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↑ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1954.
"Preferential treatment you | want? Who do you think you are a McCarthy man?”
WHAT WOULD FREUD
HAVE THOUGHT OF MR. DODGSON?
Edited by Roger Lancelyn ventional. In the end he mone
Bosting one day with Alico
pages.
PARADE
with
MARBLES. There's trouble in EASY To help ørring motorists FOR
the marble world, WAY to part
their money gracefully, MEN ONLY The "world marble
champlonality" is Toronto City Council is think- fought out every Good Friday ing of making it possible for on the Tinsley Green common, them to pay their fines to preity
decorous and gentlemanly affair.
gland. It has always been a girl cashiers.
Now it is threatened with the intrusion of @ Marbles Beard of Control met the banks.
women's team from Yorkshire. The "British
In the saloon bar of the Greg- hound Inn and told the ladies they had jolly well better stay
The Diarios of Lewis Carroll. ford, were serene but uncon- "I mark this day with a white
Green. Cassoll. Two might have subscribed to
not only marked with a white volumes, 30%. each. 604 the 39 Articles and taken and her sister day which he priest's orders (he was a stone but declared was a won-- deacon) if only he could dorful day he began to tell the have brought himself to 6 into writing down and which
story which Alice cajoled him nounce his unclerical everybody now knows. sion for the theatre.
It is hardly surprising that Alice's mother,
Mrs
Liddell, looked with some suspicion on home, Dodgson, nor was she the only
T
HE_ religious beliefs of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, mathematical don at Christ Church, Ox-
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1 Crazy (4).
4 Send to the bottom (7).
B Nation (4).
Park.
Soccer.
Dance.
9 Atutude (4).
10 Foes (7).
at Caroline Hill.
11 Crooked (4).
Stephen's College Old Boys
Kowloon Reel Club Annual Dinner Dance, Inter-school
Athletics
H.K. Regiment Mounts Guard at Covernment House. Michigan University Alumni Dinner Party.
Girl Culdes
Park.
Competition at
King's
St. Thomas More Association Dinner.
Ordination at R.
King George V
H.K.
Catholic Cathedral,
Old Boys Rugger,
Reel Club Dinner Dance.
Fencing
Finals
at Y.M.C.A.
Sports Club Annual Meeting.
Ladies Hockey Finals.
Junior Officers Dance.
Available at
12 Repast (4).
14 Walks heavily (7).
Snake
(5)-
10 Twist (0)
22 Slim
20
m (7).
20 Communista (4).
27 Quote (1).
28 Alms high (7).
29 Way out (4).
SAGE
DOWN
2 Made reparation (6).
3 Threefold (0).
4 Aroma (5).
5
Middle (8).
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8 Shy (8).
7 Vaasal (8).
12 Disfigures (4).
13 Tool (4):
15 Blood (4).
16 Stitches (4).
10 Holiday (0).
20 Crawls (8).
21 Gelting nearer (8).
23 Rope (6).
24 Fastenera (6).
30 Pass over (4).
20 Hazards (0).
31 Own (7).
32 Herb (4),
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. — Actors:
1
Ardour,
5
Lunch, 8 Seven, # System, 10 Vigli, 11 Dopes, 12 Maul, Roast, 10 Assent, 18 Deocit, 20 Great, 22 Mere, 23 Sings, 25 Curio, 28 Limpet, 27 Ended, 28 Bears, 29 Teased. Down: 1
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SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Auming, 2 Dissuade, Used, 4 Remorse, 6 Leveret, 6 Unison.
Wyndham Street,
7 Cribs, 14 Attempts, 15 Talented, 16 Actions, 17 Singlet, 19 Easter, 21 Rouse, 24 Side.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
'TELL 'EM I WENT TO TASMANIA -- TELL'EM I'LL BE
GONE TWO MONTHS
TELL'EM
ANYTHING!
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His idea of heaven was, at least, geometrically precise: a succession of planes of Increas-
ing bliss to which the righteous mother to do so. The tall, the they may turn up after all.
wore progressively translated according to their merits. One of the celestial joys to which
Dodgson - looked pertally forward was the solution of the mathemo
The system is already in use in Montreal, where Anes can, bo paid to the girl cashiers in the banks. Sixty percent of Mont- real fines are now pald through
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drinkers WATER Tax-pressed DRUNK look heart this week.
