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lines in English poetry occur in a poem of which I know no other words, and which I have never been able to trace:--

They have cleared up the

straw in the passage And Life can begin again. In other words, the removal was over. The old and the new furn)- ture had settled down together in perfect amily. The re-arranged pictures had made friends with one another.

old emerald carpet kized with velvet passion the hem of my new

green curtis. Or am I writ-

ing like Beverley Nichela?

And the champagne curtains of my new dining-room went all right with my stock of beer. In short, I was

A few days later struck me that something was missing, and for a long time I could not decide what it was. Then it flushed neross me. I wanted an inkstand.

INKPOTS, of course, ! pós- Sessed galore, but I rud- denly realised that what my soul longed for was the kind of thing Wyndham St., Hongkong which you see on the desk in the

photograplis of celebrities, know the sort of thing-massive, antique, silver.

'Phone 26615 March 15, 1939

Italy's Claims

TALY tells France and Great Britain that her dispute with France will be settled by diplomatic means and not by the sword.

You

So I anlled forth and presently beheld what I was looking for, though it was vastly different from that for which I had been seeking. Reposing In the middle of the Jeweller's window was something of St. Paul's rather like a model Cathedral.

valy, the dome was a clock, while the Inkwells-one for bleck, and the oiner, eripes, O joy, for red!-- Ware concealed in the two turrets. The materials employed were ginsa, ebonite, and chromium plate and the price demanded was eighty-eight: dollers and ninety-two cents.

ID 1 reflect that $88.02

Dwould refurbish my ward-

treat

RE OR

why I paid $100 for an inkstand

can be drawn through the rye of a bodkin7

You cannot pronounce the word without wrinkling the nose. Yet To it a pale of shoes so high in the it is an admirable quality, provided heel that they make your ankles he who possesses it knows when to precede your toes like a worn out tell it to get out.

cab horse? Lady, us Max Miller would say, I do not sympathise with your feminine folly. But 1 under- stand it.

with the humdrum is to put the best possible face on it. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread," says the Old Testament. But the New Testament saya: "Man shall not live by bread alone." No- where are we told that by the sweat- of his brow shall man keep his soul alive.

Further, the book of Ecclesiastes tells us that therò is "a time to get, and a time to lose, a time to keep. and a

nume to cast away." Surely money is a thing to be got and lost. kept and cast

away?

hold no brief for extravagance, and to obey the second and fourth of Ecclesiastes injunctions and dis- regard the first and third would be the height of extravagance. What I am advocating, dear reader, is to observe thrift in reason, but to a flower of realise that, though virtue, it is one of those flowers which are entitled to be out of sea- son,

IN other words, I am teiling. you that when you feel NEARLY all the the let it rip. A stitch in time saves TEARLY all the happiness necessity to let it rip, it is wise to fortunate few who are artists may nine.

But you don't want a garment so enjoy their work. But to the great THRIFT" is an ugly word majority work is not enjoyable, and covered with precautionary stitches in a plain man's mouth. It is rank humbug to pretend that that It becomes unsightly. When it Is a case of rip or burst. I any rip. It is ugller still in the mouth of a it is. pretty woman. It is

There is not much fun in getting But do not rip too often. a curmudgeon- It has ly word.

abou! it the ex- coal, emplying dutbins, window- halations of old age.

cleaning, bus-driving, waiting on It is to be used in connection with gouty and Irritable club members. old-age pensions and building so massaging the faces of obese dow- cieties, cic

It is the last hope of agers, looking at bilicus tongues, annultants. It is the passion of fighting tedious lawsults, showing those who deny themselves in youth lot of sheep into, cinemas, carrying? to have the things which in old age figures from one column into an

bread It is twin sister other, kneading the

other they won't want. to avarice and first cousin to mean- people are going to eat.

The best thing that can be done handsomely!

ness.

That

great man, Francis Bacon, mid much the same things when he wrote: "A man ought warly to be- gin charges which once begun will continue; but in matters that return not he may be more magnificent."

What Bacon meant was that it isn't every day we kl o plg (or buy an inkeland). But that when we do so we ought to kill him, and buy it.

Britain Prepares Her Defences

For The Next Crisis

III

What does that mean? If the With "Kous-rvitsky" and the verbal promise, which will be con- Boston Symphony Orchestra (Album-No. 114)

firmed later this week in official Sonata in C Minor-For Violin and Plauo ....................with Notes, is what "United Preas" will "Rachmaninoff & Kreister No's-DE-1256-1280-1261 have us believe, it means that one [of Europe's greatest dangers has

robe for the imminent spring? Did With jbeen removed.

