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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER · 24, 1954.

Α COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL". ÄBOUT PEOPLE AND. PLACES AND THINGS

FURTHER The average squad. Since the American some ingenious soul at the Ad-' STATISTICS American is 20 population is just three

times as likely to got murdered as the average Briton, but the odde are that the

American will live a year longer all the same.

Det to

have ticin.on

to

of

The National Foderation timo miralty-who for his health's Pollen Commissioners' totibook,

to better retailní, name- instandi

on-the-beat copy, the British, the odds work out, sake had

less-hos devised a at about 20 to one.

new-type started out in a dull routine When it comes to longevity, #mammock which can be used way, advising policemen on the

laws

"bill-posting and the averago American, can ex- afloat or ashore.

This new contraption can' be drunkenness, and what to do in Ive 68.4 years, the

or en accident. So the statisticiana say. avarage Briton only 07.05 yours, sling in the normal way

metal runners and And then, on page 10, camo-- The newly published

But that's not all the statis fitted with 75th

Lots of bold, mmmil-type sás ammiversary edition

of the Britons versus American

say about stretchers to form a camp bed,

"the"

of merits For so that da addition to lashing proclaiming United Start.cn Statistical

"intimate" barn and Abstract reveals

7,470 instance, the average American the hammock the poor benight various

chibe in the 00- murdered in malcem about twice Americana were

much ed tar has also to find some pocket-size DA

Briton: thing to to with those u mopolitan port of Antwerp, the last year on record. In the money on the average

(The

One ed for a club in Venus same your only 138 Britons met the national income worked out printable bit of

will not be back- Street," called lonely patrons Lower deck hood last ends calling for the homicide at £885 per

ward with suggestions).

to "an agreeable atmosphere, against about £303.

The Briton

a longer bean- Wore still, 98 Kota only

first-close drinks, charming ho is to be intro tesses and dancing under rub- pounds of meat against the mock mattress American's 151 and aboar 160 duced. This is patently the work dued lights to dreamy music."

being Police chicis denied ezga ogainst the American's 397. of a landlubber. Every old salt

virtue of the responsible, declaring: "Publicity But be cots more potatoes, more knows that the

trod floral hammock is that in the book is the responsibility nuts and more fish,

And the

with of the printer." cold weather you sleep

under your chin пожарарета,

your knees books—and, as much

A British Crossword Puzzle

2

3

4

15

7 18

10

16

17

18

19

20

22 23

ACROSS

1 Frolic (6).

7 Tumult (4).

9 Diadem (5).

10 Dirt (0).

11 Comfort (4).

23

DOWN

2 Accumulate (8).

3 Gallant (5).

4 Ambassador (9).

12

Weird

14 Sudden flight due

(8).

18 Disagroeing (10).

15 Rend (4)..

16 Passport endorsement (4).

19 Spotless (10). -

22 Pace

24 Representative (5).

28 Creep (5),

20 Hastened (4).

5 Eastern (B).

# Enemies (4).

8 Likeness (5).

(0).

13 Plunges (6).

(4)

27 Kind of jacket (6).

12

to panic

17 Surrounding of a city (5).

18 Get the better of (6).

20 Relative (0).

21 Lessen (5).

23 Appendage (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrois:

warm.

year

Briton reads moro twico 45 muny though he drinks boer.

he drinke Et

.

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A QUIET. Britons pirety

floundering JEL SOB:

of govern Intrage ment formu will probably just

une

collapse, sobbing quietly, at the thought that some of them now being printed in Welsh,

As a House of Commoris do- bate on the new Highway Code waxed long wd lothargic, Mir James Griffiths interrupted ask whether it would be printed in Welsh,

to

*

preserving body TOO MANY Britain's

while in hot weather and the feet can be extended,

deliciously, betvom wriggled the strands of the end lacings.

tnken

Boyd-Carpenter Luis.

