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The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

** THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1954.

POCKET CARTOON)

~~with cheering news

for a hectic world.

by OSBERT LANCASTER-

You'll be living longer despite

the pace-it's official

NE woman in every ton now Ilving is destined to reuch

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age of 88 years or more. One man in every ten will live beyond 86.

forecasts,

These official which show vividly how the

human life- average span is extending, are made in a British Health Minis- try document just issued fo doctors.

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Experta ted by Dr William P. D. Logan, the Government's chief medical statisticlan, have made mid-century check CIT! tlac nation's health by compar ing current life-spans with those of 100 years ago.

Don't be glum

The results outweigh

glum

DH

Tur 1 warnings

about increasing h troublés, mental stress and other "perils of civilisa Lion." They will certainly.

the escapis

who

Faithful...

sparrow

SPARROWS are faith- ★tuk lovers

and house proud parents, according to Mr. D. Summers-Bouth, who has been watching their courtship for several years. They usually find their mates when they are right munch® nid, and stay wedded.

Those twittering flocks of house-sparrowa in the spring generally consist of only one female and up to 14 Inter ested males-including the husband. And he almost invariably wins the day.

And a note from Roy Ullyett

HON MANY TIMES MUST TELL YOU

"YOU CAN'T BRUNG

YOUR GIRLFRIENDS/

HOME ?

shock

yearn

for the "good ch

clays."

THE FACT:-

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In spite of the train

of

for women.

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Most surprising finding of all, considering the increase of trame and the enormous numbers of people employed in industry, le that deaths from nocidents and other forms of violenca have cut by two-thirds Alnico 1653.

The reason? Though accidents are now cummoner, they are Int less often fatal.

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So simple

WELCOME

change

www..

in

uming medicines has been started by Dr Richard Shape, dis-

US. nelitist who hos covered new germ-lulling drug Instead of giving it a tongue- twiting title, like chloramphe mcot, he has called it helenine after his wife Helen, Dr Shope stracted the promising drug from moult which he found JPW RIK oth a mildewed photo- graph of his wife.

skunke

Boom bubbles

A DEVONSHURE farmer,

Jegularly

mixed the washing-up water from 198 dalry with tis pig food, notherd that his porkers #prew fuder alter be startedl

using a cerlane wieding powder,

∙CLOPING

HEIRESS LATEST

a

"But, darting, it's #a

to read of refreshing romance where neither of them has ever been married before."

His Darling Clementine

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FTER the tragedy of

the Dardanelles

Former Naval Per-

80 n

By LAURENCE THOMPSON

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This did not perturb afirmly- chinned young tudy who Was horgolf a ́Libéral. Whom Win- stob's cously, the hike of

dramatically biographies of her hun a wife should not have an arlborough, made pointed re

independent political axia- tence.

She remains a Libers), if not a Radical, api in the teeth of

buckled on his sword pre- band.

marks about Mr Asquith, the paratory to seeking honour

packed her bage and left Very in the trenches.

occasionally แ

Blenheim. Nor could she be corner of the curtain ist Thoro Art some people,' persuaded to return for many His mother WAR in lifted. Lord Norwich, hay- said Margot, Asquith, with months, despair. His secretary wept. ing drawn a memorable a meaning glance in the Hia wife alone remained picture of the Prime Minis- direction of Winston calm, collected and efficient, ter in siren suit, enormous Churchill, that you cannot publle disapproval to say a kind ng she has now been doing Californian hat and ailk change; you must either word for squatters, or the USSR. for 45 years,

dressing-gown embroidered swallow them whole, or it was she who, when bombs with gold dragons, adds: leave them alone. "Clemmic said she had

A great man is no less husband firmly that something given Winston a Claudle cealed from the world by curtain lecture this morn- great because he simetimes must be dona. what might be called

permits himself the luxury chinta curtain. Her friends ng on the importance of de not quarrelling with not speak about her Gaulle. He had grumbled publicly. She is rarely at the time, but who the

many thought

cer

do

Clementine Ogilvie Spen-

Churchill stays

mentioned in the

Go Fly A Kite For A Fish

W

ones. sh

con-

接

fruit."

