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|POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

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"Maudial If that's the one about Poppy Wensleydale and the Turkish bath attendant, it's secret and imited, not just discreet !"

PARADE

!

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1956.”

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT

PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

increase

HE JUST

Regimental Ser- £600; and a pension of about

week--an Major 24. 145, a MAKES IT geant -

Henry Burden,

of £1." of the Royal Artillery Wool- wich, has been In the Army more than 30 years. In that Umo he has seen many chưnges,

of including number rlees, and he is staying long enough to benent troni the Lewest rates which

come into force on April 1-but only just, He retiren on April 8 ind gind It is not a week earlier.

Children between five and 18 cara (na opposed to infants) áld not drink any more milk at RSM Burden, whb enlisted as home than adults, But they a boy in 1025, has been in the took more with breakfast foods.

The

Indicates Survey

That Royal Artillery throughout his services, and knows most of expenso and dislike of the laste

two mein were the pay the old Army

drink plain East During the Inst wir he why people do not served in Burma, France and milk. Germany. He will be 40 day after he retires,

stalions in tho

the

is

He says: "i week's pay al

shall get "

145., in- 14. stead of £11. 4.; increase

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molding

of about £00 on my terminal

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stonemason,

une of those never-ending Jobs, He is responsible for maintain- stonework of historic ing the Kenilwork Castic, Warwick-

and shire, In good condition, when he has been all the way round it is time to go back and begin.

He has been

doing that

ful the

now

pre-

27 your's 4)1 behalf Di Ministry of Works, but hls service in helping to serve one of Britain's most ancient monuments hus been recognised by the award of the Imperial Service Medali.

of

Me Toonila has been emplov- ed continuously at re 800- year-old castle since 1920, apart from some temporay transfers to other ancient monumenta

Every

thousancis your visitors from all over the world go to the castle, which was once royal residener. It was here that the first Queen Elizabeth otten entertained by Robert Dudley. Earl ht Leicester, in the latter part of the 16th century.

WIL.

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•

Much

the

MILK DRINKING milk delivered to

Britain's doors step goes into eus of te, and people in the South seem to зного milk

than Northerners. These are two of the conchelonis drawn from મ

nine survey of unlik Sales

Just carried out Belushi BwDN May for

MIK the

Marketing

Board.

was drunk

rensons

The

real-life mystery

of 'Elizabeth Denham'

A real-life detective story

W

HO is Elizabeth

Denham?

The average consumption of milk in England and Wales is 4.0 pinta per head a week. The average for the towns In the The Survey was decimal 18. difference

bu- expected whe cause no account was taken of the large quantity drunk schools,

restaurants, the canicens, hotels and hospitius,

CALLEY AS A coul's galley CHURCH

all that temat of a Royal Navy alore base, is to be convertal

In

into a cburen at Maria Clos

Havint, langsaite. The base was used during the war, but now all its buldings have the been pulled down, except galley The cost of Euring is

a church is estlasted £1,000,

ቢያ

soine

-line be a church or one slue and a recreation half on the other.

•

by Nancy Spain

But that was before I read her

SLEEP from book

(Chatto and Windna, 108.).

Why, how she will explain her endless week-ends away home to Nannie......

What

will

about

for

She was prob-

shc my, ably attached to example,

her bandaged Naval Intelligence during feet, hideously blistered by her war. Her publishers long trek across France?

Sho

them away explained chose her nume because it with a "story of an infectious matched hur personality, skin complaint, which mado treat me like a leper, and came "trippingly" off Nanniv

to putting disinfectant in the tongue.

She has been decorated

She

with the Legion of Honour. has two children, one She of whom is at Eton. was involved in a divorce Jense a year ago, and does

the defnil not want

**ad] brought up again."

find story of a

terrißed Lady

even

my bath!"

THE DOUBTERS

Spy which is making headlines on its truth.

have ford rung off from

stance telephone call to where she is in holiday, It.. "We are strowel no." she told

So why, why, why, Doctor Maric, dear, do I sleep like a now-born baby?

Is it possible that you,

who

Flow astonishing it is, after 60 years of battle, to find the old talk such a lot of common sense giri (now in her seventies], about everything else, are just a

teeny bit of a crank about sleep? tackling a subject so mild,

But, believe me, Dr Marie has even succeeded

Anding mattressed controversial.

WHAT BECAME OF

The fumes given off by "gaily LOUIS BROMFIELD?

coloured hot-water bottles" "give

Dr Marie "cramps in the legs,"

But

why?

