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"Well," continued Joe. "Your old

"That's

HE bloke told me to" "I ever he shows his face inside "Diamond ring! Oh, Joe!" She

wait for the answer,' my shop ngala Ill have the police wriggled.

Ruth on him," The echa from the past said the urchin.

back to Berstein.nodded as she took the waster....an Inveterate gambler... made it tough for me to-er-er";

less man don't like me, nod that sort of. note he passed over the shop a cheat and a liar." Further me- Do something you wanted to do, counter.

mories came of her father's rage she suggested helpfully. against young men in general, and That's it nodded Joc. Joe Kiley In particular,

Just it. I was-er-sort of wondering Ruth shrugged. It was her affale, if it would make any difference to

the outer with your old man?"

"Not naerup of difference," she cried. "What I do and what I think is my own affair. I'm over twenty one--not much over," she added hastily, "and I'll please myself what I do."

The boy watched her unfold the single sheet and read the message. He saw her hand tremble, and he noticed how a sudden flush singed

face. When ber thin, sellow

she

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ing of the National Federation Meanwhile, this is the Solution of Women's Institutes to alto last week's puzzle:-

tempt a type of educational experiment through country women, inspired by the Danish People's High Schools.

A house has been found--Marsham Park, Abingdon, Berkshire-which will be named Denman College, in tribule to the Federation's first Chairman, Lady Denman, and In recognition of her 29 years of ser- vlce.

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They Think Britain Is Fading Out

(Continued from Pare 6)

to

too sincere, perhaps too naive,' hide their belief that Britain is sink- ing to the level of a second rate or oven third-rato Power.

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HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW?

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(Questions on Page 9)

soft dreamy light.

For a moment he scraped a bare tos on the floor, wondering how long she was going to remain

the trance.

in

·

"Well?" he demanded Impatiently, "Oh!" She started back to reality, Cupid, in the strange guise of a very ragged und very dirty youngster,

awaited her answer.

"You-you may tell Mr Kiley I'll meet him to-night," she said breath- lessly

"And-and here's something for you."

The boy flicked the coin in the air, caught it deftly, then beamed up at her. "Gee, tar,” he murinured, "I'll tell the bloke wot yer said.“ moment he was gone.

Next

by WALTER

A

SHORT

STORY

by DENIS

MCCABE

"You-you've been engaged bes fort?" she feltered.

Me!" Joe laughed, "Engaged? "You get the craziest ideas," he want vl, "I merely picked it up one day when I was in Syria." Joe neglected to tell her he had won it in a swy game, it scented an unimportant de-, tall.

JESTS AND

JEERS

A wolf is a person all the ankles.

Strate names Are given to Facchor, correspondent. By buckers?.

who knows

sometimes remarks a disappointed

For after the two sexes have been racing for supremacy. Now they have settled down to neck and neck.

4

Wife: I gave you this letter to post a month ago, and I've just

found it in your coat pocket.

Husband; left the coat for you to sew a burtion' on, and it isn't on yet.

Some motorists have had their cars for years and never had a wreck, There are others who have had their wrecks for years and never had a car,

oven

In Japan, says an American paper, popular songs live for months, und years. Here, however, they' are murdered over the radio every evening.

not her father's. Perhaps he would you, knowing that I'm sort of on me that's Tight." grinned' Joe, "You're Swain.

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after when Jne was his son-in-law?

PROMPTLY at eight, Ruth reached the corner. Joe stepped, forward eagerly.

"You--you made it." His volee

was relleved.

1

"Good evening," said Rull, re- minding herself that she must be careful not to fuch time. She bud on devoured thousands of articles how to attract men, and that had al-

ways been stressed.

"Er--let's get away from here," sald Joe, "your old man might be trailing you."

Ruth laughed easily. At the same moment, she shook her borrowed fur so he might glimpse the sparkle of her necklace,

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THAT'S the way to talk," laughed Joe. "Well, this-er-proposal I'm "

This is so sudden," she inter- rupted.

The stera parent had caught the young man embracing his daughter. "And you you are going to ask

"I only had my arm around her to accept she said softly.

-alat, protested the love-slør making this real sort of easy for me. That's where the harm will be,” I'm so grateful for the way you're retorted the father. helping me."

"You've made me so happy," she sighed.

"Happy? Don't take much to cheer you up," murmured Joe, "Now here's the ring." He thrust it into her hand.

A small cloud shadowed her hap- trlAc piness. A pity Joe wasn't a more like Clark Gable. His proposal had been so matter of fact.

"Sudden? Not a bit of it," said Joe. "I've thought it all out anet I'm convinced that it's the most wonderful thing that any man could hope to come across. That's why I Joe's query brought her back

"Well, what do you think of it?" | got the ring in the first place. I earth. wanted to have it ready for an op-

"Father is usleep," she said.

portunity like this." made him go to bed early."

"How-how long have "That's

great." said Joe. "Let's hope it does his liver some good.