IL would

bear

self upon the hill-tops,

in

began to fall on London, visited the Tube shelters and told her

Har Red Cross Aid to Russia over £7,000,000.

of being a big baby, able at fund raised one moment to vaunt him- She organised canteens and rest at rooms for munition workers in

the Arst World War, us sho next wallowing

organised centeens and hostels troughs of despair and self- for the YWCA in the second, contempt.

with the belief that the in- dividual, evon Or a waitress bearing a Such a man, such a baby, sweat, toil and tears, needed the among blood, uf tempting tray

sand- Clementine Churchill swal- dignity of privacy, a clean table- wiches ut a Buckingham lowed whole. It is the mea- cloth, a meal served na well as Palace garden party notices sure of her stature that she circumstances allowed. Mr Churchill raise his hand sustained a nation in sus-

Her GBE awarded for public as if to help himself, catch taining him.

services in 1046 his wife's eye, shrug and,

with a schoolboy grin, re-

Only this time mistake the

1 catch the

the big kite for

small

frain.

1k

By JAMES WICKENDEN WHILE blenk winds bigger Bah

blow, sportamen re out in the South Seas fish- Ing. And they have the edge on the West when it comes to ingenuity.

They never pore over caloured catalogues of the latest spinnes, files and geared tools. They just reach out for a spitler's web and

paper kite.

Tho khe doos the work of the skilled ligt-fingered cusi from an expensive rod and keep the feathery balt dancing with touch over the water.

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hovering bird.

So there it is, a simple homely

Ashing. <

1 especially

way

Or

visitor to Their London home hears a voice like a bereaved fog-horn there are plenty of webs in the calling Clemmy! Clemmy attle. But we're is one snag. And the Leader of Flying okte

sport Majesty's Opposition, takes longer to tearn an that his wife is out, roams casting.

the house disconsolate.

for this

If this method

is nut

ind Malays have un enough, the even more extraordinary way of

fish. They catching

detect shoals by putting their heads under the water and listening for them.

done by n spent

Very Moving

his told

Tis surely very moving

IT

that our most massive

statesman Tapa"- to

a long orator,

The ústening is fur-

expert who has initiation under the guidance of alleled, should still turn

modern living. reathe for inta, nine times greater seeptical, but accidents, and stog, the chance of reaching the age

A British selehtist, who 1:49 It is fastened to the line half more than 20 times greater investigated his smart observa- way between the roel and the 100 years ago,

reports that 1s du train, now

certain hook. This carries it out bronchitas

detergents to speed the growth aund

ther than ens fisherman cæc cast. na was

But the book isn't for catch- of pags and poultry. six times greater

Some

are still ing the fish. The South Sea Is- scientists

une firm is Jantes alin to give the high

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real chatice, and fight it salushed with

only feeding experi- ments corried out at Cambridge w the strength there is in the that it is to murket a detergent spiter's web.

HOW

far

of 44 hus increased spa- * There ate Jold for women and nearly fewer fatal "strokes" Browth-booster for farmers. sixfold for Men Ainee Buong

young and middle- 1863.

aged propl.

chance

age

the

Children have 11 20 Thought heart trouble US times

he MTRUCTINCTMK. of known better

survey shows that BierT bas reaching the

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a substantai dvaresse? been than your great-great- Ies of working life Kruin grandparents had when cause in the last 100 years, they were youngsters.

Among the old

they

•

of Out

every 1,000 babies born in mid-Victorian Britain 203 died before were ont year old. Only 32 out of overy 1,000 bubies now die in infancy.

Loss of working life caused by fuberrulosus was

in this

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Peril at sea

DOCTOR investigating five cures in which peoplu developed alarming symptoms after cating tod's

го in Denmark has made a sinister discovery-the roe had been contaminated with mustard gas,

Police inquiries proved that a fishing vessel had accidentally dredged up a leaking canister of more are Lying the gas-one of thousands cap

This means that the bulk the increased heart diseases bring recorded

ulder arnong people which is to be expected,

as Do many Beyond 63.

tured from the Germans and Much of the laureato 11) sunk "tor safety in the Baltic cancer is also due to the fact six years ago. thu! people are living so much longer and must eventually die of some disorder.

The mercan in the number I recended cases IS Ling Antler Capitated became thewtory

Even with

Bedside tanner

MY FAVOURITE medical raksprint: The doctor felt **** diagnosing the patient's purse, und decided with greater certainty, that there was no hope.

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The web is bundled on The hook, and the fish gets its teeth That is Thes Angled in 12 theory—howEVEL shy sounds. And I works because a well-ungled web is capable of holling nich more than a fly.

