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A British Crossword Puzzlo

RAMCTS ALLO RAUCID DE REAL U E

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1953.

POOR LITTLE EMILY! SHE WAS

SO DAZZLED BY MR. BLUNT

MUTTAMINEN A BLESSED GIRL. By Lady

300TLE E D SOMNLE

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RNCNT 14571TTER HLONE MURDME MM RICE PE SHEEN

ACROSS

1 Bank-tasting (0),,

5 Distribute (5).

8 Actual (4).

9 Meat (6).

11 Material (5).

12 Aged anti feeble (4).

14 Untamed (4).

16 Keen (5),

IB Scold (3).

ID Slothful (4)

20 Giggle (8).

21 Solitary (5).

25 Excursion (6).

20 Grain (4).

27 Gloss (5)7

28, 11as conndence in (0),

RUSTS

Frolle (4).

DOWN

2 Meshes (4).

3 Press (4).

Emily Lutyens, Rupert Hart-Davis. 21. 340 pages.

A

LMOST every day for nimest 10 years little Lady Emily Lytton, whose father had been

by

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

drumatic Minister. It was

For the moment, even tragic. Tory Government war beaten

was re-

an old

well

PARADE

accents

Viceroy and an ambassador, and, worse tüll, Lord Salisbury' house life, Emily locked her bod H" wamen) of equatoriali burning of coal while Parlament refuse to belleve the recording

THEY'D London's unog-pea- PLAY London rchool teachers, bad SOONER 10upers or just plain BACK worried by the Deploying every Blratagem, The Year of the Lion is a

and faulty fog they used to call DIE. About fond one moment, the next say- novel

Kenya, Bboul

it caused pubile grammar of some of the pupils, ing coldly, "The thing I loved Afrlen,-its people, its problems. concern nearly four hundred have struck on a new method to in you was that you loved me,” Hanley subsintes the problems years ago.

Improve faulty-speech. Moving colour of

ensually round the classrooms, Blunt kept the girl in bubjection, ul Africa Into the

lattered, fascinated, terrified Kenya, the drama of the mass Apparently offended Good they record the children's volees but virtuous,

slaughter of zebras, the sustain- Queen Bess.

on a tape machine and then let them hear themselves, talk. ed torment of the lion-huni, the Climax came at a house-party slight matness (affecting men as Anyhow, sho forbade the

Generally, the pupils at first at Cromer. Faithful to tradition of English country.

6,000ft. abov

sea level,

was sitting, the casual

¿ngers

ngers of the con~

is of themselves. · wrote to

room door, the Rev. Whit-

It proved 0 wise.

ting for its revenge, tinent waiting

Since then, fog has become an

But when they are convinced, . precaution, During the night worth Elwin at his rectory

young Jervis looking for

Brat

Continentni visitors In Norfolk,

would outside. And then Judith Blunt time on the immense tragic cap-arrive, lose themselves in a fog. discovered the truth about her tvating country: "Below them and say when they returned to handsome father.

rolled hundreds of miles of

wild their sunny. homelands: "Now A year later, passionate Lady Ceimtry, swimming out of blue we've seen England,"

mists and turning green, grey, Filly met the witty, rising yellow, becoming Africa again Fous were at their yellow-

before his eyes.

He could hardly blackest during the reign of THREATENS tulks, Sir Wins

ton Churchill contain his exultance, 03 his Queen Victoria when the chim-

to drink in there ney stacks of the industrial e Frigida has crept into

goes to Bermuda-and Coelopa eyes sought

the volution belched their poisonous Mother of Parliaments as sub-

the

on, Lord Cranborne, Jected by the veters of Darwen

The news scrived at dinner- rhe heard Mohammedan noises the appalled Innocence of accepted feature of the clis: they immediately try to improve. time. Lord Sallsbury Bait "Bad news." Lady Salisbury,

end of the table, at the other said in the calmest voice, "Oh, is a real bare."

