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SPARE MOMENTS PAGE WEEK-END WIT

Tho

wind

plays

tricks

with the plumed helmets of some the Gentlemen at Arme during the Lord Mayor'a Show.

I've

fallen in love with an essayist

of

BOOKS by JOHN BETJEMAN

SCIENCE TRENDS:

CHICKENS &

MALARIA

ÞVERY YEAR 3,000,000 pcóple die

of matorin. At any one time, 300,000,000 people are suffering from

PRIZI: GROOM

Our prize for the most bashful man In Hongkong poen to the chap who took a stick of mistletoe afong on his tuneymoon.

NOT MUCH

He: Aren't you the little girl who used to shrink from my embraces?

She: I don't recoil at the moment

1

COINCIDENCE is he as reckless driver as people spy?

Why, when the road turns the

the disease. I'll say that again--at some way as he does, it's just this very moment 300,000,000 human coincidence." beings are suffering from malarla,

And vast uteas of the world

unn

are

for healthy human life- through that discase alone.

HIS ERROR

a

Sergeant: Why haven't you shaved this morning? Hitherto, malaria has been trented Recruit! Well, it must be this with quinine-extracted from the way.

There was a dozen of us

PRACTICE Dentis: Pardon me, mulam, but before beginning the work 1 must gu to the next room for my drill.

Pallen: Good gracious, man' Can't you do n tseth without a rehearsal?

·

*

BRIDGE PROBLEM fiusband: That's the third time you've asked what trumps are.

Wife: Well, you want me to show a little interest in the game, don't yuu, deart

MAKING SURE * Bosa: What do you want? I nacked you two weeks ago.

Ofice Boy: I just came back to see

if you're still in business.

bark of the tropfeni cinchona tree. using the same bit of mirror, and crying?" It reduced the fover of the disease, must have been and gone and shaved

and

Have

some protection during someone else.

the short time it was in the blood-

stream. It was no cure, though. and it brought a heavy penalty of

upset.

SACRIFICE

a

POOR LITTLE ONES

Why are the two illo inkapois

"Because their father is in the pen Anlahing a sentence."

DOUBLE PURPOSE Wife: That's Just like you! Here we are shipwrecked, and all you can

Husband: But, my dear, just think

of the messages we can send out in the empties!

"She treats her husband lure welve years ago young Matthew Greeinn god."

"How's that?" Crawford-veterinary surgeon werk-

"She places a burnt offering before think of rescuing in a case of whisky, Ing In Ceylon-examined some chickens. They were peligree birds him at every meal." brought from Britain. Almost im- mediately they had fallen sick and most of them were dead-while the scraggy native hens pecked healthily jold. around. In the blood of these in- ported bens Crawford found a new malarial parasite--mosquito-borno Infection.

DWARF Host: That whisky a twenty years' Guest: Rather small for its agel

HARD

中

Sh.-year-old: Mamma. if I get

Like a good scientist he wrote up married, will, I have a husband Üke hia Andings,

MEPACHINE

Daddy?

Mother: Why, yes. who Six-year-old: And I don't get married, will I have to live alone like Auntie7.

It was a French professor realised what Crawford's discovery could mean. If the chickens' para- alte was related to the human malarial parasite, it might surely be drugs. The affected by the same chickens could be used for laboratory ORRIES with sixty-foot) is n scientist and Marxist, the tests. Research would be speeded

trailers; vans and buses other is a Nazi, the daughter is enormously.

Anglophile.

Sixteen of the infected fowls thunder out of Reading to

Hitler has just come to power. were brought back to Europe. In other Britain and Basingstoke.

The daughter rejects the hand of Paris-then in

lucai

scientists worked, Of the hamlet of Three Milea

The story ends countries-the gaufelter. house remains with a terrible climax with the with the malarial

Zowig. Cross hardly n

By the time the Japs wormed into which Mary Russell, Mitford professor denounced as a Jew.

cut and

quinine off our Java knew when she described the

supplies, the

research based place at the beginning of the

poultry had produced "Mepperine" it controlled the human malaria last century in OUR VILLAGE |(Dent, 68.).

Some may consider such a theme out of date, others who rend it may feet hanging is too good for the Nazi leaders.

But for me the book was a timely

warning. It reminded me of how site. And unlike quinine,

thin the covering is over the insane,

STICKLER

M.O.: Thol a terrible arm you've gol, my man.. How did you injure

it?

Soldier: Salun an offeer while goin' through a revolvin' door, sir.

WARNING?

and He: Shall we drop the bars drift down the river.

She: All right, so long as we don't

Mother: Yes, you will, dear. Six-year-old? It's a hard world for drift too far. us women, Isn't It, Mamma?

GOODNESS

RIDDLE

Q. If you see a Scolaman standing

Friend: Why did you have to run in the street with a plece of bread in each hand, what is he waiting for? home last night?

A. Traffic jam.

Girl: I was being chaste.

SIDE GLANCES

on

It

be

home. inanufactured at Thanks to Crawford's chickens

Stern old realists, with a modem social conscience, dislike Miss Mit- instinctive brute in all of us. How "Megacrine" was ready for the Sicily ford. They can say, with justice, are too prim that her charneters and perfect. Indeed, she is the origin of all roses-round-the-col- tage-door literature.

paslly the brute may burst through the thin cover.

und it brought relief to the Burma 14th Army through the jungle, but it did not always cure, MADAME BENOIT'S SECRET, and it turned patients the unpleasant by Charles Lascelles

yellow that you have seen under the (Faber, Frenchman learns Od.). A

bush

jungle hats of our returned dress designing from Madame Benoit, soldiers.

