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POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
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freedom les in the renunciation of «elf"1"
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Miss Barrett's secret PARADE FOR AND HAD AND THE
Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford. Edited and intro- duced by Betty Miller. Murray. 251. 284 pages.
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Those two Vic torian ladies. had much in common. Both were liter- ary: cach single,
·ISS BARRETT kept her secret well. For ten
years she maintained a fervent, affec- gan,
slave
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Mins Mitford was an old meld of 50 when the Jeltern be- the devoted of a selfish. father tionate, intimate correspon- tyrannical dence with her friend Miss whom she suppor:- Mitford, opening her heart ed by industrious
writing to the older woman, and not wil once did she hint at the nost important thing in her life.
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she ́ ́ confided" avery» years thing to Miss Misford- except that Mr. Robert Browning ́had "proposed marriage
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews the NEW BOOKS
her
friend. Miss Milford,
Mise Barrett lived, pampered village women gossiping at the
pathetle, an invalid of 30. well. willing in a room in Wimpole the windows Street. with
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on his faulty getting used to them now," she order comes from the Michael Cummings; text] CAN READ:
TV
Congregation of Rutes which gove' sayy.
points out that the Generalis- by Hugh Massingham. 27-year-old Italian electronles
imo must bo, mentioned by the MacGibbon and Kee, 10s, engineer Antonio Nubblani, au
Latin e "Dux" or leader. Idea which now promises new „6d, 69 pages /^{ :
happiness for the world's blind.
"Insects
Hitherto the decision whether Engineer Rubbiani has the EAT MORE
Good For You!" PREDISPOSED by nature to
or not to say prayers for Frenco INSECTS portable road-
officiating kindness, Cummings sheds vented a small,
TY
and "Grasshop-uns peen left to the
the Now, however, when it takes ing machine from a this wonkness
heard the up
his brush. Starting from a With it the blind can read-and pers Help You Growth are two Priest.
casily, too-any printed publica- of the headlines that Mr R. N. Vatican "having
dlitty- India's Forest opinions of tho most of reasoned suspicion of all
the morning news- Mathur, liticians, he outlines Britain's tion from
Research Institute at Dehar gulshed ecclesination of the na- of paper to the latest bestseller, fn terms
to Jiko history
Duo, would post-war
section" has decided that prayers untriendly force. in a
The TV
trouble which in publicised in "Eat More Insects" for the Caudillo will be said
Mass, public nt every mly selectivo work, noto hi
(who is spired the engineer was a fault advertisements.
only exception: with Attlee are success
private, The which produced only "designs"
of idea Ex- To Mr Mathur the
Mass, for the Deadh with instead of clear pictures.
old anyone being prejudiced against perimenting with an tube António developed a ma- a little ant stew or grasshopper
is "absurd,' his for Morrison:
chine consisting of an "electric gravy genial patronage of Eden; above eye" ilke a small telephone re- Mr Mathur: "As an article of
composite ce less nll. his wonderful The lettern are never
The blind reader runs human food, some insects are NO OATH Nearly 10 per- sources of essential FOR THEM cent of units of amusing: can
to Left-wing MP, archetype of all this "eye" over any newspaper important гіпе than
and fraudulent de or book and "reflections" from dietary elements."
the eye connect with splendour. Here-In Impetuous suppery
and hasty nagogues. At least six members prayerful female punctuation
Wimpole Street grammar-is of the Socialist party ore sald TV-liko ten years of London as seen by to recognise themselves in this took to the a pair of brown eyes belonging imaginary monster. Moving on Mins Mitford
a sprightly, independent course, Never to a lady who, apparently, had young woman at once. before ind she met a "literary mathing in the world to do but Massingham annotates the age
the that Cummings draws, whe
have think might not
sympathetically of lady"
(at whom to keep poor youas queen served as a scarecrow
from
the cherries, somebody has fired a pistol): the birds
has that Mr Tennyson Mini Barrett, note WILS
married-will his wife have to positively pretty, and
smoking?; endure the wretch's the arh. likely to fall into
kiss
impulsively a letter from mistake of marriage, "the most footlsh thing under the sun," an Mr Wordsworth graciously sug- Keating a change in one of Miss Miss Mitford believed.
(advice stic Barroit's poema
describe
how And rejecta); people Bock out of London be- cause of a proplicey that it is about to be swallowed up the earth,
firmly shut and the fire bright- ly burning. Sweet, gentle, faied it seemed for a life of iterature and celibacy. Jealously guarded
and by her loving father, Mr Moulton Barrett,
And beve
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never
No suiter was likely fu pene Late to the silly room where Miss Barrett lived ot Barta her dog with her books und
that of Flush No interloper
to mar the likely sort
the Two friendship on which ladies embarked.
