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THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER
Love was such a waste
waste of time
for the impatient Napoleon
NAPOLEON'S LETTERS. Translated and edited by M. Thompson. Dent.
313 pages.
APOLEON'S letters are They are
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N-Napoleon. fascinating and powerful personality. They are rarely the outpourings of a heart They are not quite honest.
shafts of light upon a
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The Emperor is arguing a case, urging a policy, forcing himself and his wishes on his correspondent. He is curt, but rhetorical; over- bearing,
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WAS THE WORLD HAPPIER IN 1854 THAN IN 1954?
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By John
Chisholm
and were at any for ornament~ ing the drawing room or work-
·REMEMBER being taken as a child to see This essay, published here in ing in the kitchen, depending on
won
in
Hla Aster Elisa is ordered to
an exhibition of Van condensed form,
the, their social level.CUTEST GEORGE
have no English cotton' or muslin
theThese were the conditions at her court, his naughty sister Gogh's paintings. When we second prize in
Club's 1984 existing in Britain and she was Pauline is ordered to love her came to the first one, child- Sino British MALCOLM THOMSON
brother
Competition husband; hi
Lou like, I stood very close. Literary
for the most powerful and prosper. His letters to his family
China the
Mall receives a thunderoua rebuke What a disappointment the
Cup. ous nation at this time. People restoring like
other countries were less the privileges unfavourable · iny ardour is increasing yours the nobility in his kingdom of pleture was Each brush............***
fortunate. In Russia, for Holland: school reports; those to his is slackening Its pace
Haven't you sense atroke could 'be seen quite
example, the mass of tho
the people wife like despatches; his ruining my repose!
enough to see that if your claim plainly in the thick oil organised. In the hospitals dith were serts, while in the fast a As it chanced, Marle had to the Dutch throne were
band was of life, and in Africa and in teudal system influenced the love letters are like orders
battle. scribbed in
His
chro cirzedy decided to sterince her rost on noble blood, you would paint.. Far from being and squalor walked
and corruptions kitful, so thing of beauty, the picture hand with poor medical literary Iden!
Surgery was America, coloured. of
style virtue for Poland's sake. But be at the bottom of the list.".
à people were Derudo
and
that into alavery.. ("What I want is hard to such lender themes only a
Brother Jerome gets the same cemed not much better.
(by far too mays the average poravn stopping reasoning, not picturesque iriaing proportion
treatment: "You owe the bank than my own, daubings in.
beds, reaped a large harvest. le materially better off then his letters belongs. ness") is seen in his own
two millions. Sell your furni- the nursery. My Aunt, how-
a century: KD, ', Ho has offera
shortor He writing.
and her faithful nurges arrived now tho
working hours. ture, sell your horses, sell your ever, drew me gently back Not until Florence Nightingale ancestors of a jewellery, and pay your debts" until the brush strokes did conditions Improve. There, Wagen pro much ¦ higher and throne of Spain to his brother thus:
One scheme occupies the mind faded into a background of wam't much room for happiness holidays with pay are being granted by increasing numbers "Reply to me categorically.
There is no If I name you King of Spain do
that poverty is will to you narce?
Answer in these
but it is not so wide- 1 have received Two phtarcB: your letter. I reply Yes - or No.'"
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'No men'
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On the health front conditions have Improved beyond measure,
One hundred years ago Britain led the world in Commerce, So it is with us in our daily Industry, Sclerice, and Medicine; have the library lives. The pelty annoyances, so her people lived under better theroased selentific and medical
individual brush-strokes on life's conditions than those of other canvas, occupy our minds to the nations. Despite this, exclusion of the general picture, life was far from
late brought prosperity to appreciate
he
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We are too closely engaged, in this Industrial art and disenso, hüve wrought
of
merge into nothingness against a day for a mere pittance. tick antibiotics, sulphonamides, to and countless inventions and
Between campaigns the Em- furiously peror's mint ranges about his dominions; n new history gives Insufficient praire 10 his victories: "Have the book of this extraordinary being over beauty, where the delicate in the Crimea in 1854.
