If they want anything from a chauffeur:to a darner of socks, they just 'phono' the local clergymán,
RING UP THE MANSE-
4
& "GIVE AS YOU EARN"
TERE
Hanswer to the
11
4
By FRANK MOORE
town's that a family in the town might
prescription to get medicine, to sitting problem. People who a bit of gardening for an old live in the little Scottish age pensioner. town of Burntisland just Ive got about 120 names on pick up the telephone and my le maid Mr Orr.
"And there have been a' few quite dial BURNTISLÅND 3136. drunatly instances of help given
to people in emergencies."
But Mr Orr is not the
only one in his family with bright ideas. His wife, Dora, has a new idea for church gifts.
Tat 19 the home of the Reverend David C. Orr,
the minister. And he will x the caller
with a baby-sitter, up chauffeur, fa sock-durner, or somebody to bath the children.
Mr Orr has sbrawn up (031 index
of volunteer who will tackle any job urgently needing to be done in the district and they will do it freely.
At his mange, Mr Orr shower me a questionnaire he has asked his 1,000-strong congregatiɔn to htt up.
The every pasible type of estatunce
She wants to put Sunday con- tributions on a basis similar to income tax.
She suggests levying so much in the £ with reduced rates for lower incomes, a standard rate, und "surtax." And it would be called G.A.Y.E. Give As You Earn.
forty questions cover sldered by the Church: Session, THE
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
THASSER Bahi
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"-and to think that once upon a time we made jokes the League of about
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Her Iden, which is to be con-
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on to the Church should be repence in the £ of the lver's income.
Where the income is less than £4 week, it should be two- pence, and, over £12 a week, uv in sixpence in the £.
On this basis, in old-aged £2 would be pensioner with
tive fourpence expected to week, sonrame with £10 would give two shillings and sixpence. and a family with £15-a-week Income would give our shillings
and sixpence
Mrs
Orr: "Just
14
Tax rates nuctuate and the GAYE
улгу, RCJ
income earnings scheme would change according
to budgeter needs.
"I think GAYE is a good idea. When you think of the amount
spend of money propte lobtices and entertainment some contributions to the tho chunk are rufieulously low.
put one " every member
collec- shilling a week on the tion plate, the financial worries of the whole Church of Scotland I would be polved."
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new nest occupied by Ooch and Owch, your rheumaticky Uncle Nat and the Plucky Little Woman, has a walled gar- den neatly kept by the previous owner.
of
At first they were proud It, telling each other they will have a dear old gardemen 10 mow the lawn and grow flowers and vegetables.
They remembered the happy Tollering pre-war days at
Towers
in Surrey when dear old gardeners were glad to work
shillings A Bow though Owch
for
Q
reminds
why they
were
SO
day Ooch glad. They all had Taging thirst
by bottles of beer in quenched the woodshed which often oos more than their wages.
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So the problem is who going to be gardener?
☆ ☆ ☆
Owch says she is incapable plck of doing anything but flowers on account of her dis- ability. A. Occh has miracu• lously cured his lumbago carrying A nutmeg In
by
kie
traueer pocket he had better buy a lawn mower before the grass gets out of hand.
Ooch has
been
Since then haunted by this garden, so plea- But it seems that in 1937 there sant to look al, but so menacing are no dear old gardeners work- when you think of the hours of instead toil to be spent there ing for a few shillings a day. They all want CB week. Hof in the low tavern. they still have raging thirsts For Ooch could hardly afford to hire then, the price of beer being what it is.
he knows one thing nothing at all about hortieul- ture. He can hardly distinguish a weed from an orchid. Up to
Part Four of our new mystery serial: 'No Flowers By Request'
TURNING DOWN an offer to live with her manded daughter, widowed Mrs. Merton takes a job as cook-housekeeper. It is a strange, household in an old rectory. Her employer has an ailing wile, and his niece, who lives there, helps in the house, It is the nurse's night out, and the vidow is indoors with the invalid and the niece a
this moment he has only read a book on the subject bought for bim by Owell Looking up the last week in March he read the following:
not
Last Chance of Good Dig- Those who did http: succeed in digging most of the garden before Chrtitnias and by have since been held up bad weather should press on now without delay. He is also supposed to plant early potatoes. attack apple
and lettuce pesta, sow
sweet corn, train cucumbers, deal with club-root discase. prune
Ever roses, and support peas.
weno I there
any peas he wouldn't know how to support them.
time If he still has any
sow short-horn spare he can carrots (so they have horna, do
bush
10
they?), globe beetroot, and fur- nips.
Treat in store
March is, moreover, the busiest
for verbena, month
and palumins, begonias, zinnias, salpiglossis,
Ooch. which, to sounds more like a disease than a flower.
to
Owch, in her enthusiasm get Ooch cracking, has warned him about our neighbours.
