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· Centuries of painstaking research and effort prochiced the Rolex Oyster Perpetual, -nos "primarily as you might suppose, to neva you the trouble of winding it up). The tenalon of a mellwloder's mainspring is coU- - Mant because the selfwinding mechaniom kanga the which fully wound me all times, thus ensuring an even flow of constant powder, wilds in turi: maintains the very cloed" nd|tautaient of the fovement. On your arm, slit bosirù a day, the Rölax Oyndar preparan Pins on for wie? At the supe

I

FRENCH with

TEARS

TOM STACEY dines out on

the Equator

with despair

on the menu

MY SKYSCRAPER SCRAPBOOK

Marlene's grandsons CYCLE in the kitchen

By EVE PERRICK ́

N the most fascinating I looked hard at the lovely

dtchen I've ever seen, stul seemed a pity. 60

Indy and said I understood, but which is in the most tic WIE turned to MODO fascinating house I visited domestle issues. We did the tour in New York, where lives of the house and it I tow Ray. that the Riva residence is full the most fascinating woman of ideas for people to copy, re-

I met In America, A Vic- member I mean those people torian sampler on the wall who, like Maria, just happen- proclaims: "This is

be married to scenle the

signers. house the Rivas built."

To start with there was tho The self-advertisement low table on which our fea stressing the name of the things were set out, "It's tho householders is understand. top of a Victorian plano that Bil" (he's Mr Riva) found. able.

Ho cut off the legs, put glass Upstairs on the sitting over the top and turned it inta room mantelpiece a photo coffee table." graph of 8 golden-haired Making do sturdy little boys, also MR

TRS RIVA WIS golden-haired, needs caption.

dazzler flanked by

J

two

no

almbs

apologetic about it. Al- most everything in the house is made out of something else. You publication see, when we bought the placa five years ago we had no furnis ture and no money. We're still furnishing."

Tho picture rights of which will not be granted until the children are grown up shows Marlene Diet rich with the two youngsters

I commented

on the giant. to whose existence she OWES candles-about 2ft. high, and her Own

trademark, 12ins. round-which it up the grandsons ex-year-old Michael corn

corners of the various rooms and four-year-old Peter.

4rcst

the back of the class asking: Why doesn't he help himself?

Here is my answer, It is a hot, and wet ellmate cut here. Like all climates ib has plenty of effect on the local

"We haven't got round folk. In particular, it does, two

For the lady of the house 15 buying standard lamps yet. Tho things to them: It pampers them, Marlene's daughter, Maria Riva,, candles cost only $210 cách and it gives them diseases,

aged 29, wife, mother, clinic (about 189.), and as we light -- When the rivers are a-wriggle worker, interior decorator, child them only in the evening, they with fishes, and the forest run-psychologist, chef-de-cuisine, last for months." ning with rump steaks and and actress and every bit 85 But it was the kitchen knobbly

with delicious fruits beautiful as her mother, twica impressed me most. (banarias and melons grow at a as

far chuck of the seed), you got to happler. lose the habit of trying. And after a bit you fail to do even what is easy to do-euch as feed

Only Fit Man

de- This style of colonial velopment means the children

think, busy, and,, I

New socks

them-

that

to Gadgetry had been kept the bare minimum necessary for efficiency and replaced with warm, eclourful knick-knackery,

Mr Riva Has bullt for his. wife, with his own fair hands. a brick cooking range in the has centre of the room. He made her a set of spice battles, excllingly with and labellod quiggly lettering in gold.

• Indoor fun

THERE

HERE was one of those okt=" fashioned black- japanned coffee grinders the kind they uso in our grocery shops. And. there wasn't a single piece of that wasn't badly furniture

theso

denied.

yourself and clean yourself WHEN I called at the cream- W coloured house with tho property.

Second result is disease; for yellow front door ("We painted this

climate beloved by it ourselves') Mrs Rivá WOS microbes of every sort. Best playing about four of those TOM STACEY, 24-year-old bridges, sunk ferries or rute official figures available show parts rolled into the one bel- Old Etonian who wrote The which have become a little too that 90 per cent of all Africans led coud housewife." Offstage, Handle Sun," best-seller describ- ravino-like And, for long in this area are suffering from noises included the hum of the cleaner and Peters ing how he found a lost tribe in passages. It i officially only disease of one kind or another. vacuum

voice demanding money. Malaya, continues today the passablo duting the dry season

"He's going to the five-and- story of his new journey (four months).

ten to buy socks," explained through unexplored territorier

bis mother. "The boys seem to of Africa.

CALLED in at one village on need now socks every wock, So AM going to tell you do not get to school (precious the N'Gounie river. It had a I thought it a good plan to socks the things they what I think makes few schools anyway), the sick population of 27. Twenty-six mako

My hostess explained these primitive Afri- cannot get to hospital,

"The boys make them small were ill enough to go to hospital, must learn to buy for holders produce cannot reach Both children (brothers, five selves. It's worked very well. dents.

with their bicycles. As this la "cans tick. Also, which is outside markets, and civilsed and seven) were dumb. The only They both adore shopping." more to the point, about Influences Just sit around the nt man was the medicine man, Sho went on to explain why the room. I spend most of my -Was life in, I encourage the children what makes them not tick. few little European settlements who was making an excellent Maria Riva the actress

wok "resting" at the moment, and to play in it-otherwise

each I have now moved north- which cling to the three main living.. wards, and I am still among

This does not make for very for the Arst time the obliquest wouldn't see much of

referenco to

other. So they go whooping "Mummy" crept

Dround while I cook. the Fang tribe), one of the Talking of hospitals, 'have perky individuals; and when you

