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| POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"When we want the hymun. book revised, Pennyfeather, we'll ask you - until then we will continue to sing We are bui tule children surak', NOT · We are but crazy, mixed-up_kide"E"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1955.

PARADE

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A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Now the research workers are seeking to discover, just what keeps the Bantus' blood vessels from ugang If they could find ml, they might be able to apply their knowledge in helping 10 keep Europeans young-hearted.

The

Honesty was a fare elément in the life of Horatio Bottomley, but can a man be a rogue all the time?

Was Bottomley Honest

Once? Just

THE YOUNG Whaleve: the slightly over the years, A big chiatric treatment, and been them, was between fifty and

uge of a Bantu, change vreurs In IN HEART

the case of allowed to leave guol for three- a huixdred pounde. however wizuned Europeans They suffer

from hour trial periods.

And these are some of the at wrinkled he is, his heart is hardening of the arteries, which In six months' time, If the clothes

French Ho

Master kely to be young And that Bantus are spored,

gol authorities are still salised Tailors would Uke to pee on Dealy means his heart

The

with the men's behaviour, they the

streets: gan fix benis.

will be sllowed to sleep outside Velvet rullared, velvet-cuffed Even at 70 or 80 years of age,

the prison.

condition is motoring coala ending six inches HORATIO BOTTOMLEY. By it in the good as « Éuropean's hi

that they must return several above the knee. the prime of life between 20

times a week to report.

Edwardian-styled frockcouls and 30

This reporting system lists for buttoned above the waist. Ave years. At the end of that

Stovepipe trousers and shorter time the man with a clean sheet jackets

ending

the first thumb is feinlly tree.

Joint The Best Ume 4 mau fails to

Black overcoats with red silk report,

or commits an offence, linings. will return To guol and Fantel dinner Jackets with fe detention.

This has been proved by De AR.P

Walker, of the South African Insitute for Medical Research, who has been study- ing the Bantius (nearly 3,000,00 people) of South Africa

UNA :

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MAROON collars nnd stripes-

whistcoat and tie.

Julian

Symons. Cressot,

21s, 287 pages.

NAYS ona authority

S quoted by

Symons,

Julian Bottomley

"spoke as n cynke but acted as a romantic." It is far too

A Bantu's blood vessels, un- like those of a European, seem to keep their youth perpeturily, according to Dr Walker

when he was not Komponă Vier

And research has shown that Th chemical Hantu arteries varies only very

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Another mamber of the body-

Tommy Cox, guard, Apchaible for that splendid enter prise, the John Bull Coronation Grandstand-the only trouble about which was that as it lay

St behind

Mary-lo-Strand of the soptholders Church, none could age the procession.

itorc Bottenley's

C. F. G. Under-Sceretary

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was

various vein

vendetta against Masterman, who, as at the Home Offee, was called on to investi

Bottomley's

charges of gale brutality in a training ship.

Musterman brought

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muk:Ok

thereused their tellphone syelem instead of "poping"

over loud-

possvaged xt ឆន fun ap aker This is being done be- The scheme was though; out midnight-blue jackets with red kindly a judgment.

Yet there must have been serve. He was pulled up by Cause the "piping" of a message by the publle prosecutor of St.

Each section of the show, the

B which, a time in "if ten min He said:

Bottomley's life lawsuit loudspeaker Elleune. ship's the

effiontery and skill in advocacy, first of its kind in France, was

a rogue, of 15-tera 15 scantilines not heard out of a hundred can be turned ushered in by a bevy of charus

he won when be should have lost, from into useful members of society

In have must as there just

The result was that what by this plan, it will have been Kiris from the Opera Comique.

They

sport which Bottomley regarded were carefully dressed

been moments later on when might

have been al Warning worth while "

a drably

possible. Suff

piece of white-washing. he deceived himself into nestead encouraged him to go on a Master Tailor Velotr thought

Masterman may have been in- new trinnphs of rascality he could new the thinking that 103

It is possible for a tle time fluenced by the fact that he had Boltomboy's al long The malence

cease to be a rogue that,

Lo lind

in lost mitertainment

money TIE !

hardly

blo- fraudulent companies. Bottomley was Mitre public them "They were not able to indeed, he

# Symona's gently mittrical give the full attention to the Middlesex,

a graphy. toituk Bottomley went to considerable lengths to house in Sulbury.

rogue at all but, rather. watch your ile. The licensee, men's wear," he complained.