The medical journal, Lancet, reported that you curi get drunk-even got the DTS- on WATER.
But, women being women, man in alerical drew, with his eternal black cotton gloves, This year, for the first time scraping acquaintance with too, an American team will join
little girls on the fray---}, that is, they can It only happens after opera- benches,
might get any practice in. The Ameri- tions, Water sometimes diutos well arouse cans mostly, embassy types, the blood stream. When it gets misgiv-emerged from their Grosvenor to the brain, the patient reta
Square offices the other day and very drunk indeed. And these tried to set up a game in nearby might be only Hyde Park.
some
ings.
10
partially assu- Within minutes, they wero
by
GEORGE
aged when, the surrounded by a horde of small WHISTLE"Jane Russell" and
Monroo little girls reach-boys. Minutes later, they had CHARGE "Marilyn MALCOLM THOMSON
ing the age of only two marbles left. They whistle (England) court last fourteen, Dodg-{gave up. son's interest would turn ab- ruptly into coolness.
tical problems of infinity. They had often per plexed him at Christ Church
But probably heaven would not be quite itself for him with out the companionship of small girl-angels to replace the little friends with whom he found his keenest happiness on earth-and the inspiration which made him Lewis Carroll.
Dodgson as a lecturer
was "unspeakably dull, dry and perfunctory." His sermons were troubled by a bad stutter. His croichely ways were the plague of college servants, his fellow dons and printers.
He disliked
undergraduates, boys and babies. But he became another being in the presence of attractive little girls.
was
For them a cupboard in his
at rooms
Christ Church kept filled with games, puzzles and mechanical toys. There was, too, a wardrobe of fancy clothes in which they could be photo- graphed by their host, the greatest photographer of child- ren of the nineteenth century. For their cake, he was willing even to tolerate their litie brothers.
For the entertainment of his little friends, Dodgson, immedi- ately losing his stutter, became a magician capable of inventing endless
games, tricks with paper, and atories. In short, ho became the creator of Alles in Wonderland.
Alice, daughter of the Dean of Christ Church,
was, as her photograph shows, one of the most charming children In Dodgson's gallery. When he met the child, he wrote in his diary,
come-
But, if Dodgson was times annoyed by "Mrs Grundy," as he put it, he was fortunate in living before Freud. For who can say what horrors the psycho-analysts would read into his fleeting adorations
He was, in fact, almost exces» sively fastidious even by Vic- torian standards-in his attitude to questions of "good taste" and morals, Hla lttlo friends found him easy to shock when they
musie
holi songs Rang attempted music-hall donces,
or
Dodgson-Carroll was a mixed bag of eccentricities and talents; Inventor of the "nyetograph" (a device enabling one to write in the dark), the "Wonderland Postage Stamp Case" and a Rule for successful betting. His diary contains interesting, unguarded glimpses of a curious mind. It could, however,
have been pruned of many entries that are merely trivial.
and
week rabbita.
astute
appeared in a Halt-
charged with poaching
The magistrate and the police- Retiring after 21 men,
however, WCTO years 09 Super- fellows who know what Jane Intendent Register Russell
and Marilyn Monroo of the Barton dis- look like. They suggested that trict of Lancashire Is Daniel the girls might like to give their Casey, who says that by far the real names Thelma Pagò and most remarkable change of the Irene Taylor. last 50 years is the number of
AWFUL WEDDED WIFE
people who now remarry after divorce.
HOME
Highly-paid pay-
may
Mr Casey anys that almost all the 7,000 couples he has married TREATMENT chiatrists
not have D were impressed by the little
proved, but at least parents did, homily he gave after the cerc-
it confirmed what Father had in mony. He was unable, however, mina long ago. to do anything for the bride- groom who recently walked into his office and sald: Tha tled Dorothy Jupp, of Brentford, Muddlesex, who has just retired me up w' a girl four years ago, after fourteen years as a juvenile. It hama' worked, so tha' mun untie me,"
to
Ho likes nervous groom who agreed to
It was the final opinion of Mrs
court magistrate,
Nelther gangster films nor remember the American comics make kids go take the bride to be his awful wrong, she said. The remedy fer incipient delinquency lay st wedded wife,” to which
she home. retorted, "Tha' great gnwp- walt till I get thee whooam.”
