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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1956.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

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us funny.

DISAPPOINTED You may find the people and, girl has written to in some places the prices just an editor complaining that a holiday abroad with a girl friend was not. so cheap as they thought L would be.

They had little money left for "having these fanny drinks in funny cafes and amusing talk with English speaking nativen.”

Purdab for all

been born an corwig it is time he saw a paychiatrist

Doc

ore

1 would have thought the same until I read the private life of an earwig

of those books about natural history which I believe Si am not one who admires now kelling better than fiction.

From this it appears that the human face (with n few exceptions) I was so impressed Earwig's-life 14 nearer by the charining appearance of ideal than anything dreamed of the veiled women of Mombasa in Ulmpla.

that I am dow

favour of in

everybody going into purdah,

When I say everybody 1 menti men, and purticularly men with big namustaches.

beer,

An to the

For one thing the ttle chop does not live long enough to be soured or silhsoned.

He s icon the Spring. renches young manhood about the begióning of August, moeries, sperids A happy honeymoon undey a stone, is slung out or the next by his wife before the children a bien (because she kaows he would ent them) and spends a gay that helor existence satel the edir, satdenly used par- lessly in the Late Autuame.

"By nativės 1 mean fel- lows, though decent ones, Of course 1 nu aware that *F THUtt of course," she adds.

love their moustachen, they wouldn't grow thought that would be part Otherwise

them. They don't seem To of the fun."'

mind if the moustache be And how right you are, enters a soup strainer, as hud-

stained with dear. The iden of exchang Pily

tobacco, and tea. and Ing amusing bul clean cracks with decent male I am also aware that foreigners in cafes is going purdah over big mou-

tache might be uncomfortable. Compare much more entertaining

as a shit would have to be thum trudging round art van as the vest for drinking past Aalleries.

Gall

the in bar. Ewers would be worn outside

wear-

moustache

This wond make old solders, with then bloodahol eyes, glad

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le of the average eurog with

The AVP - og

The mytlige earwa has cate brief he pevnoson and never Sets his wife again. The average man has one biat honeym

and

As I understand it your particular problem was to find enough money to hay ng Kven The yout. ok more from then on is never allowed

in the tophatematy drinks the funny funny cafes at the Tony Brad the cod would mude the i

thon Mund, but al su

1. od math, except

earn

The work cleverly BOBİS prices charged.

As for women 1 thards

even the peppersdridity of father bod 10%

enough for the

would look move

threaten g easy

1.r vat his The man is not only manage the first two, but attractive m purdah The am cluded

les They wore pelible conslastly remmuudel of has ac after that I suppose you glasses, could charm simple men

but J Jalute

'11',૩ had to k tonkl for A with their eyes abone and mid monster at reg ves his chalaf # couple of funny, genetik even get them a la d

well-chessen ved slap

Towards the wid of his ble foreigners.

ma begontes salle each you

Irely

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the altar al Usey Petused to remove The ved until after man range

Purdah for English bunting and tries to avoid the inevitable

be by going on drets and Women shouki, of

harem merable compulsory

Course.

As their resemblance to hoses has been noted 166 often I can unly

ndd turi purdah on them would only look like a nosebag, using the impression of a herse rating another horse ↓ nerve- racking spectacly for those who have swallows end to many St- Tagi taps,

My own exeunt, of tracgn. e. Amerware exempted, is that they are all ba tunay alent buying drinks, or anything else, UNIT 1+ altrante. brought up girls like vol

Tex fact, your banging as too obviouİN dolful at they will often even a egarette

So, as you both neem to have been explainally Jucky at

bruching rong funny, chah, ak

generadas beregnes

IN

VOL

Earwigs win

YOU might think that when a

don't Your

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You

Burck you would be les Fugland next year"

man begin to wich he had

Chameleon

Taps new (fices, gold Rates

Chameleon on the only sath in the

wohl with a gardrobe. Suo dira fest Italien

ameleon dirven

to match. You change fur dinner...

w does your Chametres, erum

(haurion has interchangeable

strugw, in an infinite variety of colours,

But, quick-change artist though it or,

than distinctive new Butex never

vacies in accuracy, on's low antelser minute 1 Adi persee the Hotex Chamelova.

by

•Rolex

Jork, gold Water Chameleon, with "starter wit of few

straps, comen in kanduma maung jewellery bor

X'MAS CARDS

Exclusive Designs by

Col. V, R. BURKHARDT, d.S.O., O.E.E, (Pl«ncer)

Feast of the Hungry Ghosts

Dragon Boat Festival

Birthday of Kuan Yin

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The Bun Festival

Ching Ming

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Wyndham Strest.

