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Is It True?

Some of there statements are right, some · wrong, Do you know which?

1. Napoleon was a very unsatisfactory pupil at school.

2. The mass of the earth is nearly six times greater than if it were made of water.

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3. An anemometer is an instrument used for measuring the dampness and temperature of the air.

4. Indioactive sub- stances can be made urti. ficially.

6. Some birds migrate across the Pacific Ocean.

6. "Nordic, man" was first Invented and placed on a pedestal by a French-

man.

Answers at foot of Column Five.

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NEW BORN

"When help arrived, among the

dead

Were cousin Mary, little Fred." HAT crazy poem is,

TO

the only reason that

I can think of why

Fred was the name given. to Sally by her future father before she was

born.

POPPA

by

Molly

Ca s t I e

daughter that he was

full to pieces without her that she mude us all a little jittery. It seeme ed quite probable that nobody would remember to urder the dinner and Want i would rain before we got in the baby's washing (the last few days she was with us we had an unusual rainy speil),

We were as surprised as she would have been to find that the sun shone, the dinner was in the lee box, the water bottles were sterilised, the mald was cating alone ไย the kitchen.

Nurac Robartson's Influence, though it is on the wang, still re- maina. The not-so-new-born poppa still baths his daughter every Sun-

allowed to nian maid to wash the baby's diapers day, remembering to lay the clean little cotton-tipped orange sticks for A good deal of carpet was see was a small, angry flat-one of (scrub in best soap flakes and rinse clothes out beforehand, to use the

a score of others-waving hungrily in three clean waters). worn out in the transition stage over a pinic crib behind the germ-

She even broke her of the habit drying out her ears, for cleaning her between Fred and Sally. Two proof glass window of the hospital of wanting to lunch with us, a trick nose.

Bul things bothered this almost-a- nursery.

that was before she's thought out that had reduced Robertson brought

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poppa: one was the car, which Nurse home, developed a jinx and got every- Nurse Robertson was crisp thing wrong with it that a neat and sterilised, all-white middle aged American car her starched cap down through

uniform, stockings knows how to get. For nights white-soled shoes. it was left out on a convenient hillside so that it would be sure to start.

face.

room

all us to sneaking sandwiches out of the He's Efficient

house and eating them behind the and studio. Sally stopped crying at a from word from Nurse Robertson and I

her didn't even dare to begin.

She told us All

to her

HE

E still puts her nighly on over her feet first, lays her in her crib face down. He will get up in the night, re-make her bed, and strong-mindedly wheel her into True

at night she appeared awa

another room if she takes it into her little different us she gilded into our

once CHE had

been to head that the 2 a.m. feed had not] to bring the baby for her 2

Mexico, and she used to been such a bad idea at that. a.m. feed in habit of eating from The other was the solemn warn which we broke Sally the

He can get her despised two ounces night tell us about it at meals. We said ing, given him by all our

more Nurse

Robertson left). With her that we had been to Mexico, too, but of water into her in a space of time in which the female members of the experienced friends, that the day grey dressing gown and her duil red she didn't let that bother her. family would still be looking to see

developed extra energy

and

However the conversation started, if she really had only one cimple. hair dripping down her shoulders started in to *pring-clean the

she looked like the wraith of Lady it always came back to Mexico in the And he is an expert at palling her house, that would be the time to Macbeth,

end. We heard about "this friend on the back to debubble her with get ready to leave.

of mine" (we never mew which friend) and the man on the train exactly Nurse Jobertson's technique. And If it is not now unknown to who had been so kind, and what the find pyjamas flung to opposite ends Mexican in the store had said to her, ended by driving the new-born into the house again in the evenings It was all very, very exelting, and of the room, bath towels in heaps on the bathroom floor; If the dogs come

No Difference

WITH any one

nalur-

We felt Helpless

during the day, which

BUT

she was quite wide awake, Wally energetic as 1 am it she was so very eficient that she poppa to town in a swirl of dust,

£1 little helpless.

and we find ourselves once more eat-

Is hard to notice any extra spurt. made us all teel

But not before he had learned all ing luncheon out of doors to escape But it in true that the house was she took over the management of about his duties as a father. Nurse the maid. It is because we have an- spring-cleaned the day before I went the household with a quiet ruthless think I have indicated, and father about those things.

Robertson neglected nothing, as I other Influence who doesn't mind to hospital. Unable to bear the

ness which

was disturbing; nothing training was as important to her as suspense of waiting for me to start had ever been so well managed be any other branch of her job.

The household has a new ruler, und in on it, the future father got out

all she asks (and soes that she gets The more people who knew about it) is that her crib should be smooth the Hoover, rolled up his sleeves, did fore, nothing ever would be again.