Joc When I think of the things he called plied Joe,

UTH

she'd received that note. It had al- ways been

on obsession with her. She had thought of it as a dismal museum Alled with relles of shatter- ed reams. It had always seemed to match her own drab, unromantic existence her Own unrealised dreams. Now, it was a gorgeous, en- chanted cavern filed with exquisite raiment and sparkling Jewels, trea- sures to adorn her in readiness for har

gazed around her. The shop me lust time-oit taking me

or very first love affair,

Presently her fond gaze returned to the message: "I must see you urgently. Be on the corner to-night at eight and make me the happiest blake in the world, Joa Kiley." That was all. To Ruth, it was the most exciting and most eloquent love let ter of all time.

Tenderly she folded it and placed it Inside her dress so that it was close to her rapidly pounding heart. And then she thought of her father and his very poor opinion of Joe Key,

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"Where are night?" she interrupted coyly.

"Oh!" Er-well, that is," Joe stam- mered, "I'm not fussy as long as it's somewhere quiet. I want to ask you something very important."

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DUTH'S heart looped the loop. "I know Just the place," she smiled. "It's a place where many lovers go."

"Lead me to it," said Joe.

"The

sooner I get this over the better I'll like it. I'm that excited," he added, "I don't really know what I'm talking about."

seated on a park bench overlooking A few moments later, they where the distant harbour. something.

"You-you were going to ask me Jue," she whispered. "Something very important."

"Yeah, that's right," "ut-1-I'm ali sort of tongue-tied, agreed Joe, -I don't know how to begin. I've got a diamond engagement ring and

Children's Corner

Conducted by Uncle Peter

Aeromodellers

the

you had

had it for three years," re-

to

"It's lovely," she said. "Really lovely."

"Good," grunted Joc.

"Im glad you're satisfied. Now all 1'want on it is two quid. I've got a certainty in the last on Saturday."

"How about going

to-night?"

Isles of the

not so blessed

by GEORGE

MALCOLM. THOMSON

for

out

blood of most of its whites has known the ingle of a frosty English morning. As

the rocured people, they are a compendium of physical and economic woes. The Island is, in fact, as pretty a con- centration of social evils as ever plagued Whitehall, But these are kept mercifully In the background of this book.

Wayward girl

THIS is a story, not an "indict-

ment"; the story of the Chinese colony of ono, His name la John On Loong, the son of R laundry- man whose Just hours of mortal life are spent laundering the Gov- emor's dress shirt,

TN The Blue Danube (Hamish Hamilton, Ss. 6d.), Ludwig Bemelmans, who has his own recipe for mixing fun, sly- ness and pathos, creates for his little tragi-comedy a little world of fairy tale within the iron- elnd reality of Nazi Germany.

John is adopted by, a French Old Anton Fischer, his two old

Jinve a powerful friend, the skipper, a robust, roving charac- sisters and Leni, their pretly niece,

monumental bishop of Regensburg. ter who, among other exploits, has grow radishes on an island which himself as to smack the Gauleiter's Creole girl, Laurette.

And when Anton so far forgets become the father of a fascinating has regrettably, no-legal-existence face and, in consequence, must go owing to the fact that it disappears into for a portion of every year beneath the waters of the river..

But old

Anton and his sisters

secures

This young

hiding, this prelate

women Inherits the the services of a French prisoner wayward tendencies of her mother. cf-war to help Auten's sisters with Julle. But there is a exlculating Have the islanders, odious 'relles the radishes.

quality about Laurétie's adventures of a past when Germany was decent

which shocks, Júlle. Having be- and inglorious, escaped the iran Very agreeably, very economical-

come Join's mistress, about to be- clutch of the State?

ly, with eccentric te strokes (so

come his wife, Laurette

runs off Britain has two million "acromo- Near London there is an internn-

This thought preys on the hapwingly married to Bemelmans's she glitters in the deflers"-makers and flyers of model tional centre with

to Europe where, sultably rewarded. aircraft.

enorms air piness of Gauleiter Stolz, who illustrations) arc the

company of a And

characters many of them are field, repair and service depots. A

contrives schoolboys-and, quite likely, school- restaurants

ene stratagem after an-drawn:

procession of adoring millionaires. the homesick Frenchman, and ear girls tool

parks. Therether to encompass their downfall. the snd old Bishop, Anton the rebel is a research establishment too. In this be secks the help of a smart and Stolz, the ridiculous monster.

Rostrained virtues One person in twenty, in fact, of Aeromodelling rallies are held ut officer from Dachau whom im- The story trips towards its climax. the people of Britain, is interested various places from time to time, portant business occasionally brings like some and vong tinkling out of

have treated the in model aircraff, and every town too. At one of these lately, a well- to the district

JOHN would a musical-box.

whole business with stoical At last, it seems, the horrible detachment if it had not been for Stolz has them in his grip one circumstance: Laurette has a Frenchman, Bishop, Anton and all, Chinese son, his son.

