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HONOUR at STAKE

I DON'T

T

THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER

REMEMBER!

.........said the man with the perfect memory

by Edgar Lustgarten

The man whose evidence wna to decide

the fate of a queen hesitated, "Non mi ricorda," he said,

"Non mi ricordo," "Who removed the betatood and the sofa in the morning?"

"Non mi ricordo."

you swear that it was "Will no not yourself?"

And yet again the monotonous

Facing him across the crowded

HAPMAN PINCHER

Label Woo

At The Wheel!

WERY woman who is learning to drive a dar should

El be required by law to carry special warning platos

marked WL-for Woman Learner,

And every woman who has somehow Dansod the driving,tost should be made to carry, plates marked W. for Woman?, penj PI put these suggestions forward in the arm bellet that sher could prevent accidents, by giving motorists more time to mike the zecomary allowance for the ineptitude and caprice of women

ep obin ly woofal comedience compels me to break 20 years of aliens sulting at the wheel after the frightening experience of trying, to each my wife to drive,

'of.'

whlost now certath hat the bold marknad VRAE

and under the control of women would make a real coh=fa tribution to road safety,

When following A car marked w of WZ a man motorist would know that the driver is not necessarily going to nura. left wiren the loft-hand signal flicks out at a cross-road,MJEN * He could take the precaution of always sounding his horn when overtaking such a marked car, in the near-certain, know- ledge that the driver. 飯

bor mirror only for powder ing her non

He would

id know that even in clearly marked three-lane traffic it would be highly dangerous to risk being the meat in the sand- with between, twợ W cars,

***I have always known that women are not endowed with fas type of mind and muscles which make a person. At to be in marge of half a ton of fast-moving steel. But this, revealing experience of teaching my? wife to drive has compeiled inse to maiko a close study of women, motorists, reg

is a result a am convidood that they are basically dangerous THEY HAVE no mechanical

You do not have to

frame had been exposed by that for three reason witude

priceless, sword of justice, cross- examination )

HE penalty pald for The marriage treaty, conclud- their husbands should not do it was then of course, a 'they wish to avoid", proceedings sexual misconduct is d--as

common enough occurrence be for divorce. Above all, they frequently adjusted for the contracting. partics should not lark about with men to the rank of the had pet eyes Цроф sach who are young and handso offander. Adultery by a other, constituted, on George's and of interior social rank.

side, n 0001 housewife makes her liable

Bergamithe foreigner commercial bargain, to divorce and to the dis- the quid pro quo being the pay-physical attractions were come contradiction. Ballorod he would

low station" was all three. His ment of his approbation of her virtuous native and unworldly though polling. He was Caroline's Junior be, believed he should be, unless neighbours. Adultery by a she was can hardly have sup by more than 15 years; Aral his his credit failed to weather for match, but may have ex- her sulte; originally engaged as posed herself the heroine of a aetatus was that of a servant in cross-examination.

pected kindness or at least con- a mere courier, raised by her adoration; in the event, she did favour to the poes of chamber not even nocleve civility.

For Carolino

live to George hated her with that

familiar terma with auch consuming

batrod scoundrela

ретвом,

to admit him to her o

"Non mi ricardo," reserve for thoso whom they table, to have wednged. Having gained public certainly this was the a paragon. of truth, Did he

The job was done, and in due one should take too harsh a view the financial benefis ho noedad,

Vere

peak of indiscretion. he heaped

does not facts-or, ir pallection of the course the BI was dropped.... of th; Morals are not, absolute, But indiscretion every kind of insult

they are relative, and Geroge and humiliation upon them always mean achtery. Were keen observer.or

That George had tried to who wits the cause could not wanted chattel assigned him in there grounds for saying it did, purchased lar?

frame. Caroline thero is no complain of the effect, exchange, and when such ili-

doubt. No doubt either, the wolto copYRIGHT RESERVED, usago was borne with fortitudo, lost patience and summarlly

statesman makes him liable to the interruption and even termination of his political career. But adultery by a queen is equivalent to trea- son, and for treason penalty is death.

the

Great responsibilty, there fore, lay on Henry Broug- ham when, as counsel for Queen Caroline of England, he rose at the bar of the House of Lords to cross- examine the principal wit- ness called by her accusers ...

One shares in the passionate sympathy ex- tended to Queen Caroline by the public at the time. History is a long recital of raw.deals, but that accorded her takes its place among the rawest. For Caroline was the snubbed, neglected,

dimised her from his home.

Coroline's mistake

THIS situation,

though,

Left George dissatisfied. Nothing would con- beat him but the finality of divorce Flor a divorce, how- requires

Over,

ond

so bero?

on

chamber, Brougham had weapon except his own sharp wits. No document, no records, no secret information. A witness

specido might or might not be

dance with him in Majoochytkousty........