SOMETHING
One afternoon, an being ad- mitted lo B hause, Lewis OLD. Carroli dropped on hands
African who knees and entered a room from slave, will which a hubbub of volces pro- month. ceeded. A conference of serious women were startled by this apparition; so was Carroll, who had been invited to a children's party and had arrived at the wrong_house,
Readers of his diary. (of whicht four volumes have mysteriously disappeared) will think that, in a sense, Lewis Carroll was in the wrong house all the time.
Plain And Fancy Fibbing
"WHAT DOES YOUR. "FORTUNE SAY?'
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"IT SAYS··· IF YOU
DON'T BELIEVE” ME, GET OFF!"
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She added: "I have become tho fault is convinced that usually with the parents. should be stricter at home. Mary Booysen, good spanking from
A father a soft-spoken would probably keep a lot of Johannesburg children out of the courts." started life as get married next
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The same month, she will be INVALID In training for the 112.
1956 Olympics Ein MILER For the wedding she will wear
Melbourne) is mifor a red silk dress she last wore Murray Halberg, a 20-year old to a dance 46 years and Four years ago he was seriously
student New Zealand
teacher.
4 carry faded bouquet of artifcial flowers
football game. which she injured in carried at her first wedding. Doctors told him, that he would That was in 1850.
only pull through if he avoided And after the wedding?
all strenuous activities and re- Mary will go back to taking invalid. Only a few weeks 250 signed himself to living, as an in washing.
however, the "Invalid" ran the mile in 4 minutes 16.2 seconds before the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Dunedin. Now the "invalid" hopes to be the Arst man to run a 4-minute mile.
BY HARRY
WEINERT
"AND YOU MIGHT ADD THAT ANY SUCCESS
I HAVE ATTAINED I OWE TO THE LITTLE WOMAN-t
THATS A GOOD LINE AND THE
LADIES LIKE IT,
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BEDSIDE To ensure that bud- MANNER ding doctors have the right "bedside manner," the Danish Medical Association is planning A scheme whereby all medical students! who intend to became general practitioners will be apprenticed to "elderly doctors" and ac company them on their rounds,
SLAVE Following crop failure TRADE in Japan hundreds of families are once more selling their children into slavery at £10 a child. The majority are girls of from 16 to 18 and a
report by the Welfare Ministry discloses that children nre being sold at the rate of nearly 2,000 & year through a system of child- brokers. The girls become BER- vants or "waitresses" in city. cxica,
IS IT ANY WONDER THAT A GAL
CAN SPOT A FIB FASTER
THAN A GUY CAN THINK 'EM UP?
THE BOYS
ARE HAVING
A GAME
TONIGHT-
CAN YOU
MAKE IT? 27
"SURE THING!
I'M THE BOSS
AROUND
OUR HOUSE/
MATRIMONY INSPIRES
SOME REALIY FANTASTIC FIBS.
*YOU'RE A SCREAM /
YOU SHOULD BE
ON TV Z *.
SOME CHARACTERS BELIEVE ANYTHING.
SOME FOLKS NEVER BELIEVE
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UNLESS
IT'S LIGHT
BY AT LEAST
TEN POUNDS.
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"YOU SHOULD
SEE HIM
AT HOME! HE'S A RIOT/`
WHEN THEY ~TELL HOW
THEY TOLD
THE BOSS OFF
IS WHEN THEY'RE AT THEIR BUSY.
WUNGT
WHY AREN'T
YOU IN SCHOOL T
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PERFECT/ JUST A FEW SMALL ALTERATIONS/
“A WHOPPIN' BIG 'H'POTAMUS CHASED ME HOME
KING ABOUT THIS TYPE
DIR:CONVINCE
BARBS
By HAL COCHRAN
GIRLS are naturally curious, BOYS 2 toocher. Some, however, don't mind being kept in the dark.
A psychologist says one mind can affect another at a distance. Like when you trump your partner's ace,
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Many a man looks run-down because of the bills his wife runs up,
Some of the most comical couple strips will soon be parading on the beschen
Any taxi driver could give you a list of people who have beon drives tỏ tình
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When fat friends Beriously start down the road to thinness, It's a pleasure
to watch them lose their, weigh.
A magielan isn't the only one. who produser things you, haven't seen before,-/Think what some laundries - bring. | back.
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