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NATHANIEL

The

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1955.

GUBBINS

which they

at their blamed for everything, whether

endled it is reapanalble or not,

magistrate said Mr 11:reepenco to look Tis in July that people Heo queer things, say Cordiner was annoyed bocnuse museums,

Mr Piper wins not observing the grottoo. queer things, do queer universal rule of the sea which

when things, and

Their collection normally in queer says that steum must give way

cluded match-boxes, cigarette things happen.

to call,

carda, marbles, tickilers in mid- battles, broken pentives, Jam At one time the dog days Even though July in

the crazy ins full of stones, conkers, never passed without some winter in Austraila,

mouth scenis to have much the prd weeds in flower pots, body seeing a sea serpent, same influence

people. It i though everybody but the reported that Mr Casey, Austra- most credulous ass knew the lan Minister of External Affairs, serpent was a shoal of por-spending his holidays shooting

agles from his private nireraf. poises.

I was in July that otherwinc trulbul Scotsmen always saw the Loch Ness monster, WEN

This

an

As August is sometimes Ven madder month than July we shall live to see perhaps grouse shot up by a squadron of the thirstier in the hot weather bus Glorious Twelfth

was good because the monster

because they were-flying warplanes

for the summer tourist trade,

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It we in July some years ago bishop American th.nt jumped into a sewer and roared through a musshole.

THON

The next week he jumped into a diving suit and attempted to brondew:

appent for 631 Chris.ian way of life through a microphone in his belnet when 48 fathoms deep,

its grandmother had

with

Memories of his sub-conscious mind go back so far that it is able not only to recollect the injustices it Intiver suffered at the hands of its mother, but also the Life Its with

every round. granny winning The question remaining is Why are brides hardly ever would my enterprising hobby nervous at weddings? It is be- also have sub.. be muccessful with my new cir- cause they cio of elderly chums, even if I conscious memories, particularly included additional attraction the one about their grand- like milk bottle tops, foreign mothers winning every cheese labels, and potatoos with with their grandfathers.

Would they pay funny fees? threepence to see a jam jar full of stones, or ticklers in bottles, or weeds in flower pots when they were expecting a whisky

3d. For The Grotto and son all round?

霄

am inclined to think that alter one visit by the furious Ume when magenariuna they would cut me dead next time we met in our invalid chairs, and I would

THERE

was

ir

I wondered what I might do

liver 1

A great to

**1#C、

no threepences to add to my

• Fellaste pension.

round

That is why even the plaincat is vrien described as bride radiant. She is certain of vic- lory in all the battles to come.

As the vicar objects to the in his church smell of Mcohol

might be better to treat a a surgical opera- harriage like tion. Extremely nervous bride- reons could be given a deep

carried uncon selcus to the church, and wake up on the honeymoon,

I always hoped would do be left alone with my grotto and anestholle, be 10

nothing at all, but sit in the sen or dream by the fire teking les abon my youth to anybody who would sten.

So far the nearest thing we Ure sve od tra serpent is burrowing hose-pipe in a Call- for man æden, though there is plenty of time yet for somebody to see a serpent from the bar at the end of a seaside pier,

All the bum, we Ar but doing so badly this July.

Ay

Why Bridegrooms Drink

But the doctors of today have They are solved my problem, against illetiers for did people, They are crazy about geriatries THE Rev. (the selence of prolonging the

Kenneth Harper, vicar of Brumptum, Cumber- as they has been complaining about of active 190)

baving a drini to were once prazy about hooking bridegrooms

Tves before the Your lotxills, pulling out s'eady their

teeth, and carving out wedding ceremony. or apprx.

vinir

"After two or three weddings the place snelis my church 1ke a brewery." he told a TX-

--Harley Street Doctor,** who bug so much time on his hurls that he is always writing for the papers, bae offered me porter,

in wirte choles of occupations. Brtush

hu

There is a Mr Namulakaner Marshu Anjarin, of Bangalore, who bebeves that, from a scere,

Dr Gubbins, the Fleet Street base in England, ther

Among other This caychiatrist, Writest Government is forushing power –

take up are rug-making or cars 01 waves ful supersome

1.'W Sh., nervous people afraid of leanas A,

ai praley, Jungs

to drink more www life

are likely of Prices

than cocky self-confident people. On the brink of matrimony even The most brazen, insensitive mon becomes

liver.

kidneys with the icle drawing the vitamins from his hobbler. Ekdy and ruling his health.

