1958-06-10 — Page 4

THURLOW CRAIG

reporting from the Izaak - Walton country on the last phase of his gipsy- style journey

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1958.

CHEEKY? WELL, THEY First man on

I

HAD FOUR MEALS ON THE HOUSE

LAY on my back in a green glade with dappled sun- light dancing down through the young leaves. Ten yards away stood the caravan with Zainita, my little Welsh mare, beside it, free and unharnessed, filling up on fresh spring grass.

Not once since she became the motive power of my caravan Journey has there been any need io tether her.

She considers herself one of the family completed by myself and Teena, my boxer pup.

Teena lay by my side fest asleep. In my cora ww.s the music of the gentle River Dove. playground of old Izank Walton In the stormy days of the Crom- wellian War

I only had to, shut my eye and on the bank was Izak him- self, setting up o rod to worm for a fat trout, while his friend Cotton carefully lied a hoone- made fly to his horse-hair cust

. Teena slept....

We were alune with pur ghosts, the stream rippling as it had done in Walton's day, the sun shining, the birds singing. the whole land alive with the burgeoning of spring.

Suddenly f

SAW and did not stir. quielly on.

movement

Teen slept

A grey squirrel appeared and approached the caravan. Hav- Ing made a cautious reconnals. Although my sunce, I retired.

the wife had carefully chosen colours with which the caravan 1425 painted, they

did not entely blend with the scenery, and the general effect may have been a triffe bizarre to a simple comfy squirrel.

But a few minutes later it reappeared. Like a bather faced will: an ley dive, it plucked up courge and ran lightly along a Gheft. It stood on the step and peeped over the cooming.. Then 2 walted. it disappeared inside.

Out it came, holding a small pink dog biscuit in its hands. I ad bought a packet as a change for Teen, but she is a conserva- tive dog, so the packet had lain

untouched open al stool.

011

Ի So on we went out of Derby- silie and into the jailer country of Stafford, where the going was much easier.

One day we made 27 miles, the next 20 without the and slightest firing of Zainita. from losing weight, she actually improved in condition.

Fur had

I think this was because we had made short journeys and Jong rests where the going was diluit, while all the time she had been on a maximum ration **__!& feed. And we

of nourishing never pace short spring gross.

were

Now far shrad lay the Majestic Wrekin booking, from that approach, like some dead volcano. We were returning to country along the the familiar Welsh Marches, where history and legend are so mixed up that It is hard to fell one from the other.

through the

We parsed

market town

a smart trot so with

motor

London University is carrying out au experiment new to Journa Jarn A team of volos experts, under Dr D. B. Fry, who is head

or the Phonetics Department of University College (he could im called

людски "Profesor

**

| ligging" after the "Pygmalion" character), is listening to tape recordings of voices of people chosen by MERRICK WINN. These subjects range from the famous to the unknown, and the team know the Identily of note. How they fare in their fask of detection by Votre reported here. What also comes through Is the signlcance a voice can have in shaping the life of its This in the experts' Bassessor. Arcond witling. With Dr Fry are Dr Frieda Eisler. Mr A. C. Gimson, Mr John Trim, and Miss Lucle Maneл:--

THE

coppery voice coming

from the 'tape-recorder was the voice of a crook, a likable crook, but only I knew that.

To the listening scientists he was Mr X, reading an oldinoffensive piece about its being wrong for the workers to hë puid "double time on Sundays.

to

of Shrewsbury at as 10 keep up traffle-much the surprise of the police.

Then,

the having crossed Severn, we were once again on acustry road heading towards Stipersiones und the Mary

That night we Webb country.

brow Than rested under

of Pontesbury Hill, scene of some of her books, very close to where she wrote many of them. knew that Zainita

she was returning to her native Welsh the level I mountains, and n

not kenp her 'rom could trotting. At least, I could have The done, but didn't want to. road was smooth, and caruvan was light and she was an eager to get home.

cars

That day hundreds of vertook us on their way to the const, and many of them slowed down to look back at the gaudy. outt rattling ramshackle title

50 my

the the

The squirrel ran down shaft and vanished Intu undergrowth. It came back and Blole another biscuit. Then it returned with its male, which boldly followed it up the shaft and into the rich Interior of the carvan,

a

But, alas, as they made the return journey, each laden with biscuit, Teena stretched. yowned loudly, and sat op.

those little I'll say This for robbera. Scured they may have been, but they did not panic, and did not abandon their small bouly. They did not return, but they had

with four got away full-sized squirrel-meals,

Before we left 1 But the biscuits where The squirrels could not fait to find them.

Easier going

gally long. People waved at us, kame even stopped to wish as God speed-and wishing they had a caravan ke mine.

Journey's end

And Mr X, not long out

the tape

today...

DOES YOUR SPEECH{ STAMP

EX-CROOK!

Cinson: London, suburbs. Nu Bethnal Pre-1914 housing area.

YOU?.

buys flowers; and Lambeth Walk, where she sells them.