Wils
to his poetry, one heap of ob- confusion and weak- scurity,
ness."
Not a word
by
surface.
tube
in
to
the National Safety Corps, Japan's new, dis- a small
Warming with a special
his theme on guised army have refused to the strength of n caterpillar take the official new "duty-lo- cocktail?Mr Mathur points death" oath. When the machine is in action out that certain types of beetle
human con
The unpopular section of the nnd the "eye" along the
Laos
that oath, which became mandatory to move all the blind reader has to do is are roasted for
considered of bugs are consi
"I will try this month, reads: page and then run his sensitive Angers over the surface of the delicacies by people In India, to full my duties with my own tube. Immediately he "feels" China and Thailand. In China, life, disregarding danger in case THE WEEPING AND THE the flow of words which run one particular type of bug is of an emergency
across the tube's surface like a even stocked by chemists as LAUGHTER.
Former Imperial Army officers By J-ticker-tape. Italian organisations jet-propelled tonic, while ants,
bitterly contemptuous of Maclaren-Ross. Hart-benefiting the blind are planning bees and wasps are something are
Antonio's of a celebration dish in Burma, this reaction. Typical comment came from ex-Colonel Ichiro Finally, Mr Mathur adda that Tanaka, who fought in Malaya grasshoppers, .locusts and and Burma: "Soldiers? These crickets are roasted regularly are geisha in trouseral" in Africa and Arabla. He leaves the rest to you....
Davis, 12s. 6d. 229 pages wonder machine.
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were
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sole in Australia
Those soldiers refusing to take the "death" oath will be dis- charged from the army at the end of the month.
46TN life," says Maclaren-Ross, "there is always worse to past never come, so that one's seems as black as it did at the
Mr Peter Blom- time. To hin, a boy in the BURGLAR
has no musery during the 1914-18 war, WOULD SEE field
watchdog as his that SNAKES There
momenta
home in Leigham seemed black indeed,
Court Drive. Leigh-on-Sea, Father and one day:
"Now, Essex,
but he has no fear of A TOWN The first town ever my boy, you are seven. If you burglars. In his lounge he keeps And, all the time, while she Once, Miss Mitford's instinct
that
FOR SALE to be offered for commit
offence any
two pythons and a boa constric- gave a warning which her mind writes so freely, Misz Barrelt is
hou deserves it, you can be sent to failed to heed When she met keeping her secret from
tor. "I think they are as good may be seen put on the market. HEIGHT OF The exact heigh! of Everest - ŭ rison,"
as aty guarddog," he says. poet, her dislike was acute. "A dear friend. Not a word about
the tiny model town of EVEREST
problem wnien himself, Unable to llence
restrain girl drest in boy's clothes, long Mr Browning's visits:
instantly went The snakes are not yet fully Elidon, 80 miles north of Mel- even the conquerors Hillary and as about the ringlels and no neckcloth;
"Intemperate letter Maclaren-loss
two The out and threw a stone through grown.
bourne, originally built to house black and
2,700 workers and their familles Tensing were unable to deter- in which the poet so far for-
himself
Bradlaw's window. yellow West African pythons ពត to Kela
propose Mrs
within the next few weeks by marringe! Not a word until "Father," he said, "I shall have are three feet long and the bon during the building of the Eildon mine for sure-may be decided
Dam project. The town is con- constrictor
Burvey is their superior in
Department Miss Barrett dashes off the last
to go to prison now."
plete with civic and administra- India's come. Two length by six inches. Its owner
theatre, After three years of study the ΟΙ Jetter-finest
W:rse was to the
believe letter:
tion centres, plus Bradlaw died. expects it to grow to 12t
sporting arena and swimming Department's experts thom all perhaps which pierces days later Mrs
Gullt darkened Maclaren-Row's Miss Mitford's heart:
scientifically Correct While 35-year-old Mr Blom- pools, as well as several large that they have all but found the If for some time.
Their research- confirms that It was not his only crime. fleid and his wife watch tele- workers' hostels.
estimated, height The State Rivers and Water the current Scoining the whole race of girls, vision the snakes lie coiled up few
on British he uided
girls' school, in glass-fronted tanks a
Board Commission which bullt (29,002 feet based An occasional yawn pistolled and aged feet away.
the town for £2,500,000 main calculations in 1849) is not far that in- right. It got him into a great and writhing is all
tains that it would be an ideal out:
and "buy" for light industry scal of trouble, especially with dientes they are alive..
a also be developed as ther that figure of eccentric
"There is nothing really un- could
saya tourist resort. For anyone who we who was the centre of the Maclaren-Ross world, with some usual in keeping makes,
from formidable Mr Blomfield They are much has two and a half million to competition
cleaner than, the average house apare, that is. Uncle Bertle, Auni Enid, goy and Carel, the grown-up sister pet. There is no smell and no
mess!" who caught a German spy.
