THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1954,
ARTIE'S HEADLINE
FOREIGH OFFICE
QUIT
"Another message from
General Negulb."
A British
NEW BOOK SUR
THE HOLY MEN SAT ON SPIKES
FOR
AFTERNOON TEA
THE HILL OF DEVI. By E. on the carpet of the Old
M. Forster. Arnold, 15. Palace; some of the court
W
176 pages.
chanting ancient hymns to HAT frolics
Ruler, while others there the were in the Indian massaged his calves; every- State of Dewas body banging in and out of Senior, where author E. M. everybody else's room, dis- Forster was secratary to the regarding the sentries who Maharajah.
were, in any case, all asleep, There
face downwards. games patience with harem ladles
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13 Reside temporarily (5).
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18
Worshipped (8).
20 Valleys (5),
22 Volcano
(4),
23 Expressions (5).
25 Manservant (5).
20 Merited (0),
27 Dwant (5).
28 Join (5).
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1 Alarmed (8).
3 Portion (4).
5 Stek person (7).
Religion played its part in the cheerfulness. Sacred feasts had fu ribald tinge. All Fools Day was piously observed. And down on the river bank holy men by the dozen sat on spikes enter- taining one another to tea. "My dear chap, I ask you!" exclaim- visitor ed shocked Moslem
Hindu (Dewas Senior being a atate).
the Sometimes
holy men would descend is a body on the Palace, bless it and demand hundred rupees each. Given one rupee, they would then the Palace and retire.
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It was on idyllic existence although with its strange aspects for Forster who, as secretary to
(known the Maharajah Tukky), was in charge of gar- dens, tennis courts and garage.
Tukky ruled over the larger of the twin Dewas slates
noch (population 80,000). which had its palace, court
(210 soldiers, 10 bands men) and national anthem. With
army
LIBRARY LIST
of
They would demand a hundred rupess
the
-by-
George Malcolm THOMSON
ruler of Dewas Junior,
distant and suspect relative, he shared a coat of arms symbolis. ing World Dominion. In addi-
be had then to a secretary, rourt buffoon, a apy in the pay powerful neighbouring prince.
of
PARADE
Tukky) ship to a Freges wife ran floorless housCS.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
make sure all was in order for the Royal Visit;
He was shocked by a life-like" carving of a nudo New Guinea native. He ordered a grass skirt for .
Then a leading anthropologist ctumo by, Но was equally horrillo,
New No
Guinea nativo ever wore a skirt like the
GENTLEMEN'S Georges Then an alert constable had Commas and on Iden. He searched some of AGREEMENT
homes in Edmond Cop- the poverty-stricken pier wore old reglenental buddies the nch Ebourhood, The house her malda had brought a serious-and that is a sacred relation- holders had stolen the sidewalk, chunk by chunks, to pave their chargo (Involving against another mald Ho cont-
50, when soled himself as well ne off with Edmund, they came to near-saint could with his Gold
a gentleman's agreement, Ed- and Silver Concubines and Bai mond could have Aline no long_CO.OPERATION Wild boars one bureaucracy had ordered, Saheba my Diamond Concuas she never came bone aguin
In the The battle is still on-and the bine," an be called her jovially or demanded any of her be- IN THE 10 Forster.
Malayan carving will probably be re- JUNGLE longings.
village A day cane when The Times
But Aline wanted her jewels. Kampon Melayu Rate had been of India bore the aminous head-She went home and got then having a pretty thin time of it. line "Unpleasant Happenings in white Georges was out. Edmonu Villagers were just too efficient
The
heir
went
to
into
promptly sent at beating them off.
of moved for the Queen's visit.
LEAKAGE Things have got so
warm in Tibet that IN TIBET
one of the world's the highest lakes is likely to dis-
up appear.
Indian State." Tukky's throne had fled, fear found out-and ing he would be poisoned, her and the jewels back.
Georges, however, didn't know So the animals got together. Tukky, disgusted,
500
attacked honourable Inten- More than Iris friend's exile.
In village
tore tions. He opened fire,
of banana Now
pson, hundreds of is n Georg Edmond iri hospital. Aling trees, tuploca and young rubber spends her time taking both of them comforts.
In the meantime Forster had put Dewan into a novel, Pass- agc to Indin, of which the Vicercise,
Lady Reading, re "That comes of chiefs marked
retiing the wrong Kind of
European round them."
MEXICAN Mexico Clly po-
Quoting from his own letters ENTERPRISE lice were baffled and diarios of the time, Forster paluita a picture of A silly,week: charming bygone India which will be remembered when
last by a theft Somebody stole a whole block of concrete sidewalk
of Vie suburb
Nehru's longest speech is lost in new the boredom of history.
Pledad,
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VOMEN spend millions on cos- W
Their faces there's metics yearly. are somebody else's fortune,
trees.
teams,
deres
Nearby monkeys saw the show and joined in the pillage.
In
Lake Ghourikund, 18,400 feet above sea level, has been kept being as long as anyone e rumember by a naturnt dam of rocks and ice.
