1954-09-11 — Page 142

POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT, LANCASTER

"Darling, Daddy and I were wondering whether, perhaps, you wouldn't find a completer

fulfilment in art ?"

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THE CHINA- MAIL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, – 1954

Nancy Spain SALUTES TWO BRAVE

BUT OHI SO

DIFFERENT

WOMEN BEHIND

IFE in a prison camp a gallant sisterhood

...life in a convent. has been published

under the Curious, how alike

WALITE COOLIES they are. Betty Jeffrey, a (Angus and Robert- nursing slater in the Aus-. son, 121. Ud.). tralian Army, was taken think that anyone prisoner with 60 other sis- buying

who is considering anything tors by the Japanese In October 1942. She kept a forbidden diary in a child's exercise book. Its last entry |la October 1945.

Now this tragic, cómical, | heart - warming, history

A British Crossword Puzzle

1 Fame (8).

ACROSS

5 Mohammedan world (5)

8 Elevate (5).

D Lubricate (0).

10 Science of reasoning (5).

11 Retinue (5).

12 Vegetable (4).

13 Stop (5).

10 Negligent (8).

18 Belleve (6).

20 Welcome (8).

22 Tumbled (4).

23 Weary (8),

25 Track of animal (5).

26 Stirred up (8).

27 Staggers (5).

28 Conspiracies (5).

29 Longs for (6).

13

DOWN

1 Feasting (8).

2 Sham (8).

3 Experiment (4).

Brought to bear (7).

5 Unlawful (7).

6 Pebbles (8).

7 Wrong (5).

14 Valuer (8).

10 Deburs

16 Gives up work (7).

17 Niggardly (7).

10 Sharp answer (8).

21 Drive back (5).

24 Medicinal quantity (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOR D—A¢Town: 3 Pact, 7 Vogue, 8 Yarn, 9 Sour, 10 Praised, 12 Oval, 15 Tarea, 18 Dove, 12 Issue, 21 Inure, 22 Area, 23 Sever, 20 Ewes, 29 Denizen, 30 Pair, 31 Beau, 32 Rural, 33 Rate. Down: 1 Hoard, 2 Auditor, 4 Abode, 6 Tyro, o Arla, Sere, II Saves, 13 Visa, 14 Lien, 18 Siren, 17 Nice, 18 Dupe, 20 Seriaus, 22 Aver, 24 Edict, 25 Relax, 27 Whet, 28 Spur.

with the trade mark "Made in Japan" might read the book

first.

To begin with (although hungry), the and' her pale of were quite gay, She gives recipes ("Gather every one's left-over fish- bones"

the was

baste ingredient for

"Anchovy Paste") i

She enjoyed as "Oliiga is a lonely little ofter till he meets tonishing orchestral rocitations

as complicated an

The Now World Symphony bummed by 20 'nursCA with proper band parts.

Besuty.""

WALLS

killed.

PARADE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUA PEOPLE AND PLACES, AND

marriages in Br

si talni in 1989, PU a. tale of 15.8 perioda

SALES Bmartly-clad Rusalan better then nothing. It allows over two years

Në “before reaching the reom), frikk until he is big enough to be LAN diplomats are appearing the lonely men to dream.

stage of perfection. daily the offices of One terrible, terrifying eight Egyptian newspapers.

Not that Moscow Molie. Is after long searching, Ottiga Moscow has ordered its Em. subtle. Her every other word is WEDDING There were 349,308 smells his cub. He gnaw his bassy in Egypt to get more re- alther violous anti-US pro MONTH way through chicken wire, be sure out of its propaganda, paganda, or syrupy descriptions. selsed his cub by the back of stories, and pictures showing of delightful conditions in proponung the neck. Together they leap the glorious Soviet way of life Soviet Russia. And she always marrying per 1,000 population the wall. And so auntied are being rushed to the diplo Invites, the lonely men in the The most popular month was family of otters is free, once stats.

sets to write to her in Moscow. March (69,881- marriages) and to run and roll on the more

Toast It is not But they must not be sent out

known whether the

popular

January river bank in the moonlight.

through the malls. The diplo people do write. But the Russian (13,888 marriagro).5. inata have to deliver them to musical" programmas are wh "As in previous years, the most Well written, but....odilors personally with a little doubtedly good, and nobody will popular age of marriage for men

salos talk.

bother to um off the radio for, was 23, and for women 31, ac the short time while Moscow cording to an analysis in the Mollie is bowling, over. the Registrar-General's Statistical Yanks. And there is not much Review

WHAT about THE CREEDY CASENN(Michael Joseph,

a

ww are allied

SINKING In his presidential INTO SEA adirons to the

Geography poction worker Her- of the British Association at man Lenders, Oxford, Professor J. A. Steer Bolton, had a sald that Southeast England was when he known to be sinking into the

10. 0.), by Edward Crankshow? MOSCOW Sweet melodies and The scene is the upper crust of MOLLIE the alluring voice else to listen to here. the Way Once," whäre at the

of "Moscow Mollie" time when

toura

the latest weapons ins Rusia, Lieut.-Colonel Scoresby, Moscow's psychological warfare BRICKS NEED · Colliery M.C., is annoyed because his waged in Canada's Arctic ‘re-

NO MORTAR Chiots

want him to "port" glons. one of his subordinates, a little; It has to be regretfully ro of Astley, near man called Creedy.

idea ported that this war is being labour-saving Croedy is a Communist. He waged almost without any was improving the interior of a son; whilst North Britain was is also a llar, a traitor and opposition, and Moscow is win house he hurd bought.

rising relatively to sea level.