In each of the gardens sur- rounding us she has detected a
of the stock real-life model character which never failed to appear in old-fashioned English- country-house comedies,
off a rose bush as she sat on a shooting stick, or polling some- thing in the conservatory. Her sharp,
authoritative
mamer with the lower orders, includ- ing gardeners, hid a heart gold.
of
But Owch says such hearts of gold can turn to steel If one unkept garden fuit of long grass and weeds is likely to put other gardens in parti. The seeds of dandelions, for instance,
float on the wind across garden walls and drop liko
* miniature attack on immaculate causing
damage
repaired.
Cummings
thirk our garden is getting a little out of hand,
If Ooch doesn't do anything about it they will call "ogain, the sweat smile gone, and say we really should employ a gar- dener If we can't do the work our clvos.
If our garden eventually becomes Eke thic Burma jungle,
with
fio féet Grass high
and
weeds poisonous spreading all over the die trict, Owch, thinks that their husbands, mostly
retired naval officers, with snatch old cutlmiaca from their walls and organise a boarding party,
* ☆☆
Ooch, feeling desperate, as, thought of covering the garden with concrete but feels that with a conengbe garden would lose-caste, alrendy lost to some extent with the cal butcher.
When Owch telephoned for paratroop some tripe a shocked voice lawns, answered, “Tripe? Nobody here cally cats tripa, madam. Many have
never seen such a thing in their, lives."
not
At first, says Owch, they will
Before long there may be
She was always "county" take Dily on our ignorance, some weeds they have never
a sweet seen in their lives either. She wore sensible tweeds. She They will call with was always nipping something smile and ask us If we don't
DEATH midnight
WENT down to the kitchen and got busy with cooking supper. I was just getting busy with the eggs when I felt more than a the niece, Philippa Deane, came in. little exasperated. Perhaps my face showed it, she apologised very politely for interrupting, adding: just that I'm so worried I felt I had to talk to someone, and you look so sensible and well balanced, Mfrs Merton, it's comforting even to look at you.”
nicely
"I'm sure that's micant," I replied, beating the eggs steadily, "but 1 dfin't really come here to be a com- fort to anybody, except in the sense of providing good meals and an orderly household."
the
In a flash
which was healthily dump, and tell the pulse in her temple..
I left the room quietly and
at a maternity case up at Long Meadham,
"I shouldn't worr]) too much, Mrs Car- has given people frights several times before quite
ringford
at
Drawing by Gordon Hogg
(World Copyright)
Nurse – Jected a shot
of coramine
Philippa followed me, looking like a ghost herself. "It's
"What do you think?" she
unnecessarily. Just keep erected a shot of coramine. When who sat her up against the "I can't Judge, because I warm and quiet. As for another I had seen her at seven o'clock pillows?" asked anxiously
Blakeley's the Mrs Caringford was lying flat. don't know anything about the doctor Dr
nearest, but he's over 20 miles After supper she was half sitting From Hallering. I give Dr up, propped by pillows to case Barr your message when he her breathing. I supposed - it
was very laboured.
It was Just before midnight she died, five minutes before Marcus Carringford returned with Dr Grayling.
By E. C. R. LORAC
I rejoined coldly. niece was left in charge on the patient." evening when Dr Grayling was "Do you know if Nurse gave not available.
her a sedative before she went Out?"
QHE didn't reply, and I think SHE
she would have gone out of All too clearly I remembered without speaking that revealing Cry of Philippa again, but unfortunately I look Denne's which I had overheard ed up and caught the expression
"Not dgain... I couldn't on her face, and she looked so bear it." wretched that I put the basin down and said: "Fell me what's worrying you sometimes just talking helps."
Irritable
25.00 face (and what, a lovely face overs Then I said: "What you Barr,
it was). "APA abou MTB really want is for me to ring up number?"
រ
Do
vou knows
his
comes in."
She rang off, and I was aware of Philippa Deane hovering be
hind me.
"Now it's no use worrying,” "Nurse will be in by I said
By the way, i ten o'clock. suppose Mr Carringford will be in to supper et eight?”
Cup of tea
I
WENT to the
"Indeed, not," I replied, "I didn't touch her."
"Funny-Mrs Deane says the didn't either. Oh, Lord, I-don't
Looks know.
as though we're all in it together."
"What on earth do you mean, Nurse?" I demanded indignand- ly.
