POCKET CARTOON
by OSPERT LancasteR
"But what happeni, Herr Baron, if you and you? beautiful new arms have a spiritual crisis, and do a
Dr. John on HE!"
PARADE
RECIPE
FOR LONG LIFE
On
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1954.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE
in if a hydrogen bomb war starts Dr or if Martians landı"
holiday Majorca, Chang Sen. A from refugeo
been China, has Communist
two giving Majorcans one startling comments on longevity, Dr Chang believes, for instance, that the greatest cause for early
about
deaths 18 unknown.
worry
OF
the
cases
"A tus seven out of every len coronary thrombosis
and are directly due to stress
Some of these worries wory.
business undoubtedly fre worries result from such things as the fear of what may happeti
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Besides attributing
val of deaths to the possible arrival of Martians Dr Chang maintains that too many people feel that life is on the wane when they have reached 40. One should rationalise
age and look upon its approach as a blessing, This shouldn't be Christians who belleve-as I do --that death is merely a prelude to another and better life. Once this fact sinies in a person can relax and live for fuller life than ever before.
difficult
THE NEW BOOKS
AND PLACES AND THINGS Nancy Spain FINDS
WILS
·
group
one
of
the
20,
HOW
TO BE SMART-PLEASE YOURSELF
It was as the meal was ending They noticed that sauce made that tho mysterious incident from beans kopt fresh and never began.
One of the fruit dishes went bad. Chernists, in finding suddenly chattered into a thou out why, discovered that
NLY the individual to stick their stomachs out, 8d.), much the most enjoyable nitrofuran plects.
no of the Initial crack, no traffic vibration drugs turnzolidone-conquers taste can create style angrily tied a little girl's novel of the year so far, is all near the house and nobody was disease in poultry.
or fashion, says Cecil hair ribbon round her head about self-discovery, near enough to touch the glasses,
A nico fruthful child called Initial experiments by the Beaton. It is in our selection when poet Jean Cocteau told Almost as suddenly, and within Animal Health Trust show that that we betray our deepest her she had a masculine Penelope lives in the south of seconds, another of the glasses
this now treatment of poultry splintered to pieces. Then an-
mind: and once felt cold on Emnee with her father in his
hotel. is superior to other drugs so for selves. for other and another, while the
tested.
In his breathlessly smart the Duke of Westminster's family stood back watching.
a man's She wants to be friends with new book, THE GLASS OF yacht and throw
nick- Finally as many as seven of the
middle-class family FASION (Weidenfeld und navy blue cont round her a
named fishen lay shuttered.
mather Tho by hor And
far, 50
next Smugs The Smugs let her по One bas THAT'S LOVE, The beaming Nicholson, 218.), he tells the shoulders. "For the thought of an explanation.
bride, THAT IS
aged story of about 800 people generation other women dil down. She falls in love with a and 17.
who refused to try to please likewise," happily comments married man, she grows fond of self-absorbed wide. Sho happy bridegroom, aged Asked what he thought about PATRIOTIC Patriotic understood in Amsterdam Town Hall anyone but themselves, and Mr B.
manages to come to terms with Man's age-old fear
and the of death COFFINS
akers in Japan waiting for the registrar to so set the vogue.
the world, the flesh, coming too soon, Dr Chang was
Arc trying to begin the marriage ceremony, And of course in his own
devil by towing her neighbour. more than cheerful. "That is popularise cheap, plywood collins
one of
struggles towards Penelope the killlest fear of Barring instead of the more expensive
of all.
It never got started. Instead, selection, which is
towards accidents a man only dies when style at present current there. the bride (crying) was driven the smoothest summings-up
Mr B. also collects the oh self-knowledge and dio and he wants to
not a The undertakers argue that it is home-alone The bridegroom, I have yet rend of the social
grace. And so does Don, the "You eldest "Smug." who also finds mument
was taken to whirl of the 20th century, so revealing remark, before, If you And this sacrilege to destroy expensive in a dead faint Incredible I can only assure coffins and, an
you
Japanese hospital. One mother and two Mr B. has betrayed himself are not going to offend m3 respectability is not enough, it is so. Even though the doctors funerals involve cremation, ex- fathers were taken to prison;
by offering me champagne, c
misht expect Don to have given up all hope for us
severely over and over again... father, being the are
Mr B. has collected be- What I want is water. It is marry Penelope. But not at all. and if there is some reason why
wounded, joined the groom in
to get water. Don becomes a pricet. we want to go on living--then
tween two glamorous covers so difficult the doctors will be wrong every
The personalities like the Water is so scarce in Len- A simple time. It's just that
divorced. Duchess of Rutland, the don," says Lady Cunard. their new Marchesa Casati, Mrs Reggle "There's nothing like a spouses. The registrar her Fellowes, and dress designer rose for pulling up a mixed the first of her books that I
RAREST GIRLS RATES R
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P AGREE R RIKE KAPTER I TRIES OR
ES NE
CLASS STAGES
ACROSS
Revezme (8).
