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Eden arrived looking confident- Ah.that's bad

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1955.

Faure and Rnay came happy and registering, unity. Very suspicious. Carf

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IKE here at last a bit sad-looking Good! Means satellite policy practically decided. Or

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LOW'S SUMMIT SKETCHBOOK

Of course it all depends. on the Conference before the Conference

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

The Art Of Doing Nothing

By JOHN CULMER

Madrid.

NOWHERE in the Western world can the gentle art of

doing absolutely nothing have been refined to the perfection it has reached in Spain, whore, idleness, 19 distinct from mere luziness, is practised with a skill and devotion which elsewhere would be reserved for some all- absorbing hobby. Idleness in Spain, in fact; is an art indulged in with a persistence which in any more activo occupation would inevitably be called zest.

The Spaniard, is content to relax, and go on relaxing, for hours on end. He will sit at a enfe table, and, having long since consumed his single cup of coffee, will remain there until closing ilme, which will be two or three in the morning, neither talking nor reading nor writing, but savouring each passing minute with the relish of a connoiseur.

To have nothing whatever to do is a luxury every Spaniard can afford, and he induiges his taste for Idleness with a singleness of purpose which, to the average active foreigner, is maddeningly Incomprehensible.

The Spaniard will tell you that he has all eternity before him; that it is a fine night, and that there can be no possible object In exhausting himself over the mundane details of daily existence.

It's a mistake

But it is a mistake to think that he likes sold, and he

for the average Spantord is the most sociable being in the takes an interest in the doings of his neighbours which many a visitor would describe as idle curiosity. He looks at every passer- by with the same keen attention, whether it be an eye-Alling senorita, a muid carrying a block of ice in a buckest, a postinan, a messenger boy or a gypsy.

scene.

But the fact that leisure

To each he gives the same appraising glanco, the same eye for detail, and he obviously missen no single facet of the passing

is prized in Spain as

elsewhere men prize precious possessions is perhaps most clecrly demen- strated by the way in which

Rings for her fingers

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IT

HAPPEN

I

T was one of those nights when you have such a lot to do that the only way

to do it is by calling up 11 car from a hire company (if you have not got one of your own). So I called up Bort from the restaurant I was dining at, and Bert duly made his appearance.

It wasn't Bert himself, it Was Alf, one of his cm- ployees. I hadn't seen him before. He had a pleasant face.

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CONTARANMAANDEN OLZ ORZANY MELTER SED JEZNÉZARZY

"Good evening, sir,” sald friendlily, opening of the rear doors.

he

one

"We turns from the foyer

through

do it, sɔ what else can I do?

"So I gets out of

the car too, and rushes after her, and after a bit of a run i catches up with her....

"Then suddenly slic throws

"Hero, take It!' she shouts. with So we gets to Pulnoy Common, Ant she opens the car deor, and

and I steps the car, aid I takes

turns round to her.

hs we

drive от towards heart she is, and I don't feel into the part where the tele- Putney Common. Take my wind none too good myself. phone is, then suddenly he for it, I don't like the job I've tums to me: 'Listen, mate!' he got to de, not one bit. But I've "I'll sit in front, if

You says. I can't go through with. taken the money and agreed to the ring ct me. don't mind," I said. I like just can't!'

Can't

go talking to drivers. And I like

What?

I asks. stretching my legs.

"He takes a ring out of his the ring out of my pocket, and runs away into the common, like waistcoat pocket. "Not at all, sir. Make- Listenho yourself at home." I made says. It's another I'm myself at home. "It's a long woman. time since I picked anyone crazy about her! I can't live with. up at that restaurant," he

thesi I'm remarked. "A bit out of the

a tark going mad he saya. way, like."

girl "Yes, it's

not very well Here! That

In your CFL known," I admitted.

too good "That's why I remember for mo. Wo

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sho's

by Louis Golding

| QUIS GOLDINGS flair for dia

focus has been demonstrated in about 50 books, and sale story true or falsamči no "uxepiler.

Magnolia Street (193)) put him on the map of British fletion, and the fire-volume, millian-word song of Fixie Silver finished fast year) has helped to keep him there.

In his 60th year this Manchester- bora Bachelor is entirely at home fa London, which he probably knows better than some taxi detrars.

a mad thing. Honestly, I'm afraid she's going to do an in- jury to herself. So I gols out of after the car, too, and rushts her, and after a bit of a run I eviches up with her.

"You mustn't carry on like that!' I says

to her, severely. 'No man's worth all them tears, miss. Beileve me, he ain't."

want to add: 'Least of all that one!' but I manage to hold my tongue. 'What number Elm Tree Villas do you live, miss? Come along. It's gelling late want to get you there."

"Then she starts crying su miscrable I can't hardly stand

it. Yes. Two years to a was going off to have a nice little drink o her flat, In Putney she lives, Elm Tree Really?" I said.

Villas. Drive her as far as "It's another small gentle. Putney Jommon, and when you min I was

give her this here driving." He get there,

miss, 1 says it. looked at me sideways. "But back what she gave me. I feel as if I've got a lump of

It's not the ring she's expect- vid rag in my throat, rather better dressed, like." ing, of course,"

"'Yes?" she asks. *What is ***Of course,' I says. 'She's it' expecting an engagement ring."

'Beau Brummell'

"Yes, of course."

be no Beau Brummell.