"She
was all right when I klichen and went out," she said obstinately,
made some lea. One always "and now she's dead..... Give does make tea. Mrs Carringford me some TROTO sugar in this, "I don't know, he didn't was no concern of mine, but 1 It tastes frightful. I like Indian
"I'm sorry, admit i was appalled,
this sick-making Pleture tea, really, as she replied but this house is like that after picture lashed across my China muck," sometimes,"
mind and wild conjectures with --"Well, I'll make you another them. I was just going to empty VANO go, dear. My Indian
I suggested:13 "if Mra Carringford were my the teapot when Nimão Culler
. He'
"I DON'T know. She just said: She's quite quiet I cut up the bacon, fitted the now. I should leave her för m
the round dish and bif*** pastry to asscnbled my ple with a speed and lack of core most unlike my "Then it didn't look at though aunt, I certainly shouldn't like came in, looicing curiusly de- iica's in a tin in her room and the room's locked up as I told $ 9.50 "Oh, indeed # does!" she
usual habits, Mrs Denne sat Nurse were worrying," I replied, to leave her alone as she is flated, coloniess, imp. ・ TO YOT." She added, thoughtfully;
you are now I replied. Then, feeling faint flush creeping crumbling the odd fragments of "Nevertheless, since 18.00 cried,
will ring up Dr I'd been rather harsh, I added, "For God's sake give me a "She won't have any Airther
maled 18.00 1. up into the cold pallor of her pastry while I put my ple in the auxious,
the need for that, precious special "You go and sit with her now, cuppa..
says he can't under- tea of here in the antique and I'll have my supper wollen. room the pie le cooked. Then you can stand it. That means a P.M. caddy will she?!" 8.50 Carringford. Nurse Cutter has Dr Barr-is that it?”
down and have your I wlah Fd never taken the
• TOMORROW 25.00 one out
She glanced at 'her' watch, come and I'm mire Kira
develops. as froES 35.00 Carringford #LI mean
"I should be very grateful if "He'll have left the surgery and pupper in peace and I'll sit with, case: on,"
She broke off, and then GLADYS MITCHELL tore than she generally fa She looks dreadful" to "me?""
you would, Mra Merion, but got home by now," she mid. her
She went back to Mrs Car- asked afwuptly, was voll over the story-telling, 7.50
$TL case you think I'm just a number's Clanton, 92. He
Tues about
ten niica from ringford's room without a word. "well. then-ring up
the making a fuss, won't you come
Marcus Carringford came in 5.00 loctor" I cried, "Don't hest and look at Mre Carringford? hora,"
I expect you imow much more It was a woman's voice that at half-past ako. His wife was 10.00 tate. What are doctors for
answered the phone and an still asleep. 4.50
"It isn't so simple as you about uincer than I do?
irritable woman at that. "Can think," she said unhappily. "Dr With a feeling that a concerted speak to Dr. Barr?” I asked. "V Nurse Cutter 1.00
camo in 20 Grayling is away this evening effort was being made to involve
minutes later and then things 3,00 and Dr Barr takes his surgery me in responsibility for the In- "Dr Barr has been called out, began to limppen: she stormed 1.50 for him and is on call if needed: valid, I followed Philipps Deado. Can you leave a message, helplessly over the telephone, 1.50 but Mrs Carringford can't bear into her aunt's bedroom: Indeed
please?!...
Dr Barr was siilf out, Dr Gry- 80 im
\DT Bart-the-simply loathes it seemed "Impossible to refuse.
#This, is Mrs Carringford's ing's whereabouts unknown.
7.50
30
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As though In a flash of clair. The room was very, dim-the housekeeper peaking from Nurse sent, Marous Carriagford 30 voyance I saw, a number of curtains were drawn over the Hallering Old Rectory. Nurse off in the car to run Dr Grayling. things with mther dreadful windows and only a faint Cler is out, and "am very" to earth, and then told me to clarity. Nurse Cutler had gone diffused light showed me Mrs antiqua about Mra Carringford, come and help her in the sick- SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD. on pleasure benk. That Carringford's face, She lay on can get in touch, als Dr, roon. The patient was much
Marcus Carringford had gone to her, back, saleep. I listeneck to Bart?" KOWLOON share: Nurses jaunt, manag her respiration: It was Row, but timen kortbe
Men Corringford had taken a not laboured, Very atefully I "Quite impossible" retortad i tam for the worse,) and bar 'lald : my: hand on her forebead, the irritable volon," "Ele le Qua
HONUKONG
„colder now?
"We"rmokad". her tõund – with fresh hot bottles, and Nurse th=\\
writer
The Characters in the Case..... CENTRAL figure in the story so far is WIDOW MERTON, gentlewoman cook-housekeeper to the Carringfords. They are commercial artist MARCUS CARRINGFORD, and his wife--who is bedridden= TRENT CARRINGFORD, a war-wounded nephew, and MRS PHILIPPA DEANE, o'niece of the nervy types Mrs Cartingford is looked after by NURSE CUTLER and visited by DR GRAYLING. An interesting out- sider, blonde JOY BARNSLOW, comes to help in the garden; and another outsider is,MRS HUTCHINSONTM the daily help. Sennacherib, the cat complèter the
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