1960-11-26 — Page 12

•BY THE.

WAY

by Beachcomber

اله

NCE more a sceptie how

ked whether

these gadgets are renliy na neċessary as we are toki.

I hope he will make an ex- ception for the steel spring for fastening egg-cup together, the waterproof tail for rocking- horsen, the electrie fan tor dis- entangling spngtret, the spare holes for insertion in sieves, the wire frame for faghorn-confairy- ers, the leather oysters for cats to play with, and the plastie needle for letting air into furd. The S.P.R.C.A.

EAR SIR,

Dopplaud your suggestion

of a Sactely for the Preservation of Rural Car Amenities

Cars

in big totens are part of the vigurons life around them, but in remote country places their life is very dull when they are not in use. There are many village greens serving no useful purpose. Why could they not be a kind of playground, where cars could get together, as WETC, Bs they do in city streets?

"Car-lover.'

'Dr Rhubarb's corner

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MJ, writes: My husband persists in hanging his hat on a hall I use for a saucepan, though there is a peg in the hail for it. How can I cure him of this tire- some habit?

Dr Rhubarb says: Hang the saucepan on the hat-peg. That will make him feel a fool when friends call.

Filly mignon

MAN who was being enter- tatned by friends In a restaurant beeune silent, and ale his file signon with evident reluctance. "What's the mai- ter? asked his host,

man looked at his plate and akt, This reminds me of my father's stories of the Siege of Macking"

-(London Expres Service),

ARTIE

“What does one say when someone from down there does muke it? What kept you?' or maybe 'Long time

London Express Bervice,

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1960..

JACKY'S DIARYS

NECKS WEAK i'm gonna GO WITH MOMMY & Daddy To Vote for a New PReSaDENT,

BY

JACKY

Mendel Som age 33

VOTE HER

THEY SOME PEOPLE WHO are good in Arith- MATIK Go Home & COUNT UP THE Votes, & THE SUY Who Wins Is The President,

foR You

-

1 FOR You.

Henpecked? Dads still

wear the pants

New York.

AD still rules as lord of the manor despite widespread

Deas that Momism' has taken over the United

States, according to the results of a five-year survey just published here,

The domination of the family working-class marriages are the hy nggressive American women happies

that children

the

ankl

is just

one of the many mis- bring husband and wife closer conceptions about married life together. uncovered by a University of IN STUDYING the working- Michigan survey group of social class marriages, for example, phychologists.

That researchers learned Headed by Dr. Robert Blood this group of husbands had the and Dr Donalci Wolfe, the lost authority in their homes, researchers came to the conclu- and were divorced more, aften. sion that all that has really Their wives, in turn, received happened in the average American family is a trend to ward sharing of authority.

ACTUALLY they maintain, the "balune of power" sull is lightly in favour of the hus- band.

less companionship, sympathy understanding than women

in other classes.

THE PSYCHOLOGISTS also found that children frequently ore "corrosive" factor

ย marriages.

In

over

AND EVEN where there were

Many partners quarrel henpeeked men, the surveyors the youngsters and adjustments found that the men were vie made to the presence of child- Ins, not of their wives but of ren in the family often resulted their own weaknesses.

of some sympathy The repor also discredited and companionship between the two other long-standing parents. "myths" about family life; that

In the loss

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The WAY IT WORKS IS, You go in a LITTLE PLACE Where

·They got diff Rent Candy. DATES. ONLY INSTEAD of

eATING THEM You Vote

for Them

BET

Janu ONLY HE DOESNT Per SWORN AT UNTIL JANU aRY of NEXT YEAR.

Do You SWEAR?..

(i do

BOOTH

"3

it's REAL BARK IN There on a count of it's a Secrit Election, Which MEANS YOUR not SUPPOST TO SEE WHO YOU Vote for

COUPLE of Years ago, THEY HAD WOMEN'S SuffERAge. Which meant That Ladies COULDNT VOTE,

No Women ALOUDY

Vore Here.

ANYHOW YOU WRITE down Your FAVORIT PreSaDENT, & You STICK HIM ina Box.

