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POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER.

GUDAY

"JRQUEATS

KALDIMAR

MINISTIC

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"Why, Isn't that nice, Mr. Filcbrace?

"-Men may come and

men may go, but I go an forever!**

PARADE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1955.

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

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POOR OLD It has been said table omission-no prevision had TWAIN Chinese

Britain's ex-MEET that the measure of been made for PAPA

nation's" degree pectant fathers. of civilisation is the manner in which it looks after its weak and :its womenfolk.

With a national health service:

second to none In the world.

Britons have been able to feel, That civilised folks they rate pretty high.

statis

Nowhere else, tor instance, is so much care and attention lavished on: the mother-to-be regardless of her means or social But this week someone dis, covered a major flaw in this otherwise happy picture,

Stanicy Coleman drew the attention of the nation's women public health officers to a regret

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The doctor did not say so in as many words, but he definite ly left the impression that as a race expectant fathers were an it-informed, erratic, neurotic. panicky lot and that it was high time something was done about them.

Reds are what Celler had just been say reading Mark Twain, ing.

annorunced Twain, culture officials, Was a near- favourite amoza 130 books of American contemporary and classical writers issued in China in the last few years.

The others: Theodore Dreiser, Jack London, Walt Whitmany Longfellow, Howard Fast and

Albert Maltz.

He categorised them in, classes ranging from the sort who can't" On to the bookställs went 500 stand the strain and have to new titles by modern and classi and consolation in beer and cal authors new 12-volume sympathetic male companionship series of Shakespeare, books by to the type who attend wives Dickens, Milton, Fielding, Hardy, with a sickening uxoricusness Byron Shelley and Bernard

a confounded Shaw and just make ruisance of themselves.

And Hans Andersen's fairy

it dane?" How is the chairman. Said Spindel: "?"- tell you in private session

LIQUOR The Cornish - River RIVER

Bleu flowed hard liquor last week - and it was just bit too strong for the fish and the swans to stomach. Through ten alcoholic days 35,000 gallons of mead-a strong brew made from honey into the small was poured river. The brew had gone bad the read-makers had an

"gone broke. -

As customs officers watched to see ALL the brew went down the river, sixty rats of the drink-favourite night-cap of the ancient FUTURE

emptied, one by one, STRETCH

The doctor, who is medical tales, 'officer for East Ham, urged that local health officers should take upon themselves the onerous Lark." of providing ante-natal instruction for expectant fathers,

Rubber, enthusias- tically announced thea magazine Planter, has a big future in movies. Rubber had already FRIENDSHIP It was the first played the parts cd: A mer-

anything maid's tall "Miranda, FOREST

like it had ever whale "Moby Dick."

time

a

happened. The Union Jack few But that wasn't all. "Rubber,"

Britons-wera

Divorce as usual

in A-bomb town

THE MAN IN THE THICK

LEAD SUIT "By Daniel Lang. Céllanex, 131, 6d, 207 pages.

OMETIMES in early morning momentsat Las Vegas a brilliance many times brighter than the sun obliterates for second the pageant of the Nevada dawn. Far from being alarmed or awe-struck. by this phenomenon any Las Vegans who may be awake consult their watches and at a leisured pace go to open doors and windows.

But the River Bleu wasn't dilute a big enough river to

In Just seven minutes, the the mead much. The trout, for atomic shock wave will arrive which the river was noted, have and If windows and doors are dived deep and disappeared. I open less glass will be shattered, So have the other fish, except less woodwork split, for a few tiddly tiddlers.

Proving station

on the Galilean hillside outside

the magazine,

official the music at said Nazareth And

the Incorporated

For thier own good ducks God Save the Queen echoed journal of

the river between the crags as thousands Society of Planters, "can appear have been kept to like living flesh, which makes banks ever since & Israells--many originally from Britain stood to attention. it very teful er al make-up, sean zangging his way hap-much since the

"Rubber deceives the eye

pily down to the sea, They had come in bitterly help stretch the imagination." cold rain from country

all over the

plant pine and

forest of a quarter of a

contributed by WONDER million trees

Cyprus sapling, the sucleus of WIRE-TAP

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ACROSS

1 Safe (8)..

4 Month (5).

7.Hing around (6).

8 Get up (5).

10 Successfulstroke (4).

12 Take the chair (7).

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25 Sword (5).

18 Detail (4).

to form (4).

18 Join (5).

20 Swell (7)

21 Ireland (4).

23 Precipitous (5)..

24 Hurry (6).

25 Divert (5),

28 Interfere (6).

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1 Chose (8).

DOWN

2 Muddies (8).

3. Regretted (4).

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(E).

