers, 10 Issue, 12 Evades, 14 Spanned. 17 Term, Ruttles, 20 Epigran, 22 Rang, 23 Garrels, 27 Serene, 29 Aware, 30 Terror, 31 Dreads, 32 Split, Down: 1 Picks, 2 Rumba, Siren, Áld, # Vessel, 7 Dreams, 9 Average, 11 Setler, 13 Adamant, 15 Pupa, 16 Nigger. 13 Res. 20 Errand, 21 insane, 24 Reels, 25 Enrol, 20 Strut, 28 Hend.

27 Revise (5).

20 Say again (8).

THIS

YOU WERE IN

A STRANGE HOUSE. THE PHONE RANG AND WHEN YOU ANSWERED IT A MAN'S VOICE THREATENED

YOU, WHEN YOU STARTED TO

ANSWER TWO HANDS CAME OUT OF THE PHONE AT YOU, WHEN YOU STOPPED

TALKING, THE HANDS

DISAPPEARED

DREAM

MEANS:

Almost a telephonial's nightmare.

Here there is the usual wish versus fear; you fear the hands and the threatening voice Lust come out of the phone, yet you wall --- wishfully for li to ring again.

There is something ambivalent in your jaltitude to this angry man whom you link so

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1953.

George Malcolm Thomson On Books THE TYPEWRITER OF THE PRIESTESS RATTLES ON..

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

PARADE PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

G-P-O REGULATES L-O-V-E

General Post

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Most popular belief is that deals in. It can't be much, for Office regula- the launching of a ship with a Harry's erline is almost always tions have bottle of "bubbly" - aroso in "failing to go to a place of been brought imitation of the rite of christen- sheller." And when not that,

it was "failing properly up-to-date. One result is that Ing a child.

maintain a donkey." If your girl friend has a passion

if latest information is cor A WRITER'S DIARY, By mixing regret with putronege:. Max Beerbohm, all curves.

for royal blue or maybe pillar.

custom goes back at It was the donkey that first Virginia Woolf. Hogarth "A lovable, genuine man, do- tells how caricatures used (after box rod, do not let your dow rock, the

to the luded by splendour and success; a dinner party) to "bubble upvotion ring Pross. 18. 372 pages.

heights of least to the ancient Greek and got Harry into the headlines. but naive, an old bore; in from here he pressed his sending her letters in envelopes Roman civilisations when ships Her name was Kitty and the with altars. RSPCA found her wandering 'IRGINIA - WOOLF was iterature" etc.

egotist; a shopkeeper's view of stomach." But that was a de- of these or other heetle shades were equipped

were poured sadly down a London street. appointing evening I could because they may never be Onto the altars

gifts of oil and wine 60 that a thin, highly strung.

not smoke the cigar I had delivered.

foir winds and od fortuno A few days Inter the law. austerely benutiful

the ships brought."

across found Harry who calmly Red packets or envelopes of might follow

plained that he had bean off woman, who smoked cigars,

For all this clever, Inbred any other colour "likely

about his dealing and --just write brilliant criticism and

world the bell was tolling, cause strain on the eyes of tho

The Vikings lind another hadn't had time to claim Kitty, managed novels which won

Buddenly it

no method Was 1036 and officers of the post office"

of launching"; they tramped into politier

the cloased under the heading of

their * "reddened

keels"

by a large, over-awed, public.

accord- drawing-rooms-"Aldous refuses "embarrassing packets,

instening prisoners to the other times in the past when She was a feminist whose

to sign the latest manifesto being to G.P.O. regulations, which launching rullers over which Kitty had been allowed to wan cause it approves sanctions. He have now been brought up-to- heart bled for starved but

is n pacifist. So am I." valiant young women eating prunes and drinking water in Oxford colleges.

"Women have served all there years ns looking -glasses

or diary, in 20 manuscript 1015; its books, was begun in Jast entry is dated four days from her death in 1941. It was a

with a private journal written one eye on a future audience. Mrs Woolf has raised her volce just high enough for the reader

witty, sharp to overhear a tongued conversation.

