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Commencing TO-MORROW The picture of the Month! Warner Bros' dramatic masterpiccol

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THE BEAUTIFUL HELL- CATOF "OF HUMAN BONDAGE FLINGS A CHALLENGE TO THE DYNAMICSTAR OF I AM A FUGITIVE" 1935's greatest screan thrill awaits you Warner Bros bring these two sensational screen partonalities together-far better of for worse-with no holds barred-and no apologies to anyone!

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COTTAGE OR FLAT?

NOVELIST PREFERS

COUNTRY

By ARTHUR MILLS

For ten years I had a flat in London to which } returned spasmodically. Lused to go off to places such as Argentina, Brazil, Tonking. China, West Afrien French Gulana, Juan les Pins,

It was my business to travel for I earned my living as a travel writer. My friends used to tell, me how lucky I was. Curiously enough, now that I have bought a eoltage in the country, I do not receive the same felicitations.

Came to live in the cottage two years ago,

A the time y friends said: "YONE will never stick it: the place will be up for sale within twelve months." They were wrong: for two years, winter and summer, I have scarcely left my cottage for a night, and have

no intention whatever of selling

it.

The who knew how to live cottage life don't want to have Their collages. The trouble is that the majority of people don't know how to live in coftares. They pet here.

The first essential to the enjoy tent of life in a country cottage is to fake an interest in the car- den. We had to make our gar- den; there was nothing around the cottage when we exime, not even jeras. We knew this about gardening. I had to ask how to plant tulips, 16-be sure not to put the falls in the wrong way up.

Cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes. runner tane, celery, and pens were only recognisable to me in their cooked form. Ruses anel carnationg were flowers 1 bought, sighing at the expanse. und daffodils

were pretty little things that one associated vaguely with the coming of the spring. It is only the man who lives in the country, surrounded by barren. frozen or ruin-soaked earth for four months, who gets the real thrill that seeing spring flowers poking their heads through the ground en bring.

WINTER PASSES QUICKLY Winter in the country quickly, there is so much to plan and to look forward to,

passes

The mind slows down after living a long while in the coun- try: inevitably one sleeps, mére 2020

cats more. and talks and thinks less than those who live in cities. The exhilarating hubbul of London becomes like a dream of another life. The almost in- evitable result is a tendency to! earn less money. But one does not need money in the country: there is nothing to spend it on.

There is just one question I ask myself. At one time or another most of my friends have owned country cottages: they give them up: they take other cottages; they Po back to London; they go abroad, Only a small percentage have stayed put. Whe?

believe the answer is that they have never really given the ex- poriment a fair trial: they have flirted with a new mode of life and gone on to other pastures like a lot of restless locusts. To ap- preciate existence in a country cottage, to find the true secret of the joy that such a life can bring. it is veessary to live in one's cottage the whole of one year and then another year as well, After that the rest is tasy; one knows, one has found the recipe. for happiness.

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