2 Hanger-on (B).

9 Tendency (5).

11 Leopards (8),

12 Dried plum (5).

13 Repeated (8).

14 Fame (8).

18 Prey (8).

21 Wise (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across:

3

Molasses, 8

Esteem, 9 Regiment, 11 Attained: 12 Idol, 13 Debut, 18 Dosed, 19 Ague, 72 Headline, 24 Dislodge, 25 Erects, 26 Needless. Down: 1 Debar, 2 State, 3 Merited, 4 Omen. 5 Avid, 6 Steady, 7 Settle, 10 Genus, 14 Bored, 15 Tenders, 18 Harden, 17 Pursue, 20 Ditch, 21 Terse, 22 Howl, 23 Ages.

Private deactive

Bernard Spinici, a heavily built

swan was

Las Vegas has learned that Brat ugly, rumour arrived in 1950 that the United States Goverment was about to establish a proving station for nuclear weapons at have Yuces Flat near by..

ANCIENT Scientists

proof that incient SURGERY

Britons

Until that moment, Las Vegas

developed had looked forward with on

by

· LAS VEGAS believed the nearby atom tests would frighten off their profitable. stream of would-be divorcees. Instead, the big bangs brought on a boom

SAN

NEW

BOOK

REVIEW

GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSONI

*

executive director of Oak Ridge Trstu af Nuclear Studies, Tennessee, is ordained deacon in the Episcopal Church-and winces at the suggestion that troubled conscience had some part in his spiritual evolution.

The tacklest man in

is the mute who; "finding two mineralised trees in which uranium had replaced the vegetable tissues, neted a quar- ter

of a million dollars Ad the unluckiest woman?

Consider the plight of Mrs W. R. Grace [of a wealthy shipping family) whose 7,000- acre hunting preservat acquired for an H-bomb site.

homb

hasn't only surprise,

After one of them a incal store" "The hydrogen cut out a barrel of broken been the glass-Atomie bomb souvenirs last winter we had one of our free. That was in the early coldest snaps and the camellias went. And in New York, the days.

Ritz-Cärken's come down." The touris business has been Mrs Grace is taking the swelled by hordes drawn to the lown by macabre curiosity. Ona. atomic age right on the shin. Indy visitor bought two shirts

a haberdashery shop heir 100ms

ns for her grandsons from Las Vegas before i

wiped

and the Colonies to young man with a paurea, has surgery to a high degree rearyadence to a future of growing of the face of the earth. The WALTERS COTT.: Byn

the Jews C six British Do- ELinions commemorate the coronation of "Queen Elizabeth": G

As in

mand

Ha

prosperity as a divorce resort that was beginning to challenge Reno and as a gambling capital that was drawing the big-money movie players.

town'a

divorce public has stayed 'faith- Hesketh Puar's one ful. And the worst disaster in gaming industry followed on

Methuen. 21s.. 295 pages. atomic flash after which the pot In a crap game was found to be short by 20 dollars.

fooled his critics by showing 1500 years ago. The left leg how he could tap a telephone, bone of a Saxon man who lived while it still erted in beween 500 and 700 A.D. fube This moving occasion seemed cradle, which people said could at Grimston recently shows at had been fractured and mended. to bring Estale and Israel closer not be done.

Walter Scott hell-ben Thirty-three-year-old Spindel as well as modern surgeons

precise and, methodical, i- together than they have ever been before. Many wept.

stead of being careless ‘and pro- new type of "private could manage it.

Notices outside the

uttered their message After the third series of ex fuse, he would have been one man from Manchester, who eyes who have not been popu-

chapels Thers like Ray- Said Dr C. P. B. Wells;

ringinns Las Vegas began to feel typical Edinburgh lawyer. For of hope to the unensily wed: is now in business in Tel-Aviv larised by

Chandler.

is an has a most skilfully mended Organ Music - Flowers --

casual about the atomic age. he loved whisky, field sports, said: "Because I'm both proad

and

calls fracture which could only have Fhotographs Immediately! Complaints that the shocks were good talk, money. He respected be in Israel and homesick for electronics

himself the

Wolf Wire- been performed - under

A while

whatę, non-stop air service not up to expectation led one old tiles, although on the a the country ct my birth"

He is probably Ameri- atacsthetic."

brought the tapper."

10,000 dollar Asherman to telephone a con- he preferred" low company. Britain's Ambassador to

ca's leading expert in his line.

down from Los soling message to the Atomic anaesthetic? Either a The

He was a mob in an age. Isach, John Nicolls, read. out. He was called in to help a

Energy Commission: "The shock

a spob was wave came in nice and strong when not to be the greeting from the Queen Congressional judiciary com- strong fose of mead or rome

almost an affvetation. If he looked make up its mind kind of narcotic made from

at Lake Mead.". "The devotion of my Jewish mitice to

up to the Duke of Buccleuch as subjects to the Crown is only atcut now bills which

would plants.