#

X 1044

when

Wo all' road

Indeed, prople like me, who had also enjoyed "The Green Bay Tree" and "The Rains Come often asked leally what botume of Louis Bromheid, writer of

I asked "Elizabeth Denham"

Soft foam rubber mattresses HE hasn't written a novel since about Nannie and what had be, are **pernicious,” come of her, "She was pensioned "Because rubber is an insulator, "What became of Anna Bolton?" off," she said, laughing.

and cute you off from the electric one currents of the earth," I must say, if there is

I would person

like to meet more than "Elizabeth Denham"

YOUR BED

She has just suffered a very

herself t Nannie: Nannue, The building has been

who

Incredible frightened this

What else? Well, a bed of alick, corn-fed fiction? give an operation, and while Sunday seltool for

the whole your own for a start. Ani more than sha was convalescing wrote this woman In its new form it will

At lost here is my answer, in silk silkworm

nightgown. bork. I

RIGHT Gestapo.... LOOKED

And a big thick book FROM MY like (Pyjamas are pernicious.) Inevitably when a book

The Pleasures Cell, 128, 6). the fascinu, this appeurs, people cust doubts married people should not shure EXPERIENCE,

The Secret Service a room. Then you should sleep and Miseries of Life on a Farm

of head towards magnetic north, in (Cassell, 21m.); any they have never heard

"Naturally nol," saya a dark room. her.

Fifteen years ago, A setins, attached to them." "Elizabeth Denham," "I wasn't

Bromfeld, You should have two pillows, 00-year-old ert. 2in. Military In-

J11 who got 30,000 for the one sheet, one elderdown, phoney. telligence say she is a

right of "The Rains Come," 404 Her book tells how, a British "Well, I had nothing to do with

On a really cold night you tu up. He was particularly fed "Naval Intelli- tiem either." agrat in spite of herself,

which shegence?" I queried,

toput up with writing nedon, and there may put a blanket on went back to France to guide

the eiderdown, not under it seemed to him a "siliy" occupa- HEP in its miraculous re-

was the dead silence of assent. the

Why on earth, you ask?

who Well, tion, and was the critics, treat to Denkirk,

it's Ughter and warmer).

seemed "one degree sillier." After this she was sent 161

This

Ono After this, alas, there are lots

sn't surprising. 2ius 1. of all HERAL the

go wrong. critic saht Bromfield had ceased of things that con Indigestion, constipation, lack of to be second rate and bad, "by exercise, pala. All these things unrenuwung fourth rate. con rob you of sleep.

Or your thoughts Oh dear

So Fear.

bought tour me, yes. Grlet. "Worry.

His with sin. Obsession

To say forms in Ohio and reured nothing of Reading in Bed. This unspiration was Albert Schweit- ho de- Like Schweizer,

(including and animals) would be

FASHION. Suzan 15-1 [ IN NAMES 1190 popular

fur Dame

Hava christened in the Isle of Wiga during 1985, and Stephen f

clysis boys.

birth atauuncements reveals. Next favour for the girls were Linda and Jung, John. Davu! arch Michael wire high on the boys' list.

me

things, the use of explosives, "Explorives commeates Eliza

who even "lets of re- works with respect.”

beth, The

Names with royal associations were not us populer as might have bren expeeled. were unly Iwo Charles, six Anne, four Phillips and fout Elizabeths. No baby VVAS christened Hemy, Writer, Mary Victoria-names popular generation ago.

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UNFORGETTABLE

{ ASK YOU...... As the waves of sound came and went on the telephone to Milan i usted this woman who publicity so much, who won't have her photograph taken, if I could have her num-

ring ber so that I might

her back.

k

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shull

Euisende aflor

Chey read like a glorious new novel

she gave me a telephone num by Ian Fleming or Sopper), en- counter after encounter (there is ber. "We shall be here all the une marvellous, indomitable old week-end." American lady whom

"Of course," she

said.

And

is the worst thing of the lot.

AND MINE

Well, now I ask you.

Does

Rever

who

YEAR'S A free pint of boun

every Sunday for BEER

year,

call, bull 1,000 bricks, a load of manure and a barrel ol oysters are among gifts promised for an

The Survey, just published. shows that 40 percent of milk bought

of by the familles Brinin wes used in beverages, Eighteen percent mainly tea.

plain milk, 10 pereen used in evoking, 12 per- cent in milic drinks, mainly enffee and cocoa, and 11 percent weken with breakfast cereals.

Survey During the

3,524 housewives.

chosen

in

the been Greater London area and live provincial

auction on behalf of appeals for Peterborough Cathedral and local boys' clubs to be held at the end of March.

A wide

variety of gifts have

'They contributed.

^

In-

ri clude fickets for a London

Zorget, Elizabeth Dea- that sound like someone ham builds up an unforgettable isn't telling the truth? picture of the dissembling, dis- integrating, dreamlike life of a

spy.

