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SEVEN BRIDES

for Seven Brothers

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MILLY BROWN, of the town of Oregon. In 1860, marries Adam Pontipee, who has come down from the billa in search of a brkle. But when she returns with him to his farm she finds that living there too are his six brothers, as rough and tough as himself and all anmarried.

The prospect of mending and tending for seven such men appals her-40 she spruces up her six brothers-in-law and tells them they must each ro to town to find a bride too.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL

guns, ready to shoot down the kidnapping Pontipee brothers.

A the edge of the town Adam was waiting with a big

One harse-sleigh now.

by one the brothers rushed In and dumped their squirming, blan- ket-covered bundles into the sleigh. Then they made a dash

derous behind

"In this book there is a story

townsfolk

chasing

WAS proud of my Greek named Plutarch, and I've for it, with a horde of mir- six brothers-in-law by been reading it. this time. I had no doubt that there were more about some Romans who hadn't Presently they came to Echo than six girls in the town got any women to kok after Canyon. "Steady now," warned who, once they got on close them Wel, there were some Adam "Too much noise now women who wanted to be with and that show up there will enough terms, would be them but their relatives wouldn't come down and cut us off from ready to take them on. let them CONTAC So you know the farm."

what the Romans did? They "Don't let

me down, went in and kidnapped the boys," I told them as they - women." drove cf.

"We'll be a credit to you, Milly," they replied. "We'li. bring back six brides even good

cacugh to compare with you."

They would have done too- if the reputation of the Pontipte family hadn't been ro bed. Oh. they did all right at the town bern dance. The girls took one look at my brothers-in-law and, their puies started racing. They were more than willing.

BUT

UT not their relatives. And not the young men of the LOVES

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The dance started as a polite get-together and Krew warm with friendly fun. And the the relatives moved in. started

Said Caleb: "Are you

kidnap our girls too, Adam?" suggesting we should go in and

.

Very carefully and quietly they crept around the bend. Behind them they could hear And then, sounds of pursuit. when they were safely round, and the pursuers were just com- "Where do We set out?" ing in sight, Benjamin raised his asked Gideon. "My Daisy Mae gun and Arod. would be a real nice present for the winter."

Adam frowned at his six brothers. "Milly would never approve if I just sent you in to pick up the girls and drag them off like

H's squaws.

LEONARD MOSLEY

writes this version of the film

riage I'm thinking af for all six of you....So what you do is to morrow night, drive into town. and signal your girls io clim down from their bedroom and then load them all into the wagon."

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making troubic, and before any The brothers booked at him one could stop them wall, the with dawning pleasure on their Pontipee brothers were in a well-crubbed faces. "After that, rip-roaring fight, and the girls you pick up a preacher and foart him into the wagon too. Then you drive through the canyon back to the farm, and we'll have a miss wedding."

had been bundled off home.

They didn't want to go home, mind you. They were dragged away by rate fathers and sus- picious brothers.

And there I was, back where

I started, still ecelting and washing and

sewing and

scrubbing for seven men instead

of one husband.....

T had been knowing all day and

I is showed all night too. The

The months passed and winter brothers set off for the town and

came.

The boys were lonely, and fretted, Which was the moment when, unknown to me, “Adani stepped in. By this time he had learned the value of a wife and

the rood to keep her happy. He

a conference of his

went eff to their gals, walle Adam waited for them. "Don't take long, and no noise, now," he warned.

other.

the

The mountain quivered and snow began to slip. And then, like thunder, down came the avalanche. blocking the road between town and the farm with brothers and their girls on one side and the angry townsfolk On the

Later on, after I had, dried

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-BOMB · TRIAL

(World Copyrighs By Arrangement With Manchester Guardian.j

AUSSIES TIGHTEN BELTS

By Bryan Bosanquet

AS

Sydney.

'S Australians tightened their belta again this week for another round of austerity, politicians were asking them- selves a strange question: "Can a coun- try develop too fast?"

The Australian story is an odd one". from start to finish.

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But the basic fact is this: Of just under 9,000,000 Australians, half live in six big cities. A third live in two cities alone: Sydney and Melbourne.

On paper, Australia is one of the most scantily populated countries in the world, with just 294 people for every 100 square miles, compared with 4,340 in the United States and 58,780 in Japan. But even before you get to the problem of the cities, the figures begin to appear distorted.

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For instance, five million Australians live in three relatively small states Vic-»- tória, New South Wales and the island of Tasmania. Victoria has 2,682 people for every 100 square miles. The vast Northern Territory has only three inhabi tants for every 100.

Australia's problem is that the popu lation is concentrated into one corner and much of it is packed into a handful of ities.

Australians just prefer to live in cities.

RUSSELL SPURR, London Daily Express Correspondent, who spent Welfare State

out the girls and quiatened 2 months behind the Bamboo Curtain, reports on life in the new Peking

their fears, I faced the others. you might have told me this was going to happen," I said. "Those poor children-kidnap ping them like that. Still, I'm glad to know your intentions were honourable."

I faced "Adam, "Now," 1 said.