"Excuse me,

I

Left alone

in

"I've got a message to give moans. I claim to ing his

""That's right," he says, tear you,' I says.

hair. Looked to me pretty boomy, he did. I can't ""A message? Who What would you have done, go through with it, not any sha asics. I can almost hear her up all so nice for him, with all sir? Wouldn't you have tone how." He was starting to rush heart start thumping

had

"I can't go back home!' she 'I can't go back home! be so lonely there! Some- thing dreadful will happen trom? that place if I go back! I got it ewey those now gramophone records And and flowers in the vanes! now he treats me like this. 1 want to dici I want to dier

the same

I waited. off towards as me?

book deor, when inside her, back of her ribs. He obviously

n story to suddenly he turns to me again. toll, and was going to tell it.

'Make scene exause!' 310 says. "I was working for Bill's say something horribly urgent's Car Hire Service then, and we

to pick up a lady Tell her 111 be along later. cropped up on the telephone. got a call and gentleman at that

Don't tell her the truth you wo've restaurant what

just left. So I goes along and sends get to Putney Common! Then a message In to day I'm there. he scap-fied, Napoo. He'd comes out looking girl she was,

A fow minutes later bloke gorn;

Not worth it

"Then I tell her,.

*Your gentleman friend, I

"And then a wonderful idea comes to me. The idea's fled up with my wife, Emma, pour d'ear Emma, what was lying so and miserable we didn't

I stood there scratching says. "He says he can't go on pact her to last more than

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my head ammute or two with it. He saợn he's not good, few months. There she was, was. Lovely. What should I do? I asked my enough for you. So he asked me left alone most of the day, sead So I open the door for them. Boit.

de exactly what he to give you back this rằng, wot there was nothing poor dear told me, I said. It wasn't only and they both gets in,

the quid. It was, that girl, too, you give him,' And I hands the Emma liked so much to a drop Then mickleniy tho

Worshipped him

of stout and a bit of company.

come

+ bloke I'd only just had half a stimpse: ring over to her. up and says: Excuse me of her, but she seemed far too. dacling. I forgo to make that nice a girl for the likes of him,

"So I says to this häre girl, X "For a few minutes, she's like anys: Excuse me, miss My Ura trunk call to Cork. Will jumping up and down the place somebody dead. She doesn't say poor wife, Emma, she's very you wait here for me? So he like a jack-in-the-box. goes to, and we walls. Tea

one word. She ate there with poorly. So I've had an idea. minutes later he comes out in

great big staring byes, and her along and get to low

Perhaps you'd like to

comes running up agros state of excitement and

my face as "widto, as chalk. to the car,

and make a chanke for bet another couple ..of

Ike. It's not a plando for you "I don't driva ori. cheling bo

I hadn't mind, but it means you don't minutes,

"So I goes out and takes my been given the full address, you have to back to them rooms Then he turns to me. *Picson, sest in the car, and obeys my come in and give me a bit of briters. I tell for must an urgent know. So I walt little time, of yours hot Lil you're foci- a. hard, will you, mato? I has Job's called him away, and then then, soft as I know how, I malica ing all right, mise: Well have no idea what it can be about drives on. From the way she her: Where to, Mis? Then a drop of something and we'll Perhaps he wants me to take awallows the yarn, hook, ne suddenly "she's crying, crying, make it analer for, yous What do Low yarns, and it might down the name of a few and anker, you ok so the wike a small baby, what shit, mew you think, miss?” mo Honor or something. So "Yes, worshipe the Bloke; in-bar eru

says.

I says, and we goes back into the withdrisna sarampon why in that mon 1 don't get to this - mgren, to cut a long sto

day, Crying fit?" „to break'you' shoes, :, she,“ ornag along.

Spanish businessman, if you call to see him at his office, is elaborately careful to give the impression that he really kas nothing to 410mor nt least nothing more important than devoting the entire morning to

often thought it was very trust-a pleasant chat.

ful of her ilke, to come along this attitude is

It may be, of course, with a strange driver what she from the ele aristocratie

a carry-over

didn't know to a strange house from

that

no

Relaxed

that

Idea the

what she didn't have the least at work was meant for

of society, and idea where it was. It just shows lower orders

It was how miserable she was.

"gentleman" could either that or the gas-oven. But indulge in any other occupations the missis liked her, and she but love, war and hunting. liked the missis. Getting

to know each other helped them both no end. You know how it is?" He paused. "Helping some body out with their worries, helps you out with your own Don't it, guv'nor?"

"Yes I agreed. "How right that is!"

"Oh, by the way," he said, He was fumbling about for

in his

waistcoat something pocket. "My poor missis died last year. Thank God, it was a nice quiet ending,”

"I'm so glad," I murmurel.

"Ah, here it is!" He had found the thing he had been searching fer. It was a ring, on engagement ring.

"It's for her," he said. "I'm going to give it to her tonight. I hope she won't throw one in my face! Do you think she will, guv'nor?"

this

But I don't think he had any real doubts on the matter,

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DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

YES

NO

Put your fick in the space abova paď keep this panal by you until tomorrow ・・・ when the answer will be given-with another story in this sarles by

Robert MacDermot

● Dla yesterday's sorg--Te School In Germany, by Støvle Smith—-actually

happen? The answer bat NO.

the

of

It 14 arguable that Spaniard, alone among Western- ers, has preserved the art leisure-not the leisure of other Europeans or of the American, which is apt to be as strenuous as the most demanding of fall- time occupations, but the leisure complete relaxation, which i the leisure, in fact, which may be the one reason why he not subject to the complexes, Inhibitions, and nervous dis- orders which beset so many of his fellow men.

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