You might ask why

should

"כד

Cu

by taking

✩

rvous.

That is why the Government go to so much

As 1 don't fancy myself in most men need a drink before trouble and expense to destroy

unknown inside? K maker and as I would only the handcuffs are mapped on. hather.o

The son for I can think chop my shaking old fingers to

the nervous The only answer

bits at carpentry it looks as if

Base as FOTR a new condition is that while the con- forward in koks circle of

new scious mind friends with

happiness In marriage, the sub- hobbies.

with memories It is often said that when we means mind,

the адея. are very uld we become as little go back through

of is that a Government cup-

ble of

framed calling up scientista to peel potatoes in the Army while

exempting waiters who serve potatoes in luxury Liners 18 capable of anything.

(World Commright.)

Wife Sold

On The

AFTER THE SUMMIT, THE BASE

Never-Never THE LITTLE

From JAMES COOPER

New York. TOR SELLING his wife T to another man for $550 $10 down and $10 a week - 21-year-old Jacques Courville goes to guol for three months at Fall River,

Massachusetts.

W

HEN I was a very small child my father was given his first living—

an isolated parish in Sussex. The little village clustered round the rectory and the remains of an old castle. At Was EL very all times it isolated village, quite a walk to the next one, and for some reason there was not The much fraternisation.

Asked why she agreed to be sul, 18-year-old Elizabeth said: 'Because I loved my husband and he told me to.

MIDDLE AGE begins al 26,

people should exercise more-- 16 stention of wearing rompers thing is a delusion.

Drawing on its or buying myself a rattle i think

vast store- says Dr Thomas Curejon jun.. Mr Cordner, aged 35, who was my hobby inlight take the form house of knowledge, the sub-of the University of Illinois. fined £5 for assaulting a Mt of collecting the sort of things conserus mind of a man knows Piper, another grown-up chap, little boys coflex, set up a sinalt that two people cannot live long d because Mr Cordiner's toy yacht museum and invite my new together without argument and

down by

Mr Piper's Chum to inspect it.

that the arguments will always mechanically propelled toy boat

time business-like be the same about the same una Clapham Common pond. Hitle boys used to charge people things, It ako knows it will be

children again. Although I have krews darn well that the whole poi at 40, and middle-aged | village, in fact, kept itself to

Then there was the case of a

was run

A1

354"

Would your watch have kept time on the sea-bed?

WEARING & Rolex flester Perpetual, a professor of Milan University went for a swim oft Capri, But the strap-bu. he was loose, and his watch broke from his wrist, and sank to the bottom. Without much hope, the profervor asked some divers, working nearby, to keep an eye open for his watch. Surprisingly, seven days later, they actually found it, and it was still keeping perfect time.

ditie. For this superb watch, cumpletely protected from water and sand by the famous wit- terproof case, is automatically wound by the Perpetual "rotor" mechanis:n--

It is not really say

another Rolex invention.

It is in their abuity to stay accurate under such incredible tests of endurance that Rolex watches prove their immunity from the more normal ills that beset an ordinary watch.

This Rolex Oyster Perpetual is similar to the one in the story. Permanently waterproof in Ita Öyster Case, it i given perfect accuracy by the Perpetual selfinding "rotor?" The Rolex Red Seal. identifier every Rolex chronometer.

After seven days beneath the sea, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, brought up by deers, wa found to be still showing the right time! (The original lester of Professor Casolo can be inspected at the Rolex officer, 18 rue du Morche, Gineva.J

ROLEX

A landmark in the history of Time Medenzament

BOLEX Chronometer- Official Timepiece of Panagra Airlines

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ten most

д

itself.

My memory is not very NE of America's

clear about the house or the I can remem- men, 56-year-old countryside. Patrick Eugene McDermott, ber the shape of the rooms,

escaped from murderer who

and my cot at the end of my good ten months ago, was found in New York working as a hos-parents' bed. pital ambulance attendant, a job that meant riding with a police. man every day.

For 'me it was not the house, nor the countryside that remains vivid, but the

DOUBLE TIPPING is back in garden. I suppose if I were

New York. Trans-Atlantic

it now it would ap- passengers are expected to tip to nee

pear quite a sinal garden. first the docker who takes their Juggage from the

lhi pier

but in those days it seemed pavement, then the porter who

enormous, Walking in it puls In taxi.

alone a great adventure.