When all the rest of us were looking after Sally, the more chance and dry, that she should be wheeled it himself.

alceping exhaustedly In the hot she had of not being hopelessly mis- out in her pram at 2.30 every after Fred had seemed a nice little afternoons she would be cooking up reated when the time. came for noon, and that her dinner should be fellow, and for a few days after he elegant Utile dishes for dianer. She Nurse to pack up and leave.

served on time-she knows the time loft us Sally seemed a pretty poor followed me around presenting me

The first lime Nurse

Robertson and tells us-und that there should uxchange.

with glasses of hot egg nog and ice- There was a time for about 10 cold beer; she folded up pyjamas and looked surprised and a little pleased.

allowed him to hold Sally, the poppa be plenty of it. days when being 3 father didn't bath towels and put away shirts she The hospital had led him to suppose seem as if it was going to amount made the dogs sleep out in the dog that, scrub as he might (and Nurse to very much; when all of his house; she trained our raw Calor- Robertson insisted on that, too), he +

would never be quite clean enough to Bundle such an aseptic morsel as his baby.

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After a few days of this Sally had made quite a conquest, and he was willing to hear all about Mexics for the tenth, or it may have been twentieth, time he was really going to be allowed to perform the morning bathing ceremony. When she Left

THE day Nurse Robertson quielly

left she was 80 assured that the household would

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1.

Was It True?

(See Column 1.)

Wrong. He distinguished himself. 2. Right. 3. Wrong. Used (c... by almon) to measure force, velocity, and pressure of the wind. 4. Right. C.K.. from common salt. 5. Right. Flocks of golden plover crosa from Hawali to Alaska; over 2.000 miles of sca. 6. Right. The Comte de Cobineau, who was active between 1815 and 1048.

OUR BRITIsh crosswORDS

ACROSS

1 Gave an account of something noticed about the second letter.

5 Moves a foot at a time; a joint.

affair.

8 Makes

start with a letter.

10 Good times for backers.

11 A

A repeat performance.

12 Due to be changed: It's knocked

13 Increased in bulls.

out!

10 A number of counters

that

make short work of stockings.

17 Amend by 'alteration.

18 Dry and rather rogulsh.

20 There's always something rather fishy about such money "affairs.

22 The longing of a half-wit chim-

panzee.

23 A minor diplomat who takes

nothing in jealousy.

24 Though it comes from the West It's eaten North, East and South as well.

20 This will make one howl. 20 Trip frequietly taken in a

hurry.

30 Makes smooth. 31 Pigs's chap?

DOWN

1 What is it that goes to the front

door but never rings?

2 Most schoolboys have been, and

cost

off in the end

3 Scold: that's the line to take.

|4 Made with einders. Seet

3 Mon, this is a ruler, ye ken.

0 Relations of a sert-coloured,

in fact,

7 Re-whistle (unag.),' 0°Oats.

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14 This is a gem.

15

appears as named in another part of this puzzle.

10 The artist finds it useful to put down frult beside the river (hyphen).

18 Everyone may

tell a story, chaste in the extremo..

10 Hampers.

20 It was Goldsmith who said that the wise bustle and laugh as they walk in the pageant, but these bustle and are important. 21 A dining-room with this would be a trifle awkward though, admittedly, noteworthy.

25 Handle,

20 Scat to these,

27 Neat.

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Marlene

DIETRICH

Charles

BOYER

GARDEN

OF ALLAH

IN TECHNIC

BYNORING OF PRECEDING CHAIN Domini Enfilden, beautiful and seealthy tourist visiting Algeria, la rescued from a riot in an Al- gorian cafe by a mysterious † atranger. "She "ridoa with him later into the desert. When come Amb girls ank the stranger, who calls himself Boris Androvsky, for the crucifix__ that hangā around his nook, ha anatches it off and flings if towards them.

Chapter Throo

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he lapsed into Arabic, and Anteon! translated.

"I neo a-caravan- camels waiting by a church." He continued in Arabic,

"He says that in this church your life begins, Anteoni translated."

"My 167"

"Your roal Nío. As he describes it, "It is only then that you are fully barn,***

The Band Divinar continued his prophesies in disjointed. images. It boomed that from that church Do mini, accompanied byʻanothar por aon, was to start into the desert.

"it is day, but not like other days. The wind is rising, It drowns qut the musle of the church. The dosart is angry."

"Where is the caravan going? Can

There was a strange contrast bo- tween the two mon. Domini thought, -- the one so ili at case and awkward, the other so friendly he tell me?" and engaging.

"It is on the road to Bambarn," "Some day I must make a pil-Anteoni replied. grimage into the desert as you do," I planned for my pilgrimage."