That was the King's conten- don, and his Goverment's pica, at the hearing in the House of

persecuted consort of the ovidence. So as Caroline sought mani who tarnished the to

her sufferings by across the Continent, her doings Regent and set the seal upon were observed by a band of his infamy as King George hopeful spies.

prolonged a persecution, George's servile Government introduced strvile Government Introduced a

honourable title of Prince Jouessing Trom place to place i

IV.

He hated her

Next Saturday

When the gift of Horatio: Bottomley lost its magic

. at last

Lords.

To support it, they re- led mainly on a witness named Majoochi, who had been one of

gami's regime.

Majoochi Was forthright. Wherever Caroline's suite

speak from

Tho test

a. brief?!. Wos he a export,

An

He to classical rocalls perfectly anything that helps to build a case anything that stigmatises, that incrimi- nates. But if his evidence is genuine, not faked, be will surrounding equally ravember

circumstances — circumstances that do not bear directly on the imuc, but would not have been forgotton while the others were remembered.

This is the test that Brougham now applies.

A tow preliminary questions of a general nature.. Then the frst sighting shot, heavily dis- guised.

"At the Queen's house

response.

.

know, exactly how the pistons work to drive a car, But What remains obscure is the some idea of what the clutch does; why rears are there, and what truth behind the trome, Caro- are the limitations of a car's brukes is essential, anak jag igen lina woad's caught by Majorch! 9 WOMEN have poor road sense. They have no appreciation of with Bergami. Was that just the importance of changing their road position to ensure the-good luck was there my- the best view on bends. They bug the left-hand kerb or drive thing to catch?

portlatently on the crown, . Yes, I chaild gisem, most prob-THEIR NERVOUS....reactions aré... too slow in - emergencies.

Searching tesis on agrident-proneness were made on more ably there was, Not that than 200 men and women at the Government's road research

Inbonsfory."%

TONY MOTTA visits.

THE

!

bha Machines' devised by the Medical Research Council mensuured co-ordination between hand and eye and hand and ear. The ability to reach rapidly at short notice was recorded. Men bes women easily,

prison-turned-hospital where

CHILDREN'S WARD

BECOMES A CLASSROOM

T

ceived an elementary education brimming eyes said:"Yes" prior to entering the hospital

ho

wurishing

And

Aalst 10 Wonder that, when, after so· Caroline's lackeys during Ber- Naples, the gentlemen, of, her sturdily-barred: windowg.documen andlety, is that not, nor would he have a older giri sat up abast she:{{

IT is the fashion Bill with the object of dissolving tablished quarters, he declared nowadays to re his marriage on the ground her room and Bergami's wore verse former judg- of Caroline's adultery with "a always close together; he had ments and white foreigner of low station," popular seen Caroline enter Bergal' wath George IV; to emotion rallied to the Queen, room in the middle of the night: King fund himself he had seen Bergamt enter Caro protest that he has and the been too censorious wholeheartedly condemned long line's room, partially undressed: regarded; to before the strength or weakness on a Mediterancam voyage, the chim in the favoured term of of his case was known,

had occupied the same current cant he was amusing. No wonder but at the same enclosed fent raised on the ship's Anyone who finds any material time the fact must be admitted: desk.

way he Caroline had rather asked for it. It Malocchi were for amusement in the

belloved, treated Princess Caroline of If not through lack of morals, there was no hope for Caroline. Brunswick would doubtless laugh through lack of common sesise. And Majoecht had ble head off to yo somebody There are certain things that story in the greatest detail, with

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self-

-suite sat at the second table?”

"You."

HE approach to Lal

Ard--white was home to· "Bix years old read her. chikok Hospital is not were well up to standard. Smiley? A small cubicle in chart,a tubercular spine, and impressive. Tier upon Othors, less fortunate, were pro- Shaukiwan shared by his father the day of admittance why some

Bach

two months back. gresting rapidly.

child

-- goldsmith by trade--mother tier of warehouse-like build receives 20 minutes of in and four other brothers und

Her prowess brought an ex- inings confront the eye, and dividual attention daily, sisters,

of surprise from De The

beauty of this scheme,

Jolly

sald Introduced by the such nothing to belie their ure

mus und Oneighbouring bea Red

eggs Mi semblance to a prison.

only If the child's mind diverted Yes, it was a prison from his illness and forced in bed all to himself and yet could and combed, beri halt... during the Japanese occupa- an education which he would has been in the hospital for smiled for her visitors and Belivity, but also he is receiving Smiley wants to go homel Ho Having thus propned herself sho tion, but within its fastness not otherwise have been able nearly a year.

proudly exhibited a piece of today, about 500 patients, to obtain. Nearly all of the Smiley's next door neighbour, paper on which she had colour. mainly tubercular cases, are

Mother ed

Goose and--her- receiving life-giving treat- ment.

sign of vánity” in this 14-year-old was a coloured bead

"Didn't Sir William Gell's. Bervant sit at that table too?"

