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THE MALTA Italy Tries

To Bomb

MANY an English tourist has vivid

memories of Malta, of its ancient walls reflected in a really blue Mediter- ranean, of its whitewashed houses with their flat roofs throwing off the glare of the hot sun, of its churches and, castles recalling the colourful history of many centuries, and of the huge, grey-painted battleships at anchor in the harbour.

Even after the war began Malta had not thrown off its face of peacetime gaiety. There was no black-out in the island, the shops were open until midnight, and the theatres played to full houses.

Living was cheap, petrol was plentiful, and beer was only 4d. a pint. Now, however. Malta is blacked out, its sky is filled with roar- ing 'planes, and war sets the note of all its activities.

tests of

It lies almost exactly in the centre of the Mediterranean, this little island which is the brad- quarters of the British Fleet and of the R.A.F. in the Mediterranean and a stronghold of British imperial has power. In its history of more than 2,000 years been held in turn by Phoenicians, Greeks, Cartha- gininuo, Romans, Arabs, and the Knights St.John, who ruled it from 1530 until they were dispossessed by Napoleon In 1700. Later in that same year Nelson blockaded the island, and Multa was officially annexed to the British Crown by the Trenty of Paris In 1814. Following the Crimean War the military defences were greatly strengthened and the island was deve- loped as one of the most important ports of call for the world's shipping and as the principal base for the repair and refiment of ships of the Royal Navy in the Mediterranean.

REFUSE TO NOW &

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DO IT NOW! NEVER! NO!

ARE YOU SURE?

1. The chief constituent of marble is (1)} quicksand (2)

lime (3) mercury.

2. What is the difference between match play and medal

play in golf?

3. What are siblings?

4. Which man actually kills the bull in a bull fight, the

matador or the picador?

5. The Czar of a great industry is often termed a magnet.

(true, false)

6. In what year will Halley's Comet reappear?

7. 'la-an cel a fish?

8. Which type of dog listens to his master's voice?

9. Which western state has 0 unicameral system of

government?

10. What was the middle name of the author of Kid-

napped?

11. Can you think of three different uses of the word

battery?

12.

13.

What does a burnt child drend?

Of which verb is wrought the past participle?

14. If a bottle and a cork together cost a dollar and five cents and the bottle cast a dollar more than the cork, what did the cork cost?

At Valella, which has been the island's capitul since 1970 its name commemorates La Vallette, Grand Muster of the "conqttering! Knights of St. John-are-15 great dock und victualling yards spread over, the shores of two arms of the harbour known as "Dockyard" and "French" crecks, und there are also hospitals, maga- zines, and storehouses.

Malta itself is some 17 inlles long, with an area of 15 square miles. Included with it are the island of Gazo (26 square miles) and the islet of Comino, which iles between the two-making a total of 122 square miles. The population is estimated at about 275,000, mainly of Phoenicians or Carthaginian descent and of the Roman Catholic faith.

Both English and Maltese are official languages, the former being the official language of the adminis tration, while since 1934 Maltese has taken the place of Italian as the principal language of the courts of law. Many thousands of the Maltese are employed in the dockyards and arsenais, and during the Great War they provided garrison for the island as well as many seamen for men-of-war and minesweepers and labourers for the plancer battallons that did such good service at Gallipoli and Salonika.

Partly, at least, because of their excellent record in the war the Maltese were granted responsible government in 1921. Its working was not entirely satisfactory, however, and it was revcked in 1830, when the island reverted to the status of a Crown Colony.

Then, in 1939, a new constitution was promulguted by the Governor, General Sir Charles Bonham-Carter, under which there is a Council of Government com- posed of eight oMelal members and two unoMelni members nominated by the Governor, and ten elccted members.

16.

17.

With whom-do-the mermaids-flirt ?·

In what country did a father succeed his own son to the throne?

What names may be logically coupled with (1) Barnum

(2) Frankie (3) Mutt?

18. What is the shape of a liquid?

19. What simile is customarily used to describe flatness? 20. Does the speedometer of a car add or subtract mileage

when the car moves backwards?

1. (2) Lime.

