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WHY QUEEN RODE IN 1933 ROLLS

By ROBERT WALLING *THAT a poor turn-out

W for British cars is the

Queen's tour so far.

Tita German car was used when the President of India, Dr Pra' ud. aecolved her. Now comes the news from f'ngkalan the she code in a 1841 Anuri-

can coupe.

Ba, the Queen not had a ride yes in a British car! Yes, she

A Holls-Royce,

Disevertly, the Ralin people print in their house magazine a picture of the Queen riding in

1.

She rode to Jaipur with the Guvernur of Rajasthan In what the cal newspapers called a "vintage open tolls."

1: "Arg Brilh FOT makers proud that the Queen should reel Indian crowds In a 1933 tourer preserve and Shim though 11 inay lunk?"

Yet ha the House of Lords a Government spokesman taiked of the publicity advantage of the Hoyal tour.

These are the facts:

-Was there not enough time

to prepare?

Not so. Buckingham Palace

and New Dell

Antiounced

plats early in August last year. -Do Rolis-Roure make a con-

vertible model.

They do the Mulliner con- vertible.

3- there any other suitable coupe on a ranker's stan- clare Us?

There are--the Bentley Park Ward and Muiliber modric. Whe i the -maker? Rolls- Hoyer.

—(London Erpress Service).

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1961.

BY:

JACKYS DIARYS

Last night Mommy TauHgt

me A NERTSERY RYME

called Simple Simon,

HERE is how it 30ES

Hello,

age 33% JACKY MendeLSOH

Said Simple Simon To The Pie-Man: UnateD

Simple Simon Mer a PiE-Man going To The FAIR.

FOR SALE.

Then it goes on

¡AINT

gat

EnNY,

ee Simple

Simon went out

FISHING

FOR TO KETCH

Said Simple SimON TO THE Pie-Man:

CHEEP,

emily

a WHALE

1-15

** Lemme TASTE YOUR Wheres

Said The Pie-Man

To Simple Simon: Show me 1st

YOUR PENNY

1951, King Fentares Syndicals, Ine, World sichla retret

But All The WATER he HAD GOT,

WAS IN HIS MOTHER'S PAIL

HERS

Like You CAN SEE, it's kind of A DOPEY Pome, i dont Believe it Really Happined,

EspesHully The PART about getting a Whole Pic for A PENNY

YR.

La Jacky

Friends

Know Your Dog

By H.M. HOWELL

SATURDAY MAGAZINE

Jak and George

go in search

of comfort...

THE late A Pope,

poet, essayist, dra- matist, provider of pun- gent lines to suit all occasions, once came along with a cute obser- vation about being "stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair."

Sam Johnson, who arrived in the racket rather earlier, reckoned that "you may scold * carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make table.

19

a

As for beds and suchlike alt - · the writing chaps have complain- ed-from Will Shakespeare's thrice-driven bed of down.

to

Mr Coleridge's brimstone bed at break of day,

All of which

ณ

Do you pin your rugs

on the kitchen wall?

No decent husband,

AT HOME

IN JAPAN

However, if you insist on chairs. I recommend a chat with Mr Mick Sinith, of the Chair Centre. Mick said the Chinese started chairs around 5000 EC, and the idea had caught on so well that be, Mr Smith, would be pleased to show me up to 07 varieties--frum grandma's rooker 10 D three-guinea gimmick In fibre-glass on aluminium logs. He even had some you could sit

Doggy bed

seems to indicate that the literary gents of ancient days часто pretty un.com fortable lot. Their beds were bumpy, they afflicted were with corns in inconvenient places, and there was no Daily Ex- press to sponsor auch no eye-

had know, for instance, that all you Me Leslie Epstein, who took and a deep-buttoned headboard limb-persunding ex- been pointed out, would expect need to furnish your music room two-years lo devise, design and in white nylon, for catching.

a measly hibition as the Furniture Show his wife to stay put, year after is a grand plano, a tabby cat, display this lush chunk of kip- £205. Galg like hot cakes, said Are you enthralled with the now playing to capacity business year, with the same few menaly and a vinegar bottlo disguised wear, tuned into a Cuban love Mr Heal.

idea of an Amorlcan-style Florida nt Earls Court.

sticks. If I had to stay home, as a vase? day after day, I would have a

Song (specially flown over) and

But here again my side-kick kkchen? How can you live with- little sympathy... look at these

instated that I climb all over his felt impelled to offer arbitrary out a replace in the middle of

with Edna, his antes curtains! just look at those prefer bent wire?

