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POCKET CARTOON

by OSDERT LANCASTER

"Grant, O Allah, that

female emancipation be not

long delayed !"'

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1955..

ROBERT PITMAN ON BOOKS

SHOCKING, THEY

A British Crossword Puzzle

$2

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ACROSS

3 Deblous (8).

8 Extreme fright (0).

9 Told (8).

11 Disclosed (8).

12 Colour

(4),

13 Drive back (8)

18 Challenged (5).

19 Eager (4)

22 Matured (8).

24 Place below water (8).

25 Hard coating (8).

20 Unwearying (8).

YESTERDAY A

25

DOWN

1 Tempest (5).

2 Ing for (1)

3 Gave (7),

4 Spoken (4).

A Poet

(4).

0 Useless (6).

7 Accunt book (8)

10 Allude to (5).

14 Journal (5).

15 Diminishes (7).

10 Hound (8).

20 For (5).

17 Warplane (8)

21 Grown up (5),

22 Dispose of (4)

23 Grows old (4).

CROSSWORT -A 1998: 2 Saumiges, 7. Tulip, it Amende Ing. 10 Medico, 13 Precede, 15 Lam 17 Erved, # Newnes, 20 12.0

Theme. 2 Kalarken Down; 1 21 Turcenis, 28 Rush, 21 Inspires, 2;

Space, oane. I tutter 6 Segged. 9 Modest, 11 Fred Stump, 2 te

11 leme 14 Eamire. 15 Level, 16 Mean

23 Exter, 24 Sheer 25 Tier

U ulice In Weasel, 22 Beats.

But would YOU be shocked by the girl

Mr. Maugham sent bathing?

A

Acone

#

T

CVVED

with

SAID

is awept up into an idyl romance,

PARADE

A COLUMN OF The unusual ABOUT

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

Lut

NOISE American scientists say PERIL that excessive noise can

hair "aat people's fro; and they forecast chat if the clatter of cities like Now York and Loudon In- domaga, Temple .ower

10 do

Although the church was Ho pleaded for co-operation des.royeu Iti the blitz, the between the Health departments on towar #ill struc

d the factories. Pisa-ilke appearance has

Health and Yes, agreed the nothing

wiih war Welfare Committee, CO-OPETA- has tion is the thing. That should bein "leaning" since the 15th produce the best results, vortury,

Now Mr Parry is waiting to will the

creates much more then In- habitants will have to shave Laucir heads,

at

of

tho

A former worden at Temple Bee

years. Yet

which Aberdonians

the sixpences or

The so fcars were expressed church sald: "Experts have choose:

American Audio unLovered that Timple tower smell Conference in Now Icans oin.

further every 00 engineer York.

13 its foundation

Lavw is the tangio resolved?

Join Hilliard, prominent sun solid and there is no sign

engineer, of the tower collapsing." By

research Two convenient

sound eventa. Gerald is pucked off to America

explained that noise generalca heat and that enough by his family (we see the last of him at Euston). And Edward,

will burn off human liatr. riding to hounds, breaks his own neck.

We leave Bertha in the Inst chapter, burning his photo- graphs-all passion spent,

What is the reader to make of Mrs Craddock in 19557

now

I recommend the advice given by Mr Maughom himself, 81, in a sparkling now preface. in effoot he asks us to relish the book's absurdities. it as

period plecC. Shocking? Indecent? contrary, the elderly Maugham linds

proprioty painful,"

Propriety

urban district COUNCIL PROPRIETY? A

to trent

On the

*

nore PAINFUL Why so many quips

"Noise," he salt, "Arst of DECISION about Scottish tarift atwould be imputed all makis people tritable and to Aberdeen is dificult w) cis- dizzy. Then a feeling of tick-

cover. But it is said, for instance, new sets in If the rackot gets that the Highland Fung found his worse,

origin in an Aberdomum gun "As the Noise becomes his

desires to spend u half- inate in.cnie, it

10 penny- 15. In 5-10

Last week thrifty Aberdonians of And cause

to make anolar painiui hair on acclsion: Whether to endure an unendurable smell or control un industry bringing the sixpaces a-rolling in,

Jenu Finally

1 complete Icon

0.19 the

State

11

bearing and Bre,"

and hia Hilliard

fellow found scientis

already have that tho noise in the air-raid siren enclosure on top of the emplic "nimost

bullaing is sufficient to burn the fur eff a rat. But when hair is removed, the rat can stand the bo.ter.

