POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1955.
THE EERIE STORY OF THE WOMEN WHO 'STEPPED BACK THROUGH TIME'
WIRCONE EDINBURL
Did Miss
or
Has
Annie Meet the She Been Fooling
Dead Us?
BOOKS
"Strictly confidentially, sister, I'd have you know
I'm
stranger here myself."
ROBERT PITMAN on
to
from
Other
questrans
havu
been
As boy had come cut of a doorway 3 it possible for two thoughtful people, such
Why did staid and unemotional J. B. Priestley and the late which they heard to their dis- asked.
bolted and elligent women, aften meeting of gentlemen in Indies on a
b series disused for years. summer's Dr. Joad-that is precisely may had been
costume, conttiry Miss Then
old documents eighteenth afternoon to find themselves what happened
discovered that bridge, wait a week before it occurred the fact? talking with Annie Moberly and Miss they walking and
an cascade, and little building had to them to mention 011
should Eleanor Jourdain
they start the dend?
for excitinals In searching August afternoon near Paris all in fact existed at the time And why
of the French Revolution.
records in 1901.
They learned too that in 1789 eighteenth century
messenger had hurried to instead of going to see whether warh Marie Antoinette about any people like them existed at the upproaching moba Versailles in 19017 nassenger who insisted urgently that she should go to the house while he fetched her carriage.
SO
The question is not
sounds. extravagant as it For in the view of many
A British Crossword Puzzle
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3 Takes for granted (8).
2 Bird (4).
B Eager (4).
ACROSS
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I Lifts (B).
Et Metal (4).
is Kind of syrup (8).
Choosing by vote (8).
19 Take notice (1).
21 Shells (8).
25 Remodels (8).
26 Trick (4),
27 Silt (8).
YESTERDAY'S
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1 Narrative (4).
4 Basis (4).
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5 Weakens (4).
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Skindlin (5).
7 Carrying chair (5).
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16 Vessel (5).
17 Blackleys (5).
19 Engates (5).
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Relieved (5),
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Soothing ontinent (4).
22 Intend (4).
24 Stalk (4).
23 Disorderly Night (4),
7 Ob-
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Fools, Criel, Stander; 1 Hetainer, 20 These, 21 Derive.
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head of an Misa Moberly, Oxford women's college, and Miss Jourdain, who later succeeded her, were looking for Marie Antollie's country house at Versailles.
⚫ Suddenly. in the pretilly- wooded parkland, they lost their
wny.
They could see no other sight- zeeing groups and over each of |thum eight a strange sensation
of depression.
The breeze stopped blowing. Everything was unnaturally st and lonely. The trees and build- ings look on a flat oppearance. To And the way they spoke to two men standing by a wheel
To their later amaze- burrow.
that the men fact they saw
Wearing three-cornered hats and jong green coats.
A ero
INSISTENCE
f
Perhaps he too wore a cloak like the man who had hurried up to them?
the
DEAD WORLD
PARADE
A COLUMN OF, THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
REMEMBER? been asked popular character In foreign
the
the
say.
Brainst tho city favourite bathing resorts of the JUST ROUND Fitty-four campaign
years ago, a fathers to get thein to make Federal German Republic. AND ROUND
The ban is dictated by the iar sighted some land available for the new
restful und German firm looking forward to £2,000,000 ball park the Dod- desire of assuring the traffic jams of the future gers want to build. And it was quiet nights for holiday-seekers. how to induce came up with an idea to lift a good thing the rumour did go The problem
the cock to vefrain from crowing buses and trams neatly off the round. streets,
Otherwise President Elsen at the first sign of dawn. hower would almost, certainly The order provides that un- I was called "monorail," an have had to hustle back from ruly chanticleers be removed by outside the basic idea was to suspend the cow country-and pronto. A their owners to a place the cars from a single rail which baseball fracas in Brooklyn is a "the recreation aren
of Nor- derney," these two could be (a) raised well above real state of emergency.
trafle and (b) semi-camouflaged
COMPULSORY Sherlock so that it would involve as litle
19 Japanese fishery CAN FISH unsightliness as possible,
Holmey READING
still the most experts haVO The idea worked very well
Ash and the first railway was built whether have memories, chica translated and published In the Soviet Union, Recording But, somehow, it never caught and they don't know what to on. That first railway in
Their reply wil intinence in Aarian Conan Doyle, son of Ruhr Valley was also the last. n heavy claim for compensation the samous author, who hopes to
the reason was Maybe
Some of the Holmes storica against the U.S. security forres. cost cool £1,000,000 a mile the fishermen of Tokyo Bay tollest royalties owing him,
favourably But that compares
Until recently, the U.S. forces are compulsory reading for the with the nearly £4,000,000 maintained anil-submarine ncis Red Army on the grounds that mile, which is the current across the mouth of the bay, they help develop powers of estimate for building under- They were induced to remove coservation and deduction.
thent, following ground systems.