1 think of that sum in terms of a Mussolial is

who dictator 21

bit Away for the rainy day? keeps his word. If he says the

Did i

i calculate how many kiddies sword will remain sheathed. there for how many weeks could for that) CHATER ROAD will be no war between France and sum obtain milk from the S.P.C.7

Did

think of the refugees? No, territorial did not. Italy in settling {

John Anderson, Britain's Synod grudge that has lasted since the

I decided that if $88.92 represented Italian kingdom came into existence my last cent, it must be spent upon unofficial Minister for Civil that Inkstand. Defence, is putting his plans In 1860 under the the House of the purchase of

hurried telephone Savoy.

revealed to me that that gun was for the defence of Britain What is the boats of Italy's standing to my credit in my bank, in the next war into effect. with the less pleasing information that it was very nearly my last cent.

His latest, and so far biggest, Presently the miracle was borne

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She claims that in 1858 she

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EDITOR'S NOTE: In the next war Britain, for the first time in 900 years, will be in grave danger of armed invasion, In the past the navy kept her shores intact. The danger now is from the air. To meet this modern peril, Britain is organising her civil population, Every able-bodied man and woman will have a job to do. This series of articles tells the story of Britain's army of "passive defence", and of the hundred-and-one other ways in which Britain is preparing for war at home.

by

H. L. Percy

United Press Staff Correspondent.

($1,250) or under, unless they have more than two children, in that case the income limit goes up £50 for each additonal child. They must live in houses with no basements, and of not more than two storeys.

Anybody else who wants one, must pay for it, but the government-can- not yet say how much they will cost,

Later on work will begin on lurn- ing bigger houses, blocks of flats ond tenements and other buildings Info fortresses by. means of steel sheets,

Another of Anderson's more recent

Anderson described the kind of and structural support for basements. shelter which is being bullt. It is

controlled by the made a deal with Napoléon III, of off in triumph, together with a cut-is free air-raid shelters for poor made of galvanised corrugated sheets, announcements was that from April

weighs about eight hundredweight. 1, A.R.P. will be and is oftGins by 4ft6ns by fhud-the-banding of-it-Under-the-

Hitherto, local governments police France, whereby, in exchange for Blass tray for pen-holders, anather people.

lor cigarette ends, and a wonderful

Soon after he took office last high. It will take the weight of any police, however, it is expected that French help in driving the contraption for manipulating sealing-

northern wax. Also a virgin blotter, with November, Anderson announced debris that may fall on it, and shel- the work will be better organised

ter four to six people. Sections can and co-ordinated. Austrians out of the

would buy be added to shelter more. It is Italian provinces of Lombardy and glass edges. The miserable penny that the government

me for £20,000,000 worth of steel and other shaped something like which has served Venice, she should concede to yours was removed, and the work of material to build these shelters. huts used in the world war. France the Commune of Nice and art installed, the Duchy of Savoy.

This Italy did, but Napoleon signed the treaty of Villafranca with the Austrians when only Lombardy had been captured. Venice that prize to be matched only with the Nice that the Italians had ceded-was left in Austrian hands.

That is the basis of the Italian

claim to these two parts of France, Of Tunisia, she says this was her first effort in African colonisa- tion when she began to feel her feet as a Mediterranonn Power..

Inkpot

the Nissen

Three other schemes, in which the government is directly interested, evacuation, food, and a national re- gister.

Now 10,000,000 people in Bri- My pen poised, I prepared to write tain with incomes of not more than According to the plan local an article worthy of the occasion. €5 ($25) I week are able to authorities will visit householders to They say that a bad workman com-

have one just for the asking.

psk if they want a shelter. If the EVACUATING DANGER ZONES have never plains of his tools.

In his announcement Anderson answer is yes, it will be delivered in

On February 9, the Ministry of thought that a reason why a good

sections. The householder can either

Health announced П plan for artifeer should have unworthy Im-indicated that the government store, buld it up against a wall, or lleves that most danger in an aerial plements.

