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THE CHINA MAIL. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1954.

Would your watch have kept time on the sea-bed?

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WEARING a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, is profeuer of Milan University went for a maica off Capri, But the strap-buckle was loose, and his watch broke from his wrist, and sank to the bottom. Without much hope, the professor asked some divers, working nearby, to keep an eye open for his watch. Surprisingly, seven days later, they actually found it, and it was stift keeping parfies sima, al

It is not really so incredible. For this superb watch, completely protected from water and sand..by the famous Ópster waterproof case, is automatically wound by the Perpetual "rotor” mechanism— another Rolex' invention,

It is in their ability to stay accurate under, auch incredible rests of endurance that Rolet watches prove their immunity from the more normal ills that beset an ordinary watch.)\

The Rolex Oyder Perpetual di simitár » to the one in the story. Permanenty conserproof in its Öyster Cait, it is given perfèct accuracy by ike Porpeinst selfinding "rator” The Rolex Red Sent Identifies every Rolex chronometer.

After seven days beneath the sed, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, draught ap by divers, was found to be will showing the right time! (The original letter of Professor Cuspla can be inspected at the Rolex offices, 18 rue du Marche, Geneva.)

ROLEX

d landmark in the history of Time measurement,

ROLEX Chronometer-

· Official Timeplecé of Panagra Airlines

A reflection of good taste

BORN 1820

STILL GOING

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· STRONG

Johnnie Walker

FINE. OLD SCOTCH WHISKY.

PASS THE WORD ON Find some moment in your home this Christmas for some UNEXPECTED guest to share the warm glow of your family's happiness TRUE STORY to help turn your resolutions into DEEDS

A Stranger for

Christmas

THE trouble

T

with

Robert is to find a way of giving him

a happy Christmas without making him feel ho is being insulted.

Robert is 24 years old -and as sensitive to the sentimental

approach as

a small boy's

JUDGE THE

STORY OF A

YOUNG MAN

THEY SAID

WAS SO GAY

a rhinoceros to the offer of friend of him were brushed off

lick from

when they approached. It was probably

shyness underneath, lolilpop

but you could hardly blame his You know how it is with colleagues for assuming that some young men. Somehow, Robert was not only a boaster, bui also a snob. After a time when he first started his they did not try any more. new job with a big firm in Miles Platting, Manchester, st spring, he got off on the wrong foot.

For when the landlady show- ed him up to Robert's room, it was quite obvious. that Robert was not going, anywhero,

He was busy over a gas ring, cooking himself some beans. And, though he hastily ex- plained that his departure had Been postponed, for 12 hours, John look a look around thai room and guessed that hete

lonely man. Ho said as much in the canteen on the following "Posh friends Monday. and fancy week-enda my foo:!" he said, "I bet he hasn't a friend In world."

was John, the genera! I manager's

who was a chauffeur, He talked a bit too loudly Drst stumbled on the truth. A about the fact that he had letter with a West Indies stamp worked in Paris, and about on it arrived at the office shortly

how his widowed mother-now after Robert hud left. living in the West Indies was related

all sorts portant people.

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of Im.

away

be known that He had let he was off on one of his week ou ends; but since the letter was probably from his mother, the to rush chauffeur volunteered to Robert's

digs und try catch him before he left..

He need not have hurried.

Ho would rush Friday evenings after casually mentioning that he was going South for a gay week-end,

Those men and girls in the office who might haye made a

SANTA BEATS THE ROCKETS AS NO. 1 PIN-UP

By J. W. Taylor

to

ANTA Claus still tops seen, to a greater extent in this SANTA

cards, whilst religious *motifs, presenting the Christmas card illustration series eide of the Christmas despite the advent of festival, are in considerable de-

To novelty animated cards with mand. mark the popularity clever action movements colour picture of the Queen and

the Royal Family the Duke of Edinburgh at the Royal Feast of Tonga has been produced in large quantities as

and cut-outs.

of the

a full-

appropriate Christmas card this year.

The greetings card trade reports rocketing sales, a state of affairs that has existed ever since the end There are three main reasons of the war. During the last for the increase in card sales, five years there has been an say the trade experts. Over the years the public havo gradually increase in sales of ap- become greetings card conscious proximately 66 million and of late years they have had cards, and it is reckoned facilities that this year alone 450

for buying a wider to make the message a little more personal---

qay of cards

million cards will go through for parents, children, relatives,

the post in Britain.

boy and girl friends, all speci-

And what of the latest trends,, fically named.

There are now

in designs? Those were decidea even cards to the boss.

upon as far back as two years age: (designs that were sent to the printers for production. bt- fore the Christmas pudding was caten last December.