Commence (5)
8 Heavenly messenger (5)
Interfere with (6).
10 Regulations (5)
11
11 Trample on (5)
12 Repose (4).
13 Experiments (5)
16 Most uncommon (0)
18 Diminishes (6).
20 Reception-room (5)
22 Meinl (4)
23 Concur (5)
26 Go up (5)
20 Sword (6)
27 Attempts (5)
28 Form (B3).
20 Degroes of progress (B)
DOWN
1 Plunges in liquid (8).
2 Huge (8).
3 Ship's spar (4)
1 Век (7).
3 Scolds (7).
& Dodges (6).
Lifeless (5).
14 Outstanding (8)
13 Ghosts (8)
16 Forest officers (7)
17 Vroerstes (7)
19 Brags (8).
21 Month (8).
24 Orient (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 3 Grip. 7 Wrath, 8 Arin, Spar, 10 Imitate, 12 Toll, 15 Trend, 18 Term, 10 Raise, 21 Tara, 22 Daft, 23 Staff, 26 Jalo, 20 Artless, 30 Milk, 31 Mere, 32 Scrap, 33 Nine. Down: 1 Grime, 2 Stutter, 4 Ripen. 5 Part, Sill, Stem, 11 Arras, 13 Omit, 14 Led, 10 Draft, 17 Etch,
27 Apex. 18 Tall. 20 Afflict, 22 Dark, 24 Talon, 25 Essay. Omen.
28
1
coffina
all
other
what happened:
parents,
out
This is groom's
up with turned
affair the
in.
for her
She
It look
the
So revealing
admired.
UMPHREY Lyttelton, dedi-
Hriously
pensive destroyed every day,
In a practical leader the hospital. economy-minded undertakers
Pamela Frankau has always
wit as point out that
written with
and some "not only does work the plywood coffin
times with passion, But this is cheaper but it also user
up less fuel in the crematorium."
have whole-heartedly To criticism that a plywood tho groom's mother
Coco Chanel:-
Diana Perhaps Porncla ilko her Bays Lady VASE, the The office boy is coffin doesn't, ¡live
proper
consent to the marringe.
heroine, has found herself? REPLACING dying out, ac look and feeling of an honour- refused.
When all the other mums Cooper, doing the flowers. cording to Mr T. able and expetisive
Incensed, the father took a BOYS....
"To be 90 is a nuisance. I R.
writing in Thampson, undertakers,
their swing at his successor, missed were dressing their debul-
A trumpet, please The ante daughters in pink and am tired of living. It is have chairman of the Office Manage innagazine,
commented and hit his former wife.
Relatives of all white the duchess dressed enough," says Madame Er- ment Association's research sub- "such criticism should, in fair- fight was on.
ness, be left to the users," kinds joined
her daughter in black velvet. razuriz. And Mr B. hastily commitice.
town hall ushers and the police So she launched the legend makes a note
extroverted Old of it in his
whoso Azzing nulo- to restore order.
of Lady Diana Cooper on an diary. And so he admits us When I was all over,
I FLAX AS biography to the secret heart of "per- PLEASE (MacGibbon and Kee, groom's stepmother discovered astonished world.
to dress, had been torn
sonality," to the mainspring 15) is the other literary event She had to borrow one
of Fashion itself. When the marchess was
Mr B.
was 50
this January going to the ball as an elec trically equipped Saint For the last half century he has been darting among us, snapping Sebastian, covered in illumi- of his
camera in all the very Dressed In la top hat
getting tails Mr Lyttelton dragged his. nated arrows, she plugged in Sest drawing rooms,
a rausic her suit of armour. Promptly talked about because he squired mother from Lord's to
Gorbo around. He shop in the Charing Cross Road Miss Greta it short circuited and she
where is right in the swim, is Mr B.,
ho announced: "I want turned a back somersault.
a trumpet."
t." After this he never setting the fashion..
Unable bothered to look back. Yes, that is a sinister phrase to road a noto, with no sympathy
to
"He told a press conference in London: "The demand for young girla is greater than for young Unless a boy is men in offices, very bright you don't need take him into an office now. The tendency is not to have boys in an office unless they are going You to rise to be supervisors, don'1 want them for routine work."
Ordinary clerical work was becoming a woman's occupation.
AN ARMS PROBLEM
Thousands
of German
dagger patterned after those used by the Luftwaffe and Inscribed with the words "All
A before the could go to gaol.
gers
a
1.er
shreds.
•
the
Here's
DSSO-
·
•
•
Eloniar
of today, knew what he wanted at an early age. At the ago of 15, at the Eton and Harrow match, to be exact.