"It's got so that "I сам "I'm waiting

now for ů plain'.

bend chief tribal groups of this takon a close look at two, both add all the other things I have into the conversation,

over a hot stove at a run by the Government, First mentioned you get the empty part. I've discovered that western side of

which French

worth acting

allows a bicycle or only parts

angle was in Brazzaville, the capital headed, acmi-exhausted, Equatorial Africa.

town. The proud old missionary bitioners, Inefficient individuals those in which you look plain,

ing who showed us round claimed about whom these French do so

But they're terribly difficult to With me still is Erise it was the biggest and finest in much shrugging of shoulders, get. You can understand why, Now, please, you French, Ich with my family. connections, I'm Kironde, my African friend the colony.

me see you pull up those dainty most anxious to establish myself from Uganda, whom I gót

My friend Erias, who is knee-high, white socks you dil as the type of serious actress

never, never to know when he was an accustomed to British hospitals like to wear so much, and I'll who

can be undergraduate Cam- in Uganda, was shocked by the lower, the Union Jack a Hitle

at

regarded as a glamour girl." bridge.

*

rivers or the sea shore.

dirt and inefficiency ho saw,' (It

ail brings out the Union Jack in

Experiment

I spend most of my time me too.) in exclusively African com- pany, not so much that I necessarily enjoy it more than European company but because I am out here to see the Africans.

Inefficiency

Athe second hospital at

am-

Unst Bitten,

M

tho

Bre

scooter to pass without knock

me into the coup." The daughter of the world's glamorous grandmother,

most

you see, has life organised down to the finest point.

Another Page From Skyscraper

Scrapbook on Thursdayjay

Twice Shy

By BERNARD, WICKSTEED

with

roscow? Siberia? A motorboat called the Viking All the people, we met said Lambarene, I tried the following experiment. I insti-

Fooh! What sort of bad brought us over from the they bed living on Unst. You gated the admission of a new

a traveller does Rene island of Yell (and what a can buy a croft house

screain that place la, too). There enough land to live on (in a C690--- African lays whose MacColl think he is? I have was supposed to be a car to way) for 240, For 10s, a year pretty face was apolled by been further North than meet us, but the only signs of you can rent a bog and cut your tally poisoned eye. The girl's

the

Aandages all finished," the wasn't). It is further north while he wa: dway in

:

Moscow, or

་

tundra. two Norwegian (fishing. anywhere on the Trans-Siberian tundra

boats came by (wo were only AT Unst they have a dim andar

oyd lanced, dabbed, and MacColl in the whole of his life were some sad-looking sheep own peat. SOMETIMES, when I feel away she was sent with no ne visit to Russia and I never and a score of Bhetland ponies. Then you put up a windmillj Bill was wearing grey flannels-in your back garden and make my nice tropical suit is structions to.come back and left the British Isles to do and" น blazer. Ho And gone to your own electricity, Thore Is getting a bit musty, I put it nothing over her oozing cya. it.

the office in Glasgow that morn na shortage of wind. During on and go and have dinner r took her back to

The island of Unstthe U is ing and been told to go instantly the war, when troops were there a ghle blow the orderly room with the nearest French hospital that very hour and pronounced as in uncle is to Unst, Sooner than freeze to District Officer, or some asked why the eye had not been where the total eclipse of the death, he now volunteered to go away and dumped it half a mile Frenchman running a jungle bandaged.

ensum might have been seen (but off and see if the Eskimos were off in the squLAN timber concession.

· African dresser told me with a than

than Loningrad,

Piebald Wo always talk about the warm smile. same thing: the Africane that the people do not put much

All this sort of thing moons Rallway. nearer the North Pole 200 miles from Norway) and if A once dweck,, and, in tho These French put on an aith in what, the white man, then the whole of Labrador, only we'd had some whale winter there are dances and air of exasperation, a "can-

mast of Canada, the tip of blubber wo might have lit a merry parties, the piefnal preoccupations of

the Greenland and a lot of Alaska, Rather to Bill's mirprise

fre to attract their, attention.

www.ho

*. When tho conl; mines" became you-belleve it" attitude, as African mind, has got to offer. they recite to me tale after All they know is that wheir the It makes John o' Groats acem found a perfectly, normal farme mechanized the bottom hell out

white man turns up with

Deep South Some tale of African backwards

ow house with a nice pent fire, a of the Shetland pony market. At midnight on Unst, juisi

A telephone and ́n dưughter. cutting down."

80 They are trying to catch ness, stupidity, and general jungle there are nice coloured it is a light that you can play he was gone rather long time, circus trade by b breeding, ther hopelessness." MO

shirts and choop

wood wine golf or go flabing.

of his phone call plebald now. Some of the he

bus uro plobald to hel 14-weater

Khough If one did not happen to worth working Utile for.

But when follow demoralis light until nine in the morning to pick up the castaware

Just wants * plebald Shelland know otherwise, it would be don with old tribal Valtice anal and it, is dark just after lunch. in very easy to think as these discipline lost, plenty of deep About a thousand Britons live in time, soos with winter only I cannot hink French do. For the French, no children because of chew on Unst and when drst Fou get a few months ahead the expedit We did not soo

Caught in the open

Theta kopportare can rock; callód: Muck through their colonial in and lost fially pride and plenty there you: Wender how And don could not afford to be but we did do the ligh

of

for punishmen.. crimes not efficiency here, have made a

A and about six |

Full hotel

northerly Porowe as the wicht. Most of it to the bus, took us to a hotel sorry mess of their Afric

in bog and, lásce, is nothing" your cans, t

could call a threaten

Ike

In the winter, it does not

one

went a

uckle means