This book of extraets has been

chosen to exhibit her mainly o

a writer. There are the merest: hints of pasalonate friendships; the minimum of busy social Hfe. The typewriter rattles on every

I hear voices... WAR. A diary entry, "I will

to the sen.

Qx-

The Inw found there had been

And in big city

date in the latest issue of the ships passed down to the water, der, are prohibited articles." Cards, labels or cavolopes should white, state the regulations, but

post office guide. As such they The source of this information wandering donkey can be

fs "Old English Cussons and dashed awkward critter, Caremonies," F. J. Drake- by

0

Blight

possessing the inngle and de- page; the talk is of output-o have the feeling I shall go mad i yellow, green or blue" but

Belous power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size,'

An old bore

10 concession go down with my colours flying."

eestheticism "there is no ob Then

more diary entries. по Instead, note left behind "jection to pale shades of buff, many words per day-reviews, rule-above all, sales "head of in these terrible times, I hear they must be pale. the list In the Herald Tribune voices and cannot concentrate" and a body found in the River Ouse.

up

to

V

A

By that tinie Harry had been turned lococ again and nobody could find him. Eventually, he turned up in court again, paid the usuvi fine and collected the remainder of the £130.

Falthfully he promised the magistrate he would go off to an old folks home.

So the RSPCA put her up for chain sale. A cindly citizen sought however, explain why Carnell. The author does not, pagne is used. It may be that, her for £180-a whopping sum after the building of a ship has for an elderly moke.

hundreds of thousands of pounds, the owners consider it niggardly to launch Those who zend romantic with on interior liquid.

of affection to protestations

code through 24 loved ones in Prople are divided into three groups (1) those who write --

particular arrangement of the

week Jewish and As the daunting high priestes. potential enemies: (2) those who

The terrible times had proved stamps on the envelope, known SONG OF For one hour last at for the sensitive,

Arab

guards as "the stamp language" should PEACE of the

Mrs review-treated with Bloomsbury cult,

contempt too strong Woolt would be a lokunters Swinnerton only affected in intelligent woman whose diory, note that the regulations men Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate

in with

sketched its delicately

tion that further embarrassment the division between the Old and thai dinunished. Arnold Ben- at Tubin affects & rhinoceros");

Office Post

May savage te portruit und delicately of (3) those who do not write, but Judgments, conveys as if casual-caused by

DC New Cities forgot the border ned called her "he queen

the nie.hod of tension which had brought Israel the h...buwa,"

play their humble part in the

the affixia the stamps, nudressing and Jordan close to war. Providential scheme by affordingly (but not nee dentally)

chilly, feverish atmosphere of a the cnvelope, and, by the type

khude and dimensions of the As dusk fell they listened in lost generation. "eepy" to novelists.

und silence to Virginia Davis,

30- just envelope, pucket or card by use of a badly reconditioned year-old, petite American, ding home ... envelope which has already them United States, Hebrew and bren through the posl." Cards Arable folk songs. and letters which do not have

About the same time, Virginia Woolf Was Contiding to her

idiary an arredato about Barnett; "We taunted the old creatura with thinking us refined,

'Amul you drop your aftches LA FILL pose. I sald."

How surprised the was, when Bennett died, to find herself

THEN YOU WERE WAITING BEFORE A LOT OF SWITCHES FOR THE PHONE TO RING

AGAIN, BUT IT DID

NOT DO SO

vividly with the telephone; you feel him as threat and fear him, yet you are fascinated and wall for him to communicate again.

One wonders why the telephone. Are you a telephonist? Or is this how he reaches you? And why don't you identify him in the dream? Is the subject so painful?

Whoever the man, a relationship which is tarnished by hate on his side and fear on yours is not a healthy one.

VIGNETTES OF

OF LIFE

"OH DEAR? THEY |FORGOT ONE OF

THEIR BAGS,/ GET-

THE

CAR

Tremulous lady

Sa. after Lady Ontoline's burial perylee, (“Oh dear, th dear, the lack of intensity") the frightering, frenulous lady will

by

LIBRARY LIST

the

the stamps properly uffixed

be

But best week ho was back in the dock ugain. "Harry Ran. dell, it is charged that you failed... Intoned the clerk.