New York's subway passengers have to put up with 10 TONS (wn measure of sound) when the train wheels sa tek going round a bend.

LADY with a past tobacco, of cattle, and horses")

almost faint has returned to the it sent her

passion. public lady with rich

But married life with Edward,

all for

its heady farmyard brown hair done in a bun,

odours, did not equal expecta- with olive skin and fuli red tons. tips, with leg-of-mutton

Admittedly he became a vast sleeves

a trim waist and

success with the local notabili- hooped in by whalebone ties who had once thought him corsets.

A shubby match for gentle- 1 refer to Bertha.

he woman Bertha, Admittedly became a J.P., chairman of heroine the the unhappy

glance we find that of Somerset Maugham's Nevertheless his recipe for home

was stickler novel, Mrs Craddock, now bliss

encouraging Maugham "Women отк like chicken, ennstity. again after al Give 'em a good run, properly published

Ila Bertha often joins teen- most 20 years out of print. ctured in with stout

ager Gerald in a tricky balanc- ing, and when they cluck and ing act on the brink of passion cackle just sit tight and take

"His hot breath made Bertha tremble

the kisses burned no notice").

themselves into her flesh"). But if they ever look like going too for, the primo

outher young

ANTARCTIC Major invariably arranged for a ward- oring footstep on the

DELIVERY stairs to haul them back into the safety Zone.

Mr Maugham was only 26 when, in 1900, he Arst packed Ave close-lined exercise books

tale with the sweet-bitter

of Bertha Craddock. But he had to wait two more years to see it accepted.

exercise

by publisher were sent back after publisher. Their unanimous verdiét......much too daring for print.

Boks B

At last he egreed to cut away jassages the strongly-flavoured (They can be found in full the

new edition) and Craddork Ally appeared the bookstalls.

In Mra

уть

What was so shocking about her story?

Elementary.

FIRST there was her marriage. In 1000 the heroine of any self-respecting novel might be expected to search delicately for a soul-male. But not Maugham's Bertha; she was not concerned Her with souls.

for marrying Edward Craddock, tenofil-farmer on her late papa's estate, were elementary in con- trunt.

reason

She trembled at the sight of breadth {his aplendid

of chest. As for the scent of his clothes ("mingled perfume of strong

• Heinemann (138 ).

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

MEN DON'T UNDERSTAND WOMEN'S HAYS ALLTHEY DO IS SIT THERE AND SAY--"PHOOEY" OR "TERRIBLE" OR "HOLÝ MACKERAL / "

"WAIT A MINUTE

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FROM

*4

To

wan

not

wire-act-

Chopped down

DỨT when Bertha clucked

cackled he was not always prepared to take no notice.

she pleaded When

In hur favourite beech trees to be

spared, he had them promptly chopped down. He complained If she played foreign music 011 the piano,

If she read French prose ("I don't pretend to have read any French books, but I've never heard anybody deny that the great majority of them are Indecent")

second young for

As for Bertha's naked splash- off the Kent coast, they are no more erotic than that board-

ing-house pin-up. the modest lady in September Morn

to write

43 a

the

Mr Maugham's new preface Is kind to his youthful nove). but deals out a cruel caning to the youth who wrote it. It attacks his #yle ("No one had

hin ever explained to in retaliation Hertha took to mystertes of composition

child bleak he began solitary walks along the

begins

Ideas walk"); his to Kent собі. North

Once-1

("He was evidently not a Verk for pulse-shaking chapter this,

nice young man. He had absurd readers in 1902-she

the prejudices");

hia luck, of taken by the smoothness of the

po rlolim "He never missed a she stripped off sea that silks and whalebone and fro- chance to have a fung at his Jlcked in the water unseen and men countrymen"). unadorned.

was

her

Finally, on the personality of

But nudlam was not Bertha's smart young Willie Maugham. sule form of escape.

this crushing judgment is now Holidaying abroad

by she meets delivered'

Somerset W. Gerald, a boy of nineteen. Un- Maugham. O.M.

ke the saber Edward, Gerald- "He was not only a foolish curly-haired, green-eyed-has a young man; he was supercilious,

and often

wrong- background reeking of sin. Had cocksure,

hirr) been expelled

now i he rund

from headed, 1 I met

dis- of should take an immediate Rugby, from A succession crammers? Yel with Bertha he like to him.""

