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POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"It's no good blaming little me, darling- I'm just one of these new guided missiles they've got hold of."

A British

PARADE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, · MARCH 12, 1955.

A

COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PILGRIM IN

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND` THINGS

HAPPY, Fanty million French- least five minutes before being

almost blud, ditink," said the academy.. AGAIN,

reened into tootofullam by the anti-liquour cries of former Fench Premier Pierre Mendes-Frence, went back to their old habits this week with- out a qualm of conscience.

For the French Academy of Medicine, after three years' rc- of search on the food value pasteurised milk, came out with the finding that pasteurised milk sold In France contained at lcast

potentially 1,000,000 harmful germs per unit.

The academy said that more than 33 percent of milik analysedi of during these three years research was not up to standard, "The milk bought in dairles at present should be boiled för at Crossword Puzzle ASLENTER'S

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3 Jerseys (81

8 Frank (4).

9 Crazy (9).

11 Flattered asely (8)

13 Wagon (4).

15 Exhuested (8)

18 Guided (8).

19 Harvest (4).

21 Awakening call (B)

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17 Valleys (5).

19 Wept (5).

20 Expletives (5).

21 Discourteous (4)

22 Sell (4)

23 Praise (4).

24 Discover (4).

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7 Meanders, 8 riset Regret, 11 Retires, 13 Dasinted, 15 Urgent, 18 Alb. 19 Peasants, 20 Ridge, 21 Energy. Down: 1 Tamer, 2 Tenor. 3 Spectre 4 Desist. 5 Preserve. 8 Status, 10 Grumbled, 12 Educate, 13 Dealer, 14 Temple, Hi Grace, 17 Testy

The income tax year ends on "Wo can't sleep

in the April 5, and anyone who gets coltage-It's too nolky," saya married before then can claim Tararsizio).

THE

FORBIDDEN LAND

big tax rebates for the current Councillors and officials are TIBETAN

'Frenchmen, Gleeful

now given a good enough reason to forget the orders of the former year.

months ngo, But tho. Rev. Peter Promler three hoovod à collective sigh of re- ilet.

They read with nostalgie re lith the news that a plat of milk bought by a customer as long as 24 hours after being taken from the cow contained 203 million germs of all noxious kinds.

France's three million private alcohol distillers, main target

for

drink- Mendes-France's more-milk campaign, quickly pointed out that there were no gers in alcohol-the nlcohol killed them stone dead,

The new disclosures these effecta:

Mothers of children

orders

to

seriously discussing the chost Spivey, who:

rector of the nearby mining

Makes strange rushing noises; | village of Whitwood Mere, has weddings turned down the beat-the-tax Jangles pots and pans in the

mainly because kitchen: Passientide, a religious festival, falls between March 27 'and April 2.

Suld

Makes clanging noises in the bedroom;

to

Opens fastened doors. Announced Sowerby Council: "I attention."

Bridge receiving

Sir

ho; "I was forced apply the ban because I was being asked to perform marri- ages even on Good Friday,

"Few of those couples who want to be married on the forbidden days he scen other services anyway."

-by George Malcolm Thomson

4.1

TMigot, French phy- films. Two Lamas spread their boxed his cars; Samh promised

work.

'wheeled vehiclo.

MARCHES,~ by of the Chinese Eighth Route player; Siddons, they dismissed

fifin from their company, André Migot, · Tránilated Army, Mary

At his farewell performance, He had instructed à Living by Peter Fleming. Hart Buddha (aged 25) in the Siddons recited a poem of his Davis; 18x. 288' pagen, ⠀-- comera. Crawling under-an own The Discarded Lover," altar, fitted up as a dark-roont, describing his position, As ho TIEN years ago, Dr they developed the Buddha's left the stage, Sarah's mother

sician practising in robes to block out light from to

marry him. At 10sho had her Arst Indo-China, aet cif on foot chinks in the wooden frame-

glimpse of botter luck. A party through

of "For six months he did not see of aristocrals who went to jeor the interior China towards Tibet." The

of her in Cheltenham were journey was dangerous; the It was his good fortune to overcome by the pathos, of her

of world

performance. The thealpo re- that strange visit The times made it more so.

cobs, scon Central Asia just before it was sounded with their

In Communists were about to

Now the the word reached Garrick swept by change. lan Jacob, swoop on Peking.

Dalai Lama is a prisoner of the Lndan that soinching unusual Director-General of

Dr Migot was stripped by Chinese Rede; a military high- had appeared in the provinces. JOKES the British Broad-bandits;

He sent out a spy, a sporting Com- captured by

way riga across the Tibetan

parson named the Rev. Henry munals; once he met an armed plateau towards India. convoy of the

Dale, fabulously rich

that the who reported It was Chinese General W—

wemon Siddons had a very good transporting a large consignment Yet Dr Migo's vivid, equable breeches Agure": ie, would look et oplum, the general's property.

well in male costume.' It was account of his journey, ren-

hardly high praise for an actress Generals,

dered in he explains,

by Jaunty English Fleming, encourages ef majestic presence. But it got ployed their armies "as far as Peter possible on duiles of a useful belief that the ancient Tibet he Sarah atas one sho

Times and constructive kind.

loves will somehow to come to come netrees at £3 a week. terms with its new were hard; to negloat one's own

Masters, was a complete failure. or one's dependants' interests is

and outlive them.