Why should the fish chose a wet dimcing over the water? tho there is a twist to Apain

fishermer give: answer Nieve de isn't the web that attracts Wem in the first place; 1's the kite.

The idea is that shoals of small fish swimining on the sur- face are followed by birds, and go, so do the where the birds

an old muster, and one of the his wife after a speech und customs is that he shall not pay inquire anxiously: "Was it

all right?"

giving

his teacher

except by him a coat or some uther per- sonal article,

say that most fish

Certainly Lady Churchill ! These

characteristic kise, finds it suflicient reward. dislikes the Somo emit a form of chirupping; [She sincerely

others give Uttic sighs. But limelight, and can be

out an ominous charitable about the wives

sound,

"

came to her.

t

sharks swoosh Swooshing

The Malay expert attracts nsh of eminent contemporaries in who usurp their husbands' by slinging a bamboo pole

Lady Churchill receiving the Nobel Prize for the water with a weight on the share. But when her account.

Literature on behalf of her husband. end to keep it upright. On top of her visit to Russia in of the pole are palm fronds to 1954 received a two-column s

Clementine Hozler Was not as the wife of a great man, a shadow under which the

her own right as or- review in The Times the the daughter of a Scots but in Ash gratefully collect, Ash

From thon It is merely on

author of the family is said Army officer who became Baniser and administrator. malter of

of circling the pole with to have exclaimed indign-

Yet in a sense, all was done secretary to Lloyd's. Her boats,

lowering the neta and

antly: "I never get two maternal grandfather

As the wartime was for Winston. pulling in the catch. And there

Times." the ninth Earl of Airlie. Prime Minister's wife, this tall, slender, distinguished WOTYLLI is no doubting the export when columns in The

e heard Last of the great Victorians, Her father and mother were with grey hair tightly he talks of the ane

curled, he, too, firmly believes that getting away!

separated, and for some wearing beautifully-made time she lived with her clothes, did all the right things. mother at Dieppe because it She visited shipyards and arms factories, ate syrup padding in was less expensive. Unlike British Restaurants, made for

YOU CAN BLAME

THE WIVES

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-if life is so respectable in the twilight land of Dangerous Dan McGrew

N the frozen edge of few Englishmen (there are not the map of Canada, many Canadians either) who can give the Duke a personal note of 400 miles north of introduction.

Yellowknife to me

ALASKA,

Yellowknife

her husband, she speaks herself a reputation as a broad- perfect French and at one coster.

time spoke good German, Anyone who met her for an though this, it is said, has hour went away intoxicated by become rusty.

her high spirits, gaiety and pense of fun. She spent four years

She drow the line it only at reading official speeches. Berkhamsted School for "I say anything, I say what I' Girls. When she returned like," she announced, firmly, there to present prizes in But as soon as the need was 1947 she offered a self- gone, she withdrow thankfully revealing piece of advice: Into privato life, mistress "If you find yourself in Chartwell's flower-beds and

chintzes, competition with men, never become aggressive in your rivalry. You will gain Takes Pains more by quietly holding to your own convictions. But even this must be done with

SHE is art and, above all, with good manager. Traces of former

of

"What's happened?" I asked, "It's the women," they said, was the "Once tho women Arrived, I went to everything got respectable."

it 1 humour. Never enlarge, ex- impecuniosity remain, as when As soon as they sald

wonderful house

the nearest railhead, 400 miles south of the Arclic suprise of a lifetime. Ocean, an the shores of the land of Dangerous Dan the Great Slave Lake in McGrew dressed up like a hoby realised it was the true explana- copt to a tried and trusted she advertised after tha the Land of the Midnight to dig myself an igloo. civilisation follows the plough: culties." Sun, there's a big feller necessary,

named Colin

war

and ready, tion There 15 a saying that confidant, about your diffi- for a second gardener at £2

to the had steeled myself Macdonald prospect of eating frozen cari- that is only partly true." will who

bo keeping his bou in n log cabin while I held fists warm.

back starving wolves with my faithful rifle.