Sir William Goll's servant? What does he matter? What is the point, the relevancy of this? Nene-except that Majocchi healta.es; for the first time he appears to be nooplussed..

"Non mi ricordo-I don't re-high member," he replies.

Majoechl healtates again.

Tho convalescent ward of the hospital, which is perched boon the on a hill, has scene of bustling activity for the last two months. "Didn't - Mr Craven's servant On entering the ward; you sit at that table too?""

pungent odour of miss the disinfectant, so much a part, of all hospitals, and if it were not for the stark, white walls and row of beds it could easily be mistaker for a classroom, kit

And classroom It is to some 20 children

stricken by Who THE sighting shots one of the most terrible diseases

have served; known to

cannot gather

-"Non mi ricordo,"

Perfect blank

their purpose up their books in the morning Brougham previous and trot off to school.

ly suspected; NOW

WDW. As Dr G. C. Franklin, the

convinond. hospital's

word youfendent, enter~ |

Majoochi is no mone ed the ward

placid

than an instructed the children did not parjurer, and shall be dealt with ly on their cats to await exami- accordingly until he is exposed. nation but chorused “Good "Where did Sir William Gell's morning afton the fashion of Servant sleep in the Naples school children the

"Non mi ricardo," "Where did Mr. CIRVED's

mi ricordo."

over.

One of the young patients colouring a pletare

with crayons

children come from very poor an 11-year-old boy,

bracelet she sported on her latt wrist. She said that she had threaded at barself,

THE STAR”.

NEARLY

overy. "child had something to show off, but star, performer of the morning was a little tot of six.

With the whole of her body encased in a cast, she had to be propped up to kreal itibar visitors. Once uprightl 'maintained 277/this: 15 Z'eliminad -position and glassled shylygybe ...: She was asked to sing by

teacher Land

for her to burst into other children tho „Chinaša “Come to

The "moon" was son coming. She was the element of suspe sumably, but analy repl whose childish treble, proba

The perfect memory has be come be perfect blank. They coloured a picture with a twoʻyears: Before they are fully of words; that hi,fufhor visited of!Lalchikok | Hospital " with? man who knew everything sud-

H. hn outs and ther di anned

bead Uy whát nổ lực nên

DILIGENT circumstances wight, Chinde parents, younger brother and She concluded, her

identifying

Chinese and : drawing will a but in Shaukiwan, also wants

18 HAPPY to be the centre of at Arithmetic

tention, a little boy, who, al arve everyone of them in goot to go home His father is out acters and counting quic Was Bergmani's child in the thought out of a cast, was still stead when they are completely, of work and his mother keeps 100 She took the pictors

lying on wooden frame shaped the children are long-term laundry

leave the hospital, the family going by taking in an her sirine by smiling, payk

the fash went off." "Non mi ricordo,"

to straighten his blighted body, comuni

convalescents and it in one to He told us happily

in a rush The visitor leaves the wards

his work with the studied: al Smalley for that crayons and then surveyed recoveredskabe

feelings.

„That ho denly knows nothing. Whore of an art

artist,"

concerted

Amurod of our

together, one ate, where that

De Franklin remarked that A natural reaction ·since it' skrivels, departures,

Hadily answered all ques, the Now, of, doors

man But should.. tuberculose were or caused. mid: windowan Hon mi zloordo." unerringly in dag-song Chinese, a man of the world, best kirkk

Brougham, completely con

The teacher, who had lookert All of this old, Smiley through poverty and Jumorunci coulder what would happen 12 Climbing higher still, Dr. All the patients how receiving fiberty comes bolily la mom the an proudly all the time, a sald who is recuperating from, tubes,

that the children were all ex- culosis of the spine, wald that Franklin and party entered the tree treatment at the hospital

forced to fend for were put under begged for extra work to do as much since less fred and was a watch understand the magnitude

good, Web something she had rarely one he had wonsthing to do ordinary sofa and in from across. In the

the tention, he extracted,;8ɛbook, lag Pickname for the youEILST G Circases from under his bed, and gread ⠀tioni: put to- bhm with the air of: PILBAR DERYA Of the cases of follows that mán feels for fellow."

ROCE

ho

tent on the decks. What tremely diligent and always he liked it in the hospital very female wards/Hope gely ha Halver perhaps will: betier

{want, it wight that no bed- dlothia were ever put upon the

Plon mi ricordios!!.

"Ortigen/the_Iron Bedstead!!!!

Ing experienceler

kane teacher, who

20smiley, what did you do be

attached-tallohd· taj már frienda.” to the hospital from the Kasoem Asked tion Department,

but

those children, who had

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