1 Vote

N&WOMEN

aLOUD

F

That's

BETTER

11-6

BUT PATTY Soon They were. given The Right To Vote & Suffer the SAME að Men.,

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS – 1960

The

China Mail

presents

by

ELEANOR ABBAS

for

the

competition

The winning entry

Sino-British literary

IT

was light. Windows were pushed open along the row of dirty grey houses, like a many-eyed creature shaking off the slumber-mist that clouded its eyes and fluttering each of its heavy lids in turn. The houses stood huddled together, as though trying to keep warm in the bristling February chill. Below them yawned the canal. From it there arose the stench of nameless rotting things together with a strong evidence of the carelessness of the night-soil collector as he made his rounds through Canal Road. This unseen vapour drugged the tingling air, bringing its infamous news to sensitive nostrils. Fortunately, there was none about.

He

it:

He

"At The Races (1918)"

mu wee

to return. Ho Cheung and A door slammed. Ho

Grandfather had come home; at Ming was on his way to the

the young man there wer It was then that factory.

sign. But in the mall he saw the sparrow,

hours of the morning a shadow It crouched in the verandah. had almost stepped on

over the fish tanit for u hovered The bird was dead.

gonc. stooped, picked it up and minded scrambled down the iron yellow square with a number on blood-thirsty Demon unleashed noment and then was

Next morning, Ho Cheung begin walking to the canal rungs into the canal with ralian With a puzzled, almost angry from Hades. It breathed destruc-.

and ten in its path, turning to blaz tearfully greeted Grandfather iske's and nondescript pans erk, he Dulled his off,

ing gold with each Midas' touch "Big brother to fling it in. He had not and basins for the lion's share glazed round, half expecting to

carno home. Ho gone two steps when he saw of the windfall- terel-Tree- see practical joker holding his the things that stood in its way. needed water and drained the

sides. He did not see any. In That night the Ho family last drop from my fish tank. another, and another. There for-nli.

the milling throng each one

waited in despair ân Ho Ming "Look, my goldfish is dead.” were hundreds of them-all

wore an identical paper on his dead. For no reason at all, Two days passed. It was back, but none seemed to take Ho Ming felt an icy shiver Saturday. It was also race-day. any notice. He was frightened, Rickshaw pullers, carned their and, butting his way through down his back. Dropping weekly bonus as they raced to the crowds. shouted, "Grand the bird, he raced into the wards Happy Valley, Hawkers, father, grandfather!" He spotted house.

fruit-sellers and sweet-meats his brother Ho Ming mingling He reappeared, followed sellers beuded for the same with the multitude and lunged destination with their tidbits forward to snatch the ugly piece pyjama-clud relatives and wares.

The "knai lo" or of paper from his back. Some-

by

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and co-tenants. There was English gentleman in his well- one grabbed his arm. It was hush as the curiosity- tailored sut rubbed shoulders Grandfather. Ho Cheung blurt-

the dockyard seekers gazed at the dark with

coolie ed out his bewilderment as best still forms that littered the squeezing his weer's wages he could, ending with a trium-

affectionately in his pocket.

street, looking like the cursed spots that marked a Plague victim. Then they

Shroud

phant, "You see, you have one too!" With that he tore it off. The old man was perplexed. He SPW nothing Suddenly, he understood, The puzzled frown. were all talking at once. Heads poked out of win- From his verandah, Ho Ming on his face gave way to hauror, Tugging at the boy, he dows and others leaned watched the familiar sight at whispered hoarsely, "Quick, we

the Race Course a haze of dust must leave." from verandahs to inves- kicked up by anxious shuffling tigate the cause of the feet enveloped the whole area "But, what about ble brother? hubbub in the street, like a transparent shroud. Startled faces drew back to be bolted out the door. he

Calling over

his shoulder as We must find him." emerge again from the door shouted, "I'm going first, Grand- for a better view. People father. You and Ho Cheung Before the old man could poured into the street, like follow later." Ho Cheung was answer, there come the sounds bees from hives, as

of a scuffle from under the his twelve-year-old brother, the houses belched forth their father passed through the sacred As the punches fell, a charcoal Soon Ho Cheung and Grand- stands. Two men were fighting. occupants.

canal, ward,

Jabbering

two

como

home,

18

A British Crossword Puzzle

12

114 15

16

19

13

20

21

22

245

124

27

24

29

130

31

i' ACROSS

1 The apple of teacher's eye?

(B).