The uretto of a the years: the preparation of a
tints merged imperceptibly suppressed," new opera is inane; the Chan- special portable library, first
perfectly with one contain Intended to cellor gets a
1,000 and rebuke: "People volumes, later enlarged to com- another to form a rich and complain that WO have no Yo
en history satisfying picture, literature: It is the fault of the prise 2,000 books
alone. A few days after Water- Home Secretory."
100, Napoleon writes to his
to The clergy discourage Sunday librarlan
knowledge, plus the enlightening Re in capable-just because work and are given a lesson in up to date with books on
of the public to the dangers of he is great man in
to United States, and sent to great incology: "It is contrary burry --of throwing off n memor- Divine Law to prevent men, American port..
hud marvels. Over the years the able phrase: "An army is like a who have Sunday needs as well
but death inte has earning a living to Then to bed people that obeys" "Cournge is
progressively us week-day needs, working on
our good fortune in being able it had also brought in its train decreased.
The man of today "I Sundays to
and back-breaking like love: It feeds on hope."
foll. cari earn their dally
to live as we do in 1954. Only misery and
to live ton of 100,000 men."
and children were The letters were dictated, at when we take time to stand Women
were em 10- have an income o
longer than his counterp brend.'
Besides, the beseting needs only six sin of the French people is not lightning speed, usually in the bacle and regard life objectively, ployed In woman
mines and factories to one hundred years ago. We months of Paris to know what overwork."
early morning. The Emperor do we see the minute flaws work twelve to fourteen bours have X-rays, improved annosthe-
Incoming opened the
letters 40 1s due to her."
His tastes ure decided and
with his own hand; these need-
tho witter background.
It is my Factory Acts mught to He
dislikes
this commonplace:
ing no answer he threw joyfully
of affairs, but overall picture opinion that the
stato Shakespeare admires "Orsian"
on the floor. After dealing
combat
disease. In addition the Italian: ta bogus Celile epic).
The master of Europe, in his with his mail he would take an ille in 1934 is richer and more by 1884 there was still much approved techniques to help. us
than it was, in 1851, room for Improvement. Due to World
Health his test of merit
is headquarters failed theme for let, a hot bath, and go back to and in mot believe that the the unfenced machinery and engaged in improving the health size. In architecture,
woodd was happier in 1854 then were numerous. There was Hp Ballons.
ot precautions. uccuracy
accidents and welfare of all races and a new girls school, down to the bed. H: prefer :: Pyrzmič:
This solection of the letters,
picture anything else. Ifls favourite food (aoup, bolled beef), elo.h-
today is far from
perfect, _above all: "No man must ever rendered into vigorous English, although one war has ended, the workers who worked long and elephant.
and were compictaly “ật is enter within the walle. Even Each letter is an urgen: ult threat of impending war is still hard His atitude
The final with us. But so it has been the mercy of the employer.
In the majority of countries above all, the gardening must be done by
panorama prudish and Latin;
of through the ages, and in 1854 be decorous. Im women. The headmistress her effect is of
allowed to energy.
As a consequence of the voting is now done by secret they must
things were certainly no better.
ballot. >Women are considered Industrial Revolution,
largo
it to vote in a steadily increas-" patient rather than cloquent in self must not be
towns sprang into being without ing number of countries. We love, he seems to be
annoyed
The sanitary proper planning that an impous frivolity era
* and too that claas 'distinction is arrangements were non-existent waste so much of his time.
In many countries there was or
and there was no much less severe than of former or inadequate,
years and, the hardship.
the average person discontent.
auffering water
tho supply
town- and poverty. In Europe there dweller of today knows it fe has so much to offer us enjoys greater personal freedom, was unrest which in March 1854 Educational facilities were poor nowadays! We have innumer
The all of which were denied our paper ancestors
in art
Finkenstein,
In
animal appears to have been the ing. the insistence on religion; (300 out of, maybe, 50,000) is 1754. True, the world Inzurance (Act to protect the
10
women
His first letter to Josephine speaks, however, with the truc cunning of passion: "Till then a thousand kisses, but give me none back, for they set my blood on Aro." And what could better calculated to gain
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on the attention.