Lord

The old clergyman had a gift for gaining the confidence of young girls; he was free with kind-hearted, heavy handed Hugh Cecil cald, "Very the

("Conversation not

an eclucu, some,"

wisdom

utterly frivolous is Ben, quotations frem Words- They were wonderful, Emily worth, anecdotes about thought. She longed to throw Macaulay

herself on the ground and kiss Lord Salisbury's feet-what he fall most was the ingratitude of, the country,

"The Rev.," no little

Emily called him, was even ready to spring to the defence of Dickens: The vulgarity belonged to the

4 Declared not to be true (6), class from which Dlekens sprang

Averrod (7).

8 Deserat (7).

7 Offers (7).

10 Lukewarm -(5),

13 Shrieks (7).

14.Attractive (7).

15 Reading-desk (7).

17 Vary (5).

10 Whole (0).

21 Dow(4)

22 Tears (4).

23 Grows old (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Aeras; 1 Basis, 4 Orator,

# Scored, 10 Scrap, 12 Despiet, 14 Tempest, 17 Wain, 18 Errands, 20 Deplore, 22 Oral, 23 Vandal, 27 Cinemu, 29 Abide, 30 Single, 31 Digest, 32 Event, Downi i Besel, 2 Storm, 3 Swede, 5 Rasp, Turian, 7 Ripens, D Deserve, 11 Coward, 13 Streams, 15 Ewcy, 16 Pallid, 10 idol, 20 Dutard, 21 Pacing, 24 Nalve, 25 Angle, 26 Scent, 28 News,

YOU WERE

IN A BOAT WHICH CARRIED YOU SUDDENLY OUT TO SEA, YOU CAME

TO A BRIDGE AND THE BOAT WENT OVER IT;

NOT UNDER IT

THIS DREAM

MEANS :

your

Dreams have a way of scrambling subconscious thoughts before presenting them to you. The more you resist facing unpleasant thoughts, the more they are scrambled before they reach you and the barder to unscramble. To unscramble this dream, one needs know a lot more about the dreamer. The boat is a symbol of the mother or the mother's in-

to

and was deeply ingrained in him."

But. дж time passed, the patrici in stoleisin of the Cecils 'showed a few cracks. Lostl In her letters (s the rectory, Salisbury at all night with gushing, nalve and charming. tears in his eyes. And, hear- Emily gave the Rev." glimpses ing that Cranborne had been of life in the high social circles beaten by the Roman Catholic where she moved, Brother Victor vote, Lady Salisbury stood Sn was seril back from Eten be-

the middle of the rocm exclaim- parasites ing: "Damn the Catholles, danı In his hair.

Molier

the Catholtes!” Was stilarty affleted: "She decided that she must have picked them up in one of the French churches visited."

cause of enhard!

Nic

huck

The General Election of 1802 occurred providentially when Emily, aged 17, was staying at Hatilell House with her relation Lord Salisbury, Llic Prime

THEN YOU FOUND YOURSELF SHIPWRECKED

ON A STATION

'PLATFORM

"Frances and Eustace say she took a drop too much."

Scon Emily's letters dealt with

in the Norfolk subject that caured far graver perturballons rectory. Her friend Judith Blunt ("a prċullar girl; she par- fleularly liked wrestling with her friends") was the daughter

of Wilfred Scawen Blunt. This brilliant romantic, dangerous figure looms over the girlish correspondence like a thunder- cloud over a croquet lawn.--

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

th"

persunding smoke.

countless And when

COELOPA Russia FRIGIDA

agroca

to Four Power

moments of wonder." Writing like that,

reader that he can get inside servants were at hand in London Jeet for carnest debate. brain of setiler, Dutchman, homes to pile chenp coal on Indian, African and lion too, open graica. Hanley writes a Kenya novel

GUBSCRIBE A TO K

the

"Certainly I can help you! You can't remember the title, you don't know the author, but you know it's unobtainable in the Isle of.

Man! Well, it's out !'

were

the

.