Shopping Together

ON RARE OCCASIONS

WHEN HUBBY

ACCOMPANIES HER |TO THE SUPER MARKET, HE GOES BERSERK THEREBY CONVINCING

THE NEIGHBORS THAT

SHE HAS BEEN STARVING HIM FOR WEEKS.

| THE SHOPPERS MAMBO — ONE STEP FORWARD

"AND TWO STEPS BACK..

COPK, HE BY. GENERAL FRATURES CORP, TMWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

SAVAILS

CAVIAR

IMPORTED

GRASS HOPPERS

TURN A MAN LOOSE IN A FANCY-FOOD

EMPORIUM ·

AND HE GETS EXOTIC IDEAS THE PERFUME

DEPARTMENT. HAS BEEN KNOWN A

·TO HAVE THE SAME EFFECT.

WON THE

LADIES.

Are

High wages and for- MORE

holidays WINE: eign

turning Britonsinio wine-bibbers. 100 Indaaura the people's thirst this year is

likely to be 12 million gallons of wine the biggest since the war. They will pay £18 million in taxes to Chancellor Buller Jer the pleasure, Nearly all is im- ported except Bemo country brows. like elderberry. lion or gooseberry.

Six years ago they drank less than eight million gallons.

danda-

The thirst today is not con- Ened to narrow sections of the community, as it was a century or so ago.

Then stout characters The problem was, of course, so

with ruby inces (whose cil- dificult that it had Aberdians painted portraits staro over a discussing it in groups and the thousand English dinner taules) Aberdeen Health and Welfare took pride in being singled out Committe meeting In con- as "Three (or Six) Batie Man." Even in rat war days laxaton was low, and a good bottle of claret côut only 23. Listy won- der that well-off Britons had a bottle on the table every night,

But now the taste i5 101 Bned to rich homes.

ference.

WLA

A bollie of wake, (costing be- tween us and a) suunas puide the beer ca the tables of even to enlive A quite poor Britons

R all started when astute bustnessmen

found that there wis much money to be nude in

sh meal and fish fertiliser. The raw material was avall

available of Eng- Other parts Il lakes only 140 decibels in plenty.

land Joyfully sent them all their to cause pain and it is as unwanted fish.

Fur townsfolk diclocis that Tut's fur (und

South of

of the Border actmed more man's hair) may

nbout presumably

concerned

getting rid of catch fire,

the smell..

Aberdeen's Industry prospered. Perhaps It was вот поп- George

Portuguese labels-even though Sassenacha from understanding uf Watson, 33

comunption South of the Border who com- REME, is with

there the Royal

bul complaints Society's Sciende plained,

its way to the

were that the air was not what It should be. Expedition on An arcile As Chief of the It is to be "weather party,"

They became so loud that the Sanary Inspector, Mr Chief

* jou of himself and eleven others to study weather and radlo conditions in the blinself.

tare.je.

the

H.B. Parry, sniffed the Bir

ho told the city's

Bluntly

authorities

more say

spree.

They are choosy ferring

French,

too, in pre- Spanish

or

of old Port, Lae clubman's irkuition drina, has fallen by a third since the war. Yo! wine drinking has not ree hed the peas on 1027, whe Britain

18 million consumed gations, or of kie years picturăm ing World War I. when

17 annual

million Agure of gallons was quite customary.

about matter. Aberdeen

CRAZE FOR To sal TRINKETS disposal

the becoming

With special instruments Health and Welfare Commitee

the Health that Resarch Station at Slough,

will should have he

the whole ecord the noise and force of thunder

was and lightning

8.CRIS to gauge the effects they have on radio transmissions.