It is an imposition which the shipping companies tried to stop by banning the porters. Now they are back, defying the ban, and the companies hesitate to prosecute. They fear being sod for false arrest as the pavement is public property and they pay no rent.

is here:

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Untrodden paths

by

Noel Streatfelld

H

WHEN the was born, Noel Streatfoild's father curate to his father at Frunt In Sussex, He went on to become Bishop of Lawes, while his daughter rose via RADA to the stages of several continents- acting, she recoils, in The Insect young man Play, oppasite a called Gielgud. Now she is a Aant Clors-m ngtable novelist. the film featuring. Marguret Rutherford-wes from one of her novels, and for the BBC she created the Bell Family of Children's Hour, Miss Streatfalld has a flat off Eaton Square.

There were always corners that I seemed never to have seen before, and little paths, particularly under well-bushes, untrodden by human room. My father had innumer-

Hdressed women and middle-et One part of the gar- able brothers, and my mother

lived.

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GIRL

The cook answered in the most matter-of-fact voice. "Oh, her! That's the ghost ....She's always playing fo the garden."

The discovery was a nine days' wonder at the time... but is this story FACT Or FICTION? Tomorrow the answer will be publishod.

DID IT HAPPEN?

Her

no ond

same room as they were. favourite haunt, so I am told) was the kitchen, but seemed to mind her being Ini for there; the cook took her granted, to the extent of some times saying "Oh, get out of the way, do,"

I suppose the new vicar and his wife puzzled who the woman and child, could be, but to the next morning. Nor. WAS the village there was nothing extra- oddness of the spare bedroom ordinary about them. They were, and that all, for sometimes the little girl part of the rectory, would

have naughty fits. These was all there was to it. For the

far

a self-contained more village- was its naughty violent than those of да or unit, even administering its own Would justice, known as "rough musle." dinary child; and she

plotes and

kitchen utenslis about

kitchen.

throw

wero

Sometimes, I learn

noise of smashing

the

the now,

Pots and pans

china was

The

almost unbearable in the dead

of night It really seems very

villagers would march

odd that my parents, who must round the cottage of an offender have heard the noise, carried on beating on pots and pans. es if nothing unusual had occur- red, but it is understandable that

they hoped, by ignoring what went on, that sooner

end and the house normal,

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return to

* New vicar

nimost meant

who

thb

It is more than keely there were old people living could remember a rough music- Ing their childhood because a later the strange business would woman and a child had dis-

appeared.

The rectory, even by the standards of the time, must have been extraordinarily old- aged men lek iec-cream cones

fashioned, and the new vicar's In the streets children den was more Important to three sisters, and many of the

wife decided to modernlso it bathe in showers from fireplugs me than any other, for that brothers and the three sisters

were married. My father and It never did. And so slowly. The alterations, particularly the turned on by policemen... was where

my rose tree mother were not only poor, but without admitting anything, my removal of a beam over everyone avoids the grilles pour-

travelling about with a lot of parents came to accept the fact staircase, ing out blasts of even hotter air

small children was difficult, so that to other people the house building the rectory. from air-conditioned buildings... Looking back now I know it was not often they had been was queer. flat-dwellers bring out folding

to see the rest of the

Pulling up the tread of the able it seemed to me in no way crowd the shady chairs to

second stair from the bottom, side of pavements

the workmen had laid bare two every peculiar that though the rose nearly woman carries a stole or cardi- tree

bedroom, Now, with a spare called mine, I Was

Although my father loved that skeletons. One was a woman's, gan which she puts on when she shared it with another child. the situation, they hoped,

the village, and all the people in it, the other a little girl's.

The discovery was a nico goes into the cooler cinemas, I think I knew that I had changed, and in turn all

relations could como to stay, 1 think it must have been a shops, and restaurants.

three sisters, one a baby, But thanks to the little girl, the great joy when he was offered days' wonder at the time; and 10 Panos

NE PART of the estate of and a brother, and I suppose spare

bedroom proved a dis- another living and we moved to there was much discussion as to Politis,

Greek

for although the a modern vicarage with a spare the final resting place of the visits took place, once was bedroom which behaved like a bones. bachelor who died in New York I accepted that we children appointment, In 1940, required a committee of of the family went outside enough; no relations ever came normal spare bedroom. six local dignitaries to find each the garden, nurse pushing a second time. year "four wholly destitute vir- the perambulator, and were

King" on his native Island of taken for short walks round.

Lefkas.

£7,000.

To these

would

go the countryside; whereas the

But his executors told a New little girl who shared the

family.

presence

WAS

So queer, in fact, that nobody would stay with us.