Coelopa Frigida, Mr Howard Johan, MP for Brighton, told

a surprised House, was advancing on the capital. They were in strength on a 150-mile stretch of

werk,

ho

coast.

be in London's centre in

would be

that rives far above the usual In those days, winter fogs, to discourse of tropical adultery gether with hantom cabs and

crinolines, and partisan polities, ·

the beach an Britain's south part of The Year of the Lion is London scene.

They travel at the rate of eight thrilling it is far more than a

miles a

informed thriller. Here is high distinction. Now, all of a sudden, smog Members, and at that rate they

(maybe it's because of FATHER GOD BLESS HIM: name) has, becomie London's three weeks. He suggested that the Secretary of State for War, By A. Corbett. Rýerson Public Enemy No. 1.

Mr Anthony Head, should lend Fress, Toranto. 76 pages.

The press has recalled in troops and flame-throwers to UILDING his own

that church, | mumerous articles

Just destroy the enemy. own sermons,winter's amog killed four tou- Mr A. C. Manuel, representing aldiry muddy roads on parish and people in a few days, City Central Ayreshire, demanded tourds, disputing with the Kirk

B will

Sestion, holding backsliders to councillors have met to abolid that trade union rates should be the strict Sabbatarlan line, mog-and dispersed after warn pald to toldiers taking part in bringing up eight children on a ing that 9,500,000 tons of sul- the action. stipend of 800 dollars a year and phuric acid are released yearly sceing them all graduate from into the air by Britain's Ares universities the life of a Pres-

byterian minister in Eastern and furnaces." Canada tested a man's moral:

Then the other day there was and physical fibres.

His life-ns Mr Corbetta nog. Not a big smog; jus: a describes it in

this touching, baby smog, but enough to put humorous record of his father, the nation on the alert. who was just such a minister-

smog

The Secretary of State for War maintained a calm front.

Winter geles, he sald, should help wash the invaders from the beaches. And the cold weather discouraged their, courtship-and increase.

So Coclopa Frigida wil not after all have to face Britain's aried might in their bench buzzing.

Blunt bred Are horses, went to prisen for Irish nationalism. and wrote English poetry, He had been brought up a Romani Catholle; claimed to be young areniteet, Edwin Lutyens, Moslem.

was hard, i-rewarded in a Londoners einerged to face He had been a British and married him.

Lady Emily's correspondence worldly sense, and noble. Mr the enemy. Many had diplomal and was an honorary Arab chief, who on the slightest with her old friend the clergy- Corbet remembers the nobility masks in their pockets. But the to man, gushing on the one hand, rather than the gerness traditional English reserve over- provocation came down dinner in Arab robes. He was ponderous on the other, gives father, a a man of intellect and 63. Emily 18, when she went to the painstaking reader a vivid principle, was the hard-riding, come them. They did not put which infests rotting seaweed. stay at his house in Sussex ag

xlimpre of the dangers of a hart-preaching son of a Nova-them on. Judith's guest.

Victorian grihood,

Scotia lumberman who became Fixing a plereing and prcda- matory eye on his daughter's friend,

THE YEAR OF THE LION,

By Gerald Hanley. Collins, 10s. 6d. 256 pages.

Huls

a minister in New Brunswick A handful of people wore and elsewhere.

Coclopa Frigida? A small ny

Revealed about Bri- tain in the official Annual Abstract

of

the honorary Arab chief put on

Mr Corbeil draws the portrait them as a joke. Immediately it BASIC of one who combined Christian was: "Where's the gus attack, FACTS his smartest robes. He dazzled

"Dick Turpin rides the girl with poetry and horsts;

humility with pride, whose plety chum?"