But the scientists were not satis- who us any experienced thriller reader will suspect also sells drugs.fed with Mepacrine. The research- He makes his fortune, marries work continued at high pressure. separate new drugs on Englishwoman, leaves her for Hundreds of

new too much of misery. But she knew In write about it. Her father was gambler and ruined the family. At the age of ten Miss Mitford saved the family fortunes for a time winning £20,000 in a lottery. her father soon lost it all.

by

But

To find the money lo support him she wrote in 1810 the first of her village essays and met with her But always instant success. father gambled the money away. When he died in 1842 a public subscription had to be raised to pay his debts,

his old love, a Frenchwoman, and were produced, and each was tested

in turn then returns to her.

The dress designing part is more convincing than the story.

THE BRIGHT COMPANY, by Kashlyn Rhodes (Hutchinson vs, od.). old-fashioned romance Healthy, abou: two girls (WAAF) and two

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•

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on the malarial hens. At last, ono drug was selected for hu- mani experiments. It was the work of a British research team, and they called it Paludrine.

RESULTS STARTLING Soldiers and sallors back fruin the tropics, wrecked with malaria, were treated at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. The results were

She lived very simply for thir-ren (RAF).

with teen more years, crippled

DEEP, SILADOWS, by Audrey startling. rheumatism, writing to the last.

Bushby (Quality Press, 85. Od.). An be, but I

his Over-sweet she may

will undemonstrative farmer, 60 love Miss Milford. And you, if you read this pretty little who goes off with another

business, sex rivalry and reprint with Ils coloured pletures.

ending.

In the fine days of last week I found an unspoiled Berkshire lane B. C. AND

are

The next stage was to test the now wie drug in a malarial area, and small- man, scale field trials were organised in happy Queensland, Australia. These again showed that Paludrine could cure. Full extensive trials nre taking India and place at present In ALL THAT, by Australia. The first reports in her district and in the pink B Roger Eckersley (Sampson Aming In evening light among the hazels, Lowe, 10s. (d.), is a disarming auto- blessed

Dr Davey, biologist, reporting on her for those tenderly

blography by a clever and obviously the trials, has announced the cure observant essays and tales called pleasant man who has worked of benign malaria-the form which, Our Village.

For Miss Mitford has the gift in the B.B.C. from the days of 2.1.0 with

ago when he given only to the best writers: she until a few months

retired. can make you see with her eyes, with hear the autumn stillness her cars, even though her body is now dry skeleton in Swallow field Churchyard.

BY THEIR

V

DEEDS. by Alan Peters (Heath Cranton, Ss. Gd.),

is an anti-Nazi novel, first written

as a play in 1933.

A German professor has married an aristocrat. One of their

Are You Sure?

Answers on Page Five

Bons

1. "Vinegar Joe" died recent-

ly. He was—

General Patton, Stilwelt, Mark Clark. Anders Wingate?

2. Soviet Russia has a tax on bachelors.

Has England ever had one?

previous treatments, kept recurring for years. The trials have Indicated that Paludrine will also in- Those interested in broadcasting prevent malarla. And a few will and thin more than an expensive tablets taken each week autobiography. It is a history of while in an infected area will give the development Of programme Immunity. direction with the B.B.C.

CHAPMAN PINCHER.

According To Culbertson

were

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

con-

There

thren Important have been far superior to the minor- "altuntions" in to-dny's deal. and sult contract. two of them were unfavourable to the declarer. Nevertheless, through xcellent planning he brought home the contract.

South, dealer

North-South vulnerable.

NORTH 74 K62

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4 AJ 88

WEST

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Q 10 9 5

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4. Cxotus in the desert? Hail- stones among cornatools?

Neither; yet part of something living what?

5. The Iron Chancellor" was Elsmarck, Sir William Har- Sir. court, Cardinal Richelieu. Francis Bacon?

mistakes

6. Two here-

spelling

Meritorious, versefler, bayonet- ted, spectacular.

7. "Vanity Fair" is to be dramatised on the stage. It was

written by

Somerset Maugham, Fielding,

J. D. Priestley, Thackeray, Char- loite Bronte?et

3. Cerdan, making a bid for another French sports win month,

A racehorse, Rugby Boxer, racing motorlat?

muxt

team,

EAST 48332 .A.J8

04

+ Q 10 9 6 SOUTHI

+ AK 743

KQJ 10 9 0

The bidding:

cloth

West diamond FIM

diamente Ka

North

diamonds Pum

North should have: bid two

If West had happened to lead a high heart the five-diamond tract would have met a quick and disastrous finish, but, not unnatural- ly, West preferred the spade-queen opening-which gave South a chance. Instead of rushing to get out the trumps as so many declarers would do-South cashed only

The king, then laid down the club king. and led to the clus be

diamond

round of clubs we ruffed high, lo prevent on over-ruff; then, when the club suit was found not to break, declarer cashed his remaining spade trick-to strip that sult from the Iow North-South hands and led a trump to dummy's ace.

The fact that both opponents followed to the second round of trumps gave South the opportunity ho was looking for. Now, instead of having to depend on a favourable position of

of the heart ace,

South merely led another club and gave East the trick, discarding o heart from the closed hand. Obviously, East was Axed. A heart return no would set up the king, and a spade

trump on the second round, Instead return would lot declarer discord of jump-raising the diamonds. A another heart while ruffing game contract in no trump would dummy.

NANCY FOR

For a Swank Effect

OH, BOY--- A BUNCH OF OLD LOBSTER

SHELLS

SEA FOOD

WHERE ARE

YOU TAKING THOSE LOBSTER

SHELLS ?

OVER

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HOUSE

?

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