Now the ice has melted, and the picturesque lake, 1,300 yards long and 300 yards wide, is half empty.
WAR OVER A top Canberra, of- government Deiat pupped into from the A NUDE
Dueto the Institute of Andiunty's ex- GONE TO hibition of New Guinea art-to HIS HEAD
But is that necessary when a thortage of doctors?
Some day the people of the world will be toothless, says a selentist. Anything to gum things
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You can't blame a
Ior EXY5123 Ilking; a visible typewriter best -- if she's good looking.
turies authority.
?
Civilisation tarter 70
according #RO.
And just where dild
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18 !!! The housing situation rio laughing matter, yet peuple continue to double up.
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it
Francisco A San
sailor has collection of 1,000 aki ropy,
him to It should
be easy for make lots of knots an hour.
An Chio for having bottle of
was arrested 711021
single open Just A
tris Looze in
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The Maharajah was a mystic, given to trances, to philosophi- cal speculation, eg., "Where are Socrutes and Plates? We do not know-yes, yes?" and to cdify- of the ing anecdotes like that holy man whose body, 30 days after
could be heard death,
If you humming, "Ram, ram,"
• A HORNBLOWER AND put your car close to it.
Here and there a shadow foll Tho THE ATROPOS. By C. S. across the bright scene;
falling down Forster. Michael Joseph: New Palace was
built; could be as fast us i 12s. 6d. 302 pages.
sparrows nested under the cell- the The great Harnblower in Q
inds: sixth-rater. He almost sinks in squirrels ran about
corridors; two grand pianos, harmonium and a dulciphono
were all unplayable, were
Dowager Mahnrance, The Tukky's aunt,
a difficult, bizarre wom
believed men's clothes sus dance pected of having tried to poison
"On,
ho blasti" the Ruler. would cry,
"her
Dowager High- ness again!" when her carriage rolled into the courtyard.
2 Outer (0).
4 Railway compartment (7),
6 Period (0).
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7 Employing (9).
10
Swelled (8).
the Thames with a state barge conveying the body of the dead Cad Lord Nelson; attends a levee at French St James's; cuts out o
In privateer
Channel fog: vast treasure off the salvages 1
bear-leads Turkish const; German princeling. A year for a hero.
a
quiet
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17 Turnult (7).
19 Leathe (0).
14 Fated (8).
10 Bunch of ribbons (7).
21 Once more (5),
24 Surfett (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 3 Dado, 7 Greed, 8 Bolt, Pure, 10 Control, 12 Vown, 15 Ousts, Gril 19 Talon, 21 Allen, 22 Pale, 23 Still, 26 Myth, 29 Relaxes, 30 Aped. 31 Fuss, 32 Decoy. 33 Hide. Down: Prior, 2 Restore, 4 Adult. 5 Obey, fl Siew, 0 Post, 14 Ruins, 13 Able. 14 None, 19 Stall. 7 Calm, 10 Gist, 20 Aflayed 22. Pied, 24 Treud. 25 Demon, 27 Your, 28 Hash.
VIGNETTES OF
I THINK I'LL HAVE A BIRTHDAY
THIS
YEAR /*
BAR-B-Q
• THE INDOMITABLE MRS TROLLOPE, By Eileen Big- land, Barrio: 15e.: 219 pages.
Energetic, outspoken, tact less Mrs Trollope ruined herself
in Cincin by opening a store nstl
und
damaged Anglo- American relations by writing Manners of the "Domestic
at the Americans," Beginning
nge of 52, she wrote 50 novels, thus beating the record of her famous son Anthony. Miss Big- land writes a readable life this prodigy.
LIFE
'IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME-WHAT'S THE
CATCH?
محمد
A TOUGH DECISION,
NO BIRTHDAY
NO LOOT.
YOU SAID YOU WANTED
EATS
TO EAT OUT`
FOR A
'CHANGE
THERE IS MORE ABOUT TO BE BROKEN THAN JUST THE MONOTONY.
"MOM, THERE'S
ANOTHER MOUSE'
IN ONE OF THE
TRAPS
vi
in
Was
The inauguration of the new constitution, which granted only one right to the democracy Dewas, that of raising Tukky's stipend, was a flop. The table decoration was ducks In glass trough.
the water was too But, alus, cold, The guests took the ducks out and warned them in their serviettes,
Forster thinks Tukky was A genlus, and perhaps a saint. The is conflicting. His evidence young wife left him after one of
car.
A man and his wife are one. Enough for the judge to make
lows, a che out of it. marriage according to We've heard them sounded like a dozen.
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when they
A locked
magician
safc
out of a gol
30 seconds. In
By HAL COCHRAN
•
Printer Fesire Gruyere Won
£2,500 on the
National Lottery Last
French
M
week-and Kao!.
promptly landed hi
Police had to take him away in handcuffs after he tried to the printing shop up greeting-where he worked."