He added: The movement i Now he has completed the social mishit, and Edward ning hands down Crankshaw' has à ́story to toll Moscow, music will

production of a new type of small, perhaps 6/12th inches a pour out that is positively thick with from stations of the Royal brick.

which

being big century, but in Southeast Bug- may

bufiding in Lond before

considerable we are finally Canadian Mounted Polloe, from changes in the suspense. rid of him,

cabins of traders, from dustry. No mortar is needed to importance since it may involve I

I wish I could recommend this weather stations, and from the hold bricks of this wind together the raising and wirengthening of sea' walls. A time may come needed, heartedly. But to tell the truth body knows the Monty pro-

several times larger implications for certain docks the weird and snobbish gramme, and the weather-beaten brick is

the than the ordinary kind here frankly enjcy

and and harbours."

In the Thames Estuary, the the drama are as strange to me

It is made in cast iron moulds evidence pointed to a sinking of Indeed, of them had us animals,

I much rare in these latitudes, and even

a disembodied

and has beery the subject of the land relative to the sea. female voice prefer my darling otters. ...

the

is of

such well-written book more whole-huts of solitary trappers, Every-, because they are for this when it may well have serious

have fortitude, compassion, in- telligence, above all goloty. ・・・ Sister Mary Gilbert embraced her vocation at the age of 16. But then morale began to fall She tollr a wonderful enter- abit. The rice was always full taining story of her shopping of worms. The Japanese had for her "trousseau," not bothered to tell their

And she writes

with familles of their "safety" and

gusto of the dedicated life: of the prisoners found out about the games of rounders (some. It.

one broke a window and the priest said "Congratulations, I didn't know any, that much power"), of the sing songs indeed, of all the thousand fascinating things that still vex the feminine heart, whether one be prisoner of war or Sister of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary.

The

women

and children were suddenly allowed a re union with their husbonds, fathers, brothers who had been working In

camp "a mile or so away" for the three years.

The Japs called the names of the children who could not go, and that la how many wives and children learn.

that their husbands and daddies had died, some of them more than a year ago,

One by one, too, the nursing sisters who had been so gallant and giggly began to fall sick and dle. Out of the original 60 there were only 24 teft,

And how do you think Betty Jeffrey marvived those

Above all, Sister Mary Gilbert writes, with humour, of the reason why sisters take the veil. "Disappointment In love?" of course. All the sisters know the Insufficiency of human love,

I would love to be present at a meeting between Sister Betty Jeffrey and Sister Mary Gilbert. Apart from faith they have one other thing in conimon, They have both written best sellers,

three Among the otters

years of torture and unspook- able foulness? Betty knows it

was on faith alone; on faith THERE is a love story and her angry hatred of the Japanese,

Alike in gaiety

YET

JET sho has much in common with Sister Mary Gilbert, author of THE SPRINGS OF SILENCE (World's Work, 128. (d), who tells the story of a ecmununity of nuns who have chosen to live a life of falth.

with

A

more charm than mony romance,

girl for boy meets

Lier's otter in Emile E,

AN OTTER'S STORY · (Hodder and Stoughton, 103, 6d),

Ottiga, the hero, is flerce, loyal, handsome. He has lost his mum and dad in a trap He is

lonely little otter, unțli be moels Beauty. Then all is well. They fall hopelessly in love, And they are too wise and careful to run into danger them- selves.

Strange, that the mainspring of this spiritual survival should be. Love, not Hate-for. Sister But they have some enchant- Mary Gilbert so much alike ing, fubsy, Idiotic cubs, one of in, nature to Sister Bétty, the whom is caught by a trapper, Australian nurse. They both and is kept in a rabbit hut

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"IF I'VE TOLD YOU ONCE, I'VE TÖLD YOU

A THOUSAND TIMES TO KEEP

YOUR FEET OUT OF THAT

LUNCH BASKET?"

YOU NEED AN ADDING MACHINE TO KEEP SCORE OF THINGS LIKE THIS ----

"TO FIND THE LENGTH

OF A FISH, MEASURE FROM NOSE TO TAIL AND MULTIPLY

BY FIVE.

Fewer and

characters whose actions make | Vicuncer's voice, Women are would reduce building costs...

THE LOVE STRIKE

24 MEN PUT UP £1,000.

TO

HELP GIRLS

TWENTY-FOUR English-

wen decided seaterday to help tittle Miss Kimurs 7,000 unhappy Japanese millgiris with a 21,000 cheque and protest to Mr. Shigeru Yoshida. Prime Minister DÍ Japan.

