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THE CHINA
VASATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28,
A 'COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
PARADE:
COCOCCODOK
blg cards
saying
OF MICE A. "luxury hotel" caught in the handle of an open pasted up
houro mice window. He dangled there badly. "Thieves are operating here? AND MICE for
has been set up shocked until resguers pulled When the thieves closed the shutters they brought the posters by British Government selen him through a window:
into view. tiata.
The mice are given a varied
diet, aro allowed to comper COSMETIC No longer freely about their "hotel BAN
from which cats are carefully nail varnish in school. excluded. But everything they
do la
сал
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1 Walks pompously (0).
1 Agila (4).
2 Repose (4).
8 Precious slone (4).
3 Book (4).
B Carry ou again (6).
4 Ulters (4).
11 Sumelont (8).
Killing (7).
Echoca (7).
12 International agreement (6), a Echoes
14 Disorder (4).
16 Observes (0),
18 Minimun (5).
19 Incites (4).
20 Like better (0).
24 Morony (5).
25 Oppose (0),
20 Keenners (4).
27 Fear (5).
28 Highly delighted (6).
7 Most profound ́(7).
10 Presses (6),
13 Consecratol (7).
14 Knead
(7).
15 Ceased (7),
17 Monsters
(8).
10 Came out (0).
21 Sense (4).
22 Fissure (4).
23 Fastener for shirt-front (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across; 1 Tress, 4 Rascal,
8 Pastor, 10 Tango, 12 Record, 14 College, 17 Ride, 10 Unaided, 20 Consult, 22 Leas, 23 Arsenic, 27 Regret, 29 Verse, 30 Serman, 31 Reward, 32 Ruddy. Down: 1 Tople, 2 Easel, 3 Shore, 5 Alto, U Candid, Looted, 9 Regular, 11 Aarive, 13 Centres, 15 Oboe,
21 Narrow, Lasses, 18 Demi. 20 Clever,
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25 Nomad, 28 Candy, 28 Gear.
THIS
YOU WENT IN
THE NIGHT TO A DRAPER'S SHOP. YOU CUT A HOLE IN THE WINDOW AND TOOK OUT A SLEEPING DOLL AND BROUGHT IT HOME WRAPPED IN A BABY'S
DREAM
SHAWL
MEANS:
Probe deeply enough into a dream or better still a sequence, of dreams and you will sind
wish and a fear and a conflict between them.
Here the wish seems to be to have another ohilid: the fear is that it may not be acceptable to your little daughter,
There seems to be some difficulty about
21 Steer,
may
י.
near
Dulch teenagers FORGOTTEN Something big wear lipstick of FIGHT
happened to end fight between And boys must attend with Roman legionnaires and barbarie La recorded. The mico don't know that Agriculture Ministry properly brushed hair and clean Visigoths 2,000 years ago,
nails, men are watching,
Archaeologists who unearthed Aim of the mouse-snoop: To
their skeletons This, in effect, has just been 180 of discover their weaknesses so that ordered by Holland's Inspector. Segovia, Spain, found them sill better ways of trapping them General of High Schools,
locked in
combat. mortal be devised,
Skeleton hands still clutched The "hotel" is disused stono It is the first ever official to grimly at mouldering sword building dimly lit by red lamps, struction regulating appearance hits. Three skulls had heavy on a wartime airfield up-country of Dutch school children, who maces embedded in them.
behave naturally are, nevertheless, not forced to A large stone cheat found with because they are not afraid of wear any particular uniform. them, brimmed with Fold subdued red light. Occasionally
carrings, sliver buckles, filigree the scientists serve up a Borgla feast to see if they can detect HELPING What is the valus rings. Experts said it was prob-
Two full HAND
of a human life? ably a general's foot. poison by smell.
Theory advanced by archae-: In Paris It depends mouse-watchers are employed.
Main findings bo far:
on how wet you get in saving plogists on the spot is that the battling men were entombed by The male mouse is supreme one.
a sudden landslide, oss in his own home, lording it over several wives and scores of children,
The
mice
Mice are for ever fighting their neighbours,
•
arm
long DOUBLE Chance's
reached twice Inlo TAKE
Johannesburg
other day.
the
The Seine River authority has just issued its official tariif for rescuing people falling into the MORE water.