"It annoys me." says a local head of his clan and to Viscount matched by their devotion to outlaw wire-tapping as an in-

divorce lawyer, "to read that Melville as the arch-dispenser the faith of their forefathers. varish of privacy-even when

the world is living with the A- of jobs and favours in Scotland, bomb. Damn it it's not the his closest friend was an ex- world' It's Las Vegas."

poacher, Tom Purdie.

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gamblers Angeles.

Chill shadow

The prospect of the atomic May this forest curish as a used to trap aples, traitors and COMES THE They call it a proving station cast a chilling symbol of the friendship wile kidnappers.

daxeke and they shadow over all this scene. The links my peoples with the.

DAXEKE York office,

believe it will tourists would be frightened off. From his New peoples of Israel"

business Would go It is a pardonable inistake in But he was not businesslike, Spindel preduced an impressive make a good house-dog. It is a Divorce

Im while loving to spend money, a duchshund elsewhere me croupiers feared Las Vegas. But the chief atzay of recorders and migro, cross between

the- pelinesc more cuddly that

balls might pression carried away by the he hated managing it. Had he phones. *****

7and

the bounce

characteristic one reader of Daniel Lang's engaging possessed and stronger than the former

number Committee chairman, Con- than the peke...

the Scottish ·~·legal into another at the industrious book is that of the virtues of atornic blast. Eman Emanuel Celler got

Notices were widely stretching and highly mind as well as Its tastes, Scott The breeders are Mr and Mrs posted announcing that, in such various

consequences of the would never have been the most his Arst surprise when Spindel

event, the ruling of the atomic age.

successful, author of his age." told him he had just tapped the W. H. Armitage of the Bellan

Warhouse would be final.

and be would never have telephone at his elbow. Celler Inn, Shipsion-on-Stour,

ruined had not used it. But Spindel wickshire, and they believe the presed a bultor and the Com- daxeke combines the best fea-out, mitteo heard a play-back, ofres of both breeds.

Then Nicolls addock "Friend- ships bice trees may grow slow ly or quickly, but the hardest and most durable timber conces from the slowest growing tree." And everyone cheered.

One section of the forest will be anmed after the Duke of Edinburgh, another after Prince Charles, and a third after Pris olas Ånce,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE SUGGESTION THAT THE DEAD' CIGARĪ BUTT

- BE SACRIFICED. FOR THE SAKE

OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

CONE WAY TO TELL IF A

STORY WILL GO OVER

IS TO TELL M

INSIST YOU STAY FOR DINNER /.

WE CAN ALWAYS

WHIP UP

SOME- THING.

WE

If Looks Could Kill

IT IS DISCOURAGING WHEN YOU TRY TO BE FRIENDLY TO GET

NOTHING BUT SNIFFS AND A

LETHAL LOOK.

COMEL 1961 BY GENERAL FEATURES: GOLF, FAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

But as things have turned The big bang at. Yucco Flat is Las Vegas has taken heard at Kalispell, Montana, nucleat detonations in its stride. 1,000 miles away. Dr Pollard,

BY HARRY

WEINERT

IT WAS HER GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER'S

· CHAIR UNTIL HE SAT ON IT.

OF COURSE KNOW WHAT.

"ANOTHER BUTTON

MISSING WHAT DO YOU

DO AROUND

HERE

"ALE DAY

TAKE ANYTHING YOU LIKE, THATS

SEE HOW HE GOTEM !

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Unmanly

He was the Great Unknown; as he is today the Great Unread. While he lived it was a breach" of good manners for a visitor to 470 Scotland to refer openly to "Scot's novels." ~ Scott seems to have thought that writing novels unlike writing poetry--- was lightly unmanly and more than a little ungentlemanly,

Besides it came so easily." While he fahed or sat in his cosy litle sinecure in the Par Hament House of Edinburgh, where all he did was sign hils name which, as he pointed out, was short-for £1,800 a year of Tory

government money, he was creating tho characters appear in his books.

The process of invention went on almost automatically. To make money like that was almost to obtain it by 'false pre- tences. With a gem Scot tempt for his own work,” said: "I don't care a'curse whit

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I write or what becomes of 152

Once an old school confessed that he had claimed to be the author of a Waverley novel, and offered the only suit- able reparation duel. Scott said: "Claim the lot if you like... friend never spoke to him. Fis

after that

If he was secretive about his ZEA outhership, he was even more. furtive over another fact:" he was the hidden partner of his printers. He backed their credit with his own. They provided cash which be used to make himself a lended gentleman..

Went bankrupt

He bought a property on the banks of the Tweed with pleasant little house. It called Clarty (Le) dirty) He tore down the little house and bullt himself a vast bogis castle; the Laira of Chatty. became

the Baronet of

ford entoval

He

mously pouring The project undl 1925 there was

on the London business associates, been imprudent, we bankrupt, Scott En full

116,000

̈ed of

the many thi Today it is not Ses

of broad

opinions"

Boule peas

from the