The news has just triekied through to the boys propping up the longest bar in the Northwest Territories that the Duko Edinburgh is visiting them this summer. There are celebrations ahead

of

15s. a week plus cottage. But a thrifty and strict upbringing She herself was a hard- are also useful in housekeeping Civilisation follows women, working,

one who likes his meals And, of course, air transport. perhaps something of a

claiming that domestically at, When the women flew in and prig, with 8 seriousness Icast, "I very much enjoy the made the mon shave and cat that was Victorian rather luxury of indecision,” oft tablecloths, civilised

life than Edwardian. Even easy Beatrice Webb,

for keen, good girl, sold and Victorian while pro-

Yet within half an hour of riving I was sitting in a trally heated hotel suite (near my private bathroom) giving an began. Still it is not of the place to run a home, interview to the editor local newspaper.

And when the boys from the surrounding camps come into the Frozen North

I had travelled all the way to in search of

town it is Colin'e job

MACDONALD HASTINGS

an

Be used to be

The food served at her tablo not easily is excellent, not because pleased in these matters, apends a great deal of found the young Mrs. money but because she takes Churchill"a charming lady, Pains. She is better at training Cobolts than at, cooking berselt, well-bred and pretty, and When the blizzards blow in winter it is dangerous to put earnest withal but not your head outside the door. rich, by no means a good

match, which is to Win In

start spring, to

the ston's credit." vegetable soods you must freezo, out the earth for the seed boxes inside the house,

Not Her First

player, but now plays croquet,

- which she is a good state- gist, with a lens enjoyment of the full rigours of that mali • cióus: gatna

Almost her her

public

to set up the liquor and lay out the cus- tomers who'vo had

takes you on a Saturday excursion too much of it at Ingraham's Hotol in to the town the Daks-will-whit Yellowknife,

Yellowknife, one of the brand adventure and all I had found now frontiers of Empire which were mdlo-inxis, ice-cream soda

Milk, when `it is, available, threo a cinema with the Duke so rightly wants to seo bara,

costs neatly: 78 a «quart; meat. on his Canadian visit, is a gaid changes of programme a week, a mdning settlement of about 2,500 Hudson's Bay store that would 10 s. a b people.

not look out of place in Oxford It is a great pity that, when I was also to her credity apperstidZIK Ingraham's Hotel, whore bo Street, and Mounties, looking the Duke himbelf: has a drink will surely stay, because there is romantic enough, getting their at the most trouts abar is the hor firat proposal, and she birth of her daughter Mary. nowhere else to go, la the last man in American cars,

Far Norib, everybody is sure to married late for an Edwar Of all Prime Ministers' wives, place with a bath before you hit

bo on their best behaviour, dian young lady, bu

portage Lady Churchill alone the North Polo,

Half the year Yellowknife is frozen solid. In mid-winter the omly daylight is a few hours of $loom,

duty appearances are at Woodford, which, sho, mursos for, har b bandhi, when im was ill with for Winston's, was not Dundeo six weeks after the

bra klas

For F1 gold-mining camp,

I could wish that, just orice, She was not pretty, she might have minde à consider

own right, Yellowknife, soerned the most be could we? Colin, Macdonald's was beautiful, but the most ablo mark in Bor

LiteniA. SAND” Härdevoted, a sissy place on earth,

method of dealing with'n miner noticeable thing about her

to' spoiling, and commuting who gets a little aboy himselfe Taco in early Photographis one: znám, which the Toriales Instend of gun-fights, they

exhibitions, Colin place his arms the firm bone structure. Har may, corelder a yurte until one had handicraft

drew me on round the offences boulders Tough characters eno kide to invite mo to coffee and scoops him oude 38-year-old husband had remember that he and cakes, and to look at their fortingly shit he whew best not only rated from the given his penuh wakhny.

man at a wedding, these Conservatives, Party,, bát (whom she received his Nabel In summer there is virtually photographic albums,

Doug Bette, who is in charge was regarded as a traitor to Prize for Lerture, she may no darkness at all,

The Gold-minces, awaggering of the Mounties post at Yallow his class to further dis own have naked hormold "not only hover leaves the sky and you yound in Awes with ornamental knife, told me that after his ambitions. For some time, how different soight have been can play golf, you golf, at three Indian boots, ale cream cakes palloamen, Colins the hot Lady Churchill has recalled bow arent miga fhave been His welting" "of Blatory) - buat plac o'clock in the morning. pare and drank pop at a chromium- Kingle factor in the propery

- was there about 18 months plated anack bar, with a juke of law and order is the North-Winston was ostracised the history he also w

West Corritórios,

ins Oswald Modley is now.". she had chosen, otherwise, ago, which makes me one of the box;