•
Last year'a Monto atom tests, Bello Reaching out a helping hand TURTLE
tar from killing off) SOUP from the bank, as, Bd,
marine life, have
In increase Bont rescue, 12s. Dd.
caused a rapid Diving in for someone, 185, 24d, the number of fish and turtles
in the arco,
this increase. Amazed by TURN OF West-friendly Mar- British scientists who have just shal Tito is giving returned from the lands say COAT
Army h's
new that atomic radiation could have uniforms-minus most of the drivers both named Tom Sey style and insignia copled from made the turtles and fish more!
fertile. mour, both aged 27, collided in the Soviet Army after the war.
aro The Islands
a brooding Both asme make.
New fashion: Western-style, cara of the were concussed on their wind-
to po will be the ground of huge green-backed First thing shields. Both dislocated left
Soviet-style
opau- turtles, famous for the soup they wrists.
lelles denoting officer's rank, provide. Instead, officers will carry stars
Head scratching trame соря solemnly, had to record that two
board-like
An African window cleaner fell from the eleventh floor of a still five-pointed on their IROQUOIS Red elty akyscraper. Passing Floor shoulder straps, the way British Eight the belt of his overalls officers wear their pips,
THE DOLL CRIED "MUM MA” ALL THE WAY HOME - BUT WHEN YOU GAVE THE
BUNDLE TO YOUR LITTLE DAUGHTER
IT WAS EMPTY
TEST
NCOS will show their rank on CASE
Indians their eagle-feathered! war bonnets have
In
gone to court in their sleeves, and no longer wili Ottawa to take action against Yugoslay officers have the lavish the Queen,
red or blue stripe down their In a test case that will affect)
-136,000 Indians living in Canada,
trouser leg.
In summer the whole army the Government honour a 150- will go into blouse, shirt and year-old treaty allowing them
-bring shorts similar to the British to
In goods from the tropical uniform
United States duty free.
Chief Poking Fire and Mrs Reason for the changes? Says
Fire of the Army: "Practicability and Poking
Iroquois economy","
near Montreal, sat on the stiff-backed benches in court
OPEN
tion from behind the bary
over
the
the
A
-1950.
THAT LITTLE
LITTLE TERROR
་་
An American, psychiatrist and a teacher tell parents that spanking, howevor 'em.
old-fashioned, nigy sometimnga alili de uṣcessary.
0.
.Many parents 3:01 Mink that destructive- ness and aggressiveness in children are forms .of originat sin' and can be cured only by insting a fear of punishment, But often there
By the DOCTOR GREAT many families have among ́ their members the sort of child who in described, nij “a little terror," To find yourself the parent of a little terror Is a worrying business-though often en- livening na woli,
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· Fathers and "mothers faced with this problem will find much to help them in "The Intelligent Parents Manual", which has been published as a Penguin Handbook (price
(d)
The authors are Americans,
Florence Powdermaker being a paychiatrist and Louise
Grimes va teacher in a nursery school. But the book has had its transatlantic edges rubbed off by English editing, and British readers will be pleasantly surprised to find the advice
quite a given often departe
long way from the half-baked teaching of some
B-called modem child psychologists: "You must always let the little dears do exactly what they like." Discussing 4xgressive behaviour in children, the authors have this to say:
some-hing upsetting in the child's life that is not fully understood by the parents.
A small girl, for instance, who devlops a great affcollon for her faller may reamt the attention he gives to her mother and show her rosentiment by defiance.
Some parents are too prone to apply adult standards
children's their
behaviour. Those are the parents whom you hearin tho siroots alternately threatening and cajoling a snivelling toddler who is delaying the shopping expedition.
Such young children. are physically
incapable of hurrying or appreciating the need for hurry. Even to step up from the road on
pavement to the
a complex, muscular task requiring due time for a performance. Besides, there are bewildering number of
things
ngs to icok at, of dangers to be avoided, of objects to pick up. In fact, any parent who is consistently irritated by a child's tendency to dawdle will soon be a candidate for high blood pressure.