Into tears not a mark of discemment."

n: DRINK

DEADLY If you have a road MONDAY accident

-on Your

to drink half-o-pint of free milk in the schools by Mendes-France

Way to work (or thought about going back

way home) It is 00 the old practice of giving their on your children a pint of watered wine pent more likely to be on a Monday than on Tuesday, satchels to take

Wednesday or Thursday,

in their school.

to

Army men ordered to drink quarter of a pint of milk with their morning coffee were al- ready reported pouring it down the sink.

And hearing the ncademy's warning that "mlik must not be drunk if it has not been kept at a lemperature of less than 00 degrees," amug, smiling barmen doing a bumper trade, cracked; "But this liquor is all-weather, all-purpose stuff."

stu!-

The above conclusion has been reached by the Belgan Association for Accident Pre- vention in factories where em- players must

their oll sure workers for accidents which may occur while they are

on Bedr way between factory and home,

on

rusting corporation, heard some of the oldest jokes in the Eng- lish language last week,

And, whelever else happens, there will probably be moine jokes Instruction to find fresh for the nation's comedy broad costs.

the That, however, wasn't point of the stories.

They were laid to Sir Ian by a deputation from the Friends' Temperance

League-as exam- pies of "undosirable references" to drink.

Specimens:

"We had a staggered holiday -my old man was staggering all the time,"

"Even his moustache looks as if it had a hangover.

wine unsiinied "1 ordered for my guests. My orders were

wert carried

my out. So guests."

•

The "Bewure Death Monday!" warming is based in statistics covering accidents over a period of years, although apart revealing that more uc- eldis do happen on Mondays, the statistics do not reveal why. Nobody N-NO ONE

Psychologists, ters in Sign-

however, tre ST-STUTTERS

pore - or, If ready to provide Belgium's Ac- THE Old soldiers and row they do, they want to keep on

recruits, but especially stultering..

with a possible answer. Namely: P.B.I. the old, old sweats,"

The That Menchy morning fooling know what P.B.I. means.

Infantry has hed that you might as well be dead. Poor..

how wames but P.B.I. anyway!"

through the persisted

years with great affection.

And because of it a speech therapist, beautiful 28-year-old Th-Th-Thelina Hale, of Lon- don, is g-K-g-going out of busi-

nces.

Last week, two years after coming out, and finding no une who -st-stuttered, she made anal appeal for stutterers to come and get cured.

S nobody e-c-cane.

cido:t

Prevention Asteoclastion

RECEIVING ATTENTION

many.

em-

Dr Miget was equipped for his journey with a phsyical tough

fatigue, ness that made light of cold, dirt, lice; with a ilking f the Chinose, an eye for a pretty girl and a taste for the logical disputation.

read and write Не

coulet Tibetan. Above all, he had a

for sympathy

the profound Buddhist religion.

In one pense the climax of his remarkable

Kurney clandestinc-and frustrated-m dash for Lhasa over mountain passes 18,000 get high. In on- cccurred when, other sense it with intricate ritual, he was initiated into

Buddhist the Church in a Tibetan monastery.

Mysteries

was

his

He had been a pilgrim as well

as a traveller, a seeker as well

to

the

In

Newmasters

the last sentence of his

Then on the night of October book the courageous wanderer, 10, 1782, she sent a hard-bitten safe at last in Peking is modi- London audience into floods of tating a second expedition into tears with her performance in the tantalising twilight. WILL

Оло "The Fatal Marrings."

went into convulsions. enly one life at his disposal, he "women could spare a little more of it The curtain fell on a scene of on the quest for spiritual peace crihusiasm unequalled between the first night of Garrick and and ancient wisdom.

the first night of Kean,

MRS. SIDDONS, TRAGIC ACTREES By Yvonne ffrench. Derok Varschoyle, 21s. 256 pages

box

Saiah's father was in tears, her husband hysterical with financial relief. Mrs

Siddons was the most famous woman in England. The

office receipts at were greater than Drury Lane QARAH SIDDONS was, for a

ever before. generation in the 18th cen- succumbed to

The Royal forally the general in- tury, the undisputed queen of fatuation. George 111 appointed the English stage. William her Freeeptress in English Read- Siddons, her husband, was for ing to the Princesses. from being its king.