"we had better get this situation regularised soon as possible. The avalanche has come down and blocked the road until next spring. The sooner. these girls are married to your brothers the better. Call in the preacher."

Adam nodded turned to Calea net and t

Where is he?"

The brothers were looking

and ashamed. glum

"Adain" said Caleb, stepping forward, "T have a terrible One by one they called up thing to tell you. We did as yOU the girls of their choice, canoodled Said and brought the girls. But with them a little and then, when in our hurry, d'you know what they were off-guard, slipped a we forget to bring the preacher, blanket over them and carried We can't get married until the

spring."

Behind me the girls began to scream.

Tomorrow: The winter

them, kicking, away,

called brothers.

"When Milly came to this homestead," be said, "she brought with her only three Then someone gave the alarm." things a spare dress, a night- In a moment the whole town

"gown, and a book her father was aroused. A posse of men gave her. It is à book by an old assembled, in the streets, with

of discontent

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The Girls In Pigtails

Have Lost

Their Sense

of the trozen

Of Fun

Of

few revellers

employmen

With working hours as short as any in the world, no un- and a welfare state which ensures that' even the lowest paid worker can live In comparative luxury, there is everything to attract them.

But that is just where the problem emerges.

With the big wages and long hauls to warid markets, Aus tralia just can't compete in the manufactured goods market, On the other hand, even with vastly overgrown urban popula tions, the ecuntry sill can't produce many of the goads it needs. 1. Heavy machinery, automobiles, refrigerators, form equipment and dozens of other kinds of manufactured goods- must still be imported

All there is to sell is agricul- tural produce. And there just isn't enough of it.

The ratio of the agricultural to the urban population means that Australia must actually import food.

N icy wind whined New

in the paint adorned cure with ugly barrack-like build- "Drivers," "Sabotage

"The Collective round the Temple of monial archways on either side ings the scientific Institutes and Steel Mill," Heaven. It sent a shud- A big Buddhist statue on the hill industrial expansion that in the

ornamental lake. training colleges to back the Farmers of Chinghal."

About all that's left is wool But then there is little other

and wheata lot of wool not so der through the pine trees in above was freshly white-washed, mystique of the Marxist exced. entertainment. a nearby park. It whipped Whatever their private coa Old ideas are changing too: Everything is closed by eight much wheat.

fluctuation in the A small vainly at red and gold pro- tempt for pre-Communist the eternal gambling of the at night. The

China, lenders do nol Chinese seems to have been who can afford it celebrate world wool price could bankrupt paganda posters urging in the Redone thread of stamped out. The click of mah- behind closed doors in the more the country. immediate "liberation" of their cultural heritage. Indeed, jong counters, the sigh of shuf- exclusive restaurants. For most To try tu right the balance, Formosa-which Red China's they are going out of their way ing cards has been extinguished people it is home and bed, Australia encouraged large-scale rulers had plastered over to revive memories of Chinese almost overnight,

leaving windswept streets to immigration after the war, But every ancient wall and greatness and Chinese humilla- You could hardly put down stray dogs and the ever-patrol-only six migrants in every 100

ling policemen,

went to the farms. The rest archway.

tions at the hands of "Imperia-; your cigarette five years ago list" - Powers - to keep

a without someone swiping It.

crowded into the cities, intensi-- The few sightseers stroll- naturally patriotic people in

Now a man will run after you

fying rather than solving the ing down the long, raised fever of patriotism.

with your wallet if you drop it

problem. in the street. roadway from the adjoining

Tips Hall of the Imperial Tablets clasped their padded coats around them.

.COMRADE

told me. "Now anyone cân skate or sail or the lake."

They still did it, of course, with the "emperor's" sanction. For above the. rink was

the

An are regarded as Insult, And if your rickshaw

DIPLOMACY

at the parties

man is out of change he will A LITTLE social life splutters come back next day to give it back.

Comrade Cheng said: "China has become honest again."

DETERMINED not happy

B formed they have showhere

Didn't Work

In 1952, when imports

THE FATHER Beams down

an behind the grey granite rocketed to nearly A£1,053,423,- walls of the foreign embassies.000 while experts sarged to just They are in uniform-

It is all very diplomatic and over A £675,008,000, Premier Menzies slashed some imports by who is not in Peking? OMRADE CHENG pointed to

dull... skaters who were gliding

80 percent and others by 40 per- either the mass-produced (or staggering) round a fenced- I only feel she did not give Even cocktail parties must be blue that is all a civilian can off rink

quite enough credit to the staged like a veto session in the cent, with the overall effect that imported "luxury" goods virbial- buy or the pale grey-green "The emperors used to sail fike, and more numerous, than

police. They are more business-Security Council

Are the British in favour to-ly disappeared from the market, of the People's Liberation there in pleasure boats," she any I have ever seen.

day? My dear, we must aot

The country rankle under the Menzies relented, Army.

have the Dutch Minister next restrictions.

and loosened Imports, hoying to the Indonesiansi That

and foreign bank manager is so that the law of supply in blue jacket

charming, but he cannot most demand would set things right, any of the Chinese Treasury It didn't. Department. They have bought Whereas, under the restric- THE Emperor of China portrait of the latest in the long

line of succession.