4 Says positively it's over

there! (B).

portals of the Mecca of gumbies burner was knocked over and and betting fanatics. Admission the live charcoals leaped into was tree. The public grand- longues of flame as they fed on the bits of paper that littered riando of stout poles and un- Beasoned planks groaned and the ground. Fenned by the Bagged visibly under the weight bracing breeze, the tongues A shrillery turned all heada to the direction of the canal. A trampling feet,

thousand pals of joined forces and coffed round The boy made the foot of the stands, darting woman who jabbering, excitedly his way under the stands. from polo to pole le fery ser and pointing wildly down the Here was a private world, ponts. A rear came from the The crowd surged for where hawkers spread their unsuspecting spectatore as they There in the "shallow wares on the dust, where one jumped to their feet to watch murky slime that was once must pick one's way carefully the favourite water, as though the earth had in order to avoid stepping on leading by two lengths,

8 Schoolboy escapade (6), 20é opened and coughed them up. some tidbits, and where a boy cheen wriggled millions of fish. They could buy himself

turned into piercing 10 Make ready for polishing man-sized screams as the whole grand-

(6). inted in the morning raya bellyache for 3 centa, For [a slivery · sheen

sparks which flow from the slug bolled in tasty, brown grows a trapped beneath.

glittering cont he had a silos of squid, eland collapsed, bringing a swift 12 Creepers in the grass? (6). 14 Arcommodation for aboo-

strårigen «('7). gish depths. The canol that chunk of it's noe and another was once chocked with ith, of ox tongue done in the came now teemed with myriad of way, deliciously topped with living things that seemed to child sauce and a dash of must- struggle for life as the black ord. Ho Cheung was nibbling sodden mass from the witches away happily whon ha nolleed The lucky ones cauldron oozed slowly into the smelling that was not there a hidden onveru of the earth, moment ago, The hawker equat small exit, battling with their 20 Rall distance? (6). away from probing eyes, ting in front of him had a huge best friends to floo from that 30 Junior of the mix (0).

*TO mereltul end to thosO

grounds

Agony

On

17 Dan the funny old man (4). 10 Handed dexterously (7). 20 Inserts surreptitiously (6.2).

22 Take care oử (4),

32

DOWN

1 Jeweller's adhesive (5).

2 Analyse a sentence (5)

3 Mental aberration? (5).

It needs doing (4).

6 Mada oneself a nuisance? (0),

7 Sol, for instanes (0) .,

Round your little anter? (7).

11 One who splites, it soema (0), 13 Just like a donkes (7) ZA 15 Log evason (4).

10 Mother' pampered, darling?

<B).

10 Not gaudy (4), 5/

21 Manage to persuade (8).

23 After-dark speed of chemi- 20 Fare pólota (0), S the surged towards the 27 Oh, lots and jobs (6);

cal productioma? (7),

24 One-time monarchs (6),

20 Give out (5).

20 Taken in (5).

excitement helgbiened square piece of yellow paper on hell-on-carth, trampling our 31 Swing back and forth (0), 28 Nuclear power apparatus (6),

fila back, On it was written a underfoot, heedless of the featful 32 Tina's material (B). number in bold Chinese Inic, cries of agony that came from

The

with this nów discovery,

the

Some épeculated...on morning's events, others hinted darkly of evil things to one. while the more

The Hawkor next to hn had the inferno and the pitiful wate ? YESTERDAY'S :: CROSSWORD—herpati 3 – Stowaway, “B the, same thing, und soild the of those pinioned under the Lion, 9 Retainer, 11 Gridiron, 13 Odds, 15-Scuttles, 18 Boethling, neat, Ee wheeled round, every debris, clawing at the dust and 10 Bred, 21 Selector, 26 Circular, 28 Klin, 27. Blue step, Down: 1 ane nad a similar piece of paper, pleading for a holping hand. Plug, Yogi, 4 Tier, 8 Wann, ó- Wined, Yerda, D. Biote, 10 He craned his neck and felt his Soun, even these sounds of terror Topee, 12 ildoar 14 Dingo, 10, Level 17 Blver, 19 Baçka, 20 bacz. Theru: It was, Last alckly, were / drowned by the rnging | fryed; 21 Buda; da Lake 25 Tyylg, 24 find,,