"Bambara? But that's the route The Sand Diviner continued. "A "Let no aŭviso you to wait, Ma- dama. Wait till the call is so strong | tent -- far in the desert- clono by that it can't be ignored," Anteoala ruined tower" Buddenly mome ropiled,

great emotion seemed to possess Their attention was distracted by him.

she said.

n group of four Arab girl taking "What does he say?" Domini thoir washing to the stream. The asked. sight of the foreignern soomed to "There is something glorious in Intrigue and to amume thom At store for you. It is as if all the Domini's request. Anteoat invited trons of the desert bear fruit and them over to whore they stood. One the sand le covored with milllona of the girls, bolder than the rest of golden flowers-Wig as the flower went up to Boris, attracted by a of the aloe." gleam at bla throat, Playfully, she] "Lait joy 7 It must be joy?"

Lo slapped suddenly and uttered a cry. "I lo

a warning?" he said,

withdrew a crucifix from about his | nock.

"Yes. Great joy."

Then, as the Sand Diviner made "Give? Give?"

another pattern in the sand, ho sud. The strange look that passed over denly stopped and uttered & ory. Boris face made Domitis and An- He stared down at the sand with a teoal atare at him. In confusion, he look on his faco na If the cry had tore the crons from his neck.

| beon · frozen there. "You want it? Hora, tako it. It's yours." He flung it into the stream, and the girls scrambled after Somewhat guiltity, Boris looked at "I don't care. If this great joy Domini, who was watching him comes to me, I don't care what with amazement. Then he spoite comes after. Please let us go." And brusquely -- "I'il go seo about the sho led Anteoni qut into the street. horace," and walked away.

· Anteoni, looked inquiringly at Domini.

"A curious man, Mr. Androysky, Who is ho?"

"A follow-traveler."

"And a friend?"

I don't quite know."

"I won't hear any more," said Domini suddenly.

"It is a warning."

They did not talk about what had happened,

During the next few weeks Do- mini and Boris, who were almost the only travolars in Bezi-Mors, were together constantly, A, warmi affection and a certain degroo of intimacy rose between them, but "A man who fears to acknowledge | aho nover felt that she was really his God la unwise to set foot in penetrating into his real self. Only the desert.

un one occasion, when they rode to Domini looked at him question-gether to a Black Pool In tho de ingly. "The Arabs have a saying,bert, did Domini gather the cour Madame. The desert is the Gardon age to ask him about himself. of Afiah."

When Boris remained skurit, aho In Ben-More, Count Antooni asked his forgiveness for her in- owned a unique, gardon which fur trusion. bished his principal pleasure in sifo.

"Please don't be impatient with He was a charming host and knew me Domini" he implored with more tho desert and its people intimatoly, warmth than aho had ever heard Domini enjoyed his company, and in his voice. "Your friendship le all one evening sho accepted an in- I have. I've tried to imagine what vitation to show her the bazaar I'd do alone here. I couldn't Junt outside the gates of the city, have faced that. Then I thought of

Wandoring through the streets, our days together-the day at Sidi past the various stalls where the Zerbuur - the time we rode to the Eatives exhibited their goods, they tomb on the desert our walk passed a tent in which was a tall, on the dunes that night under the this, mysterious looking man. bent stars. Something's happened to me, over a pile of sand which ho ran I can breathe again. I can fool sun through his fingers. The man no- and wind again. For the first time contod them.

-I can bear to live in the world. "Medamothe life of Madnina | You've done that for me, Demint." is in the sand tonight - 1 show Deeply moved, Domini said, you all,"

"Thank you, Boris, I'm glad:“. Domini shrank back instinctively "Please, Domini, don't question but Anteont nesured her there was. There are things in a man's life nothing to fear. This man, he ex's best to forget. There are dark plained, was a Band Diviner, a de- pinces that should be left dark.” part man who made his living by his voice that Domial half exphoted. There was so much emotion in telling people's fortune by the pat half hoped although she would not admit it to herself, that he was go- "Has he ever looked in the sanding to declare his love for her, but for you?" Domin! asked.

terna in the sand grains.

"Önce. A long time ago."

he soomed unable to my more, and the apoll was broken.

A few days afterwards, Father "Were the things he found there Roubler summoned Domini to talk truo

with him in the church. There was evidently something weighing heav ily on his mind,

"Ho found nothing for the years that were past."

"And for the years that were attil to como?"

"It's about your fellow-travelor. What is the matter with that man?

"It might have been shanes What is hat What can he bey but yor, be found what was still to come, Would you like to hear bim?"

"Ho's a man travoling as other men travel,” said Domial, defensive-

. She did not want to continue Domini decided that she would, the discussion. and they wont In. The Sand Diviner

But Tather Roubler Insisted. "Do- began to work his hands rapidly. mini,” he said firmly, "Mother Jo- He broke up the potteras in the sephine put you in my care. My sand with his fingers, making them | first duly la to protect you. And form spirals, ofroles and snäkolice | I" "ward" ou mont solemnly not to lines, do swiftly did he move that to mal riends with this man." It seemed as if the and was aud- danly endowed with life. Then he began to speak, in staccato Zasition in English. When he grew oxcltód, i

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