Once or twice the two friends argued about this young man's work. "The genius, the gentus-
undeniablo-Isn't throbbed Mig Berret. Milford did not agree.
Only
Mies
letiers
"When you read this letter I shall have given to one of the most gifted and admirable
man wife unworthy of him. I masker, Miss Barrett's
of
Robert are pelated in this collection. shall be the wife
you In But if only one literary valce 1 Browning. Against
no confidence-I heard; two literary hearts are allowing you
- certainly sinned, I wilthy. vivaciously, beating. sometines in malice, more often with a hint of feminine gush.
Why do women
best letters,
bet dirri? thu
5. up think,"
It is the outery of an over- write the wrought woman, tremulous with
remorse.
I
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as men keep the joy and protesting against her Mr Moulton
convincing, The snakes ent about 14 mice The diary ents own
蠱 and Barrett's caged dove had taken divcrting account of childhood
exercise week. For egotistical more
Zeppelins "walk" around there were
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when
secretive sex; men would rather wing.
Women confide.
confess than either seck supply one,
Miss Mitford said acidly:
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der
answer.
MATING The Northern radio Rnodesian CALL
servico, which now broadcasts daily
AÍTICOAS throughout the Central African Federation, aims at providing a
10
By Or- well - balanced, educational
official service.
they PRAYERS Mr Blomfeld's FOR FRANCO and overhead, atrocity stories in the arm. "Just to get them used to
the Exploits of me" he explains. "After all they prayers for France will be said a confidant,
Burstry, and or "Women of genius make great
Ma59 at every will be getting bigger". Elaine at the local cinema. Miss Barreit and mistakes in choozing husbands."
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE GARDENING BUGS DISCOVER.
"THAT ROCKS ARE
THE ONLY THINGS
THE BUGS
WON'T EAT.
Let The Bugs Hop
"HM-MAYBE I'D BETTER USE... 'A DIFFERENT, LURE?”
BY HARRY
"MADE OVER........... TWO HUNDRED MILES
"TODAY!
celebrated in
WEINERT
With just that in mind, the director
announced Last week that the Jorvice Was now equipped to reproduce *ALONS noise made by a rhinoceros in search of its minte."
BOVINE
Betty
STAKHANOVITE Remarka
Cow diet last week aged 21-comfe-Led, perhaps, by the knowledge that she held the most important récord in the cow world,
She gave milk continuously for 191⁄2 years, the last bucketful Just before she died.
Average, cows produce milk for about six years--and then only for nine months in the year,
Betty, on her Western Aus |tralia fàrm, nøver missed a day,
"I'LL BET HE SPENDS
HIS VACATION ON HIS FRONT PORCH SAME AS
LAST YEAR./"
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TRAVEL FOLDER BUG
MUSCLE-MAN-BUG
ABOUT TO GIVE HIMSELF AND OTHERS A PAIN IN THE NECK.
ANGLING BUG
SPINNING .HIS WEB --
"I'M NOT SURE ---
BUT I THINK
I SAW A MOTH 20
COFL. 1954 17 GTNERAL PLANETs
COLF, TM-WORLD SIGHTS RESERVED.
TOURING BUGS CONDUCTING A COMPREHENSIVE
SURVEY OF HAMBURGERS AND
JUKE BOXES.
THE You've heard about LIMIT people who claimed to havo "hit the 'ceiling." Well, last week there was some excuse for
When an airliner bound for Glasgow from Manchester hit an air pocket, cups of coffee hit the ceiling and stayed there while the coffee trickled down the prasangers' necks.
BUG-HUNTER. BUG
WEEK-END BUGS:// PREPARING TO POUNCE
ON ANOTHER VICTIM ---
WATER, In the Normandy WATER village of Doudeville, 'everything is cooked bottled minerni water. Villagers even clean their teeth in it,
In
'Reason the water that comes out of the tops anails-of 'rotten eggs. No one has been ablo, ta find out why.
UNHOLY Pig meat wont: on RATION? the ration in Jerusa l", loma last week. And not beesta... there was ✨ any. shortage. Orthodox Jews con Kider pig ment "unclean", and Ste sale has been banhod,
But Christiana, will be Ismind with icerificates entitling them. to a monthly ration.
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