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7IDER and Increasing travel Wamongst the general public All the old ones fully coloured and Increasing membership of and all a glitter, are there different societies - and - clube There's a sprinkling of topical have all led to greater greeting ones of rockets and space ships card sales. There is the com- fying out as the card is opened, mercial aspect, too. More and but this year's most popular more organisations in trade, greetings card still features that industry, business and commerce old-age December pin-up with look upon the Christmas card large beaming face, bushy eyes as an ambassador of goodwill. brows, arid white beard topping During the last ten years, the a red-gowned partly shopo number of firms using Christ Banta Claus,

mas cards has more than doubled.

emerges

Even children of our day have murs time, however, Santa, their own particular social life,

regarded as

the seasonal so that cards with a special ap- propogative of youngsters peal to the youngsters have been the emblem of inoge. in demand. Christmas for grown-ups, with Private Christmas cards with suitable 'verno to át older the name and address of the rocipients. More than aver this under overprinted are greatly No. NA 1. greetings pin-up will on the increase to swell the feature on the mantelpleco of December postbag, and the trade the drawing room and study, as has evidence of thousands of well as in the nursery,

cases where one person sends Our old friend,

the Robin, out anything from 80 to 300 or pretty close second and more of this type of card. in a photo-finish. for a place There is, too, the card for the just beats into third position the last-minute shopper or the sud- lucky horseshoo. These three, den thought that someone has

In motifs

of holly, snow, been overlooked. It depicts the village churches and cottages usual last-minuto rish for cards and candles, arg this year being at Christmas and reads: presented with a modern dign

comes a

sot

dod simplicity.

The work of the photographer,

as well as that of the artist, is.

I went to get your greating,

And look what I went through But it was really worth it, For someone nice as you

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

STOP, BARTUNJ „T'LEUNTIE YOU).

MANDRAKE/

AS BARTŪN STARTS TO RUN” MANDRAKE FREEZES HIM IN PLACE

WITH AN HYPNOTIC GLANCE.

Drawing

ROBB

Talking Turkey

WAB Interested by

I photograph, which ap

poared in the newspaper recently of a lady who keena a turkey-farm in Norfolk. |Such are the · depredations of those who supply the black market that this lady has been obliged, to train her turkeys to roost in' the trees at night. Ladders are the provided by which the

obviously decided that' pretence had to be kept up. "Thank you, I'm going relations in London,"

birds ascend to the high to branches, and once they

have reached their resting places the ladders are re- moved for the night.

The head of the drawing office sent "Aggie, a smart girl, only, an office messenger, to

The area which... Baur- Robert's digs in working hours rounds these dormitories, is -just to check up' with his defended by trip wires, landlady.on his Christmas plans, which sound alarms, and He was lying. He was not go- ing unywhere for 'Christmas. Ho would be fooding alone; and probably on beans.

con

BUT hot if half a dozen men and girls in the office help it. They are having L Christmas "draw" 153

as usual and Robert, like everyone else, has taken a ticket. And

by patrolled armed with guns.

watchmen

These formidible davkus and defences „Indicate that as the fcalive' season approaches there is a demand for turkeys so wide and deep that traffickers biro tempted thereby to defy the law.

This strikes me as strange. The turkey is a badolid, edible only when accompanied by cranberry sauce; it is not even indigenous, and I fall to understand why it should/cbc expected to grace our Satur- naila or the Thanksgiving Days. of our American relations

The explanation, I suppose, bottle of in that the turkey,

Although con dull, is large; and that we'retain only be collected from su

sufficient

Cromagnon Instincts to the chlof draughtsman's house enjoy chcumbering but.

cirfearts with animals which, aro-tool big

the

By LEONARD MOSLEY

Well, It is a husy and there are firm, A Jot of private things to do around Christmas

quite a few of Robert's col- leagues looked at him with new eyes after that.

the

The chief draughtsman made Arat overture "If you're not going away to your friends for Christmas," he said, "how about a meal with us?" It was too direct an approach. Robert hesitated and flushed and then

one thing is

certain no matier whether he has o winning number or not, Robert is going to win a prize. prize: The manager has promised to pay almself.

It whisky, and

is

Д

the day before Christmas.

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for

it

If Robert:cannot be persuaded thaw out and share that bottle, then his colleagues will really give him up.

But somehow I don't think Robert will really be eating beans this Christmas,

Roller

OK

ROLLEIFEE M

for any modern to eat, Within my own lifetime, and as a result of two major wars, the Eng- ishman has lost his former capacity for absorbing enormous quantities of food.

Harold Nicolson

Asia Photo Simply Fi

YOU CAN MOVE PUT UP

BARTUN