DUT if the Chinese tre re-him out this week

tions, exports led imports by a once passed here in a Pudgy Mao Tse-tung, wart on

There is seldom need to healthy A£330 million in 1952-3 procession. Honoured slaves chin, beamed benignly down lost their sense of fum. An un- worry. Even the most neutralist 63, things had gone far out carried his gilded palanquin. from usual propaganda familiar dreariness

to party soon splits along ideologi-whack again by last week.

Figures for February The self-appointed have settled on their sagging cal lines. The astute host nat hoarding. Imperial guards", in lac-

urally father of a land where fathers, shoulders,

keeps

the Australian several the months of open quered armour: and

mall are worshipped as gods.

street CTOWGS look rooms. Within a few minutes sumraer when a surplus is usual- of a daring in rustling silk Sul, it is not all tradition, determined rather than happy.

dezenly piled up to meet the lean days have fissioned into ap- of winter when there is nothing surrounded the sacred Peking, is having a face-lift, They queue meekly for rations

groups. Politely to sell-showed a deficit of Shops and pagodas are being in the State shops. They jostle propriate presence. -All that has

torn down to build a triumphal sadly through the great bazzar, bowing, scrupulously, avolding than A£1,5 million against gone.

way through the centre of the unable to haggle now that each their contaminating rivals. surplus for the same month last

The cars drive up.. The year of nearly A£2.5 million. Young soldiers fresh from city. New hotels and offices are price is plainly marked. Korea posed for their picture shooting up.

guests depart. The host hur nutside the circular temple A wasteland outside the

riedly checks his whisky and where the emperor invoked the western wall is being dotted ductions: "Women Locomotive cables for more from Hongkong.

gid of heaven.

A party of model workers from SOMAWİNTE near the Tibetan border gawked,

Comrade Cheng obviously ap proved She stood squarely into the wind, pigtails flying, nodding knowingly up at the Immortal blue-tiled roof. Very beaizti- ful," she said, proud of China's proud past, "but bulls on the misery of the workers,”

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The little comrade has been

the

The

seems

Cinemas are doing well des pite the dreary propaganda pro-

Dare You Cast Your Clos?

T

By

CHAPMAN PINCHER

wear without being

of

more

Since last July, the total de- felt has reached A £175 million.

But exports are also rising-- though slightly and the new belt-lightening, severe, but not quite so severe as the one which followed the 1952 crisis, should turn the trick. S

Non-essential imports are to be cut by a third, essential, pro- ducts by 18 to 26 percent

For six months, few people are likely to feel the pull

More Trouble

But if restrictions must go on after that, there may well be trouble. Cuts in raw materials imports will mean dislocation de and probably memployment, in

The cuts in luxury some areas.

goods wil leave many Australiana with money to bid

THE early spring warn- one and a half clos colder be man can

"Don't cast a

cause you also deprive yourself almost completely immobilised grudgingly supplied to show me clout till May is out" has the Inger of warm air which supplies him with about six clor, was trapped between your This is the amount of protec round the city. She is small, been streamlined by the clothing and your skin..

tion you get from your blankets sweet-smiling, and surprisingly scientists.

and elderdown on a cold winter Even when fully stripped you night. pretty despite a conscious "Don't cast half a clo till are not cle-less because your Experts point out that there. attempt to look proletarian:

No time to waste on haie-dos May is out" is much more skin provides you with some, or make-up. No modey to tritter | precise, they argue, the

is nothing like a shivery climate for stimulating people to work

Civilisations have perished money to burn away on suits or dresses clo" being the scientists just published by two tem in the past when climate and up' prices stand set-inflation:

Just a plain, polished face, yardstick for measuring the pertime experts, Professor Alan Pigtails And the same blue jacket and trousers as the men.

NEW

PAINT

in People's Park

This cio lore is revealed in a Arst-rate scientific manual❤

the

And them the frouble is likely

warming power of clothing. Burton of the University of conditions of life became too ro

Most Britons wear about one Western Ontario, and. De Otto' conducive to lazing arouul. to start all over again, an endea

The centres

of what

the and a third clos when indoors, Edholm of Britain's National scientists call "high national less vicious circle with only one

have tended

to, move way out more men on the during winter. When men start Institute for Medical Researched shedding woolly pants and put

It is mainly the result of ex- further and further Hortize them, anore desert reclaimed,

more jungle tamed, on light suite in spring they die periments carried out to devise Then will

dominate the

And where do you And the whisked us next to People's women who

the troops, dety

not Park. The name is not um-weather to wear summery The scientists found that the Arctic climate is so exacting Australia bay common in Communist China, rocks have only about half a maximum amount of clothing a that the Eskimos will always grease where everything must be made clo left only

Mamal have to spend almost all their LOBODY", to appear the property of the

**Han- in a Cold, Enstromanes, time coping with the elementary people,

Det mnd take it all of you will be" (Arnoldy a08).

needs of life,

HV Detroit-styledSoviet car! pense with about half a clo, better cold-climate clothing for mental MAKA

If you are wearing one cle

The

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simply", "pro-

annagrarian angsindustrial

without