"Bad. smell around, Statistics: More than a million pursued her from rofa

had a touch of pugnacity, and again!" to sola.

coupled 21 who

disdain for mate?" They took the masks women live alone. Over eight

million homes Flittering little Einly was soon is "The Year of the Lion"

have no child At wildly fatuated. tackle

inst

with it because

pleasure in his chil-off. Maybe it will be different under 16. There are 73,121 pubs; in money. asked, "Emily, might. I came which the lion kills Browning chen's material advancement. when a really bad smog arrives. 4,180,000 cinema seats in. 4,570 an Englishman cinemas; 331,143. shops; over 14,

ship- fluence; drifting to

ultimate ses and wreck sucresis you fear a catastrophe: cross- ing a bridge you needn't have (by rights you should have tone under) suggests the feeling that you are tackling-being made to perhaps-lasks you might easily have avoided.

Your whole emotionat life seems to want unscrambling. It might be worth while to give time a chance and make no important decisions for a while,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

GOSH-WE FORGOT

-TO-BRING THE

MUSIC /

THE SAD NEWS OF A

DIRE CALAMITY.

"GUESS I'LL

HAVE TO GET RID OF IT- IT'S

FALLING APART!

10

the your

and see you in your room?" and then two others--before it The plcture of a good man who, But just now Emily replied, "Certainly not." falls to the rifle of Jervis, a like others of his kind, made a But she was more shucked than nervous young Inan fresh ont lasting Imprint on

Dominion. from home.

certain.

Sympathy

"YOU POOR.

ANGEL HAHA/

AFTER HE'S GOBBLED UP THE

LAST OF

YOUR CANDY.

MORE SAD,

SAD, NEWS.

REMEMBER THE GUY

WHO SOLD US THAT LEMON OF A CAR?

CLOSED UP/

BUSTED

1963 BY SINIRAL PEMTURIS

CORF, FLLWORLD NIGHTS ALTERVED

MELANCHOLY NEWS OF A BUSINESS RECESSION.

TWEET/

"OOH-

OOH!

the young would rather die than wear

Emog mask.

a

million private homes, including 101,000 of one room.

BY HARRY WEINERT

WE'RE OVERWHELMED WITH SYMPATHÝ WHEN THE ROAD-HOG, WHO ALMOST DITCHED US, IS GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE STATE ROAD FUND.

"NONE OF THE SHOTS I

TOOK OF

YOU CAME OUT!

WUNITY

FIFTY YARD LINE

IT BREAKS OUR HEART WHEN THE LANDLORD DOES A FANCY STEP ON THE BUSTED STEP HE REFUSED TO FIX:

FIFTY CENTS

IT GRIEVES US WHEN THE

M

THE ONES WITH MY HAIR IN

CURLERS AND NO MAKE- UP T

TICKET SCALPER IS THROWN FOR A LOSS

BY THE WEATHER: MAH

*K→

WORK It started as an CURE periment.in London's borough of Finsbury. A council meeting decided the bellet that old people only, want to be left in peace and quiet was a myth which, should be Lexploded...

And they set up a work centre for old people near the famous Sadler's Wells Theatre.

Now, 65 men whose

and women,

ago 'averages.72, arrive from Monday to Friday to work

a dally two-hour shift,

The experiment has proved an unqualifled success. So much so, that new workc premises aro to be found. for the old people- and twice the number "allowed to come.

Absenteeism is unknown, and the old folk each week earn an untaxed ten shillings to add to their pensions.

Their work makes them "feel still of use to the world and, à great morale builder, precludes the suggestion of charity. No- body urges them on, but in. variably they feel it a point of honour to complete their jobs.

These are useful ones, They include making coat hangers; | testing_ballpoint pens; packaging

com-plasters and similar simple, - tasks.

Most important, the health of Qe old people has improved since they, becama occupied.

WAY TO To businessmen has THE TOP coms a now guide for hiring boys and young men,

Drawn up by the Chamber of Commerce in Leeds, ⠀ Industrial; northern city, it reflects the views of 188 industry and bust- ness bomos,

Don't look for above-averago brains in a young fellow, they say. Don't look for a string of academic qualifications.

Instead, watch out for sonality and character.

Decido, whether -ho?, cùn "Cosinbed "on as a sloyal work whether he will accept to re-

Files, of-loader

bill take him:

on. And be should reaches the top whether or hot hisBrains Fare brillant.