As I say, I sat waiting for inspira-attack will come from explosive sink it in his back yard. But he evacuating danger areas with a total

bombs. It

spilt England, Scotland and Wales is understood that the must not sell it or give it away. It population of 17,500,000. The pian to emerge from that noble picee

leve will remain government property. belleve

into three groups: (1) Evacuation of furniture in the way it has so government does not now

arcas, (2) Neutral areas, and (3) often gushed from that other humble, that gas-bombs will be used, at least,

FREE SHELTERS at first, and that the danger will

Reception areas. supplanted vessel.

tion

But nothing happened. For

a therefore be from nying splinters, The free shelters will be leaned to

withi

incomes of period, ideas came but not the words falling debris, and incendiary bombs, people

in which to express them, This was! succeeded by another perlod in which the words came, but without any backing of ideas.

THEN 1 discovered what was the nutter. The ink-

All went well until 1881, when France, who was colonlsing the stand was not silent. Its clock heighbouring territory of Algeria, Ucked damnably.

I took my inkstand back to the sent a punitive expedition to quell ontive rebels. The rebels retreated jewellers, and would they change it?

would. to the hinterland of Tunis, where They produced something like the upon the French marched into Taj Mahal with cupolas for black, Tunisia, occupied the whole terri-red, mauve, and green inks! It had tory, and declared it to be a French no clock. It cost twenty dollars ¡protectorate,

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more.

This I bore off, and all the fore That constitutes Italy's claim to

The Tunisia. To-day, she says, the going has been at the instigation of,

cupola. think, the third rigorous French laws still día-

mauve one. Yes, I am certainly criminate against the predominant writing like Beverley. In spite of extremuly happy. ly Italian population of Tunis.which I am

Life, which naturalisation lawa in talotically happy. French

ich pre- Tunisia are, perhaps, even more viously was empty, is now full,

feel that if somebody were to annoying to the Italians. These laws turn every Italian there into offer me the real Taj Mahal I should refuse it. I regard with infinite con- a Frenchman.

tempt anybody who does not possess Corsien la make-weight in these an inkpot madelled after the Taj Mahal and costing one hundred and claims.

There fa-one big daw In Italy's clubi dollars and ninety-two

What, reader. she complains Let

18 your inkstand? What claim. The acts

put it another way. me about took part at a time when piece of wild extravagance are you

had Power that

the contemplating, but from committing money and guns to back its claims which you are restrained by your was grabbing pieces of the good prudence, some ingrained habit of earth. If Italy can claim land to economy, or even you, wife?

is it a new act of matched irons, which she feels she had some right though you are in arrears with your eighty years ago, why not add a chlts at the club? Is it n four-fold few claims for the seventeenth case of straightgrained brian? Is it century. Why not go back to the that radiogram? early days of European history. If you are a woman, is it that In which case, of course, Italy shagreen handbag which will cause has solid foundation for claiming your deatest friends so much chag practically the whole of Europe, in-rin? Is it a hundredweight of balb anlts at $7.50 an ounce? Is it a pair cluding the British Islon

of silk siboldings so one that they

overv

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REDUCING TREATMENT

been a terriblo mistake-Mrer Snodgrass has taken this.

box for the season?

Evacuation areas, namely those from which the population would be moved compulsority unicas good. reasons were advanced for staying- are: All London boroughs, Southamp- ton, Partsmouth, Gosport, Chatham, Gillingham, Rochester, Birmingham, Smethwick, Liverpool. Manchester, Salford, Bootle, Birkenhead, part of Wallasey, Hull, Bradford, Leeds, Sol- ford, Newcastle, Gateshead, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dunder.

Neutral zones, namely those which neither would be evacuated or used

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coupon areas, are: Parts of the

of Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devenshire, Essex, Gloucestershire,

Hampshire, Kent, Leicestershire

Lincolnshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Not Unghamshire, Somerset, Stafford

Surrey,

Wor Warwickshire, shire, cestershire, Glamorgan and Mon- mouthshire.

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Other areas, which are not listed as evacuation or neutral zones, and are, therefore, assumed to be recep tion areas, are: Bedfordshire, Buck- Inghamshire, Berkshire, Cambridge shire, Cumberland, Derset, Hereford, Huntingdon, Lincolnshire, Northamp tonshire,

Rutland, Oxfordshire Shropshire, Suffolk, Sussex, West- moreland, Isle of Wight, Wiltshire, and all Waits, except Glamorgan and Monmouthshire.

Plans for actual evacuation are not yet formulated, local authorities in the reception areas, however, are making enquiries regarding billeting. and available accommodaton.

SCHOOL EVACUATIONS

If and when the time comes, it is nasumed that. chlidren will", br. evacuated by schools, as was planned during the September cris, For the adults, an elaborate transport plan is being drawn up, using train, motor-coach and lorry: All school: (Continued on:Phiga S.)