Extra rites

r

York judge the bequest was rose' tree with me I never any one of them ever sow the and the very first day she was, which included bell, book and "atmeult, it not Impossible, of met except in the garden. little performance," and would con-

stitute "a source of bitter local dissension and, contention."

N

elaborate fishing rod was A ordered by the State of Ver-

was

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in the damp village, but lived The little girl's custom was- There's the most extraordinary with my grandparents. When and how intensely my relations little girl on the lawn. Who is

they sho?" mont for President Eisenhower the came to stay at the rectory disliked it to wait until when he flshed for trout.

she used to bring, or perhaps were in bed, then while they When the bill arrived for 300 caused, the little girl to come watched, the door handle would dollars (£107), the State auditor, | into the house,

David Anderson, refused to pay. Ile and there was no authorisa

On the stairs

It was with the arrival of a new. vicar and his wife at the rectory, that the little girl and

told, It In the end, so I am Into the woman were brought the open.

The dining-room was doelded they should receive It was not, I now know, that window looked out on the lawn, Christian burial, with extra rites the house, the new vicar's candle, to ensure that the poor girl, or the woman who in sometimes with her: wife saw the little girl, There, shades, whoever they may have

lawn, Was a been, should rest at last. Although nover Eaw the evidently neliher side of my pinying on the

A date was fixed for the "At funeral, and the day before, by So the £7,000 is to go to the little girl anywhere but in the family had the power to do that, strange little figure, wearing a

garden, the sister older than but if they did not see them, crinoline and pantalettes. poor, the

called general request, the bones were hospital, and the

myself

hear, she saw her in the house, they were painfully conscious of once;

on view where all the village parish of Lefkas,

This sister WOR delicato and their presence,

out to her cook.

look. might eco them. here and "Do come could not live all the year round

The result, so I understond, was something no ono had. counted on,

the When

next morning the bishop arrived to toke the funeral, all the bones had vanished savo the thighs. slowly turn, the door open, and

Perhaps the villagers thought they heard or felt her tip-tocing

It

was more friendly for the остоя the room, knew them- selves to be peered at, then The cook came to the window, bones to have a home, perhaps them, in, their an eye on the child, and they Governor

hoard her feet retreat, watched cast

maiter- gardena..no Joseph Johnson remembered he

the door slowly close, and the answered in the most

All I know is that from the .. Because wo has a fund foremergencies. He

were very small handle turn again.

-of-fact volco. Wo took the little girl for has o fund for emergencies. He

"Oh, her! That's the ghast day of burial to this, the has saved

Quite often these visits were The last vicar and the

his wife woman' and the little girl have honour

and of granted,

with the usual

Vermout

during by declaring the secretiveness of childhood never repeated several times President's daliing rod "an spoke about her to our parents, the night. I gather the relations never saw her, so nobody spoke never been seen again,

of her, but she's always playing emergency.".

but I think, all the same. they sufferings were increase be in the garden." By the way, Ike didn't get a

knew about her in a dim way, cause they could never speak of

It took no time, so I hear, for but were, I suppose, reluctant her. As I have said, single bite.

my both the new vicar's wife and to accept anything so strange. fathe and mothor never saw

the vicar lo accept the chick FURED for refining to shave What is certain is that while the child, and hoped by all and in a way after a time, they

off his pointed beard, a New they lived in the rectory they to deny there was anything

came to look upon her sa part York wimming Instructor le never spoke about her. I know strange about the house.

of their household, merely re- ruled entitled to unemployment now that the less they thought So the unfortunate relations marking to each other how about her the happier they were forced to be silent too, and much more clearly they could The State Labour Department were. For the little girl and an to bear with the uncanny spart see her one day than they could Rays: "This was an unwarranted adult, who was known to Bc bedroom, until they could make another. They never saw the infringement upon his privilege company her, kept them apart an excuse to leave the house woman, although they knew she

an individual in free from their relations,

Oho relation, so I am told, was in the house, but they country....There is nothing in- For my father and mother one found one night enough, and not frequently, felt her pass them on herently repulsive about a of the joys of the rectory was wailing to look for an excuse the stairs, and were sometimes pointed bead.

that it possessed a spare beds had sons before breakfast the conscious she was sitting in the

tion to use State funkis for such

Then purpose.

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pay.

The spare room

די..

buried them

WORLD. COPYRIGHT RESKE VIELİ-

DID IT REALLY HAPPEN

YES

FRANCES

The

NO