•

comat-trail of gun-

often."

at a

mys

to

my wife-et's all

Esri't aiming 60 Yeah-I'm proper

Q

And many a colonel has been

thumped in the ribs to find that the thumper has mistaken him for a fellow member of the Fish Protection League.

A WISTFUL fugitive from fairyland-or a Scottish

gnome with a cruel twist ? This was the mystery of the man who created Peter Pan.

THE FLIRT WHO

HATED FACTS..

by George Malcolm Thomson E

put out of bounds to Barrie's visitors

Motoring through thì, village, ore cay, "he narrowly. inissed running down an elderly woman; "After dinner, Barrie, white and. trembling, told me who that elderly wornaN WAR"

2.

Barrie wasja persistent innle flirt who aroused the maternal instinct in many pretty wonen half his age to whom his--air. of deep dejection was irresist ithe Ellen Terry wrote, "He

PORTRAIT OF BARRIE By wilderment: "If that's what the was almost as beautiful and Cynthia Arquith. (Barele, public want, we shall have to adorable as my dive months old give it to them Anthony Hope kitten. He seems to be no 111, 15. 230 pages.)

said grimly, "Oh, for an hour the poor nie."

M

cess.

Those

Best performance

Thus ho

SOMETIMES his enthusiasm for these beautica prompted him to write a play for them. wrote "Tho Boy David (his bigrert theatrical flop) for end found him.

Elizabeth Bergner Buc- hin "sce

cruel as well as sinister. But whose elûn charm” had won his Barrie's pleasure in this was, heart. And left her £2,000 in

who are looking for

Cynthia

the secret of that success will surely only another example of his will, for the best perform

ance over given in any play of mine."

his "whimsy.”

army has the troubla

ONEY talks. When Sir af Harod!" TIES

Reason: There

James M. Barrie, Bart., Barrie himself, it seems, had are now 330 units with special ties 00 distinguish members OM, died worth £178,467 a soaking sympathy for Herod. otvvies from ordinary (thus beating Kipling, by He did not really like children Tough little montala,

look $18,000) even the Scots, his mich, unless they were pretty, FIRED

well-born and looked after by Lula But so many of them

detested FOR GOODSpaniard

Falery By

has alike that nobody is quite sure fellow-countrymen, who had ancient mannies. He who

on his work with being called "whimsical" (while, space who is who-and it all had to looked more trips into

doing ต

everything in his power misunderstanding. of

envy and suspicion, were than Superman, "plumped down

to earn this adjective). He was continuumily Guards officers ere the last time this

Jay's to earth for

slapping people on the back, constrained to admit that enchanted, week in a

only to discover that they are the author of Peter Pan Asquith, when a critic spoke of powder.

not Guardsmen ut all but one had been a literary Luis, human cannonball

de- time members of obsCUTA Newbury (Berkshire) circus, is

tachments. finished, washed up. "1 get hurt too

"And

not find it in this book of im~

"Cynthia Asquith, His own literary tastes wero preaslone by who was for years his secre- by no means sentimental. His He was obsessed by Eten and blame. She good lately.

Even worse, the ties do not tory and to whom, in his will, chief hero among willers was cricket; had a passion for the browned off."

whom now company of elder statesmen and standard he bot £30,000. What they will Thomas Hardy to in вест to come Luls' shaking hands Income Tax.

Bach now colaus

and is a serious of sidelights on and then he would pay a visit. younger members of the aristo- one who had an almost unerring cigarette.

"One day," he said, "Hardy cracy. forms to be printed in Welsh.

Nobody over spent so You see?" said Luis, "I got slightly different from the last.

So the Society for Army Hisslinct for popular taste, in the took me to see the place where much time as Barrie in backing torical Research has been pre sense that he could measure to he's to be buried. And next day shyly into the limelight.

a hair's breadth how much the he took report. So for they

mo to see the place paring a

decided to have

recommend pubile would stomach.