MARIE STOPES AND SLEEP

my

Industry,"

Bromiteid

zer.

cided t ed

plunts

sacred to him.

lite

become

cruel and caress treatment." There were starving sheep on

Far be it from me, ini

So Bromleid went to his to atten thirties,

wrangle Pleasant Valley, "ruvaged by with Dr Marie. (I admire her far too much for that.) But my ixed goes east and west and wased farms, woods "brutally shups the magnetic north. It is murderou" by "timber specula- loaded with tho thickest blankets I can find.

tors."

I read every night in

I'd never {otherwise

bed

my

arn

More than any narrator I have encountered she seems to fell

Bromfeld rescued them. the truth. For her reactions to

What an inspiring

scory it danger and violence and

get this always makes when a worldly brutally really are the reactions

forsukes suphistication, written). of

It nice, normal,

OVE and Marriage are nervous,

full of grief, man friendly, well-educated English favourite topics of conversa worry, and work thoughts and embraces nature, and makes the

I wilderness blossom like a rose. And what

she tion. So, of course, are they the I wear pernicious pyjamas. docs

at

But don't les forget that it Worry about every

time she favourites of Joan Regan, Alma don't take any exercise

was the £30,000 wrung Dr and whenever I can thought)

I have back comes

from her terrible Cogan, and

the "silly" art experiences in France?

Marie Stopes.

coloured hot-water bottle.

woman. elles-Cardiff, theatre, free hairculs for a year, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

wore questioned.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

ه

IF YOU HEAR A MUFFLED VOICE MUTTERING

DID YOU PUT ANTI-FREEZE IN THE CAR? DID YOU BUY A SNOW SHOVEL? ARE YOU SURE YOU PUT AWAY ALL THE LAWN FORNI -

TURE?—YOU BETTER GO INTO THE NEXT STREET WHERE YOU CAN'T HEAR IT.

un agricultural

roller, kitchen

sinks, steak luncheons and six

months' music lessons.

The Beautiful Snow

"HMM

HOT WATER ...

NOT BAD ! “

THE YOUNG BUSINESS MEN OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD ARE OUT TO FUT THEM- ĮSELVES ON A SOUND FINANCIAL FOOTING.

THEY CALL THIS SNOW/ WHY, 1. REMEMBER·

THROW AWAY THE OLD SHOVEL—— AND USE YOUR HEAD

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR. GALOSHES ON ? ARE YOU WEARING YOUR

HEAVY MUFFLERS ? ÄRE. THE BUSES RUNNING ? *

NOW I'VE SEEN EVERYTHING /

2-12

COP2, 1976 BY GENERAL FEATURES

COL, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

ALL IT TAKES IS ENOUGH SNOW TO ICE A THREE-LAYER CAKE.

BY

НАККУ

WEINERT

POSING?"

IT'S ALL NEW

TO THE PUR

PORTRAIT OF A SONG WRITER DASHING OFF AR SNOW SONG-HIT, FOR THE JUKE BOX TRADE.

all

from

of ficuon that enabled Old Farmer Bromileld to buy those four farms.

ONE

SENTIMENTAL

NE more book about a tiger. We had John Masters, a intle while ago, remember?” Now here is David Walker, forsaking the gay Highland flang he danced with "Digby" and "cordie" to go all mysuval and Indion with HAKRY BLACK (Collins, 126, 3).

Harry Black is a tea planter who has been a prisoner of war and an unsuccessful husband. Also, he is not above covering his neighbour's wife. Then a man-caung tiger turns up in the district. Harry Bees 11 chase. He hunts not only the tiger, but the integrity of Harry Black.

He succeeds ane acciacs to I give up his neighbour's wife.

Whenever David Walker writes about jungles, tigers, and hunting the story is good. But over nis heraine ho is mad- acningly sentimental.

David

Reading trus

thus nooit. I couldn't help remembering that Walker was onçe ADC to John Buchan, who created the most lastpid heroines in all fiction.

Beanstalk Of Mustard Cottage

THE story of Jack and Bean-

THE

stalk takes a humble second place among the children of Binfeld Heath, near Henley, to the tale of the Peculiar Bean- stalk In Mustard Coltage, For this is fact--not fantasy.

Mustard Cottage is the home of Mrs Sarah Webb, Last August she decided to store broad being in a basket in her larder;

She forgot

about them for many weeks, Then, In Novem- ber, when she went to look at them, every, bean" had 'dle- appeared. A thorough search revealed nothing...

Recently Mrs Webb tripped over a lump beneath the mat in the kitchen. She found that two bricks in the floor had been pushed up. Mrs Webb and ber neighbours were mysified.

Estato men explored beneath the floor and found a bean- stalk 2f, high, arrounded, by a pile of sprouling, boons., S

Mrs Webb's beans, they decided, had been carried away. by field mics down through a small tunnel beneath the foundations of the cottage and planted under the kitchen. floor.