She borrowed her husband'a glasses and tape-recorded for inner me a piece beginning "Princess Green, Margaret wore n levvered

nt....

alid

ending. *That

Fry: Inner London, certainly,

Menen: Family woman, loves children. Unaggressive. Very tidy.

Eller: Tends to be anxious, but can master anxiety.

enough, luy?”*

Delighted

Mrs Like this:

The scientists. I now

Pogo, were delighted.

assure

cockney.

Fry: Typically cockney, com- ptains cheerfully without really Fry: Wonderful!' Gimson: Purest meaning it.

Perfect, The team: Aged between 40 and 45.

1

Fry: Professor Higgins could never have turned her into any But again the team were thing else, wrong about age. Mrs Bennett

is 37.

THE, TEAM ILEPT

TO RIGHT DR. FRIEDA KISLER, MR, A, C, GIMBON, MR, JOHN TRIM... MISS LUCIE MANEN/ (RIGHT FOREGROUNDS: DR. PRY.

'Trim: Hay family fe, of gaol, was their firat real probably bis somejob in burnan failure.

had been

relations.

Flower girl

.

Eisler: She wouldn't have

She wonted it.

has always been happy just as she lo

And Dr Elster, psychologist, was right. For I had asked Mrs Page ("Call me Maggie") if sho

The voice they enjoyed most had ever yearned to talk posh

by the way he stressed the ends written "Irish or Welsh," then "belonged to the curest ap and be a duchess and abu said of sentences),

He is energetle, Shortish.

had duubts,

proach I could find in London to pretty well, "Not likely."

Eliza, the "Pygmalion" Shaw's explained:

TOMORROW: flower giri.

"The

Dr Fry Irish-Welsh

has mixture

เก many similarities to Jewish and very mide-European that once you

Elster: Emotional, relishes ex-

Until now they

Wront most of it, but in a pressing his emotions. extraordinarily

In cursu way. Mr X is both successful

Fry: Old, but their experiment at University genuine and straightforward in College, London, to try to find his own legal ashian, out if voice reveals charnelege Wap-honorly a cock the irit betrays the things you most new elims to be going straight). want to hide, They began well enough with Mr X-ke this:-

Trim: South Essex? Horn- church or Dagerthant? Nol Southend,

Inter suburban.

Fry: I agree. Sunth of the river?

Real of the team: Yes,

Unimpressed

Manen: Short und fat. Fry: Very sincere.

4 on the wrong track it is

almost impossible to get off it." Do voices in the same family resemble GRE another? To Trim: A prophet, with real find this but I recorded Mrs rietorical power.

Mary Bennett, mother of the Bennett quads, then her 12- And I year-old son Raymond.

rranged that the team did not hear the volces one straight after the other.

Well, Sir Tom is shortish and to not thin. He uses most of Sunday

He is very energetic, emotional. drink hear. No gardening. But probably

certainly Gimson: No, Londener his family life is happy. le sincere. But would not call Joves his wife and children and him old-at 58-and I bet he they are not ashamed of him. survives some of the scientists.. But they spotted the rela- aunost at once They

next tried to get hi tionship

becouse, sold De Fry: "Both words like nationality, using "dentality," "eblalisation." and have an unusual jaw formation other feetukalilles which were beyond me, and, as I turned out, Hare quality beyond them. They were fan- tastically wrong.

1 kot 18 months for receiv iry stolen goods but only, gather, after years of uncaught

Oddly wrongers

So best

we

Then. towards evening.

hone village, and entered the

Ar journey was over. After a drink at the local, in we went the last short mile to the litte

bull hontse

into the grey

That night mountainside. Zainita would sleep in our loose-box while I slept in a bed.

During our absence Black Lady had hed kiltters, so I was introduced to Peter and Paul, bath black, their eyes just open. Nelson the Mauser welcomed

So did the ferrels us warmly. Hob and Jill. To the cade lamb -now grown intone young ewe-balled Teena in

the ribs and then tried to butt me tel.

At the holtom of the garden

and

the A

That alght I drank my ale and the horse-chestnuts ate my cheese sandwiches in un lilacs were in full bloom.

owl, ghostly white old parlour where Izaak and his great barn friends had eaten many a good in the gloaming, swept silently meat and drunk many a gallon below us. of potent barley wine.

We were home again.

X

is

Mr far, good

to X Division, known Wandsworth. He has feed there all his life for 18 months cat pulsory

Was

Dr Fry sald afterwards; "He fuok us in completely, and per- habs that exelains his success in crime. Tie is the kind of un- masked valce which is in fact mask."

Tam Next Sir

O'Brien,

team

right, tu, Labour M.P. for. Nutting- about his age. Forty Then, as ham West, and general secretary they listened to the pleasing of the National Association of valee protesting against double Theatrical and Kine Employces, Ime on Sundays, they went sddly wrong.

Manen: A family man, likes gardening on Sundays. Socialist tendencies, belleves in equal pay.

Gimson: Primary school self-educated. education, then Some sort of technician, Trade unionist.

Fry: Genuine, open type. No incude. Says what he thinks.

he Eisler:

sound Yes, straightforward.