ANSWERS

2. Match play is a hole by hole test of opposing golfers' ability. Medal play is an attempt to cover a given number of holes in the lowest possible number of strokes.

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3. Sibius have une or both

parents in common.

4. The matador.

5. Magnato in the word, not.

magnel.

G. 1987.

1. Yes,

8. A fox terrier.

D. Nebraska has only one house

of representatives.

10. Robert Louis Stevenson.

11. Baitery meaning the pitcher

and catcher of a baseball team.

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Battery meaning a device to store electricity. Battery mean- Ing a company of artillery. 12. The fire.

13. The Work.

14. The cork cost two and one

half cents,

15. The big swells and the little

eddies,

16. Rumanla. Michael

SUM

Buo-

cted by his father Carol and Is now the Crown Prince,

17. (1) Barnum and Bailey (2) Franky and Johnny (3) Mutt and Jeff.

18. The shape of a liquid is ob- viously determined by the shape of the container.

19.

lat as a padenke.

20. It registers nothing.

MOST GIRLS LIKE TO BE KISSED

THE girl with the arched eyebrows and the green dress was getting away with it all down the line. She wasn't doing it at the expense of any- body else all that very fetch- ing nonsense came irresistibly out of herself. It was fetch- ing. She was attractive and 'she knew it. She wanted to be mado a fuss of, and we--the men of the party, that is→→ know that. But the women- One who ought to have known better hissed: "I've never seen a girl make herself so cheap -no man could possibly res- pect her P

'I eyed the lady. Nobody, I re- deeted, was making any fuss of her. "Madam," I said: "on the contrary, i respect, har onor- mously.

"Rubbish," cried the lady."No man could! Why should he?"

"Because," I said, "she is the most honest woman in the room, and far away the most attractive. Most of you like being kissed, in corntra. When nobody obliges, you cry sour grapes. The girl in green cries no such thing-she crios "kiss me in corners," and we, because she cries it so prettily,

and wittily, hasten to do so..

I'm not suggesting that you should go round the world making yourself stupidly cheap.

Mere, half-baked cuddling with any one and every one reduces you from n charming girl to

to something else, But I would like, once and for all,

to debunk this y

galety

about mon "not

girls "to like who are bonest galety and all that Implies and to say so into the bargain.

We're not the hypocrites and prigs we're often made out to be. If a woman is clever enough · to Birt well and wittily, why, we're ready to meet, her on her own

ground and play her game 100. But as for not respecting her it's an invention of the undesired who don't know how to flirt prettily.

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It's not clever to make quick, catty remarks about other women to a man. Hundreds of you do it, thinking, I suppose that he can be educated by hearing home truths about women by a woman. He's not educated. He's shocked and uncomfortable.

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- Don't laugh at, or make fun of, your parents. We won't respect take you-for it. Don't, when we you somewhere rather smart for dinner, oyo It all phlegmatically." and try to make us believe that you do this sort

of thing every night of the week. You'll give yourself away, and

and no man can respect, that. Don't be a mob-- it's even less pleasant in a woman than in a man.. Don't be obvious, learn your game which we all know is catching us-play it well,

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Anti-Anti League

I have been asked to join the Anti- Gambling League. This is about the last straw.

I have had lectures on the evils of dom!. noes and how they give you spots before the eyes, and how one thing leads to another, and before you know wliere you are you find your. self in some loathsome euchre den sunk to the ears in sin,

I don't know why there should be so many anti-this and anti-that leagues."

. Goodiesa knows the opportunities for falling by the wayside and ending up gracefully in the gutter are becoming fewer and fewer there days and the work is weary enough without people telling you what not

to do.

For instance, I wouldn't mind joining some of these Anti organisations, but, when I got a pamphlet saying that tobacco was an Insidious drug which was sapping my health and morals and raining the chances of the coming generation and a few ollier, odds and ends I decided that the time had come to start an Anti-Anti Lengue. I am drawing up my first pamphlet to be issued shortly,

Do you know of the horrible evils of chess? One becomes tour, morose and censorious (I'm not too sure how censoriaus is spell, but it doesn't matter. It should never have been in the Innguage, anyhow).

