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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1960.

LONDON LETTER Know Your Dog

ONCE

By Sir Beverley Baxter

CE a year I reserve the right to recall a story of my bachelor days when I phoned a friend of mine and suggested that we should have a game of golf. "Nothing doing" he replied. "I have been reading. the newspapers and have decided to stay in bed and wait patiently for the end of the world.”........

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That was many, many years ago and my old friend is now nearly 80 years of age. The world is still revolving on its axis, young people continue to marry and have children, and the four seasons follow each other in rotation, world without end, Amen.

Therefore, I suggest that we strike a balance between the op- timist who believes that the world will go on, for ever, and the pessimist who like my old friend, just waits patiently for the last trump.

Let us therefore put the pes- *mist in the Cock and submit him to cross-examination. "Coll Mr. Mugwump! Take the Mr Mugwump!"

"Your name is Mr Mug- wump?

"Yea sir."

oath

"What is your arst name?" "Dreary."

"Now Mr Dreary Mugwump will you tell the jury when end why

first became # you

persimist!"

"I guess I Wis born a pessimist and have always been,

who isn't one. Anybody

pessimist is just

"Never, mind about

ing...."

D blither-

anybody but yourself Mr Dre: ry Mugwump. As a bay were you good at games?"

"Nothing much"

"Did you do well at school?" "I weren't bad at arithmetle "Did you study philosophy in the later years of your school- ing?"

What's that?" "Philosophy, Mr Mugwump in bonn of the mind and spirit. It End your thoughts governs therefore your actions. Do you know what I mean?

"It's all baloney to ime."

"Yes...I sec. Do you read very much?"

"I read the sports section in the papers. Mostly the racing. It's all crooked."

"Event

when the fuvourite

us all up? I was reading the vther day that an attick bomb can be exploded in the Sahara Desort and blow the Moon to pieces, that?"

What do you make of

"Sirictly speaking. Mr Mug wump, I am not here to be ques inned but since you asks what I make of it I should yonture the opinion that what you have de scribed is rather happen,"

unlikely to

"Walt and see. That's what I eay, welt, and see,"

"Yes, Mr Mukwump, I heard you the first time. The court will now adjourn for luncheon, and resume at two-thirty.

.

I

★

HAVE taken the liberty of

writing this

Imaginary court room sketch because in substance it echoes the thoughts of many people today. Day after day the newspapers tell

One would think that the Fre-atomic age was gentle and happy by contrast, and every thing was best in the best of As for all possible worlds. that out-dated 1914 war it was between skirmish П mere unies.--

was practically a sentence of me there is no reason why It should not be ourell,

death. Today, if it is caught in

Then how is the pessimist lo maintain the pervading gloom which is so dear to him?

The Bawer Is that he will

believe that all is bad b the worst ut worlds. If they est going to die before their time," he says, "how are you going to feed them, and how are you going to house them,

and how are you going to th work for thaan?"

Therefore let us pause, for o moment and cost our minds into the great unknown. What are these stars which are satellite to the Moon? Why should we a- sume that they are uninhabited possible territories? Is it not that men and women, living in the terrestial sphere, look at us every night and laugh to scorn those dreamers who suggest that

• Iman

beings exist

only what we call our world?

there

men

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By HM. HOWELL

The tiny

THE

tiny Chihuahua

THE trend in size is downwards but when some I learned Professor writes a new Social History (of Britain) in the year 2,000 A.D. he will scarcely fail to comment on the remarkable growth of interest in dogs that occurred in the first half of this century, and he may enquire how it was that two major wars should have trebled the number of exhibitors after the First He may and doubled them again after the Second. note too that Cruft's Dog Shows (not to mention those. at Madison Square Garden) attracted yearly more than 50,000 visitors.

tpeak a language unknown to Casualties

what

Moon Christopher Columbus cafied and dis- inte the unknown.

America. He had us that science has outstripped covered

either mongrel, er Dog-breeding may be regard specifically could not the soul of mart and, at its falth that logic

With his sailing ship as a reeria for the busy odigebd, dog or bitch, mokes malignant will, can destroy the destroy.

uncharted and an occupation for the idle, the best pet is unferable. What he ventured into

vast and while the improvcami in 'matters most is the capability of opened M waters and world.