CHANCE Malayan Chineso So, last week, the bustling, plaints by the shermen that the
squatter can't OF LUCK Mah Kea Swe, pa bulging city of Houston, Texas nets kept the fish away. But st the fishermen decided to try out the monoruil.
as his chalr hes found that busi- catch any fish, and they are now beamed joyfully Houstom
remem collapsed when British Colonial ness is going to rot on its public arguing that the fish
ber that the nets were once Secretary Lennox-Boyd (Gft. system for the ve there and are keeping transport
Away 4m., 200 lb.) sat down. simple reason that public trans-.
Sald Swee to the Colonial port moves through the traffic from Tokyo Bay.
The US military authorities Secretary, who had dropped in are resisting the compensation we inspecting quatters jums at something like a walk-
claim, Insisting that the Ash sciticment: "I think this is a couldn't possibly remember the gtad omen that I will win the nets, and that anyway there are national lottery (£30,000); now
continually truck, so many new fish
STRANGE VOICES
But the main psp to the story is the dry academic character of the chlef witnesses And that prop is knocked clean away by the fact that this de- scription docs
At. not
Miss olarly at all. Brought up in
when an age
there were no exams for women, she had one main qualitieation for a college post; her father had been ang pace. bishop.
and
Their experimental model will
nowhere-just round go round an old city race But they figure that they will iearn enough from it to set up full scale monorail system.
4
angry
com-
former
arriving in Japanese coastal my luck bound to change,"
that the fishermen's waters
One man killed, theory involves neceptance of FREE FOR
SIX severely the existence of
a pretty ALL
wounded ond cfficient system of piscator st
were hundreds lightly injured of among the casualties marking the ALARM IN There was justi- communication.
The harassed scientists
reluctant opening day of Italy's shooting BROOKLYN able consterna-
tion and alarm Tokyo University are
season. Some 850,000 Italiasis, Brooklyn
week. The to give judgment. 1st
equipped with every variety of worked up to a whole elty was
drearm, blazed away at any arc fever pitch. because the Brook ACME OF There only thing in fur and feather, includ-
320 Dodgers had announced CONTENT about
people ing hedgerow birds. the Devon that they would play seven their home games next year in hamlet of East Worlington, but nearby Jersey City.
The two ladies came to an inovitable conclusion. Not only had they met dead people in a dead world. They had entered into the mind of the 'dead-of Marie Antoinette herself.
Their conclusion has been And so far from being a dry and bookish don, Anue Moberly widely accepted.
And
It is easy to see why. Lad been reporting visions since These
were not two scatter- early childhood. brained women blurting out 11 Even at the age of Ave little wild fetion. They were scholars. Annie had heard strange volees And later she And their factual, dead-pan from the sky.
visions which narratives are as unromantic as specialised in
in a poiteeman's could be checked against his
torical documents notably in notebook Neur an armamental garden
These
under the visions about royally. narratives,
Once, for example, building they come upon an
title
AN ADVENTURE, have evil-fact man wearing-weirdly
row received their Afth edition the Emperor enough a slouch hat and cloak, with a fine flourish of kotnotes the stairs as the Louvre. Then
someone they heard
netid
maps-from a scholar, Dr haw it was Constantine because t arying behind them. It was a
he wore a toga and a crown, and man in buckled shoes with cloak Juan Evans. (Faber,
Yet against Dr Evans and Mr documents pieved he had used his shoulders.
the Louvre now billowing from
Priestley and the other modern road where red with effort.. His fuce was
stampkuns he s
of Miss Moberly some staucis. "Go to the house!"
well-
challengers ell-horsed Pam they went As in a dream
enter. way he had pointed, across a
And, though I hate to see a rustic bridge by a cascade of good story FUL
I to pieces, At the house
Recu belleve that the challengers are Delf-- house-a Marke Antoinette's
winning the light. youth came through a door on terrace and, smirk, offered to take fround to the front entrance.
water.
to the
with
them
#
There at last, as they joined fellow sight-seers, the feeling of depression fell from them.
haunted.
-
THE INTERVAL
11
now
she met Constantine on She
of
*
no social life in the meantime,
All because everyone was happy and contented.
Courtesy In City Of Angels
A
It was rather as though Eng
Just because they were all so land had announced that, hence- A CLUE....
in the forth, half its Test matches with contented lving here Australia and the West Indies valley of the River Dart, under the shadow of the spire of the We would be played in Paris. One problem remains. can see how the impressionable
of the parish Fer, to a real Brooklyner, it 12th century church, six of the Miss Moberly managed to sweep herself and generations of wise is strictly not to be believed that seven members
anyone In Jersey City knows council forgot to submit their
cleation nomination papers. WIK after her hilo a supernything about baseball.
Result-social life has come to natural Pitdown. But how did
Furthermore, the Dodgers are a standstill because there is no They
are led by Profesor she sweep along her companion
prized private possession, council to authorise the lefting By Michael Ruddy 100?