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making

And, Eke the earwig, he dies, wild t the earw BE'S CON-

Work actight i

bait temptuous dignly

'Yes-

the rules say you can borrow from

my right hand'

United Nonsense Organisation Rules for operating World Monetary Fund

CLOSED

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GRABBERS

Cummings

· CONCLUDING

The Expanding Commonwealth THE PROCESS OF

ASSOCIATION

HE Commonwealth of European' capital and DX- Nations contains no perts might play their part. unwilling members,

At some stage the nor at present does it offer

Commonwealth might wish membership to any foreign to institute

of a form country.

associate membership. This The Commonwealth dif- might be based on an agree- fere from other interna- ment on the lines of the tional groupings in that it Council of Europe Conven- has a common citizenship tion on Establishment. This and ita sovereign members is a document which pledges exchange secrets and preferential treatment over consult together more in other aliens for the citizens timately and more decisive of subscribing countries. ly than is possible for Enthusiasts for the Council of Europe have described foreign States,

this as first step to the There could be no ques creation of European citizen- tion of admitting a foreign ship.

can

country to full membership

unless its mature and out-

In concluding an agree

tho

the

look were in harmony with the character and interests ment of such a kind

and of the existing Common- Commonwealth wealth. But if those coun- foreign country concerned Irles which are already would be the better able to linked with the Common- decide whether to take the wealth through inter vital step of concluding a national Associations for citizenship rights. The final defence fr economic co stage woukt be the recogni- operation were encouraged tion by the associate mem- the to draw closer, a first step ber of the Head of would have been taken to- Commonwealth and its ne- wards the expansion of the ceptance by the existing members expressed in સ Commonwealth circle.

resolution of the Prime

We have suggested an Ministers and endorsed by

economic combination

of

their Parliament,

The choice then In between Commonwealth and

expansion and dissolution, The European nations. We have Commonwealth

cannot afford urged consideration for the to drift. We have shown that It expansion of the Colombo is not imposible to reconcile the

In this, Plan.

Western process of growth with effective

MR HARDING (The ) GIVES

The unrepentant

bachelor

SOME ADVICE on MARRIAGE

Exmarded.

I

T

'Let the ideal husband

hit his wife on the head-occasionally'

His list of grievances is And here is Harding, the Jong and catholic. Baby amateur child psychologist. talk. petting in public, danc- "If you must deny a child

the to

muke

sure

eneou-

our planners are raged in their disregard for all viewers by the undeni- able fact many viewers are little better than cretins and

TC-

to-operation. —indeed such conciliation is essential if the systern is to survive.

It the Commonwealth censes

to expand then will mankind be

in danger of utlimate rata- strophe. Millions throughout the world look to the Commonwealth for leadership-and the Com- monwealth looks to London.

AMERICA COLUMN

FROM JAMES COOPER

BROTHER

WENT

doservo all they get." TO WORK

Yet all is not vinegar. Like reluctant koebrengs, his delights ocensknally rise, lonely and

E

New York.

impressive, amid this thick fog ALDER brother LeRoy of disgruntlemant,

Curtice, aged 68, re-

He revels in good talk ("very tired last week from Gen- nearly the best conversation in eral Motors on a pension of

Why

the difference? Harlow

Is president of the company with

a workman,

ing in restaurants, anony something to which he is the work is heard around Lord $756 a year.

Beaverbrook's dinner table"); mous letters, people who entitled by your given word, he defends the lihaviour of re- Younger brother Harlow interrupt his stories, rounds please explain the reasons porters and Press photographers; Curtice will rethe from the sang in pubs, eating in the to him with great care and he has a mania for good food; he Company in two years' time at the likes dogs, thus cancelling out the age of 63 with a pensen of theatre, autograph hunters, plenae the eleven plus examina promise is not broken, but most of his sins in the eyes of $88,000 a year.

the British publict he is on the tion, expressiona like only deferred." he says, side of træl drivers. "spending a penny," official adding the threat, "Other-

ja salary of $770,000. LeRoy was Try wise he may grow up like

3 he might, he cannot language, electric lights

disguire the gentle lover of Fifty years ago things were any of them will send

you."

human beings thet skulks not too good for the Curlio blood rushing furiously

On Harding brandishes his beneath the gruff exterior.

family and Leitoy had to quit things he is usually school early and go to work. important independence like a knuckle on the right side. He detest duster. He has no hesita intolerance such as the colour Harlow went on to high school. LeRoy sald at his modest His prose style is about tion in hiting the hands bar rovels in deflating pan-home In Lansing, Michigan: "It as subtle as a blunderbuss, that

posity; runs a constant vendetta was just the bittaks." "Of the craven, custard him. Indeed,) hearted creeps who write it seems to abusive annonymous letters be his fav- I can hardly trust myself to ourite diet.

he speak,"

explodes. From "Voluble, glib and garrull- man

his head.

feed

qualified--but I would

by

ogairist hypocrisy; is truly

Would ho swop places with generous; loves laughter; and

Hartow? dees not take himself seriously have

would not "No, I

his job-might

Milton

PUB FODDER

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whose Shulman

one though I am, words of rotund, sub- loathing and contempt fall. stantia:

me

ter"

not have not mind the salary.”