D:fore Re salied. Major Watson said his children, aged

kept saying one to 10 ye to c Father

15 Daddy Christmas." So he promked to lellver personally to the old gon man the kiters they had written to him

•

LEANING Bristol has a lean- tower similor Ing TOWER

the

world-

Pisu structure.

to

famovG

the tower

of blitzed

church in

the cl y'a

Street. The

tower

of perpendicular.

sweeping nrm dealing

а

*salisty craze for old- fashiontd

cutre for a large part of the English Jewelery that coun Jy, And, ho added, in some,cases the material brought In to Aberdeen was, in his before it icft view, offensive

vie its source. If the practice was only echlinue not allowed to would the

elty have offensive mells but inillions of flics as well.

in antiquos sending BLores of བསལ་à, ཐ

Britain to buy

up any

they can fin

tha the

Ha men should have somo sort of control, he stressed. / As u long-term measure uftórica Is slamula

obsolete scrap contributed to the

oven

It is plant if Temple smell.

Victoria

is ft. out

But

cou!! even Mr Parry not press the matter too ferce-

Aberdeen.

ly 1

BY HARRY

"LOOK, YOU'RE NOT

BUYING A GIRDLE

OR A PAIR

OF SHOES /

WEINERT

WHEN SHE NEEDS A TWENTY POUND TURKEY SHE'LL ARGUE FOR HALF AN HOUR THAT A TEN POUND ONE IS PLENTY BIG ENOUGH.

I DON'T WANT

THAT TIE - I

DON'T WANT ANY TIE-IF I DO WANTA

TIE, I'LL PICK IT OUT ASELF /*

SWOON

SALE

WELL ANYWAY

HES GOOD FOR

Amaica, American

ard

to

pieces

declare

of Inginey

English jewellers

unique, panicularly Victorian

perlods, Bre fast becoming Olie of Bitain's MC62- 14 MA tant exports, This, they say, deums tui - back gut lor for ur heritaga

"The craze Is mostly among American -minded fashion women an, it is for the clase- fit ing gold bangles great-grandmothers

that cur

used

to

wear," said Mr Kichana Ogden, one of the West End's leading juweliers, today.

"They are also after gold from scals, the sort that hung

the Rescacy gaul.cmana wach pocket. The women want lo hang them from the bangles."

Mr

says Ogden

that the craze s.ar.ed In - America se ven years

and is now reaching its peak. The ag+(9 three

arive in batches every months.

DAILY There la a man

in

DOZEN Capetown who when he wakes up oach'day hummers (1.erally) himself into shape.

He L82-year-old Jacobus Christiana who said: "First. thing in the morning I tap mys-1 on the tummy with

This "

THIS"

hamuner

WEB

carpenter's which he brought down on his stomach with A

mighty swing

"It keeps me in the pink," he said.

He then

and

lowered his head

charged at a door and the frame hivered from the impact of his bullet head.

"I'm still tough," he said. Me Chrisuane, former. wrestler and strong-man, was. renowned in his young, days: for his tremendous fania of

trength

He apendis his time ·now- helding down reluctant animat patients at the Animal Welfare; Citata here..

•

CHARTER FOR A now deas MA-IN-LAW for mother- in-law is the alm of Britain's

National Marriage Guidance -Council. They want to take her out of the joke and, bogey class and

win recognition for her as the tolerant, experienced, friend of newlyweds, which she usually is, with a little understanding Lom the young people,

A. campaign has been started · by the Council to introduce pre- marriage courses for engaged couples

Inv

every town. and.. village in Britain. How to

on with the in-laws will special reference to mother-in- reirion to itself law--has a schalon

along with discussions on

and

Family

cha

house.

and all the problema

Uup: a home

Mir Alanı

Ingleby "EAL

to

Secretary of the Council, devote frail / his time to the

Lain'" that :: the traditions>

lopment of those part of grandparents. In) family lize); lengimportant.-9. Wih, family of four boys" he usra” "Grannies, make 125