Is it not living standards has undoubted the owner, and the character of are vist ly called for more and more the ang. The fact remains how- continent to our use, possible that continents and occans in the pedigreed dogs, would that all ever that bott in England and owner knew the elements of Hongkong the recognised breed terrestial sphere?

of tyre is on the increase, which is ther companion In ten years or a hundred care for

tor years, and that not surprising when one wants from

and possibly now years women may be found on the they furthermore troubled to to know just how big one's #ts Moon and Its satellites. If they teach them basle good minners, puppy will grow,

characteristics are, And A In the Saturday editions tif natural pride in owning our cars it will not bo very different from our world where the China Mall published last superb specimen of a specific veries breed. Unfortunately its training Hlustrations dealing with the The truth is that the 1914 war the Russlan speaks no English Spring, appeared a was far more destructive than end the Chinese speaks no

more popular breeds of dogs, in in good manners is not always based on their og mensurate with its outline, the Hitler war of 1839. It was French,

that the casualties of Yet at this point I think we an order true civilians in the Hiller war were must grant our gloomy friend àgregate registration numbers in, but of this more anon

battles on the some logic in his cars. Already the Hongitong Kennel Clubs CONTINUED NEXT - WEEK greater, but the Western Front look far as the teaming millions in China since the war.

present a threat to Russla, Each lives than in 1914.

year the population in Chine Would Hitler ever have gone increases not by thousands but to war if he had known that by hundreds of thousands and Berlin would be annihilated? I where on their surplus popula- went to Berlin, with a parlia- tion over-spill? The only answer mentary mision, soon after the is Siberia with its vaal wastes. It was Both Rusla and China ore Com- end of the Hitler war.

to watch munist states but the instinct to dreadful sight

and

woman survive is far stronger than any wretched men slowly crawling their way like political creed.

of What then is the answer to rats in great pyramids

the undoubted problem of an "No sir, I'm a Presbyterian,"

rubble.

ever expanding population in a Tyrants go to war because

world which cannot extend its they can "Yes....I

believe that Mr they

frontiers? Mugwump you are

of achieve victory. If in the years no to come there, is another great úcubt you discuss world affaira war the only winners will be with your colleagues, is that the rats that emerge from the

How did chaos evolve into To that mountains of debris, Que

extent Selence is not malignant. cosmos? The answer is that the the contrary It has pro- great mysteries can only be mouths of like the rest of you." On

on understood by faith. God Is a "Never mind the rest of us. Bounced sentence of death spirit and we must worship him It is you who are in the box war:

in spirit and faith. The only You are a respected citizen, you

But the ingrained pessimist logical explanation of the crea- are a married man with a wife and family, and you have will not change his spots merely tion of the world is to be found steady work. Then why do you because science has but-moded in the supernatural.

war. He is even worried be fake such a gloomy view of the future?"

wins?"

"That's crooked too." "You have steady work?" "Oh yes, But it don't get me Howhere. The boss secs that"

to

Mr Mugwump, you admit that you have steady work and happy home or at any rate #home-and yet you seem unusually pessimistic. Are you in fact a pessimist?"

Bumé

see.

experience

Now u man and

guess we shoot Our

'Attick'

"How can a bioke be anything but pessimistic with this here attick bomb that's going to blow

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When was the world created?

Top 15

Since the war however thers has also been a falling off in the rambeta of the large breeds. for the obvious

reason tiet gardens are becoming almost a houses rarity, and apartment ubiquitous.

As it was, the list ran as fol- lows fcr the top fileen, Alsatian; Cocker, Polie, Duch- rhund. Boxer, Miniature Poodle, Wire: Fox Terrier, Bull Terrier. Collie, Scottish Terrier, Pointer, Smooth Fox Terrier, Irish Set- ter American Cocker, Great Dane.

Today's order would show

Pekes and Poodles. surge in with the Alsatian and Terriers generally, fading.

The foregoing list however So I end this excursion into takes no cognizance of the local has no rules cause science has prolonged the unknown with this thought. "Pooch" who

to a standardised life. Not many. years ago The great truths, like the great binding him

but generally with mysterics can only be under-shape 'tuberculosis was regarded as a

Chow type latent or obvious in disease that could not be pre- stood by faith.

such the his ancestry. For That Is cured. I

Therefore belleye, can re- vented or

new commandment gives S.P.C.A; have found homes in

considerable numborg. member as a boy in Canada thit the consumption, as it was called, unto 113,

members of

the family.

still

nemployed

That

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