An occasional sponking may, of course, be essential. When a naughty child has been given too much горо and has
come to belleve that his parents do not really mean what they say, a spanking will show him that there are bounds beyond which his aggression will not be allowed to go. It also may relieve the child of a feeling of guilt.
"When one considers the endless number of things a child is told to do during the course of a day, many of which he is too young to see the necessity for, and when ano couns the times he is crossed in his wishes, It does not seem surprising that he often and quite normally resents adult authority.
"When a child does feel angry he shows,
At a surprisingly It both by word and deed, young
age he learns to express his fury
But parents who are often impelled to vocally by abusive language and dismays his
ents by his bloodthirsty threats."
punish
or otherwise child by
by spanking should Dismays is the operative word. It is fatal
question whether or not there is for parents to show that they have been something wrong In their relationship with
the naughtiness of a seriously disturbed by
the child and what it is hoped to gain by child, for this encourages repetition of the frequent punishment. naughtiness. Also, of course," a troublesome child will get great satisfaction from hearing its behaviour discussed by grown-ups.
parents
..
***The fortunate child is one who is brought up in a home whore the rules for behaviour are few, but resolutely enforced.
MILTON SHULMAN: A BOOK TO 'TALK ABOUT
THE FAMOUS
DAY
T was certainly a busy
OF A MURDER
The preparations were rela- sight of a guitar, Rasputin asked
simple. Rasputin
tively
was his host to sing him something
Youssoupoff. Most of it invited to Youssoupoff's home in cheerful. In the circumlanet's St Petersburg where he was to Yous:oupoff thought something for be served with cakes and wine, sad would be more appropriate.
he Ench cake and cach glass was After two hours of desperate
kill several
instantly.
Tickling
putin
revolver.
the
3.8 their counsel was spent studying Two thieves and wrangled
which legal examinations AND SHUT Surting their enu arguments for them,
was to take the next day, filled with enough potassium waiting Youssoupoft lost his CASE
The case stems from the action In the evening he had a date cyanide to
men faith in cyanide and shot Ang
the heart with a of a young Indian welder, Louis
It
Uhrough Geneva gaol. They were caught Frances, who lives on a reserva- to murder Rasputin.
The doctor among 93 robbing the villa of an American ton. He is seeking to recover was December 29, 1916.
United Nations man-apparently $123 on a refrigerator, washing
conspirators declared him the co-conspiratora dead and they left the body in a The decision to kill this played "Yankee Doodle" on basement room while they pro
WHILE a student of criminal psychology, machine and heater he bought malevolent priest was taken a gramophone in
The American was away on in the United States.
on upstairs pared to carry out the rest of holiday with his family. He felt
when Youssoupoff learned room Rasputin nibbled away at their plan. the shutters
that Rasputin was negotia- two of the cakes and drank two
But some misgivings prompted Yougroupoff to go back to the William ting a traitorous peace with glasses of wine, Except for Shakespeare, German agents,
slight tickling in the throat, the room some time later.. Ho feit aged 24, was
cyanide seemed
have
no Rasputin's pulse and there was fined £1 in
The influence of this corrupt, effect. a Jonannesburg
no beal. But suddenly, to his minutes police court for swearing in public,
dissolute peasant came from his Desperately Youssoupoff pours horror, he saw the left eye open Behind the open "I hope that is as you like it," hypnolle eyes and the power he ed out more poisoned Madeiras then the right.
American had said the magistrate,
exercised aver the Tsarina, wine. Still no effect. Catching
reting the child: it seems to require an opera-. ilon (cutting a hole in the window); It in- volves expense (you get it from a shop); there seems to be a need for secrecy (it all happens at night),
Dreaming of the child as a doll suggests you may be wishing yourself back to child- reassurance hood again when you could get
and help when you felt helpless. A wise and trusted physician' is probably your best adviser at this stage.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THERE YOU ARE-
ALL FIXED.`
"OH-THAT
*ISN'T [MY CAR—
I'M WAITING
FOR A
BUS/
"}
WHERE SHALL I PUT 'EM, MISS ?