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REVOLUTIO

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1

what I call the Robertson

added: "There are no rules for detecting family

Sometimes perhaps resemblances,

not. can, sometimes Afly-ny."

Fry: Furopean, Southern German

Glmson: Foreign, yes, even if test generation. Stav? Fry: Not Slav.

Manen; Pollsh or Czech-- someone like an actor who was famous in his own land but now —He - tape-recorded for me the can't muster our language: spech from the dock made by Gimson: He's an awful mix Robert Enact, the Irish rebel, u. and I thought he did mov- Ingly But the team were un- impressed.

Fry: II sounds Hice Vic Oliver giving a sermon. Trim: Nationalistic Socialist.

Rest of team: Yes,

We

Mrs Maggie Page, no girl now, What do you know of your has beamed on life for 50 years own volce....? For example, with a 26-letter alphabet, seat-

50% of you

turing uilches in millions. Most that only

ly in Covent Garden, where she comes over on the telephone,

This is the one 'cold' you just

can't catch.....................

HAVE you ever wondered whether doctors worry about

catching an illness from

their patients? Most

About physicians don't think about it twice but I have a

confession to make.

Soft, sad...

4

There's one thing that makes

פנל מנט

me shiver in my brown shoes, T.B.? No.

No. Pollo! Nothing Bke that. What makes Most of the tearn Inststed at me want to run a four-minute first that Raymond was a girl, mile in a quarter of an hour is aged about nine. It was only the sound of d sneeze. Yes. I.

a ten-minute argument am afraid of the common cold. after and two replays that they When I heard a repetitive and

sneezing megaphaned settled for a boy.

from the waitingroom I swore Fry explained: "Children's and it won't the Hippocratic voices are hardest of all to th

either. I epened the analyse because they're so un-surgery door and. formed. It's very often hard wearing an imaginary even to get the sex right."

V.C.. sald to Mrs. Mrs Bennett, born in Stepney Marsden: "Come in,

please." 10 moved recently they and crled; Mile End, has a sorl Trim showed his with a sad smile in it.

he had is how the team analysed it:-

Doubts

told them Sir Tom Тисл 1 Welsh

al-Arilish mixture of an

Welsh, and Irish and Fry: Labour Party, always smute their brows and

he is wildly or course," speaks as though

Evangelistic type notes, made early on; enthusiastic.

FASCISM

CIVIC

WAR

DEATH OF

DEMOCRACY!

ANTI-CLIMAX

volca This

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ALL IN A DOCTOR'S DAY by CEDRIC CARNE,

When she IC- moved the handker-

my fears before. There her face

histamine Mra Marsden had a

chilet from were over. cough. Her nose was "blacked." Her eyes watered. But I knew I couldn't catch this. For Mrs Marsden didn't have a cold. She had no virus. infection at all, She had hay fever.

Sensitive

are the anti- drugs for start, though people driving cars or working with machinery should avoid these. For these drugs may lead in some people to sido effects, which can temporarily affect their precision,

Then there's the method of reducing An allergic patient's sensitivity to the offending sub-

"It's usually worse in the stance by injecting saries of mornings," she said. "I some- times get long bouls of un- controlled sneezing.”

extracts of that substance in ever-increasing strengihs.

"Are there any other waya?"

Many people are sensitive to Mrs Maruden asked,

pollen present in the air during

May, June and July. Some-

Sometimes, oddly, symptoms

been

times it is from the flowers that of physical illness have bloom in the spring; sometimes relieved by psychological treat- from free pollen. Generally, ment. This is particularly trua though, it is from the pollen of of the allergies. grassca.

Sometimes this sensitivity by other the body to pollens or. inhaled substances does not lead to frank hry fever... But merely to catarrh and to what seems very much like the common

cold.

Three factors

It is probable that three factors are at work in calising conditions such as hay fever and First, the foreign asthma.

have protein (polien or what

the sensitised tissues of the body that react

"You mean I'm allergle to you). Second, something," Mrs Marsden saki. allergically to nuch proteins.

rummer

Heredity takes a part here. psychological factor

Yes, your spring or cold may not be a real cold at Thin, a

ia by no mean fully all. It may be an allergic con- which

understood. dillon

The method

For example, the successful. rellet of different allergic con.. ditions by hypnosis has been doctors, recent year.

"Almost every other person," widely reported, by

minor form especially

I said, "has some

in

of allergy. Sometimes it is to Some cures have been spectacu➡

опе

or another: grass pollen. Iar,

Samelines house dust. Some-

ilmes shelfah or oven nuts.”

"But that's only when all else

has failed," I said. "Mora

The first thing was to find orthodox methods, I'm sure, will out the offending substanes In help you."

Ая

Mrs Marsden's caso. This could I arranged for Mr Moraden be done by pricking minute to attend an allergy clinic. extrecta of different, though I saw her to the door she told

once she had seen likely, substances into the skin me how surface and seaing which one of stage hypnollat in action. -- these caused the allergic res "Were you impressed?". I

naked

action.

"Poor. fellow, ho had Allergie conditions today can terrible cald," she answered. The treated better than eves "And it was summer" 100."