་
and
for Germany!" are being manu- factured again in Germany. This time, however, the daggers are not for German use. Instead, NO JOKE Remember all those
West German cutlery manu- THIS
old jokes about the housewife and the facturer is producing the dag-
for
Californian firm milkman? Forget 'em. gers which aims to 5:11 them as what housewives and milkmen "souvenirs from the Nazi era". behave like in real life:
The manufacture of the dag-
The Hague milkmen's though it was clation decreed that every milk- looked as
For Mr B. himself admits that to for the Allied Military must have a hothday. Half CLASSWARE Shattered wind. going to raise quite
When the Hon. Mre Reg. those who work in fashion's for people who think mumo a and Board which EXPLOSIONS screens
is supposed to
gie Fellowes found herself sphere should expect the worst sort of exclusive club open to now, from Bel-
the Germans remain that giwan, shattered glassware,
But the milkmen decided that at a party where another and should provide for on early those who pass difficult Initia-
At most, says he, they flon The armed. Said a member of the they couldn't deliver twice their lady was wearing an iden can expect to reign successfully through life as though it were glassware story begins In the Security Board: "We would
ould usual rounds. So they instruct- little village of Habay-la-Vieille, confiscate the daggers if it were ed housewives to come and get tical dress of black tulle for 10 to 20 years. And even a Trumpet Involuntary. near Arlon 10 Belgium's shown that they were being sold their
Ho is now 33, happily milk on the street with puffs of beige ostrich can to Germung as side-arms. We u
feathers, she sent for a pair been buzzing around for longer married, 6ft 4ins, with a band have no authority, however,
Inversed, thousands of house of scissors. In a few minutes American tastes regulate
wives refused to do business souvenirs."
with, their old milkmen when she danced gaily on,
unique again and waving “ beige ostrich feather fan.
southern frontier.
sce dis-
the milkmen would go one week. half the next.
QUITIETY.
the holiday was over.
Monsieur Francois owned Q set of dozen crystal glass fruit dishes. They belonged to his grandfather and had been safely
The milkamen's Aspociation hidden through two world wars CHINESE A bottle of sauce in
a Chincse restaurant replied by.
refusing to allow any and
occupations. SAUCE
led scientists to the member to serve à customer who family gathering-in the discovery of a new drug which had hit her old millenah. Francois household and it was
save the industry from decided that the precious dishes should be used.
two enemy
Last week was a great occasion
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
can
fowl typhold.
now
demise.
work out that Mr B, has
than that,
Most enjoyable
To
testa,
of his owzi.
ho has
sailed
What a man, He has playòd the trumpet all over Europe, Anzio from Sandhurst to the No lead fashion you must be bridgehead. And on VE Day, on
a band
cart, in the service Yet how can you yourself, What about the fabulous know what you are? How can form of a subaltern in the played And
Pamela Brigade of Guards, ho yourself? poultry So the housewives are left to |
WREATH FOR "For He's A Jolly Good Fellow" of trot
Frankau's A to the nearest shop and Coco Chanel? Well, Coco You collect their milk in person. Chanel told her mannequins THE ENEMY (Heinemann, 12a. outside Buckingham Palace.
British the ravages
A Dip In The Deep
BY
HARRY WEINERT
Incidentally, his sister Diana has been assistant to the Press Officer there for some time, Indeed,
It was their uncle,
Roger Fulford who, remarking how proud he was of his nephew and niece, once pointed out that one worked at the Palais and the other at the Palace..
POP'S
JOB IS
MOVING THE CAMP CHAIR AND BEACH UMBRELL
BETTER SPOT
IF SOME DIPPERS CHOOSE TO SPEND THE ENTIRE SUMMER IN BATHING SUITS--
IT'S ALL RIGHT
WITH US.
EVERYONE SHOULD GET OUT IN THE SUNSHINE- BUT NOT TOO FAR OUT,
COAL IN DI GHMERAL PRATURES.
COSE, THE WORLO RIGHTÍ deservio,
TROUBLE AHEAD
- OR ASTERN ---
TO BE MORE EXACT.
DON'T FORGET
TO
BASTE
EVERY HALF HOUR.
BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
DANDITS robbed two waliers
Bhen they let a night club. imagine their hands up, instead. of out.
THERE'S NO USE TRYING TO TALK TO WOMEN AT THE SWIMMING POOL-THEY
DON'T PAY THE LEAST ATTENTION.
Optimista pep up any party, says a writer. Bo do pessi❤ mists, by staying home.
Manufacturers predicted real nctivity in straw hats this sum- mer. We seo it every time the wind blows hard, .
Head hunters in Bornes are sold to be dying off. It is hard to get ahead these days,
:
—BUT SOME PEOPLE
N IT AND NEVER SEE IT -
Fab people, spend too much money on food, says a doctor. It doce add up to quite an ex- panse account.
New songs are murdered on the radio and yet they live on and on.
Worms are said to utter a low moaning sound. Is that what's scoring the flats away?
The girls are out getting a súnten tiveso days, because gentlemen prefer bronze.
Pennsylvania giri of flye
already has had five.
She's all set, with
for lito
ung men who drive
wedding
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