The 24-leaders of 290,000 Lancashire millworkers-- listened for, an hour round a table in Manchester to thr ́story of what is happening to `Mlai Kimura and her work-

mates and decided it hardly Bushido-the Japanese code of chivalry.

* 195 (*Mr. Harold-Brádioy, secre

tary of the United Textile Factory Workers' Association, put the case for the girl who Are macked if they fall in love and parted if they marrY........ "because ofliciency sulfers

They” have been on strike three months 'at, the weten.

Summer Statistics

ONE MILLION SUNBURNED BACKS EQUALS TWO MILLION SQUARE FEET- WHICH MEANS ONE MILLION QUARTS <OF SUNBURN LOTION—AND THAT

AIN'T HAY.

CONE. 1944 W GRABIAL PLATINESS.

DORF MY WORLD RIGHTS BUSINEVICA

WRINK

al Ohmi duk spinning Com-. pany. It seems to be an old-fashioned frudaletic 'met- up belonging to thedark agen" kald kit, Bradley,

The Lancashire union tenders beard a repart from the International Federation of Textile Workers' Amoria- tions which has appealed 'for help to textile workers at $7 Batons

it told of what the.girl- through their unofficial anion -wan: An eight-hour day

holidays with pay.......... the end of forced Buddhism .. freedom to go to night school, logo biking, and attend musta circles. marriage free. dom... freedom to go ngt 'doors », (ths' “girls live in

· ́dormitories 1.5%, the end of

*** towards “.

toi nooping and

un workers.

Other rules at the Ohm mills melude" "songs of the sung each morning company before work to infgener workers, against complaining

OF THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK SEA. «TRIPS HIS SE SUMMER-HALF HAVE SWORN. BUT TEMPORARIE "THAT IT WILL BE

"THEIR LAST.

spying

about low wages and overtime without, exten par....

And the girls must also recite pledges to raise, prodao ilon each day,MyNTESY

One girl has killed herself, Another tried, and several have gone to hospital with nervous breakdowns since the -strike began.."

Commented Mr. Bradley i “We want these girls to enjoy the rights of man.”

BY HARRY WEINERT

FIFTY PERCENT. OF THE GIRLS WHO BECAME ENGAGED

WHILE ON VACATION ARE SATISFIED-THE

· OTHER FIFTY: I-PERCENT HAVE DECIDED "THAT: "THIS ONE WILL DO

· UNTIL SOMETHING

· BETTER. COMES

ALONG.

Raised beaches in Scotland, However, clearly indicated that there the land was rising slowly out of the soa,

HIDDEN A TOLLscum which the

cannot see

RELICS Puble &

મા

tram depot at Norwood South London, Nearly 10,000 exhibits, priceless in their own way.

will one day, it la form a new British E

Museum,

Until they are catalogued and card-indexed they are being kept ", padlocked" and " guarded. They include such rarities as a foot warmer used when trems were not heated, tickets Jared 100 years ago and old-time snowploughs.

RETURNED. A dollar bill hus FARE Just been received by ad Ulster woman, repayment of haliza. crown which she loaned to an American airman In 1944.

She is Mrs L. Heath of Killylen County Armagh, and she was found by Lord Mayor of Belfast, Lord The money was sent to the Mayor-by Pater Savericio of Tew York Yor repayment of bus fare lent to him by "a kindly woman"- when a bus conductor refused to accept his American money:

Saveskio explains that after- wards he tried but was unable

to leate the woman's houte..

with

GRAPE Spanish scientists «x« DRINK Perimenting.

various byproducts or have succeeded

Lo proTM ducing powdered grape juice,

wine

Similar in form to milk powder, the new product can bo' turned into refreshing, appetis- ing non-alcoholic drink. by | simply adding water soun

The powder is produced by the chemical prpoers known as sublimation. Grape juice: is heated, and the resulting vapour, which cooled, solidiles in the form of ana powder,

It is believed that the new product will have an important bearing on the Spanish economy. It will be especially useful for invalids needing .A constant supply of fresh grape juice,

The experiments are being carried out in an agricultieral laboratory

in the town of Manzanares, 100 miles south of Madrid, maintained by the local wine-growers' Co-operative. SUSPECT Moslem pilgrime crossing from Irati

PILGRIMS Into Iraq will be

watched closely in the next two months by the Perplan

ELLIDOCI

police,

The government that plety Anot always the

alave!!

principal motive-behind the trips. ·A flourishing a white trade in attractive Iranian girls is belleved accompany the tripa..

Iranian girls are g extremely valuable in Arab countries

UNLUCKY Two polite men

called at Brad ford House just s

an excited husband was watch- ing the televising of an important horse-race. In order not to miss seeing the fate FOL the horse he had backed, he invited the polite, strangers in without inquiring their: buni tontok -

the

The man's

finished

Explaining that the Fioran should i had for It Вескио

from the table, he inquired the

business of the visitors, ther

Were Post Office

detecting unlicensed:

bent on

sets, and they soon found ithis, one, w, not

bemoaned: I never rain) but

CONDITION