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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1955.

IT HAPPEN!

&

NOB Iralian workers report here.

'Brought Lollobrigida with you?”

London Express Service

At last I said 'No'

THE HOME OF THE FUTURE

By J. W. Taylor ··

If

the automatic factory.

controlled homes be far be hind? Britain's Radio In- dustry Council do not think 90, and in their compre- honsive display on elec- tronica of today and to- morrow at the National Radio Show at Earls Court, London, they take a peep into what the next quarter of a century may have in store for us.

A

Everything i the home of the future would well be elec-y tronically

controlled trom master control panel, dominated by a master electric clock, which would enable everything to be switched on and off au- tomatically at times which could be selected hours or days beforehand.

The house would, not only be centrally heated but each room would

have its temperature that rately controlled

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could enjoy his tub in the bathroom at 70 degrees while The youngsters would have a cool lounge in which to dance energetically without be- coming overheated.

DANCE MUSIC

For this they could have their favourite radlo dance band pro- gramme broadcnat earlier in the duy, for the master control

it to be automatically recorded for them and played back in the evening when they wanted

'Please, senor, please. On a day like this what must a man do? But did this panel would have arranged for

story really hapen? The answer will be published tomorrow,

bullfighters were all boys of 10 to 10.

by

Louis

Golding

OUIS GOLDING Is an In- ind veterate traveller Opodbye Ito Ithaca being the latest

rosulé.***

It was a clumsy massacre. There is no point at all in tell- -T was in Seville, and it Ing you about what the horror was that finally 'prostrated me. was Holy Week. 1

I knew I was going to faint. was lunching in The last sold object I saw was place on the Ramblas the massive naked arm of a and I was having a pleasant lemonade vendor in front of me.

I clutched at it and fell. time, enjoying the arrOF valenciana on my plate, the When i came to I was stand- rinja in my tumbler, and ing on my head and two men

holding the book propped up against were

my legs In the for that seems to be the air, my cruet.

Spanish way of reviving people. Then the girl started when they saw I had regained singing on the pavement consciousness they stood outside, as they carried the tight side. up and bundled me

off to the Brst-aid room. image of the Macarena in procession, along the street. There they sat me in à chair, cobbled square with the rain I suppose that was my - for I was breathing rather pelling down, and just two or doing, really, because she was heavily, and asked me would I three rain-sodtien about the most beautiful girl I

me

Novels foom large among his other 50-odd publications. Sixty this year and a Mancunian by birth, Golding was educated at Manchester Grammar Selrout and Queen's College, Oxford.

cab algo! How piteous they are, despleed of ail men! If you do not take us on, senor... Will you not, O setor, will you not go for a nice drive?"

"Yes," I croaked, and crawled painfully into that hearse of a cab. I mean literally crawled, and literally hearse, because the cab was protected against the rain by large sheets of black-oil- cloth, which hung down so close on either tank as to leave just a narrow chink above the step, where a body might be intruded.

Was

!

It

Meanwhile Mother, peacefully sewing in the sitting rooni, could be sure that baby was sound asleep in his cot upstairs, for an electronte warning devico would let her know at once or become should, he wake restless.

Mother's work in the kitchen would be made much easier by many gadgets, and she would have no dusting to do, as the whole house would have its own atmosphere elettronically

oled

con-

and purified. Should she go out in the afternoon the auto- telephone

be would away. I was in a daze. I had

the and answered, But the weight was off my no interest in horse, in cab, in caller would record a message fect. No one

Was squeezing cab-driver. All I wanted

which would be played back-on bags of ether into my lungs, my bed, clean sheets, hot coffee, 10 yards, 20

her return. The telephone, Miserable bulls that were dead I walked away

have Its tele five minutes ago were not yards. Then I heard the clump course, would raising their miserable hulks of feet clacking into my Nir vision screen to see the other

It was the cab-driver.

party. any more. crying, crying, with vana,

tears

their He had me by the sleeve. pouring down Individuals

muzzles. I was alone, I could to the horse's hooves on the cobblestones.

had ever seen, and it was the like some ether, I should have who cheered me because they most beautiful voice I had ever said no, but I said yes for I had thought I was a bullfighter.

Do idea at all what had hap- head.

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She used that voice just once pened to me. I thought perhaps year, c a night in Holy I had fractured a leg or some Week, and no more, although managers of cabarets and concert- halls went down on their knees to get her to ding for them.

Promise

She had promised at her mother's deathbed that her voice should bener- forth belong to the Holy Virgin alone. So she sang that one song a year in praise of the Macarenā, and there it was,

While she Waa singing a number of young Spaniards come in and listened, and wept and drank. I was at their table, and 1 was weeping, top, 60 when

they asked me to drink

with them. dranic

already felt I had drunk enough, but how could I say no 1T those circum- stances? I did not say no then, nor ail that day and tong

into the night. You Serwitty

know how things go

on and on.

I have no idea where I slept, but when I got up on the Easter when I got up on the Eus'er Sunday morning I found all my new friends going to the bull- fights.