"Sorry," rald Harry, "But 1.

couldn't stick the

He still had £61 left, but he simply preferred the street- even to tie free homes for the aged and hostels for trampa DEVIATIONIST Every ume provided by a genereus welfare

43-year-old state, FIREMAN

Franz Fazeny. ther of five children ani deputy the chief of Leimgraben,

2,000

Itailans trom as for Dway us

the right-hand top comer 237 10 back to Tavistock Square THUBBER COUNTRY. BY be r:jected though they and note that ale has been James Thurber, Hamish Hamil-roldom are. Postcards, for

ten: 12x. pounced on and plainned

Gel.: 238 pages. Thej stance, must be less than one Lady Oxford.

Master writes on toples like the hundredth of an inch thick. cocktail party-if it really wat Mot people take the Post. Upper Austria, had a tryst with QUEUEING More than Lado Colefax appears in her a cp-in Mr. Ellet's play, The Office service pretty much for hus 25-year-old girl friend he FOR hat with the green ribbon; Lady CP on buying a flagpole for granted, but few ane aware of set fire to a barn or hayloft in WONDERS

It the village to distrnet neigh lito Trieste's "Exhibition Hall" Naples jammed little Cunard, A

parakeet one's

on the special services which wife at Christmus; faced woman in a little cpp, cats, practical jokers, etc..

offers. For

Instanes, liva beos, bours' attention.

to see the latest wonders of the telephoning," hns two srent

erencs, silkworms and sértaal

world. Police say he has confessed to muslen boxes in her bedroom: "Coarse ond dull

usun!

suni Walter Starkle,

cases of incendiarism-the Murray; 258; 8o long as they ure in boxes to six

The wonders: furniture from these Cunards and Colefaxes 339

risk of We. fore, ensure

friend's British Army there is no

in last being at the girl

"married quar- father's form. songs, dances and jury to these handling them. fore, for all their astonishing guston

lor" now up for auction. competence in the commates of legends of the European, gipsles Originui copies of juddress25 Efe,"

by their st enthurlastic

Prossically, the Army bund- and or petitions to the Queen seni tearuca student,

direct or through a member of OPEN-AIR If Britain's magis led the furniture into giant job Parliament for forwarding

trates

and labelled it to CITIZEN

are having lets

"Chuir, ELIZABETH AND THE the Palace ure exempt

nightmares, Harry general purpose," "chests of Rach probably to blanc. drawers, ordinary," ankl the PRINCE OF SPAIN. By Mar- postage. paret 1. Irwin, Chatto Windus; 123, Ed.: 255 pages,

and

Very different is Lady Cromer: |"But dukes never asked ine, my

dear Virginia, They called the Ice Queen. And why did I

Cromer? marry

I leuthe Exyрl."

She Is, Mrs Woolf deeldes, one

O

IN BARA'S TENTS. By parasites may be

be real by post

pasen

Tac

011 Skilful romance based

A life of the first

DI

and

frans

▼

like, Not that Harry-a spry 76- is a big-time evil doer. But he But, compared

the .with the CHAMPAGNE Many

court furniture the average can boast, people keep popping up in Eliza- AND

think it is u rooms und. every inte, the It looked like "Chairs, gods for as a princess at the court

wicked shame place is packed with reporters use of" and "Chests of drawen, SHIPS of there cold, eccentric great her sister, Queen Mary.

to wnste a waiting to record his latest made in heaven.” Englishwomen, enormousely el-

Philip of Spain,

unwilling bottle of champagne by shatter magn. joying her rank, and now free bridegroom of Mory, Is fascing- ing it against the bows of to peke into all the duty holes ted by his sister-in-law white ship, and there have been many and corners,

like dressed

fearing her as a rebel and suggestions as to the crigin of eharwoman.

heretic.

the custom.

Gone But Not Forgotten

"NOTHING DOING- "GOSH-I FORGOT

I'LL SEND IT TO 'EM

_BY_CARRIER.

PIGEON-

COLLECT /*

THE LAST GUESTS `LEAVE — AND ALSO LEAVE A FEW OF THEIR PERSONAL BELONGINGS WHICH YOU WILL HAVE

TO WRAP AND MAIL· INSURED.