He was the most brilliantly where he would do next best to be buried, Unually he says Inventive dramatic technician of tie" in a that every unit tuck an "%fdel strong box BO that

he is to be buried between his his age. Endowed with a small future productions can be com-

wivoo, but sometimes, so many but real vein of humour and ared with it and future dig-

inches nearer the first come fantasy, he exploited it ruth- times so many inches nearer to lessly." "Facts," as he said of putes between units settled.

one of his characters, "were never pleasing to him. Ho ac- quired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief." *** In Peter Fan he got rid of them with profit, too.

Mr John Minister of Transport,

essured him that he was giving every consideration to the matter adding by way of a sop that, just before he left the Treasury, be arranged for

What they look like, no one has dared to eak,

Fug-

tit 進

Bre

Twico

the

cannon- shakes-oil this ball stuff. Tixis tune 1 But when Mr Griffithu gested that Mr Boyd-Carpenter myself, for good."

Lubs trus should finish the job and learn

been rocketing the air for 17 years, Welsh himself, the Minister through bowed out gracefully by noting landing in chandeliers, people's that he did not understand the lape, lions cages. And 10 times locome Tax Form even in Eng- he's landed in hospital.

he's broken his neck, four times he's broloon both his legs, three thnos his collar-bone. And he's so many times broken his ribs he's lost count.

Lubs' wife, who fires the gun, is sad that Luls blames her for

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EXT

even

ponse to the ting him hurt so many times. kept up in

she's gind he's giving it up. Saya she: Ow you like to shoot your husband who is the papa of your children into ade for every night for years?”

the ten

OCEAN

the saltiest of tars, lite BED

the ocean wave had one grave defeol, It came with the light of cach EFE down when, in exhortation to Leave 'o, 'envo , *, they had to o, lash and stow, square-off their hammocks. No easy task when still blurry with sleep. Especially so since Their Lordships are

exacting about of the The symmetry

sausage. like parcel which is a "pusser- POLICE Belgium's husky lashed" hammock,

policemen blushed BLUSH

à deep pink. And, shaking their heads vigorously, themselves Tot they declared guilty of lotting

page

of classified ads appear in their

metal text book,

4

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Origin, 4 Climb,

17

Now,

aven

frequetib denied the

Spells in Jugo's Mansion (bar- |racks) were all the more wel- tome becatise hummocks were

with

Lume dispensed

thre being.

thai 100

has respite

matelof рост

for

in- been I wasn't the ads so much

For but the things they said!

1 Tackle, 8 Stake, 10 Mure, 12 Intrude, 15 Inano, 18 Anon, Slog, 18 Trite, 20 Minaret, 21 Erse, 23 Strip, 24 Copled, 28 Verge, 26 Beggar. Down: Optimism, Incision, 3 Idle, 6 Literate, 6 Mikado, e Inert, 11 Engaging, 12 Inter, i3 Unerring, 14 Engender, 10 Little, 22 Tome.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

I WONDER WHAT IT'S

TRADE-IN

VALUE IS ---

IF ANY!

batch

ds

Imprudent child

'ADULTS were divid-

cd

at

all,

into those who could not stand any Batrio

and those whose, digestion was Himéticas, Child- were not given

tho

chance to have

an opinion. Taken by

and generous moist-eyed

Wybot at all. His real name, it when asked,

in

the second."

Second chance

hed

only

ofa

A business man

.

BARRIE was a part- nership between hard-headed business man and fugitive from

adult

But that is unlikely to keep the colonels from being thump- ed in the ribs by upstarts,

FALSE The odd habit of go- NAMES ing about under

BARRIE falso

la stul numo France.