a great who

tem- as a kind of Falstaff,

reyengod. huk Mr Alfred Moreland, n

scoundrel saved from var disgust The tailors calculated that the good man

the straight by his impudent humour. Royal Marine, already has 350 well-artist Man car:TUS oneporarily left wappings of "old sefuol" nek- she's fleece on his back in a and narrow path.

once belonged to sul and two if he is wearing an There was that occasion at the

A Bava. other explanted that

the rose cheer WATCH THAT If you should the 300 Frenchmen

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EXPERIMENT A "inst chatte et IN FREEDOM experiment

may rev l thosad or pronoty 119 in France if it prov spesifi Just startest. it is bettig made at St Entente tal, in Central France

Party-seven selected prison- ers have been allowed to jeave Bien rella vach normin afur buraktasi enn go unguarded it - the town.

There, they work in Tielortes, offers a hope Ja o di civilian cutler

woaf

tus customers.

visit

tormer

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Having been promoted to the Cabinet, Masterman had to fight by-election in Bethnal Groen

in In tire

Flats for girls Bottomley had himself shaved We read of the girls who and shampooed every day of war in 1914 when

different barber-shops enlled him "Botty" or "Hurace," his Jackal

have on whom he javished fals and constituency, drank champagne |

half the pubs, while his that the past and whatever flowers and champagne, whwem in

he backal in disastrous musical tristies strewed bribes my faults, I am going to draw

mulbivak

SUIT

Bything to

weares

is going to be

be confided Huston:

1 "Whatever

Wil

Ila

most repulsive

and

100 Aty, the friend's He feared all right be decorative

use at August 4. 1914, mil start medies; the bookies who wok scandal among the voters. his money; the "txxlyguard" of Had to resign with

venal hungera-ou, *t whom CATCHING THE M Standes fresh" Vars scissors,

When he uttered these words Yea WT unklas.

Masterman was beaten, forced shipped of the last few inches. MONSTER

Bottomley was no doubt entirely Horton seems to have been the Bolden-

His to g from the Cabinet Nuw

Fr Tea & Village, Thurnemouth, win sincere,

For Houston stole even from politieal carcer was ruined. Jegimental

1125 fellow

workers เม that In this episode it is possible was 62 miles of fishing rights personal tragedy to be moved by

thieves kitchen. An astrakhan that there

was some honest on the nearly River Steur, has unlities like decency and borr

which he

cupable of

with Bot- mixed a brige des ambElon. He wants wh;

set of pornographie indignatiom It was just because al end a yspousing. an the och Ness monster!

www characteristic tomleys roguery. If so, it is these photographs he Felt the appeal of

effe ems aring he loot. As Julian fare visitor on these scenes. to want virtues that he could su

the th is not a seifth W

and Lang his Symous dryly puts it: "After all, them prostitute buttively F! by hinnell,

is rather unpleasant for com- vached + do

of squalor

wontid bre

radts to realise that they have tomley's story has become too content to serve on aspreches and writings.

what UTAUNISE ap 10

mcal mumley JAL

thief

even for is practically

in painful their midst.

robust laste in huINOUT. the tipping of this supposedly huge subtrine monstrosity.

the collection,

CUSTOMERS

Wearing wor day of a "sip" promise te ertuin when they their old setrool ties.

Mr Moreland's +12+

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21 spl the thes. ile If only a small seyton Chip unlikely to be noticed. Some customers nerad hum stuppets by Prust.

more unisal

Among U clippings collection d keep their

those of Be

the AnGavin Onder

Venetian of Nobleman and of the Drinking Club of New Zealand.

1 wines Theu employers know U reculls, but their follow workers du not.

After work, they retorn o (Prison), chacking in tefony seven Tak They have their sup– single Deri İy gry to

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He Has His Eyes Open

BALLADS. By

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claims

himself

He was a tradgy little man with ul tel: impulses, Kanervas Shuld he vat, it 4. Mr Tom-grubby, prehensile hand was deep MI Moreland's kems would not wish to turm it. in the till. One lee boy was

He said

new to look hited out with u

uf "I only want

An incautious vicur (with naty

from the BOUVERIE a. photograph it and put it [:S back"

Another, who hao petty cash)

Percy Cudlipp. Eyre and off naively on public affairs; an

investigator American master's eddietin timitate: ht

Spottiswoode, 10s. 6d. 96 that Sir Winston Churchill has He thanks the i psation would to other

people's money. W LE3 tu but £1,000

Red Indian blood; or a musical andreeted gently:

pages. "We've in goi

Crille

of the man- complains STYLES FOR Taking thehi cục the publie would be willing to start somewhere."

from

DERCY CUDLIPP is a virtuoso pers of opera audiences (In the EA!- the MEN

he ubscribe, but he says

The

women, the horses, the

ht Verku. Nobody chepper seats), Upon such as wenzalian

styles

made Inquiries and not breakfasts

and of champagne Bellare's Teddy

*

EverZone Arund Loch Nesa 18 kipper--the-e were the more rhymes more expertly or keeps these Cudlipp throws Tail:. Frances Muster

the passing with urbane zast. Last

side ut genial kuch the idea.