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of his villa open.. Along came the thieves for an THE NAME'S easy clean-up. They broke the THE SAME window, climbed in and closed the shutters.
Within five were there. shutters, the
Love's Labor Lost
"-THANK YOU
SO MUCH- -MY-HUSBAND-
CAN TAKE
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THEM NOW!
AND TO TOP IT OFF
HE'LL BE FLATTER THAN A BUSTED TIRE AFTER HE PAYS HIS FINE ·FOR
DOUBLE PARKING.
YOU SHOULD
GIVE HIM HIS BATH || AFTER-- HIS DINNER.
AFTER LUGGING'
THE WEEK'S,
FOOD SUPPLY
SIX BLOCKS
THE WOLF IS KEPT AWAY FROM THE DOOR
"ISN'T HE SWEET ?
"HE WON'T LET ANYONE:
COME
NEAR
ME
HE ELIMINATED ALL RIVALS FOR THE GIRL OF HIS DREAMS - ONLY TO BE
STYMIED BY A POOCH.
SELL 1973 AY GENERAL FEATURES
COIP, TM WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
ANUNE?
"DIDN'T I
TELL YOU
WE WERE
INVITED
OUT FOR DINNER?
BY HARRY
to
WEINERT
IF THE BUGS DON'T LAND ON YOUR NEW PAINT JOB-THE MISSUS WILL. (ONLY THE BUGS
DON'T HAVE TO
SEND THEIR
PANTS TO
|THE CLEANERS,
́MY GOSH-
CAN'T YOU PUT A'SIGN
ON IT?
WHAT DOES
IT SAYA
DEAR
A
HE SPENDS HOURS OF |HARD LABOR.
WITH THE DOPE SHEETS
AND THE HORSE RUNS A DANDY LAST.
THROUGH HALF THE ENCYCLOPEDIA,
ts, Quiz
YOUR ARGUM
THE
AST SAID ABOUT. THIS THE BETTER
HAVE BEEN
ETC TO PROVE THEN FIND YOU LWET
With sudden violent effort Rasputin leaped to his feet, foaming AL the mouth,. and grabbed
the Throat.
managed
Youssoupon by
to break frce and dashed upstairs for help.
1
Rasputin followed him up the stairs, crawling on hands and knees, "gasping and roaring like wounded animal.". It look four more..bullets finally, to kill.
was
nothing In the early life of Prince Youssoupot to suggest that he would ever |indulge, in such an orgy of violence. Is autobiography, Lost Splendour. (Cape, 189.), indicates a decided aversion from anything energetic,
In disguise BELONGING to one of the
richest and noblet Tamilies In Tsarist Russia, Youssouppif was the heir to estates stretching hundreds of miles.
His mother, disappointed in his being a boy, dressed him as a girt unt he was Ave. Ho admits this has had a Lasting inluence on his character.
delight
As a young man his special was wearing women's clothes as a prank. His die- gulse was so successful that at the opera in Paris he attracted tho wandering eye of King Edward, who asked for The
name.
The happiest years of his youth were those he spent at Oxford. His entourage as a student, included a Russian chof, a French chauffeur, an English valet and housekeeper, a hunter two polo ponies, a bulldog, and a macaw.
Ha scandalised London society by Installing in his Curzon Street flat a black carpet. It even caused A divorce. An
Englishwoman airdered ond against her husband's wishes, Ho considered it funereal. Elther me or the carpal ho takl, She chose the carpet. * Repercussions His book, filled with tho eccentrle irresponsibility of grandi dukes, princes, and counts, is hardly likely to do much to restore the
or prestige The Russian aristocracy moulder
In
they
to the hate, around them,
away their last days and debauchery- Youssoupon's murder of
had some curious reper
durit
cussions. V, 2ŁA number of times whet, the first days of the Revolution. mosk ? of??his:i; class were: balzin summarly, murdered üle And tho Awan obinred; the job of i^sar; of Ramdas Laukily for him, events
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