The scandal

one wife, a charming "Teak of the defence secrets

actress named Mary Angell whom ho has, for instance, disclosed that a

divorced in 1909. Mrs the head of the counter-spy ser- uncle to see Poter Pan, It would

formed Barrie had vice whom everybody knew us have been an imprudent child hands

attachment for M. Roger Wybut in not M. who tafled to clap his

"Do you belleve

Gilbert Cannan, who was secretary fairie Warin, appears, is

Half a century ago, Peter Pan little comantice on corship Similarly, M. Jean Marin, just appointed head of the French had its first performance. Beer- of the drama which met in

showed formally in Barric's house. news

agency, is really M. Yves bohm Theo thought it Morvand.

beyond all doubt that Barrie Later the became Mrs Cannat.. It la cald that, years later, his The idea is a hang-over from was going off his head.

wanted

"second George Edwardes, the musical ex-wife war days when Frenchmen with de Gaulle in Britain took false comedy king, who for years had chance." It is certain that she that the play was a TELES

the relativen in given

public what be took a house at Broadway, five complexes and fixations. But

(pretty miles from Barrie's country, bad case of emotional maladjust- they wanted France from reprisals, Still, anthought

theatre in be- home. girls), left the

"Broadway was at once ment turned out to be good box odd thing to continue....

offica

And what kind of

of man was author? What lay behind, tho imhappiness and the clever news and the posing? Readers of Cynthia Asquith will still be without

the answer. But they will suspect that in the strängelitte. Scottish.....gnome there was a trace of something. chilly and unilkeable,

names

to

SAVO

Jingle Bells

HMM- HE SAYS

DARLING, YOU, HAVE

EVERYTHING

I WONDER WHAT HE

MEANS ?

"DON'T WORRY,

IF YOU'RE STUCK,

WITH A "TE YOU CAN GIVE IT TO ME

д

BY HARRY WEINERT

WE STILL HAVE TO GET SOMETHING FOR THE FRONT DOOR/

realities, In Peter Pan the firm struck ofl. Paychoanalysts winald, later

00, complain

OT

a

.

|THEIR FRIENDS ARE ASKING THE SAME QUESTION

ABOUT THEIR. WHITE ELEPHANT

́ITS SO PRETTY

I HATE TO

OPEN. IT/"

"WELL, DON'T

THEN- ITS

PROB'LY A LOT BETTER OUTSIDE

THAN IN ANY-

WAY.

·THE··

VOICE OF EXPERIENCE.

"'NEXT YEAR. WE'LL

GET A TABLE

SIZE JOB

WUNKY

SEASON'S GREETINGS.

SHE NEED❜NT: WORRY-HE' AND,

THE GIFT WILL BE

THERE WITH BELLS ON.

12-

HOLLY

ALL HE ASKS FOR IS TO GET THROUGH THE

FRONT DOOR IN ONE PIECE

"ARE YOU

GOING

[TO: PLAY.

SANTA

CLAUS

AGAIN THIS

YEAR

GRANDPA

AS FAR AS GRANDPA IS CONCERNED THERE WILL

"ALWAYS

SANTA

CLAUS

MISTINGUETT, by Mistin- guett. Elek. 21. 247 pagen.

CAYS Larousse; the standard French diellorary, "The legs 'serve' to carry. the trunk but, like the columns of antiquity, singularly embellish the editos they

SUDDOTE, H Discoverie herself

to be singularly Embellished,

Milo. Jeatre Bourgeois insured her support for 800,000 francs in 1919.

Until then, during a quarter of a century of active lile," abo had made a successful musde hall career on a comte face, & naughty voice, a tempestuous nature SLIEG other Appealing attributes. From that moment however, the name of Mistin- guett was indissolubly identified with two features of her anatomy,

The outline of her life, mad be read in the ranch Who's Who: "Flower seller at Enghien; makes her debut on the stage,

1911. 1895;

(discovers 20" and

Chevalie Tanchon hourier Famous for her legs, teeth, mel ing blue eyes. Addiemand z tionately by her troupe les

Filling in the

quest describes a young 3 girl's struggle to win fame 7 on. stage without losing har reputa» tion on it. fl was a good i It was not always UBKYAIWAN berleged with salahonongwala proposals.

There with nob dukes, two

I GUESS I DON'T WANT

DOLLS AND STUFF. "AFTER ALL== LAMAN

RTC.

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