1. Since before 35,000 BC. 2. March 30, 1842, by Dr Crawford Williamson Long, who administered ether in an operation performed in Jafferson, Georgia. 3. Some sol- mon live to be 100 years old. 4. Edmund Spenser. 5. Africa. ·-.8. Canaan, 7. The parrot family., 8. A stale egg. D. Saint, John. 10. Five times, 11. Jersey and Guernsey, 12.- Monaco, from taxes on the gaming tables at Monte Carlo. 13. Gabriel Daniel Fahrenholt, 14. It rubs face

openly and "brutally, others say by against its paws. 15. Paris, France.

their relicence and evasions. They

do not believe that Britain will yes

cover

from

the

Socinler.

paralysis of

I am sorry to write these words.

but all of us, regardless of party, love Britain and believe In

who

CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzle:--

cross1 and 0, Krilves and

her indestructible destiny should forks, Idealism; 10, Nell; 11, Bolo; realise

how she looks on this 13, Semi; 14, Miser; 15, Woman; 17. fabulous Chicago, capital of the Lock; 18, Omen: 20, Panis; 22, Mar. Midale West, the city which Altin; 24, Anile; 25, Tare; 20, Sired.

and Colonel McCormick Capono looked upon as their own, the In- Down, Kinswoman; 2, Valiant-

dustrial Mecca built on the shores of ty; sibilant; 5; Dee; 0, Elm;7. a lake with beautiful parks and Limbal So-so; 9, See 1 Across; 12, majestle, skyline, where everyone is

In a hurry, and Berty Goldberg Is Lecture; 10, Merit; 10, Mana; 20, wanted on the phone, fr

Fica: 21, Near::23; Fed.....

and village has its model aircraft club.

Rupert & the New Pal-10

After more efforts, the two little friends get very tired and dia pirited and are both wanting to cry.. Just as they are starting our for help the blackamith himself comes from his smithy to fetch a bar of iron and looks in surprise at Rupert and Bill. At once the little bear dries his eyes and explains all about the accident to the trolley. "Well, well. It's nothing to cry about.** says the man heartily."Just let me look at it." And he carries it round- to his forge.

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NANCY

known member of a famous British aircraft manufacturing firm was much taken with the model flown by a schoolboy, and he chased him ncross the field and then had a Jong scientifle discussion with him! Who knows? Probably that boy will be famous one day as an aircraft designer.

Ai exhibition of model aircraft has been

London. arranged in

There are genuine jets, swept-back wing fighters, flying wings, dying boats, and absolutely accurate mo- dela of everything known to Bri- tain's aircraft industry,

Nobody buys these models ready- made. Oh, dear no, that isn't the thing to do at all. Every aero- modeller makes up his own model. One of the most popular presents a boy can be bought is a boxful of special wood strips, a lot of tissue paper, directions for making the model, and blueprints. The more. ambitious modellers even make up their own designs.

Yes, in any parks or open space the grown-ups have to be careful. They'll hear a whirring noise, and duck their heads. It's like flying bomb raids over again, people any cheerfully!

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SHORT STORIES

THAT SUMMER. Frank Sargeson (John Lehmann, a. 6d. Stories, mostly short. Sarceson is a Now Zealand writer of distinc- tion and originality is picture of life In New Zea- land possesses an indivi- Just idiom and an authen- We ring,

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THE NINE MEN 800. J. Maclaren-floss Wingate 7%, dd.) Short stories Although the

quality of this collection i uneven there are som

excellent items. Incluf

betik exercise i

*

an engaging. If heartless, kind

* * HALFWAY DOWN THE CLIFY. Diana Gardner. (Editions Poetry London, 6. Short stories, Here is a talent which has not quite decided what it went do. The story called The Land Girl describing how abominable: young woman out of pure boro", dom destroys the domestic pence of a farmhouse, i excellently achieved But other experiments

an

BOITHS fell

to

And

then things happen, one of them a miracle. For

a bumber Beat is passing overhead. And sometimes bombs fall in strange places,

Does it all end happly after all? Hardly. For there is still that smart offer from Dachau..

Social evils

China means little to John, but the Chinese cult of family is strong within him.

The fact that Laurette has the boy appears to him a simple act of theft, an intolerable Injustice which must be instantly righted.

John's

paternal

love is one of the rare strong emotions of his life. He

is assiduous in business; he becomes wealthy; he is a decent, kindly, useful.

is not often that a British colony citizen, a model of restrained virtues..

Is chosen as the scene of a novel; But oh! how we long-for the story's

is rarely flattering.

there were a little more

when this does happen the

picture over the

cool patronage

Most of the action of Mr. On

Loong

Robert Standish's book

in the man, a shade fiveller

which whites and coloured (Peter Davies, 9. Od.), takes place people treat him.

on Newcastle island, a British pos-

might

unclvilised.

Gession in the West Indies, populat, derogatory to Chinese pride, out of ed by a great many coloured people, keeping with John's cold sanity. mostly very poor, a few white But, how much inore Interesting! planters, meally very greedy, some Our respect for Mr. On Loong, never British officials,

in varying degrees warms into liking or even rises to of perplexity, and a Chinese colony, understanding. Chinese psychology la a strange region. This novel'ex- It would be wrong to imagine plores It. with sympathy Newcastle Island as an earthly sincerity.. But it does not convey a paradise. It is too long since the sense of excitement.

ot one.

By Ernio Bushmiller

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