Bottomley's sharper week showed the

secne (of polities, social custom, inen's wear

rogueries.

Indeed ho is apt to neglect Tushions they hope will cute" M. Tokius, who has had 50 There was also the blackmall. art. etc.).

his saliro in working out complex 1950.

Wis

ishing, real years experietice

heartles ing journalism, the

Viewing It

ht with

rhyme. Ho f Indulgent patterns would tish bruduction, too.

says he

for it like lezing of foolish young men and

censure and mila Indignation, juggler rather than a marksman. There wore Tour

the or young fishing for a

old roach, but

foolish Minore

Cudlipp does not view it in But a juggler of accomplish- nine-gallon swluding companies, the sweep silence. pratade

tuckle would be a across There were girls, Prench courts that they were chanqiagne and charm, lest the

and spectators "hopeless",

wenry of things Hul Easculine,

English Tailors did not have a thing to worry about. Price of the suits and couts, even if you wanted

All 37 are habi'un criminals sentenced to life detention -the (sort of men who used to be sent

Devil's

the Island before settlement there was ablished after the war.

They are

must mastETVEN

Un

political prison ts But they Frenchmen

have been sentenced so often by

Tegard d butushed for Life

As part ot

esperiment however, they have already spent four months undergoing psy-

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

NOW WE KNOW WHY

WE'RE SO LAZY AND SHIFTLESS - WE WERE BORN UNDER THE WRONG SIGN-AND THERE'S

NOTHING WE CAN

DO ABOUT IT.

stage.

AFTER BEING MARRIED FOR YEARS TO A MAN BORN UNDER TAURUS,

IT'S A JOLT TO DISCOVER THAT YOU SHOULD HAVE MARRIED

ONE BORN UNDER THE SIGN OF SCORPIO.

YOUR HOROSCOPE MAY SHOW THAT YOU'RE IN UN

HARMONY WITH THE INFINITE - BUT

[TRAFFIC COPS ARE HARD TO CONVINCE.

THE OLDTIME

SOOTHSAYER

NOT ONLY FORETOLD

THE FUTURE

BUT HAD CURES (MADE ON THE PREMISES) FOR EVERYTHING

FROM WARTS

TO SPRING FEVER.

COPA, 1985 BY GI

CORP, TM WORLD

the

0:

th

eve on

ment.

a

cask with 500 feet of iron rope stakes in which Bottomley's

the hook would be balted friends held all the horses, the 01 the Far Lell tail The with the carcase of a sheep. frauds which, with the passing Socialist movement, something

to be of the years, grew more blutant catches his attention, wakes the FIRST NIGHTS AND FOOT- There would also have radar-equipped boats to find the and crude.

parodist and unleashes the first

LICHTS. By Beverley Early in his career Bottomley line of "Old Prof. Cole is 赭 monster and men to handle the necemury cranes,

might have been saved had he morbid old soul."

Baxter, MP. Hutchinson. 21. 256 pages.

Star Gazing

10-23

FOREGASTI " AVOID "INFLATIONARY IDEAS

BUT IF ITS A CLOUDY NIGHT,

USE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT,

BY

HARRY

WEINERT

I THOUGHT YOU WERE GOING TO

RAKE LEAVES

TODAY

WHEN THE STARS SAY THE DAY IS NOT PROPITIOUS FOR STARTING A NEW ENTERPRISE,

THATS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

TO RECOVER LOST PROPERTY CONSULT THE STARS - SAVES WEAR AND TEAR- HANGING AROUND THE

LOST AND FOUND.

DEPARTMENT.

ARE YOU

A

I WAS

|GEMINI 7

BORN: HERE/

DAXTER'S instinct la to like; praise comes more easily to Wils bongue.

But he nights gamely against his better nature. Somewhere he has picked up the idea that domns make better reading.

So there he sits, the frown in the front row, the displeased person in the stalls daring Sir John, Sir Laurence and all their hosts to give him pleasure--and

his readers carrying away for Impressions of the evening' that are always good reporting and usually good criticism.

•

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