One day at Windsor the King Yet every Siddens brought

weck when Mrs took her aside and presented her

home

blank her with a

sheet of paper, at took nine- the bottom of which he had have the Initials

as an explorer. And he found ralary Mr Siddons

Sarah was However,

tenths of it and handed her back signed his name. what? ube longer been in

the rest. The 18th century was puzzled. The King's private life than the

nl That,

unyeti

the

and 18th century

Mrs was exemplary. What could it modern infantryman knows. In

She mysteries of this religion, a man Siddons did not dream of dis- mean?

took the Roman Britain they mcant

paper In- would have to spend more than puting an

Lunney "Procurator Britannias

husband's straight to the Queen. English

Arst time attacked Chief at ferioris"-the

Financial one life in the Lantalising twi- fights.

had for the Ofoer for the Northern Pro-light of Tibet.

George III. A lead seal For six months Dr Migot had found during excavations in pagred through a world which said to have deserved his good

bears Street, York,

had hardly changed during 20 centuries.

looked on He had the blue waters of a sacred Tibetan lake which only half a dozen Europeans have sighted. He had met fur-clad hors

marched men who might have with Ghengis Khan. He had talked about the spiritual life with Lamas who had spent their and about Marx with austere young officers

A poltergeist-- and li is not a poltergeist no one knows what it da--has been keeping a family awake

nights in the Yorkshire village of Sowerby Bridge.

move

vince of

Britain.

the initials and was the official mark of the Procurator of the Province.

یم

And it is such a noisy ghost Blossom couples MARRIAGE Sixteen

has to in York that the family living BAN

shire's Castle out of their old cottage at 8.30 evoning, the time the ford district are annoyed with every a local rector because he won't playful ghost starts hk rumpus. marry then and help them beat

After supper Bodgan Tarund- the tax collector.

złej takes a five-mile bus ride wanted all

to They

g to s Hallifax lodging house, and some limo between his

wife and daughter walk married March 27 and April 2-a time down the road to his mother- when they could get the big- in-law's house to spend the IVth Legion was composed al-Ilves in meditation,

most entirely of infantrymen.

gest tax rebates.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE CHIP OFF THE

OLD BLOCK

PROMISES TO REFORM, TOMORROW OR SOMETIME —

HE HAS SOME

ACCOUNTS

TO SQUARE

FIRST.

YOU KEEP THE RESOLUTION "TO

ÉCONOMIZE

I'LL KEEP THE SCORE /*

right.

The seal was probably fasten- ed to a bundle of merchandise in Roman York. It was in vec

IVth

was when the

Legion stationed at York and bears the emblem-a bull. The Legion's

Fromises Of Reform

THERE ARE 50 MANY WAYS IN WHICH A HUSBAND

NEEDS REFORM THAT ITS BEST TO MAKE HIM SIGN A BLANKET AGREEMENT——INCLUDING THE THINGS HE HASN'T BEEN CAUGHT AT YET

COPR. LUSE BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP. TM.WORLD NIGHTS RESERVED.

“I DIDN'T KNOW YOU COULD DO

DETOUR

PROCE YOUR CHI

AND ALL BY YOURSELF

BROHE MAMBO.

WUND

YEAH HE WAS SOME PARTY!

BY

HARRY

Besides, by one set of bold- nese, Siddons might almost be

fortune.

В

When Sarah was a girl of 17, she had caught, the eye of squire at Breon. Her parents, wretchedly ,poor strolling players, were dazzled by prospect of such a marriage and, since Sarah had shown an un- timely interest in her fellow

the

*Reincarnation of spirit of Buddha,

WEINERT

"WHO

ONE SYSTEM IS TO DENY EVERYTHING AND TO PROMISE TO REFORM— IF AND WHEN THEY HAVE

THE GOODS ON YOU.

"DON'T FORGET TO TAKE CARE OF

THESE BILLS.

WE'RE INVITED

OUT

TONIGHT.

RESOLVED:

TO LOOK ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE

THINGS

"MEZI MADE

Sorah was

a woman of the utmost respectability. When Sheridan, chief proprietor of Drury Lane, jumped into her carriage one evening, ho re- ceived the chilllest of receptions:

"Mr Sheridan, I trust that you will behave with propriety. I you do not I shall immediately desire the servant to show you out"

An Institution

But Sheridan was not finished. When the carriage reached. her house"Only think!" Sarah complained, "the provoking wreich bolted out in the greatest haste and slunk away, as 10 anxious to escape unseen!"

During 30 years she appeared on the stage, becoming each year more stately and aloof, a solemn rational institution and a Iers solema legend, fond of baling, partial to boer, and inclined to turn ordinary conversation Into the grand cadences of blank verse. At a banquet she alarmed the Lord Provost of Edinburg}ı, who had miced how she liked her beef, by declaiming,. "Beet cannot be too salt for me, my lord."

There was one unfortunate episode when Mrs Galindo, wife of a Dublin fencing, master, accused Sarah, then aged 87, of having allenated, "with Satanic barbarity," her husband's affec- tions. It was the solitary foolish lapse of Sarah's life, and ben reputation was able to survive it. The life of this remarkablo English woman is vivaciously told by Miss..french in this now, mitch-revised version of; a pre- war biography.

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