Hois

a strong union manwe and his pension is the result of

Workers, and

His publle instinctively feet negotiations between his union, this about him, though he does the United Auto his best to deny them any evidence of it.

His magle is that he talks

his brother.

M

USICAL

version of "Peter Pan," Mary Martin's biggest

ncar Chrisimas as part of a

tour.

to Melbourne,

when I think of the figure comes beaming down squalid scribes who dip upon us from thousands of took the juxta ficant. His writing is tren- other desire than to wound ing us of the merits of cer- about. His opinions are the con- staged in London for a month their pens in venom with no advertising hoardings assur- about things everyone can talk hit since "South Pacific," may position of universal chant but undistinguished. without the risk of detection tain ball pens, writing paper versation fodder of the pub and education and the His wit, is robust but

and the horse-whipping and stomach powders, the the canteen. Anyone can under-world enthode ray to make hardly memorable. He fits which it would be a privilege following statement can stand Harding. He is the poor Sydney, and possibly "Hongkong. Gilbert Harding possible. To no definable entertainment and public duty to adminis hardly delight his sponsors, mole Chesterton, and they have NOTE to there malling to the

needed one for a long time,

U.S. In the new Mayflower. millions newly introduced to compartment, Yet, next to

Aaron "If you like sob-stuff or

Davidson of the U.S. the excitement of learning Churchill, he is probably the

But in a book full of brigh: Brewers Foundation, says that he has become a kind of beat-known name in the

anobstuff, strip cartoons or anecdotes Gilbert has oll out the first Mayflower's log shows ersatz Socrates.

land.

NO HESITATION puns: advertising men alive one of the best. I met him once that the captain put ashore at and alert to your whims will just emerging from the dressing Plymouth Rock instead of going Gilbert Harding's Book of With his well-bred voice,

Manners (Putnam, 12s. 6d.) Lack of experience seldom give you just those things emd not 1 st night to Virginia because he was short

He and liked the perform his university background,

should his contempt for social

help unravel the modifies the omnipotence of as they try to make you be ance, but being a personal friend of supplies-particularly beer.

skylino An- restrictions, his stock of mystery of his popularity. his opinions. An unrepen lleve that amokers of Coffe he felt he had to offer some HANGING

nouncement of a new 54- It is Gilbert's Mein Kampf, tant bachelor. he has

cigarettes are people of in- polite words to the star. appropriate anecdotes, his

finite refinement, or that

storey sicyscraper means that je his catalogue of evils to be hesitation in offering advice Lavo, used daily will do wit, was once in my position" bo York will have built. 105 new "Oscar Levant, the American the 10 years- from 1947 New. refusal to be awed by con- ventions, his avuncular crushed, his list of crusades on marriage and the rearing something remarkable if not told mo "Amid a sea of ap- skyscrapers.

to be fought. floridity, he looks like

of children.

regrettable to your appear provat, he sat disconsolately ไก intellectual to those who In spite of its title, this

a corner of a ance."

dressing-room. FORTY Russian-built oli well rarely came into contact is no blueprint on how to "By all means let him hit

"Well, Oscar, what did you think turbo-drills, clare cut Nor does the BBC or his of her, asked someone, noticing through, rock: 10 times tantor with one. He himself would behave.. It is more achia wife over the hend growl with disdain at the curately one man's idiosyn occasionally," he writes, work come off any better. bis silence, I think she stinks, than ordinary drills, have bot bought by a Dallas, Texas, inn. suggestion.

Price is not disclosed. cratic amusing account of defining the behaviour of an Through BBC television, he endd Oscar. how he expects the world ideal husband. "I do not claims, "this blessed realm But this alone does not to behave to him. And the advocate complete self- ds to be dazed, deafened and to say she elinkat should his B 1078 colour televison will explain the Harding phono world had better trend gin- effacement. But I do aug- anaesthetleed with village questioner, in outged indig be in three dimensions with tiation, And who the hell do a screen Bft, by 7it, on living

to bo to say He has mado no gorly for thore in the middle gest thats to hit her over hall variety, turgid chats you have

abe room walls, predict experts"îk: " alinka? was Dacor a reply." a U.S. convention. And ...ds, 10% original contribution to con of It is Gilbert feeling like the head every 10 minutes and inane parlour games."

years closed-circul! téløvisión, in temporary thought. He a throbblag boil waiting to is not only boorish, but un- And hla public gets short

And who the hell do you have the home will enable a watcha ta crusades for nothing signi- bo whacked,

warrantably boring." shrift as well. "Some of to be Gilbert Harding?.

be kept on cymry Koons,

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And who the hell go you.