Don't forget the girl friend's smosh birthday, advises # eard company, But do 19gel which one it is,
Youngsters
marched
Dul
Shrugge a pokerman: "The money must have gone to his bend."
carrying all their books when a PREFERRED Visitors who call Mr Davici school enuight fre grade
THE DARK on
In artwright, Some day Kentucky,
they'll
Froggatt Street, Bilston, are as- icarn.
of many sured
good stories about old Bilston, Mr Curt- wright, retired lamp-lighter, lit his rat lamp in 1904, his last 45 years later,
ho those
days," "Poles in
Ц "huck suyu,
tube running through them, connecting a tany paratiin burner at the top with at the small rubber bulb
You turned on the other end.
The groom is always called the lucky
sometimes mon--which gives the girl's father a laugh,
People who don't stop te sludy all the ongles in business there up likely to wind days are running around in circles,
The only time a traffic light Lots of people would do less We've heard of crooks who got in prven
in two directions worrying if I were as hard to into one in less than that.
drivers explain what to smash-up lo, a cop. borrow money us it is to pay it back.
Ale, according to an auther ily, is good for hay fever. Lots of other drinks just hey, hey!
are line tor
When the automobile ran the horse out. why couldn't it have done the same thing to the nag?
A appies
The average person is sick right days a year, says a doctor. That gives women 357 days to talk about it.
Sudden
A
hites inheritanc habit of making the whole worldi your kin
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Women are the only people besides men who dress in front
two of a mirror to see what's going health
says export
better than on. #day are
Breaking The Monotony
WHAT, AGAIN? OR
AM I IN THE
WRONG HOUSE?
THE GAL WHOSE HAIR CHANGES COLOR AS
OFTEN AS A TRAFFIC LIGHT.
COFL 17 BY BRIERAL, PEATUNIS CORF, TM WORLD WOHTI KESEYID.
JUST LIKE I TOLD YOU- FIRE ENGINE RED/
10-11
"DON'T THINK
YOU ARE
GOING TO
A FIRE EVERYTIME
YOU GET BEHIND
THE WHEEL
JUNIOR CAN ALWAYS BREAK THE MONOTONY--
PECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE COMPANY
"THE NEW PAINT JOB ON THE OLD BUS
BY
让
Prison inmates should be given the latest news of the day, says warden. Maybe they'd be more contented to stay where they are.
Trouble often comes as much from letting a wife drive a new car us from refusing to let her.
Why kid ourselves about two living as cheaply as one when Just one enn*t?
HARRY
YOU USE THREE JOKERS AND THE ONE-EYED
JACKS ARE WILDT
WEINERT
"IF YOU ASK ME,
WE ARE THE JOKERS."
THE GUY WHO CHANGES THE GAME EVERY- TIME HE GETS HIS HANDS ON THE DECK.
'I KNOW YOU'RE
TIRED OF THOSE
SMALL
SOUFFLÉS,
SO I MADE
YOU A
BIG ONE /*
THE TWINS JUST LOVE
TAKING THEIR BATH SINCE
THEY GOT THEIR WATER PISTOLS /
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the
gas with the pole, then pushed a small burner through trap door at the base of the lump. Then you squeezed the rubber
blew the bulb flames across the mantles.”
rebukes 10
His work brought him many friends — and many from people who preferred
"The," be left in the dark.
the courting he says, "were couples. They used to offer me money to leuve a lamp unlit."
FOR USED After BLADES
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d
general
on the
of get-
blades,
of an that
uiscussion diiculty ting rid of used razor une Hond of the House Oxforu College disclosed he had been using for 25 years a method which was intellible,
Ho said: "I put my used blades in an empty matchbox which I leave on my desk. It is really astonishing the attraction for visitors a box of matches hes in such circumstances,"
FITNESS Spryest old mon RECIPE amongst the ancient mariners at Henry Radcliffe Home, 11 haven for Britain's old sailors, is James Hamlin, ninety years old next birthday.
He has carned the admiration of all the other old sea dogs with whom he loves to yarıı-- yes, about ships and the sea.
medi-
How does he keep active? "Those new-fangled cines!", he thunders, likely"
*Not
Pink-cheeked old James every day walks two and a half miles to his favourite pub for a pint of beer-and then walks back in time for lunch. And that's what keeps him fit, he swears.
BULK Bulk buying by Gov- LOSSES emment cost Britain 245,000,000
the year ending last March 31, ac- cording to official Agures. And Government losses for the cur- rent year are expected to be substantial.
Why did the Government buyers do so badly?
They bought when world prices were high during the Korean war, got caught with big supplies an their handa when valuca later fell,
WINDOW
REINDEER The Rev. John AT THE
Bebb, vicar of St Edmund's Church, Dudley, and his wife and two young daughters were the only family in the Midlands who looked, out at their window, and saw a rein- deer at Christmas, For Mr Bebb Is the only viear in Britain who lives in a 2000)
His 10-roomed vicarage is in- side Dudley Zoo, And::furt- behind the vicarage, Rudolph,
fully on a hill."; "The house wa bullt nourly a century the
the zoo's reindeer, grazes pence-
Sond
given to the anterola
Earl of Dudley, The Bland freehold and could not be talcon (over) with's the Coater! szronttudie
when the too wide formed;
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