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NANCY

OOPS--I DROPPED A FORK.

THAT MEANS A LADY,

IS GOING TO DROP

IN --- MAYBE IT'LL

BE MY AUNT.

FRITZI!

AW THAT'S

JUST A

SILLY SUPERSTITION!

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

August 10, 1940.

THIS IS KINDA SILLY--- BUT IT MAY WORK!

By Ernie Bushmiller

{AUNT FRITZI!

NANCY

OUR TAME HUMORIST: Pets and things in the home

Tel. 28151

"COOL and FULL of PEP"

SAY THOSE WHO SUMMER IN MASCULINIZED UNDERWEAR

by

Coaforra

A lot of people think dogs should not be kept in flats. That's what I call a moot point and a matter for discussion.

for instance! don't approve

GThey're ornamental, rance Either they're full of

days or

A touching little scene in the home life of our tame humorist

gain an insight into world affairs and him

انان

la that it can go for weeks without a drink.

A great opportunity thus presents) But if you must have pets in the home you have a large range loud to him cach day he will soon way and the baby pulling against self for the harassed wife to glare the child will 5000 have at her husband and say, "It's a ply to choose from.

then you can sit down and discuss muscles sticking out all over hins. you weren't more like Camella, the NOLDFISH,

It also strengthens the hind and camel, you besotted bounder." canaries,

The husband wings with him. He's only repeat. It also strengthen

could just looks ever

Manx docs. anybody

Incidentally.

cats are not pointedly at cumer's bump and ably quiet, und, they come inelse kicking their seed all over

I'm not so sure about cats. They're much use for this exercise.

Thus the pet would asleep all day and up all night, and Very doothing to have about the smirk openly. handy when there's nothing to the house. If they're not do-

serve both husband and wile. It ent in the house.

ing that they just sit on their if you want them to take any notice house are silkworms. To see them would also come in handy when do

shopping or for week- of you you've got to pour a couple munching. away, st. the, mulberry Many is the happy hour P've perches and mope.

over yourself. leaves in the old cardboard booting the

ends. spent watching the goldfish Talking parrots are all right for of tins of sardines

box and then knitting themselves)

and

We pass on now to snakes. Have retiring

the for Jumpers

30 slopping in their bowl. That's, bachelors. The average married man This is ruinous to the cloiling.

sunkes? Still, they are fairly useful

passed on the pubile gaze is a very edifying and you ever

Isn't it awful? Anyhow, this time of course, when I've been broke doesn't need one.

An intelligent parrot or cockatoo developing baby's biceps. Let and had nothing to read and can be a great soluce to a lonely child take a firm grip on the cat's instructive alght.

If the silkworm can be trained to mean real snakes.

Carpet snakes are the usual thing. bachelor. By reading the paper out! tall, and with the cat pulling one nowhere to go.

weave stall d'opteys for the dress-

The but I don't recommend them. ing-table, so much the better.

little short- One thing about silkworms is that housewife may be a

and start running the they're not rawdy. In this respect sighted they are equal, if not superior, to vacuum-cleaner over the snake in-

stead of

of the carpet. The goldfish.

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In Hollywood, they tell me, the would probably resent this.

the The python is by far film stars keep young niligators and;

a companion, lion cubs as pets. I have had no snake to keep experience with alligators, but I What, I ask you, is home without e

ython? Just a desert. have bred llons for the Kenya game Pythe python may be worn around preserve, and I have found them

the neck as a boa, and used when quite docile.

Lions are no good in flats. You coming home to the parcels together. need a fairly large backyard for Pythons are very interesting-and them. It would be embarrassing friendly

and one can become

for a flat-dweller to bring home wrapped-up-in-them... friend and find the lion stretched out on the settes with half a chewed bullock, parked alongside the wire less cabinet.

Lastly (there'll be relief for both of us any minute), lastly, I repeat, feel that, contrary to my original

must mention dogs. Intention,

nuisance, dog becomes a chain him up. Nail him

Camels are pets which should be allowed plenty of room, although never they can fold themselves up into a down! fairly neat heap when resting

F

Ir And remember, giris, there is an "The man who' ls kind

a camel can be taught to stay folded old adage:

up, all is well. The trouble is that to animais is cruci to women.".... So you see your husband pat- It's pretty monotonous for the camel.

One great

feature about this ting the dog, get in first and throw animal from. a wife's point of view something at him.

FRANCE: THEN AND NOW

1870-71

Minister of War assured Napoleon

1939-40

The French Army was assumed to III. that "there did not lack to the be the finest fighting inchine In the French Army one button on a sol-world and General Gomelin the dier's gaiter."

The Third Empire was a luxurious and complacent capitalism that relled on a rigid censorship to mask us palatable facts.

Bnest strategist in Fronce.

luxury- The Third Republic was u loving and complacent cupitalism on a rigid censorship to) that relied mask unpalatable facts.

The war was undertaken The wor WAS undertaken as direct result of German trickery in direct result of German trickery in diplomacy, the Hitlerian polley of dipression and the Nietzschean

the Bismarcklan policy aggression and the Nietzschean phile-

of

philosophy of force.

sophy of force.

'as n

The war was fought by a compla-

The war was fought by a complacent clique of generals stoeped in cent clique of generals steeped in the tradition of the glories of Mar- the tradition of the glories of the shal Foch-and ideas 20 years out Arst Bonaparte, and ideas, 60 years of date,. out of date.

The war was fought by generals

School Tic The war was fought by generals so riveted to the Qid so riveted to the Old School Tie tradition that no new idens, advo- Tradition that no new ideas, advocatented by Imaginative civilians or ed by imaginative civilians or sol- soldiers not in the clique, could diers not in the clique, could obtain obtain consideration. consideration.

The war was lost, in just under, weeks.

The war was lost in 6 weeks,

;.

The decisive point of the war cccurred at Sedan.

The French Armies allowed them-

The decisive poin

point of occurred at Sedon..

the

The French Armics allowed them-

selves to be enclosed in fortresses: selves to be enclosed in the Maginot

notably Metz.

Paris

After a slege.

Government was created to negotiate peace.

The capital was shifted to Tours. A National leader orose branding surrender as shameful: his name General Leon Gambetta..

The German Army of Occupation settled down In France, with H. Q at Versailles: proudest spot in Old France.s

Line: based largely on Metz.?” Paris fell--without a siege.

A provisional Government was created to negotiate peace...

The capital was shifted to Tours. A National leader arose branding surrender na shameful, his name General Charles de Gaulle.· ̈

The German Army, of Occupation settled down in Frence with H.Q. In Compiegne proudest spot in New France,

The terms imposed on France by The terms imposed on France by Bismarck were regarded by the Hitler are regarded by the world as

iniquitously severe), world as iniquitously severe,

WHERE THE PARALLEL BREAKS DOWN

France was alone."

France could not fight overseas. France was ultimately defeated.

France has allies. Franco con Aghi overseas.

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