Do you realise that you are headed straight for The reception house if you don't relax? Be warned In time. Take stock of yourself!

Are you getting the best out of life? Take the family out this week-end and leave your pawns and bishops at home.

Join the School of Arts or a Sewing Bee. If there is a nearby vacant allotment, form a Har-dice school In your district.

I had an uncle who was the family model. He had a bleak face with a dropping moustache on it, and he didn't like anybody much. The family used to use him as a sort of standard measure.

Why..don't you be more like Uncle William?was the cry.

Uncle William never appeared, he just loomed. I'd breeze in after an afternoon with the boys with a bunch of flowers and a bottle of lemonade, and slam the door and throw my hat across the room and

say:

"Well, Mrs. Lower's Bule boy has returned to the fold! Hoist nl Dags!"

"Shi! Uncle William's here!"

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"Oh, hello, Nunicy boy! How's tricks?"

"I am keeping in reasonably good health, due, my boy, to the exercise of a restraint which you don't seem to possess. To get the best out of life have found and I am a much older man than you that moderation is the key to good living—and alf' that."

And out in the kitchen I'd whisper to my wife: "Why did you let him in?"

"Do you think I can tell him by the way he rings the door bell? He's been out here criticising the way I run my kitchen! What does he think I am!"

"Not so loud! He'll hear you."

I often think that if there were fewer people snoop- ing around giving good advice there would be less crine in the community.

Definitely there should be an Anti-Advice Society. When I first got married, and more or less settled down, our relations and In-laws flocked around and told us how all the plctures were hung in the wrong places and the furniture needed rearranging and the corpets didn't match the wallpaper.

I think I would prefer a good, clean typhoon to these twiddling, tolly-pop, slobbering. Dat-footed, ginger-beer guzzling. gloomy, crepe-hanging anti- everythingers.

You may have gathered that I do not approve of these people. Well, I don't.

I'm all for tolerance. It's more gentlemanly.

most girls like being kined

In corners,

stand by your loyalties, take your tings without squealing about them at parties, have fun and bo yourself. You'll have earned · ali the male respect you want--!! you

want itf.

I wouldn't say that it was more womanly, because the moment a woman becomes tolerant that's the time to send for the private detec- Uves. Or at least to erect a lot of mental sandbags around yoursel. I've noticed how a wave of toler- ance seems to sweep through ike home just before my wife's birth- day anniversary, and how my nephews knock each other down

to light my pipe round about

Christmas time.

-Still, when it comes to a close study of tolerance and intolerance, it's hard to say which is which, If you could hear a Russian and Japanese discussing the situation In Germany and the possible re- percussions in Italy, as I did the other night-Crikey!

I took them both to my club and made them play a couple of games of snooker.

The face of Europe. should be dulted all over with snooker tables. 'This Is my recipe for peace.

And anyone who cares to join myAnti-AntiClüb may do so for the measly sum of two shillings.

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**Got the ring safely ? "* "The ring? Oh. Wait a minute. Ring. Here it is: No. Confound it. Where is it? Could have sworn it was in this pocket." "You will find it nestling coyly in the bottom right-hand waistcoat pocket."

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"Oh yes. Of course. So it is. Hal Ha! Funny I lost it. Yeṛ.. I say--- let's go over this buintess once more. Now what do I do when.. "My dear Peter, look at your tle. Pull yourself together. Remember, I'm the man who's going to be married, not you" zag “Oh. Ara, you ? - 3 mean yes — of course. Fact is, 'old boy, I'm in a rather weak state. That celebra-·

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rion of yours last night. Oh my poor head. I'm sure I won't be able to squeeze it into that wretched Lopper"

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"If you'd only taken my advice last night and stuck to gin and Rose'a... "Rotes? Oh yes. For the brides- muids. I thought you said they were to be carnations." "Rose's Lime Juice, blockhead i Prevents hangovers. Therapeutic action. I wish I'd rammed a quart of it down your silly throat, Next ume I get married, Peter, remember you stick to gin and Rose's the night before.” "Oh yes. Thanks for the tipy I will. I say --- Charles — thers did I put that ring ? - I could have