You want brutalism, or do you tofa

Are your executive and Vleky, a desirable cominent this time to the the floor? Does your poor wife unit mounted 011 cocktail cabinet ce everyone have you a yen

ke a Surrey with the fringe on bile vanity No racks, no bad tables, no clse? If I had an

for the con- address and a pair of African the bottom, and anybody resting castors? What does lite mean if ounce of beds of nails or brimstone rere feeling"

temporary? Are your rugs on violet pants.

on it would feel he was Louls you haven't got a stereo-hiß the floor or do you pin them on hough they've got pretty near-

XIV lying in state,

cum-telly-cum-cocktail bar-cum- ly everything else, including a So I went to Earls Court. A the wait, next to

refrigerator-cum-tape recorder inj the oven? Voluptuous piece of upholstery man named Jak necompanied Earls Court will meet your every

Jak proferred the Japanese feathered mahogany for £1,2507 known Vicky, of wham more me a cartoonist by trade, en reed, satisfy your every whim.

teu-house kas portrayed with Would you deny your poodle a Mr "Silent Night" "doggy-bod made by irritent by mture, and about as

For a few enraptured momenta, dignified impility much help at a Furniture Show For a mere £800, yo con life became worthwhile...wil Kimajiro Torli-whose name to look like a lamp-post? My Warwick-rond expedition, as a haystack at the Bout nec, pawl on a super-sofa made of Jak took it upon bimaelf to metus galeway to the temple

If you are a man of taste and washable charm nylon, get the remark that there's no fool Bike wad whose tea-house interested butler to push a button, end an old fool, and that a few words Jak Bil the more when Mink Yori discemment, sir, you will face up to these things fairly and Have Puccini or Elvis Presley with my missus would soon wipe Oda started in to explain it. squarely at the Furniture Show. soothe your cares away via radio, tha stily grin off my face.

Interviewed later, Jak saldi ka record-player or tape-recorder.

But, no help me, don't take Heel and Yosi were agreed that ali

the wife!

enba.

Voluptuous

be known, was no voluntary mission. It had been proposed, encouraged ont inclstot, upon by the women-fall at one...the aald women-folk belog of the opinion that the said home wes a dortilet, decrepit dur degrace to the neighbourtwood,

chairs!... why can't we have & verrnings for the traditional or properly with a Berkeley-square efect that Mr Heal's bed looked have to make do without a mo-)

A knock-out

A

In state

Dells? Mr

Robert

But fair's fair, Let's admit the Show a straight away that

And if you cannot get to sleep admitted with come dimdanco you needed for connubial bit á kmeck-out. How I've for the noise, why, they'll omit on Stand No. 9 that he could in this disordered world were without it all there the andão, the record-playne and lenock me UD * neat this four owahiona, a low lable, an and in urgent need of rofurnish- maosged

two bamboo ing it over we were to bold our years i shall never understand, the tape recorder and knock relaxer-modol in stiver and lilac padigan bowl,

Very reasonable, too. heads up in the company of

And £000 off the price. That's pro- teking, completo *IIN TAdo thons and a packet of instant come people named Jones.

full of bright Ideas. Did you grey men.

swing tables of Uttached walnut

GEORGE WHITING

-London Express Sarviot).

S. we have remarked before, in presont-day conditions the real giants of dog world can never become com- mon; though there is a special satisfaction in owning one, nearly all of them can be described as a combination of grandour and good nature, courage and docility, only barking when necessary and so gentle with children that in spite of their great bulk they will not stop on a crawling baby.

Because of their waight they need only gentle exeroles for. #ohort distance, though they do cost more to feed, in fact locally about $150 a month.

Dealing with medium-sized or the smaller dogs it la interesting to note that of the top ten in U.K, registrations, the Miniature Poodle, Corgi, Toy Poodle, Cozkar. Peko, Dachshund, Yorkshire Terrier are all email or comparatively small doge and only the guards, Alsatian and Boxer, and the gentle gundby, the Labrador represent the medium sized dogs only three out of 10. I

In

The rise and fall in registrations in U.K, of the various breede in seven years since 1953 gives the picture of a spectacular risc come breeds, Ready popularity in others, and a falling off in the older favourites, Cocker and Fox Terrier With over 3,000 registrations yearly the ten most popular are:

we

Now

22541 Poodle (Miniature)

7486 Alsatian

7410

8713

Welsh Corgi (Pembroke)

Boxer

7132

Poodle (Toy)

6943 Cocker

Labrador

4983

Pekingese

3471

Dachshund (Smooth)

3244

Yorkshire Terrier

5577

1053

(0322).

(S021)

(0984)

(5590).

(NIT)

(8129)

(3488)

(4027)

(2132)

(1248)

Of breeds with Isoter registrations (from 3,000 down to 800) have another 21 breeds.

2427 Dachshund (Miniature Bmooth)

2360

Golden Retrlaver

2900

Cairn Terrier

2456

Fox Terrier (Wire)

2200

Collie (Rough)

2727

Bhotland Sheepdop

1022

Chihuahua

1785

West Highland White

1535 English Springer 1482 Ocottish Terrier 1438 Whippat

1203 Pugs 1002 Desple

1000 Staff Bull Terrier

951 Fox (Smooth)

043 Bealyham Terrior

153

Cavalier King Chantes

070

Dache (Min. Longhaired)

037

Alredalo Torrior

020

Bull Terrier

802

Border Terrier

(652)

(1879)

(2391)

(2800)

(1360)

904)

171)

B95)

(1392)

(1000)

7401

¿ 9301

1301

(1310)

(1079)

(724)

(270)

(370)

( 080)

(1234)

(-654)

One thing sticks out a milo-tha small breads even of lester known types are zielen in favour.

Thara stili romain 70 other breeds yet to be registered in London- at the average rate of 2 per day throughout the year.

Our photo show a‘Blunderd-sized Dachshund with long-haired coat, already superceded In numbere by the Miniature edition of the same variety of this bread who Ohow points woró detalled In 'this'column on 28/8/60.