I

breathed deeply, trying to get the horrid taste of ether out

of my nose, It's no distance to

The occasion was 'a nouillada. The bull fighters were 'all boys of 16 to 18:

relax. How pleasant to listen

Trams

Clanged

"Senor," he cried." I beg of you! My horse la ill. My cab la smashed! My farel I demand only my fare! At least you will pay my fare!"

Should any unauthorised per- Bon enter the house when it was empty the service would and dial 999 automatically summon the police.

FOUNDED ON FACT The whole family would be much healthier, too, for sun ray equipment and other health- giving devices would be built in

Then at last I said no. "Nol" I shouted, and all Seville rang with the thunder of But could I relax? Why was my voice."No! Not No It And Father would always know the cab going so fast all of a

was the cab-driver now who lay sudden? What reason was down on his side. The horse him, since the control panel there? The man was not drunk, got up and bolted again.

was he? The horse кая not running away, was It?

I peered out through the chinks and saw about two square feet of roadt The tram- lines were making queer snake- like patterns as we shot along an ever-increasing speed. Trams were clanging, People were

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DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

at

YES

shouting. Altogether thene

seemed to be Д lot of un- necessary noise,

I was being shaken about more and more

was alarmingly. It'

all very unpicasant.

"Stop!" I cried to the driver, "Stop" But either he did not hoar me, or he did not want to step. Or was it that he could not stop? Crashi Wo bad knocked against the side of a house on our left. Bang! We had knocked against, the side of

1

house

on our right, Some streets

in Seville are VETY narrow indeed. This was one of them. Crash!

One Bang! side of the street, then the other side of the stævet, The driver was shouting, too, now, at the We whizzed top of his voice.

across a wider street at right angles Trams clanged again. Men shouted, woman screamed.

I remembered. 1'

"Hombrel Hombre!" I yellodi thing, and they were going to the hotel.

walk. I'm soaked to the skin at the cab-driver. I was very cut it off.

already. It won't do ma

any angry with him. Had I asked harm at all to walk,

to go for a nice drive in his cab? "Hombrel Hombre!":

It won

İ

...“And, of course, you're com- ing, too, aren't you, senor?" Clearly, 'It would have been Of course, I better to have other than not to somebody asked.

Then out of the massed spears should have said no. I had too have other. So they pushed 2 of rainyes, this was Seville, in said again and again. much of an hangover to enjoy large spongo soaked in ether Holy Weekl-one-horse cab the only word of Spanish I anything that day, least of all right in my face. I was forced appeared, even more down-and- could remember, et that thỏ bullfights. I should have to take in a few lungfuls, and I out-and-tumble-down than the moment, put my foot down, but I didn't; then passed out once more. The one in which I had been and before I knew where I wan: day was getting gayer and brought to the bullring curler.

Yes, I and weakly, and there gayer,

A loud crack

I was bundled with half a dozen

'said the cab-driver, aficionados in a tumble-down When I carte round theme, "Go for

nice I have no idea how long this one-horse cab, the most

went drive-in à cab?". Was this the nightmaro

on I fonk ram- second time, I was still sitting sort of weather, was I in the myself on my knees, I was not shackle in all Seville, cle in the chair, but my head was right state of mind or body, to alas praying. clopping through the pouring

I was clutching raid to the bullights. It was between my ankles, because a go for nies drives in caber I at the sent so ng not to, bo no distance. We were there in very strong and heavy mah was was about to say no quite firmly, thrown out. "thies "ministes. '

A pushing my back down with his but the cab-driver spotted my

full weight.

"Are you all right," now?"!

Spanish way

mouth pursing itself.

Then suddenly there was the then, loud crack of wood "On a day like this We had stopped dead. - I sing. Now I'm going to draw a velf imiddle layers of air ps what misit a man do?- hvit hó gered out of the black rule #taryo?! He has a wife, has hê The cab had caved in with a

somebody asked from the boor, piense!" He immediately after, 'a: dill: thudi i

about the sort of bullfights they Are now "were. Even if they, had > beon | "I'm

1', mumbled Hotz. Hai bo not be children, broken, back' axle. It looked

good bulls, and gold bullfighters, from low down, "Ple

would have been pretty, like to go to my hote "dismal" in "that, rain."(( But the

sand. was like "morase. I 80

I would all huby? I beg you, like a comedian's_mashed-in

senor I beg you. If you will suk hat "The horse lay ponce baked mot popkor me," na ingles," a fully on its side, moring sently.

9. ↑ Jeră man ble noble family, who elen ker

will employ me, oba, day, like Relief came down on me

NO

Put your ticks, in the space above and keep this panal by you until tomorrono when the aлbwer

be giver-with another story in this series by

THOL

Peter Duncan

Did yesterday's story-Biscay Cruise, by Hadlay Maxtedmeciually happen 1 The answer is. YİL.

how much all this was costing

would also give him a con- tinuous indication of his tale- phone and electricity bills.

Too fanciful? The Radio In- dustry Council states that the basle idea behind cach gadget has

a foundation in doct. number of similar devices pro being applied industrially today through electronic brains and other items "br equipment, and robot telephone answering

machines which

aiso record are on view at the messages show. Their application to the home will depend on abundant supplies of electric power being made

available at increasingly economic rates, probably by means of atomic energy,

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