I CERTAINLY GOT.

A LOT OF WEAR,

OUT OF MY FUR COAT R -BUT THEY DONY

LAST FOREVER

YOU KNOW /*

BEGIN TO ENJOY RELIEF FROM THE SUMMER'S HEAT AND SOMEONE TURNS

ON THE HEAT OF ANOTHER KIND.

AND HERE WE ÅRE ON HIS

YACHT."

YACHT ?

AREN'T THOSE

THINGS QARS)

YOU ARE

ALL ABOUT THE TAXES AND

INSURANCE-

LOOK AT A

THESE BILLS/"

BACK. HOME AND. BROKE. THE ONES WHO SAID: 'HANG THE EXPENSE

WE'LL ALWAYS, HAVE THE MEMORY OF ONE

WONDERFUL TIME.

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HOLDING?

THE SUMMER IS.

ENDED, BUT THE

MEMORY LINGERS ON.

COPL, 191) BY GENERAL FEATURES

COMA, TAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

NOW YOU REMEMBER / DON'T FORGET YOU SAID THIS IS ONE VACATION

WE'LL NEVER, FORGET!

ANTIQUES

AND HOME MADI FUDGE S

CLOSED

SUMMER'S ON IT'S LAST LEGS WHEN THE NATIVES › TAKE THEIR VACATION

On the books he invariably its his occupation as "dealer." BELIEVE IT On a farm near Nobody has ever asked what he OR

BY HARRY

GO IN AND UNHOOK THE SCREENS

GET THE NUMBERS ON THE WINDOWS AND LIST 'EM-

THEN HOLD

THE LADDER!

WEINERT

IT WILL SOON BE TIME FOR ANOTHER STORMY SESSION WITH THE

STORM. WINDOWS,

THE BRIGHT" AND SHINING FACES OF EAGER SCHOLARS.

| RETURNING

TO SCHOOL.

I GUESS IT'S ABOUT TIME

TO PACK THIS STUFF AWAY UNTIL NEXT,

SUMMER/

SUMMER IS DONE FOR, -ABOUT THE SAME

TIME AS YOUR ENDURANCE.

Lorca, in Murcia, Spain, lives Cris. tobal Perez, an 18-year-old youth with a normally develop- ed head on the body of a ten- month-old infant about 10in.. tall.

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He can read and write, has ...... powerful voice and smokes 10 cigarettes a day. He cats like a teen-ager. He travels around liile cart pulled by 'a masaff, and when he is not watching the men at work on his father's ferm Cristobal is usually to be found at the movies or a bullfight.

Local doctors, have not yet found an.coplanation.

*

THE COURSE Follco all over OF TRUE

France hunted for ten days LOVE, ETC. for attractive brunette 18-year-old · Carmen ("Mickey") Dethiere, feared kid- napped from her luxury caravan home by the River Marne at Creteil, near Faris. But it was only an elopement.

They found "Mickey" staying in a Montmartre hotel with 24- | year-old Henri Baumgartner.

"I love him. So we went away together," she said.

Baumgartner was arrested, on charges of desertion from the French Army and carrying false Identity papers.

foli- Carmen's father, rich ffround stall-keeper Roger Dethiere

went to fetch his daughter. In tears she threw her- {self into his arms and cried:

"I love him. I wanted to stay with him."

Father said: "All right. Come- home now. We'll see about that later."

Mickey, blew a tearful kisa to Henri, who Was standing be tween two policemen as she drove away with her father.

HE TALKED, Georg Promper," SO HE

tence in Dres- den Opera CAN'T SING House, tza becn

sucked.

His crime: criticising the, East- German Government and the Soviet Union in the presence of Russlana,

Arch thìa la how it happened, an indigeant Dresden paper reports. First bo`got chumic”, në the, first night of a new opera. Then be went into the theatre réstamennt, sat down with some RMBAN officers and, "violently ralted. at our government and the peace policy of our truc

friends the Russians,"

But perhaps the papon le bestting for trouble, for the bead-- line above the report rest - Pim Wein Lieut. Wafirdroit. which

[meses, 'when in drink the truth lconies out,