True, they have never won of the parish holl, so there car Anthony Flew, who has shown
Los Angeles. though that
Dr Evans's new edition pro-world
they be no whist drives, dances chal printed in the accounts
series,
RE "they" brusque For a week these two ladies AN ADVENTURE were probably vides two ladies, Miss Jourdain, nearly, always come close. But get-togethers.
There was little enough to do by the two ladies at of the two
that is part of their charm.
when answering your did not mention the episode, written
after their meek and shy-Miss Moberly,
Dodgers' But the year
owners in the picture-postcard aanlet
Do enquiry? this When they begun to ask each cast
strong-jawed, domincering. Was (baseball teams are businesses. before
happened now telephone whether
experience. other
the place was
able, withoutke sicel· Miss. Moberly
mills, only more there's absolutely nothing. "they" annoy you if you ask Even their earliest version was words.
impress her
Do exact profiable) are shrewd business-
11 simple question? They
met some
frightening penned after an interval of 15
men, And tired old Ebbets IT'S AN By city ordinance, problems.
They learned that weeks an interval occupied by oughts on her friend?
And
If so, AN ADVENTURE is dis- Fleid
no cock shall hence "they" keep you waiting with its ancient grand-
ORDER
when
vigit forth be allowed to unduly neither rustle bridge per cascade mutual talk and research.
for its doubtful stand just wasn't drawing nɔl the turbing, version
crow on the North Sea island municipal offices, and to be found in the real in
ovidence, but for crowds. world of 1901. There was no mysterious door was not even supernatural
Somebody put out the rumour. of Norderney, from nightfall to "they" courteous when you the the eerie light it sheds over the ornamental building like the one mentioned.
shoes. Such detalls lives of these two long-dead though, that the announcement eight o'clock in the morning.
is one of the are stopped for speeding? where they had seen the spouch- buckled
Just part of a pressure Norderney
It your answers to the above hatted in. And the smirking crept in later.
questions are that "they" are in- then deed always discourteous, the Los Angeles Civil Service Commission will agree with you. So much so that the Commis- Flen has just approved plans for a "courtesy school" where the troublesome. "they" whons we all know will learn better we manners.
were
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
CON 1956 BY SANITA Italists
COF THE WOREO PIGHTS RESERVED.
"TAKE AWAY THE LOBSTER, CLAMS, CORN ON THE COB, POTATOES AND
CHICKEN THEN WHAT HAVE YOU? NOTHING BUT A LOT OF SAND AND
SALT WATER !
WATER IS AN ADSOLUTE NECESSITY ON A WATERMELON PARTY-
PREFERABLY ENOUGH TO JUMP INTO.
WHEN THE STEAK IS DONE" IT'S TIME TO HEAD
FOR THE NEAREST HAMBURGER STAND.
this first
A MARSHMALLOW TOAST WAS NEVER INTENDED TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN AN EXCUSE TO LOOK AT THE MOON.
Nor
were
wome
Beach Party
AT A CLAM BAKE THAT
DREAMY LOOK USUALLY MEANS THE LADY HAS
OVEREATEN.
Head
Was
the
BY HARRY WEINERT
"-So, I FORGOT THE MUSTARD.
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO GO JUMP IN THE LAKE .?
THE ANSWER
IS 'YES.
LOST-
SIX ICE CREAM CONES.
"HERE'S SAND
IN YOUR EYE / "-
OH WELL, IT'S A. CHANGE FROM :
"HÉRE'S MUD
IN YOUR EYE,
you
are
More than 18,000 Angelinos will take the 10-hour course which will ako be attended by department managers and by members of the Police ond Fire Departments. The course in courtesy is compulsory.
Public Relations
will
It is hoped the results please the populace who have complained to the Mayor
and department heads during the past three years.
Employees generally will be taught basic public relations, with emphasty can office courtesy, telephone courtesy and thu handling of difficult situa- tions.
such
as
Guidance will be given In matters of courtesy raing to receive visitors, asking them to be seated, never keeping then waiting and thanking them when they leave.
Visitors to city offices will bo asked if they mind the em- ployees smoking, and if no objection is made, callers will be. offered cigarettes.
The course will indicate to employees that it is dia- courteous to put feet on the desks,
to put on moke-up m publle, or to chew gum osten-
allously.
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Many business Armin!! Los HILLS,
L
Angeles, Hollywood and Beverly and particularly in the movie, radio and television
dustries now have similar courses in common courtesy
In fact, visitors from Britain invariably comment on the courtesy and consideration they receive in Southern California.
Coffee Break
It is hoped, too, by the City elders that another problem will bo solved by the compulsory. course at the charm school, e.g.: the coffee break,
Equivalent to the British morning and afternoon tea break, in Southern California it has degenerated into 30 minutes, in the morning and 30 minutes in the Rernoon.
This is a braic discourtesy that will be pointed out with, it is
telling. effect.
inally, I am pleased to re- port, that among the more courteous, and eficient offices in | Los-Angoles are the British- Consulelo-General and the, Brie ith Travel Association,
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