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the Crimean War which involved children to attend
writes more than half of her culminated in the outbreak of and there was no Cchool" forable Inventions at our disposal,
the form of an imagin Britain France, and Turkey on majority · of the V newspaper.
An
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matlars.
on the unable to purchase a one side and Russia purpose than the bombardment motly in the Caribbean this ary letter to its subject.
An American surgeon awkward and tedious time.
other. As the war progressed due to the crippling newspaper of notes that he rained on the and his family go hunting for tion.
the casualties rose, augmented tax, Voting was. not conducted-nvolved. weeks of travel can bo Polish beauty, Marie Waleska;
accomplished in a among the rects and Ireasure no ono but you,
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kegilhan
and 1 ped to face up to the rigours of candidate he was supporting
ille. There once, and assuage the impatient
many the Crimean winter. In addi- The various candidates employed generation
accusa iny passion of N,"
on
*being too arrangements for gangs of thugs to beat up those mate
materialistic and who charge. tis supplying the troops with food who voted "incorrectly" with:
spiritual values, and clothing were, hopeleaily people were afraid to vote, neglecting
but one hundred
Carlyle cars and lashed fle
no
scarce.
Nancy GRAND MAN. By
Becker and Warburg. A day or two later: "Didn't Cupard,
I had 256. 317 pages. you like me, Madarne?
Affectionate, revealing portrait reason to hope you might. Or
Whilst of the late Norman Douglas, the Was wrong. perbe as
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
-YES SIR - I COULD EXIST
ALONE IN THESE WOODS WITH JUST A KNIFE –ER, HOW ABOUT OPENING ANOTHER CAN
OF LOBSTER?"
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Two Weeks Too Much
BY HARRY WEINERT
IF ONE TIRES OF THE SOUND OF THE WIND IN THE TREES AND THE NOISE BIRDS MAKE-IT'S "ALWAYS EASY TO TUNE IN SOMETHING CIVILIZED.
spiritual values in its hurried scramble
matorial wealds. Postimists regard the Inventors. of the Atomic and Hydrogen bombs
With
they suggest pea
war,
power HOW.
but to mo
promise
the fear.
era of atomie
dawning is some-
thing to look forward to and
welcome as all
be W
Al
much
to
all progress should
indicated, there was unhappiness in the world
and while I am prepared. that there is much 10 world it is better
Spout in the
bo
today maintain
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and happier place than it was a century ago. Opportunities, were never greater! Never before has life been so well worth the living). To my mind the world. was not happier in 1854.thin it. *ta în, 1984.
IN THE WOODS
THE KIDS CAN
RUN WILD AND
LEARN SOMETHING,
CAMP OZONE
THAT WONDERFUL FIRST-MORNING FEELING IN THE GREAT OUTDOORS- BEFORE YOU MEET UP WITH THE MOSQUITOES, HORNETS, SNAKES, POISON IVY
SPRAINS AND SUNBURN.
BOP-BE-BOD
BE-BOA BOP
LIKE BY CINEFAL FEATURES CORF, TILWORLD, FIGHTS KULETEA
AND THERE I WAS STUCK IN THE WOODS ATW
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BARBS
BY HAL COCHRAN
MATRIMONY makes it. Very Cagy h man to find out what charming, men his wife used to go out with.
Bichereis no
such thing
píre air," according" They should listen to £58 “BIA- Carthy hearings.
Home is where A MAIN
se he pleares'when'
"A golfer can easily. swelled head whan haitaku, tog many dots at the 19th hole, th
Stop at most any, olda bathle besch, and you'll have an Inklin's
they say, “I haven't a thin ( toy
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